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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27

wrote all the truth to Myra, with a
heavy heart telling her that he must
begin all over again, and they must
wait.
Two days went by but no word was
received that explained the sudden
departure of Dale Vernon. Percival
went around to the mercantile house
for which Vernon had worked. Its
head was disturbed, almost anxious at
the summary disappearance of val
ued employee.
Percival did not have the heart nor
will to expose his friend. He simply
left the impression that Vernon must
nave had a sudden call home.
Il guess it is my fate to meet with
disappointment in my friends" he
wrote Myra. You remember what I
have told you about my brother, Ru-
pert could never restrain him ia
his Wild speculative ways, and / have
still the mournful memory of his III
ducing me to invest my share of the
little money father left us He lost
1t all in some worthless oil well. This
makes two bad inroads on my money
hopes, as yon Gee Next time | shall
make you nay banker, and shut out
from my life every bit of human love
except for you"
A telegram, sir" announced a mes
senger boy just as Percival was seal
ing up this letter.
In wonder Lane Percival read a
brief dispatch 1t was dated at point
IN Michigan and it was signed Duke
Vernos 1t ran:
Better than l left you word. We
have made it,"
What word-made what? In be-
wiiderment Lane Percival sought
vainly to read the riddle A score of.
wild theories ar to what might be
crossed his thoughts all that night
Had he made mistake? Had he mis-
judged his tried and trusted friend. or
was this some effrontery on the part
OF his missing chum?
He slept a little towards morning
He arose dull and oppressed and
bothered There was a knock at the
door.
Come in. he directed.
ITS me- announced the man who
Cleaned the halls and washed the win
lows and kept the place generally in
order. Il found a letter, and a check
! guess It Is, in the court Just now
I'm not much OF scholar but spell
ed out your name"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27

A waiter testifying in Chicago
court recently as to how he made I'M
willing people pay tips, said:
when they are going away | brush
them down. and if they don't give me
something / take hold OF their lapel
and say, Excuse me, and brush
them again, lpretend that's the only
England / can speak, If they don't
give me snmething then, hold on to
their hats until they do give nae some
thing
"Why did you pretend YOU could not
speak English" demanded the judge.
The water replied, "The more English
you know, lhe less tips you get. "
During the examination of the witness
it appeared that the first day he spent
in the restaurant where he is employed
he secured twelve dollars from patrons,
and that his average was one hundred
dollars week. That's the way these
gentry "work" the public. And then
at least in Chicago, where there is a
tipping trust, !" it is So they them
selves are subjected to merciless ex-
,,lDitatfnp
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1913.

MORE immigrants arrived in Septem-
Der of this year than in any previous
month in this nations history. And
increased immigration, you know, IS
regarded as a very definite sign of
general good times.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27

