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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE
BY Albert Apple

Electricity follows the path of least resistance So does
falling water, rushing back to it's source, the
So does the agile mercury from broken thermometer
obeyng gravity by darling down to the lowest level
reach.
Man, too obeys this natural law follows the path of
least resistance
In other words, man inclnes to the easiest way.
While it is natural for to follow the easiest way
his progress comes by taking the difficult roads
paths Progress is not unnatural But nature makes
pay the price.
We never get anywhere by following the easiest way
1t easier to sleep the ground exposed to the wealth
err But man. beginning with his first crude huts the
luxurious skyscraper apartment house of the modern city,
has taken the difficult way-knowing that efforts
ward is worth its price, The comfortable home worth
the energy expended in getting and in maintaining it,
Work is not the pleasantes thing in the world despite
the Big Talk of the pattudes-most of which written
by lazy dawdlers The philosopher who urges mankind
toll is rarely energetic himself But that does not lessen
the truth and wisdom of his teachings
Work is not the most enjoyable of putting in
resistance. Yet all know that work is what moves us
ahead-brngs necessities and comforts.
Men resigned to their lot and not following the
line OF least resistancewhen they work at their daily tasks
But when work is and reaxes, he slips into
the easiest way.
Particularly in his reading matter He drifts through
the entertaining recreatlonal newsscanda crime the
usual These are the easiest waysrequrng brain effort
bad that political and speeches require thought
and accordingly get little of the attention they deserve
Yet people every four bit more thought to
national politics. might lead to easier ways their job of
making living.
It's mistake to kid national politics. Admittedly dry
conditions large extent determined for the coming
four years.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

81 wouldst that you wouldn't say
wouldst," said the Sour Old Woman.
"Talk so I can understand. You
and l were brought up together and
you don't need to use any fancy
words. I've got trouble enough"
"Well, then, what do you want?"
asked Eena Meena.
"I'll tell you all about it," said the
Sour Old Woman. "This morning
Tweekanose the Gnome stole the
Sand Mans sleepy sand and brought
it to me to keep for him.
$50 l hid it in my cellar.
but the Sand Man and the
Twins, Nancy and Nick, found out
from the Green Wizard where it
was and came after it.
II didn't know they had magic
along and l put them all in the GEL
lar.
"But the Twins got out and took
the sleepy sand with them. The
Sand Man is still in the cellar, but
he's asleep. There! Now you know
all about it,"
"By the great jumping puppy dogs
and kitten cats!" cried Eena Meena.
"This is a pretty kettle of fish"
81 told you not to use any fancy
language, didn't l, Eena Meena!"
said the Sour Old Woman sharply.
What's to be done?"
We'll have to help Tweekanose
to get the sleepy sand back. That's
sure!" said Eena Meena. "Or I
know a still better way. When the
Twins come back to get the Sand
Man, we'll pretend to be glad that
they were so smart.
"But before they leave III wave
my wand and change each grain Of
sleepy sand to wide-awake sand.
"When they find that the sleepy
sand is no good they will throw it
away"
"Sh!" said the Sour Old Woman.
Here come the Twins now. you
hide in the cupboard and I'll hide
behind tn" stove"
Ito Be COntinued)
Copyright, 1924, NEAS Service, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT
TO RUTH BURKE, CON.
TINTED

