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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
PAPA's POSITION SET FORTH
Explanation of Youthful Suitor That
Doubtless Satisfied Father of His
Adored One.

eyes, sir" said the pale youthful
sutton; Give come to ask you for your
daughters hand. She is fair as Ill
les, sweet as honeysuckle, tender as
violet, charming"
"Is that Mary you are talking
about?" asked papa.
Yes, sir. It is a mere Formally, l
know, this asking for your daughters
hand; but we thought it would be
pleasant to you if it were observed"
Mary's papa stiffened.
And may 1 inquire" he asked,
"who suggested that asking my con-
sent to Mary's marriage was a mere
formality?"
"You may, SIR" replied the young
man, simply. "It was Mary's mother"
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
"Parla ia still Paris"

Z, Paris.-The Matin is worried over
the aftermath of-7the food. In a re-
cent editorial 1t says: Foreigners,
believing that Paris has become, owing
to the recent flood, q city of ruins and
desolation. have ceased to visit us.
Our theaters. hotels, and restaurants
are empty. Our pessimism has been
exaggerated. It is time we informed
the foreigners that Paris Is still Paris"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
Liverpool City Council Races Insani.
tary Dwellings and Spends $5,oo0,.
600 in New Ones.

Liverpool.-The greatest movement
In any city in the world for the purif-
cation of the slums is in progress in
Liverpool. More than $4,000 insani-
tary dwellings. have been demolished
and 1000 remain to be dealt with.
About 5000 of the dwellings have
beer destroyed by private enterprise
to make room for business premises.
while $4,000 have been cleared away
by the municipality. There has been
Io graft" in it.
The city has put up 2,17O dwellings
on the site of a greater portion of the
houses which were swept away by the
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
Deserts Nest for Kittens.

Columbus, Ind.-The. most remark
able instance of alliance ever report
ed in this county is that of a hen
owned by Miss Minnie Thayer of Cliff
ford, which has deserted a setting of
high-priced eggs and gives her entire
time and attention to caring for three
kittens that are in a box near her
nest. The hen cannot be induced to
return to the nest. The mother cat
and hen go along well together and
divide the time between them of car
ing for the kittens.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
Of Another Feather.

did you folks want any aigs to-
day" called the grocery boy from
the back steps.
eyes," answered the cook who was
busy kneading dough. "Just lay EN-
under the refrigerator"
:" amt Hen; I'm the other boy"
shouted the lad from the grocery
Chicago Post.
No man a be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil.of life; nor
temperate who considers pleasure the
highest good.-Cicero.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
The Last Word.

Determined to have the last word,
the woman hunted through the die
tionary and soon emerged triumphant
with a list of 5000 framed from
"Constantinople," and received there
for n years subscription to the JOY
full Homes big prize contest.-Judge.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
An Improvement.

An Improvement.
eyes," said the man with the shaggy
eyebrows, 1--WE have a phonograph.
We've got several Italian grand opera
records, and last week 1 discovered a
way to make their reproduction abso-
lutely perfect"
"Indeed?" asks the man with the
purple nose. "What is it?"
81 rub a little garlic on the record
before it is played"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
PIows Up Silver Coin.

Little Rock, Ark.-While blowing in
his field five miles north of Clarks-
Vile. in Johnson county the other day,
Ben Brey unearthed a tin box which
found to contain $235 in silver,
all coins of the mintage Of 1859. ex,
cept SIP in Mexican money.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
Sane Fourth eup to Children.

New York.-The school children OF
Montclair, N. j., are to have the op-
%portunity to vote on the question of
a "%noiseless Fourth" The returns will
be considered by the town council
later. Fireworks dealers are stocking
up in anticipation of the outcome.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05

Red, Weak, Weary, watery Eyes.
Relieved By Murine Eye Remedy. Try
Murine For Your Eye Troubles. You viii
Like Murine. It Soothes. soc at Your
Druggists. Write For Eye Books. Free.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
An %Enterprising Age.

what are you afixing to these park
benches?"
"We have the opera glass privilege.
Drop in a nickel and see the comet
Kansas City Journal
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05

Where good thoughts terminate
there is the growth of true greatness
and goodness.-Lee.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
Explaining the Soul.

The following dialogue took place
between two very small boys on their
way home from Sunday school:
Willie-Where is my soul?
Bobby-It isn't any place; it's just
air.
Willie-How a it go to heaven
when it's just air?
Bobby-Why, your body goes, too.
Willie-Bones and all?
Bobby-Yes, everything but your
clothes.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
huff Said.

