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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
Worked Both Ways.

Two young merchants, John Bruce
and Clint Pease, who occupied ad-
joining stores in a small town, were
intimate friends. When business was
dull they visited back and forth from
one store to another. Each was fond of
q joke.
One cold blustry day, when custom
ers were few, Clint sat behind the stove
in Johns store. A young woman, a
stranger came in and John stepped
forward to wait on her.
l am soliciting subscriptions for the
fresh air fund said she.
Now solicitors for one charity or
another were numerous, and the mer-
chants usually tried to evade their
claims, since it was poor policy to
refuse to contribute. So John was
greatly pleased with himself when a
happy way out of his present difficulty
suggested itself to his quick mind.
You'd better speak to the proprietor
about it, he said politely. You will
find him a very liberal man. He is
back there by the stove.
John grinned as the young woman
approached Clint and restated hel
case.
How much are the merchants gen
orally giving? Clint asked with grav'
interest in the cause.
Some Ire giving as much as a dol
lar, she answered but We are grateful
for any sum however small.
John, said Clint with an air of au
thority give the young lady 50 out c
the drawer. And John of course ha
to obey.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
The Fool and the Auto

The oppoition of farmers is not due
to the acts of the many, but of the few
speed-craze individuals who take
license for liberty and abuse all decent
rules of the road and disregard all
rights of others.
Auto-owners as a rule are law-abid-
ing citizens who are always ready to
recognize the danger arising from
frightened horses and collisions and
| who take care to avoid trouble on the
road.
But in every community there are a
few hot-headed fools who regard no
rights which interfere with their own
ideas OF pleasure, and who are utterly
Indifferent to injury they may inhict
upon others by their reckless acts.
In the country roads adjacent to
large cities lies the greatest danger
from these reckless drivers, They
haunt the road houses where liquor i:
sold and we'll, a nan with a load o
i "AAShSS ohO AAs1Pu"c i!oCuAAc "
q country road is a terror. So grea
has become the danger from this clas'
Of auto-drivers that in many states
determined effort will be made thi
winter to pass stringent laws regulat
ing autos.
Automobile clubs owe it to them
selves and the public to join thu
movement o suppress the fool driver
and provide sane and safe cnnduct 81
the road. If present conditions ar
allowed to continue it is certain tina
the legislatures will be forced to pas
la VS. which 60 too far and which vii
work a hardship to chose who need NJ
la VS. to keep them within the bounds G
law and common dc n.A-EX.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
A GENTLE REPRoAcH.
Telling Retort Of the lamblike, vielsk
Eyed Beauty.

Telling Retort Of the Lamblike, vielst
Eyed Beauty.
There is a certain young woman who
is beautiful, with that childish, wistful,
innocent looking, violet eyed beauty
which reduces one-half the feminine
world to tears, the other half to utter
ly helpless rage. We all know the
type, but it is seldom given us to see
it in such perfection. We usually as
sociate it with a lamblike, appealing
mentality that permits itself to be rid
den upon-as soon expect a wood violet
to turn and rend you.
A short time ago she was asked to
a woman's luncheon and got herself
up for the occasion in a way that
made the result Of her efforts q thing
not easily forgotten. She arrived look
ing SO lovely that there was little said
among the guests for a few moments
after her entry into the room. Perhaps
she felt the silence. At all events, she
turned to the woman standing nearest
her and said ina childish voice, with
ever such a little lisp and pretty south
ern accent:
How well yo' are lookin' today"
It was a well meant civility from 8
young woman to an older one, who
seemingly was unable to accept it as
such and put up her l%orgnette, sweep
ing the speaker from top to toe. What
she saw was enough to disconcert 8
younger and prettiers woman than her
self, but even so one finds it difficult
to justify her next nov
wish l could say the same fol
you,' she returned, closing her lorgnett,
with a snap.
One or two Of the guests wer'
friends Of the pretty woman and al
most stopped breathing in order no
to miss what they felt sure woult
come-and it came. The pretty on
raised her eyebrows slightly, the
said, with an air of gentle reproach:
why don't yo' lie like a lady. lik
I doy"-Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
What tic Needed.

