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other woman means more to her
husband than she herself.
There, l think have said enough
about this dcplorable case.
How is dear little Jack? Leslie,
YOU will forgive me when say that
do not think l could be grand
mother to any sweeter baby if you
had really borne him yourself, and
besides you know l feel quite like a
benefcient old stork because you
know brought him to you.
am glad you arc feeling so we'll,
but aren't you taxing your. strength
too much by letting your cook go?
Of course, when was your age, I
was doing my own work, with two
babies on my hands, and no nurse
for cfther of them. But life today
has N'mFown SO complex, my, dear :.
There are SO many more outside
Eealls on young married woman
Ethan there were in my time. How
ever, You know best and am sure
that old Nancy is perfect treasure
Ito you.
+ What do you hear, from Jacks
mother? Is she. well? -!
Had a long letter from Alice to-
day. Am sending it to you in this
letter. Your loving
/ MOTHER.
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ADVENTURE OF
THEsTWINS
BY Olive Roberts Barton

Missez Duck and Mister Drake and
all their fat children were swimming
on the pond. It was a glorious day
for ducks, raining like everything:
my! My!" quacked Missez Duck
Il never felt so good in my life!
Could anything be nicer?"
And she ducked her head under
the water and kicked up her yellow
heels, almost turning a complete
somersault.
Did you get anything" asked her
husband, swimming up close to see
If he had missed something good to
eat.
Yes, 1ome kind of worm in the
mud at the bottom, said Missez
Duck loudly. At that all the chick
ems looked sadder than ever, for
there weren't any bugs or worms
where they were, and it was too wet
Tor them to 60 out and scratch.
Every inch of Squealy-Moo Land was
flooded.
Now, there was one person who
was as cross as multiplication
mark. He either liked to be awfully
wet or awfully dry, and such things
as rain storms he had no use for
at all! When the sun was out nice
and hot, he would sit on log and
roast himself and snap at flies and
have a regular party all, by himself.
1t was old Mosey Mud Turtle. and
he was under the very spot where
the duck family was showing off. He
was trying to settle his nerves by
taking nap. y
When Missez Duck dived she woke
him up, for her bill wasn't two
inches from the end of his. nose.
"Well, of all cheeky things!" he
snapped, sticking his head out Of his
shell and looking around.
Its those ducks!" he declared
IF they come meddling around me
again I'll have to teach them to hunt
on their own premises and let other
peoples property alone"
At that very minute Mister Drake
not to be outdone by his wife, dived
down with his long yellow bill.
And old Mosey Mud-Turtle made a
grab and caught nm by the neck.
Help! Help! Help!" quacked
Missez Duck in dismay. wont one
OF you chickens run and fetch sorne-
body?"
Just then the Twins came by with
Mister Dodger, under big umbrella
I'll get him." called the fairy.
man, "but next time you make fun
OF people, Missez Duck, don't ask
them to DO you a favor"
Ito Be Continued
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
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a9qQ!l51m@
~ SAWS !

Lloyd George visits US. Was war
! figure. Only war figures left are on
profiteers bank books.
They call him the Right Honor
able Lloyd George. 1t is wrong.
Means he is only fairly honorable.
Europe owes us debt of graft
tude. thinks Lloyd George. And, we
might add, other debts.
Allies have not won the peace, ac-
cording to Lloyd George. Nobody
has, according to US.
George says Europe is in des-
rerate condition. We are glad it
isn't in the United States.
The allies are divided in peace,
thinks Lloyd. They haven't divided
anything in peace so far.
They are broadcasting football.
Golfers listening in may think the
grdiron is club.
There are no autos in Bexmuda. 1t
is the last stand Of the fas& dying
out pedestrian.
Eggs and bacon smell better than
roses, poems Berton Barley. Also, we
add, they eat better.
Chicago boxer reads Shakespeare,
Homer, Milton and Dumas. Well,
Dumas carries a wallop.
Gene Sarazen, big golf champ, is
an Italian, so We would like to hear
him cuss a golf ball.
Jack Dempsey, according to re-
ports, has refused to play the win
ners of the world series.
Coolidge has been married II
years. We refuse to say this is why
he is noted for silence. r,
Booze got rs Philadelphians in
eight months. Sometimes it gets
them in eight hours here.
More COW news today. Bullets
failed to COW Los Angeles bandit.
It's the bull, not the bullets, that
cows most men.
AL Apple has figures showing the
United States worth 300 billion dol
lars. Then we won't buy it.
DR.. Cliff Robinson thinks people
spend third of their lives asleep.
Those with kids don't.
Hunters are busy, according to
shotgun reports.
seven women married Des Moine.
(la.) man. Serves. him right.
Il,
October is all painted up and no
place to go.
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THE LEAGUE CONVENTION

