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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-07-01
SURE NOW.
The Truth Aaout Coffee.

It must be regarded as convincing
test when family OF seven has used
Postum for five years, regaining health
and keeping healthy and strong on
this food drink.
This family lives in Millville, Mass.
and the lady of the household says:
For eight years my stomach trou-
kled me all the time. | was very ner-
vous and irritable and no medicine
helped me.
Il had about given up hope until
five years ago next month l read an
article about Postum Cereal Coffee
that convinced me that coffee was
the cause OF all my troubles. ! made
the Postum carefully and liked 1t SO
much that l drank it in preference
to coffee but without much faith that
1t would help me.
AT the end of month, however,
was surprised to find such change
in my condition. was stronger In
every way, less nervous and at the
end Of six months had recovered my
strength so completely that was
able to do all of my own homework.
Because of the good Postum did US
knew that what you claimed for
Grape Nuts must be true and we
have ali used that delicious food ever
since 1t first appeared on the market.
1--WE have seven in our family and !
do the work for them all and am
sure that owe my strength and health
to the steady use OF your fine cereal
food and Postum Tin place OF coffee).
l have such. great faith in Postum
that have sent it to my relatives
and | never lose chance to speak
well Of It," Name furnished by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Ice cold Postum with q dash Of
lemon is delightful cooler" for
warm days.
Send for particulars by mail Of ex-
tension OF time on the $7.500.00 cooks
! contest for 735 money prizes.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-07-01
! The DISSERTATION
OF Independence

You have all read the Declaration of
Independence, I suppose. 1t is print
ed on fine type in the back of the
Child's History, and at the top of the
names signed at the end to show how
they wrote them is John Hancock's
big and bold, the way person would
write if he were doing it with burnt
match. Papa used to gather us to-
gether in the parlor after breakfast
every Fourth of July and read us parts
of it and explain the long words, so
that we would understand what the
Fourth Of July was really for-that it
wasn't just to burn holes in your
stubs of fire crackers on the sidewalk
that don't get swept off for days. When
we children came to have our own
revolution against the governess that
time mamma and papa went away to
be gone two days, we knew just how to
go about it; and we wrote a Declare.
ton Of Independence, copying it af.
ter the real true one, and then we all
signed our names at the bottom with
big hourishes, the way John Hancock
and the others did.
We thought with all our preparation
success was sure, just as the patriots
Of '76 were successful as the reward
IF their daring. but alas!
Our governess name was Georgiana
-Georgiana Saunders-which made it
all the more appropriate, because the
name of the King about whom the ORR
ginal Declaration was written was
George, as you probably know.
When we got the Declaration done,
It was something like this-some of the
language we took from the book and
tome we made up ourselves:
When in the course of human events
t becomes necessary for something to
oe done about it, and we can't stand it
.ny longer. The history of our present
Eoverness Is history of repeated in
Iuries and usurpations. To prove this
let facts be submitted to candid
Gorld.
/. She makes us brush our teeth
twice day which is unnecessary as
veil as wasteful
2. She won't let us lay books face
townwards, and so you lose the place
and are a long time finding it when
vou come back.
3. She objects If you make fork
IN your mashed potatoes.
4. She won't let us breathe on the
window and write with our fingers
lays when it rains.
S. We can't have butter and sugar
On our rice, only milk and sugar.
6. She notices, and makes us go
oack to look where we've made finger
narks on the white paint.
{. We have to make our own beds,
ind then, if there is wrinkle, or it
isn't done right, we have to co it al
,vcr again.
g. She's just awful, every way yol
in think Of.
We, therefore. Go soiemrly publish
md declare that we are and by right
tught to be free and Independent, and
hat our mother and our father went
,y.v this morning and will not be
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-07-01
A GAMBLERS STORY
HOW PAT sHEEDY DISCHARGED
AN OLD DEBT.
Granger "cast His Bread Upon the
Waters" to Some Purpose When He
Helped the Veteran Gambler Out OF
Financial Hole.

