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cap upon his head. He was big, rud-
dy, wholesome to see, and he smiled
at Hilda with frank, openhearted
friendliness.
Hello, neighbour" he cried. How
goes it with you this morning. At
the sound Of his voice h dog left
Hilda. Beat me after all, didn't you,
Sable?" he said, patting the animal.
Its tired you though. Your stout
old heart is going like a tripham-
mer.' He turned to Hilda. We'll,
neighbor, 1 same from the next house.
And my name is John Otis. My moth
er sent me to see If there was any
thing we could do for you.
Your mother and you are very
kind Hilda replied. And I thank
you.'
"You have wood enough? Yes, I
see you have. And food?" he ques-
toned keenly. I'VE thought you
might be all alone here
Hilda hung her head. II am all
alone, but am expecting my broth
er. Not today exactly. but l know he
won't stay away much longer. You
see, he's been gone four months"
WHAT" exclaimed the You
don't mea to say that you've lived
here alone four months, a girl like
you?"
Hilda's lips quivered. "It hasn't
been so awful until lately. until the
heavy NOW began. And ever then
I'd have been able to endure it if
I'd had enough to read or any to
speak to occasionally"
My Cod" cried the man. And we
never suspected this"
Hilda smiled wan1y. 'Jt's all right.
now that I've found out I've got some
neighbors," she said.
John Otis looked at her. Eyes,
you've got ~neighhors,' he said. land
good ones, too. you'll find. You poor,
little, deserted thing. I'd take you
home with me if 1 could, but you'd
never be able to get through the
snow. AS soon as you can you shall
go to my mother. And I want to say
right here my mothers the best wo-
man that v lived. She'll stand by
you She's stood by me all my life,
even when 1 took a fool notion to turn
farmer. Now you go in where it's
warm. I'm going back home, but I'll
leave Sable here to take care of you.
He's too old and tired to make an
other Tip this morning. Good-hy, lit
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
tie neighbor. Keep a good fire and

tie neighbor. Keep a good fire and
hang on to your courage"
He stripped his dark head of its
knitted cap. He opened the door for
her and held it while she stepped
within. GO with her, S Sable he said,
and take good care of her till I come
back"
Light and life and color came to
Htlda's wistful face. "Oh. are you
coming back?" she whispered.
He smiled, Sure, I'm coming back"
he said. Pm going to bring you
some books and magazines and some
other things. You just watch for me,
will you?"
you.'
She stood at the window and saw
him &C, driving forward on his snow
shoes. The old dog watched knowing
~. Filda had her hand on his head.
His presence comforted her. But the
assurance in her own heart comforted
her still more.
Hell come back" she said. ooh,
feel somehow hat he mans happi-
I feel somehow that he means happi-
ter than Felix. His eyes and mouth
say so. And his mother sent him.
They're my neighbors. Yes, he'll
come back. Won't he, Sable? 2"
And Sable barked joyously: Sure!
Sure!'
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I've got to go up to the city for a day
Or two. Don't look for me back till l
come That was all. Nevertheless
Hilda had looked and was still look
ing.
It had never occurred to her that
FELIX did not intend to come back at
all. Being the eoul of honor herself,
she did not suspect dishonor in 9TH
ers. In the meantime she found life
dttfcul and inexpressibly dreary.
She had no horse and 1t was too far
to walk to town. Yet once she had
done 1t because she must, and had
carried back her own packages of tea
and sugar. Other times she depend
ed on the rural postman, who was a
kindly old chap, with daughters of his
own. In the locality where she lived
there were great tracts of. abandoned
land and few families. Rural folk
are a long time in getting acquainted.
Hilda knew noobdy.. She was alone
and lonely and she fought that in all
the ways h knew. If only Felix had
left to her old Major the horse.
Horses can almost talk. At least she
could have talked to Major. AS it
was, she had only the hens. She did
talk to them, but hens do not make
slender means she had subscribed for
a newspaper n a couple of house
hold journals. Their coming made
holiday for her. She read them
printless. Her few bbooks, too, she
read and re-read. oh, the silence of
those four months of waiting!
So far nature had been kind to her.
he winter had been so mild that she
could get out of doors each day. Now
nature, too, had turned against her
and buried her in snow. She was i'm
prisoped. She might indeed be dead
for days before any one sought her
out.
The thought choked her and she
turned from the window. Hurriedly
she poured her last measure of coffee
INTO the pot. There was q piece of
corn bread on the shelf; there were
eggs in the basket. In the cellar were
potatoes and cabbages, and carrots
and apples, and the fruit she had
canned with such hope in her work.
oh, she had plenty to eat. It was not
her body that starved.
she ate from a sense of duty, not
because she liked the taste of the
tood. Then she made her rooms tidy.
After this she wrapped herself up
and waded forth to feed her hens.
Even out of doors the stiffness seemed
to be that of a vacuum. She was
glad to hear the clucking of the hens
There were some fresh eggs in the
nests and she gathered them, feeling a
faint pleasure at the sight and touch
of them. Then she started to wade
back to the house.
She had reached the door when a
great black animal %foundered around
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
really sick If he isn't dealt with prop

