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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
CANINE rRlckERY.
An English ofiesr's Story Of q DOG
That Learned 70 Cheat.

An English Officers Story Of 4 DOG
That Learned 20 Chest.
That one dog at least not only rea-
sons, but has been known actually to
cheat is the conviction Of a young
English army officer who owns a
smart cocker spaniel. Among other
tricks the officer has trained the dog
% answer 'letter CALI and fetch his
owners mail to the mess table. Pleas
ed with the dogs intelligence, the
officer fell into the habit of giving him
a lump Of sugar from the breakfast
table. ,. 4,. -.,.~ =.
sine morning soon after the trumpet
~ had sounded "letter CALL" the span
sel came In with neither papers nor
letters. This was unusual, for, the
officer subscribed to a daily paper
that invariably arrived in the morn
ing's mail, but he thought little Of 1t
at the time. About II! o'clock, how
ever, the dog entered his masters
quarters and deposited a muddy paper
upon the floor. The officer did not
understand the situation, but he gave
the dog a lump of sugar. Half an hour
later the dog appeared again with a
very muddy and crumpled letter in his
mouth. Then the owners suspicious
were aroused.
He gave the dog. another lump Of
sugar and watched him. He soon
found that the dog had buried the
mornings mail in the rear of the Off
GERS mess and was digging it up a
letter at a time, apparently with a
view to a lump Of sugar for each piece
of mail.-Exchange. tHg. 't
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
Hal, 70 n. ch;.fl

Jones had not wanted to go to the
gregariOus feast where the speeches
strung out %endlessly. Circumstances
obliged him to stay. The speeches
were strung out partly because the
chief and dullest orator was not ex-
pected until late. Finally he came,
and there was a rush Of committeeman
to escort him to bis place.
"Hello!" exclaimed Jones' compan-
ion, what is that they are making
such a pOther ab0uty"
I'VE still follow" answered Jones
sourly, "the ancient custom Of bringing
In the bOre's head."-New York Post.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
MEXICAN POTTERY.
Primitive Methods Of the Skilled
Workmen Of Durango.

&C., sssO
Practically. all the pottery used in
the Durango section Of Mexico, from
the tiniest teacup. to the largest flower
pot, Is fashioned by hand from Duran
80 clay. There are about twenty such
factories in the city, employing from
I'VE to fifty men each. The clay used
fn this industry is obtained from the
base of D%urango's famous Iron Noun
tain, one mile north Of the city.
The vessels are all fashioned by hand
and foot power. The only instrument
used is q large wooden wheel, through
the axis Of which passes Il pole about
three feet in length. terminating at
the other extremity in a small wooden
wheel set parallel to the big wheel.
The operator sits SO that he may"turn
the large wheel (set horizontally near
the floor SO that 1t will move freely
with his foot, which in turn causes
the little wheel above. on a level with
his chest, to revolve very rapidly. A
convenient sized lump Of the clay
dough is placed upon this little wheel,
and as the mass revolves by the i'm
pulse Of the laborer's foot, he hollows
out and fashions the vessel.
The skill and dexterity Of these work
men is little short of remarkable.
Mishwwlly the eye to guide, he fash
A|pn,cn fth astonishing rapidity vessels
y" a,tdo not differ one from the other
1hore1her size or shape. A single la
~ Is able to complete about thirty
nandozen jars of nearly a quart ca
A'ty in a day.-Argonaut.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
Microscopic Handwriting.

1t is possible to possess a certain ele-
gance of penmanship and yet be al
most undecipherable as a writer. A
distinguished literary man, whose
name 1 me%rcifully withhold, writes a
m~icroscopically small hand. almost
fairylike in its outlines and possess
ing a quite elfin MISUNDERSTANDING
every word can be read as some other
word. Waggish friends who received
from him letters on commonplace mat
tiers would sometimes affect to regard
them as descriptions Of his exciting
adventures in the Alps. the burning
down of his house. or something SINH
larry sensational and, reply according.
.E..sAfter being long the. subject of
.,sucA.marry ejests he decided to silence
the s%cofers by using a typewriter
London Chronicle.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
An Embarrassing Moment.


