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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
KAREN IS THE RUSSIAN
 CAPITAL IN THE FAR EAST

town three miles from the central depot; Prestin, or the river town, the present commercial center and the admlnistra- tion town, in close proximity to the rail- way station. Before the railway engineers established this as their headquarters there was no native town in this vicin- ity and the entire place is therefore a Russian product.
 According to reports from United States Consul Miller at New Chwang, China, Harbin is as distinctly Russian city as though it were located in the heart of Russia, and none but Russians and Chinese are permitted or engage in any permanent enterprise there. The city has been created by the Russian govern ment, under the management of the Man. churia Railway company. The land for many miles in each direction has been secured so as to make it impossible for any foreign influence to secure a profit or foothold close to the city, and for eigners are not recognized as having any rights whatever, but are permitted there by sufferance The chief railway en- gneer is the administrator of the city, and up to the present time has had com plete control of everything, but in the new scheme for the government of Manchuria some form of municipal organization will be permanently established
 Assumes Railway Importance.
 In 1900 the place began to assume im- portance as a center of railway manage ment, and in 1901 the population had grown to 1900 Russians; in 1902. to 20,- GOO; by May, 1903, to 44,000; and in Octo-, Der, 1903 a census showed a population of 60,00o, exclusive of soldiers. Of these four hundred are Japanese and three hun dred of all other nationalites, including Germans, Austrians, Greeks and Turks. All the rest are Russians. There are no Americans.
 The railway and administration em- ployes, including families, constitute H. ,0OO of the population. The Chinese population is about 40000, located in special settle ment. The ratio of women to men is as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
GREAT ICE CROP YIELDED
 BY WATER OF THE HUDSON

aged ice cutter wagged his head in rem iniscent mood
 "Why, the other day they threatened to chuck feller into the canal there. Got down on him for something; don't know what 1t was. He was acting mighty fresh, and they picked him up and threat ened to duck him. I never saw feller so scart in all my life
 "A day or so after that one of those old plough horses over there accidentally slipped in. Gee, didn't they hustle ! Worked like beavers getting that poor old horse out. They built fires, wrapped him up in blankets and rubbed him down. Gave him a regular Turkish bath. I'll bet that old horse will fall in again just purpose to catch another such rub ping down.
 And let one of the men slip in They do occasionally, mostly when they are skipping around on those cakes. settin' the cakes free, or somethin' like that. Why, those fellows will work over a feller who falls in that way. just like women. Bundle him up and care for him, load him with whskey and joke him, you know. You would think they were gang or kids. And let feller get a frost bite or get pinehed between couple of cakes Won't the rest of them tear around until they get him fixed up and comfortable! ! We'll now, you should see them."
 The workers connected with each of the great Ice houses along the Hudson are divided into gangs. Of these the scraping gang may be styled the pioneer. After a comparatively clear field of ice has been picked out, the gang of scrapers gets after 1t and scrapes 1t free of snow. Then 1t is turned over to the marking gang. and the ploughs cut 1t up into great squares. canal has been opened from the field" to the runway leading up into the ice house. Men with especially made iron bars walk along the rows of marked cakes and by well directed blows set each cake free The cakes are fioatcd into the canal. There a boy hooks a number of them with great iron hook and horses pull them along the canal to a point near the ice house, where men armed with bikes push them from one to another un- til they finally enter the endless chain by means of which they are hoisted into the Ice house, where another gang of work men is busy storing them away. 1t is really very simple. In fact, 1t Is much. as some observer has said: There Is nothing hard about the ice business tln- less 1t be the ice itself and the prices consumers pay in summer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28

