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buyer. Yet you cannot tell what
you will find in this market. The
Ole fellow must be hard up indeed"
/ looked about. He was shutting
away, his 'unkempt beard brushing
back and forth across his tattercd
coat. Next week, perhaps, would
find him again with some other
family heirloom to barter for a few
weeks of food.
But what. | wondered, will happen
when the last has gone.
And here are five former noblemen
OF the cars court. In front of them.
lying in a pile, are the gorgeously
braided and embroidered uniforms
OF Russian officer. There are hum
dreds of such to be had, a friend
whispers in my ear. One can pick
them up anywhere for 40 francs
that is $1.6O. If one cares to have
them carefully cleaned and fumiga-
ted-well it would make good mas
querade costume. But who wants a
Russian uniform?
And here are two timid girls from
Normandy and in front Of them is
spread q shawl made Of threads
drawn from seaweed an aston
ishing task, when you think of it
-. and priced at SO francs.
Armenians and Turks with fake
rugs. Austrians, Germans.
French, British, Czechs, Russians
-. all the world gathered here in
this bedraggled line on a Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock with every
conceivable family treasure from an
old clock to a sparkling tiara.
GILBERT SWAN.
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Editorial Comment
Advance Beyond John Bunyan
(St. Paul Dispatchl

The Baptist church of North Dakota in an
nual convention at Bismarck, has adopted res
olutions condemning anything that tends to
create a military spirit among the youth of
America" Thus they advance beyond John
Bunyan, the great Baptist, who served under
Cromwell. Many of them have possibly never
read Bunyans "Holy War;" or the "Siege of
Mansoul," with its military allegory, and they
may have overlooked in his "Grace Abound
ing" which is practically his autobiography,
the story of his military career. 1t was at the
age of II that he entered the army, and his
youthful experience served rather to equip him
than hinder him for the great religious work
he afterwards accomplished. Without that
military spirit John Bunyan would never have
survived the antagonists he was called upon
to fight. There are worse things than a mill
tary spirit in youth, for youth needs courage,
obedience, discipline and healthy body to win
its battle of life.
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SAlNE A %a ASS,{5,6N N Y

"But, Aunt Hattie" Faith began,
leaning forward tensely, her face as
white as paper, her eyes two round
ink blots upon it, "if Bob loves
Cherry-oh, even little bit!-I
don't want him! I can't bear always
being second CHOICE" s@
"Fiddlesticks!" Aunt Hattie snort
ed, but she laid down Cherry's stock
ing that she was darning to pat
Faiths tightly clasped hands. IF
every wife suddenly decided to pick
up and leave her husband because
he'd been smitten with some other
girl before he married her, there
wouldn't be married man in town
who could lay hands on a wife.
Cherry wasn't Bob's first choice, I'll
bet MY hat. The point is, you were
his last choice, and that's the inn
portant thing, seems to me. He had
his chance to marry Cherry and he
passed it up"
NO." Faith corrected her miser-
ably. "No. Cherry refused him
although she had been. engaged. to
him before she. ran off with Albert
Ettleson. The very night we brought
her home from barrow, after she'd
found out just what Ettleson meant
to do to her, Bob asked hel again to
marry HMM Dads presence, and
mine and Juniors. She refused him,
not he her."
"Why don't you send Cherry pack
ing, if you feel like this? No use
crucifying yourself every day of
your life, and putting temptation in
your husbands way every day Of his.
My land, can't see how any Lane
has as little gumption as you! But
| reckon you take after your moth
er's people some ways. They was
always wishy-washy, sappy
bunch"
"Please, Aunt Hattie" Faith
protested. d. love Cherry more
than anyone except Bob. I can't
explain why love her so terribly,
but l do. l think she fascinates
me as much as she does-Bob and
other men. Oh, / can understand
so we'll how she does it-enslaves
them, in spite of all her faults. She
enslaves me. I'd rather die Of the
hurts she gives me than to strike
back at her. And love the baby. I
feel as if Hope were my own child.
Certainly / have been her mother,
rather than Cherry. ! couldn't ask
Cherry to leave, and take Hope"
"You wouldn't have to worry
about that!" Aunt Hattie snorted
contemptuously. "She'd jump at the
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Comradeship

