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Evening star., 1927-01-23

Follies-in Transit company at Mem
phis, Tenn:
Cuckoo! my littel peacherino. and
how Is she tonight? / wish she was
right here, yum. yum. | got her
tootsie vicente letter this morning. I
hustled to the post office so fast to
get 1t I nearly broke my Stats. And
so it really longs for me, does she?
And did you really mean 1t? Well,
you certainly look like a piece of
chocolate to me! In fact, you're some
bird! You're my baby all right -
and so forth for three pages. After
which, the professor turns back to
work on his essay-"The Deteriora-
ton of the English Language Among
the Colored Races Of Africa"
TRULY RURAL.
Passionate love letter from Mr..
Epffraim CloverseedR Arcadia Post
Office, Vermont, to Miss Nettie Singer,
also of Arcadia, but at present on the
cash in the Home Restaurant, 1850
Sixth avenue, New York:
Dear Nettie:
There was a sharp frost last night
which may do considerable harm to
the fall wheat Till last Tuesday
there had not been no frost that you
wouldn't have noticed any. Some
think we are in for a hard Winter
Some think If it clears off a bit be-
tween this and New Years it may not
be but some don't. l seen a couple
Evening star., 1927-01-23

NDERSECRETARY WINSTON of
- the Treasury Department came
to washington from Chicago, the
Windy City, and he likes fresh air.
He likes it so we'll that visitors to his
once on cold Winter days find 1t ex-
nedient not to remove their overcoats
and. IL they are bald. to keep on even
their hats. For some windows OF his
once are open all the time. and his
onIy concession to the season is q
fire which burns in CRATE just back
Of his desk.
VXYHEN Representative Lindsay
w Warren of North Carolina intro
Auced his constituent, Reuben {.
bland of Robersonville, to the House
as 1.-The champion father of America,
he observed:
His fame has gone so far that
only this morning, upon his arrival,
he received the following telegram
from a lady in Kansas City:
Reuben, Reuben, I've been thinking
You are quite a nifty man;
To your health / now am drinking
You have done what few men can F"
Evening star., 1927-01-23

was hard not to take a crack at that
one!''
will close this editorial with a
brief story about Cracker" Schalk
and "Cocky" Collins, two of the boys
mentioned in Swede Risberg's recent
world almanac. One night they ask.
ed me for a cigarette and 1 handed
them a package containing five.
When they gave me back the pack
age it contained only two cigarettes.
Evening star., 1927-01-23

is dat so? So why you dun't trying
'SkizZen?'"
So de huss sad: "Pheh-I trite dem
hall. =. Is a bonch Benena Hoil."
So de blecksmeet sad $50 why you
dun's gung by a cheeroppideest??"
So de huss sad: "Wot?? Dem jeeps?!
Say, billive me. it tint woit while
de bodder witt de cornS witt de
bonions witt de hingrown nails. Tuzz
witt feengers l nidd yat-I should
play maybe a piano, odder a daft witt
a domb lengwidge 1 should loin, may
Evening star., 1927-01-23

be, ha? Besites-de menicuring wot
it Gusts me a year in de jeep bobber
shops--!lr'
So de blecksmeet sad: "Of cuss, OF
cuss--Wal, we putting on de mocket
skim wot1l gonna safe you hall de
expanses. Moo, geeve a loOk-HUSS-
HOOZw'
So from dees IL discodded de husses
de feengers witt de tuZz wot it stodded
opp a style from hoofS.
Hend from Chepter Two)
fConYriRht 1921
Evening star., 1927-01-23
Draws Small Salary.

