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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17
Local News

OVVS~VSSOVVV0~
Miss Nellie Albrecht is in the
city.
Mrs. Keith is back in her
store.
Florence Davidson is i'll with
jaundice.
The commissioners will ad-
journ this week.
Miss Mary Bishop is teaching
for Miss Effie McCumber who
is ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lambert
Awere favored with girl last
week.
Mrs. Alex Hay visited with
MY. Dugar day or two this
we.
H&wry & Allen have sold
their\aardware business to w.
1.craEs. ..,e.
J. E.Slattery who has been
quite in with fever and at the
hospitalSis improving.
Mr.. andV1rs. John Blanchard
are caring fsr young lady who
came to their home last week.
Miss Barbara Padeska, hav-
ing spent twS weeks visiting
in Minneapolis, returned Tues
day.
Friday was lady's day at the
bowling alley, and Mrs. Oslund
took the first prize, a handsome
ring tree.
In the organization of the
new board Chas. Helm is elect
ed chairman. He will make a
good one.
Harry Miller gave his young
friends a birthday party, Tues
day evening; thirty young peo-
pie were present.
G. w. Shive has gone to Min
peapolis to take a conductor
ship on Tom Towry's street car
line, expecting to return in the
spring.
Tuesday morning opened up
fine, but the evening of that
day closed wi tn Klondyke
squall; pleasant again Wednes-
day morning.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

"Where do good girls go
when they die?" asked a Cof-
feyville, Kan. Sunday school
teacher of one of his pupils.
ITO heaven, of course" the lit
tie one replied. And where do
bad girls go?" To the depot to
see the travelling men come in"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

WANTED.-Capable, reliable per
son III every county to represent
large company of solid financial
regulations; 1896 salary per year, pay
able weekly; 50 per day absolutely
sure and all expenses; straight,
bona fide. definite salary, no COM
mission; salary paid each Saturday
and expense money advanced each
week. STANDARD HOUSE, 334
DEARBORN ST, CHICAGO.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17
Eli Vachon died at Aitkin.
Minnesota, two weeks ago.

Sheriff Moody removed his
family to the court house, Sat-
urday.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

J: A. Nelson is appointed
cashier at the Citizens Nation
al Bank.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

Frank Benda of this city and
Miss Anna Meyer of Mantadore
were married at St. 10 h IL s
church the 18th inst.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

The Wahpeton Mandolin Club
and the Galchutt band will give
a concert at Mooreton, this coun-
ty, Saturday evening, to be fol-
lowed by dance.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

Tuesday morning opened up
fine. but the evening of that
day closed wi h a Klondyke
squall; pleasant again Wednes-
day morning.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

Mrs. Meeker had her millinery
store locked a week or ten days
prior to Tuesday. when she
re-opened it aud is ready for
business. Mrs. Meeker was ill.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-01-17

The way to stop this coward
ly infamous practice of "haz-
ing" is to kick the hairbrained
cowards-convicted of it, out of
the government school,-and
kick 'em out to stay out!
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

a novel experiment in colonizing is
about to be made in the Argentine Re-
public. 1t has been found that the
French, German and English immi
grants for the most part have selected
the cities and larger centers of popu
lation for their residences. In these
places they have got control of many
industries and take a leading share in
the commerce Of the country. The Ital-
ians have been engaged heavily in riv-
er navigation, while the stream of
Irish, which used to supply the de-
mand for agricultural labor, filled the
ship yards, and supplied the labor of
docks, flows no more. Some French,
Swiss and German peasants have
founded agricultural colonies and in
certain places the Russians and Poles
form the bulk of the rural population.
But the Argentine government has
decided that none of these nations sup
plies in different numbers a rural
population for the development of the
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
Danger of Reading Too
Much New
Trash,

