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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-12-14
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Bills payable None l5l.sss.5i
Total sssssas lse,aaass
State of North Dakota, L..
County Of Richland. o.
I. Robt. I, BARBER, Cashier Of the above
named bank. do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true, to the best OF my
knowledge and belief. y 4 {.
;ROlT. T. BARHtR, Cashier. Y.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this nh
day of December, 1911.
(SeaD Frank B. schneller.
Notary Public, Richland county N. d.
My commission expires Oct. is, 1919.
Correct Attest:
w.D. Henry.
W. e. Purcell,
Mary e. Lane.
DIREC TORS.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-12-14
BANK STATEMENT.

Report OF the condition OF the Peoples State
Bank AT WahpetOn, in the state OF North Da-
kota, at the close Of business December 5th,
! 1911.
Resources
Loans and Discounts. 1l4354. 1s
Overdrafts. secured & unsecured 1884 81
Warrants, stocks. tax certificates,
claims, etc. 3,07451
Banking House furniture s. fixtures 5000 w
Due from other banks 845,1O750
Checks and other cash items sA.20
Cash lS,Ol9.1S 5S,9808s
Total 1855. as4 50
Liabilities
Capital Stock paid in 2o.0oOo OF
Surplus Fund 10000
Undivided Profits. less expenses and
taxes paid 9,709 0s
| Individual deposits subject to
check $3.50
Demand certificates Of de-
| post 69r.S1
Time certificates of deposit s5,1e3.46
| Cashiers Checks outstand.
| ing 1914
| Due to other banks I,5i5lS
Notes and bills re-dis.
counted None
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-12-14

The Vim. H. White Lumber
Co., are head quarters for hard
and soft coal. We have a stock
of Pea Coal which is cheaper
than other sizes of Anthracite
Coal. ]. J. Hull, Agent.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-12-14
-. Popular Wants ..

Albert Schneider takes orders
for all kinds of jewlery. Get
his prices and learn how much
he can save you.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
STORE CLERKS READY
FOR CANONIZATION

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
While we club women Of Washington
are making such strenuous efforts for
the enforcement of the child labor laws.
may we not suggest to the proprietors
Of our large department stores that 1t
would be gracious thing to do during
the remaining days before Christmas to
provide a warm supper at 8 o'clock for
the many tired workers who have been
on their feet since s o'clock in the morn
ing? The universal courtesy and pa
thence displayed by them surely deserve
this slight token of appreciation.
One has only to stand thirty minutes
at one of the bureaus where shopping
cards, complaints, catch the eye, to JUS
tify a tired girl who smilingly said to
me: 81 shall be ready for canonization
as a saint by next Tuesday" A thought
less person had paid for pair of gloves
then walked OFF and left them on the
counter. She made my tired friend un-
tie and poke into numberless packages
In the different boxes, with the hope
that her wandering gloves had found
their way down to the bureau.
M. c. LOHR.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
IMPRESSES A VISITOR