A sovereign would tempt many men,
and when Plimkins, making a few pur-
chases at the stores, saw n lying on
the floor just by the counter he quiv-
cred with excitement.
/. CHANGING around to reassure himself
that none was looking, he quite acct
dentally dropped one of his kid gloves
neatly on the coin and then dived. He
got the glove all right, but still the ov-
ereign remained.
A shopwalker approached him.
"Good morning, sir" said the man,
rubbing his hands together in the ap-
proved style, "and may I show you a
bottle Of u celebrated liquid glue.
which sticks
London Mail.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
OLD TIME FoRcEPs.
When the Thing Was Turned Some
thine Had to Give Way.

When the Thing Was Turned Some.
thing Had to Give Way.
And speaking Of teeth reminds me
that the country doctor had to draw
them when they ached. The dentists
artistry had not attained the elevated
plane it occupies today, when every
body's mouth shines like the inside OF
q communion cup. I honestly believe
the modern dentist has more different
kinds Of tools than even q sanitary
plumber, and that's a whole lot when
you come to count them up. The mod
ern dentist hates the worst way to
draw a tooth. Nevertheless If the
modern dentist must draw the tooth
he has a particular forceps for a par
ticular tooth, and a cruel hearted and
cold looking thing It. Ia too. It puts
you so in mind Of a successful dnan-
cier. When you brace yourself in the
iron chair and take a tight grip on the
arms Of it and make up your mind
you'll try to stand 1t and he gets that
forceps we'll under the gum and-watt
a minute; 1 feel 80 kind o faint!
Laws! Why didn't I mind my mother
when she told me not to crack hick-
DRY nuts with my teeth?, Well, any
way, you know hen get the tooth out
without doing more than take the
whole top Of your head of, and that
only in a fgurative sense.
Uncle Doc had n implement that
did for every tooth, big and little,
front and back. It wasn't a forceps;
it was a turnkey. The real old folks
know what that is and will say SO
with the cold chills running over them.
But you've never seen one, and many
a man that you would call old has
never seen one. It's something like q
canthook. The loosely riveted piece
that curves slips over the tooth and
catches on the inside; the solid can
bears on the outside gum; the operator
turns the handle. Let's not talk about
1t. Something has got to give. Maybe
the tooth will come out; maybe it vii
break off: maybe the jaw will frac
ture. All those are details. The mair
point is that If the operator twists thu
handle something has got to give, and
that's all there is about it.-Eugen'
Wood in Success Magazine.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
The Cellar Stairs.

A man who once had a bad fall when
going down his cellar stairs now has
a broad strip Of white painted on the
floor at the end Of the last step. This
is easily seen, even If the cellar be
dark, and many a nasty accident is
avoided. If the house Is rented and
you do not like to paint the boards q
piece Of white oilcloth can be tackled
to the floor at the foot Of the stairs.
See that the lacking Is securely done
or a worse fall may follow than from
q misgauged step.-Philadelphia Press
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
Notice OF ChatteI M"ttgage sal.

Notice is hereh! given that default
certain Mortgage made by Robert
aud STATE OF North Dakota. Mortgage
". 10 lh. First National Bank OF
Inpe. IF she County of Steele and
State 1T North Dakota, Mortyagee.
II lated the 9th day of October, 1906.
% >ecure the following indebtedness.
tO-wit: One prUmissOry note given to
The First National Bank of Hope, \.
D dated October 9th 1906 and due
October 10th 1907 for Three hundred
and thirty Dollars with II per cent
interest until paid and which
Mortgage was duly filed in the office
Of the Register of Deeds of Steele
County. State OF North Dakota, on
the Both day of October 1906, at
O'Clock p NJ, and which default is OF
the following nature, tO-wit; that al.
though the date for payment is past
due the same has not been paid and
that there is claimed to be due on
| said Mortgage, at the date of this
| notice, the sum of TWO HUNDRED
AND SIXTY-FIVE and 6O-1OC
($265.60 Dollars for principal and
interest.
And that said Mortgage will be
foreclosed by q sale of the personal
property in such Mortgage and here
Iinafter described, at public auction
%agreeably tosthe statutes in such case
made and provided, at the front doc,
of the Major Implement Co.'S Office in
the City of Hope in the County O.
Steele State of North Dakota, at the
hour OF Q O'Clock p. M, on Saturday
the 18th day Of December 1908. That
the personal property which will be
sold to satisfy said Mortgage is des.
cribed as follows, to.w.t: l grey horse
weight 1900, 6yrs old named Dewey;
mare with white face weight 1900, 8yrI
old named Spot and increase
/ brown horse 9yrs old weigh
1900. named Tom: black mar.
ID yrs old weight l45O, nance
Nell; 2.set OF double work harness
news; ! Minneapolis wagon with doubl
box; | wagon with rack.
I. W. STANDBY,
Sheriff of Steele Co. N. D
Z. 8. JOHNSON,
Attorney for Mortgage
Hope, North Dakota.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03
Dedesd.