really sick If he isn't dealt with prop
erly.
To illustrate have a young man
on my list who fancies himself the
victim of various ailments. BY diplo-
matte means I usually cure him. Di-
plomacy is as necessary as medicine
in the medical profession, and many
a cure is affected by colored water
and sugar pills.
Some time g this patient came
to me claiming that he was indeed
very H..
az have a constant pain in my
back, doctor he told me. I believe
I have Br!ght's disease.
Il gave him a thorough eXamina-
ton and there wasn't a thing the
matter with him but his Imagination.
However, it would have done him no
good to tell him that. So I assured
him it was merely a. local affection,
which might be cured by a plaster
which ! would apply.
But l must warn you I said,
that the plaster is rather severe, and
will burn, and possibly blister
Then I pasted in the middle of his
back a postage stamp, and told him
to come back in three DAYS.
When he returned, my dear lady
Just to show You the power of i'm
aginat!on-a full-blown blister had
formed under that postage stamp,"
My gracious exclaimed the Young
wife. Then she looked doubtfullv at
the doctor who was closing his little
black satchel after counting out some
pills. o
Honest, DOCTOR" she asked.
Give him a pink pill every two
hours n a brown one every four
hours, and see that he drinks lots of
water" commanded the old doctor.
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warming, bu she thought of them as
~neighbors. And she felt comfort by
the thought of their presence. The
mere fact that they lived there with
in sight of her own door too the edge
off her awful loneliness.
They had come while the winter
was yet young and gentle to the big
white farmhouse. But never had
their way led past her door. So she
them to a a neighborly vieit--that
was a thing h dare not take the
time to do. Suppose Felix should
come back in her absence! All, she
must be at home when Felix came.
After fou months of waiting Hilda
still believed that Felix would come
back. She had never dreamed that
fall day when he went away that he
would be so long gone. She was fac
was novelty and charm in the pros
pect. They had come to the little
farm very early the previous spring.
1t had been Felix's idea. He could
not get the kind of work he liked in
the city, and back to the soil' had
been his cry. Hilda had given up her
work in the store and had drawn all
her savings to help Felix buy this lit
tie place.
liouSH Sle WIS IOur years younger
than her brother. still she had al
ways felt that much older. She had
been born with a maturity of judg-
meth that Felix would never be able
to acquire. Hilda had been happy
that spring. She had worked in the
fields like a boy. Her city pallor had
fed before the sur. She grew brown
and sturdy and tough handed. It was
not long before Felix began to
grumble. She cheered and encourag-
ed him. IT'S too late to turn back
now" she said a hundred times. 1--WE
must go on" The crops did fairly
well. After their own stores We're
gathered they had produce to sell.
Felix CAV her some of the money to
be for her yer own She saved it
carefully. She never asked what he
did with his. Then came hat day
when Felix had never seemed so rest
less, SO sullen. so dissatisfied. He said
he was going to own and took the
horse and went. That night he did
not return. A week later Hilda re-
ceived. a letter which said: II got a
chance to sell the rig n ] sold it.
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
Laugh With Us

