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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-02
NOT WELL POSTED.

Winnipeg Free Press.
Professor James d. Boyle Of the Uni
versity Of North Dakota has been giving
evidence before the Senate finance COM
mittee OF the United States, at Washing
ton, on the subject Of reciprocity and
the price Of wheat n Winnipeg, Mime.
apolis and Duluth. Il all tho evidence
furnished BY the professor is as accurate
Is that about the Winnipeg Grain Ex-
change, it will be we'll for the Senate
Committee to have Il revised before use.
The following is his statement on this
point:
..There was good reason for the de-
preston Of prices at Winnipeg entirely
apart from the question of the tariff.
This reason was the passage Of hostile
leglslation by tho Manitoba legislature.
This legislation was directed against
trading in futures, and it had the effect
OF disruhaing entirely the Winnipeg
produce and grain exchange. It was
forced out Of business, aud voluntary
organisation known as the Winnipeg
grain exchange took its place. Trading
in failures was given up. Government
elevators were also built In competition
with the private ones.
:srhe result Of these changes was that
Winnipeg grain dealers could no longer
pay the prices they had hitherto paid.
Elevators, which had been accustomed
to hedge BY selling futures against what
they bought for cash, had to give up this
form Of insurance against loss. They
had In raprv tho riak thamaaIvaa nou1
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-02

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Walks in block A subject to modifica
tions On account ct bridge approaches. :
All said cement walks to be built by
the owners under the supervision and
direction of the street commissioner oi
said city, and to be completed within
thirty days after the date Of this notice.
Otherwise they will be built by the city
Of Pembina, and the costs thereof, un.
less otherwise paid, will be charged as a
lien against said los and collected az
other taxes are collected, with costs,
interest and penalties, according to law,
by the treasurer of the county Of Penn
bina.
Given under my hand and the official
seal OF the city of Pembina, this 18th.
day Of May, A. d. 1911 (Seal)
F. a. WARDWELL.
A. L.AKERS, City Auditor.
Street Commissioner.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-02

Portable Gssollse Eaflne Cheap.
Fisrbanks-Mofse, g horse. gasoline
first class condition, has been running
50 in. separator successfully. Price
800. II you want In engine better look
this up.
=. B. I4ANGToN.
Pembina, N. D.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-02
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. SPRING BRINGS SORE FEET +:
!. HERE IS A POSITIVE CURE :

With the advent Of warm weather
comes foot troubles to Thousands OF
poepae. The increased temperature and
Asavlnsss Of the atmosphere causes
svsllinR and sxesss perspiratioa. This
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
Taft and Anti-Taft in Alabama

In the haste to get at the spells the republican machine of Alabama met last week and selected some national delegates and took steps that will lead to a selection of more in the various districts. It is unnecessary to say that they indorsed William Howard Taft, declaring themselves in favor of his renomination. They favor the re- election although they will have small power at the ballot boxes in Novem- Der of next year. Their strong point consists in the naming of delegates rather than in the casting votes at the polls.
 No other state has acted so prema- turely. All other republican organi- cations will await the call of their national executive committee, which will name the number of delegates to be selected and the rules under which they are to be selected. The repub- lican national committee will meet in January or. February and the selec- tion of delegates before that time is considered irregular and null and void by the progressive wing of that party.
 This means that another convention will be called by the progressives, and that contesting delegations from the G. o. P. in this state will appear be- fore the national convention, each asking for admission to seats.
 Just why the recent convention of standpat republicans named six dele gates when twenty-four are to be sent from this state is mystery. The mysteries of that party in this state relate to postmasterships only, and only the initiated need attempt to fathom those mysteries. The progress sives will simply ignore them and proceed, no doubt, in a like cliquish manner to select contesting delega- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
Treaty Making and the Constitution

When Giuseppe Chic, an Italian subject, died in San Joaquin county, California, he raised great constitu- tional question. He left no will, but he did leave in bank $1064, and the Italian consul general and the public administrator in San Joaquin county both claimed the power to settle the estate and to handle in short the sum in bank. The supreme court of Cal ifornia decided against the Italian of- ficial, and now the case is to come be- fore the supreme court of the United States.
 The supreme court will be asked to decide how far the treaty making power can be carried against state laws. A treaty with Italy and per haps twenty other countries gives the representative of a country right to settle the estate of a subject of that country Who dies lnteState re- gardless of the jurisdiction of a state. If state cannot control the admin istration of estates left within it's bounds, what indeed can state in a pinch control?
 In other words, can a treaty with Italy or any other country be at least in part declared to be unconstitu tional? Here indeed is a situation and the California county official pro poses to push the matter before tht supreme court to decision that may perhaps, define to the end of the re public the extent and scope of it. tr8aty making powers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Futnre Prosperity

