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The state-line herald. (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.) 1907-1912, 1911-02-24

tough Tor him II he was sent back.
thought he had come to his senses and
would help you against Valentine but
he's just plain fool"
And all alike-all blaming us for
tneir fall" The detective seated him.
SER as he spoke. He can't work now.
oes too old. The game as he knew it
was the yegg game"
Handler also had resumed his seat
onu ne leaned over his desk and said
.,sn'ncantly: $50 you're afraid valen-
une VIII get new trial, eh? There's
ep'ne class to Valentine. Have a
2ohe' The prison master held out
OF perfectos, from which Doyle
The state-line herald. (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.) 1907-1912, 1911-02-24

By which, II you
will kindly
wait,
I'll tell you what
is meant: :,
In mind and char
acter he stood
he tallest man
in town,
And in impartial
hardihood
Was squarely up
and down.
a Al
The state-line herald. (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.) 1907-1912, 1911-02-24
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] Ry WILLIS BROOKS HAWKINS ,

copyright by American Press Associa-
ton. 1911
r. ERlAH JENkS was tall and
- straight,
Though short and badly bent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
Honestly Acquired Success Is
Really the Only Thing That
Is Worth While.
OFTEN BUILT UPON FAILURE
Worker Who Is Discouraged Because
Things Refuse to Come His Way
Is Already on the Downward
Path-Real Man Fights
the Harder.

There is a fallacy IN many Of our
trite sayings and phrases, which is not
generally recognized. Many of these
phrases, so popular nowadays, tell only
mart of the truth.
The suggestion furnished by the lit
tie sign: do 1t Now" placed above
q mans desk, may be all the encour-
agement needed for him to go out
and take a drink during Office hours
on q hot day. While from one stand
point it may be perfectly true that
Honesty is the best Policy" yet does
it not offer the suggestion that there
is another policy to pursue? Where
as, as a matter of fact, honesty is the
only policy. Don't put off until to-
morrow what you can do today" was
probably intended as a cure for pro-
crastination: but surely the better
plan would be to put off until to-
morrow or until next year anything
that can afford to wait. and do today
only those things that need tcday's at
tention.
A phrase that is Universally accept
ed as the gospel truth is Nothing Sue
ceeds Like Success" but after all it OF
fers encouragement only for the sue
cessful to be more successful. If the
EXPRESSION were Success may be
built upon a foundation of failure" it
would be nearer the truth and 1t would
accomplish more by way of encour.
agement
Through analysis we discover that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
Pastor Quits Pulpit to Be Expressman

The DIRECTORS were members Of two
families, the heads of which were trus-
tees of the church.
THE Master l have been serving for
20 years as a pastor was a carpenter"
said Rev. Mr.. Mcdowell 1T did not
lower his dignity to do manual labor,
and l do not think he would object to
my being an express messenger so
could pay my honest debts.
1T was impossible for me TO keep
my family on the $1.44O a year re-
ceived from the church. | have six
children. Each of them contributes to
the church, yet none Of them was
earning money. Each of them attend
ed the church suppers and socials, pay
ing at them out of my salary.
Then came serious illness, and, last
spring. ! found myself $3.50 in debt
Casting about for means of paying
this sum, and certain that ! could not
pay it out OF my salary, found that
could add SIS week to my income
by becoming an express messenger
consulted with one of the trustees and
he told me it would be all right for me
to accept did accept, and my doing
so raised storm of protest Finally
it became so unpleasant that rather
than continue the difficulty, | decided
to stop the trouble by resigning."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
Corn Fed Catfish Latest From Kansas