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
1t Is kind and gracious privilege you
give to your patrons-or any one else-to
ventilate In your valuable paper their
little say" about matters in general re-
lation to bad things" that ':should not
be-" and the good things" that should
be In this. their home city-beautiful
Washington!
1t is possible that what we wish to
could be by those who have the gift of
expression. However, let the matter
be ever SO humbly treated, eventually
the fire" that Is now smoldering,
do hope will burst into blaze At the
present time most worthy subject in
the Mail Bag Is now being criticised and
discussed !. e.. conditions and i'll treat
ment of the horse-the kind and most
worthy of all animals. / could have
much to say that would be truthful, but
not creditable of those whom l see every
day working and driving horses. Twenty
two years ago l was a visitor in this
city, and was dismayed at the sight
OF great numbers of poor. wretched, and
i'll treated horses. Ten years afterward
| made another visit here of six weeks,
hut found their condition no better.
A few months ago l became a resident
of this beautiful city. Now You will
understand / am personally Interested,
and regret to see there has been no
change for the better for these moor
horses. For the credit of Washington
city, and every good American citizen,
in mercy's name let us beg those In
power. and the Humane Society, to get
busy. A CITIZEN.
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chance except OF the sufference of the
lender Having discovered what every
one else knew, the borrowers of Wall
Street-which means practically the
whole cult of brokers and spectators
are agitating for Federal Legislation
to abolish the system which, more
than .any other, serves to make the
money trust" more of fact than
q figure of speech.
The "call loan" is device to which
no ordinary business man would think
of committing himself. Money so OBJ
tanned is repayable at the arbitrary
option of the lender. There is no GER
tainty to the credit and no assurance
of its renewal The lending power
holds out money with one hand to
take it back with the other. It is the
calling of loans in time of panic, to
make them again at higher rate,
only to call once more, that gives to
the financial upheavals the tragic
character of valuable securities sacri-
feed for 1.-THE of their value in the
hope of grasping q straw as an aid
against an inevitable drowning. Yet
it is '"wise'' Wall Street, and it alone
which abides and encourages the Gus.
| tom.
in times gone it has been common
scandal that financiers of the type OF
the late "Uncle RUSSELL Sage made a
regular practice of calling extensive
loans, creating stringency, and then
saving the market by loaning the
same money at two or three times the
customary rate. Wall Street, better
than anyone else, knew this, and
laughed at it. Yet only now it seems
to have come to understand the clear
truth that money loaned on call de-
stroys the one thing that makes
] money really valuable-its stability
its certainty, and its negotiability like
any other commodity, notwithstand
ing that it is the most valuable of al
commodities. To make money the
means of credit is to foster business
and encourage industry; to make il
an arbitrary and shifting standard Of
value is scarcely better than promot
ing one of those lotteries which tn.
Government is SO keen in suppressing
Wall Street brokers have been won
derfully late in waking up, but they
have their finger on one of the sores,
spots of a much criticised method o.
exchange.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
VETERAN AND WIFE
ARE IN DISTRESS

To the Dear st. Nicholas Girl:
1t is with fearful eyes and a throb-
bling heart that I read the letter OF
l.. w. w. in Saturday evenings Times.
and thank God that there IL one kind
person that feels for the aged. My
husband Is seventy-nine a veteran OF
the civil war. giving fifty years to the
Government. On returning from office
on November 16 he was run down by
an automobile. The owners have not
come to offer sympathy Of any kind.
have done all I could in caring for
him. l have given my last dollar to
the landlady, as she was going to sci
him and my little furniture out in the
street, though sire knew / had nc
money left to buy food with. I car
refer you to Mr.. Westcott, real estate
agent, that We rent 1906 Pennsylvania
avenue from. as to the truth of what
I say in regard to the landlady. Car
you kindly advise me to whom ! ar
to apply for admission to the Soldiers
Home Hospital, for my husband cannot
recover. l have no means OF support
and must find employment for myself
We have been married thirty-five years
and now mustipart on the verge Of the
grave. May God prosper your good
cause Is my sincere prayer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
GULLIBLE WALL STREET AND
THE CALL LOAN.

The wise men of Gotham, who, in
their own opinion, are to be found for
the most part in Wall Street and ter
ritory thereto contiguous, would make
merry at any one who should introduce,
for instance, an endless chain scheme
for their consideration. Wall Street
is supposed to possess the hard logic
of facts. Success is its motto and its
motif. Money is its little infallible
god. There is wisdom in the jingle of
the coin. Unless it exist alongside
securities of a negotiable value, phil
osophy is without its ken. 1t is there
fore an ever recurring incident of in
terest when the gullibility of Wall
Street is made manifest.
Just now Wall Street seems to be
awakening to the fact that the "call
Loan is as certain means to its
fleeing as the invisible rubber pea is
efficacious in Kidding the pumpkin of
the money which he stakes on the
"quickness of his eye" Of sudden
the "Street" appears to have OWNED
what che merest financial tyro might
have told it FEARS ago, to wit: that
the system of loans on call is one
where the borrower has practically nc
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
COLORED Y. M. G. A. LACKED
FULL COOPERATION

