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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-28

The fact that corn bread Is being
made in some parts Of the country
from meal manufactured from Alfalfa
will have no effect in spelling the ap
petite Of our Missouri friends fol
the good old fashioned corn bread.
Geo. Pritchet, Jr., and Miss Mary
Schiller were united lin marriage
Tuesday at st. Mary's church up the
river near Foxholm. We will en-
deavor to secure more facts concern
ling this event, which was one of the
most important functions of that
neighborhood.
| Henry Auslander, the baker, is do
ing considerable more business than
last year. He bakes 1900 loaves OF
bread daily, besides hundreds Of pies
and cakes, etc. Mr. Auslander is in.
lstalling another labor saving machine
cake mixer, which will do the work
of a dozen persons.
James Holes, president of the
state organization of the A. S. of E.
is the oldest farmer in the state hav.
ing farmed here since 1871. His
farm joins the city of Fargo. He
owns 10000 acres of land and is very
wealthy. This year he raised $4,000
bushels of potatoes for which he Sc
! EO oo,,fc n 1,,,cho1
Here is a rule that evidently Edi-
tor Sam Clark, and he's q right"
good fellow, has used for some time
for punctuation: Hold your breath
as long as you can, and then put in
a comma; when you have to spit,
then put in period; when you want
chew Of tobacco, put in semi
colon"
A good many farmers have lost
wheat by reason of piling it in their
granaries when it was too green.
VIM. Sayers Of Des Laos lost 500
bushels in that way and H. w.
Gunther $50 bushels. There are a
good many others OF course the
loss is not total, but the elevators
will not buy it and about the only
thing the farmer can use such grain
is for feed.
A fire built in the range Of the
Morrill, hotel early Sunday morning
created smoke that made the night
clerk believe that the new hotel was
being consumed by angry flames. He
turned in the alarm, aroused the fire
laddies from their early morning
slumber, only to learn that the only
fire there was was where it ought to
be, in the stove.
twenty-five teachers are now EN-.
ployed in the Minot schools, and the
attendance from Williston to Rugby
and clear across the Canadian line.
When Professor Wolfe took hold OF
the work several years ago, the 1900,
we believe, there were but five teach
ers and IT'S pupils. Three new school
buildings have been erected since
that time.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-28
Fine Trip For DuvaII's

Mrs. R. w. Duvall has gone tt
Grand Forks for a short visit,
In three weeks she will be joined
by ner husband and together
they will go to Port Deposit,
Maryland, where their son,
Bruce, is attending jacobs Home
school, and later will 20 to Flori.
da to spend two months. Mr..
Duvall will return about March
but Mrs. Duvall will not return
to Minou until July.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-28

The Ladies' Aid Society OF the
M. E. Church will hold their an
nual household bazaar and hot
dinner in the basement OF the
church, Thursday afternoon and
evening, Dec. 5. Useful articles
suitable for christmas gifts will
be sold. Hot dinner will be
served from 6 to s O'Clock.
w. E. Gilbert. an employee Of the
new mill. was badly injured recent
1y
Ole lRenning has ben appointed
postmaster at Columbus, vice w. H.
Graham who resigned.
A Devils Lake man was leaning
against a telegraph pole when ne was
arrested for impersonating an officer.
Claus Franzen, Rugby farmer, has
been arrested charged with stealing
a load of wheat from Geo. Hanover.
TOR SALE-A splendid forty acre
1axna two miles west Of Sawyer only
$l8 per acre. Inquire at Indepen-
dent
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-28
COMPULSORY EDUCATION WILL
BE ENFORCED.

