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Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

Mrs. G. L. Torvend and Mrs. Har-
old Goozee of Webster are in the city
this week.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

Nj. Bort stotlsr formerly: d thiiI
cityrstrrnsd recently from Mount
Vernon, III, and will visit here 70,
q short time.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08
taaAfssaArza.sM|erqsc ,s thissseittt5ssdxsinstthe
hospital taking y course Of 41eatttpeht.

Mr.. .and4tMrs. Roy whita havs
moved to Hansboro to spendSehe sum.
/. g.. u /
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

Miss Pearl Olson q clerk in the New
York cash store was on the sick list
Tuesday Of this week.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

for several months but is now recov:
ering rapidly and returned to heFl.
home Wednesday.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

Mrs. N. H. Waller is the guest of
Mrs. Henry Bruso Of Hill avenue this
week. NM. waller formely lived at
Devils Lake but is now living in st.
Paul.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08
Doings Of the Week

winter in Louisiana and Mississippi
and will. stay in Devils Lake for the
summer.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

Roy RASMUSSEN has returned to Jer7
uslem after spending a short time Wis
iting with His mother, one Of the nurs.
es at the mercy hospital.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

FskeMrssac] u. T11wing & ofs4webster
a.eavess:fop Te1aa this week TO- make
lNAn.4extsnd{d visis with relatives and
J, friends : IasfsS~e ~! a. sag !,
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

Col. Joseph Kelly has bought the
Lotus LaR4e cottage at Chautauqus
and will move his family there for tn,
summer.
Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Qonnors Of
Cando recently returned from a visit
in the twin cities.
Evening star., 1914-04-05

they saw our tobogsan the animals be-
gan 10 run and they went along on kan
garoo Jumps with their 1nGian drivers
trottins behind
NJ every namlet along the way We had
IL look on: for the dogs. The scurvN
cnrs ran out and barlEed a. tine car auu
snapped at We flew by. The great
danger was that a dog might get in front
Of tho car aud by being run over thrn"
VS. down TN, sides Of the mountain
We were going roo fast 10 watch out
for slides. When it rains IN the Andes
this track has to be watched daily for
the masses of earth and rock that tati
down upon H. and for This reason n
nandcar is. always sent five minutes In
front of The engine To flag it for Slides
BY and by We passed Casapalca, and
there lost the storm. The sun came out,
and the sky straightway was blu" with
white clouds. We could now see for
miles The track dried. and we coasted
along AT great speed through some %
the most wonderful scenerl on earth.
Now We would ride for miles between
walls of rock that extended upward fol
thousands of feet and now hang over
gorges, below which thousand feet
down the rushing Rirnac flowed foam
ing Now we would enter p tunnel high
up on the side of cliff and looking down.
see another tunnel almost directly be-
low US We rushed out Of one tunnel
into the Infernillo. a slender bridge OF
iron which joins two great walls of rock
On the other side of the bridge We would
see the black hole pierced By the track.
Above us through the narrow slit OF the
rocks was the blue Sky of heaven. aud
pelow was the gorge which these people
call the Little He'll The bridge there
spans chasm which is 1000 feet deep,
and we trembled at the thought that there
might be a train in the tunnel beyond
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by aGrarians and bureaucrats. followed the
a demand Tor businesslikc ministers. At
this moment the kaiser lost his only
businesslike minister by Dernburg 8
resignation.
Ballin told the kaiser that one business
like minister is no good If you want
businesslike ministers, he said. you
have a b,Isinesslike chancellor What is
more. you must have busincSSlilie heads Of
state departments and a businesslike
legisIatur. The Munich writer. Behrtu-.
Who tells the story, says that Kaiser
Wilhelm replied: II can maxi = bus
ncsslike chancellor. but only the Ger
mans themselves can make a business
like reichstag.
During this crisis Ballin delivered his
one political speech 1t was directed not
against the uneusiuesslke government.
but against the unbusinessiike reichstag
Ball!ns complaint was that industry.
trade and shipping not at all repre-
sentsd In the legislature. German com
mercial development. he said. had been
against the government and not with il.
He commented on the extraordinary fact
that tine reichstag has at least a hundred
representatives OF agriculture and not a
single member WHO is interested in ship
ping
In matters of commerce and shipping
Ballin. is Kaiser Wilhelms closest ad-
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AT The VERY Top OF The ANDES