The Nonpartsan League state convention has ended here
wsut presenting any concrete issues which may be ex-
peced to the forefront in the next campaign From
this point the decision of most interest perhaps that the
league decided to be in the campaign and the lines
r. The past The convention decided to divorce itself from
CHE National Nonp2rtisan League executive committee, but
hiS much ike wife GiVorcng herself from husband
who had deserted her The league free receive back the
Odd leaders TO take afines. The convention de-
cded to establish state organ weekly newspaper. IL
3hs discussion and in the presenta the results of the
effort to money for daily newspaper the league
ceved conclusive evidence of the difficulty OF raising the
great amount OF money needed to publish daily
;nd especially bound hand and foot 10 political
lzation In establishing state WeeEy organ il il deli e.
ing blow the league farmer weekies have foug}
the battles and inviting again the dissenon which grew
5out Of the control of the old Courier News
The compromise resolution in which the league decided
to sever all relations with the CID national executive
nee appears TO ba lneonclusve. The faction bent
Sn reading A. {. TQWnley and William Leke and all
GATED with them out OF the league This they did not do
Thy declared themselves satisfied with the compromise
concession to their views. The facona fight within the
league however has not been merely against Towney and
Lemke has been against aggressive, constituted
thory in power in the league There is within the organ
izaon that spirit of dissatisfaction and protest against the
order Of things which makes it difficult for leadership
and maintain undivided support 1t is possible that
the harmony pledges of the league convention bring
harmony chickering's of the past which have followed each
pledge of harmony may again break out.
The Nonparsan League, political factor has long
path to travel reaching again Its leaders know this
and generally admit it, Nor there in evidence at this time
the specific program which they build toward power
in the state The present state administration is attacked
as reactonary yet maintaining the Bank of North Da
kota the Grand Forks and Drake mills and making farm
loans doing the original league program than
She league itself has done The league have for issues
many plans of farfnng state action in the field of banking
md credit but such proposals have already arisen lack
popular appeal visionary that they do not capture
solid support among the leaguers in conventions and
it may be assumed that the voters of the state while they
paying out hard money in taxes to support grandose
schemes which have not been successful will be slow to leap
very far into new fields in the immediate future.
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LETTER FROM MRS. JOSEPH
GRAVES HAMILTON TO MRS.
JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT.

MY DEAR DAUGHTER:
l read in the paper this morning
of the disappearance of a man by
the name OF Harry Ellington. Is he
the husband Of that pretty little
friend Of yours? l am quite sure he
must be, for the papers say he was
a broker and speak of his wife as
having the name of Ruth.
Oh, am SO sorry for her, but I
never did like him. thought he
was a scroundrel from the first time
saw him. ] never could see just
what Jack found in him that made
him SO friendly with him. a. hope
,s' his jack ss,s xasnt e e IN any
f Your father EXPRESSED the same
thing tonight. 1t seems that he, too,
had warned Jack against Ellington,
who han Tot had a very good name
among stock brokers for some time
Your father said that young men
are very APT TO want to make money
rapidly and that Ellington seemed
quite a plausible fellow, tonse-
quently he might have enveigled
Jack into some Of his schemes. He
dismissed the subject, however, by
saying that he was sure Jack had
too much common sense. l told him
that Jack had too much love for you
to risk the money that was needed
for you and little Jack in some stock
gambling operation.
If you can do it. without hurting
her any more than she is already
hurt will you please convey my
greatest sympathy to Ruth Filing
ton. She did not look happy when
l was there, and although she proba-
bly, is better off now that he is gone.
yet it always Injuries woman's pride
quite as much as it hurts her love
when the world knows that some
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, SUPPORT THE BOND ISSUE