Tn most sections of the country a to be generally conceded that the volume of business will be somewhat curtailed during the next two years as a result of political conditions" said E. T. Sydnor of Chicago.
 Early in the year many prominent financiers gave reasons for predict. ing inactivity during the first half of 1911, but forecast prosperity for the second half provided W. had big crops But now the talk is pretty general that we will have to be satisfied with moderate degree of prosperity until af- ter the next presidential inauguration. The resources of the United States are so great that when we do have booms T speak not of the inflated sort, but of the solid prosperity kind-everybody has chance to make money.
 "1 believe that In 1913 an era of pros- perity will be in evidence that will eclipse anything ever known in the business world. People will make more money between 1918 and 1916 than is ordinarily made in period of 10 years. When high record prosperity gets in full swing again all progressive cities will stride, and Birmingham will out strip every city south of the Ohio in it's striding. In the meantime Birming- ham will more than hold its own. It is talked of in the north as the south's most phenomenal city today, and the census of 1920 will probably find it with between BOO 900 and 00,000 popu- lation."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
Limiting the Bond Issue

The new fiscal year created by the commission will be ended on Septem- Der 30 when the deficit of the city will stand at $1,000,000, and it has been officially decided that the bond issue will not be extended to a pro- spective deficit. Instead of the sum of $1,300,000 voted by the people the bond issue will be confined to the present actual deficit which is in round figures $1,0O0,OOO.
 How much of this large deficit is due to the creation of greater city how much to extravaganza under the old system-may be determined when the official figures at the end of the fiscal year are published. It cannot be determined now by the wayfarer who has no details before him. Comp troller Charles Abbott may be able in his report at the end of the fiscal year to throw light on the subject. If he cannot, no one can with definite ness and real illuminative power.
 Presumably the commissioners hope hereafter to make ends meet. The city's income will soon be increased by the sales of liquors and possibly the commissioners can see their way clear to a time when receipts will equal expenditures and deficits will cease to accumulate. No one else sees clearly ahead to such a result, but perhaps the commissioners do. They are striving to bring in such condi- tion under the crippling constitution of 1901, and if any three men are equal to the big task they are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
PASSING OF RIGGS HOUSE

and at the Riggs House were held the quiet conferences. Jay Gould stopped there invariably on his flying visits to the capital. Russell Sage had occupied room there on many nights following . busy day in communion with the political powers.
 The Riggs House was erected in 1876. Prior to that time the site had been occu- pied by the quarter master generals of flee of the war department. As such it weathered the storm of the civil war.
 At the time of its opening and for the first 15 years of the historic career of the old house it was managed by c. W. Spof- ford. Orrn G. Staples assumed the lease of the hotel May f. 1891, and rounded out his twentieth year of proprietorship, and it was Mir. Staples who finally locked .he doors of the old Riggs House for the first time since its construction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
Historical md Beautiful

"A prominent citizen of Birmingham re- gently visited his native city, Maysviile, Ky, and on his return brought me a large package of picture post cards which I prize very highly" said an old citizen who was born and reared in Kentucky on the banks of the Ohio near Maysville. "I have known many Maysville men-and, like the natives of Huntsville, they seem to be scattered all over the earth-who never return to see hoy the old town is getting along; but I am not one of those wanderers who fails to pay an occasional visit. I spend two or three days with rel atives and friends in Maysville every few years, and one of my pleasures in antici- patton is a trip to Maysville this fall.
 q cast my first vote in Maysville in 1872 and then moved away, not because I did not like the town, but for business reasons. Maysville Is one of the most historic cities in the United States. and 1t is one of the most beautiful. Founded in 17S5 by a Virginian named May, it grew to be quite an important shipping point before Cincinnati was started. It increased steadily until it reached pop ulation of 5000. Today its population is less than TOGO, but it is one of the best built and one of the most prosperous towns on the southern side of the Ohio.
 General Albert Sidney Johnston, a West Pointer and a great Confederate commander, who was killed at Shiloh the first day of the battle, April G. 1862, was born in, Washington, Ky, four miles
 otta Dor l and Richeson school in the latter city. General U. s. Grant, born on the Ohio side of the liver 40 or 50 miles below Maysville, attended that same Rand and Richeson school. Among other distin- guished men who were prepared for col lege at Rand and Richeson's academy is Dr. Warfield Creath Richardson of Tus- caloosa, once professor of Greek at the University of Alabama, and who today, despite his advanced age now in his S9th year), Is one of the most original and logical thinkers and one of the most virile writers in the south. He was born in Mayesville.
 'The Ohio is known as the beautiful river I have travelled up and down the Rhine, and have reveled in the beauty of other great rivers, but with the possi- ble exception of the Rhine, the Ohio leads in entertainment. It is beautiful from Louisville all the way up to Pittsburg and most beautiful. I believe, at Mays vile. The views which my friend mas brought me are well executed, and these pictures fill me more than ever with g longing to drink in Ohio river scenes so familiar in the years gone by"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
UNDERWOOD WISDOM

