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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-15
American Association.

At Detroit-Detroit 5. Washington 4.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
Ocean Ships Sow Seeds.

During the last few years botanists
have noticed that there has been a
great leveling up Of plants Oh the In
Vulnerable islands scattered over the
Pacific. The vegetation Of two islands
1000 miles apart is as likely as not to
be exactly the same, while formerly
there used to be marked difference.
The reason is said to be the steamship.
The Pacific is now covered with a net
work Of steamer routes. At each port
the wind pours a fine powder OF almost
invisible seeds over each ship and
blows ashore some of those she receiv-
ed at previous ports Of call. Thus
ships are, without knowing it, altering
the vegetation Of the Pacific islands.
Trains SOW seeds too. At any rate.
that IS the explanation offered by bota-
nists for the way in which the middle
west is growing plants that once be-
longed to the Atlantic coast. Even the
barren eastern slopes of the Rockies
are now growing trees that were never
planted by the hand Of man. The
trains have done the sowing. Stray
Stories.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
A Tax Scheme That Failed.

Switzerland has always prided itself
on its independence. and in fiscal mat
tiers this proud spirit, which will brook
no interference with the rights Of the
individual. wen by the state in quest
Of revenue, has sometimes been eX-
hibited in curious ways. says the Pail
Mall Gazette. AS the inquisitorial
methods Of income tax collectors are
abhorrent to the freedom loving Swiss,
boxes were once set up in several can.
tons to receive the voluntary contribu-
tons of loyal citizens, 1t was hoped
that this method of relying on the pub
lie spirit Of the people would prove
successful in raising money for public
ends; but, alas for human nature, in
the course of time the collectors on
opening the boxes found nothing but
trousers buttons. So the voluntary sys-
TEN, after fair trial. had to be reluc-
family abandoned in favor Of a dec.
laration of capital and income which
is liable to official investigation.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
Sp0ndyl0therQpy


Spondylotherapy is the gospel of seeing red. 1t
has been invented and plomulgater by a San Fran
cisco physician, and already numbers it's little squad
Of devotees.
The spondylotherapists declare that red is the
greatest human energizer. A man or woman who is
an habitual victim of weariness may be stirred to
ambition and activity by wearing a red shirt, rec
stockings or a red necktie. A room papered Or paint
ed a glazing red is the ideal workshop. Redress tends
to bring out the maximum Of human efficiency. There
is no case of laziness so serious that it cannot be
cured by persistent spondylotherapic treatment.
The logical fnalty Of this gospel is the universal
wearing of all red clothing by workers, and the paint
ing Of all shops and brain mills in brightest crimson
or scarlet. The color scheme of civilization viii! be
so changed that everyone will see red most of the
time. Only the rest rooms and the boudoirs, the the
aters and the libraries will retain their quiet srays
and greens. The restaurants and the saloons via
doubtless be siyly crinsoned, in order to inspire pat
rons to eat and drink more vehemently.
One hopes that spondylotherapy will not sweep the
country too suddenly. We are told by all foreign
critics that Americans are already too energetic, too
fevcrish, too prone to haste and overexertion. t is
unpleasant to speculate what would follow the uni
versal acceptance of the tenets OF the new gospel.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
Napoieon's Weapon Rusty.

In recalling the sword which Napo'
leon presented to the Russian Grand
Duke Constantine at Tilsitt on the Oc-
casion Of the treaty between Napoleon
md Russia in 1907, a Paris newspaper
asserts that, although Napoleon al
ways carried two pistols in his saddle,
he very rarely used them. His service
sword, as he called it, was so rusted
in it's sheath that at the battle of
Arcis-sur-Aube in 1914 he had to call
an aid-dc-camp to help him draw 1t.
1t is also said that the emperor,
whose figure in a. long gray cloak and
"bicorne' is everywhere familiar. had
made for himself a helmet and breast
plate set with emeralds and diamonds.
But on first trying them on he found
that he looked too much like a Roman
warrior, and he discarded them. This
armor that Napoleon had on but once
is today to be see under glass in the
army museum. a- &,@t1 @l 2
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
Wanted: A Real Climax

