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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27
Win Have charge Of Mine.

E. G. Ellithorpe and family left
Tuesday for Williston where they will
make their home. Mr.. Ellithorpe will
look after his brothers interest in the
HUSKY & Ellithorpe coal mine, recent
ly opened two miles east Of Williston.
There are two splendid ten foot veins
of Ignite and already considerable
coal has been marketed.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27
Bible Class Gives Banquet /.

An enjoyable banquet and program
were given at the parlors of the Meth
odist church Friday night by the mem-
bers of the adult bible class. The for
ty members of this class were present
with forty officers and teachers Of the
Sunday school. A motion was carried
that all officers and teachers of the
Sunday school be made honorary men,
bers Of the adult class. Rev. Mr.. Ash
er was POSTMASTER and an interesting
program of toasts was rendered.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27

Dick Reed, son of John Reed of this
city, is now a member Of the regular
army located at Savannah, Ga. Dick
left here two years ago and enlisted
about that time. He'd like to have his
feet under the festive board of his own
home today, but is plucky and will
stay with the army for the three year
period.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27
levi PEARSON
IS NO MORE
AGED SURREY RESIDENT DIED
OF PNEUMONIA AT HOME OF
DAUGHTER, MRS. w. C. PERRY.

Levi Pearson was born IN Miami
Co., Ohio, Dec. 13, 1924, and died Of
pneumonia at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. C. Perry, Nov. 10, 1913,
aged 90 years, II months and 6 days.
Mr.. Pearson grew to manhood in Ohio
and in the year 1850 was married to
Mary Spray of New Burlington, O.,
settling on farm in Miami Co.
In the year 1852 he removed with
his family to Indiana, and afterwards
to Illinois, where he lived until 1860,
when he removed back to Ohio.
He served in the Union army in the
Civil war and was member of the
G. A. K. for several years.
Mr.. Pearson is survived by three
sons and two daughters, Mr.. J. S.
Pearson of Minot, N. D.; M. J. Pear
son, Jesse w. Pearson, and Mrs. w. c.
Perry of Surrey, N. D, and Mrs. Mar
gerry D. Perry, of Plaza, N. D. He
alss leaves thirty -one grand children
and several great grand children. His
wife and one son and two daughters
preceded him to the better world.
In the year 1881 he removed with
his children to Nebraska, where he
lived until 1901, when he came to
North Dakota and settled on home
stead near Surrey, on which he lived
until 1907. Since that year he has
made his home with his daughter,
Mrs. w. C. Perry and her family. The
last few years of his life he has not
been able to get around much on ac-
count of feebleness caused by increas-
ing old age. 80
He was converted in the year 1870,
and Joined the church, living consist
ent Christian life ever afterward. At
the time of his death he was MEM
ber of the Presbyterian church Of SUR
rey, N. D.
He always took much interest in the
work of the Lord, contributing to the
expenses of the church and its work.
His last sickness was very short, only
a little over three dayssand he passed
away very peacefully, being conscious
till the last moments Of his life.
The funeral service was held in the
German Baptist church of Surrey on
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock and
was attended by large number of his
old friends and neighbors, including a
delegation of old soldiers from Minot,
who came out to see one Of their COM
rades laid away to await the resYrrec-
tion. when all that are in their graves
shall hear the voice of the Son Of God
calling them to life and Immortality.
The funeral was preached by Rev.
Thomas Johnson of Antler, N. D., from
the text "Oh Death, where is thy
sting?" / Cor. 1855.
Verses composed by his grandson,
Ralph Perry, and read at the funeral:
His long and we'll spent life is done,
His pains and tribulations DER, !.
And he has gone to meet his loved
ones,
Standing on that happy shore.
He's in the happy land Of Beulah,
He sleeps the sleep that knows no
pain,
He's gone to dwell across the river,
Upon the glorious Heavenly plain.
Dear father Of so many children,
You've ever loved to serve the Lord;
But now your life on earth is over, :,
And now you reap your blest reward.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27

E. o. Anderson, prosperous Ryder
farmer, called at the Indepndent Office
Saturday. He owns a nice lot of cat
tie and recently sold four steers and
two cows for $685., an average of bet
ter than $55 a year.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27

Scandinavian League Will Meet.
The annual meeting Of the Scandi-
at Grand Forks, Wednesday, Dec. 3,
lat 1880 in the evening. Secretary
Rishoff is making an effort to get q
large attendance.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27
Nephew Met Horrible Death.

