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The Ely miner., 1926-07-16
Jlle Hotel St9nOfralller

i Kelly" t = announced ann ed the Hotel
Stenographer.
''That so?" asked the House De
tective, uninterested.
"Yes, and it's quite chore, too"
said the girl. Every woman who
buys shoes wants pair that are neat
and snappy, very small on the out
side, but with plenty of room inside,
so she can wriggle her toes when she
is pleased. But shoes don't come like
that.
That's the trouble with US women,
Kelly. We always want something
that isn't. Every girl wants hus-
band who is a fine, masterful. success
full business man in the daytime, ac-
cumulating a wad which will balk a
leaping greyhound, yet who shakes
wicked hoof at night and is sort of
social arbiter. But husbands do not
come like that. A money-grubber in
the daytime refuses to break out of
his chrysaIis and be butterfly at
night.
"a woman wants to hook up with
good journeyman plasterer who can
earn big wages in daytime, singing
plaster like a statue of industry or
look like one of those heroic cartoons
of the honest laborer, and then have
him all manicured and dressed and
combed and perfumed like blue rib
bon Pomeranian at night. Somehow
life doesn't supply any such light
ning-change artists. Honest mechan-
les all chew fine cut, and dancing
fools are soda jerkers in the daytime.
"a woman wants to hook up for
life with a guy who can shoulder his
way through a crowd, uppercut an
overcharging taxi driver, or cut his
initials with his knuckles in the mug
of a corner loafer who makes remarks
to his lady friends, yet who is kind
and gentle as bunny rabbit to his
wife and children. But bunny rabbit
men at home are third assistant book
keepers in the daytime. Chaps who
are cave men in the street pull Stats
| out of the bed with which to beat
| their wives at home.
"If it can't be had, Kelly, woman
/ wants it, and mostly 1t can't be had
so we women enjoy lot of misery
| in this world"
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SIMPLEX CABLINER

"a Modern Fairy Tale.)
TALLED In special extra session by
- their beloved queen, the fairies,
perched on toadstools with their lit
tie legs crossed debonairly, discussed
ways and means of destroying their
enemy, Simplex Cabliner, who
preached to mankind that there are
no fairies.
'Let us mix a powder Of hensbane
and addergrub, and whiten it so cum
ningly with butterfly dust that he will
think Is is sugar and put it in his
coffee" proposed the fairy Trala.
"Devilweed juice is much more dead
ly," suggested the fairy Cola. mo
mortal can recover from the effects
of it. We can put some in that cheap
tea his wife just bought, and when
he complains about the taste, his wife,
fearing he has detected the inferior
tea, will tell him he imagines it."
81 have a much more subtle plan,'
spoke up the fairy Lala. Let us
cause him to dream of wonderful
recipe for homemade wine. He will
make it, drink it to satisfy his own
vanity, and thus prepare his own
death petionp'
With shrill cries of approval and a
patter of hand clapping that sounded
like soft rain, the fairies unanimously
adopted the idea.
90 by George Matthew Adams)
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California Rich in
.Serni-Precious Gems

