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Special Attraction Next Monday Night

As a special attraction after the
presentation of Oscar Wilde's play,
The Importance of Being Earnest, "
there will be given free next Monday
evening, August 11th, "The Cake
Eaters" Jean Adairs sketch, in
which she toured b. F. Keith's cir
cult. There are four persons in
this sketch.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-08-07
Union Services Next Sunday

The union Protestant services will
be held next Sunday at the Centenary
Methodist Church at 1920 a. m. Rev.
George Merriam of the Bethany Bap-
tist Church will preach the sermon.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-08-07
knpled Robbery at Jackman

Brown, claiming residence
|rmford was committed to the
r Jail on Monday by Constable
\ francoue of Jackman, follow
/ hearing before Judge Holden.
L Is charged with an attempt to
|Af cash register of +. l.. Nichols
||sman in the night, after gain
|ahlitance To his garag e
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-08-07

Miss Elizabeth Gleason of Haver-
hill, Mass, is visiting with Miss Verna
Porter at the home of her parents on
Water street The two young ladies
were classmates at Miss Wheelock s
kindergarten School in Boston.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-08-07

Chautauqua tickets for sale at the
Reporter office. 4w92
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-08-07

|'Pendent-Reporter, $500 a year
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
"TAMERLANE" FOR A SHILLING

The history of 'Tamerlane" is
unique among American books.
Until the early eighties it remain
ell totally unrecognized because Of
its anonymity. Even Duyckink's
classic, Encyclopedia Of American
Literature, which was completed
In 1885," makes no mention of it,
The first known copy came to
light in London some time shortly
before 1884. At that time the Brit
ish Museum had contract with
Henry Stevens & Son, whereby the
booksellers were to supply 1t with
al American pamphlets, which it
did not possess, at a shilling
apiece. Among a bundle 80 de-
liyered was "Tamerlane and other
Foems," by Bostonian, which the
museums librarian promptly rec
ognized; what the ignorance Of
Stevens clerk cost his firm will
appear shortly.
OF the remaining three copies
extant, two were formerly in the
possession of Frederick Halsey,
the well-known New York collec-
ter; one of them he bought at the
Ives auction in 1893 for $40
pounds; the other known as the
Mckee copy, he acquired in 1900
for $50 pounds. Mr.. Halsey sold
both copies to Henry E. Hunting
ton. who kept one and later re-
sold the other to Mr.. Halsey. At
the sale of the remainder Of the
latter's library in 1919 it was ac-
CURED by the late George D. Smith
for 1850 pounds-the highest price
ever paid for a book by an Amer
lean author.
"Tamerlane" was published in
1927 in Boston, where Poe had
gone to enter the army. Just be-
fore his enlistment he had become
friendly with youth about his
own age Calvin F.. s. Thomas, the
proprietor of newly opened print
| ing shop. The first creation Of the
| young poet wa, the first and only
venture of the young printer in
the book trade. The result was a
sad failure for both; the verses
fell into speedy oblivion, the
friendship terminated abruptly, and
Thomas moved west; he never
thereafter referred to his associ-
alton with "Tamerlane" or it's au-
tfor.-Milton Waldman in London
| Mercury.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
LEST THEY'RE FORGOTTEN