The whole of this wonderful road seems
blasted out of the sides of the mountains.
Here it hangs to the cliffs, there it bores
through the rocks, and again it zigZags
III great VS. as it climbs. Some of the
tunnels are - close together that fhey
made ms think of the road between
Monte carlo and Nice. which has been
described as riding through flute and
looking out of the holes The only dif-
ference between that md this road up
the Andes is that each Of these holes
gives YOU nivins picture show Of mag
rlitiCent grandeur
1 wish ! could show YOU some Of the
formations of the Andes. They surpass
ia their wonders the Alps and the Rock
les, and hav. seen nothing like them
III tn. Himaiayas. We have 4 little patch
% forr hundred acres in Colorado al the
foothills Of III. Rockies which cal,
m. Garden II the Gods Not fai. from
Cerro de pasco in the heart OF the Andes,
looked down upon by mountain peaks
from 1900 TO 2o.'0p feet high. is d SINH
lar garden. which covers tens OF thou
sands of acres. and With a hundred
formations where the Colorado gar
den has one In the Andes there is one
rock called the KING. q gigantic hsure
as big as a house. with a crown on 'ts
TOP poised upon neck not more than
three feet i'm diameter, and so long una I
il carries the great mead high above ali
It's surroundings. There is another rock
known as the Turtle. gigantic block
the shape Of a tortoise that is believed
10 uphold the world \ third looks like
IA great steamboat perched on pedestal.
and a fourth is mighty tower cnlseted
out by the gods In this same region IS
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the Rock Forest. consisting O. hundreds
OF acres of columns which stand individ-
ually out on the plain and which IN TIE
distance look Ike a great woods.
And then there are castles. palaces and
grand fortifica tions. With 81 little i'm
asination you can find almost any kind
Of architecture the model OF any great
structure. ! have seen a table rock which
hangs over the !larbor at Cape Town in
South Africa. There are table rocks OF
marble here IL the Andes which look as
though they had been cut by sculptor
Going to S'erro de Pasco ! saw rocks
like those of the Giants causeway. al
though th.N We're not Of heXagonal
shape. and III riding through til. noun
tains I have seen castles oS the purest
white marble which in their grandeur,
exec. those mighty ruins, the work of
man on the Rhine. These mountains
llav. all the colors Of the Colorado cam
yon, Now the rock IS blazing white above
and marble palace seems TO have risen
out Of the golden rocks below, which
in turn remind one Of the rusted mar
oles OF the Partllenon at Athens. Here
the rocais are brown. further on they are
blue. red o. graz. The graz is the most
prominent color close TO the sea Mucil
Of the formation is limestone Here the
mountains are ragged and rough. Fur
taer oil they rise into ruined cities.
say. some the color of old red sandstone
They made me thinl, o. the grand eortitl-
cations Of Delhi in India. l saw others
which had spires Ike the calledrals Of
Cologne and Milan. These spires We're
white as tarraIa marble, and they
slistennd like saow under the sun. Oth.,
rocks We're dcrle-silaped. and others e&-
tend in great waves showing the folds N
the earth. fol1nt. g curNing walls Of
wonderful beauty.
The vegetation of the AIDES is wonder
ful. | have already written Of the f.imac e
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THE VATERLAND on SLIPS.
HaIin. latest nchie mt. the worIds largest sh

wiser. This position II. gained BY being q
sturdy patriot III time of war the whole
AtD steamers Of the hamburg American
line will b. put at the disposal of the
navy department. In payment for this
iiallin has refused state subsidies and
personal honors The Hamburg -.Ameri
can line could easily get large state
s3bsidy Of S15o.sn from the British treas
urv for much smaller services.
Prince Henry Of Prussia said that Bal
Inns greatest service is that he has
shown Germans the value OF independ
eIice Of state aid Ballin has been offered
The rank Of nobility, which is given u.
many less distinguished Germans. This
he refused An autographed photograph
from Kaiser Wilhelm is all lie has to
show ar the fruit of fifteen years of in
tirnacy Kaiser Wilhelm appreciates this
He practically makes Little Potsdam ~
so the natives call Ballin,s vlla-his
headquarters when he visits Hamburg.
This causes trouble with ar1ti-Semites
The Leipzig Judophobe Fuldmann calmly
proposed that Kaiser Wilhelm should
either cease visiting Little Potsdalni or
induce the wicked Bailin to become q
Christian
Ballin it at the head of the greatest
shipping industry that has ever been or
ganzed The tonnage of the Hamburg
American line is 1:"o,"6o This easily
Evening star., 1914-04-05