You, dear Ruth, have probably
gone over all this phase Of married
life from another angle; yet it could
not seem so terribly bad to you, for
at least you have married again.
You deserve everything now that
life can give to you, and l sincerely
hope you will have it.
You were not such baby about
it all as l have been. You kept all
your unhappiness to yourself. re-
member the only time you ever said
anything to me about Harry was the
time he came into the restaurant
with that woman he ran away with
finally. It was the beginning of the
end, wasn't it?
Isn't it strange, dear, that we
never know just when the beginning
of the end begins? Perhaps it's
just as we'll. You would have been
even more unhappy than you were
II you had known it then.
Another one Of my problems just
now is Alice. You remember I told
you Karl wanted me to write her
oil ilViIdIiOH 70 CONle .HOHle. l Call
do that, bat 1 am going to have
mother do it. l DO not feel can
ever be the same to Alice. If she
were not my sister l am certain l
should never speak to her again. In
fact, l should not do so anyway if
it we're not for mother and father.
am not sure whether want her
to come back before John goes. He
will say something to her that will
precipitate terrible quarrel, yet I
wish Alice could be made to tell
John all about the pearls. think,
then, everything would be all right,
as far as those troublesome old
beads are concerned.
OF course there is still the shop,
the dear little lingerie shop that has
given US so much Joy. What are
we going to do with that? However,
we can let that wait until l get
home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

would study law, medicine or boiler
making.
1.-THE public has a misconception
Of society,"" he says, Society does
not want publicity and society people
do not hire press agents. In fact
society shuns public mention and it
is the most difficult news to gather"
In all the years Paul has been
writing about society he never has
used his own name. He has written
under the names "Delly Madison" and
"Cholly Knickerbocker."
In quaint old Sixth Avenue, sand
wiched between the aristocracy of
Fifth and the glitter of Broadway, is
a penny arcade that does a thriving
business. The shooting gallery, with
its metallic rabbits and ducks, scamp
ering mechanically across a horizon
seems to prick the Imagination of all
New Workers who try their skill in
it. For on the way out there is
booth where pictures of the shooters
in cowboy clothes are made. Nearly
all patronize it. New Workers love
New York and boast of it in q super
ior manner-but they all have yearn-
ings for the West, the open spaces
where they are sure Indians fight
with tomahawks.
Skirts are getting shorter. Just
now they are II inches from the
sidewalk and will be higher within
d few weeks according to fashions
DEGREES. The transition period from
the long, flowing garments to the
shorter, strictly tailored models, will 1
be slow, however, as Fifth Avenue is
bearing evidence. The shorter skirts
are still in the minority.
Stephen flanagan.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

LANDS alive, gracious me on us!"
exclaimed the Sour Old Woman when
she lifted the board in her kitchen
floor and peeped down into her cell
lar. "The Twins and the Sand Man
have escaped and taken the magic
sand with them. They must have
had magic along and I never knew
it,"
But suddenly she heard a snore
and upon looking more closely
didn't she see the Sand Man HIM
self with his head on q sack of po-
tatoes, fast asleep.
"Humph!" said the Sour Old Wo-
man. "He must have used some of
his own sleepy sand for snuff. But
the sands gone, that's sure, Sand
Man or no Sand Man-and now all
the babies will get their maps. Won't
Tweekanose be cross, though, after
me promising to help him out"
The Sour Old Woman left the
Sand Man sleeping and went to her
front door under the waterfall. She
caught some of the water in a cap
and sprinkling some drops on her
door-sill she said a charm.
"Eena Meena, quickly come,
And see the harm the Twins have
DONE"
Instantly there stood Eena Meena
the magician, in his flowing robes,
his nose making bow to his chin
and his chin making q curtsy to his
nose.
"What wouldst?" said he. "You
have summoned me with the magic
cup that gave you on your thou
sandth birthday"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
:: The TQnQLe =:

I've taken up this entire letter
with telling you my troubles, yet
haven't spoken to you of the most
terrible one of all, the thing that
hangs over me like pail and keeps
me from looking at my other trou-
bles with any degree Of sanity, for in
all these other troubles I am bank
ing on time. He is such a beneficial
old fellow he usually brings things
out all right in the end; but once in
while even he cannot make the two
ends match, particularly if one makes
mistake in making up ones &C.
count of debit and credit.
said something of this kind to
dad the other day, and he told me a
story of an old man who kept a gen.
eral store in the place where he was
born, who kept his accounts in q
unique way and never answered any
letters. At last his affairs got in
such shape that he had to call in an
expert who brought him to task fol
it and explained to him that was the
reason his affairs were mixed up.
He said he didn't think that was
possible, for he had found through q
long life that if you kept letters
long enough, very few of them need
ed an answer. It was only another
way of saying, my dear, that if one
just has patience, Time will give you
the right perspective on all things.
In looking over the mans &C.
counts, the expert accountant
brought him up short one day be.
cause in going over his books he had
found mans name and nothing be-
side it except great, round o.
"What is this ?" he asked.
After looking at it few moments
the man said: "Mr. Blank owes me q
cheese"
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, 1nc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
FABLES ON HEALTH
SOME KITCHEN HINTS

