davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-01
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES

Another artesian well is to be sunk
at LaMoure. H..
Congressman and Mrs. T. F. Mar
shall are spending the hot weekks of
summer at their cottage at Detroit
lake, MINI.
The women who were running for
county superintendent in Burleigh,
Cass, Mercer and oliver counties, all
lost out in the primaries by few
votes.
Two calls are out for meeting of
the new county central committee in
Barnes-one by members of the new
committee and one by the chairman
and secretary of the old committee.
N. T. Furthin, who was arrested
on the charge of blind pigging during
the recent Jamestown fair, and who
has been contend in the county Jail,
plead guilty and was sentenced by the
county judge to ninety days impris-
onment and fine of $3.50.
The sheriff of Ramsey county has
been obliged to enforce the rule OF
opening all mail sent to prisoners
The purpose Of the rule is to prevent
any aid being given from the outside
to assist prisoners to escape and it is
in force in most of the jails and pen
itentiaries of the country.
East bound excursionists are espec-
tally attracted by the children's gar
den of flowers near the depot al
Jamestown, planted at the instance
of the Civic league. Many express
sions of admiration for the flower
beds are heard each day from strang.
ers passing through the city.
A party of Jamestown and Hettin
ger county people expect to leave the
latter part of the week for triI
through the Yellowstone park. The
party will consist Of Mr.. and Mrs. o
j. Seller, Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Rath
man, States Attorney George Stone
and Robt. Berry of Mott will join the
Jamestown party at Dickinson. They
expect at present to take the Wylie
camping plan of touring the park.
Here is the way the editor of The
Morning Patriot at Valley City re
lieves himself: Packard has got an
other fit, and is worrying for feal
that Val is to have opposition in an.
other morning paper. Packard ii
nearly 'bughouse' now from the eft
fects of one morning paper. and
should the. second one appear i b.
would land in the Jimtown bat cave
sure" ,.Er.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-01

there was nothing visible but the
bill and we were Obliged to go out
and gather a mess of green's for din
ne;. .s
Some old pessimistic duffer told u
one time that schools were not prac-
tical, but we though that he had been
living on sour pickles and barbed
wire brads all his life and was out
of harmony with the angels and Andy
Carnegie. In the light of subsequent
experience we now revere him more
than George Washington.
Children should not be sent to pub
lie schools to acquire mathematical
knowledge, but to wholesale and re-
tail merchants. They will get more
knowledge in fifteen minutes in one
of these establishments than they
would gain in ten years at school.
They will learn here how to sell sug-
ar, potatoes and cabbage at profit
of three hundred per cent-and what
more could you ask? Schools are no
good without at least a preparatory
course in an up-to-date grocery store.
Without going to the expense of
establishing a regular and permanent
bureau Of statistics, we have estimat-
ed that if the actual short measure
given by the merchants of the United
States to their customers in one year
could be accurately computed, and a
receptacle could be made to represent
this short measure, and the entire
Missouri river was turned into it, it
would require fifteen thousand years
to fill it. This is an approximate es-
innate, Of course, and we might be
ten minutes off one way or the
other.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-01

ing lip, To see "Chicc'' Perkins act
is like breathing the soft sweet
country air after a long and tedious
sojourn in the noxfous atmosphere
Of a big, overcrowded city. Her new
play 1.-THE Little Prospector" is re-
pIete with all the fascinating e1e-
ments of blended comedy, pathos and
romance play in which her genius
finds the happiest expression. No
better play than "The Little Pros
pector" could have been written to
exploit her talents, and it has all
of the attendant accessories in the
way Of talented artists, splendid
scenery and novel stage effects. eThe
Little Prospector" will be In this
city next Monday night.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-01

