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The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

Modern highwaymen on the iron
roads Of the West are not entirely i'm.
mune as might be conjectured from
recurring reports Of successful "hold
ups" They run the same risks Of
brave resistance and fatal retaliation
TO which the Duyals and Sheppards Of
Hampstead Heath were occasionally
subjected more than n century ago.
AS was shown in q recent attempt on
an express train near Council Bluffs,
Iowa, a bold express messenger, with
Vino ester rife, may provide at
once security and vengeance for prop.
erty and passengers on the menaced
train. With high power rifles handy
to the reach Of train hands the train
robbers vocation becomes distinctly
extra-hazar(9us.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

1AA1! Allly. Calleu q
* voice, sharply. Gran
Y ther wants you should
come and practice. He's
set you should play something for the
folks tomorrow, and he wants you
should do your best"
"Oh, dear me" groaned Kizzy. a
pleasant, roSy-cheeked lass of sixteen.
who was sitting with a girl Of about
the same age on the doorstep of the
Popp farmhouse. IF l hadn't forgot
ten all about it! Come with me and
help me out Joella, do Maybe if you
play it over for me first l can do it
better Oh, if could only make gram
ther understand there isn't any music
in me-not a bit, not a scrap, not an
atom, not an echo-how much happier
should bep'
Joella, laughing good-naturedly, rose
in answer to this appeal, and the two
went in together. They We're orphan
cousins, brought up almost from baby
hood in the home Of their grandfather
Deacon Joel POpp, for whom indeed
Joella was named as her mother had
been before her, Joella's mother had
inherited with the name all the dea-
cons decision of character and practi-
cal ability and now the old man, re-
fusing the daily testimony Of his eyes
and ears to the contrary, chose to be-
lieve that her daughter was exactly
like her.
Joella, his daughter had had straight,
red hair gray eyes and plain strong,
pleasant features. Joella, his grand
daughter had delicate features. curl
ing golden locks, blue eyes. a dreamy
disposition and taste for music. She
was, in fact exactly like her Aunt
Keziah, KiZzy's mother; and Kizzy,
on the other hand, was her practical
Aunt Joella over again. But the dea-
con was firmly of the opinion that girls
ought to resemble their mothers, not
their aunts. and to this belief Kizzy
and Joella had to accommodate them
selves.
They had gone into the sunny farm
house parlor where Deacon Joel,
bright-eyed, wthered, imperious, on
the eve of his hundredth birthday and
looking forward eagery to its festive
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

YES" answered the young fellow.
"but you won't find me so fond of my
relatives as to carry off their silver for
a souvenir, Gran'ther Popp.'
The old man chuckled. That's all
right. But | want to know your moth
er's maiden name and the ages of all
your family and a few other things be-
fore turn you loose among my spoons
and my granddarters.'
Il should say one of your grand
daughters was quite capable Of taking
care of herself and the spoons too
Luke answered, smiling with shy ad-
miration at Ilizzy.
THAT'S So" assentcd gran'ther.
,"Kizzy, you've done we'll! You keep
that silver for your own. You've
earned itw
But there was something Kizzy
wanted more than silver. 20 gram
Their" she burst out Don't give me
anything if you want to please me.
Let me give something away I've got
already. My harp. oh, my harp!
JOtllu llhCb IL anu ShN Ndh ll"9b bub
do hate it sou
How granther, whose brows looked
stormy, might have answered If Cou-
sin Luke, who saw the harp standing
just within the parlor, had not quickly
brought it out to Joella, will never be
known. But that is what Luke did,
saying with a mschieyous look as he
did so; play, cousin, play There's
Music in the Air."
Sc Joella played, and played her
best. The green vines waved above
her head and her soft cheeks were
flushed with excitement as she touched
the strings. Gran'ther looked and lis
tened.
"'Taint bad" he said, shortly, when
she had finished. He added, But if
Joelly's to have her Aunt Keziahs
harp instead O. Eizzy, it's so much the
more reason for 6izzy hayin' the bowl
an pitcher. Things ought to be d.
vided fair"
And that is how it happened that on
Deacon Popp's hundredth birthday,
when the guests arrived and filed the
old homestead to overlooking with
fredlhess and joy, it was Joella who
entertained them with the "Bluebels
Of Scotland" and the old tunes gram
ther loved and Kizzy who, with her
straight hair knotted comfortably in
her neck, few busily about with Cou.
sin Luke, attending to their more pro.
sale wants-no music on her mind but
laughter on her lips and congratula.
tons ringing in her ears-as happy a
girl as ever murdered time and tune,
or made perfect pudding.--Youth's
Companion.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

