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CALL TOR AN EXPLANATION

Now, what are you going to do with
a story like this, when it comes from
two dignifed, veracious men, who sol
emily declare it to be true?
David and Zebulon, bachelors, are
old cronies-not SO old that they
have to tie their teeth in with brown
yarn, you understand, but old enough
to have settled down to the serious
matters of life, such as hair invigor-
ators and obesity belts For a long
time they have lived together. occupy
ing adjoining rooms, between which
the door is seldom closed. According
to the testimony Of both, neither of
them is given to talking in his sleep.
The other night, however, Zebulon
dreamed that he was telling a funny
story to David. It seemed e%xcruciat-
ingly funny to Zebulon and he was an
noyed at David's apparent inability
to see the humor of it, 20 he told it
again., emphasizing the point of the
joke so energetically that he actually
spoke aloud, thus waking himself. He
vas SURE he had spoken. for when he
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

Do the cares Of royalty wear heav.
lily upon him? No; he simply sees thar
the men get out at their work at sur.
rise-there are no women on the
standard that they keep at it until
shutdown, save for the two-hour rest
at noon. Need an army or courts OF
justice? The captain smiles. No: Of
course, there are times when discip-
line must be enforced, but then q man
knows how to do that. The captain
had not had twenty years Of s~eafarinx
for nothing before he took charge Of
the island.
MY greatest difficulty" he said, 81
the fact that the men will get drunk.
How do they get it? Easy enough. Or
chilla is surrounded by a number Of
smaller islands. In the seasons when
birds are there there are many men
hunting their eggs. They always
carry rum. Suddenly you find your
crew drunk on you, and you know
that somewhere out on the keys are
the egg >hunters., What amusements
have they? Sleep. When they've
been working from sunrise to sunset
they want that.
"Of course you can't keep the men
from their women and children all the
time. They come from Bonaire, in the
Dutch West Indies and once every
six months I take the old crew in the
footsteps Of the father and grandson
in the footsteps of the son. They are
a quiet, easy lot"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
KING or CARIBBEAN L.sLAND

Capt. &C. G. Rivers is now absolute
ruler Of the Island Of Orchilla, in the
Caribbean sea, says the Baltimore Sun.
He threw out his lines and made fast
there twelve years ago, and will prob
ably make it his harbor the rest Of
his ltfe-this though he is the only
white mar on the island. and though
he has e e the members Of his family,
who live at 2103 Cough street. only
twice in fifteen years.
Capt. Rivers is king and cabinet
combined, and not one of his thirty
West Indian negroes under his sway
dares question his rule, but when he
leaves Orchilla he leaves his royalty
behind.
The captain is not a comic-opera
king. He doesn't wear birds of para
disc plumes when he's on the throne.
but down there in that lonely little
spot, with the blue Caribbean about
him and the tropical nights above, he
s~uperintends the gathering of qua.
no from the coral reefs, which the sea
is %eternally ~uncovering. Boston capt.
talists first bought the product Of Or
chilla. They secured Capt. Rivers
services fifteen years ago.. The island
is now owned@by a company, of Balti-.
more. Other islands are to- be ac-
CURED by the company, and the cap
tain is here loking for a viceroy to aid
MIN In the management Of his king
dom,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

such circumstances as these.
School lasts usually from 8 O'Clock
in the morning till sunset, with one
hours break for the midday meal.
Chinese boys have no Sunday, but on
the way to and from school there is
as much rushing about and playing
as with our schoolboys at home. Then
the primer and the slate, wrapped up
a cloth, are quickly laid on the
ground when it is the time to give q
cuff Or a blow. We see boys enjoy
ing the games of ball, blind mans
buff, soldiers, robbers or horses,
where the pigtail serves as reins, fly
ing kites and many other well-known
games.
"Girls as a rule are not sent to
school; the mother superintends their
training in housework. AS soon as
the girls are old enough they are
taught to cook, sew, make and mend
clothes and indeed to do all domestic
work. But the enlightened Chinese
sends his daughter to school when tho
a Of a mission or some other
school gives him an opportunity.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
NOVELIST AS A DEFECTIVE