1t is essential that large majority Of citizens to
the polls tomorrow and support the bond issue that the
present plant be secured without delay There seems to
be question but that the issue will meet with emphatic
approval did the previous but indifference dan
thing and all those who desire final solution of this
vexacous issue should not fail to cast their vote.
The city because Of this election does not propose to
spend more money. In fact $4,000 has been eimn-
ated in the distribution system originally laid out The
sole purpose of the election is to change slightly the scheme
of financing the project made necessary because of the bond
houses refusing to accept special assessment warrants until
formal transfer made of the water plant to the city and
assessment spread.
This complication in financing delayed the transfer but
with the bond issue available attorneys for the city declare
that but short period will elaspe before the city have
funds to make payment upon the present plant
BY issuing less in special assessment warrants and more
in bonds the city officials believe there will be saving in
interest Attorneys for the city report that these bonds will
be sold promises to that effect made when Twin City
bond houses advised second election and change in the
scheme of financing Do your duty-ge out and vote to
settle the water controversy for all time.
Put it by bigger majority than the first election
1t is not political the commissions ght but
"a matter that vitality affects every resident of Bismarck
s There should be no slackers.
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we were feeding only just enough
to keep them alive, with our $4,000
tons of supplies-just kept aliw
children and grown-ups who other
wise would have starved to death
until they could plant their fields
again. With this encouragement
Russia is no longer a famine coun,
try. It is emerging from the pauper
class. And now typhus cases are no
more frequent than before the war.
We inoculated literally millions Of
people and checked cholera. With
80 tons of quinine we helped the
fight against malaria; and we sup
piled the neo-salvarsan which has
all but wiped out recurrent typh%s.
There were 6,317,958 corn ra-
tions for adults issued in a single
month"; fundt Of corn a day for
81 days; and during that same
month 4,173,339 children were sit
ting down every day to a hot mqal
served in some 10000 kitchens and
children's homes. That was in Aug
ust, 1922. And even that doesn't
include thousands of people kept
alive that month by A. r. A. food
packages bought by relatives and
friends or philanthropic persons in
America. ~ 74 ts,d
"And I am thinking of the 200
other Americans who worked month
in and month out in famine and
disease-ridden country, overcoming
seemingly insuperable difficulties,
singing when they were lonesome,
grinning when things went wrong,
joking when they were sick, just to
keep the spirit Of the others up.
rBlandy died of typhus out at Ufa
lost spring. Shield was killed at
;Simbirsk and his body never found"
Although Colonel Haskell was
lent by the Army, the great
American work of relief in Russia
and elsewhere in Europe should not
be regarded as a military job.
More than ninety per cent. of all
the American personnel was civil
ian.
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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP,
9 MANAGEMENT. CIRCULATION,
ETC. REQUIRED BY. THE ACT
y OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST "a,