Purple amethysts come from Mono,
and San Diego offers royal rose
quartz Fleches dAmour uOve's
Arrows) with their tiny red shafts In
closed in pellucid crystals are found
In California; and the strange rich
brown wood-tint crystals from Elsi-
more are unique. From south of US
comes the deep green epidote of gem
quality fully as valuable as that from
the Ural mountains. Tulare produces
exquisite chrysoprase (prase-opaD OF
the finest kind, and 1t may again
come into the great popularity 1t
once enjoyed, especially among the
most ancient races of Asia, who deep
ly admired its tender light green and
soft translucence. Some Tulare stones
are really a semi-opal, with a pleas
ing greenish mysterious allure all
their own.-Los Angeles Times.
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AS Told by
Irwin S. Cobb
SOLVING A DARK
MYSTERY
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yITHEN you can say for story
w that it is funny and that, more
over, it is the recital of an actual Oc-
double value l think this story Is
funny, and / have knowledge that the
thing happened substantially as it is
here set down:
Achmed Abdullah, the novelist and
short story writer, is an Afghan, de-
scendant of an old and noble family
of Afghanistan and a son of for
mer governor of Kabul. He was edu-
Gated in Europe, and he has lived and
adventured pretty much all over the
world. Being a natural linguist, he
has picked up tongues as he went,
until today he knows as many Ian
guages and jargons as probably any
living man knows.
With the rank of captain he was on
recruiting service once for the British
army in Cairo. To him came an
Egyptian officer of police to ask his
aid. 1t seemed that two native con-
stables had picked up in the bazaars
unknown and whose purposes were
unfathomable, seeing that he could
not be made to understand the ques-
tions put to him by his captors.
1t seemed that for several days be-
fore his arrest the prisoner had been
lurking about the bazaars, a butt for
gamins and the despair of those who
sought to interrogate him regarding
his antecedents and his intentions. AS
much for his own protection as for
any other motive the police had locked
him up. Now the expert assistance
of Captain Abdullah as translator was
solicited.
Abdullah accompanied the puzzled
functionary to the prison. In a cor
| ner of cell crouched a huge black
man staring with apprehensive, sullen
eyes at the newcomers. 1t was evil
dent that he was of some African
stock; also it was plain that he was
in badly frightened state. He was
| clad in a nondescript costume of tat
| ters which he had picked up some
where-the sandals of an Arabian,
| Turkish fez and the ragged remains
| of donkey drivers white robe.
Being admitted to the cell, the vol
unteer interpreter proceeded to fire
simple questions at the captive. first
! in French, then in Afghan, and then
| in Ashantee, in Turkish, in Tibetan,
in Greek, in Chinese, in Persian and
| in Batu. There was no response; the
black merely continued to glover at
| him dumbly So then Abdullah tried
! him in some Of the tongues of the
| Sahara desert and in the clucking dia-
lects of one or two Congo tribes and
/ finally in Zuluese, with which he was
also more or less familiar. Still the
hunched-up figure gave no sign of
understanding.
In despair Abdullah gave it up. 'T
wonder" he said aloud to himself In
English, ''what in thunder you are,
| anyway"
With below of thanksgiving the
prisoner leaped to his feet.
Boss" he whooped. 'Tse Free
Will Baptist"
And so he was-a country darky
from Alabama who had shipped on a
tramp steamer out of New Orleans,
had. deserted off the African coast,
swimming ashore naked. and had for
days past been lodging about the ma
tive quarters, growing hourly more
bewildered and more desperate In
these strange surroundings.
20 by the Central Press Association.)
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shades are lovely In color combina.
tions and many little frocks employ
two colors In their construction, or a
dress Of one color uses another color,
in the same sheer fabric, in its trim
ming. This is characteristic Of chif-
fon, voile and georgette dresses this
season, with their simple decorations
made Of the same material as the
dress.
In the sketch of two party frocks
shown here, Paris presents simple but
ingenious models made of georgette
crepe in pastel colors. In the frock at
the left the georgette is shirred into
a fiat puff used as finish at the neck
line and for bands at the wrist OF
long, full sleeves. The arresting fea-
ture of this model is the use Of long
petals of georgette over simple
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sMad5,iaLI,in,l y y "a
oA OD S
sSTOTy Martha Martin

