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Quietly, reverently the audience lis
tened, and the "native-born'' saw
again the country
FurrOWed, weather. beaten and studded
with thousand homes
We love it and think upon our fathers
and mothers and the dim age of
the Sagas which cast a dreamy
spell over our land. >
When the song ended there was no
doubt that friendship had been estab-
lished, the students waved their caps
and called greetings from the stage,
the people waved back kerchief and
hat, sent out to the stage, Hello! Hell
10! Good-by! Good-by!" 1t was as
though the platform were the deck OF
and outbound vessel, the crowd cheer
ing the voyagers as friends are sped
at parting. '". $3.50
Norwegian words flew back and
forth, even the second generation"
that so often disclaimed the foreign
origin, tonight were proud they were
Norwegians. Young America walked
proudly beside little old Norwegian
grandfather, talked with him in his
own tongue. Prosperous ladies with
pale gray cioal,s and diamonds in their
ears forgot fashion and hummed "In
Jotunheimen." Men of affairs forgot
American dollars and thought on '"Olat
Trygvason." When the students min.
gled with the crowd, what news from
home? Tell us Of. Bergen and Chris
tiania. Isn't the kaiser coming this
summer? AS many English as ever:
And is there much excitement about
the separation? What do you really
think of it? sd? H. .>a:s E>l,. .-:,s..
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!. EocAAA.:.GLEQJ JEdaLE

