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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

A New York lawyer says that IN
America the crook runs less risk than
the honest workingman. The crool
usually gets full value for legal serv.
ices.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

The edict has gone forth that WON.
EMS dresses this year are to have
countless buttons. This is whore the
matrimony rate will take q big slump.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

Dressed poultry reached its maxi
mum when $3.50 900 was paid for Rem
brandt's "Old Woman Plucking q
Fowl"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

A messenger boy in Wall street was
given Is cents for restoring $4,000.
worth of bonds. How different 1t ID
in life outside Of Wall street!
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

II the inhabitants Of Mars are u
feet high, as some people think. NO
doubt they ind It easy to reach the
strip pitcher at the breakfast table.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

According to n astronomer It
takes 100 years for the light from
Arcturus to reach the earth, while an
other says 1t is but as years. Il
seems as II q little difference like
that should be compromised before
the astronomers puzzle common peo-
pie with them.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19
Insect Bite Cost Ieg

A Boston man lost his leg from the
bite Of anfinsect two years before. To
avert such calamities from stings and
bites Of insects use Bucklen's ArnicaI
Salve promptly TO kill the poison and,
prevent inflammation, swelling and pain
Heals burns, boils, ulcres, piles,
ecsema, cut, bruises. Only 2 cents,
atsall druggisits
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

New Jersey is outlining another
great campaign against the mosquito.
Az New Jersey is a thrifty state and
the mosquito is always putting In q
bin. 1t naturally encounters some op:
position.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

A Detroit man has secured six cents
damages for being beaten up by q 20
liceman. It appears from this distance
to be a poor way to earn money.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

A st. Louis man who started . mag.
azine with $1.26 has gone broke.
Serves him right for trying to- out,
shine his competitors. The quarter
would have been s~nticient.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

A Pennsylvania man lost his life
in the effort to win the proud record
Of drinking Is glasses Of. gin in ono
sitting. And the wits Of the press
find themselves d~eadlocked owe the
question whether he died In good or
bad spirits.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

, When the half-pennies make their
appearance it may become necessary
to get larger toy banks for the chill.
dren.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

That person who smuggled $4,000
glass eyes into this country must have
thought that the long hatpin had CON.
mitted dreadful ravages.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

The leaning tower Of Pisa continues
to stand, although the vertical
cAmpanile at Venice tumbled down
and had to be rebuilt.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

A Boston man has invented an au,
tomato. trombone player. But then
Boston may find relief by treating II
with baked leans and goldfish balls.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19
LEGAL NOTICES

- NotIcos published undov this
sse9dlng will BIO charged legal rates
II accordance with tho ruling OF tho
0cloan County Press Association,
and 40 affidavit will be issued until
0e publication charges are paid.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

, Potted English sparrow is recon-.
mended as a delicacy for the table.
We should prefer stuffed humming
birds.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

Macveagh's plan to make money
smaller Is excellent, but it would be q
nor popular idea to make It more
frequent.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

1t will take all Of that 1000. 900
gift to break some farmers of planting
potatoes in the dark Of the moon.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

: The only objection to a 3-cent piece
Is that some factory is sure to make
q cigar bad enough to flt it in price.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

. 1t Is to be hoped the hot air gener.
Dted in the campaign will not remain
permanently in the atmosphere.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

= Now an aviator and his bride are
about to pass their honeymoon in the
air. It simply had to come!
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

san Francisco,s three mile bridge
Fill at least be a more tangible won.
Ser than the Golden Gate.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19

western man has been arrested:
for sobbing too loudly At q funeral.
Psrhaps the lawyer had given him a.
.tnkling Of what was IN the viii.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-07-19
2reaSQrerS Report

For Iowa School District No. "a County of
McLean State of North Dakota, for the year
ti RECEIPTS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
Plain Signatures Safest

