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TO BE CONFINED NEXT SUNDAY.
A QUEER SNAKE THIS.
Transfers It's Head from One End 20
the Other at Intervals.

From tie Boston Journal
Having on board one OF the strangest
snakes Of which there is any record IN
any land. which has the habit Of changing
It's head every six months from one end
Of its body 10 the other the Hansa Line
steamer Trautenfels, from Calcutta and
Colombo. locked at the Mystic shortly
before noon Yesterday. The reptile IS
about three feet IN length and nearly
ten inches thick IN some portions OF its
body. 1t has q peculiar brownish color,
and its bite is far more poisonous than
the RATHER.
The snake was caught IN the mountains
Of India and Is being taken to New York
ia conopIete the collection Of mOnstrOsities
IN one of the museums in that city. At
the present time the head is disappear
ing from one end Of its body, and another
one is gradually being formed on the spot
where its tail formerly was
None of the officers Of the Trautenfels,
from Capt. Gronau GosTn. was able 20
give any special name 10 the snake Every
nerson on board the steamer gave the
cage a wide berth whenever they passed
#. not from any possibility that the rep
tile might escape, but from force C habit.
There is no possibility OF its effectfng an
eecape. for. aside from any opportunity,
IL evidently has no inclination u get
away. 1t occasionally shows signs OF life
by running out its immense tongue. but
Il seldom moves. II is said 10 be par
ticularly ferocious Just after the SEMI
annual head-moving is accomplished.
In addition to the snake, the TTautenfels
has 500 tigerfinches and 500 camilla birds.
birds peculiar to India. which are Of
bright pIumage and extremely small
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his horizon. He studies botany IN the
fields and biology i'm the great geological
garden OF the Capital He Is taken to
the National Museum to form his notions
of the business OF transportation from the
models Of ships and locomotives that he
finds there or to investigate the evolu-
ton Of the time-Diece. The Corcoran Art
Gallery. TIE Congressional Library, and
the halls Of the Capitol all yield him their
various lessons. But il IS not TO he In
feTred that the new method depends for
its validity upon the extraordinary re-
sources of the National Capital. At the
Lewis hamplin school. in Chicago. Miss
Kate Kellogg has devised curriculum
that is perhaps even truer TO the new
principle, There reading, writing, and
arithmetic have been come at through an
investigation by the children of the proc
esSes OF city building city protection.
and public sanitation. What vivid mathe-
MATES and natural philosophy in a fire
engine house, What chance for rascally
contractors viii there be when ali the
children are figuring on the paying, What
rest for torpid manufacturers, when ten
year-olds begin 10 spell and parse feel
ingly on the snloke-nuisancel
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CHINA'S GREAT EMPRESS.
Looks Not Over Forty, and Pos
sesses Elegant Culture.

Looks Not Over Forty, and Pos
sesses Elegant Culture.
From the Worlds Work
The Chinese Empress is tTihe under
the average height OF European ladies'
yet so perfect are her proportions and so
graceful her carriage that she seems to
need nothing to add to her majesty. Her
features are vivacious and pleasing rather
than beautiful. Her complexion is not
yellow. but sub-Oliye; and her face is
Illuminated by orbs Of jet half hidden by
dark lashes. behind which lurk the smile
of favor or the lightning OF her anger
No one would take her to be more than
forty years old.
She carries a tablet on which. even
during a conversation. she jots memo
randa. Her pencil is the support of her
graph commands, and with il she in
scribes those pictured characters which
are worn as the prOudest decorations of
her ministers. I have seen them in gold
frames in the hall of a viceroy.
The elegance of her culture excites sin
cere admiration in a country where
women are ilIiterate, and the breadth Of
her understa nding is such as 20 take In
the details ofrgovernmcnt. She chooses
her agents with wise judgment, and shifts
them from pillar to- post so that they
may not forget their dependence on her
will. Without d parallel in her own coun-
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CHAPTER II.
The Maid.

