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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-06-18

WANTED Good capable man and
wife desires work on farm. Wife an
Al cook. Husband understands farm
work and can 90 right ahead with
same. Best Of references. Inquire at
this Office.
s-11-s-1s-p.
Vernon stenersen has neturned
from McCallister College. st. Paul
where he has spent the past year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
City Beautiful

Mayor Wards block societies" movement for beautifying the city should, and doubtless will, prove very popular. A society to promote the "city beautiful idea should be formed in every block. While in many sec tions of Birmingham there is scarcely room for improvement from a view point of the beautiful, yet a concerted movement Is desired from one end of the city to the other, for no matter how careful householders have been to keep their premises in good order, their lawns green, their shrubbery trimmed and their back yards clean, additional precaution In the matter of sanitation is well worth while And in sections where little attention has been given either to sanitation or ap- pearance of front yards, telling work will be done by the block society" system. A spirit of emulation will be developed and this will prove most beneficial to the entire community.
 Birmingham as a whole is already beautiful city. It Is famed for It's landscape effects and it's elegant homes. But the Mayor seeks to make it a very model of city in every re- spect and in every ward and section. Let all have civic pride and join in the movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
HOW CLEVELAND RESTED THE
 BEGGARS.

From the New York Press.
 William G. McAdoo, former assistant secretary of the navy and police com missioner, tells an amusing story of Cleyeland's fondness for a good joke. After Cleveland had served his first term as President, McAdoo said, he had an office in the Mills building, and McAdoo often used to go uptown with him.
 ..Finally," said McAdoo. "the associat- ed order of mendicants learned MT. Cleveland's trail and played 1t to good advantage. One crowd fingered in Wall street and greeted him with God bless you, sir; hope you will be President again Cleveland responded literally, but finally the trarnps became so numerous he was obliged to slip home another way. That worked for a time, but the tramps found him out. One evening as we slipped away he said: I guess we escaped this time.
 NO sooner had he said it than the whole drove was upon him with suppli- cations. With never word MT. Cleve- land reached into his pocket and drew out a little booklet. Page by page he tore out perforated tickets and handed them without a word to the tramps. Then he passed on with shake of his head. Each ticket read: Charity Organization Society-Admit bearer to woodyard.'
 'That ended the baggars down town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
CIGARETTE PAPER.

From the Washington Post.
 Speaking about the manufacture of cigarette paper, Raoul G. Mournet, of Paris, who is interested in the business and is at the Arlington, said that the rice paper of which cigarettes are made has nothing to do with rice, but is made from the membrane of the bread-fruit tree, or, more commonly, of fine new trimmings of flax and hemp.
 France makes cigarette papers for the whole world" continued the Frenchman, "the output of Austria and Italy being insignificant. Cigarette paper should be of the very best and purest quality ob- tainable, and every effort is made by the manufacturers to provide a paper free from injurious clements and effects. All the alleged harm of cigarettes Is due to bad paper, the deadiest thing a smoker can consume. This manufac- turers have recognized and the cigarette paper Is now as pure and perfect as pos sibe. So light is it that 800 of the tiny sheets go to the ounce. They are per- fectly combustible and give off the mini mum smoke.
 
 are analysed to prove that they are free from all deleterious ingredients, and that they contain nothing but the purest paper fiber. Only new material-fiax and hemp trimmings-is used. and these are thor oughly purified. Chopped by machinery into minute particles, they are well mixed by revolving fan. and reduced al- most to dust. This is placed In a solu- ton of lime and soda. In order that every foreign substance may be elimi- mated 1t undergoes a thorough washing process, the water being obtained from artesian wells sunk for the purpose.
 "So much has been said against the bad influence of the cigarette. If they have a bad influence it is not the fault of the paper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06

