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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-07-25
NOTICE nor pUBLICATION.

land Office Bismarck N. Oak. fully 81. 1909.
named settler has filed notice Of his intention
to make commuted proof n support OF his claim
:andthar said proof Willie made before Aug. g.
trict of North DAKOTA. at his office III Wash
burn. North Dakota. on September 5. 1903, viz;
Conrad A. johnson, 81. +. No. 1G0l1,
for the southeast quarter of section 10, town
ship 14S, range 81.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cllltiva ton
81 said land, VIZ:
Albert Anderson, Charley Peterson, Carl A.
Under and Otto Hedlund, all Of Malcolm,
North Dakota.
july25 Register.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-07-25
Treasurer's Report.

For Victoria School District. County of Me.
Lean and State of North Dakota. for the year
1902 1908.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-07-25
Swan Nealander..
Contractor and Builder,
v AsHBURN, N. D.

Your attention is invited to the
special offer made in other columns
of this issue. What is home with.
out a paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
He Tells Some of His Exps> riences and Adventures in Paris
sy Ed~a copygh eOs by Robsrt Howard Ruass

and one of 'em calls me Me Lord" and asks how big a city was de Bowery.
 says it was de biggest ting on cart; and at dat bote opens deir patched eyes so wide dey dropped deir windows and says dey recalls something de travellers had wrote about de Dowery. but dey never was on to its size.
 What's it's principal industry, me Lord?' asks one of 'em,
 "Oh," l says. careless like, de prin- cipal industry is boiling Holsters and fry Ing de fat out of suckers
 "Ah, I sec" says de Willie, ''radder by way of being a fishing center. Like our Yarmout, I dare say, me lord"
 You're on" says I, its by way of netting all kinds of fish and we does stunts in de whaling line-Queensberry rules" l says.
 aDats de Lord Mayors American wit, {" says me friend. tipping me de wink.
 Well, after dat deuX book wasn't in de money, and I was putting pints of tizz where dey wouldn't do nobody no harm but me, when, pcheel along comes Mir. Paul. and seeing de New Yorker he stops to give him de gleeful void Den he pipes me off tautful minute and says. "Chim- mie have you bought our tickets for T<.9me?"
 ''I was just on me way. sir" says.
 We've changed our minds" he says, 'sand are off for home. Get staterooms on de ship dat sails tomorrow and go to de hotel and pack me baggage" says he.
 De Willies gasp like gold fish and chases meself. after giving 'em invite to call on me if ever dey lost deir ~ads in de Bowery.
 We'll de next day we was off. and here we is. l haven't been doing a ting but seeing de little old Island of Manhattan, to find out if any of it has sneaked out of town trou de subway. But it's all here, wit de hatiron to boot. Honest, you never know how much New York Is to de good until you've been to form parts. I'm chas- ing around so much dat Duchess says ought to go into de guide business. When I told dat to MT Paul he says dere is wisdom In de woids of Duchess.
 "Dere Is many parts of me native city" he says, dat I know only by de quaint , reports of de novelsts of local color but as dey is mostly color blind" he says, q don't feel dat I've been properly intro duced to me native town yet If you, Chames. will poisonally conduct me about town little, I'll try not to appear too much like a looker-on in Vienna" farmer So dats what I'm doing, and I'll farmer So dats what I'm doing, and I'll tell you about 1t now and dem Mir. Paul being de poisonal party, and me being de poissonal conductor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
GIMME FADDEN'S RETURN

