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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-07-19

Fargo College Conservatory of
Music offers a splendid course
for the coming year beginning
Sept. 18th, 1906. Four free schol-
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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-07-19

FOR SALE-One span bay
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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-07-19
CROP CONTRACT LAND.

We usually have on hand good
land at reasonable prices that
can be bought with small cash
payment and the balance on the
crop payment plan.
BROWN & DANSK1N,
AtFirst National Banko of Hope
North Dakota.
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Taken Up.

One red and white COW with
horns and one black steer with
out horns. Party owning same
can have them by paying for this
notice and other expenses.
N. C. VEILE.
Sec. 9, Willow Lake Twp, Steele
County, N. Oak.
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ADDITIONAL

Call US up when you have an
item of news.
Harness makes the latest in
Photographs.
Three suites of rooms to let.
Inquire of DR.. Philip. 9t3
Ice Cream by the dish or quart
at Wamberg's Drug Store.
If you want a cool drink or ice
cream soda call at the Palace.
Do not fail to see that $2e.OO
buggy at O. G. Major & Sons.
The latest styles of photos in
mounts and finish at the Harness
studio.
For Sale-a fine new mandolin
cheap. Call at the Pioneer and
examine it.
For Sale-one kitchen range
in good condition. Call on Mrs.
Chapman. Off
For the latest in millinery see
the Milligan Sisters. Firstclass
work guaranteed.
If you want a buggy that has
stood the test in actual use right
at home, see the Hope Imple-
ment Co. about it.
Parties having Farms or Town
propertyfor sale would do well
to list them with Danskin & Cur
r.y. Office one door east of Beck
erjeck's store.
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The Daisy Door Strips.

Guaranteed to keep RAIN
and COLD from coming in
underneath the door. Try one.
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SiqhtSeerS Excursion

$3.50 for the round trip to all
main and branch line points in
North Dakota east of and includ-
ing Minot, July 9 to IA inclusive.
Final return limit July 81. A. G..
Flick, agent, Hope.
The latest in type faces for
calling cards and fancy station
cry at the Pioneer p%rintery, and
expert workmen to give you the
latest designs. Try US and be
convinced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15

saw that he had been walking along the edge of a precipice. And he saw that his guide was Jesus Christ.
 Lord Jesus. at this Eastertide we are pilgrims. We are journeying to the New Jerusalem, the City of Peace. We are journeying thither by the way of the garden, in the midst of which stands n rifled tomb. We are blinded by sin We are lost, and we want guide. o thou Christ, who didst appear unto Mary Mag dalene. come to our rescuel Open our blind eyes Cry unto lls as thou didst to the sinful woman of old: Thy sins are forgiven thee. Go in peace Grant us this prayer o Jesusl And may thy angel who spoke to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, speak to us in thy name the glorious message of our sins forever pardoned and forever pastl
 (Copyright, 19O56, by Louis Klopsch)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15

wild terror fled. Those flowers were torn from their roots or crushed as though a herd of stampeding cattle had iammed their hoofs into them. What lesson do we therefore learn from these crushed flowers lying around in the wrecked gar den surrounding the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea? Why, this is the lesson: If we can only bring our risen Lord into touch with the intrenehed armies of sin he will scatter the Satanic hosts as he made the Roman guard drop before him in the sunrise burst of that Easter morn. Oh. my friends, will this not be your pur- pose, that Christ may triumph over all the forces of evil intrenched in our city streets?
 We can never rid this world of sin un- less we make the risen Christ our leader and companion. Almost everywhere we turn, even among the beautiful flowers about the tomb of the dead Christ, we can hear the hiss of the serpent, the touch of whose fang means eternal death unless the wound is healed by divine medicament. Bishop Meade relates how one day he was out walking in beauti- full garden with young lady. "Oh, bish- op," she cried look at that lovely flowerr With that she reached over to a bush heavily laden with the most exquisite roses. She reached far forward to pluck the most beautiful of all, when suddenly out of that bush there darted the fang of a snake and fastened itself upon her arm. So in the world about us. Even in. the most beautiful of flower gardens we find the Satanic serpents wriggling, twisting hissing, as the Roman guard was encamp- ed about the tomb of Joseph of Arlmath- ca from "Black Friday" to Easter morn Oh, my friends, will you not strive to bring forth this risen Christ and let him make sin under the flash of his eye crouch and trample and die?
 6e A Beautiful Legend.
 And. it is important to let the risen Christ come forth to scatter sin out of the hearts of the human race, how much more important is it to let him come in touch with our own hearts and make us pure and true and good and noble and Christianl There is beautiful le- gend told that many years ago a poor, blind pilgrim was journeying toward Je- rusalem, the City of Peace. After he had been many days and weeks and months on his way he met another traveller going that way. This stranger said: Friend. submit myself to me- and | will guide thee to the City of Peace and give to thee whatsoever thou wilt ask" After the twain had .journeyed on for some days more, at last the pilgrim, ut terly wearied, turned and said; "Oh, good friend, thou hast said that thou wilt do everything for me if I submit myself to eyes The stranger said: 'I will. Blind eyes, be ye openedr Instantly the blind man opened his eyes, and he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
Very Plain.
T.1Ax Tt1oa

