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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-04-22

SHIP VEAL POULTRY BUTTER EGGS
to G. l.. Bradley. Minneapolis, MINI.
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The total number of sailing vessels
In the world is double that Of steam.
ers.
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Crazy Man Loose In Minneapolis.

Crazy Man Loose In Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, April 19.-James Rund-
strom, a delirium tremens patient at
the city hospital, at midnight last
night broke the leather straps that
bound him to an iron cot, sprang
from the grasp Of two hospital order
lies, flew naked through an open
window, and down into the streets Of
the city. pursued by a score of at
PENDANTS, eluded the shots fired at
him by an excited policeman, and
then calmly and quietly lay down on
the curb after the cool air had soothed
his frenzied brain and waited for the
policeman to come up and cover him
up with his coat and lead him gently
back to the place from whence he had
flown.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-04-22

There is nothing more uncertain
than a sure thing.
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WI PAY 1O-11c FOR COwHIDEs.
N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
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1t doesn't take much to satisfy most
people who are self-satisfed.
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Two Bodies Found In River.

Two Bodies Found In River.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, April 19.-The
bodies of R. H. Thompson and Philip
Regner, both missing for six weeks,
were found in the river yesterday.
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We buy cream. Write desk No. 8 for prices.
CRESCENT CREAMERY CO, ST. PAUL
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AlLlNe WOMEN.
Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kid.
neys Will Keep You Well.

Sick, suffering, languid women are
learning the true cause of bad backs
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IA Students Are Poisoned.

Des Moines, April 19.-Seven Des
Moines college goods and seven male
students are In a serious condition and
n may die, following a mysterious
poisoning at dinner at the Kamarad-
erie and Altruria clubs yesterday.
Milk is the. one article taken in COM
mon by all the sufferers, but an exam
ination by State Chemist W. F. Fris-
bic and State Dairy Commissioner H.
R. Wright failed to disclose ptomaines
or injurious bacteria. Commissioner
Wright last night said he believed
there was tyro toxicon poison in the
milk.
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In point Of geographical elevate
Madrid is the highest city Of Europ
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WE BUY CREAM-WRITE FOR PRICE
Miller g. Holmes st. Paul, Mimi.
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Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children %teethlnge. softens the gums, reduces IN
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Fifteen cities Of the United States
have 100000 population or v
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-04-22
Exact Copy Of Wrapper.
A Hot Time All Around

A Hot Time All Around.
Lawyer-What did the prisoner say
when you accused him of arson?
Witness-He answered with heat
that such a charge was a burning
shame.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
NAI MUSIC DIRECTOR

% OR FIVE days an army besieged Omaha. 1t was not the
army OF miltarism-the battle-girded fighting force of
modern warfare with its caparisoned troops, emblazoned
accountrements and embroidered uniforms-but the Army
of Temperance. 1t was a Christian army, following a white
nag-which did not mean surrender-and its roster was made up Of
temperance soldiers.
These Christian soldiers are marching onward-onward across
the country like the crusaders Of heraldry, proclaimng to sweep vice
and dissertation from their path and leave happier homes in their
wake. Behind the troops rolls a great wave with a high crest-the
wave Of temperance. The soldiers are women-Christian women
and Christian soders-whose assiduous endeavor is bringing in a
bkFYest of victories.
One cold day in March. 1888, a gentle woman strored along the
bleak shores of Lake Michigan. The storm-ashed beach was piled
high with ice and in the assures made by the ice crags was snow Of
purest white. Beyond the ice were the cold waters of the lake, black
against the dull horizon. Behind her was Evanston, the temperance
college town, and to her right-on the south-was black. sinful
Chicago.
This entire country is just like this" said the woman as her
syes surveyed the picture. There are white places among the
are black at heart, part are white. Why can't the whole country be
white? Why can't the bad people be good? Why can't Chicago be
clean like Evanston? Surely, II all cannot be good, the bad can be
better. They must be helped. There must be an influence"
The woman who thus solloquized was a leading American re-
former. She was at that time a active worker in the National
woman's Temperance union, was on the stan Of the Chicago Evening
Post and a prominent factor in the prohibition party.
Today all that is mortal Of that wonderful woman has been laid
away-she died thirteen years ago-but though her life was only
ephemeral, a great institution lived after her. She was the influence
that started this crusade against intemperance. Today there is a
monument Of stone erected on the campus on Northwestern univer-
shy known as willard hall, but there is a living organization, greater
than a mausoleum Of brick and mortar, known a s the Worlds
Woman's Christian Temperance union. This organization was in
corporated In 1888. It's founder was Frances Elizabeth Willard.
For twenty-six years her followers have waged a battle against
intemperance and they have fought a good fight. They are women
Of the selfsacriacng nature. devoting their efforts to others. In
this respect enters another touch Of pathos Many of the most &C
tive workers, the most persistent and most helpful, are women who
have lost through death. Many OF them-hundreds Of them-are
widows OF wives without children who have no household duties to
perform and who believe in eenterng their efforts where they may
severing workers are married women with families who find time for
philosophical work
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

