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that she must not endeavor to appreciate the architec
ture. With the hauteur of conscious genius, Wells
fuses to allow anyone absorb its grandeur until
it has been many times and in all lights.
So he hed her to the exquisite Lady Chapel and to
the Chapter House Stairs, and to Peter Lghtfoot's
quaint old clock in the transept. Then by some al
chey worked lodgekeeper he led her the gardens
of the Bishops palace and showed her the real Gaston
bury Thorn and persuaded of the in the
to ring the bell attached to the wall whereby each
morning for many year the royal birds have obtained
their breakfast.
There is lovelier garden in England than that of
Wells Palace and Cynthia rapt in it that
Medenham had to pull out his watch and remind her
of dusty roads leading to far off Bristol.
Mrs Devar looked so when they came from
inspection of of the wells to which the town
its that Cynthia weakened and sat by her
side. Thereupon Medenham made amends for lost time
by exceeding the speed limit along every inch of the
run to Cheddar
Of he had to crawl through the streets
of the little town. above which the bare crests of the
Mendps give such slight promise of the glorious gorge
that cuts through their massiveness from south to
north Even at the very lip of the magnificent canon the
outlook is deceptive. Perhaps it is that the eye is
caught by arng advertisements of the staactte caves
or that baser emotions awakened by the sight of
coy gardens; of in particular where cascade
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By Sewe11 Ford
Drawings by F. Vaux Wilson

