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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-01-19
ESCRIPT OF MCLEAN COUNT
The Garden County Of North Dakota.
1 ,152, 900 Acres Of Free Government Land, Adapted
Pursuits and Stock Raising.
ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED With GOOD WATER AMI

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is th very CENTER he State dN North Dakota mdm nsn ae $500 mile, Md embraces 3oAOoa acres
of the ftq uMy # farming land mcudng4 $4,000 acres TIMBER which lies along tn M&@urr river THERE'S
shm this my 1l52OOO acres ofg governmental o nt to- Hhnentc mbeo accommodating IUo hmMeS
gvngeh ahm@kadof 16Oa acres ataa cost for filing onh e@me of $+O0
The Northern Pacific Rai@dc company onw With the county bout 534O a@' whchca nbe pMcnned
at prices angngh m$ 4t @ra acre and which maybe paid r. in thee mmnYs pr&rrdsh k which ranges
hpn~ from IS to IS cents @hed oar oH md@ n @bohton aRy m't tim wtha nw rate fmt~t
About 536Oo0 acres of thshndb undelad whhas superior MH Ignite @L ranging front ott twenty
GxMtm thickness adm many places He h Gps ma tHes surface rendering @y da@@ ndH s uPpyn
iahatbk These is a rhb black lm wahch sMoA Iron eighteen inches to three stn depth ands
Welding the most nutritious gesm ubundmmca nh really thee Garden County fNonhDa Dakota
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-01-19

Restraining II Crank.
Pierre. s. D., Jan. 15.-Sheriff Hays
Of Faulk county has taken charge OF
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-01-19

Reward Tor Taylor.
Pierre, s. d.. Jan. 16.-The report
of the committee on compensation of
house officials reported that the re-
port was accepted. making a cut on
the rate of last session. The governor
appeared and announced that the at
torney general desired to meet the
house and senate in executive session
at 4 o'clock. An opinion by Attorney
General Crawford was presented. de-
nying the right of the membership Of
Olaf Nelson. sent from the newly or
ganized county of Lyman. He was
granted rights Of n delegate on the
floor. The committee on judiciary re-
ported on the bill regulating the &C.
lions of the state treasurer, and the
same was referred to the committee
On state affairs. A resolution was pre-
sented declaring the contractor of the
legislative printing was failing to full
fll his contract, and asking the secre-
tary Of state to enforce the fines pro-
vided under the contract; carried. A
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06
AN IMPENDING WAR.



Troubious Times Ahead over the Demo-
cratic Tarin.
II Is quite evident that tariff war
with various European nations Is not
10 be avoided. Germany, France, Aus
tria and Belgium have all excluded or
are about To exclude certain American
products from their markets on various
pretexts, aud there are unmistalxable
signs of concerted action On their part
for the purpose of injuring our COM
merce. The policy Is n retaliatory one,
plainly speaking. That Is TO say, IL Is
intended to punish us for the action of
the democratic congress in resembling
the reciprocity treaties under which
those countries enjoyed certain advan-
tages in our markets. So long as these
treaties were in force, our trade with
the nations in question was very prof
liable and steadily increasing, and the
benefits derived from II were mostly
gained by the farmers But the demo-
cratic statesmen abolished reciprocity
because IL had been established by the
republicans, and now we have tho
logical result in this movement 20 pre-
vent us from making sales in markets
TO which we formerly had free access.
II Is unreasonable, OF course, 10 expect
that foreign nations will continue 10
buy from us when we have practically
forbidden them TO sell TO us under con-
ditions mutually arranged, and our
protests against their present course
are not likely 10 be needed.
The laws give the president author
ity 20 meet this unfriendly policy by
placing certain restrictions and prohi-
billions upon imports from those coun-
tries; but, unfortunately, we are not
In position TO resort TO such an ex-
pedient We cannot afford 10 shut out
foreign products, because we are in
sore need OF the revenue which comes
from them. The present tariff law
does not yield enough TO pay the or
binary expenses of the government,
aud a further lessening OF the receipts
would be n public calamity. Thus, IL
will be seen, democratic rule has placed
MS where great foreign market for
our products Is in imminent danger Of
being lost without any chance OF re-
dress. II we exclude foreign imports
on the tit-for-tat theory, we simply
make bad matter worse by adding TO
the troubles OF the treasury. We arc
In pressing want OF oil the money we
can get. and this Is conclusive argu-
ment against the idea OF throwing
away revenue with view 20 bringing
other nations 20 terms In n commercial
eontro yersy. Tho mistake was made
when the reciprocity policy was abol-
ished, and the only true and satisfac-
tory way 10 correct it Is TO restore that
policy. But such action is not TO be
expected until the republicans again
secure control OF the government; and
meanwhile we must bear serious losses
as the penalty of n species of tariff re-
form that is inimical TO all the materi-
nj interests Of the country.-St. Louis
beDemocrat.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06