HarIeys ring was not answered at once,
but as he stood on the step he glanced
back at the city. which, IN the dark,
showed only the formless bulk Of houses
and the cold electric lights here and
there. Then he heard a light step, and
the door was thrown open. He handed
his card to the maid. merely saying, Mr.
and Mrs. 6rayson." and waited TO be
shown into the parlor. But the girl, whose
face he could not see. as the hall was
dimly lighted. held ii in her hand, looking
first at the name and then at him Har-
ley. feeling a slight impotence. stepped
inside and said:
Il assure you that I am the real owner
OF it--that is, of the name on the card"
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WHEN MOTHER COMES.

The Old house seems 50 creepy,
The rooms 50 duh and dead
think ! hear spo0ks walking
In the attic overhead
I hear the stIangcst whispers
Come down the chimney fue,
And voice. I guess a vitch's
Keeps saying. YOU. boo hoo.'
Ard when the flames quit blazing.
And die upon the crate,
And shadows come a-creeping.
And the hour is getting late.
hear the front stairs cracking,
As If sCms one was there
Id ike 70 run ard look, but
Ny goodness. don't dare.
Sometimes in the cellar
I hear the awfuiiest things,
Il makes me set all scary,
And have such Wonderings.
And sometimes, when it's windy.
The caves make such a noise
It's like the things pa tells about
That scare the little boys.
At night. when I'm left all alone.
] close my eyes up tight,
And cuddle Up IN his big chair,
And tUrn on all the light
And my. sou ought 70 see them scOot,
Those spooks and gebble-ums,
The witches and the things like that,
As soon as mother eomesi
milwaukee, scntine
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WALKS TO CHURCH AT 1O6.
Remarkable Vitality of the Oldest
Woman in Pennsylvania.


Woman in Pennsylvania.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore Stalker, OF VIII
Hamsburg, Blair county. Pa, Is the Oldest
Presbyterian in the synod Of Pennsyl-
vania, and Is also believed TO be the
Oldest woman in the State. Her age is
1Os years. Her record is absolutely re-
liable and is vouched for by her vener-
able pastor for the past thirty-five years.
the Rev. DR.. Joseph c. Kelly. OF VII
liamsburg. Mrs. Stalker has three IN
married daughters at home. ranging in
age from seventy to seventy-fve.
With the aid OF glasses, Mrs. Stalker
reads two or three chapters Of the Biblo
every day. With the exception OF her
hearing. which IS somewhat impaired, she
has the use OF all her faculties. She en-
lows company, dearly loves her friends,
and impresses every one as a sweet, hap
py. Christian woman.
In October. 1900. the Presbytery OF
Huntington met in Williamsburg and her
pastor presented her to the presbytery as
probably the oldest living Presbyterian"
The presbytery rose to receive her and
ordered q minute OF the event TO be placed
upon the record. When the weather Is
favorable and her health permits she still
goes to church. Her last appearances
there was on September 8.
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GODS COUNTRY.

From the Saturday Post.
Sing me the song Of the BIT aud spur
The song Of the smiling plain
Blow mo the breeze from the mountain top.
And send ne the Western rain
Mine he the light CT the Western stars
Nv breath Of the ar and pine
Where youth and JOY and lOye Cume back,
Like the taste OF a rare Old wine
So here's to uie seng CT the mountain stream,
To the shriii Of the coyotes cTy
Ard may wake In that Western land
stead y heaTen-Ehcn ! Gle
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housekeeping In Land of MikadO.
49,. I'll IN The Hnrsekin--

HousecleaninE In Land OF MikadO-
Marian Bonsan. in the HoUseking.
never could regard housekeeping
seriously in Japan, where the walls can
be put aside by one hand. where there is
no particular furniture TO worry one. and
where even the mating can be laid and
lifted without tacks or nails. But the
Japanese housekeepers of my acquaint-
ance rather resented my light attitude,
assuring me quite after the manner OF
housekeepers all over the world that it
Is ali very hard and requires much work;
oh. very much work indeed. In order to
Justify myself to one housekeeper I drew
a comparison of her own difficulties and
those of an American woman; but the
American picture seemed to her so ter
rihIe and she became so deeply sympa-
thetic That I had to stop short 10 save
her feelings.
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Good Cause.