Z THE ROCKEFELLER STABLES.
observatory built on the site Of the
burned-down house.
Spring and fall find Mr.. Rockefeller
at Pocantico, his passion for golf one
Of the attractions drawing him thither.
His splendid 1S-hole golf course is his
special pride, as golf is his favorite
sport The New York Times article
at Pocantico as looking, with it's glass
sun-parlors surrounding both lower and
upper story, like great incubator, and
pronounces it a shocking exhibition Of
architecture. The new house, doubt
less, will be very grand.
PocanticO will make for John Jr. a
magnificent suburban home. So far
the property must have cost father"
the neat sum of S5.O0O.O0O The indul-
gent parent began buying up property
back in 1891 for the estate, started
in with 500 acres. Sometimes whole
villages were bought, sometimes tiny
plots Of ground. There are historic
bits which are to be preserved; for in
stance, a cottage called the Rookely
where Maj. Andre sept the night be-
fore his capture at Tarfytown; then
there is Sleepy Hollow, of value apart
from it's worth in dollars and cents.
Quite pleasant, interesting occupa-
ton this, the establishment of an
American estate Worth while to take
time for from golf and million making.
HENRY WHITEHOUSE.
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able to inquire through his good offices
what they wanted to kaow, but they
made it evident by signs and motions
that they pitied the deformity of the
women wiz hour-glass forms, and
wondered how the center of gravity
could be maintained on high-heeled
Shoes
In their wanderings about the fort
they came one day to the home of a
married soldier, and while they lin
gered near by the good housewife in.
duced one of the visitors to permit
herself to be arrayed il civilized ap-
parel. She began by lacing the woman
tightly in discarded corset, and then
fastened capacious hustle upon her
person. After removing her soft moe
casins she placed high-heeied shoes on
her feet and proceeded then to arrange
her couture. BY means of many hair
pins and a few pine cones she built UP
a pompadour of immense proportions
on top Of the woman's head. A skirt
was finally added to cover the corset
and hustle, and when the squaw was
shown how to carry the trail, she was
sent out to join her people Unfor-
tunate1y for the experiment. the poor
creature found it difficult to walk and
eventually fell down.
The party eventually took it's depar-
ture, leaving. behind it pleasant recol-.
lections OF the simple earnestness and
childlike efforts it had made to learn
something of the great world about
it Of which it had previously known 50
little.
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IA s*' Well-bullt, II q r.
haired, eyes bright. and blue, the car
riage and walk Of mountaineer. It
was a pleasant disappointment, to find
them really this off the stage, and all
the feminine observers paid due hon.
age. 49, 49,. ~ tt.~l.aa: ~
Brass buttons are supposed to hyp-
notize all maidenhood that comes in
range of their glittering, but the jaun-
ty college cab served the purpose fully
as we'll the night the Kristiania stu
dents were abroad. sa
The students were very mannerly
fellows, as well as manly, and bore
themselves. with much gallantry. There
was quite a diversity of age among
them, not few gray-haired men wear
ing the caps. Also there were tall
youths, boys off for holiday, hugely
enjoying this American exploiting of
the Norwegian university. Some of the
older men were accompanied by their
wives, and one noticed one or two ex-
ceptionally pretty foreign ladies. They
were dressed in the extreme of fashion,
suggested that the students from Kris
tiania had plenty of kroners
Automobiles and carriages waited
without, street cars passed unheeded
whilst the people fingered in the en-
trance hall and about the doors of the
theater. The functionaries whose duty
it is to baWl out the numbers Of auto
and carriage, good-naturedly counte-
nanced the delay, passersby stopped to
watch the gay foreign throngs that
held possession of the Auditorium.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER.
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buffalo, and knew that somewhere
near at hand a herd of the great
shaggy, commanding beasts were feed
ing.
But it was the birds, of course,
whose voices were most noticeable in
the music. At that hour of the even
ing, every feathered creature seems
to take it as part of the days duty
and pleasure to sing; nor was it diff
cult to identify the singers. Above nay
head, an occasional hunting swallow
twittered. as he flew, and near an old
house pair of chimney swifts sprane
their silver rattle as they circled and
the bushes and little poplars that lined
the road, blackthroated green warb-
lers sang zee-zee-zee; a red-eyed vireo
wandered industriously among the
branches, and expounded very gentle
law in spirited voice; and white
breasted nuthatch talked to himself,
anl1, ank, ank.
A song sparrow lifted his mellow
evensong from the top of brush pi' E..
A phoebe called plaintively, and i'm
mediately after l heard the sharp snap
of his bill, as he tried for a flying in
sect A brown thrasher dubbed and
sputtered and cheered in the distance;
a veery sent up his spiral song, a Sue
cession of notes in constantly as
cending scale, and an ovenbird shrilled
ecstatically, as though his little spotted
breast were SO full of JOY that he could
not do otherwise than try to impress it
upon the world
After that came the climax Of bird
songs, the distant whistle OF the hermit
thrush. It can be picked out from all
other bird music, because no other song
ster hereitbouts has such rare beauty
Of voice. When you have never before
heard il sweetness, in purity, in char
acter. as though the singer We're aloof
from the everyday world, a rare soul
alone with his own fire thoughts, that
is the hermit 1t is not the variety Of
his notes; it is their single excellence
It is not for their bubbling ecstasy, or
their mirthfulness. or for any suggestion
of JOY; it is merely the wondrous quail
ity of the tone. 1t is as though you
heard a Calve or Sembrich singing
to the flute. What if Shelly had heard
the hermit! There would be another
poem to match "The Skylark''
Quickly the tune in my ears changed;
I was listening to something very close
at hand, to the humble eff early bees in
the apple blossoms, and again to the
mourning of few small gnats that
played in the air in front of me.
The sun sank lower. the mountains in
the west became clear blue line. while
those to the east were almost blue black.
From somewhere, out of the air above
me, dropped the cry of night hawk,
and in imagination I saw the bird
wheeling and sailing and sliding
through the upper air And now the
little peeping frogs awoke in the marsh;
their shrill birdlike voices were some
what suggestive Of sandpipers.
The voices, the sounds, were now at
full height. and as fit ending to the
evening music there foated up from the
SdAlcy Ucuedlu TIC low VI uOuIuS Cdl-
tie, the clink, clink, clink of the bell on
a COW as she ambled stableward to milk
ing and bed; pleasant sounds sugges-
tive of man and mans life, of quiet old
farm houses, and smoking chimneys,
and toilers returning from the days
work in the fields.
I ERNEST HAROLD BAYNEa.
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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1905-07-13
A COUNTRY ESTATE EVENING SYMPHONY
ROCKEFELLER SECURING FOB
SON A WONDERFUL PLACE.
Plans in Progress for the Heir of the
Rockefeller Millions = Goodly
Portion of Westchester
County Bought.