T TUIII . uuS q notice" said the carping critic, that in this ode to liberty you say: .rrhe message came to the listening land
 The winds of heaven bore on each
 word; And hill and valley and plain and strand Were glad of the marvel of what they
 heard
 "Yes, sr,'' replied the hopeful poet But how in the name of sense can land hear?'
 sI-er-I suppose land has frontiers, hasn't 1t?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15

Nay, friend, l am not wrong Christ may have lived and died a poor man.
 but he was buried as a king, Dost thou not know that Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the sanhedrin- and one of the great leaders of the Jewish nation, went and ask I'ilate for Christs body after 1t was dead and that Pilate gave 1t to him? And dost thou furthermore not know that Joseph of Arimthea took Christs body and buried 1t in- his own family vault?''
 But l again say "how could Joseph do that? Jesus did not own a particle of clothes when he died. The soldiers even gambled for the coat that he wore on his way to the crossp True" said Mary
 True, but didst thou not also know that. as one rich man gave Christ his own tomb in which to be buried. so Nicodemus, another rich man. furnished the funds whereby Christ's body was appropriately arrayed for the rich mans sepulcher?
 Do yous think that these words which have put into the lips of Mary are pure ly maginary2 Then read Mark xv. 43' Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable coup- sclor, who also waited for the kingdom of God came and went in boldly unto Pilate and craved the body of Jesus, and he gave the body to Joseph Then turn to John xix, g. And there also came Nicod-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11
TIM MURPHY TO THE BELL BOY.

Tim" Murphy is quiet, unassuming,
and possessed of many talents. He is a
pen artist, and it is a source Of delight
to him to sketch in pen and ink some of
the unusual happenings that occur dur
ing his travels. 1t is related that some
years ago, while playing in Washington
D. c., Mr.. Murphy was tackled by a
bel1bOy Of the hotel in which he was stop
ping for a pass to the show The re-
membrance of those days when he him
self had climbed to the top gallery and
Kissed at the villain and wept with the
prosecuted heroine was too much for
Tim, so after studying the boy for a few
seconds, he grabbed a pen and drew a
lifelike picture Of bellboy coming down
a wide staircase, cadet jacket, cap. but
tons and all, and as a finisher added two
enormous hands carrying in each three
water pitchers, and along the corner of
the sketch inscribed to the manager the
following: IF he appears to you as he
did to me- pass him" It is not claimed
that the boy went to the theatre armed
with six water pitchers, but he took no
chances. so appeared before the manager
in full bellboy uniform and got in.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11
BY SARAH BERNHARD.

have been asked to give my views
and opinions on the stage as it is today
and the influence for good or evil ex-
erted by many of the dramas Dromi-
nently before the American people.
This is a very broad and serious ques-
ton, and in an article of this kind I
will be unable to more than outline my
belief in the power OF the drama, which
I have gained in a lifetime on the stage.
That the mission Of the stage is being
felt has its greatest proof in the wide
discussion Of this subject, which must
have prompted the request for a state
ment from me. The American public
is becoming more and more interested
in the drama Of the better class. and
the scope of the stage as moral
teacher IS correspondingly enlarged, its
power augmented.
The actor leads all other arts in
reaching human hearts and minds be-
cause it is a wonderful blend of all arts
We may gaze in wonder and awe at
great painting, we may be lost in
flood Of music, We may laugh with the
humorist and weep with the poet; but
the great drama in one evening sweeps
us with conflicting storms of passion,
anger, tears, pity, awe and laughter.
And it is an appeal to our emotions that
sinks a lesson deeper far than all rea-
son and logic.
Great Possibilities for Good.
Surely this would show the great pos
sibilities of teaching that lie in the
power Of the dramatist and his ally, the
actor. This power, in unwise hands.
might be as great for evil as it is for
good, but this is seldom or never so. A
really bad play, in either sense, receives
rebuke at the box Office which pre-
vents it from naming long before the
public. Without referring 10 any spe-
cif1c cases, everyone viii remember at
least one or two such cases.
One Of the questions asked me is.
DO you believe that the theatre is, so
far as the average audience is con-
cerned, merely place of amusement"
Most certainly 1 do. And in that one
point is much of the strength of the
stage as a moral instructor. Most of us
can remember in our early school DAYS.
in the time of the alphabet and our
first pot-hOOks, some of the harmless
little devices by which we were induced
to learn willingly and unconsciouslv.
We learned the alphabet, set to a tune
full little air. Our interest was awak-
ened in the story Of the adventures
Of some little girls cat, illustrated by
q very tantalizing picture. We eagerly
worked to find out the story and at the
same time learned that Cat" spelled
"cat," and other information which the
teacher had designed we should gather.
Stage Instructs While it AmUses.
The instruction of the stage follows
the same lines. only to a greater de-
gree. Theatre-goers come to the play
because they are promised entertain
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11
BY REUBEN A. ToRREY.

