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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
AT THE TELEPHONE.
The Sound Of Loved Ones Voice Seta
the MoclSing Bird to Talking
His Best.

J Not all parrot stories are pretty,
but here is the prettiest that ever
was told-and fact, too, says the
Boston Transcript. Caddie is the one
of all the family with whom the
parrot really cares to talk, and TO
her his condolences and his criticisms
of the various members of the house
hold are vel ready and voluminous.
Silence, long ~unbroken, had fallen
for days on his corner, and, to tell
the truth, was not unwelcome. alto
gether, considering the satirical
rogue's sneering laughter when out
of sorts as he was during Caddie's
absence, or when for any reason a
prey to gloomy views of life and it's
mysteries. At last one day Caddie
got back to within telephone range
of home. and called up the bird after
talking with the rest of the family.
The moment he heard her gay and
familiar hail the parrot was almost
beside himself. iuttering about and
rapidly retailing his whole stock of
observations, calls, shriells, whistles
and nicknames; all the while he eyed
the telephone with that cold air of
suspicion and contempt mixed with
curiosity peculiar to the oblique
glance of the creature, and then pro-
ceeded, followed by the family at
a careful distance on the sly, to
'rubber' through the various rooms,
up stairs and down. in search of the
real presence of Caddie.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
BREEDING ARMY HORSES.
England to Establish Immense stock
Farms in Australia and .
Pretoria.

The British authorities have decided
to have immense stud farms here, be-
ginning with horses and afterward ex-
tending the breeding establishments
to cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and
mules. The first order for brood mares
will be given in this country to the
military authorities, who will sell
them to the civil authorities. It is
ascertained hat 1900 mares are thus
to be acquired with, of course, stall
lions. After a time these will be inn
ported from good stock, but there is
plenty of blood in the country TO make
a beginning, writes Il Pretoria corre-
spondent of the Pail Mall Gazette.
The mares to be handed over by the
military authorities are mostly ac-
etimatized now. Many of them will
be of the Boer mare breed, a hardy
light little animal which breeds well
and is very useful in The long grass
and stony veldt and kopje-just the
animals. in fact, to carry a man
around his farm and bring his produce
Ito market in quick time over long
#distances.
One Of the largest breeding estab-
lishments will be at Standerton. Brit
sihsanda tsasstna3iardru,-Eersed in
horses IRE to be appointed, and sew.
eral of these breeding depots, and sew
eral welf-known men who have made
the horse a study have already been
Sappointed to select the mare and stall
Hon grounds for the commencement.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
OLD MAIDS AS LISTENERS.
Patient Souls Into Whose Ears tho
Countless Condolences OF 9th.
ers Are Poured.

The good listeners, on the other
hand, are the old maids to whose
speech nobody pays any attention,
yet to whom everybody talks. writes
Miss Lille Hamilton French. in Cen
fury. And l wonder. considering
how many condolences men have
poured into their ears ana how; many
other things men have found to say
about them, that not a gentleman
has yet been found good and gener-
Gus enough to Pay tribute to this
SURPRISING excellence in spinsters-
an excellence so dear to the mascu-
line mind. How many old-maid
aunts, indeed. have nephews not be-
guiled? How many old-maid sisters
have not opened their ear to the
self-praise of their unsuccessful
brothers who have missed a hearing
at the bar, OF in the pulpit, or wher-
ever there was competition among
men?
Patient souls, these old maids, lis
tening to each of us as a mother
only listens to her own, and who
have listened so long that at last
they have the air of never expecting
anyone to pay attention to them.
They venture into speech on their
own account, as timid mice into par
lors, ready on the instant to whisk
about and seek again. These.
though, are the old maids for whom
mt are never lacking, so eager
r the very least among men to
assure themselves of a hearing some
where.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
WHAT REAL PROPERTY IS.
Deposit Book Are Equal to
Land in Holding.