Postal rates between Switzerland
and both Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary have lately been reduced. I'm
fortunately the rates for letters to for
eign countries remain the same, and it
is said that the United States firms do
themselves a deal Of unwilling dam
age by sending insufiiciently stamped
letters to foreign houses in SwitZer-
hnd who have then to pay fine upon
receipt equal to double the postage
lacking and thus receive a bad impress
sion Of the methods Of American firms.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

Alfred Austin, the English poet lau'
ceate, has written a poem on the con-
.luslon of the Boer war in which he
says England mustered virile throng
and sped her warshares through the
waters white" We understand, how
ever that in these words he is not re-
ferring to the loans raised by Great
Britain in the United States.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

Probably no young woman ever re-
formed n man by laborlng with him.
The most effective way for young
women TO reform men that need it is
70 leave thom alone.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

A physician of Montclair, n. J.,
stopped in front Of residence in the
town, on a recent evening, and while
he was paying his call somebody stole
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03
A SEA SONG.

Meath the spur Of the salt sen breeze,
Der the white of the crusted rime,
On the breast of the lifting seas
/ sail to a foreign cline
But heart | hide in a shell,
And / send it back to thee.
All guard it safe and well,
Till / take it again TO me.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

While repairing a temple the Chinese
cover up the eyes Of the idols, in order
that the deties may not be offended
at the sight Of the disorder.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

To the blast Of wild Neptune's horn
My good ship roars her head,
TO welcome the rosy morn
She springs from her wove-tossed bed
But my soul on its strong white winqs
Flies back DER the pillows foam,
And at last its story sings
In thy heart, sweet love, its home.
The suburban citizen., 1900-11-03

IZZY! Kizzyr called a
voice, sharply. Gran
ther wants you should
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26

Farm Raised Its Own Mortgage.

A queer story is told by a Lincoln 1Neb) paper Of how misfortune of its own accord turned into good luck for a Nebraska farmer. He was man from Missouri, who had invested his all in a big wheat field in Buffalo county, and then by means of a mortgage on his land he raised S700 with which to raise wheat It happened to be poor year for wheat, and the stand was not very good. Concluding that it wasn't worth harvesting, he pulled up his stakes and went back to Missouri, leaving the farm to fight the mortgage all by itself. The farm was equal to the occasion. The wheat ripened, fell down and deposited the seed in the soil again. Next spring the wheat began to grow lustily. Some of the neighbors were honest enough to write about it down to the fugitive in Missouri, and he got interested enough to come back and take a look Then he stopped and harvested his voluntary erop. He sold it for enough to pay off the mortgage and the rest of his debts and had tidy little sur plus over, with which he moved his family back, and now declares thers is no stnte like Nebraska.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
LIGHT SMOKERS.
Japanese Are Satisfied with Small
 Quantities of Tobacco.

Japanese Are Satisfied with Small
 Quantities of Tobacco.
 You may have noticed that the Jap anese Hho visit America are very mod crate smokers. said prominent Jap anese now travelling in the United States to a reporter recently Those of my countrymen who do indulge in she weed mostly smoke cigarettes or preferably the smallest pipes filled with the mildest tobacco ebtainable Of course there are Japanese who, like some Americans, have such a craving for tobacco that nothing less than the strongest cigar or the largest pipe will satisfy them. But such smokers are exceptionally few among the Japanese As rule, my countrymen, while al home and abroad, are satisfied with short smokes, such as a cigarette or q tiny pipe affords. The Japanese are moderate smokers, not so much because they are small people, but for the req son that up to within recent years but very little tobacco came into Japan, and the tariff on it was very high. Be- ing a poor but frugal race, the masses purchased only a limited quantity of the weed, which as matter of econ omy, they have for generations been taught to smoke in only the tiniest Of pipes. These pipes, the most popular of which hold about as much tobacco as would fill an ordinary thimble, are
 
 was scarce, tobacco dear and the tariff high. In another generation or two when Japan shall have taken her place among the wealthy nations of the world, our countrymen will no doubt smoke large quantities of tobacco, and then the small pipes will be abandoned for big ones, such as Englishmen and Americans now smoke. ."-Wa5hington Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
HOLIDAY TREES IN WISCONSIN,.
Half Million of Them Shipped An
 nualiy to Dealers in the Eas4.