The heart of has not capacity enough to feel as
does mother at the grave of her
1t is not sufficient tell the that before her
under the Sod lies only skeleton The picture of her boy
is there.
She him he marched away to the tap of the drum
with his bayonet gstenng in the of the with
brave smile on his young face |
Way back in the years gone by he her baby, her
care her delight part of her body perhaps almost all of
her life.
His first pair of soft Shoes the train of broken toy
the first reader the photo of lad looking awkward in
sacred than this mound under which he laid to return
to dust and there is philosophy religious belief that
take from her the feeling that here under the by
the white bearing his company NUMBER once
again is her boy all hers though she may only tell him so
with tears and few poor flowers.
They list her boy hero, to be He died for his
country glorious DEATH Yes But the dead dead and
gone.
Men who order war, the supreme misery of to
mother is not the sudden shock to her of fatal from
the battlefield but the living of the long through with
out her boy.
Probably not two in hundred readers noticed that, in
the midst of the scandals hot lobbying and pulling and push
ing of politics in the late Congress, New York Congress-
man introduced measure to send 1000 mothers
to Europe at government that they might stand
at the graves of their lost boys.
About $3.50 mother for just sheer sentiment said
of the honorable representatives. Other matters OF
pressing Importance said Congress, and busted itself
about millions for Goose Creek dredging, defending the
tariff dye sutfs committee unkets, setting up of pins
in the presidential campaign and similar matters and
the for the comforting of soness mothers
lost in the great shuttle
But it must be revived in the December session.
There is too almighty little of honest, plain unadulter
ated mothers sentiment in government and in the begin
nngs and endngs of We must show all the peoples
Of the world that know the awful cost of in
particular.
We must have in the miles of of white crosses in
the cemeteries of Argonne and OseAsne thousands
OF godenbadged American mothers proclamng not the
deadly LA Fayete, here! of the great American
general but the tender my boy mother has of the
great American mother
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
THE BEST BET NEGLECTED
BY Albert Apple

If the average person got from his auto few miles
gallon of gasoline much engine trouble irregular
service most of content get from bodies
he would make changes Dr. Frances Scott of Smith College
says this in lecture. .>@.'.-. .-..
How many people take good of their bodies
they do of their autos radios?
And yet the human body, thousand times delicate
than the auto, radio other machine, is given
little attention It's fuel (food is fed it haphazardly
with little of the besow in buying gas the auto
or batteries tubes for the radio.
The owner, careful not to put too much Juice" the
aents of the radio tubes too heavy task his auto
repeatedly throws too much strain his body-especiay
it's nerves. stomach and heart.
The noted surgeon DR.. Charles H. Mayo probably had
all this mind when he said recently that civilization
end mass diseases (such yellow ever), but individual
ailments (such and nervous indigestion)
gaining
Diet and proper exercise of these the big
enemies of health, Dr. Mayo emphasizes
Continuous overeating is the bane of modern exist
ence"
only over-eatng but eating the wrong combinations
of foods Putting molasses the gasoline tank and sand
in the gears
One trouble with most people is that they want buy
good health and long life in pill bottle FORM That's why
the monkey gland expermenters caught popular fancy
They held forth the promise of health and longevity without
individual effort in the matter of food and exercise.
This pill fetish is further illustrated in the
annual drug bill Of country 500 million dollars, 300
millions of which spent so-caled patent medicines.
Thirty years ago only 2699 drug items the market
Today the figure is $4,000.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
CANADA'S RETREAT FROM
PROHIBITION

Persons of open minds, whether
"dry" or wet" in principle, should
endeavor to ascertain the causes
o: the decline and fall OF prohibit
ton i'm the dominion of Canada.
One after another the province, by
direct popular mandate, have re-
turned to wet" regime, but WITH
strict government control and
other notable restrictive features.
Saskatchewan is the latest prov
lice to reject the bone-dry prohi
bnion after having given it a trial.
In Ontario, another plebiscite is
T." be taken on the question this
coming fall.
Offhand explanations of Can
ada's reversal of policy, as might
have been expected, vary accord
ing to the theoretical beliefs and
, feelings Of those who make them.
One opinion Is that the dominion
voters gladly would detain prohi-
bition were they at all confident of
the ability and will of the authori-
ties to enforce it. Disguised with
lax administration, graft, deliber-
/ ate nonenforcement and like de-
moralizing results, it is said, the
! voters are turning to what they
/ regard as the lesser evil, of liquor
! dispensaries owned and controlled
! ty the government in the hope OF
restoring honesty and deficiency
III public life.
This is an interesting theory
and we'll worth investigating. One
, thing is certain-Canadian aban-
donment of prohibition is bound
greatly to increase the difficulty
I and cost Of enforcing the policy in
pany parts of the United States
More vigilance and more agents OF
the right type will be required
along thousands of miles of open
frontier.-Chicago Daily News.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE TO
LESLIE PRESCOTT,