We are going to complete ouc great Panama cana!
and add another to the wonder o. the world without
a grand climacteric, says he 81. P2AI i2patch. This
proceeding runs counter 70 our common American
custom. but il comes o. tn nature 0" things, IN the
extraordinary undertaking Of realizing the dream
which De Lesseps had Dut could not make an actu"l-
ity, one great event has succcadpd another, until We
are habituated to wonders and the final completion
and opening will come as an a~nticlimax. There was
the completion of the great Culebra cut, the accom-.
plishment of an engineering feat which challenged
the admiration of the world. There was the construc-
ton of the wonderful Gatun dam to impound and con-
troll the waters on which the passage is to be made.
Yesterday followed the destruction of the Ganboa
dixie, marking the practical completion Of the water.
way and handled as a prime event in canal history.
.I9 The actual dedication and formal opening of the
channel which makes islands of the north and south
continents will have been discounted by these ire
rnendous intermediate events. The first regular pig
sage of a ship scarcely can come as a pioneer under
taking, as the canal will have swarmed with craft in
the construction process. We must do something
spectacular as the grand finale of an enterprise whic,
the entire world must recognize as the splendid triG.
ute to American genius, indomitable American spirit,
the American determination to do and to succeed. 1t
will be very unlike us Americans to permit the occa.
sion to permit the occasion to pass without the cere-
mony which formally recognizes the fruition of one
of the worlds greatest. and %grandest undertakings,
this spectacular triumph of peace surprising all OF
the victories war can bring.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14

rcmodeling,' are prominent subjects the first year.
ing are required subjects, with current history, Eng
lish history and modern languages among the elect.
i9ea. Latin and advanced mathematics are c%onspicu'
Gus by their absence.
In the second year hygiene and sanitation are add.
ed to the requirements, and other studies may be
chosen from a lizt which includes millinery, house.
hold chemistry, European and American history, his
tory Of wonen's work, arts and crafts, and modern
languages. n ,
Household management, a required study is a
feature Of the bird year OF the course. Applied
design and applied physics are among the subjects
that may be selected by the students. In the fourth
year the girls delye 9 little deepe" into the philosophy
Of h0mccraft BY mean, Of d required course on social
efficiency. They may also regaie themselves with a
number of more advanced studies, such as Funda-
mentals of legal procedures; physiology, bacteriology,
and sanitation; household design and decoration.
Throughout the course the emphasis is on applied,
rather than theoretical knowledge; and the work is
pletes the fOurycar course or leaves before she fin
isles, she has acquired a fund Of workable ideas Of
direct value to her in the immediate problems OF her
life. At the same time the course IS not narrowing.
Girls who take it may, if they desire, elect some of
the more usual studies from the regular high sclool
courses. Furthermore, they are prepared to meet the
admission requirements of the Columbia University
School OF Household Arts and similar institutions for
young women.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
"The Old Master"

