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Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-20

Coney Island. which long has prlded It.
self on its ability to tell a con game when
1t sees one, even II the rest of the country
can't. has been taken in once or twice In
its career, each time in an effort to get
fire insurance policies at a price some
where near what persons in other parts of
Greater New York have to pay for them.
The details of the latest attempt to get
bargain price insurance came out last week
with the arrest of the price-cuttng agent
on a charge Of grand larceny. While the
complainant only paid out s45 for 5000
policy which has been pronounced bogus,
Coney Island merchants who also patron
lied the philanthropic agent estimate that
worthless policies aggregating between
100000 and s2,OOO,OOO have been distributed
in Coney Island, Flatbush and Borough
Park.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-20

Allen ran to aphorisms naturally and
made them on all subjects. Here are few
of his sayings:
when play with a man I am not
gambling. He is"
Rum, rum, misery and poverty. It's
Grape on the door, grave in potter's
field. No rum for mine"
II believe in the old law. / gouged Tim
Caseys eye out because he chawed off a
bit of my ear and bit off hunk of my
lower lip"
'Nine-tenths Of the world is a cheat and
lie. But I'm safe at home. I'm in a
desert all day, but when go home it's
like coming into an orchard with green
trees all around, They don't cheat and lie
there"
And 1t was THE who a short time be-
fore he was half carried. half dragged on
his palsied limbs to visit District Attorney
Jerome, the last noteworthy event of his
life--it was Allen, who since war days
had boasted that he was the ''wickedest
man in New York" who said with some
show of satisfaction:
GO ask the undertaken up the block.
He'll tell you how many hundred funerals
I've paid for. Go ask the grocery man
how many families I've footed the bills
for when the men were out of work. But
1t all comes home some way or other. It's
come home to me thousandfold."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
new Land OFFICE
BLANK FOR Sale
OF ISOLATED LANDS

Another change has been made by
the land department in the manner
of making application for sale of iso-
lated or disconnected tracts fland.
Until the goth inst. parties making ap-
plication to have isolated tracts ad.
vertised and sold were obliged to ap.
pear in person with two witnesses
before the u. s. land Office. Now this
is changed and parties may appear
before the nearest officer having seal
and authorized to administer oaths
in the county or land district in
which the tracts described in the ap-
plications are situated.
The Bismarck Tribune has just put
in stock of the blanks required in
making application for sale of isolat.
ed tracts mo. 643) printed as re-
CURED by the government-correct
as to size, type, form, spacing, ETC.
the price, 35c per 5ozen.
AS there will be many applications
made hereafter, all lawyers, clerks OF
court, u. S. commissioners and others
engaged in land Office practice will
need quantity and right kind
which can be had Of the Bismarck
Tribune.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
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Waltz In Not Modarn.

Many people labor Under the i'm.
preston that the waltz Is 1t modern
origin, owing to the fact thatIit was
comparatively unknown in America OF
in England until the early part Of the
nineteenth century. But It was brought
originally from Provence to the court
Of Henry II. Of France, at Fontaine.
bleau, by the Comte de Saulte. Mary,
queen or Scots, imported 1t into Scot.
land. for history records her aas hav-
ing inquired the bitter wrath and fierce
denuneiation of John Knox and OF 9th.
er divines Of the Gland of cakes" for
dancing 1t on one memorable occasion
at the palace Of Holyrood. Toward
.thas end Of the seventeenth century 1t
was danced throughout southern Ger.
many and Austria, the celebrated waltz
tune and popular song, 20, Du Lieber
Augustin," dating from 1870. But, as
already stated, 1t was not until the first
two decades Of the nineteenth century
that 1t made its first appearance In
England and the United States, when
It was alternately denounced and laud.
ed by the poets Of the epoch.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
A poo sterv.