From the New York Commercial.
 Late cable reports from the seat of war in the far east represented Admiral Alex Jeff. the Russian commander, as having left Port Arthur with his entire staff and retired to Harbin, which is looked upon as the natural objective point of the Japanese lance forces. It stands at the function of the Port Arthur and Vladi- yostok branches of the Manchurian Rail- way and is six hundred miles from Port Arthur.
 A most wonderful city is that same liar bin. It is a city of nearly 70,OO0 popula- ton, has been built up by Russian capital. is in a remarkably productive district, and is said to have resources to withstand long siege. In the construction of this really phenomenal city Russia Is display ing an altogether different type of ac- tiyity from what we are prone to at tribute to her. It is in this city more than in all the other combined that Rus sia is asserting her intentions of becom- ing an active industrial force in the af- fairs of the Orient, and her people are already giving the place the title of the Moscow of Asia
 Harbin is located on the Sungari river at the point where the Manchuria branch of the Siberian Railway crosses the stream and where the Chinese eastern branch starts south to Dalny and Port Arthur. 1t is about three hundred and fifty miles west af Vladivostock. Its location is the geographical center of Manchuria, and from the present prospects it is to become the commercial center as well. The city is surrounded on all sides for hundreds of miles with a rich and productive agri- cultural country, producing corn, wheat, oats, barley, beans, millet, hemp tobacco, vegetables and some fruits. Minerals and timber and great areas of grazing lands also surround it.
 Has Three Divisions.
 At present the place consists of the old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
The Pelvic Organs of Men.

Man is endowed with no power more noble, more exalted. and more highly prized, than the power to reproduce his species. A vigorous sexual life is the highest essence of manhood; while he who possesses not this sublime and mysterious function in full develop ment is but the counterfeit of true man. The sexual organs constitute the health thermometer of the human body and their condition, whether in health or disease. will not fail, in a single instance, to indicate the power or weakness of both the physical and nervous organism. No man will achieve great success in any pursuit, attain eminence in any profession, or accomplish any noble purpose in life, paired to any. considerable. degree, whether by sickness, or vicious habits. The fullest vgor and highest perfee- ton of the reproductive powers are in- dispensable to complete and exalted manhood. This great cardinal physiol-
 ogical fact lies at tho very foundation of all excellence in human character and mans achievements.
 Show us a man who possesses heroic virtues, dauntless courage, true bold ness, lofty ambition, high resolves, noble impulses, pure aspirations, firm ness and decision of character, and that wins success in all he undertakes, and we will point you to one whose sexual powers, attributes and func- tions are perfectly developed and in healthy and vigorous condition.
 Being thoroughly familiar with the anatomy of the pelvic organs of both men and women, and by reason of our many years of experience in the treat ment of the diseases to which those or gans are subject, we felicitate our selves in the conscious belief that we are unexcelled by any specialists in the United States, in the successful treatment of all the disetses and debil- ities to which these organs are amen able.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 When the ice man comes around next summer he will be able to leave good solid piece of ice practically free from all trace of snow.
 "The first in years,' is the verdict of the ice cutters now at work on the Hud- son between Kingston and Albany.
 'Fourteen inches thick, and as clear as crystal" say the icemen All the work men on the great fields of the Hudson are delighted with the outlook, and the work is going forward as rapidly as weather conditions will permit. Nevertheless, the ice trust men are already shaking their heads and predicting high prices Tor next summer. ',rhe ice is so thick this win ter,,' they say that the cost of cutting and handling 1t is much greater thar us- ual We are not in the business for our health, and we will be obliged to charge enough next summer to make up for ex- tra outlay in wages now" However that may be, the huge army of workmen em- ployed at the task of saving up the Hud- sons ice coat are in jovial mood over their steady work, and some of the younger men employed are inclined to look upon their work as a sort of mid winter outing. a continuous ice carnival.
 But they'll get over that" said one of the sold timers one afternoon last week. T was that way myself once. Wait until they have been at the cakes the same as | have, close to dozen years That's when they'll quit their food pranks.'
 The men employed on the ice fields or
 n A<.1 f..ksx many walks in life, they include men of nearly every nationality and nearly every phase of character. From the red headed boy riding one of the scraper horses up to the gray haired boss, whose winters have been spent Ion the ice" the Hudson river icemen are an in- terestng body of workers. They are an hearted, free ana easy set, whose whole aim in life, during the winter months at any rate, is to keep the cakes a-moying," and wait for Saturday night.
 There are farmers boys from up the state towns to be found in that company of workmen; toughs from the Bowery, sporty gents who place much empha- sis upon the sporty" portion of the title Hebrews and Syrians. whose ambitions to become prosperous pack peddlers have become sidetracked; men of English and American parentage, who have plainly known much better days. and here and there may be found in the throng some bright young man who has taken up the hard work of ice cutting as financial aid to obtaining an education.
 Of course, the rough element predom- mates.
 "No. this ain't exactly Sunday school class.' remarked a boss who has spent years at the work "Ef it was, p'raps yer wouldn't find them things a-laying around" and he kicked an empty whs- key flask into the canal cut for the ice cakes to float in.
 But they're not such bad fellows after all They work pretty steady. Kick up didoes once in while, though" and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
The Polite Formula.

