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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
HAIR OF THE SLOTH.
1t Is Green In Color and For a Pc
d.. culiar Reason.

1t Is Green In Color and For q Pc
d., culiar Reason.
1t is a very curious fact that certain
plants grow and thrive on the hair of
sloths. Apart from it's extremely coarse
and brittle nature. the most striking
popularity of the outer hair of the
sloth is its more CT less decidedly green
tinge. Now. green is a very rare color
among mammals, and there ought,
therefore, to be some special reason for
its development in the slotli. and as Il
matter of fact. the means by which
this coloratiOn is produced is one of
the most marvellous phenomena in the
whole animal kingdom, so marvellous,
indeed, that it is at first almost impos.
sible to believe that it is true. g
The object of this peculiar type of
coloration is, of course, to assimilate
the animal to it's leafy surroundings
and thus to render it as inconspicuous
as possible. and when hanging in it's
usual position from the underside OF
bough its long. coarse and green
tinged hair is stated to render the sloth
almost intlistinguishable from the
bunches of gray green lichens among
which it dwells. In the outer sheath
of the hairs Of the al there are num-
ber of transverse cracks, and in these
cracks grows primitive type of plant
namely, one celled alga.
And for the benefit of nonbotanical
readers it tmay be well to mention here
that alga. among which seaWeeds are
included, form group of aowerless
plants related on the one hand to the
fungi and on the otherfto the lichens.
In the moist tropical forests forming
the home of the sloths the algsn in the
cracks OF their hairs row readily and
thus communicate TO the entire coat
that general green tint which, as al
ready said. is reported to render them
almost indistinguishabl from the clus-
tiers of lichen among which they hang
suspended. knowledge.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
STATE News

Lidgerwood wants city waterworks
and electric lights.
Two Grand Forks bellies had a duel
with hat pins at the ice rink.
a son of City Auditor Brown of
Grand Forks died of small pox. &
The North Dakota retail hardware
dealers are against the merger.
County Commissioner Charles R.
Flint died suddenly at Jamestown.
. It is agreed there is a slim chance
of Crookston getting an army post
Devils Lake blind piggers will make
no more requests for the services Of
Judge Pollock.
Fessenden people combined two ex-
tremes. and held dance to raise funds
for cemetery.
James Durrant of Arvilla, Grand
Forks county, dropped dead while car
rying potatoes upstairs.
A half section of farm land near
Edgeley was sold recently to Iowa
parties for $50 an acre. ga 5@
Frank Clyde of Grand Forks fell on
the ice and broke an arm and the limb
may have to be amputated.
De- . -sr . =
The prospective price Of binding
twine is attracting attention from the
!, farmers through the state. -
Judge Orcutt, formerly chief of the
G. \. R, of the state, has just, under
gone an operation for cancer of the lip:
DR.. E. A.. Anderson of Devils Lake
has been ordered to report to the
Philippine islands for government SER
vice. |,s..
The Fargo Call says draft for al
dermanic candidates there will not be
necessary as the barkis column is fill
ing up. ID.
A boarding house keeper at Grand
Forks continued in business with sew
eral cases of small pox in hel. estab-
lishment.
Only one candidate appeared al
Fargo to take the civil service exam.
ination. Plenty of jobs and no one
looking for work.
DR.. H. H. Healy, state superintend
ent Of public health, says that during
the past week five deaths from small
pox have been reported to his office
more than had been reported in the
year previous. This coupled with the
rapid increase in the number of cases
has resulted in a general effort on the
part of the rank and file of the people
to assist the health authorities and
doctors in stopping the contagion.
One of the new land buyers and pros
pective settlers from Iowa who has
been studying the conditions in the
central and western part of the state
says that he believes corn should be
planted from five to six inches deep
There is sufficient moisture in the
ground, the only trouble being how to
keep it there during the season when
the crop is getting started, and while
getting well started.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
Distinctly Original.

Clara-But Were the places described
in Toms book at all like the real places
and did the men and women act and
talk like real people?
Edith Mercy, nc! The book is dis
tinctly original. That is the charm of
it. yo., know. Boston Transcript.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
MISS STONE RELEASED.