Professional sporting men meet with
many curious experiences. Here Is a
tale told by Pat Sheedy, the gambler:
In $780," said he, 81 was playing
against a faro bank in Chicago. Luck
was running against me hard, and
was just getting ready to leave, after
having parted with $4,000. l acknowl-
edged myself broke, whereupon an or
binary looking fellow, total stranger
and under the influence somewhat OF
the ardent who had been playing with
a drunken mans luck, threw me over
$4,000 in big bills, telling me to go on,
ard if lost that could come to him
lCr more. l told him that didn't want
his money, that did not accept help
from people | did net know. He said
that was all right and begged that, as
q favor, should play half of it for
Tim. So persistent was he that finally
| took the money and began again.
You know what happens to man
when he is up against an adverse
streak. To cut it short, lost the
$4,000, and declining peremptorily to
so further, went cut, accompanied by
he stranger.
1--WE went and had bite to eat. I
owe you $4,000 said l to the man,
whereup6n he laughed. Rest easy
about that he said. You will have
money when l am broke, and some of
these days you may do something for
me- He gave me no address and left
me wondering greatly as to his iden-
tity. Certainly he was singular in.
1ividual
In 1898, just eighteen years after
that incident, was operating place
In Constantinople, where gentlemen of
sporting proclivities, mostly well-fixed
Englishmen and American tourists,
could get diversion at baccarat or the
wheel One day Turk in my employ
told me that countryman of mine,
who claimed to know me, was lying in
prison for some sharp trick, and might
call on me for aid The next day the
man brought me a card on which was
scrubbed the words: Chicago, 1880,
faro, $4,000 There was no signature,
bat knew in a second who the fellow
was. Sure enough, it was my turn to
10 the friendly act.
well. / saw the prisoner and reccg-
nized him as my creditor. 1t took
more than $1,000 to square the author
tiles, but never mind about that. The
man was the personification of graft
tude. 1t would be too long story to
tell Of ell the details, but before l got
him cut of the country knew his en-
tire record The man was Adam
Worth, the greatest criminal in his
line of the century, and who had dur
ing a career of rascality covering a
period of fifty years stolen not less
han 100000, or probably twice that
Here comes the next extraordinary
part of the affair. Worth confessed to
me that it was he who had stolen the
famous Duchess Of Devonshire por
trait from the Agnew gallery in Lon
len twenty-five years before. How, in
association with the Pinkertons, got
him to restore it to the son of the
rwner would take too long to tell. and
besides that is another story"
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MADE AN IMPRESSION.
But Not Quite the Kind Of a One She
Had Intended.
D. F BALLARD.