your theory does not do at all, because
1t will never work out. Let me give
you my theory Of the case. and then
tell me what you think of it," The de-
tective did not at first think anything
Of ~Stevenson's theory Of the case. Il
was daring even for a theory, and
dangerous to work If it did not happen
to come off. But on thinking it well
over, with S%tevenson's shining eyes
fixed intently on his face, the profes.
sional began to believe there was
something in it. When Stevenson at
last asked, triumphantly, "Well?" he
replied, "Well, sir, I shall try your
theory; but If it don't win you and I
will lose between us the $1,000 fee I
am to be paid for a conviction" At
this Stevenson laughed and said, "Sir,
If it doesn't win I will pay you the
$1,000 and thrown you the theory
for nothing" But it won.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
OTHER TINES. OTHER GIRLS

I think I stood thus in that room some
And each time saw some other char
escort her from the door;
And every time that other cha was one
that I could lick
1 tell you: men and brethren, it made me
mighty sick
Yes, I could lick him, andeI knew: his
name was. Willie Drew,
And l thrashed him once q week for, say.
a year or two. =
And SO 1 said: well: blame it all! II that
has got a show,
I guess that I need only ask, and it will
I'll ask her sure next Sunday night" How
run our schemes awry!
l stood there like a leaden chump, and
saw the girls go by.
All, Time, thou art a sullen wight. nor
heed our worst mishap;
Yet bring me back those days again, and
fire that other chap.
Bring back. sweet Millie; let her smile, as
oft she used to do
But do not let her waste those smiles
upon that Willie Drew.
Still as the weeks went browsing by, no
more in life to roam,
I vowed. and vowed again, that I would
ask to see her home
I never did I never dared-confession IL
the thing
But, oh. the years, the freakish years,
some strange conditions bring,
For Mile married Will, and when to
church last week went I,
I saw the boys stand at the door, to SEQ
her girls go by.
A. J. Waterhouse in San Francisco Cal.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

oh. Time. from DER thy hill Of shades
bring back the day I knew; r.
Bring back the little village church.; bring
back the preacher" too.
There let me sit, as oft I did, and hear
the parson drone
OF mans first fall, the judgment day, the
l%ightnings round the throne.
The winter days were cold. l Wot, but lit
tie was the harm.
For he could paint a hell so hot it served
to keep us warm.
There let me yawn till, ''tenthly'' past, we
heard our final doom;
Then let me haste to- join the boys out in
the anteroom.
1t was that anteroom, I fear, that led us
church to try.
For there we stood in shutting rows to
see the girls go by.
All, Time, II you will be so kind, turn
back unto that day,
And let me stand with shuf1aing boys, and
wait for Mile Ray.
Her eyes were like the shining stars or
Her liDs were cen. the crimson bow that
only Cupid draws;
And though a clumsy oaf was I, I'd reg
istered a vow
That some night I would see her home, or
ask her, anyhow.
And so I stood with shuffling boys within
that anteroom,
And tried to screw my courage up to
meet her spoken doom.
A~lackaday! and woe is me! or woe, at
least, was IL
Some other chump would ask her first.
before the girls got by!
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

was well awake the tone of his own
voice still fingered in his ears.
For a moment he lay, trying to re.
call the story, which on the instant of
waking, had vanished from his mind.
when suddenly David, in the next
room, uttered a loud laugh, which, in
turn, awoke him.
Zebulon hoped out Of bed and went
to David's room.
What are you laughing att" he ask.
ed.
did 1 laugh aloud?" David wanted
to know. Il thought i did"
you certainly did. Were you
asleep?"
YES" said David; II woke myself
laughing at a funny story you were
telling me-" He then went ahead and
told the story, which Zebulon recog.
nized as the one he had dreamed Of
telling to David.
Now, then, We psychologists and me-
taphysicians, get to work on that and
see what you can make of it.-Brook.
Ign Eagle.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
Tending to The Girls.