A Columbus man who likes to hunt
quail, who is handy with the gun and
has a fine bird dog whose work as q
retriever is remarkable loaned him to
friend who was only an amateur al
the business. About the middle Of the
forenoon Of the frst day the dog re.
turned to his masters home. The lat.
ter, not knowing what had happened
{ took. his gun in the afternoon to try
the dog. He worked all right, and 9
number Of birds were secured. The
next day he met the friend who had
borrowed the dog. what is the mat
ter with that dog?" he asked. eve
got up a coyey Of quail and shot at
them, but missed. We afterward got
up number Of the scattered birds
and took dozen shots or more, but
got nothing, and the dog put his tail
between his legs and struck across the
fields in the direction of his home"
1t is evident that the dog, disguised
at the poor shooting, decided that the
men with the guns were not In his
class and decided to cut it out-Co.
lumbus (O) Dispatch.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
Gambling.

The supreme objection to gambling
in all its forms, whether in sport o.
in speculative business. is that 1t works
harm and loss to society. AS soon as
any practice or conduct is found to be
socially hurtful it thereby become
wrong. whatever men may have
thought of it before. Does not all NOR
atty rise to consciousness through the
fact Of social advantage or injury
Now the long and costly experience of
mankind bears uniform testimony
against gambling till at last the YER
dict of civilization has become as near
ly unanimous as human judgment can
be that 1t Is an intolerable nuisance.
1t is a dangerous or unsocial form Of
excitement. 1t hurts character, demon.
Allies industry. breeds quarrels, tempts
men to self destruction, and 1t works
special injustice to women and chill
dren. We may not know precisely why
morphine preys upon the nervous sys-
tenn and has to be labeled poisonous y
The fact is the main consideration.
So with the stimulus or excitation of
gambling. Grant that profess my
self willing to pay for my fun. The
fun is degrading, like the prize fight
or bear batting Charles f. Dole in
Atlantic.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
Another Glass.

The seventeenth century puritan
preachers talked for two hours or more
not "by the clock" but by the hour
glass. At least one Of them turned
the glass to humorous account. He
found himself no further than the mid
die of the sermon when the sands had
run out Drunkenness" was his sub
ject, and, reversing the horologe, Lets
have another glass;" said he. Sir
Roger LEstrange tells of parish
clerk who sat patiently until the
preacher was three-quarters through
his second glass and the majority of
his hearers had quietly left the church.
Rising at a convenient pause, he ask
ed the minister to close the church
door when he had done, "and push the
key under 1t, as he and the few that
remained were about to retire."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08

read these treasures. BY them he was
inspired to he a poet himself. From
time to thine he tried his hand at versi.
flying, and one day HIS admiring sister
feeling Hhat' Gneenieaf was a genius
and the world shouad heeome acquaint
"a with the interesting 6act. surrepti
tiougly sent .one of nils poems to the
Newburypsrt Free Press. Greenleaf
who was stall ander eighteen. war
staftaSd ons day on opening ITO paper
left BY CARRIER TO aAAd c..TAe Exile's
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
BY RoBERTus LOVE.

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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08

where he was born; in Danvers, where
he dwelt for parts of several years; in
Center Harbor, N. H., where he spent
many summers, and elsewhere In New
England the hundredth anniversary Of
his birth is a day devoted to his mem
Org. Throughout the nation grateful
thousands whose lives have been infu-
enced for good by the gentle Quaker's
simple rhymes join in the devotions.
Yet Whittier not always was the
gentle poet. There was considerable
period In his career when he was a
stern and fiery bard. That was during
the antislavery movement in New
England. For the poems he wrote In
opposition to human slavery Whittier
is destined to be known In our literary
history as the poet Of freedom. His
voice was loudest and longest In that
crusade for nearly generation. Not
only did Whittier write many stirring
poems In the cause, but he wrote I'M
counted columns Of prose, for. during
many years he was working newspa-
per editor and general contributor.
Both Lowell and Longfellow wrote
antislavery poems. but Whittier's notes
were the keenest and carried their
protest farthest. Very early Whittier
came under the influence Of William
Lloyd Garrison. the Massachusetts
composftor who was the head and
front Of the abolition movement when
It first took definite shape. In fact,
Garrison "discovered'' Whittier. This
is an old story, but one well worth
retelling In this connection.
Helped by His Sister.
The poets father was a poor farmer
near Haverhill. John Greenleaf was
born on the old farm. A barefoot bow
he worked daily In the fields. His "a
nous poem, sThe Barefoot Boy. is au-
photographed. When he was a lad OF
fourteen the master OF the country
school which he attended -"StiIl sits
the schoolhouse by the road,'-preseut-
cd him with copy Of the poems OF
Robert Burns. The boy read ana re-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
DON'T EXPERIMENT.
You viii Make No Mistake If You
Follow Ta.s -isr,srcx Citizens
Ady:ce
Never nesl ct ~cur kidnavs.