j I'm going to commence thisNlatter,
dearest, with that old bromide, "Im
the happiest woman in all the
world" I expect Walter would
make the same assertion, only put
ting man in place Of woman. if you
should ask him the question.
1t doesn't seem possible to me,
dear, that I can live in this particu-
larly ratified atmosphere all the re-
mainder of my life, but Walter is
so perfect. Every minute since we
have been married he seems to have
thought of no one or nothing but
me. He wants to load me down
with jewels, and yesterday proposed
a string of pearls. You will smile,
Leslie, when tell you that l re-
fused them, and instead he gave me
diamond and platinum chain that
is perfectly gorgeous.
1t seems Strange to me, Leslie,
that i, Ruth Ellington Burke, will
in the future have no cause to worry
about the necessities or the Injuries
of life-I,, who have always, had to
struggle so hard to make both ends
meet. You know when was mar
Nried to Harry, although he had
plenty Of money, at tines and was
very poor &sts,S shers.s he was ex-
tremeiy close always with me. ]
was always the one who had to
economics. One hodr; after Walter
and /. were maxried he gave me a
bank book in which j found $4,000
had been placed to my account.
I'm sending ,yon today q string Of
lovely, Sid aaSher S1eAds. ! know
how 4xtravasaptly !, YEN +admired the
ones We, saws q that 1rt shop in Al
bany. 40 Z sIthfkE are much
more beautiful. -. 4.,s..~..
You know; dear, ! had little
sentiment about sending to yot
something which, was paid for on,
7 Of ny new hApk seeount. : ! wan,
you to know how I appreciate al
yAR1 sweetnel lsisf .s5jnfness TO me
Jack insisted that you shPuld turr
I me down. TIL never. forget it. Les.
| lie, never. am glad, indeed, that
| / have known you, and loved you
You. have renewed my faith In my
own sex. I know now that women
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

The next thing the elephant and
the Twins did in the jungle play
ground was to slide down the slid
ing-board.
"You 60 first" said Tommy Tiger
to the Twins, land Weeny can go
next and III go last. It's lots of fun
for it has so many bumps on it,"
So Nancy took her turn and Nick
took his turn. and then Weeny
climbed up the steep ladder at the
back to take his turn, with Tommy
behind him SO he could be all ready
to 60 when Weeny reached the bot
tom.
But the very minute Weeny reach
ed the top, the whole business
crumpled up like q jack-knife and
you couldn't tell which was Weeny
and which was Tommy and which
was sliding board.
"Oh, oh, OH" screamed . Nancy.
"Help, somebody. quick!"
'I'm all right" called Weeny
cheerfully, "if only Tommy Tiger
would take his paw out of my eye."
GycS yooIScI: kEoWIcO AOWWys
II can't move because you are sit
ting on my tail"
Here, I'll move these boards and
then you can both get up" said
Nick. "There! Now you're all right
So Weeny and Tommy both crawl
ed out, all covered with mud and
dirt but not mad a bit.
"Ha, ha, hal" laughed Weeny.
"Ho, no, ho!" roared Tommy. 1--WE
didn't get our ride but had lot of
fun, anyway. I'll tell you what let's
do next. Let's 60 swimming. The
swimming pool is right over there
II didn't know. tigers could swim.'
said Nick.
"Sure they can! Especially circus
tigers" said Tommy. "Come on
everybody"
"Well get our clothes all wet.
said Nancy. $50 we can't swim, BIZ,
we'll 60 wading."
"Well. you'd better keep your
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every day has entered the door. The
monkeys recognized him.
While l was in the store, one Of
the parrots, becoming frightened
flew out into the middle of traffic
damned Fifth Avenue.
Abbott who talks to birds, walked
calmly out into the maze Of automo-
biles and buses, spoke to the rub
away parrot. Then the bird climbed
onto his hand and chartered thanks
as Abbott returned it to the cage in
the store.
Prohibition has made strange
changes in New York. Rector's
marked spot of Broadway in the ''in
temperate" days Of licensed compota-
ton, is now a public dance hall with
two jazz bands and soda water
fountain. 800
Crowds were rushing madly on
Broadway. Police reserves had form
ed line around a Broadway drug
store and were battering in the front
doors.
With the aid Of police card
edged my way to the front.
"What's the matter7" l e"eried q
policeman, in breathless suspense.
"Oh, nothing" he calmly remark
ed, Except, drug clerk anxious to
get home, locked the store while
cute girl was having telephone ro-
nance with some cake-eater. He
didn't know she was using the phone
in the booth. She was so interested
in her conversation she didn't know
the store was being locked"
When the girl discovered her
plight, she called out the police and
fire departments.
Careless New Workers!
! Stephen flanagan.
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New York, Aug. l9.-Birds, dogs,
fish, cats, monkeys, from many diff
ferent countries and climes intrigue
crowds of people every day from
their window abode in one of Fifth
Avenues most unusual shops.
Cute dogs, some of them priced as
high as $1,000, frolic to fascinate
strollers. Parrots from Brazil
screech' and perform. Birds Of most
every hue and size from India. Afri-
ca and Australia, MARBLE. Mice
from Japan, with unbalanced heads,
waltz, in idiotic pantomime. Mon
keys chatter for tropical fruit. Fish,
Of varying size from many waters.
swim lazily in costly bowls. Love
birds coo. y
Fifth Avenue pauses to gaze. A
young man with prematurely gray
hair, passes among the birds. They
fly on his shoulder, whispering some
thing in bird language into his ears.
He answers with strange garble OF
sounds. The birds understand-for
they perform tricks and then fly
back to gilded cages.
Before the war this young man
who is C. H. Abbott, 20, of Portland
. Ore, was a civil engineer. After the
armistice he became friendly with 9
bird fancier in Hamburg, Germany.
When he returned to the States hi
drought with him number Of birds
He sold them at profit. and started
his business. Since then he ha:
made 20 trips abroad. Bird and doi
lovers from all parts of the countr!
call to examine his stock.
New Workers., who live in apart
meifts where pets are banned,, cal
each day to serve dainties to cage
friends.
The monkeys begin to leap an
chatter. A man who feeds. then
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4@hechnsl6A

