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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-01-27

Who would not spent NIGHT wi
Burns! A hundred or more Scots
gathered at the Prescott School
of Music Tuesday night to honor Scot
lands immortal bard, and to celebrate
the anniversary of his birth. At 8
o'clock sharp, the members. and their
guests assembled and sat down at
long tables laden with dishes that
only the Scotch know hQ to make.
The president of theNclub, VIM.
Hetherton, ST., presided, and before
beginning upon the feast, all partici-
pated in repeating: ''.
Some haze meat and Gamma eat,
And some wad eat that want it.
But we haze meat, and we can eat,
And sac the Lord ne thankit."
The following excellent menu was
served: 5t d.. .l....
Haggis, soda scenes, potato scenes,
pickles, oatmeal cakes, sandwiches,
Scotch short bread, cake, cheese,
fruit, NUTS. coffee and tea. c..,.
"Oh, Lord, since we have tested
thus,
Which we SO little merit.
Let Meg now take away the flesh,
Ana Jack bring in the spirit.
Amen" .-.s t
The program, which was the most
Interesting ever yet given by this
club, consisted of the we'll known
Scotch songs, readings and addresses.
There Was a Lad" was the first
number rendered, all joining In this
rousing Scotch song.
VIM, Hetherton, ST., responded to
the toast: 1.-THE Immortal Memory"
which is given in complete form IN
another column.
Mrs. Roy Carnathan Of Granville,
SANG. annie Laurie" that song that
never fails to touch the heart Of every
true Scot. Mrs. Carnathan possesses
q rich, sweet, strong voice and was
compelled to respond to an encore
Mrs. William Murray gave Scotch
reading in her inimitable style. Mrs.
Murray's reading was as good an anna
teur effort as we have ever heard,
and could we'll place her In the pro
fessional class. -............
DR.. Brownlee and Miss Robb sang,
Hunting Tower" characteristic
Scotch duet. The doctor possesses a
sweet tenor voice, while Miss Robb's
clear, rich contralto completely cap
tiyated the audience. Miss R0bb has
taken a place among the best vocal
lists OF this city. # .u1 r..
John s. Wallace, Of Burlington.
gave an exceedingly clever Address
on the "Bagpipe," which Is given In
another column. Mr.. Wallace is q
ready writer and displayed rare bits Of
wit throughout his excellent number
VIM. Hetherton. ST., is q Scotch sin
ger Of more than ordinary ability. He
sang, "The Land O. the Lear in an
effective manner, and responded with
q Gallo song, of which the writer
could not understand a single word
yet which was interesting, bringing
down the house.
Miss Hazel McGregor's reading wat
excellent. Miss McGregor is one OF
our coming elocutionists.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-01-27

land she is had he not been. And
as the Bard himself has written,
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Tho they may gang little wrang,
TO step aside is human.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-01-27
Address of Mrs. Alex Scarlet

Address Of Mrs. Alex Scarlet
Mr. President and Members of the
Burns Club:
Tonight we meet in loving memo y
to celebrate the birthday of Robert
Burns, Scotland's immortal bard.
Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on the
25th of January, 1859 (near the banks
of Bonnie Doom and within sight of
XII X Aloway, made famous by his
poem, Tam O. Shanter), amidst the
direst poverty and squalid surround
ings.
His father, a splendid specimen Of
the Scottish yeOman or small farmer,
was a man of strong sense, serious,
affectionate iowa IDS his family and
of Calvinistic principles, without its
austerity From him he inherited the
superiority, and from his mother
+ (whom he 6 eatly resembled) ne
drew his lyric gifts, his wit, and mis-
mirth. Robert, the eldest of a fam
lily of seven, was expected 10 contrib
ute a large share towards helping
on the farm, but we find him at TIE
age of eleven fairly we'll educated, a
lover of books and great rcader.
(Like his father, he believed in edH.
cation) he kept Improving himself.
About seventeen his genius began
to assert itself. He louged for COM
partnership f ON his solitary and self.
contained environments with desire
to take his place among men in the
busy world, and at nineteen he has
ente ed into it with all its pleasures
and gaities. The hard labor and scr.
row at this period of his life was In a
great measure the cause of that de-
preston Of spirits which so often
afflicted him through his whole life
He grew up to manhood strong and
robust, even handsome, the eye alone
denoting the poetical temperament
dignified, with politeness and sim
plicity of manner which received
part of it's effect perhaps from ones
knowledge of his extraordinary tai
ents.
In conve station he was powerful
His conceptions and expressions
wree vigorous and on all subjects
were as remote as possible from
commonplace. byron ranks him as
the very first in his art" and the
world agrees as to his character and
genius.
There is no need for anyone now
I adays to say what Bnrns was OF
was not. This he has told us him
self a hundred times in immorta
language. With proud consciousness
he gloried in the virtues which God
had bestowed upon him, and owned
in prostration of spirit that the light
which led him ast:ay was not al
ways the light from Heaven. None
but the most narrow minded bigots
think OF his errors and frailties blu,
with sympathy and Indulgence. None
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-01-27
TOAST.