Irrigation along practical lines is
being carried on in the western part
OF the state and the Little Missouri
river is being made to contribute its
share Of moisture towards makingfer-
tile and productive the bottom lands
that lie along the river. A ranchman
named Merrifield, living about fiji
teen miles up the Little Missouri riv-
er from Medora, has installed an ir-
rigation plant of his own, and is ir-
rigating a tract of from sixty to
eighty acres that lies on the bench
above the river. He has installed
centrifugal pump, at a cost of $500,
and has built his own main canal
and laterals, by blowing and scrap
ing. The cost of this part Of his work
lies altogether in his labor. With
this investment, he has an assured
supply of moisture for his land, and
samples Of durum wheat, oats and
nillet raised on this irrigated land
this year show the possibilities of the
soil where there is assured moisture,
even in the Bad Lands. In dry wealth
er this irrigator floods his land once
every three or four weeks. He pu1ups
about six days and the cost of the
pumping is about So a day for gaso-
line and his own time. The pump is
not complicated affair, and is not
easily harmed or put out of COM
mission. If the stream changes a bit,
or water gets low, the intake is cas-
lily changed, and there Is no danger
Of losing a crop from a period Of
drouth and hot weather. There are
in the western part of the state,
thousands Of bottoms like this one,
along streams, where practical irri-
cation Is possible, and hundreds of
thousands of acres of land that could
be made to yield large return ey-
cry few years with moderate invest
ments Tor an irrigation plant. The
Irrigation Of alfalfa crops will be ex
perfmented with In the near future
and the building and development OF
these plants should engage the atten.
3 tion and observation Of the state au,
thorities, in order that through the
proper departments, accurate and de
finite Information can be supplied re
4 garding the success Of individual
schemes for irrigating land In small
tracts. The state is merely the ag
gregation of the individuals, and II ,
y thousand individuals could be in
duced to engage in profitable scheme
for irrigating tracts Of forty to a hun
dred acres OF land, a large sum wouI,
be added to the visible and materia
wealth Of the state and large mum
Der Of prosperous people would b
added to its population.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-01

years that his health is poor. Il
We were also taught in our in
fancy that two pints make a quart.
Nothing could be further from the
truth than this. One pint will easily.
make two quarts If you are buying,
milk of the milk dealer or pickles or
berries from the groceryman. And
the groceryman will see that there is
plenty of space between each berry,
or other fruit or vegetables. &
We forgot now where we learned
it, but suppose it was sometime be-
fore our brain became hardened and
had a crust formed around it like
merchants have today; anyhow we
got the impression that it took four
pecks to make a bushel. This was
the most absurd thing that we ever
encountered. Three pecks will make
a bushel in any first class grocery
er who bought four hundred bushels
of potatoes in the fall-sold seven
hundred bushels out Of them during
the winter, and four hundred and
fifty. bushels left in the spring This
is an example of thrift that our
young people will to well to emulate.
One of those book agent grafters
came along one day and sold us a
f'ready reckoner.'' It stated that a
cord of wood was eight feet long,
four feet wide and four feet high.
We Immediately threw the book into
the ash barrel and refused to pay for
it. No book agent can impose son us
like that. We have always consider
ed ourselves extremely fortunate if
we got one stick three feet long when
we ordered a cord, and if, peradven-
ture, we got two sticks we kept mum
about it for fear we would be sued
for six cords.
AS hereinbefore mentioned, we
never had the advantages Of first
class education, and never. studied
cube root or triangulation and so
probably never got to the root of the
matter or the legitimate triangles of
modern business, and therefore this
subject is too deep for us. It is true
that we have compared weights and
measures with those supposed to be
| official at the capitol, but we found
the ones we carried had shrunk so
much by the time we got them up
there that the officials had to use
their best magnifying glasses to find
them. We understood, furthermore,
that the weights and measures, called
legal, at the capitol, were merely, in
tended as curiosities and in no man
ner affected the honest and progress
siye merchant down town.
If we found that grocer had used
a peck measure instead Of a bushel
in dealing with us, and we kicked
| about 1t, the grocer always laid, it
to the bookkeeper and the bookkeep.
er laid it onto the clerk, and the clerk
said it was the fault of the meat
cleaver, and the mea. cleaver said it
was the error Of the sausage grind
er, and the sausage grinder said it
was the beef skinner, and by the time
the goods were supposed to reach us
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20
THAW
STILL HAS Coin
Dressed in Stunning Gown,
She Searches For Mice
Country Place"
Special to The Journal.

