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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11

the water. He looked at her quickly
and fancied he saw the ghost of a
smile in her eyes. He had been furi-
u at himself half a dozen times for
ever starting the deception, for Bess
Jordan wa not a girl a man could
row out with day after day for weeks
without feeling the charm which made
her a belle at home. Perhaps If he
had been properly presented and had
appeared under his right name and in
his proper role there might have been
some chance. but now
He was complaining to Elliot about
1t n night.
I'm in love with her." he said.
But here I am, known only as Tom
Tompkins, an oarsman, who has been
accepting 81 a day for rowing around
the lake for the last two weeks. Our
joke is getting to be a mighty serious
affair SO far as I am concerned. !
can't confess, because if I did she'd
never speak to me again, and l swear
I can't keep on rowing her out on the
lake every morning without making
love to her. She's one of the .noblest
girls in the world. I tell you, Elliot.
You ought to see the way she treats
meme, nobody but Tom Tompkins,
oarsman-and the way she looks at
me sometimes!"
Il tell you what, Edwards" said the
sympathetic Elliot, eff I were you I'd
go ahead and make love to her any
way in your character as Tom Temp
kins. If she'll have you in that role
you may be lure she loves, you for
yourself alone. It may be a danger
GUS experiment, but I don't see. any
other way out Of it if your case is as
desperate as you say it is"
What happened during the next ten
days it would be a waste Of time tc
tell. Most people will know either by
intuition or experience, and besides
that particular period has no bearing
on the point of this truthful chronicle
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
An EXTENSIVE ADDITION
Being Made to the Indiana Mineral
Springs Ondiana) HoteI.
At AN OUTLAY Of $4,000
Growth Of Enterprise Representing E1.
psndituro of $3.50. oOO-success-
full Management of
III. !. Kramer.

Ten years ago the ground where the
magnificent hotel property Of the Indi-
n Mineral Springs Company is locat-
ted at Indiana Mineral Springs. In
diana was wholly unimproved and al
most a wilderness. Now. owing to tho
discovery of the valuable medicinal
qualities of the springs and the heal
ing virtue of the soil itseN. together
with the enterprise of Major H. L.
Kramer, there is located there n Of
the finest sanitariums In the United
States. The natural picturesque sur
roundings have been made more at
tractive and the hotel is a model Of
comfort and elegance.
For the greater accommodation OF
guests who come in constantly increas-
ing numbers from every section Of the
United States, arrangements have now
been made for the enlargement Of tho
hotel buildings. The contract was let
yesterday by Major Kramer for addi-
lions that will cause an outlay Of over
$50, 900. The improvements will consist
Of a new bath house and an addition
to the hotel. The addition will be two
stories in height and will occupy a
ground space S0x160 feet. 1t provides
forty additional guest chambers. Tho
entire addition will be handsomely
and elegantly furnished. The bath
house. when completed, will be the
finest In the United States.
p4oSle. khA hokh h1,no o~H thA
guest chambers there will be or tho
first floor a dining hall, a music room.
a billiard hall. physicians Offices and
q barber shop. In connection with the
bath house there will be ladies and
gentlemen's dressing rooms and cool
ing rooms. The dressing and cooling
rooms will be deliberately decorated
and the floors will DO laid in white
tile. In both cooling rooms will be
built large ornamental IRE places
which will be used for heating pur-
poses in addition to the regular steam
heating. The work will be entirely
completed in 80 days.
The improvement and the entire ar
rangements Of the hotel and grounds
are made, keeping in view the artistic
effect Of the whole. and when the i'm
provements arranged for are complet-
ed the hotel and surroundings will be
much more attractive than before.
Major Kramer states that a still fur
Their addition to the hotel Is contem-
plated, and that plans are now being
prepared for an additional structure
to contain $50 room for guests.
Already a quarter Of a million dol
lars has been expended on the In
diana Mineral Springs enterprise and
under the present management greater
growth and development in the future
10 assured.-Attica Daily Ledger.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
HIS BROKEN HEART.
PEDESTAL WITHOUT A STATUE
IN CENTRAL PARK.
1t Stands Now It Is . Monument to
Giovanni Turint, Whose Failure to
Complete 1t Vas the Cause of His
Death.

