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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
MAKE WASTE PLACES BLOOM
Railway Station Garden Is Latest
Move Toward tho City
Beautiful.

During the last few years a new
kind of garden has come into being in
the shape of the railway station gar
den. 1t is tended by members of the
staff, and is usually a picture of neat
ness, and often of beauty as Well. The
small, tidy beds, or long narrow bor-
ders edged with white stones, are
often glorious masses of color, with
out one Earring note. At some country
stations the name Of the place is
worked out in flowers or small shrubs,
and should the traveller by chance fall
into conversation with the presiding
genius of the garden he will find that
a remark on the nattiness and pretti-
ness of the scheme of decoration will
be much appreciated. In their season,
rcses-usually red or white or yellow
Manifestation lu%xuriantly at many
a wayside stopping place and trans
form the station itself Into a thing
OF beauty."-London Globe.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
South Americas Worst srjoands.

made many expeditions from Po-
tosi into the surrounding country.
writes w. Hflton-SimpsQn in the Wide
World. The Indians here are the no
torious Aimara, likewise descendants
OF the 1ncas, and the worst brigands
in South America. Their principal oc-
%cupation is murder and theft, and un-
til quite recently they sacrificed their
prisoners to the gods, n then par
took of their flesh. AS regards saw
agery, they easily excel all other
tribes. The sacriticial victim was not
merely %butchered, as happens in most
similar cases; he was bound, and then
the flesh was torn off his living body
and eaten by men, women and chill
dren. If, in the process OF being tor
tured, as much as a o escaped his
lips, the bones of the victim we're
thrown away; but ii, on the contrary,
he was stole enough to be silent, the
bones were collected and set up on q
pile OF rocks to be %worshiped. 1t is
still within the memory of living man
that human meat was sold among the
A1mara.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
HOGS IN FIGHT FOR APPLES
Missouri Farmer Is Compelled to Pen
His Animals Up So They Can Sleep
and Not Waste Away.

st. Louis.-Here is the seasons
prize fruit story. It was told in Ed
w%ardsville the other day by Rev. F.
]. Buschmann, pastor of st. Paul's
Evangelical church. Circuit Judge
Louis Bernreuter had been helping the
minister to prepare caldrons of apple
butter for the winter, and the pastor
declared that the apple crop was ex.
ceptional.
Peaches, too, for that matter"
continued the minister. why, do
you know, n of my church members
living at the foot of the bluffs has
had to pen up hts hogs at night so
that they could get some sleep and
not waste away.
"They eat apples all day long and
at night when they can no longer see
them they hear a big apple drop to the
ground with a whack and Immediately
the whole drove scurries to get it.
Their owner tells me they were &C.
tually wearing away nor flesh in
this continued pursuit than they put
on, and he therefore had to confne
them at night"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
ENGLISH WATER WAGON NEAR
Consumption of Wet Goods Shows Re.
markabIe DecIine-Gratifying to
Temperance Lovers,

The statistics of beer and spirit con
sumption contained in the latest an
nual report of the customs and excise
commissioners must be gratifying
reading to lovers of temperance. AL
though during 1909-1O the consumption
OF beef was only 412,OOO barrels less
than In the previous year-a decline
OF approximately ~ per cent.-it
makes a total decrease of 3,653. 900
barrels in the last decade, every year
OF which shows a fall in the per CAP
tia consumption. For every fifty
glasses of beer drunk by John Bull in
10000 he consumed only forty-one
last year.
The annual drop in the consumption
!of spirits is much more remarkable.
amounting In 1909-10 to as much as
50 l-3 pei cent.-one glass out of every
three. In the ten years the quantity
OF spirits drunk at home has fallen
from 45,402, 800 to 26,OOS, 200 gallons, a
decline OF 43 per cent; wife the ION.
sumption per head had f.. n over At
per cent.-one glass Of 81. 5 in 1909
1910 approximately taking tie place Of
two In 10000.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21