Tau uIIIC!tGS0s
A fashionable girl was upstairs and
had just turned out her light when she
heard caller ask for her. She made
a dive for her powder box in the dark
and busted her face, and then went to
the parlcr and found man upon
whom she was anxious to make an
impression.
And she did. He was puzzled at her
appearance, but, being genIen
said nothing. She sat and Oh ed
gracefully and had a delightful zen
ing
AS soon as he had gone she rushed
to the mirror, as every girl does when
her beau leaves. She gave one
scream and went off into Mysteries.
Instead of putting the puff into the
powder box she had put 1t in2 the
powdered charcoal used for hervteeth.
Springfield Republican.
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It's tho people who
doubt md become cured
while they doubt who
praise Donn's Pills the
highest.
Aching backs are ensed.
Hip, back, and lein pains
overcome. Swelling Of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vani sh.
Il.4y correct urine with
brick dust sediment, h Hh
co.lored, pain in passing,
dribhlins, frequency, bed
ting. Doan's Kidney Pills
removo calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
Ilen;)lessncss, h eadache,
nervousness. dizziness.
TAYLoRsvILLE, Miss. -" !
tried everything for 4 weak
hack and rot no relief Until I
used Doan's Pills"
j, N, IAEwI3.
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back until tomorrow evening" and that
she is not our mother and our father,
never has been and never will be, and
that we mean to do as we please, and
that we have full right to levy war and
also to do all other acts and things.
And to this we pledge our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honor.
(Signed)
Arthur L. cambridge CHATS me)
Marjorie cambridge,
Hester B. cambridge,
Charles w. cambridge,
Gregory cambridge, his mark.
And we brought in Rex-he's a mix.
ture of an English mastiff and a ST.
berian Newfoundland we linked his
paw, and made him step on the paper
we drew circle around it and wrote
REX, his mark" Then Mazda, the COL
lie dog, had to come in, too, and pretty
soon there was mark about the size
of dollhouse violet, just below where
Rex had printed big black carnation-
shaped thing with his lordly paw.
Spotty, the cat, was the best of all;
she upset the ink bottle on the nur-
sery carpet, and got all her four paws
in the ink, and then ran right across
the paper, so her name was in several
places. Charley (who wrote it, was
sort of mad at first-said it spoiled the
looks Of the paper, and it would have
to be written all over, but we told him
it showed how interested and enthusi.
astic Spotty was.
Then Marjorie got her sealing wax,
and took piece of red silk ribbon and
made kind of bow out of it with long
streaming ends; and we put seal
down in the lower left hand corner.
And when it was all finished it was 4
work of art Then the question was,
What should we do with it?
Lets put it at her plate at break
fast" suggested Hester.
Better send it through the MALL
said Marjorie. "She won't dare to say
anything to the postman.
''Pin it on her door," said Charley
NO" I said, that won't do. The
original Declaration was read out loud
Il know, cause 1 asked papa. They
read it out loud, and then they rang a
big bell till it cracked.
well, who's going to be the one to
read it?' asked Charlie.
well draw lots" said
And we did with little pieces OF
string; and the lot fell to me. It al.
ways happens that way-the one who
plans thing not only has to do all the
thinking, but he has to go and carry
out his own idea while the other people
stand and look on, or maybe even
| make fun OF him.
you'll ali have to go with me, any.
way" I said. "I'll read it outside her
deer at o'clock tomorrow morning
and when I get through you must all
raise mighty shout like the people
did outside the palace Of the King at
the time of the French Revolution, and
you must yell, Down with the tyrant
ess! OF with her head' and things
like that, and Gregory is to have the
servants dinner bell and ring like
mad; and then all the rest Of the day
we're going to do just as we please
ard if,She calls we wont come, no rat
ter how loud she hollers."
The rest all thought it wcs bully
idea, but C'.arley said:
"Eadn't we better do it after break.
fast? Because it's griddle-cakes to-
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-07-01
PATENTS.

List CT Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
Charles Benedict, Lidgerwood, N.
D., grain elevator; Andrew Carlson,
assignor to F. z. Mailer, ST. Paul,
Mimi, track gauge; Joseph Darrah.
Rolla, N. D., safety lantern and foot
warmer; Charles Shabley, WessinG-
ton Springs. S. d., harrow; Charles
Smith, Hassel, Mont, dam for irrigat-
ing bitches; Gustaf Steinback, Elk
Point, S. D., cultivator; Oscar Tor
gerson, Mapleton, N. D., draft equal
izer.
Lothrop & Johnson. patent lawyers: OIL
and 9l2 Pioneer Press Bldg. st. Paul.
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FOR WOMEN
Much That Every Woman
Desires to Know
About Sanatiye Antisep.
tic Cleansing
and about the Care Of the Skin;
Scalp, Hair and Hands.