are good friends, and they will do
for each other and stand by each
other through everything.
+ Walter says that you and are
the feminine Damon and. Pythias.
tell him we're only modern women
who have found how much friend
ship and sympathy and trust and
admiration and respect can add to
our lives.
We're going back quite soon = to
Albany. Walter has foolish idea
that he wants me to astonish the
natives, think, although he has
said Nothing about it to me. Honest
ly, Leslie, if he could. have his way,
I would be buying more dresses than
I could possibly wear, and already
have more jewels than is good for
any one woman.
Yesterday he left me for a short
time, and when he came back he
was followed by man who brought
box containing the most gorgeous
chinchilla wrap have ever seen.
As only few days before he had
given me an ermine evening wrap,
you can see how have been over
whelmed with gifts. l don't believe
I'll ever get used to them, Leslie.
l feel almost wicked when l array
myself in dainty .chiffons and gor>l
geous velvets. luxurious furs and
rare jewels, knowing. how hard 1t is
for most women to get along with
not enough clothes to keep them
warm. n
l wouldn't tell this to Walter for
the world, for you; should see his
eyes light up when appear before
him in an entirely new costume. A
least I am making him happy, AM
! pray God that can always max
him happy. for l am going TO END
this letter just as ! began i'll an
the happiest ,womaR in all the World
RUTH BURKE.
Copyright; 1924. NEA Service, Incl
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
CROWDS

City population grows, the world One out of every
IL people in the whole world live in cities of than 1OO
600 population. There 400 such cities This to
light through check-up by German satistician.
We don't know what undercurren of emotion lures peo
pie to band together in cities Possibly the desire
long hours and hard labor and loneomeness of farm life
Later the airpane will break up the cities Families will
live far out in the country nature intended father flying
several hundred miles to work in cities reduced to collections
of factories and stores The city is destined to be passing
phenomenon in human progress.
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:, =: FABLES ON HEALTH-----
BE CAREFUL OF WATER