At special meeting Of the Board
of Education held recently the COM
pulsory education law was thorough
ly discussed and the board decided to
have the law strictly enforced to the
letter. Supt. Wolfe reported that there
were number of families in the city
who have children of school age, who
are not in school. Their names were
presented to the board and unless
such parents take heed and send
their children to school at once, the
law provided for such delinquents,
will be invoked in no uncertain terms.
The board has instructed the super.
intendent to notify all parents to
comply with the law Immediately or
arrests will follow The statutes are
very plain and no family can afford
to ignore them. They are as follows:
Sec. 759. Every parent, guardian
or other person who resides in any
district or city who has control of
any child or children of or between
the ages of eight or fourteen years.
shall send such child or children to a
public school in each year during the
entire time the public schools Of such
district or city are in session."
Sec. 76O.-Penalty. amy sucn
parent, guardian or other person fail
ing to comply with the requirements
Of the foregoing section, shall upon
conviction thereof be deemed guilty
Of misdemeanor, and Shall be fined
in a sum not less than five nor more
than twenty dollars for the first
ofense and not less than ten dollars
nor more than fifty dollars for the
second and every subsequent offense,
with costs in each case.'
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-28
St. Mary,s.

St. Mary's.
Mr.. Steve SCHNEIDER has sold his
farm to NJ. Smith of Red Wing, MINI.
Mr.. G. r. Dingmann has purchased
a horse from John Stahler of Fox
holm
Mrs. c. B. Tibbetts was very i'll Of
pleurisy Monday.
Daniel Armstrong from Questad
was visitor with Mr.. and Mrs. J.
L. Keough Sunday and Monday.
Mr.. VIM. Clark has returned from
Minnesota where he had his hand
amputated.
J. L. Keough's four horse team
made sweep across the prairie
Thursday with his wagon. The
team started while Mr.. Keough went
back several rods to pick up clevis
pin which he lost. No serious dam
age was done to the horses.
Mike Stamens went to Minot Fri
day with his wife for visit with his
parents.
Emil Schwartze is building big
new barn on his farm near Foxholm.
Mr.. Steve SCHNEIDER was a caller
on the school teacher, Miss Hinlien,
Sunday evening.
st. Marys township is putting a
=
new team road to Foxholm east Of
town. Mr.. w. Archibald is managing
the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06

On the same day a girl, Marya Feodor-
owna, killed herself In cell In the fortress
of SIS. Peter and Paul. What was her
history? She attended school at Peters,
burg, got mixed up with the politicians
there, was arrested for having Illegal litera-
ture about her and placed in cell to await
her trial. One day when the warder took
In her dinner he found that she had
strangled herself with her hair, which she
wore in long plat. Here we have at the
same time at three different points of the
empire, north, south and west, three cases
OF children committing suicide because they
were confronted by problems that ought
not to enter into the lives Of such young
creatures.
Unhappily, such cases are so common that
people who are not closely connected with
them give them but passing thought.
Last May case occurred in a Warsaw
school of boy who thinking he would do
good to the community at large by Kidding
the world Of an unpopular headmaster,
shot at him, missed, turned the revolver
against himself and blew his brains out.
He was fifteen and a half.
In August three schoolboys at Zambko-
vice, aged nine, ten and twelve, respective
ly, held a "court-martiar' on a comrade
eleven years old, whom they accused of
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>STR1NGLED HERSELF WITH HEP OWN HAIR

and attempted suicides committed within
the past three years - per cent took place
among children attending or supposed to
be attending schools. Mere than - per
cent Of these attempts resulted in death.
During the time under consideration, owing
to the thousands OF reVolvers distributed
among minors by thu revolutionary parties,
shooting has been the favoTite means, 10
per cent killing themselves with firearms.
Next in favor comes hanging among boys
and poisoning among girls. During the
past half year thirteen boys and eighteen
girls are registered as having poisoned
themselves. This compares favorabIy with
the first half of the school year when the
number of suicides by hanging was thirty
six. On the other hand, the number of
suicides by shooting was fffty-six. or ten
more than during the previous half year.
No figures as to suicides by hanging are
to hand, but it appears to be the favorite
method for boy and girl prisoners when
no other means are available, though in
August last a schoolboy of seventeen cut
his throat in Luplin prison by means of a
spoon, which he had sharpened in some
unknown way. 1t is stated that of child
suicides IS per cent were committed by
girls whose ages ranged from fourteen to
eighteen. In the lower forms suicide is al
most unknown.
These figures refer only, and even then
imperfectly, to those governments lying
west of the Trails. The mind rccols be-
fore the thought of the possible sum for
the whole empire if the hushed-up cases
were brought to light and the faked-up re-
ports set straight
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w anted in SMYRNA.