,s. TOAST.
The Immortal Memory Of "Robert
, Burns"
(Wm. Hethert0n.)
It is easy for us to think OF Burns
as man without an education We
have so long been accustomed to hear
about the poverty of his home and the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25

band" both of which sentiments PROP
ably occurred TO the beasts, the bros
and the fishes "on that wedding
MORN in the Garden where the four
great rivers flow
SO the Lady OF Avenel had
ly withdrawn herself from inter
course with the ~neighborlng famliles
of distinction. and lived q monotonou>
existence, She had the superlntend-
ence of her household, to be sure
the baking and the brewing. the SPIN
ming and the weaving and such ike
matters to occupy her time. For IN
olden times a lady was a housewife
as We'll. and even a duchess did not
disdain the affairs OF the kitchen or
neglect to keep a strict SUPERVISION
of her domestics. But it was a Wearl-
some life. The castle was Ia III
a lake, and was approached by a
| causeway being broken by two
trenches spanned by drawbridses,
| which. when raised, made the place.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25

SO matters stood al tho castle 81
Avenel whom one day q boy OF a'aout
10 years old. who had Nentufed too
far into the lake and was near drown
ing. was rescued and brought = the
castle. He was d beautiful and high
spiritqd child. and the CniidiesS LADY
Avenel felt her heart go out to MIN
The boy had come TO the Village Oh
the lake shore with a weird ana an
cfent N stern OF demeanor, VINO
called herself his grandmother. Inc
woman did not apparently want for
money. but all else pertaining to her
VA. a mystery. So much the LADY .!
Avenel learned upon her inquiry, ana
when, hearing of the LANCER n the
rescue. of her young charge, the
woman came to the castle ana Had al
interview with the lady, and she iearh-
ed little more.
"MagdaIen Graeme IS my n1me
said the stern woman, Il como OF The
Graemes Of H~eathersili, III Nl"noi
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25

tunes, whom it pleased the aristocracy
Of the neighborhood to speak OF as an
~"ernobled peasant the lady saw bu,
little of the neighbors of her own
rank. For society" was the same IN
Scotland in q half baTbarous age as
in h most splendid city Of modern
times, having such a holy horror OF
'climbers' rs to excite a suspicion or
the solidity of its own foundations
SO, though Ha1bert argued that he
vas of really ancient lineage and much
more entitled to consideration as far
as blood went than the first Hay OF
LOncarty who b~equeathed his bloody
yoke to his lineage or the dark gray
man who founded the house of
Douglass, yet the Border nobility per
sisted in considering that the heiress
Of Avenel had married below her.
and the women would persist in pity
ing her to her face or in giving utter
ance to that Very original thought. "a
woman takes the rank OF her hus-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25

Sir Walter Scott not only knew
when lac Il made "a failure, but
frankly acknowledged it. His novel
,f ..1Ie Monastery was One OF his
f;t urc~. ana though while he had
when writing ii high hopes Of it he
did not hesitate TO say afterWard that
The book Soid not because OF its own
merits. but because OF the reputation
it, author had acquired by other
otorics. BUT Sir Waiter was not q
man 10 SIT down by q failure and
muysrr. He was conscious, he SAID,
that not to advance was i'll some meas
ur<. to recedc: hat he was far from
believing that the brains Of an author
were like a pan OF milk with only one
raising OF cream in them: that from
the time of Ehauccr TO those OF Byron
tiac most successful authors had been
Tie most profile, and he proposed to
keep On turning ont stories liz spite OF
the failure he had made with The
NIonaeterN.'' SO sirdilg on his arsnor
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25

