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The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-10-23

will remain your having clearly discened best
and vital interest and your conclusion let that interest
your action by voting for the setting the counties of
Burke Renve and Monae clique organized
boosters evidence and where the
and WILL and always by their voice and rule
and roost
The proposed county Burke embraces that territory
the northwest part of Ward county Of range containing
townships 1884, l63 1872 and lying of 49, containing
townships l6l, l60 159.
The territory comprised in the proposed county of Renve
braces that territory in the northeast Of Ward county lying
of 8 containing townships 1884, 163 1872 6l and lying
east Of range &C. containing townships 100, 159 168.
The proposed county Monrae embraces all territory
Ward county lying Of range 81 and within the townships
Isl to 159.
While the proposed county of the sefstyed boosters
braces territory almost equal in of several Of the
the grand opportunities that it has been ealosy
claimed by these boosters have long been enjoyed by the
unscpuous the county Mno the expense
of the the county outside the city, who have whit
interest personally the building Of the town for which they
continuously bed This privilege what the Kenmare
yearnng for and the penalty will be paid by
should they by turn Of the wheel their point which
hardly necessary state they will
Again. look each and Of these propositions squarey
the face and and sober judgment must and
will do the rest You furnished ong-sought and
coveted opportunity Take advantage Of by doing duty
that which appeals you being your best interest and
which all readily and unhestang decide lying in the
casting of their BALLOTS and late the setting out Of the
proposed counties of Burke Renve and Montralle
The State Supreme decided in favor Of the Socialist
contention that their candidates shall have nook the official
ballot. Next
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-10-23
JUSTICE AND RIGHT MUST PREVAIL
Plain Honest
Within

plain intelligent heart between the taxpayers
the people who the fregho the proposed Of
Burke Renvle and Monale fail Of having the effect
each clearly seeing his interest by very wide margin
division Of Ward adjusted by the lines along which this
division suggested and urged capable
standing and having at heart his vital property interests
To begin with each Of the proposed given
magnificent territory comprising thirty townships all well
peoped and each large enough without being unwe cons
prosperous county Each has within it's limits
and prosperous towns the selection which
could be otherwise than agreeable the people
the proposed county who will be privileged choose later
by their votes that which they deem the
easiest of for the people Of the whole county And
town selected will without doubt offer for the location within
its limits Of the Of Of the proposed county such
erection suitable buildings county
other requirements that regard without material
lay to the taxpayers of the county
The preposterous proposition coming from divide
the Kingdom of Ward square the and organize
and comprising nearly sixty townships possibly fail of a
the reader scheme that shortly have
another costly and protaced county division fight
that only have adjustment when the rapacous
boosters who gaorng for and nsaney clawing the
their efforts detract attention Of the taxpayng public from the
real purpose the out of their hobby the
organization Of the proposed e county Lake The idea
of these boosters evidently the acquiring of large
territory possible with view with fact oudo
Mno the matter Of buildings and local the
Of which viii every saddled the taxpayers
posed county Lake and the accomplishment of which the
ratepaye submit to bleeding by taxation after
would eventually reduce the farmer bankruptcy
while the boosters would be heeed result
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-15

Leaves Paducah for Tennessee River
Every Wednesday ut 4 p. m
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-15

FOR ME TENNESSEE RIVER
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29
8he Hrgus Daily Short Story
Their Anonxnoous I.etters-Ru c r Lewis
Their Anonymous Letters-By c. B. Lewis
Copyrighted, 1908 by Associated Literary Press