many or more errors would be diseov- cred in a like number of boxes in any other city or state. At any rate, Mayor Mcclellan stands vindieated. He has over two years more to serve, and the chances are good that the recount will serve to give him another term, if he should desire to serve four years longer.
 In one other respect the recount is important. Tammany itself stands yindicated, and elections in the great city of New York are relieved of gen eral suspicion. This is an important outcome of the recount. It will be difficult hereafter to convince anyone that the elections in the great city are not substantially honest. When, after a hot election, 194S boxes were re- opened and the returns found to be pIdCllCdllN cOIIeCi, IL IS pldlh NitI even New York elections are honestly conducted. It is worth the cost of the recount to know this, and all are gain CTS except Hearst himself. Even his lawyers gained, no doubt, large fees. It is now plain why the Hearst lawyers were always ready to accept any de- lay in the proceedings, and also why Hearst himself hurried away to Flu rope just before the recount was be- gun. It is a closed chapter creditable to all concerned except the contest ants lawyers who perhaps misled him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
GATES TRIBUTE TO HIS MOTHER.

From the Spokane Spokesman-R Review.
 The way in which John w. Gates scat tered money among the barbers and street gamins of St. Charles, H., on his visit to that place Saturday, and did other spectacular things which it is sometimes the delight of men with lots of money to do, was one feature The fact that he went to St. Charles primar- fly to kiss his aged mother goodbye before starting on a long tour of Europe was another.
 The money-throwing may be most talked about; the filal deed and loving consideration for her who cared for him in childhood show him in the most att tractive light. The business methods and schemes of MT. Gates have had their share of the criticism and praises lev eled at most men who are prominent in great undertakings, but this touching tribute of affection reveals part of the character of the man that the world likes to look upon.
 It would do many persons lot of good at times to call to mind Ann Fay lor's homely little poem, My Mother" to dwell on the wealth of meaning con- tained in the simple lines, "Who ran to help me when I fell?" and others in in their thoughts the lines of Coleridge:
 "A mother is a mother still,
 The holiest thing on earth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
Census of School Children

The state department of education Is distributing booklets, each contain ing room for 528 names, for the pur- pose of enumerating the persons in this state between the ages of and 21. These persons include all of edu- cable age, and on the census to be taken this year the school moneys of the coming two years will be distrib- uted. The trustees of each district appoint an enumerator whose duty it is to take a census of the educable persons in his district, stating each ones name, age, residence, and race, together with the names of his or her parents.
 Too much care cannot be taken in this enumeration, for it relates to the distribution of wellnigh a million dol lars a year. In all districts in which the enumeration bears marks of pad ding or other dishonest manipulation, the state superintendent of education should fearlessly start investigations, and, if need be, recounts. Some coun- ties return heavy percentages of chil- dren-percentages far beyond the av- craze percentage of the state, and 1t 10 in those counties that investigations are needed. The enumerators are sworn officials, but an oath is rarely sufficient alone to produce honest re- turns. An honest man behind the oath is needed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
Will SoIourn in Paris.

W. J. Dangaix. one of the best known and most popular citizens of Birming- ham, will leave Tuesday night for the east and during the summer will sail for Europe. He will not return to this country for two or three years, and 1t is his purpose to sojourn most of the time in Paris.
 MT. Dangaix is comparatively young man, but by sticking close to work, chiefly insurance and banking, and ex- ercising good judgment in real estate in- vestments, he is now able to retire on a comfortable income. He was born in the United States of French parents. He has many relatives living in the old coun- try, some of them in Paris. but most of them in the southern part of France. He has travelled extensively and naturally has an especial liking for Paris. He thinks 1t the greatest city in the world, but he says the next best city is Birmng- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
CAREER OF A PLUNGER