When Eallit joined the Hamburg
american the capital was S7'ro.o3o
When Ballins silver jubilee came III
1911 II was S37. 900 600. In 1886 the largest
of the Hamburg American ships had
a tonnage of 1865. The modern I'm
deck. The big firm of Blohm & Foss
is now constructing the Natcrland for
The Hamburg line. with 5000 tons bur
den. Among shipping companies the
Hamburg-A American line is ilnanciall>
first. In 1872. at about the time when
the Morgan shipping trust was start
ing on its Improbable career, the Ham
burg paid ~ per cent y now pays
10 per cent. Only in one intervening
year did it pass its dividend. This was
in 1898, as a result of the American
crisis In 1913 the actual profits of the
Hamburg american were 40 per cent.
BALM achieved these trumphs because
he is essentially a fighting man. He
fought in the right direction. with his
against cutthroat methods. That was
why his recent termination of the At-
lantic pool caused such surprise When
necessary to fight. he has fought-Uitness
the eight-month struggle in 1905 with the
Cunard line, i'll which Ballin easily came
off best The history of the Hamburg
American is a series of agreements and
Cancellation. AS Balin branched out
into enterprises. he always took measures
to secure their future by arrangements
with other lines. Good terms were Kept
with the North German Lloyd. the Ham
burg American only German competitor
for the transatlantic traffic. Balm s
con,batiye abilities were directed against
his own drones and obstructionists. That
is men in the Hamburg-Amerfcan itself.
Until 1900. when he became undisputed
chief of the company, every one of his
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photographs Of the Hamburg american
building be circulated. His own appear
aice is almost unknown
Al the bottom of Bailin's tri,irnpis lies
the passion for hard work. His know
edge Of trade and commerce a:ld Ills abil-
itX to organize are both fruits of labor
and study. For the first five years ;.ft,:
his entry into the Hamburg line Bailin
worked eighteen hours a day Fourteer
hours IS now his average working da,
Ballin IS detail man. He rejects tie
prevailing theory that nlerchant-prince
should concern himself only with prir-
ciples and big deals and leave the minor
work 10 we'll chosen responsible sub
ordillstes. Though he has a splendid
staff. he watches over everything, med
dies everywhere and shows Kaiser vii
helms love for surprise visits. He once
plunged Unexpectedly into the kitchen OF
a small liner and uncerernoniouslv
thrown out by the chef, who bawIed: NO
passengers allowed: When explanations
were made and Balm had inspected the
kitchen and found everything in order
he was SO much pleased by the chefs
obstnacy that he promoted him to one
Of the big transatlantic ships
Copyright 1914 by Curtis Brcwe,
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beats the North German Lloyd, with
Sul.or' tons. All The Anglo American n
lines put together are smaller than the
Hamburg. The White Star line with
l!l .ptD and the cunard with 2S5,uo tons
ar. mer" pism!es This is the work of
Albert Baiin. Before his day the Ham
burg line had made no progress When
Balm came to it. twenty y-seyen years
ago. 1t was in Il thoroughly bad condi-
ton 1t had been beaten in. the competi-
ton for cmlsrant traffic by the English
Carr line. of whose emigrants Ballin was
then in charge.
That was in 1856 Within two years
Ballin had reached such influence that
he secured the purchase by the Ham
burg-American of the Carr line. Since
then the Hamourg American has had
nothing but successes both in the expan-
sion of its enterprises and in their
profitable working. Ballin organized one
line after another. to Canada to Phil
adelphia, 10 east and south Africa, to
the west coast of South America, east
Asia. La Plata New Orleans Galveston
and Scandinavia: farther from Genoa to
New York and to the La Plata, from
New York to Constantinople and Odessa,
from New York to tie West Indies and
South America. Thus Ballin has realized
the motto over his office building in
Hamburg: My Field is the World
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r..t. We 10 R;tIlin-s consuming ambition
~ h.eh requires always some new sacri-
tce- and nov that the rate war is being
wound up. Balm, il is declared, has some
new design.
Shortly before gong to London for the
international conference. Ballin, who
hates Berlin. came here and held a con-
ference with ci jefs OF leading banks, and
from this Hamburg concludes that the
Hamburg American company is about to
branch out again and start new lines
useless talking about plans before they
are executed, and that once they are cx-
'cuted they talk about themselves.
Albert Balm is the Sr-atest German
'''lug that is. in the practical walks Of
!fc He has the distinction which no
other German has. Of being thrice offered
"a ministerial portfolio by Kaiser Wilhelm
himself. Tive last time is said 10 have
been only the other day. Ballin SreIlied
siucsd the rate war. The first tinse was
IN '@%. when Kaiser Wilhelm and Buelow
were preparing their bold and success ful
laid against the social democrats Will
helm III could not get Balln, so he took,
Instead the banker Bernhard Dernburg
who. Ike Balm, Is Jew. and like Bal
lin learned business outside-as a clerk in
. new York firm.
Iiailin refused with the excuse that he
could not leave the Hamburg-Amencan
Limo. The next refusal. in 1910. had a
different motive. Kaiser Wilhelm was
then on the lookout for busineSslike min
isters Prince Buelow had resigned in a
political crisis which brought about a
'ceot against the control of the empire
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nt / outside business H . H shown Oh.