IN those DAYS. absolutely impregnable
except by artillery.
Those were troublous times-tr.
times OF the Regent Murray. when
Queen Mary was a prisoner in Loeb
leVen and her bastard brother ruled
IN her stead. aspiring to the crown.
The bitter feud between the old reli-
glon and the ragged ficrcely all
over Scotland, and, tie kirk being on
top. the church got but scant mercy
II was q tlne Of putting down the
mighty from their seats and of exalt-
ing them Of low degree. There was q
small garrison in the castle and a
chaplain OF the most ~viTulent C~alvinis-
tic bent, who. when o INDUCING in
al acrimonious written contest with
AbbOt iIuStatiuS OF the ~neighbOring
convent OF Kennaquhair upon theolo-
gical points. relieved the gloom Of the
castle With long hon1ilies Il the d0meN-
ties ana much stern advice delivered
to his lady
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again the doughty BoTdcPer ~,re-cntcr-
ed the fray with what success is attest
ed by the long. list of tales
which followed upon The cluInSily con-
Strtkcted and rather tireSOIne "Nxn-
astcry.' Even in THE Abbot Scott
does not seem to haye got his kIlacl<
of construction back: but the novel
contains q series of mastery pictures
of the life and the people of the time
of the Regent Murray, and it wa his
great s~uccess~in ~pOrtraying the charac-
Ter of Mary Queen of Scots which in
duced him to try his hand at Elm
beth and give the world kenilWorth.
1t was but a lonely life that the
Lady Of Avenel lived In her ancestral
castle IN the lake on the Scottish bor-
der. Her husband, Sir Halbert Glen
dinnins. was attached to the immedi>
ate service of the Regent Murray,
whose business kept the knight most
Of the time from home, and as Hal
bert was the. architect of his own for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
AFTER BIG CONVENTIONS.
Chamber of Commerce Considering
Plans for 1911.

The board of directors of the Washing
ton Chamber Of Commerce Will CONSIDER
at a meeting this afternoon at 4:3o ociock'
m the chambers Offices the plan suggest
ed by the conventions committee OF the
chamber to bring to Washington large
conventions, particularly the 1911 conven-
lions of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers and the International Typo
graphical Union.
The committee has asked the board 10
appropriate $3.50 so that three members OF
the Chamber Of Commerce may be sent
to st. Paul in June to extend to the
Brotherhood of Engineers an invitation
to come to Washington and to show the
reasons why this city should be CHOSEN
above all others.
Granville Hunt is chairman OF the ex-
position committee, and In the event OF
Favorable action by the board Of directors
today he will call an early meeting OF his
committee.
The manufacturers committee OF the
chamber, of which Robert n. Harper Is
chairman. is also planning an active
campaign to show to capitalists the ad-
visibility Of establishing factories near
WASHINGTON. The committee has ap-
pcinted an elimination committee, COM
posed of F. c. Graham, John L. weaver
and Thomas Grant, to consider the propo-
sitions Of all manufacturing concerns
which intend locating in Washington, Sc
lectjng only those that are the most de-
sirable to be presented to the chamoer
fer Endorsement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
HOGS HIGH; CORN CHEAP
SOUTH DAKOTA MAN EXPLAINS
PRICE CONTRADICTION.
Farmers Sold Of Hogs; Now There
Aren't Enough to Eat
the Corn.

Pork Is high because there are not
enough hogs to supply the demand and
corn is low because there are not enough
hogs to eat the supply" declared Peter
w. Peterson Of Clay county, South Da-
kota, before the Senate committee on the
cost of living, this morning. He was
presenting figures and presenting his rea-
sons to show why pork chops and pork
roasts cost the consumer so much more
now than a few years ago.
Mr.. Peterson 10 O specialist in hog rats
ing. conducting a 64O-acre farm accord
ing to scientific methods and making q
speciality of raising hogs for the market
In giving the prices at which he sod
hogs during the past ten years, he said
they brought him $3.50 per hundred
uAlly increased to $6.53 last year. Dur
ing the current year, up to April 20, he
said, the price has been $3.50.
The prices of corn, which Is the CHIEF
food used to fatten the hogs for the
market, were next outlined.
The average price of corn was 20 cents
per bushel in 1900. increased steadily to
5ek cents in 1909 and has fallen for this
year to 45 cents. When the price Of corn
became 50 high. he said, the farmers sold
their hogs, with the intention of selling
their corn at the high figure. Even young
hogs were sent to the slaughter houses.
As q result Of this practice of the farm
ers there followed shortage Of the foun-
dalton stock to produce pork. Therefore,
the prices Of hogs have gone up. With a
smaller number Of hogs to eat corn the
demand for that grain fell OF, and so the
price has tumbled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
WOULD REMAIN IN SENATE.
Culberson Announces His Desire for
Another Term.