Israel Ludlow. the aeronaut whose expert
ments with flying machines have so greatly
impaired his health. stin perseveres in his
aeronauticaI researches, and one day he
said:
Il bear my accident patiently. 1t hap
pened, no doubt, because it was to happen
I small keep on with flying am something
Of a fatal.st | suppOst"
lie unused a moment.
You know how profoundly they believe
in fate in the east?" he said. There is u
story That they tell about il there
A certain sultan was giving audience one
morning when the grand viZier came and
Frustrated himself at the foot Of the dais
Rise, vtzicr. said the sultan, graciously
and tell me why are you so pale, and why
do you trcmble so?'
Alas, lord the vizier answered, in that
sdaduWy corner by the ivory screen the
Angel of Death * standing For a long
while he has stood there. and continually
he fixes on M an earnest and strange
look
The vzi-r wrung his hands
Lord. / would not die he said. Lord,
grant thy slave permission to set out forth
with for smyrna. Thus, II may be, l Will
escapc the dreadful visitant.'
The sultan, with nod. granted the
VIII Lat wish and the poor man FASTENED
forth with all speed to maze ready FOR TIE
journey. Then the sultan beckoned the
Art thol,' he said, truly the Angel of
DEATH
Yes. replied the other. iudinerentIy.
The sultan nodded his head. Then he
said. GrtSely:
WAY hast thou looked with such
strange earnestness at my vizier?'
&" Because said the angel. i wondered
what le was doing here, for | have orders
To XII him in smyrna
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schools the pupils have sent the priests
away, saying that religion is an exploded
myth and quite unnecessary for young
Russia" The boys and girls who would
attend the classes for religious instruction
are overpowered by the terroristic faction
and keep away for fear. In a school In
Moscow the priest, dismissed by his pupils,
appealed to the other masters. At first
minority took the pupils part, but the
others soon sided with them and the priest
was told that his services at the school
were no longer wanted.
The boys and girls IN all schools hold
political meetings where only socalistic
masters are admitted and where the DIS
cussions generally end in a free fight. The
globes. rulers, books and inkpots fly about
instead of words till the police interfere
and take the warriors off to the police
station. 1t is by means an uncommon
sight in Russian towns to see bands of from
thirty to fifty school boys and girls sur
rounded by soldiers, walking through the
streets. They look proud of themselves
because a foolish government takes them
seriously.
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ST. PETERSBURG. September "a 1891.
E 9TH in Russia and in Germany
there has been a tremendous in
crease in the number OF suicides
- among children in recent years.
1T is far more prevalent in these
two countries than among the people of
any other nationality.
II is well known that throughout the
civilized world suicides among adults are
increasing The reasons for this are not
far 10 seek They are found in the grow
ing cCm1iaXlty and strenroUsnsss of modern
life. the decline Of religious faith and the
discoUt,rt OF poor folk with their lot,
stimulated by the glaring contrasts be-
tween poverty and riches.
ANY on. who has looked life in the face
has some comprehension of the causes
which irroI so many men and women to
max, an exit from a world in which they
rave ceased to find life worth living. But
gs form any conception of the state of
lu.nd which leads children to XIII them
selves is d'fFiCult. There Is something so In
;uitrIy ritiCul and tragic about the suicide
Of a child that the mere contemplation of
It stuns the mental faculties 1t is so
grossly unnatural There is no record of a
LtJe heather savage ever taking his life.
Isolated cases may be attributed to some
thing Abnormal in the mental and moral
makeup of the child that terminates its
own existence. But when they occur IN
such numbers as they do in Russia and
Germany It is proof that there is some
thing radically wrong In the conditions to
which childhood is subjected In those coun-
tries. These conditions differ greatly. II
would he hard to find two countries which
present such striking contrasts Russia
and Germany. The latter is probably the
most highly organized state In Christen-
dom. Pretty near everything is done there
according to some system nicely calculated
to produce the best results. In Russia moth
Ing = systematizcd. II is a species of
happy -go-lucky chaos that exists here.
And Yet the perfection OF system In one
country ana the absence of it in the other
lead to an appalling number of juvenile
self-murders.
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This sort of thing causes many OF the
child suicides through mental arrangement
brought on by too much political activity.
Instead Of leading the lives Of healthy
children they are allowed to have the ex-
often find too much for them. From the
moment these children get into scrape for
playing at politics they leave all childish
things behind them. They may be kept
under lock and key for a few hours only
and then sent back to their homes. But the
mischief is done. The government In taking
them to prison has made martyrs and
heroes of them. They boast of their "po-
litical experiences to their pIayfelIows
who do their best to become "heroes'' too.
With the more excitable ones the end
comes quickly. 1t is here that the seeds
of suicides are sown. Their immature
brains, weakened by over-excitement, give
way under the strain which so much "po-
litical work. entails. They are ready for
every extravaganza every act of madness
that may suggest itself. 1t is the crying
shame of revolutionary parties that these
children are chosen to do the most horrible
work-to kill officials, policemen, etc Some
of them commit the crimes assigned to
them; others, rather than take another's
life. put an end to their own.
Only a couple of weeks ago a SCHOOLGIRL
was found shot in hotel in Odessa. She
left note in which she said that she had
been delegated to throw bomb at an
oii1clal. She knew the man and his daugh-
ter Her heart failed her at the last mo-
nent and she shot herself, knowing that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06

