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Friday, October 26, 1934, Butte's Registered Voters List Is Cut nan taa keen a decrease in the reg latered list of voters in Silver Bow oount? ainoe 1933, according to figures obtained frotn the office of John Hol land. aleck and recorder. The official figures show that there are 1,310 fewer voters registered in the county at the present time than at the general elec ttOU m 1999. The total number of registered voters ki the country for each general election rince 1998 foUows: 1928, 26438; 1930, KXHS; 1999, 27405, and 1934, 25,795. The registered total at th£ primary election this year was 24,793. In 1998 the total vote cast was 22,393; tn 1030, 19930, and in 1932, 23,220. SCHOOL BUILDING DISMANTLED ▲ ticket booth erected at the public aohoots stadium at Billings was built of bricks frotn the Lincoln school build ing, the first brick structure of its na ture in Billings. That building now is being dismantled. A contract was let recently at Fort Benton by Mrs. J. 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IN TWO FARTS—PART ONE The Confessions of. a Girl Who Picks the Perfect Step mother And Tries to Marry ■ Off Her Dad. This is going to be so sad a story that perhaps I’d better put in the sad dest part of it right now and let the gentle reader get over it. "This is it. Daddy and I are alone in the world. We have been alone ever since my darling mother died when I was five years old. That was ten years ago. Now that I am grown up. Daddy is not as lonesome as he used to be when I was only a child. He Is 37 years olu, but he does not look old. He has as good a figure as any man of his years could possibly have, and there are mo ments, especially when he is laughing, when he looks almost young. Every one says he spoils me, and per haps that Is why I was almost stupid in Just one thing about Daddy. I am not often stupid, as any girl in my Junior class at high school will tell you, but in this matter I’m afraid I al most was. My mind might have been obscured yet if I hadn’t heard two women talk ing at the Country Club. It was a hot night in September. Daddy was playing contract in the clubhouse and I was sitting out by myself on the verenda In a dark comer. I had to keep pretty quiet, for If Daddy had remembered that I was there he might have come out between rubbers and taken me home. He does that sometimes and then sprints back to the club, for our house isn’t more than five hundred feet from the clubhouse. I’ve heard Daddy say so and he ought to know, for he’s the president of the club and we spend a good deal of time there. It was nine o’clock and I was think ing about what a great play Romeo and Juliet was, because, of course, love is the most important thing in life, when two women came out on the porch and sat down Just around the corner from me. I kept very still. One of them was Muriel Jackson’s mother, and she is always talking about her duty to her dear friend’s child. You would n’t believe it, but she means me! She butts into my affairs all the time, and if Daddy and I didn’t sit on her ever and anon, she would be managing us both. So I hardly breathed when I heard her voice. She said, “Chris is in great form tonight. I have never heard him more amusing than he was at dinner.” Naturally, I sat up then, for “Chris” is Daddy and I love to hear him praised. His full name is Christopher Drew, and perhaps I should have said so before. But the gentle reader must remember that I am beginning to be an author and that no author can possibly mention everything in the very first paragraph of a story. Even I can’t, though both Daddy and Miss Spencer, my English teacher in high school, have told me with their own lips at dif ferent times that I come nearer to do ing it than any author they know. My own name is June Drew, and Daddy is an architect. But to get back to Muriel Jackson’s mother, and her friend, Billy Hopkins’ mother. I knew both women by their voices, of course, as soon as they spoke, and Billy’s mother spoke right away, just as Muriel’s mother had. "He’s always amusing,” she said. “The one tiling he takes seriously is June. Where is that youngster, by the way? It’s time for her to be in bed.” Some day I’m going to write a story about a motherless girl who is being brought up by all the women in her town. But I must not say anything about that now, for Daddy says my worst fault is a tendency to roam around in the daisied field of my fic tion. Before I was so mature I used to wonder how a nice boy like Billy could have a mother like his. I am still sur prised every time I think of it, but now I don’t think of it so much. I have only to look around me to see what perfectly terrible parents nice boys and girls can have. I suppose I shouldn't have listened, but you can see my terrible situation. If I had let them know I was there, one of them would have got busy and taken me home. Then she would have come back to the clubhouse and said in the gurgly voice women use when they speak to Daddy, “Chris, I’ve taken your chick home,’ and Daddy would have thanked her and made her think she had done her good deed for the day. So I kept perfectly quiet. It was easy, for Billy’s mother was saying in a ten der voice, “What a tragedy it is that Chris doesn’t marry again.” “Yes,” said Muriel’s mother, “but it’s easy enough to understand why he doesn’t. He’s simply crazy over that child, and he’s afraid she wouldn’t be happy