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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-06-11
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Patronize your home advertiser.
The Gaekle band has purchased uni.
forms.
A big steam plow outfit is working
out of Goodrich.
The local telephone system at Steele
is being extended.
The Milton fire department has an
alarm that alarms.
Dickinson is to have an enthusiastic
tennis club this summer.
Kenmare is discussing the commits.
sion form of government.
Wahpeton is to have an old fashion
ed Fourth of July celebration.
The site for an experiment farm al
Hettfnger has been purchased.
DR.. T. F. Kerr, formerly of Coopers.
town, recently died in New York.
improvements are to be made in
the school for the deaf at Devils Lake,
The Bijou theater at jamestown
has changed its name to the Orpheum.
A. Kenzie, city employee of James.
town, had an arm broken in a run.
away.
Some school buildings are being
equipped with sliding chutes for fire
escapes.
Medina people are agitating the
building of modern high school
building.
Plaza has Joined other sections of
that part of the state in breaking into
the gas belt.
There is to be sham battle at the
militia encampment at Devils Lake
this summer.
The government dredging outfit is
at work in the Red river, north of
Grand Forks.
The property owners Of jamestown
complain of lawns being damaged dur.
ing the winter.
The 500 has promised to build a
new depot at Napoleon within the
next thirty days.
The ladies of Langdon had munic.
fpal cleanup day and made tin cans
and things move.
North Dakota fishermen are charged
with shipping two large consignments
from Minnesota lakes.
The hospital at Marmarth was burn.
ed. The patients we're successfully
removed without danger.
At Grand Forks some miscreant cut
two barges loose and they drifted
down the river ten miles.
Like Bismarck, Hettinger is
troubled with cows running loose
through the streets-and lawns.
The old depot at Edgeley will be
cut in two and arranged to make
depots for two smaller towns along
that line Of road.
Did Mayor Taylor of Grand Forks
stop smoking when he ordered the
patrolmen to cut it out during the
time they we're on duty?
The little daughter of President
Mcfarland of the Valley City normal
was probably fatally injured by a
Give" electric light wire.
]. F. T. o'Connor, the popular
Grand Forks boy who is studying law
at Yale, has been offered a professor
ship in the department of oratory at
Yale.
Supt. Bangs has been reelected as
superintendent of the state deaf
school at Devils Lake and the faculty
has been reelected at increased SAL
aries.
Some of the new hail insurance
companies that are now trying to get
foothold in the state will find hard
shedding unless they are on the
square.
New Rockford boasts Of having
two fine brass bands and several ex.
cellent church choirs, and is positive
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

L,ro $50, .Oor stockings Pierre and Babette, IL they
are very small indeed, believe that lie peut Jesus OF
nettt NoeIthe little Jesus" "the little Christmas
have hroupbt the gifts But the average French child
is as Sophisticated young America and Pierre mas 10
be very little boy indeed to believe IN lie peut Jesus,
No French ar Italian child hears of Santa Claus TIL
ba comes 10 America by which II may be gathered that
that good saint strictly German, and when ne emil
grated came to America like all the rest OF the Ger
o,,,- 10, "A.
universal Christmas and presentgyng IS curl
Gus phenomenon has no roots IN american history
The original settlers of New England never observed It.
The Dutch of New Amsterdam scarcely noticed It, but
made New Years the great joyous. popular FESTIVAL
Within the of old people still living Christmas
passed unobserVed In New York. while all holiday mer'
rymaking conferred in New Years day Modern America
has built up Christmas festival of Its own and has
rejected definitely the religious feast In favor OF the So
cial and domestic In way however, the Amer
can Christmas Is religious than and all the Lat
in church put together One who has lived through
years changing round of saints days In Italy In all OF
which no work done and the people take holiday Will
observe the thought Of the people never out to
those in need. The Astounding giving of American
Christmas the uncomfortable feeling that every
child at least must have, II possible, good dinner and
present Christmas day. is quite unknown In the Lat
in countries
criminals in their prisons, the paupers in their aims
houses the beggars, the unworhy-all ought to have
something good to that day. and little Christ
mas in formis part OF the American Christ
The races that come to the melting pot of America
keep their Christmas for only few years after
they arrive Then they drift off into more less
Amercanized Christmas
For a few years after they come, also, they try to
eat their traditional dishes at Christmas time. The Hun
garan householder makes the Christmas cakes which
long line ancestral cooks made before her
They are balls of dough- covered with honey
poppy seed and then baked TIE SoSamians and Poles
also make poppy seed cakes, each in different style
The Scilan housewife, too has traditional Christmas
cake II is ring of dough with hole In the middle
the italian doughnut in acwhich is fried sprinkled
with sugar and eaten hot
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