NINE. Curie. world famous co-dis-
AVA coverer Of radium, gets only a
second-class professors salary of $125
a month at the Sorbonne. The most
highly paid educators in French uni
versities, and there are only about 80
such in all France, receive only SIS a
Evening star., 1927-01-23
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.
y HERE is a proverb which says
a man is known by the COM
pany he keeps. There is
Z l.. L. 4.

i" HERE Is q proverb which says
a man is known by the COM
pany he keeps. There Is a
i saying also that a man is
best known by the songs he
sings. 1t is claimed, too. that people
can always he distinguished by the
books that they read. and by the
pictures that they admire, and by the
clothes that they wear.
All this may be true. But. to my
thinking, the truest test of character
is found in the love letters that people
write. Each different type of man or
woman, including girls, has his, or
her, or perhaps their, own particular
way of writing love letters.
AS witness to which let me submit
to the readers judgment a carefully
selected set OF love letters present and
past. need hardly say that the let
ters are not imaginary, but that each
OF them is an actual sample taken
right out of the post office-no,
don't think need say 1t.
THE OLD-FASHIONED STYLE.
Love letter of the year 1927, sent
by messenger from Mr.. Ardent Heart
full, THE Hail." Motifs, England. to
Miss Angela BlushanhurT1, THE
Shrubberies," Hops, Potts. Shrops,
England, begging her acceptance of
fish:
Respected Miss Angela:
Evening star., 1927-01-23

suggested my wife, looking for Mr..
Crowninshield.
I reached for a stout gold headed
cane.
Come in," I called apprehensively.
The door opened and a. meek man
Evening star., 1927-01-23

II might as well, dear" I said to
my wife.
/ didn't have to wait long.
Washington will talk with Mr.
Frank Crowninshield," said the voice.
He's not here"
when do you expect him?"
Evening star., 1927-01-23

with the consent of your honored
father and your esteemed mother. l
venture to send to you by the messen-
ger who bears you this a fish. 1t has,
my respected Miss Angela, for some
time been my most ardent desire that
/ might have the good fortune to pre-.
sent to you as the fruit Of my own
endeavors q fish. 1t was this morn
ing my good fortune to land while
angling in the stream that traverses
your porperty, with the consent of
your father, a fish.
I'm presenting for your consump-
ton, with your parents consent, re-
spected Miss Angela, this fish, may I
say that the fate Of this fish, which
will thus have the inestimable privi
lege Of languishing upon your table,
conveys nothing but envy to one who,
while what he feels cannot be spoken,
still feels as deeply as should feel, if
1t does feel, this Ash.
with the expression Of a perfect
esteem for your father and mother,
believe me.
''Your devoted
ARDENT HEARTFUL."
Evening star., 1927-01-23

Never
Have him call the Washington
operator"
YES" 1 said, and hung up.
My wife was examining her eve
ming dress in front Of the mirror.
Evening star., 1927-01-23

''All right, Jeb," she said. Now
the dinner coat"
1 looked at the telephone.
I'm afraid to-" / replied.
At that moment there was a knock
at the door.
Maybe it's the telephone operator"
Evening star., 1927-01-23

Of crows in the pasture yesterday
but you can't always bank on that
I've been troubled again with my
Evening star., 1927-01-23

An expedition is seeking skeletons
of prehistoric dinosaurs In Tan
ganyikas Africa.
Evening star., 1927-01-23

toe. But my rheumatism seems
whole lot better from that last stuff.
My left leg has been pretty stiff again
Evening star., 1927-01-23

but the liniment has done my right
arm good. Well, 1 will now close,
"EPHRAIM."
Evening star., 1927-01-23

THE NEWER STYLE OF TO-DAY.
Love letter composed by Prof. AL
bertus Dignus, senior professor of
English rhetoric and diction at the
state University and famous as the
most brilliant essayist outside OF the
staff Of the London Times. to Miss
Maisie Beatit of the chorus of the
Evening star., 1927-01-23
Gross Exaggerations From Heestory:
Oily Settlers in Betwinn de Hize Hayes
BY MILT GROSS.
CHEPTER TWO.