 From the Milwaukee Wisconsin: Few people realize the difficulty ex. perlenced nowadays in securing Christ mas trees for the holidays. Millions of trees are ,ised every year in this country. t.iAd each succeeding year finds 1t more difficult for the merchants to secure choice trees for the market, owing to the rapid advance in clear Ing the forests of the west. It is es- timated that nearly 1000, 900 trees are shipped every year from this state to eastern parties. Theodore Hoffmann IS probably the most extensive dealer ln Christmas trees around here. He makes a speciality of the business, and says that he will break all records this year in regard to the number of trees shipped east Already he has several crews Of men at work in Marinette county, about seventy miles north of Green Bay, and also in Florence coun- ty. Mr Hoffmann says that in years past he had no trouble in getting all the trees he desired in the sWamps above Green Ray and near Marinette, but now he is obliged to send his men Into the baekwoods a considerable distance, as the trees cannot be secured now without great de Il of trouble The great difficulty now is getting the trees to the railway stations, much time being lost in this work. He fig ures that he will get out close to 1, ,000,- o00 trees this winter, more than half of this number going to the east. "At the rate the trees have been disappear Ing Of late years I figure there will be a scarcity of them in five or ten years" remarked MT. Hoffmann, while dis eussing the question. There are few persons making a speciality of raising them for the market, but it is prob able that some one will take it up be- fore 1t is too late. It is really hard matter to get goo1 trees, my men re- porting that very few of them are of good size and quality. However, there are many swamps where the trees grow in abundance, and the owners will probably realize that they are worth the holding after all, especially when they learn how valuable they may prove to be-,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
Scented Water for the Table.

If society has not perfected the art of dining it is surely not far from it. The latest fad fer the dinner table is scented water for the finger bowls. Great care should be taken in scanting the water To be correct the odor must be exceedingly faint Yerbena leaf is refreshing, and occasionally one leaf is left floating on the water of each finger bowl When natural flow CTS and leaves are scarce and one has not a private hothouse or conservatory to draw rom perfume tablets are used for this purpose. If scented flower is used in decorating the table, perfect taste requires that the water in the in- ger bowls be Of the same perfume as the flower
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
THE ASSASSIN THE EEMpREss
1ucheni stbdued and Penitent in His
 Swiss Prison.


 Swiss Prison
 The United States consul at Geneva, MT. B. H. Ridgley, communicates to the Strand for September the story of Iueheni, his crime and his subsequent life in jail. He is, we are told. in- eareerated in the Eveche or bishopry, close by Calyin's great church. Of his accommodation the writer says: "It Is q neat and clean cell. much larger and better ventilated than any cell I ever remember to have seen in an American penitentiary. The convict has good, clean bed, with straw mattress; he has small table and a chair. He is comfortably clad. not in convict stripes, but in good woolen garments, and is, in short, living under better conditions of cleanliness and Wholesomeness than he ever knew be- lore in his life. The writer himself has xeen the convict recently. This is his4eport: T found that Lucheni had changed considerably since the day of his condemnation. His mustache was gone, and his face looked sleek and white and fat. The 1.-the figure had also grown much stouter; he still wore the gum-elastic smile, but the air of brayado was missing. His eyes were doWneast; his mien humble. It was easy to see that the spirit of the an- arch1st was broken. He feels the soli- tary confinement terribly. It is par tleularly hard to the verbose Lucheni. He sees before him a life absolutely without hope; the ceaseless babbler is reduced to everlasting silence: the preacher of the bad cause is without public" Within six weeks of entrance he admitted to the priest that three hours after committing his awful crime he repented of it.. The authorities t sounds somewhat cynical-are hop ssang tssturn his penitence to good ac- count. He has already confessed that he has acompliees, ard they hope to nave most important revelations before long. The writer at once draws the moral which opponents Of capital pun- lshment all the world over will be quick to repeat: "Thus, after all. per- haps it is fortunate that capital pun
 iiiiehe ID hot Ihhlcted Ill =GeneYa; otherwise Lueheni, with the bravado of his kind, would have gone under the guillotine in the conventional way. crying, 'Viye lAnarchiei' and his brethren would have been spared the demeralizing spectacle of the most reckless and vicious and audaeious of their lot turned into trembling jail- bird, singing gospel hymns and weep ing tears of repentance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
The Danube Is Not Blue.