1t is difficult for anyone Win good, clean, red olooo
in his veins to contemplate with indifference such a
performance as that OF Ch. isty Mathewson in the first
game he pitched in the present worlds baseball
series, says the Kansas City Star. The Old Master
we'll deserves his success and the veteran athlete
who opposed him on the mound is entitled to second
prize for Ethe~great work he did. Ii the contest had
been between an odd man and a young one and the
young one had outlasted his competitor, the wise Old
epigram about youth will be served would have
been worked overtime.
But something besides youth will Dc served. Matnf
ewson not only outpltched and outhit himself, as we'll
as his opponents, but he "outhea! ted" them. as well.
He did not falter where others trembled. He was
cool where others were timorous. He was game
where others were fearful. Nerve-racking errors be-
hind him did not daunt him. He held the hardest
hitting team in the world SEQ. ele@s without the seAl-
blance of a decisive error on their part and in the
face of two or three errors Of his own team-mate
in Boston, but for his magnificent display of brain,
arm, heart and everything that appeals to the lover OF
the greatest sport that was ever developed in Tie his
tory of the world.
If the second game of the series was a hard one
for Plank to lose, it would have been a still harder
one for "Matty" to lose-harder even than that heart
breaking "muff" two years ago, when the worlds
championship was lost on a ~"bobble.' All over the
country millions of people were watching the score
boards with b%reathless interest, and a very large
proportion of them We're pulling for Matty.' Victory
was surely due to perch upon the banner of the great
est pitcher in the game, who after thirteen years OF
big league ball and after his passing was freely pre-
dicted when he started three games in his last worlds
series without winning one of them, pitches the great
est game of his career. 1t is one of the unfortunate
features of the whole matter that the same qualities
displayed by Mathewson, when exhibited in almost
equal degree by his rival, should have come short OF
the success they SO richly deserved. But both could
not win when opposed to each other, and it is one OF
The fortunate o%ffsettings of the game that so thor
oughly deserving an athlete a. he peerless odd mas
ter should lie hailed he victor in one Of The greatest
baseball exhibitions of recent ca S.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
FroIics of Ivan the Terrible.

Ivan the Terrible. among his many
insane freaks, would let loose wild
bears in the streets Of his capital and
placidly say his prayers while watch
ing the slaughter Of his people. fling
ing a few coins to the mutilatpd sur
yivOrs as be rose from his knees He
would compc! parents to Stay their
children, and children to kill one an.
other; and If there was a survivor
the amiable monarch would dispatch
him with his own hands. shrieking
with laughter at so excellent a joke"
In one Of his lighter moods of frolic
be commanded the citizens Of Moscow
to ''provide for him a measure full Of
1eas for Il medicine" and fined them
1000 roubles when they failed
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
YOUR OWN VOICE.
How You May Hear It as II Sounds to
Other Persons Ears.

" Other PERSONS ears.
Laloy. who appears to have scien.
tifically Investigated the matter. as
sures us that not. only does one not see
himself as others see him. but that he
does 1ot hear himself as others hear
him. Some interesting experiments
were made by the French savant in
this connection.
In order to ascertain whether a man
really knew the sound Of his own
voice, Iaioy has been ut some pains to
determine the facts. His experiments
show that if a person record on q
photograph disk a few sentences pro-
bounced by himself. together with 9th
ers recorded by friends, and causes the
machine to reproduce these. it most
frequently happens that the man more
easily recognizes the voices Of his
friends than he does his own.
1t appears that the differences lies
In the quality Of the tone. One hears
his W voice not only through the
air, IS do his auditors, but across the
solid parts between the organs of
speech and those of hearing. The
sound thus produced has a different
timbre from that conducted to the ear
by the air above.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
The HOmecrQf Course

In the homecraft course just instituted in the Wad-
leigh High school, New York City, the attempt to
meet practical demands in girls education is seen at
its best, according to officials of the United States
Bureau of Education. The homecratt course is for
girls whose interest is in up-to-date home-haking rath-
er than in advanced literary or scientific study. The
work is taken chiefly by students who do not intend
to go to college, but who wish to make the best use
of their time while in high school; and it is particu-
larly recommended for those who expect to stay in
school only two years, or less.
The course is both practical and cultural 1t
answers the everyday needs Of girls who mean to be
real home-keepers and it affords abundant opportunity
for studies that are for enjoyment, as we'll as for work.
Domestic science and domestic art, with household
arithmetic, study Of vocations, "clothing-its care and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
.EnqIish Official Red Tape.