study of them In order that their merits and dement's
may be determined. In cases this means long and
continued study and it is not at all unusual thing to
find a committee chairman giving the joys OF the
life Christmas day to consult presidents and to
formulate arguments to be used for against some pro-
posed legislation, and find him doing this in the
cusion of a suffy office room on Christmas day.
good many Washington people, especially those who
here from the south, into Virginia to hunt
Christmas day. In parts of the Old Dominion fox
hunting is still the order of the winter day and II the
fox is not in evidence there always rabbits and quail
while the lower Potomac and in the marshes along
Chesapeake bay in winters the ducks and the geese
are fairly abundant The outdoor life appeals strongly
to the southerner and in the northerners
who have to the Potomac country have formed the
hunting habit and join the Christmas day outing parties
of their southern cousins.
Christmas is the great holiday Of Washington. From
high to low the people make the most of There Is good
cheer everywhere evident and charity is not forgotten
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

DAY time he spent fields only with opera
glass, with which he studied the winter Birds always
WIN an eye sharpened the possibility of finding
species that was rare
President Taft loves nature too in way, but he is
not much of tramper excepting where the walk leads
over the golf links which he spends his holiday after
noons Christmas included for in Washington because of
the comparative mildness of the climate the game Of
golf Is possible nearly every day in the year.
There several hundred officers of the army and
Wy stationed in Washington most of them being detailed
for office work in the departments for term of four
years The naval officers perhaps enjoy their holiday
making in the capital than do their brothers Of
the army for the sailors have been compelled to spend
many Christmases at away from their wives and
families while here they may gather their families about
them and not break any regulations in doing The
army officer, whether he goes to the Philippines or to
some distant frontier post ordinarily takes his family
with him and Christmas day does not to him neces
sary bring with it the of loneliness and homesck
ness that it brings to the at sea.
In the biological survey which is bureau of the de-
partmen of agriculture there many scientists at
work. Most of these men have spent large part of
their lives in the wds studying birds and mammals and
shells, plants and fishes to nothing Of reptiles The
Office life is rksome to these scientists. They belong to
the free air. the barren plains and the pine forests So
it is that every hobby that brings with it release
from Office cares they take to the open fields About the
hills In many places about Washington Christmas day
there are to be the little camp fires of the scientists
who cooking their midday Christmas dinners under
the open sky.
Some time ago all the bird students in the United
States asked they could to make trip afeld
Christmas day and to make list of the birds that they
found Thousands of bird lovers followed the suggestion
and still following it. Each of the students turns
in report central headquarters giving the names of
the birds that Christmas day fell under his observa
ton AS result of this practice the Washington sci
ensts have valuable notes concerning out or
son" birds instance the report to Washington
Christmas two ago, that on the holiday four
hooking birds seen and positively identified in the
fields Boston Mass. Other birds were reported
from other northern localities, birds that in the ordinary
of things ought to have been far south OF the Ma
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16
AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
THE BEST OF ALL

