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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-04-02
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3 LOCAL NEWS :
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Call 7oJ when you want some repairing
done at once.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Rice have
a new baby girl at their home.
Barney Flynn, Of Roseglenn, is
at the Bismarck hospital.
Hats! hats! hats! at Brophey's
Underwood, N. D.
G. b.. Rice is arranging to build
a residence on his two-acre lot
northwest Of the schoolhouse.
Adolph Wacker was in Under
wood Wednesday attending a meet
ing Of the Mclean County Fair
association, of which he is one of
the directors.
Mrs. Deans parents have Eeen
visiting her during the week.
They are on their way from Indi-
ana to California where they con-
template making their permanent
home.
/. Mr. and Mrs. r. NJ. Brown left
on Wednesday for the home of
Mr. Browns parents in Iowa. Mr.
Brown received a wire just a half
hour before the arrival of the
south bound train that his father
had died suddenly,
Mrs. Hattie Chadwick got ear
ly 100000 votes in the Fargo
Forum contest, but was not among
the successful prize winners. The
Forum has had over five hundred
active collectors in the state dur
ing the past month, which has re-
suited in more than 10000 new
readers for the Forum and the best
paid up subscription list in the
state.
The w. G. T. U. has opened a
public reading room in Wilson's
old store. The room will be open
each week evening from Z till $50,
and Saturday afternoon from l till
s.. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all the public. The
W. c. T. U. will meet at 8 o'clock
next Tuesday afternoon at the
reading room.
Ed. Schulenberg, Of Plaza. who
is one of the commissioners of the
new county Of Montraille. spent
Tuesday in the city consulting
with G. o. Raugust about the bid
ding on the transcribing of the re-
cords for Montraille county by the
rectigraph system. Bids for the
transcribing the records for the
new county were opened by the
county commissioners at the last
meeting of the board, but all bids
we're considered too high-abont
$4,000 more than the commiss-
toners had 6gureo that the work
would cost, so Commissioner Schu-
lenberger came to Washburn to
look up the Photographic system
that Mr. Raugust uses in copying
the records.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-04-02

w. J. Janda, of Scotland, S. d.
takes Theo. Serr's place with the
Washburn State Bank. Mr..
Janda has had considerable ex-
perience in the banking business
and is a pleasant, agreeable gentle
man to meet.
Representative Kinney of
Mowrer, spent Part of the week in
the city. During the first few
days Of the session Representative
Kinney introduced the seed grain
bill which became a law. Judg-
ing from newspaper reports there
seemed to be quite IL rivalry be-
tween Representative Kinney and
Senator Neal who should have
the credit Of fathering the seed
grain legislation both having bills
pending before the legislature
1t was a measure in which the
constituency Of the two members
were vitality interested and from
what we can learn both Mr.. Kin
ney and MIR. Neal done good work
for the measure. Mr.. Kinney
made an exceptionally good repre-
sentative in the lower house and
was wide awake in the interest of
good legislation and enjoyed the
confidence and respect Of his
fellow members.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-04-02