walking back and forth in front Of
headquarters talking the matter yer
when he abruptly stopped and said:
capt. Parsons. l wish you would tell
me what you would do If the case was
one that required action by YOU"
His question nearly took my breath
away. There was a brigadier general
virtually asking a captain in one Of
his regiments to tell him what to do.
l said: Gen. Lyle, as you have asked
me l will tell you frankly what 1
would do if it was my case. l would
send the man to Gen. Rosecrans' head
quarters with directions that he be
taken to the general. If he holds Gen.
Rosecrans' pass that officer would
know at once whether 1t is genuine
or not"
Without a moment Of hesitation
Gen. Lyle called an orderly and d.
irected that two mounted soldiers, with
an extra horse, report to him without
delay. When they reported he directed
that they take charge of Hoyt and
conduct him to Gen. Rosecrans' head
quarters, eighteen miles away, that
might. It was at once found that Hoyt
was n of the army spies at liberty
Ito go where and when he pleased. The
pass was genuine. The vexed problem
was solved. After that we carried
lHoyt on the rolls as a regularly de-
tailed soldier, without stating the serv-
lice he was performing
AS o know, General Lyle was
killed at the battle Of Chicka-
manga within a short distance of
Jour regiment. A number of our
men saw him when he fell from
This horse.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
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SCIENCE OF CITY BUILDING
Many Cities Desert the Topsy Method
Of Expansion and Begin to
Reach Out.

There are certain cities. big and
small, that are deserving the Topsy
method of just growing, says Harper's
Weekly. They are being gently and
persistently pushed along toward
greatness. To use an invidious meta
phor, they are picking factories from
their less wakeful neighbors and
planting them in their own towns;
they are causing the transfer of hun
dreds of millions of dollars worth of
business from the somnolent cities
and, in this time of reforms, are
boasting of their remarkable progress
in population.
The way the thing is done nay be
APPLY illustrated by the manner in
which Poughkeepsie obtained an auto
mobile factory. The secretary read
In a newspaper that an Italian CON-
pany was thinking of locating a fac
tory in this country. Without waiting
for the owners to have a chance to
look the country over and decide for
themselves, the secretary pounced
upon them and talked Poughkeepsie,
talked it hard and convincingly. He
invited them to come up and see the
place, and when he got them took
them all over the town and showed
them the schools and churches, the
parks and workingmen's houses, told
them about the railroad facilities and
rates. Then he took them to the very
spot that he had picked out in ad-
vance where they could build. He
pictured the factory to them, pointed
to the homes their men would live in,
told them how low the taxes were and
how healthful was the air. When
they vent away the visitors had ev-
cry good point about Poughkeepsie
throbbing in their heads in 100 differ
ent forms, and consequently they
straightway came back and built
their factory in Po~ughkeepsie.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
GOOD TURN BRINGS PARDON
Man Whom Convict Once Loaned 500
Obtains cIemency for Him az
Well az Employment.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Bread, in
the shape of a 500 loan and a gift
of two theater tickets, cast upon the
water In San Francisco two years ago.
a returned to Albert d. Walk, serv-
Ing two years in a Utah prison for OBJ
tanning money under false p~retenses.
He has been rewarded with a par
don.
Walk met B. H. Brainerd, formerly
an Illinois sheriff, on a train en- route
to San Francisco two years ago.
Brainerd's first business had failed.
and he found himself without money
and greatly discouraged. Walk acct
dentally learned Of Brainerd's misfor.
tune, loaned him $1OO and sent Brain.
erd and his wife to the theaser to
cheer them up.
When Brafnerd, who had ~prospered
IN the insurance business, heard that
Walk was serving a sentence in Utah.
he appeared before tie board of mar.
dons and made an earnest plea for his
former benefactor. He promised to
give him employment at a good sal.
airy.
The board notified Walk, and he
was released in custody of Brainerd.
provided he repay the money wrong.
1ully obtained and reimburse the
state for the money expended in
e4'raoltlng him from Pennsylvania.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
Plant Street Trees.

Plant a tree. The expense is small.
The subsequent attention is not large.
Once started, the tree helps itself as
scarcely anything else of moment to
us ever does. 1t grows while we sleep.
1t drinks the sunshine and compounds
Its W food out of the refuse gases
OF the air and the watery solutions of
the soil. Out of these inert, inattrac-
tive, barely recognizable substances
by a miracle of transformation there
comes forth that thing of life and beau
ty, which is also a thing of tangible
money value-a tree.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21

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OF BEER ON DECLINE
Vienna Journal Estimates Decrease at
Nearly Million and Half Hectolltres
Important Data.