Employers who Keep children from
school in Germany will be fined not
less than $50 marks. Parents and
guardians are obliged to provide ma
terial for needlework and other means
of instruction for girls. Otherwise the
school board has the right to obtain
these things by compulsion. Accord
ing to the district physicians act OF
April 1 all public and private schools
are, in hygienic matters, under the
control of an official physician, who
must, at certain intervals. winter and
summer, visit every school in his dis
trict and examine the buildings as well
as inquire concerning the health of the
pupils and the schoolmaster. I
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

Scotland Yard would no doubt scorn
to take Sir Conan Doyle into its coun-
sells as an American detective consul
ted r. L. Stevenson. Arthur John
stone, in his Stevenson in the Pa
cifc," tells the striking tale. AS they
sat together n evening in the YER
anda of an inn at Waikiki the de-
tective confided to Stevenson a case
of extreme difficulty he had in hand,
and also his theory OF its solution.
AS Stevenson hardly seemed to at
tend, for he sat looking dreamily at
the sea, the detective left him to have
a chat with the more responsive land
lord. On his return to the yeranda,
however, Stevenson suddenly reused
himself to say, 81 think I have solved
that riddle of yours. You see, it's
just like writing a story. If you go at
It right, 1t will worla out right. Now.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
CHAPTER XIII.

From One Danger Into Another.
Ulin would not retire until she had
heard from Osmir, who had gone out
in behalf Of the robber chieftain. She
sat in her chamber, with a single
lamp dimly burning, and her faithful
bondmaiden kept her company.
II feel" said Abba, breaking in upon
a long silence, "that we have done no
more than our duty in lending our aid
to the cause of the imprisoned chief
tain"
eve have done our duty to the city,"
returned Ulin,, hesitatingly. "If Ju-
liam is set free it will save much
trouble to our king"
"Or" cried the %bondmaiden, impul-
sively, Il don't care for the king.
When he is your husband, then I may
respect him, but I do not care for him
now. I care o for the noble, gem
erous. handsome Julian. l cannot
forget how kindly he treated us, and
how like a brother he bore himself
And, one thing more. I cannot forget
how sad he looked when he left us in
the Palace Of the Valley. AS true as ]
live, 1 think I almost love him. He is
the best looking man I ever saw"
Abba, you must not talk in thai
manner before me-"
Pardon, my lady. I meant nc
harm"
Il do not chide you-T do not blame
you. But-the name of the daring rob.
Der is not n that should be used il
my presence"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
MALARlA7

Generally That Is Not the Trouble.
Persons with a susceptibility to ma.
larial influences should beware of COT.
fee, which, has a tendency to load up
he liver with bile.
A lady writes from Denver that she
suffered for years from chills and
fever which at last she learned were
mainly produced by the coffee she
drank.
Il was also %grievously afflicted
with headaches and Indigestion" she
says, which 1 became satisfied were
likewise largely due to the coffee I
drank. Six months ago / quit it's use
altogether and began to drink Postum
Food Coffee, with the gratifying result
that my headaches have disappeared.
my digestion has been restored and I
have not had a recurrence Of chills
and fever for more than three months,
l have no doubt that it was Postum
that brought me this relief, for I have
used no medicine while this improve
ment has been going on" ut was
really relief from congestion of the
liver caused by coffee.)
Wy 49, AdS UCCu as 6r0aL 4
coffee drinker as I, and for years was
afflicted with terrible sick headaches.
which often lasted for a week at a
time. She is a brain worker and ex-
cessive application together with head.
aches began to affect her memory
most seriously. She found no help IN
medicines and the doctor frankly adj
vised her to quit coffee and use Post.
I'm.
For more than four months she
has not had a headache-her mental
faculties have grown more active and
vigorous and her memory has been
restored.
mo more tea, coffee or drugs 70,
us, SO long as we can get Postum"
Name given b5 Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book THE Road to Wellville" in pks,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
Odd Game of Chance.

The traveller over the Kansas prai-
ries finds many towns that once had
water works system, now containing
only a dozen people. The fire plugs
are sticking out in the buffalo grass
and they are the Fairgrounds of prairie
dogs and the roosting places of the
prairie owls. The tendency to- clean
up the deserted buildings is taking
away many Of These features. The
courthouse Of what al Garfield
county has recently become the prop
erty of H. Herman, and he lives in the
sumptuous building which did not cost
him a cent, as he homesteaded the
quarter section after the county organ.
ization was abandoned.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

I used to have such pain In my back
that once I tainted. The kidney Sc
cretions were much disordened, and I
was SO far gone that I was thought to
be at deaths door. Since Doan's Kid
ney Pills cured me l feel as it I had
been pulled back from the tomb"
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. <.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
cuTlcuRA SOAP.