Receipt books for sale at the
Leader Office. 15c apiece or two
/ for 25c.
Mr.. Rains is starting a black
smith shop on his farm in Sec
ton s, Township IA, Range SO.
Have your plows repaired before
spring at the Bagnell Blacksmith
shop, the old Patterson stand.
G.. A. Oberg has rented his farm
to his son Oscar, and is contem-
plating. visiting his old home in
Sweden during the summer.
FOR RENT "a few houses.
Enquire Frank e. Funk. LIST Natl.
Bank.
Mrs. Bergstrom is back from
Minot where she has been the past
two weeks with, her sister who has
been sick and had an Liberation
John G.. AkaD, of Mower. spent
part of the week in the city on
business and enjoying the nice
pleasant days that we have along
the river.
R A DRILLS. II you in
tend to buy a drill this spring do
not fail to cali on the Mandan
Mercantile Co and see the cele-
brated Hoosier drill.
Erick Anderson has the contract
to erect Mrs. Pete Anderson's new
house in Park addition. starting
work Wednesday. The house is
to be 24x24, one and one-half
story.
Have you seen the Rotary har-
row attachment for sale by the
Mandan Mercantile Co? Can be
attached to any sulky or gang
pillow and leaves the soil in fine
condition for the drill.
j. F.. Hanson has rented his
farm west of town and will contin-
tie holding down his position with
the Fargo Grocery Company for
another year. MIR. Hanson went to
Fargo last fall.
Rudolph Klein has gone to Far
go, where he will take a special
course at the Aaker business col
lege, preparatory to taking up
work in the agricultural college
when the same opens it's fall term.
Mrs. Harvey Bagnell was buried
on the Bagnell farm in Oliver
county last Friday. A number of
relatives are laid to rest there. and
it was Mrs. Bagnell's wish that
she have her final resting place
there.
| I havea REIMBURSEMENT upon a
good quarter sectian Of land for
sale at a price very little in excess
of the value of improvements,
eight miles from the city of Wash
burn. A bargain for some one.
/ j. e. Nelson.
c. M. Diesen has word from Bis
marcg that he is the father Of a
ten-pound girl. The news took
MI. Diesen to Bismarck post haste,
and the boys are waiting for MI.
Diesen's return, when a good sup
ply Of straight tom Moore's" will
be looked for.
The local -four mill has closed
down after a fairly successful year.
The town Of Ambroseinthenort
Tern part Of the state has 9 local
flour mill, and il is given Q clear
field in the -four line-no other
flour is sold or handled ia the town.
a -four mill is . good thing locally
for a town.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-04-02
A car of Ground Feed just
received by r. M. Brown.

A car Of Ground Feed just
received by r. M. Brown.
Miss Esther Lind is enjoying a
weeks vacation at the Gradin home
at Basto
Wanted-girl for general house
work. Family of>two. Mrs. n.
O. Ramstat, Bismarck, N. D.
Remember the social ball to be
given by the Mandan orchestra,
Friday. April 10Th.
Nels Larson, a brother Of Atty.
Larson of Turtle Lake. for many
years a leading attorney LaMoure
county, died Monday at Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
Farmers institute will be held
at Wilton Thursday, April s.
These Institutes are growing in
popularity and result in much
good for the farmers.
If you want to have a good
time take in the social hop to be
given by the Mandan orchestra at
the opera house Friday evening,
April 10Th. Everybody invited.
Clean seed, if interested in clean
seed grain go to the Mandan
Mercantile Co and see the new
Foston Automatic grain cleaner,
it has all other cleaners skinned a
mile.
Jas. Roam, his mother and sister
Damas GoessIin, William Paisley
and wife left for Canadian points
Monday. All except Mr.. Goesslin
expect to make their homes there.
The party took several horses and
farm machinery with them.
Mrs. Elizabeth Knudtson is back
after having spent the winter in
Minnesota visiting relatives and
friends. Her daughter Ragnhild
has been on the sick list most Of
the winter and Mrs. Knudtson is
talking of taking her to Minneap-
oils for treatment by a specialist
The county commissioners have
decided to issue 100000 in
bonds proceeds from which will
be used in buying seed grain for
needy farmers and bids will be
opened April 10. Had the COM
missioners acted favorable on all
the applications it would have
been necessary to have issued
about $4,000.
Superintendent Olson is back
from a months trip. Mr.. Olson
has had a nice. outing and has
been SO many places and seen so
many things that he is just bub-
bling over with enthusiasm. After
the professor has been home a
month or two he will come TO
realize that there is no place like
North Dakota, after all. Among
the places he visited was Washing
ton, Cuba, Panama, Mexico and
the middle west.
Auditor-elect Meyers takes
charge Of the auditors office after
the county board meets next Mon
|day and cleans up old business
Accumulated to that date. Mr..
Theo Ser. late cashier Of the
Washburn State Bank, we are in
formed is to be deputy Auditor.
mr.. SER has been cashier of the
Washburn State Bank since the
bark opened upsfor business here,
Els an able accountant and will
make a good record 81 deputy
auditor. Mi. Ser has been city
auditor Of Washburn for the past
year and is also secretary Of the
democratic county central com,
mittee.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
DECAL OGUE FOR FIRST VOTER
Drawn Up by Boston Clergyman with
the Object of Encouraging
Civic Virtue.