Too much stress cannot be placed on
the great value Of 0ltlcura Soap, ONT
ment and Rcsolvent in the antiseptic
cleansing Of the mucous surfaces and OF
the blood and circulating fluids, thus
adording pure, sweet and economical
local and constitutional treatment for
weakening alterations, inhammations,
itchings, irritations, relaxations. dis
placements, pains and Irregularities
peculiar 70 females. Hence the Cutt-
curs remedies have . wonderful inau.
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beauty to weary women, who hav0
been prematurely aged and invalided
by these distressing ailments, as well -
such sympathetic Affections ~ anemia.
chlorosis, hysteria, nervousness ana
debility. ~
Women from the very d1st hav sully
appreciated the purity and swe4E ess,
tho power to afford tAmediatc relief,
the certainty of speedy and permanent
cure, the absolute safety and great
economy which have made t1e Cuticura
remedies tho standard skill cures and
humour remedies Of tho civilized world.
Millions Of the women use Cuticurs
Soap, assisted By Cuticura Ointment,
for preserving, purifying and beauti-
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Of cr,lsts, scales and dandrufr. and tho
stopping Of falling hair, for softening,
whitening and soothing red, rough and /
sore hands, for annoying limitations,
and lucrative weaknesses, and for
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bath and nursery.
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morrow morning, and we mightn't get
any"
So we decided to start in being revo.
lutionists after breakfast instead of be-
fore. After breakfast, while we're
supposed to be upstairs making our
beds, Miss Saunders sits in the library
for about half an hour, reading the
morning papers, and that would be a
| good chance to read the declaration
| to her.
| All through breakfast the next morn
| ing we were awfully glum and nerv.
| GUS. Before we got to the griddle
cakes, | forgot and left my spoon in
my chocolate, and my arm went
against it quite accidentally, and the
whole cup got spilled on Hester, just
as she was STOPPING to pick up a piece
OF toast, and went all over the back
of the guimpe of her dress. And Miss
Saunders swallowed whatever she put
in her mouth in great hurry, and
took of her eyeglasses and pushed her
chair back from the table little and
just looked at us. AL ] then she said,
in that awfully quiet voice that IL
twice as mad as when a person lets out
a yell:
Arthur, how often have I told you
never to leave your spoon in your cup?
This is the second time within a week
that this has occurred; you may go up
in your room and remain there until
1 come"
didn't know what to do, because
il l went upstairs then it would knock
our plan of reading the Declaration in
the head. And while was rolling up
my napkin as slowly as could, trying
to think what l should 10, her voice
| broke in:
Come, Arthur. am waiting"
Then put my napkin down anu
stood up in my chair Her eyes near
ly bulged out OF her head ct tbat, be-
cause of all the forbidden things in
| the house, standing en- any Of the
chairs but the ones in the kitchen and
| the playroom Is about the forbiddenest.
"Why. you-you bad little boy you!"
she gasped. arthur, I don't under
| stand"
But just pulled the Declaration OF
| Independence out Of my pocket and
| began to read. I read all the things
that she would not let us do, and was
just getting to the place where 1t said
we meant to do as we pleased till
mamma and papa came home. hadn't
been looking at her, because 1t was
as much as l could do to make out
Charles writing. And. besides, some
Of the things, when you came to read
them out loud to the person they were
intended for, sounded pretty dreadful
| particularly where 1t said, "She's
| just awful every way you can think
Of" my cheeks felt kind Of hot when
I got to those places, and let my voice
down and hurried over them as fast as
could. She must have come behind
while was trying to make out some
of the hard words, which don't think
and the others all agreed with me
afterwards-was quite fair advan-
tage to take And she used to be on
the basketball team when she was in
college, and she was awfully strong. II
is no disgrace to be overpowered by
] such a strong person, and carried up.
stairs, and locked in your room-and
then to be told through the keyhole
that you are to stay there until you are
sorry. suppose that is the way
George the Third would have treated
| John Hancock IL he could.
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Do Your Feet Ache and eurn7
Shake into your shoes. Aliens Foot
Ease, powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet. Corns
and Bunicrs. At all Druggists ard
Shoe Stores. Csc Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmstcd, Leroy, N. Y.
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Not a Repeater.

"Thcse old proverbs make me
weary sighed the professor
whats the matter now?" queried
the other half Of the sketch.
Here's one that says History re-
peats ITSELF" replied the learned par
son, land any schoolboy knows that
isn't true Chicago Daily News.
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Nothjno OOinQ.

81 don't think I'll wager with you,
said the baker, you haven't the
dough"
"That may be-" replied the butcher,
'but | don't see you putting up any
takcs"-Dcston Commercial Bulletin
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Vain Pursuits.

Miss Riche-Jack is man after my
own heart.
(, Cholly-Aw, what a lucky chap!
Miss Richc-Not necessarily. lie
won't get it.
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lust Like a Poem.