the lunch hour she went down to the Union Pacific shops
and talked to the men. She was not a stranger there, tor
they had all seen her or heard of her.
One of the first men to greet Jennie Smith upon her ar
rival in Omaha was a leading business man. That man Is
E. G. Hampton Of the Hampton Lumber company. Thirty
five years ago Mr.. Hampton, then a tender youth, used to
wheel Jennie Smith-crippled Jennie-about in her wheel
chair. She was an invalid then, but today she is well and
strong. Can those two ever forget one another.
Another Omaha man to greet Jennie Smith upon her ar
rival at the Rome hotel was j. T. Brilliant of the Indepen-
dent Telephone company
God bless him" said Miss Smith afterward. I'll never
forget him. Twenty years ago he signed the pledge before
me and 1 know that pledge has never been broken"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

made it so, largely, was that It animated the hearts of women grown
old in the toll. Many a matron with the lines of anxious care unde-
niably inscribed upon her serious countenence was there leading her
daughter o T granddaughter on down into the line of battle for which
she had given the better years of her life. The zeal that drove that
reformer up and down the land of Europe proclaiming his
frantic slogan, Deus Vult,' Deus Vut;" the zeal that sent Mother
Thompson, the pioneer temperance crusader, out upon her mission
in Ohio far back in the last century; the zeal that impeled the tire
less energy of Frances Wi1ard-this zeal burned and blazed in this
convention and was the motive power that drove its machinery.
Believe they would one day wipe out Of existence every saloon in
America? Yes, indeed. They believed this with a faith sublime.
In the things they did. the speeches they uttered, the songs they sang,
this onO browning fact stood boldly out.
Song!
When the movement that led up to the Womans Christian Tenn
perance union was young they must have had queer battle crys and
n-.t ial airs, for quaint tunes were hummed, queer little songs sung
and slogans that seemed foolish were shouted, and they told you
these were the shibboeths Of the early warfare.
Back in the vast building some piping, Squeezing little voice
would start up a wierd old air and when a thousand eyes had To-
cussed out the inspirited leader 500 voices would join and lift that air
in large volume until 1t swept from one end to the other of the Audi
torium.
To this convention had come women with whom the current of
life had no. always been smooth. Maybe they were caught in a tidal
wave and washed back upon the shoals, or maybe they had been
shipwrecked outright; anyway, they had been mariners on a rough
sea and the voyage was perflous. Some who had found the struggle
unusually hard had drifted out into the west to take up land in an
endeavor to get what they might call home. On they had come to
this mecca OF their faith and out they poured the lbation Of their
hearts on the altar Of temperance reform and into the swelling
chorus they had spent their hosannahs of Jubilee and in the quiet of
the intermittent prayer hour they had sent up their supplications to
their One Leader, uttered or unexpressed."
We say this simple, living faith, approved or not by the locker
on, was striking, was a subject of serious thought.
But don't get the idea that this assemblage was one of women
who had known only misfortune. There were women large enough
in material wealth to pledge a good sum of money from every local
union in their states and pay the pledge. Some of the most aristo-
cratic families Of the south were represented by their women folks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Jennie Smith, Railway Vigil

