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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08
CHAPTER vi

From that point, the narrative to
which Sniff was giving breathless at
tention grew more involved and ram
bling. Even after a lapse Of years, it
was painful for tombstone Nesbit to
recall what he had then suffered. Re-
assembled, the tale ran as follows:
John Nesbit was as good as his
word. He came at once to see his
young cousin. He was a tall Texan
with q gentle voice and a charming
smile. He talked little, made quick
searching inquiries, and left hurriedly,
announcing that he would return In q
few days.
He went at once to Paris and, by a
lavish misuse Of tips, managed to walk
I'm on Jasper unannounced.
II don't know what I meant to do
90 him." he acknowledged, In recount
ing the story Of that interview. "But
when set eyes on that miserable lump
Of blubber, quaking in his chair yet try
ing to pretend my visit was pleasant
surprise, I pledge you my word that !
couldn't touch him! I remembered
him at the time Of your mothers mar
Eiage as rather attractive and dapper
young man with very smooth manners.
Too smooth to suit me. Now he seems
one Of the obscene creatures Of
dream. whom you hit only to find your
fist embedded In stuff like wet cob
webs but much nastier. That's what
he was like to me, Stone, and I never
touched him, after all, although I got
all I demanded by threats Of what I
would do to him unless he came
across. I didn't take long to
settle the matter either, because what
really wanted was you. I'd taken
lawyer with me and left him down
stairs. The moment I'd brought Jas.
per to my way of thinking" he grinned
at the recollection, II sent for the
man to come up. He had the papers
ready prepared and your father signed
away all parental rights without
murmur. Also, he handed over your
mothers money to me. She'd left you
all she possessed. He could have con-
tested the will, but that would have
given away what she thought of him
and Judge he Is too rich to care
about the mere money. Probably he
was glad to be rid Of me SO cheaply.
"Anyway. he signed up and I'm your
guardian, Stone. Now what's your
idea of what you'd like to dor
"Where are you going7" Stone
asked.
'Back to Texas the quickest way I
can. I've interests there that need
man on the job for the present"
''Can I go with you? I'm an Ameri-
can and I'VE never seen America"
Cousin John looked worried.
ut isn't that wouldn't like to take
you." he said at last. SIN looking
forward to the time when we can be
together. At present my part of Texas
is no place for you. We've struck oil
ON my ranch, which means that the
country is spoiled or will be when the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08

Stick to the vegetable method of
overcoming constipation. Stop using
strong mineral purgatives. Natural
bowel regularity is established by the
use of Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills.
25c a box. Wright's Pill Co., 100 Gold
ST., N. Y. City. Adv. a.4
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08
End Serious Coughs
With Creornulsion

Don't let them get strangle hold.
Fight germs quickly. Creomulsion COM
Dimes the Z best helps known to modern
science. Powerful but harmless. Pleasant
to take. No narcotics. Your own drug
gist is authorized to refund your money
on the spot if your cough or cold is
NOT relieved by Creomulsion. (adv)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08

A seventy-fiye-year-old clock In Es-
sex county courthouse at Lawrence,
Mass, has one face to tell the time Of
day and another to tell the day OF the
month.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08
Just What Did He Mean?

"Were you nervous" asked young
Mrs. Jones, "when you begged daddy
to give his consent?"
II "He gave me the fright of my
life!" grunted Jones.
: And she wonders what he meant.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08

WHAT rs 1T WORTH TO KNOW HOW
to catch every fox that will pass No room
for doubt, 1t will catch the slyest. Method "
j. JOHANNESMEYER
WESTPHALIA MiSSOCAl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08

INVENTORS, to save time and money OBJ
taIning patents join this non-proht group.
Write Inventors Natl Cooperative Assn,
8Sl Pepna- Avenue. Washington d. z.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08

Men, Handy with Tools, for home employ
ment. No selling or canvassing. American
Speciality Co., Drawer 50, Chambersburg,P Pm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08