great-aunt, who had bundles of Government confetti
and had adopted Ethel into her will.
item But she's gone West has she' How is it you
didn't trail along too?"
Well, she was with home folks who were goin'
to keep her until Aunty for her in September and
carted her off to Japan. They wouldn't be back for
"How tragic!" says I. "Durn' which time you're
gon her picture next your heart and write her
sxteen-page letters twice week, eh9 But what does
the great-aunt say to all this?
That is what I'm going to find out says Norr1e
"How do you get to Atlantic City,
"You don't says l; that is, not when it's jamb
up, the way it is now.
"But must" says Norrie. That's where Ethels
greataunt is you know, and can't really be engaged
until I've asked her if we may.
"Got to pass inspection, have your" says I.
That was it. And Norrie was in hurry about it;
for Ethel had said he wasn't to give her ring or even
write word to her. until he'd fixed it up with Aunty
$50, you see" says he Il want to find her at once.
We get there tonight can't WEI"
Which is my for mpersonat1n the stern guardian.
ave cam but don't" says l. "My program is
different Well have nice quiet little dinner at some
cool window table where the breeze blow in on your
fevered brow Then, if you re good maybe we'll get
couple of tenth roof garden seats where you
all kinds of girlies at safe distance And in
of three four days this Ethel romance will begin to
fade"
But Norrie, he just opens the photo gives the
picture long, mushy look, and shakes his head.
"Never! says he, real solemn, a..
"Ah say, cut it out!' says l. "And look here, son,
just remember that you We sworn off on this Romeo
business until fall Cousin Pinckney has been putin
me wise to your curves, young man, and while I'm on
the job you'll indulge in googoo eyes, if have
to put binders you Likewise you're goin to forget
this All, come, Norrie! Don't get that injured
innocent air with me! Maybe Pinckney did draw it
a little strong and I'll admit that you don't look
if you'd Well, what is it you want to do, any
way?"
Say I'll tell you how he worked it, for it amt
clear to yet whether it just plain hypnotism or
what but inside of ten minutes he's talked me clear
around. What harm would it do, he wants to know
just to hunt up this aunt of Ethes? They didn't in
tend to be married for couple of years. at the least
And if 1 knew what sweet, charmn' girl she was, I'd
understand how he felt He'd be just too wretched to
live if he couldn't write to her. 1t pretty tough
too to find everyone turning against him this way just
because he'd been foolish twice. He didn't ex
pect it of me, ether for he'd always thought was
"Ah, for the love of SOUP have it your own way!'
says Chop off the reproaches. It's us for the great
aunt"
50, instead of dinn in town. we eats of them in
tation dinin car meals that lasts for forty miles
through the middle of the New Jersey catsup district
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"7HAT gets is the casual offhand way
w Pnckney has of unloadn' this college boy
cousin of his
Hope you don't mind taking him in for few days,
did chap says he, while l run up to Newport"
Course says don't mind, and that he's to send
him along. 1 explains though, that it might be some
iull around the place since Sadie and little Sully
maxim another visit down to Rockywold.
"Oh, that's all right" says Pinckney. Probably
Norrie will want to be in town most of the time Only
keep an eye on him, you know"
'How's that?" says 1. Hes twenty, amt he?"
Yes, Pnckney admits that Cousin Norrie's almost
grown up. But promised his mother, ne goes on
nthat would look after Norrie while she was abroad
see that he didn't marry chorus girl anything like
chat you know"
"Eh?" says l. "He amt got the chorus girl habit so
early has he?"
ooh, dear no." says Pnckney "Just Mrs. Ogden's
fancy, you know. Norre's nice clean young fellow;
only-er-wel, rather susceptible.
''Say. better give me the full Details says L. or
else resign right here" -.
Ooh but YOU, We promised" says Pnckney "And
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wan much to Norre except looks; of these light
haired, pink and white boys, he is with sort of giry
him out with the gloves dscoverin that he could put
good hearty punch for his weight, framed up
dif'ren set of specifications.
1t is just his delicate tinted cheeks and the neat way
he had of dressin that gave him that Lucy-boy air
Outside of that, he all right, and the smoothest
blarneyer born out of Ireland. Say, he could
he was so popular with the adies In his white annels
and straw lid he looks the candy kid, all right.
"Runnn' some behind your schedule amt you,
Norrie?" says |, as he swings into the front office
seeing er-so1ne friends off the Chicago Limited"
Sure you amt been gettin engaged AGAIN." says I.
"Why, who told you?" says he, openin them baby
blue eyes of his real wide.
What" says |. "You don't mean to say you've
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found another so quick"
well, it isn't a settled thing
yet, you know" says he.
How careless of you'll" says I.
"Who is it this time, some pink
Pajama girl from the squad
ballet?
why, of course not" says
Norrie. Ethel isn't that kind at
all. She's from one of the best
families in Spokane.
Whew!" says 1. "A Chinook
belle, eh? Wear Mexican silver
dollars braided into her hair, does
she?"
"How absurd! There, if you
must know what she looks ike!"
says Norrie, producin' a green
morocco pocket case and fashin'
a photograph on me.
Take it all back" says I,
after inspectin' the exhibit. IF
your Ethel looks anything like
that she must be a Queen. Find
her up in the woods?"
Norrie hadn't planned to give
any complete hist'ry of the case;
but 1 managed to pump out a
few of the main facts. The
sumner from Spokane had been
stoppin' at the chum's camp too,
and, although Norrie'd been ex-
posed to the danger of them mis-
behavin' Pacific Slope eyes for
less'n a week, and he'd had more
or less competition, it had been
a clear case on both sides.
A CCORDIN' to his descrip-
IA ton, Ethel was nineteen and
had just finished boardin' school.
Also she was double orphan,
with a fortune consistin' of one
business block on the main street,
a 1911 model figure, and pair of
soulful lamps that just couldn't
be resisted. Lastly there was a
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chat, you know.
"Eh?" says 1. He amt got t
early, has hep"
"Oh, dear no" says Pinckney.
fancy, you know. Norrie's a mic n I,
only-er-well, rather susceptible
"Say, better give me the full
else l resign right here"
ooh, but you've promised S
ne won't give you any trouble,
I'm sure. He's been behaving
beautifully since we broke off the
last affair, with that absurd
Boston widow. The other two
weren't actual engagements, any
way; mere boy and girl foolish
ness. He's given his word to be
good, too"
but Mother is still anxious?
"Well, naturally" says Pinck-
aey. "Norrie is such a kid about
those things"
"Say, you make a hit with
me-" says 1, "farmin' out your
troubles on the first one that
comes handy. Think I'm a com
bination chaperon and dry nurse?
I'll take care of Norrie for week,
though; but l amt givin' any
written guarantee on his actions.
Course, if l see him gettin'
risky, may give him some adj
vice; but"
THAT'S all you will need to
do" says he. "You know Norrie
thinks you're a great man. Aw-
fully obliged, old chap. So long
XIELL, Norrie was to show up
" at the studio that after
noon. AS | understands it, he's
spendin' a few days with a COL
lege chum, up in some Adirondack
camp, healin' his busted heart.
He don't seem in any hurry to
show up, though; for l waits until
after five o'clock with no signs
of him. l was just about calm
it a misdeal, when the lower door
slams and he comes jumpin' up
the stairs three at time.
Never saw Norrie quite so ex-
cited; for as a gen'ral thing he's
quiet actin and slow spoken.
First off l used to think there
Couvright. IsIo, by Se~elI Ford. All rights reses
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10
ANoTHER's VIEW

