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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-08-29

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County News.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Miss Lizzie VanCamp, OF Drayton, has
been appointed principal of the Oberon
schools.
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Treasurer's Reporf.

For School District No. 1. County OF Pembina
state OF North Dakota for the year 1901 1902.
RECEIPTS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16

District of Columbia, to the extent
of the ability of the responsible of
ficials, there are games and gameA
Quite a number of clubs are protect
ed by their charters, and gambling
for high stakes is indulged in. There
arc secret games in various parts of
the city But across the river, up
the river and down the river there
are places within easy access by
small boats, but too remote to war
rant constant surveillance by the
state officials of Maryland and Nir-
ginia.
OF course there are "open" poker
games, and an occasional "sTeat
board" inside the city limits, known
only to Il select few. 1t is well un-
derstood that the Cinnamon have
very quiet games of loo and fan
tan In the alleys and attics the
colorcd folks have their crap games.
But it is along the river shores that
the great games are to be found.
On The Virginia shore between the
Aqueduct bridge and Cabin Johns
bridge, is Jack Heath's place." close
to the waters edge, against a steep
cliff accessible only by boat Al one
of the Georgetown wharyes a little
steam tug receives passengers for
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16

all this, and thought he found it in
his new relation as an employer of
labor. At first he had told himself
that he would be a silent partner in
the iron works, leaving all the activi-
ties to the practical Raymer; but he
soon found this blankly impossible.
And with personal interest and the
shifting point of view came change,
gradual and almost insensible in his
attitude toward mankind in general
and toward the workers in particu-
lar So it came about that while he
was writing book, designed to over
turn the existing social order, he
was drifting slowly but surely into
the ranks of the oppressors.
The first open confession of this
change of creed came when the
threat of strike rose storm-cloud
like on the iron works horizon. Ray
mer was for temporizing with the
men, and for yielding something if
need be; but this Griswold fought
stoutIy, growing more stubborn as
the threatening cloud increased in
size. If the men could not see for
themselves what was for their best
interests, they must be made to see.
But in reality it was Margery who
was responsible for the major
changes in the book. Caring nothing
at all for the ethical question in
volved, she cared a great deal Tor
the success of the author, and she
was shrewd enough to arrive quickly
at a double conclusion; that Girls
void was well able to write a sue
cessful book; and that, left to him
self, he would assuredly spoil it with
bis theories. So she labored faith
fully to keep him in broader road
and not without u goodly measure
of success.
But, Margery, fhey were we'll
past the "Mr." and "Miss" by this
time)-"I can't do that" he said
one morning when they had been re-
working the plot through one of the
cozy sitting-room talks.
Don't you see it begs the entire
question of labor and capitai?'
81 see that you can't help doing it
unless you are deliberately false to
your art" retorted the literary ora
Gle.
you have put these people on the
stage, giving them certain characters,
and they must go on and do the
things that are consistent"
Not if the consistent things are
going to make the entire picture out
Of drawing"
She laughed. "How impossible a
man can be-" she rejoined, sweetly,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16
ITO Be Continued
He Mennt McII.

was laid up in the cabin Of a North
Carolina mountaineer with a sprained
ankle, and, though he would willingly
have provided me with the best, the
fare consisted of pones, fried squirrel
and corn coffee every meal.
On the fifth day I must have let slip
some sign that things were growing
monotonous, for he looked over at me
and said:
stranger, I reckoncd to make a
change in this yere fodder, but it
didn't come about"
ooh, the fodder is all right" re-
Piled
But I don't skassly think it is, and
| was gwine to make a change. Sorry
to say 1 couldn't do it, but the drafted
woodchuck got clean away"- Phil
adelphia Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16
A * ave of
Con science
By FRANCIS LYNDE.
(Copyright 1909, by Francis Lynde.)
CHAPTER XIX.-CoNrrxuED.