Oily Settlers in de Woild Wot Dey
Settled in Betwinn de Hize Hayes.
Evening star., 1927-01-23

n the first evening of our
wedding trip to New York
City and environs my wife
and / decided to go to the
fhanfar
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28

Mrs. Alfred Of Fargo is DEM
0nstrating the Kathryn Flem-
ming line Of Better Toilet
Preparations at A. w. Lucas
Co. this week.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
Hands For Fifth
Radio Bridge Game

The fifth of a series Of 20 radio
auction bridge games will be broad
cast from kFYR Tuesday, Novcni.
Der %, at 9 p. m.
Each game Of the series features
Milton c. Work and Wilbur C..
Whitehead, New York experts, in
association with players from other
cities in America and Canada. The
listeners-in are urged to have four
players ready with cards and to fol-
low the game bid by bid and play
by play with the experts.
The contestants in the fifth game
are Mrs. Catherine A. Streeter. Of
Los Angeles, Calf, whose ability
both as teacher and player is ap-
preciated in Southern California:
Miss Annie B. Shelby, Of Portland,
Ore, long known nationally as an
expert player, and recognized as
one Of the best teachers and writer's
OF the northwest, and Mr.. Work and
Mr.. Whitehead, widely known Is
writer's, teachers and experts on the
game.
Following are the advance hands
for game five:
Mrs Catherine A. Streeter, Of Los
Angeles, Calf.
South" the Dealer, holds:
Spades-6 SIS
Hearts-A 8
Diamonds-8 spot s 2
Clubs- 10 076
Miss Annie B. Shelby, of Portland,
Oregon.
"West," holds:
Spades X J 8 spot 70
Hearts, 43
Diamonds-7 43
Clubs-3 2
Mr.: Milton C. Work, Of New York,
"North," holds:
Spades-A Q 10
Hearts-Q 10 20
Diamonds-A Q6
Clubs-K 8 spot S
Mr.: Wilbur C. Whitehead, Of New
York.
"East," holds:
SpadeS-9
Hearts-K J 8 spot 2
Diamonds-K j 1O9
Clubs-A @ 4
The Methodist Ladies' Aid
will hold their annual Christ.
mas Bazaar and Supper Thurs.
day, Dec. LIST.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
D.. B. Klein Elected
Head Of Local K. c..
4th Degree Assembly


E. B. Klein was elected faithful
navigator Of the Bismarck assem-
bly,. fourth degree knights of Col
umbus, at meeting held Sunday at
the Grand Pacific hotel.
H. c. Schultz was named faithful
admiral; Fred Peterson, faithful
captain; Frank Holman, faithful
pilot; c. J. Myers, faithful comp
troller; Joseph Sheehan, inside SEN
tinel; Nick Woehle, outside sentinel.
Due to the increased membership
since the recent initiation Of fourth
degree Knights Of Columbus in Bis
marck, many formal parties are be-
ing planned for the winter social
season. There are more than 60
members of the assembly in Biss
marck and Mandan.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
SWEET Violated No
Law, High Court Says

Herbert F. SWEET, member Of the
state house Of representative from
Kidder county, violated no law when
he surrendered to the insurance
company a policy which he previous
~ had assigned'to the City National
Bank Of Bismarck the supreme
court held today.
The case was brought to the SUI
preme court by the state E. order
Of the district court dismissing a
charge o. selling mortgaged prop
erty.
The law i. question, did not ap-
ply to the transaction in view of the
fact that the bank permitted SWEET
to retain possession of the policy
after he had assigned it to the bank
and because the bank did not comply
with the law in such manner as to
make the assignment q lien on the
policy, the { .u,: held.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28

Specials in millinery this en-
tire week at the Sarah Gold
Shop. Phone sec, 312 Main
street.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28