AGENTS WANTED-For our fast selling
10c sachet package. Marion Specialties,
Box so, FOrdham Station, Bronx, N. y.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08

BETTER THAN A WASHER
at a cost of &c washing. Magic Crystals
save soap and work. Send 15c for enough
for eight washings. Agents wanted.
GENERAL PRODUCTS LABORATORIES
ESQ wick Street Pittsburgh Pm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-08
OeEys{a n lI EAU

"A Splendid Laxative Dr5ssIe
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26
LUTHER
BY Mrs. j.. Nj. Anderson
Monday TuIy "a

BY Mrs. j.. M. Anderson
Monday, July "a
Miss Liela Russell of Tacoma,
Wash, is visiting at the home Of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. G.
Russell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert finland were
Red Lodge visitors Tuesday.
Mrs. James O'Shea returned
home Wednesday from Billings
where she had been visiting her
daughter Josephine, who is a pat
lent at the Deaconess hospital.
Mrs. Annie Baker and son-in-
law and daughter, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Snider left Wednesday for
their home in California after q
short visit at the homes of Mrs.
George Russell and Mr.. and Mrs,
J. G. Russell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Obert and
son Kenneth of Red Lodge spent
Sunday at the home of MI. and
Mrs. j. M. Anderson.
Mrs. Lee Yates and children
spent Thursday and Friday visit
ing at the home of her sister, Mrs
Harry Bum.
Miss Carol Tharp of Rec
Lodge spent the past week as @
guest of Miss Gladys Mckinley.
The Luther baseball team played
the Roberts team on the home
diamond Sunday, the cor being
Is to IL in favor of Roberts.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

father, All was going to Christmas
lake. He climbed over a large
rock, slid down onto what looked
like soft snow, but actually was
ice. With difficulty his compan-
ions helped him to return to their
automobile.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

Pete Boggio, we'll known en-
ploye of the telephone company at
Red Lodge, and Max Miller, Mon
tana Power man at Mystic lake,
last week launched a 16-foot pow
err boat on the big lake above the
hydro-electric dam in the noun
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

Richard Finley, member of the
C. C. C, corps who was injured in
a powder blast last week, is re-
covering at the Adams hospital.
He was struck on the head by a
falling rock after an explosion,
and at first it was believed that
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26
Dodge, Ia, was greatly impressed
by the Beartooth country.

AL DeVoice was laid up this
week with a badly strained and
twisted ankle, resulting from an
accident ION top" Sunday. With
Joe Enrico, Walter Lantz, and his
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

stop at Salt Lake City enroute.
AT Hollywood they will visit with
their daughter Monica and with
Mr.. Plunkett's mother and sister
for about a month, before return
ing by way of Washington.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

tains. Miller built the boat last
winter, using cypress wood that
had been shipped from Tennessee.
The ship proved itself practical in
transporting fishermen and seem
cry lovers to the lakes above Mys-
tic.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

After a tour of the Yellowstone
park, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ander-
son stopped over at Red Lodge to
visit Mrs. John Whalen, ST., Mrs.
Dan Mcintosh, and other relatives
whom they had not seen for many
years. Mr.. Anderson, who is en-
gagged in coal mining at Fort
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Plunkett and
son Jack departed Sunday for
Hollywood, Calf, planning to
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

his skull was fractured. His in
jury has not proven to be danger
Gus.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24
Fair Pay and Fair Hours