Mrs. Racine, wife Of a we'll known
local miller, was called to Minneapolis.
by the death Of her nephew, who in
company with another young man,
dashed into lake in an auto, meeting
instant death.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-11-27
Velva Father Gets Divorce.

54E9 VeIV6 THLNtr UeCB DIVUTCe.
David Crittenden of Velva has been
granted divorce from his wife, now
a resident of Montana and has been
given the custody Of the twelve minor
children. Dave has some job on his
hands.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
Bills Paid by
Co. Commissioners
A Fuller Report Of the Proceed
ings Will Appear in To-
morrow's Daily.
State of Nevada, County of Elko.

State of Nevada, County of Elko.
Elko. March 3. 1913.
The Board of County Commission
ers met pursuant to adjournment.
Present: Isaac Griswold, chair
man; Webster Patterson and ]. H.
Peck, together with the Dist. Atty. E.
p. Carville.
The minutes Of the previous meet
ing were read and ordered APPROX
ed.
The following business was then
transacted towit. The following
claims against the county were ex-
amined approved and ordered paid,
as follows towit:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
ADVISED TAKING OF CANADA
Benjamin %Franklln's Counsel to Brit
ish Government Resulted In Cap
ture Of the Dominion.

Benjamin Franklin, the first Ameri-
can philosopher and the first Ameri-
can diplomat, was not, as Mark Twain
averred, twins, born simultaneously
at Boston and Philadelphia" but as
the change in the calendar from
old style to new came after his birth
at Boston on January 6, 1706, accord
ing to the reformed almanac he was
born on January IT. In 1759 Franklin
was in England as agent for the
colony of Pennsylvania. Previous to
this, though little known, it a main
ly by the advice OF Franklin that the
English government resolved to con-
quer Canada, and for that purpose
sent out Wolfe's expedition. 1t was
in 1859 that Franklin made a journey
from London to Scotland. of which
in a letter written to a Scotch friend,
he used these words which have ever
endeared him to the Scot: 81 think
the time we spent there was six
weeks of the densest happiness l have
eve met with In any part of my
life. and the agreeable and instructive
society we found there in such plenty
has left so pleasing an impression on
my memory that. did not strong con-
nections draw me elsewhere, l believe
Scotland would be the country I
should choose to spend the remainder
of my days in"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
Gospel Of COURAGE.

Ralph Waldo Urine stated his belief
thus in Harper's Bazaar:
ITO get up each morning deter
mined to be happy. determined to be
master of the events OF the day in
stead of being mastered by them; to
take anew this attitude Of mind when
the doleful thought presents itself or
the bogy-man attempts to show his
face; to look always on the bright
side OF things, determined to stand al
ways in the sunshine rather than In
the shadow-this II is that makes
life with it's daily round and rs
knotty problems continually easief.
This hopeful, optimistic, courage-al
ways-up attitude of mind and heart
is to set into operation subtle, silent
forces that are continually working
along the lines we are going and that
opens the way for us to arrive"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
Brave Old Oak.
Guardian.

Whether its branches show green
against a dark-blue .sky-gold where
the sunlight touches them-whether
Its leaves show magneta in the light
OF the setting sun, or black and sill
yer in the moonlight, there is no tree
Of them all to compare with the oak.
All a summers day you may lie out
stretched beneath 1t, sc strong and
sc friendly, o to you only, but to all
the little lives that swarm about its
roots. All kinds of busy creatures,
ants, spiders, daddy-long-legs, beloved
of your childhood, go scurrying over
you on this errand and that, as un-
afraid, almost, as II you were dead.
A feeling Of kinship m to you;
a knowledge hat all this life about
you in oak and grass and insect, and
the good dog lying at your feet, In
but a little part Of the ageless flux
and refiux; soothingly as a cool hand
IN an aching head, there comes to
you the realization that soon fears,
hates, and loves forgotten, your tired
body shall rest under the trees all
the days and all the nights.-Month-
ly Atlantic.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
HISTORY'S MOST FAMOUS Toy
Bright Stone Win Which Boer Chill
dren Were Playing Led to Dia-
mond Field Discovery.