GLOW did Jones get those two black
eyes?"
Hunting accident"
"Why-how?"
"He was hunting trouble and 1 hap.
pened to meet him.'-Cleveland
Leader.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
Where II Was.

what are you crying about?"
"He throwed a stone an hit me
lunch!"
did he knock it out of your hands?"
1T wasn't in me hand, it was in me
stummick!"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05

A glutton is merely a mancwho. can
eat almost as much as a small boy.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
%MsI4R1aaM GouD

enz000CDRGNM @k * @MsIzamaN GoWxo FaaaE
4 EW YORK-The marriage Of Anthony j. Drexel, Jr, of Philadelphia
N to Miss Marjorie Gwynne Gould. just celebrated. unites two Of the
i great financial families of America. The bride is the eldest daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George j. Gould and will inherit a vast fortune.
Mr.. Drexel will soc be the head of the distinguished Philadelphia family
off nancers and bankers. America has been especially pleased by Miss
GouLds selection Of N American husband. for she has been wooed by many
titled foreigners. among them being the duke of Braganza and Prince
homanowski, who is related to the czar of Russia. #
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05
A Sad Case,

A Sad Case.
do you prefer your eggs poached
or scrambled"
II can't remember
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-05

legal tender as the savages used
cowry shells? For certainly the
chicken has corne to be regarded as
having sound value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

satisfaction until my return to the conservatory the
following
During my third year began to yield to the prompt
ings of youthful conceit. We enthusiastic lot
of youngsters frankly in love with art and
abilities, and much given to proclaiming how were
going to stare the world. All the concet and ambition
about me aroused my own eagerness. Besides that
passion of youth which the Germans call Wandern had
terrible hold me. My head became filled with most
extravagant plans.
Just at this time the opportunity to act sub
stitute conductor with little opera company which
being organized for brief season at Cremona.
jumped at the chance and without regret left the
good professors who had been kind and encouraging
to me. The impresario of our company was good
natured chap named Forli. He agreed to pay me the
muni6cent sum of five lire Zone dollar day. 1 will
say for him that he fulfilled his contract honorably,
although circumstances which he had control
made salary day movable feast in our company.
AS was only the substitute conductor, my chance
to WELD the baton dependent the state of the
regular conductors health. The rascal out
of sorts and lived with irritating regularity did not
wish him harm; but many times, fear, gave way to
the hope that sudden cold might put him to bed for
few days, that might have opportunity to conduct
the orchestra. The coveted honor finally came to me
Continued page Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

ways The men who act wires of the and shut
down the lawbreakers love the game They brush
elbows with millionaire crooks and go down among the
sailors whose boats smuggling Chinese into the
United States. They ride the Mexican frontier, where,
the United States side, plots often made against
the Government of Diaz in Mexico They catch their
game in swell hotels fifth-rate boarding houses
They go after such persons the woman who sent
out advertisements that she would marry who
would mail her enough money to buy railroad ticket
to his home. Her game crude; but she got several
hundred dollars by it, for half dozen would be BRIDE
groonls sent her the money, which she put into her
pocketbook without paying any further attention to
her credulous SWANS.
Agents and inspectors must be brany men, because
the game they hunt is brainy They must be lawyers
and business men, because they have to evidence
whose value dscernble only by lawyers and business
men. Fear must be thing unknown to them; for they
risk hand to hand encounter readily peaceful
surrender
1t is only within the last two years that Wckersham
and Hitchcock working together, have built the nvestl
eating agencies of the Government into their eSent
perfect relentless FORM 1t only within the last year
that they have discarded moderate means and have
gone with the determination crush offenders with
the full force of the law at every opportunity They
found that the who robbed the public with pen and
ink instead of with pistol and jimmy did not dread
fraud order because he could change his and did
not mind paying fine, the amount of which he had
accumulated by mucting the victims
that gold brick schemers have in their offices lists of the
best suckers in the country; that, when man falls
for of the get rich quick companies he is passed
to another as easy mark and that many of these
victims refuse to complain account of their dislike
of the consequent notoriety.
1t frequently happens that both departments work
the case, and sometimes they have with them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

of my apprenticeship, have never questioned PrOvl
dence. Whatever happened part of human expert
1t is but it has left its lesson Ali my
present disappcintments essened in view of those
which are past. We look forward with serenity
when realize that Fate has dealt its hardest blows
For that reason, keep fresh the memory of my
youth. Perhaps some young musician, struggling
did, may find in the recital some sustaining hope. In
that thought draw aside the curtains, and reveal for
my American friends the picture of my early struggles.
Music always the consuming passion of my life.
The cearest recollection of my infancy is the keen de-
light felt when could steal to the piano and touch it
softly, that could overhear. longed for the
day to come when should be old enough take lessons
and be free to practise long pleased When that
day did come, healthy and bosterous youngster as
was and fond of all childish sports found my greatest
delight at the instrument. Even in those days, my
ambition to create rather than to be vrtuoso.
When was ten, struggled for weeks my first
serious effort at composition, setting for three voices
of the "Kyrie Ee1son of the service. Of course
it my childish ambition to write entire mass;
but my teacher advised to wait. After had strug
ged awhile with the Gloria" decided to take his
advice.
In my eighteenth year left my home in Leghorn
to the Conservatory of Milan and begin the serious
study of composition. What would not give to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