l Duchess being me wife all dis time I'm getting a bit gay wit dat langwudge me- self. By de time family and me had drunk about gallon of blue claret each-are you on to petit bleu?-and de kiddies had got over wondering why l wasn't red-skin- ned, and didn't do rough house wit tom- myhawk, I was parlez-vohs-ing to beat boarding school goil. But when I won seventeen franc from one of me French uncles learning him how to shoot craps, he used some woids what was dead ring CTS to me I asked Duchess what dey was, but she says dere was no woids in English to explain 'em If dats so. Unky must have used some gaudy langwudge, or else Duchess hasn't de neck holt on English my wife ought to have. l was telling MT. Paul about dat, and he says dat when de French takes de boxing gloves off der langwudge, and gets real busy using it wit bare fists, dey makes de woist talk of odder nations around like violets smell.
 But let me tell you: I got in one round of straight English, all right I was floating along de Boulevard of desc Ital- fans one day, wit me stick and me pipe, and de bull dog-what was overweight from de bites he had tok out of French poodles-when a mug wit long hair and black flag for a necktie, pipes me off in straight Manhattan, and says, "Scuse me" he says. Didn't l used to see you in New York;"
 Sure. If you was dere, and out for your healt," I says.
 What are you doing here" he says, putting in wit me and de dog
 De best I can," says l. And it's dry at dat" says I.
 Here's a emtpy table" he says, and we sat down at de sidewalk table, and has deux book. what's as near as de French can come to saying 1.-TWO beers"
 l copped de mug, all right He's a dead swell New Yorker I'd often seen at Mir. Paul's place, but he was in Paris den, playing at being a artist We'll as we was sitting dere deux booking now and then, him saying 1t done him good to hear real New English again. some English Willie boys comes along, each wit one pop eye. and one eye patched wit glass. When me friend sees dat de Englshmen was headed for him, foist he near truns a fit. and den he passes me out hurry whisper: Stand for any game I play" he says. Desc is a cou- pie of tuft-hunters what has near bored me dot deat"
 Sure" l says, not knowing what tuft-hunter was. but wanting to be oblig- Ing. Everything goes" says I. and he tells de Willies to shake hands wit de Lord of de Bowery.
 Dey bot gives me de high hand shake,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
Potato-Rlnqs.

From the London Modern Society.
 Both Lady Dudley and the Duchess of Connaught have discovered specimens of Irish potatoe rings-things almost un- heard of in England. These interesting l objects are very rare and consequently very valuable; good example being worth about el00.
 One which Is at this moment on the table before the present writer is ten or twelve inches in diameter, beautifully pierced with repousse decorations of birds flowers and scrolls. It has been handed down in the County Kilkenny from generation to generation. It bears a coat of arms and hall marks which prove 1t to be at least 1sO years old. The use of these rings was to hold wooden bowl of steaming potatoes at a safe dis tance from the surface Of the dinner table; and to those who know how to ap- preciate potatoes cooked and served as they should be the rings at once recom- mend themselves.
 Today we eat potatoes as a common- place adjunct to meats or fish; the old idea that they are In themselves a dig nifed and satisfying food has long since passed away. Their skin Is ruthlessly peeled off; they are soaked and sodden in tepid water, they are mashed or pow dered, and treated or maitreated in ways that would have outraged and bewiider- ed both Sir Walter Raleigh and the en- thusiasts to whom he handed on his love of the glorious root" Nobody would have much use for rings in these days. and consequently they are only to be found in museums or in old Irish plate- chests where they have lain among fam fly relics and treasures until the very people who have occasionally dusted and polished them have forgotten their orig lnal use and eonsequence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
A GIRLS INVESTMENT.
Bonnie Burnham's Beamlng Smile and
 It's $25,0oo Reward.

l From the Toledo News-Bee.
 Bonnie Burnham of Whiting. Ind, Is a school girl. She attended the convent of Mercy at Pensacola, Fla, and one day while walking with her mother she no- ticed an old man sitting on bench in the sun. Bonnie didn't know the man, but she had a sunny disposition and as she pansed she pleasantly smiled at him and asked him If he were enjoying the sunshine. Of course she meant nothing particular by it. It was her nature to be pleasant and sociable. But the old man enjoyed that good natured smile and pleasant word. He was a wealthy man, so far as material wealth goes, but he was poor, indeed in another way-he had no relatives or particular griends. He sought out Bonnies parents and asked the privilege of meeting her. As re- suit of that days greeting, he became friend of the family. When he died he left Bonnie a fortune of S25.000.
 Some people will think the s25,Ooo leg acy is the important thing in this story. But 1t isn't. The money may do Bonnie more harm than good. Anyhow, she al- ready has something that Is worth 0 great many times $25, 900. In fact, 1t is something money can't buy--a sunny dis position. It cost her nothing to be pleas ant. Good nature Is something that gives happiness to the happy possessor, and to everybody else. It feeds upon it. self; and the more 1t is used for others the better 1t grows. Probably the old man was enjoying the sunshine, but the friendly smile and greeting that Bonnie gave him was something rarer than sun shine. It was the sunshine of beauti- full human soul not yet obscnred by self ishness and foolish conventfonality. Some girls would have thought 1t very bad form to smile at a stranger and to speak pleasantly to him without the for mality of an introduction.
 But Bonnie Burnham didn't. She wasn't that kind of a girl Her goodness was not tied down by the bonds of eti-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05