In the ranks of this Christian army that invaded Omaha was one
little woman who has shaken hands with more railroad men than
any other woman in America; she is known to every engineer, fire.
man and conductor on the entire network Of American railroads. For
over thirty years she has worked among railroad men; for over
twenty years she lay prone upon a stretcher and Travelled IN the bag
gage coach ahead, but she never let up In her great work. The train
men protected her and gave her every comfort within their power.
She has no use for money-unless IT be TO help someone less fortu-
nate than she-and she never needs a railway ticket.
This woman is Jennie Smith, plain. homely name, but Of won
derful significance to the rairoader. She is the national railroad
evangelist OF the Woman's Christian Temperance union. But she is
more to the men Of the road, She is the white light ahead to the
grimy engineer, the dirty fireman and the immaculate conductor.
She is their Jeanne D'Arc. the Eva Booth among the workingmen,
the Florence Nightingale TO the injured.
Twenty years ago Jennie Smith addressed the employees Of the
Union Pacific railway at the Boyd theater. Wednesday noon during
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Faith the Motive Power

Agreeing or disagreeing with the principle Of these women's
work the man must have been extremely lacking in philosophical
instinct who could not hnd a deep human interest in the simple faith
of those crusaders who made up the thirtysxth annual convention
Of the Woman's Christian Temperance union at the Auditorium.
Faith, faith, faith 1t was manifested in everything they said
or did With a prophetic vision, to them Is clear as that which an
mated the apostle Of old who stood far back against the sky line OF
history, '1imned in heroic outline on the flushing east Of legendary
time and foretold the doom of the man who gave his brother drink,
these (prophets OF the twentieth century proclaimed their belief in
the ultimate triumph OF their crusade against the Demon Rum.
This faith at times was pathetic. It was so simple. And what
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
VINO is VINO in the Gallery

Lydia Pearl EdwOrthy. whose picture is shown above, was one Of
the convention pages. At 2 years of age Francis e. Willard, the
founder and first president Of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, tied a white ribbon about the girls chubby wrist as she nestled
her mothers arms at the convention at St. Louis. This was In
1886. Mrs. Anna Mcpherson Edworthy, the mother OF the girl. was
a granddaughter of Ruth Mcpherson Morris, who died last year. aged
lO2 years. She was the oldest white ribboner" of her day.
Three prominent missionary workers present we're Mrs. Jennie
Conner, missionary to Alaska; Mrs. Abbe B. Hnleman, to the canal
CONTINUED on Page FOur)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Girls Are Kept Busy

The girls in the bureau of information not only answered Ques-
tons sensible and otherwise, but were called upon to furnish notions
of hfty-seven brands. In the category of varieties were pins, button
hooks, hairpins, hatpins, handkerchief. lead pencils, paper. time
tables, street maps and nose glasses.
When one of the girls was asked II she thought the Schiltz hotel
was the proper place for a woman to stop she didn't know the answer,
as she had glowing reconecuOns Of the name being associated with
the place made famous by a name.
Some women, too, have that propensity of taking short routes
1t was not an uncommon thing for delegates to file through the RomeN
vineyard or the hotel bar room on their way to the Auditorium. Il
was time they we're evidently after, even though they migrated as
the crow wings it.
The woman who asked a man with an Eagle badge on the lapel
of his coat and an Elks' tooth hanging from his watch guard II he
knew where she could get a drink, certainly knew where to get the
Information. The kindly man ploted her over TO the distilled water
tank and drew one" She said it tasted nat" but that wasn't any
fault of the mans.
Mrs. Ruth M. Thompson of Texas has gone back to the rolling
ranch lands with a new hat. All women are proud Of new headgear.
Mrs. Thompson placed her old bonnet on a hot radiator one morning
and when she went bareheaded back to the hotel she was carrying a
warped piece Of felt and some struggling feathers which had been
steam-cleaned to perfection.
Mrs. Thompson didn't figure things out quite right when she in
qutred at the bureau Of information If II would be possible for her to
leave Omaha Saturday noon on the Burlington. as she did not like to
travel on Sundays.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
COlOred Heroine of the South