declared that the time spent and the ma
terial which had led him to certain con
clusionS We're the property OF the Ham
burg American lire. and must not 20 III
tiattering his personal vanity an au-
thor. or in helping other lines 10 make
profits at the Hamburg American eX-
pens.
No mans achievements are better
known to Germans than the achievements
of Balln. No mans personality is known
less. Balm carries his personal reserve
70 the point of mystificat.on. Hambursers
know as little about his character and
life as do New Workers.
When the Hamburg senate wanted 70
congrat ulate Ballin on his silver jubilee
as creator OF the Hamburg American line.
II drew up a message of coneratuiation
and sent X by mistake to a house where
RaIlin had not lived for ten years. None
Of the members of the senate knew him
personally or had been at Little Pots
dam" During the silver jubilee Balm
simply evaded the towns honors b. step
ping on board his yacht and disappearing
for week into the North sea Ballin
extends his craze for privacy TO the
whole Hamburg American enterprise. Al
though he spends every year on adver-
Using nearly $4,000. he refuses to let
Evening star., 1914-04-05

Starting Amid the
Glaciers. He Loses His
Brakeman and Has to
Shoot Down Through
the Hail and the Storm
The Dangers of
the Central Railway
Scenic Wonders of the
.Andes-The Garden of
the Gods OF the Peru
Wan Plateau-\ egeta-
ton and Life at Three
Miles Above the Sea-
Millions of Sheep and
Vast Herds of Llamas
How the People
Live. Etc. Etc.
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TOEOGGAN slide
dova the Andes,
Coasiirs on =
Sr&vity car from
tic highest noun
taius. over the
steepest railroad Of
the r-o~ld 20 the
love! of the sea
DashinG oUt OF
tn. clouds TO fad
elouds below you.
Now III the biz :
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An Intimate Study of
Man Who Is Known as
the Greatest German
Has Refused Three
Times TO Become One
of Kaiser Wilhelm's
Ministers Has Done
Much for Germany.
but Has Refused All
Reward = Cherishes a
Signed Photograph of
German Ruler.
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LBERf RALLlIN.
chief of the Ham
b urg American
line. ~the man who
could be minister. -
is seeking new
worlds to conquer.
NJ least so say
Hamburg writer's.
They and the anti
Bsllin press gen
orally. put down
tite new Atlantic
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The great IL .iendas o. the nish auJe,
yield considerable rnolle, There IS on.
near Ia Foundicion. which produces tei4s
% thousands Of pounds of wool ever
year. 1t belongs to D;ircau Fox a Go
o< Lima. ard il is tnanage.. by ! Scotch
man whose name is Mex Nep2ie. The farm
has 5000 sheep which are kept IN fenced
fields and handled by shepherds from
Scotland. The manager is making ma;4
experiments il Introducing neH blood
INTO the hoclls: and he has Scotch COLI.
dogs, which he has imported and is cross
ing with the native dogs OF Peru to pro
duce breed especially fitted for shee7
ia ising on the high Andes.
see many cattle te. ding On tne
plateau. They are comparatively sIns
and not very fat There is Italia
named FernandiHi who is cNporimentirs
in bringing in faacy stock. re has
number of large haciendas and expects
to supply the meat market If tne coae
This same man is said TO Own thousands
Of llamas and donlkeys and to iarses
control the fIeightiug about Cerro de
Pasco. understand that tn. govern
ment is experimenting witt the grasses
Of the high Andes and that attempts ais
peing made TO improve them
Th. climate at 1on5a feet Is not cold
IA comparison with that OF some othet
sheep countries. 1t is warm during tie
day and even IN the coldest Of wealth
tn. nights do not fat below zero. Tn.
sheen and cattle can feed ont of doors
All the yea. round. Tie snow falls. but
the sun is so hot that / me- e. lies NOR
than an hour or SO a. a time .ahou
the most dangerous features o IN.
weather are the big thunder storms. n:tn
the accompanying lightning The latter
often strikes. killing people and sheep,
AS to the general features Of the climate
the plateau has two seasons. DRY and
vet The Wet season begins N Septen'-
Der or october and lasts until April or
May. At that time il is usually clear in
the mornings with rain or snow N II"
afternoon The dry season wAica 8
from Nay 70 Septennoer. - delightfully."-
clear The sky is always blue and the
tropical sun makes the weather much like
Indian summer in the Virginia noun
ians which | believe is the yer, best
weather on earth.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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TWO FORMATIONS
The RTNG AND TtE SEWrINEL
fROr1 The. .Ar4DEAN GARDEN
Or THE, GODS