Griffin strolled listlessly with the
crowd, and presently found himself
in front of the new playhouse. l.
was early, but the "first-nighters"
were already thronging the vesti-
bule. lie stood aside to look on,
honestly wishing he could rid him
self of the Bayou bank mystery long
enough to go in and enjoy himself
with the pleasurers.
Now it chanced that in stepping
back out of the sidewalk throng he
tingent, and a moment later a voice
at his elbow said:
Excuse me; will you let the ladies
alight?"
Griffin gave place, and saw a young
man with a clean-cut, eager face
hand two young women from the
carriage. They were followed by an
elderly gentleman with eyeglasses;
and on the sidewalk the group fell
into pairs. Griffin could not well
help hearing the colloquy.
81 think the others win be here in
a few minutes, doctor. Shall we wait
and go in with them?"
Thus spoke the young man with
the clean-cut face; and at the older
mans negative he spoke again.
Just as you please. If you will
take Miss Raymer and let me take
Miss Farnham, that will divide us
equally. The seats are all near to-
gether, but l couldn't get them all
in the same row."
Griffin stared hard at the speak
ers companion as the parti carre
moved away.
80 that is Miss Charlotte Farm
ham, and my last chance" he mused
turning back toward the hotel
"There is one grain of comfort in il
for me; if her face doesn't belle her
she viii tell me the truth. BY Jove!
but that young lawyer, or whatever
he is, has an eye for good looks. I've
never seen her equal in all my ups
and downs, and that's saying a good
deal"
So he went hls way to the st
James and presently to bed, without
so much as suspecting that he had
actually touched elbows with the
man whose identity he was vainly
trying to establish.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16

the round trip, the price being Is
cents. Every half hour the trip Is
made to Heaths place. The tug be-
longs TO the proprietor Of the gam
bling resort, and it alone brings him
constant revenue. As soon as
load Is aboard the tug strikes right
out into the stream, darts unde"
Aqueduct bridge, up the middle Of
the stream, putting along in the
shadow of the spires and minarets
of Georgetown university. The tug
bears its burden of anxious human
beings up to the wharf of the club
house.
Scrambling ashore, all bent on win
ming, or of recouping for past losses,
the modest, quiet-looking house is
found to be a Babel of voices. For
ty-cight, 63, 0, IS, 2O-Keno," is the
first distinct utterancc. The front
door opens into the bar, and that
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16
CHAPTER XXI.

AS Raymer had foretold Griswold's
initial visit to the Grierson mansion
on the lakes edge was but the be-
ginning of an acquaintance which
soon ripened into intimacy with the
daughter of the house. For one
thing, Griswold was always sure of
his welcome at Mereside; and, for
another, he was beginning to find
the atmosphere Of Margery's sitting
room the one environment where the
remaking of the book could go on,
and that Margery herself was the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16

one person with whom he could dis
cuss it with helpful freedom.
Do what he might he could not
bring himself to the point of TAX
ING Charlotte into his confidence in
the matter of the book. Though it
was wholly underlined in his own
mind, the barrier was the one which
had been builded on the voyage up
the river. The more he saw of Char
lotte, and the more his love for her
grew and throve, the less possible
it became to look forward to dav
when he might hope to tell her all
with fair probability of winning
her approval of the thing he had
done.
But with Margery no such difficult
ty existed. Her sympathy was al
ways quick and intuitive, and she
seemed to have the gift of saying in
stinctively the thing he craved most;
the thing he might have suggested if
she were not always beforehand with
him. He was not so 5eSotted as to
believe that he had discovered in her
that other half of the artists always
incomplete circle; the one person in
the world who can fully understand
him. On the contrary, in his So
berer moments he thought he knew
her for what she was. But these dis
Illusions grew less frequent as visits
to Mereside became more frequent,
and in time they began to disappear
altogether. For Mistress Margerv
was wise in her generation, knowing
many things well and the heart of
a man better than any.
But about the book which was to
settle once for all the vexed ques-
ton of the rights of man, they did
not always agree. As first conceived,
the story was merely a vehicle load
ed to overlooking with the socialistic
protests of it's author. But in the
rewriting a new plot had been sub
stitutcd; suggested, nay, even out
lined, by Mistress Margcry herself;
and on the keel thus laid the ven
ture built itself into something more
like a novel and less like preach
ment. Griswold saw the growth of
it under his hand; saw the far-reach-
ing possibilities of it: saw also that
it was departing, despite his most
strenuous efforts, from the course
which he had pricked out on the
chart of the former endeavor. In
other words, the new book bade fair
10 grow into something which the
publishers might accept and the pub
lie might buy and read, but of the
rights of man there was coming to
be less and less as the work pro-
gressed.
Being first of all an enthusiast,
Griswold dug deeply for the cause of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16
A Strnn.e Hobby.