The following residents of Bis.
marck are attending the Interna-
tional Live Stock show in Chicago
this week: A. s. Dale, DR.. w. F.
Crewe, H. H. Cohenour, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin G. Anderson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Dunn, 0. w. Webb and
E. w. Nees.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Overbee and
children returned to Bismarck Sun.
day after spending the past week
in Valley City as the guests Of Mrs,
Overbee's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. l,
G. Moe.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Harry have
as their house guests this week
Mrs. Harty's mother, Mrs. D. E,
Haskin of jamestown, and Mrs. c.
A. Haskin Of Dickinson.
The church college will be held
this evening at the Methodist
church instead of Wednesday eve
ming as scheduled. Glasses will be
held from 1880 to Sis.
William ]. Morgan left recently
for Terre Haute and other points
in Indiana where he will visit for
about a week.
DR.. H. L. Startling Of argo spent
Sunday in Bismarck, visiting Mrs.
Startling at the Hotel Prince.
DIR. C. A. Henderson Of James
town visited in Bismarck and Man.
dan Sunday.
George w. Porter Of Fargo spent
Sunday with friends in Bismarck.
Miss Lillian Forsberg visited
friends in this city Saturday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
Six French Aviat0rs
Killed in Morocco

Buenos Aires, Nov. 28.-(AP)-
A dispatch to La Nacion, from Tan
gier. Morocco, says that six French
aviators were killed when their
plane, one Of = squadron Of five,
crashed in flames 40 miles from the
town of Denib. s.
The dispatch says the plane fell
5000 meters wrapped l.. flames, and
that the flyers, a lieutenant, =
sergeant, three non-cOmmissiOned
officers, and q radio oper4- .or, were
completely charred. They were
buried today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
CLEARS UP A LINCER- NC
COUGH

A lingering irritable cough is not
so good. 1t reveals . wrong condi.
ton. But that wrong condition will
quickly weld to the peculiar healing
qualities Of Fo s Honey and Tar
G. mpound, true ,ough remedy Of
proven medicinal value. From 651
E. 46th St., Chicago: "A stubborn,
cough worried me, kept
me awake, tired me out, but It
quickly yielded to your good Toley's
Honey and Tar Compound, ~ my
assured me It woull.." Al
ways dependable.-Adv.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
Junkers Plane Bends
It's Last Propeller

Horta, Island Of Fayal, Azores,
Nov. 28.-(R-The Junkers plane
D-1230, en- route from Germany to
the United States, bent its last
propeller in an attempt to take off
for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland,
at o'clock this morning.
"Now its all over" Lilli Dllenz,
Vienesse actress who is passenger
aboard the plane, said IS she
stepped ashore. Smiling, she added:
"Our last propeller has been bent. "
The plane did not succeed in ris-
ing from the water despite good sea
and wind conditions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28

disturbing night coughs, & givoe -
feeling Of security to have FolsyiS
Honey and Tar Compound Il ~
house." No opiates, no chloto6egnl,
Foley's Honey and Tar Compoqnd
carries strong appeal 70 thought.
full mothers everywhere. AK to-
it. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
Social and Personal
Erma M. Andersen Of
Minneapolis Is Bride
of Everett O.Oliver

Miss Erma M. Andersen Of Min
neapolis and Everett O. Oliver Of
Bismarck were married Friday at
the Trinity Lutheran church, Rev.
!. G. Monsoon officiated at the cere-
mony.
Miss Mary Jane Whitley and C.
w. Vorachek were the attendants
at the wedding. The groom is with
the First National bank Of Bis
marck. Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver will
make their home in this city.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
NEW RECORD EsTABLIsHED

NEW RECORD ESTABLISHED
st. Paul, Mimi, Nov. 28.-(R-A
flying record from st. Paul to Far
60, N. D., was established Sunday
when Colonel L. H. Brittin, vice
president Of the Northwest Always,
travelling as a passenger in q plane
piloted by Charles "Speed" Hol-
man. covered the route in one hour
and Is minutes. In Fargo they con-
ferred with an aviation committee
and discussed the possibility Of ex-
tending -ir mail and passenger
service to that city.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-28
SHORT TALKS by THOUGHT.
Full MOTHERS

A Pennsylvania Mother says: ~
know the worth Of Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound. We used it for
years, and it as never failed us.
For croupy children, feverish colds,
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20
Arizona's Largest
Tree Is at Clifton