one in six. and is, moreover, exceedingly rough and boulder strewn; so much so, in fact, that MT. Grierson was several times jerked from his machine. In spite of all obstacles, however, he managed to reach an altitude of 4,O0O feet. at which point his progress was barred by the snow
 At well-Snown London music hall short time ago a MT. Coles gave some sensational performances in order to demonstrate the control which an expert driver can exercise of a motor car. platform, supported by strong baixs of timber, was constructed some feet above the stage and approached by a steep chute on one side and steps on the other. MT. Coles each night ascended the chute at quick rate came to a dead stop in the length of the car, and then drove 1t down the steps on the other side of the platform, again pulling up the car in its own length.
 The daring nature of the feat was in- creased by the fact that there was no edge or ridge whatever at the ends of the stairs, so that a mistake of quarter of an inch would have resulted in the pluclSy driver running a very great risk of losing his life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
THE NEWS FROM LONDON

Sir Wrid Laurier Popular in Engiand-Canadan Emera> don-Horrors of Crowded Ships-Kings Visit to Ireland
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05

Max o'Relrs last book! It is difficult to realize that we shall not have another of his good humored volumes In Ram bles in Womanland he congratulates America on the absence of the single eye szlass. French and English parasites. ! ae says. advertise their usefulness by this exhibition of the single eyeglass without a string. And with 1t on they eat talk, smoke, run. laugh and sneeze-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05

quette. It was free and frank. It spoke right out. She had no thought of re- ward. A smile and a pleasant reply were as much return as she expected from the old man. The real reward was in her own friendly act She enjoyed being pleasant to others.
 Now, if the old man hadn't left her fortune of $25,000 we probably would never have heard of Bonnie's smile. That's what gave the story news value to the newspapers So the old man did his share in his own peculiar way. He started that Bonnie smile on it's travels around the world It will inspire pleas ant thoughts wherever the story is lead. It doesn't make so much difference wRat becomes of the money, so long as Mt brings no harm to Bonnie. We hope N won't do that although we are a bit sus- picious of money Too much of 1t Is often bad thing. But the smile won't die out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
Job Lot of kInqs.
Republica,

From the Springfield Republican.
 The little tawdry prince" who has spent most of his life in Swiss boarding houses, now becomes King-sixty-two inches of him-and monarchical Europe will give him the grip and password. King Peter I, bows low and enters, the newest bargain counter sample of roy atty. As for us, give us MT. Castro or any other South American dictator. Even Venezuela compares favorably with Eu- ropes job lot of Balkan kingdoms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
What the Old Home Needs.
i the Indianapolis Journal.

From the Indianapolis Journal
 The annual convention of the Kentucky Educational Association opened with the several hundred delegates singing My Old Kentucky Home" and the first busl- ness done was the introduction of a res- olution showing that l5 per cent of tho white voters in the state can not read or write. and that In thirty-eight counties the whole body of native white voters Is tainted with from 20 to 3e per cent of H. llteracy. My Old Kentucky Home" seems to be in need of an educational housekeeping.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
BY HENRY pEvEREAux.

and 1t sticksl Wonderful. simply won derful" What would he say of the ladies who use the monocle-a fashion that Is reviving? At the theatre the other even ing lady in private box showed off a very prety hand in manipulating her monocle. She did not fix 1t in her eye but held 1t there with a thumb and two fingers. By the way, Max O'Rell's chap ter Beware of the Finishing Touch" is full of good advice to women who, when dressing, are unwilling to let well enough alone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
Good Team Work.