II TOPEKA, Kan.-Ever hear Of corn
4 fed, pedigreed catfish? Kansas has
some and is going to have more.
Prof. L. l.. Dyche, curator of the Nat
ural History museum of the State
university and state fish and game
warden, has undertaken to improve
the breed of catfish by the methods
employed by expert breeders in i'm
proved hogs, cattle, sheep and chick
ems and the methods advised by so
biologists to improve the human race
careful selection Of mates.
At the state fish hatchery at Pratt
they are growing corn-fed catfish
that are as much of an improvement
over the ordinary catfish, just by feed
ing alone. as the catfish is better than
q buSalo as far as food value is con-
cerned. The corn-fed Kansas steer
and hog bring the highest prices in the
markets.
I'VE have one small pond at the
catchery chat is flooded and lined with
cement" said Prof. DyChe. After the
spawning season is over and the little
fish are old enough that they don't
need the mothers care. we lake the
big ones out of the spawning ponds
and put them into this cement pond,
where we can feed them and they can
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
Brain Worker Should Force Him
self to Observe Sensible
Hours of Toll.
TIME ORDAINED BY NATURE
Bad Habits, Hard to Correct, Too Eas-
lily Formed if One Allows Moods
to lnfluence-Never Let Ac-
cdent Set UP
Rule

Some men work best late at night.
They claim that the machine gets
warmed up and into high speed trim
cniy IN the later part Of the day and
small hours of the night. The quiet
OF night enables them to concentrate
their thoughts. 1t is a time when in
terruptions are easily shut out. Sleep
is the prospect when the task is done,
and not added toll, so that they feel
free to expend the last pound of steam.
It is folly to preach health rules to
such workers. In fact, after the habit
is established, night work appears to
be about as healthy as day work Yet
confessedly it is against nature and
relatively few can establish the habit.
Some brain workers go at their task
only when they feel in the mood. Tha
early morning, the six hours after
breakfast, before exercise, after eXer-
else, with and without food, indeed, all
possible variety can be found in the
biography Of literary and professional
men.
From which it is plain that accident
alone sets up the rule for each man.
The tyranny Of habit once formed, with
the exacting demand for results when
in the field, holds the toiler, and he
rarely changes.
AS sound judgment would Indicate
that the day is for work and the night
for rest, at an early period of life one
should look to the tendency of habit.
Why should not brain worker begin
his toll with the same daylight uses
that other animals employ? Why not
eats to work with the hands? Begin
In youth to set up the practice. Re-
fuse to be permanently switched off by
few moods that CHANGED to turn out
fortunate. Two o'clock il the morn
ing may have worked out we'll few
times, but that is no sign that late
night work is to be the law of nature
with you. Exceedingly bad habits have
become fixed by coffee or stronger
stimUlants in a crisis.
No railroad locomotive was more
HXedly held to it's track than are brain
workers held to favorite hours after
five years on their job The physician
may scold and a breakdown may
threaten, but to change favorite hours
after one is 40 years old is almost i'm
possible. -
Therefore take the matter up with
yourself at the very beginning. In
sist on healthy habits and sensible
hours. Demand these conditions of
yourself and refuse to work till the
machine, the brain, comes to your
terms. You had better lose one job
now than 20 years Of jobs later on,
when you break permanently. There is
something in the new birth of the
morning that is natures own secret.
The elixir of the awakening can never
be counterfeited by stimulants. If man
does not greet the new day feeling at
his best he has drifted from the JOY
fulness of his boyhood and is go
ing wrong.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
Picture Unites a Brother and Sister

A. URORA, ILL.-John, Stanton of Au-
n rora and his missing sister, Mrs.
C. ". Waters Of Philadelphia, whom
he has not seen for 20 years, have been
reunited through moving picture film.
and the Aurora man has gone to make
his future home with his relative.
Mrs. Waters is an actress who paid
her last visit to her brother almost
quarter of a century ago when she
was appearing at the Park theater in
Brooklyn. Correspondence finally was
dropped and Mr.. Stanton waited year
after year for some word from the
woman. Recently his attention was
called to a theater poster in Aurora
and the striking resemblance between
the woman and his long-lost sister
caused him to buy a ticket for the per-
Torrance.
AS the drama was cast on the screen
he recognized the nurse to the young
heroine in the drama as his sister. He
sought out the manager obtained the
address of the film company, and ulti-
mately located her in Philadelphia. He
recently returned from a ten weeks
visit and goes back to pass the remain
der of his life at her home
Stanton, who is 70 years old, was
born in New York and served in the
navy during the Civil war at the Brook.
Ign navy yards. After the war he
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
Curb on Sharpers in the Alien Hotels

