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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10
UNDERWOOD JOURNAL

The Casey Land Agency dis
posed of the N. w. Ia of Is this
week to j. j. Mauget of Spring,
field, MINI. The land was sold
for $45 per acre. Mr.. Mauget
will move on the place this fall.
Andrew Skunk of Sanborn.
Minn., arrived last week with two
cars of farming implements and
moved on the Gergen farm, north
east of Underwood, which be
bought recently.
Judge Buttz of Minnewaukan,
and Senator Wartner of Harvey,
autoed into town Tuesday eve
ming and remained over night and
left the following morning for
Washburn.
Mrs. Anna Gradin left Thurs
day for Bismarck where she has
bought a home and will reside per4
manently. Her many friends here
"ASA AOA 0NCCCsS0 III l0E 1lVW xOS
cation. Miss Elsie Peterson ac-
companied her.
F. A. Russell arrived Monday
with a car load of HOlstein cattle.
The car contained five .sires, one
COW and twenty heifers, and ara
the finest bunch Of cattle ever
brought into this vicinity. Among
the progressive farmers who
have purchased one or more Of
the animals are Clarence Paul.
three heifers and a sire; John
schell, heifer and sire; John
Landgren, a sire; Pete Schauer,
three heifers, and Bob Edgar, I.
heifer. Mr.. Russell is to be
congratulated in securing such 4
fine lot Of grade stock. Il meanE.
2 great deal to the country.
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Unpleasant Noises
viii Be Eliminated
An Instrument Has Been Invent.
ed That Will Make the Deaf
Hear

! Boston, Oct. 6.-In less than
one year Hiram Percy Maxim, in
ventor of the Maxim gun silenc.
er, is going to hush every un.
pleasant noise in Boston, New
! York, Chicago or any other place
The cars and trains will go on
laundering, the wheels will raft.
lie, whistles will shrek, cries OF
hawkers and children will fill
the street, but you, sitting at
home, in your office, in d rail.
way train or the street cars will
hear none of this. The cars will
neither rattle nor thunder. The
streets will bear only dead ST.
lence to you.
1t sounds Utopian. 1t is re-
+ality. Mr. Maxim has the device
with which he has proved that it
can be done. This little instru-
ment is the elimination of years
of painstaking effort in investi-
gatl0n research.
By the mere pressure of an
electric button any single room
or section of a room can be
made absolutely proof against
noise. There is something un-
canny about this wonderful silen-
Ger which, in less than 10
months from now, the inventor
will demonstrate publicly by first
installing it in the ward of a
New York hospital.
In connection with the silenc-
er, Mr.. Maxim has perfected
another marvellous device which
he refers to as a "by-product" OF
the silencer, whereby deaf per-
son will no longer suffer the
slightest inconvenience from his
ailment, exceptvhen the SCUM
der is inaceessfbte to him, as
for il saa4ce;4s when out, walking.
This Gec6fd device, like thf
first, has been tested with re-
ported success by Mr.. Maxim, an
will, the inventor declares, soon
be rlaced in general use.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10

family, who are still in Canada,
and make this his future home.
No more Canada for him he says,
aud further states that much of
tie glowing reports concerning
Canada and she splendid oppor-
tunlties and prosperity to be
gained there are not born not,
either by his experience or that
of many others of his acquain-
tance. Crop conditions in the
territory from which he comes,
he states, is badly burned out
this year, and from the stand
point of crop raising his experien
ce there has not been satisfact-
ory. Others are coming back, be-
ing convienced that this state
is the best after all. /"
The above bears out the con-
tention of many that North Da-
kota j. the peer of Canada at
all times, and the ones who sticks
to this community are sure to
prosper, granted that a reason
able effort seconds the natural
conditions prevailing in climate,
soil fertility and crop rotations.
It will not be surprising if the
exodus to Canada witnessed in
the past few years wil be seen
again, only the exodus will be
in this direction and disappoint-
ed argonauts will be glad to
again take up their residence in
good. old North Dakota.-Bath-
gate Pink Paper.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10
be conceded, for the sake Of argu'
ment, that he would no longer be