The WORLDS Greatest kin Soap-Ths
Standard Of Every Nation Of
the Earth.
Millions of the worlds best people
use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuti.
cura Ointment, the purest and sweet.
est of emolient skin cures, for preserv--
ing, purifying and identifying the
skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts.
scales and dandruff, and the stopping
of falling hair, for %softening, whiten-
ing and soothing red, rough and sore
hands, for baby rashes, .itchings and
chafngs, and many sanative, antisep-
tic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women, especially
mothers, as well as for all the pur.
poses of the toilet, bath and nursery.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
Two Of Many.

II was married to that man once"
said the first society woman.
ITO Mr.. De voss? The idea! Why.
SO was l." replied the second ditto.
"Well well! You don't say! Were
you before or after me?'-Philadel.
phia Press.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

after day-don't wor-
ry. Doan's Kidney
Pills have cured thou
sands Of women In the
same condition. Mrs.
A. Holman Of Stillwa.
ter, Mimi, = "But
for Doan's Kidney
Pills I would not DO
living DOW. They
cured me in 1893 and
I've been we'll S1nco.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
Present-Day Philosophy.

Some orators have a fine command
Of other mems language.
Any one can be a power for. evil-it
takes character to be a power for
good.
The fact that some one else does It
is society's excuse 4
You al lead a man to college, but
you cannot make him think.-Ameri.
can Magazine.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
Sword Tactics.

Sword Tactics.
Drill Sergeant Ito raw recruit who
is slow in grasping the tactical de-
tails)-Now, Murphy, how would you
use your sword if your opponent feint.
ed?
Murphy-Begorra, I'd just tickle
him with the pint OF it to see if he
was after fakin'.-Harper's Weekly.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
Explained.

"Say, paw"
well, SOM"
what is a strenuous life?"
"a strenuous life, my son, is when
q man tries to live up to the salary
people think he is getting without 60
ing into debt."-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
Reduced.

"The Blanks are very proud of their
ancestors"
"They ought to be. They're the only
members of the family that ever
amounted to anything Detroit Free
Press.
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Joiffer.

Joiffer.
High-So you have given up your
high ambitions and are going to fol.
low a routine life?
Jinks-Yes; I decided it would be
lonesome up there on the top rung of
the ladder of fame. I'm going to stay
down with the push.-Dallas News.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11
DON'T

Read the Experience Of a Minnesota
Woman and Take Heart.
If your backache aches, and you feel
sick, ianguid, weak and miserable day
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-24
WHY RATES CHANGE.
The Roads Have to Do 1t to Meet Com
petition.

The Roads Have TO DO III 10 hcCb SOiAi-
petition.
From the Business Magazine.
Far-reaching in it's possibilities OF
destructiveness to southern industries
as is the institution of mileage rates,
the granting of the power to a gov
eminent commission to adjust rates
carries with it other dangers. Not
only is such a commission debarred
from adapting rates to the special
needs of localities, but its whole sys-
tenn of operation must necessarily be
inelastic and unbusiness like. Rate
making. as now carried on by the
railroads, is effected by fluctuations
in business conditions, such as sup
ply and demand. The railroad men
in charge of traffic conditions are on
the spot and are intimately acquainted
with the situation in the localities In
which they have jurisdiction. they
are ready upon the instant to respond
to the needs of every situation.
How much the element of times en-
tiers into the adjustment OF freight
rates is we'll illustrated in the south.
The interstate commerce commission
has thus far been able to do little
toward tampering with the adjustment
of through rates on export business:
A few days ago an officer of the
commission admitted to me with a
tinge of regret that up to the present
time the railroads have been able to
do very much as they pleased In ad-
iusting rates on trans-Oceanlc bust
ness because these rates are comb
nation of the ocean rate and the rail-
road rate. and it had been impossible
for the commission to put its finger on
the adjustment of rates between those
two factors, as the element provided by
the water rate was beyond its control.
Shippers of lumber know that the
rates are adjusted to the ports every
twentv-four hours by telegraph. In
CONSEQUENCE the shipper has enjoyed
| the benefit of the lowest combination
compiled daily from ocean quotations
| of the various ports and from rail-
J tariffs from shipping points to these
ports, Say, for instance, that the
steamship rate from New Orleans to
Liverpool is twenty-five cents per hun
bred bounds and that the rail trans
DOrtation from Decatur, Ala, to this
mort is II cents. IT, at the same time,
because of a scarcity of vessels at
Pensacola the ocean rate from that
point is higher, then the railroad
running to this point will decrease its
own charge to such an extent as to
eoualize the increase in the cost OF the
ocean transportation, thus keeping the
through rate at the same level proper
tionately as that via the other port
The object of this adjustment is to
maintain the railroads tonnage atthe
same level regardless of the expense
of the ocean transportation.
If the rates were mot changed daily
shippers would be at a great dlsad-
vantage in making contracts for delly-
cry abroad.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-24
WAR MONEY PILED HIGH
Cost of War in Dollar Bills Would
Be Fifty-Two Miles High. Our
Own Heavy Burden.