The Neche Chronotype.
Viewed from strictly non-partisan
point OF view it seems to us that
farmers will not vote for removal of the
county seat when they realize that Il
will cost the tax payers Of this county
over s2OOO 600 either directly or indirect.
ly, for the erection of suitable buildings
in case if the county seat is removed
from Pembina to Cavalier &.
It is but natural that people in Cav
alier should work to have the connty
seat located in their town. lis also no
less natural for people in neighborine
towns to oppose such removal; not from
petty jealousy or spite but for purely
business reasons. IS a ssS "a
Taxes, in this county. are high
enough at the present time. IA great
many people consider that they are too
high.
# i new buildings are erected il viii
mesn increased taxation. for somsthina
from which our farmen and rssidents
p town ontaide q Cavalier I'M III ~
ma
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10

1t is a case where a vote for Cavalier
practically is donation of $50 to the
citizens of that place from each tax
payer.
This is not narrow screed in favor
OF the present location of the county
seat, but an appeal to the common
sense of Pembina county voters to not
let narrow prejudices influence them in
favor OF one place or another, but to
look at the matter judiciously: and
after calm deliberation to decide wheth-
er they can afford to go down into their
pockets and also give support to a
measure from which they will derive
absolutely no benefit.
The buildings IN Pembina are good
for years t, come. We do not ask YOU
to take hearsay evidence, but request
you to go to Pembina aud inspect them
for yourself.
The locating of the buildings at
Cavalier will save very little in the way
of mileage and with railroad facilities as
they are, Cavalier is more difficult to
get to than Pembina.
Consider the proposition Mr.. Voter,
and after due consideration, we believe
that you will see through this "heads
win, tails you loose'' proposition that is
being engineered by Messrs. Brynjolfson
and Laxdal, OF Cavalier.
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10
Walkin'
Convention Cali.

The Twenty Second Anniversary of
the Pembina County Sunday School
Association will convene at Bowesmont
June 14-15.
Asprogram of interest is prepared and
we hope every Sunday school in the
county will be represented. The newly
appointed General secretary Rev.
Walter A. Snow will be with us and
will help make this convention a mine
OF information dynamo of inspiration.
Bowesmont is preparing for the
biggest and best convention in our
history and we must not disappoint
them. Tell your school you would like
to have them go and elect you as dele.
gate. Every school is entitled to send
its superintendent and two delegates.
All pastors are ex-officio delegates and
We want all the pastorsin the county.
Yours in the work. @
MRS. r. McFADDEN,
,i3 Sec.
Timothy Seed for Sale. !; =
g bushels of first class timothy seed
fof q sale apply to
i;s i3s ALBERT SIMMONS.
ss5 s miles from nnhina.
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10

The personel of the stalwart ticket
as whole is certainly equal in ability
and character with the other side. In
some cases, particularly in the case of
the senators and representatives we
believe it superior.
Senator McCumber stands not only
as one of the foremost men in ability
in North Dakota but is the peer of his
associates on the floor of the Senate.
Mr.. Engerud has been recognized as
one of the foremost jurists of the state.
Hon. L. B. Hanna has made splendid
record as "North Dakota man. in the
house of representatives. We shall
refer to the state ticket in later issues
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10