One Of the most interesting characters at the convention was
Mrs. Frances E. Preston. Mrs. Preston is one of those good old
southern negro women with a great, big heart throbbing in her
breast. always willing to serve anyone worthy to be her "marster."
1t is Mrs. Preston's charming personality, her marked inteli-
gence and executive ability that has won for her an important post
In the Woman's Christian Temperance union. She is the national
lecturer and organizer Of the Loyal Temperance Legion and supenn-
tendent Of the work among the colored people.
Her Voice-wheh secondly to her kindly face, wins friends-is
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
One Who Opposes Early Closing

This is the story of a Woman's Christian Temperance
woman who doesn't believe in closing the saloons at
s o'clock. It's against her principles and she doesn't mind
telling about it. She is a colored woman. She halls from
the Lone Star state, where she is known as some worker"
Texas is a hot, dry state, where the men folks have thirsts,
and in that respect it's somewhat like the land somewhere
east of Suez.
That's what she says, anyway, and she laughed a good
old southern laugh at the allusion to Kipling.
"That reminds me of an old story 1 once heard at a col
ored barbecue" she continued. 1T Just made me laugh so.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

stairs with three bottles of brandy. He never broke a one of them,
all before he fen.' Then she smiled out loud again.
well, the reason I don't believe in closing the bar rooms at
8 O'Clock is this" she went on. There's no Eternal use in saloons
the negroes and white trash would be hanging round the bars before
their suppahs had settled. They'd just simply work overtime to get
pulled before the doors closed"
What do you mean by pulled" she was asked.
well, up north you men folks call It piRed, or pihicated, or some
times orey-eyed, I guess, but down south it's Just pulled.
well, the principal reason I don't believe in closing the bars at
8 o'clock is because I don't believe in opening them. Isn't that a
good nun reason7 II they don't open them they won't need to close
them"
Second Ruler of This Dynasty
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens is the national president of the
womans Christian Temperance union. She not only is, but has
been and will be for some time to come.
For a dozen years this woman has led this formidable host of
temperance workers in It's march across the country. She is now
entering upon her thirteenth crusade. She was the successor Of
Francis E. Willard. the founder of the order. and is therefore the
second of the reigning house.
If there's a better woman executive in America she would have
to be going some. to beat Mrs. Stevens. When she stands up in
the front of the crowd, with head erect, shoulders back and straight
as a indian maiden and peers through her nose glasses, there's
bound to be attention to orders. She is a real executive. She is an
errorless umpire on parliamentary law, and when it comes to han
ding the crowd she's there.
Mrs. Stevens is not a large woman, neither is she strong in an
pearance. On the contrary, she is slight and one might imagine her
fran. She is of medium height. Her hair is dark. with possibly a
tinge Of gray about the temples, and she has a mass of 1t. and parts
it in the middle. Her eyes-and they are beautiful. powerful eyes
are grey, and they fash defiance at the liquor element. They are
also kind eyes. the eyes that rule by appeal.
Mrs. Stevens has the endurance of an athlete. Through seven
teen long sessions in the Auditorium she has been on duty. Most
of the time she was on her feet, standing before the convention, lead
ing work of legislation.
Her reelection as president was a foregone conclusion. She is
the greatest woman executive engaged in temperance work; She is
tireless in her efforts and never grows weary or discouraged. Like
Roosevelt called the foremost of American women, Mrs. Stevens IS
the very exponent Of selfsacrihce for a great principle-the prlnci-
pie Of temperance.
"HOw do you stand the work 81 wen?" she was asked.
I'm well seasoned" she replied; "the more I do the better pre-
pared I am to work"
And her loving eyes showed that she meant what she said for
she is a part of her work.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Some Humorous Spots in = :,