An occasional Jersey commuter, familiar with the re-
gous section of Barclay street. is commonly the only
sort of American in New York who knows presepo by
sight Yet the presepio is the sign of the Latin Christ
mas the fir tree is of the northern The manger OF
the Barclay windows shows only the inside OF the
stable with the figures and the cattle done in Italian ter
Gotta But the real presepio in its native land may
show the whole countryside WELL and If the pilgrims
vending their way to the good Sican peas
ants, bearing good Scilan wine and cheese on their
donkeys, they only the more interesting.
st. Francis, born in the quaint little town OF Assist
among the Umbrian hills in 1882 invented the
presepio make the Christmas story plain to the simple
iiterate people During the 500 years since 1t
has remained favorite devotion in Latin Europe The
Italian and Spanish call 1t the presepo the manger the
French the creche the CRADLE and the Hungarans and
Belgians Betlem, Bethlehem.
Only few years since not carpenter could be hired
in Rome Naples for weeks before Christmas They
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16
SOUNDS LIKE A FAIRY TALE
THE FARMERS OF CENTRAL CAN
ADA REAP WHEAT AND
RICHES.

Up In the Provinces OF Manitoba.
Saskatchewan and Alberta, the prov.
inces that compose Central Canada
have such quantity of land suitable
for the growth Of small grains. which
grow SO abundantly, and yield so hand.
somely that no fear need be feared
of wheat famine on this Continent.
The story reproduced below is only
one of the hundreds of proofs that
could be produced to show the results
that may be obtained from cultiya-
ton of the lands in these provinces.
Almost any section of the country will
do as we'll.
With the country recently opened by
the Grand Trunk Pacific, the latest Of
the great transcontinental lines to en-
ter the field of the development of the
Canadian West, there is afforded added
ample opportunity to do as was done
in the case cited below:
To buy a section of land, break 10
up and crop It, make $17,550 out of
the yield and 10,SS0 out OF the increase
OF value all within the short period
of two years, was the record estab-
lished by James Bailey, well known
farmer within few miles of Regina.
Mr.. Bailey bought the GAO acres Of
land near Grand Coulee two years ago.
He Immediately prepared the whole
section for crop and this year has 600
acres OF wheat and 40 acres of oats.
The wheat yielded 1875 bushels, and
the oats yielded 1850 bushels. The
whole OF the grain has been market
ed and Mr.. Bailey is now worth $17,550
from the grain alone. He bought the
land at SIS an acre, and the other
day refused an offer of $35 an acre,
just SIT advance for the time of his
purchase. The land cost $11,320 In
the first instance. Here are the fig.
ures OF the case.--Land cost, $40
acres, at SIS, $11,320. Wheat yielded
1875 bushels, at 81 cents bushel.
s16,695. Oats yielded 1850 bushels
at 2S cents bushel. $S55. offered
for land, $40 acres at $35 an acre,
s22 400. Increase value OF land, $40 $50.
Total earnings Of crop, $t7,550, togeth-
er with increase In value of land to-
tai of $2S,540.
1t is interesting to note the figures
of the yield per acre. The wheat
yielded 1914 bushels to the acre, and
oats 1887 bushels to the acre, The fig.
ures are fair indication Of the aver
age throughout the district.
Agents of the Canadian Government
in the different cities will be pleased
to give you information as to rates, etc.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

their axes in the direction of the lines
OF force; in other words, the growth
of an individual takes place. In fact,
the similarity in aspect and behavior
between certain liquid crystals and
bacteria is remarkable, and scarcely
can be accidental.
Prof. Lehman suggests that in
life the directional force is that mys-
terious essence so much discussed,
and so little understood, the soul" In
support of this bold hypothesis" he
puts forward many arguments and
marshals an array of facts. II is de-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

utilization is the agency made use of
by living growth. A glass of jelly. or
any other noncrystalline substance,
doesn't grow. On cooling it passes
gradually from the melted to the solid
condition, and forms about a large
number of nudei, just as happens in
the condensation of vapor.
Capitalization is quite different.
The growth is rapid, and the nudei are
comparatively few. Prof Lehman
noticed that liquid crystals, when un-
der the influence Of a magnetic fluid,
coalesce and range themselves with
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