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
 Little four-yearold Margie was a model of politeness
 How is your baby brother this morn ing, Margie?" asked the doctor when she opened the door in answer to his ring.
 "oh. he's dead, thank you" she re- piled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
The Maryels of Medical
 Science.

The magic strides which science has made within the last few years in be- half of suffering man is so wonderful as to appear miraculous and almost savers of supreme inspiration.
 Electricity, the great vice regent of deity, in the creation, evolution and sustenance of nature, has been made the great medium of man in alleviat- ing the ills of his fellow creatures. Heat, Light and Vibration, correlative elements or abstract principles of cleo tricity, have been proven to be the es- sential concomitants of life, and hence are of the greatest importance as Therapeutic agencies in the abatement of ills and the prolongation of mans existence.
 Consumption, catarrh, cancer, rheu- matism, sciatica, skin troubles, stric- ture, lumbago, Bright's disease, and al most every form of chronic ailment is now made to yield to these mediums of relief when intelligently applied in conjunction with rational medication and reasonable hygiene.
 And it is with laudable pride that we claim to be the only firm of physi- clans in the south who are thoroughly equipped with all the most modern means for treating chronic diseases.
 By intelligent administration of medicines and the further use of cleo tricity, massage. vibration, hot air, nebulized medicated inhalations, the arc light, Violet Light, the X-Ray, Medicated Vaper Baths, Ozone Ispira- tors, High Frequency Currents, Elec- tric Kataphoresis, and all the other modern mediums of science, we are winning fortune, fame and the grati- tude of our patients.
 We invite the public to visit our place, see our superb equipment and to consult with us without charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
Matter of Training.

From the Chicago News.
 Judging from the number of dvorces secured by theatrical people" said the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28

{, When wealth and strength seem on the
 wing. Hoods sarsa parilla is the thing Get only Hoods.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
Close Call for Mr.. Turner.

81. :
Our popular merchant, Mr..
Turner, OF the Leland Depart
ment Store, and one Of his clerks
had a narrow escape from drown
ing Thursday afternoon as they
we're rowing a boat load OF po-
tatoes and butter across the
river for delivery. The boat
struck a post when they had got
ten part way across and started
to go down. Mr.. Turner review
ed his whole life in a moment and
wondered where he was going to
light. After he had gone beneath
the cool waters OF the Mouse once
and filled his mouth with q
generous quantity Of the liquid,
he stood up straight and learned
that he was in five feet OF water.
He is very much amused over it,
after coming out SO luckily, but
at the time it was no laughing
matter.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
SAVERS POISONED IN
PECULIAR MANNER
Drops SnaiI Piece Of sayel,sise - ssrs
Thamb aad Gees lote ceovultiess.

VIM. Sayers who recently
moved from this city to his farm
near Des Lacs. was nearly killed
by the accidental use of strych-
nine while mixing poison for 60
pliers one day last week. In some
manner, Savers had injured his
thumb slightly, making a small
sore on it. A small piece OF
strychnine, about as large as
pin head fell on this sore and
must have been taken at once
into his system thru the blood.
Sayers went into commissions
soon but had thepresence ofmind
to drink a large glass OF whiskey
and some milk. This helped him
and undoubtedly saved his life.
He is growing better but every
joint is stiff. He came to Minot
Thursday and consulted physi-
clan. The doctors say that one
may become poisoned in this
manner.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11

Sheriff Tom Gardner. from Bot
tineau county, was at Lansford
a few days ago with the Coroner
from Bottineau county, B. Ro-
manson, and together they ex-
humed the body OF Chauncey
Gillett, the homesteader found
dead in his seven foot we'll four
miles north of Lansford early
last winter. The circumstances
in connection with the death OF
Gillett point strongly towards
poisoning. He was found in a
sitting posture in a few feet OF
water, the water barely reaching
to the top Of his head. The well
was shallow and had been dug
by Gillett. 1t was unnecessary
for him to drown even had he
fallen into the well, for there was
a step in the well which had been
made at the time it was dug.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
GILLETT MURDERED
NEAR LANSFORD
There is now Evidence to Show That the
Man Found Dead in his Well Last
Winter, Was Murdered Fouuy.