On the brow of q hill in Central
park. opposite West Eighty-fourth
street, stands a pedestal without a
statue. On it once rested the eques-
trian statue of Gen. Simon Bolivar,
liberator of Colombia. It is not likely
that it will ever hold another. AS 1t
stands now it is a monument to a
sculptor who died of a broken heart.
He was Giovanni Turini, who expired
suddenly one morning in August OF
last year in the midst of his labor on
the Dewey arch. The statue of Boil
var was calculated to startle man and
beast, and for that reason, presumably,
1t was almost completely hidden by
foliage. The Venezuelan government
offered to replace it with one Of the
same subject that would be mor in
keeping with the surroundings. The
park commissioners accepted the offer
without hesitation. They saw in it a
chance to get rid of an Objectionable
monument without giving onense to
its donors, and SO great was their zeal
to do away with the statue that they
did not wait to tear it down until it's
successor wa completed. Turini was
selected by Venezuela to make the new
monument. At the same time that
government commissioned him to exc
cute a gigantic statue of Liberty and
bronze memorials to Gen. Paez, all OF
which were to be erected in the city of
Caracas. The sculptor took up the
work with all the enthusiasm of his
race. He was an Italian, and he was
sure that both fame and fortune were
now within his grasp. He used up all
his ready money and when that was
gone he mortgaged his house. Finally
the clay model of the Bolivar statue
was completed, and Turini eagerly
sought the judgment of the commit
tee Of the National Sculpture society,
which acted as an advisory body to
the park board in all matters pertain
ing to public art. To him there could
be but n decision. The visit of the
committee to his studio was simply
a matter Of form, he thought, and the
artists who composed it would not
only pass favorable judgment on the
statue, but would congratulate him on
his splendid treatment of the design.
He had chosen as his model the eques-
trian monument of Bolivar which
Tadolini executed for Caracas. He
sought not originality, being content
to produce. replica of what he. con-
sidered a great work of art. But alas!
for all his fine hopes. The committee
studied his model with the character
istically cold precision of the Ameri-
can expert and straightway reported
against its acceptance by the park
authorities. The members said that
the model failed to reach the standard
Of artistic excellence that 1t should
have in order to entitle it to a place
in any of the public grounds or parks
of the city. This blow crushed the
sculptor. It came as a bolt from a
clear sky. Anger succeeded profound
grief. 1t was all a conspiracy to cheat
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
SUCKED THE BOTTLE.
Young Pa%chyderms Take Kindly to a
Artificial Form of Nursing.

Young P~achyderms Take Kindly to an
Artificial Form of Nursing.
l owned some young elephants which
I had lent to a Snowman on the Bow
cry. On going to see them one day
1 noticed a man holding his finger in
the mouth of n of the smaller ones
I placed my finger in the mouth of an.
other and found that the creature
seemed to derive pleasure from the &C.
ton of sucking. Immediately I sent
out for an ordinary infants nursing
bottle. The young elephant drained
the bottle as If "to the manner born"
It was passed from one to another Of
the infant class. Finally they fought
in the most indescribably comical man
ner for possession of the bottle. Then
I fitted a large glass jar, holding a
gallon, with rubber tubes, so that all
could use 1t at the same time. In
variably they would empty this bottle
before loosening their hold on the nip.
pies. They had doubtless been taken
from their mother when too young, OF
perhaps she had been killed at the
time when the young were captured
So effectively did they appeal to public
interest and sentiment that by dint OIL
skillful advertising the celebrated
Sucking baby elephants" made quite
q fortune in a single season. They
would be led into the ring, where they
would take their nourishment like
human babies, their overgrown size
making this infantile operation very
comical and absurd. The sight capt..
waited the heart of every woman who
attended the showy-saturday Evening
Post.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
A Costly
Bedroom