From Illustrated Bits
Stern Parent-From my observations of
MIN last night I came to the conclusion
that that young man OF yours was rather
wild.
Daughter-Of course. It was you that
made him wild. He wanted you to go
upstairs and leave US alone,
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try. she is sometimes compared with
Catharine II OF Russia. She has the adj
vantage in the deeeney of her private life.
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some especially fine new daffOdil, and If
such stock" consists OF only one or two
bulbs, they like It all the better,
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Naturally Going that Way.
From the Atlanta Constitution
Cuba is just naturally gravitatinS to
ward annexation.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
The Radium Creamery.

The Creamery at Radium has been
completed this week and is now ready
for business. The farmers have a
splendid outfit and the beauty of the
whole thing is that they have not
paid an extravagent price for it.
Everything is of the best and put up
in first class shape and now when
they are ready to do business they
have not invested much over $1,000.
Alfred Horgan is president of the
company, Robert Vance, secretary.
Frank Schantzen, vice-president,
and Mr.. Shell, treasurer.
They have received much encour-
agement from surrounding localities
that have announced themselves
anxious to ship cream to the plant,
and as cream is the only thing want
ed to make the association big su-
cess the promoters naturally feel
pretty good over the outlook.
AS the venture is not made with
q view Of making the stockholders
wealthy the chances are that patrons
of the plant are going to get good
prices for their cream.
The first season is the one that is
going to test the matter. If they
can pull through the first year with
out having to lay up too long in the
winter time. success is sure.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
Commissioner to be Named OIL
Nav 1S.

May IS.
County Auditor Malberg has issued
notices to the different township
chairmen of the 5th commissioner
district to meet at his Office here in
the court house, on Friday, May Is,
to name successor to Commissioner
Jensen, who resigned the first of the
month.
The following are the parties who
will answer the roll on that occasion
Albert klungness, Agder; &. A.
Paetznick, Cedar; a. G. Vorseth,
Como: j. B. johnson, Eckvoll: Ole
j. Lunke, East Valley; Laur J. Ten
old. Esplee: John Simonson, Excel /;
Henry Roller, Grand Plain; 81. O.
Eckerdalen, Holt; P. A. Johnson.
Moylan: And. D. Nordstrom, Moose
River: Ed. J. Ruud, ROLLS; Carl r.
Anderson, Thief Lake; Simon Berg
sing, Sr., Valley; and Carl G. Rud,
Veldt.
Sheriff Forsberg is out in that sec
tion now serving the notices of the
meeting.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
Post MOrtem Kindness,

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of
your love and tenderness sealed up
until your friends are dead. Fill
their lives with sweetness. Speak
approving. cheering words while
their ears can hear them, and while
their hearts can be thrilled and made
happier by them; the kind things you
mean to say when they are gone, say
before they go. The flowers you
mean to send for their cotfins, send
to brighten and sweeten their homes
before they leave them. If my
friends have alabaster boxes laid
away, full of fragrant perfumes of
sympathy and affection, which they
intend to break over my dead body,
would rather they would bring them
out in my weary and troubled hours,
and open them, that l may be re-
freshed and cheered by them while
need them. l would rather have a
plain coffin without flower, a fu-
neral without an eulogy, than a life
without the sweetness OF love and
sympathy. Let us learn to anoint
our friends beforehand for their
burial. Post mortem kindness does
not cheer the troubled spirit. Flow
ers on the coffin cast no fragrance
backward over life's weary way. .-Ex-
change.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
A Farmers Toast,

''In these piping days of aglicul-
tural prosperity says Harper's
Weekly, ''let us not forget the fine
old farmer toast, not uncommonly
printed on English drinking vessels
in bygone years.
" Let the wealthy and great
. a. Roll in splendour and state,
l envy them not, declare it;
eat my own lamb,
My chickens and ham,
| shear my own fleece and | wear it.
l have lawns, / have lowers,
l have fruits, | have flowers,
The lark is my morning alarmer;
So, my jolly boys, now
Here's God-speed the plough,
Long life and success to the farmer. -
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
CUTS DOWN IT'S
RUNNING SCHEDULE
Great Northern Clips IS Minutes
off Schedule Between st,
Paul and Winnipeg.