The assertion contained ill the title Of the famous Strauss waltz, Ths Beautiful Blue Danube" is not borne out by the facts in the matter. A scientist who has taken observations as to the color of the Danube during eYk'y day for the past year. has found that on eleven days the water was brown, on forty-six days it was yell low, on flfty-nine it was muddy green, on forty-fve clear green. on sixty-nine steely green, on sixty-four yellowish green-but blue, never. The history, poetry and prose of the day do not aI- ways jibo with the truth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
WOMEN PIANO TUNERS
New Field of Labor Which Does Net
 Require Much Exertson.


 Require Much Exertson.
 l have been pondering the problem or feminine money-making occupa- t1ons, and among the unexplered fields believe piano tuning to be just the thing for musical women, for it is generally conceded that a woman's ear Is liner than mans, although one musician of my acquaintance taxes ex- eeption to the statement. However, 1 say to him that fewer women than men sing off the key and play out of tune. Piano taning is not hard work that is, it does not require any amount of physical exsrtion. It does require e9ffettff ar, a knowledge of music and si@e of skill which can be acquired
 teacher in the tuning line like tl.. ether trade. There are many hoaS~s where a feminine tuner would be preferred to man, and not the least reason why the compensation to both sexes should not be equal. It is ole of the few fields where the com petition is even. It disturbs me grea 'Iy to note the difference in salaries paid to men and women who do the same work. Often the woman has family dependent upon her, and while the man has nobody In the world on whom to spend his money, yet her sex, not Ter ability, debars her from earning ls much money as the man whose d ask adJoins hers. I am rather lukewarm on the subject of womans rights be- cause l believe that in the main our sex has great many privileges, more than is good for us sometimes. There are few things in which 1 could wish an improvement, and the salary ques- tion is one of them. faithful ind.s- trlous woman who looks out for her employers interest ought to receive the consideration generally extended to male employe with those same ex- eellent qualities, and I will fight for a reform in that direction with the full strength of my voice and the entire force of my pen. That reform would help us more than the ballot-box priv ilege ten times oyer.-Kansas City Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
WORLDS LARGEST oRAPEv1NEs
one Thing in Which Southern California
 Exeels.


 Fxcels.
 From the San Francisco Chronicle. 1t has been already announced by teIe- graph that old age is telling upon the big grapevine in Fl Monteeito valley, few miles from Santa Barbara. The vine has the distinction of being the largest in the world. but it is rapidly dying, and the owner of the property upon which it stands, Albert McGee. has offered it to the Santa Barbara chamber of commerce. It is to be cut down soon and the trunk and so much of the branches as can be accommodate ed in the building will form perma- nent exhibit in the chamber of com meree rooms. The original mother yiPe," as it was called, died in 1875, and the year following it was taken to the centennial exposition at Phila- delphia, where it was viewed by thou sands as remarkable illustration of Californias productiveness. The old vine stood near the younger one. It was three feet ten inches in eireum- ference of the trunk and the spreading branches covered a trelIis seyenty-fve feet square. The present vine is only three or four inches smaller in cir conference than it's parent and if covers nearly as much space. It has produced four tons of grapes in sin gle season in it's prime. It is HOW nearly 100 years old. When the Monte cito vine is gone Santa Barbara county will still claim the largest grapevine on earth, for on ranch in the Car pinteria valley there is growing thrift fly a double vine said to come from single stock below the surface of the ground. This double vine at Carpin- teria is over six feet in circumference. All of these big Santa Barbara vines are of the Mission variety.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
Loss by War.