A meeting was held at Faneuil hall,
Boston, recently for the purpose of
encouraging immigrants in taking a
practical interest in the civil affairs
of the country and of the cities in
which they live" Among the mem
bers of the Boston Equal Suffrage as
ISOLATION, under whose auspices the
meeting was held, was Rev. Mr.. Eich-
Ter, who presented for adoption this
document, which he called "a first
voters decalogue:" Il. Love thy cOun-
try, which has redeemed thee from
tyranny and bondage. 2. Thou shalt
not worship any political idols, nor
bow down to them, nor serve them,
for their iniquity will be visited on
thee and thy children until the third
and fourth generation. 3. Thou shalt
not take the name of patriotism in
vain, nor use it to hide thy selfish mo
tives. 4. Remember the day of cleo.
ton to keep it holy. 5. Honor the
sanctity of the ballot that the days
of the republic may be prolonged. 6.
Thou shalt not kill the spirit of free
dom by neglecting to exercise the pre-.
negatives of a freeman. Z. Thou shalt
not adulterate the purity OF civic life
by entering politics for gain. g. Thou
shalt not encourage public servants to
steal by thy Indifference. g. Thou
shalt not let greed for political re
ward bear false witness against the
spirit of patriotism 10. Thou shalt
not covet a public office which thou
art not fit to fill"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
Maisie
bridegroom
BY HILTON GEORGES
Copyright. by w. G. chapman.)

Maisie lay back on her cushions and
looked thoughtfully at the palm
stretching upward, although her mind
was not on it, bit occupied with some
thing much more important, her mar
riage. She was to be married the fol-
lowing night to man she had never
seen, a rather unusual occurrence. and
the more Maisie thought about it the
less she liked it.
The girl was only seventeen, and
when her father had begged her to
consent to the marriage with Gordon
Phillips she had yielded. although at
the time, six months before, she had
not been pleased with the idea. Her
father was selfish man; even she,
who was a model Of filial devotion,
had to admit that, and now, as she
faced the future, she realized how
wrong it had been fer him to ask and
she to give the promise.
She remembered it all so distinctly.
She and her father had been on one
of their many journeys. A less sus-
picious girl might have questioned
these hurried wanderings, but Maisie
asked no questions, and in fact moth
ing lay back of them except her ia
theirs restless spirit and sometimes his
inability to pay his debts. One night
he had come to her much excited and
told her that man had seen her, not
once, but many times, and had fol-
lowed them SO as to see more of her
"He has fallen in love with you and
wants to marry YOU he had contin
ued, and the girl had heard him with
out single flush. When she learned
that her father wished her to consent
she promised to marry the man on her
seventeenth birthday, and then had
almost forgotten all about it, espe-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
AMERICA HAS 5000 DRINKS.
Astonishing Number of intoxicating
Beverages That May Be Had
on This Continent.

I'VE have 5000 Intoxicating drinks
in America" said a temperance lectur-
er. THAT, believe, is the record"
Expert as our bartenders are, they
have none of them mastered the entire
American drink question, and they
would throw up their wet hands If a
man asked for a bak-no-ma-shalo, q
cacasha, sam, a larangina. or even
mescal
You see, all the races that COM
pose America introduce here the
drinks of their old homes Bak-no-
MARSHALL and sam are oriental cor
dials, sweet and perfumed and nasty,
that our soldiers and sailors learned
to like in the Philippines.
"A larangina is a delicate, slightly
acid, refreshing drink from South
America. 1t is a wonderful mixture
of the leaves, flowers and fruit of
tropical plants-orange, banana, lime,
pineapple, lemon. cholocate, mango,
guava, tamarind and | don't know
what
'Mescal is a Mexican abomination
made of the cactus. 1t goes down like
a ball of cactus thorns.
A cacasha is powerful sugarca
rum that the Jamaicans distill illicit
ly. For one cent you can buy pint.
though half a pint is quite sufficient"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
ART AS VIEWED IN ENGLAND
SWinburne's Social Connections Rather
Than His Exquisite Verse Gave
Him Consideration.