What a wonderful change has
passed over our entire conception of
the word "property!" The writer is
old enough to remember when moth
ing except land and houses was re-
gardedl as true property; but now a
man may be a millionaire and own
nothing that be can see, says the Lon
don Spectator. A few pieces of paper
ip 4 box at his bankers, or better still,
an Inscription in a book of which he
knows nothing except that it exists,
constitute him a man rich beyond the
dreams of avarice, ard, moreover, a
nan who has not to guard his prop
crty, and who can realize (which
the rich men of old could not do-in
half an hour. 1t is a very curious
change, and one the full results of
which we have yet to perceive; but we
suspect that among them will be an
immense increase in the amount of
wealth at the disposal of industry and
enterprise, and an astonishing de-
wealthy families. 1t is so easy to
spend shares or bonds, and there are
so few to notice whether you spend
them or not. 1t took years to spend
a great landed estate; but a fortune
in bonds may disappear, as many Ger
man families have recently learned, in
a year of unlucky speculation, or in
the early lifetime Of one srcndthrift
Ss%-
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
WAGES IN FoRMosA.
The Highest Fay for skilled Labor
Does Not Come Up to One
Dollar q Day.

The people of Formosa have just
become up to date enough to have
u railroad of their own, and a de-
tailed report of its construction has
been forwarded to the stockholders,
many of whom are Frenchmen and
E~nglishmen, says a London paper.
The rails are English; the loccmo-
tives are English and American; the
bridge works and girders are Ameri.
can, and the rolling stock is native
built on American trucks. The labor
employed was Formesan and Japan
csc, but the work was5done under the
direction of French. English and
American engineers. The rate Of
wages paid per day to the machinists
and laborers furnish an interesting
contrast between the value put upon
work in the occident and orient. The
Jap, on an average received one-third
more than the Forenosan, and the day
was of ten hours. Here is the SEIZED.
ule OF the highest rates paid: Car.
penters, 62 cents sawyers, o. cents;
masons and pdasteTers, so cents;
roofers, 6S cents; coolies, 81 cents;
workmen on acsdfolding, SO cents;
navvies, ~ cents; painters, 6s cents;
b~lacksmiths. 20 cents.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
ORIGIN OF uCHESTNUT."
A. Abbey, the Celebrated
Portrait Painter.

The word "chestnut" as an express
sive bit of slang has been of doubtful
origin ever since it was first intro
duced into the English language a
dozen or fifteen years ago, and, al
though the Century dictionary gives
1t a place, and numerous explanations
have been offered in extenuation of its
existence as a credited word. it's origin
has ever been in doubt, says the Phila-
delphia Record. According to a Phila-
delphia art patron the use of the word
as typifying a passe story may be
traced to Edwin A.: Abbey, the artist,
who, since studying at the academy
of fine arts in this city, has arisen to
the prominence of painting a picture
of the coronation of King Edward VII.
at the kings command. After leaving
Philadelphia for New York Mr.. Abbey
was o prominent member of the Tile
club, and at the meetings he always
told the same story. 1t was a point
less story about 4 la who had a
chestnut farm, who never made any
money because he couldn't resist the
temptation to give his crop away. Mr..
Abbey always began this story in a
different way, but would gradually
lead up to it until his hearers would
recognize it and cry: "Chestnuts!"
And in that way, according to the art
patron, the word gradually assumed
its slang significance.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
AS THEY SAY III ENGLAND.
British Tourists in Amer lea Arc Ass
tonisl,ed Mt Our Pronu notation
Of Names.

"Since arriving in the United States
I have been greatly %astonished at
the way you pronounce proper
Names" said Mr.. John H. Hanson. a
tourist from Huddersfield, England,
according to the Washington Post.
"For example, this very hotel at
which I am stopping (the Raleigh) is
given a pronunciation that sounds
barbarors to my ears. You call it
as though it were spelled 'Rawley.'
Now that is positively incorrect, for
the great Englishman in whose honor
it was no doubt named is known now
and has always been known, with us.
as though his name were spelled
Rally
II can't criticise your pronuncia.
ton of such words as Potomac but
in England your beautiful river has
ever been called the Pot-o-mac, with
the accent on the last syllable. 1t is
an Indian word, I believe, and you
have the right to place the emphasis
on any syllable you like, although it
seems to me that Ii way ct pro.
nouncing it gives far more strength
and dignity to the name"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
The RETIRED BURGLAR.
He Doesn't Set Him seIf Up as a Tench-
Ell, nat Draws nLesson from
E-xperiance.