ment, that he would no longer b,
a menance to the community i:
allowed to 60 at large, but tn,
/ argument against his release i,
based upon grounds which are no
affected by these facts.
The purpose of punishment fol
crime should never be for motive
! Of revenge; it should be basei
upon two grounds, and two only
the prevention of subsequent
criminal acts upon the. part OF
the criminal himself and its de
terrent effect upon Others.
Now it does not require any
iabored argument to show thai
this effect in the Latter instance
is seriously weakened when 8
practice is made Of pardonine
criminals,. and especially in the
case of those serving a life sen
tence.
A man who commits cold-blood
ed murder, deliberately puts him
self outside the pale Of human
sympathy; he should not be treat.
ed with cruelty or unkindness
but he should expiate either by
death or life imprisonment, re-
lease from which should be hope.
less, the results of his crime.
The strongest argument, in ou1
mind, the only argument which
can be regarded as even partially
tenable, in favo Of capital4pun.
ishment exists in the facts: that
the frequent misuse of the9gpar-
doning power serves to minimize
the dread of punishment on the
prospective criminal.
Fearing not immediate death
even if discovered and convicted
and relying upon the probability
of pardon, after a few years he
takes chances which he would be
dsinclined to take if he knew
that life imprisonment in name.
meant life imprisonment in re-
ality.
The enactment of a law to the
effect that men convicted of
murder, in the first degree should
not be pardoned under any circur
stances, would be futigle, since
subsequent legislatures would be
able ito. appeal it, but if public
sseatiaaent.Ts1 spf ffiicientiy arou1,
ed and expressed with unhesitat-
ing firmness and clearneas, weak
kneed executives and careless
legislative bodies would cease
turning loose upon the community
men who have been convicted of
the crime which only God can for
give, and of weakening the in
fluence upon the quasi criminal
clsas, which is one of the chief
purposes of punishment
mare News.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10
CURIOUS FORMS OF
GREETING ELSEWHERE

VIZ WV VA 0uAuVu UAOA4O CA1AL
are in the most universal use at
the present day. Yet there ex-
lists races to whom these forms
Of greeting would seem as lu-
dicrous as their own customs
seem to us. In this connection
Reclaim 5 Universum describes
some curious customs that the
people Of various races observe
when they greet one another.
The protraction and the salaar
.salutations that many Qrientala
use, DE only more pronouhced
forms of the bow. So there is
connection between the EN-
brace. so common in civilized
countries, and the greeting Of a
member of a Kolari tribe Of
British Guianea, who, in salut-
ing a missionary, placed one arm
about his neck and stroked him
under the chin.
Among the Masa; and the
Ukerewe it is a mark Of respect
to greet an acquaintance or a
stranger by splitting at him. AL
laost as strange is the custom
ascribed 10 the Thibetans Of stick
ing out the tongue by way of
salutation. Rubbing noses is
quite common. The Brumese and
many tribes of Eskimoes, Lap
landers and Malays do so.
Stranger than an Of these GUS
toms is the weeping salutation
that has been observed among
Central South American islands.
This form of greeting occurs, too,
in the Adaman islands, New Zea-
land Polynesia. A Portuguese
explorer describes the custom as
he saw it used among tribe of
South American Indians:
Whenever a guest enters q
hut he is Immediately honored and
made welcome by being wept
over. Without a word being,
spoken he is led to the ham
mock. As soon as he is seated
the hostess and her daughters,
and any Of their girl friends who
happen to be in the house at
the time, come in and sit about
the guest, touch him lightly with
their fingers, and commence to
weep loudly and to shed many
tears. During this ceremony, in
a sort Of connected discourse,
they recite everything that has
happened to them recently and
talk Of the hardships of the road
that the visitor has suffered and
of anything and everything that
can arouse compassion and, tears.
The guest, his hand before his
face, pretends to weep, and does
not speak until the crying has
gone on. for some time. Then
they all wipe away their tears
and become as lively and merry
as if they had never cried in all
their lives.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10
NORTH DAKOTA REST
ALL THE TIME

