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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-11
BALFOUR WOMAN
SMASHES DISHES
"a Regular Carrie Nation Down
the S0O-Another Knocks Hub
by. Down With q Skillet.

Balfour Statesman: There are
ralIdomestic rows and sen
stations iii town this week. One
aniable frau is alleged to have
knocked hubby down with g
: skillet and aseparationf followed.
We understand that this has
happened before. Another iml-
tated Carrie Nation and went a.
= ter a new house with an axe. She
drove the carpenters out, sn ash
ed the windows. It is alleged
thae she playfully tossed q liall
puller that came in contact with
one Of hubby's ribs and fractured
it. She is now said tohave COM
menced repairing the damage
and is preparing to keep house &c
There is more domestic infelicity
on tap-lll from strangers to
Balfour, not one q citizen 81 Bal y
four any length u time. The
people. OF the town have ha ! a
little too much excitement for
one week.
Phone No. 10, CAROLS meat
market, for the best Of every
thing in the meat line. Inc
choicest beafs, pork, chicken, N IT.
ton, fish, oysters, etc. IN the city.
Vim. Carroll with H. D. Wne 4
err. MinOt. 5 y
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-11
peylns. stsnsrssn Z Co.

We write fire insurance in seven OF
strongest and oldest companies doing
business in the United States.
Phone lO4. Scofield block.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-11

Perfection crn only basat5alnsa in tae
physical by allowing Nature to appro.
PIRATE and not dissipate her own rs7
sources. Cathartics gripe, weaken lis
sipate, while DsWitt's Little Early Rs
iers simply expel all putrid matter and
bile, thus allowing the liver to assume
norm al activity. Good for the complex
on. Sold by Mccoy g. Go.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-11
Give the Trees Enough Room.

& IL pays 10 give eacn Tree all the
room 1t needs, whether this tree be.
fruit or a shade, tree All the years
I have lived on q farm II have noticed
the great mistakes made by my neigh
bors in this regard. i once had a
neighbor who went into the raising
OF small fruit and also set out an
orchard. He did well with his small
fruit, but partly failed with his tree
fruit, for the reason that he set the
trees too close together. He had only.
a few acres Of land at most and want
ed to make the most Of each acre;
so he set the trees about rod apart
They made splendid growth of wood
and foliage. When people would drive
past the house, they would be heard
to remark what a fine-looking orchard
Fit was, the trees being very thrifty
and shading the ground. But that was
Just the trouble: they were too thrifty
The apple tree that takes on the char.
acteristic Of the shade tree is of little
value for apples. It is too busy de-
Yeloping foliage.
This man was sorely, disappointed
with his orchard, and in few years
after It should have been in bearing
got around to cutting out some of the
trees. But the trees were badly set
back by the early habits they had
formed. They We're more set back by
the heavy trimming it was necessary
to give them before they would start
to bearing. But they did start, in the
end. The wood that was produced by
the first trees was just so mitch lost
growth SO far as apple production was
concerned.
have observed that it is. the uni
versal experience that it does not pay
to cramp trees. Give each tree all
the room it needs, if fruit is wanted.
Minnie Lacker, Brown Co., III.
| FOR SALE Fixtures for q five
chair barber shop including 5
hydraulic chairs, 5 chair mir
ror case, 2 bowl marble wash
stand. All in excellent rondi-
ton. Will sell in lots to suit
purchaser. FRED RIPLEY,
If Minot, N. ID.
Home made lard 10
cents a pound at Tomp-
kinS' meat market.
Butter milk is cold at the Mi
not creamery at five cents q
gallon. u
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-11
Ferbers' candy store is
small, but, Oh how sweet