$40 matter what business a man
may be in. said theI retired burglar,
aceeSssing TO York Sun,
"it ia only Is astual31 I'D workandsby
eyerlastinly keepin, Nc IL that he will
get on in it. No amount Of dreanlin'
will put a man anysh ere; but there
amt anywhere thatsa maj can't get
by steady, hard WorEN
GIVE scent this Illus frated in my own
business; as a matter}of act, nmy own
experience.
"I've wasted msnyaand many q night
dreamin' Of rohbin banks, maxim, in
my mind, a million dollars at a clip,
but never actually maxim a cent,
while some chap that I knew that
didn't haze half as lofty ideas about
things as 1 did would be dom very
well, indeed, Robin, just small houses
and places like that, ust by gettin'
dowa to business and ;stickin' to it;
not wastin' his tir1e dreamin'. My
son
"EVe1I, I dunno, considerin' my BUSH
ness, or what was my business. as I
ought to set up as$ateacher. but you
can. draw your own Conclusions"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
OF PEOPLE.
straTEFzTrtnf Observation-Disclosures
ard sisIfs Epon Nervous
Persons.

"Unaccountable." said a physician,
according to the Philadelphia Record,
''are the antipathies of some people.
Do you know that I have had for pa
tients a dozen men who would faint
on being shut up in a with any
sort of large bird?
"There is a certain odd nervous dis
ease which creates an aversion to eggs
so strong an aversion that an egg
placed on the skin of one of the af-
1licted persons brings on commissions.
con some highly-organized consti-
tutions nose-bleed is produced in the
strangest way. The medical books
tell of Chesne, secretary to Francis l.,
who bled at the nose on sight of an
apple. and of Diego Rodriguez, Cuban
recently deceased, who would bleed at
the nose whenever he smelt the flower
of the heliotrope.
"The sight, of ray fish gives some
people a fever. The proximity of a cat
gives some a headache. The sight Of
blood-but this is commentaries
some swoon. The touch of velvet
gives some a violent chill.
"These cases I have cited are well
authenticated. They are interesting
We doctors are always very glad to
come upon them"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
USE OF FALSE TEETH.
The Enormous and}Ever increasing
Output of Manufacturers In the
United States

$50 1a- ss --Tr &Sfer ~ lE
Probably not Less than 100000 artf-
fetal teeth are manufactured in this
country each year, and still the OUT
put goes on increasing, states the New
York Times. Never before was such
great care manifested for teeth as has
been exhibited during the past five
years. In this respect Americans lead
the world, not even the fastidious
French excelling the people of the
United States in8their solicitude for
the preservation of natural teeth and
in their applicationSof the arts of den-
tai science when substitutes have to
be provided for natures molars.
Englishmen are no%toriously care
less about their teeth. although inlate
years great progress has been made
in this matter.
a prominent dentist of New York
declares that nearly every patient
with a mouthful Of decayed teeth is a
foreigner. "They let things drift" he
says, "and come only when pain drives
them here. Americans, and especial
]y southerners, hasten to their dentist
Immediately they detect even the
slightest signs Of coming trouble, and
the result is that there are by far
more saved" teeth in this country
than in any other. Englishmen and
irishmen are remarkably a%pathetic
about their molars. and will go about
Tor Years with hopelessly decayed
i:eeth."
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
FOUL AIR IN RAILROAD CARS.
Something Which Affords Experts on
Ventilation an Opportunity to
Distinguish Themselves.

A great many people have a way Of
talking of how sleepy travelling makes
them. They say that they cannot be
awake. This phenomenon is attrib-
uted somehow to the act of travel
ing, but the plain fact is that it is due
TO more OF less asphyXiation, says the
Hartford Courant. The car needs not
to be in motion. 1t is enough to enter
it and begin upon the experience.
Whoever does travel much has TO be
struck with the shocking condition of
the atmosphere in whatever car he
may enter. 1t is the first thing one
thinks of when he passes the door.
Then he looks about ant sees how
many of the passengers are dropping
in their seats, more or less doped, and
all of them used up.
Now the whole trouble is with the
ventilation of the car. There is no
nther human habitation, not even the
,hsaters ard the churches. that begins
to be so i'll or SO little ventilated as
the railroad car. This is not right.
For much of the time the car is in mo-
ton, and there must be some easy
way to change the air in a moving
chamber.
The ~c,cseness and discomfort of the
Pullman are attributable to the indi-
rect influence of the warm climate of
Africa. That country is put in con-
troll of the car. and proceeds to estab-
lish the African climate there. But
other cars fare little better. They
are all of them devoid of ventilation.
all of them stuffy and unhealthy. and
all of them a discredit to the makers
and managers. There ought to be some
sensible crank ON ventilation (most of
the ventilation cranks are so ultra as
to escape the charge of being sensible)
to open a reasonable agitation on the
subject that shall compel. attention
to the present pernici"as conditions
and ecure Improvement.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
TIE SMELLING EXPERT.
A Valuable Nan in the Pcrfumery
Line Earns His Living by Fol-
lowing Lis Nose.