II got my wife through advertising"
Then you'll admit that advertising
paysY
"Il admit that it brings results"
was the cautious reply. = Louisville
Courier-J0urnal
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03

LOST Strayed or Stolen-Two
white horses weighing 1900.
Left the Bob Neuman farm last
Thursday, Nov. IL. II found or
heard of notify Frank Tillison.
Hope, N. d.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03

No man can be provident Of his time
who "a not prudent in the choice Of his
company.--Jersmy Taylor.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-12-03

The Pioneer from now until
Jan /, 1910, for $1.5O
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
TaezXEsJ Ax9 AXXJnR.
N0gNs Wv HN7sae7

visible. and the steady platform from
which the torpedoes were fired would
make the aim of the men behind GER
tain and true These fortreSSeS and
torpedo stations could be protected
from torpedo boats and even subma-
rine boats by heavy barriers of steel
netting surrounding each. Then. with
fields of mines laid between. the utter
destruction of any attacking fleet
would be certain
Any coast. too. lined with these
steady floating fortresses could CON
slider itself amply protected. and would
need NO fleet of battleships tied close
to home All ocean-going vessels OF
war could be permitted to roam about
and enter upon offensive operations
wherever desired. The floating fort
resses would have little machinery OF
other mechanism to bother with, and
only enough men to serve the guns
would be required.
If Mr.. Murray's inventions are
adopted BY the government. the prob
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
cHINAMAN MADE 1T CLEAR.
And Without the Use of Any -Pigeon
English at That.

NumherlesS are the tricks which
newspaper reporters play upon one
another to relieve the somber grind
of their calling. Two young men, EN-
ployed on q morning paper in q large
American city. were detailed one day
to call upon the resident Cinnamon
and Interview" them respecting some
immigration measure then pending in
congress One of the two reporters
was n beginner, and the other, an ex-
perienced man. naturally assumed the
management of the matter
Billings he said. after they had
invaded several laundries without any
important result. here is tea store.
L wish you would go in and talk with
the proprietor. / want to know what
he thinks about Cinnamon voting I'll
go on and have an interview with the
man who runs this cigar shop next
door Remember to use the very
simplest English at your command"
The young reporter went inside the
tea store. took out his note book and
thus addressed the proprietor. who
happened to be alone at the moment:
John. how Me-me-Telegraph
John. Newspape-sayvy. Johne News
pape-print things Un'stan'> Ne want
know what John think about China
man vote. see. What John think
Chinaman-vote-an same Mclean
| man. Savvy. Johne Vote. What
Think
The Chinaman listened to him with
profound gravity until he had finished
and replied
The question of granting the right
of suffrage to Chinese citizens who
have come to the United States with
the avowed intention of making this
country their permanent home is one
that has occupied the attention OF
| thoughtful men of all parties for years,
and it may become in time one OF
paramount importance At present,
however. it seems to me there is no
exigency requiring an expression OF
| opinion from me upon this subject
You will please excuse me-
The young reporter went outside
and leaned against a lamppost to re
| cover from a sudden faintness that
| had seized him His comrade had pur.
posely ''steered him against one OF
| the best educated Cinnamon in the
United States--London Tit-Bits-
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
MAY FLY BY SOUND
Or. OWEN HAS NEW THEORY FOR
AERIAL NAVIGATION.
First Airship Smashed by Vibrations,
He Is Busy Constructing An
other@Says Principle Was
Used by the Ancients-