Booth Harrington, in his brilliant
fashion, was talking about the poet
Swinburne.
They buried Irving in the abbey"
he said ''Theylet Swinburne be buried
without any official recognition what.
ever. Yet Swinburne was to Irving
as a diamond is to a pebble Actors
like Irving crop up every year or two,
but there was never a singer like
Swinburne. Neither Coleridge nor
Shelley nor Shakespeare could match
that music.
"Fhe English didn't appreciate him.
Only in France is art appreciated
The English idea of art is well por.
trayed in story Mrs. Henniker Hea-
ton sometimes tells.
Mrs. Henniker Heaton, connec.
ton of the poets, was showing to
some ladies miniatures of Swinburne's
titled relatives
"One of these ladies, as she studied
miniature of Lord Ashburton, turned
to her daughter and said:
My dear, had no idea Swinburne
was SO well connected Remind me,
the next time we are at Nudes, to buy
his works
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
Cocaine Evil.

1t is said that not one-half of all
the cocaine imported into the United
States last year was used for medicin-
al purposes. The use of this drug as
a stimulant has increased enormously
in recent years, particularly in those
states where the sale of liquor has
been prohibited. When used in this
way the drug skaters the nervous sys-
tenn 1t has been said that within the
next few years the rate of mortality
among southern negroes will increase
enormously as result of the use Of
this drug, and it is well known that
it's effects have been in the highest de-
gree harmful in some of the northern
and western states. 1t is not surpris-
ing, therefore, that many citizens,
especially physicians and druggists,
who are aware of the rapid increase
in the improper use of cocaine, are
suggesting the federal regulation of
it's sale.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
Tongue TWistino,

A London paper recently ordered a
series of prizes for the best tongue
twisting" sentences. The prize-Win-
ming contributions are:
The bleak breeze blighted the
bright broom blossoms.
Two toads totally tired tried to trot
to Tedbury.
Strict, strong Stephen Stringer
shared Sticky six sickly silky snakes
Susan shineth shoes and socks;
socks and shoes shines Susan She
ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for
shoes and socks shock Susan.
A paddock, haddock, black spot
ted haddock; black spot on the black
back of black spotted haddock
Oliver Oglethorpe ogled an owl and
an oyster. Did oliver Oglethorpe ogle
an owl and an oyster? If Oliver Ogle-
hoppe ogled an owl and an oyster,
where are the owl and the oyster
oliver Oglethorpe ogled?
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
OF A TYPE THAT HAS GONE.
oIdtime English coachman Had Ideas
That Would Shock Modern Elk
ponents of Hygiene.

81 rode to Brighton one June day
with Alfred Vanderbilt on his coach"
said Minneapolitan. ut was fine.
1--WE chatted, Mr.. Vanderbilt and /,
like two old friends, and the coach,
footing it's horn bowled out of London
with all the cabbies giving us the
whip salute, and soon struck the
white road to the sea.
"As we glided along that white
road, between groves loud with bird
music, through quaint old villages and
over hills that gave us glorious views
of the sunny, windy downs, Mr. Van
derbilt told me stories of the old
coachman of the past 1t seems he
collects, you know, coaching prints,
rare old books on coaching, coaching
anecdotes and SO forth.
Zone coaching anecdote he told me
was about the way those fat red
coachmen of old could endure the
cold
"On January day of wind and
sleet, he said, the coachman of the
Liverpool mailmade fun of shivering.
passenger who shared the next seat
with him.
The coachman. red and comfort
able in the storm. looked at the blue
and shivering passenger with con-
tempt. Finally he sneered and said:
I daresay as yer one O. them girds
wot washes their feet, Ell? Well,
there's a pair OF feet in these ere
boots of mine wot amt been washed
since was a nippar. Wash my feet?
I'd as soon think O. washin' my
cad! Exchange.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
REVEALED BY TIE TONGUE.
In Many Ways the Organ of Speech
is Capable Of Giving Away"
Its Owner.