The principal hobby of the ex-queen
regent of Spain is collecting of playing
cards. She possesses a large number
of curious packs, many of which have
no little historical interest. One set,
made of ivory, is believed to have be-
longed to Prince Eugene, who fought
with the great Duke of Marlborough,
and to have accompanied him in all his
campaigns. Queen Chris tina also owns
some exceedingly rare cards of Egyp-
tian, Arabian, French and Spanish
manufacture.-N. y. Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16
a MYSTERY.

when we take an observation OF '|trat s
going on around
We often think that wonders never cease.
For instance, there are people who appar-
entity are crowned
To live life of luxury and ease.
IL their accounts were balanced less than
nothing would remain,
And prison fare they probably would
chew,
And yet they set the fashions and we follow
in their train.
We don't see how theydo it-but they do.
Their homes are simply palaces of elegance
and art;
Their costly entertainments are dream,
They lead in gay society and are consid-
cred smart,
And pass for greater lions than they seem.
While better folks are fasting they are
feastirg night and day,
And pleasure is the object they pursue;
And vet If forced to settle what they owe
they couldn't pay.
We don't see how they do it-but they DO.
There are the politicians who an easy way
have found
OF living without doing any work
Arr2yed in gaudy garments they are swaS-
gering around
As lazy and as saucy as Turk.
Although they are the enemies of every
thing that's right,
Although We know they rule and rob us,
too,
They make themselves. our bosses and we
cheer them with delight
We don't see how they do it-but they 90.
There are the stock promoters, who are
working night and day,
In laying gold on other peoples shelves.
They kindly take your money and invest
IL in i way
To realize forture-for themselves.
Their schemes are most magL lncent-the
profits are 50 great,
They only grant their favors to few.
A million dollar company from nothing they
create.
We don't see how they do it--but they do.
There are the busy merchants who are al
ways-so they say
a selling things at less than what they
cost
They all have bargain counters where they
give he. goods away
To crowds of crazy shoppers they exhaust
Although they're losing money on each ar
ticle they SELL
According TO their advertisements true
They never look discouraged and are al
ways very well.
We don't see how they do it-but they do.
There are the foolish people who compel
themselves to bear
a burden growing heavier each day,
In keeping up appearances for those who
never care
They throw their peace and comfort all
away.
Their awful strain and worry is, in spite of
all their guile,
Quite evident to everybody's view,
And yet with all their troubles they in
public wear a smile
We don't see how they do it-but they 90.
H c. Dodge, in Chicago Daily Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16
CUApTER Xxx.