the flowers, why, last week you were
nothing but little bud, and here you
are all out
"In just the very same way that
people will say to a child. why, my
dear, you seemed only a baby so
short a time ago, and here you are
grown up almost"
The Wind kept blowing and blow
ing and pretty soon the King of the
Clouds spoke again.
"Mr. Wind, wouldn't you like me to
join you? The people are all saying
that 1t Is looking overcast. and as
though 1t might rain. And here |
am all ready for a good frolic. / am
eager for fun"
"Join me, join me by all means, !"
said Mr.. Wind.
So the King of the Clouds Joined
Mr.. Wind and Mr.. Wind blew and the
King of the Clouds called forth all the
Army of Raindrops and what time
they had.
They chased over the pavements
anu the FOduS anu lllc SluC" dlho
Mr.. Wind after them They ran races.
They had so beautiful a time.
"Well, WELL" laughed the King OF
the Clouds, 81 did hear such funny
thing just now. Someone opened a
window and poked her head out for
second and then she said, "Oh, mercy,
it is raining to beat the band
"Now that is a joke! l may beat
down upon pavements and the roads
and the sidewalks but / don't beat
the band. 1 wouldn't know how to
to play an instrument and so make
music. Fancy the King of the Clouds
playing a saxophone or a cornet
What funny expressions people use"
And then the King of the Clouds
and Mr.. Wind raced and chased even
more and oh, such "a wind and rain
storm as it was.
The people who were indoors shook
their heads and said, Impossible to
go out on a day like this" And the
ones who were already out-of-doors
got soaked-drenched right through
all their clothes
(Copyright.)
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with very smart and original de-
velopment of the two-piece dress.
This has a jacket of natural colored
linen and a skirt of beige crepe de
chine. The hat Is of brown cro-
cheted silk straw. Another popular
walking shoe is illustrated. 1t Is
center-strap sandal of sauterne kid
skin, with narrow pipings of blonde
kid and heels of the same. These
colors harmonic with many frocks.
Black patent leather is popular in
singfe-strap and center-strap varle-
ties and is very handsome with
pipings of lizard skin. Pumps In
blonde or suede lightweight kid or In
lizard skin are as adaptable as black
shoes to different colors In frocks.
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SHOES FEATURE SHARPNESS;
LITTLE FRENCH PARTY FROCKS

In sports shoes the practical types
are increasing in demand in oxford
and single-strap styles and in brown
and white combinations. Low cuban
heels and perforated trimmings dis
tinguish them.
Whenever little mam'selle has oc-
casion to be much dressed up
as for wedding in the family or
a birthday party-she walks unknow-
ingly into the limelight and reveals
the genius of the French for dainti-
ness. In her coat and hat she may be
small splotch of brilliant color, like
an animated rose or poppy, or some
intense blue flower, but in her party
frocks she is likely to be clad In light,
pastel colors or tints. These light
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asB8 go

yKYHEREWITHAE shall her feet
Wv be clothed Is giving the fashion
able woman as much concern as her
dresses do and probably more than
her millinery does for shoes this sea-
son have set pace In smartness that
simply compels attention. We have
not arrived at the point where every
frock must have Its shoe exactly, but
we have come to the place where
every type of frock must be worn with
corresponding type in footwear.
There are street shoes, sports shoes,
dress shoes and evening shoes which
challenge dresses and millinery to
measure up to them In chic and are
almost as varied as hats are. Movie
stars and millionaires may indulge
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themselves with shoes for every dress,
but we average moderns will be we'll
equipped with a few pairs of well
chosen shoes of the types which meet
our requirements.
In daytime and walking shoes, light
colored kid is as popular as black and
is shown in parchment color,
light tan, light brown, sauterne, gray
and beige. Two colors are often COM
bined in shoes for walking or for
afternoon wear. Light. gray kid COM
bined with lizard skin, patent leather
slippers with touches of tan reptile
applique, and combinations Of black
and white leather are promenading
the boulevards along with many other
elegancies in footwear. In the pic
ture shown here slippers of parch-
ment kid, strapped in brown, are worn
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foundation dress and their repetition
In deep cuffs, making it more than ever
suggestive of blossom. 1t might be
developed In a single color, In shades
of one color or In two colors.
The little frock at the right is even
more simple. 1t features the cape In
a diminutiye example, disclosing bit
of shocking at the front opening.
Beautiful little roses made of the
georgette are set in rows about the
short sleeves and at the bsttom of the
skirt, which finishing touch naturally
leads one to imagine it developed in
light rose pink or soft yellow. But 1t
would be success In any pleasing
color.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
ca is2s. Western Newspaper Union-l
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Good Combination