sengers looking for victims. No mat
ter what country the arriving emf
grant came from, there was some rum
ner to talk to him in his native Ian
guage.
When the boat had locked the run
ners led their victims to some lodg-
ing house, where they were made vel
come as long as they had money. 1t
often happened that an immigrant
bound for some inland town and pro-
vided with railway ticket would be
detained in New York as long as he
had money and then loaded on train
to go hungry to his destination. Those
who go back to the 'old country in
the fall on visit are not so easy.
Agents of the lodging houses. how
ever, meet western trains, sometimes
riding several hours out from New
York, in search of customers. Persons
thus obtained as patrons for a lodg-
ing house were furnished every oppor-
tunity to see New York while wait
Ing for the steamer and a good many
of them were out of money when
sailing time came.
Under the new laws the runners are
nc longer allowed to board boats or
swarm around the docks soliciting pat
ronage and every lodging house keeper
has to furnish a bond for the fair
treatment of his patrons.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14

moved west and became a farmer. A
few years ago he moved to Aurora
The STATIONS have been of dramatic
tendency and most of them have been
actors and actresses. Mrs Waters has
been on the stage for 46 years aud ex-
poets to remain there the rest CT her
life. Stanton's nephew, Barry O'Neal,
is stage manager for a film company,
while Mrs. O'Neal writes many of their
picture dramas.
This is the second time that NOV
ing picture film has been the means
of bringing together separated rela-
tives. Two years ago a moving pic
ture in Goshen, Ind, showed an os-
trich farm Suddenly woman in the
audience cried out and swooned.
She had recognized boy leading an
ostrich in the picture as her son, who
had run away with a circus year or
more before. Communication with the
company which made the film resulted
in the boy being restored to his mother
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
HAPPINESS IN WORK
ALWAYS AN INTERESTING SIDE
IF ONE LOOKS FOR 1T.
Well Declared the Greatest Secret Of
Forgetting Self and Leading
Successful Life.

whatever thy hand findeth to do
do it with thy might" When 1t is my
good fortune to meet clever woman
a popular woman, a universally loved
woman, or woman who combines all
three of these virtues, know l am ID
the presence of a great worker. If we
would attain success we must work
hard; we must not spare any effort in
the game of life; we must keep con
tinually at our WORK, striving always
to make each particular task more
successful than the one preceding it
1t has been said that too much work
will make you a dullard That may
be true to a certain extent. 1t GER
tafnly is not a good thing to become
so thoroughly absorbed in your work
that>you exclude all thought and prac
tice of recreation.
Every one of US needs amusement
rest and an occasional change; but
there is no duller person on earth
than a thoroughly indolent man OF
woman
Such people have no grip on life
no interest even in fulfilling their own
destinies. Work is a panacea for
many ills; a balm for sorrow and a
cure for dissatisfaction and peevish
ness.
Interest in and work for your fellow.
being is the greatest secret of forget
ting self and living a successful life.
One of the most interesting women
| know has recently gone through a
great sorrow. For a time her friends
feared it would completely crush her
but the blessing of work was hers
Her reason, her strength, her health
were all restored to their normal con
dition by work among little children
Poor children, who sadly needed
help; little lives that would otherwise
have been lost; young intellects that
were warped and twisted-all were
helped and made straight by this won.
ans care and untiring interest.
Today she is helping to solve the
colossal problem presented by the
poor of one of the largest cities OF
the world.
She is happy in her work; she is
beloved by all who know her; yet that
work keeps her busy from morning
until evening, and often far into the
midnight hours.
Try to love your work. No matter
what it may be, it must have some in
teresting side. Look for this interest;
don't let it battle you, but peg away
until you conquer by the sheer force
of the work you do. At the days end
you will be surprised to find how
many tasks have been completed and
how happily the busy hours HAYS
passed.
Work on, my sisters. Work on, anc
the blessings Of work well done Will
surely be yours.
Then, at the last, you shall see the
fruits of your toll, and shall receive
a just reward for your faithful eft
forts.-Cleveland Leader
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
ALL MUST MAKE MISTAKES
Impossible to Be Always in the Right
Build for Success on Past
Failures.