! That North Dakota is, after
all, a mighty good state to stick
to, IS being impressed upon more
and more people every day. PRO-
spects may seem rosy in other
parts Of the country but man has
never yet succeeded in finding a
way to get along without work
snd if he is willing to work this
state will give him returns better
than untried localities. Not SO
very long ago the Grand Forks
Commercial Club was visited by
farmer from western Canada
who represented over one humid
red families who were anxious to
move back to this state and who
Were looking for q suitable loca-
ton for q colony Of that size.
The Harvey Herald in recent
issue published the following arr
ticle which illustrates the same
attitude of mind, upon the part
Of another farmer. The Herald
Gays:
Mr.. Andrew Hoegel, who left
here about four years ago for
the Lethbridge Canada country,
net rned the first 81 tie week and
says that he does not care for
any more residence in Canada
s,att s1nfa
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10

Miss Lena and Nellie Furst
called on Mrs. Jno. Barlow Sun
day evening.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10
Good Roads Stil
Great Question
Effects tho Price Of Prpdnoe Ia
q Great Extent in Many
<.ggnntries

The following from Farm Stock
and Home should be interesting
to North Dakota farmers:
How states and counties are
putting money in the pockets Of
of the farmers by investing in
the Improvements of public roads
is shown by a statement just is
sued by the office of public roads
of the department. Of agriculture
Definite cases are cited in sup
port Of the argument that where
bad roads prevail farmers are
forced to move their crops not
when the market price is favor
able, but when the roads are IA
vorable.
Two farmers living in separate
counties but at an equal distance
from the cotton market, learned
by telephone that cotton had ad-
vanced in price $1.OO per bale.
The farmer living on a bad
road responded by hauling one
bale of cotton, which was all he
could get over the unimproved
road. while the other farmer was
able to: haul four bales, owing to
favorable road conditions. The
raise in price gained a profit of
$500 to one man, and $1.OO to
his neighbor.
It is shown in the statement
that it is common for the farmer
to find that he cannot haul his
produce to market when prices ar
highest, because the roads are i'm
passable, the time for market has
largely passed and produce is
compelled to move in masses,
which frequently gluts the mar
ket and breaks the prices.
Excessive fluctuations in mar
ket prices are seldom due to
over-production. They frequent
ly take place in regions where
thu local reduction does not,
equal the annual consumption.
There are counties rich in agri-
cultural possibilities, burdened
with bad roads, where the annual
income shipments of food-stuffs,
exceed the outgoing shimpments
in the ratio Of four to one. Many
such counties with improved
roads could not only become self
supporting, but could ship prod
ucts to other markets.
A farmer in Sullivan county,
Tenn, few miles from Bristol,
had 100 bushels of Irish potatoes
which he intended to market
during the winter of 1907-1908.
Owing to bad roads, he was un-
able to haul the potatoes at all,
and they -otted in the cellar.
Nevertheless, the price of ,pota-
toes at Bristol went as high as
$1.4O per bushel in the mean
time. A Bristol merchant stated
that during the winter as many
as ten carloads of farm produce,
including wheat, POTATOES, and
o.her supplies, we're daily shipp-
ed i'm to feed not only Bristol,
but the adjacent territory.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10
How VIII New Law
Effect Consumers
President Wilson Signs the First
Democratic Tariff Bill
Since 1894

Here is how the new tanft
law affects you, Mr.. Consumer.
First.-It won't reduce the
cost Of living perceptibly, at first
A good many other things go to
make up your cost of living.
Second. The new tariff does
untax a lot of things you use. A
small fraction of cent was add
ed by the old tariff to nearly
everything you eat, wear and use
This new law takes off this
small fraction of a cent.
Third. You share the benefit
of this fact: That eighty millions
of dollars, formerly paid by you
and other consumers, will be
raised by a tax on incom OF
$4,000 and upward.
Fourth.-Your principal neces-
sites have been on the free list.
They are, therefore, exempt from
any further tariff tax. These ar
ticles are meat, cattle, sheep,
hogs, eggs, lard, white flour, bucl
wheat, potatoes, shrimps, Holsters
fish, lumber, raw wool, tea, Goa,
herbs for drugs, sole leather, all
manufacturers of leather, in-
cluding boots and shoes, harness
and saddles, rough furs, pig iron,
typewr;ters, cement, cocoa, books,
cheap engravings and cheap pict-
ures, cash registers, nails, print
paper, moving picture films, tam
ing materials, barbed wire and
& ali agricultural implements.
@ F'ifth.-For the benefit of the
farmer who loses high protection
OF wheat, eggs, flour, etc, the
new law removes the duty on all
articles used by him, including
wagons, plows, harrows, discs,
fencing, cotton dragging, etc. By
making farming less expensive
food viii, it is hoped, eventually
be- less costly. "a 49,
Sixth: Sugar win bea Oh tie
free list in three years. It pays
the present tariff duties until
next March and then it begins
paying cent a pound until 1916,
when it becomes free of duty.
Seventh.-Other articles will
have the tax reduced on them
nearly one-half. At present they
are taxed on the basis of twenty
to fifty per cent of their valua-
tien at the custom houses. The
present bill reduces this to rs per
cent.
Eighth.-For the benefit OF
mother and the home the duty on
hosiery has been reduced to Is
per cent; blankets should be
somewhat cheaper. They were
not put on the free list, but the
duty has been materially reduced
on them. A cut in cotton goods
amounts to about 25 per cent.
From the consumer point OF
view this will mean more importa
tions from France, Austria, Ger
many and England of the high
er grade cotton materials used
in making children's clothes and
stockings, cotton and wooden.
The reduction in the cost of
living resulting from this tariff
will be tendency rather than
anything showing itself in i'm
mediate change Of prices. Three
should be marked dOwnwar I
tendency of price and q marked
check on trust control Of the
necessities of life. Fargo Courie
News.
RARDONING CRIMINALS
ou0nrn m arnpprn
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10