Keeping the pantry and kitchen
in sanitary condition was another
problem Mollie Jones took upon her.
self when the hygiene course was
started at her school,.
The Jones kitchen was a bit old
fashioned without the tiled floors
and such as 60 into many more up.
to-date places.
Food chambers should be closely
watched. They should frequently be
washed with and scrubbed with hot
soapsuds. Use brush. A few drops
OF ammonia in the water will help.
Clean the ice box thoroughly and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

New York, Sept. 26.-The most en-
tightening writer on New York So
ciety, its doing and undoings comes
from Philadelphia.
For more than 10 years he has
been mingling with the select, and
telling his findings via newspapers.
He is Maury Paul, born in society
himself, his mother Biddle and his
father Paul. He is the only azure
blooded society reporter in the big
city.
As young man in the banking
business in Philadelphia, he became
incensed with the manner in which
the doings of society were chronicled.
He appealed to an editor and in re-
Spouse to a challenge became a So
ciety writer.
Believing that people were not in
terested particularly in the fact that
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones gave dinner,
he worked on the theory that people
were interested in just what type
plate Mr.. Jones threw at the missus
during trying six course meal. He
was successful.
A few years later he accepted a
similar post in New York. He knew
little of New York society and his
first assignment was to cover the
opening of the opera season.
He went-then bluffed through a
story. The next day his managing
editor approached him and said, "I'll
give you one more chance. In yes
terday's story you opened every
grave in Woodlawn cemetery. You
had persons attending the opera who
have been dead 30 years"
Then Paul began to study New
York's family tree, much as one
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
MANDAN NEWS
MAY CHANGE PRECINCTS

Plans to request the Morton coun-
ty board of commissioners to create
new voting precinct in the city of
Mandan, were approved by the board
OF city commissioners at the regular
meeting.
The first, fourth and fifth wards
Will remain the same as. at present,
1t was indicated, the city commission
ers recommending that three wards
De made of the present second and
third wards. This redistricting
would reduce the voting strength Of
the second ward by small number
and cut more than q third of the vot-
ing strength from the third wards
present registration Of more than
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

frequently. Do this when the ice is
low. Hot. soapy water should be
used on the ice racks. The ice
chamber should be particularly we'll
scrubbed. The waste pipe should be
removed and boiling water poured
through it.
The pantry should be most care
fully watched to see that no fruits
or vegetables are rotting and that
no foods are giving forth bad odors.
Keep the shelves carefully washed
and disinfected, for it is from here
that the food for the table comes
and no chance of contamination
should be taken,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

Lodge No. 1856 B. p. o. Elks and her
essay was entered in competition
with the prize winners from the nine
other lodges of the state. Judges
were DR.. S. T. May, president of the
Dickinson normal, Judge A. M.
Christensen of the North Dakota
supreme court and L. F.. Crawford,
state historian.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
HENTSCH

German mlitarists have goat. They're blaming
Colonel Hentsch member of their general staff in 1914 for
ordering the retreat that lost the Battle of the Marine and
shortcircuted what might have been speedy winning of
the
What really lost Germany the the falacy of the
hing she fought for In titanic human upheava like the
World War Providence has hand in the result and permits
in the decision. Miarsm rather than Germany
lost the Time will prove this. Mltarsm very
much alive but it's like chicken after its head chop
ped off.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
GAMBLING