Detroit--Dr- Orville W. Owen is eI-
periencing the troubled life of an in
ventor- Years ago he got an idea
Months ago he was on the point of
realizing it To-day he is mournfully
watching the repeated deferment of
the hour when the idea Will be en-
bodied in practical form-
Owen is the man who believes he
can make noise like a top and fly
TO the uttermost parts of the world
Flying is nothing but applied harmony.
according to his theory. and if he can
produce the correct tones he can go
anywhere and do most anything
The vibratory theory is his pet
hobby Just now. He knows all the old
school book stories about the effect
of vibrations, and a lot more that have
been printed in books that few peo-
pie read. The phenomenon that a
bridge can be thrown down by sound
ing the proper note ON a violin is mere
Kindergarten talk to Owen He tells
you that Joshua threw down the walls
of Jericho that way, when he ordered
the blast from the rams, horns. fol-
lowed by mighty shout
Also the doctor is sure that this
same vibratory theory was put to prac-
teal use by the ancients- The pyr-
amids were built in this way. he says.
and the sphinx was moved into its
present position by the same agency.
The Moabite stone tells of an
ariel which the Israelites possessed,
says the doctor. land which gave them
victories until the Assyrians took il
away from them. The ariel was a fly
ing machine. worked by vibrations,
and it could move any weight
This ancient knowledge of the
earth-s Inhabitants has been reds
covered, DR.. Owen believes, and he is
/ the re-discoverer. He has invented
and patented flying machine. con
trolled by Migratory action. produced
by means of revolving tops on the
/ siren principle. the tops being placed
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23

Some have said that it Is not tAo
business of private men 40 NEEDLE
With governmeat-a bold and dIShpo-
est saying which Is 1t to come from
NO mouth but that Of a tyrznt or q
slave. To say that private men have
nothing to do with government Is 20
say that private men have nothing to
do with their own happiness or mts-
cry, that people ought not to concern
themselves whether they be naked o.
clothed fed or starved deceived o. IL
structed. protected o. Destroyed
Cato. the Elder
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23

under metal bells. Once the doctor
was near success with the machine, he
says. but it went to pieces from the
structing another.
His first delay came from the de
ferred shipment of consignment of
holly from the south The holly was
for the tops and. because no other
wood has the requisite cohesive pow
ers. he was obliged to wait until it
came before he could begin operations
1t arrived after some months on the
road.
Casting the metal bells is just now
the difhculty. There are to be seven
of these. each with a different note.
and to get the exact dimensions of the
patterns has been task of great pre-
cision. After the patterns were ready.
it was found that the molders here
were bothered in getting a perfect
casting. several efforts in the last two
or three days having gone wrong
After We get the first bell prop
ficulty." the doctor said. We can
build the rest of the machine easily
and will soon have it ready for flight
Then 1 will show the students of
aeronautics that they have all been
on the wrong track Man cannot fly
BY balloons or aeroplanes- Their prin-
ciple is wrong. Migratory action will
enable me not only TO fly but to per
form the apparent miracles OF Qlden
times. With it I will be able to lift
any weight 1t viii revolutionize me
chanicSs
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
Places of Interest.

An American actor was once seeing
London from the top of bus As
they swung down the Strand he asked
the driver to point out the places OF
interest. Right you are. sir. agreed
the driver. touching his hat There's
Luggit i'll. where they 'ang en- A
little later: There's parliament 'ouses,
where they make the laws wot does 1T,
across the way. An there's West
minister Habbey. where they buried
the good 'uns wot didn't get 'anged,'
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23

& woman veil known fo- her Iove
Of amateur photography Is ~eE zs
hospitality has ever since her naz--
rtase. carried cut the plan os -<reeL
ing the parting guest by taking a
snapshot OF them TIE resals Is n
the suestroom. where srieze CT pho
tographs shows the gallery. making
an Interesting collection and one that
entertalEs every new visitor that tks
room shelters
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23

