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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15

Ills Week 10 EX-6nerlH DECK VINO
moved into it at once.
A complete line of asbestos sad
irons. An iron for any purpose
at the Thompson Hdw. Store.
DR.. N. O.. Ramstad was in Wash
burn Thursday in consultation
with DR.. M. II. Sawyer. He re-
turned home in the afternoon by
auto.
Harry VAIL has been appointed
city auditor to fill the vacancy
made by the resignation Of Theo.
SER who held the position for
three years.
Jack Murphy of Valley City was
looking up business in this city on
Tuesday. He was here in the in
terest of the Northern Seed Co.,
which has its headquarters in Val
ley City.
Our heating stoves are so care :
fully made that you have no trou-
BILE holding fire in them all night
In the windiest kind of weather.
Thos. Thompson Hdwe. Co.
Adolph Wacker took his two
sisters to their home at Denhoff
Thursday morning. They ia d
been visiting in the city for sever :
al days.
John Rains expects to hold an
auction sale soon and sell his per-
sonal property. He will leave
about the first of next month for
Missouri where he will make his
future home
The millinery sale held here last
week by Miss Boyle, was a very
successful one. The local millin-
er, Mrs. Babb has been in the Bis
marck hospital all fall suffering
with typhoid fever so was unable
to have a fall millinery opening.
Now is the time to give The
Thompson Hardware Company
your order for the rifle ammuni-
ton that you will be needing dur
ing the deer hunting season.
1t is reported that about five
inches of snow fell in the neigh
borhood of the Dan Tjenstrom
farm Sunday night. Some snow
was seen here Monday morning
but not enough to cover the
ground.
Hans Hanson, one of the pros
porous farmers living in this
county. was in Washburn Thurs
day doing his fall shopping. He
says he raised better potatoes this
year than ever before but put off
digging them on account of other
fall work to do, and now they have
about all frozen. He expected to
have between 100 and $50 bushels.
A factory may be located in
this state for the manufacture OF
artificial lumber from straw
Lumber is getting scarcer each
year and this substitute has re.
Gently been invented by a New
York man. A factory has already
been erected in Ohio and the
lumber manufactured is satisfac-
tory. 1t can be made into any
shape and made tireproof, sub.
sta. tally waterproof and insect.
proof. 1t does not warp, crack
split or shrink in the slightest de.
gree.
The case of Otto G. Grosz VS.
Ntzhugh,, Christensen & Co., in
which the court directed a refer.
ence at the June term, has been
decided for the plaintiff. This wae
an action to set aside a deed pur.
porting to convey plaintiffs resi-.
denc and other property in Under.
wood to defendant. The case o1
johnson vs.. Barton which was q
dispute over a boundary line in
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15

Jacob Portland, Herman Under,
w. Sheran, J. r. Reed, J. w.
Willoughby, E. E. Wilson, Gust
Anderson. III. H. James, j. u.
Caldwell, VIM. Lunes, T. L..
Owens.
All other matters before the
board were upon motion laid over
until the next meeting of the
board.
On motion the board adjourned
until Nov. l, 1903.
Hans Hultberg,
Chairman.
Paul s. Meyer,
County Auditor.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15

Threshermen, do you know that
The Thompson Hardware Co.,
carry Candy Thresher Belts in
stock, and also a complete line Of
brass goods and steam fittings?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
Possibilities of a Veto

One restraint and one only rests upon the distinguished firm of Aldrich, Hale & Lodge, which now has charge of the tariff bill, namely, a fear that William Howard Taft may in a moment of honest courage veto a bill stuffed 1 full of jobs and jokers until 1t affords no real relief to consumers.
 The special interests alone get the ear of the Senate tariff makers and the consumers of the country have no chance unless it be at the hands of the President. And yet the President has given no warning, no token, what ever There is no way to judge what he will or will not do He is, however, a man of courage, and a veto of bill prepared by the special interests would recall to him all the popular support that Mr. Roosevelt had with some large additions. President Cleveland refused to sign the Wilson-Gorman bill, ana history may repeat itself.
 To start a new administra tion on the Payne bill would be to invite defeat as well as a deficit No one claims that the Payne bill would prevent d heavy annual deficit, and yet no steps were taken to fill the gap with an in- come tax or other measure. This alone would justify the President in vetoing nue bill, and if it does not produce the needful revenue Congress should be asked to pass one that would.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
MODJESkA OFFENDED.
When Noted Actress Stopped Per
 formance in Buffalo.