General Johnson's terse statement
disappearing of the new code for
minimum hours and wages submitted
by heads of the lumber manufacture
Ing industry is one with which most
Americans will agree emphatically.
This code provided for a 4s-hour
week and a minimum pay scale of
22h cents an hour; and General
johnson Immediately rejected it with
the remark:
Forty-eight hours is so long I
wouldn't even consider 1t, and gen.
orally spanking 22A cents is far be-
low what I regard as a minimum
wage"
A great deal Is expected from these
new industrial codes. Properly han
died, they can form a pretty effective
bulwark against return of hard
times. But 1t seems self-evident that
IT they are going to fill that function
they have got to offer substantially
more than this proposed lumber code.
General johnson was entirely justi-
fled In rejecting it.
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its fragrant enclosure Of chintz; At
the shoes in their built-in places,
and the bureau, covered with all
her small belongings, the things
Margaret had given her.
The gorgeous fur coat was in its
place. She recalled telling Mary
Lou it was time to send it to stor-
age; the sable scarf was there; and
on the bureau the wrist watch
Margaret had given her. On Mar
garets own finger, put there in
abstraction and forgotten was
torrimer's sapphier ring, blue and
clear and deep as Mary Louis own
eyes.
She'd taken nothing but . few
OF the things, long since discarded.
she'd brought with her originally.
the dress on her back, = hat and
light coat, her toilet articles, her
nightgown, slippers and the plain
est Of her negligees. Her books
were there. Only, Of her more
personal belongings, some pictures
Of her people, kept in desk
drawer, were missing.
Yet everything here belonged to
her; had been given her, out Of
love, out Of disinterested affection.
no longer as part Of her Salary
but as her due as virtual daugh-
ter Of the house.
Margaret picked up the tele-
phone book and, in Mary Louis sit
ting room, she called oakdale.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24

Bouwerie these days and nights, 4
being the fabulously swank mansion
originally built by the wainwright,
near Rye, N. Y, but now turned IN.
to a beach resort-the Mayfair Beach
club. People there will remind you
that the Dowager Mrs. wainwright
was the great-great-granddaugh
Of Peter stuyvesant. first mayor q
New York. -.
Eugene O,Neill likes to 20 to prize
flights and races. but would rather
read a play than see it on the stage.
I... Samuel Seabury, the reforma-
tive investigator, collects rare first
editions, but also likes to read the
funny papers. -. John Barrymore
has all Of his clothes made In Lon
don, but he usually needs q shave. i.
*>* 4
Al Smiths Dish
Food fads of famous folks, as re-
ported by Billy the Oysterman: al
Smith usually orders corned beef and
cabbage when he goes to the famous
old restaurant. And Mrs. Smith Just
as frequently calls for fried frogs
legs. -. Rod LaRoque and Wilma
Banky nearly always divide a big
hamburger steak without onions)
Ruby Keller, whose parents both
were Irish, demands Irish stew or,
failing that, any kind Of stew at all.
>. Gene Tunney's favorite dish IS
grilled pigs feet. -. And delicate
looking little Lillian Gish seldom
fails to vanquish q two-inch- thick
slab Of steak. -.
Billy, by the way, Is the son of the
original Oysterman Billy, whose place
was popular in the eighties, and
against whose bar lolled such figures
as Diamond Jim Brady, Jim Fiske,
Jim Corbett, Jay Gould. A lesser
known but more 1oquacious customer
was q William Fox, who had a cloth
processing plant nearby. He'd come
in and for hours would tell Of all the
money he expected to make in the
moving picture business some day
II he could get some capital. Other
patrons snorted into their beer as
they tried to imagine anybody crazy
enough to invest in such an idea.
Fox got the capital, though. A fire
destroyed his business, and he put
the insurance money into nickeloden
equipment. Billy, rejecting sadly on
the madness Of tossing away good
cash like that, carted his friends first
machine over to Brooklyn. BILL" he
said, latter you go broke, come back
and see me. I'll give you a good
steady lob"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24
II NEW /
II YORK
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York, July 24.-Meanderinps
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, it's said
doesn't intend to remain In Holly.
wood, divorce or no divorce, after he,
return from Europe. She wants tc
start tabernacle in New York CITY
-. Those grayed and frayed old
ladies who for years have sat IN
CHINATOWN and sightseeing buses a.
"shills," or decoys, are losing their
pitiful little jobs to pretty girls. The
business OF the latter IS to smile at
Broadway passers-by, vamp in cash
customers, then arise and leave Just
before each bus pulls out. Thea
ter seers predict an epidemic OF
mystery plays for the autumn. Even
Earl Carroll IS planning to mix melo-
drama and pulchritude in his next
revue, which will be called Muir.
der at the Vanities."
Three-point-two is soon to mate.
r1alize at Columbia university: O,
trickle, anyway, into the institution,s
two large restaurants. It's the first
big school to authorize the sale Of
beer right on the campus. He1
name means nothing to the average
theater fan, but Mildred Webb is the
greatest chorus girl on Broadway, &C.
cord1ng to Bobby Connolly, the dance
director. Says he never has invented
a routine which she couldn't master
IN half an hour :. The towns talk
Ing about Helen Kane's personal sue
cess In the mediocre and more than
middling smutty show called SHADY
Lady," Dieting assiduously and los
Ing q few pounds week, the former
boop-a-doop girl looks more like
Helen Morgan at every performance
-. There are gay gotngs-on in The
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24

