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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
FAMILIAR NAMES.

Mrs. Potter Palmer says that what
surprise her most in France was the
discovery that no charitable or educa-
tioral institution is carried on entire
IL 10y ome
The London News is disposed to
credit the assertion that Mime. Patti
will receive . 0 800 for her next years
American tour, or $4,000 APIECE for
fcrty-five concerts.
Tho German emperor has a pet aver
sion for short overcoats and shoes with
pointed toes. His clothes are AL made
to fit him snugly, particularly his
trousers, which in:lose his leg as close
Is as IL ballet dan er's tights.
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, who has
senate from Rhode Island for another
term, is fiffty-one years old and has
been a member of that body for ten
years. Alphabetically, his nalnc heads
the list of United States senators.
Alexandra Dumas is nearly seventy
years Of age and has almost entirely
given up authorship. All that he does
i'll a literary way nowadays is to pro-
duce a comedy at long intervals, spend
ing years of patient elaboration on the
work. Nj. Dumas Is supposed to be
the richest author i'll France.
The oldest member in the house of
commons is Charles Villiers. He is
ninety years old and has been in par
lament tifty-seven Years. though in
this matter he is beaten by Mr.. Glad
stone, who came in in 1882. AIR. Viii
liers started tue agitation in favor of
the repeal of the corn laws long before
Golden and Bright We're ever heard OF.
When it was decided to accept Carl
Gerhardt's model of Nathan Hale. the
revolutionary spy, for a stat We to be
erected in tine capitol at Hartford,
there WAS a strong feeling OF dissatis-
faction among certain residents Of that
city, who regarded the design of e. S.
Woods, Il Hartford man, rather more
expressive. Gerhardt's statue was
completed and dedicated two years or
more ago. But it is now proposed to
have Woods figure executed in bronze
and set up in front of the public IL
brary at the Connecticut capital.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14

IT'S Crvi-% FAULT.


Tho Actor E5d no Di;iiru!ty In Finding
Gut Eta Irr!t,.
An aspiring author on e presented to
NJ. Monvel. the famous comic a too. q
manuscript ted villa rcd tape and
begged him to give an Impartial
cpiH;on OF the production. The
comedian promised t o do so, and tha
Young man-the comedian thought
lam very young-wa,ted for Six
monihs AMI more before he inquired
as to his friends verdict.
AT length he puS tho solemn ques-
t:om: 'lIas tao pcce adapted for tho
ht@Ge?"
The comedian promised to let him
know IN l. day or Two.
Three more weeks won't by. Then
a"ain the author impo..unSd the Il tor
and begged him no. TO defer his hopes
a"y i@nyer.
~ ell, then" said the actor, 1.-The
f,>E, IS, ,"onr play is de'itcily "!,-cr, 1
lay say particularly clever, hu5 IL il
n2i quite the thing for the .tng.. The
+ cne@:. ZIG acting tine h~c:clooncnt Of
the pot. the tag in fact. IL requires
adapting to the stag. before it could
hs possibly produ ed. l mus: decline
Ia unwi!iiugl.Y. OF course. but still"
The young author interrupted him.
evil! You Oe kind enough to point out
the fault?"
Tie actor was confused; he toycl
with tAe manuscr;pt still! criti@isiny
Is; detects. The author seized it from
Aim, united the tape. unroi!cd tho
laHoc, and with q laugh showed him
i.av the whole was blank. The cone-
dian had ncver united tho packet
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
Tho Most Rem arl5aDio Suicide.

Tie most remarkable sui side in the
annals OF se,f-de itruction occurred at
Chiquete, N. b., in the spring of 1899.
Before committing tine deed the self
murderer. who was named w. r. T..
Jones, dug his own grave aud placed IL
rough coffin Of his own hunliwor.x at
the bottom. The dirt from the open
ing was kept from rolling ba,k into
the ex AVIATION by boards held in place
by a trigger to which IL string vas at
tached. Everything in readiness, the
deliberate Mr.. Jones, as subsequent
developments revealed, got in the
coffin, took IL dose Of poison and then
pulled the string. buryiny himself be-
meath ions of earth. This has been
put down as n of the most unique,
and successful cases OF self-destruction
ON record,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
BATTLE WITH a WILD COW.
a i%corai:s Man Nearly Go:cd to Death iS
nu Ln!uri., ted Least.