Almost 164 million shares of stock changed hands the
New York Stock Exchange between the first of the
and Sept That's at the rate of 240 million shares
and good many observers alarmed at the gamb
ling craze
If they will consult old newspaper files, they will find
that stock trading bigger scale in the
1905 and 1906 and far back 1901 Since the
dollar in those years bought twice much there
really than twice much speculation in 1924
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
GAMBLERS

Fifteen and 20 years ago, the New York Stock Elk
change speculation centered in railroad securities Roughly
two shares of railroad stocks sold for every industrial
share that changed hands.
Speculation has shifted to industrial securities In the
first eight months of 1924 four industrial stocks were
bought and sold for every railroad stock Graded"
Quite revolution in gamblng-a shift from ransporta
ton to production the stakes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
FORMS OF WEALTH

The principal forms of wealth. in Pennsylvania total
about three times big the wealth of the much larger
state Texas This is the latest estimate by Uncle SAM
Texas farmed ntensvey could support the population
of the whole world, many experts claim. It's natural
yet barely scratched, abulously prouse
undoubtedly many times greater than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is ranked higher because it has had the
population produce and accumulate Man-power in the
last analysis is the greatest form of wealthn many
the only.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
FATAL ACCIDENTS

Fatal auto accidents have increased by half in five years.
This DUE however, to increased careessness but the
larger number of machines in The element of danger
accompanying the average is slowly but surely growing
less All this the result of safety first campaigns and
more intelligent handling of traffic. We've made good
start in this direction but there's still long way to go.
Accidents almost without exception originate in
ones careessness
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
NEAR-INSANE

Experts claim 100000 people in New York city are ION
the border line between sanity and Madness If you know
Ney York, you'll comment that the estimate is too low.
en- population basis there must be at least couple
millions of such borderne the whole country And
the crazies not locked up Their
much the ballots of the intelligent Democracy is not
without its handicaps Sensible mentality tests would be
wise safeguard at the polls.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
STOP Hay FEVER

You don't need to suffer from hay
fever 1t you will just get . bottle
OF McMullin's formula at Lenhart
Drug Co. You'll be amazed how
quickly you'll get wonderful relief.
II your lungs are weak, or you have
. stubborn cough, summer cold.
bronchial trouble or asthma try Nc
Mullins Formuls. Mfrd.., only by
Tilden McMullin Co., Sedalia, Mo.
ADV.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
SLAVE

The bricklayer handles 500 bricks day,
employers estimate Invading their industry electric
machine that lays 1900 bricks an hour The three men
operating it do the work of 20 masons.
This situation gives almost cairvoyant picture of
labor of future generations will be skilled machine opera
tors.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
Editorial Review

Comments reproduced In this
the opinion OF The Tribune they
are presented here in order that
our readers may have both sides
OF important issues which are
being discussed In the press Of
the day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
A Thought

Cesse from anger, and forsake
wrath: fret not thyself in any wise
to do evil.-Ps. 1913.
Keep cool and you command every
body.-St. Just.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
<|Ml}iim5'
SAYS

Wealth is burden of which some
one always stands ready to relieve
you.
Uneasy lies the head that fears q
crown of long hair.
The honeymoon is over when he
realizes it isn't the stove as much as
the fact that she can't cook.
If every night was a moonlight
night there would be no bachelors.
Time cures everything except
whiskers.
Home is any place you hang your
hat where you please.
Our big naval guns, it seems, are
aimed at peace.
Nothing looks more funny to a
small boy than his new teacher.
I oIopPAu6 q Ih0u Ou Lue OdCh IL I'LL
right at times, but at other times
it isn't striking him the right way.
A young fellow tells us that while
he was as busy as bee someone else
stepped in and got his honey.
A crank often gets things going
when the self-starter fails to work.
The question of the hour is,
Doesn't it get dark earlier?"
A doctor is q man who means we'll.
The only way some men can feel
at home is to feel bored.
Being mad at the world In general
tells on you quicker than q small
brother.
Indications are that jazz music was
going 50 fast it will be some years
before the stuff can be stopped. Il
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
WINS ELKs PRIZE

