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for ma laughed and 1t must have been
funny. l didn't pay any attention to his
jokes. for he reads most of them in the
funny papers. I stood and watched the
elephants oesOphagus.
Never seen an elephants OesOphagus:
It's down his mouth most to his insides
When the big elephant with lump on his
ear opened his mouth. pa pointed out the
oesophagus. Cripes, I'm glad l haven't
got one.
big shows opening in five minutes, v
bawIed Teller in a blue coat just when
1 was getting interested in the camels
Pa had said that a camel could sign the
pledge and yet carry a jag concealed
about him for five days. just looping II
up from inside him all the time.
Well, sir, you'd ought to have seen that
pretty and picturesque prelude and con-
course Of contingents which started off
the circus. I'd call it plain parade. but
that's what the program said. And when
the Japanese soldiers came by a little
Jappy Teller just hiked up in his seat and
hollered "Banzai' but the Teller carry
ing the sun flag didn't understand; he
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entered into a foxy conspiracy of silence
with himself and played dumb. He could
have got by with it that way. Perhaps
by this time he is dead. He wasn't a
strong youngster. had weakened himself
a-plenty with his designations. and wasn't
in any way built for standing the hard
ships incident to the sub-rosa travel Of
the fugitive in queer parts of the world.
L was once sent on chase after an
absconding cashier Of Little Rock bank
who, like Schrieber, went on his vacation
and neglected to return. His forgetfulness
in this respect caused the usual tOo-late
investigation Of his books. and he was
discovered to be $4,000 shy. Now. this
one was ,stutterer. too. only not so bad
a one as Schrieber. He had a fine start
for himself. of course. but when they
put me on his case I figured that, good
start as he had. 1t would be something
like pie to get into his wake on account
of that suffering habit of his.
"At first it was easy enough. / traced
him through Mexico and the west coast
Of Central and South America, and l lost
him-only ten days behind him, at that
at Callao. Peru. He hadn't left that
place in any Of the steamers. l found out
but he was absent from Peru. all right.
and it looked pretty cinchy that he
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came near losing her teeth.
Pa bought a program at the door.
which was 10 cents He said he was
going to go the whole hog. which was
right. for l think my father is pretty
much of a sport when it comes right
down to it. And say. that program had
more geography pictures of animals all
standing around in zones of the earth.
and pictures of new corsets. Pa said
Mr. Barnum once offered to sell Queen
Victoria wooden leg. but she didn t
need one, and then Mr.. Barnum said 1t
was to any queens advantage to have a
wooden leg l guess Mr.. Barnum would
be running for President on Mr. Bryan S
ticket if he was alive.
Well we went in to see the menagerie
first, for the show didn't open till
o'clock 1t was a fine menagerie. all but
the smell. But all the rest of the menag-
erie was there. Specially the giraffe and
gnu Pa said 1T was all right to know a
gnu; no. that wasn't the way he said it,
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was a white man painted up. And Cos
sack. with a furry beaver on his head
just naturally slipped off his horse on his
face. / always thought Cossacks were
such terrible fine riders.
And then they did lot of marching
around and things which were not inter-
esting. They was symbolical pa said.
But you ought to see those fellers with
pink tights on jump over elephants from
a springboard right there in front of us.
One Teller bumped his head under and
turned over three times. while the ele-
plant just closed his eyes and looked
tired
Ma had to translate the next thting on
the program. 1t said: "A Quartet of
Adept Arenic Artists in Alluring Dis
plays Of Exquisite Eauestrinism.' And
that was just riding stunts after all. Pa
said If he could write that way he would
quit being a highbrow and begin really to
write for living. He said he would be
peripatetic puzzler for pink papers. 1
guess that was another joke.
After the riding stunts the whole blamed
circus came pouring out. A lot of men
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<<T HE biggest mystery yet group.
ing together the cases of all of
New York's runaway default
ers, is this: What became of Willie
Schrieber?" said a veteran in the Pinker-
ton service. in Washington for race track
duty at Benning. THAT. probably. w..i
always remain one of the unsolved ones.
"Schrieber. you remember. made his
getaway eight years ago this coming fall.
He held a $15-a-week job in a bank in
Elizabethport. n. j.. but his case had
big New York end. because he blew most
OF his stealings in the Tenderloin. He
was a Sunday school boy over In Jersey.
but a sure-enough high-fying money
burner in the Tenderloin. which he visited
every night. He went around Elizabeth
port looking humble and shabby. but
when he hit the white-light trail of nights
he sported all of the clothes and jewels
and things fit to wear and then some
more 1t was miraculous that the bank
people never heard about what the young
fellow-he was a mere boy-was doing In
New York after sundowH. 1t was just
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and ladies in pink tights. the ladies with
their dresses all sticking out around like
fluted piecrust. began to do awful stunts
on the bars way up over the net. Some
japanese in spangleds kimonos climbed
poles. Two fellers with white all over
their bodies gave limitations of Ajax
catching flies and other historic statuary.
Some ladies without much clothes on
danced on the slack wire. A lot of clowns
went butting around playing funny.
I got 80 twisted didn't know where to
look. First I'd rubber at the fellers Civ
ing statuary, then I'd take a hurry-up
peek at the Japanese balancing a pole
with kid on top. and then pa would
punch me in the ribs and holler: Look
at that woman, Billie; her dress is going
to come off" Then ma would call pc
down for being vulgar.
All the while lot of men We're running
around letting things down from the roof
and hosting things up and getting in the
way and bothering the elephants until
you just sat on your hands and hollered
to EN- to get out and let the show go on.
Specially was 1 afraid when the lady
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across the way from the meat refrigera-
tor, installed big range especially ADAPT
ed for broilng steaks and chops. stuck a
few chairs and tables around inserted an
ad in the vaudeville program that folks
might as we'll come to his place and be
chic by picking out their steaks and eat
ing 'em on the spot. defiantly and openly.
Just like that: and the scheme worked
like just-greased pair of skids. The
mad ways began to flock to his shop, the
word got around about 1t. and 1t was a
hit. a knockout. a riot. Pick out your
meat and watch the man slap 1t on the
fire-great, Sit around plain deal tables.
with sheets of butchers brown paper FOR
napkins and iron knives and forks. and
no fool tablecloths to worry about
whether You'll spill stuff on EN- or not,
and only little distance away the meat
counters heaped up with hamburger steak
and pigs feet, and tripe and liver and
kidneys and such like-oh, great, 1elier
Bohemans. great.
SO the fortune OF the deep. deep tn
avenue butcher is made. and the fortunes
of the other butchers who've started res
taurant annexes to their shops are max
| ing. You'll see these butcher shops bril-
liantly Illuminated for hours and hours
| after fredericksburg time now. They
| have after-theater butcher-shop eating
| part les. YOU see-such larks, gee.
The butcher-shop restaurants have IL
censes to sell rum too. and that. or
course. helps the gayety along. The cut
ups just sit and sit at the pine tables
| for hours and hours. making their Quips
| and quirks and outlets. just as defiant
| as can be OF the impulse which prompts
| the SNUG, unemancipated pinheads to
| take their food at honest-1niun tables.
| with tablecloths and candelabra and
| flowers In the middle, and all like that
| worn -out foolishness. Bands Of darby
musicians and singers and dancers per-
| form in the butcher shop aisles while
| Fao tic ~, ynrN
! no idea what awful Mabel bohemianesaue
| affairs they are. honest you haven't.
1t Is sure depressing to be marooned,
| as 4 were in such a terrible wicked
i wicked place as this III OF Moo Iawk Is
| getting to be, IT certainly Is.
Chorus Lady and Art.
y Tbaro ora soma things that are so pat
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" ES sir. pa had seats right there in
the middle of the tent where you
. could see the two rings and the
two stages and all the f1xings up top
without having to screw your neck
around. Pa said he got EN- for nothing
because he was a highbrow. and hign-
hrows always get tickets to moral cir
cuses and temperance lectures free. Any
way, they were the best seats in the
show.
Well. never had such excitement since
out cat had fits last Christmas and
climbed UP the window curtain. Talk
about circuses: say, 1 had wiggles and
funny feelings going up and down my
backbone for two solid bours. Pa tried
not to let ma see that he was excited.
and ma just yawned once to show that
she was there only to escort me. But
when the woman slid down the track in
an auto. ma just pinched my leg some
thing horrible and screamed. Gosh, she
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people right and left. and when she got
right in front of the Venus she observed.
plainly for the first time. that the sculp-
tured lady of Hellas was armless.
"Oh, say mister" she squeaked to the
auctioneer obviously f1abbergasted. point
ing to the beautiful marble. L don't want
her! Why, she's broke. amt she?
1t was one beautiful laugh that went
up from the crowd then. 1t was more
than a laugh-it was the amplif1ed and
accentuated boot.
Did the show girl take it to heart? Nay.
nay-none whatever She flushed a bit,
1t is true. but she quickly recovered her
self.
"Oh. / remember now" she said loudly
to her companion. while the laugh still
was going on, that's the Venus de
Mile-o--sure l remember her! l snap
shotted her in the Loov when l was to
Paris last year.
Fact. folks May sound made up and all
similar but it's a fact, really: And I'd
write her name down, only l know 1t
wouldn't be printed.
Oh. by the way. she was born and
raised in Washington. this sh.w girl
that's another fact.
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situated. spick- andspan. every-room-fill-
ed. MISUNDERSTANDING -order boarding
house is for sale-the furniture and good
will. that is to say. Now. the good will
Of a well-established clearinghouse in
New York city is valuable asset. You
get plenty Of responses from people.
mostly women. of course, who are de-
sirous of going into the clearinghouse
business II they can get hold of a nice,
thoroughly established place like the one
you have for sale. And you pick out the
one that offers you the most for the fur
niture and good will-these figures. for
the good will alone. often run up in the
thousands-and you unload your plant on
that one.
Then. when you've got the money in
your hand. why, you just go away from
there. of course. and on the following day
all of your dummy boarders move out of
the boarding house that you've .unloaded
on the victim. The dummies tell their new
landwoman that they've grown SO used to
their retired landwoman that they can't
abide the idea of sticking along in the
place without her around. or make some
other excuse for quitting: but. anyhow.
they quit: and there you are. with all
that nice coin In your hand, just as easy,
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For cart" Enthusiasts.

It's game that is being. worked over
here quite few times every day. and the
victim hasn't got a leg to stand on when
she sees through the dodge and seeks re-
dress. What can she do about it?
Nothing, except grin. and charge that
piece of goodwill money that she's
forked over up TO profit and loss.
Maybe they don't think of new ones over
here right along!
Which reminds me, by the way, that
the phony art sale is becoming one of
those often-worked do things in New
York. too.
The CRATER who has a lot of junk that
he calls works Of art knows that he hasn't
much chance to auction that gear off at
good prices IL he does his auctioneering
in a regular business plant. But he has
found q way to get around that He
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A Slick Little Scheme.

Let's all go into the clearinghouse
dummy business. It's easy-in New YORK.
What. you don't know what the board
ing house dummy business is? Well. We'll!
It's this way, then: You pick out nice
large house that's for rent, fit it up with
secondhand furniture-which can be
bought for almost nothing in New YORK
and put your dummies In all OF the
rooms Dummies? Yes-dummy boarders.
Easiest thing In the world to get them.
In fact, after getting hold Of bunch of
dummy boarders, you can keep them on
your staff all the time. sos to have them
handy when you need 'em for deal.
Well you've got mighty likely looking
boarding house. haven't you? Very well.
You put an advertisement in the paper.
stating that you are retiring from the
clearinghouse business. and that. there
fore, your thoroughly established, we'll
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She hustled through the crowd to take
q closer look at her purchase, e.Sowing
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No sooner said than done. He cleared
a space in the rear part Of his shop,
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There are some things that are so pat
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1908-03-19
MEETINGS
IN WARDS
Decided at Meeting Last Night
F-1to Hold Meetings in Each !.
Ward for Nominations
of Aldermen.