more than mere information. IL Is
condition, a state OF mind, sort OF
habit of knowing. Almost no facts
can be unimportant to one who has
made them part OF his real knowl-
edge. Even though he may never use
them directly, they will greatly In
fiuence his method of handling practi-
cal facts and affairs So it is that his
torical study is so vastly important.
1t broadens the mind, widens the out
look, cultivates the sympathies, ena-
bles one to see things in their true
relations, and makes it impossible for
one to think of even the newest move
ment or development as wholly new.
Information is of the greatest value,
but it requires genuine culture to deal
with il intelligently and satisfactorily.
This is specially true Of the student OF
literature and political affairs. Sound
ness and soberness OF judgment, poise
of mind, depth of character, and com
prehensiveness of thought-these
come, not from hastily acquired in
formation about what is now going on,
but from patiently and slowly accum-
ulated knowledge of the great
movements of history, knowledge
which has been pondered, and fully
absorbed, and which is really
part of the man himself. And
this is true culture. To gain it
one can we'll afford to pass by many, If
not most, of the novels that are now
being written, unless one have time
to devote to them without sacrificing
the greater good which comes from
serious study of the past. New knowl
edge, like new wealth, is almost GER
tain to have it's vulgar side
indianapolis News.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

Applause in the British House of
Commons is strictly governed by pre-
cedent and practice. Hear" is the
only token of approval permitted, and
that repeated over and over again by
a couple of hundred members pro-
duces the phenomenon known as loud
and prolonged cheers" In a new par
lament it generally happens that in
experienced members forget them
selves and clap their hands. Some
times strangers offend in this matter
to them, of course, all applause is for
bidden-and are promptly shown the
door. The only occasion one remem-
bers when a stranger who clapped his
hands was not removed was when Mr..
Gladstone introduced his first home
rule bill At the end of the great
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
CURIOUS IDEAS OF CHINESE
Belief That Men Should Not Rob An
finals of MILK.

Belief That Men Should Not Rob An
finals OF MIX.
A curious system of philosophy re-
garding eating is evolved by some per-
sons, but the queerest "anti-pronuncia-
mento in some time is that published
in the Loa Chow Herald regarding the
use by man of animals milk. The cru
dite Chinese who edit this journal of
the twentieth century publish a proc
lamation which says: Man should
not rob animals of their own proper
food; and, of all animals, the COW is
the most valuable to man. The sell
lers of milk blacken their souls for
gain: but those who drink milk do so
in the foolish belief that it is good for
them. Before taking any medicine, we
should carefully investigate its proper
ties. and who does so with milk!
Milk is the natural food for babes
and of young animals; but when adults
drink it, do they not thereby endanger
the life OF the sucking calf, and arouse
bitter resentment in the souls Of the
calf and it's mother? Beasts have not
the power OF speech, and so cannot
tell men that by drinking cows milk
they will become like quadrupeds. If
men must have strengthening
draught. there are a thousand better
things than milk, so why slect that?
Resides. the term of life is foreordan-
ed and it cannot be prolonged by
drinking milk. Everyone who reads
this warning is especially enjoined to
abstain from milk in the future. Child
rem whose parents will not allow them
TO drink milk will not be stunted in
growth. but they will have their lives
prolonged and be immune in epidemics.
So il is proclaimed in the Hall OF
Good Counsel"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

From the Portland Oregonian. -
The Chinese residents Of North va
kima have many sacks of rice supposed
to have been poisoned by the officials
and missionaries in China. One mer-
chant has twenty sacks put away, and
refuses to eat any or sell to the Chi
nese Those who claim to know say
that at least $500 is invested in pois-
oned rice in that city. The rice is
sold to Americans. but the Chinese
purchase their supplies from local
merchants. They say that six years
after eating the rice the victims die.
The object of the poison. it is said, is
to kill off all the Chinese in the United
States.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
A Hight nd Scotch Tradition.