Everybody. including themselves,
said it was love match between Kit
ty Rayne and Harry Smedley ind that
such love, trust and confidence were
seldom to be found. 1t did not all end
with the honeymoon, as a certain crus-
ty old bachelor predicted, but wnen
they had been married whole year
the doves We're still cooling.
Then one evening Mrs. Smedley had
lawn party, and as half a dozen
people sat together it was announced
that the writer of an anonymous letter
had succeeded in separating certain
man and his wife All expressed their
sorrow and Indignation but host and
hostess felt called upon to go further.
1.-THE husband who will pay the
slightest attention to an anonymous
letter should be tabooed from associa-
ton with all sensible people," was the
observation of the husband as he
placed his arm around his wife's
waist. No one but Il coward writes
those letters. and no one but a cow
ard would act upon them
eff l should get n hundred anony-
| nous letters concerning Harry should
only laugh at Them" added the wife
as she kissed him before them all.
Three mornings later ut his office
| Mr.. Smedley received letter. AS it
| was addressed in the handwriting of a
woman he felt quite bit of curiosity
| about it. He opened the envelope to
| find it contained an anonymous letter
no date. no signature, just the words:
| Watch your wife and you will dis
| cover
The young husband laughed and
| started to lear up the misSive. Then
he restrained his hand, and his laugh
| faded to a grin. 1t was Il good joke
to send him such n missive. He would
carry it home at noon and laugh over
it with his little wife.
| When the coward picked him out to
receive such warning he took the
| wrong man. He whistled and put the
letter In his pocket and began his
work. 1t was funny. 1t would raise q
laugh. They would show it to their cir
Gle, and others would laugh with them
Five minutes later he was saying Il
| himself:
watch your wife and you will dis
cover
Discover what? he mentally kicked
himself for asking, and yet the query
kept bobbing up. \ contemplate COW
ard of woman wrote that unfinished
sentence and wrote it TO make trouble
If he could find her out she should
suffer for IT. Discover anything wrong
on the part of his pure hearted LITTLE
wife. The idea was villainous.
He put it aside again and again ant
felt himself almost as mean as tn,
writer when it bobbed up again. Thu
forenoon. WIS Sc. long that he left The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29

has reached out until II includes every
country ON the face of the earth, had
its beginning in the mind of an ingen-
ious Frenchman.
In 1858, early in the reign or Louis
XIV, NJ. de Velayer established a pri-
vate penny post. Boxes were set up at
the street corners for the reception OF
letters, and offices We're opened in va
rious quarters of Paris. Collections
were made once a day from the street
boxes, followed many hours later by
single delivery, and thus the first post
office in the world was established.
NJ de Velayer was SO greatly encour-
aged by the success of his enterprise
that in order to develop it still further
he printed certain forms of biliets or
notes which were intended to cover all
the ordinary requirements of business
in great towns These forms contained
blanks which were intended to be filed
up by the pen with such special matter
as might be necessary to complete the
writer's object The idea at once be-
| came popular, and the printed forms
| accompanied the expansion of the post
al service throughout the larger cities
Of France. and it was many years be-
| fore they fell into diSuse.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29

piled for a divorce she would fight the
case to the last court in the land.
Naturally their set noticed that some
thing was wrong, strive as the couple
might before company, but no one
knew just what was the trouble, and
for once the mutual friend did not in
terfere and make matters worse.
A more miserable couple did not eX-
list. but no explanations were asked for
or volunteered. Anything of the sort
would have been taken for falsehoods.
Watch your wife, and watch your
husband" We're watchwords ever be-
fore them. Separation, at least, must
have been the ultimate result had not
the jokers finally decided to show their
hands. One morning as the young hus-
band reached his desk another letter
in certain chirography awaited him.
His heart gave jump. In this he
would be told something specific. He
dreaded TO open it. and yet he thirsted
for the solution.
After n hesitation lasting five min
, utes the envelope was torn away. The
next moment bareheaded man, hold
Ing sheet of note paper in his hand
was running down the street A block
from home he encountered a woman
| also on the run and also holding an
| open letter in her hand
kitty, my darling!'
"Oh. my dear Harry
81 just got this by mail"
"And just got this"
And when they recalled that every
woman in the block was watching
them they compared notes. He read:
that she is using Aliens hair tonic
on her hair
And hers:
that your Harry is getting balt
| spot on top of his headr'
| And then the doves came back and
cooed and never few the coop any
more.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29