! Youth has built companionship of its own
70 us who remember pals" or "buddies" of
,ur childhood days, it is easily understandable
We refer to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Recently Mrs. Hoover characterized the Girl
scout movement as IAN adventure in comrade.
hip" That is an apt phrase, and it expresses
ealization Of the ideal held by Baden Powell
'r.enty years ago when he organized his Boy
,couts.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts now form bond
ommon to all the countries of the world
shether in Topeka, Kansas, or Timbuctoo.
here is scout delegation to be found.
ardy young band. The great outdoors offers fs
lem recreation and adventure that is healthy
nd wise, and Mother Nature opens to them
er great book Of interesting secrets. The
snefits are manifold.
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A Throne For Lindbcrgh

The city Of Abilene, Texas, greeted Col. Lind
bergh the other day with vengeance. There
had been prepared for him specially built
throne, mounted on an automobile. The dis
patch didn't say anything about scepter, like
Neptune's, but the throne is enough for us.
Lindbergh is wise, but he didn't even have
to be that to refuse to sit on such a roost. Il
don't go much for these thrones" he confided
to Mrs. Dan Moody, wife of the Gexas COVER
nor, so the throne was removed.
Thrones are fine things for winners of beau
ty contests, and as seats where the waning
monarchs of this world may perch for the Curl
Gus to look upon. But thrones? We seriously
doubt that Abilene could even get candidate
for congress to sit on one of them.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington, Oct. 14.-When you
want to check up the record Of a
world war veteran through the war
department, please be specific.
A request came to the army the
other day for some information
about Abraham Solomon.
Investigation disclosed that the
A. E. F. had:
Seventeen Abraham Solomons.
The war department wonders why.
with all the argument over who won
the war, the Solomons haven't nut
in claim backed by sheer force Of
numbers.
Estimating the time that will be
required to enforce prohibition may
become popular sport in the next
congress, now that the question has
been raised. The drys, or many of
them, have been saying all along
that prohibition could be enforced
and the vets have been saying that
it never could be enforced. Perhaps
they will eventually compromise and
undertake to state the required time
in terms of years.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Seymour Lowman suggested
that we would do we'll if we had q
dry, sober America within so wears
-an estimate which did not please
other high enforcement officials.
Equally interesting was a promise
made in a recent speech by William
c. Deming, chairman of the civil
service commission. Mr.. Deming did
not promise absolute enforcement.
but after explaining that enforce.
ment officials and agents had been
put under civil service to cope with
an "intolerable" situation, he said:
"The civil service commission can
not perform miracles. We do not
promise the impossible, nor will the
entire character of the service be
changed in the twinkling Of an eye,
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chance to let you go right on moth
THAT'S not quite fair, Aunt Hat
tie Faith insisted. "Cherry loves
Hope, even if she isn't the conven-
tiopal devoted mother. When the
baby was kidnapped by Chris, she
was out of her head with grief. But
oh, what's the use of talking?
know I'll never send her away, or
even let her see that sometimes
wish ! could be all alone with Bob
If only she weren't his stenographer
too! With him all day, every day
and evenings, too! Why, she has
five times as much of my husbands
thoughts an conversations and am.
billions as Ibis wife!"
"Then all I can say" contributed
Aunt Hattie severely, lis that it's
up to you to see that you're five
times as entertaining and sweet and
understanding as Cherry is. Well,
I'm going to bed. And you'd bet
ter do the same, if you don't want
to look like a limp dishrag in the
morning"
NO." Faith shook her head stub
bornly. "I'm going to wait up for
Cherry. / want to meet this Bruce
Patton of hers. Maybe-paybe he's
the solution"
NEXT: Cherry accuses Faith of
spying.
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aNew Yorker
90 IL Paris 81

