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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-08
THE MYSTERY
OF A BRACELET
Copyright. lsoG, by Daily Story Pub. Oo.)
HHOOD-BY Ted! Would you mind
II taking my bracelet in to Smith's?
~ JESSIE p. WHITAKER

"HOOD-BY Ted! Would you MIND
II taking my bracelet in tosmith's:
1t is broken"
Eleanor Lansing stood on the veran
da of her summer home at Magnolia
Theodore Maxwell, taking the bracelet
smiled as he replied:
1T will serve as an excuse to come
down here again, Nell"
Tied! AS If you needed an excuse. y
well, after last night" he began
what about last night7 Didn't
dance with you three times?"
Eyes. But 50 you did with La Grange,
and several times you sat out with
him. He gave you this bracelets"
"Well, yes, he wanted me to accept
it, but shall not keep it. I'll wear 1t
awhile to please him. 1t is family
heirloom which has descended to him.
Phillip La Grange comes Of fine old
family-spanish, believe"
Eyes, he looks grand and gloomy
enough to be Spanish grandee."
II think re is handsome with his
dark, melancholy eyes,"
"This is a handsome thing, anyway"
examining the bracelet of heavy gold
links with a clasp set with opals and
diamonds. "Good-by, Nell!" and Max
well was gone.
A week later the bracelet was re-
turned with note expressing Max
wells regret that he could not return it
in person as he wished.
Eleanor examined the bracelet, then
leaving it lying on the snowy cover of
her bureau, went to drive. When
dressing for dinner she tossed it on the
bed, where her dress of cream chiffon
lay.
"Oh, Anna! What is this red strain
on my bureau scarf?"
'1'm sure it wasn't there when I put
1t on" replied her maid. While ar
ranging the drapery of Eleanor's dress.
Anna exclaimed: "Why, here is a
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-08
CRUDE WIRELESS OUTFIT.
Eighteen-Year-old Iowa Boy Displays
Ingenious Skill in Making In
struments Of His Own.

Willie Peeler, aged Is, has completed
. set of wireless telegraph instruments
from makeshift materials, says the Fort
Dodge Ua-) correspondent of the New
York Herald.
In July young Peeler attended lee
ture on liquid air and wireless telegra-
ply. He was so impressed that he re-
NAMED after the lecture for further in
vesigation. The lecturer was meeting
others. and did not have time to an
swer the questions nut by the youth.
This, however, did not deter the lad from
making careful inspection of the in
struments. :.
Il. can make that, and I'm going to
have one," he remarked to a compan-
ion. And he did. His patience is shown
in the induction coil which he made. 1t
has 21k miles of fine wire " ound by hand
on a reel and required all of his even
ings for week. Each layer of wire is
Vanished and padded with layers Of
newspaper. Its power is sufficient to pro-
duce waves that will carry q mile. y,
Two copper plates we're necessary to
complete his system, but his limited
means derived from clerking in q
grocery store. did not permit of his buy
ing them 1t 50 cents each. Nothing
daunted, he took two empty lard cana
and from the tops of these made the
necessary plates.
Silver filings in a glass tube comprised
another needed part. An aluminium
cap and q sewing machine needle were
made to answer.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-08
CAPTIVE SAVED BY sToRK.
Bird Carried . Message from Moorish
Prison to Quiet Town in
Distant Norway.