New York, Aug 19.-EveIyn Nesbit
Thaw is not suffering from the hard
Up financial condition that is alleged
to have driven her husband into bank.
ruptcy. She was in a real estate Of-
fee on Madison avenue yesterday
hunting for a nice country place" as
she puts it. She wore a gown Of
royal purple. a big bTimmed hat W.
mass of black feathers. hign heeied,
low cut shoes, which showed stockings
10 match her gown
Il would like a little house on the
Hudson she said, somewhere near
NOTdica's place. l may want to try
my voice"
While in the real estate Office she
nailed in a special delivery envelope
800 in bills to a PittsbuTg address.
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20

Read the letter Mrs. z. Hanson,
3O4 K. Long St., Columbus, Ohio.
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
=" was passing through the Change
of Life, and suffered from nervous
ness, headaches, and other annoying
symptoms. NV doctor told me that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was good for me, and since TAX
ing 1t feel so much better, and 1 can
again do my own work. I never forget
to tell my friends what Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound did for me
during this trying period"
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20

Proof is inexhaustible that
Lydia r. Pinkham'S Vegetable
Compound carries women safely
through the Change of Life.
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20
Mr.. Simmons Testimony.

mE. summons iCSltmOn1s
They followed this up with the tes-
timony of Hon. d. A Simmons, who
testified that he procured this tabu-
lated and sworn statement of the
qualified voters of Leon County i'm
mediateiy after the books closed and
he seat a copy of same to the man
ayers and inspectors of precincts 5,
s and 16 in Leon County. and that he
accompanied same with a certain let
ter which letter was introduced ~
evidence, a copy of which is here set
out In full and is as follows:
May Is, 1908.
Mr. s. T. Rhodes, Clerk of Primary
Election, District No. 16, Le0J
County, WoodviIle, Florida
Dear Sir:-The Governor being alb
sent from the Capital, several inter
ested parties informed me that :hE
numb Der of voters in Leon county who
have qualified to vote by paying poi.
taxes for 1907 is very small as COM
pared to the number OF votes usually
cast
These same parties advice me that
in former Primary Elections in Leon
County, the law relative to the pay
ment of poll taxes has not been very
strictly complied with The Primary
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20
members OF the committee
MaYsI Announcement

When the committee had completed
its canvass ard declared Mr. Kehoe
the noniRee, Mr- MAYS who was pres
ent arose and with considerable feel
ing announced that he would not abide
the decision of the committee, but
that he would be a candidate in the
general election, regardless Of the
fact that Mt. Kehoe had been declar-
ed the Democratic nominee
might add that IL appeared from
the testimony Of Mr.. J. l. Hentz, SEQ
Tetary of the County Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee, and a member OF
the canvassing board of Calhoun coun-
ty. that in that county from certain
precincts there were no returns sent
up to the canvassing board, and that
from some of the precincts the ballots
were never returned; he testified that
in one precinct there were no returns
sent up and that the county canvass
ing board went into the box from that
precinct and canvassed the ballots
themselves and made UP their returns
from the canvass of the ballots and
not from the returns, there being no
returns from that precinct. He also
testified further that in certain other
precincts that there was a diScrep-'
ancy between the returns and the.
number of ballots found in the box;
that in that precinct the county can
vassing board went behind the returns
and canvassed the ballots themselves.
and the result as thus ascertained
was different from the returns OF the
managers and inspectors of that pre-
cinct, and he testified that the Coun-
ty Canvassing Board in this instance
ignored the returns as sent up by the
managers and inspectors and certified
the result from their own canvass OF
the ballots MI Mays friends on the
committee favored canvassing the re-
turns from Calhoun County, notwith-
standing the evidence showed that
the County Canvassing Board had
gone behind the returns of the Inspec-
tors and managers to ascertain the
vote of that county, in fact every
member Of the committee favored re-
ceiving and canvassing this vote from
Calhoun County, because 1t had been
insisted by myself and S or other
members OF the committee all along
that rhe Canvassing Board did have
right to go behind the returns and
ascertain what the true vote was.
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20

