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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-06-11

MetHuuISI EplSCUpHI Oily MIS-
sions, Arlington Park. s. 8. and
preaching, gao. Center Street
Mission, Sunday school, 2:30 p,
m. Park Sunday school, 10 a,
m, preaching IL a. m, e. L. 6:46
p. m, preaching 1880 p. M: Re-
gents Park, s. 8. 3 p. m, preach
ing 1880 p. m; Keystone, 8. s
3 p. m; Firwood, s. s. 10 a. m.
preaching IL a. M; LIE Sourd. s
s. 10 a. m, preaching IL a. m
and 7:30 d. m.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30

you're giving limitations of the old Arab
guy that gave away-libraries in Bag
dad Well, now, can you whistle up a
fairy that'll solve this hen query or
not?"
When the young man ceased the mar
grave arose and paced to and fro by
the park bench for several minutes.
Finally he sat again, and said, in grave
and impressive tones:
"I must confess, sir, that during the
eight years that I have spent in search
of adventure and in relieving distress L
have never encountered a more In
teresting or a more perplexing case l
fear that l have overlooked hens in my
researches and observations. AS to
their habits, their times and manner
of laying, their many varieties and
cross-breedings, their span of life,
their"
"Oh, don't make an Ibsen drama of
it!' interrupted the young man, flip
PANTY. Riddles-especially old Hide
brant's riddles-don't have to be worked
out seriously. They are light themes
such as Sim Ford and Harry Thurs
ton Peck like to handle. But, some
how, I can't strike just the answer.
Tomorrow will tell. Well, your maj
esty, I'm glad anyhow that you butted
in and whiled the time away. I guess
Mr.. AL Raschid himself would have
bounced back if one of his constituents
had conducted him up against this rid
die. I'll say good night. Peace fo'
yours, and what-you-may- calls-its of
Allah"
The margrave, with a gloomy air,
held out his hand.
st cannot express my regret" he said,
sadly. "Never before have 1 found my
self unable to assist in some way.
What kind of a hen lays the long
est?' 1t is a battling problem. There
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30

Bill Watson came in first.
"Vell,' said Hildebrant, shaking all
over with the vile conceit of the joke
maker, "haf you guessed him? Vat
kind of a hen lays der longest"
"Er-why I think So" said Bill, rub
bling a servile chin. 81 think So Mr.
Hildebrant-the one that lives the
longest Is that right?"
"Nein!" said Hildebrant, shaking his
head violently. you hat not guessed
der answer"
Bill passed on and donned a bedtick
apron and bachelorhood.
In came the young man of the Ara
bian Nights f1asco-pale, melancholy,
hopeless.
"Ven" said Hildebrant, "haf you
guessed him? Vat kind of hen lays
der longest?"
Simmons regarded him with dull
savagery in his eye. Should he curse
this mountain of pernicious humor-
curse him and die? Why should But
there was Laura.
Dogged, sueechless, he thrust his
hands into his coat pockets and stood.
His hand encountered the strange
touch of the margrave's card. He
drew it out and looked at it, as men
about to be hanged look at a crawling
fly. There was written on it in Quigg's
bold round hand: Good for one roast
chicken to bearer"
Simmons looked up with a flashing
eye.
"A dead one," said he.
"Goot!" roared Hildebrant, rocking
the table with giant glee. dot is
right! You gone at mine house at
o'clock to der party"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30
FRATERNITY AND HOSPITALITY

