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Shotwell Floral co.
Fargo. N. p.
Growers of Gut Flowers.
Can reach us by phone
Night or day.
The Pioneer, $1.5o per year.
New Perfumes at Wamberg's
Drug Store.
DEACON WAS A SMART MAN
Success Of His Brilliant Idea Elk
planned Why Grocer So Often
Went Bankrupt. (,

Opposite the railroad depot, where
the colonel had to wait for an hour
or two, was a grocery kept by . col
ored man. and to pass the time away
he strolled across. Business seemed
to be very brisk with the grocer,
though all his customers were Of his
own color. The colonel noticed that
sugar. tea and coffee were asked for
most frequently, and during a tenn
porary lull he approached the bat
tered old scales, on which everything
was weighed, and picked up some of
the weights. The hollow in each had
been filed with lead, and it was quite
sure that q pound weight would bal
ance 20 ounces of coffee. BY and by
1t was remarked to the old man:
II see you have filled your weights
with lead?"
Eyes, sah-yes, sah," was the re
ply.
What was the idea?"
ITO keep de dirt outer de holes.
Can't git no dirt in dar' now"
Was it your own idea?
mo, san! I nebber should have u
got dat idea but for Dekun Williams.
De dekun said IL was de way dey did
down in Atlanta, and he fixed 'em up
fur me widout cost"
1.-THE deacon buys all his groceries
here, doesn't he? 2" was asked.
HE do sab. Yes. sir, no white. man
kin git de dekun's trade away from
me-"
He was asked to take his. weights
over to the depot and see how they
held out, and he picked them up and
started of with a puzzled look on his
face. They were placed on the scales
one by one, and when the last had
been tested the old man threw up his
hands and exclaimed:
"Befo' de Lawd, but It am no won
der I'ze gone into bankruptcy fo'teen
different times and had to sell my
mewl and make de old woman go
barefut! Dat ar pound weight weighs
% ounces, and every time Dekun Will
liams or anybody else has bought a
pound of sugar he has got three
quarters Of a pound ober! Shoe! T'ze
gwine back to close de stoah and put
up a sign of Busted Agin!'"-Ex.
change.
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The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac
For 1910.

Ready November 18th. 1909. q splendid year
book. on astronomy and meteorology. the only
one containing the original Hicks Weather
Forecasts" By mail. postpaid. 35c on new
stands. 3Oc. One copy free with o years sub.
scrtption to WORD N WORKS. the Rev. ri
Hicks Monthly Magazine, the best 81, monthly
in America. Discounts On Almanacs in guam.
titles. Agents wanted. Remember. the gem
uine Hicks Forecasts" are not published
anywhere else-you get them only in his own
publications. WORD AND WORKS PUB
LISTING CO.. 29O1 Locust St., st. Louis. Mo,
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Insurance
1aIkS

Farmers as a class carry COM
paratively little life insurance
probably for the reason that
they do not understand the bene-
fits to be derived from it. A
mong merchants and other town
and city business men life insur-
ance has a very important place
as much or more so than fire in
surance. In these times no mer-
chant thinks of trying to get a.
long without fire insurance and
very few indeed but who carry a
large amount of life.insurance.
Every farmer should carry at
least enough life insurance to
provide his family with money
or immediate expenses in case
of his death.
Death never comes opportune-
ly, and there is never a time
when a family is SO greatly in
need of.ready money as at the
time of and Immediately follow
ing the death of the breadwinner
and provider. Protect your
family to this extent, at least;
don't leave those dependent on
you so that they must twist and
turn and scheme and borrow to
give you a decent burial even to
obtain the necessities of life or
to carry on the farm.
But this is not all the benefits
of life insurance. 1t will not
only give your family immediate
protection, when they most need
it, but will provide all of an
estate that will help to take care
of them for all time. And more
than that-it will provide an es-
tate for your old age should you
live. 1t will do still more-pro-
vide you with means to raise
money if necessary on account of
short crops or other misfortunes,
as after the third annual pay
ment is made the company will
loan on the sole security Of your
policy nearly as much as you
have paid in and at a very low
rate Of interest.
The cost of life insurance is
very low-so low that every far
mer can easily carry a SIS, 600
policy. The laws regulating
life insurance companies are
such that policyholders are abb
solutely protected, there is no
possibility of an old line COM
pany failing to carry out it's a.
greement.
Investigate this matter of life
insurance and do it now. No
man knows what the future holds
for him and you owe it to your
family and y%ourself-to see that
your loved ones are provided
for.
We will be very glad indeed,
to give any possible information
about life insurance to any one
desiring it and trust that all in
terested will write us. Don't de.
lay this important matter, to-
morrow may be too late.
S. D.. Scott
District Manager
Hope, N. D.
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How a Moose Eats Grass,