The town Of Ryder expects to
have : market day & some. time
this month.
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"A we'll attended teachers in
stitute was held at Washburn las1
week. Many Of the teachers were
kindly taken into the homes Of
citizens, as the hotels could not
accommodate all. One hundred
were present.
The superintendent of public
instruction informs me that five
schools Of this county have been
placed On the classified Iist ia
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-10
SCANDINAVIAN AND
GERMAN VOTE IN N. d.

Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 6.-Much
discussion is engaged in by po-
liticians as to the relative
strength Of the adopted sons OF
the state-as TO whether or not
the. Scandinavian or German
speaking citizens have The great
er number of votes. A study Of
the 1910 census reveals the fact
that the Scandinavian speaking
people of the state outnumbers
the GermaD speaking peoples by
1888. Scandinavian peoples, or
iginal immigrants and the first
generation of their children born
IN this country number:
Nolwegians. lO2,5l4
! Danes $3.50
SWedes 1858
1s4,ss7
The German speaking immi-
grams that the first generation
their descendants, including Rus
siaIs, Germans, Austrians and
Hungarians, number 121 ,699.
i While The Scandinavians are
accused Of being clanish, they are
not as clanish as the German .peo-
pies. Heretofore the Germans
have not been as great factors in
state elections as the Scandinavia
ans largely because they come
from countries where the suffrage
was restricted and they have not
been accustomed to voting and
the process Of educating them to
an effective and constant use Of
the ballot has been more or less
slow. The younger generation
and, the immigrants themselves,
are taking q lively interest in
politics and each year their.
weight d felt more and more
They will cast q big vote next
year aa they are, as u class, OPP
posed to womans . suffrage and
will be At the pols to register
their votes against it.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
The American Soldiers.

1t is clear beyond doubt that the
Americans are the most military
people in the world. The abun-
dance of good food they have and
the free lives they all lead, tends
strongly to the highest development
of mind and body.
There is much larger proportion
of strong, active, healthy, clear
Drained men among them than
among any other people, and con-
sequently they can turn out many
more fighting men from a given
population than any other country.
The most imposing figure in the
whole History of the United States
is the American Soldier.
The foundation of the structure
of our Government is the American
Soldier.
But the very government itself,
national being and existance in this
country, was created by the sword
of the American soldier.
He has built so we'll that his
structure endures alone instead of
requiring the prop of large stand
ing army
CONTRIBUTED.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
"America's Finest Rural Hardware House"
A Story of a
LambertViIle Lady

\ few DAYS ago Il resident OF Lar
bertville was calling at Il farm hoU>e
near Sergeantsville when she saw :.
linoleum floor covering that toe Z
her fancy ut once. After Il mint q
examination sheeNclaimed Whe--
did you ever get such a pretty ar
SerViceable floor covering al Sucl :.
reasonable price, sent away r.
mine and il is not half as pref
and cost me more money. Nv ~
we got ours al Helms. in l.amber'-
VILE" the farmers wife told he
and we always find that we can
do better there in both style an.
price than anywhere else in tn,
section.
The farmer wife didn't say :,
but she undoubtedly felt that l.
the Lambertville lady had take
the trouble to look al home fir.
she. too, could have been equal y
as we'll suited, and a locaI merchaa.
would have been benefited.
Not only floor coverings, b.
everything in the hardware lin
and household novelties that ".
can think of
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
Candidates a Healthy Lot.