The fame of gigantic cottonwood
tree at the Triangle Bar cattle ranch
headquarters, % miles northeast of
Clifton at the mouth of Dix creek on
the San Francisco river, is spreading
and now it has been adjudged the
largest tree in Arizona and not merely
the largest cottonwood tree in Ari-
zona, according to w. N. (Bill) Tay-
lor, owner of the Triangle Bar, who
was in Clifton recently.
Rex King, supervisor of the Crook
national forest, according to Taylor,
made a special trip to the Triangle
Bar headquarters a few days ago to
measure the tree and found that it,
by government measurement, was six
feet bigger than any other tree in
Arizona.
This tree Of undetermined age but
which looks to be old enough to be
the father of all the cottonwood trees
in existence, according to Taylor, was
found to be "a steps around, or 72
feet; 26 feet around at breast height,
and one-third of that through, or 8
feet, 8 inches, at breast height. The
tree goes up rs feet before putting
outsa limb and the total height is ap-
proximately $50 feet. The tree Is as
straight as an arrow.
In determining the status of this
tree as the biggest tree in Arizona
the total amount of wood was taken
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20
Gold Hunters Come
Back To Look For
40 YeGr-OLd Cache

A party composed of the following
people from Oklahoma, known as the
Kilrner gold hunters, Mr. and Mrs. T..
w. Kilmer, Ray Kilmer, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. ID. Sligar, FL. T. Spraling and Glen
Ward, were here Wednesday headed
for the Blue range in search of large
amount Of gold which was cached by
Mr.. and Mrs. Kilmer and party Of
prospectors forty years ago. Mr..
Kilnaer tells story of an Indian raid
on his camp leaving all for dead. His
wife was scalped and left for dead
but finally came to and finding her
husband revived him.ssB Before they left
that country they cached the gold in
canyon and went on their way to
Tennessee, always expecting to return
to it. Five years ago Mr.. Kihner re-
turned, trying to find the lost gold.
Last year they found watch and a
part of necklace, identified by Mrs.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20
How a Doctor Put
The Mail Necktie
Merchant On Bum

A Wheaton, Minnesota, doctor
recently came in contact with the
high-pressure, mail order necktie
specialists who was flooding the mails
with unordered merchandise, and when
the episode was concluded, the doctor
had effectively routed this variety of
pest, and had uncovered a new way
of meeting this mail abuse.
The story of this episode, which is
worth re-printing, is thus described in
the Wheaton (Minn.) Gazette:
Sometime ago." says the Gazette,
Wheaton was flooded with neckties
of an inferior grade supposed to have
come from a certain blind man for
which the sum of one dollar for three
ties was asked. It is said that a
certain doctor got his name off the
| sucker list" by beating the salesman
at his own game. He received the
neckties and while he figured they
were not worth a dollar he thought
they might be worth keeping so sat
down and instead of following in
structions, sent the concern a pre-
scription with a letter telling him that
it was recommended for "gall." He
also said the value of the prescription
was worth two dollars and that he
would give the sender of the neckties
credit for one dollar and all that 1T
would be necessary to remit to him
would be the additional dollar.
"In a few days the doctor received
an acknowledgement of the prescrip-
tion in a letter stating that it was
being returned and a request to re-
turn the neckties. The doctor sent a
letter back and told the necktie man
that it was some distance between the
postoffice and his office and that he
charged two dollars for each call out
of his office so that if the necktie man
would send him two dollars he would
make the call at the postoffice and
deposit the neckties.
"This was too much for the necktie
man and he wrote very snappy let
ter telling the doctor that he had TAX
EN- his name off the list and in the
future he would receive no merchan-
disc from him which it is said did not
grieve the doctor greatly.
This method of dealing with the
class of houses who will take this
means of merchandising is highly
recommended by the doctor as pro-
ductive of results and also as a means
of stopping further annoyance"
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20
MANLESS TRACTOR is
DEMONSTRATED NEAR
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

