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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-01-07
ONE NEGRo,s coNscIENcH.
Story d John Mitth,ws, whe Was
One OF Natures NIB msn.

0bV4y Va lVAM v~S
One Of Natures NIB msn.
Some years ago, says Booker 7.
w Washington, in the Century,
when visiting a little town in
western Ohio, / found a colored
man who made an impression up
on me which / shall never forget.
This mans name was Matthews.
When I saw him he was about 60
years Of age. In early life he had
been a slave In Virginia.
AS a slave Matthews had
learned the trade of a carpenter,
and his master, seeing that his
slave could earn more money for
him by taking contracts in yari-
GUS parts Of the countryin which
he lived, permitted him to go
about to do so. Matthews, how
ever, soon began to reason, and
naturally reached the conclusion
that II he could earn money for.
his master, he could earn 1t for
himself.
So, In 1853, or about that time.
he proposed to his master that he
would pay $500 for himself, .
certain amount to be paid in cash
and the remainder in yearly in.
stalments.. Such a bargain as
this was not uncommon in Wiz.
ginia then. The master, having
implicit confidence in the slave,
permitted him, after this contract
was made, to seek work wherever
he could secure the most pay. The
result was that Matthews secured
a contract for the erection of q
building in the state of Ohio.
While the colored man was at
work in Ohio the union armies
were declared victorious, the civil
war ended and freedom came to
him, as it did to 100000 other
slaves.
When he was declared a free
man by Abraham Lincoln's proc
lamation, Matthews still owed hi,
former master, according to his
ante-bellum contract, $500. AZ
Mr.. Matthews told the story to
me, he said that he was perfectly
we'll aware that by Lincoln's proc
lamation he was released from al
legal obligations, and that in. ths
eye Of n%ine.tenths Of the world HI
was released from all moral obi
cations to pay his former master
a single cent of the unpaid bal
ance. But he said that he wanted
to begin his life Of freedom will
q clean conscience. In order tt
do this, he walked from his hem,
in Ohio, a distance Of 800 miles
much Of the way over the noun
tains, and placed in his forme:
masters hand every. cent of TIL
money that he lladpromised year
before to pay him for his free
dom.
Who will be brave enough t,
say that such a man is not fit t,
, use the ballot, is not fit for citizen
shin?
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United States. The pressure ar
some wells is enough to carry the
gas to distant cities, and the light
obtained is 90 per cent. better
than that of artificial coal gas.
One of the effects Of the revolu.
tion will probably be to draw new
industries to the vicinity Of
Heathfeld. Iron mills and glass
factories may be established
there if the supply holds out.
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TO The ABOVE NAMED pEFaspAxrs:

To THE ABOVE NAMED D~EFfSDAxTs:
The object Of the action entitled in the above
summons is ro quiet the title OF Henry II. Kappa
to that tract u land III the City of Hope. Steele
County, North Dakota, deserted as follows: to-
wit, viz: Lots IL, IL. and IL in Block y, Of the
townsite Of Hope. The said plaintiff ciaias to be
the owner in !ee Thereof ana seeks to nave deter
mined a.ll adjligcd yoid the adverse claims pf
the defendants natnel in said summons, and to
exclude said defuili llts from anv interest in said
land. The complaint Isl said action has been filed
In the office Of the Clerk of Tie District Court,
Steele County, North Dakota.
MuRRILL & ENGRRuD,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Fargo, n. D.
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THE "FAsT1NG cuREs."
Would Benefit Average American i
Adopted IN Moderatass.