Never neglsct -cur kidna-s.
If you have pain in tbs back, URN.
airy disorders, dizziness and nervous
ness, it's time to act and no time to
experiment. These are. all symptoms
of kidney trouble, and you should seek
remedy wht-h IS known to cure the
Kidneys.
Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy
to use. No need =, experiment. 1t
has cured many stubborn cases In Bis
marck. Follow the advice Of Bis.
marck citizen and be cured. yourself.
Geo. w. Wslch. living at 416 Second
street, Bismarck. N D.. says:
Il recommend Doen's Kidney Pills
as an excellent remedy to all who
suffer from kidney troubls. had
beeen annoyed for a number of years
with kidney complaint. My back was
lame and there was constant dull
aching through my kidneys. This Sc
cretions were unnatural in appear
ance, and after trying many remedies
! iespaired q evsr getting relief. At
last Doan's Kidney Pills came to my
attention and procured box at the
Lenhart Drug Co. The pains ceased
and In q short time received com
plete cure" Is
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. sFostsr-Milburn Co. Buffalo,
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name ~ Doan's -
and take NO other.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
Poet Who Never Married.

&
While Miss Bray was in school her
portrait was painted by an able artist
Of that section. Years afterward, be-
cause Whittier had admired this like
ness, she gave IT to him. It hung in
his study until after his death. Miss
Bray married another man and sur.
yived her poet lover for years.
But more or less authentic history
provides us with still another love az
fair OF this dear old poet, who never
married. After his Haverhill academy
experience in book learning and love.
making he returned to the farm. His
father needed his help in the fields.
But all the while the youth was writ
Ing verses diligently. He had COM
posed that extra long piece entitled
"Mogg Megone." an Indian tale In
verse, which was published consider
ably later. His shorter pieces went
the rounds Of the country press and
attracted the attention Of George Den
nison Prentice, then editor OF the New
England Review at Hartford, Conn.
Prentice was about to 60 to Kentucky
where he became famous as editor Of
the Louisville Courier-Journal. He rec.
commended Whittier to succeed him at
Hartford, SO the young man became
editor Of the Review. III health caused
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
An American Classic.