OF all peculiar sights l think that
that of a moose eating grass is the
most extraordinary. The neck is so
short and the legs are so long that
the animal usually kneels in eating
grass. True, they do not attempt It
very often, for grass is by no means
a staple with them, but even a moose
likes a change Of diet. The appear.
ance Of these huge and awkward crea.
lures in this devotional attitude IL not
only Interesting but laughabls.-Stt
Nicholas Magazine.
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Kissing His chaIns.

Upton Sinclair, in an address in
New York, said, pointedly:
These poor people who oppose So
cialism remind me Of q dog I once
saw.
1.-THE dogs muzle, as the animal
passed me, dropped of. / am against
muzzling, and so I kicked the wire
continuance into the gutter.
"But the dog resented my action BY
showing his teeth and growing an.
grily. He picked up the muzzle and
trotted home with 1t in his msuth.a
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STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA
COUNTY OF STEELE
In District Court. Third Judicial District.
F. E. Fierce, p,oin,,r

In District Court. Third Judicial District
- nierce' Plaintiff,
MINNIE M. Luce. Mary Leona Masters. and all
Inc MINOR he1rs OF George E. Luce, Being. Elsie
W. Luce, george E, Luce, Elma Luce. Mabel
6uce. aymon Luce. and Acme Haryesting
company, Mechanical Rubber Co., Racine Set.
icy Manuiacturlng Company, and an other
persons unknown. claiming any interest Or 90.
tate IN. or lejn or incumbrance ,nnn the nron
erty described in the complaint. Defendants.
SUMMONS.
The State Of North Dakota to the above
named defendants ~
You are hereby to answer tho
complaint IN this action, and to serve n conv
o. your answer upon the subscriber within
Gnlrty Gays after the service of this summons
upon you. exclusive OF the day OF service. onI
10 case of your failure to appear or n.w nnu
!uoRment vi! pc taken against you by defauit
lor the relief demanded iu the connia;nt
Dated November 18th. A. d. 1903. ~
tEdw. S. johnson,
residence and pOstOf1ce address
Hope. North Lakota.
TO the above named defendants:
K notice that the action entitled In Tho
nTreeoing summons relates to. and is to deter
I %,tf No. haY Is of fIal%s 70 Ct the following lands:
Hope; Steele County. North Dakota. as n y
pat t9ereof Med wtthsthe Register or Deeds
u saiu county that the complaint in said 40.
Ion Was nled with the Clerk OF said District
GIu[t Ol steele County. North Dakota, on the
ON day OF December, 1909, at Sherbrooxe'
Edw. 3, johnson,
Plaintins q Attorney.
37-42
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Locals

Do you remember the Old Fid-
dlers' Contest? Well we are go
ing to have another one. only
much better, bigger and grander
than ever before, Tuesday Janu
airy 18th, 191Ois the day and date.
All old fddlers as we'll as all
others please take notice and an
pear at the town hall.
ICE!!!
Parties wishing ice for soft
water phone Ed Schuldt's farm.
FARM LOANS
Get your farm loans at the
Blabon State Bank. Lowest Rate
possible.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEET
ING OF STOCKHOLDERS.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That
the annual meeting of the Stock
holders of The Hope Land and
Investment Company will be
held at the office of c.. S. Shippy,
in the City of Hope, N. D., at two
~ o'clock p. M, on Tuesday,
January 4 tn. 1910, for the cleo.
tion of Directors, and for transac.
ton of such other business as
may properly come before it.
Dated at Hope. N. D. Dec. Is,
1909.
G. s. shippy,
President.
A. M. Mclaughlin,
Secretary.
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viii Be Prevented Al Court.