Give your commercial posting
and distributing 70 the Mtnot Bill
Posting and Distributing Go.
u. z. BACON, Mgr,
n. Minot. n. D.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26

repentant. The magistrate, obserV'
ing the change in the tigers demean-
or, continued:
"As now see you fully realize the
enormity of your crime and are sim
cerely sorry for what you have DONE
grant you pardon. and decide thai
you shall henc.forth act as the son OF
the old widow, whose wants, both as
regards food and clothes, it will De
your duty to supply.
The tiger looked much relieved ana
at once nodded ready assent. lie
was then released and scampered OH
to the hills. The same evening he re-
turned carrying in his mouth deer,
which he placed at the widows door,
after having scratched it with his
paw to give information OF his ar
rival. The widow at once came out
to see who was there, and beholdlng
the deer re allied that it had been
brought for her by the tiger. She
sold the deer, and from the proceeds
of its sale she was able to hive COM
fortably for some time.
These attentions on the part OF the
tiger became quite regular and were
faithfully carried on without inter-
ruption for more than ten years.
Then the widow died, much to the
grief of her officially appointed son,
the tiger, who had found great pleas
ure in making the old age of the
widow much more comfortable than
it would have been had her own son
been alive.-East of Asia Magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Lawn Sprinkler.

The advent of 5pring turns the
thoughts of the amateur gardner to
the rake and the hoe and other gar
den accessories. "A recent invention
in the latter class is lawn sprinkler,
designed along practical lines. Most
lawn sprinklers eject solid stream
that often damages the delicate
plants; this sprinkler by a unique
arrangement, breaks the stream as it
leaves the nozzle into a fine spray.
The frame is tubular standard open
at both ends and supported on or
namental legs. At the top is a cap
shaped into nozzle, the hose being
attached to the end of the standard,
the stream finding It's way out
through the nozzle. AS the water
leaves the nozzle it strikes disc,
supported by arms to the cap. On
one side of the disc are number of
paddles, the force Of the water
against the paddles turning the disc.
Connecting with the disc is beveled
ring extending around the sprinkler,
grooves in the disc corresponding to
the bevels on the ring. AS the disc
is turned by the stream it travels
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Bedrock Price.

The proprietor Of a Boston hotel
says that week or two ago a dusty.
tired-looking person from Nashua,
N. H., presented himself at the desk
of the hotel, statirc.: that he desired
a room.
"Iye ct my supper, an shall be off
before breakfast" said he, gravely,
to the clerk; mo what would be
your lowest price for room to sleep
in?"
zone dollar, if you leave at six
clock tomorrow morning." was thu
reply.
"Well-er-wouldn half a dol
lar make it jest about right" de.
monded the waJ farer, producing a
battered tifty-cent piece. you see.
I'm all excited up, travelin', an ]
don't expect to sleep more'n half the
time I'm in there "--Harper's Week
ly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Girls Are So Queer.

"When are you going to be mar"
RED, Hilda?" =.
Me? Why, what an absurd ques-
ton! Haven't I always told you L
hate the very sight of men," .
eyes, but I thought you were jok-
ing, and" .,.~ ,
cts no joking matter. I am a
bachelor girl and I am proud OF 1t:
I wouldn't be welded to the best man
on earth" ..
"How interesting! Do you remem-
ber that handsome Jack Dashing2,
Well, he told me he admired you
more than any girl under the sun
and he would like to make you his
wife"
"And-and what did you say?' !
"Why, 1 told him you were bach
e,,r girl, hated men and he might
as we'll Leave town"
What? How dare you interfere
with my love affairs! Why couldn't
you tell alm to call around? I shall
never speak to you again as long as
I live" .".-Chicago News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Good Driving Roads.