of William Jennings Bryan and the
democratic party. Hearst believes
that he is a great man and he de-
mands that all others bow down and
worship him. When a man refuses
to wear his collar he damns him until
he is black in the face. He cursed
and maligned the late Thomas B.
Reed in shameful manner, but
strange to say his course only served
to increase Reeds popularity. He
abused Mckinley in an outrageous
manner, and, in fact, predicted that
the president would be slain. Then
when a few days after the publica
tion of particularly bitter attack, the
assassin's bullet laid Mckinley low
wave of Indignation against Hearst
swept over the countrys, says the
Peoria Star.
For a time Hearst was so frightened
at the manifestation of the public's
disapproval that he was half decent
in his comments on public men, blu
since then he has grown bold and ar
Togant once more.
The chances are that his present
attitude toward Bryan will only make
more votes for the latter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29

Office half an hour before IL and start
ed for home. He wanted to show the
letter to his wife and have laugh
over it, but something occurred to
change his plan.
he was within a block of the house
when man came out. gave look w
and down the street and hurried away.
Then. too. as he entered the door his
wife exclaimed in surprise and almost
demanded to know why he was half an
hour ahead of his time. He kissed her.
but it was perfunctory kiss. She nes-
tied up to him, but he thought he
could feel her trembling.
At > O'Clock that same morning the
carrier had left letter for her in 81
mans handwriting. She opened It,
thinking that it might be bill from
the grocer. and the next moment her
merry laugh rang out.
watch your husband and you will
| discover were its sole contents.
Watch Harry? For what? Suspect
him of what? 1t was an anonymous
letter. but 1t was too funny She felt
like running out and showing it to tie
girl In the kitchen. She would go and
show ii to couple of her friends and
let them enjoy the laugh with her
She put on her hat. Then she halted
The laugh had died away Could there
be anything In it? Was it possible tina.
Harry was deceiving her? No. never
She would tear up the letter and neve,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29
RkTTLESNAKES' TEETH.
II You Should Happen to Get Any
Handle Them With Care.


Handle Them With Care.
The zoo keeper carefully unfolded Il
small paper packet. which looked as il
it might contain Il headache powder.
want rattlesnake's tooth?' he in
CURED.
"Tooth?"
well, call it a fang if you want to,
but amt there something IN the good
book ABOUT sharper than Il serpent's
tooth" Look at this one and you'll
think that the old fellow that wrote
that must have known what he was
talking about"
He opened the paper and showed
what seemed like miniature horn
1t was shaped like Il COW horn, which
has Only one curve. 1t was yellowish
white. like discolored tooth.
1t was about three-quarters of an
inch long and a sixteenth of an inch
in diameter at the base. where it
seemed as if it had been broken off.
! The point was as sharp as Il needle.
An eighth Of an inch back of the point,
on the outer curve of the tooth, was
an opening, the end of q sort of tube,
which ran the whole length of the
tooth.
! This little channel through the tooth
seemed to be full of Il dried substance.
which the zoo keeper evidently regard
ed with proper suspicion, for he warn.
! ed the recipient of the tooth to handle
the same with care. He did not think
that one would get true case of snake
bite from one of these discarded teeth
but if the skin should be scratched or
pierced by it bad sore would prob
ably result.
According to him, the keepers at the
zoo often pick up these loose teeth in
the snake cages. They are apparently
sled in the course of natural changes
something as the serpent sheds his
skin. They are not merely the snakes
baby teeth, for he sheds them more
than once.-Washington Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29