To tho Editor OF THE TINES:
Speaking for myself, If for no other
Ncolored person." who contributed to-
ward the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, ! beg to differ from the
official who was smart enough to say
that 1.-THE colored people had done all
in their power" II the exploiters who
have hindered the progress Of the mat
ter. can be put aside and the matter
lodged in the hands of real responsible
people. plenty of whom we have in our
midst, the $4,000 needed can soon be
raised and the work on the association
building and the work of the Y. M. C.
A. carried on in this city as 1t should
be TO the credit of the city and Glory
OF God. Honest colored people of the
city take a pride in the splendid show
Ing, beginning with the $500 by one coll
ored man down to the man who gave
% from his own heap. This can be re-
peated-will be repeated.
CHARLES II. SHORTER,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
PATRONAGE NECESSARY
TO BUILD UP PARTY
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Having noticed a letter in the Mail
Bag of The Times. in the issue of De-
cember IA. signed r. J. NJ. who says
he is a Southern Republican. and, be-
ing a Republican and Southerner
myself, l wish to notice briefly one or
two observations of r. J. NJ.
OF course, everybody understands, in
a general way. the political conditions
in the Southern States, but his broad
statement that there are not quite Of
fees enough to go around" among
Southern Republicans. and that this
condition brings about disgraceful bat
ties for Federal patronage ard inIiu-
tnct in national conventions, is some
what misleading and rather too sweep
ing, i think. In some States there Is
no voting Republican party. IN such
States, l believe. 1t was Roosevelt's policy
to appoint the best men available, and he
appointed some Democrats. / believe
the same policy is pursued by President
Taft. That in those States where
there is Republican party, the leader
of that party. the President, does not
appoint men hostile to the several Re
public an organizations IN those States,
Is fact that exists equally with ali
States.
President Taft raised a great row and
caused 1evere criticism of himself by
Republicans VIXEN he even attempted TO
deny to the insurgent State leaders their
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
Trains Reaching Union
Station on Time Now

Those "home for Christmas" corners.
who fretted at the delayed trains
yesterday, have no cause for COM
plant today, as the service is getting
better with each succeeding hour. and
except for one or two trains which
showed up with late visitors. all trains
pulled into the Union station but a
little behind time.
With the single exception of the At
Jacksonville, and other Southern
points, which is several hours late. all
trains are nearly on time.
All the Pennsylvania trains have
been on the dot in getting in, and
while the trains from the West are
trihe behind schedule. no incon-
yenience has been noted during the
day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25

standing unknown behind such an en-.
terprise must be the very luxury Of
giving.
Gifts, in general, lose in their finer
qualities as they gain in scope and
comprehension. The public benefac'
ton is of necessity more or less cold
and formal in conception and realiza
ton. The personal and the human
note alike are lacking. On the ont
hand there is the pride and conspicuity
in the making of the gift; on the othel
the necessity on the public's part Of
accepting it. In the case of charity
carelessly dispensed there is the al
most selfish desire to toss sop t.
misery, and the inevitable degreda
ton which accrues from aims to pow
erty. 1t is not only necessary to hav,
i'm order to give; it needs that ont
must also feel.
But to play the mysterious ange
shaking golden shekels from the ali
to bring succor where least expectet
and least hoped for--to feel Oneself
the unknown object of humble prayer
that is to make of charity an ex
quisite indulgence which it is wonder
that the rich have not more generally
appreciated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
THE EFFORT TO MAKE PRO.
HIBITION RESPECTABLE.

If only that it would assist the Civ
ing to large class of hypocrites the
medicine they profess to take while
emptying the spoon into their shirt
fronts, the passage of some law by Con-
gress which would tend to prevent the
interstate shipment of liquor into pro-
hibition territory should make appeal
both to the advocates and opponents of
species of legislation that never
seems to get beyond the experimental
stage. .,.-
Under present conditions prohibition
is necessarily more or less farce.
States that are nominally "dry" have
for their good intentions only the in
ability to regulate traffic which is
concededly that of all others which
should fall under the police power.
They are flooded with alcoholic con.
coctions which, to be sold more or less
sub rosa, are naturally of the lowest
grade; and they are made to suffer
from character of law breaking which
is all the more insidious because it
gets kind of special license from
public opinion.
For all of this the interstate ship
ment of intoxicants is entirely re.
sponsible. 1t is by the existence OF
such a traffic that prohibitionists ex-
plain the failure of the law to meet
their promises, and OH which its OPP
ponents rely to prove a case which has
never been presented. If prohibition
could be made to prohibit there would
be few who would not admit the good
of the principle, however they might
selfishly regard its application. But
SO long as the laws respecting inter.
state commerce remain unchanged
there can be nothing in prohibition
except pretense on the one hand and
politics on the other.
The Impending Hepburn Dollivel
bill having been declared unconstitu
tional by the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, Congressman Sheppard of Texa.
is urging the passage of law t.
render the subjects of outlawry al
contracts with respect to liquors ship
ped into territory which has declared
for prohibition. Such law would g,
far toward making what is now neces
sarily a sham fact of pith and mo
ment. But in that event it would b.
interesting to note the attitude o
that great army of drug store and ex
press office habitues whose mouths ar
filled with sanctity and cloves. Sucl
a law would do much toward eithe
killing prohibition-or making it re
spectacle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
RECORD IS BROKEN
BY POSTOFF|CE IN
DISTRIBUTING MAIL
All Christmas Packages
Handled by II O'clock
Today.