Grumblers say Rockefeller is irving
TO buy up all Of Westchester county. N
Y, for the great landed estate thai
is being got ready for John Jr., an es.
tate that it is planned shall equal any
OF those famed ones over in old Eng.
land, that mother land that teaches
our rich folk how to spend their
wealth.
The property has been gathering
slowly and subtly, one may say, for no
1ancy prices have been paid for the
acres, they have been bought now
mere, now there, at this time and at
mat. The newspapers have repeated
with JOY the tale of the saloon keeper
that has refused to be ousted at Johns
bidding, but late photographers tell Of
the inevitable defeat With no one
around to buy the saloon wares, what
good is there in keeping the bit of land
away from the covetous oil king? One
must live, and so the saloon man. too
gives in, and John and young John are
lord of all they survey.
Perhaps the picture will be more
vivid put as the New York Times
graphically has it-JOhn D. Rockefel-
ler's baronial estate is SO big that he
can ride his automobile Is miles over
MS own property without using the
same road twice
That is pretty bad, when some are
clty-doomed the year round in tiny
not rooms. never can rest II shade OF
tree, gather roadside flower. listen
TO brooks murmur. But mold, this
is no diatrjbe against the tOO-much OF
the rich, the tOO-Iittle OF the poor.
This is merely a glimpse at a great
big estate OF an American landed pro
prietor.
1t is situated among the Pocanticc
hills, the 5000 acres comprised in the
property. and there is many a beautiful
view Of the Hudson, many a noble
group OF birch and naples. many a
woodland close for squirrels to gam
Dol in, many field Of flowers and
grass. 1t may not be generally known
that John Rockefeller is a civil engi-
neer, but the men that are at work I'M
pIO'iuS- his pfOpeTLy-dn army d
something like ,600-realize that the
master knows what he is about when
he directs about grade and drainage,
about what to leave untouched, what
to change in the broad extent of lands,
the many cottages that came in with
the purchase.
AS yet the great house is not built.
The stables are nearly completed, said
to be the finest private ones in this
country. The house awaits improve
ments in the sons health, so runner
says, and probably will be begun as
soon as he is settled in some place that
will act as tonic for his waning vital
ity. Health improving, anxiety over,
then the father can turn his attention
to the baronial estate, erection of a
suitable mansion.
When the estate was in the buying.
two fine examples of Colonial dwell
ings accompanied the purchases One,
which was burned couple of years
ago, stood on site commanding a
wonderful view of the Hudson; and
here the family dwelt when on the
Pocantico property. Now they are
farther down the valley, but when a
view is wanted they can climb to the
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cry face bespoke origin in that land
where they grow big men and fine
women, and one felt far away from
skinny, narrow-chested people. Every
one (nearly) was fair and lusty and
jovial, breathed of mountain top and
swinging step in high, pure attitudes.
Every one (nearly) was jolly and kind
ly Of glance, and every one was decked
in fnery brought out to show that
many kroner had been acquired in
golden America. All was merry as the
hard-worked marriage bell. H.
And yet there was business going
along with the social interchange; as
soon as one entered, be it man or
woman. one. was accosted by an eager
gentleman that requested one to- sign a
paper that was to carry to the new
Morse government promise of the sup
port Of the Chicago NorWegians' = :.
We walked up to the table and found
long papers bearing hundreds of
names, the numbers attesting to the
feeling of the people on the subject of
separation. They seemed of one mind,
there was no need, and no show of
argumentative appeal. Bright-faced
men and women discussed affairs with
optimistic view, it seemed a sort of
Hail Columbia occasion-or, rather,
Hail Norway.
AS is well-known, of late years there
has been great advance in Norway
among the women, and last night as
we looked upon the faces of the many
Norwegian women we voted them
equal to many and different demands.
Above the average do they appear in
intelligence, and with the physique to
stand such mental effort. Fine women!
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Last night they gathered at the Au.
dltorium, again 1000 strong, and again
was sung;
ia, vi elsker dette landet
(Yes, we love this land.)
And how swelled the song when they
came to
o. som faedres kamp har haevet
bet af nod til seir
80 Ogsaa vi, naar Diet blir kraevet
For diets fred slaar leir.
(And as the struggles of our fathers
raised it from distress to victory, SO,
too, we, when it becomes necessary,
will pitch our camp for the sake OF its
peace)
There. was no open demonstration
OF Norway experimentation Sweden
but an undercurrent Of excitement. an
unspoken sympathy among the fellow
cOuntrynlen gathered to hear the noble
songs Of NCrseland Just before the
last number an old man, very evident
~ an Americanized Norwegian, made
his way to the front Of the stage and
stood awaiting the attention Of the
audience before he should deliver some
message. AS he was about to begin,
one OF the visiting students stepped
forward and whispered something in
his ear-doubtless word of warning
Fat he should not overstep the bounds
OF courtesy. should bear in mind that
the Norwegian Students Choral union
was visiting the United States under
The patronage of H. R. H., the crown
prince of Norway and Sweden.
For moment the old gentleman
seemed bit bewildered, then recover
ing himself he announced, in a voice
that reached far in the marvellous still
ness OF the big, full house, that the
coming Saturday evening there would
be meeting at the Auditorium, q
mass meeting of Norwegians to con.
slider message to be sent to the Nor
wegian government, and it was hoped
ali would be present at this meeting
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1905-07-13
AN INDIAN VISIT
SOME NAVAJO INNOCENTS AT
FORT WINGATE.
Probably First Time They Had Seen
White Man-Curiosity Over Hand
kerchief - Ridicule Bicycle
Squaw in Woman's Garb.