From the observations made a ply
siognomist it appears that the tongue
when quite still can be as eloquent
in giving its owner away as when it
is wagging sixteen to the dozen. This
Is hard fact for a silent man to Swal-
low-in silence. His only remedy is
to keep we'll SO as to obvlate the nee
4essary injunction CT the doctor to put
his tongue out, for by this thrust out
sign the doctor shall known him.
The tongue of the talker when OBJ
truded inclines to the right side of the
mouth, we are asked to believe,
whereas the seldom used tongue gray
itates to the left side. Orators, preach
s. ers and barristers are endowed with
right sided tongues Verbally parsi-
moniOus persons have left sided
tongues
Furthermore, the tongue that
shoots out straight without turning
or wavering indicates a solid, relia-
BILE man of affairs" Tongues that
turn up indicate impractical natures.
A downward, dropping tongue belongs
to person born to poverty and
ready eye for the hopeless side of
things
The cruel tongue fattens and
broadens when extended. The deli
cate speaking organ with curled up
edges is the property of an magma
tive and artistic being. When the
tongue issues forth as if gripped in
a dental wise it signifies a love of
life more than ordinary.
Finally we are warned that the in
dividual who thursts forth his tongue
to it's EXTREMIST .erge is a person to
whom no secret should ever be con-
fided, for he is an irresponsible chat
terer
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
Modern Flint and steel.

Auer Won Welsbach, the well-known
inventor of the incandescent gas man
tie has produced an alloy of iron and
thorium which possesses remarkable
properties When struck against a
piece of iron this alloy emits exceed
ingly bright sparks, produced by the
almost instantaneous oxidation of par
ticles detached by the blow. Sufficient
heat is developed to ignite finder in
stantly, without the repeated efforts
required by the old-fashioned flint. and
steel The new thorium flint" in
deed, may be called an everlasting
match. 1t will be very useful to ex-
plorers and tourists and should be
OF great value for the ignition of ex
plosiyes. for military and other pur
poses
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
The Caspian Sea.

Two thousand years ago Herodotus
said that the Caspian sea - across
which Russia has been hurrying
troops for Persia-was "a sea by it
self. having no connection with any
other But centuries after his time
such authorities as Strabo and Pliny
believed that 1t was connected with
the Northern ocean by long and mar
row gulf Geography seems to have
had setback in the interval through
false information received at the time
of Alexander's conquests. Herodotus
said that the Caspian's length was Is
days voyage with a rowboat, it's
breadth eight days Since the actual
figures are $50 miles and 400, this
shows that rowboat of the time did
20 miles day
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
A Great Character.

A great character, founded on the
living rock of principle, is. in fact,
not a solitary phenomenon, to be at
once perceived, limited and de-
scribed 1t is a dispensation of Prov
idence, designed to have not merely
an immediate, but continuous, pro-
gressive, never-ending agency. It
survives the man who possessed it;
survives his age-and perhaps his
country, his language.-Edward Ev.
erett
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
Clocks and Watches.

There is no record showing who
was the inventor of the present form
of clock, which was the successor of
the water clock, which was in domes-
tic use in the east for 1000 years
and which was improved by the
Greeks and Romans. The Saracens
are credited with substituting weight
for water to turn the toothed wheel
that recorded the time. The inven.
ton of an escapement is attributed to
Gerbert about A. d. 1000. Continual
improvements have been made since
then. The first watches were made
early in the sixteenth century by Peter
Hele, a clock maker of Nuremberg
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