Uncle Sam Joined the Merry Christ.
mas movement IN earnest this year.
and. with the aid of Norman A. Merritt.
postmaster sof Washington. got out all
Christmas presents by II o'clock. All
this made the recipients happy and
aided mail carriers and every other
emplo,e in the city postoffice to eat
Christmas dinner 1t home for the first
tire In twenty years.
The 'Do-your-shopping- early" slogan
had an appreciable effect on the mail
ing of presents for the first time this
year. pcstoff.ce officials report. The
rush started earlier. and reports fronl
postoffoes all over the country indi-
cate that there was an earlier mating
of presents than ever before.
This was reflected IN the Washington
city office, SO that by working all day
yeste rday clerks were able to clear out
the great mass of mail. In former
years the eleventh hour presents have
clogged the mails for two or three
days after ChrishnaB.
Mail Cleaned UP.
The mail practically was cleaned UP
last night, leaving this morning free
to clear up the packages that came
in at the last minute. The big floors
were us clear by ii o'clock as " a
tornado had swept the place. Only
yesterday morning they were piled
high, and a mountain of bundles and
packages seemed to present an i'm
movable obstacle to Christmas din
ner for the carriers.
The greatest effect of the early
shopping crusade was shown by re-
ports from post offices and clerks on
oil rl.s
excess in the average Of mall is be.
ing carried today.
The clearing up of the work in the
local postoffice would have occurred
conditions. officials say. Postmaster
Merritt began to, prepare for Christ.
| mas last July and 1t was his determi.
| nation to avoid the customary delay
Force Works Hard.
Every man was assigned to a spe,
cial place. arrangements for all pos
sible expedition were made. and dur
ing the past week every man has beer
at his post, working with might ant
main to carry out the carefully lait
plans of the Postmaster.
Just before midnight 1850 registere,
pieces and $4,000 post cards were read.
| for delivery. All of these arrived OF
night trains, the days mail beinl
passed right on as it came IN.
| Yesterday afternoon the big struggl
came when. for a time, 1T looked as
the delivery and registry division
would be swamped. Postmaster Merit
| came to the rescue, and ordered ever,
| employe in the city office into the de
livery division; Then the big pile be
gan to diminish.
Employees of the registry divisio
have been working twelve hours a da
for the past week. The same condition
| prevailed in the delivery division. Post
master Merritt and his corps have bee
1 working every day well into the night
This extra will be allowed clerks mex
summer during the baseball season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
AN EXAMPLE OF LUXURY IN
GIVING.

We wonder why it is that more
people of large wealth do not have the
refinement of charitable impulse shown
by the New York man who, through
an organization, yearly sends out
presents in gold money to families
who are in need but are too proud to
beg, or even to accept gifts when vol
unfairly offered. Under his plan the
gifts, in bright, new gold, are deliver
ed by express companies and guarded
in the strictest anonymity. Literally,
they drop, as it were, from the sky,
carrying with them a touch of the
providential, a sort of fairy munifi-
cence. To be the god in the machine
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
What's on the Program tn
Washington Today
AmuSements,

