The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-05-19

H HOPE PIONEER
NORTH DAKOTA PUBLISHING co.
HOPE, NORTH DAKOTA
The flying dust we have with US,
always.
Temper and a pistol make a bad
combination.
1t is popular to have "the brain
storm" after you get caught.
An oak tree in Minneapolis commit
ted suicide. No one will blame it.
One Of the best things about the Joy
ride is that it so often turns out to be
its W punishment.
1t is feared that all the convicts in
the various penitentiaries will at
once begin writing poetry.
1t is queer how these people who
are going to be probed insist on a
thorough examination Of everything.
South American republics manage
to have a scrap often enough to keep
the limelight trained in that direction,
Another youth has gone wrong un-
der the influence of dime novels. A
little reading is still a dangerous
thing.
AT this time of the year green is
the unrivaled color,' says the Boston
Herald. Particularly if it is long
green.
The end-seat hog is now fortified by
a Judicial decision, and he will no
doubt hold tenaciously to all the seats
he first gets.
n cannot at present secure a di.
vorce at Reno, New, by telephone, but
possibly Reno's facilities will be en-
larged and broadened.
A newspaper story says that the
bunco games in Mexico are the great
est in the world. Can the author have
overlooked u own dear Wall street?
A bandit in Springfield, Mass, says
that he committed his crimes be-
cause there was something the mat
ter with his head. There generally is.
A Cincinnati man failed with liabili-
ties of $1,200,000 and assets of s4O0.
No Wall street fnancier would look
upon such an accomplishment as that
as a failure.
Some eastern New York farmers
are selling their COWS and replacing
them with Angora goats. 1t might be
asked if this is a case of butting in or
buttin 'em out.
A large majority of the schoolboys
of this country are earnestly hoping
something dreadful may happen to
William Sidis of Boston because of
his unsportsmanlike propensity to &C.
quire knowledge.
Announcement comes from fashion
sources that "women's hats are
larger" Of course this is a matter on
which nan has no vote, and what he
may say or think does not count. But
really is it necessary?
If CONSUMPTION for army service in
China were based upon the German
plan an army of 22,000,0 900 soldiers
could be put in the field, says the
Philadelphia Record. Also, by the
same plan, this nation would have
an army of 100000. But there is no
sign that either the Chinese people or
those of the United States would &C.
cept the plan.
The deaths from bubonic plague OF
two young women, daughters Of the
postmaster at Honkua, Hawaii, offer
convincing evidence that the germs
of the plague linger IN the islands,
where the sanitary officials should toll
increasingly in order to suppress them.
The same danger undoubtedly exists
on the southern Pacific slope, where
the rats should be made objects of un-
relenting warfare.
That young Cambridge mathema
teal prodigy says in the fullness of
his youthful wisdom that he is quite
convinced he could construct a flying
machine with which he could reach
Venus in twenty minutes. He would
use radium as a motive power. But it
Is noted that he has not said how
much radium he would need or how
much it would cost. There are other
brilliant persons who could tell of the
many wonderful things they. might do