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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

New York. Aug 29-This great
metropolis is not without it's share Of
suburban life and commuters COM
edies. Some of the outlying sub
divisions spring up so rapidly that
the telephone company and other
public utilities keep pace with them.
Out in Long Island there is COM
munity of several hundred homes
which were all completed at about
the same time. Not one of them mas
a telephone and so the real estate
office has become message ex-
change and its one telephone Is over
loaded with traffic.
Here are some Of the messages
which Mac. the attendant, is asked
to deliver.
Say, will you run up to my house
and tell my wife business keeps me
in town tonight?"
"Hello, Mac, do me a favor, will
you? Just run over to Marie's house
and tell her l missed the train and
I'll be out later"
MAC, please, run down to the
house and ask mother whether she
wants creamery butter. or tub but,
ter. forgot
as this Mac? Well, will you 60
over to Emmas house and ask her if
she's got date tonight and if she
amt will it be all right for me to
come out? Tell her this is Joe. She'll
know"
Say, Mac, will you run over to
the house and see if ] closed the
Windows? I'll hold the line until you
come back"
Mac is just about disguised with
his job The housewives call on
him about dozen times day to
regulate the plumbing, or to fix a
warped door or to put up window
screens or shades. And he has
healthy disrespect for the Manhat-
tanites who try to garden.
sp1inkled grass seed all over bare
and then sat down to watch the
grass grow he told me.
Most Of the pickpocket episodes
along the great white way are look
ed upon as burlesque jokes, but Dan
Fish, who recently came here from
Cleveland, will tell you differently.
He stopped to look at the electric
signs in Times Square last night
and light-fingered gent relieved
him of his watch. "What don't
understand" complains Fish, "is
how he knew that watch was in my
upper coat pocket. There wasn't
chain or anything on it to show
where it was"
,...Althoush.. the. police. are. able. to
spot a sneak thief or q pickpocket
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
LETTER FROM SALLY ATHER.
TON TO JOHN ALDEN PRES.
COTT-CO\TI\JE

Dear Mr.. Prescot::
am starting for Pi.tsbu-g one
week from today. b. happy chance
found comparatively late COPY of
the Pitts burg Sun and read that your
house had been broken into again.
Did it by any possibility strike you
that that orchid handkerchief and
piece 0: orchid chiffon might have
belonged 10 that little tiger cat Ma
bel Carter? l don't know that you
know it, but she always wore orchid
when possible. Jimmie Condor will
tell you this. She even carried the
idea so far as to have the furnish
ings Of her tiny apartment in the
same color.
NC, as you know. are the initials
Of her name. Now don't tell me that
no one would be such a fool as to
leave all these clues behind. You
know the greatest criminologists in
the country say that there never was
and never will be perfect crime
The smartest criminal always leaves
some reminder. if one is clever
enough to detect it,
Of course Mabel Carter nee:
dreamed she would tear her gown on
piece of bronze statuarv in that
room, and if she thought OF dropping
her handkerchief she probably sad
to herself: what difference will it
make? There are hundred women.
perhaps thousands, who have those
initials"
Between you and me, Mr.. Prescott.
/ think if it were she, she would be
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

periodical and mandatory auds on the part of the
state examiner.
Chapter 1877 Of the 1919 laws which is amended
by Chapter 1875 Of the 1925 laws provided that the
state examiner must examine at least year
ana as much oftener he in his discretion deemed
advisable, the books and accounts Of city auditors
and city treaSurers along with state and county
ohlce6 The amendment passed by the last
session apparently exempts cities from such man
datory examination
If such Is the case II would seem that very i'm
portant curb against Illegal expenditure Of pubc
funds has been removed and a safeguard against
graft and waste repealed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