Stephen S. Marchand, an American
millionaire in London, is the fortunate
possessor of the most beautiful bed
chamber in the world. The immense
apartment, seventy-six feet by twenty
two feet, is of elliptical form. The
walls are made with deliberately cary
ed panels in the style of Louis XIV, the
background is finished white enamel,
and the carvings and holdings are
gilded, says the Philadelphia Record.
The wall and dado work alone cost
$64, 900. The wall inside the panels
is hung with purple and gold Genoese
velvet, manufactured by a Lyons firm
at a cost Of $38 a yard. The wall hang
ings alone cost Mr.. Marchand $10,S5O.
The ceiling is deliberately carved and
decorated by special artists from Paris
and cost $19,350. The curtains and
curtain draperies were of the same ma
terial as the wall panels and c6st 49,
900, exclusive Of vitrage undercurtains
at $3.50.
The carpet. a handsome. hand-tied
purple Administer, had to be specially
dyed, and cost $41 a yard. This for
the whole bedchamber cost SIS, $50.
But the chef d'oeuvre of the whole
apartment vas undoubtedly the bed
stead and bedroom suit. The bedstead
alone cost $4,000. OF massive ebony,
with elaborate carvings Of solid ivory,
and inlaid with gold iligree. 1t occu-
pied the finest artisans Of France for
nearly two and a half years. At the
outset a serious difficulty arose that
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
Fitted Up at
Expense of
S968,U66
By an
American

I would have daunted any m but an
American. It was found that the mag
nifcent trophy at the head Of the bed
stead was so large that NO single piece
of ivory could be obtained of the re-
quired dimensions.
The firm talked of reducing the
carving, but Mr.. Marchand would not
hear Of it. They found a tusk of the
requisite size at last, but it took seven
months to find 1t, and the cost of the
ivory and the journey as far as Uyan-
yembe, Africa, where the mammoth
tusk was discovered, ran Mr.. Mar
chand into a further expense Of near
ly $40, 1000. The hangings Of the bed
stead were Of a special purple damask,
costing $24 a yard, exclusive Of the
initial cost Of the loom cards. The
wardrobe was nearly as expensive as
the bedstead; $145,O 900 was the exact
price paid for it. When the triling
additional expense of dressing table.
1884, 900; washstand, $4,000 and table
de mutt, $14,350, are taken into ac-
count it will be een that the entire
suite aggregate the enormous sum OF
s4S7,750. The chairs, of solid carved
ivory, with ebony and gold inlay, in
creased this amount to something over
$500, 900. After figures like these
such trifing items as $3.50 for a che
val glass, $3.50 for a chimney piece
and overglass, $2,450 each for the
four doors of the room, $1,140 each for
the overdoors and $500 for the wash
stand table fittings fade into insight
ficance. The total cost was $968, 700.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
Catsrrh Cannot Be Cured

With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, Is they csnnos
reach the seat Of the disease. Catarrh g 8
blood or constitutional disease, and In order to
cure 1t you must take internal remedies. Halls
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is not Q quack medicine.
It was prescribed by one Of the best physicians
scription. i. is composed OF the best tonics
known, combined with the best blood purifiers.
acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The
what produces such wonderful results In curina
Catarrh: Send for testimonials, free.
F..J. CHENEY & co, Props, Toledo, q
Sold by druggists, price &c.
Halls Family Pills arc the best
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
Poker Defined.

Judge Finn of the First Municipal
court. New York, is one Of the coolest
poker players on Manhattan island. A
case was before him the other day in
which the defendant refused to pay
q poker debt Of $92. The Judge asked
what poker was, and Ave lawyers, with
all Of whom he has often played, diff
IDENTIFY opined that it was played with
cards. lis it a game Of chance?" in.
quired the court. "That depends alto.
gether On how good a player the other
fellow is," answered one of the law
yers mildly. After much consultation
the court gave a verdict for the plain.
tif.-Newark News.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
Fat In Tho Fire.

Fat In the Fire.
When Lord Charles Beresford was in
China one Of the best servants 1t was
his lot to have was a. certain China
man named Tom Fat. Unfortunately
Tom Fat did not always devote his
undoubted intellect to worthy objects;
he learned to initiate his masters
handwriting so cleverly that he forged
checks amounting to over $4,000 in
two years. And on one occasion. when
Lord Charles was protesting . spirit
OF broad federation toward the heather
Of III denominations. one Of his friends
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
Indian Relics ON Golf Course.