The stage is demOralizing. That is
the alpha and the omega Of the whole
proposition.
In the course Of my work | have nat
urally made careful study Of all the
influences which an evangelist must
combat, and the theatre stage is one of
these. 1t is demOTalizing in all its
works. 1t has that effect upon audi
ences and reacts upon its VOtaries, ac-
tors and actresses.
The first natural objection to this
statement will be, hew can a really good
and great play have that effect? The
answer is that a really good play very
rarely receives the support of the pub
lie to a sufficient extent TO make it a
paying investment from a financial
standpoint, and managers therefore
hesitate at risking the money involved
in placing it before the public.
The reason for all this is very clear.
In any large city there is a theatre pub
lie. 1t is this part of the community
which dictates to a large degree what
plays shall be presented because a
shrewd manager soon learns what his
patrons want and he sees that they
get il.
"PubIic Fed on Loose Morality"
This theatre public as a body is cor
rupt. A good play might have the good
effect of a good book if it were present.
ed to an audience eager to learn. But
the theatre public does not want moral
lessons or instructions from the stage.
It does not go to the theatre for that
purpose. 1t goes to be entertained.
The history Of plays presented in New
York in the past ten years will show
that theatre-gOers are entertained most
by plays that are drawn in moral cloud
mess or tainted with social iconOclasm.
They are therefore constantly fed on
a diet of loose morality or ridicule of
the most sacred social customs.
For instance, in the case of emotion
al plays of the school Of Daudet and
Dumas, how many men and women
carry away from the theatre the lesson
taught in the lives of these women, in
the pictures of misery and shame
Practically none; because they do not
come for that purpose. These scenes
appeal to the low er side Of their imag-
nations and far from helping them to
see the moral respect for healthy social
customs and clear, clean standards of
morality is loosened and weakened.
Problem Play Is Vicious.
1t is of course true that in most of
these plays decency triumphs in the
last few minutes before the curtain
falls in the last act, but that does not
counterfeit the effect of dragging will
ing imaginations through a mire Of i'm
morality for several hours. Many will
see only the tinse1 and the glamour
of the unconventional and forget all
about that last few minutes.
Bat more dangerously vicious than
this type is the problem play. which
purports TO deal with a question of So
cal ethics. This question for the most
part generally exists only in the minds
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11
A POSTER TRAGEDY.
Baltimore. AmericanN

Baltimore American.)
A three-sheet Dude on two weeks run,
Fell in love with a Poster Maid.
All, fair was she and fond was he,
And fierce was the love he made
They were posted on opposing boards
On each side of the street,
And the Dude he pressed his suit so
While the Maid she smiled SO sweet.
The Dude was in problem play,
The orchestra, two per;
The Maid was in a burlesque show,
Ten-twent'-thirt' good for her.
Yet though their stations lay so far
In social rank apart.
He felt he could forget his pride
In the passion Of his heart
The Gibson Girls in a vaudeville,
Who stood with langIid grace
On the next billboard, in vain displayed
Their charms before his face.
They wore fine gowns and their air
breathed style
Their lips at her did curl;
But their arts were vain, for he passed
them by. .-...
For the burlesque Poster Girl.
But she laughed and danced with her
gaudy smile,
Unheeding all his signs,
Till the billmen came and took her down
Before his anguished eyes.
And they put up instead Pirate Band,
To the watching crowds great joy;
And there in melodrama wild
They pasted Bandit Boy.
That night the Pirates softly stole
From their places on the sheet
And charged, led by the fierce Brigand.
On the Dude across the street.
Then came a, fierce, unequal strife
Twixt the Social Problem Man
And the Uncouth but strong mUscied
bunch
OF the Primitive Passion Clan.
They fought as the world has ever fought
When a maid plays fast and loose:
You stole my gal" cried the Bandit
fierce
And wouldn't take any excuse
1t was just before he was torn in half
To the Pirates fiendish jOy
That the poor Dude learned his Poster
Girl
Was engaged to the Bandit Boy.
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DR. T0RMNY The Successor of SAYS MO