members Of the Secret Service of the Treasury Depart
ment. The bureau of investigation under Wickersham
is constantly cooperating with the Secret Service in
protecting the life of the President for the bureau
keeps in touch with the activities of anarchists and
trouble Makers and tips off the Secret Service to threats
of danger.
Always in the Background
THE most striking ming about the force of men who
and unknown, 60 about the country
their tireess hunt for offenders, their modesty You
authorized interview from of them.
They give their photographs to newspapers.
Their unobtrusiveness is their stock in trade: They
get down the trail and leave it until they have
caught their man; but, when this is done, they fade
to the background leaving the remainder of the work.
the meght part, to the prosecuting attorneys and the
police.
special agent who arrests man in Virginia to-day
may set OIL tonight for another chase in Wisconsin.
The pubicS guardians do their work because the
for it AMI the charm of it have got into their souls
Once in the serv.ce they seldom leave it. They start
in it probation, and. when they have made good
they stick They become infatuated with the thrill OF
that moment when, after weeks of vigilance and pur
suit they face to face with their quarry and say
1--WE got you at last
Often many of the inspectors and special agents
called to Washington to report the evidence they
have accumulated; but there are few people in the
Capital who could point out of them. Most of the
people who get introduction to of them those
who . are wanted. -
On one occasion there was question of whether a
man should be appointed inspector in the Postofice
Department. The Postmaster General wrote to a
friend who knew the applicant. i,
Back this answer, If you want man whom
the whole army of the United States cant bluff and
all the money in the Treasury can't buy, appoint him..
He was appointed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
MY EARLY STRUGGLES

able to feel once more the furious en-
thusiasm of that year! The Universal
Exposition of 1881 was then in prog
ress at Milan, and I composed a set
ting of the Paternoster" and Ave
Maria for the prize competition, and
was rewarded with honorable men
ton. Among my other compositions
that winter were musical setting to
Schiller's lode to Joy" and a little
two-act opera, La Filanda," which
I had the honor of dedicating to Pom
chielli, the composer of "Gioconda."
An inspiration that obsessed me for
years came during my second year at
the conservatory. Maffei's transla-
ton of Heine's william Ratclifff"
fell into my hands. The drama took
such hold on me that Maffei's verses
were indelibly fixed in my memory.
Irecited them day by day and at night
I dreamed of Ratcliff's fantastic
passion. l found myself among the
company in Toms tavern and sharer
in the adventures of the highwaymen.
In these dreams l heard the music of
the love scenes between William and
Mary, and I could find no rest until
I had written it out. During the
winter l composed three scenes of the
opera; but in the following summer.
while at home in Leghorn, cast aside
most of the music of the Love Duet"
and did not complete it to my own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

mails The inspectors discovered that the president of the
bank was purchasing stamps by thousands and thou
sands and getting them from the chief of police of
the town. He paying the chief eighty five ninety
cents on the dollar for the stolen property.
But the inspectors not satisfied with that They
went further They proved that the president of the
bank knew where the chief of police getting the
stamps; that the chief of police working boldly
hand in hand with the burglars and that the chief
ply The turning up of the theft and the revelation of
the participants in it resulted in political revolution
in the and the sending of all the burglars and chief
offenders to the penitentary.
"A national bank was robbed in North Dakota few
months ago. and the defaultng official fled to Canada.
Detectives in the employ of the Department of Justice
ent countries in Europe South America, to Mexico
and into Texas where the arrest made. The men
who went that chase pert ngusts and expert
accountants. The they finally caught is now in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
After Gold Brick Swindlers