now-Bound" of course compels
mention among the immortal few of
Whittier's poems that were not born
to die. This idyl Of New England ru-
raj home life stands apart in English
literature. 1t is not stirring epic to
move nations, but just a homely,
heartful record of sane and whole
some phase of life that has departed.
Its appeal is not to the intellect, but
straight to the heart. In these days Of
overgrown cities. changing interurban
trolleys, farmhouse telephones, auto
mobiles in the barnyard shed or on the
fine turnpike that passes by the gate
this picture of New England life as it
was lived hundred years ago, with
the quaint and kindly comments Of
the Quaker poet. is just as surely one
of the American classics as is Shelley's
"Adonais," so different in theme and
treatment, part of the high glory of
English song.
1t may startle the student of poetry
to find the name of Shelley mentioned
with that Of Whittier even in contrast
Yet between these two poets there was
certain analogy which should not be
overlooked. Shelley In his brief time
was the British bard of protest. Cast
ing aside all religious teaching, he
sounded a high and piercing note
against human injustice. Whittier
while retaining his early religious i'm
pressions, sounded note not less high
and piercing against the one form of
human injustice which in his first Pc
Rod raised its head for attack.
He is eminently a poet Of humani.
ty-the champion Of the oppressed, the
leader of the aspiring, the comforter
OF the afflicted, the lover Of the lowIy."
says the critic quoted earlier. "Above
all, the dominant note in Winters
poetry Is that of sweet, simple, re-
ligious faith. No other great poet of
our century has written precisely in
this strain. How many line of his
PUSHES to the memory, pure and crate
full as a draft from mountain springl
Radiant, sunny, trustful without sun
plication and devout without cant. In
their unaffected grace they sing them
selves into every heart not totally de-
void OF susceptibility to the religious
sentiment"
In view Of the Quaker poets exem-
plary life and his writings, .trustful
without supplication and devout with
out cant, " It is interesting to learn that
his publishers announce a conata n+t,,
increasing demand for his works.
Whittier, however, was one poet who
was not compelled to wait until after
death for recognition of pecuniarv
sort. His poems sold well during his
lifetime, particularly after the publica.
ton OF his "Snow-B Bound" In 1885. By
wise investments his holdings were in
creased, so that he left a fortune Of
nearly quarter Of million dollars
And yet didn't we just hear the com.
plant that poetry doesn't payY
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
Horne and PhiIadaInhia.

The gridiron pattern upon which
Philadelphia was laid out was the
work of Thomas Holme, the surveyor
general of Pennsylvania. The design,
however, was PENIS own. Little
seems to be popularity known of Thorn
as Holme, although some of his de-
scendants still live in the city and bear
his name, but 1t is said that all Of his
vast tract Of land and his city lots
have long since passed out Of the pos
session of his family.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
A Remarkable Hat.

A woman wants divorce because
her husband has purchased her only
hat In twenty-five years.
1t would be interesting to know If
there is enough Of the hat left to get
on straight. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
4 Higher Health level

sSs'St -01SdtSH CSVSt
I have reached higher health
level since ! began using DR.. Kings
New Life Pills" writes Jacob Spring
er. Of West Franklin, Maine. .They
keep my stomach. liver and bowels
working just right" If these pills dis
appoint you on trial. money will be re.
funded at Beardsley & Finneys drug
store.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
Social Duty.

The idea of social duty dominates
our time. We are impregnated with
it. It Is the most urgent aspiration Of
the modern conscience and In the
midst Of our controversies defles all
our ironies. Georges Touchard in La
Nouvelle Revue, Paris.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
A Case Of Luck.

Benevolent Lady But, my poor man,
II You have been looking for work all
these years, why is 1t that you have
never found It? Tramp confidential
ly)-Ifs luck, mum-just sheer good
luck.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
Hia Aim.

City Editor How did you happen to
murder the kings English so?
Reporter Well, was just trying to
kill space. Kansas City Times.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08