After the mans body had been
taken from the well, his stomach
was taken out of the body and
taken to Fargo. just recently
it was examined by Prof. Ladd,
the state chemist, and he found
that there was q great deal Of
morphine in it. The sheriff and
coroner secured the mans spleen
and liver the other day and
Coroner Romanson went to
Fargo with this, it being con-
sidered not safe to ship it. These
will he examined Immediately
and if morphine is found in them
two arrests will be made near
Lansford on suspicion in a few
days. There seems to be a clear
case OF murder of the foulest kind
and suspicious point to those
who should have been dear to
him.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
manner.

Miss Marston Brot to Minot.
Thos. Gardner, Sheriff Of Botti-
neau county, was here Friday
with Ernest Hall, the Lansford
man accused Of rape on the per-
son of Miss Ethel E. Marston, an
1S-year.old girl living near that
place. The girl and her parents
were brot to this city Thursday
on a writ Of habeus corpus and
Hall came Friday intending to
marry the girl if she would agree
to it. Sometime during Friday
the girl and her parents came up
missing and the intended wedding
was postponded indefinitely.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
NOT SCALPS BUT GOPHER
TAILS FOR TROPHIES
Warnors From all Parts Of the County Send
the Results of Moath's Slaughter
Surrey Township Leads.

& lE5s I s / ~ - $ s ~
Not all OF the gopher tails have
been brought in by the township
clerks but we give below a few Of
the townships and the number OF
flickertails slaughtered:
Surrey, 10000.
Union, 4, 400. OF this number
Lee Foster killed GIG and Henry
Schwarz, 434.
Rockford, 5,O29. knut knut-
son contributed 626 to this num-
ber.
Lakeyiew, 3,O31. Willard Cour-
tney, 464; H. H. Houck, III and
Dallas Kast, 455.
Ross, 797. Paul Wheelock
killed $50 in this township.
Manitou, 1 ,494.
Callahan about 5000.
Carbondale, 1898. OF this
number Joe Gayette sends $50
and Henry Bowers AS.
Ivanhoe, 5, 141.
Roseland, 2,767.
Colquhoun, 3,167.
Hamerly, 4,463.
North Star, 6,994.
Margaret, 7,471.
Hurley, 4,737.
The following is a full list OF
those sending tails from Hamlet:
Anton Burlingame, 200; Reuben
Seth, 555; Floyd Neil, 131;
Nealon Dietz, COL; W. w. Ira
Wis, AL; Martin Undergrad, SO;
Jay Wilcox, 1S1: Eddie Erland,
353; Earl Olson, 164; Earl Pierce,
443; Alma Culver, 766: Mrs. M.
j. Barr, 2O6; L. Salone, 615;
Alma Johnson, 10: Edith John.
son, ZIG; Ellen Johnson, 100; j
o. Pillsbury, 2O3; Edna Went.
worth, 81.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
Collier May Oct New Trial

Collier May Oct New Trial.
Challes Collier, who is lying in
the Ward county Jail convicted
OF committing the crime ofarson
near Velva more than a year ago,
has hopes OF a new trial and has
secured the services OF Atty. SUIT
ton to look the matter up. Col
lier was convicted of the crime
after a peculiar trial at Rugby
recently and he vas granted q
stay of sentence for 9 time. SUIT
ton will make a motion for anew
trial on the grounds Of insuflici.
ent evidence.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
More 0ophers.

Among those who killed many
gophers and secured the bounty
from the county are: Andrew
jacobson, 700; R. W. Register,
n, ,175; T. Morrison, $40; Rich.
AID Blake, 936; L. Lunztold, 1,
116; j. r. Moyer, 2,2O6; D. Wa
rell, $50; D, H. Wagner, 2,668.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
The Horse Went Wrong.

eleven & Hanson's always be-
fore faithful delivery horse went
wrong Friday morning and ran
away. It ran as fast as it could
towards the Bovey-Shute lumber
yards and seeing the water in
the flooded street ahead, stopped
all Of a sudden. Not u thing
was broken.
The Ward County independent., 1904-05-11
For Memorial Day.