Just as sure as Ito err is human"
10 make mistakes is a good sign. II
We did not make mistakes once in a
while we should be calling for our
celestial harps. A mistake now and
then keeps our Conceit in check and
our hand 70 the plow
Once there was a man who deter
mined not to make mistake. Enough
money had been left to him so that he
did not have to get up with the alarm
clock. Into a moderate-priced board
ing house he moved. He did not en-
ter business OF any kind for fear CT
going wrong. He sat around from day
to day with just enough to make ends
meet. He treated other members of
the boarding house with consideration
and kept within proper social bounds.
He would enter into nothing where
anything was left 20 chance He
would vote neither yes nor no. say
neither yea nor nay. He was always
on the fence; he was neither positive
nor negative. His life was being
spent in not making a mistake
Then one day the man died.
After the funeral was over one OF
the neighbors said: We'll, I calcu
late Jim's life was just about as com
plete a fizzle as you could find any
where. He was neither for nor agin
He spent his whole life in holding his
hands and trying net TO make a mis-
take. Consequence was. he never did
anything right and worth doing. Poor
old JIM"
So it was. Jim had made a mis-
take in trying not to make a mistake
4 good theatrical producer can tel
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14

HHICAGO.-Rev. Henry NJ Mcdowell
~ has preached his last sermon at the
Woodlawn Park Congregational church
He resigned because certain members
of the church objected to his action in
donning overalls and working as an
express messenger at SIS week to
augment his salary of $120 month
from the church.
That manual labor lowered the dig
nifty of the pastor was the objection
made by the members OF the church,
and according to friends of the pastor,
while they were unable to have him
ousted from the pulpit, they made
things so unpleasant for him that he
resigned
The pastors resignation and the dis
closure of the actions of the members
who forced it, has caused so much in
dignation toward them on the part of
other members of the church that they
have withdrawn their memberships.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14

NEW YORK.-Robbing immigrants
~ and emigrants has long been a rec
ognized industry around the docks of
New York and proprietors of lodging
houses have been taking money away
from these people coming and going.
Two laws recently became operative
by which lodging house keepers will
be compelled to give The arriving and
departing persons Of foreign - birth
something like the equivalent for
money received.
Foreigners arrive all the year
around. but those who depart for a
visit to the old country generally be-
gin coming to New York about Octo-
Der 1 and continue coming until the
Christmas holidays. Then the steer
age begins to bring them back, and by
March nearly all are again in this
country and ready to go to work.
Under the old system, runners for
the lodging houses boarded the steam
ers and went through the steerage pas
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
ERUPTION COVERED BODY

Three years ago this winter 1 had
a breaking out that covered my whole
body. It itched so it seemed as if
should go crazy. 1t first came out in
little pimples on my back and spread
till it covered my whole body and
limbs down to my knees, also my arms
down to my elbows. Where |
scratched it made sores, and the ter
cible itching and burning kept me
from sleeping. / tried several RENE
dies all to no purpose. Then l con-
cluded to try the Cuticura Remedies.
used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment, also the Resolvent, for
about four months, and they COM
pletsiy cured me of eczema. l have
had no return of the disease since.
never had a good nights rest after the
skin eruption first broke out till COM
menced using the Cuticura Soap and
ointment. had only used them a
few days before / could see they were
beginning to heal, and the terrible
itching was gone.
'Those that lived In the house at
the time know how | suffered, and
how the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
cured me. l never take a bath with
out using the Cuticura Soap, and l
do not believe there are better rem
edies for any skin disease than the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment" (Signed)
Miss Sarah Calkins, Waukegan, ILL.,,
Mar. 16, 1911. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, a sam
pie of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cutt
oura," Dept. 5 X, Boston.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14

not eat the little ones. The worst
trouble we have in a fish hatchery is
the old fish eating young ones.
I'm this cement pond we put, among
other varieties, large numheT of cat
fish. Bass eat live food, frogs, fish,
worms, snakes and such, while the
crappie and catfish live chiefly on veg
etables. Every day we put chopped
cornmeal and cornbread into that pond
for the catfish. We put little goldfish
and small carp into 1t for the bass.
The crappie eat corn and other vego-
tables End if he ge.s real hungry he
will eat carp or beef. liver or grasshop-
pers.
I'VE have catfish in other ponds
that are not fed on corn and we have
been eating both the corn-fed catfish
and tn0se that are not corn fed and
there is all the difference in the world
in the davor of the two"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
Made of Sawdust and a Solution of
Magnesium Chloride, They Have
Proved Success.