There Is an old tradition in the
highlands of Scotland to the effect that
the owner Of Balmoral dies when the
snow lies on particular spot of Loeb
magyar, which is rarely covered even
in the severest winters. In fact. ac-
cording to the local report, the snow
has lain there this winter for the first
time during the reign OF her late ma
jesty. 1t is not generally known, either,
that the custom of stopping the clocks
at the moment when Laird" dies
and keeping them so until after the
funeral was practiced at Balymoral
castle, where the clock in the tower
was stopped at the hour OF Queen Vic
toria's death, just as the flag was at
once lowered to half mast
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

A recent importation of foreigners
against which no one will be likely to
take exceptions, except, perhaps, the
natives they have come to destroy, has
been graciously received and welcomed
by the quarantine officer of the Cali
fornia State Board of Agriculture at
San Francisco. The newcomers are a
consignment of tachina flies from
the grasshopper tribe--their wholesale
exterminators, in fact, wherever found.
They came as cold storage passengers
and with them came a large number OF
ladybugs, for service in clearing the
orchards of red scale-the pest of fruit
growers The flies are to be released
in May. They will make short work
of the grasshoppers, which swarm at
that time
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
Obe Lafesf
Books

One hears much Just now OF the
supposed necessity of keeping up with
the times, especially in the field OF lit
erature. There is real dread in
many minds of not being familiar with
the work of the latest authors-who
may be immortals, or mere passing en-
tertainers-and people rush feverishly
from book to book, apparently con-
tented IL they can talk even superb
cially thereof. Nor is this mere idle
curiosity. For men toll to acquire the
latest information about current
events and living men, and never seem
to feel that they lose anything by de-
voting themselves exclusively to the
quest of this new information. But
they do lose a great deal. Leaving out
OF consideration the novel-reading
habit, the evils of which may easily
be exaggerated, it seems pertinent to
inquire whether 1t may not be well to
give a good deal more attention than
most OF us do to what may be called
old knowledge. O1 course, a man can?
not afford to be ignorant of the things
about him. but the point is that he can
not really know these unless he knows
something of the conditions out of
which they grow. and OF the causes
of events with which he may be famil-
lar 1t is a misfortune to be driven,
through the paucity of ones resources,
to use knowledge that is too new. One
can almost always tell when a man is
writing out of a mind specially filled
for the occasion. There is no depth to
his work, no atmosphere about it, no
background behind it. The knowledge
which we are taught in our childhood
to believe was power, Is a great deal
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
QUEEN AS FARMER.
Victoria Was Practical and Successful in
RaIsin Crops.


Raisin Crops.
Almost from the time Of her mar
rage her late Majesty Queen Victoria
was a practical and successful farmer,
says the London Spectator. Her "oc-
cupations." to use the business word,
were not mere bits of the royal es-
tates. on which to produce butter and
cream for the household. The farms
which her late majesty held for the
longest time, and which became wide
ly known, were at Windsor. They are
not large. considering the wonderful
success of the animals bred there.
One. Shaw farm, is grazing farm
with only 120 acres Of arabic The other
the Flemish farm, covers 400 acres,
of which 240 are arabic. They are cul-
tivated exactly as the shrewd and
practical Prince Albert settled that
they ought to be half century ago"
The whole management has been on
a serious business system, and the
queen insisted that this, which was
also arranged by Prince Albert, should
be strictly adhered to. The land has
been made to yield good crops, yet
kept unexhausted, and so long as ara
BILE farming and corn were likely to
pay this was made the main object.
But IL would not have been creditable
had not the queen made her farms
profitable; and 1t was in the quick rec
ognition of the necessity for making
a change, and relying more on stock
breeding, that she again led the way
among agriculturists. The prince con
sort was the actual tenant Her ma
jesty, on his death, took over the lano,
like any farmers widow, burt caused
the main attention of her servants to
BE- directed to the rearing q pedigree
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
FINN and Patio, OF Sing Sing.