ship was closed and their head call
ing the would-be neophyte before the
assembled audience, showed him with.
out a word an urn so filled with water
that not a single drop could be added
The neophyte. reading the message
bowed silently, started to withdraw.
but hesitated and returned. Picking a
petal from flower, he dropped 1t on
the brimming bowl so dexterously
that 1t fioated without dislodging the
slightest particle of the liquid. The
membership of the academy of silspce
became 101.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

green and so are
the wild honey
suckle and the lau-
rel, trees and
plants that are
abundant along the
Potomac.
President Roose-
welt was, as every
one knows, a nat
ure lover. He took
every opportunity
that offered to get
away from the
city. His daily
walks and rides
took him far into
the country, and on
Christmas day dur
ing the last four
years Of his term
of Office he went
to Pine Knot, a
wooded, mountain
country place that
belonged to his
wife. Mr.. Roose-
welt stayed in
Washington until
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

all busy erecting presepios la Inc Eares OF the
quality while the poorer folk constructing their
own AS the mainland grows sophisticated the
quaint old devotion is fading but In conservative
Sicily people still make the presepio as they
dress Christmas trees in New York All the island
families busy from December to Is putting their
old presepios in order making and there Is
much calling to and fro to results and admire
and elaborate specimens of the art The presepio
may be little thing stand In corner may
occupy the whole side of a room.
II may represent whole mountain side. made OF the
rough flexible bark the cork tree. Peaks and
precpces abound with winding trails houses and castles
of coored cardboard forests of wigs and sometimes tiny
pipes to furnish brooks and lakes In the center is the
grotto with the holy family within sky of blue pa
per stretched above with the Star of Bethlehem con-
spcuous and the hills the shepherds bearing
the gifts to the babe
SPAIN like Sicily has lost the presepo, and In
both Spanish Sican cities there booths for the
sale Of miniature shepherds magi and all the accessories
of the art the creche is not made at home,
in the southern countries but It used to be part OF the
Christmas decorations of French church. and is still
SO in the rural districts Many polished cosmopole OF
Paris can remember working busly for days before
Christmas his childhood to help freshen and reju
yenate the creche Of his parish church In little vii
age of France. the villages close by Paris today chill
ren who go about the streets singing Christmas carols
carry a little creche In box upon their shoulders.
The manger typihes the difference between the Latin
and the Teuton Christmas. The Latin Christmas is
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

The South American people make much of Christmas.
It is the great feast day in all LatinAmerican countries
and the ambassadors and attaches and their families do
not forget the customs of their native lands simply be-
for few they have been transpanted to
The open house" is the order of the day in
nearly every official residence in Washington after the
family has had its intimate celebration of the holt
day Large families the rule rather than the excep
ton among the ambassadors and ministers from the
southern European and from the Central and South Amer
lean countries The children have gala time of at
home and then the visiting begins. The presents that
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

. :: ss' '' s:' 50 1's !;
Is that a
Washington Christ.
mas day idea has
been made to serve
the ends of science.
It has been said
that in years past a
great many of the
senators and repre-
sentatives in congress
went home to spend
the holidays, but that
now the practice
largely has passed.
An exception should
be made for the past,
and the present, as
well, in the cases of
those senator's and
members who have In
charge lie 81 s | a t ion
which has been pro-
posed In bill form at
the opening of the
session of congress.
When bills are intro
duced they are at
once referred to COM
mittees and II the
measures are. of i'm
portance the chair
men of the commit.
tees to which they
have been sent, make
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16
HELP SOLVE LIFE PROBLEMS

that of the surrounding air. and thus
obtained access to an almost virgin
field.
That crystals, when placed In the
saturated mother liquor, grow and
Lave the power Of healing fractures
have suggested to many that crystal
lized matter is form Of life. Prof.
Lehman ventures with some conf
dence to assert, not that crystals
themselves are living. but that crys-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16
German Scientist Has Made Important
Contribution to Solution Of
Great Question.