Soon after the United States had ac-
quired the territory of New Mexico
the people residing in the Rio Grande
valley demanded protection against
the raids Of Navajo Indians from their
strongholds in the Arizona mountains
In response to this appeal a strong
military force was established upon
the great trail leading from Canyon
Bonito to the Rio Grande, with the
view Of intercepting raiding parties
using this natural highway between
the mountains. The Indians were
greatly offended at the coming of the
troops, and quickly gave expression
to their unfriendly feelings against
them. An open rupture finally oc-
CURED, and the entire tribe at once
went on the warpath The struggle
lasted nearly year and ended at last
in the capture of the greater portion
OF the tribe in Canyon de Chiefly. A
dozen or more families, however, sue
ceeded in escaping when the capture
was made, and for many years there
after lived in hiding in the mountain
valleys and canyons of eastern Ari-
IONA. Eventually few years ago a
half dozen young warriors from these
families, accompanied by their squaws,
made their appearance at Fort Win
gate, to offer their submission to the
government
They remained for several days at
the fort after the official pow-wow was
over. living meanwhile on the food
furnished them by the government.
Possibly only single individual
among them had ever seen a white
man, and the others now for the first
time gazed in amazement into the
white faces about them.
The interest OF the warriors was
especially cenJered in the weapons car
ried by the troops. and for hours at a
time they stood eagerly watching the
men at target practice. However,
nothing that happened within view
Of the visitors. whether on the tar
get grounds or elsewhere, failed to
attract their attention and to elicit a
world Of questions. One of the war
riors was greatly troubled the mean
while with nasal catarrh and on one
occasion after blowing his nose noisi-
ly through his fingers, observed a SOL
der similarly afflicted using his hand
kerchief. "Eh!" he exclaimed, eager
ly, addressing the interpreter. What
for he saved it,"
AS the visitors wandered about the
fort they observed soldier one day
riding bicycle and, stopping instant
w. they looked on in amazement
'Whew:" exclaimed Bull-Head, ad-
dressing the interpreter. white war
rior lazy. Walks sittin' down."
Strange as it may seem, the warriors
took little interest in the women OF
the garrison. The squaws, however,
spent much of their time in watching
their white sisters. wondering appar.
emily at their appearance and dress.
Such things as bustles and corsets and
high-heeled shoes and hour glass
forms were all new and perplexing to
these simple-minded children of ma
ture. The warriors appropriated the
services Of the interpreter almost con.
tinually. so that the squaws were I'm,
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Hotel on the Desert.

One of the worlds most remarkable
hotels is situated on the Sahara des
ert, and from its windows on two sides
of burning sand. but on. the third, or
Moroccan side, is vision of 100000
palm trees.
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Exile and Visitor.

HE choral union
was a little slow
in coming to the
national anthem,
the Norsk Faedre-
-handssang; after
the last number on
t h e programme
was given. COM
menced the strains
Of the Faedre-
landssang, and all
rose to pay tribute
to the fatherland.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1905-07-13
An Orderly People.

5 WE entered the
great theater we
found Well-dressed
thrOngs ov i n 6
back and forth on
the lower floor,
holding converse
with friends, greet
i n g newcomers.
exchanging remi-
niscences of the
land and folk in
the nOrthland. EV.
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After the Concert.