VIII Be Presented at Court.
Miss Katherine Packer Hill. daugh.
tor Of DR.. and Mrs. David Jayne Hill,
will be presented at the German court
on January Is. the emperor and en-
press presiding at this largest func-
ton Of the year. Miss Hill has been
carefully educated at Dresden and
Paris and speaks four languages, be.
sides being an accomplished musician.
Miss Hill Is with her parents in Wash
lngton at present, but will leave the
6rst Of the month for Berlin.
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any nature at which admission is
charged, given by local organizations
are charged at the rate of five cents
per line per insertion.
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rhese ouae4Inne

These Questions.
Have a pleasant trip east?"
"Yep."
"How did you find New York;"
why. you can't miss It, Il you take
the right train"
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of each week.
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Entered at the post Office at Hope, North Da
Gotta. as second class matter.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Georgia is completing more than ten
miles Of good roads day. Over $500
convicts are at work in 105 counties
out Of the 149.
On his arrival at Queenstown on the
steamer Lusitania, Sir Thomas Lip.
ton talked about the Americas cup.
He says he will build two boats, with
Fife the principal designer. The
Shamrock ~. will be 9O-footer with
about the same sail area as previous
challenger modelled according to the
conditions of the universal rule and
the challenge to be sent in March
next.
Miss Louise w. Taft, daughter of
Henry w. Taft and niece Of President
Taft. will be married at New York
City during the Christmas holidays to
George II. Snowdon, a Seattle lumber.
man.
Rough lumber has advanced 81 per
1000 all over western Canada and the
mills are calling in travelling statesmen
because OF the rush of orders. Export
mills in British Columbia report a
largely increased business in the Unit.
ed States, this being one cause of tho
advance. Another advance in price is
expected to take place before spring.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
TIE
Exceptional
Equipuen1

of the California Fig Syrup Co. and the
scientific attainments of its chemists have
rendered possible the production of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir Of Senna, in all of ito
excellence, by obtaining the pure medic
inal principles of plants known to act most
benefcially and combining them most
skillfully, in the right proportions, with
its wholesome and refreshing Syrup of
California Figs.
As there is only one genuine Syrup Of
Figs and Elixir of Senna and as the gen.
uine is manufactured by an original
method known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, it is always necessary to buy the
genuine to get its beneficial effects.
knowledge of the above facts enables
one to decline limitations or to return them
If, upon viewing the package, the full name
of the California Fig Syrup Co. is not found
printed on the front thereof.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

DR.. Percy Jaffa has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at Trini.
dad, Colo.
nual conference of governors will be
held January IS, 1910, at Washington.
Rear Admiral R. R. Ingersoll, a
member of the general board of the
navy, is about to be placed on the re-
tired list on account of age.
The secretary of the interior has
approved clear list No. 81 embracing
7,194.53 acres in the Pueblo land dis
trict, selected by the state of Colorado
as indemnity for loss of school lands.
1t is said to be shown by Depart
ment of Justice records affecting the
so-called electrical trust, that the gov
ernment in July, 1908, was offered a
million dollar bribe to cease further
operations of the General Electric
Company and the Westinghouse Com.
pany in particular, and of the Ameri.
can Telephone and Telegraph Compa.
ny incidentally.
James Freeman Curtis of Boston,
and once intercollegiate golf champion
of the United States, has been chosen
assistant secretary of the treasury.
Mr.. Curtis succeeds James B. Rey.
nolds, who resigned to become mem.
ber of the tariff board, and he will
have special charge of customs mat
ters.
President Taft sent letters of con.
graduation to Midshipman II. O..
Roesch, winner of the national individ-
ual rifle against ga contestants; to
Midshipman Andrew d. Denny, win.
ner Of the presidents match, and to
Major w. B. Martin, of the End N. j.
Infantry OF Elizabeth, N. j., winner
of the title of military rifle cham.
pion of the United States for 1909.
Following a lengthy conference at
the White House, 1t was announced
that the administration will exert all
its influence toward securing a com.
prehensive revision of the interstate
commerce law by the incoming Con.
gress. The President had as his ad-
visers the attorney general, Commits.
sioner Lane of the Interstate Com.
merce Commission, and Senators e.
kins and Cummins.
Walter Wellman, the noted journal.
ist and Arctic explorer, has issued q
lengthy statement in which he gives
his reasons for disbelieving DR.. Fred
erick A. Cooks account of his having
discovered the North pole.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has affirmed the decisions Of
the United States Circuit Court for the
District of Minnesota, restraining the
enforcement of the order of the Inter.
state Commerce Commission reducing
from 81 to 81 per car terminal charges
on live stock on the railroads entering
Chicago.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
w. F. R. Mills, secretary Of