A German army officer estimates that in the century just closing no less than 30.OO0, ,000 men have been killed in war in Civilized countries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-26
SUN. JOURNEY.
Velocity Is Between Six and Twelve
 Miles Per Second.

Velocity Ks Between Six and Twelve
 Miles Per Second.
 By means of the spectroscope we can obtain probably more accurate deter- imitation of the suns velocity through space, says the Gentleman's Magazine. AS is well known the velocity of star in tlse line of sight can be found by measuring the displacement of the lines visible in the stars spectrum. Now the stars near the position or the solar "apex" should be approaching the earth on account of the solar motion, and those at the opposite point of the sky-ealled the "anti-apex be receding. This method has been em- ployed by several astronomers, espec- Ially by Vogel at the Potsdam observa- tory. This able astronomer has found from an examination of forty stars that the suns velocity through space is about seven and one-half miles a sec ond, and an examination of larger number of stars would be necessary before We could consider this result as Thoroughly established. From an ex- animation of the spectra Of fourteen nehulae, Prof. Keeler Of the Lick ob- seryatory has found veloeities in the line Of sight and from these the French astronomer Tisserand has deduced a velocity of about nine and one-third miles for the solar motion, result which does not differ widely from that found by Vogel. We may, therefore, perhaps conclude that the velocity of the suns motion through space is be- tween six and twelve miles per second. The aYrage velocity of the stars meas ured at Potsdam is about ten and one- half miles U second and possibly tha sun may have a similar velocity.
 Novel funeral service.
 Lewiston (Maine) spe. Chicago Chronicle: A funeral service by tale- phone is reported from Somerset county. A citizen of Eustis had died, and his family desired that Elder Jac- qGith, of Embden, should offieiate, as he was an old schoolmate of the de- cedent Owing to bad roads the clergy man was unable to get further than N0Fil NeWoOfetdnu. At lHe u0tei tneFe 1'e met the superintendent of the tele- phone line which connects with the Dead River region, and the latter came to the rescue. The superintendent called up tie Fustis station and or dereG an instrument transferred to the house where the funeral was to be held. The clergyman then spoke into the phone and a deacon at the house of mourning repeated his words to the people assembled.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-11-16
WALSH COUNTY vorn


Walsh County is republican, by 8
majority. This nn,tyeryrnaa etatikia
so much that it makes i possible to say
that every county in North Dakota gave
a republican majority for, Mckinley. The
following from the Grand Forks Herald
will explain other troubles there :-"An
attempt is being maze to apply the
Goebel act in the case of superintendent
of schools, and thereby defeat the repub.
lican candidate, Jacob Sondcrall. Mr..
Sonderall's majority over Supt. Tronslin
is 80, but in the second and third wards
of Grafton the judges Of election have
neglected to include the women's vote in
their certificate. separate certificates be-
ing made for this vote. If the women's
vote is thrown out, TroHslin is elected,
and this the canvassing board proposes
to do. A similar attempt is being made
to throw out Minto's vote for distric,
Judge. thereby decreasing Kneeshaw's
majority. Mr.. Kneeshaw was in the city
last night, and will mandamus the board
if this course is persisted in. In any
event: his election is assured, and his
majority is sufficient to enable him to
lose the Minto vote with safety. Mr..
Spencer's majority in Walsh County is
1853.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-11-16
The Pioneer Express.
THE ELECTION RETURNS.

We present in this issue the official
election returns. They will bear study
by the local politicians. 1t will be noticed
that there has been some peculiar
changes of political sentiment in the
various precincts. Several precincts that
up to this election or that Of two years
ago had avery small number Of repub-
lean voSa iilaNe "A thiis yeaf Ven either
republican majorities or else have nearly
equalled the democratic vote. Pembina
city in 1895 gave republican electors SO.
democratic electors, so. Including the
township the vote was 1bs to 100. This
year TIE city gave republican electors
121, democratic electors A, and includ-
ing the township 1s6 to ss which isn't a
bad showing for republicanism ''in Jud
Lamoure's town." We tabulate below
some Of the cities and villages with their
respective townships comparing electoral
vote of 1895 and 1900: