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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
Is This Fancy or Prophecy?

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Julia Ward Howe. author Of the "Bat-
tie Hymn Of the Republic" recently
dreamed a dream that was not all q
dream" She saw a new era suddenly
dawn upon the world. Men and
women, as under a divine inspiration,
Joined to fight back evil in every form.
Such a crusade had never been seen
since the world began. That brother
hood for good explained all history in
its elimination. It gave a reason for
all the past, GROWING it with glory.
And why not? The best, the most
intelligent, men and women In all
lands have seer that there is nothing
in wrong; that it does not satisfy, that
1t is but an empty shell, a hollow un-
reality, a diet of husks. Why should
they not join to beat 1t back? That
would be a movement worth living for.
I have overcome a few habits in my
life. and I have done 1t by seeing their
nothingness. They had no meaning.
In that far they were unreal. What
power had they over me. "a real being?
To. retain these puerile habits, I said,
would be like a grown man playing
with q baby's rattle. That made the
battle easy. Indeed, there was no bat
tie. The habit dropped away Of itself.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
mike"

The wandering gardener that drifted
into my place at the beginning Of the
summer, along with the birds and the
hoboes that sift into the country us
soon as the days grow warm, has
taught me some new things in human
nature.
The only name he answers to is
Mike, but as he was born in Rhode
island and Is as much Of a Yankee as
an freshman, cannot determine
whether the original baptismal for
mula OF that authorization was Michael
or Misaac.
In addition to his other good works
Mike has endeared himself to the goats
by talking to them In a dialect they
understand and by carrying them
green and tender branches several!
times each day. In consequence they
know even the dents in his old and.
battered hat and call3to him half way
across the place, crying in that pene-
5trating and mournful note that makes
the voice Of the goat nearly half hui
man and more than half diabolic.
To the little girl Mike tells stories
Of the Mother Fairy that has her home
In the secondhand wilderness at the
upper end Of the little slanting farm.
The boys he teaches to ash and set
traps and. when they think Il Is NOT
work. to pull weeds.
The love # children and Of dumb
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

Eugene w. Chain, Prohibition can
didate for the presidency, in a speech
at Petersburg, I'LL, assailed Mayor
Busse of Chicago, calling him the big.
gest anarchist the country has ever
had. Chain declared that the Chi
cago executive permits the state law
against "open" Sundays to be defied
by saloonkeepers and laid RESPONSE
bility for crime and debauchery re-
Dulting therefrom at the mayors door.
Following closely his recovery from
a protracted illness which nearly
proved fatal Governor Curtis Guild,
Jr., of Massachusetts, was operated
upon for appendicitis at the Charles
Gate hospital at Boston. The opera.
ton was pronounced successful by the
surgeons and the governors condition
Is said to be most satisfactory.
Persistent rumors concerning King
Leopold's health are causing grave
anxiety In Belgium, but inquiries in
court circles show that the latest
news from the kings seaside resi-
lence indicates nothing to justify
alarm.
w. J. Bryan. the Democratic candi-
date for the presidency, has received
from the Minnesota State Agricultural
society the long expected trick mule
which is to be the mascot Of the
party this fall.
Candidate Taft and party will, leave
Virginia Hot Springs Friday, Aug. %,
Tor a weeks fishing In Lake Erie, at
ahe end Of which he will go to Cincin.
natl. Sept. 5 or 6 to remain until cleo.
ton day.
Rear Admiral Evans has been
placed on the retired list Of the navy,
hayiag reached the age Of sixty-two.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
LABOR NEWS.

Orders. have been issued from the
Canadian Pacific Offices at Montreal
for the evacuation within thirty days
of all houses owned by the company
and occupied by striking employees.
The company owns many of these
houses both in Montreal and at other
points where they maintain shops.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
has placed its seal of approval on the
political policy of President Gompers
and the executive council of the ma
tional labor body.
Iowa union miners defeated a pro-
posal to pension aged and dependent
members of the organization in that
district.
Twelve thousand Wyoming miners
will go on strike Sept. l.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
AND INDUSTRIAL

Dispatches to Dun's Trade Review
indicate that midsummer weather is
retarding progress somewhat, but on
the whole the volume of business
grows larger and there is pronounced
improvement in sentiment regarding
the future. .. =
Myron J. Carpenter, formerly pres
ident of the Chicago and Eastern lili-
nois Railroad company and an experi-
enced railroad man, has been appoint
ed receiver for the Southern Indiana
Railway company, n of the Walsh
roads. .N4
Pullman's Gill; mammoth car shops
are to be RACED and rebuilt upon a
tremendous scale for the express pur-
pose of manufacture of steel palace
oorc
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CRIMINAL NEWS.

49, .s#.sE Hsa aEfE FEEELSNW t.+M .4SiTt4NE
Two white men were killed, Q ne.
gro was lynched, seventy-ive persons
were injured and two score houses,
mostly occupied by negroes, were
burned as the result of an attempt by
q mob at Springfield. Ill, to lynch a
negro who had assaulted q white w0'
man. OF the seventy-fve persons
wounded several have since died. The
majority of the others were shot in
the legs or feet by the soldiers who
dispersed the mob. -Four thousand
troops are nov on duty at Springfield
and no further rioting is likely.
Captain Peter Cooper Hams, son Of
General Peter Cooper Hams, ST., and
one of the best known younger ohi-
GERS in the United States army. shot
and MORALLY wounded William z.
Annis, a magazine publisher and ed
itor OF New York city, at the pier of
the Bayside Yacht club at Bayside, L.
I. Annis died a few hours later in
the Flushing hospital-the victim of
a husbands revenge for a wife led
astray.
Crazed with Jealousy Stephen Pc
trik, twenty-five years old, probably
fatally shot Marie Petrik, eighteen
years old, his bride Of seven weeks,
at their home in Cleveland and then
committed suicide.
Mrs. Ida Spooner, a widow of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, while temporarily in
sane, gave her four children NOR
phine and attempted to shoot herself.
One child is dead and two are in a
serious condition.
D. Kissel, manufacturer of automo.
biles at Hartford, Wis, and a member
of the Hartford Plow company, was
shot and killed by John Gerber, an
enraged employee Of the Kissel com
pany stores.
State Bank Examiner w. E. Gordon
has discovered a shortage of approx
mately $4,000 in the accounts of
Thomas M. Reynolds, the missing
cashier of the Bank of Alton, Okla.
A Northern Pacific transcontinental
train was held up by bandits on the
outskirts of Spokane, Wash, and the
mail car looted. The amount of
booty secured is not. known.
One more victim was added to the
death list of the Springfield (Ill.) mob
when J. w. Scott succumbed to a gun
shot wound in the lungs. SCOTS death
brings the total to six.
Jewels valued at more than $4,000
have been stolen from a secret treas
ure room in the mansion of Commo-
dore Frederick G. Bourne at Oak.
dale, L. j.
Mrs. Mary Cassidy of Chicago, while
temporarily insane, shot and instantly
killed her husband, John Cassidy, and
then shot herself, probably fatally
John ]. Carroll, a veteran member
of the New Orleans police force, wa
cut to death by a negro cook, who wa
afterwards killed by the police.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
THE DEATH RECORD.

Ira D. Sankey, the singing evan
gelist, is dead at his home in Brook
Ign. Mr.. Sankey was sixty-eight years
old. He achieved great fame as an
evangelist in a series of religious tours
about this country and Europe with
the late Dwight L. Moody. Five years
ago he was stricken with blindness
and since that time he had lived in
retirement in Brooklyn.
Rev. J. Duane Phelps, treasurer of
Syracuse IN. W university, commit
ted suicide in a hotel at Utica, N. Y.
Rear Admiral James Kelsey Cogs-
we'll, u. 8. N, retired, is dead at Jack
sonville, Fla, aged sixty-four.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

John Gluek, a wealthy Minneapolis
Brewer, and his wife were instantly
killed at Cottagewood, Lake Mime
tonka, in a collision between their
automobile and a train on the Mime
apolis and st. Louis railway. Mrs.
Gluek's sister and the latter's two
year-old daughter we're seriously in.
aured.
Three sharp earthquake shocks.
hundred chimneys, shattered about
forty plate glass windows in the bust
ness portion, broke much crockery in
the houses and sent many people
s%currying from their beds into the
streets, occurred at Eureka, Cal.
Fire which broke out in the sheep
sheds of the New York Central stock
yards at East Buffalo, N. Y, destroyed
all of them and some adjoining build
tngs. Between 1900 and 1000 sheep
and calves were burned. The loss is
estimated at $780, 0O.
Laurel mountain, near Marshall, N. c.,
was destroyed by fire and MS wire,
their three children and Mrs. Murray
Tweed were burned to death and their
bodies cremated in the flames.
Six children are dead and two 9th
ers are burned so seriously that recov-
cry is doubtful at the H. w. Schultz
ranch between Colfax and Palouse,
Wash, resulting from a fire that de-
Btroyed the home.
Forest fires on Vancouver island are
increasing in every direction and the
latest reports indicate that several
settlements are threatened.
Three London (Ont.) firemen were
killed and a fourth was dangerously
hurt when the floors of a burning,
building fell upon them.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Turkish government has In.
formed the state department that Hus-
sin klazim Bey, who now represents
Turkey at Bucharest, Roumania, has
been appointed Turkish minister to
the United States in place of Mehmed
Ali Rey.
Two persons were killed and six
injured by the explosion at the
grounds of the Franco-British exhibit
tion at London of the envelope of the
balloon owned by Captain Lovelace. Of
the New York Aero club.
The celebration of the seventy
eighth anniversary of the birth of En-.
peror Francis Joseph was made the
occasion of patriotic festivities in
Vienna and throughout Austria and
Hungary.
The French war Office is in receipt
of a telegram from General d'Amade,
commander of the French forces in
Morocco, that Morocco City has sur
rendered to Abdel Aziz, the sultan of
record.
The Merchants association of Ma.
Mia has started a movement to induce
President Roosevelt to visit the Phil
ippine islands either before or after
the big game hunting trip in Africa.
Seventy men were killed by an ex-
plosion in the Maypole coal mine near
Wigan, Eng. Not a man in the mine
at the time Of the disaster escaped
alive.
The health department declares off,
cially that the city of st. Petersburg
Is threatened with cholera.
Fully 100000 people greeted the
American battleship fleet on it's ar
rival at Sydney; N. s. W.
The. Belgian chamber Of deputies
has adopted the Congo annexation
treaty by SO votes to 81.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
THAT Chinese Aiiilnce.

AfEe&eesEEt1A AA0V SAAkA0B0 z1A4AOxAC0S .s&s-GSi&7
The recent suggestion Of an alliance
between America and China seems to
meet with nor favor In the latter
country than 1t does in this. The Chi
nese leaders express themselves as de
lighted with the idea. and the mere
suggestion has revived hope for q
thorough regeneration OF the empire.
It is asserted freely by eminent Celes-
tails that, with the moral support Of
America, China would succeed in
a%bolishing her political and CONNER
cial evils. reform her financial ar
rangements and establish q good gov
eminent.
These oriental statesmen admit that
China's worst foe up to date has been
China herself. Her weakness. due to
the lack Of ag-gressiveness and love Of
peace Of her people. has retarded her
progress. Her vastness Of territory
has prevented anything like good gov
eminent. The richest virgin country
now remaining in the world. China
has been the magnet Of all nations.
more especially of Japan, That coun-
try has recently been making every
possible effort to secure a dominant
influence, taking advantage of her al
lance with Great Britain.
Some Of the most progressive among
Chinese statesmen are of the opinion
that the time has come when some
thing must be done to check the ad-
of the Japanese on the Asiatic
mainland. An alliance with a first
class power would put the empire on
its feet and inspire its people with
new confidence in their ability to work
a great reform. China fears Japan
and distrusts her professions of
friendship. She is dismissing her Jap
anese teachers and is trying to boy
colt. Japanese goods. Trouble of a
serious nature is almost certain to
come. Small wonder that the proposed
alliance with America is hailed with
enthusiasm in China. Thus far on
this side of the Pacific there has been
no scramble to get on the Chinese
American band wagon on the part of
either Mr.. Taft. Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Cha
fin, Mr.. Watson. Mr.. Hisgen or Mr..
Debs.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28

John Dayton Of Greenwich. Conn. is
dead at the age Of eighty years. Until
a few days before his demise he vas
at business every day. and his busi-
ness was that Of president Of a savings
bank, vice president of q water COM
pany and a shoe dealer. We refer to
the case because our English friends
habitually represent American busi-
ness men. as Giving the pace that
kills." whereas the number. Of Amer
leans who have continued active in
business up to the ages Of anywhere
from seventy-ave to ninety is very
large.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
NEWS Of THE WORLD
Important Events Of the Week
il Condensed Form.
POLITICAL NEWS.

That every one of the candidates
for the presidential nomination whose
name was presented to the Chicago
convention will speak during the ma
tional campaign in support of Taft
and Sherman is the expectation of
Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman of the
Republican national committee.
In q ten.minute session the New
York Democratic state committee
adopted a resolution which endorses
the candidacy of w. ]. Bryan and j.
". Kern and commends the platform
adopted at Denver. The state onven
tion will DO held at Rochester on
Sept. IL. ..-
At a conference at Sycamore Hill
attended by President Roosevelt,
Chairman Hitchcock and other Repub-
lican leaders it was agreed that Gov
ernor Hughes of Now York should be
renominated for that position by the
Republicans of that state.
Announcement was made by Cen
eral Dupont, director of the speakers
bureau at the Republican national
headquarters, that Governor Hughes
has offered his services as speaker
during the campaign and that the offer
had been accepted.
The Republican speaking campaign
In the West will not be opened until
about Sept. Is. That date was agreed
upon at a conference of political lead
ers with Chairman Frank H. Hitch
cock of the Republican national com
mittee.
At Music hall in Chicago, in the
presence of a large and enthusiastic
audience, Eugene w. Chain of Chi
cago accepted the nomination for the
presidency by the Prohibition party.
Governor John A. Johnson was e
nominated by reclamation by the Min.
nesota Democratic state convention at
Minneapolis following a demonstration
lasting about an hour.
Senator Thomas G. Plat is out
against the denomination of Charles
e. Hughes for governor of New York.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
The Unwritten Law.

Long ago the duel was prohibited by
law. and the world was well rid Of it.
In its stead, in certain cases all too
common, we have today an appeal to
the unwritten law. The newcomer
seems fully as Objectionable as its pred
ecessor. more so in certain instances.
In the old days when the duel was a
popular method of settling affairs of
honor a jealous husband could chal-
lenge the man he believed had vio-
lated his home and seek revenge at
the pistols point. His enemy. guilty
or guiltless of the offense charged.
then had at least a chance for his life.
The unwritten law method is far
safer for the husband who is actually
aggrieved or who merely fancies he is.
By an appeal to the unwritten law a
a may make sure that his honor
will be satisfied without even a sug-
gestion Of peril to himself. All that it
is necessary for him to do is to pro-
cure a pistol and, after testing it
thoroughly. find his intended victim
under circumstances precluding either
explanation or resistance. One or
more shots will then meet the require
ments>of the case.
In New York recently two brothers.
one of them an army officer, the other
a novelist who had already killed his
man. hunted up the alleged violator Of
the officers home. The brothers were
well armed, and one of them had come
to STAY. The victim was unarmed, de-
fenseless. unsuspecting. He was muir
dered in sight of his wife and friends.
who were as powerless to aid him as
he was to aid himself.
Now the unwritten law. aided by a
plea of insanity, will. be invoked by
the murderer in order to escape the
electric chair. Harry K. Thaw sue
~cessfully invoked it. Will Captain
Peter G. Hams. .Jr., q. s. A.. be equal
~ successful?
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Edgerton's
# arm.
copyright, 1908. by James a. Edgerton.
This matter must not be reprinted with
out special. permission.l
An Experiment.

Us -, III #AEE tEfN4E5fbfSsS4t4 &4&TM E8r.1fWA &Mf
An Experiment.
I never heard Of tr~ansplanting pota.
toes, which Of course Is no indication
that It has not been done. At any rate,
I know It has now been done, and sue.
cessfully, and that by a tramp gar.
dener that fell into my place one day
when I particularly needed him. BE
did not fall from heaven, however. but
from the river road, which is a very
different thing. Any n who knows
anything about river roads will appre.
ciate how different
Before the advent Of the tramp gar.
dener I had a man who knew every.
thing-except how to garden. This
mans omniscience was only equaled
by his mendacity, as is apt to be the
case. A know-it-all is nearly always q
liar. He has to be. to keep up his rep.
utation.
This man planted the potatoes when
no n was looking and got two rows
where n ought to be. A mar who
makes two blades Of grass grow where
one grew before may be a benefactor.
but a man who makes two rows of pc.
tatoes grow where there is room fol
only one should be called a shorter and
uglier name. At any rate, when those
potatoes came up that is what the nan
in question was called.
Later on the tramp gardener sized
up the situation. He never had heard
Of transplanting potatoes either. but
that did not discourage him. He first
prepared another plot Of ground and
carefully dug holes large enough for
the hills. Then, a hill at a time, he
carefully took up every other row Of
the potatoes and removed them to
these new hills. This he did by insert
ing his shovel deep under the entire
hill, lifting it so as not to disturb the
roots. AS a result every hill kept
green, and that part Of the potato
patch now looks as well as the other.
It remains to be seen whether 1t will
bear as well, but I see no reason why
1t should not. If it does, some weeks
Of time will be saved, to say nothing
Of the seed potatoes, and that tramp
gardener will be entitled to pat him
self on the back.
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puIuth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Aug. 2O.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. / hard. $1.21; No. 1
Northern, $1.20; No. / Northern, new,
$1.12; Sept, $1.O1h; Dec, 97Nc. Flax
TO arrive, $1.30A; or track, $1.3ek;
Sept. $1.29A; Oct. $1.27; Nov. 1927;
Dec. 81. "a.
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St. Pau, Union stock Yards.

st. Paul, Aug. 20.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, s6.Oo@6.75; fair to good,
$5.OO@5.75; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.OO@5.00: veals, $3.75@5.25.
Hogs-$6.25@6.50. Sheep-Wethers,
$3.75@4.25; yearlings. s4.00@4.60;
spring lambs, $5.5O@6.00.
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Moonlight and Mysticism.

L 7EDEHHET E2-IFFFNH..-
What is there about the moon that
makes people think about love and
ghosts. eternity and in1nity and other
pleasantly uncanny things?
Sometimes when l see the moon
shining across the broad river l feel
a million years old. get a real
shivery sensation that l have seen
that same moon with other eyes and in
other lands before the Sphinx lost her
nose.
Now, that is no way for a twentieth
century man with a good digestive ap-
paratus to feel.
What is the connection between
moonlight and mysticism? Any one
who thinks he can explain is welcome
to try.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Aug. 20.-Wheat-sept.,
1914 @94c; Dec, 94Mc; May, 9S#c.
Corn-sept., 77Mc; Dec, 65hc; May,
1914 @64c. Oats Sept, 4SAc; Dec,
4SMc; May, 50Mc. Pork-Sept., s14.-
IS; Oct, $14.97lA: jan, 1855. Butter
-Creameries, 19@2zhc; diaries, TO
zoe. Eggs-1Shc. Poultry-Turkeys,
lie; chickens, 10hW11c; springs. IA
Ml5c.
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President Roosevelt has just APP
pointed a commission to see what can
be done to make farm life more at
5tractive and profitable. AZ to profits.
perhaps the desired object could be
secured II a law @ TO be passed
compelling the Az boarders 70
stay all the year ,t,s.:
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-28
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Aug. 2o.-Wheat-
Sept, s1.01M; Dec, 9sNc. On track
1 hard, $1.28@1.27; No. l
Northern, $1.24@1.25; No. 2 Northern,
$1.21@1.21k; No. 3 Northern. $1.14
@1.16. 4..o
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a woman.s writer has attracted q
great deal Of attention with an article
on why Would Not Marry NY
Husband Again. We haven't read II.
but feel sure she didn't include IN her
list Of reasons the possibility that he
wouldn't give her another chance
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WITH GREAT SUCCESS.
Two Balloons Cruise Together Owe.
City Of Berlin.

Berlin, Aug. 2O.-1he Parseval and
the Gross siderable balloons cruised
together for two hours over Berlin.
They performed various evolutions
with great success and close to each
other for the entire flight. They
sailed the length of Inter den Lin
den, only a short distance above the
housetops, and were cheered by the
crowds in the streets. The Duke of
Sachsen-Altenburg was again at the
helm OF the Parseval.
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The divinity that shapes mems ends
also GETS Al good work around The
polls Il, 81 nj @g gss