diameter. II had no motive mower, dslt
it vas controlled only by two brakes one
on each side of tie front. Upon the
platform We're seats wide enough Tor
three persons. and as We took our places
/ sat in the middle. with my stenogra-
Iher at The left and Alr. Russell of the
operating department of the railway at
my right. We had also Peruvian Cholo
who understood thu business to act :.
brakeman. We had to run upon sched-
uc time. for the track is :: single one and
we had to pass trains going up and down
on the way We We're to get our orders
from the telegraph operators at the pfin-
cipal stations.
We started amid the glaciers. The SKY
was clear. and We could see the great
masses of ice as they We're imperceptioly
moving down the mountain. Just above
uS was Mt. Meiggs, over 1900 feet high.
and a.l around were mighty peaks kissing
the clouds. The sun shone brightly. The
rails were dry. and Mr Russell said W
would have no trouble controlling the
car. as the only danger came from the
rain or the snow. which make il difficult
Tor the wheels 10 hold to the track.
This Was the case at the start We
shot out ot Ticlio. and flew at the ra OF
twenty miles an hour down the road We
had hardly started. however. before the
sky changed. and the winds began 10 roll
up the sorges. The air grew cold. and
within five minutes We We're in the midst
Of Snowstornl. \ moment later the snow
turned to hail The stones were as big
as marroWfat peas. and they bounced like
rubber they fell on the track. With
the hail came thunder and flashes OF
lightning. The air was rare that our
ears fairly cracked with the sound, and
the lightning made more 1,sihle the dan
gers about Us.
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Spe' a. spordenee Of Tne sta
BERLIN. March %.
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We started at Ticiio. ut tae very top Of
the pass. where the AndeaG waters dl-
vide some running down the western
slope into the Pacific. and others raaklns
their way across the continent through
the Amazon into the Atlantic. We We're
almost at the level of 5000 feet. We
were fully three miles above the sur
face of tire ocean. and We were to Side
down over the rails. through winding
distance of loo niles clear TO TIE sea
The Central railway goes to the top of
th.. lndes without one inch OF down
grade. TIE most OF the way the ascent
is about fou~ fee; in TOO. and YOU can
start a car at the glaciers. and II VIII
f> straight to the waters of the tropical
o""a&
our tobossan was the private gravity
car Of Mr. Feehan. the general manager
of the Central railroad. 1t was a low
platform on wheels about two feet IN
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ZfFd, where 5hc Eaii and snow are so
thick yoa cannot see a stones throw in
front, and now under the blue sky with
The air clear all about you.
Hanging to preeipices flying Oh spider
woa bridges Of steel over fr;ghtful chasms.
wh'rlng about curves in the midnight
darkness Of winding tunnels and coming
out into the light of day with shudder
as YOU look q the depths far below YOU
-fhis. iu nutshell is the storE of my
trip from the glacial SHOWS. three niles
straight above where | am writing. Vt
gives only. = faint idea Of the journey.
Enc dangers We're aUfully real. and as ]
ipok back il seems miracle that / am
here today to describe item. 1t is a mir
arie. The ordinary ride of this kind,
taken with a dry track and the sunlight.
Is So dangerous that travellers Who risk
L are mad" 20 sign paper. swearing
t4at their heirs will claim TO damages
IL they are killed on the way. signed
su.h a document before J got on tire
car: and an hour late- it seemed TO me
that the railroad authorities were sens
BE TO require such protection.