A man of Scranton, Pa, being
unfortunately a paralytic, recent.
~ conceived the idea or was by
some exponent Of "fast cure" i'm
bued with it that abstinence
from food for 3 period Of 40 days
-"going through the wilder.
ness. as a faith.curist with q
somewhat numerous following q
few years ago designated it,
would relieve his disability. Hav:
ing accomplished about half his
"stunt' he died. This does not
prove, says the Portland Oregon.
Ian, that fasting within proper
limits is not beneficial. 1t merely
shows that this victim overdid
the thing.
1t is generally conceded that
the American people eat too
much. Beginning with infants, it
is the habit of very many mothers
to feed them-some of the more
old-fashioned still suckle them
every time they cry, and as con
slant distention Of the stomach
causes them to be uncomfortable
they cry most of the time, and
hence are fed most of the time,
Surviving this surfeit for a few
years, they go around constantly
as children with q .piece" in their
hands, are troublesome at meal
time because not hungry, and
come to their school days with
weakened digestion, headache
and a minor train of ills that
make them intractable, and to the
compassionate, objects Of pity
This stuffing process keeps on il
many instances through life, OF
until stomach troubles" render
it impossible.
Some explain this habit o.
overeating as the result Of eheal
and abundant food in this coun
try, while others, barking back /,
few generations, declare that boil
overeating and fast eating, an
other American sin, result from
the pinched conditions OF earl,
colonial and western pionee:
times, wherein food was not plen
tiful, and in order to get one
share at the family board it wa
necessary to dispose Of the foo,
rapidly. In other words, the fac
that it one did not eat his allotte,
portion quickly, another who's
appetite was unappeased woul
appropriate it.
Whatever the canse, the enec
is with us. Fasting is the othe
extreme, but very few press til
limit in this direction. The Scra1
ton man to whom reference j
above made is by no means alon
in the attempt to drive diseas
out of his body by severe fastin,
but relatively few persons hav
gone to their death from vOlu,
tary starvation, while glutton
has slain it's thousands. INTEL
gent people are eompelle
through humanity or courtesy
sympathize with q multitude {
sufferers, including themselve
whose ills are primarily at leal
due to oyerfeeding. This bein
true, the fasting cure,' mode
ately and prudently apple,
could scarcely fail to confer
!: beneHt upon mankind.
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sTArH OF NORTH DAKOTA.
County If Steele.
Henry a. Kappa
IN DISTRICT COURT.
THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

IN DISTRICT COURT,
THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Henry h. Kappa, Plaintiff,
ys.
Charles Il. El;ss and Ms. Bogart, Defeadants.
SUMMONS.
IKE rArE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO rH7 ABOVE
NAMED DErENDaNTs:
You and each of you are hereby summoned IN
answer the complaint in this action and to
serve a copy OF your answer u; Oh the subscribers
within thirty days after the service Of this sum-
mons upon you, exclusive OF the day Of service,
and in case of your failure IL appear or answer
judgement will be taken against ynu b. default
for the relief demanded ia the Complaint.
Dated at Fargo, N. d, this Seth day Of
November 1908.
MoRRILL & ESaaRcD.
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Fargo, N, o.
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Many Descendants.

About 100000 cattle are now
said to be found in the Argentine
Republic. They are said to be all
descendants Of eight cows and one
bull which were taken to Brazil in
the sixteenth century.
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Write it 1902.
For a farm or ranch, call on
F. D. Woodworth.
See Us For Real Estate Loans
n. B. cASSELL& co. Sherbrooke.
Il. MCLAUGHLIN. S$c'y.

E. NJ. Sitter, AGENT FOR THE
ENTERPRISE STEAM LAUNDRY co
MINNEAPOLIS, WILL SHIP AS FOL-
Lows: Dec, 7-21. Jan. 4-18.
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notice.!

The Hope Creamery Company
returns duplicate weight tickets
with every can of cream received,
and renders an itemized state
ment of the same each month.
32tf.
The Washington times., 1904-04-10
Ministerial Horse Exnerts-

The yarn-spinning contingent of the
cloak room does not claim as a member
Representative Lewis of Georgia, who
is a most genial getleman and a strict
churehman. A friend asked Mr. Lewis
II he had been out TO the races, and the
reply was:
mo; but 1 confess / would like to see
a race, II no money was bet / am a
great lover of good horses, and believe
they should be raced, but not for money.
Did you know that some of our Metho-
dist ministers could give the race track
people some valuable pointers on horses ?
The ministers who are forced to ride
from place to place in the rural dis
tricts to fill their appointments become
splendid judges OF horsefesh. They
know the good and bad qualities of a
horse. and a certificate OF character
from one of these itinerant preachers
would prove OF great commercial value
to frequenters Of the track The time
rant preacher may be careless as to his
personal appearance and comfort, but he
always insists on having a good horse.
John Wesley, no doubt influenced b.
the many obligations he felt under TO
his faithful horses that had carried
him fro-d place to place in his long pill
grima ges, entertained the belief that
The Washington times., 1904-04-10
WORTH WHILE TOLD BY
AND ABOUT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-

Senator Blackburn IS Of the opinion
that few shrewder or more brilliant men
ever lived than s. s. Prentiss.
"Prentiss gave to the world a peculiar
way he secured the acquittal of 81 client
who was on trial for libel" says the
Senator HE said that It was a most
aggravated case so far as facts were
concerned and it looked like his client
would be convicted unless heroic meas
ures were adopted. Prentiss was equal
10 the occasion. as he always was. He
made these points in his argument:
First. that the plaintiffs character
was so bad that it was incapable of in
jury.
Second, that his client was so 1oto-
rious liar that nobody would believe
any statement ne should make. under
oath or otherwise. and, therefore. he
could not be guilty of the offense Of
libel.
THE jury agreed with Prentiss on both
points and acquitted his client"
The Washington times., 1904-04-10
A Paternal Government Looks Carefully
After Their Wealth and Regularly Pays
Them the Income Which 1t Earns.

