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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
TWO a. N. WRECKS

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On Saturday morning an axel
broke on a car in a west bound
freight about one mile south of
the mill. The car was dragged
along the track for a considerable
distance and tore up about three
hundred ties. A wrecking crew ap-
peared on the scene Sunday morn
ing and soon had the track re-
paired. The west bound mail that
passes thru here SUNDAY morning
was sent by way of Fargo and as
a result no mail was delivered
here Sunday morning.
The second wreck occurred at
almost the same place Sunday
night. This wreck was caused
by the breaking of an air hose
which doubled up flat car in the
middle of the train. Seven cars,
loaded with all kinds of merchan-
disc. were piled up in the ditch.
A number of hoboes riding the
from death. A wrecking crew
worked all day Monday and Tues
day to clear away the wreckage.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
THE HILL OF TARA.
Nhsrs In Ancient Times the Hinge Of
ireland Were Crowned.

Where In Ancient Times the Kings Of
ireland Were Crowned.
In the county Of Meath is supposed
to, have stood the hall OF Tara, cele-
brated az being the palace of the an
cient Irish kings. There seems to. be
no doubt that on the hill OF Tara the
national assemblies met once q year to
consult on the affairs Of the Kingdom
and to make laws The lawgivers
were u class Of druids called Brehons,
who acted as magistrates and Judges
They did not hold their courts Of Jus.
tice In any hall. but seated themselves
on the top Of hill in the open air.
where they heard all complaints that
were brought before them and decided
every cause according to their own
ideas OF right and wrong.
The hill of Tara is also famous In
Irish history as the spot on which the
kings were crowned. The throne, or
seat of inauguration. was black
stone. which was called Lea Fail, or
the fatal stone. said to have been
brought In the early ages from Spain,
and 1t was therefore held in high ven.
Grafton. It was either borrowed by
Feargus the Great, an irish chief, or
else 1t was carried away. among other
sp0ils. by the Scots in one Of their In
vasions Of Ireland and WIS ever after.
ward used as coronation seat Of the
kings of Scotland at the abbey Of
Scone until It was conveyed away BY
force of arms. together with the crown
and scepter, BY Edward I. to England.
who placed It In Westminster abbey.
where It still exists and forms the ba.
sis Of the coronation chair to this day.
-Argonaut.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
The Tower Of Lions.

The Tower Of Lions.
Just outside the Syrian port of Trip
oil. lying alongside the railway track.
is famous old fort, known as the
Tower Of the Lions, from the tradition
that it was built by Richard the Lion
Hearted Of England. As a matter of
fact, It is one Of six such forts built
by the crusaders to protect the coast,
only one other Of which exists, and
this one is in poor condition. Now
the Tower of Lions is to be demolished
to make room for the railway, much to
the discomfort Of psychologists. who
would like to see this old tower pre-
served as a relic OF antiquity. -scien-
tiflc American.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
Roosevelt % a weodehoppsr.


When he owned ranch 10 the west
Theodore Roosevelt, as be says In bis
autobiography. could chop fairly well
for an amateur" but be admits that
he could not do one-third Of the WORK
that his men did.
Zone day." he writes, when we were
cutting down the cottonwood trees to
begin our building operations. heard
some one ask Dow what the total cut
had been. and Dow. not realizing that
I was within hearing, answered, Well.
Bill cut down f1fty.three. cut forty,
nine. and the boss, he beavered down
seventeen Those who have seen the
stump Of tree that has been gnawed
down BY beaver" adds Mr.. Roose-
velt, Twill understand the exact force
Of the comparison"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
Dug HE Own Grave.

A gravedigger named James Ham
bleton was buried alive in a grave at
st Stephens church yard, Audenshaw,
Ashton-under-Lyne, the other day. he
had been digging grave and was get
ting out when he fell backward and a
large portion of the sides collapsed
upon him. A conductor on q passing
hamcar who saw the mans legs in the
air ran to the spot and found the
gravedigger buried headforemost. The
man had ceased to struggle and was
dead when Standardization Times.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
wHlskER- CULTURE.
a Critic Who Does Not Like the hano.
ina Gardan Effect.