The story is told of how, many years
ago. some English captives In Moor j..
fsh prison were rescued through the
means Of famous old hymn tune. A
British man-of-war had anchored on
q port near Algiers which was notorious
for the pirate craft that it harbored. At
night, while all the crew except the
watch were asleep, voice was heard
somewhere on shore singing q we'll
known air. Some of the ships officers
were quickly summoned, and as they
listened and the singers voices-for
others had joined in-became louder
and clearer. they recognized the notes
of the grand "Old Hundred"
Guessing rightly enough that some OF
their fellow countrymen lay imprisoned
in the Moorish fortress, the captain gave
orders for the small boats to get out
Then a strong landing-party Of we'll
armed seamen swiftly rowed In to shore,
and, taking the guard by surprise,
stormed the fortress. In very short
time the captives, three in number, were
safe on board the man-of-war.
Wonderful as this rescue may appear.
it is perhaps surpassed by the story OF
liberty. Conrad was Norwegian, and
as q boy had made pet Of stork
which regularly visited his town. Year
after year the bird returned to where
it was always fed, to build it's nest upon
the house roof and rear its brood OF
young.
While he was hardly more than boy
Conrad went to sea, and had the mis-
fortune to be captured by Algerian pi-
rates. With many of his shipmates he
was sold into slavery. For three years
he endured all the hardships and indig-
mites of his Imprisonment, buoyed up
by the hope that an opportunity to es-
cape would some day present itself. At
the end of this period, when he and his
comrades were beginning to despair of
ever seeing their native land again, he
one day saw stork flying about over
head. The sight of the bird recalled to
him his old home, and. he whistled to It
as he had been wont to do with his for
>mer pet. To his great joy the stofk
alighted on the ground near him and
came up as If expecting to be fed.
Conrad had no food with him at the
time. But the next morning he saved
a portion of his breakfast with which to
feed the bird. For several days he re-
peated this, until the stork became quite
friendly. The thought now flashed into
his mind: Why not make messenger
of the stork? It would be flying north
ward in a little time and might prob
ably find its way to some Norwegian
town. He determined to make the ex-
pertinent, and having scrubbed few
lines on a scrap Of tough paper, he tied
the latter securely to the birds leg In
due course, when the time Of migration
came round, the stork winged its way
from the African shore to the northern
regions.
AS chance would have it, the stcrk
which he had elected to make his mes
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-08
The Lantern Fly Of Brazil.

The Chinese have a lightning bug
which they call a candle fly and it 10
OF great brilliancy. But the largest Of
all the luminous flies is the lantern fly
Of Brazil, which grows to be three
inches long and six inches in expanse
Of wings. BY day this lantern fly Is
mass OF rich and striking colors and
By night It shines with the greatest
brilliancy In fires of rose and silver
white.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-08
Bull Chews Tobacco.

The donkey who was a connoisseur In
tobacco must look to his laurels. I'm
Aden," says a correspondent. Il once
saw a young Somali bull that not only
chewcd lighted cigarettes but also
washed his meals down with half pint
II neat rum. Tommy (the bulls name)
was the property Of Capt Craig, the skip
per Of the local steamer Falcon. He
was liked on board and was, despite his
1issipated habits. a great favorite With
the native crew."-London News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-08

A Russian immigrant of tender age
was being registered in q downtown
Philadelphia school. The teacher
questioned: What is your manner"
'Katinka," replied the child. ''And
your fathers name?" II never hat
enc" came the quick response.
Then tell me your mothers lame, !"
again said the teacher. kindly. Il
never hat no mudder neither" an
swered Katinka, seriously; Il vas
born OF my gran'mudder,"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-12-08
Pas Opinion.

Gay, pa" Queried little Johnny
Bumpernickle, where IL Council
Bluffs?" 7
There are some council bluffs at
the city hail. my son." replied the old
man.-Cincianau Enquirer.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
THE PRICE OF SUGAR.
Increased since Tariff on Cuba
Product Was RcsIuoeJ

Increased since Tariff on Cuban
Product Was Reduced.
All grades OF refined sugar have adj
vanced cents a hundred pounds.-New
York Evening Post.
And comparison with year ago
shows that prices are up 10 cents
hundred pounds over last August.
Now the Evening Post proves in every
edition that not the Sully corner, but
the Dingley law, raised the price OF
cotton last winter to point where it
closed the mills, and that not the pack
ers' strike, but the Dingley law, has
increased the price of meat. OF course
also the reduction of the tariff duties
on sugar from Cuba was all going into
the pockets of the consumers. They
were not to pay as much as they had
been paying for sugar. They were to
pay less. But after the duties on Gu
ban sugar were reduced the consumers
actually pay more. There is nothing
to equal the hard luck of profession
al free trade orgau.-New York Press.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
ONE ARGUMENT ANSWERED.