Candidates for office seem to be
healthy people Of all the candi
dates for all the offices we can think
Of, none of them ever seemed to
have anything the matter with them
excepting bad cases of disappoint-
ment. sometimes, right after
election.
With the editor of the Record
recent victim of the measles, and
several other local citizens suffering
with kindred maladies, it seems that
the only salvation will be to hunt up
some obscure office which no one
else wants and become candidates
for it.
With half a dozen of us scramb-
ling for some Observation-Disclosures
sinecure, we will all be so busy that
we will have no time to catch any
thing.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
Prune PuHs.

Place two cups of cooked prunes.
which have been stoned. in a butter
ed baking dish. Pour over them bat
ter made from three cups of -four
three teaspoons of baking powder
one-half teaspoon salt two of melted
butter. one cup of milk and two we'll
beaten eggs. Bake until the crust is
light and brown. Serve with a sauce
made from one-half cup of butter,
rubbed with one of sugar, set over a
kettle and whip in the white of an
egg until foamy. This is delicious.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
SERGEANTSVILLE
~ Delaware Townships MetrOpOl

Frank NJ. Wilson of Trenton,
made a business trip to this village
on Monday.
Mrs. Amy Opdyke, who has been
spending the past few weeks with
Mrs. Sarah Case of Pennington, has
returned to the home of her daugh-
ter Mrs. Joseph c. Reading
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Merrill of
New Brunswick were recently enter
tanned as guests of the formers
mother, Mrs. Kate E. Merrill, of
Roselawn Farm.
The Epworth League Devotional
topic of the M. E. Church for next
Sunday evening will be The cross
of every man., Matt, 1924; which
will be conducted by Miss Avis c.
Curtis.
Rev. H. I. Horne of Cherryville,
filled the pulpit Of the Amwell
German Baptist Church on Sunday
morning, in the absence of the
pastor Rev. M. B. Miller.
George Bodine of Dilts' Corner,
mot with a nainful accident Lost
Friday by falling from a cherry tree
onto a paling fence. Several ribs
were broken besides being badly
hurt. DR.. E. w. Closson of Lam
bertville is the attending physician.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fisher who
reside between this village and
Ringoes received a visit from the
stork on Sunday.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
DouohnutS.

One egg, one and one-half cupfuls
of sugar. one cupful of sour milk, one
cupful of sweet milk, one large table
spoonful of cream, two teaspoOnfuls Of
cream of tartar one teaspoonful OF
soda, pinch of salt and a dash of
cinnamon and nutmeg. Flour enough
TO handle
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
Duchess Potato Balls.

Prepare quart of fluffy mashed po-
tatoes. Beat in an egg, then form INTO
balls; while still hot roll lightly il an
egg beaten with one-half cup of wa
ter and set on a buttered sheet in a
hot oven till Drowned. Remove with
a pancake turner
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
SNOWFALL Biscuit.

Sift together four cups -four, four
teaspoons baking powder and a pinch
Of salt; add one cup of sweet milk
and stir into the dough until thick;
flour the hands and roll the dough
into small balls Bake in a hot over
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
F ried Apples.

Wash fruit and remove Imperfect
tons. Cut inch-thick slices-covering
tie bottom of the frying basket with
these slices Fry in deep grease. very
hot, till rich brown color Shake bask.
ct to free from grease Dust lightly
with salt
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-06-12
always What You Expect.
OF
DELIVERY

IS one OF the most desirable features in the grocery
BUSINESS and it is the thing that we specialize in.
Every housewife knows what it is to order things to
prepare the dinner with and then not get them until
0 CLOCK IN the afternoon That does not happen
",en you zeal mere, as all orders are Immediately fill
~ anu promptly delivered Send your list of wants.
bring them phone them-or we will nbo,, WOW, ob
morning if you wish
Everything in the grocery line that is GOOD and
that can be had
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