From the Chicago News.
 You ought to sign your check differ ently, MT. Blank said a Chicago bank employe to a deposltor whose account runs well up toward $loO,OOO a year.
 whats the matter with that check?" asked the customer nettled that, as he thought. 1t should be intimated he didn't know how to draw a check.
 You misunderstood me-" said the tell CT. 'sThe check is all right. I was rec ferring to your signature. It Is just the kind that a forger takes delight in copy ing If you will allow me the privilege of saying so, you're liable to meet with loss in that way at any time. Any good penman could initiate 1t so cleverly you'd hardly know the difference yourself.
 "The palmer the signature the less like lhood there is of a crook trying to imi- tate it." he continued after the deposltor had become interested. "In nearly every big forgery of which I ever heard, or in many of them at least, the signature ir1i- tated was that of a man who wrote with a flourish or who had some peculiar type of writing that ordinarily would appeal to the laity as hard to initiate. It is a fact that it is a rare occurrence for big forger to attempt to initiate the sigma ture of the man who writes a plain hand. Not long ago I had occasion to tell a friend of mine he stood a chance of hav- ing some forger get good sized check In on him. My friend changed the style of his signature, and a. few days later he | was asked by bank to inspect check
 which had been presented for payment and to which his old style signature was attached.
 He had changed just in time. The | forger had been practicing on the old signature, getting 1t down pat and had
 not ascertained that the new signature was being used"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28

Evil Spirits in the night that was newly ped and heavily sweater. It was well that record of the hunt did not usurp the places of peaceful texts from the scrip lures on the school room walls.
 Though Bradley Headstone knew that, it would not serve him. even if he suc- ceeded in tracking his rival to the girls retreat; though he knew that he only fed his wrath and hatred and accumulated maddening provocation, by being made the nightly sport of the reckless and in- solent man. he went on with infinite endurance. Possessed in his jealousy by the fixed idea that Wrayburn was in | the secret, he was as confident of get ting the better of him at last by sul- lenly sticking to him as he would have been of mastering any piece of study by like slow process. A man of rapid passions and sluggish intelligence, 1t had served him often and should serve him again.
 At last he was repaid. Wrayburn pre- pared for boating trip up the river and there was something decided and brisk about his actions that told Bradley l Headstone, as surely as if 1t were writ ten in his dark soul, that Wrayburn was on his way to her at last.
 | One bright and peaceful summer morn- l ing he rowed away, whistling cheerfully l Following him afoot. now left behind by the light boat and now overtaking it again when 1t met some swift current, there was a bargeman. Eugene went idly as usual. Sometimes the bargeman had to lie still hidden in long grass. till the boat came up to where he was.
 The boat went on under the arching trees and over their tranquil reflections in the water. It was quiet weather, and 1t was quiet lovely country. The sculler appeared to enjoy 1t in his lazy way. Certainly nobody could have looked more placid and more cheerful than did he during the next days as he made his way slowly to the place where he had learned-by bribery and wiles-that the girl was.
 Yet there must have been something else under the accustomed idle surface had found her, and when, after the first few words of surprise. she burst out cry ing and sobbed that he was cruel to pur- L,sue her, he broke out suddenly:
 'Lizziel I never thought before that there was a woman In the world who little. Don't be hard in your construc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
A Cut Flower Express