National-John Drew in "A Single Man, II
2:15 and s p. m.
Belasco-'Jacinta," 2:15 and s:B p. m.
Columbia-'Mutt and jeff" 2:15 and SIZE
p. m.
Academy-"The Rosary" els and 81;
e y. m.
Chase's-Maclyn Arbuckle and other DO.
lite vaudeville, 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
CONSCIENTIOUS vaudeville.
Casino-Elite vaudeville.
Imperiai-Vaudeville, 2:15. Gas. and 81.
p. m.
Gayety-hl Rice's Show. 2:I5 and 81;
p m.
Jyceum-Tom Miners Show, 2:l5 and 4;
d. m.
Convention Hall-Roller Skating.
Arcade-Motion pictures, skating, and
other amusements.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25

accustomed weight in patronage mat
tiers. If r. J. NJ. mems to charge cor
rcption. then If that exists in the dis
tribution Of Southern patronage, 1t
originates in the appointive power, and
he Is attacking the national leaders.
whose attitude must be respected I'm
thelr appointments. To even tenn
the Southern States rouidrbe to put
them outside the party. IL would be
equivalent t. the party withdrawing
from those States. Quite a new way to
X; J. M. says that is what he favors
Lorton. Va 7, II
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
GOOD CONSCIENCE AND
GOOD CHEER UNITE. )

Inc good 81. heresa pltled the lmps
of Darkness because they could, not
love-" Today, as the Christmas spirit
spreads abroad and glorifies the world
we feel that it is truly the power of
love which makes us the Children of
Light. $50.
Brought home to us as the familiar
Santa Claus on whom we're centered
our childish hope and wonder, the old
time love and kindness circled the earth
last night, seeking out the poor, COM
forting the afflicted, filling the count
less stockings and frightening the
closing year with Joy and cheerfulness.
1t is one of Natures kindnesses that
advancing age may leave the heart
unwithered. Touched by the happy
contagion Of childish laughter, it re-
news it's youth and blossoms like the
crocus under the snow. In the warmth
of the Uttered fireside, where the
treasure rove of dolls and toys lie
heaped in rich disorder, the glowing
fancy of the maturer mind travels
back across the vanished years to the
earlier hearth stones best of Santa
Claus before we put away childish
things" The faces of those we loved
come back from the mystic shadow
land, the scenes we knew are magically
restored, as fresh and fair as when life
still lay before us with all its pristine
promise. And as the vision fades be.
fore the reality around us, we turn to
share the childish joys of "our little
selves reformed in finer clay"
There seems to be an alchemy in
the. very air, through which all the
baser elements of our nature become
pure gold. We lift our eyes beyond
the fret and fever of the market place
and learn with strange surprise how
full the world is of the true, the beau
tiful, and the good. We find new
virtues in the friends we know best
and undiscovered charms in the
stranger. The crust of cold reserve
slips away as garment, and Old
Scrooge himself becomes the play.
fellow of Tiny Tim. Though naked
branches trace their outlines against
the leaden> skies and the earth is
wrapped in DEFENDERS sober gray, the
Christmas fairies call the blossoms
forth and bid the birds to sing and
fill the kindling heart with light and
melody.
Amidst the soft refinements of a
later age many of the robust joys of
the Saxon Yuletide still survive. 1t is
true that no longer the brawny yeo-
men drag the Yule log home from the
forest with "mirth and ancient jollity,"
for the cavernous chimney of our fore
fathers has passed away. The boar's
head seldom crowns the feast while
mellow roysterers sing the songs of
Good Queen Bess. And yet it is
around the Christmas board that the
seasons varied pleasures find their
supreme expression. The family circles
broken links are welded once again
The glistening streets reflect the light
which Sits through window wreaths
of red and green, and twinkline
candles, set amidst the feast, wink
their approving eyes. Good conscience
and good cheer unite to make a Merry
Christmas.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-12-25
SAYS DIRECTOR DURAND
SHOWED PARTISANSHIP
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

VIII you permit me to ask Mr.. Du-
rand, the Census Director, why he dis
missed clerks with good records and re-
tanned these inefficient clerks" he now
says he will drop from the service?
The fact is, Mr.. Durand has con-
Quoted the Census in a grossly partisan
manner, Diminishing clerks (who pass ed
creditable examinations before the Civil
Service Commission and who We're &C
knowledged to be good clerks) because
they were Democrats, and retained lin
efficiently clerks whose fathers and
mothers are in the Government service.
Will he deny this?
LORENZO G. WAKEFIELD.
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In the Mail Bag u

invited
Objectionable
faith
Z.