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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20
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That q man need have neither hands
nor feet to be q success In h world
is shown by the career of Michael Jo-
seph Bowling, speaker Of the Mime
sofa house of representatives. A ter
rible experience in a blizzard when q
boy brought out the latent possibilities
in the youth as nothing else that could
happen to him might have done. Forty
years ago Bowling was born in yell
low Medicine county, Minnesota, the
son of a poor farmer. Early in De-
cember, 1880. as is told by a writer
in the St. Louis Republic, a hard biz
gard set in in Yellow Medicine county,
and in a short time provisions were
low. 1t was unsafe to venture out OF
doors. and every effort was made to
make the food in the Bowling family
last until the blizzard should have
spent it's fury. But the blizzard lasted
for an unusually long period, and it
became necessary to get more food or
starve. The elder Bowling was Ill,
and the young man started on foot
for the village, three miles distant, to
get provisions. He reached the village
grocery store with less difficulty than
he had expected. and was soon on his
return laden with -four, meal and other
stores. He soon found that the trip
homeward was not as easy as the first
half of his journey, but he plodded
on with head down to protect his face
from the blasts Of wind and snow.
Suddenly he discovered that he vas
off the road. He tried to find it. but
was unsuccessful. The wind was get
ting colder and colder. He became
more and more bewildered. With
logged determination he trudged on
and on holding his precious bundles
of food nearer to him. In he storm
he could not find a single familiar
landmark. After hours of aimless
wandering night fell, and the farmers
son was still struggling through the
snow.
The next morning dawned bright
and clear. The blizzard had passed
on toward the Great Lakes. Bowling
found himself within a hundred yards
of his own home. But he could not
walk further, and mis- voice could not
be heard five feet away. He sank down
exhausted, almost within reach of his
home and gave up all hope Of reach
ing it. But his mother saw him fall
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20

A mineral possessing Illuminating
power has been discovered in Idaho.
The people of Boise City are very
much excited over the event. Assay
lists have been unable, as yet, to de-
termine what the strange substance
is. The discovery was made by
George F. Ayres, a we'll known mining
man of Boise, several weeks ago, in
one of his claims, about sixty miles
from the city. At the time he did
not think much of the matter and
therefore paid no attention to 1t. The
further he went into the mine, how
ever, the brighter the light became,
until, afr a few feet had been worked,
it was not necessary for him to use a
lamp. It was then that he took some
of the mineral to Boise, and had 1t ex-
amined- by an assayer.
- Terry L. Williams Of Boise, who is
interested with Mr.. Ayres, was in Ia
coma, Wash, recently, and had a piece
of the mineral with him. He will have
an assay of it made and expects that
its true worth will be determined.
$50 far we have not been able to find
any person who is able to tell what
kind of a mineral it u.s." he said, when
exhibiting it, "and it is for that pur-
pose I have brought it here. There is a
large body of it at the mine where this
was taken out about sixty miles from
Boise City. Mr.. Ayres, owner of the
mine, found it four weeks ago at a
depth Of 800 feet from the surface. He
was running a cross cut tunnel to tap
his ledge at this depth, when he struck
this deposit. At first it attracted his
attention by giving forth a dull light.
AS he worked further in the light be-
came brighter, and at the end of three
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BY LOSING HIS HANDS AND
FEET.