With all its solemnty, its religious character and its purely busi-
ness motives, the convention was not without its humorous features.
There were happy incidents galore and funny situations innumerable
that will linger in the memories Of many, even though they may be
unchroncled.
Twice during the convention parliamentary rules were laid aside
in order that business at hand could be attended to. The election Of
Mrs. Stevens Is president to succeed herself was entirely uncoRstitu-
tional, but It will never be questioned. According to the order OF
business the election should have been held Thursday morning.
1t was long after noon when the ballOttng took place, Mrs. Stew
ems appealed to the parHamentaran for her decision as to the legality
of the proceeding, when someone ohiped up, Turn the clock back"
The clock was not turned back. but the election was declared
legal That was more important than the rules Of order.
The resolutions committee made its report Wednesday afternoon.
According to the bylaws Of the union the report should have been
made following the election Of officers Thus the constitution was
shattered In two specific instances.
Another instance Of supplementary procedure was the long ses-
sion Of Monday morning, when the women spent hours trying to
figure out just what they had done at the previous session Saturday
afternoon. 1t was a tangled mass Of explanations that remained,
after all, to unrave.
At the Saturday session important legislative action was pending
regarding the use of the white ribbon and the huttering or waving OF
handkerchiefs as a sign of recognition between members. When
Monday morning dawned none seemed to know what had been done
previously and II took heated debate, long-winded arguments and
frantic appeals to settle the question.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Mrs. Anna 4. IdworthX /| I
lydia Pearl 6dwrthN Nd3terCha MrneI

like soothing syrup to a child. She is often called the Golden
Voiced Evangelist" When she talks there is soft music and pale
moonlight combined in one. She has that SOFT musical voice that
sounds good, for it is comforting
Mrs. Preston can tell a thrilling story of negro life in Alabama
and can recite and sing the favorite epcs and lulabyes Of the south
lard. She often appears on the stage in various darby roles. DE
Valley an De shadder" is one of her most remarkable rectatons.
She delivered this before the National Association of Elocuuonists
at their annual convention in Chicago in 1898.
I'm growing old in the work" says Mrs. Preston. GIVE been in
It now for nigh onto twenty-eight years, but I reckon If the Lord is
good I'll be there many more"
Another colored woman of national prominence val Mrs. Eliza
E. Peterson of Texarkana, Tex. Mrs. Peterson is the national super
intendent Of the colored Woman's Christian Temperance union and
state president of the Loyal Temperance Legion.
Mrs. Peterson is a slender little woman, but there's dynamic
power in her heart. She has done effective work in Texas and points
to the fact that the Lone Star state is going dry powerful fast"
There are 157 totally dry counties in the state. ninety partially
dry and only eighteen totally wet.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-23
RESULTS AT EMERYvILLE

OAKLAND, March 22.-The track at En-
eryyille was muddy today owing to the heavy
rain OF Saturday night and result there
were q number of scratches but the sport
proved of the interesting order, there being
several close finishes. Fordello was plunged
on in the fourth but was away none too well,
and Gemmell beat him less than length in
a drive. Coburn drew the finish fine in the
third and Yankee Daughter beat Coppers a
head. Ace of Diamonds was bid up from $500
to 5000 by NJ S. Game, but II. G. Bedlel
retained him. Results:
First race six furlongs, sellng-Ace of
Diamonds, 113 CTaplin), won; Little Jane, 1iS
CRoss). second; Hazlett, 11S Butler), third.
Time, lis As. Lighthouse, Toll Box, Evelyn
K Banthel and Tennessee Boy also ran.
Second race, three and one-half furlongs,
purse--Old Mexico, 107 SANDY, won; Turret,
104 (Scoville), second; Fire, ITO (Walsh), third.
Time, AZ is. Transatlantic, Glennadeane,
warfare, Nautical and King Of Yolo also ran.
Third race. one mile and fifty yards, selling
Daughter. 98 (Coburn), won; Coppers, 1Ol
(Butier), second; Cuernavaca, JOG (sandyl'
sake, wap Sainrida, Silver Knight, Patriotic,
Eckersall and Tea Tray II also ran.
Fourth race, FIVE and one-half furlongs, sell
ing--Gemmell ITO (Scoville), won; Fordelo,
10T Oee) second; Silver Stocking. 1903 (Tap-
linz. third Time, 1909 Is. St. Francis, Blu
collie and Security also ran
Fifth race, one mile and fifty yards, SELL
ing-Rubric, liz SANDY, won; st. Avon 106
CTaplin) second; Steel, 81 Clark third.
Time i:46 As. Banposal, Smiley Metzner, Err
bet, Mauritania and Import also ran.
Sixth race, mile and seventy yards. purse
Ketchemike 10s (Butler), won; Bellwether, 108
(s,andy) second; Oceanshore 1903 (Coburn),
thIrd Time, 1:47 rs. Netting, Rather Royal,
Narwood and Joe Nealon also ran