At a meeting held last night in
the court house it was decided that
meetings should be held in each of
the three wards in the city for the
puopose of nominating candidates
for aldermen. There are three
aldermen to elect, one in each
ward. The meetings are to be
strictly non partisan and all voters
in the city should be out to the
meetings. The voters of the first
ward will meet in the court house.
Those of the second ward in the
school house and the third ward
voters in the Rink barn. The
third ward voters decided to meet
in the Rink barn as there was no
suitable place in which to meet in
their ward. The time set for the
meetings is o'clock tomorrow
evening.
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FEW WORDS
ABOUT SALE
Episcopal Sale Of Beautiful Arti-
cles Saturday in the Rawron
Store--See Art Gallery

If you enjoy looking at beauti-
full things, you will experience a
great deal of satisfaction by drop
ping into Rawson's Hardware store
on Saturday and seeing what the
Ladies Of the Episcopal Guild will
have on sale there then. Beauti-
full articles of clothing, beautiful
articles for about the house; some
beautiful in the strict sense = beau
tiful to look upon = others beau
tiful in their utility - in their per-
feet adoption to the use intended.
Beautiful pictures too, done in
passe partout binding, the utmost
care being expended to aquire that
delicate harmony in tints between
picture, mat, and binding, which
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ROBBED
GUN SHOP
Burglars Break Into Thomas
Gun Shop and Take 20 Guns
Thomas Tracked Men
and Got Property.

The G.. NJ. Thomas gun and re-
pair shop was broken into early
yesterday morning and about
twenty guns were stolen. Thanks
to the snow which fell Tuesday
night Mr.. Thomas was enabled
to track the robbers and find the
stolen property. When MIR.
Thomas went to the shop in the
morning he found the door
smashed in and the guns missing.
In looking around the building he
saw the mems tracks and proceed
ed to follow them. The tracks
led him to the old building on
lower Main street formerly owned
by Step Davis and the guns were
found there covered up with old
clothing. The tracks around the
gun shop showed that two men
had been in the job and one had
watched the house while the other
one got the shooting irons. Mr..
Thomas has offered reward for
the arrest of the guilty parties.
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In answer to a call issued some
time ago Republicans from differ
ent sections of the county met in
the Wegley hall Monday night
for the purpose of organizing a
Republican club. Mayor Wegley
and Attorney Palmer were chosen
as temporary chairman and secre-
tary. Attorney E. H. Wright Of
Fargo, candidate for the supreme
bench, was called upon and gave a
very interesting talk on party or
ganization and the absolute neces-
sity of harmony in the party if
success was to be the result of the
campaign. He was followed by
F. A. Ball of Fargo who gave a
short but interesting talk. G. B.
Metzger, F. B. Chapman, A. L.
Knauf and others addressed the
meeting during the evening. At
ter the speech making the organi-
zation of club was taken up.
This resulted in a permanent Or
ganization to be known as the
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IN THE CITY
u. S. Senator McCumber in VIII.
liston in Interest of Bill for
Experimental Farm.

Senator p. j. McCumber was in
the city Tuesday in the interests
of his bill introduced in the senate
some time ago for an appropria-
tion of $75, 900 for large expert
mental farm for this county. The
senator believes that experiments
in connection with irrigated and
dry farming in this section should
be carried on on large scale. He
wants to see forty or fifty differ
ent experiments on each Of the
different methods carried on at
once thus getting into one year as
much work as would, on smaller
farm, take several years to accom-
plish. While here Senator Nc
Cumber was busy getting data
etc. regarding irrigation, dry
farming and soil conditions and
will return to Washington with
facts and figures with which to
prove to the senate the urgent
need of such an experimental sta
ton as the one called for in his bill.
Should this bill pass and this sum
added to that already appropriated
by the state Williston would have
an excellent experimental station.
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COURT HAS
ADJOURNED
Judge Coss Adjourned Court
Saturday to March 23--Con-
victed Parties Were SEN !,
fenced.

Judge Coss adjourned court Sat
urday afternoon until next Mon
day, March %. During the lat
ter part of the week five cases
were disposed of.
In the John Murer case, where
in defendant was charged with en-
bezzlement the jury returned Il
verdict of not guilty, they being
advised to do so by the Judge.
Thomas Faulkner, charged with
assault and battery, was given a
jury trial and the verdict was not
guilty.
Ben Ingram of Crosby, pied
guilty to the charge of pigging
and was given 4 months and $4O0
fine.
Andrew Tronson of Tioga was
convicted on the charge of pigging
and was sentenced to 4 months in
Jail and a fine of $780, The prop
erty was ordered closed for year.
Joseph Perry of Crosby pied
guilty of pigging and got ninety
days and 5000 fine.
The case against Geo. Jones
was called but he not being pres
ent the case was continued.
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R0USINC REPUBLICAN
MEETING MONDAY EVE.
Williams County Republicans Meet on
Monday Night and Organize Re-
Publican Club----Prominent
Speakers Present.