Washington, Feb. 24.--Miss Stone.
the american missionary, was re-
leased by the brigands and safely ar
rived at Strumitza, Macedonia.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
Points About q Good L q, Horse. i, !, ,es

X There are some points which are val
uable in horses Of every description
The head should be portionately
large and well set on. The lower jaw
bones should be sufficiently far apart
to enable the head to form an angle
with the neck, which gives 1t free mo-
ton and graceful carriage and pre-
vents it bearing too heavily on the
hand. The eve should be large, q little
prominent and the eyelid fine and thin.
The ear should be small and erect and
quick In motion. The iop ear indicates
sdullness and nbbornness. When too
far back. there Is disposition to mis-.
chief.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24

May Wheat !. !. Z. 73Y 73B-74 72sa 72ss-A
4 @ 81 MINNEAPOLIS CASH.
Flax, S1.6S; No. / hard, 744; MOL northern,
72A-h No. northern, u n. 5 5
DULUTH CASH. "
b Flax, s1.7O; No. l hard, rs; No. 1 northern,
70; No.2 northern, 7Oh. slg{ . s.i$ 5.5
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
HENRY IS HERE.

New York. Feb. 24.-Prince Henry
arrived yesterday and was cordially
welcomed as, the guest Of the nation.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
DECISION AGAINST NOYIS
Prince Henry Arrives at New York
and is the Guest of the
Na,iu4..

Washington, Feb. 24.-Attorney "a
General Knox decides that the charges
against Judge Noyes are true and the
judge will be dismissed from the
bench. i
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
AN ITEM WORTH CONSIDERING

AN ITEM WORTH CONSIDERING.
In their folder relating to lands in
central and western North Dakota, the
Hunter Land company says: 1--WE will
suppose you own q fort y-acre farm in
Illinois, Iowa, or southern Minnesota.
The money you can get for it will buy
about 400 acres Of Northern Pacific
land. On it, by the use Of improved
farm machinery you can raise ten
times more farm produce than you
raise on your forty. and work no
harder than you now work. If you
are renter in either of the above To-
calities, you probably pay $3.50 to So
an acre annual rent. You can take
that money, and with it buy an acre
here where you rent an acre there.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
FOR ST. LOUIS EXPO.
MEETING OF OLD PAN-AMER]-
CAN COMMISSION TO BE HELD
THIS WEEK.

THIS WEEK. s
Commissioner of Agriculture r. j.
Turner has called a meeting of the
Pan-American commission for the
present week the date of the meeting
not yet finally settled upon The
object OF the meeting will be the set
tlement of accounts in connection with
the Pan-Amelican display and the TAX
ing of steps for preliminary work in
the gathering of an exhibit for the St.
Louis exposition. There is a balance
of about a thousand dollars from the
Pan-American appropriation, and
Governor White will haye 81 900 addi-
tional saved from his Office expenses
to turn into the fund. This will give
the members of the commission a nu-
cleus to start from in the gathering of
display. The present idea is to have
farmers through the state take espe-
cial care in the cultivation Of certain
selected areas for the raising Of GER
calls. corn, vegetables and other pro-
ducts of the soil. Other exhibits and
displays will be gathered by Commits
sioner Turner as opportunity offers
and it is believed that when the COM
ing year opens, there will be large
and valuable exhibit collected ready
to be turned over to the commission
appointed by the next legislative body
THE COUNTRY ALL RIGHT NOW.
MIR. w. L. Watson, of Mckenzie,
who recently sold his ranch and stock
70 the Hackney -Boynton people foy
$4,000, has been one Of that numel.
Gus class in this section, engaged in
stock raising, who has not Joined the
army Of boomers for the slope. The
average stock man doesn't want any
more settlers in the country. That's
selfish, but it's human nature Mr..
Watson now admits that he has per-
sistently refused to be U interviewed
about the country or furnish pictures
for illustrations in folders, boom edi-
tions. and the like, but now that he has
sold out he doesn't hesitate to cast
aside all selfshness and admit that the
Missouri slope is a great country Mr..
Watson is we'll acquainted with this
country and knows the location Of ey-
cry spring, creek. lake and hay bottom,
and he proposes to use this information
to some purpose this season.
GREAT COUNTRY FOR STOCK.
4 North Dakota is not the land of
coyotes and billiards. as many Of our
eastern friends imagine, says the Will
liston Herald, but is far from it. Up
to the present time this winter it has
been unnecessary to feed cattle at all,
and but very little hay has been fed
sheep. Fl. ". Smith owns some two
Or three thousand sheep and when in
town last week said he had fed but
one load of hay this winter as the
weather had permitted them to make
their own living. For horses, cattle
and sheep no place is equal to North
Dakota.
Representative Marshall has intro
duced a bill to grant to the state Of
North Dakota 640 acres of land. ern-
3bracing the White Stone Hills battle
field and burial ground Of soldiers
killed In that engagement,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
AN EARLY PURCHASE.
A LARGE HOLDING IN MCLEAN
COUNTY,s. SUPERB FERTILITY,