4 Z
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION.
ETC. REQUIRED By THE ACT
OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST "a,
+ 1912.
| SOf Bismarck Tribune published
daily at Bismarck, North Dakota,
for October /, 1923.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
County of Burleigh-ss.
Before me, Notary in and for the
State and county aforesaid, person.
ally appeared Geo. D. Mann, who,
having been duly sworn according to
law, deposes and says that he is the
Publisher of the Bismarck Tribune
and that the following is, to the best
of his knowledge and belief, q true
statement of the ownership, manage
ment (and if daily paper, the cir
culation), etc, of the aforesaid pub
lication for the, date shown in the
above caption, required by the Act Of
August "a, 1912, embodied in section
443, Postal Laws and Regulations,
printed on the reverse Of this form,
I. That the names and addresses
Of the publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers are
Publisher, Geo. D: Mann, Bismarck,
~ Ne " u -A q . +
Editor, VIM. s. Neal. Bismarck, ~.
|, Managing Editor, Geo. D. Mann,
Bismarck, N. D.
:, Business .,s I Manager. Geo. p. Mann.
2. That the owners sare fGive
names and addresaes Of individual
owners, or, il u corporation, give its.
name and the names and addresses
Of stockholders owning or holding /
per cent or more of the total amount
of Stock 3)s.. {. IS !. b.
I, Geo. D. Mann. President Bismarck,
Beatrice Mann. Secretary and
Treasurer, Bismarck. N. D!
Mrs. 4. J. Ostrander, Vice. Pres.
'as 3. T BBIsHs siss l n 3
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Americas work in Russia cleaned
up one of the great plague spots of
the world, according to Col. William
N. Haskell, director of the Russian
Unit of the American Relief Admin
istratioh, who landed recently in
New York with the last Of the
Americans who had been with him
in Moscow. ~
Russia, when we went in, was
more than a famine country" he
said. "It was a disease focus.
Famine could have been confined to
Russia, but typhus and cholera
know no man-made boundaries. ]
am not sure that the medical work
accomplished by the American Re-
lief Administration has not saved
even more lives than the feeding of
more than ten million Russians.
"Aside from vast areas where
there was actual starvation and the
prompt arrival of American food
saved the population from being
wiped out, diseases borne by refu-
gees fleeing from famine districts
had spread throughout the country.
Hospitals were overcrowded, their
supplies and equipment almost nil
because of years of war; water sup
plies polluted and /. sewer systems
broken down, and everything dis
organized. Every filthy freight car,
crowded with refugees, was breed
ing place for typhus bearing ver-
min. In some cities corpses lay UNI
~, riodt IN tho c%sroofc M kundrodS
of bodies were piled in cellars Of
hospitals. And Russia was threat
ening her neighbors with contagion.
"When Gorky and the patriarch,
Tikhon appealed to the world for
aid in the summer of 1921, and Her
bert Hoover offered through the
American Relief Administration to
feed d million Russian children, we
never dreamed that before we fin
ished America would ,be called upon
to feed nearly ten and a half million
children and adults. And even then
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PEOPLES FORUM

Bismarck, N. D.
Oct. 10, 1928.
Editor Bismarck Tribune.
Mr.. Editor:
Since we hear lots about what Bis
marck needs I suggest just now it
needs more than anything else to
clean up onSits High School thieves
which seemsto be doing wholesale
business now, and have been for
years. If the articles stolen up
there in the last year were to be
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Lilo f2-CNlf7lL IN. QUINN 81 SAGlNAAV MICH.
ASST DIRECTOR or TIE RUSSIAN UNIT ar TItE
AKA, Col. HASKELL DIRECTOR and EIMERS
BuRl AND Sc BERKELEY. CAL. WHO AS CHlEF Of.
| TIE REMIT1AN DIVISIONAL az RUSSIA
ICoNTRpLLED TIE DELIVERY F 1000 ANr,
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Red TOmahawk
Visits City.

Red. Tomahawk, an Indian of the
TT. Yates agency district, whose pro-
file is the model for the new North
Dakota state highway signs, visited
the state capitol yesterday jim coxA
pany with several other Indians, and
paid his respects to Governor Nestos
and State Engineer w. G. Black.
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A Thought