caused scepter to be pulled ih the Derby sievier lost his suit and in trying ot it much of Lis past career was dragged into the light of day
 Sievier, it was disclosed, was born of an excellent family. and had in turn been bookmalSer, an actor and the manager of betting agency. He appears also to have been a dead shot, hunting ele- plants and tigers being one of his favor ite pastimes
 According to the testimony adduced dur ing. the trial of the libel suit he had been bankrupt three times, and he confessed to having been several times arrested for assaults at card games or at billiards.
 Wagers running into the thousands of pounds were recorded by him from the witness stand with an accuracy that amazed the spectators. One game in par ticular was mentioned, a game at Monte Carlo which cost the Duke of Braganza about $25,00O Sievier declared that he did not know a sharper was playing until the game was over, and remarked that with the disclosure of the sharp ers identity a satisfactory settlement was arranged
 Speaking of another occasion Sievier testified that he had won $300O0 from a friend at cards. A pathetic letter from tho wife of the loser followed, with the result that Sievier, according to his testi- mony, let the man off at s12,500.
 "A pretty big sum for a card sharper to let go of,' remarked Sievier, laconi- cally
 Tlie judge, summing up at the close of the trial rebukeu Sievier severely. He declared that Queen Victoria would soon- CT have abandoned her throne than to have had such a man presented to her, had she known his true character. Sie- vier had been presented at court on bis return from trip to Australia. Several months later announcement was made in the Court Circular that the presentation had been cancelled. Siever has always attributed the cancellation to the fact that he had been a bookmaker in Aus trala.
 Sievier married Lady Mabel Bruce, sis ter of the fourth Marquis Ailesbury. It was a runaway match, occurring two days prior to the date fixed for Lady Mabels marriage with another man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
Champ Clark'S Suggestion

The Missouri congressman is dem- ocrat, but when he makes a suggestion as to the nomination of candidates for vice president he speakes not as a partisan, but as a patriot. He speaks to both parties. He asks each to nom- mate a candidate for vice president ahead of it's candidate for President. He does this hoping to arouse both parties to a proper sense of the vice presidential nomination. AS things are going the delegates in a national con- vention are in a hurry to get away after a nominee for President has been selected. and the hall Is filled with proxies.
 Not enough consideration is given in eiIner party to the selection of can didate for vice president, and yet such a candidate should be of presidential size. Five vice presidents have step ped directly into the Presidential of fee, and five more will perhaps do likewise during the present century. In the past, two became President through the intervention of disease and three through the action of assas- sins.
 MT. Clark thinks that if the vice presidential nominee of each party is selected before the head of the ticket is named Joss carelessness will be dis played in the selection of the second man. The suggestion has no harm and much possible good in it, and it should have at least careful considera- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Birmingham and Chicago.

"Young men of today will live to see Birmingham with a population of 900 ,Oo0, and the Birmingham district with a population of double that mum ber." said Eugene W. Thompson O. Chicago. "The next census will find the city of Birmingham-the Greater Birmingham-with a population or about 125.O0O. Chicago, according to the census of 1880, just AS years ago, had population of 10s,2 ,206, and in 1870 it's population was only 2eS,977. In 1890 it had passed the million mark. In 1900 the census gave Chicago 1'6sS'- 575. and today the population Is esti- mated at 2,5OO,OOO.
 q met a citizen of Birmingham year ago who told me that he lived Tn Chicago from 1865 until he moved to Birmingham few years since that the Alabama metropolis reminded him ii. many respects of Chicago as 1t was in the sixties. In 1865 everybody was talking about Chicago and its great future and it seemed that about every other man in the country was heading for that wonderful city. In 1860, when It's population was not more than Greater Birmingh am's population is to- day. it was freely predicted that by 1900 It would contain a million souls. The prophets of the early days were, sometimes laugh ed at by the outside world, but 1t turned out that the hg- ures were too low; for a decade before 1900 the census population was 1,099,- $50. Chicago will keep on growing at phenomenal rate and Birmingham will not be able to catch up with 1t in the next 50 years; but this district has such prodigious resources that rela- lively Birmingham's growth will be about like Chicago's. Birmingham IS almost sure to turn the b00.00O mark before 1880, and the 100000 by 1850, which many of us will live to sec"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
ROSY cHEEkED DUTCH WOMEN.
American Delegates Get a Glimpse of
 Social Life in Holland.
Ida Husted Harper in the Chicago News