A change in the running schedule
OF the Great Northern flyer went
into effect between St. Paul and Win =
nlpeg, making the time fourteen hours
and ten minutes between the two ter
mlnals. Most of this reduction is
made on that part of the line from
Crookston north, the excellent con-
dlt1on of that tract making the
shorter time possible. From War
rem to Winnipeg 21 minutes are cut
OF. The north bound flyer arrives
here at 3:l3 a. m, same as before,
but the south bound leaves at e:20
p. M, now, instead of e:41 p. NJ.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
FOUND STARVING
MISERAbLY IN BOG.
Russian New Conner Lost Her
Way and Came Near
Perishins.

Without being able to speak
word OF Enplish not even her name,
only half clothed and being in a
country but thinly settled, A Rus
sian girl was picked up in the vici-
nifty of Middle River Saturday, hav-
ing been found in marshy bog
there where she would have starved
to death had she not been found
when she was. She was found by
Frank Hauzner. a Russian who was
able to communicate with her and
get most pitiable tale of her ex-
perlences. According to a letter
which she carried she had left En-
erson some time ago enroute to her
parents who had taken land from the
Canadian government 25 miles east
of that place. She lost ner way and
wandered many days without know
ing where she was and being unable
to tell anyone where she wanted to
go she simply kept on tramping,
wandering far to the south and
finally landing in the bogs near Mid
die River Saturday. Her condition
was certainly pitiable to behold be-
ing half clothed. Her experience be-
ing made far worse by the weather
which will be recalled as very cold
Saturday.
a ticket was furnished her by peo-
pie at Middle River which would tax e
her to Emerson and instructions
were given her not to start on the
tramp again but to wait till her
father could get to the place and
take her out. n collection was
taken for her on the train and several
dollars were given her to be used in
sustaining her till she might get to
her home.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
Snow In Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, May -
This end Of the upper peninsula was
visited by snow storm today cover
ing the ground SO that it was white.
This is the latest snowfall for sever
al years. 1t is not believed any dam
age was done.
Here in Warren we had quite hard
frosts Sunday and Monday nights,
but no damage was done except per-
haps to few plum trees that had
ventured to bloom too early. The
effect of the frost is hardly noticeable
on vegetation in general.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10

Judge Watts has ordered the COL
lection OF an assessment of So per
cent off the stock OF tie Neilsville
Farmers Elevator Company to pay
up the Indebtedness.
Haivor Strandvold, of Thief River
Falls, answered the matrimonial ad
OF Miss Kirk, of Lewiston, Pa. and
after the coy maiden had consented
co join with him in wedlcck he sent
her s34 to come for the joining.
The q. S. Marshal has her now, but
she has HaIvor's money.
Congressman Steenerson has been
engaged TO make the Fourth of July
oration at Frazee City this year
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
Program.

To be rendered at unveiling. of
church, painting in. the. Swedish
Lutheran church on Friday..evening,
May Is, at s p. m:
l. Song pv the CONGREGATION
2. Reading of the-Scriptures and
Prayer, Rev. }. A. Mattson
3. Address, John P. Mattson
4. Song by the Choir
5. Defamation, Margaret Mattson
6. Address, Judge A. Grindeland
I. Solo, ,..Nels Bystrom
s. Defamation, ..Hanna..Muns
9. Duet, Mary and.Henry Dalquist
10. Defamation, Emma..Bystrom
II. Reading and dwelling address,
Rev. J. a. Mattson
II. Song by the Choir
13. Benediction.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
A Veteran Editor Is Dead.