out marriage. And this is the creed
which thousands eagerly hailed.
The greatest stay of nations, the
backbone of the strength OF a people.
is In the sacred purity of the home
which makes good men and women to
carry on the good work Of the world.
The sacred tradition of the marriage
which makes this home is the ground
work Of our civilization But these
customs and influences are attacked by
the stage and the attack is appIauded
even when the substitute is not Of
fered.
Mimic Evil Reacts on Players.
Another effect of this unwholesone
leaven and one that applies directly is
the recent creed that great artists
should not be bound by the social laws
that rule ordinary mOrtals. This is
hardly worthy Of serious consideration
A great artist. be he or she poet. player
or painter, is a public character, and as
public character exercises by example
a great influence. The example Of these
public men and women publicly dfsre-
garding those social laws would work
incalculable harm.
The evil that these plays work must
inevitably tend to react on the PLAYERS
themselves. I once had a talk with
BeerbOlm Tree on this subject It was
ment Of famous English dramatic
critic who once said that a modest wo-
man could not be an actress. would
not make as broad a statement as that
but would say that it is very difficult
for a woman who is an actress to pre-
serve her womanIy modesty.
Modest Woman in Mans Apparel.
Several actresses have fought their
managers on the question of certain
roles that must be distastefuI to a wo-
manly woman, and they have invaria-
bly, been forced into it. Only the other
day l noticed that a woman of the
stage for whom I have always had a
great respect appeared in mans aD-
parel, contrary to the stand she has for
years main tanned"
The curse of the stage, that which
prevents it from performing what It
might, is the financial consideration.
People VIII not pay to see good plays.
and therefore they are not offered. If
the plan of substituting theatres goes
| into effect there may then be a posi-
bility of giving the clean-minded public
good solid drama Of the better kind.
and leading the regular theatre public
somewhat away from the unclean froth
that 1t feeds on now. Even the Passion
Play, which was once q great religious
festival, is now conducted like any
other play-for what there is in it.
In conclusion I wish to say that I
mean nothing in this statement that
may reflect on the private life OF actors
and actresses. But there is Just one
question that every man should ask
himself on the subject OF the moral in
f1uenee of the stage. Would he like to
see his daughter behind the footlights
in tights?
Copyright, 1906, by S. U. A F. So
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11
BERNEGARDT Ss %.sR n5x, SAYS YES

| sacrificed that love because she loved
| him enough to give him up when she
/ believed that she should At the call
| of his duty to his home and family she
made him leave her and go back to his
people He did so, and was received
| with love and respect at his fathers
house. She died horribly, deserted and
alone. and he lived in endless grief and
remOrse. Certainly the lesson is clear
| in a drama in which cOnVentiOnality
tTiumphs over SO powerful a love and
at such a cost.
Emotional Plays Point Strong Moral.
In practically none of the emotional
dramas is the life of the unconvention-
al painted in aIIuring colors. There
can be no question of the effect of q
scene like that of the prison room in
THE Resurrection" the almost brutal
picture Of the lOathsOme degradation
TO which one misstep brought Katusha
Maslova- It is not pleasant, certainly;
but also it certainly has no charms as
a model on which to build ones life So
a hundred cases could be quoted in
which the dramatist teaches the world
old lesson that society Furnishes terribly
those who break its customs.
The true problem play is another
matter; but, strange to say, there is
drama. In the problem play the author
has discovered or manufactured a So
cial problem and treated it in detail.
But that is all. In most cases he
frankly cOnfesses that he is unable to
arrive at a satisfactory solution by
leaving the question entirely open.
There are always two or three ways of
arriving at some sort of an answer.
and the audience is left to choose.
Audience Cannot Solve Problems.
Now, it is very much of a question
whether the average is capable of even
beginning the correct solution Of a So
cial problem that has baff1ed the au-
thor and possibly many deep and seri-
Gus thinkers. They are offered some
thing in an attractive form, and in
most cases they are likely to accept
it as a new fact instead of seeing that
it is in the form Of a question. In the
case of thoughtless, idle persons, it is
very easy to see how harm might re-
suit from such plays; but 1 think, that
both that kind of plays and that kind
of people are in a very small minority.
But aside from the few plays that do
not work good and the many that do,
what Of the many clean, simple, whole
some plays, free from any mission
save that Of giving thousands of tired
men and women 2, few hours of clean
wholesome amusement. If the stage did
nothing else but that. it would have
the best of reasons for claiming the
support of good men and women.
In brief, believe the stage to be an
educator, a moral instructor. L believe
that it works much good and little evil
It teaches man, aside from morality
and social ethics, the greatest and best
of all his lessons-to know himself and
his fellow man and the motives and
emotions which rule them.