From the Hartford Post.
 Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Little Bristow are doing some great team work in chasing postal scalawaggery off the roof
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
SOME AUTOMOBILE FEATS
 IN MOUNTAIN CLIMBING

From the Baltimore Herald. With a view to proving his skill as a motor car driver, Danish chaffeur per- formed novel feat at Copenhagen. re- gently. Those readers who have visited the capital of Denmark are doubtless acquainted with the old round tower, with its winding, stepless stairway to the top. Altogether the tower is 12o feet in height, the stairway being only twelve feet across at its widest part.
 Tradition has 1t that Peter the Great, Czar of all the Russias, once drove up 0 the top in a four-horse vehicle. What ever truth there may be in this story, however, the aforementioned automobile driver determined to emulate the feat in more up-to-date style, and was sue cessful in taking his car to the top in exactly one minute.
 The task of steering round and round within the limited space of twelve feet was most difficult to accomplish, and every moment the car was in danger of collidinR with the wall. But a miss Is as good as a mile, and although the driver only escaped the wall on several occa- sions by hairs bredth, he kept his head and always averted the threatened col- lision.
 What is undoubtedly one of the most sensational steering performance on rec ord was that accomplished by we'll known English chaffeur some time ago, when several lives depended upon his skill and coolness.
 He was driving car containing par ty of ladies, and missed changing speeds at the top of one of the steepest hills in Devonshire. The car commenced to run backward, and, as the sprag and brake failed to act, 1t seemed for a mo- ment as though the whole party would be dashed to pieces The driver how ever, gripped the steering wheel tightly and steered the car safely down the hill backward at a speed of forty miles an hour, and up the opposite hill, until 1t was brought to a standstill by the gra- dient.
 A Michigan Mans Feet.
 By riding his car up the steps of the state capital at Lansing, Mich, MT. Eff Doan established the worlds record in gradient climbing. Altogether there are twenty-five steps to the capitol, each having a rise of six inches and width of thirteen and half inches, making an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05

actual grade of fl per cent. On a smooth incline this would have been record climb, the previous best being on a plank incline of not quite iS per cent. The steps, of course, made the task much more difficult and everybody anticipated that the driver would fail Tn his effort.
 Running his car at SLOW speed to the foot of the steps, MT Doan applied the hill-elimbng gear and mounted the first few steps gradually and slowly. When about half the ascent had been made, however, the full power was applied and the car quickly mounted to the top.
 The car or which MT. Doan accomplish ed this daring feat which, by the by, was witnessed by the governor of the state and crowd of legislators was of the light gasoline type, which he had ridden for three years over all kinds of roads. But his performance on the Lam sing capital steps was the first time MT. Doan had attempted anything in the way of extraordinary driving.
 How mountains can be climbed by mo- tor cars was demonstrated recently by MT. Webb Jay, of Denver, Col, who, in company with a friend, crossed the Rocky mountains in an automobile. Leav- ing Denver at 4 o'clock one Saturday afternoon. MT. Jay made direct for the mOSQultO pass. Here the aQIOnODlllStS faced terrible grade, composed mainly of broken rock. The machine worked ad- mirably, however although the great power necessary to propell it often sent the wheels spinning round on the loose rock, which would be sent flying back on the road more than 100 feet.
 Naturally the wear on the tires was terrific, and MT. Jay soon found that one of the outer castings was nearly worn through. He had provided himself with extra tires for such an emergency, al- though he did not put on new one un- til the damaged tire burst, about mile from the top.
 After great struggle the car mounted to the summit, to the delight of the auto moblists and the ultimate astonishment of the citizens of Denver, who had freely laid large sums of money against the feat being accomplished.
 Climbing a Mountain.
 Even more remarkable, perhaps was the performance of MT. Dudley Grierson, who some time ago endeavored to ascend Ben Nevis in Scotland, on a motor bicy- cle of 1% horse power, and would have succeeded had he not been stopped by the snow on the mountain. The path up Ben Nevis has an average gradient of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-29
ANCIENT EPHEsUS.
Interesting and Successful Work by
 An American Expedition.