10 the American Magazine james
Montgomery Flsgg. writing a piece os.
'Whiskerculture." contributes the ru,.
lowing permit to cultivate hanging gar.
dens On the face:
'"rhts IL u certify that the bearer.
- -. has permission to staud on
ehe grass IN any pnrt OF Central park.
or other city parks. during May aud
June and pretend lie Isl sptraea bush.
IF by any chance he should begin to
hear currants Or marrons glaces he
must allow the commissioners OF parks
first pickings.
He Is required also to permit any
uniformed official Of the Long Island
railroad lost and found department to
enter his beard at will. without writ.
ten order. and search for lost purses.
umbrellas Or packages Of pressed beef
or coins OF any denomination.
ION the I'd Of February he agrees to
step out from his cocoon and. If he
sees his own shadow, report 1t immedi.
ateiy to the board of health and crawl
back again.
in going over his prtvet hedge in
the fall. before putting 1t In camphor.
be must destroy all nests be comes
across.
'On national and state holidays he Is
permitted to string Japanese lanterns
In any part Of the shrubbery above
Forty second street, but be Ia forbid
den to set Oh any Roman candles or
red light in 1t.
During the open season for grouse
or carbon be must have bis entire
beard adequately l,atrolied. he agrees
to report to Washington II any careless
tourists start flres in any portion of
this tract especially near any ranches.
He agrees to see before retiring that no
lighted cigar butts are left smoldering
In the underbrush.
III all these regulations are faithfully
carried out bis beard will be Get aside
as national park in January Of the
following year."
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
NOTICE TO slppERs

Bids will be received by the
Wahpeton City Council I'D TO 1880
O'clock P. M. Tuesday, August Is,
1914, then opened, for the digging
and boring and refilling OF trench
for the laying of water main on
Pembina Avenue. from a point be-
ginning at about the center of
Fourth Street and running thence
West along the north side of
Pembina Avenue about 175 feet.
Trench tosbe "a inches wide and
s feet and 6 inches deep.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20

Bidders will be required ia
figure on the basis of iineai feet
and all bids must he addressed ia
the City Auditor and the bids shall
be securely sealed ard have en-
dorsed on the outside thereof a
statement of what work such nro-
posals are for. ~
The Council reserves the right
TO re ect any and all bids.
DATED at Wahpeton. N. D. this
18th dav of August, 1914.
S. H. MURRAY.
City Auditor.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
Il. whi.tled to the Queen.

TO WnIStIe0 20 Sh6 GO00ns
There is a resident of Sunbury who
will feel uncomfortable in his mind
for long time to come. He was
walking behind two women In the
park. when he noticed the younger Of
them drop her handkerchief. He
picked it up and. to attract the own
ers attention. whistled loudly as he
ran to restore It.
The owner thanked him politely.
Afterward, to his confusion, he learned
he had been whistling to the queen
and Princess Mary.-London cable to
New York Times.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
CANADA SENDS Alb

Canada's call for volunteers to
aid Great Britain in her war with
Germany and Austria Hungary,
has been answered by the finest
Of her young men. A diyisicn Of
twenty-one Canadian regiments.
numbering $1,000 men, Is being
sent to the mother country's aid
Among the officers of the first
company of volunteers are Capts-
Logan and Clarke.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
Of. Course 10 swooned.

Of Course He owooned.
While the Judge was giving his charge
to the Jury IN the burglary ease one Of
the jurymen tainted. His iordship had
just impreasively said:
e e. ''(;entlenen Of the Jury. In arriving at
the verdict you must take the testi.
mony of the witnesses for the defense
into consideration and give them full
weight"
AT the words land give them foil
weight" the juryman ewooned away.
he was coal merchant. London Mail.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
For the coIlection eox,

For the Collection Box.
Jimmy. aged four. bad been sent up
stairs BY bis mother to get 10 cents
which she intended to use for the Dur.
chase Of postage stamps.
Not knowing exactly what ten cent
piece looked like. Jimmy called down.
stairs. Mother. Is 10 cents little piece
Of money!
Eyes, Jimmy, the smallest piece OF
money in my purse"
lob. l know now. mother! Church
money."-Judge.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
Animated Flyoa+ohers,

By forcing native laborers in the is.
land Of Principe. in Portuguese West
Africa, to carry cloths covered with
glue on their backs when working in
places infested by flies sleeping sick
ness has been successfully combated
In the island. The glue is dark and Is
the same color as the natives skin.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
!; PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. :
Mastoiditia.