MY namer" yspes&ed Percsv~x
vaguely.
There they are, and the man
handed Percival sheet of paper and
G check
The latter was made out for $500
and signed by the missing Vernon.
The letter bore the initials of the
same signature, and ran:
Dear Lane.
Il have hurry call fer funds, ready
cash. Urgent A big thing. | have
taken your money and leave you
check Expect great news"
Slowly the truth began to dawn on
the startled Percival He had cruelty
misjudged Vernon, for there was the
check, which with the letter had been
left on the window sill and had been
blown into the court And that tele-
gram? What could have induced the
steady-going Vernon to plunge into
some venture of speculation?
There was another summons at the
door of his humble room the next eve
ming. Some one tried the knob. Lane
ly beating heart. He had recognized
a familiar footstep he had begun to
miss sorely.
He flung the door open widely. Then
he drew back The open happy face,
the bluff hearty tone of his friend re-
turned, were a reproach that made
him shrink from the extended hand.
Il can't do it, Duke" he said. u
have wronged you
"Wronged me?' rang out the CHEEKY
tones of Vernon. When? How?"
Il believed you had stolen my mon
ey."
I'D have done IL if there had been
no other wayl" cried Duke Vernon.
I've made it. No more scraping and
saving and creeping along. Look
there!"
He drew forth and Haunted before
the eyes of his bewildered friend a GER
titled check.
Ten thousand dollars!' were the
words that dazzled the eyes of the
astonished Percival,
See who it's made out to-"
Duke Vernon and Rupert Percival
my brother!"
'Yes-the ne'er-do.well, the wild
rover, the poor fellow you lost faith
in. But l had faith. He was all good,
only impulsive and easily influenced.
He lost your money and his in an out
and out swindle. But that was educa-
ton didn't tell you, but for year
have been stalking him, off and on,
up in the copper mining distriet--as a
partner"
Lane Percival swallowed a bitter
emotion tinged With shame. A strang.
er had been kinder to his wandering
brother than himself.
you wouldn't see him a year ago
when he called here said Vernon
He's made good-wont you see him
now?"
Yes" said Lane Percival humbly,
and ask you both to forgive a man
who needs to begin the study of hui
man nature all over again, to make
himself worthy of being called friend
and brother"
And Vernon went out and brought
the wanderer back with him 1t did
not take long, even after his abject
confessions, for Duke and Rupert to
cheer up their repentant companion.
And they spent that evening in plan.
ming what a lot the $4,000, received
for claim that the $500 had come
just in time to secure, would do for
three young, ambitious fellows and the
benny girl who need not now wait
longer for Lanes start in life.
Copyright. 1918, by w G. Chapman)
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27

Mineral Point Citizens Gladly Testify
and Confidently Recommend DOans
Kidney Pits.

1t is a testimony like the following
that has placed Doan's Kidney Pills so
far above competitors. When people
right here at home raise their voice in
praise there.is no room left for doubt.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
Some Ordinance.

At Richland Center the council has
passed an ordinance providing that any
one who pays SIS for license can ride
bicycle on the cement walks. A splen-
did way for the city to assume big
action for injuries that may occur.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
Issac Stephenson Defendant in Suit

On the Dist inst Senator Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin was sued for
S49, 600 in the district court, Washing
ton. by Rodney Sackett, a former ex-
ecutive clerk of the senate, who al
leges that Stephenson employed him to
settle claims arising from his cam
paign of 1908
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
CITY'S TAX LEVY for 1913
Recommended by Finance Committee Tota $4 606 IL
Assessed Valuation So, 386 634-Rate Per Cent

The
of Aldermen w.
recommend levy of taxable property The
The amount to be levied for local
that of last The large apporoned
the city the and will following tables
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
Footballs Toll in 1918.

Killed, Ia
Injured, IT'S.
Fractured legs, arms and ankles, 10
Fractured ribs, shoulders and collar
bones, 49,
Broken hands and wrists, 6.
Fractured skulls and coneussions of
the brain, Z.
Other injuries. 1873.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
HorribIei

Patience: Il see England reports
an output of 264 volumes of verse
yearly"
Patrice: Mercy What won't these
sufrragettes do nexti"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
contentment.

"Contentment consists in the tenn
porary forgetfulneas of the things we
would like to have next Puck.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
OUT OF TIE PEOPLES POCKETS.


The law makers, together with county
boards and city councils, seem to lose
tract of the fact that all taxes come
out of the pockets of the people State
Treasurer Johnson, discussing this sub
ject few days ago, is quoted as having
made these sensible remarks;
can the money the state gets comes
out OF the pockets Of the people first,
And it should be remembered that for
every dollar paid into the treasury only
sixty-fye cents goes back to the people.
thirty-fve cents being absorbed in cost
of administration. State aid for roads,
bridges, care of the detectives all is of
the same piece IL serves a purpose TO
lead the people into a belief that they
are getting something out OF the state.
and some are SO simple as to chuckle
and congratulate themselves over their
cleverness in soaking the common
wealth, while the truth is they have
soaken themselves and added a penalty
Of about thirty-dve per cent
When incumbents of public office be-
gin to discuss the subject of taxation
from the. standpoint Of economy and
prudence, there is Indicated a condition
Of the public mind likely to call halt
in public extravaganza.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27
Daily Thouuht.