Be careful Of the water you drink
on your weekend or vacation trips
during the summer months! ''
Such was the warning to Mr.. Jones
and other residents of Anyhow.
While most running streams are
likely to be free from pollution, and
while most springs are a pretty safe
bet, still it is wise to inquire regard
ing the water in any district.
Wherever the slightest suspicion
obtains in out -of-the way places, wa
ter may be boiled with but little trou-
BILE.
Typhoid and other fever ravages
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19

have been prevalent in several re-
giops already this summer. -
: Pure water is easily obtainable in
most sections, but where far-away
spots are reached by auto; the, gam
BILE is not always good one. The
ounce: of precaution that lies in boil
ing the water is certainly better
than the inroads Of a fever epidemic.
A small quantity of chlorinated
lime will help kill germs that may be
living in water, but for safety's sake
it. is better to build fire and kill
the germs and get rid Of the impuri-
ties through boiling. s
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magic shoes on" warned Weeny.
If you don't, you are likely to find
yourself back home, and III have
tntake the rest Of my vacation trip
alone"
"We'll keep them on" said Nick.
"They are magic SO they won't get
wet"
So off they all went to the jungle
swimming pool.
Tommy dived in first with a
splash.
."Fine!" cried Nick.
That's nothing!" said Tommy.
"Why, in the circus dive twice as
far, and sometimes l jump through
a hoop of fire. That's what they
call me, Fire and Water Tommy.
Come on in, the waters fine!"
So Nancy and Nick stepped right
100! Zee! Isn't it grand" said
Nick. But he said no more, for at
that minute Weeny gave run and
jump and landed right in the middle
of the swimming pool. And Tommy
Tiger and Nancy and Nick disap-
peared like sugar in a teacup.
For when Weeny went in, the wa
ter went pp as though the whole
Atlantic Ocean had been emptied
into it.
"My goodness" cried the elephant
! where are you, everybody? Where
did you go? Oh, there you are. Wal,
and I'll save YOU"
| "Get out of the water. That's the
quickest way to save US" criee
Tommy.
81 think I'll be going" sale
Weeny, after that. .'"1f l sta!
around any longer there won't b
any playground left"
(TO Be COntinued
Copyright, 1924. NEA Service, Inc.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
RICH

We have 'kings" in democracy. Money is our
monarch item dscloses that Robert T. Crane an
ea3terner paid $54 day for the year for the
of Pullman constantly ready for his exclusive use The
price included wages of cook, waiter and porter.
Medieval kings had nothing like that. We can't all hire
Pullman but all kngs-by ancient standards
Of comforts and luxuries. Charlemagne would have
given half his kingdom (most of continental Europe) for
radio, auto and movie theater
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
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 10 the press Of
the day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
ANIMAL

The theory of evolution by ayng with the animals
has during and since the had large numbers of men
interpret life in animal terms, to their backs in the
spiritual Interpretation of life which Christianity offers So
cla ms Canon Hay Aitken England's leading revivast
He is bit unfair animals They are entirely natural
Mans wckedness without exception the result Of evadng
-short-circuiting natural processes
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
DRUDGE

Rural woman still is drudge mourns scientist of
Smithsonian Institution She will continue so consider
abb extent until the country placed electrical basis
Electricity destined to be the Great Emancipation
human slavery Coal will be burned at the Mines general
ing to be sent hig-tenson wires Or by radio
Possibly some farm boy impressed by his mothers drudg
will find the radio way that will be cheap and universal
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Minnesota points. c. A. Swanson,
manager of the Western Union Tele-
graph office, who has been spending
two weeks vacation in Fargo, &C
companied Mr.. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons
on the return "trip.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-19
MAGIC

The Missouri farmer who made his lowhaung tractor
travel the length OF his fields without driver while he
drove mule-p ows abreast, is ahead of his time
The day will come when tractors will be adjusted to
travel without drivers and turn about automatically the
end of the field. Automatic machinery is in it's infancy.
With wireless control the farmer will sit his porch and
watch the Iron Magicans do his work Same in industry.