Tick Took, the Clock Fairy. gath
cred up all his tools and oil-can and
key, and remarked that as Old
Grandaddy was fixed all right and
running as we'll as new, he and the
Twins had better be going on to the
next place.
BY this time Old Grandaddy was
ticking away for dear life. and his
kind old face shone until the moon
on his forehead and the painted
roses on his cheeks looked almost
real.
"I'm so grateful" he said, "that |
feel like doing something for you.
Won't my master and mistress be
surprised when they come down in
the morning and find me as frisky
as young colt? I think that clocks
are something like flowers. They
know when people love them. What
can do for you. my dears? Would
you like to hear story?"
ooh, yes! We'd love it," said the
Twins quickly. "Have we time, Tick
Took? ?"
eyes, if it doesn't take too long,"
said the little clock fairy.
1T won't take long to tell it," said
Old Grandaddy. "But it took four
years to happen. I'll hurry:
II was made in Kingston. Rhode
Island" he began, "by a clock. maker
called Clagett. He was a very fine
clock-maker and sold his clocks for
high price. was bought by man
who lived near Boston.
1T was when the colonies were
still colonies, before the Revolution
airy War. and / was delivered by
post-express, and carried over rough
roads in an express coach drawn BY
four horses. And, although I was
snugly wrapped in old quilts and q
great deal of straw, when I reached
my destination there was almost no
life left in me. Travelling was travel
ing in those days, my dears.
But at last I was unpacked and
set up in state in my new home. It
was lovely white house with green
shutters and elm trees in the front
yard. was a wedding present to
the young couple who lived thare. I
don't know who was happier, j ke
bride. and. tSoa, o. mH3lf. - IL -
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=: The Tangle ::

glad - have you know that she is
on the job. You remember she told
Eou that she would get even with
both Of Us for spelling her little
game.
If you think anything of my
theory. viii you please give this let
ter to the commissioner Tell him
I've got a hunch that the Carter
woman IS just vain enough and vim
dictive enoucht 10 come back into
this city for the sake Of getting even
with you and NE. II you 60 nothing
about it until I return. | have an
idea which perhaps could no. be
worked; but possibly the Commits
sioner might arrange for carrying it
through.
Whatever you do. would suggest
that the moment you receive my let
ter you take it to Jimmie. let him
read it, and ask him what he thinks
about the whole matter. He may
poof poof it as one of Sal!y's wild
ideas. but if he will stop TO think a
moment. he will realize that some of
Sally's widest ideas proved them
selves TO be very sane theories, that
worked out to perfection.
VIII you please say TO Leslie that
l have much to tell her. 1t seems
strange to ne that good woman
can kick up such mess as Beatrice
has done by trying to arrange the
lives Of Dick and Paula Perrier. |
am afraid Dick is very fond of Miss
Perrier, but for some reason the
moving picture actress shrinks from
marrying any man.
Sincerely yours.
SALLY ATHERTON.
TOMORROW-Lettc from James
Condor to Sally Atherton.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

"But alas! The war began. Word
came that British soldiers had land
ed and my young master had to
buckle on his sword and march away.
But my young mistress was as
brave as he. Not tear did she shed.
She spent her time knitting socks
and warm jackets for the American
soldiers.
"One day a neighbor rushed in and
told my mistress that the Red Coats
were coming. They are coming into
all the houses and making them
selves at home,' she added. If you
have anything to hide. you'd better
DO 1t at once. One never can tell
what may happen
"'Wait and help me- said my mis-
tress quickly. There are valuable
papers as we'll as silver and pewter
and jewels that must hide. I'll put
them into the new clock and lock it,
"'Soldiers always look in clocks
said the neighbor.
Then we'll tie rope around the
clock and lower it into the old WE'LL
said my mistress.
when the soldiers came not a
thing of value did they find. but a
good hot meal which my mistress
thought it wise to cook for them All
the time l was hanging by my poor
neck dcwn the old we'll, with
branches and logs piled over the top
to hide the place.
The next day my mistress left.
thinking it safer to stay with her
mother until the war was over. And
there !! hung for four years. I was
rescued at last. but I've been full Of
rheumatism ever since"
mo wonder you have rheumatism,
poor DEAR" said Nancy.
Ito Be Continued)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
Repayment