a SsoorEi:s Man Ncarly Go:cd to Death In
mn In!uriatc least.
NJ. q. M@iIvadT, Of Poole., Ca. had
narrow escape from 1eip, gored to
death by a COW in the woods near the
seven-ni.e post, on the Central rail.
road. Mr.. McEvadv left home about
10 o'cloc.: u search the woods for two
of his cows that have been missing for
several days, and too;s his pistol and 4
loaded cane with HIM,
After wandering about for some
time he saw i COW some distance away
which Ia thought was his and went
toward kei: The cow had her head
down until Mr.. McEvady got within
about ten feet Of her, when, without
any warning tho animal gave a wild
,unge' toward him. MIR. McEvady did
no, have time to draw his pistol and
vas too much off his guard to run.
+. Ec spranE back a foot or two ana Us
che COW Stacked her speed, he sliced
llGn by the horns. Then began IL
Hruggle for life. Mr.. M9lIvady, who
,.isa<yery powerful man, gave the ami
II hercu!can twist and
threw the cow on her side. His inten.
sfSSon thcn was u shoot her, but he
eN!,aNgcA his mind, and selling his
..loidri cane he raincd blow upon
h!!o"r The cows head, beating her
iTso Submission.
After. Mr.. McIvady saw that he was
safe. Ii. made rapid strides t. get
away. \ short TIM as:Hr he became
lost in the thick woods ana in malng
his say to the railroad track ca'ne
aporshls adversary q second tim. II.
drew his pistol and wax prepared for
al attack, bus the COW evidently rec
cgnlzed aim ana only prepared herself
In case he ca.l. too near.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
SHE HAD TO INSIST.
The New Servant Would Not Tolerate
ANY CarSlessncRN

The quccrly creature sent by the
intelligence office expressed herself as
satisfied with IS week. with alternate
evenings TO ber>e!f and the privileges
Of utilizing the front parlor for the
reception OF company.
"A look of II etIable calm pcryaded
her counten.nce.
There is one firing more" she
pleasantly observed. "of which I inn
nyine 1t is not necessary speak
l."
She cleared her snowy throat.
e. ssume that your husband"
The lady Of the house knit her
brows a%nxiously.
-''builds the fire in the morning"
A sigh of relief escaped tho lips Of
the mistress.
"oh, certainly" she cordially re-
Joined. "Yes. indeed"
The queenly creature expected as
much as a matter of course.
What am getting at" she con-
tinuea, sis to insist that he must
never use kerosene oil to kindle with.
Icannot tolerate such carelessness."
Loftily then she murmureu an au
reyoir and DEPARTED, promising to re-
turn for duty the eXt day.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
CURIOUS cULLlNGs.

More people were executed in Eng
land during the reign of Henry VIII.
than ever before or since in the tight
little island, the number reaching
7l,4O0.
There is a queer club in the old
German city of Mainz on the left bank
of the Rhine. 1t is a club of men
organized to reform the dress of
women; it is an anti-long skirts club,
It's members stand out against the
Mainz feminine fashion of wearing
trailing trains in the streets, and take
a pledge to boycott the wearers Of
such trains and to refrain from appear
ing publicly in their company.
There are several instances on record
of the complete destruction of whole
regiments in n battle. In Septem-
Der. ls13, Napoleon's Fifty-third regi-
ment persisted to a man in storlning
over the Roman positions. On January
6, 1912, only sixty-fye out of l4.5 0
British soldiers emerged alive at a bat
tie fought near Jagdulluck. In No
ve1nber, 1888, the whole army of Hicks
l doAies, 1l,"oo ooiohS, "uo SuO W pIcCcS
near the Fifth cataract of the river
Nile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas j. Perkins of
Tallahassee, Fla, have had jointly
some remarkable experiences. Each
of them has enjoyed five jubilees, as
follows: First when each of them
reached the age of fifty years; second,
when each Of them had resided in Tai
lahassee fifty years; third, when. they
had, as man an wife, lived hap
PLY together for fifty years; fourth.
when they had lived in one house for
fifty years, and fifth, when they had
been members of the Tallahassee
Methodist Episcopal Church South
for City = sass.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
r,me Oft Comes unsoucht.

