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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

then place this arrow on the point of
a needle, vertically situated in a
cork, at it's center part marked x, but
without causing the needle to pierce
the paper; after the cross has been
properly balanced on the needle,
cover the whole with common
glass, thoroughly dried.
Now get a dry wooden cloth, and
by placing your hand or finger on top
of the glass to insure it's steadiness,
rub the cloth briskly up and down
the glass at a point between the
points of the cross and the pointed
end of the cross will slowly but
surely move toward or revolve on the
needle until it points to the place
on the glass where the cloth is being
rubbed.
The point of the cross is attracted
by the electricity which is generated
by rubbing the glass with the wooler
cloth.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Novel Water Wheel

Take a broad, thin piece of cork
land insert a perpendicular piece of
straw (ab). Across the top place an
other straw (c-d) of the same thick.
ness. On either end of cd insert a
thinner piece of straw ice and d-f),
having two small side pieces of straw
near their ends. All joints are closed
with the help of sealing wax, and the
ends C, d, e, and closed tight with
the same material.
Now you have a water wheel. Place
the cork in a glass filed with water,
as shown in the illustration, and have
two persons suck on the two small
side pieces of straw. AS soon as the
water will get into motion the appa-
Tatus will begin to turn, until the
lower end of the piece of straw alb
has reached the bottom of the glass.
By keeping the glass filled the appa-
ratus will work continually
To avoid the use of sealing wax,
the joints can be made of corks, A
and B. If no straw can be had, thin
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Buzzard Likes Blue.

1t has just been discovered, presum-
ably by French scientist, that the
miniature buzzard commonly known
in New Jersey and vicinity as the mos
quito has a color sense so extremely
keen that it exerts a great influence
on it's life and methods. It appears
that rapacious insect has pronounced
preference for dark blue and de-,
cided aversion to yellow. This fact
should set the fashion in pajama colors
and lead the bald headed Jerseyman
to adopt the practice of incasing mis-
dome of thought in saffron envelope,
like that of ham, at night. 1t should
also win benisons and shekels of gold
and silver for the scientist who has
discovered that the mystic minstrel of
the marsh and mere is not color blind
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Followed Wrong Funeral.

They are telling good story on a
pair who were to have aattended a fu-
neral the past week. The pair got in
to the procession at the rear, and in go
ing down Front street became thirsty,
and stopped at a saloon to get a glass
of beer. They thought that they could
easily catch up with the cortege again,
and so they ordered another glass each.
Finally, they whipped up, and, as they
supposed, soon were plodding on the
tail-end of the procession. Now, it
happened that they were following an
other funeral entirely, and this one
turned into Mount Calvary When they
discovered their mistake they whipped
up again and hustled for Green Lawn,
but when they arrived the burial was
over. The couple had to explain, and
there is where they made mistake
Columbus Dispatch.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
STONY POINT, JULY Is, 1897.

(Anthony Wayne, q letter written on
the eve of his most famous exploit shows,
was convinced that he would not survive
the attempt on Stony Point: yet he led
that desperate attack. to use his own
phrase, "Spear in handy
Highlands of Hudson! We saw them pass.
Night on the stars of their battle flag.
Threading the maze of the dark morass
Under the frown of the Thunder Crag.
Flower and pride of the Light Armed
Corps,
Trim in their trappings of buff and
blue,
Silent, they skirted the rugged shore,
Grim in the promise of work to do
"Cross We the ford to the moated rock!
Let not whisper your march betray!
Out with flint from the musket lock!
Now let the bayonet find the way!"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Wilkes Booths Oil Well