w. F. R. Mills. secretary OF the
Denver Chamber OF Commerce and
Board of Trade. has resigned that po
sition in order to devote his entire
time to the work OF the Convention
League, of which he is secretary.
With his family he will make pro
tracted trip to California and Other
states of the Pacific coast. prelimi.
nary to taking up his exclusive duties
with the league.
Charles F. Hill, graduate OF the
Trinidad High school. class of 1899
has been appointed army paymastel
in Porto Rico. Soon after his gradu
alton at Trinidad his parents moved
to the island and he entered the mill
tary service. He spoke Spanish flu
emily, which greatly aided him In hi,
climb up the ladder.
A belated reward OF $3.50 has beer
offered by the Trinidad City Council
for the arrest and conviction of thu
murderer Of Mrs. Anna Goldman, wife
Of David Goldman, who was stranglet
to death August goth while In tn,
store alone.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
TORE HIS SKIN OFF
In Shreds-ltching Was Intense
Sleep Was Often Impossible.
Cured by cuticura In Three Weeks

"At first an eruption OF small pus-
tules commenced on my hands. These
spread later to other parts of my body,
and the itching at times was intense.
so much so that 1 literally tore the
skin off in shreds in seeking relief.
The awful itching interfered with my
work considerably, and also kept me
awake nights. l tried several doc
tors and used a number of different
ointments and lotions but received
practically no benefit. Finally set
tied down to the use of Cuticura Soap.
Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Pills,
with the result that in a few days all
itching had ceased and in about three
weeks time all traces of my eruption
had disappeared. have had no trou-
BILE Of this kind since. H. A. Krutc.
kon, STA Wabash Ave-, Chicago, ILL.,,
November Is and 2s, 1907"
POttOr Drug Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
Pathetic Pride.

Willie had had tumble when he
was baby and his hip was SO hurt
that ever afterward he was obliged to
use crutch. On one occasion, when
his mother had bought him a new
crutch of the latest and most ap-
proved style. Willie expressed his en-
thusiasm and delight in the roundest
terms. And oh, mother," he ex-
claimed. in conclusion, referring to a
little friend of his who having the
use of both legs had no need OF
crutches. won't Johnny Knowles be
jealous!"
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
WILL HAVE WORLDS MOST COM.
PLETE PLANT FOR TESTING
ORES AND PROCESSES.
IS LARGE
FAMOUS COLORADO INSTITUTION
GATHERS STUDENTS FROM
ALL REGIONS.

Denver.-MilliOnS of dollars will be
saved to the mine owners of Colorado
by the new ore dressing and metallur-
gical plant planned for the Colorado
School of Mines, according to the an
nual report of that institution, which
was filed in the governors office a
few days since. The structure is to
cost $4,000 and will be constructed
along the lines of the Krupp plant at
Madgeburg, Germany. site of seven
acres has been selected for it, adjoin-
ing the athletic field in Golden, and
when the equipment is all installed,
says the report, the mine owners of
the state will be able to come there
and have their ore tested, in order to
determine the best method of extract
ing the metal from it. In some in
stances owners have spent as much as
100000 putting up a plant at their
mines, only to find that the method
selected was not satisfactory. With
the new testing plant at the School
of Mines to do the preliminary work
for them, the owners can be sure of
Installing the best sort of a plant for
the kind of ore they have in their
mines.
Experts all over the country have
examined the plans for the new plant
and they unite in the opinion that
when in operation it will be the most
complete thing of the sort in exist
ence.
During the past year, says the re-
port, the school has received $4,000
worth of gifts in the way of machin-
cry, metallurgical equipment, and 9TH
er apparatus. The Walsh fund for re-
search work in the rare metals, par
ticularly radium, is commented upon
at length and the progress of the
search reported. With the money do
mated by Thomas F. Walsh, a quad
rant electrometer for laboratory work
in the search for rare metals has been
purchased, and an electroscope with
tripod for field work With this lat
ter instrument the presence of mineral
in liquids can be detected and min
eral springs located which might 9TH
erwise be overlooked. The Walsh
fund has also been used to purchase
fourteen-foot spectroscope of the
Littrow type.
Prof. G. NJ. Butler has started
course in Gems and Gem Mining"
this year, which is optional with the
students at the school and which has
proved popular with those who were
able to take it. ..--f
The report of the school shows it
to be in excellent shape, with the
courses of study broadened this year
and much more original research work
being done. There are students in the
institution from eighteen universities,
twenty colleges, ten technical schools
and one from the United States army.
The enrolment is 1856 altogether, for
ty-three per cent of which are from
outside of Colorado. They represent
twenty-eight states, the District of Co
lumbia, the Philippine Islands, Mex.
leo, England, Canada, Alaska, British
Columbia, Brazil and Chile.
The new gymnasium, which cost
$4,000, is in use, and the school is in
good financial condition.
The trustees of the school are John
P. Kelly, Joseph S. Jaffa, Frank Bulk.
ley and James T. Smith.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02