empt from payment of poll tax. Be it
presented to US by counsel for con-
tsstant and cOntestee. we find, first
That large proportionate number or
the votes canvassed for congressman
from said precincts 5. snd is were
and are Illegal and fraudulent.
Adopted to 8.
End: That the fraud and iIIegaIity
In said precincts was and IS OF such
character as to vitiate the election
and canvass in said precincts for tha
Office of congressman, Therefore be it
Resolved that the vote for congress-
man from said precincts 5. and 16
as canvassed and returned to US, be
rejected in toto and that the vote OF
Leon county for congressman be can>
vassed by this committee, after so re-
5ecting in toto the vote from said pre-
cipcts 5, s and 16." This resolution
was duly seconded and on motion was
adopted by a vote of to s.
Mr.. Pledger then offered the follow.
ing resolution:
Whereas in precincts 3, 8, s and 9.
Madison County, Fla, It appears from
the certified returns made to us by
the County CanYassing Board of Mad
ison County. Fla, that n said pre-
cincts Is unregistered aAd unqualified
persons were perTRitted TO vote In the
primary Of June 16, 1908, and Where
as I'm said precincts 8, 5. 6 and s, J.
Walter Kehoe according to the can
VASES of the canvassing Board of Mad
ison County received 1877 votes, and
y. H Mayes received 331 votes for
congressman, Therefore, BE II Re-
solved. that 9 votes be deducted from
the total accredited to D. H Mays
from the said precincts and that 4
votes be deducted from the total vote
accredited to J. Walter Kehoe from
the said precincts, as canvasssd by
the Canvassing Board of Madison
County. the said deduction being in
proportion to the votes received by
said parties in said precincts This
resolution was on motion duly sec
onded and adopted by a vote of to
E.
The committee then CanvaSsed thS
vote of the several counties, and the
result of this canvass was that Mr..
Kehoe had received 1881 votes and
Mr.. Nave had received 1872 votes
giving Mr.. Kehoe a majority OF 1e
NOtCS, anu ut was AiESICuDSu OUStoa 90
the Democratic nominee of the Pri-
mary of June 18th, and by direction OF
the committee. the Secretary and myt
self forthwith executed to Mr. Kehoel
a certificate of election in due form
This was about o'clock in the even
ing, and the committee was just
about to adjourn when 1t was suggest
ed by one of Mr.. Mays friends that
the committee take a recess until
$50 O'Clock, in order that the minor
ity members Of the Committee might.
If they saw fit, file some minority re-
port. The members Of the committee
readily assented TO this and the COM
mittee took a recess until $50 o'clock
During this recess. fled with the
Secretary of State, Mr. KekOe's certih-
cate The committee met between $50
and 9 o'clock pursuant to recess; no.
member of the committee or anyone
else filed any minority report or pro-
tested at that time. and there was
really no business before the commit
tee, when We convened after supper,
IL was while We were there for the pur-
pose Of receiving any minority report,
if there was one. that the mandamus
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20
e - - CURES ECZEMA.
49, - ACNE, TETTER ETC.

The SKIN
g and coTTuPng circulation
treatne
goft
s down into the circulation and
S
bo
Acal advice Tree TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA GA
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20
A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF
CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST

ayers and inspectors had permitted
large number of persons to vote
who were not qualified voters. and
chose names did not appear upon tha
registration books of said county as
cusaified votes; in support of this
contention, they submitted as evil
dence, the tabulated and sworn state
n.ent from the Supervisor Of Regis
tIation of Leon county, showing the
number of qualified voters in each
rrccinct including those who had
laid their poll tax, those who were
over age, those who We're under age
and those who were otherwise ex-
eInpt, from a poll tax. A copy OF
the paper introduced is set out in full
arS. is as follows:
State of Florida,
Leon County.
]. Samuel P. Chaires, Supervisor OF
Registra ton, In and for Leon County,
Florida, hereby certify the following
number of white voters are qualified
according to the registration books OF
SaiG county, to vote in the primary
r:ection to be held May 18th.
The numbers given below include
all who paid poll taxes within the
time prescribed by .aw, as certified
to me by the tax collector; all who
are designated on the registration
books as entitled to vote by reason
OF homage and over-age; and all who
are designated as having no poll tax
asse ssed against them for either OF
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges,
ton, dizziness or nervous prOStratiOn
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Pensacola journal., 1908-08-20

NURSING MOTHERS AND MALARIA
The Old Standard GROVES TASTE
LESS CHILL TONIC, drives out ma
laria and builds up the system. For
grown people and children, soc.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
HONG For The Friendlcss.