The worlds output Of beer during
the year 1909 amounted, according to
the estimates annually compiled by a
Vienna journal, to 800, 1892, 900 hectoli-
tres. al against 304, $780, 900 in 1908-a
decrease Of nearly three and a half
millions. The hectolitre equals %
gallons, SO that, stated in English
measure. the 1909 output was rather
more than 1873, 200, 900 barrels. When
this total comes to be divided among
the different nations, America is cred
ated with the largest output-namely;
1o1. 0 900 hectolitres, or over one;
third OF the whole-America being
taken to include the whole continent
OF North and South America. The
output of the United States alone is
under 100000 900 hectolitres. The
figures for the German empire are TO-
$4,000 hectolitres, and therefore, oc-
cupy first place. The United King
dom comes third on the list, with
b5,Ss7,0 900 hectolitres. No other coun-
try approaches these three. The
fourth Is taken by Austria-Hungary
with 22,00s, 900 hectolitres. Belgium
coming nth with 16,485, 900, and
France taking sixth place with 14,22S,-
900 hectolitres. Russia's output is
estimated at $500, 900, Sweden's at g.
100000, Denmark, 2,790,OOO, Swift
erland at 100000, and Hollands at
1,50S,0 900 hectolitres. Italy, Norway,
Spain, Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece,
servia and Portugal among European
countries follow in the" order named
with quantities ranging from 46O, 900
down to $4,000 h%ectolitres. Australia
and New Zealand together produced
about 2,400, DOC, Canada about LAS
600, and Natal and Cape Colony to-
gether about $4,000 hectolitres. The
last named is just half the quantity
now brewed in Japan.
The number of breweries is greatest
IN Germany (14,S70), the United
Kingdom possessing 4,542, Belgium g.
379, France 2,776, Austria-Hungary L.
2S9, Denmark 3s7, Sweden 222, Nor
way 43, Holland, 1862, Switzerland, 100,
Russia, 800. and the United States
about 1000. In Germany, Bavaria
takes first place in regard to con
sumption per head of the population,
which stands at 2S3 litres, though
salzberg is a good second with 231 Ii.
tres. Belgium stands third with 223,
the United Kingdom following with
1873. Denmark with LOG, the United
States, with about 80, Sweden with 81
and France with SO litres.
These facts indicating the power
and extent of the world traffic in beer
furnish important data for study by
temperance reformers and students of
economics everywhere, but may by no
means be regarded as ground for dis
couragement in the worldwide cam
palgn against the liquor evil since the
whole trend Of modern times among
all nations is set steadfast and over.
Whelm1ngly against the tide of in
temperance.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
Effects of Education.

An encampment of citizen soldiers
was recently held in Wales, and at it's
close the following encouraging re-
port was made: Not a single case
OF drunkenness was reported, not a
single man was brought before the
'of1cers, and not a single man was
seen to be under the influence of
drink. 1t is notable also that, judg-
ling by the proportion of men who pre-
|ferred to be supplied with mineral
waters to beer or other intoxicants at
meals, more than 60 per cent of the
men are abstainers." Certainly the
education OF the people respecting
the injurious effects of alcohol is be-
ginning to tell.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
SPY HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
Soldier, Believed to 30 Dessrter, 10
Ordered Under Arrest-His Pass :,
Found to Be Genuine,