Miss Ruth Wilder Of Msndan has
been awarded the first. prize of $50 in
the Mother" essay contest as con-
Quoted by the N6rth Dakota State
Elks association according to an an
nouncement made today by H. K.
Jensen, president Of the state organ.
ization.
The local girl won the first prize
IN the contest conducted by Mandan
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
PIPES

to lombard New York City, Presto Pipe lines are thrown
open relays of pumping stations start oil flowing from
Texas Wyoming The soil spreads rapidly, set aire
the is blazing for 100 miles out Quite possible
The oil industry has network of nearly 49, 900 miles of
pipe lines underground in % states.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

Bet the man who invented kissing
ran az the way hons. and hid, under
ths-bsts4sssP4 III 4lssvSxpsstlnsnt.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

TAX
New York state collected rs million dollars income taxes
from residents 1928 New York City gets nearly half
State income tax is spreading.
Income taxes levied by cities may come later Money
VII have to be raised way. Municipalities in most
dangerously close to the saturaon point limit
mortgaging the future.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

Some photographs of the moon in
natural colors were shown at a re.
cent meeting of the British Astro.
nomical Association.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

Being mad at the world in general
tells on you quicker than q small
brother.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26
SPIRITUAL

The growth materialism has far outdistanced the
mental and spiritual development of man, Sir Marx
Muspratt the celebrated chemist Strange words from
scientist. But he is right.
Nearly all of what consider economic and social
problems really spiritual problems No solution long
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

Indications are that jazz music was
going 80 fast it will be some years
before the stuff can be stopped. i.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

A baby grand cost more than grand baby. Some say
it sounds better and some say it doesn't.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

The only way some men can feel
at home is to feel bored.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

A doctor is a man who means we'll,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-26

The question of the hour is,
doesn't it get dark earlier?"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-04-30
Prehistoric Man in
Asia SOC. OQO Years Ago

The evidence of prehistoric man in
northern Asia SO far obtained by the
Roy Chapman Andrews expedition CON
sists of a collection of fints which is
now on its way TO America.
1T has not been established how old
they are, but from report l have re
ceived from our paleontologist | am of
the opinion that they are about half Il
million years old, or about the same
age as the Pithecanthropus Erectus,"
Mr.. Andrews said in a recent visit TO
Columbus O., according to the Ohio
State Journal "fhey are highly i'm
portant to science, no matter how old
they are, because they constitute the
first evidence of the existence Of phi
meval man in that portion of the
world"
The expedition, conducted under the
auspices of the American Museum Of
Natural History, Asia Magazine and a
group of New York philanthropistS, has
produced more than ten thousand fish,
reptiles and batrachips, some fifty
cases of fossils and about two thou
sand mammals, including a fosSili2ed
e',ub OF n baluchitherium, sort of
gorifed rhnoceros the largest mann
mai that ever roamed the earth.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-04-30
Electric "Sun" for Crops

Two crops of lettuce have been
made to grow in the time only one
grew before, by the use of electric
lights as an artificial sun, according
to the International Institute of Agri-
culture. Five electric bulbs of consid-
cradle power were turned on bed of
lettuce daily for six hours after dusk,
The lettuce so treated had, after only
twelve days, approximately two and Z
half times as many fresh leaves as
other heads which had been planted
at the same time but which had not
been exposed to the electric light.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-04-30
The Mayors Man

Quakers are well known to be eau
tious and restrained of speech. There
is a story long current in New Bed
ford, writes Mrs. Phoebe S. Rowland,
of an old Quaker resident who once
had occasion to doubt some statements
made by a cousin of his who was not
one of the Society of Friends.
never call anybody names; but Will
liam, if the mayor of the city We're
to come to me and say, Philip, | want
thee to find me the biggest liar in New
Bedford / should come to thee and
put my hand on thy shoulder and say
to thee, William, the mayor wants to
see thee "-Youth's Companion.