From the Buffalo News.
 It is quite in contrast with the Clark habit of exaggerated speech, and unrea- sonable, that Chairman Underwood an- nounces himself as glad to wait on the President to see what sort of measures le recommends in his message in December and, if they are good, to adopt his sus- gestion.
 Mr. Underwood has no trace of the dem sgogue about him. He does not pretend that revision has been delayed, that the President has gone over to the standpat- tcrs. that he represents the interests, nor any of that irresponsible sort of tall. He knows very well that President Taft will
 meet Congress in December with pro- posals for revision that will command the approval of the whole country and that it will be a comparatively simple
 matter to agree with him if the democrats are for revision, even as much as frac- tlonal degree of what they say they are. It is the right attitude for statesman. MT. Underwood knows that general tar iff ripping is the wrost thing that can happen to his section of the country and if that is so, 1t is even worse to be ap- rlied in other sections. He is more anx- ious to work out good things for the peo- ule than he is to make a personal repi- tation and least of all has he any liking
 the ground of opposing because 1t thinks | it ought to oppose whether there is any rhyme or reason in it or not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
Poison Dispensing Mosquitoes

'I killed a stegomyia fasciata mos quito today" hid Percy Clark, and it reminded me of the yellow fever scare we had here in Birmingham a few years ago.
 This old lady mosquito, if she could find some subject to feed on, would shoot the deadly yellow fever poison into my veins. The stegomyia has striped back and it is a demonstrated fact that only the female can take the poison from yellow fever patient. and during the period of incubation, before laying ner eggs, compound even more deadly pois- on than a direct transmission from yell low fever patient to a healthy person by the hyperdermc old man mosquito is very much like the male members of the Basutos, tribe of Africans from whom many If our former slaves came--he lies in the shade all day and lives off of tine yeast of decaying fruits, and bananas are his favorite supply
 "l recall quite piece of joccuar ban terlng I gave very talented newspaper reporter, who had written Il clever story of an interview with signor Stegom,ia Fasciata--only he did not know he had interviewed Mr. Stegomyia female.
 "rhe pestferous anophales is now with us in great numbers Whether she is a suffragette or not in her realm, know ] she causes many a poor mortal to shake with ague or suffer with malarial fever. She is a dark brown color, at times al most black. This species is the cause of our malaria. and it is probable that nav ing drawn the poison in some mild form from decayn2 plant life, or some pois- onous yeast, it is compounded into Toxic which unquestionably innoculates throuyl, Inc hypodermic bill of the female mo phales the human family with malaria. If one would avoid malaria they must prevent the bite of mosquitoes. Coal oil Though very objectionable as to smell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
WRITING A STORY

From the New 1OTh I1tTdlQ Once upon time many years ago Anthony Hope began a serial causerie in an English magazine entitled The Fly on the Wheel" In it he played with the problem of an authors method in writing stories. In woman's mouth. he says. the question runs, "oh. MT Fly, how did you think of those lovely stories?' In the mouth of a man, T say, Fly, old chap, how the deuce do you turn out that stuff of yours?" The fly confessed that the question was too much for his candor, and as he had no desire to make a secret of his method he proposed to exhibit 1t in the form of a diary-the record of a day.
 Let us suppose" he said, that am bidden to write a short story. l ar rive at my working den at quarter to 10 o'clock and read my letters. The rest of the day is much as follows: 1O:00-Put on writing coat; find hole
 in the elbow. 1O:O3-Light pipe and sit down in large
 armchair by fire. 1O:15-Who the deuce can write a story
 on a beastly day like this? ct
 was quite nice weather. really
 that's the artistic tempera-
 ment.
 10:45-I must think about that con-
 founded story. Besides I don't
 think she meant anything at all 11:15-I wish the-these people hadn't
 asked me to write for their
 paper!
 11:45-Hullo, Will that do? 12:O0-Hang it, that's no use, 12:30-I suppose if I happened to have
 a head instead of a turnip l
 could write that story. 12:4o--Yes! No. By jove, yes. Where's
 that pen? Oh, where the?
 All right here it is, Now then {.
 (Scribble).
 1:00-Lunch. Good, I believe it's go-
 ing.
 1:30-Now. I'll just knock it off.
 (Scribble).
 2:15-Well, I don't quite see my way
 to-oh yes, l do. Good! That's
 not so bad
 3.O0-One, two, three-three hundred
 words a page. Well, I've put that
 in in good time anyhow!
 Where's that pipe? 9:15-I think I'll fetch 'em Pitched in
 passion, by love. S:40-Oh, say. look here! I've only
 got about 1900 words and I want
 20OO. What the deuce shall I
 do?
 3:50-I must pad 1t, you know. She
 mustn't take him yet that's all. 4:00-She can't take more than a page
 accepting the fool, though; it's
 absurd, you know. 4:15-Oh, confound it. 4:45-Now, let's see. Two, four, six,
 seven. Good, I'm in the straight now
 5:00-Thank heaven, that's done! Now I suppose 1 must read the thing over. I know it's awful rot. Well, that's their lookout they've bought it. 5:03-It's not so bad, though, after all. sill rather like that. don't know but 1t seems rather original. 515-H'mi I've read worse stories than this. l 5:20-No, I'm hanged if I touch a word of it, It's not half bad l 5.25-Pretty smart ending, | 5:S0-Well, if there are a dozen men ! in England who can write q better story than that l should
 like to see em, that's all | 5:35-Puff, puff, puff puff Well, shant touch a pen again today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
MT. Gunter on State Railroads