Sir Edward Chandos Leigh tells this
anecdote in bar, Bat and Bit" 1t
was told to him by the Dowager Lady
Cowper apropos of. the days when all
the Joints were carved ON the table:
She was a debutante, very shy, and
her old host, who was about to carve
a sjrloin Of beef, turned to her and
said, Lady Anne, will you have upper
or undery" Lady Cowper said to me
that she had not the, least idea what
he meant. so in a weak moment she
hazarded upper" WhereupOn the
host turned to the butler and said In
a loud voice. Take it away and turn
it. Young ladies give a great deal of
trouble nowadays"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
VERDICT OF THE PRINCE.
Napoleon's Great Pride In the Infant
King Of Rome.


King Of Rome.
A certain Frenchman of spirit once
found himself in great distress. It
was necessary to find a means of live
lihood or die in misery, There was, a
vacant place that was worth 10000
francs a year. He wanted it, but how
could he get it? 1t was under the first
empire. The king Of Rome was a child
in the cradle. The aspirant thought of
an ingenious plan to bring about the
success of his hopes.
He wrote a petition, addressed it to
the young king and, through the friend
ship Of a general officer attached to
the emperor, got it presented to Napo-
leon.
The emperor took the petition and,
seeing the superscription, began to
smile. "Very WE'LL" said he. 'let the
petition be carried to him to whom 1t
is addressed"
-Four ~chamberlains conducted our
hero before the cradle of the infant
king. After a profound bow he began
in a high voice to read his petition.
From time to time he bowed before
the cradle. AS is the manner of in
fants, the child uttered several unin-
telfiEible sounds, 49, =
After having taken his leave respect
fully the petitioner returned to Nap0-
leon, who said, "Ah, well, what re
sponsor" 6 t'.
-"Sire, his majesty said nothing"
"Who says nothing gives consent"
said the emperor. 1.-THE petition is
granted."-Youth's Companion.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
When tn. Minu.t Wa. tho voou,

vvuOU GuO WSUVVS vv0o SU0 vO8O0s
In the days when it was the vogue
the stately minuet carried with it its re-
sponsibilities. Thus, for instance, Aus
ten Leigh on the eighteenth century
minuet: "1t was not every one who
felt qualified to make this public ex-
hibition, and those ladies who intend
ed to dance minuets used to distin-
guish themselves by wearing a partic-
ular kind of lappet on their headdress.
I have heard also Of another curious
proof Of the respect in which this
dance was held. Gloves Immediately
clean were considered requisite for its
die performance, while gloves a little
soiled were thought good enough for a
country dance. and accordingly some
prudent ladies provided themselves
with two pairs for their several pur
poses."-London Standard.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
A Pleasant Moment.

II am told" said a beautiful wo.
man to a dub Of a man the other day,
that my lovely cousin, Miss K, has
made a deep impression on you"
"Is Miss X. your cousin?" bnrbled
the dub excitedly. Indeed she did!
She is one Of the loveliest girls I ever
met. I'll tell you just what kind Of a
hit she made with me. I met her at
the Dashes' dinner, and she sat on the
other side of me and I talked with her
the whole time, and l can't even re-
member who my dinner partner was"
II thought not" said the beautiful
woman dryly. II was your dinner
partner."-New York Globe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
one Letter Names.

Names with only n letter have
been bestowed on places as we'll as
persons. There Is a village, called o
In Normandy, not far from Argenton.
Two Chinese towns are named respec.
lively z and u. There 10 q. river 7 In
Holland, and one Of the bays Of thu
Zuyder Zee bears the same brief name:
France has a river and Sweden Q town
Of the name Of A.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
BULLET AND BIBLE.
One fried to Take q Mans Life, While
thu 0fhar Saved IL.