the taxpayers. The sinking fund idea
is to collect the interest and part of
the principal each year SO that when the
payment of the principal comes the mon
ey will be ready.
1t is a good way to do and is just
what any farmer who has mortgage
on his land does or ought to do each
year. If the mortgage is due in five
years and amounts to say s1,OCO then
he ought to put by about two hundred
dollars a year besides the interest, to
pay the principal. But he would be
foolish to let these yearly provisions lie
idle. He will put these yearly sums in
the bank, or will invest in some other
manner, so that when the principal
becomes due that he will have some
interest to add to what he has other
wise saved, for this purpose,-but the
interest is his just as much as the other
amounts, because the money he placed
In the bank is his and therefore it's
earnings are his-and when he pays off
the mortgage he pays with his own
money-and he pays the whole amount
due.-The fact that such money is
paid in taxes to pay off bonded debt,
doesn't alter the fact; the county takes
the farmers money and places it in the
bank, instead of his doing it himself,
and the interest gained from the banks
belongs to the farmer, though it is
used to pay bonds. When the county
bonds every taxpayer is bonded, just as
much as if he signed mortgage on his
own land.
AS we said in the beginning, the money
is worth at least per cent, wherever
it is. If man buries it in the ground
he is loosing $4,0O0 year. If he builds
house on credit he will have to pay
$4,000 interest. II he pays cash out of
his own pocket, he loses the use of money
which would bring him $4,000. No
amount of figuring can change the
inevitable.
But the Herald further cuts it's own
fingres by saying that it would mean
for Grand Forks county the payment
of but $4,000 year for twenty years.
That isn't much for Grand Forks county
but let us see. The first payment of
Sl4, 900 runs for twenty years; at the
four per cent rate the interest on that
first payment if placed in the bank
would amount to the sum of $1,000, SO
that payment means for the twenty
years time not sl4, 900 but s25,2OO. The
second payment of $4,000 runs 10 years
and amounts to s24,640 and SO on for
twenty years, the last payment amount
ing to Sl4.560 In fact these twenty
payments of Sl4, 900 each are not only
the lump sum of s2s0OOO as the Herald
figures, but s2sO,OOO plus sl17,60O
interest, making total of 1897 800 that
the court house will stand the taxpay-
ers of that county in twenty years.
AS an Offset the taxpayer will have a
share in a court house in Grand Forks
City that if sold at contract cost
would bring $1,000 900.
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10
THE TICKET.

We place the ticket presented by the
"stalwart" committee at the head of our
columns this week. subject to the ap-
proval of the voters at the June goth
primaries. AS we have previously said
in these columns, the supporting of any
candidate, or set of candidates, pre-
vious to the primary by any Republican
paper is or ought to be tentative to the
choice of the voters; because the voter
or paper may be placed in the position,
as partizan, of hereafter supporting a
candidate that has been previously
opposed.
Hence the preliminary campaign
should be waged with that idea in view,
and opposition or support should be
tempered accordingly,
In making the choice of this ticket
generally in preference to the ticket
presented by the ''progressives,' we are
mostly influenced by the fact that as
to this general claims of both sides, the
former are consistent while the latter
to us seem inconsistent.
The candidates and leaders of the
insurgents were but a few years since,
partand parcel of the crowd that they
now say is everything bad in person and
in practice-while on the other hand
they themselves have shown, no evi-
dence of personal reformation- except
to disagaee with their former associates
in the distribution Of the spoils.
That the stalwart leaders always
have been right, that they are nov
right on all questions, we do not at
tempt to argue. The Pioneer Express
differs with them on some points both
IN past and present procedure; but the
Pioneer Express believes in parties and
part.sanship as the only safe and sane
method q governing this country and
!, "a have partias tits necessary "a allow
Tho ~ iority q rule and Tor the minor.
ity Ga accept such rule, though not
q ! aalily to chs snss thslr private
orinions q Il ssS
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10
"THE REAL COST OF
NEW COURT HOUSE,"