Y NDOWED with some 5000 more
actual wealth than that pos
IL sessed by the average citizen
or the United States and nearly twice
as well off as the residents of
Brcokline, Aasz.-the worlds rich
est communicate remains for a
tribe OF red men residing in north
ern Oklahoma. ignorant. sIothful as a
rule, and apparently but little removed
from their early state of savagery. to
bear of the palm as the richest people
IN existence today.
1t is not that the members of this
tribe-the Osage-are miIlionaires. They
are not to be mentioned in the same
breath with John D. Rockefeller or Pier
pont Morgan, yet there is this to be
borne in mind: their collective wealth
exceeds that of all other comnunI-
ties. Were all the wealth in the world
70 be divided up. the Usage would re-
ceive far more than you or your next
The Washington times., 1904-04-10
His Memory Was Clear.

That some very old people have MOST
remarkable memories l saw touchingIy
illustrated in a case on trial in court
IN my State" says Representative Hop
kins of Kentucky. "A young limb OF
the law was pushing a case against a
man who was endeavoring to recover
damages for injury to a certain parcel OF
land which had been overlooked by the
breaking Of a dam at a mill pond. The
chief witness for the defense was an
aged citizen, who testified that he had
witnessed the construction of the dam
many years before and that 1t was one
Of the most substantial works Of the
kind in the United States.
Then the young lawyer, one of the
pert young sprigs. crOss-Questioned the
old gentleman. asking If he was 5 ire his
recollection was entirely clear
% 1 am sure 1 am right, apd that my
memory is not at fault was the quiet
answer.
Mr.. -, you are getting old and
your memory surely must fail you at
times?' continued the young lawyer.
''.Yes. sir. 1 am already very old. but
my memory is clear
q" How far back can you remember?
" Fully three-quarters of a century.
80 That's good. Now. Mr.. -, will you
give the court Just one instance, just
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door neighbor or than Morgan or
Rockefeller, for that matter.
s3I6 Per Capita.
To state the figures plainly the aver
age man in the world is entitled TO
1920 worth of property. or $50 per
capita income. The Usage. through a
kind fortune and the goodness OF. hea =
OF the Great White Father who drove
him from HIS earliest haunts. has S. 900
worth of property. and on that caDitai.
ever if he does not lift a finger to in
vest II, he receives from this Govern
ment a per capita income Of S3Is.
To every single member Of the tribe
TO the babe in the cradle. who is Nj
orally born with a silver spoon in It's
mouth. TO the old man lettering on the
brink Of the grave. to male and femaI..
alike this payment IS made without re-
strictions. It is in reality a very SINH
lar payment TO that which the Gov
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YOUNGEST N0TABLES
OF THE PRESENT TIME

The richest baby in the world is said
to be the little son Of the late Harold
Brown, Of Providence, R. 7. The death.
within a few days of each other. Of his
father and his uncle left this youngster
the possessor of a fortune which is es-
timated at between $4,000. 900 and $780,
OO0.OOO
The youngest general IN the world is
Sultan Ahmed Mira, youngest son of
the late Shah of Persia, and brother
of the present Shah. He was born in
1891. and Is therefore only thirteen; but
he is a fun general in the Persian
army. and has a regular staff He
holds reviews Of the troops and plays
soldier with an army corps for a play
thing.
The youngest King In the world is
Daudi Chau, King Of Uganda, who is
now about eight. He holds his court
seated on a scarlet throne, with a. Ieop-
ara skin mat under his feet. and bear
ing in his hand a toy gun. The Brit
ish exercise a protectorate over the
young King and his kingdom. and have
established for him a sort Of parlfa-
ment. which he opens regularly with
much pomp.
Little Daudi Chau speaks English and
gives state dinners. at which there is
a curious mixture of African and Eu-
rOpean foods and customs, though the
royal table is supplied with fine linen,
cut glass, and silver brought out from
London. At these banquets the chief
duty Of the prime minister is to see to
it that his royal master dJes not eat
enough TO make himself sick
The youngest master of fox hounds in
the world is LORD De Clifford. who Is
and has been master of the
Dalgan pack. irS County Galway. Ire
land, for two years.
The youngest professional organist I'm
the world is Kathleen Mills, who pre-
sides over the great organ in the Cath
Ollie Church at Ongar. Essex, England.
The regular /organist failing III, little
Miss Mills took her place and played
with such skill on the Instrument that
all the people We're astonished when
they found out that child of eleven |
Years was presiding over the keys and
stops.-Scranton Truth.
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BLACK DOG.
A staIw
reputation.