OF all griefs, probably those are the
hardest to bear which, while real and
serious to the people who suffer them,
are Of a kind to excite unsympathetic
smiles in everybody else. So 1t is no
wonder that the residents of Sing Sing
are eager to change the picturesque
name Of their village They know per-
fectly well th.. to the outside world
Sing Sing means big prison, and they
have wearied OF the jests to which the
Identification Of the title and the insti-
tuition exposes them. So they want to
say that they live in Ossining instead
of in Sing Sing, and the desire is nat
ural enough. But, unfortunately, IL
is also funny and possibly 1t would be
wiser to endure their present Ill than
TO bring their sensitiveness to general
attention by taking action for relief.
And how long would it be, moreover,
before the prison association fastened
itself upon Ossining? What Sing Sing
wants to do is to grow so big that Il
can win recognition for itself. There
Il no other cure for its wees but a
cultivation OF philosophical indif-
ference will do much to mitigate them.
as II will for most other woes.-New
York Times.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

The German army has furnished an
other terrible illustration Of what duel
ing means. An infantry captain pres
ent at an officers dinner took offense
at the innocent but rough horse-play
of an army surgeon, and struck him.
He then retired to his quarters. In a
little while two officers representing
the surgeon appeared with a challenge.
Before they could deliver it brother
of the surgeon entered and shot the
captain dead. His excuse was that he
sacrificed himself to save his brother,
the surgeon, who had a wife and chill
dren, and could hardly hope to sur
vive a duel with the offended captain
a noted pistol-shot. Such an incident
must come home with peculiar force
to the emperor, who has frankly com
mended dueling in the army as the
proper way for a soldier to protect his
"honor"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

that we are going to have body that
will never grow weary? o glorious
resurrection day! Gladly will fling
aside this poor body OF sin and fling
II into the tomb IL at thy bidding
shall have body that never wearies.
That is a splendid resurrection hymn
that we have all sung:
So Jesus slept. Gods dying Son
Passed through the grave and bless
cd the bed.
Rest here, blest saint. till from his
throne
The morning breaks to pierce the
shade.
The Risen Savior.
u blessed resurrection! Speak out,
sweet flowers, beautiful flowers! While
you tell Of risen Christ tell OF the
righteous who shall rise. May God fill
you this morning with anticipation!
heard of father and son who
among others were shipwrecked at sea-
The father and son climbed into the
rigging. The father held on, but the
son after awhile lost his hold on the
rigging and was dashed down. The
father supposed he had gone hopeless
ly under the wave. The next day the
father was brought ashore from the
rigging in an exhausted state and laid
on bed in fisherman's hut, and after
many hours had passed he came to
consciousness and saw lying beside
him on the same bed his boy. Oh, my
friends, what glorious thing ii will
be If we wake up at last to find our
loved ones beside us, coming up from
the same plot in the graveyard, coming
up in the same morning light-the
father and son alive forever, all the
loved ones alive forever, never more
to weep, never more to part, never
more TO die.
May the God Of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great Shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting
covenant make you perfect in every
good work, to do his will, and let the
associations of this morning transport
our thoughts to the grander assem-
blage before the throne. The one hum
dred and forty and four thousand and
the great multitude that no man can
number" some of our best friends
among them, we after awhile to join
the multitude. Glorious anticipation!
Blest are the saints beloved of God;
Washed are their robes in Jesus blood
Brighter than angels, 10, they shine.
Their wonders splendid and sublime.
My soul anticipates the day,
Would stretch her wings and soar
away
To aid the song, the palm to bear.
And bow, the chief of sinners, there.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

A college professor, reading Lord
Rayleighs Theory Of Sound" few
years ago, became particularly inter
ested in that part which relates to the
vibration of cords He began to study
the waves which travel along a cord
when one end is shaken. and then to
experiment with cords loaded at in
tervals with weights, and vibrating in
air or water What could he hope 70
learn from such Investigations? What
practical results were to be looked for?
He could not tell, nor could any one
else have told Yet he studied the sub
ject for five years. The facts he dis
covered make it probable that tele-
phone communication may take place
under three thousand miles OF sea, and
the professor has sold his invention for
half million dollars
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