him to give up this post after eighteen
months, and he returned to the farm
About this time the old family doctor
looked him over. admonished him to
take care Of himself and said to
third party:
"Greenleaf is not long for this world.
He will never pass his forties.'
The grass Of fifty years was green OH
the anxious old doctors grave before
his patient, long famous poet, lacking
just few months Of eighty-five years
in this world, passed on.
The Hartford sweetheart was named
Cernelia Russ. She was seventeen and
Whittier twenty flour when they met
and parted. 1t is said that they would
have been married but for the girls
adherence to the stern creed of Calvin.
This sweetheart died unmarried about
eleven years afterward. Whittier new
er spoke of her nor OF his earlier love.
In ali his life he wrote but one or two
love poems"
Whittier worked on the farm until
his fathers death i'll 1886, when he sold
the place and moved to Amesbury. Ia
the meantime he assisted Ia editing the
Hayefhill Gazette. BE was also for a
time editor 81 a periodical called the
Manufacturer. worked for some months
In New York city rs secretary Of the
Antislavery society and contributed
regularly to Philadelphia journal.
Laureate of Freedom.
It Is almost impossible to believe
that there was a period in Whittier's
life when in most parts Of the coun-
try his name was practically q hiss
Ing and a byworrd. This was due to
his antislavery poems at time when
tie abolition movement had few sup
pofters. Whittier was vindicated ~
events. but even without that vindi-
cation the great bulk Of his sgentler
verse would have; given him universal
esteem. The year before he died q
critic wrote:
whittier is above all the laureate
Of freedom, and II any one group or,
divisions f his poems were to be- chosen
as surer than the rest to stand for his
fame against the wastes of time such
triumphant Immortality would proba-
bly, be predicted Tor those songs on
slavery, at once 80 fiery In their indig-
nation and scorn, so rich In eIoquence,
so thrilling in hopeful aspiration, 10
sweet In pathos and humanity"
Lovers Of Whittier are entitled to
their own view as to this estimate. 1t
is quite probable, however, that the
average reader will prefer maud Null
ler," who raked the meadows sweet
with hay as the judge came riding BY,
or Barbara Frietchie," who Haunted
from her window her country's flag
while sup the street came the rebel
tread, Stonewall Jackson riding
ahead" or devotional poem like
'sThe Eternal Goodness" with it's sim
pie. childlike trust: -
I know not where his islands lift
Their fronded palms in air.
I only know cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
Often the Case

Often the Case.
"a man should think twice before
he speaks
"And a woman three times before
she sings. Harper's Weekly.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
~ - '7r..es.7 -'il4Hs's7s''-gi;
SUM MONS

State of North Dakota, county Of
Burleigh, IS.
In district court, Sixth Judicial dis
trict.
Linda Johnson, plaintiff, VS.. Lam
born Hospital, corporation, Irving
A. Dunsmoor, The Sisters of the Or
der of st. Benedict and the Mission OF
the Immaculate Virgin for the protec
ton Of homeless and destitute child.
rem, and st. Josephs Union, foreign
corporation, defendants.
The state Of North Dakota to the
above named defendants:
You are hereby summoned to an.
swer the complaint in the above en-
titled action, which complaint is on
file in the Office Of the clerk Of said
court in and for said county and
state, and to serve copy of your an.
swer on the subscribers at their office
in Bismarck in said county and state,
within thirty days after the service
of this summons upon you, exclusive
of the day of such service; and in
case of your failure to appear or an
swer, judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief demand.
ed in the complaint.
Dated this 18th day of January
1908.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
JOHN GREHNLHAE WHITTIER AND HIS B1RTHpLAon

" y
books and tuition by making slippers
also, after the manner Of romantic
youths in his day and in ours and in
all days past and yet to be, he fell In
love while at school, Evalena Bray
poetic first name and unpoetic second
name for poets sweetheart! She
was barely seventeen and Whittier
barely nineteen when they met. She
had hazel eyes, soft brown tresses, fair
complexion and rosy cheeks. She lived
In Marblehead, and her family was
well to do. 1t is said that Whittier
twice proposed to Evalena. But Eva
lena was light hearted and gay, while
her lover was Quaker lad, saying
"thee" and thou and scorning the
lightsome follies of this world.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
MOCKLER & JOHNSON,
Attorney for Plaintiff,

Bismarck, N D.
Take notice that the above entitled
action is brought to quiet title in said
plaintiff to the following described
real property, towit: Lots nine, (9),
ten (10), eleven CID and twelve (12),
of block eighty-six 1861 original plat
of the city of Bismarck, in said Bur
leigh county and state Of North Da.
kota.
MOCKLER & JOHNSON.
ATTORNEY For plaintiff