From the American Travellers Gazette.
 A train which runs every day in tho year between Toulon and Paris Is known as the rapid e des he'lrs'-the cut flower express.
 This train carries nothing but cut fow- CTS in baskets and pasteboard boxes for the Paris market. The violets of Hy- eres the roses and carnation of Antibes and the Roman hyacnths of olhoules and t,arauleronnes are on the flower stands Of Paris in IS hours from the time they were. growing on the shores of the Medi- terranean A good many are shipped also to the cities of Germany and Bell eiim and even to St. Petersburg. Tho packages are handled by special train crew that sorts them out like mail mat ter. The speed at which this "cut flower express runs is greater than that of any other train in Europe. and It Is almost invariably on time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
How the Ant Talks
om the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 In some quarters t Is held that the ex- istence of language among insects Is al- ready proved. and that what 1t is now of interest to ascertain, if 1t can be ascer- tained in the extent of their language. and the ideas and differences to which it gives rise It is still q question, however. in what way communication is opened and kept up. Is 1t by rubbing the anten- nae together? The movement of the in- sects makes this seem reasonable, yet German naturalist has insisted that ants are provided with a sounding apparatus resembling that of the wasp, by means of which faint sounds suited to the ears of ants are produced. In the opinions of other naturalsts this remains to be proved.
 How is il that three small creatures can venture, far from the nest, distances that are relatively enormous. and never hesi- tate about the road to take when they wish to retrace their steps? Learned men who have studied the matter attribute the power to the fomlc acid given out by the insect as 1t travels, so that 1t finds it's way in exactly the same manner that fox or a dog does.
 one investigator followed an ant for long time. She was far from the anthill and seemed to have no intention of re- turning soon In the middle of the path she came upon the dead body of good sized snail. She first walked all around it, then climbed upon it's back crawled over it, and after this thorough examina- tlon instead of going on. immediately re- turned to the nest When half way home she met one of her companions. Tn an in- stant they had touched or rubbed anten- nae with great animation, and she was soon pursuing her course again. The same performance took place when she met second and a third companion, and as soon as she had left them they quickly turned toward the spot where the snail lay. The first ant soon entered the nest, and the naturalist lost sight of her; but doubtless she continued her work of informing and exciting the rest, for long line of ants immediately came out and set forth TOT the prey Ten minutes later the snail was entirely covered with the yellow swarm. and by evening not q trace of 1t remained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
Progressive Woman Farmer

From the Denver Field and Farm
 Mrs. Ken Ringle of Kansas believes In farming by electricity. It is five miles from the Hutchinson electric light plant. to the Ringle ranch. but in order to get the current to the big farm 1t was nec- essary to construct only half mile of additional line.
 The telephone line to the ranch is privately owned and the electric wires were strung along this phone line. The residence, barns. carriage sheds and even the yards and feed lots are light ed by electricity. Motors attached to feed grinders and other implements do work formerly done by horsepower, while churns and other apparatus in connection with the dairy house and ranch kitchen are operated by electric power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
Social Affairs of Colorado Town

r TOTH IIt IIIUIdIIdpUIIS NtWS.
 K. G. Knox, former pastor of Troub Memorial church. now has charge in d. town in Colorado. Though they have been in Colorado only a month Mrs. Knox has already adopted the personal pronoun in speaking of the town. She also seems to possess originality of expression. In writ ing to friend here she said:
 We are the county seat and an up to date town in every respect. Since writing you last we have had one murder one suicide, one death by gun going off that wasn't loaded and quite number of other social affairs."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28

sssssssesssssssssss"'ss.' pit backward and Bradley Headstone on top of him. When they found them, adrift in the ooze and scum, Riderhood's arms had relaxed and his eyes were staring up- ward. But he was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring. and the rivets of the iron ring held tight.
 Copyright, 1912. by J. W. Muller3
 Title of next Sundays article: Mrs. Nickleby-Dlckens' most ludiereus char acter,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
Bl2-Es17-

Dickens was almost a spendthrift or genius. He expended imagination and fancy and wit and art as if he were pouring them from an inexhaustible horn of mental plenty. In none of his novels, prodisal as he was in all, was he so prodigal as in Our Mutual Friend"
 Our Mutual Friend is one book, but it is four novels. It might be divided into "The Mystery of John Harmon" 'Silas Wegg and MT. Boffin," ''The Neneerngs and Their Guests,' and Bradley Headstone,n and each would be not only a complete novel, but a full one, and a fine one.
 Except for the merely incidental fact that Lizzie Hexam is the daughter of d character slightly connected with the plot of Our Mutual Friend,'' Lizzie Hexam, Eugene Wrayburn and Brad ley Headstone have absolutely nothing to do with the main story, which is the mystery of John Harmon
 It is in Our Mutual Friend there fore that we can see clearly how inevi- tably Dickens characters assumed life and one is tempted to say, insisted on going their own way and doing what they pleased. Few of the characters that he invented merely to play certain necessary parts consented to stay In their narrow places. They would have stayed, had they been automatons. They could not stay. being alive.
 Dickens dropped Eugene Wrayburn into Our Mutual Friend as a chance guest at chance dinner that really had nothing to do with "Our Mutual Friend or any friend, however remote, of Our Mutual Friend. Eugene Wray- burn cheerfully declined to drop out again. Dickens dropped Bradley Head stone in. Bradley Headstone walked out of his respectable school room and passed through a road of uncomfortable torment to insensate murder.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01
= Hcll So ictSil W
rake Up With !;
ark Brown
T.a..st!!e.",?,
Get Rid Of i'll Fun for
OLIVE TABLETS.