with a stepmother. But he’s in the position that English author de scribed at the club last month, when one of his characters in the story he was reading was holding an empty cup up to life.” Should I have crept away at that point? Perhaps I should. But stop and ask yourself if you would have crept away if you had been in my pace. The next words made me stop breathing. “June will never know how selfish she has been,” Billy’s mother was say ing. “She is too young to understand, poor child, how she is wrecking her father’s life.” Right now I pause to put down a tribute from me to myself. I may be a “poor child,” and selfish, but I am always willing to learn. Just now, in high school, Cicero is darkening my whole life. But do I throw my book at the wall ever and anon, the way Muriel and Billy and my old friends do? I do not. I study. No Cicero is going to get the better of me. So now I sat stiller and listened harder than ever. I knew I was going to learn something more, and I did. THE HARDIN TRIBUNE-HERALD "It’s simply abnormal for -a man to live as Chris Is doing,” Billy’s mother went on. “His health will break un der it. Will says so. He’s simply bor ing into his profession to keep his. mind occupied, and when he Isn’t working he’s running the club or devoting him self to that child. An attractive young wife would be his salvation. But if he doesn’t get her pretty soon he never Will. It will be too late.” • “I’m afraid so,” Muriel’s mother said. “But there’s nothing- any one can do about it. The first years after Imo gene’s death I tried hard enough to find the light wife for Chris. I was always introducing him .to nice girls. I even brought some of my nieces on from Boston. But he wouldn’t look at them, and now he’s just a squirrel in a cage, and not getting anywhere. Lets go in. I feel chilled.” They left and I sat still, hoping her chill would be a hard one. I had a kind of chill myself—a cold, slcky one that crawled down my back. Those women thought I was hurting Daddy. They thought he would break down if he didn’t get married and have a wife to look after him. They thought I was being selfish. They talked about “emp ty cups,” as if Daddy had been a beg gar holding up a tin cup on a street comer. The more I thought about what they had said the sicker I felt. It didn’t seem possible that they could be right, and yet I suppose even grown-ups are right sometimes. I try to have an open mind as my dear English teacher, Miss Spencer, is always telling the class to have. I realize that they might be right, now. I need not point out to the gentle reader the terrible position in which I found myself. Up till now (Miss Spenc er says we must say up to now, so I do, but I don’t think there’s any sense in it) I had aways gone to Daddy with any question that bothered me, and Daddy and I had talked it over till we got at the truth of it. Daddy had said, when we began this, “I am handicapped by age, and you are still somewhat young. But just the same, June, when you and I put our combined Intellects on a problem, that problem sinks away with its tail between its legs.” He meant that he and I could think out anything together—and so we could. But now, for the first time, I could not take a problem to Daddy. He might laugh at it. He might be annoyed by it. But he would not discuss it. I felt perfectly sure of that. He would tell me to “forget it.” And when he tells me that, in a queer kind of tone and with a different look in his eyes, I for get just as quickly as I can. So I could not go to Daddy. Here was something I had to think out by my self, and no lines that Cicero ever wrote were anything like as hard. My head whirled. I felt queer and choky. Some thing like indigestion seemed to be go ing on inside of me. But of course, it wasn’t indigestion. It was mental strain. Daddy came out on the veranda pretty soon and took me home, his mind full of the last rubber he had played. He told me in strict confidence that God never had meant Muriel Jack son’s father to play contract, but that Muriel’s father didn’t know this and continued his “abortive” efforts. He said he had to return to the clubhouse to teach Muriel’s father the difference between a little slam and a jar of wat ermelon pickles. Then he kissed me good night and went back to the club house, and I guess he did teach Muriel’s father; for Muriel told me the next morning that her father was simply shattered at breakfast. At school I had to give my mind to serious things like lessons. Daddy is very strict about study. He says the Drews have always been a brilliant lot. first in peace, first in war, and first in their Latin lessons. He said if I ever came home from school with a C or D on my report he would escort me and the report to the nearest blizzard and perish there with us. fSEwllßa M 3rai®i? f 1 ■ dCPIyM mntuckv j ■ dour doh GOOD WHISKEY AT A FAIR PRICE No artificial coloring; no artificial aging. Crab Orchard is just straight Kentucky whiskey, bottled from the barret Good quality at a low price has made it the national favorite. Grab Chchmd AMERICA’S FASTEST-SELUNQ STRAIGHT WHISKEY THIS EMBLEM PROTECTS TOO American Medicinal Spirits Company New YmS . Chicago • LaataMe. Ssa Fraadaco I have always hinnored him In this and studied hard. Besides, I like to have better reports than Billy and Muriel have. They are my dearest friends and naturally I can’t let them get ahead of me in anything. So I kept my mind on my studies most of