paid low wages, IL can DO seen with
good trade the business Is necessarily
profitable. Already, however, the plan
has been overworked in some sections
of the city.
The trade must be large while II
lasts, as IL all comes between the hours
Of eleven and three. Only one or two
Of the "help-yourself' places are open
at six o'clock. and they have learned
that people will not go to a cafetiere
for dinner.
The gentleman who at 1890 o'clock
paved desperately 70 get his 'chipped
beef In cream, with potatoes on the
side" may be at gao o'clock dining
in state at his own home, calm and Dig
nified, inevening dress, and never let
ting on" that he ever heard of n help
yourself" place where saint OF duck
with olives may be procured for the
ridiculously low price OF fifteen cents.
One embarrassing thing about the
cafetiere Is that every customer Is al
lowed 10 pick out his own check and
the house doesn't watch him TO see IL
he Is honest.
This is oil very we'll II the check hap
pens TO be ordinarily large, but when
IL is quite small the customer Is an
noyed.
A man who had finished his lunch
and was going away met friend on
the stairway and the friend insisted on
him returning.
~ want TO talk TO you" said he.
"Come and sit with me, even II you
don't eat"
SO the man went In again and sat
with his friend. lie drank cup Of cof-
fee merely TO make n show OF being en-
ployed. When he started 10 go out he
fumblcd at the check box and hesitated
as he pulled out n fve-cent check.
"a was In here once before and just
came back with my friend here and
drank cup Of coffee"
The woman cashier nodded In BUSH
nesslike way and pushed back his
change.
II thought I'd explain" he said
sheepishly.
She nodded again and he passed out
convinced that she believed him 20 be
n low, cheap swindler. But she knew
all the time that he was telling this
truth.
The occasional "bcnt" verattcmpts
any explanations. He passes over his
ten-cent piece in an off-hand way and
strolls out with his forty cents worth
OF lunch.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06

a great flower full of material from
which honey could be made, from the
assiduous attention which these busy
little bees paid TO him. Whether they
had been despoiled of their stings OF
not Is not said. But he must have fell
uncomfortable II he knew thnt many
scores Of bees, were they so minded,
could have stung him at will. Such
quantity of bee stings as that could
easily settle man and leave him stung
TO death. Anybody who has ever been
unluclSy enough 10 receive the sting OF
even one healthy, vigorous bee win not
find It difficult 20 believe this.
The hives Of the bees were In Ger.
tain part of the largo hall quite re.
moved from the stage where Wildeman
stood with them thiclxly clustered on
him. All at once he would give n
whistle and prestoi The bees started
Off and flew straight to their hives.
When they had got well settled there
he would whistle again, and back they
few and settled on his face and hands
and clothes once moro. This was dono
with the greatest promptness and reg
ularity. IL must have been with some
solicitude that the spectators assisted
in this performance. But IL Is due TO
the bees, and perhaps 20 Wildeman, TO
say that no one was ever stung by
them.
Virgil, the great Latin poet, who
wrote four poems on different ag-
ricultural themes, devotcs one Of
these Georges, as they are called, en-
tirely 20 bees. But he nowhere says
they can be taught to do the things
which this man OF Plymouth trained
them 10 perform. virgil's bees know n
great deal, but they have learned IL all
from nature. ST. Louis Republic.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06
POLITICAL DRIFT.