AYEW YoRK-To dot the coast
with floating lighthouses that
will be ~lsmpostS of the sea, to
have floating fortresses and tor
pedo stations permanently anchored
on all of the coastal cities: to supply
harbors with breakwa,ers of a mobile
type: TO provide the navy with coalins
stations out az sea- to furnish isolated
quarantine stations 10 such ports of
entry as have not convenient islands
in their harhors: even to establish re
lay wireless stations far out in the
ocean-these are among the poSSibil-
titles of William Edward Nurray's in
ven,ion of the principle of building
structures
II is said by marine authorities that
Mr.. Murray has solved some of the
most difhcUlt problems with which
mariners and naval engineers have
wrestlei without success for years BY
applying the Murray principle OF
steady Rotation. il is held. haroor &C
comnacdstions can be enlarged almost
indefinitely at comparatively lou
cost: danger signal lights easily can
be placed at points on the coast where
heretofore lighthouses have been i'm,
possible on account OF the absence OF
rock foundations. and last but no;
least, cities. shipping harbors, arsenals
and aocsySrSsS can be guarded zoso
luteiy from boneArdnent by a large
foreign feet. at the same time allow
ing hattleships free rein in the con
duct of offensive operations instead oi
keeping them on the defensive Gloss
10 home.
Idea Is Simplicity Itself.
In common with every great revolu
tionary invention this idea of Nurray's
is extremely simple As = rear ad
miral of the American navy said u
the inventor. after the scheme had
been explained to him. the thing ha:
been staring us in the face for a hun
dred years and Yet no one has eve
thought of il before. Its as clear q:
daylight and as certain IS DOOM Blu
the inventor had worked n the prob
lem for eight years before he succeed
a practical engineer-that his prin
ciple was n sound one and capable o
absolute demonstration And. although
his fna patents were granted only b,
our government in July last. his in
vention already has attracted the Il
vorable attention of engineering au
thorities both in this country and il
Canada, in Great Britain. France an,
Germany. President Roosevelt is sal,
~, sn~ ~,
In \ few words, Mr.. Murray has dis
covered how TO keep a floating strus
ture steady and unmoved in tn
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
Again the Practical Ieke

A volatile bartender OF Rochester
n T., noting that = patron Edwin Bar
rett. slept soundly in the saIooa-
heated a copper coin until il had
reached the white stage and then de-
posted il on the knee of the slrmber-
ing one The joke was entirely SEC
eessful. as the coin buried the flesh.
caused blood poisoning and neeesss
tated the ampusation OF Mr. Rarrett-s
leg above the knee
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23

lem of providing = large number OF
hattleShipS for the defense of the coast
and the protection of outlying islands
belonging to Uncle Sam will become
les pressing The island possessions
of the United States will be consid-
cred safe, guarded by \ Gordon of
floating for1leSses, and the general
adoption of them along the American
coast Is apt TO change the European
viewpoint 10 . considerable extent No
foreign nation viii be eager to rush
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23

into a fight with so well protected a
country as the United States
The inventor of this new system of
marine construction is an American
engineer. Californian by birth. and
of Scotch descent 1t is asserted by
marine authorities that his discovery
means a definite step forward in the
worlds progress and that his inven-
lions are the most momentous since
the substitution of steel for wood in
naval construction.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23

A successful life is rather hard to
define. for the definition varies at
different times and under different
conditions. and yet in the midst OF
this material age there has dwelt a
successful woman. She has not
large means. she is dependent upon
her own labor. and she lives a simple
retired life, she is totally blind, and
yet We question whether there are
many who in present peace of mind,
and exalted vision of faith, have at
tanned unto all that is desirable in
life so nearly as Fanny Crosby. the
hymn writer, who at IS years of age
reigns queen of human happiness
UniverSaliSt Leader.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
Own. Much eriti.h L.nd.

The marquis of Stafford. who is in
his twentieth year, is heir to the most
extensive domain. if not the largest
rent roll. enjoyed by any subject of
King Edward More than 1000, 900
acres in England and Scotland are un-
der the lordship of his father, the duke
of Sutherland, while the marquis Of
Breadalbane. who is probably the next
largest proprietor in the Kingdom,
does not own half that amount of
land.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
Smallest Visible Things

Few persons would guess that the
smallest things visible to the eye are
the stars Yet, according to a high
authority. such is the case Great a.
many of the stars are In actual ma<ni
tude, their distance is so immense that
their angular diameter becomes IBsec-
s.hle and they approach TO the con
dition of geometrical points The
minute disks that they appear 20 have
are spurious. an effect of radiation
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-23
Greatness

There is a kind OF elevation which
does not depend on fortune IL IS .
certain air which distinguishes u.s. and
seems to destire Us for great thfnRs-
it is a price which we imperceptIbly
set on ourselves BY this quality ~
usurp the Difference of other men.
and it puts US. IN general more above
them than birth dignity o. even
merit itself-La RochefoucauId-