the Other Saved It.
To illustrate the bullet resisting pow
ers Of papers, q veteran war CORE
spondent brought for the inspection Of
some Of his journalistic colleagues q
%pocketbook filled with photographs and
papers and a Bible, each of which on
separate occasions had been instru-
mental in saving his life in the course
of the Russo-Turkish war.
In one instance he. was knocked OF
his horse by the impact of = bullet and
became unconscious, only to find on re-
gaining his senses that the friendly
wallet had prevented the bullet enter
ing his body. On the second occasion,
at Plevna, the Bible, which he had
placed in u side pocket, DETECTED q
heavy piece Of shrapnel that threaten
ed to end his existence.
He had kept the wallet intact as a
memento Of his escape, and one Of the
journalists who was examining its
contents came, by a curious coinci-
dence, upon a letter which he himself
had indited to the war correspondent
some thirty or forty years ago, the
very existence of which he had en-
tirely forgotten.
In the letter he had expressed the
hope that his friend would return safe
and sound from the seat of val. The
words ''safe and sound" had been al
most cut away by the bullet, which,
but for the providential interposition
Of the bundle of papers, would proba-
bly, have ended the war correspond
ent's life.-Nottingham Guardian.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
A Boston Cook.

a Boston Cook.
Cook said the head Of the Bos-
ton household, II think you use too
much SALT,
II assure you," was the polite re
sjoinder, that 1 restrict Its use TO the
absolute minimum compatible with
culinary misunderstanding Post-ID-
telllgencer.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
A va;shnava Lev, Lyric

a VaiehnaVa Love Lyric.
In n Of our Yaishnava lyrics the
lover says to bis beloved: II feel Is IL
l have gazed upon the beauty Of thy
face from my birth, yet my eyes are
hungry still; a. If I have kept thee
creased to my heart for millions Of
years, set my heart 10 not satisned."-
,RabindHana4h sTagOre.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
Fair Marnina.

81 am glad you have bought Q par.
rot, papa. What will yousdo II It learns
bad language-punish itr'
"No, son; punish yos."-Houston
Post. y
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26
Only Her Latest.

what II your last name. please,
madam inquired the clerk, deferm-
tally.
my latest name," corrected the 1T
terary woman. who - always careful
Of her Engiish. '.is Mrs. Havre Fourth,
ub."-Kansas City Star.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26

True courage, ~ well ~ true NJ
dom. is not distrustful Of itself. 4
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26

W Uncertain ways lunsafest are and
Aoubt q. greater mischief thansdespaiy
5S-Denhan1, NJ ssSs Is85 ~ \
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-06-26

Old Saw With Nsw Hands. s sHsss
The pessimist Fletcherises III al.
nine pills. Tie optimlst gets strSe6 ~
. bear and enjoys the sieM.-YalessRis
ord. sS: SR SSssss
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18
AFRO-AMER|CAN CU[[|NCS

Negro farmers own or control 5,10O,-
600 acres of land in the state of Ala
bama, or 100000 more acres than they
controlled in 1900, the New York
Times states. The colored farmers
of the state have under their control
3,563,000 acres of improved land, and
are farming 100000 more acres of i'm
proved land than they were cultivating
in 1900. In ten years the number of
Negro farmers increased 17.3 per cent,
and now they own or control one
fourth of all the farm property in Ala
bama, having an aggregate value of
S97,370,000, or 1915 per cent more
farm property than they controlled at
the beginning of the ten-year period.
The progress of the negroes in Ala
bama is typical of what the negroes
are doing in other states. With its
colored population of 90S ,2S2, the third
greatest negro population in the Uni
ted States, Alabama affords a striking
illustration of what the race has ac-
complished.
The first negro bank in the United
States was established in Alabama. In
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
institute, of which Booker T. Wash
ington is head, it possesses the leading
negro educational institution of the
world. Now Alabama has the first
railroad in America to be conceived,
promoted, built and operated by negro
people, namely, the Dixie line, run
ming from Kowalaga Community col
ored, fifteen miles to Alexander City,
in the eastern part of the state, where
it connects with the Central of Georgia
railroad.
In agriculture, however, they are
making the most progress. Fifty per
cent of all the persons in the state en-
gagged in agriculture are negroes. On
the other hand, rs per cent of all the
negroes in the state are engaged in
farming. There are 110,440 colored
men operating farms.
The banking business is another line
in which the negroes of the state
are making progress. There are five
banks in Alabama operated by ne
groes, the Alabama Penny Savings
bank and the Prudential Savings bank
of Birmingham, the Penny Savings
bank of Selma, the Penny Savings
bank of Admission and the Penny Saw
ings bank of Montgomery. A remark
able increase is shown during the ten
years in the number of negroes who
have established successful grocery
stores, drug stores, real estate Offices
and other enterprises. In practically
every city in the state where there are
large numbers of colored people they
have acquired the ownership of entire
city blocks.
The negro church has kept pace
with the progress of the negro in ag
riculture, commerce and education. In
every city in Alabama where there is
a large community of negroes they
have built churches costing $4,000 to
$4,000 The value of the church prop
erty owned by colored people of the
state amounts in all denominations to
$4,000000. Thus with the physical
progress of the negro churches of Ala
bama has come intellectual and moral
advancement
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