and came to his aid. With her help
he reached the house. 1t was found
that his face, hands, feet and legs
were badly frozen. A doctor was
summoned and declared 1t was neces-
sary to amputate the boys hands and
legs. This was done, and barely twen-
ty-four hours after he had left home
to go to town he was a helpless Grip
pie. One leg vas amputated above the
knee, the other above the ankle. his
left arm at the elbow and all the fin
gers Of the right hand. When the
doctors left all that remained of the
boys ten fingers and ten toes was the
stump of one thumb amputated at the
second joint.
Dowling's father was a poor man
and to the young man no future was
apparent but a useless existence, a
burden and an eyesore to all about him.
But worse was in store for him. He
soon became a public charge. The
three commissioners of Yellow Medi-
cine met to decide as to his fate. The
close-isted commissioners made him
sign an agreement not to return to
Yellow Medicine county after being
supplied with artificial limbs and q
years schooling. They congratulated
themselves for thus saving the county
the expense of caring for a helpless
cripple indefinitely. But Bowling was
determined and ambitious. He got a
good education, became an adept on
artificial limbs. returned to Renville,
a county adjoining the n from
which he had been banished, was elect
ed to a small local public Office, work.
ed into the ownership of a weekly
newspaper, then appeared in the ses-
sions of the state legislature as a clerk
and next became secretary OF a nation
Il political organization, being nomi-
mated to that position as the Frozen
Son of Minnesota" He secured recog-
milton as a man of executive ability
and a good ~campaigner. He was next
heard of as a newspaper correspondent
in the Philippines. Returning from
the Philippines Bowling reached the
United States in time to attend the
national convention at Philadelphia.
His peaked Philippine hat was one OF
the sights of the convention. Later
he became a candidate for the legis-
lature, won easily, and Immediately an
nounced his candidacy for the speak.
ershiD.
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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
The Wife and MOther.in.Law of u
rR,op1oa KAva

The Wife and MOther-in-Law OF Mr.
Charles Keys. r
Clasissa, MIMI, April Is, (Special)-
No family in this vicinity Is better
known or more universally respected:
than Mr.. Charles Keys, the local
School Teacher, and his esttmable WHO
and mother-in-law. For a long time.
Mrs. Keys a been in ill-health. re
Gently, however, h has found a cure
Pills.
II cannot speak too highly of Dodd's
Kidney Pills, or what they have done
for me-" said Mrs. Keys.
my life was miserable, my back al
ways ached, also my head. I was
troubled with Neuralgia in the head
and face, and suffered extreme pain.
but thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills, al.
those aches and pains have vanished
like the morning dew, and it now seems
that life is worth living. I consider
Dodd's Kidney Pills a God-send to sui
fering humanity. They may rightly bs
named the Elixir Of Youth.
"While speaking Of my own case ana
the wonderful benefit I have received
I might also add that my mother. who
is now an old lady Of "A years and who
lives with me, has been troubled more
or less with aches and pains, as is nat
ural with one Of her advanced age.
When she saw what Dodd's Kidney
Pills had done for me. she commences
to use them herself, and she says that
they have done her more good than
any other medicine she has ever tried.
''This testimony is given in the hops
that others who may be afflicted as We
were, may see and read 1t. and be ben
Gifted by It."
What Mrs. Keys states in her letter
can be verified by reference to any OF
her many friends in this neighborhood.
Dodd's Kidney Pills have already .
wonderful reputation in Todd county.
Nothing has ever cured Bright's Dis
ease, Diabetes or Dropsy u Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
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Coincidence and a Recon.
Sideration.
BY J. P. CoUGHLIN.

Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub COD
Paul Westover had every reason to
congratulate himself upon the success
Of his new book. The public received
it with gratifying approval, and the
critics bestowed upon it well-tempered
commentator. Being a irst-born,
however, the critics felt bound to pa
tronize both it and its writer in their
customary paternal fashion, and while
landing it's other excellent qualities
they pointed out and dwelt upon the
un-realistic improbabilities of the
main incidents in (which Mr.. West
overs heroine was centered.
That this should be so was only
natural: Mr.. Westover was ridicu-
lously young to know anything of the
impenetrable feminine, and yet he had
dared to make Gertrude Warner" the
story of a woman's life, a story of
many strange phases, and of. curious
though incorrect, said the reviewers,
insights into the workings Of a young
girls mind.
MISSIONER was almost on the point
Of accepting the critics dictum. He
had fancied that his portrayal of Ger
trude Warner was well and clearly i'm
agined, but after all what could he, a
bachelor and impressionable, know Of
women. The reviewers must be right.
Gertrude Warner .was falsely drawn.
But there was at least n person
who did not think with the reviewers.
The newly-fedged author received in
his mail from his publishers a long
letter that was truly startling to his
self possession. Its full length may
not be given here but its gist is con-
tanned in a couple of paragraphs.
"You are evidently very intimately
acquainted with the story of the dark
est passages in my life, but surely it
was unnecessary that the details
should be made public so faithfully
and sc %callously. I would like to think
that your story was purely a coinci-
dence and evolved entirely from your
own imagination, but the details up to
the denouement, in every particular,
are so carefully true to fact that I
have no other course than to believe
that some unworthy recipient of my
confidence has in an idle moment be-
'rayed my unhappy history.
Doubtless you will admit that I
have at least the right Of asking an
explanation, the more especially, see
ing that you have " given to your
novel a title so like the name borne
by her who asks 1t.
"GERMYN WARREN"
Westover finished the reading of this
letter with q rue expression. He
whistled softly to himself and looked
olankly at the wall in an endeavor to
collect his thoughts and adequately
consider the situation presented to
him. In a moment the humorous as
pect of the affair dawned upon him and
lie laughed quizzically.
zone of the. delights OF novel-writ-
mg,". he murmured aloud; "is to run
across some hysterical woman who
finds your book a mirror of her past.
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Thc Man Wa. satlrical.

AnS N12n v A&W : --a Li
r. P. Haskins Of Cincinnati told tho
following anecdote at the Everett
house, to illustrate the phase of hui
man nature which leads people to claim
to possess knowledge on any and all
things:
"At a dinner party given some time
ago in a Western city," said MI. Has
kins, zone Of the bachelor guests turned
to his very beautiful hostess and asked:
Mrs. Blank, co you know what
causes the. milky way in the heavens!'
Why, I did know, but I've forgot"
ten was the answer he received.
"'Thet's a great pity said he, sadly
shaking his head. to think that you.
the only person in the world who knew
the cause of this phenomenon of the
heavens, should have forgotten 1t!
And he actually lad the cheek to feel
injured because the woman took him
off her visiting list.'-New York Trio-
une.
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A SINGER.

(By Charlotte Becker.)
':He sang along the woodland paths
When all the world was warm and
gay,
The birds half Knocked him overhead.
The shadows cooled his greenlit way.
1.-THE earth was sweet with growing
things,
The vintage promised full and fair;
And one with eyes like larkspur buds,
And garnered sunlight in her hair,
'stood watching by the lick trees,
A glow, q welcome in her eyes.
He sank, too tired. at her feet 4.
And smiled through wistful little signs.
(" Dear love- he said. 4 cannot live.
I shall not see the morrow's sun,
But I am fortunate to die
While yet my loving Is not DONE.
Z" And weep no foolish tears for me,
But when the vines with gold are
hung
Think. life was very good to him.
For he had lived, and loved. and
-Ainslee's Magazine.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20
PATENTS.

list Of Patents Issued Last week
Peter N. Angsten, Burlington. Wis.
panoramic camera; Christopher q.
-Burdick, Amigo. Wis.,, fifth wheel; Ed
ward F. Butler whitewater, Wis, COW
er for cooking utensils; Charles B. Gar
rett, Minneapolis. Mimi, thermostat:
John H. Mfchelson, Butte Mont, ore
concentration; Richard F. Pearce.
Butte. Mont, ore roasting furnace.
Lothrop q johnson, patent attorneyg,. on
4 81 Pioneer Press Bldg, 81. Paul. MINI
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.who. IS rh,s rennyson..

when Tennyson was nearing so
years Of age. and his fame might fair
Nv be assumed to be worldwide. Ed
ward Moxon. the published, decided TO
approach Gustave Dore and commits
sion him 70 illustrate the "Idylls Of
the Ktng. {, After Dore had consid-
srsdsthe proposals.. 40 asked: who.
thsn. tsssthis n: Tennysons
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i, wouldn't Do.