Senator Culberson today made definite
announcement of his candidacy to sue
coed himself. In making the announce
rnent he says that his physician advises
him that he will, within a short time,
be completely restored to his usual
health.
Senator Culberson has also taken the
necessary steps to having his name
placed On the official ballot for the July
primaries.
Under the Texas election law q candi-
date for the United States senatorship
must make application to the chairman
of the executive committee of the party
in every county In the state. A letter
has therefore been sent to each of the
245 county chairmen in the state
Senator Culberson is still at the sana-
forum In northern New York. and en-
couragfng reports are received as to his
health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25

form audience than for the flower OF
Partisan intellectuals. AT the same time,
all concede that the sound and healthy
gospel is doubly welcome. as the Daily
Graphic remarks, because the world Is
waking to the consciousness of intel
lectual and moral hunger which only
these truths can satisfy
In the same strain the Chronicle dis
cusses the source of Roosevelt's unques-
toned power and influence. 1t says: HE
is not subtle thinker, but knows that
the majority of mankind like to hear the
eternal verities Numbered at them through
a megaphone. He knows also that his
preachings. If universally practiced, would
mean q regenerated world. and large
part of the effect they produce comes
rom the knowledge that Roosevelt does
practice what he breaches, and that the
qualities he recommends he has himself
displayed before all mems eyes with as
founding results
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
The Easement Craze.
From the Queen

From the Queen.
There is an element which has come
into existence during the last few years
known "a new art The way the tenn
ples consecrated to it's cult are known IL
by their long easements. The chief ar
ticla In the credo Of the opponents Of this
new art seems to be that you are all
right IL you have q room with long
easement filled UP with panes OF diamond
loaded glass and easement curtain
olive green for choice-drawn half way
across the opening. 1t Is no matter
vhaf the size or character of your room
NAV be. It must not have windows. but
casements. II you wish to be accepted
as one Of the elect you must also, no
matter what the character of your room
NAV be. take care that the walls are
done I'D in rough brown papers, as
though il was your intention to paste q
Ia hal on them and send them of by ex-
nress to their destination when you found
time to search for string. Now. one OF
the easement windows IL in its right and
natural place in q cottage, the ceilings
Of which are necessarily low-not, per-
hans, so low as those OF the house In
ireland, where nothing but plaice could
he nut on the dining table, but still low
enough for the windows to be good
deal broader than they are high: 1t Is.
however, absurdly out Of place In a
large apartment with a moderately high
ceiling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
THIRD DEGREE" PROBE
SENATE COMMITTEE FOR IN
CURRY INTO METHODS.
Bill to Be Reported Also Calls for
Investigation Of Jury
Espionage.

An investigation Of the so-called police
third degree and Of the alleged espion-
age of jurors maintained by the govern
on judiciary.
Following a discussion in the commit
tee today. Senator Sutherland wes in
structed to report to the Senate a reso-
luton providing for the appointment OF
q committee of five senators to make
such an investigation. The committed
is to have broad powers and Is to be
given power to sit during recesees OF
Congress.
The committees action is the result OF
the resolution introduced by Senator
Hepburn several weeks ago, which wal
based on published accounts Of third
degree" methods used by the police o,
In connection with the murder OF Jane
Adams. That resolution provided for a
committee of three and for an inve:tiga'
ton Of only the third degree" methods.
Scope Of Inquiry Enlarged.
The resolution which the Senate com
mittee decided to report enlarges the
committee to Ave, and also increases the
scope Of the inquiry.
The second branch Of the inquiry re-
suited from Developments during the hear
ing on the protests against the confirma-
ton of Robert T. Devlin as United States
attorney for the northern district Of Cal
ifornia. It was alleged that the govern
ment maintained an espionage OF jurors
so that the Jurors were watched DURING
tha continuation of trials and were epied
upon in many ways In an ehort to intimi-
date them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
IN FAVOR Of DR.. HYDE
DRUGGIST TESTIFIES COL. SWOPE
TOOK STRYCHNINE.
Girl Whom Physician Is Said to
Have Poisoned Begins Her
Testimony.