The name OF Sing Sing so far as
the New York village is concerned, is
no more, having been changed 20
Osining. Manufacturers brought about
this change. the impression having
gone abroad that All goods turned out
in the village were prison-made. The
village showed decrease in the last
census of 1913 in population. though
neighboring places showed uniform in
crease. Sing Sing was Incorporated
in 1913 and the prison was erected
eleven years later. The prison is still
within the village boundary i'-es.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

cattle. Her herds of Shorthorns, Here
fords and Devons soon became famous.
During the last eighteen years they
have been among the most steady prize
winners for all-round excellence OF the
herds Of England; and in the show
season of last spring and summer they
beat all previous records, the Short
horns winning forty-eight first prizes
and twenty-five championships, and
the Herefords twenty-eight first prizes,
and seven championships; the Deyons|
won twenty-six first prizes.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

One of the most prominent Baptist
preachers in the vicinity of New York
has made it practice in all his pas
torates to write his resignation within
a week of his entrance upon a new
field, sign, seal and deliver it to the
proper official with the remark:
There. now! Never ask me for my
resignation. Whenever you want me
to go just break open the envelope
write in date to the document and
offer it to the congregation.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

The recent appointment of General
Chaffee as major-general is the first
instance of private attaining that
rank in the regular army of the Unit
ed States, Il should know that Chat
fee was not educated at West Point, +"
commented a military visitor at the
review of American troops in China
last summer. He is so unused to full
dress uniform that he has his sash over
the wrong shoulder 1t was true,
and all the more honor to him for his
success.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
Ways Of the British Parliamen

speech a young gentleman sitting in
the front of the gallery vigorously APP
plauded and the doorkeeper pretended
not to hear. 1t was the late Duke of
Clarence. The methods of expressing
dissent in a parliamentary manner are
more varied. mo, no." is the most
common. Question" too, is a favorite
mode of challenging a statement.
Shame" is not infrequently interj ct
ed at moments of excitement, though
it is doubtful whether this is strictly
in order. The most approved method
of interruption, however, is shouting
"Divide!" or rather, "Vide!" This is
generally effective in silencing a
speaker, if the house is determined not
to hear him, and is generally resorted
to late at night.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

Northern Indiana farmers are ex-
perimenting in the domestication Of
qnail. During the winter the birds are
fed regularly, and on some of the farms
they have become so tame that they
roost with the barnyard fowls.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

The watchfulness of members of con-
gress is not always rewarded in way
anticipated. Two resolutions recently
offered in the house requested the pres
ident to return to that body two pri-
vate pension bills. A member of in
curing mind wished to know what
was the defect in the bills. There is
no defect" was the reply. The bene-
flciaries are dead"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
Wants Japanese
Farmers
Novel Colonization Ex-
pertinent to be Tried
in Argentina.

country and has decided to import
japanese farmers. A great concession
has been given in the province of For
mosa for the first colony, and arrange
ments have been made to bring over
10000 Japanese farmers and settle
them there
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

Quite a. remarkable as the wrecking
of the Pacific Mail line steamship Rio
de Janeiro just at the entrance to San
francisco harbor on Feb. % is the to-
tai disappearance of the wreck. Divers
have explored large areas of the bot
tom of the sea at the point where the
wreck is supposed to have occurred,
but not the slightest trace Of the ill
fated shir has been found
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
plrth OF /. New eeY.er.

A caretaker in Yellowstone Park
reports the birth OF a new geyser in
the Fountain geyser basin. For an.
hour after II first burst forth through
the earth IL shot continuous stream
of hot water hundreds of feet into the
air. It now plays regularly every two.
h0ars..
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

Among the ruins of Pompeii have
been found chatting dishes OF exquisite
workmanship which give undisputed
proof OF their use in the city. which
contained villas of many wealthy Ro-
mans.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
THE BELDINC BANNER
BELDlNG, = MICHIGAN.

The United Kingdom has colonies
and possessions whose area is equal
to more than twenty-seven times her
own size.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

II is the opinion of experts that the
opening OF China and Siberia will dis
close large deposits Of gold and that
Asia after while will furnish large
part OF the worlds supply.