In 1868. not long before the battle
pit Chickamauga, said Capt. q. B. Par
sons Of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin.
p regiment he had the honor to COM
mand on several occasions, writes
Lieut., Col. J. A. .Watrous, U. 8. A.,
IN the Milwaukee Sentinel, l had an,
experience which made SO strong an
Impression upon my mind that l recall
1t today as wildly as II 1t had 90
Cured only yesterday. A member Of
my company, X, suddenly disappeared
and for a time was carried as a de-
serter. Soon after dark one evening
he walked into camp and when l
asked him to give an account of him.
self he informed me that he had been
IN the secret service on a detail BY
Maj. Gen. Rosecrans, then in command
OF that army, and as an evidence of
good faith showed me a pass which
permitted the bearer to go through
the Union lines or anywhere about the
army, at will. He told about having
slept with the Confederate army the
night before and related very interest
ing incidents. and then said, I guess
Will go up and see the old man The
'old man was Col. Charles H. LARA
bee, then in command of the Twenty
fourth.
The colonel was not in his usual
good health that evening and the mo-
ment he saw the soldier. whose name
was Azur Hoyt, he ordered him under
arrest as a deserter and he was TAX
EN- to brigade headquarters. Ten or
eleven o'clock that night, after | had
gone to bed. an orderly from brigade
headquarters woke me up and in
formed me that Gen. w. H. Lyle,
brigade commander. desired that I re-
port to him without delay. l told the
orderly to give the general my COM
plfments and to say that l would DO
right over. AS entered his tent, Gen.
Lyle, n of the most lovable of, men
as we'll as he was one of the bravest
of soldiers, said: Capt Parsons. tell
me about this man Hoyt. His pass
seems to be all right, but your colonel
tells me he is a deserter. can I'm.
derstand why no regular recorded de-
tail was made for the man. He was
to act as a spy, and the general natur-
ally did not want anything known
about the mans having been taken
from the regiment and ordered to
headquarters. But this pass may be
bogus"
1t was a beautiful moonlight night
and the general and myself were
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
Jack Rabbit Is Hoodoo.

Dallas, Ore.-Fred Auer, a pro,ni-
nent farmer living ear Rickerall,
Polk county, accidentally shot himself
while driving some cattle from Rick.
erall to Dallas. A jack rabbit ran &C.
cross the road and Auer reached for
his revolver in his hip pocket. The
hammer caught on his chaps and one
shell exploded. the bullet entering his
|skde.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
Stop Whisky Business.

Edison, the great inventor, says,
art will be increased and distributed
as we emerge more and more from
the dog stage. Society will have to
stop this whisky business, which is
like throwing sand in the bearings of
a steam engine"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
Not Looking Too Ear Ahead.

What is your boy going to be
when he grows up?"
Il don't know. We've not got that
far yet. We're devoting all our time
to ways and means of bringing him
safely through his college football
period. After that We'll probably
choose q career for him"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
Umpire's Jov.

so he claims to be the only per-
fectly impartial umpire in the game?
On what does he base the claim?"
He says he's always abused BY
both sides instead Of by only ono"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
Improvinu.

"Bliggins like to hear himself talk"
lis that all you have against him!"
Gould anything be worse?"
Certainly. Bliggins used to like to
hear himself sing"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-12-21
wants Name channed

Chicago.-Louis G. schmeltekopf
mas applied to the courts to permit
MIN to change his name. In his pe-
tition he declares that in the Ger.
man "Schmeltskopr' Q "gst-
head"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-12
POOR CLAY PIGEONS
Mrs. FisIs Mortified at Slaughter Of
Earthenwars Birds, Even BY
one-Armed Man.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: The killing
of clay pigeons, biologicalIy speaking
a blood relation Of the kitchen variety
of saucer, is deplored with lugubrious
deploreness by Mrs. Minnie Madden
Fislxe. first vice president Of the Inter-
national Humane association. some
actress, and lately OF the Metropolitan
operahouse, Sixth street.
Mrs. Fiske, who loves and is kind to
all animals. including playwrights and
dramatic critics. went to Humane OFF,
Ger John A. Moaks animal refuge yes
terday, cheered Mr. Moak with dis
titled Spencerian English, and began
her deploration. It was to the effect
that Frank Penas. ST. Paul's arrnless
hunter, an account OF whom appeared
in Thursdays Pioneer Press, was a
brutal brute and probably descended
from Brutus. She spoke as follows:
1T was rather depressing this morn
Ing to read Of the shooting exploits or
Frank Penas OF st. Paul. and to see
that these exploits were given impor-
lance. A great man has said: "The
greatest coward Is he who treats with
crulty any helpless living thing"
Tt would seem that this Mr.. Penas
is also in the habit OF enlisting the
services of children to assist him in
his killing activities--thus helping to
destroy the sense of pity. compassion.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-12
BURDICKS BOUND over
Alleged Cattle Hustler and Wife Were
Bound Over to Federal Court at
Hearing Yesterday.