An Indian ak and several stone ar.
rowheads were unearthed today on
the Jersey City Golf club grounds by
DR.. William Pyle and other players;
they were so near the surface, said
some who did not find any relics, that
a "schlafed" stroke was all that was
needed to unearth them. The links
Is located on low land in the western
section Of Jersey City and Is believed
to have been the stamping ground,
for the Hackengesacky Indians.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
E

List Of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern inventors.
James Burke. Minneapolis. MIMI,
~pipe-coupling; Jake Friedlander, Far
go. N. D., manifolding device; Frank
Kremer. Duluth. MIMI. train anchor;
Henry J. Lawrence. Gilmore. MIMI, ex-
pansion drill; Oscar Nygren. Lake City.
Mimi. check valve; Bengt. Peterson.
Dassel, Mimi, hue cleaner; Robert
.Seeger, st. Paul, MIMI, vapor burner.
Merwin. Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attor.
neys. oil and 9l2 Pioneer Press Bldg, st. Paul
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11

The curtain for the last act rises on
Miss Bess Jordan and Themes Temp.
kins, oarsman, sitting side by side on
the bank of the lake. The arm Of
Tompkins was about the waist of Miss
Jordan.
Nov, Bess, DEAR" he was saying,
II am sure you love me in the good
old way. n girl as rich as you are.
with all the attractions of your gay
life in the city before you, could not
promise to marry a poor guide and
fisherman unless she did love him
more than all the world. ]
have been surprised a hundred
times that you did not send
me about my business. But
gradually I have learned that you care
nothing for wealth or social position.
You are able to recognize a man under
a torn blue flannel shirt. You only
ask for love, and when you find a man
who loves you and whom you love in
return nothing is allowed to stand in
the way. So now, dear, that I know
what a wonderful girl you are I have
a little confession to make"
Which Thomas Edwards, clubman
lawyer and millionaire, thought was
really a clever way Of leading up to
the disclosure Of his real identity. But
the girl was before him.
Pardon me, Tom" she said, eve
got q little confession to make myself.
Or perhaps I'd better call you Mr.. Ed
wards now"
Mr.. Edwards, alias Tompkins, sat up
straight against a white birch tree and
looked at her.
you remember that first day you
rowed us across to the island? I
thought it queer then that an oarsman
who was rowing around looking for
odd Jobs should be wearing an old seal
ring and that he should have the key
Of q college fraternity on his black
watch chain. Then, too. I saw you.
wink at Mr.. Elliot when you took
that dollar from papa.
"You remember the day you point
ed out the chimneys Of the house
where Thomas Tompktns.. being your
own august self, lived? I went over
there and found the place occupied
by a family of Norwegian farmers
who had never heard Of a man by the
name Of Tompkins. Thomas. you.
didn't deceive me for q minute. Three
weeks ago / knew your name and all
about you."
and what" gasped the breathless
Edwards, "do you propose to do now?'
81 think" laughed Bess Jordan,
that. since I am engaged to marry
Tom Tompkins Mr.. Edwards had bet
ter row me back to the island. Unless.
Of course. he feels himself equal To-
making the matter clear to me and the
Hon. Jabez Jordan. And even then
I don't see how you can over forgive
yourself for. deceiving q poor, unso-
phisticated girl from Chicago"
The Wedding Will take place next
october.-Chicago Tribune.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
General Is q Walker.