America always has tried to do the right thing by
the tiny republic Of Liberia
And now this bread cast upon the waters seems
TO be coming back a hundredold. For Harvey Fire
stone tire manufacturer of Akron is arranging for
will enable him TO set out rubber plantation 0:
1.0o00 600 acres.
This will enable America to beat the British rub
Der gouge which has sent the price Of crude rubber
up frcm 20 cents TO 1870 a pound during recent
months. II America had not treated Liberia kindly
the chances are that the republic would have
been reluctant TO give the concession to an Amer
lean.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
Lower Flax Acreage
est. Paul Dispatch)

resurvey ordered by the Department of Agr
culture, due to conflicting nature of evidence from
North Dakota and Montana, has caused the depart
ment to modify its July report as to the acreage
planted to flax in these two states. The revision
shows that there has been a reduction of approx
mately per cent in the acreage devoted to fax in
the states named. North Dakota acreage now stands
at 1.3S6,O00 and Montana at $4,000 acres an
indicated total reduction from the previous estimate
for both of 374,OOO acres
Granted that the farmer knows his own business,
1t is difficult to account for decrease in the acre.
age of one crop that is subject to protective tariff
Before planting season on, experts and those
interested in flax culture, pointed out the double
advantage to be gained in increase in flax acre
age and the consequent reduction Of the wheat
acreage. Domestic requirements of linseed oil and
cakes for stock feed shown to be larger than
domestic production and importation is made neces.
sary. In spite of the facts. the flax acreage shows
marked decline
1t would appear either that the farmer is not in
clined to take shelter under a protective tariff or
that he knows little about the profit such a tariff
insures There is, unfortunately. belief current
that flax exhausts is injurious to the soil. 1t is
obvious that repeated cropping to flax is injurious
not only to the soil, but to the seed, through the
development of flax wilt. But as a rotating crop,
flax is not more severe the soil than any other
grain. Flax has merely acquired bad name and
until it outNes II VIM 1 ITS a.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

Modern achievements Of precision
are expressed in such large figures
that they need to be reduced to
smaller ones before you realize what
they mean.
For instance, the discovery is an
nounced by DR.. Mueller. in Berlin,
Of method Of making metal foils
millionth Of centimeter thin
without losing their elasticity. That
is obviously thin-but how thin?
Measure a centimeter's thickness
in an ordinary book printed on thin
paper. 1t will be about 200 pages,
or 100 leaves. That means that it
would take 10000 of DR.. Mueller
gold leaves, lying one on the other,
to be as thick as one thin sheet Of
paper. The thousand leaves of that
same paper would be about four feet
thick. AS one thickness of paper is
to four feet, so is one Of these
leaves to one sheet Of paper. Yet
they can be made and measured, and,
for certain electrical purposes, used.
Just as we have reached the
about walking. Man has walked for
SouhtACSS >ChtOI lCSs DuL 1dIC juNcS-
tigators say he has never known
exactly how he did it,. So they have
set up apparatus to find out.
1t will be an interesting intelec-
tual discovery. But who will make
any use Of it? Nobody walks but
the postman, and he is beginning to
use side-car motorcycle.
If it were not for the hereditary
persistence of usVless parts. man
would soon be a legless animal. As
it is, how many Of US could contem-
plate without CONSERVATION TWEEN
ty-mile walk?
About as many as can do double
flip-flop, or read Greek.
Lenroot Wants New Primary Law
Senator Lenroot demands change
in the Wisconsin primary law, so
that the voter, when he receives his
primary ticket, shall be required to
ask for the ticket of only one party,
and state which that party is.
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&z|Zg&$&%$MzZ

Be careful about following in your
fathers footsteps. You are liable to
have a son like his.
What's more discouraging than an
enemy who gets along fine?
No matter how long you stay in
Jail you don't get a vacation.
Looking down on others doesn't
place you above them.
Cities are all right. except you
cant yell very loud in them.
When You think there's something
wrong with somebody it may be you.
In few years from now they
wont see how IN the world we got
along without using airplanes.
Just think of those who just think
they would be perfectly satisfied
If they were in your place.
Fast living is lots of fun until you
hit sharp curve
A big family keeps a man so busy
he hasn't time to worry as much as
he really should.
Raise your children like dollhouse
flowers and they will blossom out
into blooming idiots.
The flower Of American. mani God
is selfrising.
You never really know how lucky
or unlucky you are.
People who can't play any kind of
music have to relieve their feelings
by telling their troubles.
Being away from a place is nothing
to worry about. You always are
away from millions of places.
The real trouble with all narrow
mi nded people is they are too narrow
minded to realize it,
Electric fans will blow about any.
thing. So will some people.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
Baseball, the National Sport