| KANSAS CITY, April 25.-There was
nothing harmful about the strychnine
| tonic which Col. Swope was accustomed
| to take, testified 0. H. Gentry. an In
dependence CMo) druggist, in the Hyde
| murder trial today. This druggist filled
the prescription for James Moss Hunton
for many years Hunton induced Col
Swope to take the medicine.
This tonic, said Mr.. Gentry, is a
general one for building up the system
and adding red corpuscles to the blood.
1t contains a small amount OF strych-
nine, but is harmless
AS he talked he held in his hand a
five-ounce bottle of the medicine. Proof
that he had faith In his medicine was
not lacking. for, occasionally he I'M
corked the bottle and took a. drink Of
the contents.
Besides compounding the tonic, Mr..
Gentry said he sold Mr.. Hunton many
other kinds Of medicine which went
contained cyanide of potassium. or other
poison in dangerous quantities, he said,
Dr. Hyde wrote some Of these prescrip-
TONS December Q. however. said the
druggist, he sold to some of the 8wope
family two tubes of hypodermic strych-
nine.
BY proving the coloners habit Of taking
the tonic, the defense expected to ex-
plain the alleged presence Of strychnine
in the body.
DR. Hyde Faces Miss swops.
Dr. Hyde faced the first Of his alleged
victims shortly before noon today, when
Miss Margaret Swope took the stand.
The physician is indicted on three counts
charging him with poisoning her.
No witness that has been before the
jury has interested DR.. Hyde and his
wife SO much as this girl. Both followed
the witness closely and watched her care
fully.
The testimony Of Miss Swope this morn
ing was uninteresting in the main. She
had just begun to discuss her illness
when court adjourned for the noon re-
cess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
1MAGINES HIMSELF MURDERER
Seven Years Fugitive, While Sup.
posed Victim Lived.

PlTTSBURG. Pa. April 25.-For seven
years oliver Mckinley formerly of Pitts
burg, has imagined himself q murderer,
say the police, but he Is not. The st.
Louis MOI police have him under arrest
and have reported here that he has con
fessed to woman there Of killing a man
in Pittsburg saloon August 81, 1903
On the date named Mckinley stabbed
man in saloon here. according to DO
lice records. and fled. leaving the man Tor
dead. The victim, George Geltxheiser, a
fellow-employe with Mckinley at local
packing house, pulled through, however,
and has lived peacefully most of the seven
years that Mckinley has probably i'm
agined him dead. Mckinley has roamed
the country. but the police had never got
definite track of him and had long ago
given up the search.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-25
Tremendous impression in
France Caused by Address

PARIS. April 25-At the close Of Mr..
Rcosevelt's lecture in the Sorbonne Sat
urday some one In the gallery Kissed, but
this passed unnoticed In the applause. II
has since been learned that 1t was an
Egyptian, who later explained that he
desired to protest by this means against
the speech which the ex-President de-
livered at Cairo.
This lecture has created a tremendous
impression in France. The newspapers,
In spite of the fact that the electoral
campaign closed Saturday, devote an i'm
mense amount of space to 1t and Col.
Roosevelt's doings
With the exception OF some mocking
criticism by free lances, such as Henri
Rochefort, editor of Patrie, and Ernest
Judet of Eclair, the papers of all shades
of opinion ring with approval Of the doc
trines of civic morality expounded by
the ex-President. Some OF the ultra
Catholic organs are silent, but others
dwell especially upon Mr.. Roosevelt's
definition Of the rights OF the minority.
The Temps declares that the impression
produced is all the greater because Mr.
Roosevelt did not present theories that hi
1t finds many lessons therein for France
and concludes with an appeal to France
to take the advice OF an honest mar
whose deeds and life during thirty year.
qualify him to speak"
The Journal des Debats says that Mr.
Roosevelts words are the echo Of the ole
Puritan spirit which made a conquerint
England. and bear strange Significance
when he reaches a sane and vigorou.
life, OF which he is the embodiment, to 81
many unbalanced people. probity to po
liticians and common sense to those who
are seeking after Utopia.
Our great democracies.' says the pa
per. "are experiments. From the begin
ming they leaned toward corruption
Roosevelts simple and energetic languag,
is that OF Hercules, armed not with 6
club, but a broom at the door OF the Au
gean stable"
nifcent Lesson" says: 1--WE have few mel
in France with energy equal to Mr.
Roosevelt's, but thousands upon thou
sands who think as he does