Paris, Oct. 14.-International pow
erty meets on Sunday mornings,
about 10 o'clock, in huge outdoor
salesroom which Paris calls "the
flea market"
In giving it this humorous title
Paris is kind; for here is the cross
roads Of necessity, where dire need
chloroforms the pride Of the most
aristocratic and bends the backs of
the proudest. :.
Flea market" is the spot where
the jewels, the silver, the very
clothes of many fine family, come
upon evil days, are exchanged for
the transient cash of any bargain
monger. Here, over a paisley shawl,
rug or a carving knife, the con-
noisseurs of antiques, the tourists
and the townfolk bicker and brow
beat to get some poor devel down to
the last 10 centime. And the poor
devil, in actual need of food, let's 60
his treasures for ridiculous sums.
Afterward, gathered in Henry's
bar or, mayhap, the very lobby Of
the Ritz, you will hear braggarts
tell of how they picked up this and
that" for "a mere song." You will
hear them tell Of how, for a mere
SO francs, they purchased some ar
ticle which an expert has appraised
at 5000 francs.
And / shall long remember the
tragic eyes of venerable outcast
who thrust under my nose q carving
set -. ivory handled and seeming
ly of hammered silver. ! don't know
much about such things. I don't care
much. I was more interested in the
Ptragedy written in his eyes.
Just behind came party of tour
lists, in tow of an expert. The ex-
pert walked about with one of those
jewelers. glasses screwed to one eye,
like monocle. He jerked the box
from the old mans hand and put
the carving set under the scrutiny
of his glass. I saw him wink at one
OF the members of the party. A
bargain was hit at 400 francs-$16
American money.
As they walked away the expert
whispered that he had seen the
name Of the workman and the date
upon the handles.
They are originals marvel.
Gus look for yourself. You
could not buy such set for hum
dreds Of dollars. Hand wrought, my
friend, and made by one Of the finest
Of the old craftsmen. Such thin0s
do not. often lie around waiting q
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WASHINGTON a.
LETTER &M

| but am willing to say this-that
given seven Years, the length Of
time elapsed since the volstead law
became effective, we promise you
results"
Officials of the state department
assume that in time, the rulers,
premiers and cabinet members Of
the world will be able to talk with
each other by long distance. Per.
haps, in time of strain, serious trou.
BILE may be averted by frank tele.
phone talk. This idea was suggest.
ed when President Coolidge and
President Gales conversed the other
day between Washington and Mexico
City upon the Inauguration Of this
international telephone service.
The department looks forward to
talking with Ambassador Morrow
whenever necessary. The compare.
lively new telephone service to Cuba
IS frequently utilized to commune
cate with our ambassador at Havana
and it requires no more than five
minutes to complete the call.
Inc wire to Mexico City was
clogged with rush Of business al
most Immediately after it opened
when the revolution broke out
against the Gales government. Gov
eminent calls came first, Of course.
and there were plenty of them be-
tween the state department and the
American embassy in Mexico City
and the Mexican embassy here and
the Mexican foreign office.
Press associations and newspapers
Immediately undertook to raise
their correspondents in Mexico City
by telephone, especially when tele-
graphic dispatches seemed to be
held up. They had little success in
completing calls on the first day.
however. although the Mexican EN-.
bassy here got one call to its for.
eign minister through in less than
half an hour.
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Athletic Mrs. Mccormick

Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick widow of the
late Senator Medill Mccormick of Illinois, has
become candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for congressman-at-large in Illinois in the
primaries of 1923.
Mrs. Mccormick is very able and talented
woman. There is no doubt that she possesses
considerable political acumen. Working with
her husband during the time he held office.
she learned many things about politics and
about the working of congress. AS repre-
sentative from Illinois, she would doubtless
prove an excellent legislator.
She has chosen to affiliate with the William
Hale Thompson-Governor Small party. Under
their banner she hopes to gain victory. That
Is all right, if she feels that these men repre-
sent the high talent and the noble PRO bono
publico" element.
But Mrs. Mccormick, womanlike, has done
one thing that will work against her when cleo
ton time comes around In 1925, when Charles
IS. Deneen, backed by Small and Thompson,
was elected senator over her husband. she
raised her voice in vigorous outcry against
the corruption and graft that Small and
Thompson represented. Now, seemingly, she
has lost sight of all the unpleasantness with
which she formerly associated these two men.
political. regularity" is her excuse for
changing. political expediency" would prob
ably be a better reason. From Mark Hanna to
Small and Thompson is long jump. It is
doubtful if Mrs. Mccormick is sufficiently tai
ented to carry the less athletic voters with her.
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Soaking College Students

Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton thinks
one-sixth of the college population should be
sacked. Writing in the current issue of pop
ular magazine, he declares that good college
lege endowment fund from $4,000 to $4,000.
His suggestion is that some of this money be
saved by putting certain students to work.
AS Dean Gauss points out, many parents
send boys to school who either have no inter-
est in their studies or else go for nothing more
than glorifled vacation.
1t is perplexing problem, this one Of select
ing college students. Some universities en-
ploy psychological tests to weed out the unde-
sirables. One state university gives these
tests, but does not forbid admission. What it
does do is to write parents of children whose
mentality is not sufficiently high to allow them
to go through school successfully, pointing out
this fact to them. If they choose to come to
school, well and good, but they are quickly
Weeded out at the quarterly examinations
Other schools are making an attempt to solve
the problem by segregating their students ac-
cording to mental ability and giving each group
different studies, adaptable to their capacity.
A third method is to organize Junior colleges
at strategic points for those who want to go
to college, but yet have no particular desire Of
obtaining a degree. Those who attend are
show some definite desire or ability to go far
Their, their education ends with the two-year
period
The Junior college method would seem to be
the most sensible. Under this plan, it could
easily be determined which students were capa-
bic of obtaining degree. The alarming con-
gestiOn in the universities would be greatly de-
creased. And the youngster who goes to col
lege only for good time or to maintain his
social standing would be prevented from ham,
pering the efforts of those who go there to
really learn something.
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Our Loss, Dickinson's Gain
VALLEY City Times-Record)

(Valley City llmeS-KecOrd)
The Methodist conference, closing at Bis
marck last Sunday night, removed from Valley
City Rev. j. S. Wilds, who for the past ten
years has been the able pastor of the Epworth
M. e. church Of this city. Mn Wilds has been
transferred to Dickinson, N. D., and to the
citizens of that city we heartily commend their
new pastor and his good wife.
For ten years the Wilds family has been a
big asset to Valley City. The pastor is very
able man in the pulpit-very few better in the
state, and in addition to that he has been a
valued member of our community in every way
that man can function along religious and
social lines. His work has been q power for
good in this community and in every endeavor
where the need for voice to push along every
good cause has been needed, Rev. j. S. Wilds
has responded to the call. He is fine mixer,
q true friend, and has personality that is en-
during and lkable. In the work of his pas
torate the reverend gentleman has been most
ably and Loyalty assisted by his fine wife, who
has indeed been tower of strength to the pas
tor in his work and to the church with which
she has been affiliated. Whey make a fine
team and the people Of Dickinson can be
heartily congratulated on getting so able
minister and so good family as the Wilds
The editor Of this paper, joined by a very
large percentage of the people of Valley City
and surrounding country, voices deep regret
at the removal of this family from our midst,
and in their going all wish for them most
happy and prosperous future at Dickinson.
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Old Masters

When you are old and gray and full
of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down
this book,
And slowly read and dream Of the
soft look
Your eyes had once, and Of their
shadows deep;
How many loved your moments Of
glad grace,
And loved your beauty with false
love or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul
in you,
And loved the sorrows Of your
changing : .ce.
And bending down beside the glow.
ing bars
Murmur,. . little sadly, how love
And paced upon the mountains over
head
And hid his face amid crowd Of
stars.
William Butler Yeats: "when
You Are Old"
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Daily Health Service
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBErN
Editor Journal of the American
Medical Association and of
Hygeia. the Health
Magazine