From the Washington Post.
 Madame Modjeskas last appearance on the stage in Buffalo will always be re- membered by me-" remarked Matthew J. Murphy of Genessee, N. T., at the Ral- eigh.
 '"The last time she played there was more than 30 years ago. I happened to be at the Academy of Music one Friday night when some 60 medical students oc- cupied all the front seats in the gallery of that theatre. It was the custom of the boys to visit the playhouse every Friday night. Modjeska was playing "Ju- Iiet," and her husband, Count Bozenta. occupied one of the boxes. The perform ance had reached the scene when Juliet Is about to drink the poison in the tomb of the Capulets. Modjeska's interpreta- ton of the role differed from that of other actresses. Before drinking the poi son she extracted the cork of the vial and then supposedly swallowed the con tents.
 ''When she was about to pull the cork one of the boys in the gallery. who had no regard for the actress or the scene, placed his finger in his mouth and sud- denly let 1t slip. The sound was Ike that of pulling cork. Naturally it broke up the performance. The attention of the audience was turned from the actress to the boy in the gallery, and there was an outburst of laughter. Modjeska was furious. She threw the vial across the stage and withdrew. The curtain was rung down and Manager Meech and sev- eral employees of the house hastened to the gallery to find the culprit who had spoiled the show. The old gallery door keeper was leaning comfortably across a chair when MT. Meech reached the en- trance and demanded, excitedly, to know where the offender was.
 " There he Is; there are 60 of him. calmly replied the doorman. pointing to the row of college students.
 " It was not the noise in the gallery that disturbed me-, said Mime. Modjeska afterward, but the fact that the elite of Buffalo forgot my acting and turned to the gallery. I shall never play in this city again.
 And she never did,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13

dred articles chiefly in disguise When the stalks are made into paper the revolution or evolution will stand com plete.
 Let us not. however, anticipate the mill at Cordele, Ga. The hopes of the south are centered in that mill, and the expectation Is that every bit of experience and scientific achievement known to the department of agricul- ture will be slSilfully utilized in it.
 The south produces annually 12,- 100000 tons of cotton stallxs. and it has been demonstrated that these stalks contain 100000 tons of cellulose or pulp fit for paper-meki lg purposes. There is enough raw material to make all the paper needed in the United States with a liberal margin for ex. port, and when this vast quantity is transformed into pulp or paper in the south there will remain as a by-product a chemical liquor that can be made into a fertilizer to be used to grow more cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
Paper from Cotton Stalks

The beginning of a mill that pro- poses to make 40 tons a day of paper adapted to newspaper purposes from cotton stolks is no ordinary event. This initial mill is to be erected at Cordele, Ga, amid the cotton fields. It is to be ready to make paper when the next lot of cotton stalks are ready for manipu- lation.
 This mill is based on the recnt ex- periments of the department of agri- culture at Washington, and upon the outcome of the effort at Cordele much depends. If paper can be economically and successfully made from cotton stalks, then indeed King Cotton will have secured another by-product. The list then will include oil, meal, hulls. seed and paper. If the roots are to sent to the paper mill as a part of the stalk then indeed there will be nothing left to be untilized. The lint is packed and carted away to be made into a hundred fabrics. The seed is eagerly sought for, and the oil pressed thera from probably goes into another hun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
NEWRICH IN BERLIN