/, law and order and the underworld
army, heavily armed.-U. 8. Attorney
General Cummings, on racketeers.
= = =
| Love Is not an end In itself; It is
an instrument and q means toward q
number Of ends.-Ludwig Lewisohn,
novelist.
TO provide adequate purchasing
power, we should adjust real" wages
to the moving trend Of prices and
costs, else we shall be no more effec-
tive than trying to catch q train NOV
ing out Ct the station by aiming FOR
where the back platform was when
the train was standing still.-Gen.
Hugh 8. johnson, recovery admins
traitor.
It's not b dance Of the hands and
feel, but the midway. I throw discre-
ton to the winds and my hips to the
north, east, south and west.-Mae
West, actress, In describing her new
est dance.
The common people care nothing
for the beautiful: on tho contrary,
they have a powerful passion for the
htdeous.-H. L. Mencken, author and
critic.
X \ y
The criminals OF the old days were,
almost without exception, matured
men. Today, our police lineup shows
a parade Of youths ranging in age
from II to 81, versatile in crime.-Po-
lice Commissioner Bolan, Of New York
City.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24
SKIM MILK IS FINE FOOD FOR
REAL FOLKS

When you and were young, Mag
gle, denizens of the town called men,
berS of the next higher caste hayseeds,
hicks or rubes. Even now, In spite of
good roads, telephone, radio, automo-
bile, bicycle and talkies, a stigma
clings to the name of farmer In the
popular mind, and this has something
to do with the desire Of many young
country people to move to town and
exchange relative freedom for men,
ial existence In industrial slavery.
A college professor appraised the
value OF this column in popular health
education. He submitted number of
articles selected at random to individ-
uals of various classes and then ex-
amined them to determine what they
had understood OF the teachings in
the articles. He found that some of
the articles were lover the head" of
these readers. The professors analy-
sis may have been correct for denizens
Of the town. They are 50 desperately
busy trying to battle the great indus
trial machine that they have neither
the time nor the inclination to learn
more than they already know. My
own impression gained from thous-
ands of letters from city and country
readers Is that the professor assay
may be correct for city people but is
not so for country people. The rural
I. @. Is bit higher than the urban.
This is due to natural selection-the
goofs move to town and die off after a
vain struggle; those Of better judg-
ment remain in the country and live.
At that, country people seem extra
ordinarily dumb in regard to two i'm
portant food products they grow. It
seems to me country folks are slower
to comprehend the great value Of
wheat, just as it comes from the
threshing machine, as food, and they
are also strangely unaware of the
great economic value Of skim milk.
OF course city hicks are just as
foolish about these foods, but it is
not so strange that people in town are
uniformed about wheat and skim
milk, tor neither product is readily
obtainable in the city markets. The
food manufacturing interests see to
that; likewise they appropriate por-
ton Of their profits to the business of
keeping the public prejudiced and
uniformed about the real food value
Of plain ordinary farm wheat and
plain ordinary skim milk.
To be sure, either wheat or skim
milk Is good enough to feed pigs with.
Yes, and pigs are good enough for
people to eat. Most Of the meat con-
sumed In America Is pig meat.
Skim milk-goodness, a lot of peo-
pie who have snobbish notions about
these things, don't even know what
skim milk is. Skim milk IS whole
fresh milk from which most Of the
cream has been skinned off. It con-
tains everything the fresh whole milk
contains except only the greater part
Of the fat. Here, let's compare skim
milk and whole fresh sweet milk
point for point.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24
An Obligation.