Mastoiditis is IL dangerous dis
} ease, and the Importance Of de-
tecting it In its earliest stages
} must never be overlooked. De
lay means fearful operation or
} death. Mastoiditis Is recognized
by pressing the hard, ridge-like
} bone behind the ear. Tender
ness there, especially II COM
bined with running ear. is IN
almost certain proof Of mastOidi-
It's. It is always wise to consult
a physician when trouble starts
in the ear. $50. 49,.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
How hs, chanoed.

Roreleigh tat 1875 p. m.l-sWhsD a.
was boy used to ring doorbells aad
run away. Tue t;irl ,yawDingkaAnd.
now You ring THEM and stay ROstOn
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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
E,s;,v Relieved.

MI. b This window open bpilinu me
makes ttarftn draft. Aiy teeth are
chattertng. Mrs. r. Well. sou know
y0u can take them out London Opiu
lon.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
On thu Trail.

.'Do you see that man going along
With bis head 10 the air, smiling with
bis nOse?"
AYES. know him."
n suppose he believes in taxing in
the g0od, pure oxoney'
mo. He's hunting for a motor "a.
rage. ! believe - Kansas City Star.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20

II We have done our hest to do and
to be. We gan rest n peace. Sir John
Lubbock.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-08-20
Duplicate Words.

German has 20 words for 'horse,'
the Arabian has 500 for Zion" and
1000 for .'swOrd."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18
FOR A WOODLAND PARADISE
~chicagoans Determined That Their
City Shall Be AbundantIy Sup
piled With Trees.

In view of the advance which city
Identification has made during the
last few years, especially in Chicago.
Arbor day has a definite significance.
Tree planting exercises have been
held in all parts of the city, about two
hundred and fifty thousand white
pine seedlings being provided for
yards, vacant lots and roadways. Last
year 200, 900 elm seedlings were plant
ed; the year before 800, 900 Russian
mulberries, and in 1911 a total of 280-
900 catalpa seedlings were given a
chance to grow. If all these grew
Chicago would be, not a garden city,
but a forest city. The mortality rate
among seedlings, however, is almost
as great as 1t is among slum babies.
If a reasonable fraction Of these
young trees grow to maturity Chicago
will be In time a woodland paradise.
An authority on arboriculture as APP
piled to cities says the ratio should be
one living shade tree to every five in
habitants. In the absence Of a tree
census 1t is impossible to say how
near Chicago approaches this ideal.
Be that as 1t may, the principle of
Arbor day is wholesome. 1t is but
n phase of the general tendency of
the day to instill into the children an
instinct for some OF the finer things
that older folks have thought they
were too busy to cultivate.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18

6@A0
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TREES AND YET MORE TREES
Matter OF Duty for Every Man Who 10
Able, to Plant One In HIa
Life, at Least.

A noted phi~lanthropist once said:
If l knew that l should die tomorrow,
l should plant a tree today" He did
not mean that tree planting was the
sort Of action to be deferred as long
as possible; he counted 1t rather a
deed with which one might make q
good farewell to earth-and who shall
say that he was not right?
There is nothing more beautiful,
more dignifed, more valuable In the
broadcast sense of the word than a fine
old tree. There are. few things more
lasting. The splendid c%athedrals Of
the thirteenth century are kept in
condition only by constant and loving
repairs, but many an oak that marked
the landscape when the corner stone
of Amiens was laid is still alive. New
England settlers moved elms from the
woods to their dooryards and road
sides almost three centuries ago-and
the same trees are there today. The
few "cedars of Lebanon" which still
mark the site of forests from which
the ships Of Tarshish were built may
number In their thinning ranks Indl-
viduals which saw the march of God.
frey de Bouillon, and the counter
march of Saladin.
Plant trees. Do not wait for the
government to reforest some distant
mountains. Reforest as much of your
own holdings as you may. You have
no better chance of satisfaction now
and grateful remembrance later than
may be found in planting trees.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18
SAD ENDING OF EXPERIMENT
Theater Manager Meant Well, but He
Had Not Counted on Weakness Of
Human Nature.