Berlin Letter in the New York Herald. ~ ERLIN-A movement has been B1 started in the higher circles of NJ Berlin to counteract the growing luxury and ostentation which charac- terizes parvenus and those classes in the German capital which have recently ac- ouired great wealth. Complaint is made that Berlin people are rapidly becoming the most extravagant and showy in the in the world, and that the show and ex- travagance are marked by want of taste, by loud" manners and by a coarsealess without a parallel in any other capital.
 The extravaganza of the balls and din- ners given during the winter by the classes under censure surpassed anything previously known. Germans of the old school who nourish the virtues of their fathers are aghast at the luxury dis played and anxiously ask where 1t will lead. Even Prince von Buelow, possessed of millions, has protested in the Reich stag against the growing evil, warning his countrymen that economy must be practiced if catastrophe is to be averted.
 It is no unusual thing in Berlin for "magnate" of the financial world to give a dinner costing 5000. bankers wife at one wore jewels worth $250,000.
 Ten years ago a Berlin lady thought she was sinfully extravagant if she paid $25 for a hat. It is not uncommon to see in the large millinery establishments hats marked $500 and s750 Ten years ago Berlin woman would have been called extravagant had she worp fur jacket worth $125; now an afternoon walk along Unter den Linden will reveal scores of mantles costing thousands.
 But it is in jewelry that some Berlin women excel Pearls are their weakness, not diamonds. A firm in the Friedrich Strasse sold pearls in one week lately amounting to s5oO,ooO and the sales of another a few doors away amounted to $500
 Equally remarkable is the outlay on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
A Sprinq Effusion.

Red Mountain has changed it's dress from the red which 1t wears nearly all the year. and has covered its sides with the pure white blossoms of the dogwood," said a resident of Mountain Terrace yes terday.
 That which appears most of the time to be simply stubble has developed into q spring-time garden of the greatest beauty.
 "The perspective of the mountain af- forded great pleasure for nature lovers Sunday and yesterday. Spring is now in the air, everywhere. The man who looked from his window at the town clock through the dead limbs and branches of the trees, can see the town clock no longer. for every tree is fresh in new foliage.
 "Buggies driving through the streets are loaded with the snow white flowers. The wild honeysuckle is also in bloom and gives the children an oportunpity to roam the hills and return laden with flowers. Pansies and wild violets are everywhere. The boy comes home with a handful for his sweetheart at school the next morn ing. This is the first blooming of spring and it has put new life into everything"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13

New York Correspondent Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 Once in blue moon, W. G. McAdoo the Tennessee lawyer, who is chiefly respon- sble for the great under the-Hudson tube, finds time to tell story. He was pro- volxed into spinning this yarn the other day in commenting on the efforts of the Belmont-Ryan syndicate to keep the Me Adoo company from extending their sub way system here. He prefaced 1t by call ing attention to the fact that the Belmont Ryan crowd had the same chance to build this subway that he had-a better one, in fact, as he had no money to speak of but that they thought they could gouge the city for it's cost and reap all the ben eft. He let his hearers apply the moral. ''The firm of Einstein & Goldberg, said he, had very good salesman, who often took a day off when he came in from the road. On this occasion he met so many friends that on his return to the office he went to sleep in the senior partners private room. MT. Einstein came in and shook him violently. 'Ged out, Dick, said MT. Einstein. Go away 'Einey, you go to thunder said the sales man, turning over. A moment idter MT. Goldberg came in. He in turn shook the salesman rudely. Get oudt of here,' he ordered. 'Goldie, you go jump on your self said the salesman. The partners, stewing with anger, decided to discharge the seditious salesman. They asked the bookkeeper to make out his account. That official did so You owe him $2000,' said the bookkeeper. He has sold $SO 900 worth of goods in the last three months.' Mr. Einstein looked at MT. Goldberg. 'Godie, said he, you go chump on yourself. I'm going to thunder" ;"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Atlanta Loses caruso.