There Int the slightest need to
wake M, any morning with brown
mouth Ugh! No need to describe
pr. Edwards has made "brown
mouth q thing Of the past in thou
sands Of homes with his little Olive
Tablets the substitute for calomel.
ANY one who takes DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets the moment he sus!
6ects his; liver and bowels, never has
"a dark brown TASTE" a bad breath, a
pifnpIy iace, constipation or any other
form Of boIeIio liver disorder.
Take one idst the moment you sus-
rect YOU are c6nstipated or that your
liver IS ont Of order.
Thousands take one at bedtime
livery night Just to keep the bowels
regllaF he liver in order, the month
clean anu the breath pure and sweet.
Olive Tablets are made OF pure veg
etabIe Compounds mixed with olive
Edwards spent il years in prac'
he and in laboratory experiments be-
ioteshe perfected Olive Tablets.
why don't you try them instead OF
tle severe kind Of lsxadves that gripe
lid only effect temporary relief?
syery little Olive Tablet has. a
movement all its own"
At all drug stores in, neat pocket
PACKAGES AT Zoe and Csc.
Made Nv the olive Tablet Company
PoFtsaoith, Ohio or Columbus, Ohio
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01
llN pQLL 0Ul
IHE CRAY HlIRS
A Few publications. 81 aSl1lple
Remedy giIl Bring Back
the Natural G6loI

.,TnIl out one gray, half and 4 loren
wiIi fake its place m old asasins.
which L. to sseat extent, true 40
{teps are taken 10 stop the esillse When
nay hairs appeat Il Is. 4 lgn thai ~
ftre, .pce,ls assistance, II g. Nature
all far 4lelp,a SiFay, liaiist dull liteless
mir. 5or hair that ii. alliHg yoiltS 8 Iiot
;iIet.pss;siartly a sign III sdNant.ing are. for
litFe ares tllgitsihas Il elderly people
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01

Mr. J. Walter Eseeye a''stll give
fhe aiercnant a Hsaiss al The Dfa.
mond Street II. d chdrch Thursday
evening. March q for the benefit Of
the McElhesh class. Mr. Reeves has
given teorealsals for the benefit of
iils classln the past two years. He
it eradnate oil Wooster College,
Wooster Ohio and his ability as a
reader iEeil known. The small
price Of twenty-five CENTS will be
eharead ID This recital.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01
NOTICE TO auILpERs AND con
TRACTORS.