ROM the concert +
they went On to
the banquet. and
in the meantime
tn e st u d e n t S
.promenaded back
and, forth in, their
glory of cap and
evening dress. For
the, most part they
were what is pop
ularly supposed to
be the: il typical
northern b i g,
Well-built, # g I r
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The Students.

Eli 7 conservative,
dignifed. formal
personages t b e
students appeared
at first, and though
they sang beauti-
fully, their voices
fine and their
training superior,
it was some time
b e fore t b e y
aroused the enthu-
siasm expected.
It had got about
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that the gentlemen had refused to car
ry the message from the Chicago Nor.
lwegians to the provisional govern
ment, that they would accept the In
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WITH SCANDINAVIA
NORWEGIAN STUDENT CEoRAI
UNION IN CHICAGO.
SONGS OF THE HOME LAND
From Four Quarters of the City the
People Gather-Asked to Sign
Petition-Well Restrained
Informality.

HICAGO. We dc
not rem e M b e +
such enthusiasm
OF song since that
day Norwegians in
Chicago marched
1900 strong to the
Illinois Central
station and vel
com e d Fridtjoi
hansen with
ia, vi elsker dette
landet
(Yes,. we love this
land.)
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1905-07-13
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

F FRANK, M. D. @.
Graduate of Chicago Veterinary College.
Post Graduate Kansas City Veterinary College
Member MINI. State Veterinary Med Assn,
WARREN, MINI.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-11-02
DOES FALL FLOWING PAY.


This is always a question before the
farmer. Fall blowing pays on some
land. and on others il does not.
Stiff. heavy lands that need deepen
ing. and need improving in physical
conditions are helped by fall blowing
In fact. fall blowing is one Of the ef-
fective principles that play in the
bringing up old worn out lands We
have mgde IL a practice to clear NJ
each year twenty fve 70 thirty acres
Of this old depleted. gray land. that
contains more or Jess clay. but which
Is stin and dead and lifeleSs. Afre-
We have gotten through with our fail
work We nave gone into those fields
with a two horse pillow and have given
then a thoroughly good turning.
When the spring comes on We do not
simply harrow these fields and put in
our crops. but We replow them 50 as 20
loosen up the top soil. and TO put that
soil in as good physical and mechanical
condition as h is possible 70 make IL.
II one is rushed To DO this spring
blowing the two horse pillow is more ef-
fective. l feel II Necessary 10 replow
il because he constant thawing and
freezing has brought The particles to-
sether. and il is now tigL and firm
and for corn and cotton We really want
the soil al planting time in a loose and
mellow condition.
With the majority Of our clay soils
tiliage Is more needed than fertilizers.
but We have got to be- at them con-
s'antly; we must get them thoroughly
stirred mp and thoroughly loosened up
50 As 10 admit the air. for il is the
great decOmpOser and changer Of una
vailable plant food into available
forms On stiff clay soils. then. ii il
better 10 open them mp during the fall
or winter. 50 as 10 get the winter rains
into the soil. and TO get a free action OF
the air and frost in making palafabIe
plant fOod--C. W. Burkett. in Pro
gressiys Farmer
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-11-02
NOTES ABOUT NoTABLEs

Adolph Carnot. mentioned for presi-
dent Of France. is a brother Of the
murdered president OF that name.
Robert Bacon. the recently appoint
ed assistant secretary Of state. Is an
athlete OF renOwn. famous for his
horsemanship and as a polo player.
Nine Emma Csive has had the
pleasure OF observing her tomb. Four
years ago she gave an order to
French sculptor. who. after a long
interv2i. was at last convinced that
she was il earnest. and she has
given her approval OF the design
For some time Miss Helen Gould
has been quietly Conducting a charity
at Liberty. y Y and only her most
intimate friends have known Of this
particular philanthropy. At a farm
near Liberty she has for years been
caring for a number OF poor children.
but nov il Is learned that elsewhere
in that vicinity she entertainS groups
OF about a dozen children for perioas
Of three weeks
J. W Hughes. adiutant general Of
Kansas. made his FIRST trip east to at.
tend the launching Of the hattIeShip
named after the sunffower state. His
wonder was especially reused by the
carpets N 4 New York hotel Il never
saw such carpets. he says 4 took
OF my shoes and Just walked through
the halls and rooms for an hour to