Joseph A. Wheelock, founder and
editor in chief of the St. Paul Pic
neer Press, died yesterday at his
home in St. Paul, at the age of Is
years. He had been in poor health
during the past couple years and had
lately returned from California,
where he had spent the winter. Mr..
Wheelock mad been engaged in edi-
torial work for more than fifty years,
during which time he has built up a
great and influential newspaper, that
has done much for the development
of the state. His strong personal
.ity, force, sound Judgment, and
honesty of purpose have always DOM
mated the editorial columns of his
paper and given to them character
and power. In politics it was we'll
nigh supreme in the early days and
as the Pioneer Press went the state
was sure to go. Mr.. Wheelock was
intensely patriotic, and his faith in
Minnesota and it's glorious future
was unbounded. He did as much as
any other man to make known its
resources and possibilities to the
outside world.
Mr.. Wheelock was born in Bridge
port, Nova Scotia, Feb. s. 1881, was
educated in Sackville academy and
came to Minnesota in 1850 at the age
of 10 years. He began his business life
as clerk in suffers store at Mendo-
ta then lively trading post. He
soon drifted into newspaper work.
for which his talents we'll fitted him.,
and in which he made a great sue
cess. Now he has laid down his pen,
his life's work is DER and he is no
more. but the influence he has WELD
ed. the good he has done in the state
and in the nation will live on for
ever, and bless generations yet to
come.
Rnvs smoke ssl ean but Long, -
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
Real Estate Transfers


and n11s u l55 IS s12, 500
MINI L & T Co to G r jacob lot
5 bl Oslo 1925
ST P NJ & NJ Ry Co to J P Smith
SEX ne4 156 so s640
O E Voldeng to A A Hall sw4 Is
157 43 81 =
ST P NJ & NJ Ry Co to Lewis Vest
man sw4 se4 p l55 As $40
johnson to Anna D Lundstrom
IL acres of ne1l Is 15s Is s 40
! Ga Anseth to W Johnson VIZ
ne4 e1s nw4 25 Isl Al and lot 81
15s Al 5000
E F Whitney to Levi Lake lot on
Nelson Ave Warren 81
Maude Bernard to o E Eckern nh
of lots 1-2 & bl II o T Warren $500
IA Hansen to..Nels P Larson sw1li
p 15s 4s $4,000
Us to..A J Peterson So ne4 and
lots2l & p 155 80
Us to ROBBERS ne4 81 15S so
ST p NJ & NJ Ry Co to A Miller
nw4 se4 e11S SEX sw4 II l56 so 1912. &C
A ] Miller to James Eagen same
$500
St P NJ & NJ Ry Co to T Fitzgerald
sell II 156 II sl44O
IL Nordling to L L Nordling
nw4 81 155 so 81
LII Nordling to L J Nordling S
15 nwll 81 l55 so 81
Ii Nordling to Frank Eliason n1z
nwl{ 81 155 so 81
L L Nordling to L NordIing lot
l % l55 80 81,
0 Kjelsberg to L E Larson n1s
sw4 So nwlt 32 155 43 $1,000
St P NJ & NJ Ry Co to Otto kunz
swl l and ne II l54 46 $4,000
Otto KunZ to Anna Kunz same
$1,000
St P NJ & NJ Ry Co to Yetter g.
Smith lot 81 l5S Is s33O24
Anna NJ Nordgren to Olson &
Holen lot IS bl - Williams add Ar.
gyle. SIS
| Frank O'Meara to H Van Alstine
sec 81 155 Is $3.50
FW Carlton to Frank Wood lots G
& bl ~ 0 L and lots l1& II bl l II
&..B add Warren sl35
Vega Land Co to Carrie Sonstrud
sw q 155 II 81 $500 49,
Thos Olson to Nels Peterson swll;
33 15S n $1,000
n G Macdonald to \ L Robinson
lots s-9-1O pl 10 H & B add Warren
$500
Nels Fosso to Mary Sand e1s SEX
sell ne4 10 and sw1 nw4 IL 156 IS
5000
Prichard Stone. Co to A B g. O
Wanless sw4 sw4 10 s11S SEX SEX
sw4 9 157 ~, s1440,
TC Bell to Gust Johnson VIZ mex
3 l5S so s24OO
Ole Teigen to NJ Risard lot 5 sec
156 so 1925
Mimi L & T Co to NJ Peterson lot
I bl s Alvarado $50
NJ Peterson to P Thompson n1L lot
bl Alvarado s12O
H Gunderson to ] E Jackson lot b
l Gunderson's s add Oslo 5000
ST P NJ & NJ Ry Go to R K Doe
ne4 l l54 II s1597.9O
FE Lufkin to Rasmus Oen nH nwA
| 20 156 80 S7OO
Us to F E Lufkin NJ nw4 20 15t
80
Us to Martin Iverson e1s swA
sw4 se4 IS 15S IL
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
VALLEY ATHLETIC
LEAGUE TO meet
The Newly Formed Association
Will have its First Meet at
Thief River May rs.