Free and irresponsible as a colt, OBJ
livious to the events of the world as
an Eskimo, in a four-room house on a
rocky Oklahoma farm of so acres lives
n ten-year-old colored boy who doesn't
know that he is one of the richest boys
in the state, and if he did, the fact
would carry no significance in his
brain. Little Dan" Tucker often sings
for his supper, but he doesn't have to
he doesn't have to do anything for
his subsistence, and probably never
will. This month saw deposited to
his credit $4,000, and every day he
makes not less than $3.50.
Dan Tucker is the son of James and
Elizabeth Tucker, children of slaves
of the Creek Indians freed by the Civil
war. By virtue of treaty made be-
tween the United States and the Creek
Indians at Fort Smith, Ark in 1868,
slaves formerly belonging to the
Creeks, and their descendants. we're
given an equal share with their former
owners in the government allotment
of the old Creek lands in the Indian
territory. And that is how Dan Tuck
er now owns 160 acres of land lying
is miles east of Gushing. Okla, in the
heart of the newly developed Cushing
oil fields.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

American moralists on the false
pride of denominationalism have never
had need to go to Kikiyu for text A
plain one is revealed in the John F.
Slater educational funds examination
of schurch schools for negroes in the
South. In the cities and towns of IL
states it reports so cases of the fla
grant duplication of effort by denomi-
national schools.
The tactful administrators of the fund
appeal to a sense of denominational
expediency. One cooperative school,
founded on that at present strongest,
should generally suffice. Each church
might put the money saved Into some
strong, central college or industrial In
stitute.
Or if no one church school might
be left with the work, especially in
primary education, might not all with
draw to advantage and cooperate
with the public school authorities in
providing better facilities?' No one
thinks money for negro education can
be made to go too far; and the
churches could recite with more fervor
the immense need for contributions If
their own failure to cooperate were
not in part responsible for it.-Edito-
rial in the New York Post.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

Mrs. ]. Murch of New York has the
distinction of being the only woman in
America who is proprietor, printer.
compositor, binder and printers
devil' all in one. She owns a printing
establishment in New York City where
she attends to all the details of the
shop herself
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

Western Australia produces more
gold than any American state, sends
more pearls to Europe than any other
country except Ceylon, and is said to
have the richest belt of hardwood tim
ber in the world.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

1t sometimes happens that woman
marries a man to reform him-if she
is unable to get a man who doesn't
need reforming
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

To solve the problem of disposing
of the dead famous German archi-
tect proposes to erect in the chief
cities immense pyramids, each of
which will mold the ashes of 100000
cremated bodies.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

For doctors use in examining the
throat a new pocket electric search
light is equipped with a mirror for
throwing the rays just where needed
and with folding wire guard for hold
ing the tongue down.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18