About the close of the year 1854"
said an old-time Venango county,
Penn, oil operator, when the Prather
boys were securing about the oil
country trying to raise money to
buy the Holmden property at Pithole,
before oil had been found at that
afterward famous and rich, but short
lived petroleum center, John Wilkes
Booth was at Meadville one day,
waiting for train eastward on the
Atlantic & Great Western railroad,
now the Erie. He was in the Office
OF the. McHenry house. One of the
Prather boys was there talking up
the prospects of the oil at Pithole.
Booth became interested. He be-
gan to talk with Prather. He stood
by a window, and as he talked he
scratched his full name, John Wilkes
Booth, on one of the panes of the
window with the diamond in a ring
he wore. The upshot of Booths talk
with Prather was that he invested
$4,000 in Pithole property.
A"S AoIASA OOyo AdU UOuSuL LuC
Holmden well for 100000 and sold
it for more than 100000. The
Homestead we'll, in which Booth had
his $4,000 investment, was only one
OF a dozen equally large spouting
wells, grouped at Pithole. Oil was
then IS a barrel, and the smallest
fraction of ownership in a Pithole
we'll was a fortune.
"The night that President Lincoln
was shot a thunderstorm, something
unusual at that time of year, gather
ed over Pithole. There was but one
flash Of lightning and one clap of
thunder. This was not regarded with
any significance at Pithole at the
time, but subsequent revelations
clothed it with a significance that
awed the superstitious, and startled
those who were not.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

''Halt!' rang the sentiners challenge
clear,
Swift came the shot Of the waking foe.
Brtght flashed the AK of the pioneer .
Smashing the abatis, blow on blow.
Little they tarried for British might
Lightly they rocked Of the Tory jeers!
Laughing they swarmed to the craggy
height,
Steel to the steel Of the grenadiers!
Storm King and Dunderberg! wake once
more,
Sentinel giants of Freedoms throne,
Massive and proud! to the Eastern shore
Below the watchword: 1.-The forts our
own!"
Echo our cheers for the Men Of old!
Shout for the Hero VINO led his band
Drawing tha death that his heart fore
told
Over the parapet, spear in hand!'
Arthur Guiterman in New York Times.
"The tidings that the war was over
had reached the oil regions, and the
American flag was flying from the
top of every derrick. The one thun-
derbolt of that storm at Pithole
struck the rig Of the Homestead we'll
and set it on fire.
when, next day, the news of the
assassination of Lincoln by Booth
came to Pithole that city was over
hung by a dense pail of black smoke
from the burning Homestead well.
AS far away as Oil City the ominous
black pillar was seen hanging against
the sky over Pithole.
'The fact that the assassin Booth
owned part of the Homestead we'll
at once occurred to all at Pithole,
and when it was learned that the
bolt had descended upon it at the
very hour and minute that Booth
had fired the shot the coincidence
seemed so significant that every eff
fort that had been made to extin-
guish the fire at the we'll and stop
the great waste of wealth every lap
of the flames was adding to, ceased
on the moment, and the very spot
was stunned by all but the others
interested in the we'll, who at last
succeeded in getting control ovel: the
flames.
"The moment the news of the as
sassination reached Meadville, indig-
nant guests at the McHenry house,
Meadville, would have shattered to
fragments the window whereon
Booth had inscribed his name a few
months before, but the proprietor of
the hotel succeeded in saving it, as
he had thrifty eye to it's future
value. He removed the offensive
pane from the window, and subse-
quently sold it for good price to a
Philadelphian, who, I believe, pre-
sented it to the Pennsylvania histori.
cal society.''-NeW York Sun.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
NURSES LIVES UNRoMANTIc.
Seldom Marry Physicians or Patients
They Have Attended.

Seldom Marry Physicians or Patients
They Have Attended.
1t is generally supposed that there
is a good deal of romance about the
life of a professional nurse and that
large hospitals are matrimonial
bureaus where men and women fall in
love with incessant regularity. Elk
actly the opposite is true. Nurses, as
rule, do not marry men whom they
have nursed as patients, nor do they
select for husbands the physicians
with whom they come in contact in a
professional way.
In the last year and a half but one
engagement among the nurses at the
Chicago hospital has been announced,
and the incident was so unusual that
i. created no end of comment. The
affair was, in fact, an extreme novelty,
although the female attaches of the
Institution are unusually good looking.
This proves that nurses do not
lead the romantic lives that they are
credited with by the outside world"
said physician. '"I have frequently
heard it said that men who had been
seriously i'll often married the trained
nurses who had taken care of them.
This is nonsense. have employed
hundreds of these women nurses in
the course of my practice, and have
yet to hear of match resulting from
one of them. AS a general thing the
patient takes an aversion to- the nurse
who has cared for him, and the better
she has looked after him and the more
strictly she has enforced the doctors
instructions the less he has cared for
her.
physicians sometimes fall in love
with the nurses they meet in their
practice, but such affairs, instead of
being common, are rare. If any girl
enters the profession with the idea of
capturing husband she is apt to find
herself sadly solo,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Indiana Regiments Battleflaa