Let us walk round the corner from
the American embassy on Avenue Kle-
Der to the Rue Galilee. What is this
fine little park, 50OX1O0O feet-the
place des Etats Unis?" Why should
there be such a choice place, so beau
tifully shaded with plane trees, adorned
with statuary and ornam ented with
borders and seats, in the heart OF
Paris, named after the United States?
Let us see that group in marble at
the head of the place. 1t is fine
sculpture, of heroic size, of George
Washington grasping the hand of La
fayette, while behind them sand the
banners of tire two republics of the
United States and France. 1t is by
Bartholdi, the famous French s2ulp-
tor and is done with spirit and life.
Does it touch your American heart
bit that on this foreign soil and in the
midst of this strange city and people
you see your splendid Washinet0n
standing in perfect fraternity with
their splendid Lafayette in the Place
des Etats Unis? Come down, now, two
blocks further, to the broad "Place
d'Jena" the center of one of the fin
est residence quarters of Paris. what
as this? A majestic equestrian statue
of Washington in the center of the
place. Good" you say. 81 begin to
feel at home in this ety." Just tn re
on the Champs Elysees opens fine
street where you see with its white
letters Rue Washington" read by
every passenger along this finest av-
enue in the world.
Come now to the great "Place Troc-
adero," 1000 feet from the Place d'Jena,
and here against a green bank is the
bronze statue of a great man seated
and smiling as he looks out over that
wonderful space, the grand entree of
two worlds expositions. Who is this
man? BENJAMIN Franklin, and the
bronze reliefs on the pedestal repre-
sent his reception at the court of
France in ITS as ambassador and
the signing of the treaty of Paris in
1855. The inscription on the front de-
clares that he was the sage who
brought light to two continents. The
blue street sign at the corner behind
the statue reads. "Rue Franklin" and
not far on in the street is a plaque
upon a house indicating that Frank
lin lived here from 1877 till 1855 and
on that roof placed the first lightning
rod ever made in France
"Glorious" you say. ut warns my
heart towards France" And YOU look
down on the great Passy bridge that
spans the Seine below you and catch
the sunglint from statue in bronze,
a replica of the colossal Liberty En-
tightening the World" in New York
harbor. which the French nation gave
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30

leave France than any other country
of Europe, and more who do leave 1t
return to it, is an unanswerable proof
of their contentment at home. And
such a country is always attractive
to travellers.
At the Metro Gum foreground "a lway)
station one afternoon in the rush for
tickets you give for fare % centime
piece which is imperfect. You have
just received it at another Metro sta
ton, and speaking French poorly 1t is
hard to explain to the ticket seller,
and before you can do SO or get an
other coin from your pocket, a big,
good natured Partisan pays the fare,
pushes you forward and slips away in
the crowd with a side remark to 9TH
ers, "He is a stranger" Anything and
everything for the stranger seems to
he the spirt of the real Par'sian and
as an example of it, in the Sorbonne,
with it's $1,000 students, one-third of
whom are from foreign lands, the
strangers are ever the first considera-
ton both of French students and pro-
fessors. Such monuments as the AL
exander III bridge, one of the most
beautiful br dyes existing, bull to
commemorate the alliance with Rus
STA, with many such memorials
throughout the city in marble and
stone and bronze, and the evidence
seen also In many DeautlIuI gOlQ anu
silver medals in the m Mt are parts of
the proof of the fraternal and hospit-
able spirit of the French toward
other nations.
And the reason FIR this sp rit is not
only found in the native Gallo dispo-
sition-the happy nature which de-
sires to please and make others hap
py-but is also hereditary in Paris as
a city. The foremost savant in city
lore now living says that 1.-THE Twelve
Masters of Paris played Din the
twelfth century, a role in medieval
poetry analogous to the Seven
Sages" in ancient Greece, and that for
it's early cosmopolitan character was
chiefly indebted to it's university to
which flocked the students of all ma
tions to hear it's most accomplished
professors. 1.-THE great Fore du I en-
dit he'd each June in the plain be-
tween Paris and ST. Denis" Ca sub
urb) brought visitors from all Eu
rope and was the prototyrs Of the
modern worlds faiars in VIII oh Paris
is foremost,
The care of the stranger is tn S easy
and natural and is a rlking element
in Partisan life today and this spirit
of fratern ty has been increased and
maintained in mod IN times. Pa is
STAYS at home more than any great
city and yet entertatins more strangers
than any other city.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30
PARIS AS SEEN BY AN AMERICAN
D
BY CHARLES D. MERRILL