His wife was great on fixing up roo
mances between young folks of their
acquaintance and was spelling the en-
joyment of his evening paper gushing
about a young couple who had been
seen together.
YES" he grumbled. they're ham
and eggs all right"
What do you mean by that?" she
demanded.
"He's a fool and she's dumbell.
and so they belong together, like ham
am he retorted-Ci Cincinnati En-
Qairer.
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Sacred Cow Influence

His exalted highness, the nizam,
has now issued an order by beat Of
drum at Aurangabad, in British India,
that hereafter 1t will be considered
criminal to keep the photograph or
picture of a cow within the niZam's
territory, that within 13 days from
the date of the order all such photo
graphs should be surrendered in the
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How 1t Started
CHRONOLOGY"
By JEAN NEWTON

WHEN we arrange series of
w facts in chronological order
we place them in the order in which
they happened, In their place with
reference to time. So chronology is
the system of placing in order of
time, of arranging events In their
consecutive place.
It is from the ancient Greek name
for the god of time that we have
this word in modern speech. He was
Kronos. also spelled "Chronos" who
corresponded to the Roman god
Saturn as the original and supreme
deity.
Whether Kronos was regarded by
the ancients as the god of time be-
cause he was supposed to have been
born Of heaven or infinity from
which we have time, or whether the
association was simply the result of
similarity between the name .'Kronos''
and the word "chronos." meaning
time. is a debatable, question. AS 1t
comes to us, however, in our heritage
of Greek mythology, we have Kronos
or Chronos, the god Of time, who
has intrenched himself into our lam
guage in the word chronology"
Copyright,
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who have been In cities all through
the week and who have gone out on
Saturdays and Sundays have said as
they have looked at the flowers and
the shrubs and the trees and the
leaves, 'Oh, how they have grown
"Yes, they have spoken of the flow
ers just as though they were chill
dren, for you know how people will
say to children, How you have grown
"And the people have even said to
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KING OF THE CLOUDS

nu ELLO," said the King of the
IL Clouds to Mr.. Wind.
Hello" said Mr.. Wind, and he
whistled great long whistle. Then
he blew and he shouted:
"Pm Mr.. Wind and I'm wild today,
I'm full of pranks, I'm full of play.
I don't care what the people say.
I am going to have a time so gay"
''It has been warm lately" said the
King of the Clouds, "and people have
seen how things have grown. People
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courts of the nizam and that after
that date any persons found in pos
session of photograph or picture of 8
cow will be liable to a fine of SOC
rupees (about $160) and six months
Imprisonment.
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Statesmen All Ouer

81 notice in some Of these august
deliberations one statesman. after an
exchange of billingsgate, will invite
another statesman to step outside"
ever hear of one stepping outsider
mo"
''Nor l. What do you think of ouI
pennant prospects this ?"-Louis
Vile Courier Journal
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Another Titan Reported

After remaining unnoticed for years
covered with dirt and CRIME in an old
shop in Berlin, painting believed to
be another real Titan has been re-
ported found and identified as one of
the great artists works entitled ''Ve-
nus, Cupid and the Organ Player"
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The automobile isn't in it with gos-
sip when it comes to running people
down.
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The rays of happiness, like those Of
light, are colorless when unbroken.-
Longfellew.
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According to the last annual report,
there are in Great Britain over 900
mentally affected individuals
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-05-29
WEEDS FORCE
FARMERS TO
CHANGE PLAN
Nelson County Agriculturists
Now Raise Clover, AL
falfa and Corn