PUT the greatest field of activity for both Department
- of Justice and Postofice Department is among get
rich quick devotees When Sharp took the chief in
specorshp he established peculiar rogues gallery of
his He kept index of the record OF every man
and woman caught in fraudulent of the mails 1t
shows that these people who advertise through the
mails that they have stuff to se-but never sell it
have records of having been engaged in such schemes
many times.
This is one great reason why the Cabinet officer
sleuths failing the offenders instead of trying to
punish them by more moderate MEANS
Last spring there opened in handsome building
in the business section of New York city luxurious
suite of Offices The that occupied the suite sold
mining stock 1t employed thirty stenographers and as
MANY more clerks in other capacities It's expenses for
printing attractive advertisements and sending personal
letters people through the country up to some
thing like two thousand dollars week. 1t supplemented
its letters and advertisements with kilograms and night
letters urging prospective purchasers to take stock in
the company 1t selling at low figure stock IN
mine that was advertised the greatest bonanza of
modern times.
The company worked shrewdly 1t wrote to and
women and advised them not to buy the stock right
away but to send their to the company, that,
when the company tipped them off to the proper time
to buy the purchase could be effected Immediately.
kilograms and night letters did the tipping off.
That company took in millions of dollars. 1t did
rush-order business The price of the stock went
The public seeing chance to make lot of money for
a very small outlay tumbled itself to hand over
the coin.
All was well until somebody in the Postoffice Depart
ment, and at the same time somebody else in the De-
partmen of Justice arrived at the conclusion that this
wonderful mine was worth looking over It was found
that the bonanza not worth anything at ALL The
sale of the entire property would not have paid tor the
clothes of the we'll dressed officials of the company and
the stock certificates good only for lighting the
fat cigars smoked by those engineers of crooked finance
The game exposed in every detail, the bottom
dropped out of the stock the officials of the company
were punished, and that part of the public which had
already contributed to the saved from
being pillaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

V/HEN one has arrived in art or
" worldly affairs. it is possible to
look back without regret upon the
hardships of the years of apprentice
ship that paved the way to success.
Time softens the memory of want and
struggle, the poignancy of wrecked
ambitions, and we get the true per-
spective of our lives and a realization
Of the values of our failures as we'll
as of our achievements. How fiat and
uninteresting would be the retrospect,
if there were no shadows to bring out
the high lights!
What painters term a fiat land
scape would seem to mean impossible
comparison for the life of musician.
Of all the brotherhood of art, he is the
readiest victim for the fantastic tricks
Of fortune, -one day buoyed up by
hopes and ambition, the next cast
down by circumstances; basking one
hour in the sunshine of success, and in
the next overshadowedb by defeat. For
all that, the true musician is never
misanthrope Cost what it will, he
remains steadfast in the love and de-
votion for his art. And when, per-
chance, he drinks the inspiring draft
of Success, the memory of past defeats
and struggles leaves no bitterness in
the cup.
Why hunger and hardship and adj
versitv CLING To me. through the davS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
Swindline Reputable jewelers.


COMPANIES of this sort are constantly springing
- up. They deal mostly in worthless Mines swamp
lands, and South American plantations that have not
been planted. Unless the promoters are jailed they
pay their fines and resume operations under COM
pany Names thus escaping the fraud order that stands
against them.
They spend money like water office rent, clerk
hire, advertising and stamps. Then when they 60
no further, they pocket the profits and skip into
other enterprise unless they have been nailed by the
Government beforehand.
Until recently group of men operated jewelry
firm in Southern city. Their game was to buy from
reputable jewelry houses in the North large quantities
of goods on time payments. They sold much of
their they could Then when the time came fer
them to pay they went into bankruptcy and ostensiby
shipped what left of their jewelry to warehouse
As matter of fact they sent to the warehouse bogus
packages and the real ewelry was hidden in
place. few days after the bogus packages had been
stored in the warehouse the building burned down.
The members of the bankrupt firm were, of course,
extremely sorry They. said so to their creditors The
creditors were sorry; but they could do nothing.
few months after that, the company, under
having dug its buried treasure, operating
again in the jewelry business.
This game worked several times, until the De-
partment of Justice broke it up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27

60 varied and numerous the schemes Matched up
~ to take away from the public large and small
of money that the Governments trap must be set al
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-21
:. This is a most serious

IFS gravity. This is a most serious
matter. Not Mr.. Ballinger but a MEM
Der of the presidential cabinet is ac-
cused and the accusations given corro-
boration from unexpected directions.
But let us not forget, or desire in the
heat of controversy to forget that no
man is guilty until he is proven so.
More than that it should be the hope
Of every good citizen that the secre-
tary may show clean hands. Not Bal
linger, but our citizenship of which he
is by reason of his elevation repre-
sentative, at least technically. is on
trial.
But let the nail be driven home.
Garry the investigation out to the bit
ter end whether it shows CLAWS a liar
or the secretary OF the interior the
colleague OF gray wolves. Go to the
bottom fearlessly. The United States is
great enough 10 clean house. So is
the republican party. If not, neither
deserves to exist.