This is the story of a great expert
ment that failed. 1t also puts George
w. Honesty down for the count,
though 1t proves that the usual male
moving picture fend-but that's where
the story begins.
In the movie district around Ninth
street there Is a certain theater whose
manager Is a humanitarian idealist.
He smokes himself, and it is like iron
In his soul to see scores Of his male
patrons regretfully toss their half
smoked cigars into the street before
going inside his theater. Recently he
went to the trouble of arranging a
wire basket In front of his place, and
above it was this genial sign:
LEAVE YOUR CIGARS HERE"
On the first afternoon five men
planked down their nickels and. went
inside when the theater opened. Five
cigars, all strangers to each other,
lay side by side in various stages of
decline. One was a Pittsburgh stogie,
well chewed; one was a h~alf-inished
f~ve-center, and the next two were
of the %ten-cent type. Last of all there
was a magnificent. plethoric product
with a fine gold and red band about
it's stomach. 1t was a cigar that fair
ly exuded aristocracy.
The show was not yet over when
a square, bony man came out and
viewed the array speculatively. Then
he picked up the a%ristocrat, smelled
it and walked of. The next mar
drffted out and helped himself to q
ten-cent specimen, Two more men
came out. The Pittsburgh stogie re
manned alone.
Then there emerged from the thea
ter a magnificently clad person who
lightly waved a gold-headed cane In
stinct showed that he was the owner
of the good cigar. He walked to the
wire basket and an expression of hurt
surprise showed on his face. He
poked at the pitiful stogie resent
fully.
WELL" he said aloud, II gotta havt
something"
And when the guard wasn't looking
he picked up the wire basket and dis
appeared. The humanitarian expert
ment ended right there.
No wire baskets have been seeI
~since.-Washington Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18
MADE HIS FUNERAL A PARTY
Bartender, a Suicide, Pays for Feast
for the Mourners Around
His Ashes.

William 8. Casey, a bartender wide
ly known In the California cattle coun-
try, had a funeral which ne paid for
himself. Casey died by his own hand.
His health shattered, he told his
friends that he did not want to live
If he could not be happy. He had
$1,000 in a bank at Salinas. and ar
ranged that the sum be used for his
funeral.
MY passing out is not a signal for
sorrow," Casey had said. Il want the
friends that attend my funeral to
enjoy themselves just as If I were
among them In reality, as l will be in
spirit"
A special car brought Casey's body
from Salinas to San Francisco, where
1t was 'cremated. With the ashes in
an urn, a score of Casey's friends, fol
lowing directions left by the %decedent,
proceeded to a hotel whose proprietor
was an old friend of Casey's.
Before the party sat down to dinner
the urn was taken into the barroom
and placed behind the bar. Then
every one ordered his favorite drink.
and this toast was drunk:
ITO Casey. who is still behind the
bar"
The party. carrying out Casey's in
structions, then sat down to dinner,
and later went to a theater. Casey's
ashes were taken back to Salinas and
sprinkled on the Salinas river.-San
Francisco Examiner.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18