a LARGE HOLDlNG IN MCLEAN
COUNTY'S SUPERB FERTILITY:
Among the first to get in on the
ground floor of the present land boom
was the syndicate headed by r. "A.
Mckinley of Pittsburg and George
Howe, the wealthy Duluth grain mer-
chant and North Dakota farmer, who
in the summer of 1898 selected and
purchased 10000 acres OF the richest
agricultural lands in south eastern Nc
Lean county, at the reported price of
$1.75 per acre. a few days ago 5000
acres Of these lands sold at $6 per acre
The tract lies almost in solid body,
and for smoothness of topography as
well as the sterling elements of fer
tility cannot be excelled anywhere in
the northwest. The Sykeston extern
sion of the, Northern Pacific railroad
is alrady completed to the eastern
boundary of this tract and the townsite
Of Howe established. The contem-
plated extension of this branch will
traverse the center OF the entire tract.
Among the improvements in the new
town that will begin in the spring are
a fine hotel building, stores and an
elevator. Arrangements have also
been made for the establishment of a
weekly paper. The selection Of the
land was made by Mr.. Howe person
ally, and being a large holder of the
choicest farm lands in the Red River
valley, he exercised the most scrupu-
lous care in selecting none but the
best He was assisted by L. G. Petit
bone Of Dawson, who is member of
the syndicate, and has been made gen
eral agent for the sale of lands, and
manager of toWnsites. st
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24
THE MARKETS.

Opening, Range and Close Of Grain
Prices at Minneapolis, Chicago and
Duluth. SfSg IL III AZ
Furnished by Coo Commission Co., First
National Bank building, who have direct wires
to Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago FIJI sft
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24

Representative Marshall has intro
duced a bill to grant to the state Of
North Dakota $40 acres of land. ein-
bracing the White Stone Hills battle
field and burial ground Of soldiers
killed In that engagement.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-24

Mayor Johnson thinks there will be
better railroad rates than ever for the
Are festival at Fargo this year. 5ss
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-16