In memories of the Sea" Admiral
Penrose Fitzgerald says that II day,
after Lord Clifford had been retired
from the quarterback for a spell to d
position in the admiralty Office, an olN
friend and shipmate visited him there
and found him sitting at his desk, up
to his eyes in papers, nursing his
wounded wrist, silent and morose.
bordering a question he did not seer
able to solve.
THAT pile of papers you see there
said he, lis the result Of three months
heated controversy as to whether the
boys in the training ships are to be
supplied with pewter spoons or wheth,
er they are to dip up the new ration
Of treacic with their bread and without
the use Of spoons, and we have not set.
tied it yet"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
Extremes Must Meet

The extreme opposition of the banking interests to
the currency bill has been expressed by the Boston
convention. The extreme support of it is expressed
by the political leaders in charge of the legislation at
Washington. Murmurs on either side discover q more
moderate attitude on both sides, that may prevail
when the extremes meet in the senate.
The president bad too much difficulty keeping rad
ical %populisn out of the house bill to show too early
Willingness for further concession. The bankers have
had too much difficulty getting a political hearing for
their moderate and reasonable amendments, to let
80 too promptly OF their excessive opposition. Both
will should refusal ever to consent till the moment
OF conserving.
Either this will come on a workable law, in accord
with financial history and experience, or there will be
no legislation. Congress must pass an act the banks
will work under, or none at all. That is understood
on both sides. The question will be settled in the
senate and the conference Of the houses-not in the
Boston meeting nor in Washington interviews.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
WAGNER AND THE CABBY.
A Bit Of Comedy That Won a Good Tip
From the Composer.

y story OF Wagner known to very
few is brought to the light by the Vos-
sische Zeituny. When the composer
was in Il really merry mood. the right
mood for story telling, he used to say
that. being in Berlin Oh a very hot
summers day and finding himself In
the Donhoffsplatz, be summoned one
OF the first class droshkies that were
still fairly numerous at that time and
told the driver where to 60. His deS-
tination WIS at the very farthest point
of a district within which only the
lowest fare could be demanded.
1t struck Wagner immediately that
his driver was taking Il very affecting
leave OF one Of his fellows. as though
be were starting on a life or death
journey. "Goodby. William" he said:
I'VE shan't see each other again for
a long time"
After the carriage had ratified on for
a good while it came suddenly to Il
%standstill. The driver got down from
lie " VII tuC tlSAL uuIl0 SluCs OpChISA
the carriage door and banged it to
again; then be went round to the left
side and repeated the performance
climbed up on to his box and resumed
the journey. AT the end of the drive
Wagner asked him what this dumb
crambo show meant. The driver. with
a sly look. made answer: II just want
ed to bamboozle my old nag. he wou!o
v have believed that the whole
drive was for a minimum fare ana
would have refused to go on. But py
banging the doors | got him to Imagine
that one fare had got out and anotnef
got in."
Wagner laughed heartily over TINS
explanation, and the driver, in spite OF
his greed, over which the composer
made very merry in his letters. real
lied the handsome tip on which ne nae
been speculating.-LondoD Standard.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
Why Married Men Live Iona.

The reason IL married man lives long,
err than a single man is because the
single man leads a selfish existence
A married ma can double his pleas.
ures. ANY time he has Il streak Of
good luck it tickles him all owe but it
makes him feel twice as good when he
pleased and proud that he feels like a
two-yearold. There isn't a chance
In the world Of a mans arteries hard.
ening or his heart weakening when he
can get a million dollars worth Of
pleasure out of making his wife hap.
py.-C1ncinnati Enquirer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
suM MoNs..