At the postofice, Gen. McGinnis
has ready for shipment to New York
one of the battlefags of the Eleventh
Indiana regiment, to be placed in
the tomb of Gen. U. S. Grant. This
is being sent at the request of Gen.
Dodge, one OF the trustees of the
tomb, who has asked each of the
states for two flags to hang in the
tomb. When the request was receiv-
ed here it was found that all of the
regiments had turned their colors
over to the state with the exception
of the Eleventh.
This regiment has always closely
guarded the tattered remnants of it's
flags. At the time of the unwilling
of the Indiana Soldiers Monument,
the regimental association held
meeting and voted to send one of its
flags to New York and the others
were. sent to the state house for safe
keeping, as they were becoming so
decayed with age that they were fall
ing to pieces.
Owing to the tattered condition of
the flag, blue silk banner, eighteen
by twenty-four inches, was made to
accompany it, and on this the names
of the battles Of the regiment were
worked in gold bullion. The flag was
with the regiment at the organization
of the Thirteenth army corps, and
was carried in every engagement of
that part Of the army until the time
Gen. Grant left it.
When the regiment left for the
front at the beginning of the war,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
PEACH STONES FOR FUEL.
Have Been Utilized in Baltimore as
Substitute for Coal.

Have Been Utilized in Baltimore as
Substitute for Coal.
The great strike and the increased
cost of coal incident thereto has di-
rected much attention to other ma
terials for fuel, and a Baltimore man
says a good substitute for the black
diamond is dried peach stones. The
only objection to their use is their
scarcity, which depends entirely on
the size of the peach crop. Frank Hall,
the Baltimoreaa referred to, says his
family had used peach stones as fuel
for years until about three or four
years ago, since which time the supply
has appeared to have decreased
Eve used to get the dried peach
stones from Mr.. Noel, who got them
from the different packing-nouses and
dried them on his place." said Mr..
Hall yesterday. II think we paid $3.50
a load for them, the load containing
about forty-five bushels. The fuel was
used in the kitchen and gave good
results. The stones will make a quick,
hot fire and one that will last. One
and a half or two buckets of the peach
stones will last as long as bucket of
coal. One has to oe careful not to fill
the stove too full or there will likely
be an explosion similar to gasoline
explosion. The proper way to keep
the fire going is to put in a shovelful
at time. d 4
Peach stones thrown into damp
cellar" said Mr.. Hall, "are said to
have a peculiar effect on person.
After the stones are in the cellar for
some time gases arise, and the fumes
will 80 to ones head and give the
same effect as if the distilled product
Of the peach had been imbibed.'' =
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
A Chinnpanzee Honored

The Municipal Council of the
French town of Grenoble has recently
voted a large sum of money for the
purpose Of erecting a bronze statue
of the famous chimpanzee named
CharIemagne, who not long since died
there
For nine years the chimpanzee,
which was brought to Grenoble by
an African explorer, had enjoyed the
freedom of the town, being privileged
to enter practically every house and
to help himself to anything he fancied
in fruit and vegetable shops.
The chief reason of the towns great
regard for the chimpanzee was that
about five years ago he rescued a
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Were Men Scarce Then?