What is the most famous stEgT In his
tory? We would give the palm not to
any Elaborate mechanical contrivance
or lifelike doll, but to the simple.
bright stone that in 1867 a Dutch far.
mer found some Boer children using
as a plaything.
For the farmer sent the stone to
the Cape for examination and the re-
suit was the discovery of the diamond
fields of South Africa. And the child's
plaything found it's way to the Paris
exhibition, where it sold for $500.
According to a Japanese belief, dolls
sometimes come alive, acquiring a
soul in process of being played with
by successive generations Of children.
Food is provided for them and they
are treated with great care. lest neg
lect should bring trouble upon the
household. One pretty story tells how
a %childless husband and wife borrowed
a doll that had gained a soul, fed and
clothed 1t, and d~eservedly prospered
thereafter.
All this is in utter contrast with the
unpleasant theory of Varro about
dolls. He held that the dolls given to
little Romans at Christmas-that Is to
say, at the acknowledgements
original sacrifices Of human beings to
the Internal god.-London Chronicle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
LIFE FOR A MARRIED MAN
ONE HOOK AFTER ANOTHER

James Montgomery Flagg, the fam
Il wit and artist, contributes in words
and pictures an amusing piece to the
March American Magazine, an extract
from which follows:
Life for a married man nowadays is
just one damned hook after another.
You pause in the midst of your second
shave in twelve hours, with the lather
that will not dry on the face doing so,
to wrestle with Polly's hooks and eyes.
You cuss Lady Duff Gordon for
the devilish flaps and cross hitchings
and Over and under lairs that you only
begin to master as the gown is about to
be discarded. When you cannot find a
partner for a certain young hook you
surreptitiously hitch him onto u hunk
of lace or a row of insane glass beads,
without halt in the rhythm lest Polly
suspect!
And when n hook hangs back aid
refuses to meet a willing eye across the
two-inch chasm you grunt and mutter,
Gee, you must be getting larger!' or.
Why the deuce don't you pull those
strings tighter so this dress will meet?'
BY the way, why is it that in moments
of emotional stress men will forget
that they are gowns or 'frocks' and
not dresses
These impolite remarks OF yours
naturally rifle Polly. so she says, Let it
M I'll rin~ fNr Cn,1ro CHI ,-1o-
stands!'
"This, as was intended stimulates
you with renewed determination. And
you reply, OF course Sandra's mental
ity is much superior to mine-blu, blu,
blu, etc etc If you looked over Pol
ly's shoulder into the mirror you would
see her winking wickedly at herself.
Just as you have nearly stretched
that little ganzy triangular patch
across the V between the shoulder
blades Polly, of course, raises her arm
and begins rubbing off the excess pow
der around her pretty nose. You lose
the combination.
IF you expect me to hook this dam.
thing while you are isadoraduncaning
all over the room you are laboring
under a delusion!' You get this off
with the usual restraint and anxiety
for understatement Of the regular hus-
band.
Discreet silence. The work is at
last completed. You smile with pity
when you think of all that talk about
the Panama Canal being such a STU
pendous feat of engineering"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06

as game in North Carolina. South
Carolina. Louisiana. Mississippi and
Tennessee. The bob olink is slain
IN even greater numbers. and doves
are leGalized game in twenty six
States.
Mark Twain said, cit is better
to be a live June bug than a dead
Bird Of Paradise" Ten thousand
bugs live to buzz a requiem over
every dead bird.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
WHAT DOES "LURID" MEAN?
Popular Usage of the Word Is Opposed
to Its Definition, Which
Is "PaIe."