Ida Husted Harper in the Chicago News.
 Amsterdam.-At all international meet ings held in Europe much more time is given to social festivities than is al- lowed in the United States Perhaps this is not always carried to such an extent as at the last international peace con- ference, which in The Hague is referred to as the "eat congress" But then, what is so conductive to peace as plenty of good dinners? As a rule sessions here, are held only mornings and evenings, leaving the afternoons free. Foreign women have confidentially told us that when they went to conventions in our country they were surfeited with work and famished for food. Well, our hust- ling proclivities must indeed seem lit- tie strenuous to them, and 1t is also true that we do not give them as much to eat as they get at home.
 At these meetings the women of all countries look more rosy and solid than the Americans, and they declare that it is because we are underfed, but we pre- fer to think it Is the difference in climate and the temperature of the houses in Europe that gives the ruddier, healthier appearance, and also the fact that they live much more out of doors.
 Our private opinion is that American women are more apt to carry their youth full figures in middle age than are those of other countries, and this is worth some sacrifice.
 We are all, however, deeply apprecia- tive of the cordial hospitality which we receive at these congresses abroad. It gives us glimpses of a home life that even a long sojourn as tourists would not afford and this differs widely among the various nations. The most elegant residences in Amsterdam are situated upon the banks of the widest canals, some of them facing the street, with the garden at the back sloping down to the waters edge and protected by dense shrubbery; others separated from the canal by the paved street and a row of tall trees, with a walled in garden behind; and in either case complete privacy is assured which seems impos- sible for American homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
CAUSES OF GROVER cLEvELAND's
 DEATH.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 The diseases which were the immedi- ate cause of the death of Grover Cleve- land were of the circu1atory kind com mon to men of exalted position on whom the burdens of great responsibility rest.
 Large men are prone to diseases of degenerative type. In time a weakness in the heart and vascular system generally follows that is apt to reach sudden conclusion in season of almost tropical heat such as we are at present experi- encing.
 In view of the fact that the organs of the body are undergoing degenerative changes the resisting power is enfeebled to the breaking point, so that fatal ter imitation more easily takes place from the prevailing atmospheric conditions pre- cipitated by the intensity of the humidity and the heat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
CONTRAST IN HOLIDAYS.
Our Body-Malming Fourth and Quiet
 Celebrations In Other Lands.
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post.
 Our thrashing machines-prize fight CTS. battleships, and havesters-are the wonder of the world, at once marvellous and awe-inspiring-and so assuredly IS our national holiday the Fourth. Noth- ing like it can be found in any other country in the world; it is ours, unique ly and solely ours. and no ipternational copyright is necessary to protect our sole proprietorship.
 The Japanese are credited with &n initiative ability which enables them 70 reproduce by the hundred any foreign invention they covet, from locomo- tive to a camp kit, and to reproduce with an exactness that preserves the very factory number of the original. But even the Japanese never have im- itated our national holiday; they, sim ple-minded people, go to war when they wish to slay and main.
 Within the week the first victims of our Fourth have been listed and within the week also European nations have observed nat1Onal III WoJ that, were we not always in such 2 hurry, would cause us to stop and pom der the contrast afforded by the spec tacle of Norway and Austria Hungary celebrating their great days. In Nor way a few days ago was commemorated the anniversary of the country's emaE- cipation from the Swedish apron strings. The event was made "child : ren's day" and was observed with q sanity, a tranquility and freedom from mortuary lists such as no Fourth of July has ever known.
 In Vienna on Friday another great holiday was observed the 6oth anniver- sary of the Emperor's accession to the throne. The celebration took the form of a great historical pageant in which 25 900 persons participated and which is declared to have been the most mag nificent parade of modern times. And no one was killed, no one was maimed, no property was destroyed. We can hardly ina zine such day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
Naval Strength of the Nations

The Naval Annual for 1908 is per haps the best authority when com parisons of naval strength are in dis pute. It is not easy to say what the standing of each nation really is. for all of them are engaged in keeping secret their future plans. Some do not succeed, but it at least renders es- inmates of future naval strength some what uncertain. The Naval Annual presents, however, this table of ton mage as it stands today:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
London Correspondence to the Brookly Eagle.