Few of the men who enjoy world
wide fame ever set out to win it, and
many of them did not care a snap of
the finger for it. Socrates anil Plato
are famous because of their wisdom;
Alexander AID Cesar because OF their
eonquests; Isaiah and Paul be-
cause Of their moral supremacy.
Buonarotti and Shakespeare and Dante
owe their fame to artistic genius;
Newton to his scientific discoveries;
Ia o to his learning; Wa ,hington to
his patriotic scrvi .es, AMI Edison to
his inventions. The famous mar of
the worh have been men who pos
sessed great powers of mind. or per-
formed great deeds. They did not
win fame by seeking for it. Fame
came to them as a result of their char
acter or their career.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
NIcLea1l County.

The Paradise of North Dakota. A Half Million Acres of Fertile Agricultural Lands
still ope to schIemen ad I'll undenaid with immense ems If Coal
MCLEAN COUNTY lis situated on the MissouIri river, n adjoins Bureigh county
on the norh. IT. covers al area Of 92s square niles an contains6 14l2O acres of the
finest quality of farming land. The soil is a rich black loam,f from eighteen inches to
three feet in depth, with cay suboi M is capable of producing enormous crops of
and vegetables; it also has inc grazing and meadow lands oieMing nutritious.
in abundance. %# @@
WAsHBURN, the county sea-, is admirably located, being n a beautiful plateau at
the "Ag Bend" of the Missouri river, commanding an excellent view of the liver
for several miles n ech direction. Several mail n transportation lines diverge
from here, ant it is the most important point or the Bismarck, Washburn g. Coal
|Harbor stamrPacket Line. Tits also the terminal point of the projected Aberdeen,
Bismarck & Northern railroad, now merged into the great" Soon line, which has sur
veyed the line and secured the right o way 20 Washburn.
All kinds of building metMiale excellent blue sandstone, good timber and ne clay
for brckmakng an be found in the immediate vicinity OF Washburn. and have been.
used extensively by the citizens of the county. An excellent quality of brick, as Yl
as The best Of lime are manufactured IN the outskirts o the town.
&WaAhburn has fine courthouse and Jail, two large hotelsa substantially built
-four MILL me walls oresa blacksmith and bop md a numbe
of Substantial residences %%#N#l
FM##a|# OUR CCnL FIELDS. @#N..$&
Mclean county Isl o-a for its extensive coal fields. which underics nearly its on
area.s n fact here is coal enough in Mclean county alone to supply tho state
Of North Dakota with fuel for half century. tits found din all parts sin aratasy vary
ing in thcknes from three to fifteen feet: I'M tits matter If but q short time when
coalw l yld n Immense revenue to the enterprsing owners Of the land.
Ihe extenives stock ranges the superior agricultural lands and the cheap fuoIr i
wood n coaLo Of Mclean county offer the greatest Inducements TO settlers.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14

The population Of many South
islands manufacture their entire suits
@you the products Of palm trees.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
A Stnrvir. Artist.

John Graham Tough, one of the few
great Briti..h sculptors, had a full ex-
perience Of the proverbial poverty Of
artists. During his first year in Lon
don, about 1927, while modelling his
emilio for the Duke of Wellington. no
went without meat for three months.
had only one bushel and a half of coal
during the whole winter. tore up his
shirts to make rags in which to keep
his clay figure moist, and slept beside
it-when the cold would allow him to
sleep-ou the ground.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
A Meaning Yell.

The most instructive college yell y ct
discovered is that Of the girls belong
ing to the annex of the Western Re-
serve university in Cleveland
Warm milk, fresh air,
Keep your feet of the registaire.
This yell is a constant reminder of
the sanitary rules of the school, strict
obedience to which has apparently
proved of great advantage to the stu
dents.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
A Knockout BLOW.

''You never read my books!" said
an eminent historian. in a tone of pre-
tended jealousy and distress to his lit
tie boy, whom he found bending
eagerly over q tale Of cowboy exploits.
hair-breadth escapes AMI wild adven-
ture. ''N.no, papa" wa the apollo
getic answer; II will by and bye, when
I'm older; but now I only like books
that are interesting"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
Venus In Combination Suits.