Elihu Nedder, the painter. lives in Rome
where he has a beautiful apartment, and in
Capri. where his white villa looks down on
the sea.
''Elihu Vedder' said a New York Illus
traitor the other day. lis as bohemian as
ever. Fame has not spoiled him. l visited
him last year. and his bohemian ways were
delightful.
You know they tell n story of a visit
that he once paid to Alma Tadema in Lon
don, in that glittering house which Mrs
A. rs money, made in grateful, comfort
ing cocoa, bought.
1.-The morning after his arrival very
early, before even the servants were up,
Vedder began a thunderous knocking on
his hosts sandalwood door.
Alma Tadema turned in his gold bed
threw back the lace coverlet, sat up.
who's there? What Is it?' he cried, in
"A startled voice.
a. i say, Tadema, shouted Vedder, where
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Prof, CAlopin. lecturer at the Women's
Medical Institute at Petersburg when
speaking OF this shocking epidemic recently
stated that ;!I cases Of actual suicides and
ninety-fve cases OF attempted suicide had
been examined. These figures. terrible
though they are, are smaller than those
given by Prof. Gutenberg of Berlin for his
country He has within the last twelve
years traced 1852 cases of children who
have actually committed suicide more than
half Of whom were driven to this desperate
act by failure TO pass examinations and by
overwOrk at school. The terrible part
about it is the reflection that the speaker
being a German and. therefore accurate in
his statements, no room can be left for
exaGgeration.
The figures given for Russia embrace a
much shorter period-five years-but what
lends such an appalling emphasis to them
is the fact that they do not by any means
represent the whole sum of child suicides
committed during that time. 1t is impossf-
bic to get even approximate statistics for
Russia because the head masters and mis-
tresses OF the schools in which these
tragedies occur hush them up to such an
extent that probably not one-fourth of
them get into the newspapers AS | have
lHdlCdted. the causes that underlie these
epidemics of youthful self-destruction are
as different in both countries as are the
characteristics of the two races who in
habit them.
In Russia the question is far more com
plcatcd, but even here, where calIousness
prevails few people have realized that
this problem must be looked into. Nobody
Is more alive to the dangers of such
state OF affairs than NJ. Kaufman. the
new minister of education. New and. it is
said trustworthy reports are being drawn
up for his eyes alone Were il possible to
learn their contents the world would be
Mortified by the accounts of juvenile de-
moralization and suffering they contain
Some facts have leaked out in spite of the
reserve of the minister of education and
nave supplied the following statistics and
details:
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No Chesterfield.