eB-Mr. Wilson win doubtless prove
He will never dispute his MASTER
Philadelphia Press.
s51~The sugar trust has been pro-
tected by the German tariff, and the
commercial interests OF the nation
have been wantonly sacrificed Y
Tribune.
eT The new postmaster general will
be badly handicapped in point of use
fulness 10 his party by the fact that
his predecessor disposed of all of the
patronage. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
IT, President Cleveland was in his
younger days a teacher in a blind asy
lum. He is now as the leader OF the
democratic party representing the blind
leading the blind.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
B-President Cleveland hasn't got
congress off his hands just because 1t Is
dead. He has several hundred politi-
cal corpses for whom temporary inter-
ment Is desired in foreign ministries
and consulships, post offices and the
like. He has madc one minister TO
Mexico and taken another into his cab
met, but this isn't a drop in the bucket.
National Tribune.
tEThe Fifty-third congress will DO
remembered with pity. IL was born
of popular delusion or passion, and was
commissioned TO perform work OF
folly. The people made IL what twas.
Theirs was the supreme and respon-
sible folly. The heresics and miscon
ceptions which have prevailed at tho
national capital were first generated
among the people. Syracuse Standard.
gD-A little moro than two years ago tho
country defeated the republican party IN tho
federal and state elections by maioritics that
we're almost unprecedented In tho history OF
American elections. -fiarper's Weekly.
How persistcntly the mugwump mind
elings to delusionl In 1899 the total
popular vote for president was l2, no.
036. OF this number $3.50, DIS were cast
for Cleveland tdem.), 5,l76, los for liar.
rison (rep.), i,oii, ios for Weaver tpop),
2G4, 1913 for Bidwell (pro.) and 81, 164 for
Wing (socl. Mr.. Cleveland had plu-
rality OF $780, over Harrison, but OF
the total votes cast 0,553,7ls were
against him, or 900, 800 more than were
cast for him. Troy Timea
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06
ANYTHING ON THIS
SHELF. So


Anything" may be piece of pie, n
frosted cake, two chocolate cellars, two
tarts or two fancy puffs. This Is
where the business man loses mo-
ment or two In the thoughtful consid-
Grafton OF whether mince pie with a
bit Of cheese is preferable 10 charlotte
russo. However. he makes selection
and goes back TO his place, only 70 find
that one of the girls has CLEANED up
after him and man with a plate OF
beans has grabbed the stool. But he
finds another place and eats his pie.
He goes to the desk of the cashier on
his way out
Beside the cashiers desk Is printed
hill of fare, and by this he checks up:
Ragout of beef, fifteen cents; coffee,
five cents; pie. five cents; total, TWEEN
ty-five cents.
Then IL he Is an honest man he
draws a check out OF the pigeon hole
marked twenty-five" and hands IL TO
the cashier with his money, and the
sacrament of luncheon 10 At an end.
Hardly any dish In cafetiere costs
more than fifteen cents, and for plain
food, such as hash or beans, the charge
Is only ten cents. AS the average lunch
consists OF fish and meat, with dessert
and coffee, the checks are mostly Of
the twenty, twenty-five or thirty kind.
AS the cafetiere can feed a customer
and get him away in half the time re-
quired by an ordinary restaurant, as
more people can be accommodated in
the same space and the expense OF
walters is entirely done away with,
and the help, all except the chef, Is
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06

coyotes may cause n great disturbance.
In many portions OF the southwest the
jack hares are already perfect pest.
In central and southern California
the destruction Of the carnivorous ami
mails that usually keep rabbits In check
has led TO such on alarming increase In
lack rabbits" that now they constitute
q genuine plague. In Fresno and Kern
counties they are so destructive 10
young fruit trees that the fruit-growcrs
have been compelled 70 adopt heroic
measures for their wholesale destruc-
ton. In the winter Of 1892 Mr.. C. II.
Townsend reported 90 Forest and
Stream that in tho great drive which
took place near Fresno about the
middle OF February, n tract Of country
containing about 20 square miles was
surrounded and swept over by nearly
1000 horsemen, who closed In from all
sides, driving the game before them.
About II, 900 jack harcs were thus forced
into central corral of wire, where
they were killed with clubs. During
the previous winter more than $1,000
jacks were killed In n series Of drives
which were made near bakersfield,
Kern county; and the worst OF it was
the animals were AZ that time not fit 10
cat--W. +. Hornnday. In st. Nicholas.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06
A Little shy.