whole evening spent in her society, it was
deborah who greeted him, for Letitia
had not yet come down. 1t was a chilly
day and all the windows were closed in
the cheerful parlor. The room felt close,
and Mr. Hollis glanced involuntarily at
the thermometer, which stood at 76.
1t is frishtfully hot" Deborah OBJ
served alphabetically Il will open the
windows wide for moment. Letitia and
| are like Jack Sprat and his wife. She
does not like a breath of air, and / feel
as If were going to have an attack of
apoplexy without it. As l have never
had one, and the windows shut. Here
comes Letitia,' she added presently
shut the windows, quick, Frank
For one moment her hair so thickly
streaked with gray and her colorless
complexion gave him sharp sense of
pain; after that he was ready to admit
that she was still a handsome woman.
She had the same slender figure, and if
the naughty inclination of her head
seemed to be more habitual with her
than when she was a girl, and the smile
to have grown less frequently, it was
no less gracious when it came.
Haven't the windows been opened in
this room?" was Letitia's first question.
She fixed her eyes on guilty Deborah.
Only for minute"
81 feel the dampness. l am sorry to be
SO troublesome, but / shall have to ask
you to put on another stick of wood and
to get me my white Chuddah shawl"
Lucy came in just them and after a
few minutes they went out into the dim
ing room. Mr. Hollis was struck by
the modern air of the table, with the four
silver candlesticks and their pink shades,
while the lettuce with a French dressing
and the quail on toast were an equal
surprise to him. He was very hungry,
and felt obtrusively masculine as he
seated himself between Letitia and De-
borah, and tried TO assume an indiffer-
ence to food that he did not feel. AS
the meal proceeded it was evident to the
Reverend Francis Hollis that there was
to be nothing noteworthy in his CONVEX
sation with Letitia until they were alone.
Deborah did most of the talking, and
with her ready wit and piquant figures
of speech was always amusing. He Won
dered she had never impressed him more
in the old days.
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She tasted it. 1T is perfectly delici-
Gus. only l should say that you forgot
the Salt
down and get it,
tNeyer mind. l don't want to wait.
It is very good without the salt.
merely reminded you of it for another
time. Tell me, is Frank Hollis very
much changed?'' she asked, when her
hunger was appeased
He has grown stout and gray, and he
is rather bald, but he seemed just the
same person inside
'Inside?" What a strange girl you
are!'
Il mean that his being gray and mid
dle-aged seems an accident. He is young
at heart"
"If there is one thing that I dislike
more than another. it is your young, mid
dle-aged person." said Letitia. II have
been making my plans for tomorrow
night. Deborah is SO set she will be
sure to oppose me, and we shall have
to use a great deal of tact. / want Frank
Hollis to see that we have not stood
still while the world has moved, and /
am SOlHS " DOilON l$duId
canGlesticks and pink shades"
MIR. Hollis is the most informal sort
of person" Lucy affirmed 81 don't be-
lieve he would care or ever notice how
the table looked
"Hc would take in the general effect
| want quail on toast for tea. Deborah
does not care for quail, but they arc
the proper thing. Laura always has
them, and l am very fond of quail. We
viii get half dozen, and then there will
be two left that you and l can have for
our dinner the next day Here comes
Deborah. BE sure to back me up
dear
Deborah stoutly refused to borrow
Laura Macauley's candlesticks.
The idea of making a splurge for
Frank Hollis." she exclaimed at is
absurd"
Letitia had her way in the end, as
usual, but it was only after a wearing
discussion, and she was obliged to dis
patch Lucy to the Macauleys for the
can5lesticks.
When the long expected hour came
and Frank Hollis entered his old friend s
house, with the delightful prospect of a
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youth to middle-age, a solitary figure,
asking neither advice nor sympathy.
"Those were the good days." he stated.
ST never see a young man just starting
out in life that don't feel a great sense
of envy
q see no reason to regret youth, said
Letitia, leaning back gracefully, and
drawing her white shawl about her.
youth is a time of strain ard stress.
when we long for the impossible. As we
grow older, if we are moderately use
full, we find our interest centring in 9TH
er people. Middle age is far more
restful time of life
You were always reasonable, Letitia.
For myself, l would give anything in
the world to be young again"
II can understand feeling so if one has
wasted ones opportunities, but when
people have done useful work in the
world and have as little to regret as
you and have, why is not one period OF
life as satisfying as another?"/
why he cried sharply. Because
men and women never enjoy the limita-
tons of age. They merely accept them
and try to make the best of them. DC
you mean to tell me in serious earnest
that you would as lief be seventy as
seventeen"