Hygeia, the Health
Magazine
From two to ten days after .
child has come into contact with a
person or animal carrying the germs
OF whooping cough, he may be pass
ing through period when he him.
self is beginning to be infected with
this disease.
After the incubation period has
passed, it is considered safe for the
child to return to school or to play
with other children, if it has not de-
veloped symptoms Of the disease.
For q period of seven to fourteen
days before the characteristic whoop
develops the child is passing through
what is known as q catarrhal stage.
At this time the upper bronchial
tubes and the nose and throat are ir-
ritated and secrete mucus. There
may be severe paroxysms of cough.
ing, at first dry. These coughs &C.
cur in series or in showers at inter.
walls.
After the characteristic whoop ap-
pears the person continues to be able
to transmit. the infection for at least
three weeks, and perhaps much
longer. It is perhaps we'll to con-
slider the person as capable of
spreading the infection as long as
the whoop continues, and for two
weeks after it ends. During such
time he should be kept away from
other children and certainly kept
away from school and public places.
Physicians are convinced that it
is possible to prevent the disease in
children who have not had it by in
jecting them with q vaccine made
from the bacteria associated with
whooping cough. While this vaccine
is not effective in all cases, the
evidence seems to be good that it
frequently may be Of service in
preventing the child from catching
the disease.
AS with other infectious diseases,
all discharges from the nose and
throat should be disinfected as we'll
as articles contaminated by these
discharges. When the disease has
passed, the room should be thor
oughly cleaned and aired.
Children ma, well be instructed
not to associate with other children
who are constantly coughing Of who
seem to be suffering with throat ir-
ritations.
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= Family Life Doomed? Oh, Certainly!
An eastern theatrical critic deduces from the
3creasing number Of plays in which American
Jmiy life furnishes the background, and from
1e alarmingly increasing number Of plays in
.J1ich anything but family life is prominent.
lat family life Is doomed. Indeed, in an
her generation family will be about as COM
spn q horse and buggy.
31n ancient Rome voices were raised in the
hum - give birth to the same sad news.
nlly lie e tact has been declining ever since
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A Thought

A soft answer turneth away
wrath; but grievous words stir up
angcr.-Pr0verbs XIV: l.
X y
Anger has some claim to indulg-
ence, and railing is usually a relief
to the mind.-Junius.
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Justajingle

He flopped down in the hammock,
and
The first thi that he knew,
He found himself upon the ground.
The hammock flopped down,
too.
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Interpretations

Bankers Purchasing Association,
Fargo, SCI, 1000; F. S. Chaffee. Beu-
lah; F. o. Cent?, Beulah; r. E.
Trousdale, Mott; Ed. p. O'Brien,
Baker, Mont, and j. 6. vigren, st.
Cloud, MINI.
Western Security mpany. New
Leipzig, $4,000; J. p, H. F. and
C. j. Zweber.
Business Service Collection Blu.
reau, Minot. $4,000; " F., j. E. Y.
and p. 0. Kreuge-.
The Brocket Grain company,
Brocket, SCI, 900; NJ. NJ. Van 0sdel.
Grand Forks; J. D. Collinson, Min
neapolis, and T. E. Gouding, Ed.
more.
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THE SCOUNDREL!

THE SCOUNDREL!
"There goes the old rascal who
swindled me out Of $4,000"
"How did he do it 2"
"He refused to let me marry his
daughter. Der Drummer, Berlin:
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Hello, Bill:-The Elks club
is open for you every evening
after 6 o'clock. Come up and
make it your headquarters.
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NEXT: Cherry accuses Faith of
spying.
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WILD GOOSE IS
THING OF PAST
IN THIS STATE
w. c. Taylor of La Moure
Gives 2 Reasons For Change
in Flight Route

No longer will the wild goose
'honk" his way across North Dakota
in his flights, according to w. G.
Taylor, La Moure, president of the
state game and fish board.
$50 far as North Dakota is con-
cerned, the romantic era Of the wild
goose. which formerly honked his way
across the state in countless numbers
each spring and fall, seems to have
passed definitely into the limbo of
the good old days. which are des-
tined never to return Taylor says.
1T is not so much that the 'honk-
ers" have decreased in number rs
that untoward conditions in North
Dakota and in states south of US
have constrained these interesting
birds to change their aerial routes
between their summer and winter
homes" he states.
"Detachments Of stragglers will
continue to come and 20, this way
but the main flight will be to the
westward so long as present condi.
tons exist"
Reasons for Change
I Taylor attributes the cause Of this
to two reasons-drouth and drainage
He terms the first q misfortune and
the second q crime.
These two facts have combined Ia
reduce the "'water holes" and rest.
ing places along the old routes sc
that the geese have been forced to