Christian Scientist Of Boston was prais
ing the late Earl of Dunmore.
Lord DunmOre,' he said, was a good
Christian Scientist and a good man. Tall
and robust and supple, / can see him still
with his short gray beard and his kind face.
His one fault-a fault due 20 his arstocratic
upbringing, no doubt-was the exaggerated
value that he set upon correctness He in
sisted on correctness in eating, in dress. in
everything.
'At dinner in Beacon street last year
heard him tell story about an incorrect
seif-made man, or 'nouveau richie, as he
called him
This man was dressing one evening to
90 out. His wife hustled into the room be
fore IL started to look him over
But. George she said, reproachfully
aren't YOU going 10 wear your diamond
studs to tn" banquet?
No What's the USE? George grOwled
My napkin would hide EN- anyway"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06
An Ingenious Question.

Frederick Starr, the University of Chi
cago professor of anthropology, described at
a dinner wonderful native boy whom he
had met in his African travels.
This boy" said Prof. Starr, "often saw
me reading, and the process at once inter-
ested and perplexed him. Through an inter-
prefer day he questioned me about it.
Z" Reading again, sir?' he asked.
eyes. my boy, said /.
well, SIR said he, L have often seen
you reading. You read books, magazines,
large newspapers. Now there is one thing
l want to ask you: Which part is it you
read-the black or the winter"
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theft. They found him guilty, sentenced
him to death and hanged him on a tree in
a forest. -Four days afterward his body, in
a decomposed state, found and the
boys confessed. Does this not point to
ity?
attended the middle schools, born of poor
or but moderately well-to parents. They
are due directly to the revolution; to the
excitement and subversion of morals caused
by the anarchical state of government. But
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If in Russia the evil may be put down to
too little discipline the reason for il in
Germany IS too much. The German
scholars are treated though they wsIe
soldiers with the difference that they have
lessons instead Of drill and are compelled
to study from morning to night. They
have not time to be young. Perhaps this is
why many of them grow tired @. life.
Anyway, about a hundred Children in
Germany commit suicide every year-and
this without any revolution. any morbid
excitement to strain their brains or de-
morazation to poison their minds and
bodies. They begin work at o'clock in the
morning. At midday they pause for dim
ner. After that they return TO school for
two or three hours, according to the num-
Der of languages they learn. Then. on
their return home. they have five or six
tasks to prepare for the next day. Unless
very quick the unhappy little scholar must
pore over his books till bedtime. He has
games and no time to himself but ON
Sunday when he goes with his parents 10
the bier-halle and listens to a German
band.
Every half year come those terrible ex-
aminations at which failure means dis
grace and another six months in the same
class. At this time the suicides are most
frequent. The muddled little brains over
worked for six months, cannot answer the
questions put before them. Bad marks are
put down and the victim of over-education
goes home and hangs himself.
Germany Is a great and Industrious coun-
try, but there more adult suicides there
than anywhere else-even in Russia. 4
man who has known no childhood grows
up pessimistic His life has had no sunny
morning. The burden of the MONDAY is too
hard to bear. He goes under in the strug-
gle. Those who want to found model
schools should steer clear OF two European
dangers-the Scylla of Russia and the Ger
man Charybdis - for there is something
radically wrong in the systems which breed
suicides in such numbers.
SERIOUS VOLKHOVSKY
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PUPILs OF THE SCHOOL OF RiGHTs

there are suicides in the schools where the
higher officials, the aristocracy and the
rich send their children-classes where poll
ties have place and the revolutionary
movement Is detested. The School of
Rights the Elton of Russia, has sent some
twenty boys into the world during the past
year. OF these five have committed sui
eide, one in the mines in Siberia for strik
ing an officer in the face, and the rest have
been rejected for the army and navy as
physically unfit.
The verdict on the suicides was mental
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Notification of Births.

From the London Sanitary Record
A great public reform is at stake. The
state expects to gain in the lives OF thou
sands of children, and it seeks to obtain
this benefit by imposing onerous obliga-
ton on thousands OF Woodworking doctors
who labor among the poor often for the
scantiest and most uncertain remuneration.
Is it unreasonable that the state should
pay for the service rendered to the state?