Baron Munchausen had just written
a letter to a friend.
He closed it with a flourish. a yours
ruly," and signed his name.
Then, with q melancholy smlle' no
erased the word truly"
ut would merely move him to de-
risive laughter" he said.-Chicaso
Tribune.
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ONE OF EVARTS' Jokes

The late Secretary Evarts liked fun.
and there was a dry wit in his public
%utterances at times that nearly con-
yulsed those who clearly understood
his meaning. 1t was almost impossible
for him to avoid being deep, even in
humor, and many a good fling at po-
litical opponents was lost because he
talked above the heads of his audience,
or becaues his sentences were too in
yrolyed. At the time when the mug
wumps were just beginning to show
their teeth. he delivered one of his
long political speeches from the stage
of the Grand opera house. New York,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20

weighing Food for Cattle.
The accepted manner of feeding is
hy measure, although all grain food
for cattle is sold by weight, a given;
number Of pounds constituting a BUSH
ell. This being the case, and because
Of the great difference in the feeding
value of the different ground feeds, all
feeding should be done by weight ra-
ther than by the bushel. The aver
are farmer will claim he can get bet
ter results from coarse fl6ury mid
dlines and corn meal than from wheat
bran and gluten meal. which is 80
strongly advocated. but does ne! Ger
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.-.u,v.a IN. r.iso Tssth.

A man recently swallowed his faise
teeth and it drove him mad. stomacns
win stand . great deal. but 1 not every.
sstnnach Bitters. It cures indigestion.
Constipation. kidney and liver troubles. g
well as malaria and fever and ague. y
is particularly effective in all nervous at
this season Of the year when the system
fs rundown and most susceptible to DIS
ease. All druggists keep 1t.
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Ease with Dignity.

'swhy are each Of you ladies so de-
sirous Of becoming president Of u de-
batting society?"
TT v time" answered Miss Cay
enne. when you are in the chair you
are able to snub SO many people at
once."-Washington Star. u
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convinced If not exactly pleased.
His encounter with Miss Germyn
Warren, and the train of thought 1t
prompted may have had something to
do with Mr.. Westover's departure. for
the west. but the literary journals an
nounced his trip al taken for the pur-
pose of acquiring local color for q
new novel.
During, the two years that followed
Paul Westover's literary output served
to increase considerably his growing
reputation. He returned to New York
and prepared to settle down comfort
ably to meet the demands made upon
him by his publishers. The novel, to
prepare which he left New York, was
a pronounced success, and though
his old friends, the critics, did not
appear to notice it, Paul himself was
conscious of a certain resemblance In
type between his new heroine and his
old, that is to say Miss Germyn War
rem. He tried to reason that this new
heroine was simply but a develop
ment of the Gertrude Warner of his
first book, and thus he tried to dis
pei his lingering fears that he had
drawn upon Miss Warren, his &C.
a%uaintance of a single evening.
Again in his career Mr.. Paul West
over had an encounter which caused
him to become as discomposed and
nervous as he had been at his first
meeting with the c%oincidental heroine
of his first book.
1t was at a literary reception.
Permit me, Miss Warren, to intro
duce to you Mr.. Paul Westover-you
have, no doubt read his clever books"
Eyes, everything Mr.. Westover has
written" said Germyn Warren, as b
extended her hand to Taul, who stood
bowling and blushing like a schoolboy.
Then with a smile of gentle mischief
playing around her lips as they were
left alone she continued: And I can
not think that Mr.. MISSIONER has for
gotten me since some of my friends
would have it I nm portrayed rather
faithfully in your most recent novel
and even in several Of your magazine
stories." ,
MISSIONER was plainly surprised at
this frank challenge, and for the sec
ond time in his life he found himself
keenly observing the heroine of his
fiction. He noticed the same clear,
blue eyes and wondered at how close
~ he had remembered them all this
time. He found himself on terms Of
old acquaintanceship with this mag
netic little girl, for she was only q
girl. For q moment until the pre-
sumption of the thing struck him he
felt 3 tinge Of regret being taken away
from New York for 10 long. How that
evenings, reception passed he never
knew. He had a very definite notion
that he had spent by far the greater
part of the evening in the society Of
Miss Warren. sa5t
That night in the seculsion Of his
chambers. over his cigar. he came not
unwillingly to the conclusion that att
er all: s
what is to be Is to be. and It seemA
to me- that the fates have ordained
that / should create q heroine for my
self. Either I am in love Dram drift
ing relentlessly towards that happy
state OF mind. OF course marriage is
the to-be-expected outcome Of love.
and for a young man struggling for
fame and fortune a sympathetic wife
Is q great helper, q constant incent-s
I'VE and thus; he proceeded to adapt
his views to the altered state o6 his
circumstances.
NLMfs{NraEke
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tainly not, IL he calculates the feeding
value of a given measure and its rich
ness in protein. Eight quarts of mid.
dlings and four quarts Of corn meal
weigh 14.8 pounds, and furnish Is
pounds Of digestible protein. Eight
quarts Of coarse bran and four quarts
Of gluten meal weigh only 8.8 pounds,
but furnish 1.5 pounds Of protein, with
q difference in cost In favor Of the
latter ration Of nearly 8 cents.
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and in the course Of it remarked that
he believed the republican party need
not fear the mugwumps as the latter
were a lot of 'marsupials." Some $500
men heard the word, and after the
meeting groups got together to discuss
the meaning of the word and its ap-
plication. Some went home to look at
their dictionaries, while others called
on Mr.. Evarts for al explanation.
"Marsupials," said he. "are born ex-
tremely small. imperfect and quite
helpless, and have to be carried in
pouches on the bellies Of their moth.
ers."
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20
ImDOaa1hlN