"Caruso, who has been advertised as the star feature of the Atlanta music fes- tival to be held the first week in May has cancelled his engagement" said a musician.
 ''I was not surprised when l read in aa Atlanta paper that caruso would not be able to fill his engagement, for the great singer has been suffering with his throat for several weeks past. He will sing in opera In Chicago during the Easter sea- son, and will then sail for Europe for a long rest. I predicted some time ago that Caruso would disappoint Atlanta. He was under contract to sing ia two concerts of the festival. and was to re- ceive $50oo night, or, rather, his man ager was to receive it. The manager would have got large share, perhaps one-half
 Atlanta will have good festival as 1t is, but certainly no better than the Fir mngham festival l doubt if it will prove as good. Several fine vocal artists have been engaged, but Atlanta will not have Damrosch with his excellent New York Symphony orchestra, and as Damroseh is d splendid chorus director and is to di- rect all the chorus numbers here. this feature alone will add greatly to the ar tstic value of the festival to tbe given here April 2S, 29, and 30"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
Election of a New House Next Year

The Washington Evening Star, a paper that bears no love to the demo- cratic party, tells the republicans that they have a serious problem on their hands. "A seriously defective tariff law" it says, might cost them dearly in November of next year. A deficit in the treasury at that time, or the re- ceipts running neck and neck with the expenditures, with a bond issue loom ing up, would make their congressional campaigns drag heavily. The people want comfortable balance in the treasury, and associate it with good times and good tax law
 Here is another Banquo that will not down, and the fear of a democratic House in the last half of the Taft ad- ministration enters into the case. The republicans did have a majority of 13 in the Congress succeeding the one that passed the Dingley bill, but this narrow majority was secured through the popularity of the war with Spain. There will be no war with Spain or with any other country next year. and the republicans promise to be face and-face with an empty treasury and a tariff stuffed with provisions in- serted by special interests. They will think an epidemic has struck them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
Pig Iron Curtallmelt Begun

The Alabama furnaces produced last month 139,9O7 tons, as compared with 135,374 tons in February, short month; and with 49,2S0 tons in Janu- ary. The decrease from the January production was about z per ceft. This is a larger decrease than the rest of the country shows, for the entire March Iroduction was 1,832,1 tons, as com pared with 1,7O7, ,34O tons in February, and 1,797,560 tons in January. The daily rate on April l had, however, been decreased, and a farther curtail- ment Is predicted in the course of the present month.
 The Chicago district is making more iron because blast furnaces at Gary are coming into operation, and the furnaces in Ohio and in western Penn sylvania are not materially restricting production. Prices in Pittsburg have been marked down as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13

restaurants and elaborate meals at home. Within a few years there have sprung up large number of expensive restau- rants, which are filled nightly with men and women ordering and consuming the most costly delicacies and the rarest wines. Not long ago people would have thought themselves giddy had they laid out $1.25 on a supper. including the reg ulation bottle of cheap Moselle wine. Now these suppers cost on an average of s a plate, and the honest, If somewhat sour, Moselle has been exchanged for inferior French champagne, while the amber beers of Pilsen and Munich are voted common.
 The worst of it is that all this outlay is not accompanied by the best taste the taste, for example, of New York, London, Paris or Vienna. There is a coarseness and incompleteness about 1t which repels rather than attracts. With all it's expense the supper at the extrav- agant restaurant is not a whit better than the old $1.25 one. The same coarse meat is cooked in the same tasteless fashion and served with the same insipid sauce that the Berliner enjoyed 30 years ago.
 Protest is made, too, against the way men of the class in question dress. caustic newspaper critic says it is im- possible to dress a Berlin man; that the most expensive 'sartorial artist may supply him with clothes, but the Ber- liner cannot wear them to advantage. That is, of course, too sweeping, but the World correspondent has frequently seen extraordinary attire. A well known Ber- lin banker for instance, makes his after noon promenade in frock coat and brown boots, the costume being varied occasionally with tweed suit and glossy hat.
 At the opera front seats are filled with men in morning coats and colored shirts, and women in wooen shirtwaists.
 At weddings or afternoon teas may be seen men dressed in evening clothes, ac- companied by ladies in low wscut evening dress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
A GRIM TOY.