Ba scball again is demonstrating that it IS the
national game
Just at the time that many sport writer's were
'Tping long pieces about how racing was likely to
replace bas ball. because OF the large number Of
tracks recently opened. the games between the
Giants and Pirates in New York draw a capacity
crowd Of $1,000. More than 5000 turned
away
When ha sebal gets in the homestretch--a c,ose
pennant race---it steps away from other sports.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

In commenting upon Victor Lawson's will
hitch he leaves the control and supervision Of Ct
hicago Daily News to Trust Company, the On
'hich experienced n"wspapermen know to be tru
nd it is quoted herewith:
How the Lawson plan will work out We
would not presume TO predict It may work
well, but certainly the overseeing
Of newspaper by a bank will not be
cessful Every laymah is confident he
run newspaper though he may have no
temptation to do his own dentistry or even
draw his own will There is no enterprise
that receives 50 much outside advice and
correction as ours. But confident
that there is no training incompatible"
with successful newspaper management
that Of banking. The strategy Of news
paper success is expansive, aggressive, dar-
ing. The training and the natural set of
the banking mind and temper are conser-
vative, cautious. The breath of is
publicity, experiment. responsiveness TO the
variety and ux Of the human scene, de-
pendence on emotions. The Of the
other is privacy, security. exactitude and
sure footing
Men grow conservative and cautious with
the advance Of years and there is a natural
desire for the preservation of that which
we have created in near the form
have impressed upon it possible. Victor
Lawsons Will expresses this and does not
present any novel attempt at solution
of the problem he had before him.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
Supreme Court Rules
II believe in farming"

In recent case from Sargent County, the state
supreme court cites Section 1913 c. l.. 1913 which
forbids any officer Of city to be drecly or ndi-
recty interested in any contract work or business
Of the city in the sale of any article the expense
price of which is paid from the city treasury.
The court holds squarely that it is against public
policy and in fiat violation of Section 361S for city
officials to participate directly indirectly in
contracts business with the city.
Public opinion and interest usually enforce this
act. That it is fagranty disobeyed is common
knowledge. Occasionally taxpayer resists the
procedure and the practice is stopped for awhile.
Examination of commissioners proceedings in
cities such Bismarck show that the practice is
quite general both in small as we'll in large
items The law seems less of dead letter.
Few citizens resent the practice and it goes mer-
rily on.
But this manner Of conducting the city's business
does not make for economy or efficiency. 1t now
appears that the legislature has removed check
against such law violations the part of city COM
missioners and other city officials by exemptng
cities from periodic examination by the state exam
Session Laws, examination of the books of a city
auditor or city is be made only at the
request Of the mayor president Of the board of
city commissioners. Electors, however, upon petit
ton to city authorities may force an audit
It is understood that an opinion has been re-
termins to what extent cities. exempted from
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
Power of Habit

Nothing is harder to change than the habits Of
people. Radio broadcasters have noted big slump
in applause postal cards, which the announcers ask
be sent the station after each program.
And they have figured out that the reason is that
the postal for cards has been increased to two
cents. The increase wouldn't cause serious diff
culties to the people who formerly sent cards. But
it a habit TO send the onecent cards and it's
something send the twocent ones.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

on sight due to certain unfailing
characteristics. they are never able
to stop their activities completely.
The adventure Of their trade drives
them on to play it even when faced
with the certainty Of arrest. Detec-
tives who know the faces of almost
every sneak thief and pickpocket in
the country are always on watch
along Broadway, yet visitors who
stop to look at electric signs fire.
auently miss their watches or wal
lets.
JAMES w. DEAN
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
NEW YORK MAN GIVES
TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS

London. Aug. 29.-tR)-Scholar-
SHIPS which each year will permit
three British elementary school
tescners to travel about in the Uni
tea States for six months or more
nave been established by Irving r.
busn, New York Businessman. Each
scholarship has value of $500. The
recipients will be selected. by the, au-
i Isaaes vSs2sisig 1es:slh! Gift Of
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

In addition to turning and then, scientist
has discovered that worms sing, having
rhythmic sounds of soprano pitch" Something
more to worry the fundamentaliss.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
A THOUGHT

If woman have long hair. II is a
glory to her; for her hair is given
her for q cOvering.-l Cor. 11:l5.
Fair tresses mans imperial race
ensnare.-Pope.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

A collection of etchinRs executed
by Queen Victoria more than so
sYeATA -4GQ. NOW are heinz .exhllited
aaas=ssA&ess'.eo tAV s44FgS :3H3dsEfz<a.s
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

Disease Is
Not Hereditary
tuberculosis is not hereditary. If
you have noticed that consumption
seems to run in families that is true
largely because of the exposure Of
the young child to the disease.
If baby born of tuberculous
mother is removed from its mother
Immediately after birth there is lit
tie. if any more danger of that
baby's developing tuberculosis than
there is ia child born of healthy
mother.
These latent germs of infection.
rotential factors of tuberculosis in
themselves, probably give certain
degree of immunity against the ef-
fects of larger doses which one may
unfortunately experience The in
dividual may be in a small degree
vaccinated ag inst tuberculosis.
However. too much comfort should
not be derived from this since in
young children infection in any de-
gree may become generalized and
prove fatal. A person who has a
latent infection may through strain.
stress or illness. develop active tu-
berculosis at any period of life.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
BY DIR. HUGH S. CUMMING
Surgeon General. United States
Public Health Sarvirn

The germ of consumption is called
the tubercle bacillus because small
rounded bodies, tubercles, occur in
the tissues of the body which are
attacked by this disease. These
tubercles are characteristic mani
festations of tuberculosis. The
tubercle bacillus is very small. It
can be seen only with high power
microscope and the aid of coloring
materials; The germ is of vegetable
origin and grows in the body in
much the same way as mold grows
upon food. 1t is so small that
thousand tubercle bacilli piled one
upon the other could not be se-.s by
the naked eye.
These germs do not multiply out
side the body. They are killed by
sunshine, by daylight and by dry
ing.
The dry and unprotected germs
are killed by few minutes exposure
to the direct rays of the sun and
they are killed in a few days in a
we'll lighted and we'll ventilated
ROOM
However. if they are protected by
warmth. moisture and darkness, as
in a dirty carpet, for instance, or
in the cracks of the floor of dark
closed room, the germs ma live for
months.
These germs of tuberculosis are
found chiefly in the sputum of per-
sons suffering with the disease.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
Scatters Germs
of tuberculosis

CCdICefS NeTmS
of tuberculosis
The sufferer from tuberculosis
leaves these germs on the spoon with
which he eats, on the edge of his
tea cup or glass and on the mouth
piece of his pipe.
If the consumptive coughs with un-
covered mouth he sprays forth a
large number of very fine droplets
which contain multitude of tube role
bacilli in such fine SUSPENSION of
moisture that they may float in the
air and be inhaled directly into the
lungs of someone near him.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29
ON HEALTH
HOW DISEASE GERMS
ARE SCATTERED

Flies carry the consumptive's
sputum on their feet from the gut
ter to the fruit on nearby stands or
to. food upon the table. Whether
inhaled with dust or swallowed with
food. the tubercle bacillus may cause
tuberculosis of the lungs.
Not all persons who get the germs
of tuberculosis into their bodies de-
velop active symptoms of the dis
ease. 1t is probable that most of
the germs that get into the body are
destroyed before they do any harm.
On the other hand, the germs that
lodge in the body live and to a linn
tied degree multiply and yet often
never give rise to active tubercu-
losis. The enlarged glands so often
seen in children are more frequently
than not due to tuberculosis, yet the
child may never develop an active
form of the disease. Such persons
are said to be infected or to have
latent tuberculosis.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

Being away from place is nothing
to worry about. You always are
away from millions of places.