Crystal wisdom comes from Prof.
Otto Lehman of Stuttgart, student
OF flowing crystals for SO years, ever
since he discovered novel form of
microscope which permitted the OPP
tical examination of substances at tenn
peratures differing considerably from
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16
: COPYRIGHT. 1909 BY MA. H4rTkR5oW

ASHINGTON not only has United States
Christmas celebration but it has the fes-
tivities that mark the Christmas season in
all the civilized nations of the world. At
the Russian embassy there is Christmas
fete after the manner of the people in the
land of the car; there are French doings
at the great European republics official
residence, and there is the genuine old
English Christmas at the home of the Brit
ish ambassador, and so one may go on
through the entire list of foreign repre-.
sentatives, not even barring the embassies
of China and Japan, where in honor of
the day, as Christian nations view it. the
oriental officials have holiday dinners.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16
Every Little Bit Helms.

The lecturer raised his voice with
emphatic confidence. IL venture to
assert" he said, that there isn't
man In this audience who has ever
done anything to prevent the destruc-
ton of our forests"
understanding man In the back
OF the hall stood up.
"I-er-l've shot woodpeckers," he
said.-Everybodys Magazine.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16
The Academy Of Silence.

1t is written that among the vari-
Gus schools of Grecian philosophy ex-
listed one known as "The Academy OF
Silence, composed Of 100 men, each
member pledged to the purpose of
the school, writes Hollis Godfrey in
the Atlantic. To them came one seek
ing admission. Their list of member
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

the festivities of
the day were ov-
er and the chill
dren had a chance
to take account
of their presents,
and then he left
for the log cabin
in Virginia where
he could sit in
front Of a huge
open fire with a
g e n in e old
christmas" back
log. On these
Christmas ont.
ings Mr.. Roose-
welt did a little
rabbit shooting
and tried to do
s o m 9 turke y
shooting, but the
major part of tho
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

clared that he has made an important
contribution to the solution OF the
great question confronting alike sci,
ence and philosophy-what is life?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-16

purely religious feStlVal, as much so
as any other feast of the church. IL
has no particularly domestic or So
cial quality. Italian children never
get presents on Christmas. day. That
is done on All Souls day, in October.
when they believe--if they are very
small--that the spirits Of their de-
parted relatives have come back In
the night and left presents for them;
undoubtedly very ancient relic OF
ancestor worship. It Is the great
Teuton family OF nations that give
presents to children on Christmas
day. And the Christmas tree came
out Of the vast forests where dwelt
the heather German and Scandina-
Wan tribes. 1t is, In fact. pagan
relic, passed down from primitive
forest dwellers and worshippers.
Where Celt, Slav or Latin use 1t.
they have borrowed 1t.
France, half Latin and half Celt,
dashed with Gaul and Viking, Is a
family by herself in this, as In every.
thing. She builds the manger In the
churches, but at home. though she
seldom dresses Christmas tree. lit
tie Babette and Pierre set their
shoes by the fireplace instead OF
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-29
TIT INDERSTORN BRINGS
RELIEF IN NEW YORK CITY

New York, June 2S.--The second of
series of cooling local thunder
storms broke with the violence of =
cloudburst late this afternoon. There
was a sudden drop in temperature.
The storm was responsible for the
death Of one man and the injury Of
several. At the polo grounds the
game between New york and Brook
lyn was about to begin, when light
ming struck the flag pole in center
field, smashing the upper portion cf
the staff into splinters and tearing
down the pennant flag which the
New York team won in 1905. Rain
converted the diamond into lake
and the game was postponed.
In Brooklyn, John Freeman tried
to put out a fire which had been
started by lightning in a pile Of rub
bish, around an iron telephone pole.
Freeman threw pail Of water on
the fire and fell back dead, killed by
the electricity which Travelled back
TO him on the water from the pole.
Before relief came today two
deaths were added to the long list Of
temperature victims. There were a
score of prostrations. The maximum
temperature was SO, but the humidity
was great. Summing up the results
Of the heat wave Health Commis-
sioner Darlington in his weekly NOR
tality report today noted an increase
of nearly 200 deaths over the cores
ponding period last year.