Memorial day will be celebrated
in Minot in q fitting manner.
There are not many old soldiers
left, and for that reason alone,
the day should be observed above
all other days;
The Opelousas courier., 1904-09-10
Beauties Of Translatinc.

In New Britain a missionary in
translating was seeking some native
idiom to convey the idea of q binding
oath when q chief suggested that the
desired phrase was 81 would rather
speak to my wife's mother than do
such and such q thing" In British
Columbia q missionary wanted his
catechist 10 translate "A crown OF
glory that fadeth not away" This
was done 20 the satisfaction Of all
concerned, but ultimately the mission
airy found to his horror that 1t had
been rendered. "A hat that never
wears out
The Opelousas courier., 1904-09-10
Pens and swords.

Nations founded by the sword. sus-
tanned by the sword, pass and are for
gotten. But the written words, the
words OF men entirely great" out
last the very civilization amid which
they are penned. Who can leave out
OF account, even to-day, the work of
Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare,
Moliere, C%eryantes, Gothic? Even to-
day every thinking man must ac-
knowledge their sway, must live in the
kingdoms of thought these men have
founded. Let us then put among the
relics OF the great the tools of their
goVernment-and let us hold precious
the pens and inkstands that have out
lasted and overcome the swords of
c~onauerors, the scsptres1 of the kings.
ST, Nicholas,
The Opelousas courier., 1904-09-10
HUNTING THE "hlPPo."
Big Games Of the African Rivers Must
Be Shot In the Brain.

~bS ~VttS0 W ~ "hSSe
Be Shot In the Brain.
A hunter Of big game in Africa
writes: "Hippopotamus hunting, as a
rule, is not exciting, except from a
canoe OF boat. where the animal has
q chance of turning the tables. If a
clean shot Is made he sinks like a
stone and beyond a few bubbles on
the surface nothing more is seen till
he rises to the surface, belly up, in
from one to four hours. One can gen.
orally tell by the thud Of the bullet IL
the shot has tod. 1t is mostly snap
shooting as they blow. and a novice
or excitable persons will often waste
a lot Of ammunition banging away at
every nose he sees bobbing up, ire
spective Of distance or position. The
vulnerable spot Is the brain, and 1t Is
advisable to wait for a side sLot,
when o bullet in the naighborhood Of
the ear will surely find it."
This hunter writes further. When
We camped on the Kafue schools of
from ten to thirty hippopotami were
found together, but after being dis
turbed several times they shifted to a
huge swamp to the north, where the
only way to get at them was by pol
ing canoes through about a mile Of
reeds and narrow channels to the
lake-like patches of open water whith-
er they had retired. The only canoes
We could get were dugouts, capable
of carrying not more than three men.
very narrow, mostly rotten, and patch
ed with Jumps Of moist clay to stop
leakage. II capsized they sunk like
stones. So, as the place was full of
crocodiles, we had always a spare ca
noe at hand. We hunted them sue
cessfully several times In their
Being useful as butchers meat the
big river horses were hunted system.
atically. The hunter, MI. Wright,
says: "All the fat which We used for
cooking was procured from hippo. We
had to feed from forty to fifty natives
living on the station during the rains.
when grain and native foodE were diff.
to get, SO that a hippo, ever IL |
ne weighed three tons, soon disap.
peared into biltong. Hippo make
splendid tracks across country be-
tween bands Of the river. and the ma.
lives dig round, deep pits ON these and
cover them with branches and earth:
he hippo travelling along at night
1rop head first into them"
The Opelousas courier., 1904-09-10
A New Sunshine Recorder.

The new Dawson-Lauder sunshine
recorder consists of a drum on which
silver chloride paper is fastened un-
der a film of celluloid. An outer o v
ering is rotated by clockwork In TWEEN
ty-four hours, and a narrow slit is thus
directed to the sun. A hood protects
the slit from diffused light, and allows
an error of about half an hour in the
clock before sunlight is cut off from
the slit. The drum with the sensitive
paper travels along the axis of the cyl.
inder, so that the record of a number
of days is obtained, one below the
other. The chloride of silver paper
makes possible a standard of intensity
OF sunshine which can be reproduced.
The same size of paper is employed
at all seasons, and the instrument can
be used In polar as well as temperate
latitudes.-London Globe.