The leaders of tho Ohio democracy
are bound 20 keep themselves before
the public In one way or another. Bricc
gives private concerts in Washington
and hires distinguished fddlers and
celebrated singers Campbell has just
drunk n glass OF ammonia and water
and got his name In the newspapers.
Tom johnson Is being urged 90 become
a candidate for president by the single
takers. Frank Hurd has sent word 20
the east that he Is wholly out Of poll
tics, and Is busy practicing law. Allen
w. Thurman Is roaming here and there,
shouting meanwhile for dollar worth
fifty cents. and weeping over the crime
of 1879. Other conspicuous Ohio
democrats are doing other things, but
none OF them is expounding demo
cratic principles or saying n word
about Gen. jackson and Thomas JEFF
ferson. Reform Is without an advo-
cate. Economy has no champions
All democrats but those who are In
Office are striving 10 forget the past
and 90 turn their minds into new and
cheerful thought channels Cleveland
Leader.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.



Now. keep very still. and a story I'll tell.
Df brave little Edward and good little Nell.
Who went out IN search OF q dog they had lost.
Without ever thinking the trouble Il cost
They started one morning At dawn OF tho light,
Aud did not come homoward until 10 was nlgha
"roor Rover Is gone--he Is LOST" they would
say.
To all. old or young. whom they met on the
way.
And once Nell grew holder and spoke to man:
We've searched all the day. sir. as hard AZ We
can.
For our pretty Rover--oh where shall we got
We fear no - dead In the cold and tho snowi"
PRAY. what IL his eolori'' tho gentleman said.
He Is black. with four legs and a tail and Q
hoadl"
Said brave little Edwards ave know him so
WE'LL"
"oh. yes. we both know him and love him"
said Nell
''yOurl fnd him. my dears," said the man.
without fall.
Though SO many dogs have four legs and taili
just turn round that corner. behind the snow
slide.
You'll see a fine dog there. and children be-
sidel"
Away they went running. and on. what a sighti
Poor Rover was there In n pitiful plight.
Hitched fast 90 o wagon, and driven by boys.
Who beat him and jocrod him with deafenlng
noise.
"Poor Rover--our Rover!" screamed Edward
and Nell.
When on ran the boys with laugh and yell
And soon came the kind man who sot Rover
free.
Tho happiest dog that you ever could SEQ.
Though all no could do wes 70 Jump and 70
bark.
go home" said the man. "for It's growing
quite dark,
] told you you'd ind your pet dog without fail.
With oil OF his legs and HIS head aud HIS taill''
--zltella Cooke. in Our Little Ones.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06
/ WONDER WHY
A Suggestion for Young People who Want
Little Mental Training.

A Suggestion for Young People who Want
Little Mental Training.
"Blotting paper for programmes?
wonder whyl" and the three girls, after
a moments stare at the unusual spec
tacle of worlds fair music programmes
printed on moist blotting paper, dis
missed the question from their minds
and began vigorous use of the pro-
grnmmes as fans.
think" writes young girl. III cannot
follow out things In my own mind. l
wonder whyl"
~ wonder whyl wonder whyv" My
dear young ladies, your words are adj
mirable. The trouble Is with the pune
tuation. Exchange the exclamation
point for the interrogation, and teach
your minds better manners than TO ask
question without waiting for reply.
Be severe with II. Say: you want to
know? then find out. II not now, to-
morrow; and, mind, no sugar plums or
love stories until your lesson is learned"
Blotting paper for programmed l
wonder whyi Mr.. Theodore Thomas
could have answered that question. He
might have said: 1.-THE rustic from a
thousand stir papers In careless hands
would seriously interfere with the
music. II Is a trifie, perhaps, but at
tention TO trines is the secret OF sue
cess"
/ wonder whyP-Lucy Elliot Keller,
In Outlook
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06

The signs were oil about In the fair
grounds that, nj "A certain tent, Tom, n
Skye terrier, would correctly play upon
the piano certain mir. The people
crowded the tent and waited for tho
wonderful performance. The piano
was opened, and Tom came out, and
gravely got up on the stool and placed
his fore paws on the keyboard. Tho
music was as promised, but man back
In the audience, who doubled Toms
musical ability, called out: Cats"
"Catsl" Tom jumped from the stool
and ran round tho stage madly, bark
ing with oil his might. IL did not in
tcrrupt the musicl The piano was
played by machinery arranged inside
the case by the owner.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06