Events arranged for, the credits
being 3, 2 and /:
Hop, step and Jump.
2.-Hammer throw, II pound.
4.-Pole vault.
$3.50 yard relay race a runners.
6.-440 yard run.
7.-220 yard dash.
800 yard dash.
9.-12O yard hurdle, no hurdles,
21s ft.)
1o.-220 yard hurdel, no hurdles, 2
Is it.
n.-Running high jump.
R.-Running broad jump.
l3.-Standing broad jump. .
The Initiative for the revival of
Interschool athletics in north ern
Minnesota was taken Saturday, May
9TH at an athletic conference held at
St. Hilaire, when arrangements were
completed for field meet to be held
at Thief River Falls May 26th.
Those who were present as delegates
representing their respective schools
were the following: Supt. E. W.
Chamberlain. Red Lake Falls. who
presented at the meeting, ". B.
Young of Warren. NJ ". Zipoy. East
Grand Forks, n. \. Thoreson of
Crookston who was chosen secretary.
E. Z. Mclntire of Crookston and
Supt. c. S. Yeager,.of Fosston were
present at the meeting. Thief River
Falls was not represented at the
meeting but will join in the athletics
this spring as will Fosston, Fertile
and Hallock and Argyle probably.
All Of the delegates were in favor
of permanent organization and up
on motion the association was called
the Red River, ,Inter-School athletic
League Allentries must be regist-
cred Is days before the meet but an
exception was taken this year
when 10 days notice was deemed
sufficient. Notices of protest must
be in days before the contest to be
acted upon by the executive board.
No one student can enter more than
FIVE events and no schools can enter
more than two contestants in the
same event for which the credits
shall be three for first place, two
for second and..one for third, in all
of the different events.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
Jack Frost Stalks Through the
Land
Cold In Texas.

Dallas, Tex, May 6.-This has been
the fercest day from a weather
standpoint ever known az Dallas in
May. The temperature dropped to
oO degrees above zero and overcoats
had to be worn. Fires were kept in
practically all the stores in town.
The flood is still rampant in the
Trinity river and another big rain
fell last night. Crops have been bad
ly washed out and much corn and
cotton will have to be replanted.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
a Mountain of Gold

could not bring as much happiness
to Mrs. Lucia Wilke, of Caroline,
Wis, as did one 25c box of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, when it completely
cured running sore on her leg,
which mad tortured her 2 long years.
Greatest antisptic healer Of Piles,
Wounds, and Sores. 25c at q. f..
Whitney's Drug store.
Warren sheaf., 1906-05-10
Frost In Nebraska.

Lincoln, Neb., May 6.-There was
killing frost in parts of Nebraska
last night, but.the damage done can
not yet be accurately measured.
Frost covered the ground in this
county and at Broken Bow ice form
ed.
The Temperature tonight indicates
repetition of the frost. The principal
damage will be to fruit.