The advantage Of the modern Portia
are counterbalanced by an equally
large number of difficulties that con-
front the women lawyer Mayor Lows
secretary, James B. Reynolds, is still
telling his friends little fling he had
recently at Miss Rosalie Loew, the
attorney for the Legal Aid Society.
Miss Loew was conducting hearing
before the mayor and called one morn
ing to tell Mr.. Reynolds she could not
attend the afternoon session.
"I"ve got to go over to Ludlow street
and get man out of JAIL" she said by
way of explanation.
"Oh," exclaimed Mr.. Reynolds, in
grave surprise. Are they really get
ting as scarce as matthew York
Times.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

of using and developing his talent:
that he should not lay it away idle
The youths father Joined the discus
sion, and the elder Whittier, sedate,
practical, and spent with the labor of
his thin soil, protested against "put-
ting notions in the boys head" He
could not school the lad. He was
poor in money, and his acres brought
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

dramatic incident occurred that the
members of the regiment love to re.
late. The regiment was drawn up in
line in the old state house yard,
under the command of Colonel, after
ward General, Lew Wallace, and the
flag was presented to the regiment
before a vast crowd that completely
filled the Enclosure. AS the genera
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

child from drowning in a we'll. Char
lemagne had seen everything, and
for him to swing himself over the top
of the well was the work of a mo-
ment. Descending by the rope used
for the buckets, he grasped the child
and quickly carried her back to he1
friends, climbing up by the rope.
Charlemagne increased his popu
larity by spending hours in the child.
ren's hospital of the town, playing in
different wards, and amusing the
children, who were all very fond of
him. In such respect was this chin
panzee held that when he died the in
habitants of the town followed his
remains to the grave.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

him barely enough to support his
household.
At last Whittier himself solved the
problem. During the summer young
man worked on the Whittier farm who
in the idle time of winter made wom-
ems shoes. He had offered to teach
him his handicraft.
The poet bent himself to the trade
the following winter, and became SO
skillful in making shoes that he was
able to earn his support, both tuition
and board, at neighboring academy,
and so to gain the instruction that he
needed and desired.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
A Chicken Tale

A lady living in Maryland writes
to the Woman's Journal as follows:
I want to tell the children a story Of
a little Plymouth Rock pullet that
have. She was Matched under the
back yard porch, and has never been
willing to live in the chicken-yard
with the rest of the chickens, but
stays around the house and is very
tame.
One morning few days ago my
husband said: "How did an egg get
on the staircase leading to the third
story"
Sue said: Il saw the little pullet
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Birds Nest on Railway Track

g. r. Fairs, goods agent at the
Worthing railway station, supplies
an interesting piece Of nesting in
formation, says the Pail Mall Gazette.
-A pairs OF obins have Built their nest
I'm ~ Cd beer can. lying between the
,k.alls q one of the lines IN the goods
yard q WorthinE station. Trucks
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

in the front hall. I suspect she laid
it,"
I thought that was rather improb-
able, but did not say. so.
This morning I was out in the gar
den, and happening to glance up, saw
the little hen on the window sill
OF my bedroom in the second story!
She came down as quietly as she
went up. Before leave my room in
the morning l always turn the bed
back to air it; and there, on the wire
mattress. I found freshly laid egg.
Was it not the funniest nest you ever
heard Of?
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

are shunted over it daily, and the
unloading and carting Of goods take
place almost every hour OF the day
within two feet Of the can. The nest
Ct present contains four eggs, and
the birds DO not appear to 30 con.
scerned In the least 1t tue constant
noise about them. 81 (
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
First Woman to + evI.lt 81 pi..-. Z

First Woman to Revisit ST. Pierre.
Mrs Joseph Haven, Of Chicago, was
the first woman to venture into the
streets Of st. Pierre since its de.
struction. Mrs Haven went abroad
with her husband two years ago. when
he was made American consul st the
island Of st. Christopher. I'D
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Too Old to Ride :, wh..I

Mrs. Eva Deyoe Of East Syracuse,
N. y. is an up-to-date girl, although
she is 100 years old. She wants a
bicycle. as she hates to be behind the
times. MY family" she i says.
Seems to think I'd better not have,
one. and maybe It would look queer.
TO see the mother Of. Z 72-year-old
girl Whirling on wheel. z l.535I IF
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

received it, he commanded the men
to kneel and swear to Remember
Buena Vista" which afterward be-
came the battle cry of the regiment
indianapolis News.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

Don'tl let the little ones suffer from eczema
Or other torturing skin diseases. No need
for it. Doan's Ointment cures. Can't harm
the most delicate skin. At any drug store,
50 cents.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Too Much of a Good Thino.