In the education Of animals II Is more
remarkable To SEQ the smaller ones
trained 10 exercises that seem absurd
" out Of place by the patient care Of
the human brain that devotes itself to
this educational process. Mice. canary,
birds and feast They have all been
upon the boards. The idea OF teach
ing the vivacious flea 10 perform GER
tain specific anticsl How was II In
stilled into its small imperceptible fac
ulties that In obedience 20 certain sig
nails from the master, man. II should do
things which would never enter into
the mind of the simple, natural feai
Among the smaller animals there 10
none that seems so intelligent, so prac-
teal and sober-minded as "the little
busy bee" He will mount in the air,
aud fly In straight line for his hive.
1t has passed into a proverb, and
when man wishes to say that he has
gone by the shortest line from one
point 10 another land that, as mathe-
mathics teaches, Is the straight llne),
he says no ''made n bee-line" for the
place. So In the structure Of their
cells they apply by instinct the form
and proportions which reason proves to
be most effective and economical OF
space. They are fine subjects and
obey implicitly their queen, and they
take good care of the drones as long a.
they are useful 10 the well being of the
community, and kin them as soon az
they cease to be so.
Ii would appear, therefore, very
simple thing to teach bees tricks and
introduce them 10 a professional life as
performers on the amusement stage.
Yet probably very few have ever seen
them trained, In 1891, however, man
named Wildeman, of Plymouth, did
train troup and exhibit them for the
recreation of the curious public. He
got swarms of bees so we'll trained that
he could make them enact maneuvers
with as much precision and unity as
trotps OF soldiers go through field tao
tics. This man used 20 exhibit the
bees in large hall, outside of which
was n garden. When the bees got
through working as trick performers
they could have good time playing
among the flowers. Wildeman would
appear before the audience with the
bees swarming all over him. They
were on his face, on his hands, crawling
over his clothes, and his pockets were
full of them. II looked as IL he were
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06
KILLING JACK HAREs.
Ten Thousand Horsemen Take Part I'm n
Great Drive.

Ten Thousand Horsemen Take Part I'm n
Great Drive.
The jack hare group contains five
species, which in turn inhabit all por-
tions OF the southwest quarter OF the
United States, as far north as Oregon,
as far east as Nebraska and Kansas,
and southwark TO Tehuantepec. Their
numbers vary in different localities ac-
cording to circumstances. Wherever in
any portion of this vast range the
coyotes and foxes are almost extermin-
ated, the jack hares soon increase 20 an
alarming extent. Men are beginning
TO learn that II viii not do 20 cut out
too many cogs from the great balance
wheel Of nature; for her affairs are so
nicely adjusted that even so apparently
slight a matter as the poisoning Of
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06

while az Birch Creels, In Alaska
said an American who recently returned
from the mines, IL saw wonderful
cave, lately discovered. After entering
through n small aperture, the sides OF
which arc composed Of granite, the cx-
plorcr enters n solid icc-chamber, from
which hang numerous stalnctltcs. In
this chamber Schumann. the discovorer,
found black bear frozen stiff In n
block of ice. He took his AK and
chopped n piece of the animal and
found that Il crumblcd at tho touch. II
probably had been frozen fas n century
or moroI-
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06

Briefiess Barristcr-when see hi
excellency overwhelmed with honorI
and distinctions on the occasion OF his
jubilee, feel ms II / could burst. How
miserable TO pass through life unno-
ticed and uncared for.
Prime Minister would gladly for.
felt all these distinctions II for ons
short year might be young once more
like that young lawyer, for instance.
who Is carrying on an animated CONVEX
sation with his fair companion at the
other end of the table.-Humoristichc
Batter.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-04-06

he takes knife. fork and spoon from
the trays, and he is ready TO begin.
Time since he entered the place
probably less than n minute. Under
this system II Is the same as II there
were waiter for every customer.
Suppose that, having partakcn OF his
ragout the business man wishes des-
sert. On the main serving counter are
saucers already filed with fruit and
dumplings. There are also warm pud-
dings which may be had for the asking.
The pastry exhibits are on shelves
along the wall. These shelves are re-
ally the pie bargain counters