Tickets" said the collector, as he
opened the door of the carriage in
which sat q man who looked as If he
wa anchored to his seat. The man
handed over the ~pasteboard, which
was duly inspected. Then, looking
around, the collector said:
is there another gentleman in the
carriage?"
No"
is that other portmanteau yours,
then, too?
Other portmanteau?"
Yes, on the ioor there, by the
other"
Those" said the traveller, with
dignity, "are my feet?"
Why is it that the STRAWBERRIES at
the bottom of your boxes are always
so much smaller than those at the
top?" asked Mrs. Newlywed.
"Ah, madam said the grocer, you
don't put it quite correctly. You
should ask why the berries at the top
Of the boxes are so much. larger than
those at the hottom.'--Judge.
Now, Alice" said Mrs. Bounce to
her newest domestic, while. I'm out
Just pare the potatoes and get them
ready. I shall not be gone long"
About an hour later Mrs. Bounce
came back from her shopping expedi-
ton, bringing the meat thai was
destined to accompany the potatoes to
The dinner table. Alice was calmly
seated on the floor, and around her a
goodly collection of the delectab Bile
tubers.
Good g%racious:' exclaimed the
name of all that's wonderful are you
doing?' Dom, ma'am?" replied the
fair maid of all work. "Doin' what
We told me. indeed. I've done the hest
| could, too" Then she pointed to
the potatoes. i've paired all of EN-,
ma'am," she mumbled, but try as l
will. I can't tind a mate for this little
beggar."
In a business mems club in a west
ern town there sprang UP two fac
lions, n which criticized the stew
ard because he did not provide the
members with good meals, and one
which defended him hotly.
The dispute got fiercer and ~fiercer.
Half the club wanted to fire the
steward at once. The other half said
he was efficient.
Then, without warning, the steward
himself decided the momentous ques-
ton.
One day at lunch time a member of
the club asked a waiter:
where's the steWard?"
Fl amt here replied the waiter.
He said he was going down the
street to get something good to eat"
The Popular Magazine.
Now. Thomas" said the teacher,
severely, how many times must tell
you not to snap your fingers? Put
your hand down and presently I'll
hear from YOU"
FIVE minutes later she said:
Now, then, Thomas, what was it
you wanted to say?"
There was a man in the entry a
while ago said Thomas %serenelv
and he went out with your new silk
UMBRELLA
western preacher tells of a mar
rage ceremony he performed for a
couple from a small town. After all
was completed the couple evinced no
disposition to leave the chancel. So
the clergyman held out his hand,
shook hands with the bride aud then
held out his hand to the bridegroom.
The latter had his fist deep in his
trousers pocket. and as the minister
stood with his hand out, he said,
somewhat impatiently and in a tone
that could be heard all over the
church:
Well. am getting the money out
as fast as l cam"
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
The Evening Story
Copyright. 1914. w Werner.
A WHIT E DAY.

Copyright, 1914, w. Werner.)
All night Hilda Crewe was troubled
in her sleep by the noises IF the
storm. When morning came raw and
gray to her window she sat up In her
bed n looked forth. The snow was
still coming down thinly, languidly;
the wind had auieted. Across the
lower panes a high drift peered blue
and cold. Hilda knew then what had
happened.
She got UP and dressed. attended to
the stove and vent to the windows.
As far as she could see the fields were
choked with now Fences and roads
and low growing things were buried.
The trees were laden in every stark,
brown limb. The gray farmhouse
seemed to crouch low for warmth and
security. 1t was the only house il all
that eNpanse save one-the house of
the strangers afar in the distance.
From this second house the smoke
Of a morning fire seemed to bear
greeting to Hilda. She had never
seen the people whom that fire was
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II Am All Alone"
the corner of the house, jaws open,
red tongue showing. At sight of her
he gave a bark of welcome and wal
lowed nearer Hilda stood staring at
him. A dog! And such a big, friend
ly, neighborly dog to come all the way
through the drifts to her! She swayed
toward him, holding out both hands,
tears of joy in her ayes. The dog
struggled to her, reared and flung
himself upon her, snow and all. His
tongue touched her cheek.
At that moment a mar came round
the corner of the house. He had
s~nowshoes upon his feet and knitted
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
(By John w. Carey.)