Mrs. Flora Groden, wife and mother
of five children, who found time to
study law as an aid to her charitable
work and who receives her LII. B.
degree from the New York University
law school, is one of six women to re-
ceive a certificate of character from
the Brooklyn bar association.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-08

serts the needle into and through the
skin. "a
And this hurts the patient-it hurts
horribly. Sometimes when the pa
tient is suffering some excruciating
agony he does not mind it much, be-
cause the lesser hurt of the needle
is swallowed up in the greater pain
of the disease or. injury. But 1 have
had hypodermic given me in cold
blood, and when was feeling pretty
well, and can state without any
qualification that it hurts.
Then the element of time is neces-
sary. The piston of the needle has to
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-08
POISONNEEDLE' AGITATION Is ALL HYsTERIA

BY HERBERT QUICK.
Copyright, 1913. by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
I'm sure. we are all greatly inter
ested in the letter of Miss Nixola
Greeley-Smith on the poisoned nee
de-" but for one desire to TO on
record as skeptic.
Have you ever seen the giving of
a hypodermic injection of any sort?
Most people have in these days. The
nurse or. physician has to take be-
tween his thumb and finger pinch
of the flesh. Then he carefully in
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-08

be pressed down and the liquid forced
out into the flesh. 1t doesn't flow out
of its own accord, but has to be
squeezed out The tissues at the point
of the needle have to be torn apart
by the pressure of the liquid injected.
1t takes a moment of time for this
to be done-and while the tissues are
being separated the operation hurts.
If it were spirited into the flesh with
an instantaneous thrust, it would
hurt still more-if it could be done at
all.
These are mere truisms of common
sense. ...
There is no drug which can be
smeared on the point of needle, and
pricked into the flesh, which will pro-
duce the results described in this poi
soned-needle hysteria Any drug so
smeared on a needle would be wiped
off in passing through the clothing.
And there is no such drug.
The poisons used by the savages
who tip their arrows with venow are
so deadly that they produce death.
That's what they are used for. There
are several virulent poisons which
may be shot into the flesh On an ar
row; but they must go with con-
siderable wound-and they kill. A
dead girl is of no use in ''The white
slave" traffic.
Those hysterical people who have
been deceived by this outcry have
mentioned hyoscine as the drug used;
but no physician has been found who
has not said that dose of hyoscine
which would stupefy would either kill
or cause long and deadly illness.
Moreover, its action is quite unlike
the symptoms described.
Please picture yourself, my sensi-
BILE girl reader, as sitting still while a
hypodermic of anything is given you
in a street car or theater! Imagine
yourself, my sympathizing male read
er, sitting with a hatpin jabbed into
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-28

EgSS MuSL De SndTp6n0Q rO6IOF6 CuGy
can produce results.
Jimmy Johnstonis also being drill
ed IN handling ground balls The new
0utfielder is mot acquainted with the
lay Of the land in center field, but is
gradually getting his bearings.
c Larry Cheney strained his back in
a workout and may be off duty for a
few days. In the meantime Pierce and
Vaughn will attempt to subdue the
Pirates and Bert HUMPHREYS also
thinks pretty well of himself
That Federal League park on the
North Side won't look like the same
place this afternoon, The left field
fence has been moved back, and the
fences in center were also pushed
farther from the plate to conform
with the new alignment. 1t will take
a healthy clout to clear the barrier
from now on, and the athlete who
lofts the pill over will have earned
the right to walk around the bases.
The scoreboard will not be.set back
to the, fence for several days 1t is a
weighty structure and is anchored to
a concrete foundation. The contract
ors could not provide safe anchor
age in one day, but may have the job
completed by Saturday Then it is
proposed to String a screen on top of
the left wall as high as the score
board.
Different balls will also be- used.
President Gilmore sent an order YES
terday for some pills with less rubber
in them, and received a wire from the
manufacturers that five dozen balls
with Is per cent less life in them
would arrive at various Fed parks
Friday.
Otto Knabe presents his Baltimore
team, the first of the eastern invad-
ers, this afternoon. The little German
has bang-up crew, three of his in
fielders being last years members of
the PhiIlies. The outfeld is fast and