From the Dundee Advertiser.
 A citizen of Paris, pensioner, boasts that he has witnessed 37 executions, and now that he is getting old being unable to follow M. de Paris the idea of the guillotine has so obsessed him that he has had made a model on a small scale, which he has used for cutting cigar ends. Recently he had friends to lunch, and after the repast the model was produced. For some reason the knife refused to act. The host feeling that his reputation was at stake, set about to discern the cause. Examining the machine x'ery closely, his nose got into the lunette. Probably the machine was shaken. At all events the blade fell, and with 1t the tip of the nor bid gentleman's nose. His first care was 10 visit, the surgeon, and after the injury had been attended to he went home, broke up and burned '1a Veuve."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
Receive Money In Advance.

As Tuesday is a legal holiday, the American Trust and Savings bank kept open between 4 and o'clock on Monday afternoon to pay the employees of the Ala bama Great Southern railroad, who had just received their pay checks for the month of March," said an official.
 "The men seemed especially pleased at receiving their money on Monday after noon instead of being compelled to wait until Wednesday, as the bank will be closed on Tuesday in observance of the new holiday in honor of Thomas Jeffer- sons birthday.
 Tt is the custom of the American Trust and Savings bank to keep open between 4 and 6 o'clock on the afternoon that the men receive their checks, as an accom- mediation to them, so they Will not have to lose time during banking hours, but collect their checks after the shops close for the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
WANTED A SUMMONS.
Tiny Girl Objected To Language Used
 by Terribly Awful Woman"

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 Magistrate Walsh was holding court in Essex street the other morning when a little voice piped up from the bridge Please, sir, we want a summons"
 Walsh couldn't see the complainant, but an officer held her up. She was Mil lie Greenberg, years old and about the size of a pint of cider. Clingfng to her hand was her sister, Sadie, years old Both children were bright-eyed, clean and perfectly self-possessed.
 I've want summons for Mrs. Schles- singer" said little Millie. "She calls us names and throws milk bottles at us. We want you to make her come to court, so you can tell her to behave
 God bless my soul" said Magistrate Walsh wiping his glasses vigorously. Upon my word! Why didn't your mother come to court instead of your
 "She has to be at work all day" said Millie. "So, as I am the oldest, have to look out for the four little ones. And I don't like to have them hear such words"
 
 puffed. Between times he looked at Swear old Millie, as though he be- lieved himself in a dream. Mfllie appar- ently thought he would refuse ner' Honest, judge" said she. Mrs Schles- singer is a terribly awful woman. And please let me have the summons, so Sadie and can go back home and take care of the little children.
 -year-old Sadie nodded her head rrayely at Magistrate Walsh. Ess, :" said she. Please hurry"
 Magistrate Walsh knocked over the bottle of ink in trying to write out that summons quickly. Here it is, young lady" said he. But aren't you afraid to hand that terribly awful woman this summons to be in court at 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon?"
 "Oh, mo-" said Millie. I'm not afraid And thank you very much, sir. Come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-13
PARTS AND SIGNS OF GOODNESS

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 If man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but continent that joins them. If he be compassionate to- ward the afflictions of others it shows that his heart is like a noble tree, that is wounded itself when 1t gives the balm. If he easily pardons and remits offenses it shows that his mind is planted above injuries, so that he cannot be shot, If he be thankful for small benefits it shows that he weighs mems minds and not their trash. But, above all, if he have St. Pauls perfection, that he could wish to be an anathema from Christ, for the salvation of his brethren, it shows much of a divine nature, and kind of con- formity with Christ Himself.