to the house. Inside the kitchen the
woman spelled out the large print on
a placard, while the girls leaned over
her shoulder, listening eagerly.
Haynes. c%rouching near, peered
through the open window near which
the woman sat and saw his photo
graph and several black, heavy lines
Of type.
He was wanted for murder and
there was a reward of two thousand
dollars posted in all the mountain
villages. The government had not
told of the gyroscope on this placard;
they had confined their statements
to the fewest words possible:
WANTED, JOHN HAYNES, FOR
MURDER" read the text under the
photograph. Then followed his per
sonal description. He had read the
poster long before the mother had
spelled 1t out, word by word to the
listening girls. Then he crept into
the shadows of the barn and waited,
in his hand a rusty scythe which he
had picked up from some spot in
which 1t had been thrown, discarded.
Ten minutes later the elder girl
came tripping out. She was about
eighteen. pretty, simple-looking. Her
bare feet made no noise over the
grass-grown ground between the
house and the barn. She came to
the door and looked in cautiously.
Haynes feigned to sleep, and after
a moments watching, the girl with
drew. She did not go back to the
house, however, but toward the
wagon road which led through the
pass toward Hendricksville.
The bitterness of 1t gripped the
mans heart and for the first time
since he had accomplished his re.
venge he felt that old insane anger
grip him again. What had he done
that he should be tricked on every
side? Was there no honesty, no hon
or anywhere, that even these simple
people should attempt to trap him for
the sake of the few dollars that had
been placed on his head? He clutched
the seythe ~furiously. sprang to the
door and called to her.
She started as he called and looked
back fearfully. Haynes stood upon
the sill Of the barn, the scythe hid
den behind him. sThere was no men
C in his voice. for he meant to use
cunning and not alarm the rest-but
he would hack the life out Of this
treacherous human thing that sought
his own. 1t was only an instant till
the insane mood passed. When she
stood near him and he looked into
: her childish face, the eyes downcast
in shame at the part that she had
been assigned to play, the anger fad
ed out of the mans heart and he lei
his scythe drop noiselessly into the
/, straw.
Can you give me a drink" he
asked hoarsely. pulling a bill from
, his pocket See, I'll pay you wei
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18

prompted him to cut of the power of
the gyroscope and stop. He did SO;
then, looking ahead, he saw that a
section of the line had been removed
and cunningly replaced with painted
clay. To have struck that at his
tremendous speed would have meant
instant death.
Once again, rushing through a long
defle in the Rockies, he encountered
a new stone wall, built straight across
the metals at a bend In the track.
The mortar was still damp on it.
Had he run into that he would have
been smashed into n~othingness. But
his enemies did not know how swift
ly the gyroscope could be halted and
Haynes escaped with nothing worse
than a few bruises.
They barred the roads and railway
lines, they herded him, forewarned
by all the subtle agencies IN the pos
session Of a government, into a bar
rem, rocky region among the Cumber-
lands. All round the hills, at every
mountain pass, armed guards were
stationed. He had a territory of
twelve square miles In which to rove,
but he could not cross those boun-
daries that daily drew closer round
him. At first he laughed at the fu-
tlllty of this pursuit. How could they
stop him.. when, at a rate Of speed
incredibly swifter than that of the
fastest train, he could dash through
them on the roads?
Then, all at once, he understood the
gasoline to replenish his engine
Geared though the gyroscope was to
run on a minute consumption, still
the motor needed fuel. And there
was no gasoline within this region;
no automobile came there; 1t was a
land of barren pines and inhospitable
mountains and valleys in which a few
poor mountaineers eked out g
wretched existence on their little hill
side farms.
Haynes strobe one day into one Of
the most wretched Of these cabins
Under his coat he had strapped his
gyroscope. He impersonated a tramp
anu no was lllSlo AAOlO' AiO dohON
for food and shelter.
With the hospitable instincts Of
their kind, they set before him corn
meal and milk. When he had eaten
the mother and her twos daughter
offered him the shelter Of the almos
roofess barn in which they stocket
the scant cuttings from their fields
Worn out from WEAKNESS, Hayne
/ crept into the hay.
He dared not sleep, however, TO
he knew that the Gordon round hin
, daily grew closer. Five miles away
at Hendricksvine. the government
men were posted. Perhaps the!
might capture him unawares, and
though he had a pistol, his stock o
cartridges had long since gone. HI
/ crept out of the hay and skunk III