Special Master Gunter has amply fulfilled expectations by declaring the no commodities law and the 2ia cent passenger rate law confiscatory and in violation of the fourteenth amendment. He holds that no state has right to make intrastate rates on scale. differing from the inter- state rates regulated and really de- termined by the federal government. In short, he declares, that state sov- ereignity so far as railroads and intra- state transportation are concerned is . myth. Congress in his view is the sole rate ntaker, and the states have no control over the railroads they chartered, and, perhaps, built. The state of Georgia owns railroad ex- tending from Atlanta to the state line, and yet she has, in MT. Gunter's view, no right to name rates upon it that vary from federal rates.
 The Gunter doctrine will presum- ably be followed by decision from the court under whose auspices the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
From the New York Times.

fTOiH the New 1Ork l1meS.
 <<HNHE most low down trick ever
 played by one white man on an
 A other was played on me- said the man who admits he was not always as honest as he is now. 'It was the aia- bolc invention of a man from whose pocket I one evening extracted roll of bills. Along. with the money which I did want, I secured letter which I did not want, but which I could not return to the gentlemans pocket without apprising Jim of my former meddling with his financial affairs.
 When I got to my own room read this letter. I wished a hundred times after that sadnt. It was an appeal for assistance The writer was woman. She was living in small Indiana town. Apparently she had some claim on the man. She told him of the death of two members of her family, of the sickness of another, and of her own overwrought con- dition. She was destitute, and she begged him to send her at once as much money as he could possibly spare.
 'I don't mind saying that that letter made a powerful impression on me. ! read 1t several times before going to bed, and in my sleep I dreamed about it. I saw that poor woman's tears, heard her sobs and prayers, I pictured the dead and dying children. Along toward morning l sat up on the edge of the bed and called myself names.
 You beast said I, you miserable brute, you
 But I won't repeat all the hard names handed out to myself that morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
TUSCALOOSA NEWS

The Tuscaloosa News observed its first anniversary by issuing special edition that is noteworthy achievement. The News Is directed by two capable young men, Sam F. Clabaugh as editor and Fred c. Stickney as associate editor. It is young, but one of the most progressive newspapers in the state and seems well launched on a prosperous career. The an- niversary edition of the News is neatly printed on good quality of paper. The cover is very handsome and is adorned with some fine illustrations. The entire number is well illustrated and well edited. Messrs. Clabaugh and Stckney are to be congratulated on their enterprise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-05
PICKPOCKETS HARD LUCK

They don't sound well when you say them out loud.
 By and by l counted the money again that the man and I had swapped the night before. There was just $50 Since the money was wrapped in the woman's letter I had no doubt that he had scraped it together to send to her. I could not return the money to the man, for didn't know where to find him. but my sense of humanity forced me to dos the next best thing. The woman's name and address were on the letter, and I resolved to for ward it to her. I was hard up; but knew that wosnan's need was greater than mine. and added the last s1O had in the world to the other mans $50 and sent it to her.
 That ought to have ended the incident, but 1t didn't Two years later I met that man again. It doesn't matter where or how but I met him, and it was what I learned then that killed my faith in human nature. That letter was fake The man always carried it for the bene- fit of gentlemen of my profession. A friend out west wrote it. She wrote a fresh letter every week, and the man carried it wrapped around whatever money he happened to have in his pocl- et He figured that the most hard-heart- ed criminal alive would be melted by an appeal of that kind and would give up the poodle. He figured right in my case. It got me, and it got my $1o, which. of course. the man hadn't counted on; but leave it to any unprejudiced witness if that wasn't playing just about as low a hand as 1t is possible for any man to play"