1t was the early morning of flaw
less northern summers day, and the
lake sparkled like sheet of ham
mered silver under the windows of
the Farnham sitting-room. The
shades had been drawn when Griffin
entered, but he had taken the lib
erty to run them up before Miss
Farnham came in. And since he was
finding it necessary to read much be-
tween the lines OF her guarded an
swers to his questions, he did not
regret the precaTtion.
You say he admitted his guilt to
you, Miss Farnham, before the boat
reached St. Louis?"
eyes"
MAY / ask how he came to do
&hat?"
Unjust l answer that?" she flI-
tered.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-16

"Tt is always advisable to know what
business a man is in when he proposes
marriage TO you" said the blond.
"Why 500" asked the brunette.
"a man once gave me an engage
ment ring and, of course, was little
curious to know what it had cost.
"NaturalIy."
"WeIl, l went to a jewelers. to in
quire what was the value, and found
the man who gave me the token be-
hind the counter. ."-Yonkers States
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24

Cream of Fowl. Water Strips
Tip Radishes- Queen Olives.
Planked White Fish. la Windsor.
Clipped Potatoe
Barded Beef Tenderloin.
Mashed Potatoes
Boiled Calls Sweetbreads.
Brown Glace. Sifted Peas.
Salad of Prawns.
Charlotte of Fruit Orange G1aces.
Variegated Ice Cream. Cake Varies.
Coffee.
AS coffee was served Mr.. G. f. KIM
ball, president, read a paper on the
Renaissance of Civilization" in which
he stated his belief that the American
revolution was not caused entirely by
the severe taxation or oppression of the
home government, but by a spirit Of
freedom peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon
race which dated from the Roman in
vasion. "Teutonic nations are dominat-
ing the EARTH" he said. THE I-atins are
on Il decline Germany, England and the
United States, are the three great pow
ers, and who can not say the United
States is the greatest of these?''
The presidents address was followed
by 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" sung
by the Wyatt sisters.
Col. D. r. Anthony of Leavenworth
was next on the programme. He was
greeted with fusillade of applause
when he began with Il am full of
thoughts of my childhood, nearly three
quarters of a century ago, when my
grandfather told me the stories of the
fierce struggle in which he took part
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24
FUTURE IN DOUBT.
Grand Central Station at Chicago
Will Have Lack of Tenants.

BY the removal of the Baltimore C
Ohio from the Grand Central station,
the only occupant of this fine station
after the Lake Shore and Rock Island
have moved back into their new Van
Buren, street station will be the Chicago
Great Western. The refusal of the Chi
cago Terminal Transfer Railroad COM
pany to make a longer lease with the
Lake Shore and Rock Island for the use
of the Grand Central than six months
from last January leads to the surmise
that it has other tenants in view.
There has been a suspicion for some
little time that the Hartman syndicate
has disposed of it's interest in the Chi
cago Terminal Transfer company to the
Vanderbilts, and the fact that the Alton
consented to the Baltimore & Ohio COM
ing into the Union station strengthens
that suspicion. The Vanderbilts, it is
said, want the Chicago Terminal road
and its Grand Central station to pro-
vide Independent entrance into the city
for the Michigan Central and Big Four
railroads. Both of these roads are using
the Illinois Central station, the Michi-
gan Central using the Illinois Central
tracks from Kensington and the Big
Four from Fankakee. The Illinois Cen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24

when horseman rode up and said that
Col Stark wanted volunteers to rally to
his standard and help to hold in check the
ravaging hordes of Burgoyne. The preach
er asked all who would join Col stark
to rise, and every able bodied man in the
house, including my grandfather, was on
his feet in instant.
Col Anthony spoke of the visit OF
Prince Henry and other incidents as sig
nificant of the prestige of the United
States among nations and landed heavily
on the question of expansion. who dares
to make an argument against expansion2
On what grounds can they take 1sSueE
All true and patriotic citizens are in favor
of expansion" he said.
The colonel was followed by Judge J.. L.
Eldridge, the poet judge" who read a
patriotic poem of his own construction.
Mr.. John z. Junkin, editor of the Ster-
ling Bulletin, read a paper in which ne
humorously alluded to the man of revolu
failings and faults like people of the pres
ent day, and that he was glad of 1t, as
he would rather have a man than an an
gel for an ancestor.
Mr.. c. l.. Davidson of Wichita and Col
H. L. Moore of Lawrence, who were each
on the program for an address, were not
present.
cdent of the visit to the United States OF
England, who stood with uncovered head
before the tomb of Washington.
Mrs A. T. Daniels of the Daughters of
the Revolution, extended the greetings OF
that society to the Sons.
The last address was made by Col. Ed
ward c. Little, who spoke of the Unknown
Row: or, the Minor Patriots" He spoke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24