Our Democratic critics are claim
ing that there has been great Increase
in the expense of conducting the insti-
tutions of the state, educational, bene-
violent and reformatory, arguing from
this that the Republican administra-
ton has been wasteful and extrava-
CANT, if not corrupt. They compare
present expenses with those under
their administration in 1872, show
ing running expenses in that period in
creased from $1,57S,o00, to $3,71S,000,
which is rate considerably greater
than the rate of increase of population
in the state. They do not note, how
ever, that the expense per capita for
the inmates, patients and students of
those institutions was just the same
in 1922 as in 10000, showing that
the management is now as economical
as it was then, and that the in
stitutioDs are caring for greater pro-
portion Of the people of the state now
than then, and so more completely ful-
filling the purposes of their establish
ment.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
MOST VITAL ISSUE.
The Attempt of Democracy to XIII
Protective Tariffs.

The Attempt of Democracy to XIII
Protective Tariffs.
The Democratic party in national
convention at st. Louis declared pro-
lection to be robbery. The leading
Parker organs are avowed enemies of
the protective tariff, says the Troy
Times. The foremost Democratic ora
tors, such as Bourke Cochran, are
avowed free traders.
The most important economic issue
now before the American people is the
question of the tariff, as it is the most
vital issue in other countries of the
globe. On this question the Democrat
ic party and it's leaders have been con-
sistently opposed to the protective
tariff. Everybody remembers Grover
Cleveland's free trade message. The
Democratic party has placed itself on
record again and again as opposing a
tariff whose intent is the protection OF
the wage Garner. And now with blind
boldness the Democrats at ST. Louis
reiterate their parrot cry that protec-
ton is robbery.
The American workingman, compar-
ing his wages and standard Of living
with those of the cheap labor of for
eign countries, is not willing to plunge
the knife into his own breast by aid
ing any party that intends to break
down the tariff barrier which so equal
ICES conditions as to give to the work
tngman of this country the wages
which he is receiving.
The voter will be asked to decide be-
tween Theodore Roosevelt and the pro-
tective tariff platform, on which he
stands, and the Democratic party,
which denounces protection as robbery.
There can be no doubt of the result
when men Of common sense are asked
to vote to reduce their wages and to
forego the standard of comfortable liv-
ing, which has made the American
workingman's lot envied the world
over.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
FRED M. WARMERS RECORD AS A
STATE SENATOR.

Fred M. Warner voted in favor of a
bill for the taxation of sleeping cars
in 1895.
Fred M. Warner was one of the
twelve Senators who voted (May 27,
1897 to take the Michigan Central
Charter repeal bill from the commit
tee.
Fred M. Warner voted for the So
called Atkinson railroad taxation bill
at the special session of 1898. Discuss
ing the measure (Senate journal,
1898, page 239) he said:
"a am in favor of the passage of this
BILL While the bill is not, in every
particular. as would like to have seen
it, still | think 1t is in the line of
EQUAL AND JUST TAXATION and
should be passed. The imperfectons,
if any, can be fixed later on"
Fred M. Warner was one of the nine
Senators who voted against tabIing the
bill which provided for the reduction
of railroad fares in the Upper PENN
Sula.
Fred M. Warner was one of the sew
enteen Senators who voted in favor of
increasing the rate of taxation of ex-
press companies in the special session,
called by Governor Pingree, in 1898.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
vILIFlED M'K!NLEY.
SOME NEWSPAPERS THAT ARE
NOW ATTACKING FRED M.
WARNER.
same Tactics Used Against Martyred
President Now Used Against
Warner.

The Detroit Evening News said. ED
TrORIALLY. June 10Th. 1896: "Nir.
Mckinley will be a Willing Tool in the
hands of Congress. He will be a
piece OF clay in the hands Of the poll
ticians, TO be nodded IN accordance
with their own sweet will"
The Detroit Evening News said. ED
ITORlALLY, October odd, 1896. under
the heading THE Mortgaged Candi-
date and the Trusts: 'In other words
he remained Mckinley. And yet his
course was consistent. The man who
Is mortgaged for $11S,00O to Mark
Hanna" etc. ETC., etc,
This was when the Evening News
was trying to defeat Mckinley, and 1t
Imagined that Mark Hanna was a
Bad, Bad Man, so it coupled his name
with that of Mckinley in this sneering
way.
In its crusade against Fred NJ. War
her this year the Detroit Evening
News seems to be warming over its
editorial utterances of eight years ago
against the beloved Mckinley. The
Evening News tried to fool the people
then and failed. The Evening News
Is trying to fool the people now and
1t Will fail again.
Fred Nj. Warner, the Republican
candidate for Governor. an upright
Christian gentleman, capable public
official, a candidate of the people, a
successful business man, a pure pa
triot, is no mans man. He has made
no promises for office, is not tied
up to any interest or combination of
interests, and as Governor he will be
controlled by pure motives and hon
est Judgment In the interest Of all the
people. He is worthy Of the support
of all good citizens.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
INDUSTRIAL CALAMITY.
Enactment of Democratic Tariff
Idens Would Create a Panic.