+ Fond Tather-Johnny. yos must new
e. talk when your mother is speaking.
Johnny Jumpuppe-I know; theys
amt no chance. then. Is there pawe
Ohio State Journal.
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a ~rr.vcler,s Oninion

A Travellers Opinion. +
Mrs. Quizzer (who wants to know ev-
erything)-Now, what do you consider
to be the most curious thing you ever
saw, professor?
prof. Trotter-A woman, madam
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One ID not IN the land of the. living
until they have passed from this werld
Of dying.
Nh. Wlnnov.s Uoothine sy1up.4 5
FOR childrent teething, s0ftens tho gums, yeduceefH
anamatao0sG 1ays pair. cures Wind collie. 30
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1no,e Boston women.

Mrs. smarte refers to the light she
leaves for Mr.. s. when she goes to bed
az q ..tombstone,". as it 10 put up fof
her late husband.-Boston Transcript
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Piso'l Cure for Aoo~usunpsion i 4. ins.,,ts,,
medicine for coughs and oolda-N.sW. i
Ocean Grows. Nj. Teh. II. leo0l ssss
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Every man bears his own bnrdeaA
but not ever onc has the blessing to
bear another's. n
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Pmsad,F istula Crr,

Samp1e treatment Of our Red Cross rfa -
Eistula Cure and book explaining cAuse and cAro
Of Piles, sent free to any address for four centa =
stamps. Rsa Bros. q Co, Minneapolis, Nina
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In 1900 the total exports " thu
United States were $3l.O00,O0o Last
year they were $4,000, 900. 600
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20

"A man can always manage to attract
attention ~ either raising whiskers Or
having them shaved ID.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-20

Indigestion b . ban eompanion. Get rio
Of it by chewing : bat of5 Adasns.tsrutti
Fruit aftsr each meal
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4 Month,s TEST Fl

a Month'0 Test
" you have Dyspepsia, write Dr.: shoop Raclnes
Wis. Box 14S, for stx bottles Of DR.: Shops kestors-
tive. express paid. Sendnomoney. Pay $50 II cured
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While the great belt / ringing No
one hears Tho slttIeaonss.