fafer to it, No, she would not She
would keep it. and they would have Il
great laugh over it at noon.
She held to this last resolve for half
an hour, and then the miSsive was hid
den away, and she was going about
the house with pale checks and COM
pressed lips. At IL O'Clock the door
bell rang. and Il travelling clock tinker
asked if she had anything in his line
to do. He set an obstinate clock 60
ing and collected a quarter for his
skill
lie was the man whom the husband
saw glide furtively away. You VIII
always read furtiveness in clock
tinker's movements if the sun happens
to shine on him just right.
So it happened that neither letter
was produced to be laughed over
There was constraint, and both hus-
band and wife felt it. They were no
longer natural in their behavior. and
that very fact aroused suspicious.
She is deceiving me" and HE is
deceiving me" were what they were
saying to themselves, and the seed
planted by the anonymous letter writ
er had taken fair root. At any mo-
! ment during the next month had both
letters been produced all would have
been made plain and the situation
would have been cleared up in ten
! minutes. But they were not produced.
They were treasured.
The strained relations became pain
full but what could either do? They
| could not accuse each other on an
anonymous letter. They did a great
deal of thinking, however.
1t so happened that both had been
/ engaged previous to their own engage
| ment. What did Watch your wife
end you will discover" mean except
that Kitty's old lover was writing to
| her, seeing her secretly, persuading
her that he could never, never love an
| other and suggesting an elopement to
PARKWAY isle?
| The letter carrier was questioned as
| to what letters lie delivered at the
| house. A private detective was paid
| So day to search the town for the
/ old lover. The boy that moved the
lawn was instructed to keep watch on
| all life insurance and sewing machine
agents calling at the house. and the
husband began to feel himself n Sher-
| lock Holmes.
Something was also done on the 9th.
er hand. Night after night as the hus-
| band lay sleeping-for even Jealous
husbands do sleep-a form clad In
white might have been seen going
through his pockets in search of dam
aging evidence.
His weekly visits to his Masoni,
lodge had to be verified If he wen
out in the evening to order soap at tn,
grocery he was followed. OF course b,
must in some way be in communica
ton with his old love and have aban
donment or divorce in view. Just lie
him try 1t. II he ran away he Shout,
be bought back in. chains. If he an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29
WALKING.

walking" once said DR.. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. us perpetual falling,
with perpetual self recovery. 1t is a
most complex, violent and perilous op-
Grafton, which we divest Of its extreme
danger only by continual practice from
very early period of life. We find
how complex it Is when we attempt to
analyze 1t. We learn how violent 1t is
when we walk against post or door
In the dark. We discover how danger
GUS 1t is when we slip or trip and come
down. perhaps breaking or dslocating
our limbs. or overlook the last step Of
flight OF stairs and discover with
what headlong violence we have been
hurting ourselves forward"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29
A DIFFERENT BRYAN NOW
From a Republican Standpoint

does not necessarily have to get it,
but the danger is that forces which
would lose New York to him might
lose at the same time other states
heretofore republican. And so it is
| that the republican managers are
watching New York with great in
terest
The presidential campaign, there
fore, promises to have two focal
points-one in New York. and the
ether in the middle west. and each of
absorbing interest. The republican
party since 1896 has been electing
its, candidates for the presidency with
scarcely an effort 1t has not had an
old-time fight since the three Cleve-
land campaigns. but it seems likely
! to have one now This explains the
numerous conferences which Chairman
/ Hitchcock of the republican national
committee is having with state lead.
ers. and at Oyster Bay and Hot
Springs with President Roosevelt and
Mr.. Taft, respectively. 1t explains
the unusual work of organization
which Hitchcock is undertaking. 1t
explains various statements which
Mr.. Taft has felt impelled to make,
statements which in some quarters
sounded like admissions of weakness.
1t is a fact that thus far Mr.. Bryan
has been forcing the fighting, and
that Mr.. Taft, on several occasions
has appeared to be on the defensive
But the campaign is young-in fact
it has scarcely begun; the issues
which will determine the outcome
have probably not yet been formu
lated 1t is therefore too early TO say
that Taft will not be elected. But il
is not too early to say that the demo
Gratis seem to be getting the best
start
The only spot in the east where
the view here set forth as to Bryan
does not prevail is in Maryland, where
the Sun, its leading democratic news
paper, has bolted him. This is sure
sign that thousands of the old-lint
conservative democrats of that state
will vote for Taft Whether theil
number will be large enough to give
him the state is a question, but the
republican outlook there at present i:
most encouraging.
| New Jersey, Delaware and Connec
ticut are affected by their proximit!
to New York, and should that STATE
go for Bryan it would be reasonable
to suppose that the smaller one
named would follow suit, or be 81
close as to make the result uncertain
until the votes had been counted.
1t would thus appear that the on:
look for an old-fashioned red-hot pres
idential fight is excellent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29
The Cricket's Warninu.