Mr.. Wilbur Wright declares that
within two or three years the aero
plane will be practically available for
business journeys. The ordinary life
of the world will then be almost as
completely revolutionized as It was by
the introduction of the telephone or
by the epoch of steam travel, which
has just been celebrated. There is
apparently no limit to what the end
of this remarkable century will see In
the way in which men will accept as
matters of course things which now
seem impossible miracles.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
Burlington Ia, has adopted tho
communication Y,;au Of a citv uOvorrroaur

Burlington Ia, has adopted tho
commission pisn of a city government
by vote OF 2,63S to 1858.
reports OF the election on the 2sth
ult. show that the proposed prohibi
ton constitutional amendment was de.
feated at the polls in Alabama by a
considerable majority.
The gigantic meteor that was oh.
served shooting across the sky in the
vicinity of Dubuque, Ia, spit into two
PARTS, one falling near Manchester
The latter portion weighed over a ton.
Bradham hail. the girls dormitory
of the South Carolina State Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College for ne
groes, together with the dining hall
and kitchen, was burned, few days
since. Loss. $5O,OOO; insurance, s2O,.
Dexter Smith, thirty years ago a
well known musical critic and the a,i
thor of several popular songs, died at
his home in Boston on the 29th uit
Smith was born in 1888. Among his
songs were Put Me in My Little Bed
and Gross and Crown"
of the Marquis de Polignac at Berru,
in France, Hubert Latham flew in his
monoplane from Chalons, a distance
of nineteen miles, in thirty minutes.
He killed a goodly number of pheas-
ants and partridges and at sunset
boarded his monoplane again and re-
turned to Chalons.
present at Thanksgiving dinner in
Exposition Park, Berlin, where the
American Exposition will be held next
year. Consul General Thackara pre-
sided and Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler
president Of the University of Cali
fornia, made the principal address.
The gathering sent an address of
greeting to President Taft at Wash
ington.
The new railway running between
Bergen and Christiania was inaugu-
rated November 26th with a grand
Banquet, at which King Haakon was a
guest. The line completes the system
of communication between Christiania
and Bergen and the North Sea. 1t has
OCCupleu lllleeu years III CONSTRUCTION
and is considered the greatest eco
nomic national work Norway has
achieved.
Solon Chase, a celebrated figure in
the days of the greenback agitation, 80
years ago, died of heart disease few
days since at his home at Chases
Mills, in Maine. He was 67 years old.
During the height of the greenback
campaign Chase stumped the country
as far as the Middle West, driving a
pair of steers hitched to a hayrack,
from the rear end of which he deliv-
cred his speeches.
Col. John S. Mosby, Confederate
guerilla chieftain and alumus of the
University of Virginia, denounces foot
ball in remarkable interview in
which he compares the game with ac-
tual warfare, maintains that the large
number of fatalities represent so many
men murdered and declares that ..he
past and present ideals of manhood in
the great American universities rep
resent the difference between Stone.
wall Jackson and John L. Sullivan.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02

A joint army and navy board is
about to take up the subject of con-
structing Notifications for the defense
of the Panama canal. This foresha-
dows the completion of the waterway
and gives assurance that, while Uncle
Sam will maintain the waterway as
a highway of commerce for all ma
tions, he will also guard it against at.
tack.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02

Physicians are endeavoring to abol.
fish the London cuff at the bottom Of
trousers. 1t gathers dampness and is
a prolific source Of colds. But the
physicians cannot abolish It unless
they first introduce some other form
of London nonsense.
Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02

Probably the most grewsome bust.
ness complaint on record is that of
the cofiinmakers in convention in Gin.
cinnati. who lament that the increased
cost of living makes 1t hard on them
that people should be allowed to die
so cheaply.