to the United States and that has
greeted for a quarter century every
foreigner and every Homecoming
American entering that principal port
Down in the middle court of the
Louvre stands a magnificent statue
of Lafayette given by the school chill
dren of America, set up and unveiled
in 1900, within that court of the rich
est treasure house of the world, where
every day of every year stream of
the whole worlds pilgrims pass into
that unveiled shrine of unrivaled arch
itecture and art.
In the Victor Hugo house in the
Place Vorges your eye lights with
pleasure on a photograph of Abraham
Lincoln and a letter of appreciation
from that martyr of liberty to the
heroic French author. In choice
park you find a characteristic statue
of Lincoln, and everywhere in shops
and kiosks the faces of Roosevelt and
Taft, and as you take your stand in
the Place de FOpera, in the heart of
Paris heart of life, you wonder If
you are not in New York. Standing
sauarely in front of the Grand opera
house you turn on your heel from
right to left. That first corner is
placarded with the sign american
Express Co." where reading rooms,
X, DOSIOIIlCe, llhel anu GApICoo VI
fees are ready to do business with all
their customers. just as at home. The
next corner is the office of the Amer
lean steamship companies-where six
great lines will receive you or send
you from almost any port of Europe
Four doors below is the sign of the
American chamber of commerce OF
Paris, and over the doorways of the
next great building, the Grand hotel,
you see American grill room, Amerl-
can bar, American restaurant, ana
straight across the Avenue Opera is
"The American consulate" Chicago
Daily News, New York Herald, Brook
lyn Eagle, a half dozen American in
surance companies and a score Of
great firms of the United States And
in all these places and on the streets
before them your countrymen are
everywhere in evidence, and you feel
that you have the KEYS of the city
and are welcome to it's unbounded hos
pitality.
over in the Sorbonne an Amer can
professor from Harvard college is Civ
ing twenty-five clear and thrilling lee
lures on American history to French
and American students, and the ses-
sions are crowded to the doors. You
are introduced to scores of Americans,
who tell you that they came to stay
a month in Paris and have stayed a
year and many have prolonged their
soiourn three or four years.
Forty-seven thousand citizens of the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30

is a hen, I believe, called the Plymouth
Rock that
"Cut it out" said the young man.
'"The Caliph trade is a mighty serious
one I don't suppose you'd even see
anything funny in a preachers defense
of John D. Rockefeller. We'll, good
night, your nibs."
From habit the margrave began to
tumble in his pockets. He drew forth
a card and handed it to the young man.
do me the favor to accept this, any
how" he said. 1.-THE time may come
when it might be of use to you"
"Thanks" said the young man, pock-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30

United States were in Paris on a given
day of last July, when count was
made from hotel and pension registers,
and thousands are always here. Just
so of all civilized nations-each for
eigner sees around him the monuments
and reminders, the conveniences and
customs of his home land to such
degree that he feels at home. The
spirit of fraternity lays strong hold
upon him if he tarries even a month
in this marvellous city so fraternal
and hospitable in it's reception of
strangers.
There were about quarter of
million people of other nations in Paris
all the time. Though diverse in re-
ligious belief, different in political
creed, strange in habit and method of
life, each foreigner is welcomed with
such fraternity and hospitality that he
feels a proprietorship in the city after
one weeks stay. He feels welcome,
he enjoys the visit, he tarries longer
than he expected, he comes again.
There is a great colony of Russians,
with their splendid churches and hotels
and societies-as much at home as in
Russia. colony of Turks who have
spent most of their life in Paris.
Scores of thousands of Italians, Span
ish English, Austrian, Dutch, Ameri-
can sojourners. No other city in the
world could entertain the whole world
at four universal eXpositions within
half a century and stand the strain
upon it's hospitality and purse, for
probably on each occasion there was
financial loss. The city is indeed a
continual worlds exposition in itself,
with its quarter of a million strangers,
of a deeply friendly and fraternal
spirit No city offers such free public
entry to all it's museums, galleries,
public buildings and parks as Paris.
1t is the everyday sight in the Louvre
and other great galleries of art to s e
bonnetless servant girls and the hum
blest garcon viewing the pictures and
sculptures, and admiring the splendid
rooms and jewels and historic relics.
The governments of the city and re-
public believe that those who cannot
afford to pay a franc for the enjoy
ment of these treasures are just the
ones who need to see them as an edu-
cation in loyalty and appreciation of
the splendid advantages which their
own city offers in comparison with the
world. And you see therefore, in the
people themselves an appreciation OF
their own city and land which pre-
vents emigration to other lands, and
contentment with their surroundings
that is seldom seen in other cities. This
makes them more ready and able to
render the sojourn of the stranger
among them agreeable and protracted,
for the very fact that fewer emigrants
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30

citing it carelessly. my name is Sim
mons"
Shame to him who would hint that
the readers interest shall altogether
pursue the Margrave August Michael
Won Paulsen Quigg. 1 am indeed
astray if my hand fail in keeping the
way where my perusers heart would
follow. Then let US, on the morrow,
peep quickly in at the door of Hide
brant, harness maker.
Hildebrant's 200 pounds reposed on a
bench, silver buckling a raw leather
martingale.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30
LITTLE AND BIG