Outside my window there's a thicket
Where hawthorn branches intertwine,
And there all night fretful cricket
By accident or by design
Proclaims that summers on the wane,
Insists that autumn winds ere long
Will blow across the hills again
And leave the world bereft of song.
I wake at midnight from my dreaming
And reStlessly toss TO and fro
What time the cricket keeps on scream
ing:
1.-THE autumn winds ere long will blow,
The peaceful, restfui summer days
With summers joys will. soon be past.
The sumac soon will be ablaze.
The nights are growing longer fast"
Out on you and your sad complaining,
Oh. foolish little pessimist,
know the summer time is waning.
Therefore you may as well desist.
Prate not to me OF autumn's ills
Nor scold because the nights grow
long.
For when the haze Is on the hills
My dreaming quickens into song.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29
washington Correspondence of the
Minneapolis Journal (Rep.), by
w. w. Jerome.C

There is an air of cock-suredness
about the eastern democrats, since the
New York World has made a quail
fled declaration of support of Bryan,
and the Herald seems to be inclined
to do the same. Bryan never has
had any prominent newspaper sup
port in New York, and that he seems
likely to have it now gives many
democrats cause for rejoicing. Bryan
himself seems to believe that there
is a chance to carry New York, as
his plan to make two speaking tours
of that state Indicate
Taking the situation as whole
therefore, it may be said that in New
York, which is the only eastern state
in which serious fight will be made
| the democrats are hopeful for the
| first time since the Cleveland cam
paigns.
The help of the World and the Her
aid is not the cause for this hope: IL
is merely one of the signs of it. The
cause is to be found in Bryan him
self His public utterances. which
seem to have been addressed thus
far to the east as Taft's have been tc
the west. have been of type to at
tract favorable comment For the
first time in his public career, he is
talking something that may pass fol-
sense-political sense, common sense
The old Bryan of 1896 and 1900 ap
parently is no more Not only that
but in his speech of acceptance he i'm
pliedly surrenders all the isms am
errors of those earlier campaign
promises. if elected, not to agitate fol
anything not outlined in the Denve
platform.
| This attitude marks the coming o
the new Bryan, who is mucl
stronger man than the old Bryan. L
| is believed in the east that he /:
stronger today than he was at th'
time of his nomination, and that fur
| Their growth may confidently be ex
pected. 1t seems to be the plan of thu
democratic candidate to make a cam
paign of strong appeal to the conserv
alive business interests of the coun
| try. He feels sure of the support o
his western followers, no matter how
conservatively he may talk, and hi
campaign now is for the first tim
being directed toward getting consery
i alive support. and it may be said il
all fairness that he has made gooi
beginning.
l
/ The democratic insistence on New
York probably grows out of the belle
that Bryan probably cannot be electe,
without the vote of that state. Tai
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-29
FIGHTER and Runner.

The man who fights and runs away
May live TO fight another day.
That has the proper sound: but, then,
He'll only live to run again.
IF now the scrap he does not seek
Why should he want to fight next
week?
The man who fights and runs away
The part of wisdom may display,
But he will never live to hear
The multitude rise up and cheer.
The plaudits and the noisy bands
VIII be there for the one who stands.
He who has entered in the fray
And ducks e'er it is under way
Who makes a foot race of the fight,
May, If not valiant, still be bright,
But he will not be all the rage
With those who read the sporting page.
The one who, vanquished. still is game
Has honors and chance at fame.
And. though he gets unpleasant bumps.
He's always listed with the trumps.
Defeated. if his heart is stout.
He may before the end win out.
And, if he doesn't live. what then?
He's dead and cannot die again.
The Joy of dying for a cause
Should make his faltering footsteps
pause
Before they catch him IL he flies.
The coward every moment dies.