Time misspent is not lived, but list
Fuller
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27

g Inferred At the postofice in Mineral Point
wis. as second-class matter.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-11-27

wrote all the truth to Myra, with a
heavy heart telling her that he must
begin all over again, and they must
wait
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-18

A doctor was exceedingly annoyed
by a pedantic bore who forced him
self upon him during a railway jour
ney and made a great parade Of his
learning. The doctor bore 1t as long
as he could, and at length, looking at
him graVely, said, my friend, you
and 1 know all that is to be known.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-18

"How is that?" asked the man, high
ly pleased. why, said the doctor,
you know everything except that
you are fool, and know thatp
For people with cold feet Ger
man inventor has provided shoe
with a hot-water eontainer as sole.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
WoMAN CONVICT FINISHED
TERM REMAINS IN PRISON

Devils Lake, N. D., May "a
Though her term in the state
penitentiary for the murder Of
her adopted daughter, "Babe"
Wright, has expired, Mrs. Stella
Wright is still in the prison,
and Warden Talcott is at q loss
to know what to do with her.
Two months ago Mrs. Wright
fell and hurt her left hip so SER
iously that she must use crutches.
In addition, she also is uffer-
ing from an infection in the neck.
Her legal residence is in Ramsey
county, but she declines to come
here and she has no means of
support.
The murder Of |" Babe Wright
occurred on farm home near
Devils Lake. The girl, aged 10
years was found dead in bed, and
an investigation disclosed the
fact that she had been poisoned.
Guilt was fixed on Mrs. Wright
and she was sentenced to 4 five
years insthe penitentiary.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
UNIVERSITY BUREAU ADS /
TO STATE WEALTH

The value Of North Dakota lig-
mite deposits have been doubled
in the last year through research
work carried on by Dean p. j.
Babcock Of the school Of mines al
the State University at Grand
Forks, which work has resulted il
the establishment of methods TO !,
the briquetting Of the fuel and 70
the manufacture of gas.
Reports to this effect has just
been made by the Institution. It
shows that the 100000, 900, 900
tons of Ignite underlying almost
the entire western half Of the
state will soon be :eady for the
market and that the northwest s
fuel problem will be settled as
soon as the Ignite is briquetted.
Several briquetting plants are
even now being established.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
Creamery Man Arrested

George Koch, cream buyer at
the Hebron office Of the Hess
Creamery company Of Glen Ull-
in, has been arrested on COM
plant Of State Dairy Commits
sioner Flint.
Koch is charged with the crime
of under-reading Babcock tests
applied to cream brought to the
station Of which he is in charge,
an offense similar to overweight
ing products sold in stores and
underweighing those purchased
He was brought to this city Mon
day, May 19 and appeared be-
fore Justice E. R. Lanterman,
when he waived preliminary ex-
animation and was bound over to
district court under $100 bond.
Attorney B. w. Shaw is represent
ing the accused. Mandan News.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
GRAFTON HIGH SCHOOL
CHAMPIONS or STATE

Grand Forks, N. D., May q
Grafton high school debaters won
the state champ pionship at the
state contest held in! Grand Forks
when they defeated the Hatton
team. The North Dakota cham
5pionship gives the winners the
Herald cup which becomes the
permanent posessiol "a of the
school which ~ wins i II it three CON
jseeutiye years. There were
twenty sch Die. /. comp eting when
stheg North kota High School
Debating I league A first series Of
debates WAS held last December.
The team enting the Hat
ton sch ols was comp Osed Of Ben
Ellison, a q u < jorlie and All
fred Solbsre The rub ject de-
Bbated9 9was tie COVE ernment sowne
IshipSofM & i parcel post express.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30

galley west; It looks to us the
part Of wisdom to go slow out
there, to be cautions Of taking
too long chances Of extensive
farming or in plunging into debt.
Plenty Of employment at good
wages can be had, and in TAX
ing this co1rs and in the mean
while holding the claim is to play
safe. If not this season than
next year two and possibly three
railways will push into the reser-
vation, and then will be time
enough to expand. Farming fif-
teen, to twenty-five miles from
market is a ticklish busine ess, as
any farmer will tell you who has
tried it.. Pioneering, in the sense
Of a long distance from market,
doesen't pay in grain raising.
Ryder Journal.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
BRUEGaER ON
... .,. RIVER WORK