about Ogden for the next-three years
Piling has already been ordered from
Texas, and arrangements for its recep-
ton made in the Ogden yards. Contracts
for the work between Ogden and Lucin
will be let, it is expected. within the
week as bids closed February TO-
Probably the construction of the work
will give rise to an average employment
of 500 men each month, but on its COM
pletion fewer train crews and fewer
train dispatehers will be able to do the
same amount of work because the big
promontory hill with the long horseshoe
curve will be eliminated and the dis
lance will be less by 40 miles than at
present. Another advantage of the new
route is that a plentiful supply of fresh
water will be available, whereas on the
old route water had to be hauled and
stored in tanks. This work, together
with the other improvement work on the
Southern Pacific and on the Union Pa
cific, it is expected, will add wealth to
not only Ogden, but to all Utah, and Il
prosperous season is predicted. Already
this has been foreshadowed by marked
rise in values.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24
HOW THEY FOUGHT
Sons of Noble Sires Tell of An
cestors' Achievements.
Col. ID. r. Anthony One of the
Star Orators.
HE FAVORS EXPANSION
Says All True Patriotic Citizens
Favor 1t.
Col. Ed Little Makes an Inter-
esting Address.

The Kansas Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution held a banquet at
the National hotel Saturday night, and
when the hosts and invited guests dis
persed at 1880 Sunday morning it was
with the impression that they had
spent a most enjoyable evening. The
object of the society is to foster pa
triotism, and keep green the memories
of the heroes who participated in the
struggle for freedom and absolute IN
dependence.
The banquet was supposed to begin
at o'clock, which means that it was
about 9:35 when the ebony walters
charged on the assembly with the soup
While waiting in the reception room,
it would have been an easy matter for
a casual observer to discover the cause
of the disturbance. After the intro
auctions, people could be heard telling
what their remote ancestors had done
to the British at Trenton or Bunker
Hill. Those who had been thoughtful
meal before leaving home became SO
interested in the conversation that they
forgot to consult their watches and
make observations about the passing
of time.
The Misses Wyatt favored the would
be banqueters with a vocal selection
which made waiting more endurable.
and were heartily encored. When the
grand march to the banquet hall was
called. it was discovered that the ladies
and gentlen en- were about equally rep
resented. Seventy-One persons We're
seated at the long table, arranged in
the form of the letter IL indicative of
the word independence the slogan of
the patriots. The hotel orchestra in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24
HAULED 7O3 TONS.
Santa Fee Decapods Are Doing Good
Work Out West.

One of the Santa FEES new decapod
engines, which are the heaviest engines
in the world, made record haul yes
terday, says a Chicago paper. The en-
CINE pulled 703 tons up a grade of six
and ore-half miles long and 15S feet
to the mile. The track upon which the
performance was made is known as the
Cajon Pass, just west of the Sierra Ne
vada Mountains. The load is the larg-
est ever hauled by an engine up a per
cent grade, but Vice President Ken
drick expects to break this record. The
management of the Santa Fe is so
pleased with the work of the decapods
that orders have been given for rs of
them at cost of over 81, 200, 600. to be
delivered by the latter part of August.
The report of the tests being made with
the engines shows that the wear upon
the track is not SO great as it is by
many other and lighter engines. This is
accounted for by the fact that the de-
capods have rigid wheel base of 20
feet and five sets of drivers. While,
therefore, there are 232. 900 pounds on the
drivers, there are only 10000 upon each
set This is less than that resting on
the drivers of many passenger engines.