The National Good Roads Associa-
ton is still organizing subsidiary as
sociations in every part of the ecoun-
try. Some States have at least one
in every county. In this way the pub
lie is educated and q public senti-
meht created in favor OF building and
maintaining solid, smooth and endur-
ing roadbeds for the wagon, the car
riage and the buggy. 5 4
The money value of good roads to-
the farmer sisimperfeetlF understood. /:
The tax ImRsgads on the farmers Of
Alabama By poor ads&far outruns
the taxes paid fof&aal other purposes
Poor roads are not only expensive In
money, but they restrict the freedom
of the people in their social and edu-
cational efforts. In every way theY
are hindrance, a clog and burden.
The good roads associations aim to
show how good roads can be built.
They hope to lead the people on TO-
the building of good roads until the
country becomes a network Of them,
and even then we will not be a bit
ahead of the Romans and Carthage
mans. Other countries have poor
roads, but we must go to backward
Russia or to misgoverned Turkey to
find roads poorer than the average
rural highway of the United States.
Our rural roads remain as bottomless
in stormy weather as they were ah
the outset; and this is why all should
join~ a good roads association and
help on the movement which is now
hopefully begun-which means much
to the country both in money and
contentment.-B Age-Her-
aid. ~
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upon very small base. But when
you approach this swinging rock you
are astonished by new wonder: you
can set the stone in motion by mere
ly pushing it with the hand. Very
often the traveller is spared even the
trouble of pushing the stone, as the
wind will cause it to swing.
Early in the last century the Ar
gentine Republic was ruled by the
Dictator Rosa with unparalleled cru
city, for about twenty-five years. To
show his supreme power the tyrant
ordered that the stone be encircled
with ropes and many horses to be
harnessed to these ropes-but the
stone could not be moved one inch
from it's resting place-according TO
tradition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
improved Method Of Road Oiling.

During the present season new
methods of applying oily material to
roads have been tried in England, ana
one at Manchester has proved most
successful. A watering cart Is used,
with a receptacle for the oil. Water
and oil are introduced into tank au-
tomatically in proportions that can
be regulated at will. Thus, for ex-
ample, five parts of oil and ninety
five parts of water can pass into the
tank if desired, or two parts OF oit
and ninety-eight of water. &.
The oil and water are subjected In
the tank to the Boating action of rap
idly rotating blades-driyen from the
axle Of the cart as it travels. The
oil is, in this manner, diffused ana
mixed uniformly in fine state CT
subdivision with the water. This
emulsion of oil and water is distriD-
uted in a fine spray from the rear OF
the cart.-The Motor Car. !,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26

lanterns. and across the road q tea
house for pilgrims. The trees were
so curious that we stopped and had a
cup of tea and a gossip with the vol
uble old laLdlady, while 1 made the
accompanying sketch from point of
view from which it would have been
difficult to have obtained photo
graph on account Of bad light.
1 obtained a photograph from the
old woman, and 7 wrote up the data
she gave me on the back Of the pho
tograph. I do not remember now the
difference between a Japanese foot
and an English foot, but it is very
small, and to the eye the dimensions
would correspond to English meas
ure.-F. M. Barber, Commander U.
S. N. rtd.. late Naval Attache at To-
kio, in the Scientific American.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
THE CHIPMUNK.

Here bv this rock, beneath this moss, a
hole
Leads TO his home, the den wherein he
sleeps;
LulleG by near noises of the cautious mole
Trnnelling his mine-like some ungainly
Troll
Or by the ceaseless cricket there that
keeps
Tuning above him it's monotonous lutte;
Or slower sounds of grass that creeps
and creeps.
And trees unrolling mighty root on root"
Such is the music of his sleeping house.
e Day hath another: tits 4 melody
He trips to, made by the assembled flowers,
And light ana fragrance laughing mid the
bowers,
And ripeness busy with the acorn-tree.
Such strains, perhaps, as filled with mute
amaze
The silent music of Earth's ecstacy-
The Satyr's soul. the Faun of classic days.
Madison Cawein, in Harper's Magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
The Curious Ways Of Wild Bees.

There are about five thousand spe-
cies of the wild bees, all with inter-
esting ways Of their own. Among
them is species whose females are
veritable amazons, and carry more
and better weapons than the males.
There are the cuckoo" bees, who
deposit their eggs in the nests of
others, the progeny Of both living
peaceably together until maturity,
when they separate. Then there is
the tailoring-bee, who cuts leaves
with her scissors-like jaws, and fits
a snug lining of the leaf material into
her cave-shaped nest. DR.. Henry G.
McCook. President of the American
chronological Society. describes in
Harper's wild-bee hunt, during
which he made interesting observa-
tions of these ingenious little crea-
lures.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
ROMANCE OF DESERTED DYEA.
The Once Famous Alaskan Town Now
Has a Single Enhabitant.