Woman. wheKe arc those thine &C.
cusers! hsth no man condemned
thee?
She said. No man, Lord. And
Jesus said unto her. Neither do /
condemn thee; 50, and sin no more.
John safe, II. I
It is necessary to repent for years
in order, to effacs : fault in the eyes
Of men;I single tear sufices with
God ChateaubSiAhd t,astiAAIlnHI'l1 a;I,,sl;
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sE(QlLOr lTlDunG.~
t"Hernal vigilance is the price Of
liberty.
1--WE shall be free if we do not de-
servc-to be slaves Z
While everyone complains of the
ruinous" taxes and the grievous bur-
dens imposed on the wealth produc-
ers, yet al submit with astonishing
meekness-there is no organized OPP
position; yet, as our book shows
clearly, there is, no necessity for
poverty nor for the ruinous taxes
levied during the. past five years.
The tax is a -barbarism; it is relic
of feudalism. 1t robs the producer
Of his hard earnings. There is no
reason why the state, or any public
corporation, should forever remain
big nursing or tax robber. If
it cannot stand on it's own bottom
and make its own expenses it i'll de-
serves to exist. Having mo taxes to
pay, in the race for wealth, the state,
the counties and cities, have an ad-
vantage over all private corporations
and exploiters. If the managers OF
public affairs do not know enough to
make necessary expenses, why not
call in some Henry Ford, make him
King or King Manager. He would
show how to conduct state enter
prises to make them pay, and to keep
at home the stream of wealth which
runs continuously. away and away ia
exploiters. Such was the avowed
program of the Nonpartisan League
But alas! the managers failed ia
show the requisite business capacity
They played only politics till they
plaved themselves out. Contrary; to
their platform and every principle OF
reason and common sense-they did
proceed to levy excessive and illegal
taxes. In each Of the years 1919
1920 and 1921, the total assessed val
uation of all property was marked
up to nearly one and one-half bill
lion dollars, three times that of any
former year. The taxes were more
than doubled and Of course there
was a continuous orgy of extrava-
gance and waste.
In 1922, the assessment
was ........ =. J..:$ ,3OS ,OOU,OOU
In 1923, it was. ...... 1885, 00O, 900
In each of the three
first years the total
tax was 49,. 100000
The state tax ':.t.,..... 100000
The tax was 6 per cent on the pro-
ductive value of the property. 1t did
not leave the farmer two per cent
net profit. In many cases the farmer
worked hard for scant living and
mortgaged his land to pay taxes and
interest. =
Under the laws Of 1919 we still
have new-fangled class Of state
taxes unknown to the Constitution;
special tax on dogs and lawyers;
on motor vehicles, about million
a year; q tax, on incomes, on pool
halls, ON butterfat, on industry for
insurance, on most everything that
you can touch and see; apd 81
course, it all leads to numerous
boards and commissions and great
extravagance. During the past two
years. there has been some reduction
in the assessment and taxes. but it
is not half wha It should be. The
legislature has given no adequate
remedy. But the voters have in their
own hands q remedy. Our book
shows just how the people may Use
the initiative 70 cut down and cast
into hell, the evil tree, the eco
nomic system which leads to poverty
and drives them from their lands
and their homes. Under q system
which permits exploiters to captuHe
6 !.y 4 M 5|;.,s|{l .,s
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FORTUNE AWAITS

What's the best seat lin theater? Showmen, inter-
Ne, agree that the fourth the aisle is the best
the house. In this seat the actors voices
natural and the distance is ideal for the illusions of stage
3raft So
Despite al this ticket sellers say the public prefers the
front row "A fortune awaits the who invent
fheater with Ill seats first on the aisle.
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Vote Eyes" Twice at the
Bond Election Saturday. Polls
open at 8 a. m. and close ats7
p. m. Don't forget. Ask your
neighb0rs to vote.
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NEW YORK CITY

ii New York City in eight months. That's rapid ping
Of frozen to add 81 to the price Of each
bushel Of = 500 million bushel wheat CROP
MAYBE this il where the wheat growers money is going
III New York City the mouth Of pipe that taps
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given in your paper It would require
whole column. Why is this no ones
business 2 If anything is stolen
from out of our stores, they immed-
lately run down the thief, or at
least try to, and why do they not
try to protect our High School from
this practice. Surely this is giving
Bismarck some reputation, to it's
surrounding towns. just now 1 am
minus a new fail coat which was
worn up there, and hung in the
cloak room and atShoon was gone.
That is the last that has ever been
seen of it. That coat is only one of
three valuable articles which have
been stolen from my daughter in
her one year of school here.
Yours very truly,
Mrs. Grace Tierney.
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Beulah Ignite Coal is Best.
S4.75 per ton. Order now,
'w y Transfer Go, Phont'
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-11-14
All Sounds Alike.

They stood in the wings of the opera
house In a few moments she was to
60 on
zone last word" said the conductor.
Yes, maestro7-
IF you forget your lines do not
hesitate. Never falter."
But what shall / singT asked the
new diva.
That is the point Be prepared
Sing the multiplication table with your
best runs and trills. Nobody VIII ever
know the difference"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-11-14

Worst never happens to him who Il
prepared for it.