Money can be borrowed from the
state at four per cent. By proper in
vestment of the sinking fund this can
be reduced to considerably less than
two per cent, but let us ass lme that
the interest will be two per cent. This
will mean total payment of interest
and principal amounting to $3.50, 900
distributed over period of twenty
years. The annual payment would be
$4,000. The assessed valuation of all
the property in Grand Forks county
last year was a little over sl4,OOO,OOO.
This year it will be larger, and year
after year it will increase, thus lessen.
ing the levy that will be necessary to
make on the dollars worth of property
to raise the required sum. But using
the present assessment as a basis to
govern for the twenty years, the new
court house will cost the taxpayer in
taxation Just an additional mill on the
dollar.-Grand Forks Herald.
We copy the above from the Cavalier
Chronicle which in turn copied it from
the Grand Forks Herald. The Herald
and probably majority of the citizens
of Grand Forks City desire a new court
house. What the people of the county
will say to the proposition is yet to be
learned. But it is evident why the
city wants new court house. It talks
county but means City. The article IN
the Herald was published some time
ago and we have been watching the
Chronicle to see if it would use the
same. 1t talks pretty we'll on the Cav.
alier side Of the court house controversy
but there is a difficulty. The county of
Grand Forks has pretty good court
house now that cost the tax payers of
that county 100000. Now the city
thinks it not large enough and not good
enough for that county and asks the
taxpayers to build a new one costing
100000. But the Chronicle and the
Cavalier crowd insist that building
half as good as the Herald wants to
throw away will do for this county.
That is that they agree with the Herald
that Grand Forks ought to have a
$500, 600 court house but that s5O,OOO
building is all that Pembina county
needs. Pembina county has abou:
2,9O0 voters, Grand Forks has about
$500 voters. Pembina county assess
ment is about 100000 ana Grand
Forks has about sl4,OOO,O0O valuation.
Query, if Grand Forks needs q two
hundred thousand dollar building what
should be the value of court house in
this county? We will leave the reader
to answer that, but we think that he
will not disagree very much with
figures that we have been giving as
the actual cost of new court house if
one is built at Cavalier.
But let us look at the figures of the
Herald, which sounds very much as If
the Grand Forks man had been taugh.
his mathmatics at the same institution
OF learning as was Bro. Fairchild who
figured that new building at Cavalier
would cost only $780, First the Herald
figures that $4,000 at interest for
twenty years at per cent will amount
to only $3.50 COO
Perhaps We are wrong, but we figure
interest, il We borrowed $780, 600 at 4
percent for twenty years, we should
expect 70 pay s18O, 600 q interest alone.
or 10000 altogether, and We think the
state5of North Dakota viii want every
cent Of the $3.50, 900 ii Grand Forks
II
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10

Subject to the primaries)
u S Senator
PORTER j McCUMBER
Richland County
EDWARD ENGE2UD
Cass County
Member of Congress
L B HANNA'
Cass Comfy
G A JOHNSON
Ward County
Lieutenant Governor
II A SHARP
LaMoure County
Secretary of State
FRANK HENRY
Barnes County
State Auditor
JOHN FLITTE
Mckenzie County
State Treasurer
'GUNDER OLSON
Walsh County
Attorney General
j A ADAMSON
Bottineau County
Superintendent of Public Instruction
e j TAYLOR
Grand Forks County
Commissioner of Insurance
GEORGE III STONE
Hettinger County
Com'r of Agriculture and Labor
w G GILBREATH
Morton County
Commissioners of Railroads
w HI MANN
Morton County
TT PURCELL
Cass County
10 FADDEN
Grand Forks County
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10

THE GOODS FOR THIS SEASON WERE DESIGNED
AND MADE LONG AGO. So 1T is ALWAYS
THERE ARE MORE KINDS OF CHOICE THINGS
THAN oNE--FIRST CHoIAE, SECOND CHOICE,
THIRD CHOICE, AND SO ON. YOU WISH THE
FIRST CHOICE DO YOU Not? If YOU COME Now
AND BUY YOU WILL GET 1.-THE FIRST CHOICE
TO THESE CHOICE ARTICLES We WOULD ESPE-
C1ALLY CALL YOUR ATTENTION.
LADIES' WASH salts, WHITE AND BLACK
CHECKED, AT $500.
LADIES WASH SUITS, PLAIN WHITE IS 90
LADIES WASH EKlRTS, LINEN, $l.75 TO $3.50
LADIES MUSLIN GOWNS, $1.oo TO $l.5o
LADIES PEClCoATS FROM $lo0 TO S450
j. HENEMAN
The pioneer express., 1910-06-10
CHRONICLE ToBoGGAN SLIDE,

"Just watch out!"- The old, old story
When fellow has to bluff
Had his solar plexus poked, but
Hates to say he's had enough.
It's the whimper of the worsted-
Not brave note of "whip-poor-will, l.
When there's nuthin else to do but
Take
slide
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down
hill.

But the folks that have the upper
Hand of argument and such,
Talk of facts and tell 'em plainly.
Tho they may not beat the Dutch
Or any other "clan" that tries
To gobble all the swlll:
They are right-they're right and always
hill.
up
right
81 yU.n.:-,
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down

Sounds so natural when you hear 'em,-
Kids scrappjn' at the school:
Almost always it's the under,
Calls the upper kid fool.
Brings the old days back SO vivid,
Meynory's pockets seem to till,-
With the under kid hollerln':
Coz
he's
goin'