Lakota, N. D., May 29--tP)-Ove,
abundance Of sow thistle and othc,
weeds forced Nelson county farmer r.
to abandon the onc-crop plan oil
farming in the opinion Of H. M
Ocfstos. county extension agent
Lower yields also were a contribut.
ing factor, Ocfstos said.
In place of thousands Of acres OF
wheat and flax large fields of sweet
clover. alfalfa and corn greet the
eye Of the visitor to Nelson county
Better Livestock
Moro and better livestock have
followed in their wake, pure b RCD
sires and close culling Of herds and
flocks having increased tho quality
and productivcncss.
During the last five years the whea,
acreage has decreased l6 per cent
Spring wheat has decreased 10000
acres. while durum wheat acreage has
increased 10000 acres. The corn
acreage has Increased 100 per cent
alfalfa 800 per cent. sweet clover 500
per cent and barley 40 per cent
Acreage devoted to rye and oats are
about the same.
Cooperative marketing organiza-
tions are active in the county and
have had fair degree of success,
Ocfstos said. and farmers have con-
fidencc in them as partial means
Of helping solve their marketing pro-
blcm.
Although Nelson county had fair
crop last year and prospects for 1926
arc declared to be good, there was
little land sold during the last year
and few new settlers have moved into
the county.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-05-29
NEWS BRIEFS

Twelve hundred persons were kill
ed By cyclone and tidal wave in
Burma.
Five girls die and eight persons
are injured in fire at Rockford. H.,
auto top factory.
Explosion in munitions depot at
Sac Paulo. Brazil, kills 20 civilians
and two officers.
Carleton college. Of Mortified,
won midwest conference track and
field meet at Mount Vernon, la.
August to q were picked as dates
for annual tournament of North Da-
kota golf association to be held ut
Fargo.
Tex Richard announces in Hot
Springs, Ark, that Dempsey will de-
fend his title September 10; oppon-
ent is unnamed
Attorney General Sargent orders
immediate trial Of charles "
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-05-29
SCATTERING
SUNSHINE is
HIS POLITICS
Veteran Committee DO0rkeep.
or Is "Just a Servant
of the People"
nv Charles =. stewart

Washington, April 29~-Thc cannicst
politician a: the capital, if YOU ask
him whether his politics are Demo
cratic or Republican, will smile and
answer:
"I'sc servant Of the people. Sir,
lust servan, of the people
That's Harry. doorkceper and mes
scnger OF the House ways and means
committee His full name is Harry
Parker, although few know any
thing but the Harry. Ever since
" iliam Mckinley was chairman of
the ways and means committee, for
b years. Harry has served the pco-
pie as guardian OF the committee
doo~
Sunshine Politics
Ks come here to work who
talks a lot about being Republicans
and Democrats" says Harry, and he
doesn't mean the elected members
of Congress although he could, with
reason. And pretty soon they come
walking by all dressed up and they
tel somebody. 4 USED to have that
job right there My politics is just
to scatter sunshine and be "A servant
oa the people, and l. still got my job"
Harry was born at Washington's
hame. Mt Vernon, where his father
wSs n Waterman for many years.
Hires ldent, %slcaders in Congress
add other distinguished pcrsonagcs
have been his friends all his life. He
has Il sweeping familiarity with the
personalities aud incidents Of two
generations of public life. and his
mhmory for acquaintance is as
FINISHING
xl L. - 1.
hositating the name of man who
returned after II years absence, and
the man had been merely a congress
nsln's secretary.
'They arc all dear to my heart"
says Harry, the politician. when one
ayks which is his favorite among
his famous acquaintance, but Mr..
Claude Kitchen was certainly love
ly man"
During Kitchens last illness
Harry went to his homo every night,
asking if he could not .c of service
lie tells with pride that he carried
key to the Kitchen home which
Kitchen gave him.
The Palmy Days
The paln,y days Of congrcs ional
Eaicty, according to Harry were in
the time of Speaker Reed. There
was famous revolving closet in a
committee room off the house cham
Der.
Dinner would he served to the
committe in this room. The closet
containc' the seasonings and table
ware. bu. its shelves could be turned
like II revolving dor, and the other
side. says Harry. had everything
they needed to refresh themselves
Religion has an important place in
jtarrv's personality.
when you wants to tire a servant
get one that's always singing and
praying Harry advises. "Then he'll
give you full days work That is
SO in politics, too. Most of the chair
MEN of this committee have beer
religious mon.
We've still got Mr. Mckinley
Bible here. and the other charmcn
still read it. You could always tel
when Mr.. Mckinley was going t.
make a big speech because he would
get his Bible down and read it !;
long time"