Artificial floorings, made of sawdust
and other ingredients, are manufac-
tured extensively in Germany. Ii is
understood now that certain firms are
to introduce a similar process in this
country.
The flooring composition consists OF
a solution of magnesium chloride TO
which pulverized magr esia is added
and which of itself forms q white, abb
solutely solid, artificial stone. If to
this cement sawdust be added in con-
siderable proportions the combination
when it becomes hard possesses many
of the qualities of both wood and
stone.
Some of these floorings are mixed
on the spot and laid soft on the space
to be covered. while others are mold
ed INTO plates and delivered ready
made. According 20 consular and
trade reports. one Hamburg firm i'm
pregnates the wood meal with oil be
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
What Steel Cam Are to Cos.

According to an estimate in the
Railway Age Gazette, the cost of sub
shutting steel cars is estimated al
about $6SO,000,000. At the beginning
of this year there were about oO0
passenger cars in service in This
country, built of all steel construction
The total number of passenger
coaches is about $4,000, so that the
number of steel cars is about "a
per cent of the total OF the cars
constructed during the present wear
81 per cent will be all steel constrrc-
ton. so that at the end of this vear
fully 90 per cent of all passenger care
will be of steel, while 3.5 per cont
have steel underframes. The nor
eentage Of wooden cars in service he
dropped in the last three years fron,
$50 to S7-2 per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
RECENT INVENTIONS

An electric fly trap which two Den
yer men have invented requires a
45O-volt current to operate it.
For wedding gardens and flower
beds a rake has been patented which
carries small triangular hoe On the
cross bar.
A machine for shaping a straw hat
to fit its wearer's head without inter.
feling with the shape of the brim has
been vented by Chicagoan.
For advertising purposes a Penn
sylvanian has patented fan in the
shape of human face with a tongue
that waves in and cut as the fan is
moved
A new vacuum cleaner for automo-
biles and the clothing of their occu-
pants is operated by the exhaust
gases of car to which it NAV be
permanently attached.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
One Day at a Time

II e could Only live a day at q
time wouldn't we be happier? Just
fill each day with the best work we
can do, the cheeriest things We can
say; let love radiate all around us and
not worry over the things We are
afraid are going to happen and make
ourselves miserable over those which
happened long ago.
There are scores of women who
would be happy if they could forget
the past troubles that trve darkened
their lives.
But it is a hard undertaking to some
of us who love to nurse sorrow and
wrongs. 1t rankles in our minds wears
after it is buried in the past and
should be forgotten. The only way
to overcome bitter thoughts is to put
them out of our minds the instant
they seek to come in.
Refuse absolutely to entertain an
ugly or mournful thought
Leave the yesterdays and live in to-
day, with the face toward the sun end
ears attuned to catch Gods message.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14
MUST BE ONES OWN

there are three distinct kinds of sue
cess. Like greatness, success may be
Inherited; 1t may be thrust upon us;
or 1t may be acquired. The Unborn and
the gift successes need no trite
phrases to kindle them or to nurse
them along. They are accidental and
occur only in rare places. The &C
CURED success is really the only one
worth while. Such success is often
built, upon a foundation of failure.
1t takes failure. adversely, and dis
couragement to develop character. Ad-
versity is the true test of man. 1t
shows the stuff he is made Of Any
man can carry his head high and
look cheerful when fortune smiles
upon him, but it takes a real man to
look his best under adverse condi-
lions.
Encouragement is never the result
of failure; it is always the cause of
failure. Conditions that will discour-
age the weakling will only urge On to
greater effort the man of strength.
determination. and courage.
Poverty, lack of opportunity, dire,
urgent necessity, are often blessings:
they have brought out latent energy
and ability that otherwise might have
slumbered through lifetime.
There is a difference between Incl.
dental failure and habitual failure. In.
cidental failure is purifer-it teach
es a lesson that success does not
teach. 1t causes retrospection. self.
examination, and careful study of
the conditions that are responsible for
the failure, whereas success gained
without effort has the opposite effect