lby Jonn w. Carey.)
Who's Colorado's governor, but
for some other job is wont to
sigh while Mother Jones is rails
ing merry hob? Who labored
long to paste upon the statehouse
door his name-and has not had
n good nights rest since he
accomplished same? Who rode
in dreams in silken tile along a
. rah-rah route, nor thought that
ever he would have to call the
soldiers out? Who saw his sub
1ects bow to him as ancients to
the sun, nor VOTED that one day
he'd cry for help from Washing
ton? Who's wise by now the Job
is short Of spangles spick and
span and long on grief ct cetera?
That e. NJ. Ammons man.
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cap upon his head. He was big, rud-
dy, wholesome to see, and he smiled
at Hilda with frank, openhearted
friop11ipacs
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EYPATRLATED.

OpInlOn.J
Yankee Con his first visit to the
Victoria falls)-Waal, I alwaysy reck-
oned that Niagara falls was the last
word, blu compared to these they are
nothing more than blooming perspira-
ton!
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mally and co~nspicuously. Can it I'M
derstar6 II has fajledo

mally and c~onspicuously. Can it I'M
derstand it has failed?
OF r. the same committee may,
If it chooses, two years hence, go
through the same farce again. 1t
may prepare a slate and issue a vest
pocket set of instructions to the vot-
ers. But We predict that any candi-
date who believes that he is really in
the ace, If he cannot prevent the
committee from endorsing him, will
publicly repudiate the endorsement
after 1t has been given, so that he
nay 60 into the campaign without the
dead weight of such an endorsement
weighing him down.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-13
ALLEGED POISONER
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Carl Hopf, Frankfort Druggist, Fertile
In Explanation When Brought
TO Trial.

FRANKFORT -ON-MAIN, Jan. l2.-
The plea of ''not guilty" was entered
today by Carl Hopf, druggist and fenc-
ing master, when brought up for trial
charged with killing his two children,
his father and his first wife by ad-
ministering poison, and with attempt
ing to commit similar crimes on his
second and third wives and another
person.
The accused admitted today that he
had given poisonous drug to his three
successive wives, ostensibly as means
of improving their looks. To his third
wife he had also given fever germs,
but she escaped death owing to the
vigilance OF her doctor.
The three women had been insured
by the prisoner for $4,000. $1,000 and
$4,000, respectively, and each Of them
fell perilously i'll within year after
her marriage.
Hopf gave various explanations for
the presence of the poison in the bodies
Of his victims. His wives, he said, had
taken it as an ingredient in a beauty
compound, and he had injected the
drug into the bodies Of his children in
order to embalm them,
Among the germs found in the
possession of the prisoner were those
of typhoid. cholera, puerperal fever
and tuberculosis.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-13
DEBATE ON ALASKA
BILL IN THE SENATE
Chamberlain of Oregon Re
cites Statistics While Sup
porting the Measure.

WASHINGTON. Jan. l2.-Debate on
the Alaskan government railroad bill be-
gan in the senate today, with the PROS
pect OF occupying many sessions before
final action. Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon, In charge OF the measure. spoke
at length. reading from the reports of
government experts sent into the terri
tory to study It's possibilities. and char
acterizing the purchase OF Alaska from
Russia as the greatest business arrange
ment In which the United States ever
had engaged.
Reciting statistics on AIaska's minerals
and fisheries to show the vast commerce
lying isolated and virtually impossible
OF development under present conditions,
Senate Chamberlain said the present
railroads there did little or nothing 60
aid the territory as q whole, because
they were constructed TO serve the ends
OF private interests. The Alaska of to-
day, he declared, waa country for rich
men only,
The senator read reports on climatic
cultural possibilities. When he touched
on the coal land leasing feature OF the
bill, Senator Borah Of Idaho took excep-
tion to a statement that leasing would
stimulate competition, Senators Cummins
and Reed took part in the discussion
which indicated that this portion OF the
bill would meet with considerable oppo-
sitIon.
Senator Cummins said that II the gov
could not furnish coal in any
other way at better price than the
consumer Is now compelled to pay, 1t
should mine the Alaska coal as we'll as
haul 1t.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-13
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-13