Gnuctmcnt Oh democratic T0rtn
Ideas Would Create a Panic.
A feature of the st. Louis platform
which is striking and almost sensation
al and which has thus far failed to
demand the attention which it de-
serves is this: ''We denounce protec-
ton as q robbery of the many to en-
rich the few" The logical corollary
Of that proposition is that the Demo
cratic party stands for tariff for rev.
enue only, that If the Democracy could
arrange q schedule of duties it would
make an adjustment that would yield
the biggest revenue and that would ig-
more the question of protection against
the cheap labor of Europe and that
the party is practically committed to
the doctrine of free trade.
Suppose that tariff squaring to the
Democratic theory that protection is
robbery were adopted. What intelli-
gent person can fail to foresee the ire
mendous shock that such a piece Of
legislation would give to American in
dustry? The resulting unsettlement
would create an immediate commercial
crisis. No greater Industrial calamity
could fall on the United States than
the enactment of tariff adjusted to
the st. Louis platform contention that
protection is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Post
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
FACTS OF HISTORY.
Free Trade Tariffs Have Always
Brought Industrial staEnntion.


From 1912 to 1861, about fifty years,
free trade tariffs were followed three
times by industrial stagnation. And
three times a protective tariff led to
industrial activity, financial comfort
and prosperity among the people.
The last seven years have been the
most prosperous in American history.
Industries have been active, markets
at home and abroad have been in
creased, the laboring classes have been
benefited and the wealth OF the coun-
try has been largely augmented.
:. In spite OF these facts of history the
Democratic party in its platform of
1904 denounces the protective tariff~as
robbery and asks the votes of the
country In support of that denuncia.
ton.
So long as the citizen is justified in
defending his own comfort and pros
perity aud in repelling idleness and
consequent poverty, so long will the
Democratic attacks upon the tariff con-
stitute menace that will be fought
with undagging energy.-Troy Times.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28

"The Fred Warner you have known
and have befriended all these years
will be the Fred Warner who is Gov
ernor of Michigan, If the people Of this
state see fit to elect me, and ! premise
to you and to all whose favor ] seek
and expect, that the power behind me
as Governor of Michigan, which ] will
hold as most worthy of attention and
respect, will be the goodwill and es-
TEEN of not only my political friends,
but of our political opponents as we'll,
to be gained and held through honest,
sincere service rendered in behalf of
all the people of our state. am proud
of Michigan, proud of its history and
proud of its present, and If elected Gov
ernor of Michigan, as ! fully expect to
be, will endeavor to see to 1t that no
act of mine shall lessen that pride
which exists in the minds Of all our
states true sons and daughters. Elk
tract from speech delivered by Hon.
Fred M Warner at the State Fair
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
WHO is BEING RoBBEDY
Where Are the Sufferers From the
Protective TarifY System.


Protective Tariff system:
The Republican ticket represents tariff
robbery. -Johnstown Democrat.
Who is being robbed by the tariff?
Certainly not the hundreds of thou
sands of workmen employed in the
protected industries and their families,
and certainly not the other hundreds
Of thousands and their families who
depend for a livelihood upon enter
prises that are prosperous only as the
protected Industries are prosperous.
Surely it cannot be the farmers of the
great west who are the unfortunate
victims Of the much bruited (by the
Democratic press tariff robbery, nor
can 1t be our fellow citizens of the
south. When in the history Of this ma
ton were the working people of the
country so prosperous as they have
been under this same robber tariff?
When did they live so well and enjoy
the pleasures and refnements of life
so much? Where else in the world to-
day do workingmen earn so much, en-
joy so great privileges and count for
so much in the social, political, indus.
trial and financial life of their country
as they do right here in tariff protect
ed America?
Who, then, is being robbed? The
manufacturing east, the agricultural
west and the newly awakened south
are all prospecting famously under the
protected tariff The wOrkinCman and
the capitalist are alike making money
and enjoying life. Who or what re-
mains to be the victim of the so called
robbery? Is the tariff robber?
Should it not be said, rather, that ex-
cepting the sound money policy it is
the most benefcent principle ever in
troduced into American political and
economical life?- McKeesport (Pa.)
Times.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
HARD TIMES GONE BY.
1t II Well For Worlxingmcn to Re-
member the Cleveland Days.