One cannot have everything IN this
world" said Mrs. Van Worst. zone
wants soup, and one wants salt in
ones soup and occasionally there is q
pinch too much. Still, a fact is fact,
and duty is duty, and one must eat
ones soup, even II it is too salt.-Lip-
pincott's.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26
Small Efforts Are Valuable.

Small Efforts Are Valuable.
Do not be discouraged because of
the apparent insignifcance of op-
portunities. Remember that the poet
wrote:
The smallest effort is not lost;
Each wavelet on the ocean tossed
Aids in the ebbtide or the flow:
Each raindrop makes some aoweret
blow,
Each struggle lessons human woe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

A man wants everything he can get,
and q woman wants everything she
can't get.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

Impossible to foresee an accident. Not
impossible to be prepared for 1t. Dr..
Ihomas' Electric Oil. Monarch over pain.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

ed: Just in time, doctor, just in time.
A wood tick has bored into my back
and I want you to take him out
Thereupon he pulled his wooden shirt
over his head. and, handing the doctor
knife, ordered him to take the tick
out. This broke the ice, and when
the tick had been removed from the
generals back we were on the footing
of old friends and acquaintances."-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-09-26

metal tubes can be used and inserted
in one piece of cork (see illustration)
In that case, a greater number OF
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-08-01
FORTUNE IN HIS FARM.
Man Who Went to SOuth Dakota q
Bankrupt. Has Just Sold His Home
Farm for $50. MO

Nan Who Went to South Dakota q
Bankrupt. Has Just Sold His Home
Farm for $685.
o. d. Buchecker has just sold his
home farm, near Selby. S. D., for $780,
600. The farm consists of 2,4oO acres,
with barns and other improvements,
but the price was enough to show how
the Dakota lands have increased in
value in a decade.
Five years ago o. d. Buchecker was
accounted a bankrupt In public estima-
ton at Mason City, Iowa. He had
failed in the coal business, and parted
with his farm of a section of the best
lend in the county, and when he went
to Dakota people said that Bucheck-
er's career was ended. But 1t wasn't.
A wealthy banker staked him for suf-
fcient money to build barns and other
buildings on a ranch of what was con-
sidered only grazing land Of doubtful
quality, helped him to stock it, and
Buchecker began to get on again. To-
day he is a rich man again, with one
hundred manifestations Of Dakota
land still to the good.
Buchecker was one OF the unique
characters at Mason City for years. He
started life as a poor boy, went into the
railroad field as a telegraph operator,
and soon was promoted to dispatcher,
and vas made fuel agent for the Mil
waukee road on one Of the western d.
visions. It was while he was agent
that he visited Dakota. in the early
eighties. and when land could be pur-
chased for a long he invested his spare
cash in Dakota real estate.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-08-01
DEATH IN A Srop.
Terrific Thunder md
storm visist p,t AAxhtAtp,

TeffHA0 Thunder md
stor" vi"ist Pitt.hursn taias
Pfttsburg, July 3O.-A tarr,1s
der and lightning storm n;.. thu.
rain visited this section ,.s. nea1
causing three deaths and evenns
ty damage. Proper.
The Killed-Mrs. Kate Walls.
cisco Imperatora and Costello iraa.
Mrs. Walsh died from shoo,. "a.'so.
by lightning. The two Italian. .ausd
a gang of ninety working ."eeal
When the storm broke in its asro oals.
the men sought shelter ind. nes
trees near by. Lightning strucs snt
the big oaks and the two = que Q
killed instantly. Five Others wfs
fellow workmen were severely 1aet
but will recover. INJURED
Throughout the city and suburh, .
storm inflicted considerable dame.
the way of overlooking sewers sas y
cellars, etc. ~
In Hazleton the Presbyterian chu.,
was struck by lightning ana ~
steeple thrown over but no ono NV ae
tured. H.
At Hayes Station, Streets rim A..
flowed its banks and flooded tho v,u.s
Quite a number of residents NO.
fee for their lives, so quietly dia ~
rise in the creek come. So a.,
known all escaped. The storm sea,,.
to expent its fury in this immod,..'
vicinity, and Travelled eastward r%s
much lessanad intensity.