Two men got into an rgume re-
garding the meaning of the word
"lurid." One of them had used the
word, as The police reporter uses it, to
describe the rec glare in the sky
made By a fire at night. The other
MAI objected to this. asserting that
the word 'lurid" means pale" in
stead of deep red" Thereupon they
applied to the dictionaries and found
them agreed in defining ''lurid" as
pale, wan, CHASTITY pale"
But the Oxford Dictionary has
caught up with the new and popular
meaning of the word with this defni-
ton:
Shining with a red glow or glare
amid darkness (said of lightning
flashes across dark clouds or fame
mingled with smoke)."
But this seems to be gratuitous Of
the Oxford Dictionary. The word
"lurid' started out it seems as a Latin
adjective meaning pale. yellow" 1t
was used chiefly Of the complexion,
much as "sallow" is used. Then Il
grew to have the meaning of ''ghast-
ly." But its transition into the popu.
lar meaning given 1t today seems to
have been due to the %willfulness of the
press, which found 1t a handy word
to describe a phenomenon for which
no other word had, apparently, quite
the desirable Observation-Disclosures
Guardian.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
Animal Extraordinarily

Animals are often known 70 form
very strange friendships. Cats be.
come very fond Of borses. and even
OF birds. Goats and horses are FIRE.
quently great friends. Even a lioness
has been known to be 80 much at.
tached to n little terrier that It was
miserable at its absence. A gentle
man in Scotland kept several pea.
cocks. one OF which. instead OF roost.
Ing with It's mates In the trees or on
the walls, always went to the kennel
where the collie was tied up. and
squeezed Itself In with the dog. The
peacock's tail sticking out Of the ken.
mel had a very funny appearance.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
COOK WHO WORKS BY GUESS
She Is a Genius, but 10 Not Often
Found In These Deeadent
Days.

I'D give q dollar" said the man
who coddles his stomach. ito ind
a cook who doesn't measure. She
would gladden. my soul. The cook
who does things by guess is a
bird nowadays. She has genius, else
she could not dispense with the cast
iron rules that regulate modern cook
cry, and geniuses are seldom indigen:
ous to the hathouse kitchen.
But there used to be plenty OF
them. Why, l remember the time
when half the kitchens in the land
gloried in a guesswork cook. 1t
did a fellows eyes and his entire
internal organization good to watch
her. She would take a pinch of this,
a handful of that. and a dash Of some
thing else, and mix them all togeth-
er, and the result would be the most
delectable tidbit hat a fellow ever
put in his mouth.
Lord, Lord, but eating was a
pleasure in those days. 1t isn't so
now. In these whirligig times every
thing has a machine-made taste.
That's because the cooks measure so
much. Instead of trusting to in
spiration, as the h~eaven-born cook
is bound to do, the kitchen queens Of
today easur even the salt they put
in the porridge. No wonder such
cookery lacks individuality, and is all
IN the same dead level Of mediocrity.
Merciful heaven, what ails these bis
cult? They're as heavy as lead"
Possibly the cook made a mis-
IKE" said the mans wife. Il got a
new cook yesterday-one that cooks
by guess. am afraid she didn't
put enough baking powder in the bis
cults"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
Speed of

According to naturalists, no animal
10 known to have exceeded the speed
attained by the famous race-horse
Sysonby. Instantaneous photographs
show the full length OF one complete
stride as about twenty.six feet. In the
stride OF the fastest racers the hind.
quarters and limbs are raised consid-
'erably higher than the shoulders, and
from this relatively great height
brought downward and forward, wide
ly separated from each other, as a
sportsman says, Ito avoid striking the
fore legs" The hare which is hunted
with fast hounds has not in reality
the speed OF the dog. The dog, on
the other hand, does not attain the
speed Of the horse. The giraffe is said
to run at the rate Of fifteen meters
(yards) per second Under the most
favorable conditions. The elephant,
going at tho rate OF two yards a sec.
ond, carries n weight approximating
that carried by six horses.-Harper's
Weekly.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
WHY ADVENTURE
KNOCKS so RARELY

David Grayson, writing a new "Ad-
venture in Contentment" in the March
American Magazine. says:
at is because we are not humble
enough in the presence of the divine
daily fact that adventure knocks so
rarely at our door. A thousand times
/ have had to learn this truth (what
lesson 50 hard to learn as the lesson of
humanity, and l suppose 1 shall have
to learn it Il thousand times more.
This very day, straining my eyes to see
the distant wonders of the mountains, /
nearly missed a miracle by the road
side"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
WHO OWNS THE BIRDS?