A "manless" tractor, controlled by
an electric device, successfully plowed
a field before crowd of farmers, pro-
fessors of agriculture and business
men near Lincoln, Neb., last week.
Unguided by human hand, except
when the first furrow was plowed to
make guide row, the machine,
equipped with an automatic guide i'm
vented by f.. L. Zibach, of Grand
Island, Neb., plowed 20 acre field.
The tractor runs in irregular cir
cles, rounding the corners. Except for
replenishing the gasoline and oil, it
needs no attention. The electric con-
troll stops the machine should it leave
the furrow, and then the work is COM
pleted.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20
CHEERFUL CHIRPS
(BY DEL"

Mostly intervals
along and is grabbed off.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20

"Rastus, what's dat W eatin'?'
"a feesh.Y
"Wha' yo' get dat feesh?'
"Off rock"
"Lawzee, chile, yo' spit dat lizarc
out!"
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20

George Garfield, manager Hotel
Monte Vista, Flagstaff, says one Of
the California hotels not long ago got
out picture post cards carrying this
message:
'This hotel fully equipped with au-
tomato sprinklers. Statistics show
loss of life has never occurred in a
sprinkled building. In case of fire you
may get wet but not burned"
To one of the guests this brought a
wonderful thought, and he wrote on
the card the following prayer:
"Now lay me down to sleep. Sta
tistics guard my slumbers deep. If
] should die I'm not concerned. may
get wet but won't get burned.
Speed Campbell is working on q
new invention that if it works and
comes into general use will do away
with lots of uncertainty when fell
ler's up for being drunk. It's a tube
which, when a feller breathes into it..
gives him away. If the contents OF
the tube show a rich green, the fell
ler's been drinking right smart con-
siderable. If a light green, then he's
only been drinking tolerable. If it's
colorless, then maybe he'd like a
drink but, anyhow, he amt had none.
There was young fellow named VIM.
Who loved young lady named In.
He loved her-'tis so,
But he loved more her dough,
For her father had left her three mn.
j. w. LOWRY.
3
Jedge Fuller says some doctors is
the mostest unreaso9ablest men. One
told Jedge not long ago when he was
feelin' porely that he'd have to stay in
bed a week or so and feed up every
night, eatin' good and hearty but no
meat 'ceptin' chicken. "An fo' the
Lawd's sake" said Jedge, "how'd dat
man 'spect me to feed on chicken every
night when | had to stay in bed an
couldn't go out an git EN- ?"
Jim Burgett drove in yesterday for
2 load of concrete to strengthen the
uprights on his bride.-St. Johns OBJ
server.
I have been criticized quite a little
by some of the Town Smart Alexis
for using bad grammar. Now | have
three good reasons for this. In the
first place / don't know any better.
Second, and half of you wouldn't know
if I did use it. Third, if l did speak
and write correctly | might be man.
aging some big New York paper at
large salary, and you farmers would
lose the best editor in Gallatin county.
-Gallatin County, KY, News.
Mrs. Joe Lanney gained compi-
ments from her many friends and
rather upset Joe the other day by re-
turning from the barber shop with
boyish boob.-Mesa Tribune.
Wanted-A salesgirl; must be re-
spectacle until after June doug
las Daily Dispatch.
Colored woman was asked by JUS
tice Of Peace Harry Riehwine how old
she was.
"Seventy-three." she said.
'You don't look seventy-three, are
you sure about it," Harry asked.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20
Women Smokers
Increase Gig. Sales

Cigaret consumption still is in
creasing, according to tax collections.
For the nine months ended in March,
the cigaret taxes totaled S203, &c.,
701.64, an increase of nearly $17,O00,-
600 over those Of the same period the
previous year.
Cigar taxes fell off $14,856,0OO, due
in part to reductions in the last tax
law.
The steady increase in the number
of women smokers and the popularity
Of the cigaret over cigars and pipes
among men are believed to count for
the increased cigaret consumption.
Give the Sun your Job printing.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-20

Give the Sun your job printing