ITO what base uses may we return"
A drapery firm in London has the We
nus de Medici clothed In n of their
celebrated combination snits of la-
dies lambs. wool underwear" The
widest fight of fancy never put such
tgnoui.,. on A.,arodita tafcre
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-10-14
Not stronp enough,

Puppy" excla med Johnson, as he
contemptuously threw aside the Rev.
DR.. Harwood's Liberal Translation
Of the New Testament" He had dis.
covered that the translator had
turned Jesus wcpt" into 1.-The Savior
Of the world burst into a food Of tears
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION

There never was party in the coun-
try so helplessly divided on financial
question as is the Democratic party at
this time. The Eastern Democrats al
most to a man are gold bugs in full
sympathy with Wall street bankers.
Western Democrats, with few excep-
lions, favor the repeal of the Sherman
law, conditionally. Congressman Nor
gan, Of Missouri, voices their position
in the following. He says: L favor
the repeal Of the Sherman act, and in
its place the full reconciliation of
silver and its free and unlimited coin
age. / favor the like use of gold and
silver coin payment by the treasury of
government obligations not expressly
by law made payable in gold alone,
such as silver certificates, pension war
rants, military and naval payrolls, civil
service, etc. hold the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money
Of the country and to the coinage of
both gold and silver without discrimi-
nation against either metal"
The position of Congressman Morgan
will be antagonized by nearly all East.
ern Democrats, but it will be sustained
by the people of the West.
However earnest Cleveland and his
cabinet may be to serve their Wall
street masters it is doubt
full if they can, even by the
use Of all the government patronage,
force the single goll standard upon
congress. If the administration fails
In its avowed purpose, as we think IL
will, there is no telling what will be
the result.
We are satisfied that good policy de.
mands that the purchase of silver
bullion by the government shall cease
That does no good to anybody but mine
owners: and the government is under
no more obligation to buy their output
than 1t is to purchase the wheat, corn
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25

and meat produce of the country.
There should be no objection to the
free coinage of silver at an agreed rate.
Then if the treasury department would
pay its obligations-such as annuities
to Indians, pensions and the salaries of
officials in the civil service-in silver,
the problem might be in great meas
ure solved. Such a policy would
put money in circulation among the
people and we think restore confidence.
The result would be revival of activ-
ity in business, and consequent pros
perity. But President Cleveland is a
headstrong dictator, completely under
the influence of Wall street million
aires, and is not likely to listen to the
demands of the people. The country,
as whole, is prosperous, but it awaits
with some anxiety the action of
Democratic administration in this mat
ter of vital concern to all.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25
CHURCH NOTICES

Rev. w. b. Floyd, for the morning
sermon at the Presbyterian church,
New Whatcom, will consider the trans
figuration of Christ. Sunday school
at 2,30 p. m.
Evangelist Read will close his work
in the Bay cities with mass meeting
Sunday evening at the Bass block. At
$3.50 he will deliver his farewell words
to the young converts and the workers.
At each service collection will be
taken, which is to be the only means
offered to the people for his requital.
A liberal donation is anticipated.
st. Paul's Episcopal church, Thir-
tenth and Walnut streets. Early cele-
bration, $50 a. M; Sunday school, 10
O'Clock; regular services at IL a. m and
s p. m. Free sittings. All are well
come. Take Thirteenth street car.
Rev. C. l.. Westberg breaches at IL
a. m. Sunday at the Scandinavian
on Donovan avenue, Theme,
"The Nobility of the Inquiring Spirit"
In the evening the children of the Sun
dav school will take up the time by
singing and Rotations.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25

There are in the entire world 81 900 brew
cries. Germany easily heads the list with
1920, which produce every year 4,750, 000,-
900 liters of beer the liter being equal to Ia
pints English measure. Next comes Eng
land, with 12,s74 breweries and an output
of 2,600,000,000 liters; then the United
States. with $500 breweries and 3,500O00 o.
900 liters; Austria, with ,942 breweries and
1,500,000,0O0 liters; Belgium, with 1870
breweries and 1,0o0.OO0,0O0 liters, and
France, with 1,044 breweries and 100000
liters. In Bavaria the annual allowance of
beer per head of the population is 221 Ii.
tiers; in Berlin, 191 in Belgium, 100; in Eng
land, 143; in Switzerland, 81; in Denmark,
33; in the United States, 81; in Sweden, IL,
and in Russia 8.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25

Beware ere it is too late. Do you
or your friends realize how pow
erful a grip the force of habit is
securing on all who use liquors, NOR
phine, opium, cocaine and tobacco?
Observation and experience prove that
all who habitually indulge in these ter
rible habits become bestial, and are, as
soon as the appetite becomes stronger
than the power of the will, made
slaves bound with threads or hawsers
until it becomes mighty mesh of steel
which no victim unaided can break. A
panacea is now offered.
Painters Improved Remedy company
is located at Silver Beach hotel, Lake
Whatcom. We have an experienced
physician who will give the bi-chloride
of gold treatment, which is a safe, sure
and painless cure for all afflicted ones.
Consultation free. Correspondence
solicited. Patients or public receive
good accommodation at hotel. Call on
or address Geo. o. Smith, manager,
box 635, New Whatcom, Wash; mod
crate charges,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25
Alcohol as "a Food.