"This is what / get for proposing to
that literary girl"
what is 1t, old man?'
"Why, she just writes on card ID.
w. r."
what does that mean?"
Declined with thanks. Chicago
News.
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am sure Piso' s Cure for consumption saved
my life three years ago.-Mr:. TIIos. ROBBINS.
Maple Street. Norwich. N. ". Feb. II. 1900.
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One man seeks justice while another
mar fees from it.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price. 7oc.
EnViablc.

eyes," said the nervous man, i
have a habit of talking in my sleep"
And the eminent citizen who IS ex'
pected to respond to an ovation IN
every town that the train goes through
murmured:
"What a valuable accomplishment"
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It is belts. to be too fast asleep than
slow when awake.
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THE FREE KIDNEY DOCTOR

Tho rCasOn you can Ser
this trial free Is because
they euro kidney Ills and
will prove 1t to you.
WEST BRANCH, MICK
Doan's Kidney Pills hit the
case, which was an unusual
desire to urlnat e. had to get
up five or six times Of a night.
Think diabetes was well un.
der why, the feet md ankles
swclled. There was an in.
1.,nse pain In the back, the
heat Of which would feel like
putting ones hand up to .
lamp chimney. l nave used
tho free trial and two full
boxes of Doan's Pills with tho
satisfaction Of feeling that I
am cured. They are the rem.
edy par excellence"
3. F BALLARD.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-06
Cars For Wheat Refused.

Chickasha, |. t., July 30.-Super
intendent A. NJ. Gruber OF Chicago
general supt. fthe Rock Island road
has ordered dispatchers and station
agents to refuse to furnish any more
empty cars to move the wheat crol
until the stations and division
points are cleared of loaded wheat
cars waiting to go forward. The or
der has caused CONSERVATION among
che farmers, as the towns are conges
ted with loads of wheat. Every ele
vator is full to overlooking anC
there is no place to store the grain
At several towns west of here tn
farmers have dumped their wheat OIL
sheets on theground near the tracks
hoping to get the cars soon. II {
rain should come all this grain would
be spoiled.
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Danville, ILL.,, Mob Leaders Are in Jail.

Danville, ILL.,, July 81 The grand
jury will convene Monday to indict
che leaders Of the mob who burned
the negro, James Wilson. last Satur.
day night. Eleven persons, charged
with being the leaders OF the mob,
we're arrested yesterday afternoon.
Five who are in a hospital for treat
ment are closely guarded.
The floating negro population has
almost disappeared and the negroes
who live here are keeping very quiet
Some few have ventured out heavily
armed, but in each case officers have
relieved them Of their weapons ani
sent them home.
Some OF them openly declare thai
they will fight to the death rather
than be driven from their homes
Feeling 10 still strong and there may
be further trouble. The officers say
however, that they are prepared t.
suppress any lawlessnees.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-06
Ruined BY Bolt of Lightning.

Lexington, July 31.-The Henry
Clay monument in the Lexington
Cemetery was struck by q bolt Of
lightning during a storm and the
head OF the statue on top OF the
monument was knocked to the
ground, q distance of 100 feet. break
ing the nose and scattering the base
OF the monument where it struck.
The corner stone Of the Clay monu.
ment was lai on July 4, 1857, and
was completed in 1851, at cost Of
$50, 600.
Sculptors who viewed the work Of
the storm say that it will beimpossi-
BILE to repair the damage to the
monument and that entire new statue
will have to be made, IL being ascer.
tanned that thegranite was oiinierior
quality and that the neck Of the
statute ives entirely too small for the
head, which weighed 800 pounds.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-06
NET on THEIR WEDDING DAY.
Red Ribbon Told Bridegroom Whom to
Greet.

Guthrie, Ok, July 30. Robert H.
Force, 76 years old, of Evansville, a
Union soldier, and Mrs. Ellen P. Hus-
ton aged g., of Augusta, Kss were
married here to-day. The wedding
was the elimination Of a romance
begun a year ago, when the BRIDE
groom received an answer to a mat
rimonial advertisement from the
bride. The letter was followed by an
exchange Of photographs.
Today, when a northbound train
arrived, the bridegroom was on the
platform wearing red ribbon and
the bride stepped from the train
wearing a similar badge. A hurried
embrace. a walk to theiustice's court
and the marriage followed.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-06
Three Killed by Lightning.

Lynchburg, Va, July 80. Three
persons were killed and more than a
score injured by lightning at New
Hope church Appomatox county,
this afternoon.
The dead: Paul Gowen, Charles
Austin and Aubrey Wingiried.
Among the more seriously injured
are: Eugene Turner, Nathaniel Nor.
ris, Tom Coleman and N. Patterson.
A meeting Of the James River Bap.
fist Association was in progress and
q number Of men took refuge from
the storm under an awning near the
building.