Can't keep from laughing when we
see a little bit of man with great
big look of disgust on his face.-Gal-
weston Tribune.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
The Stimulus Of Rebuffs.

Hard conditions, desperate circum-
stances, great poverty and hardships
have ever developed the giants of the
race. The resources, the powerful re-
serves lie too deep in many people to
be aroused, awakened by any ordinary
conditions or circumstances. These
people are like the great Maximite
shells that can be thrown about with
impunity, that children may play with,
but which require the terrific impact
caused by being fired through the steel
of a warship to explode them.
It takes a great crisis, a tremendous
emergency to explode the giant pow
er in many people.
Some natures never come to them
selves, never discover their real
strength until they meet with opposi.
ton or failure. Their reserve of pow.
er lies so deep within them that any
ordinary stimulus does not arouse it.
But when they are ridiculed, "sat
down upon,' or when they are abused,
insulted, a new force seems to be born
in them, and they do things which be
fore would have seemed impossible.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
Half a Conversation.

"Yassir," said the negro, through
the borrowed telephone. He stood on
one foot in the drug store and talked
in his natural voice. which made the
bottles Jingle on the shelves. The nu-
merous people in the store heard all
he said as a natural consequence, but
could not hear the conversation at the
other end. They deduced, however,
from the negro's remarks that he was
talking with his boss and that he was
a teamster by profession.
"Yessuh," he SAID, II tried dat"
"Yessuh. De ma-a-n. wifi de plug hat
he tried dat"
mo, sub. He amt much hunt. His
nose is busted"
"Yessuh. De iii boy he amt hunt
none a-tall; jes' jolted."
"Yessuh. De school teacheh. Hit
to- his close up some"
Fire? Yessuh. Not much,
no subj"
"He moved a little bit. Yessuh."
"Yessuh. One O. de wheels wuz
burnt a little"
1.-TWO O. de wheels. Yessuh.
Well, sub, de wagin hit buhned up.
No, sub. Dey amt muffin lef'."
de muel? Yessuh."
"He dab yit. Yessuh."-Dallas
(Tex.) News.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
Errorless TeIepnone Talk.

For a long time telephone compa-
MES have instructed their operators to
use the word co. instead of the nu-
neral "naught." This is intended to
do away with errors. For instance,
"Five-double-O Height" comes more GER
tainly ver the telephone than five
thousand and eight" or "ffty-naught-
eight" Following this, an effort is
being made to identify the digit
three" by thrilling the RS. Wher-
ever three" occurs in a telephone
number, the operators in some of the
large exchanges now trill the word
so that it becomes "thr-r-r-ee." The
purpose of this is far from being az
fectation, but a laborious effort to
identify this numeral at least so that
it may not be confused with others.
If some method could be devised sim
ilarly to differentiate five" and
"nine,' telephone traffic managers
would rejoice. With the same long
vowel sound and with an indistinct as
pirate in the case of "five." these
numbers are often confused; and err
rors result In making connections.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
NEW INCORPORATION

LIST Of New Business Enterprises il
the States.
Alfred Blaisdell, secretary of state,
has issued charters to the following
corporations:
Scandal American bank, Palermo.
capital stock $4,000.
Independent Farmers Grain Co.,
Palermo, capital stock $25, 200.
Neville Hardware Grain Co., capital
stock $4,000.
Farmers & Merchants State bank,
Lakota, capital stock $25, 900.
Farmers State bank, Drake, capital
stock $4,000.
Deering State bank increased capital
1ock from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Westhope Drug Co., capital
stock $4,000.
Grand Rapids Farmers Elevator Co..
capital stock $25, 900.
The G.. A. Olson Co., Hansboro, CAPT.
tai stock $4,000.
Taylor Commercial cub, Taylor.
Farmers Cooperative Elevator Co.
aries, capital stock 5000.
Lloyd Coal Co., Minot, capital stock
s7O,O q.
Dakota Land and Townsite Co., Car
rington, capital stock $4,000.
Eckelson Farmers Elevator Co.. cap
ital stock $40, 600.
The Portland Automobile Co., Port
land, capital stock $50, 900.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
Romantic Story from Vienna.