~sN~ -
1t has been just ten years since
George Carmack, "squaW man,
and his two Indian companions,
"Shookum Jim" and "Tagish Char
lie" discovered gold on the rim of
what is now known as Bonanza
Creek in the Yukon territory.
There was but one way to reach
the gold feds, and this was over
land from the head of the Lynn
Canal. On each Of the two tongues
of this canal and only few miles
apart, the owns of Dyea and Skag-
way sprang up and competed for the
trade of the treasure seekers.
The name Skagway means Home
of the North Wind" 1t opened the
White Horse route, shorter, but more
dangerous. to the goal. Dyea, an In
dian word, meaning to pack or to
load, was the headquarters for the
Chilkoot Pass.
Tickets were sold from all points
to Dyea. and as early as May 1, 1897.
more than 1000 people were in the
little Indian town preparing to pack
over the mountains. Soon a steel
cable tramway was built over the
Chilkoot Pass, the maiu office OF
which was in Dyea.
Then the tents gave way to sub
stantial frame buildings. Numerous
hotels, stores and banks opened for
business, and the once Indian village
became a thriving city of 5000 peo-
pie.
Skagway also continued to grow,
but, says Leslie's Weekly, from a diff
ferent cause. The White Pass was q
failure during the summer of 1897.
Scarcely ten per cent. of the men who
used it ever reached Lake Bennett.
Hundreds gave up in despair and re-
turned to their homes in the States,
while many settled in Skagway and
engaged in various business enter
prises.
Finally. the railroad was projected,
built and is now being operated from
Skagway to White Horse-a distance
of 112 miles. The fare is somewhat
startling-S20 one way-the trip
from the terminus of one steamship
line on the Lynn Canal to the begin
ming Of another just below the White
Rapids is made in fewer hours than
it took weeks in the days OF 1897 and
1898.
This fixed the fate of Dyea. Its
struggle against the city with the
iron horse was brief. Thousands OF
dollars had been invested in land,
buildings and merchandise; a few
saw quickly the impending doom and
sold out at a small loss, others lin
gered in the hope that something un-
foreseen might happen to turn the
tide Of fortune, only to be over
whelmeC in financial disaster.
The end soon came, and Dyea, with
it's former streets dimly marked by
indentations in the sand heaps, its
warehouses still bearing names Of
merchants, hotels, banks and dwell
ings slowly yielding to the ravages Of
the elements and the vandalism of
the Skagwayans, its wharyes, once
laden with produce of immense value,
fallen to decay, is to-day absolutely
deserted
Its name remains on the map. ;s:d
is mentioned in the Alaska directory
as "a discontinued post Office with
telephone communications with Skag
way" The telephone communica-
ton" belongs to a man who has a
homestead claim in the suburbs" of
the deserted city, and who raises a
few vegetables for the Skagway mar
ket.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Good Roads and Liquor Traffic