I happened to ask his opinion about the
personal character of the Osages.
Huh said this naughty brave Of a
tribe notoriously poor In money but ex-
ceedingly wealthy in pride and spirit,
Just a big fat That's the Usage. He
no good In great measure that seems
to express my opinion of the Usage also.
He is such big fat that one wonders
If eventually he will not lose the use Of
his limbs through laziness.''
Devotees of Monte.
The spending of the money which
the Usage Indian draws from the Gov
eminent IS principally accomplished
through the very easy method Of gamb-
ling They are insatiate devotees Of
monte, and. seated around a blanket
in front Of their tepees. hundreds OF dol
lars change hands during a few days
duration Of this form of gambling
use the word tepees in thin. connection
advisedly. for though the greater num-
Der Of the Osages have houses, there
are very few of them. except the half
breeds, who stay in them when the
weather is anyway near favorable. The
fUll-bloods live out OF doors the greater
part Of their life.
Fheir tents are Of canvas. as that can
be bought easier and requires so much
less exertion TO put up than the regi-
lar rush tent which the former Indian
squaws used TO weave. Then there is
the Usage Indians insatiate desire for
gewgaws and trinkets. It is from this
childlike and inane liking for Just some
thing pretty that the peddIers who
swarm into the agency from all parts
Of the SURF ounding country reap a har-
vest. An Indian will pay almost any
amount TO get a pretty bauble. It
doesn't matter to them whether they
are useful.
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one thing, which you remember that far
back?'
could give a great many, sir
We'll, sir, give one; insist that YOU
do
You insist, do you?
Yes, spin 1T out. The case is drag
ging'
Well, my young lawyer, SINGS you
evidently doubt my word and are per-
sistent in your demands for an inustra-
ton Of the clearness of my memory, I
can san say to you and to the court that
have a very distinct recollection that
your father. sir. was a law student in
my office; that he was graduated from
my office, and that loaned him $175 to
buy his wedding clothes and get mar
ried, and have a very feeling recoIlec-
ton that he never paid me one cent of 1t
back. These facts remember very Wv
idly. I can give you other instances, if
you wish, sir
But the young lawyer WAS satisfied.
and the aged witness was permitted to
take his seat
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| Two OF the troupe. standing face Il
lace. clasp hands in a sort of saddle q,
/ Or standing platform, upon which Alrrel
/ climbs and stands erect.
behind him stands Mrs. FIorenz.
tail. athletic woman, with her husband
anC another Of the troupe in a pyra-
mid on her shoulders
over this formidable obstacle r,ore
than fifteen feet in height Alfred must
fly. turning in the air three times ne,
TORE alghting on the shoulders of a
fourth member of the troupe behind
Mrs. Florenz
Ihere IS no halt or hesitancy about it.
Tho boy feXes his knees slightly. stares
Nsualght ahead with a half smile on
his face and gives the word
Up he goes, as tightly as a bird, ana
apparently as much at home as a seal
in the water. So rapidly that the eve
can scarcely follow his movements he
makes two round tumbles straight
over
Then for moment he seems TO
Straishten out IN a sort Of horizontal
EroJectile. As he passes the top Of the
pyramid he gives a sort Of queer twist,
which turns him sidewise and then don
bles up into another tumble
Just at the right moment he puts ont
his feet sQuareIy in the proper place and
in jify he is standing on the shoulders
OF his catcher" smiling at the tumuIt
Of applause.
Another extraordinary method OF
tempting death is that shown by AnciI-
lOtti, the man who loops the gap"
AncillOtu is an Italian. now performing
Tor the first time IN this country.
The gap in this instance is the TOP
side Of the ordinary loop which has been
cut out for a distance OF twelve or IF
teen feet. Across this aerial sPace The
daring cyClist must fly, wheels Up and
head downward.
He starts from the top OF an inclined
plane, and when he strikes The loop he
is travelling at n speed which almost
battles the eye TO follow.
There Is no artificial method Of hold
ing his equilibrium or sustaining his
wheel in the air save the centrifugal
force which carries him upward and on
ward.
As he reaches the gap" by a nice
In mechanics he is hung sus-
pended for a lightning's fash as he
crosses the vacant space, but his wheel
strikes truly on the opposite side. The
feat is very nearly the eliminating point
Of difficulty and danger, and must re-
main so FOR many years, without a
doubt.
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Senator Scott OF West Virginia was
| in the same regiment with the late
President Mckinley IN the civil war,
and he relates some interesting Incl
dents OF the early life OF the beloved
man.
William Mckinley and rayself cast
our first votes for Lincoln in 1864, and 1
remember that he asked me II I be-
lieved he would ever reach that point
where he could be elected a probate
judge in his own county. had great
faith in my friend, but confess I never
expected to see him Chief Executive OF
this great country, Nor did have the
least idea or hope that would ever be
In the United States Senate.
During my early days at Wheeling
a German citizen urged me to make a
politician OF myself. SAYING: You shust
gets right away into bolittcs, und Won
day you VIII Ncks dem tam Dhemokrats
righdt away an dens Vest Virginia bees
4 Republican Sthate vOnCe righdt away
II did not take the advice Of my old
Teuton friend until everal years after
it was given, but / trust I had some
hand in bringing about the conditions
the old gentleman wished"
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