While in Washington John Bru-
egger found that the appropria-
ton for work on the upper Mis-
souri, river for this year was
planned to be used at Elk Point,
South Dakota. Getting Captain
Baker and the North Dakota
congressional delegation together
they went before the war depart
ment and succeeded in having
this work divided up between
Elk Point, Bismarck and Williston
Captain Baker and Mr.. Bruegger
proved themselves a good team.
when it comes to getting things
done. This is matter Of inn
portance to the city as work need
to be done at this point to pre-
vent the possible change Of chan,
mel by the Missouri e.. Williston
Herald.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
Three Girls Met
Death In River
City of Jamestown Was Startled
When Well Known Yougn
Ladies Drowned.

Jamestown, N. D., May &c.
When the alarm was given that
Bernie and Claude Ripley and
Mamie Matchie had met death by
drowning in the James river
within the city limits, about z
o clock last evening, the whole
city was prostrated.
The three girls, accompanied by
Mary Matchie, aged IA, walked
down to the river early in the
evening and went in wading.
Claude Ripley, aged about Is,
and Mamie Matchie, aged about
18, were taken with cramps and
the oldest Ripley girl, aged 20,
went to their assistance. In her
efforts to rescue the two girls,
she sank below the surface Of the
water.
Little Mary Matchie realized
the awful circumstances and i'm
mediately started for up town,
about six blocks, and gave the
alarm. The fire alarm was turn
ed in and hundreds Of people
Immediately responded, all too
late.
The bodies of the three girls
were taken from the river, and
Bernie Ripley was still alive wheu
rescued, but all efforts to revive
her proved futile and she died
soon after being taken from the
water. The other two girls were
dead when their bodies were To-
Gated.
The two Ripley girls were cous-
ms of the Matchie girls and their
parents are among the pioneers
of the city. Bernie Ripley, the
girl who died in her efforts to
save her companions, has been a
school teacher in this county for
some time. All three girls were
we'll known and had friends
throughout the city, and their un-
timely death has cast deep,
gloom here.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
MONTH OF BRIDES
II 81 ,s... AND C0NYENT1Ns

Grand Forks, May %. June,
month Of brides and conventions
viii be with us SOON. The! brides
are an annual crop waiting to be.
harvested but the conventions
are more uncertain. This June,
however, will be a most busy one
in the convention line all over the
state. In Grand Forks alone
over half the days of that month
will be marked BY imp ortant state
meetings.. Among the imp ortant
NEE eetings at Grand Forks will be-
the North Dakota Sunday School
Convention on June 10-1 ~, sta1
which 4 500 deleg gates are expect
led; the Annual Convention Of the
North Dakota B Bankers Asso-l
ciations, June 8 at which abb.-:
out 500 aof the sta tes leading bank
ers will come the summer meeting
|of the, Worth Dakot Edit Orial.
xAssoc ciat tons: June 40 "a here
400 of the State n lea ding news
paper men will Il sgather for their.
summer meeting and picnic the
North Dak kota Gun g Club, June 7s
|228 which Will attract no mar xsss
Special pro " ams a & ana tentert tain
ments axe being arrange ed foI f Il oil
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30