Williams County Republican
Lea que. Local clubs are to be or
ganized if the different towns
throughout the county and the
presidents of the different clubs
will comprise the advisory board.
The names Of the officers and
members of the committees chosen
Monday night follow:
Albert j. Stafne, Pres, Williston.
John A. Corbett vice-Pres Williston
Martin A. Oleson, Sec, Williston.
w. S. Davidson, Treas, Williston
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
V. F. Snyder, Kermit,
George Cudhie, Crosby.
Ira R. Elliott, Ray.
Arthur L. Knauf, Williston
N. Hayes, Williston.
Martin A, Oleson, Williston.
A. J. Stafne, Williston.
COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATIONS
Eugene N. Disney, Williston.
Edwin A. Palmer, Williston.
H. B. Wingerd, Epping.
Fl. F. Irving, Tioga.
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BASKET BALL
SATURDAY
Minot and Williston Basket Bal
Teams Will Play Here Sat-
urday Night.

The Minot basket ball team will
arrive in the city Saturday and
Saturday evening will meet the
Williston boys in the Gates hall.
The Minot players are coming to
win and will be accompanied by
fifty or hundred rooters. The
local team has been practicing
every day and expect to carry
away the honors. The game will
be one of the best ever seen in the
city and should draw large
crowd.
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Marker-Turner Wedding.

Mr.. Louis NJ. Marker of Glas-
gov and Miss Lucy Turner of
Hartford, Conn, were united in
the holy bonds of matrimony in
this city Tuesday evening at seven
o'clock, in the Episcopal church.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. J. F. Elton. One Of tn e
contracting parties has a clai m
near Buford where the happy
young couple will make their
home.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1908-03-19
is so essential to a really artistic
picture. The excellent quality Of
the pictures themselves demanded
an extra amount of pains III the

an extra amount Of pains ii the
: ee:',..-...;1aa es:',......1a.. :
Another thing that is certain to
strike the artistic sense is an assort-
ment of absolutely new and except
ionally clever postal cards, approp-
riate for the Easter season. These
are hand work, and beyond any
question the incest cards Of this
kind you can get.
There will be homemade candy
too, and all sorts of home cooked
foods on sale. These things will
undoubtedly be beautiful, like the
rest, but it is not altogether by
thier beauty that such things are to
be judged. That doesn't make any
difference though. They will stand
any test you put to them, and we
want them tested.
Come in and look around.
The Ocala evening star., 1908-05-01
L. s. LIGHT FAVORS
STATE PROHIBITION
Reddick Fla Anril 27 1908

I Reddick Fla, April 27, 1908.
Mr.. w. T. Gary, President of Anti
Saloon League, Ocala, Fla:
Dear Sir-Answering your open let
ter to the legislative candidates of
March 18th, will say:
Under normal conditions I prefer
county local option to state prohibi
ton. Conditions are not normal now.
1 am opposed to the placing of NOR
q, issues like the closing of the open
saloon in the hands of the ignorant,
ncn-tax paying negro voter for a de-
Cision. 1t requires intelligence and
All educational qualification for a vo-
ter to vote on a constitutional amend
ment, and a decision by a constitu-
t'onal amendment voices the will of
the intelligent voter. Therefore, say
if l become a member Of the next
le legislature / will work and vote for a
constitutional amendment to be voted
On by the people for state prohibition.
Yours truly, l.. s. Light.
The Ocala evening star., 1908-05-01
AN ALABAMA DUEL

Birmingham, May DIR. J. E: Gar
rison shot and killed J. D. williams,
an electrician for the Consolidated
Company yesterday at Flat Creek, in
n duel in the public road. Previous
trouble existed between the men con-
cerning family affairs and when Will
Iams saw Garrison yesterday he asked
Inn to wait few minutes and secur
ing a pistol, shot Garrison down.
While on the ground the latter shot
Williams to death. Garrison is dom
eerously wounded