One of the curious trades of New
York is that of the smelling expert.
a man who earns his living literally
by following his nose. He is en-
ployed by manufacturers of perfum-
cry. 1t is his business to judge of the
character, quality and value of the
materials that go to the making of
perfumes, says the New York Sun.
Much of the ~perfumery made in this
country is imported from France in
the form of pomatums, and extracted
with alcohol. The smelling expert
Judges the quality of pomatums. An
other II even more remarkable part
of his business is to examine a popular
imported perfume, determine from
the smell of what it is made, and en-
able his employer to produce it here.
Like the experts of the distillers,
who will take any given wine or spir-
its, ard after examination produce a
counterfeit which only a connoisseur
could detect as such, the smelling ex-
pert by means of his unerring nose
makes possible the production here of
~~y-r=.RaaetHati IL IS desired Il iIpi-
tate.
Possessed of SO valuable a nose, he
takes the utmost are of it. He does
his best to avoid taking cold, and
guards himself with special care when
the influenza ZONES round. A single
bad cold may disable his nose for
weeks and throw him out of employ
ment. lie avoids also, as far as posi-
BILE, all strong odors, good or bad, to
preserve the delicacy of his olfactories.
The profession on the whole is less
Injurious to health than that OF the
tea faster or the wine faster.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
JAPANESE FORESIGHT.


The Dai-ichi Cingo in 1900 re-
ceived q deposit OF 5000 yen which
will remain fixed for $50 years, from
Mr.. Goichi Abe, dealer in coal and
coke. at 4 Minami Shimboricho Nj
chone, Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo. The
bank has contracted to pay the sum
of l,,2oS,411,179 yen at the end of $50
years, dating from 1900 inclusive, re-
ports the Toxic (Japan) Times. The
father of the depositor was a 'rkisha-
man, and he himself was an iceboy
aotne 30 years ago. Then his mother
was seriously ill, and three days be-
fore her death she said that shc
would like to eat SODA, which is a
cheap dish, but a luxury for the poor.
He, then only eight years old, pur-
chased some from the sale of ice,
and was carrying it home when he
was encountered by his father. He
and his mother were then scolded
Tor their 1uxuriousness. His mother
died and he was employed as an err
rand boy for the next six years by
AZ different masters. Meanwhile the
father and son did not know of each
others whereabouts. It was only
by accident that the son read in a
newspaper that his father, who was
named Ki-ichi Abe, was employed by
Mr.. Soichiro Asano. The son
searched for his father, and was
able to find him out again. After
this the son was given a place in Mr..
Asano's establishment. Lately the
father lost a ship Che had become
rich enough to w a ship in a
storm. The ship had been insured
for 5000 yen. The fact of the insur-
ence was unknown to him, for the
policy-holder was the son. But the
father and SON settled between them
selves that the money should be de-
posted on behalf of their posterity,
and hence the long term contract.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.

Digest all classes Of food, tones and
Strengthens the stomach and digeet;y..
organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Indi retj',
Stomach Troubles. and makes rich I'd
blood. health and strength. Kodpl re-
builds WORKOUT tissues. purirs. strong'h.
ems and sweetens the stomach. Gov G
w. Atkinson, of VI. Va, says: I h.yt
used a number of bottles Of Fnfn! ~
have found it tosbe a very effective 81!
indeed, a powerful remedy for stunu
ailments, LHapammead Ii 10 my friends
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
BAN ON SECRET WEDDINGS,
The Pastor of the "Little Church
Around the Corner'' Announces
q New Departure.