the time, but under it all I was think ing of Daddy and how I could marry him off. For of course I had realized, even while Muriels’ and Billy’s mothers' were talking, that I was the person who would have to attend to the matter. I am not one to turn aside when duty stands in my path. I walk right up to her and take her cold hand. I knew I must find some nice woman for Dad dy to marry. But how? That, as Ham let said when he was up against it, too, was the question. There were two things to do. First, I had to select the right wife for Daddy. Then I had to bring her and Daddy to gether and see that they fell in love. It was not on Monday that the way came to me. It wasn’t on Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday, either Mon day or Tuesday Cicero was simply aw ful, and Wednesday Miss Spencer an nounced in class that every pupil must read the Merchant of Venice that week and learn Portia’s speech by heart and write a little paper telling what she thought of it. Not what Portia thought of it, of course, but what every one of us thought. That kept our thoughts pretty busy, and if any stranger came into our fair city of Freeport that week, and walked down Park Street, he would have heard the first line of Portia’s speech coming out of almost every open window. “The quality of mercy is not strained.” We all knew that much, but few Indeed of the students knew more. I knew the whole speech. Billy and Muriel knew about half of it, with promptings. We talked about it while we were going home in the trolley about two. Never will I tell any grown-up what Billy and Muriel think of Shakespeare. I’d be ashamed to—for after all Shakespeare did have talent. So it was Friday before I found the right wife for Daddy. It was during an English period, and it came to me just like the gentle rain from heaven, that Muriel Jackson was reciting about at the moment. I was staring at Miss Spencer, who was looking patient and resigned, as she does when any one is reciting Shakespeare. I had only been in Miss Spencer’s class a few weeks, but I liked her aw fully. She is old, of course—as old as Daddy, I should think; but she smiles and laughs almost as much as he does. She has a lovely complexion and gray eyes and wavy brown hair. She’s really a celestial being and I wondered why I hadn't thought of her before. Most of the girls are crazy about her. Her dresses are simply devastating. They say she buys them in New York. Most of our other teachers look as if their dresses had dropped on them by accident in the morning, so it is indeed a pleasure to look at Miss Spencer’s clothes. The vase on her desk is always full of flowers the girls bring her, and even the boys made excuses to hang around and ask her questions at recess. My face grew hot with shame when I realized how slow I had been in getting around to seeing that Miss Spencer would be the perfect wife for Daddy. She was some one I liked, too, and that was terribly important. I realized now that the reason I hadn’t thought of any one sooner was that all the women I had thought of were women I simply couldn’t bear to have around the house. I can truly say that no grass grew un der my feet while I was treading the path of duty. I went right up to Miss Spencer’s desk when we were dismissed and asked her to come to supper that night. She was so surprised that she just stared at me. She said slowly, “Why, Miss Drew, is there any special reason why you want me to come?” (She calls every one of her girls “Miss” of course, when she remembers it). I said right away that there was but that I couldn’t tell her what it was. She kept on hesitating. She asked If I was giving the invitation for any one else. I said no, that I was the lady of the house and that Daddy expected me to ask any friends of mine there any time I liked. At last Miss Spencer said she would come, but she looked queer and thoughtful. I didn’t mind that. Miss Spencer came to supper at just 7 o'clock, which was the time I said. I wish I could say that the occasion was a success, but I can’t, for it wasn’t. The supper was- all right, for I had seen Katie, our cook, as soon as I got home and I had asked her to put her best foot forward, as Daddy says. Kate did, too, and we had all Daddy’s favorite dishes. The service was all right, for I had talked to Maggie, our waitress, and she did her best. I wore my new green dancing dress and green slippers and earrings, and we had flowers on the table. ' But I had made one fatal error. I had invited Uncle George to supper That was another stupid thing I did. Uncle George is my darling moth er’s twin brother, and I love him next best to Daddy. He is two years younger than Daddy, and he is a lawyer and an old bachelor and he lives by himself. That is, he lives at the Country Club and spends most of his time in our house. (To Be Continued) WILL OPEN SKATING RINK Joe Merz and John Oberfoell were at Wolf Point from Scranton, N. D., a few days ago with large and first class roller skating equipment. They have rented the Coliseum and will open a rink in the near future. FREE PAMPHLET FOR STOCKMEN Write to Department C, Anaconda Copper Mining Company for FREE PAMPHLET on the ravages of phos phorous deficiency in cattle and how they can be cheaply and best corrected. Write today. Fossil coral reefs can be found in the Hamalayas which were formed in the ancient "Tethys sea” 240,000,000 years ago. 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