Gen. Leonard Wood, while a student
at Harvard, was interested in all ath-
letic sports, but chiefly in running and
walking. AS a result of his early
training his average stride is over 40
inches, while the regulation army step
ia % inches, and he cal cover more
ground in a day than any other man in
the army.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
Iadsss CsA wear -

LAdiss CaA Wear Ohoos.
0nssisesmAller after usingAllsn'sEo Foot.
Ease, . powder. It mAkeatight ornsW
6hoeseesy.C Cures swollen, hot,swoatine.
aching fest, ingrowing nails, oornyana
bunaonS. Mdfuggists and shoe storsa,
- Trial paelEA0eT RHBby ~
6soD ALA d 0lmstad. LeRoyIM.Y.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11

ventured to inquire what he thought
would be the ultimate fate Of his Chi
nese servant, %whereupon Lord Charles
instantly replied: THAT fat will GER
tainly be in the hre!"-New York
Tribune.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11
Pussv n anaetanM.

Pussy In 6~paetacls0.
A pet Maltese cat belonging to an
English woman has been successfully
provided with spectaclss to countsract
failing eyesisht A picture Of . mouse
wa used BY the oculist to test tho cats
eyes. :
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11

The pure attracts purity-the low
1ind their level IN dust and dir.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-11

Probably Adam and Nye beran yitk
Platoolc friendship. -
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The Wedding will take place next
October.-Chicago Tribune.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-14

of his waistband, and dolorOusly
exclaimed, tthe country is going
to the dogs. Everything is going
up but the products of the farm.
We will soon all be crushed to earth
to rise again no more" In the
hope of cheering him up a little, we
explained that the farm products of
1899 had brought I6 hundreds of
millions of dollars more than they
did in 1894 and 1895. Then he
broke down completely and Wept
like a child. Between sobs, he
calculated: There it is, more of
Marx Hanna's work--more gold
bug conspiracy, What chance has
a poor, honest Democrat got to get
into office now2 Dam prosperity,
anyhowI-Oneida County Reb#bH-
can.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-14
A Scrap Of History.

Some Of our exchanges have recent
ly called attention to the following
little item from the indianapolis Jourga-
al, says the Pocatello Tribune, COM
menting 1t to the DemocFatic oEators
and newspapers:
"To MIR. Bryan, who makes free with
the name of Abraham Lincoln. the
Hartford Corsra4at says that the Bry-
ans OF Lincoln's time denounced him
as buffoon and blood-soaked tyarnt,
When now the Bryans applaud him,
the CourG1t Is reminded of the text:
we build the seFNlchers OF the proph-
cts and your fathers killed them"
In Idaho In the early sixties" a
grand jury in Boise county gravely In
dlcted Abraham Lincoln for treason.
and Boise county was then overwhelm-
ingly Democratic About the same
time man, who is now one Of the
leaders of the Idaho Democracy, tied
the American tag behind his wagon
and dragged 1t In the dust from Placer
Vile to Circleville, and there were not
loyal men enough in the country TO
prevent the outrage. Idaho was then
almost unanimously Democratic,
And the same old Democratic spirit
Is making itself manifest in our troub-
les in the Philippines. They would IL
they could, tear the flag down from
Manila bay, Caloocan, from Luzon,
stained as 1t is with the rich blood Of
o1r brave boys. and trail it in the dust
before all the nations of the earth,
Out upon such Americanlsm(O OLD
GLORY is in the Philippines to stay and
palsy the arm and wither the hand that
dares to strike It down.-LewistOn
Patriot.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-14
COWNcll Proceedings.

Council Chambers, Caldwell,
Idaho, April 7, 1900,
Council met pursuant to call OF
mayor.
Present, Mayor Little, Council
man Engel, Cook, Wright and
Stalker.
The mayor stated the business o!
the meeting was to consider the
matter of appointing an evtra mar
shall. After discussing the matter,
Thos. H. Dryden was appointed
for the ensuing month.
There being no further business
the council adjourned,
GEORGE LITTLE, Mayor,
Attest: L. w, BACH, Clerk.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-04-14
Maybe Mixed Drinks.

In his first annual report, Com
missioner Basset of the state i1nni-
grafton bureau says that in Canyon
county potatoes average 400 tons
to the acre" We fear that our es-
teemed immigration commissioner
has In some manner mixed his sys-
TEN of figuring Silver Republican
possibilities with that of computing
agricultural averages. At all
events the ratio Of inaccuracy APP
pears to be about the ame,-=Pay-
cite IndebeNdept.