This 10 to give notice that the fol-
lowing section OF the Water ordi.
nance OF tho City of Falrmont viii be
enforced:
Section %, IT shall be the duty Of
every b:ick mason, stone mason,
plastercr, builder, layer Of concrete
or, cement, to render to the ely col.
leGtor, at the end OF each month, a
statement giving a full amount Of the
water rent Shargeable to, him Tor
building q, construction phrposes &C:
tcording TO section .35,,or. stating that
There has been no such, charges, such
|statement, as rendered being verified
| byl oath, The certificate Of such oath
being on thq, same paper with the
Statements And u such statement,
SO verified, be MT rendered as pre-.
scrihed in any case, It shall be the
dutyi..of the water commissioner 70
call upon the person from whom such
statement shall have been due and
demand the sane, and II 1t be not
Furnished torthYltH. such person shall
forfeit. and pay to the city aiane of
nog8lesB than $l.OO nor more than
$500 GaDd costs 81 prosecution. for
each and every day he shall fallsfter
suehclemaHlto make such statement.
The city collector shall assess the wa,
ter rent due according to this rule.
and sucf assessments shall be class
ed as supplemental assessments,
Building purposes, Brick. per thou
SAND ...,,,.....,..'... ...,,..(,'..lS
Plastering, per 10 yards i.....s.,,.a6O
Stone. per perch ....:::::..-....,,..O 6
Cemerent walks. per square yard, . ,06
Concrete, percub!c yard .&..........o6
Pudding purposes, per cubic yard. .0E
<,.,.. WATER COMMITTEE.
-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01
THOSE FEATHEREp TELLTALEs.

= A.NISSks flAFN NtI-USS NSsSlNeeSs
Cunafd Steamship Agent Burns is
very proud Of his son Robert and new.
er tires of telling of hat youths child
hood.
when Bobby was about -four years
old" said Mr.. Burns, I'm have to ad;
NIT he picked up some bad habits, one
OF which was smoking, and II didn't
seem to make the boy sick, either.
zone day his mother heard he had
been smoking, and at the dinner table
1--WE had considerable company 10 dine
that. day. she took himito task,
Bobby, you have been smoking
again, she said to the little fellow. j
Chow do you know? Bobby asked.
@'oh, little bird told me, replied
bis,mother 14tai
"Gee.' said the iyoungster, have
them blamed sparrows been talking
again? 2 - Ioston Traveller .
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01
PersonaIs.

~ ~
Miss G0ldle snowden has returned
from Plts6drg where she spent the
past few weeks s
dessrss Charley Jacobs and Elmus
Holland o. Little Falls, were business
Visitors In this city Yesterday.
Master Jack Malloy has been quito
sick Tor several days.
James. tie little son of Mr., and Mrs
Wayne Meredith, Of Vermont avenue,
WHO has been very III. is able to be
Mrs Emma stealey and daughter
Mss olf5sEere at Littleton' Wednes'
Miss Ola May, OF Raymond street, Is
~ d typhoid fever,
Master Charles Williams, OF East
Park, who has been seriously Ill, Is
aiightly improved.
alf Julian stealey went to Grafton
esterday To visit his cousin, Mr. Ce'
eli Newlan
Miss Eliza Boyd and nephew, Mas
George Preston, returned Wednes'
da from Warren, Pa, where they
spent several weeks.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01
Heeoveri,te from injuries.

Mossfs cnaries Jolliffe, Of Hay
mond street. ana Edward a, Bishop, Of
Columbia street. who received slight
injnries in wreck in PENNSYLVANIA a
low days ago are recovering.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01

80" p" w | y |.|| ~ MN||Na
tFI0mthe Kew York llmes
Lset rs SHED no tear Ger ID egti4ht 81
toli
That fans Is tlIlt lcinan part
Who has chance to labor and I'M the
son
K Or TO sweat in some business mart.
et rs. waste no sympathy, slsh no
sigBs
Over work-weary flesh and bone
For these are the luckiest meath the
skies.
Let them weep for Themselves
alonsI 80. tl,s ~ 81. 3
Fot,ths- hand that Is Idle thfotbatling
For the soul that has sought ii
With those wretched ones who for
labor wait.
uetius sorrow with might and main.
The saddest the hardest, the bitterest
lot E
That can fall to mortal here
Is to search for work aud TO find II
not
Forihim let US drop a tear!
LURANA SHELDON.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01

Gabe-lrhy do seniuses wear long
hair?
steSe1Why, we wouldn't know they
were geniases II they didn't. Cincin.
natl Enquirer.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-01

PILES CURED u 9 TO u DAYS.
your druggist VIII refund money II
PAzo OINTMENT fails to cure any
case o. Itching, Blind, Bleeding cr
Protrudlns P4IaG n s to Il days. 800