But as Tar as the woman up
stairs was concerned-a woman
equally unknown-he was COM
nitted, body and soul. If she'd
have him, he was herewith res
ervations. His name would be hers
and his possessions and his 10y.
atty. He wondered how much Of
that loyalty would be technical.
But he owed it to her.
Mathews was talking to Mar
garet Of Mary Lou.
"Where has she gomez" he wal
asking. "She mustn't be allowed
to 60 like this-vanish like a
changeling."
That's what she was, thought
Lorrimer, q changeling.
"Perhaps," Margaret said, 'she
has gone to Oakdale. I will try to
get in touch with her. I'll tele.
phone. No she mustn't be allowed
to go like this.
"You are angry with her."
stated rather than asked the doc.
tor.
eyes. No. I was. Terribly. Shed
promised me- - silence. And she
didn't keep that promise. But
see a little more clearly now. She
did what she thought was right. II
wasn't her fault if her plan went
astray. And I suppose she had to
follow her star if what she thought
right conflicted with her loyalty
to me-"
There's a virtue in that" re.
marked Matthews, "for she cares
for you, I believe, very deeply.
Only a really courageous person
would be willing to risk the ange,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24
The Red Menace Fades Out

1Nc Iltu menace + dQeS OuI
The Daily Worker, official organ
OF the Communist party in America
admits plaintively in recent issue
that the Communist party has failed
to become the revolutionary spokes-
man for the American proletariat.
The paper complains that I'VE are
still isolated from the main masses
OF the American industrial workers"
and regretfully states that I'VE still
have no firm contacts with these Sec
tons Of the workers, and we are not
keeping pace with the general revo-
lutionary advance"
All OF this simply confirms what
lot of independent observers have
said before: that there is not, under
present conditions, the slightest dan
ger of Communism becoming a men,
ace in the United States. American
workers have been sorely tried in the
last few years, and they are demand
Ing new deal; but they are still a
long way from fitting Moscows spe-
cial brand Of spectacles on their eyes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-24
OF its sugar-the lactose or milk sugar
has been fermented into Tactic acid.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The Ills Called Rheu,n atissn

%O0OAAON0 avn ANSWERS
The Ills Called Rheumatism
Kindly send diet list for one who Is
great sufferer from arthritis. (Mrs.
F. B. H.
Answer-I know Of no such list that
Is worth boot. Send q dime and a
stamped envelope bearing your adj
dress, for the booklet THE Ills Called
rheumatism"
Swim. Young 'Uns, Swim
Is 1t harmful or dangerous in any
way Tor a girl 10 years old to 60 swim
ming (Mrs. G. F.)
II a person goes in bathing too soon
after meal Is he liable to get cramps?
ID. r. K.)
Do you share the belief Of those
physicians who say that swimming or
bathing In very cold water is likely to
cause rheumatism? (B. NJ
Answer-All bunk. Anybody may 20
IN swimming or bathing whenever he
or she wishes to, and the enjoyment
Is quite harmless in all these respects.
OF course older folk must consider
their blood pressure, hardened arter-
les, damaged hearts, and the like. But
young folk should swim while the
swimming is good and give the fuss
budgets a pat on the back.
Copyright 1888, John F. Ollie CO..