heNASeu LAWS, 1SUO, aS Cne same
had been amended by Section 2,
Chapter 428 Of the General Laws
Of Minnesota for 1909, be and the
same is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
1889. No person shall sell or
knowingly buy unwholesome or
adulterated milk or cream. Milk
or cream that has not been well
cooled and aerated, or to which
preservatives have been added !;
milk drawn from cows kept in a
crowded condition or. in places
not@wel ventilated orr lighted,
or which from any cause are
filthy or unsanitary, or from un-
clean or diseased cows, or those
feds;with distillery waste, brewers
grains, waste of vinegar or sug-
ar factories, garbage or decayed
substances in any form, except
ensilage from silos properly man
aged, milk drawn from cows
within fifteen days before, or
five days after giving birth to a
calf; and milk or cream which
has been kept in or near stables
where only animals is housed, or
in any place where bad air ex-
lists, and cream taken from un-
wholesome or adulterated milk,
or cream the water and milk
solids Of which (other than butter
fat). contain more than eight
tenths Of one per cent of acid,
shall be deemed unwholesome ano
adulterated within the meaning
OF this chapter. Milk from which
any. normal ingredient has been
abstracted, or milk containing
anYsssubstance not a normal con-
stituent thereof, or containing
more than eighty-seyen per cent
of water, or containing less than
three and one-fourth per cent of
.butterfat, or containing less than
thirteen per cent of total milk
solids, and cream in which there
is less than twenty per cent of
butterfat, or which contains any
foreign thickening or coloring
substance, or any abnormal in
gredient whatsoever, shall be
deemed adulterated; nor shall
any articles Of food be manu-
featured from unwholesome or
adulterated milk or cream, ex-
cept as hereinafter provided. No
person producing milk or cream
for market or exchange, or for
manufacturing the same into ar
ticles Of food shall feed milch cat
tie any distillery waste or brew
eers grains or the waste Of vine
gar or sugar factories, or gar
bage, or any substance which is
decayed and unhealthy.
# Section 2. This act shall take
effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
Approved April IL, 1913.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-05-30
NIinot to Have A
B|'r|liIquettii.ng B II i. Plant 7 | !
, Possibilities Area lmoost Incon-
ceivable, and Minot Will
Have Big Plant.

The brlquetting plant for this
city is practically assured
The sight was bought some
time ago, and the machinery
has been arranged for. u. NJ.
Davis, Of this city, is the prime
mover in the project, and some
Valley City capitalists are also
interested, among them Herman
Winter and Hugh Mcdonald.
The possibility Of the briquett-
ing industry in this state, and
especially in this part Of the state
are SO tremendous as to be al
most inconceivable. North Da-
kota has millions upon millions
of tons of Ignite coal, which
makes the finest briquetts, and
will be Of great Importance to the
state. ,.
The Public Service Monthly, a
periodical bulletin on matters Of
public interest in Saskatchewan,
published in Regina, has some
very interesting information on
North Dakota coal testing and
briquetting. A plant is being es-
tabished at Estevan, Saskatche-
wan, for the developing and test
! ing of Ignite coal Of that, dist
rict. Mr.. S. M. Darling, the man
who has charge of the project,
has done much with North Dako-
ia Ignite, and his findings on the
North Dakota product will be
interesting to the people Of this
section.
The chemical composition of
these lignites precludes their be-
ing successfully briquetted in
their natural condition. To mar
ket the Ignite commercially in
a large way, it must be destruc-
lively distilled, carbonized,
or partially carbonized, and
the resulting gas, oil or tar,
am noniacal liquor, and carbon
residue utilized separately. 3s#
There are 10000 cubic feet of
gas in a ton Of Ignite, twenty
gallons of oil or tar, thirty-five
gallons Of ammonical liquor, and
1900 lbs Of carbon residue.
The gas can be used as an IL
luminant by burning it in a
mantle, but it is serviceable prin-
cipally for fuel and power. There
is more gas in one ton Of Ignite
than is required to carbonize the
next ton. In practice not much
gas. is removed. Most Of it is
left to add heating value to the
carbon residue. .4 s4
III The oil or its distilIates can
be put to many uses, as fuel oil,
creosoting oil, leather preserva-
tive, waterproofing, pitch, etc..
The briquettes burn with a
short flame, no odor, no smoke
and no clinker. They can be
used wherever anthracite or BIZ
luminous coal is burned. Also,
the ignite coke is. an ideal gas
producer fuel. The by-prod duct
from the briquetting process viii
| at least meet the cost Of the bri-
quoting ard County Reporte.
8A TRIP no THE s3