81 can't tell how l shall feel at sew
enty. 1 only know that 1 have never
come to the time yet when life has not
seemed desirable"
The precious moments were slipping
by and Francis Hollis still had not baf-
fled feeling.
by the way how is your father-in-
law?" Letitia asked presently. Il al
ways liked old Mr. NewhalI. He is an
example of what a contented period of
old age may be, and yet he has had his
trials"
eyes, ] have often wished" he added
impulsively, that his greatest trial had
been spared to him. l wish your sister
Lucy had married Alec.
.'YouSAish my sister Lucy had married
a man like Alec Newhall?' Miss Le-
titia lost all her Indifference and sat up
very stright, her eyes bright deli
cate color in her checks.
Yes. 1t was because he thought she
had been playing with him that he
grew reckless"
81 do not agree with you. \ man who
was so weak would have shown his
weakness after marriage. l have never
ceased to thank Providence for my sis
ter's fortunate escape There are some
things no woman can ever forgive. /
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iect and spoke of Frances Simonds, and
of her desire to be trained nurse.
Il can't tell you how strongly | feel
on the subject of girls asserting their
individuality
He looked at the gentle woman be-
fore him who had never in her whole life
asserted hers.
II wish you had felt like that when you
we're 20" he burst out.
Sometimes l think the sin of not dar-
ing to do, the sin of quiescence, is the
greatest sin of all in the Lord eyes,
she returned impulsively.
The barriers of conventionality were
down.
You must not feel like that. You
have nothing to reproach yourself with,
he said hastily, his past condemnation
wholly forgotten.
81 reproach myself for not having peen
true to the best that was in me.
You were so young, you naturally
took the advice of others older and wiser
than yourself.
THAT does not clear me from the re-
sponsibility. We cannot put our sins OH
on other people. l have grown to know
this lately. l gave up friend because
hadn't the courae to be loyal to him.
"Por Alec. He hadn't the strength OF
will to be true to you, but he always
loved you dearly"
They were interrupted by the ringing
Of bell That bell seemed to Lucy ike
tho symbol of her whole life. She started
to her feet Bridget was out and
I ot;t;o NODDED har
81 must go to Letitia,' she said
Il though he never would Leave
Ietitia complained. as Lucy entered the
room at seems he doesn't know when
to so any better than he used to. he
has been here forty minutes by the
clock. / didn't suppose he would stay
when he found l couldn't see him. l
ought to have had my eggnog at and
it is twenty minutes past. | would not
have rupg for you but l began TO feel
really faint and hopeless as to his ever
going. Well, run along now, and make
me my egg-nog.''
When Lucy brought it up fluffy with
the lightly beaten egg, her sister said
You are very good to do this for me,
dear. l like your egg-nogs better than
Bridget's; they are lighter
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Il don't know anything about it.
have never been intimate with Letitia. I
have lived next door to Letitia Wyatt
ever since We moved into this house,
and that was twenty-siX years ago.
have lived newt door to her for twenty
six years, and l have never learned to
know her any better than the dav VIC
moved in. She has a grand air about
her that keeps one at a distance. Do
borah and Lucy are so different.
Il am very fond of Letitia, l always
was. l don't think it is fair to call
woman selfish merely because she has
her own way. She is the Oldest, and has
a right 10 her way, and it is very good
way. [ am sure the doctor has his way
in this house, not that | grudge ii to him !;
but some one has to have the casting
vote in every household. Letitia and
always get on beautifully together, only
/ can never seem to get close to her.
When Mr.. Hollis made his call at the
Wyatts he was disappointed to find that
Letitia was not well enough to see him.
Deborah was out, and Lucy brought
down an invitation to him from Letitia
to take tea with them at o'clock the
next afternoon.
II am so glad to see you, Mr.. Hollis, :
Lucy said, with her half shy way, hut
wholly sincere, manner.
Lucy always liked boys, gray-haired
or otherwise, and felt wonderfully at
ease with her sisters old lover while he,
on his side. was charmed with her. They
talked on general topics and neighbor-
hood gossip for time. In those days
when he had first fallen in love With
Letitia. Lucy had been a tiny girl, a
very captivating child, who had insisted
that he should hold her on his knee and
tell her stories. At last they began to
talk OF those far-away times.
You used 10 tell me delightful stories
of what you did when you were a little
boy"
Did 1? 1t seems like fairy tale now
to think that | ever was a little boy.
Youth is good thing. ! wish when we
had it we ever knew how good thing
it is.
Il wish So too, with all my heart. :
Alec was strongly present in Lucy 5
mind that it was only by an effort that
she could prevent herself from saying
his name She hastily changed the sub