worker of the University Settlement
society Of New York, in addressing the
conference today.
.,'The healthiest Or prize.winning
babies,' he said, care of less inn
mediate Importance to the society of
tomorrow than the babies who are un.
able, through lack of health, to win
prizes. The unhealthiest are the ones
in which we should take most interest.
Other Things Considered.
eff the contest is to consist Of find
ing physically fit baby, to single out
one and to give it's parents the proud
distinction OF bearing such a prodigy,
the parents of the baby who came so
near to winning, but did not, then l
say let us have very few contests. As
a social worker am more interested in
the possibility of imperfect babies
growing up into fairly At physical
manhood and womanhood than in
searching out a physically perfect
baby who may not 80 grow up, but
above all, am interested in having
perfect or imperfect baby grow up into
moral and spiritual fitness for parent
hood and citizenship.
To make baby health contest of
more than passing Importance 1t should
be followed by two examinations, one
into the environment Of each baby and
one into the possible heritage Of the
baby. The speaker took up the inter
national scope Of race betterment, also.
Scientific Eugenics.
Scientific phases of eugenics fur
nished s, large part of the discussion
during the day
DR.. c. B. Davenport, director of the
Carnegie station Of experimental evolu-
tion at Cold Springs Harbor, N. Y,
urged that broader official study be
given the subject Of producing better
men and women, instead of so much
study for the protection and care of
defective types.
DR.. Maynard n. Metcalf of Oberlin
college expressed the opinion that the
only certain improvement Of the race
would come through proper breeding
and culture.
Professor Walter Wilcox OF Cornell
university spoke on the subject of
t Differential Fecundity." A paper on
NThe Importance Of Hygiene for
Eugenics' By Professor Irving Fisher
of Yale was read at the meeting, the
author being unable to attend the con-
ference.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-13
EUCEN|Cs THE Chief
TOPIC OF INTEREST
Closing Session of the First
National Conference on
Race Betterment.
BABIES GIVEN PRIZES
Fathers of Winners Total Alb
stainers; Views of Univer-
sity Settlement Worker.
BABIES GIVEN PRIZES

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. H.
''The Causes of the Declining Birth
Rate'' and Segregation were two
of the subjects taken up today at the
closing session of the First National
Conference on Race Betterment. Eu-
genie selection of healthy mothers
and provision for the cost of bearing
and rearing children should be made
if the race is to survive, according to
DR.. J. McKeen Cattell of Columbia
university
The restriction of the propa cation or
feeble minded is necessary if the pro-
dnction OF defective delinquents is to
be avoided, declared Hastings II. Hart
of New York.
The committee on awards in the
N'bettcr babies contest" this afternoon
awarded medals for the best babies
boy and girl--between the ages of six
months and three years to Alvin
Kingsley, three year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs Albert Kingsley, and Virginia
June May, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. r, May.
Perfect Physiques.
1t was said that the winners of the
awards were practically perfect IN
of both children live in Battle Creek.
The father of the boy is taxicab
driver and the father of the girl is
engaged in the optical business. Both
fathers are abstainers, it was an
nounced, from tobacco and alcohol.
New methods in prize baby contests
were urged by Rollins Gilman, head
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-13
SPRY ENTERTAINED
AT COMMERCIAL CLUB

number of friends of Governor Spry
entertained him at luncheon In tho Com
mercla1 club yesterday noon In honor OF
his ifteth birthday anniversary. The
luncheon was arranged by j. II, Drander
field. Those who attended were the gov
crnor, Mr.. Manderfeld. John x. Hardy.
secretary to the governor; Colonel c. y:
Loose OF Provo. Glen Miller. member OF
the Utah exposition commissions. Warden
Arthur Pratt of The Utah state prison
Or. D. II. Calder, superintendent OF the
state mental hospital at Provo; Attorney
General a, r. Barnes and l.. A. Merrill
of the Salt Lake route.