A million dollar bills packed solid
" to make a pile 275 feet high. One
thousand million dollars, the price
which Europe annually pays for arm
aments in time of peace, equal pile
Of dollar bills over tifty-two miles
bigh. This expenditure for the sup
posed prevention of war represents
one thousand million days, labor at
one dollar a day and this every day.
A second pile of dollar bills over
ffty-two miles high represents the an
nual payment for interest and other
costs OF past wars.
To these inconceivably large
amounts must be added the earnings
of the millions of able-bOdied men In
army and navy who are Withdrawn
from productive industries and are
supported by taxed people.
Since 1850 the population OF the
world has doubled; its Indebtedness,
chiefly for war purposes, has quad
rupled. 1t was eight billions fifty
wears ago, it is thirty-two billions
today.
The year 1900 added nearly another
thousand millions to the war debt
annual cost of boots, shoes and bread
in the United States.
Our war department, even with our
small army, just previous 10 the gu
ban war cost over $50, 900, 900 annual
lv. while the total annual cost OF pub
lie schools for both races in all the
sixteen southern states was less than
S32, O00 900.
We paid for pensions the year be-
fore the Cuban war over STAT, 600, 900,
about seven times the total income
of all our colleges and about equal
to the annual cost of the German
army.
The increase of standing armies
and navies accomplishing no results
but increased burdens on the people
is inevitable unless the practical men
of the civilized world insist upon
rational settlement Of internatlonl6
difficulties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-24
Administrators Sale.

Georgia. Terrell County. By virtue of an order
OF the Court of Ordinary of said county will be
sold at public outcry on the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary 1906 at the court house in said county, be-
tween the usual hours of sale, one hundred and
twentynine acres, more or less, off Of lot of land
number three in the Eleventh district of said
county, bounded as follows North by the rail
road right of way, east by public road and land OF
Mr. J. E. Mckee, south by the Dawson and
Shellman public road and west by land of Mrs
A. b. Goode. and known as "Abram Crimson
place" Sold as the property of Abram Brinson
late of said county, deceased Terms cash: This
January 6, 1905. f. H. d NJ. F; CRIMSON,
Adm'rs of Abram Brnson's Estate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-24

A reasonable amount of food thor
oughIv digested and properly assim-
Hated will always increase the
strength. Ifyour stomach is a little
off, KodOl Dyspepsia Cure will digest
what YOU eat and enable the digestive
organs to assimilate and transform
ali foods into tissue-building blood.
Kodol relieves sour stomach, belch-
inc. heartburn and all forms of indi-
pestion. Palatable and strengthening.
Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-24
oPENED LIS GINGER BOX

From the Savannah News.
When they pushed Tom Watson into
the campaign that brilliant little red
headed man uncorked his ginger jar
and proceeded to add zest to the con-
troversy. "COuld no more handle a
conviction than he could swallow a
steel rail'' is particularly Watson
esaue. Mr.. WatsOn's policies may be
open to question, but there is no ques-
ton about his ability to take care of
himself in any contest of wits.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-24
For Years SunnOrt.

GEORGIA, Terrell County Court of Ordinary
at Chambers. Dec. 10, 1905. The appraisers APP
pointed upon application Of John Lynch for IA
years support of the minor children of William
persons concerned are hereby cited to show
cause. if any they have. at the next February
term of this court why said application should
not be granted. j. ". ROBERTS. Ordinarv.