-
To the many schemes looking to-
the financing of good roads PROPOSE
tions Governor Folk, of Missouri, has
added a new one. He will ask the
next Legislature of his State to pass
a law taxing the retail liquor inter-
ests for the benefit of the public high
ways. His plan is to have a direct
State tax of $500 levied on each
dram shop. the fund to be used to-
build two great highways across the.
STATE, one from Kansas City to ST.
Louis and one from Iowa to the Arr
kansas line. (,
While the details of Governor.
Folks plan are not fully explained,
enough is known to show that: it is an
interesting, though as yet"doubtful,
method of raising funds for good
roads. Various States have adopted
differing methods Of getting the
money necessary to improve the ex-s
listing highways or build new ones.
and through them all the principal OF.
State aid has been the main feature,,
though vith many varieties Of appii-s
cation. We know of no instance
where Governor Folks idea has been
applied. VI
Existing methods Of road improves:
ment are the so-called reward" sys-J
tenn, introduced by Commissioners
Earle, of Michigan; the systems un-;
der which improvements are carried
out in New Jersey, Connecticut and.
Massachusetts; the convict labor.
work of Georgia. and some other
Southern States, and the great bond
issue plan, through which New
York's highways are to be brought to
a high pitch of excellence. A careful
study of the various m ,thods leads 20.
the conclusion that the State bond is-;
sue, as adopted by New York, affords
the most feasible and least expensive
method of mailing the highways what
they should be. This doubtless could
be improved, however. For Instances.
in few New York counties some OF:
the county prisoners are made TO.
work in getting out material Tor high
way construction This plan has So
far been successful, and there seems,
no valid reason why it should not be
extended to the States prisoners, The
amount of competition with free ,la-'
Dor" resulting would not be an appre-
ciable factor in the States labor prob
lens, and work in the open air, with
good food and proper treatments
would improve many men in whom
the reformation supposed to be-
wrought by Imprisonment is In no:
way apparent-New York Tribune. &,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Poultry and Eggs in Norway.

Poultry keeping for egg production
is increasing fast in Norway and
seems kelly to prove a rival to the
dairy interests. A poultry expert.
ment station is to be started looking
toward improvement of breeds and
cheapness of food. Norwegian poul.
try keepers expect to import the most
of their grains out they are expert
msnring with food to be prepared
from fish. a material which is very
abundant and cheap
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
A Free Country.

A characteristic and striking in
stance of the broad-mindednes which
England always shows to Eer sub
jects, whatever be their race or color,
is the fact that Mustafa Kamel Pacha
organizes in London in broad day.
light the movement destined, if his
hopes are realized, to give Egypt to
the Egyptians and to drive away the
English ofic:als.-Geneya Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Customers Shave Themselves.

London barber shops now provide
accommodations for and welcome the
many men who prefer to shave them
selves, among other things, keeping
their shaving utensils in order. They
also teach the inexperienced who
want to learn how to shave them
selves properly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
A SWINGING Rock.

One of the most remarkable nat
ural curiosities in South America is
ia piedra hovediza" Or swinging
rock near the city of Tandil, Argen-
tina. 1t is twenty-one feet long and
-twenty-eight feet high and it's
weight is judged to be about 625
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
How One Tree Can Grow Within
Another.

enclose herewith a singular proof
OF your opinion as expressed in the
accompanying cutting concerning the
possibility of one tree growing in
side another.
My wife and I discovered this phe-
nomenon while making walking
tour in Japan in 1895. AS is usual
with natural curiosities in Japan,
there was a small shrine with stone
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
Automatic GaH Hook.

Among the novelties of the season
that will assist the angler to keep what
belongs to him is the Lion gaff, which
an angler of WiIliamsport has devised
and which seems to merit it's name.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26
UglieSt Of Idols.

This is a photograph of an East
African idol which. according to
connoisseurs, has the proud distinc-
ton Of being the ugliest in existence.
Among the negro tribes the more
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26

The three parts or blades are 50 at.
tached to the frame that when the CEN
tre one is touched by so much as the
weight of finger, the jaws close to-
gether with snap and firmly hold the
fish or frog Or other captive.
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tons; yet it is so lightly poised on
the rocky slope that it seems as If
you were watching stone rolling
down hill and resting Tor a second
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around on the ring, carrying the noz'
zle and cap with it. 1t will be read
lily apparent that the water, by con-
tacting with the disc. will be broken
into q fine spray, causing no damage
to the finest plants or flowers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26

The young man is advised to get
right and stay right rather than to
get rich and stay rich.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26

There is work for each of us to do
right around where we live. The
right must always be fought for, the
wrong must be fought against. Show
your colorS.