member the Cleveland Days.
Speaking Of hard times, we have only
to go back to the Cleveland admins
tration. The tariff smashing bill knock
ed business skyward. Mills closed.
Only portion Of the people found
employment Prices went down. OF
course they did, for who was there to
purchase? Does not every one remem-
Der the free soup houses for the starv-
ing multitudes who could not get en-
ployment?
What was the use of the butcher
shop advertising meats at q reduced
price when the laborer without work
did not have the price? 1t was tam
TALKING for him to be told that lie
could purchase "a loaf Of bread for a
cent or two less than in good times, for
In good times he would have had 8
cents in his pocket to pay for loaf,
but now If the bread were selling for a
penny he could not procure 1t.
That is what the workingmen must
understand. If they are all at work
at fair wage they have the price Of
bread and meat in their pockets, and
If the price is higher than in trouble
some times they should remember that
1t Is the farmer who is prospecting witt
them, and the farm and the mill are
necessary to each other If there is
to be general prosperity. = Lawrence
(AIass.) American.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
An Inconsruou. COMPUTATION.

With a platform that is silent on the
financial question and presidential
candidate who declares for gold
standard and votes for the free silver
heresy; with a platform that denoun-
ces protective tariff as robbery and
a vice presidential candidate who de-
clares that 1t is essential to national
prosperity, the Democracy presents to
the voters an incongruous combina-
ton, to say the least.--Lowell Mail.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
Should Go Frrrh~- Back.

If Judge Parker goes back twenty
years to compare public expenses be
ought also to go back to Buchanan.
Even going back to Cleveland is mere
ly way Of assailing the army and
navy by cowardly indirection, for the
principal increase in cost Of govern
ment is due to military and naval de-
velopment.-Buffalo News.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28

Fred NJ. Warmers attitude relative
to the taxation of railroads. Interview
in Detroit Free Press, Feb. 90, 1904:
"a should give the roads fair treat
ment and nothing more. They are en-
titled to the same consideration as
private individual or corporation, but
no more. If anybody thinks shall
give the railroads undue consideration,
let him look up my record in the State
Senate and he will find that my votes
were always in favor of making the
railroads bear their just share of the
public burdens"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
Parker md the Trusts.

The alliance between Judge Parker
and the trusts is undisputed by the
well Informed. That is why he is SO
gentle in illusions to them and falls
back on the common law when there
is no common law in the federal jul
dicial power to be used in fighting any
thing. That is the Parker. way of
promising to do nothing. He would be
foxy, but is only foolish.-Buffalo
News.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28

Results thus far obtained in Mich
igan with primary reform pretty thor
oughly demonstrate that the plan a6-
vocated by Candidate Fred M. Warnsr,
who stands squarely on the platform
adopted by the Republican state con-
vention is the safe one to pursue.
Muskegon, Kent, and Wayne counties
are having experiences that may pos
sibly lead to the creation of salts
factory substitute for present nomin-
ating methods. but these counties are
simply experimenting now and have
lound that numerous shortcomings
have yet to be rectified before the sup.
posed reform method possesses the
merit claimed by its champions.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
Al Retter-Wnx.

Says Parker: ;'Elect me president. I
won't hurt you. / can't, because my,
hands will be tied by Republican
senate. Don't be afraid Elect mew
There is a better way than this to tie
his hands. Elect him to stay at home.
Schenectady Union. =.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
GA - TO r. "A.
s Bear. tn. r1h' KIND You Have .!.ay: Bought
S's. ss Z>HzZzzx
Not Looking For Trouble.

Senator Bailey is confident that the
people will be so much Disguised with
Roosevelt that they will be ready to
elect Democrat in 1908. Maybe. may
be. The Republicans are not looking
so far ahead for trouble.-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-10-28
The Ancient Candidate.

David B. Hill says he is too old
for politics, yet he thinks Gassaway
Davis is not too old, and Gassaway
Jersey City Journal.