Joe Burdiek and his young wife,
Rene Burdick, the alleged cattle rust
iers Of the Standing Rock reservation.
were bound over to the federal court
yesterday at their preliminary hearing
at Shields. n. D., before Judge Klahn,
The man was held on $1,000 bail and
the woman's bail was fixed at $500.
Burdick will return to the Burleigh
county courthouse, where he will await
trial at Fargo which will probably be
held, It is understood, within the next
thirty days. His young wife was al
lowed to return to TT. Yates, where she
has been since her arrest under the
surveillance of Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts
and an inmate of their household.
Deputy u. S. Marshal c. w. Hag-
CERT made the trip to Shields yester-
day to attend the hearing and to
represent the United States marshal's
Office. The Burdicks are the couple
arrested by u. S. Marshal Shea last
month and were claimed to be the
leaders Of gang Of cattle rustlers in
the Standing Rock country which has
long been known for its daring at
tempts on the herds Of the Indians
there.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-12
practically certain to meet with dis

practically certain to meet with dis
appointment.
Fortunately for the northwest. the
new country is being taken up by men
with the serious purpose Of making
their homes and earning their reward
from the soil. The authorities in Nom
tana. the western section of North Da-
kota and other districts where dry
farming has been demonstrated as
successful, are in thorough sympathy
with the needs of the settlers. They
have established their demonstration
farms and are giving needed instruc-
ton to the new settlers In the meth
DDS that promise the best results. They
understand that the personal element
counts for much in dry farming, and
that methods to which farmers have
been accustomed in other sections must
be employed IL dry farming is to be
successful Results Of these efforts
have been most encouraging and the
states in question are producing better
crops than some Of the states located
in what is known as the humid area.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-12
KENNEDY DOES
PLAIN TALKING
FILTRATION PLANT CONTRACTOR
REFuTEs SOME RECENT STATE.
MENTs MADE nv w. j. PRICE
REGARDING THE FILTRATION
PLANTs--AND THINGS.

To The Forum: / see Taxpayer
Price has erupted again. He tells how
cheap they are getting the filtration
plant at Miles City. think / know as
much about that plant as Mr.. Price
can possibly know, as figured on 1t.
There Is as much comparison between
the plant they are Installing In Miles
City and the one we are installing
here, as there is between d sod house
and a marble palace.
The Miles City plant takes 1t water
from the Yellowstone river and the
water Is as good as any In the United
states, except during the June rise
when 1t is muddy
Why doesn't Mr.. Price compare the
filtration plants that ere built In the
state and are being built now, If he
desires comparison.
The plant at Minot costs less than
$4,000 and Is filtering the foulest water
in the state and has lived UP to
the guarantee and better for the past
year and a half that it has been In
operation, having thirty -slx~inch In
take, against Miles City's eighteen
inch?
Why doesn't he tell about the Man
dan plant that Mr. Haggart Is building,
costing about $4,000? He speaks
about the guarantee held back on the
Greer people; evidently Burns e. Mac
Donnell know them, but what is the
difference between Is per cent OF So
500, and 2 per cent Of $96,000?. Would
not both amounts be practically the
same, and as to payments, If Mr.. Price
was successful In landing the job at
$4,000, and (the committee says that
he took up more time in trying to get
1t at that price than all of the other
bidders who bid. would not his pay
ments have been made the same as
they are to me?
Regarding the forty cars OF sand
which he alleges asked estimates on.
This is about as truthful as any part
Of his article. I did not ask for an es-
innate for anything that was not on
the grounds, consequently the engineer
could not refuse me.
I have the Miles City plans in my
Office and any one desiring to see them
can see how much truth there is in Mr..
Prices misleading epistle. It would
seem to me that as Mr.. Price has taken
his matter into court, that 1T would be
well for him to let the court decide the
case instead Of trying it In the papers.
I think 1t would be just as well for
Mr.. Price to give the filtration plant a
rest and If he must appear in print, let
him enlighten the taxpayers ON how he
has saved them money In the heating
and plumbing which he has done in the
city schools, also the courthouse and
the Johnson system and the work that
he has done for the state institutions
If he will not enlighten the people on
these things, know man who can.
I desire to call his attention again
to the fact that the filtration plant win
not cost $225,000 or anything near that
figure.
In the meantime, / am pushing the
work and expect to give the people Of
the city OF Fargo pure water BY the
first day of January.
James Kennedy.