ie" persons were Killed il the achieve.
HlenI men can always be found who
VIII gladly risk their lives for gold.
cor TWO years This man looped the
loop daily, and remained the reIgning
sensation in athletics But other Ia fr.
Drained men were planning and Dractfc
ing and eventually the .'oue-wbeel
man" was developed. as was also the
man who rides down a ladder STANDING
on the one-whecl mans shoulders. This
feat Of Solo and Chico makes looming
the loop seem tame by comparison.
In fact, there are at present no less
than four deeds Of desperate daring
In the Barnum e Bailey circus, which
eclipse any previous feats ever before
performed by athletes.
One Of the most perilOus Of these is
the triple somersault performed by little
Alfred FlOrenz. Of the celebrated Flor
enz troupe OF acrobats.
Young Elorenz is seventeen years old,
but has the manners and appearance of
a child Of fourteen.
He IS small and slender as TO limb,
large as to head and aerial intelligence
he is apparently az much at home II
the air as a tumbIer pigeon or a gyr-
falcon.
He laughs as he rises in his perilous
night You can see his teeth CLEAN in
smile as he twists sidewise on his third
somersault. As he alights on the shout
ders Of his companions he straightens up
with a boyish giggle. IS though he liked
the task
And yet little AIfred's feat is one of
the most perilous known 10 the circus
ring. Many acrobats have broken their
necks attempting it. and so far as known
only one man has ever succeeded In ac-
comprising it before.
This was John Worland, an old circus
tumbler who on one occasion some years
ago threw a triple somersault from
springboard. He accomplished il only
once. and could never be persuaded TO
It again.
But the Florenz boy accompllshes If
twice daily. rising from the hands OF
two of his felloW-p performers. The feat
Is remarkable not only from a spectacT-
lar standpoint but from the ease and
celebrity with which IL Is performed. In
snort FlOI enz Is n wonder
There are seven performers in the
troupe. and each one goes through ais
)r her part Of the work with clocklike
precision.
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40 Time for Praver-

Representative BrOussard Of Louisiana
lounged in the cloakrOOm long enough
last Friday to spin this good yarn
Brothers, we all get shaky when We
get in deep water, but when the water
is shallow we are careless and indif-
ferent. I once heard Of two raftsmen
who were in a big blow on a river The
squal caused the raft TO pitch and
plunge and the waves broke over with
tremendous uproar.
Expecting almost instant destruction
one of the raftsmen dropped TO his knees
and began praying with an earnestness
equal TO the occasion, or the emergency.
Happening TO open his eyes between his
supplicauOns, he noticed his companion.
who was not engaged In prayer, was
pushing q pole into the water at the
side of the raft
't.Aike' said the praying man, YOU
had better get down on your knees and
asked the Lord TO help US out
BE aisy, Pat replied Mike, 'be
aisy, fer phat's the use In prayin' whin
yer can fetch bottom wild de p0le?'