Phladelphld Ledger.
 Extensive excavations are being made | at Ephesus by an American expedition,
 and the work has thus far met with much success. That the discoveries are of the
 highest historical and archaeological in-
 terest Is manifest. as Ephesus was es-
 sentially the arena in which the luxury of the East was destined to do battle with the more spiritual culture of the Hell lenic world. According to tradition. the origin of the city was Oriental. The Am azons were said to have been it's found- CTS; but it was not long before Andro- GUS, son of Codrus the Athenan, led a colony thither. The Hellenic element waxed strong. Ephesus became one of the twelve great Ionic cities of Asia, and its prosperity was due to the cult of the famed Diana of the Ephesians" in the first place, and subsequently to the city having become a great center of trade.
 Diana" of course. is only the transla- tion of "Artemus," found in the Greek Testament; and the latter is merely the name given by the Greeks to the great nature goddess of the East, appearing among many peoples under many names,
 Ishtar, Ashtoreth, etc, a conception far removed from the chaste deity of the Greeks. The permanence of the Hellenic element was due largely to the situation or the clty III the 1erule pidln oL Ine
 Cayster and the excellent harborage fur
 ther improved by an artificial canal. which
 brought the trading vessels right up to
 the city walls. Hence Ephesus became
 a great commercial emporium, so much
 so that under the Roman Empire she is
 found striving for imperial recognition as
 the chief city of Asia, against Smyrna and UergamuS.
 The city. thoroughly Hellenic in its ar
 rangement. occupied the high ground of
 Mount Coressus, and, to a less extent
 Mount Prion. The great gymnasium lay in the plain to the west of the former.
 and immediately behind it was the fo-
 rum, the scene of the riot mentioned in Acts xix. The theatre was also situated in this quarter, cut in the side of the
 mount; the Odeum lay to the south, and the Magnetism gate to the southeast. All
 three were connected by a road. The great temple, one of the seven wonders of the world. was some distance from the city, and the sacred procession, after leaving it, was wont to enter the city by the Magnetism gate. and to return by he Coressin gate, which lay to the north of the mount. Not only trade flourished at Ephesus but also art and letters; Her adclitus, one of the founders of Greek philosophy and Hermodorus, who assist ed in the decemviri at Rome to draw up the laws of the future mistress of the world. were both Ephesians. But great as she was. she only enjoyed brief mo- me :nts of freedom--.at least, as under stood by the Greeks. Lydia. Persia, Mac
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-29
KINDNESS MEANT.

Mir Thompson does but do me justice when he expresses the conviction that | would not intentionally misrepresent him. mere is not an honorable man in Alaba ma WHO Deneves |! would intentionally mlsrepfesent anybody. 1 remain free from the charge of Intentionally msreprcsent- ing individuals or facts of news-I never learned how to do so and 1 am now too set in my ways to learn the thing This much IS as much my due as the mutton chops l pay for in the cafe
 what was meant by the term "mys- teriously, as applied to MT. Thompson S sudden disappearance from Washington, at the moment when hs sympathetic friends believed him to be doomed to two weeks of virtual imprisonment in uuaran- tlne. was that few of those friends were aware of his happy good fortune in es- caplng rom such intoerable conditions. The spirit of good fellowship which was so manifest in the statement of facts was so heartily we'll meant that MT Thomp- son protest pains one who has been happy in serving him in many days that are gone. MT Thompson had been some four and twenty hours absent from Wash 1ngton before The Advertiser correspond- ent became aware of the able Congress- mans departure.
 congressman Clayton incidentally in- formed this correspondent that MT. Thompson had departed from Washing ton, and 1t seems that no other news paper man here had previously been in- formed of that important particular,
 MT. thompson s great good-heartedness ms unfailing courtesy, his rema rka ble amiability, and the wide and eminently worthy scope of his brilliant individual achievements in the greater world. to- gether with his religious fervor, combine to keep him free from any possible hurt ticular
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-29
An Inconsiderable Remark.

PlttSburg Dispatch.
 Whenever l hear story that seems to me to be particularly good I am inclined (so skeptical is human nature) to won- der if it is new or chestnut. The Sun- spotter told me this story and shared my skepticism about its newness. All those persons who have heard it before will please be silent
 Clancy had a black eye and thus ex. plained it.
 Sure, an got ut in the most inner. cent way possible. I see Mrs. Murphy an I sez to her. sez l: 'Uts q fina marn. in, Mrs. Murphy sez l. It is,' sez she An where are yez goin?' sez I. TO the bargain sthore.' sez she An with thal walked down tn sthrate wi her.
 "Whin We come to tn sthore they wu. cr-rowd an, sez she. 'Hould tn baby minute till I come back an I .hild tn kid.
 An thin Murphy come up. How ar-r' ye" sez he. Oh. I'm holdin me own. sez l. 'Ye're liar sez he, ap' thin h, hit me"