London Correspondence to the Brooklyn
 Eagle
 @ GREAT sensation has been caused P1l throughout England by the ar rest of Robert D. Sievier editor of the Winning Post and one of the best known sportsmen in this country, on the charge of attempting to blaekmail Jack Joel, a nephew of the late Barney Barnato, ''the diamond king" Sievier was arrested at the Sandown track dur ing the afternoons racing and brought to Bow street in a motorcar, where he was remanded to prison for hearing on Monday.
 He is charged with having threatened to publish a defamatory article about Joel unless the latter paid him $25,OOO
 Sievier has long been famous as one of the biggest plungers on the English turf and what is known as a plunger in this country would appear like
 plxer" were his operations to be com pared with those of plunger abroad. plunger, in the sense that that term is used on the English race tracks, is unknown to the American turf though when Saratoga was at it's height few years ago and the Gates-Drake combina- tion was in cction, some mighty stiff betting was recorded at that track.
 In addition to being a plunger of high degree, Sievier was also the owner of the famous mare Scepter Scepter won nearly s20O,000 in stakes for Sievier, in- cluding the One Thousand Guineas, the Two Thousand Guineas, the Oaks and the St. Leger. She missed the triple crown" however, by losing the Derby, and the losing of that blue ribbon of the Eng fish turf cost her owner a fortune. w. K. Vanderbilt had previously offered Sie- vier s21O,O0O for Scepter, an offer which the plunger scornfully rejected. Later on Sievier was very glad to dispose of his mare to w. Bass for s125000
 It was In connection with the losing of the Derby in 1902 that Sievier once figured prominently in the courts. On that oc- casion 1t was as plaintiff, not defendant, however. Sievier, in 1904, brought libel suit against Sir James Duke, also fa- miliar patron of the English turf, charg ing Sir James with calling him a thief, a card sharper and a murderer, and also with declaring that Sievier had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
LEST WE FORGET.

Stephen Chalmers, in the New York Times When the nists lie low and the sun
 slants up,
 And the east IS an dureate lip; When the road lies free to the morning
 cup.
 And .hc air has frosty nip; When the steed champs foam with it's
 nostrils wide, For the masters metlle rife, And gay song its to the strong, long There are still some things in life! When the pool les still, or the current
 slides
 Like oil round the far-fung line; When the tarpon deep in the blackness
 glidas
 And nibbles the live bait mine; When the reel says "crrrrk and the
 wrist feels jar, And The first leap marks the strife, As the play begins and the foam flies
 -Ah.
 There are stin some things in life! When the great nocse sniffs by the
 waters edge, And starts with an angry snort; When the hunter crawls through the
 rustling sedge, And the heart beats thick and short; When the finger crooks on the triggers
 curve.
 When the eye cuts like knife, And the rile cracks with vicious yerve- There are still some things in life! When the dinners Der and the pipe
 burns free,
 And the dog curls by the chair; When your trail is good Gas 1t ough,
 to be)
 And the light glints on her hair; When the drowsy thoughts of the past
 come back t. And you smile, That's she--the wife!'' When you're quite prepared for the more
 row's track There's a lot of good in life!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
Successful Picnic.

"The picnic at the Fair Grounds Sat urday for the benefit of the East Lake Orphanage was successful financially and was an exceedingly pleasant affair so- cially, in spite of the rain,' said R. N. Wheeler, treasurer of the Jefferson Coun- ty Orphanage association. Had it not been for the indictment weather, we would have had a record breaking attendance. As 1t was we will clear probably as much for the Orphans Home as we did last year"
 Mir Wheeler will leave Wednesday for New York, whence he will sail for Eu- rope for a three months trip.