state Of North Dakota, County Of
Rurleigh:
In District Court, Sixth Judicial Dis
trict. &.s.
Luella B. Irwin, Plaintiff,
VS.. ..,.. 4.
John Richards. David Richards. Hen
nv Richards, Thomas Richards,
Elizabeth A. Cooper, Thomas Rich
ards, Jr.. Elizabeth Ann Cooper, o.
p. NJ. Jamison, and all other per-
sops unknown claiming any estate
or interest in. or lien or mourn
brance upon the property described
in the complaint. and their un-
known heirs, Defendants.
The State of North Dakota to the
Above Named Defendants:
You are hereby summoned to an
ewer the complaint in this action,
which is filed in the office OF the
Clerk of the District Court OF Bur-
leigh County, North Dakota, n TO
serve a COPY OF your answer upon
the subscriber within thirty lays az
ter the service of this summons on
YOU, exclusive OF the day OF such
SGrV1ce; anu Ill CASE VI soui
to appear or answer, JUDGMENT Will
ne taken against you by default for
tile relief demanded in the complaint
Dated this 23rd day of September,
A. D. 1913,
T. r. Mockler & C. 0. Illness.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
P~ostofice address, Bismarck. N. d.
To the Above, Named Defendants:
You will please take, notice that
the above entitled action is brought
to quiet title, and determine adverse
claims to the Southeast Quarter of
Section twenty in Township One
Hundred Thirty-Eight Of Range Sew
~enty-seven, said County and State.
r. r. Mockler & G. O. Illness,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
1O-7, IA, Fl, 2S)
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
WORK or THE TELEPHONE.
its Magic Has Enabled Us to Snap Our
Fingers at Space.


Just how modern is the essential and
ubiquitous telephone-now connecting
over a half million houses and Offices
in New York city-there is q casual
line in ''Pinafore' which serves to In
dictate. When the kindly chorus is
condoling with. Ralph Rackstraw on
his separation from his Josephine 1t
chants these words to picture the ter
ror Of Ills lot:
mo telephone connects with his dun
geon cell" III
The line falls fiat today. But pima.
fore" was produced for the first time
in 1878, and in 1876 the Bell patents
for the first practical telephone were
issued. Thus when the words were
written they related to a new and
startling invention that was the talk
of the day, and the Gilbertian line was
really a gay, topical jest.
1t is u safe guess, however, that very
few Of the people who laughed at
''Pinafore" in the seventies foresaw
what the telephone would really prove
to be. The years Of the telephone are
few. But already it has transformed
business method and social intercourse.
The railroads.. the fast trains. the tele-
graph, wireless, the automobile, all
helped to make the nineteenth century
a century Of acceleration.
The telephone worked more real
magic than all the rest together. The
discovery Of astral bodies would hard
ly have done more to multiply human
effectiveness and enable us to snap
our fingers at space.-New York Trib-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE.
CLOSURE SALE.

Notice is hereby given that that GER
tain mortgage executed and delivered
bv S. NJ. Ferris and Ella V. Ferris, his
wife, mortgagors to North Star Lum-
Der company, "a corporation, mort
gage, dated tile 5th.@ day ,4of August,
1912, and filed for record in the Office
of the register of deeds of the county
of Burleigh and state of North Dakota
~ he 9Th. day Of August, A. D. 1912
and recorded in book "107" of mort
cages at page "56," will be foreclosed
bv a sale Of the premises in such
mortgage and hereinafter described at
the front door of the court house in
the county of Eurleigh and state OF
North Dakota at the hour Of ten
o'clock a. m. on the 25th. day Of Oct,
1918, to satisfy the amount due on
such mortgage On the day of sale.
The premises described in such mort
gage and which will be sold to satisfy
the same are described as follows:
North half of the north half (NA of
the N.Y. of Section Four az, Town
ship One Hundred Fortv-three d43),
Range Seventv-eight, TS), containing
One Hundred Sixty acres 060) in the
county of. Burleigh, state Of North
Dakota.
There will be due on such mortgage
at the date of sale the sum of Three
Hundred Twenty-three and 40-1O0 dol
lars 1928 .40).
Dated this 18th. day of September,
1913.
NORTH STAR LUMBER COMPANY,
Mortgage.
NILES & KOFFEL,
Attorneys for Mortgage,
Bismarck, North Dakota.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-14
The Split Earthing Club.

A club limited in membership to mes
who agreed to stint themselves to tbs
utmost in order to increase their pos
sessions vas the Split Farthing club
of London. One member is reported to
have had his garments so darned that
there was not enough of the original
left to show the texture. The mem
bcrs presented so starved al appear
ance that it was said there was not an
ounce Of fat among the lot.