Isn't there a fine chance for adven-
turOuS spirits to capture some small
but exceedingly tight island and pro
vide on it a home for cmbezzlers who
nre having d hard time these days to
get some country to adopt them that
doesn't have extradition laws patrol
ling the borders looking for suspicious
characters with fat rolls hulging ont
their hip pockets:
As these rOtund crooks usually carry
away large enough wadS to enable
them to pay big board bills the venture
should be 4 profitable one They could
sit there in the balmy breeze, under 4
rented vine and fig tree. and cmbeZZle
against each other TO their heart s
content and not get h" IT failure every
time they saw q sail looming up on
the horizon Those " % have never
looted Il bank or played he races with
n trust fund little kn0 the crying
need there is for such II haven of ref
uge
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
Humor ano Philosophy
THE MAIN QUESTION.
By DUNCAN N. sMiTF

In the pleasant autumn weather.
When the leaves begin to glow
And the forest looks as brilliant
AS the lady I'm the show.
Swcetly We commune with nature,
Feeding on her wealth our soul
AS We wonder how in thunder
We car buy our winters coal
In Il mass Of gold and yellow
Hang the leaves upon the trees
or TO earthward softly fiutter
on the light. inpulsive breeze.
A. Es view the living poem.
Done IN smooth. artistic rhyme.
It's distressing 10 De guessing
Can y.. buy our coal on time.
In the fastness Of the forest
Is q mass of color blurred
That one couldn't catch on canvas.
Though the artist was Il bird.
Far from noisy haunts Of commerce,
From the grim and smoky town.
But the haunting thought keeps
Haunting
VIII the coal 20 up or down?
Brown and yellow blend with crimccn.
And the trcctOps are afiame,
In 4 brilliant CONFEDERATION
Putting fireworks to shame,
But the waste seems almost sinfU!
IS the leaves begin to turn.
For the falling year is calling
For substantial coal to burn.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
Conclusions.

''HOw do you manage to keek
YOU cook so long,"
by cheerflluy making such little
concessions as she demands. She
STAYS home one afternoon in the
week, has the use of the parlOr every
other night and exclusive use OF the
automobile on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays. baltimore Amerl-
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
Raw Lungs.

When the lungs are sore and inhamed, the
gersea Of pneumonia and consumption find
lodgru%nt aud multiply. Foley's Honey
and Tar kills the cough germs, cures the
most obstinate racking cough, heals the
lungs and prevents serious results. The
genuine is in the yellow package. Sold at
Prrker's Two Drug Stores
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
Mind Your Business.

Ii You don't nobody will. 1t is your bust
ness to keep out of all the trouble you can
and you can and will keep out of liver and
Life Pills They keep biliousness, malaria
and iaundice out OF your system. 25c. at
Melville Dorsey's drug store
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12

Read the plain formular on a box of Pink
Pain Tablets. Then ask your doctor if
there is better one. Pain means conges-
tion-blood pressure somewhere DR.. Shoop's
Pink Pain Tablets check head pains,
womanly pains, pain anywhere. Try one,
and seei 20 for 25c, Sold by all dealers.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
TRAINS LEAVE HENDERSON n. c. AS FOLLOWS:

eave Henderson Durham-7:OO
NJ Pm p.
cewith
Baltimore Philadelphia .,
+ ~ Norfolk NJ
ncan onJ
\ CHI
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
Standard Time.

Teacher-What is the equivalent of
sixty minutes, Eddie Mortorby?
Eddie Motorby-Sixty miles.-Puck
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12

Some men put everything off till
tomorrow with the exception OF bill
collectors. and they put them off in
definitely
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
True Gailantry.

She (coyly)-Can you guess my age?
He-No, indeed, but whatever it is
you don't look it.-Chicago News.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-11-12
A Tribute,

/ know q lovely chaperon.
For whom my love grows day by day.
She has q soft and winning tone
And always looks the other way.
-Pick-Me-Cp.