The farmer is sure that he owns
the birds that fly over his land.
The county and the state make all
kinds of laws about birds that fly
over their land.
The United States, however is
waking up to its rights-somewhat
late. The Nation of January %,
1913, contains the following state
ment:
A bill was reported last week by
Senator Mclean, of Connecticut,
providing that the Federal govern
ment shall undertake the protection
of migratory birds. 1t calls upon
the Departure of Agriculture,
which has in its records a great
mass of precise information on the
subject. to draft regulations. after
wards to be enacted into law.
This is no mere response to
SCHLluiCil. ~ 10 bOI lhICLuSu W
catch the "bird-lovers" vote. The
project is based on economic con-
siderations and its active support
ers include such men of science as
William T. Hornadsy, Henry Fair
field Osborn, Theodore S. Palmer,
of the United States Biological
Survey, and Edward H. Forbush,
ornithologist of the Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculture.
The Year Book of the Depart
ment of Agriculture is authority
for the statement that, in a single
year (19O4), the damage done to
crops by insect pests amounted to
$42O, 200, 600.
From the same source we learn
that the annual loss to apple
growers from the ravages of the
curculio pests amount to Sl2, 0O0,-
600, to say nothing of $780, 600
expended each year for spraying
trees; that the chinch bug damages
the wheat crop to the extent of
500, 600, 900 . year, and that the
value of the cotton crop is d~ecreas.
ed annually by the same amount
through the work Of the cotton
boil weevil, while the gypsy moth
aud other insect destroy or serious
ly damage every year trees valued
at 500, 900 1000.
These figures have increased sig.
~nificance when we remember that
the insectivorous birds (nost of
which are migratory are most
efficient aids in keeping down in.
sect pests.
Mr.. Forbush saw a pair o. grOs.
beaks taking insect larvae to their
young at the rate of $50 times in
eleven hours, and estimated that 8
single yellow-throated warbler
would devour 10000 tree lice in 8
day.
Similar observation ps tsblisbe!
the fact that several kinds of de
%structive caterpillars form part Of
the regular diet Of more than fit!
species of birds, and that plant lic'
are presistently destroyed b!
thirty-eight species.
But the experts declare that tn
number Of these birds is steadil.
decreasing and that this is du,
primarily not to their natura
enemies, but to man.
The most persistent and inclusiv
slaughter is carried on constant,
in the Southern STATES, where man.
species Of our most valuable insec
tivorous birds pass the white
months. Several Of these State
not only do nothing to prevent thi
slaughter but. actually legalize
by laws which class certain inset
tivorous birds rs game"
For example, the robin is classe
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06

Entered 1T the Elko postofie for transmission
through the mails as second.class matter.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
ReyolvInu Houses,

A Partisan inventor has conceiy ed
the idea OF having small houses which
will turn on their axes built In coun.
try districts for invalids. thus furnish
ing a change Of scene. OF light. and Of
air. There is, he thinks. no reason
why some rooms should always get
the sunlight and the remainder be
always damp and unhealthy. The
idea is not entirely new. Some years
ago a revolving house was built in
Normandy. The door vas constructed
of thin boards which glided over each
other as the house was turned. On
n occasiap these boards spread out
like an opened fan, closing the exit.
The inmate, terrified by his expert
ence. had the house pulled down.
Hsrper's Weekly.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
Competent Opinion.

You're a big, healthy.looking nan
to be begging for food" said the lady
at the back door.
"A mans got t be big and healthy,
ma'am, to get away with the hand.
outs nowadays. believe mel"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-06
To Catch Foxes.

II you are particularly anxious to do
a little surreptitious fox catching try
the following. 1t is the sage Of Lup-
ton who speaks, In his Thousand
Notable Things" "Anoint the soles
Of your shoes with a piece Of fat
swine's flesh as broad as your hand,
newly toasted or a little broiled at
the FIRE when you go out OF the wood
homeward. And in every Of your
steps cast a piece of the liver Of a
swine roasted and dipped In honey,
and draw after your back the dead
carcass Of q cat" Your fox cannot
resist all this, but "be sure to have
a man nigh thee with bow and shafts
to shoot at him, or by some other
means to hit him.. Good fun. this for
a country house party at loose ends.