ME ssA
A creepy and romantic story comes
from Vienna. In relation to the
charge against Lieut.. Hofrichter, the;
Austrian army officer who was ar
rested several weeks ago for attempt
ing to kill a number of officers of the
general staff by sending them poison
through the post, a commission was
sent to exhume the body of Johanna;
Amlacher, his former sweetheart, who;
died suddenly under suspicious circum-
stances, five years ago. In view Of
Lieut.. Hofrichter's present position, 1T
was thought possible that a box Of,
chocolates which he sent her just be-
fore her death may have contained,
poison. When the coffin was opened
the myrtle wreath which is put on the
heads of girls who die while they are;
engaged to be married was still rest
ing on her hair, and at the side of the.
body lay the last love letter written
by Lieut.. Hofrichter.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
Farmer Dead In WAGON.

JamestOwn.-While the family was
moving its goods to the farm for the
summer on Thursday afternoon, George
Devolde, who has been living here with
his son, John Devolde, was found dead
in the wagon. Mr.. Devolde, who was
81 years of age, was seated beside his
daughter-in-law and was thought to be
as well as usual until she turned to
speak to him and discovered he was
dead.
Coroner Guest was at once called
and termed the Of the death
heart disease. The man had been suf-
fering with trouble with his heart for
several years.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
Not Entirely useless.

The young kindergarten teacher was
trying to impress upon her wee
charges the value of having the full
number of fingers bestowed upon them
by good Mother Nature. "Just turn
in all your fingers but one and play
that it is the only one you have.
Now, what would any of you do with
only one finger" True to her expec-
tations all looked down at their lone
digit in a panic of helplessness. But
Micky Finn was not troubled for
hax. AS he pondered the subject, a
g,e~t possibility dawned upon him.
"shure an OF cud sthick ut in tn
m and oom an nivver be throubled
lit tn rist av him."--Delineator.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-03-24
A REA HIGHWAY.
Missouri River May be Used to Sup
ply Cheap Fuel to Many States.

HHga wv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of this city
are interested in the work being done
by the business men of FIT. Pierre and
Pierre, S. D., to develop river traffic on
the Missouri. With the immense de-
posits of coal or land adjoining the
river North Dakota ought to be able
to supply a very cheap fuel of good.
quality to the territory along the
route.
G. E. Deland, who has had charge
Of the river part Of the work, said this
Investigations had brought out the
possibilities Of the carrying business
On the Missouri with proper develop
ment. The river at the head of navi-
cation would be the nearest water port
by hundreds of miles for the grain
traffic Of the Canadian northwest, as
well as for Montana and the Dakotas.
The system Of barges being constructed
at st. Louis for river carrying trade
shows the practicability Of carrying
large corgoes of bulky freight on the
Missouri river. Mr.. DeLand predicted
that the day will come when the grain
carrying trade Of the northwest will be
down the Missouri to the gulf, as the
cheapest way to the markets of the
world, either in Europe or Asia.
p. F. Mcclure, who has been inves-
tigating the coal proposition in con-
nection with the matter Of water
transportation, has collected data
which are sources of wonder to
those who have looked as a small pro-
position. He has gone into the matter
far enough to find that the coal of
the Dakotas is to play a large part in
the fuel problem of the country. MI.
Mcclure says:
"Lignite can be machine mined by
contract labor or a large scale at q
maximum cost Of 60 cents a ton. I
venture to predict that there will be
very little Pennsylvania coal sold in
these states three years from now.
We are laying the foundation for,
making the Dakotas the foremost
fuel-producing states in the union"
The construction of a craft Of pro-
portions to handle traffic along the
river would cost approximately $12,-
900, and there is no question longer
as to the raising Of funds at Pierre and
at Fort Pierre to construct one OF
more such boats. A company will be
organized at an early date, and con-
struction work will be commenced
next fall.