And now a word about alcohol. OF
all the substances that enter into the
dietary of man that are used for stimula-
ton, to check waste and promote repair,
none is superior to alcohol. SO great is
its reconstructive power that strictly
speaking it must be classed as a food.
Whenever the powers of life are waning,
be the cause whatever it may, alcohol
ranks first among remedies to check it.
Like opium, it is good if properly used
and baneful if abused. II is scarcely
necessary to say much for or against al
cohol. 1t is too well known to all of us
to need much comment, and shall con-
fine myself to speaking of its use medic
inally by those who never tasted it be-
fore physician prescribed it for some
disease.
Alcohol is unquestionably par excel
lence a food adjunct in the severe forms
of fever where nutriment is urgently re-
quired to keep up life, but where the di-
gestive organs have lost their assimila-
tive function.
Here, as long as the actual waste is
compensated for, alcohol does good. Be
yond that it is worse than useless I'm
fortunately such restricted dosage does
not satisfy the careless doctor of easy
conscience. He gives it by the oft re-
peated tablespoonfuls without stopping
to discover that the result wished for has
been attained in the slower, fuller pulse
and stronger heart.
Hundreds and hundreds of men and
women in all walks of society contracted
their tipping habit by regarding as I'M
restricted the advice of their physicians
that wine or stimulants of some kind are
necessary for them to talse. The advice
in itself is justifable, but the lack of re-
striction is culpable. And so these poor,
deluded convalescents go on taking stim-
ulants, which they find not only agreea-
BILE, but desirable, until they become
slaves to drink.-New York Herald.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25

JoSEfH w. hElNHAhl' mart Is the man,
and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is
the railroad, and the man had already DEM
onstrated his ability by saving the road
from ruin while he served it in a subordi
nate capacity.
Mr. Reinhart is one of those men who
seem to have been born with genius for
flnanciering. When he was but 10 years of
age. he entered the employ of the Allegheny
Valley, little railroad in Pennsylvania
only 1879 miles long, and before he was 80
he had demonstrated his peculiar ability as
an accountant and was one of its most val.
ued officers In 1888 he was made general
auditor of the New York, West Shore and
Buffalo and soon introduced methods OF
his own invention for systematizing the
companys accounts. That the system was
a good one was proved by its adoption by
number Of other large corporations, includ-
ing the New York Central road.
After closing up the receivers accounts
Of the West Shore Mr.. Reinhart in 1886 be.
came general passenger and ticket agent of
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern,
which post be resigned in 1887 to engage in
work as a special railroad expert. This
was the capacity in which he was first en-.
gagged by the Santa Fe, which then seemed
on the verge Of bankruptcy, with annual
fixed charges of ST., 900, 900 and net earnings
of only S6,500,000 Under his advice the
properties, comprising over 40 distinct
roads, were amalgamated and run as one
system, and the numerous issues of bonds
reduced to two. The result was a large in
crease in earnings and the probable saliva,
ton Of the corporation.
Mr.. Reinhart was made fourth vice presi-
dent of the company in 1889 and two years
later was elected first vice president, still,
however, retaining the general authorship.
Upon the death Of President Marvel Mr..
Reinhart succeeded to the presidency, of
the Importance of which some estimate can
be formed from the fact that it involves
the management of properties capitalized
at 460,000000. He is one of the youngest
men ever chosen to fill so important post,
being not yet AZ years old.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-25
Mixing Melodies.

What on the lips of the intellectual
doubter" would have been only profane
sarcasm was irresistibly funny because
Of its innocence, when Lewis, his i'm
agination fred by the first opera he had
ever witnessed, inextricably mixed up
Moody and Sankey and 1.-THE Mikado"
as follows; The day following his at
tendance at the latter performance he
burst upon the scandalized maternal
vision attired in imitation of his admired
Ko-Ko in patchwork crib quilt and a
feather buster in his hands waving ac-
centuation toeach syllable as he capered
about chanting:
The will of the Lord be done. be done,
And 90 you had better succumb, Dumb, cumbl