Romance has received a deadly blow.
"The little church around the corner"
in New York. has turned it's back on it.
Hereafter lovers pursued by angry
papas; overnight acquaintance smit-
tenheavily by Cupid'sdarts; rough and
tumble tacklers of matrimony without
previous training for the ordeal; in
fact, all unconventional persons, who
want to have the knot, tied with as lit
tie ceremony as possible, will have to
hunt another Gretna Green.
DR.. George Clark Houghton, the
rector, who succeeded his uncle at the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION, has
aid down the law. The game is too
strenuous for DR.. Houghton, and, in
the language of the stage, he "cuts it
out"
This is official, for he has published
1t in the Kalendar, the monthly paper
OF the church. Here is what he says:
This autumn has brought me a great
many experiences and among them a
large number of weddings, which Ihave
been obliged to decline, because l did
- lul AIS IL 10 lcCSSSdIy
tina l should know the people who
come before marriage, or they must
DC vouched for by persons whom +
NOW and they must have acceptable
witnesses. There is a limit to the in
depreciation of charity, and I limit
secret marriages and marriages un-
supported by family recognition"
The little church around the cor
Ter" has been famous for years as q
pace where any person pining for
m~atrnnony could get the knot tied
without more bother than waslegally
J necessary. A great many theatrical
people resorted there for that purpose
and 1T came to be looked upon as the
especial church Of the theatrical pro.
fessiQp,
rr-~-D St~aeszzs~ 1eassk.l
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
INDIANS USE BREAKFAST FOOD
Members OF the klamath Tribe IT'LL
ize Seeds of n Species of
Water Lily.

Breakfast food unknown in the
modern markets, but which has been
in use by the Klamath Indians ince
aboriginal times, has been discov-
cred by Frederick V. Colville, botan-
list of the department of agriculture.
who says it is more palatable and
nutritious than many of the
patent foods nov in common use,
The food consists of the prepared
seeds of the "wocas," a large yellow
water lily, which grows in the Kla-
math marsh on the Indian reserva-
tion of the same name in southern
Oregon.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
DInkinr Cocoon Butter

Mr.. F. d. HILL consul at Amster.
dam, says: cocoa butter is manu-
featured in the following
The cocoa beans are roasted, and
after the shells are taken off the
beans are ground and the cocoa is
pressed out by mean Of hydraulic
DreSspSD S%T
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
Not Worry, but s,umber.

They were discussing suicides and
the proneness of different peoples to
depart In that way, when one Of those
engaged in the conversation turned to
. cdlored man and asked: "Why is
II that SO few Of your people take
their own liyes?" After scratching
his head a moment the person ad.
dressed responded: well, / tell you,
boss. when a niger sits down he
don't Werry. but goes to Sleep"
S a wzr-w-vsr -vv~~
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
An Unpopu1ar Suggestion.

New York women want street cars
from which men shall be excluded.
VIZ should like to see a woman, SAYS
the Chicago Record-Herald, who would
care to ride in one of those cars.
One View of 1t.
Snow, you're squabbl;ng again."
said the mother.
swell, Dorothy got mad and I got
mad" explained the little one, "and
we both said mean things"
"But you shouldn't" urged the
mother. "You should have more self.
control"
81 don't want it," retorted the lit
tie one. "I'm willing to let Dorothy
have all of it,"
"All Of what?"
"The self-control."-Chicayo Post.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
One View of II.
The ShahsG Caah.

1t is said that the shah of Persia has
more hard cash pat by than any other
sovereign. In his palace at Teheran
the king of kings" is supposed to
have a SUN estimated at $50, 0Oo, 900 in
specie.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-22
THE
MilW Road

TO
Milwaukee and Chicago.
NO. 6.
Day Ex9ress-Leaycs the Twin
Cities every morning. The Mis-
siSsippi River, the Dells of the
Wisconsin River and the Wiscon-
sin Resorts in daylight-Milwau-
kee at TOO P. Nj. and Chicago at
9:25 p II. Buffet-Parlor Cars and
Dining Cars. Electric lighted train.
NO. 2.
Night Express -L Leaves the
Twin Cities in vhe carly evening,
arrives Chicago at 700 \. NJ, in
timefor eastern connecting trains.
Electric lighted, dining Cars and
Sleeping Cars.
NO. a..
The Pioneer L.imltod-Costliest
and handsomest train in the world,
leaves the Twin Cities later in the
evening, arrives Chicago 9:3OA.M M.
Has Buffet Library Cars, Compart-
ment Cars, Standard Sleepers and
Dining Cars-a train that has
no equal in the world. liz fano
reaches around the globe. &C.
trio lighted train.
Ask your nearest ticke agent
for through tickets and baggage
checks via the Chicago, Milwaukee
Il st. Paul Ry, or for maps, time
tables OF ether informat.on. address
w. B. DIXON,
Eorta ,restern Passenger agent.
ST. PAUL, MINI.