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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
SMALLEST ELECTRIC LIGHT
PLANT.

The hamlet of Clayton, population
220, is perhaps the smallest commun-
ity in Wisconsin having an %independ-
ent central station plant generating
it's own electricity. The Clayton Elec-
trio Company has an operating force
Of one man, and it's generating equip
ment consists Of a IL Ii. p. gas engine
belted to a 5-kw. direct current dyna-
mo. The street lighting load consists
of eight incandescent lamps, and COM
mercial lighting is given from dusk
until II p. m. The Railroad Com
mission of Wisconsin reports 14O vii
lagos in Wisconsin with less than
1000 population having el%ectric-ser-
vice utilities. OF these forty-cne are
of less than 500 population. The total
number of electric-service utilities In
the State is 293. There are seventeen
gas or cil-e1gine plants and eighty
two plants operated either wholly or
in part by water power.
The New York Edison Company re-
Gently gave an early morning window
demonstration showing how easily
and quickly a breakfast could be pre-
pared by electricity. The breakfast
consisted of lamb chops, cereal. hot
biscuits and coffee.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
THE SPOT WHERE THE MARA
THON HEROES FELL.

A great Grecian landmark is the
SOrOs, the mound erected over the
graves Of a hundred and ninety-two
Athenians who fell in the Battle OF
Marathon, August 18th, 400 B. c. The
mound is about forty feet high and
three hundred yards in circumference.
Underneath the mound lie the heroes
who died in this most decisive vic
tory which prevented the P%ersians
from invading Europe.
The battle had hardly begun when
the Pedsians in immensely superior
force, doubtless ten to one, pulled
themselves together and by sheer
mass broke through. the Greek centre.
But this had been calculated upon be-
forehand. Miltiades employed STRAIT
egy, making his line weak at the
centre, and allowed the Persians to
break it. Then with his heavy mass
es at the ends he ground the Persian
wings to pieces and fell upon their
centre. The most stubborn fighting,
apart from the battle at the ships,
was probably at this spot, half a mile
from the shore. Six thousand four
hundred Persians lay on this plain
and along the shore, while a hundred
and ninety-two men of Marathon lay
wrapped in glory on the field.
1t was long suspected that the he
roes OF Marathon were buried under
the mound; but MIR. Stats, one of the
Greek Ephori of Antiquities, studying
the plain, came to the conclusion that
the surface of the soil had been rails
ed by ~alluvial deposits eight or ten
feet above the level of 400 B. c. In
1890 he drove a trench with a down
ward slant into the centre of the
mound, and found the bones of the
heroes with their weapons beside
them.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
TRINIOAD'S GREAT ASPHALT
LAKE,,

The proverb about the folly of
building on sand might be rewritten
to include the vicinity of the Trini-
dad asphalt lake. This remarkable
body of pitch is perhaps the nearest
thing to the goose which laid the
golden egg that has V G been found,
for it has the obliging faculty of re-
placing during the night the asphalt
which has been dug from it's surface
during the day. That the replenish-
ment comes from somewhere was
graphically illustrated a short time
ago when a house located near the
edge Of the lake began settling on one
side, not to stop until the digging of
pitch in that vicinity ceased.' The
pitch is dug laboriously from the lake
by negroes, using pick and shovel,
and is carried on an overhead tram
way directly to the waiting ships. The
invention of an electrical cutter for
the pitch is expected to greatly tfacili-
tate and cheaper the handling of it..
The lake is. owned by an American
company, which also operates in Ven
eZuela.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
INCA RELICS.

Before taking leave of Cuzco (Peru)
We went to e the very interesting
collection of Inca relics in the private
museum OF a Peruvian doctor who has
devoted many years Of his life to
Inca research. Ranged round the
walls were mummies which had been
taken from rock tombs. All had been
buried in a sitting posture, and iuds.
ing by the horrible expression of
agony on the parchment skin, should
imagine that some of them-prisoners
OF war, | was told-had been entomb-
ed alive. The horror of those num-
mled faces and the awful contortions
OF the skeletons haunted me for a
long time, o shall l ever forget the
sight.
One or two of the skulls bore evt.
dence OF skilful surgery. star-shaped
pieces of bone having been clearly
fitted in to repair damage done bv the
star-shaped stone weapons of the per-
iod. did not measure those I saw
in the museum, but one of the afore.
said stone weapons which we broueh
back to England from Cuzco measur-
ed four inches from point to point
across the top-a truly formidable
club. ~
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
STORAGE BATTERY DOES NOT
STORE ELECTRICITY.

The electric automobile is driven
by electric power, through the medium
of an electric motor, geared or belted
to the rear axle. This motor secures
its electricity from a storage battery,
But wait a minute, the storage bat
terry does not store electricity at all!
The storage battery consists Of
three elements, some plates of lead.
or nickle-iron, a fluid, or electrolyte.
usually of diluted sulphuric acid. and
a container, usually a glass jar for
each cell. This battery produces no
electricity by itself. When it is
Enlarged" no electricity is stored.
To charge" a storage battery 1t is
connected up to an--electric circuit.
The electricity flows into the battery
cells and this electrical energy causes
a certain chemical change to take
place within each cell. The anode
plate in the battery cell is made of
spongy metallic lead, and the cathode
plate of lead peroxide. These active
elements of the battery are both
changed into lead sulphate when thu
battery is discharged. Charging the
battery changes them back again into
spongy lead and lead peroxide.
The electrical energy of a storage
battery is stored up in the form of
chemical energy. When drawn upon
it will reverse this operation and
change the chemical energy back
again i:1to electricity with a slight loss
in heat, etc. So, you see, the storage
battery stores chemical energy. o
electrical energy, as NEST OF us sup
mise
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
ENOUGH COMMISSIONS.

Business men generally through a
referendum vote have gone on record
as favoring a federal trade commits
sio1. 1t would seem that there are
too many federal commissions now
impeding the natural trend of com
MERGE. O course, it is easy to work
up sentiment for nearly any idea, but
1t is far harder to make some of the
ideas workable especially as they
touch the commerce of the nation.
There is enough machinery already
to restrict business what the country
needs now more than anything else
Is the business. .
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
POLITICS.

An interesting expose of how the
'sinews of war are being raised in Min.
nesota to put Governor Eberhart over
IN the primaries next Tuesday is made
by the Minneapolis. 1t is in the form
of a letter addressed to every game
warden in the state asking him to con,
tribute to the campaign fund.
One sentence especially is signifi
cant. 1t reads:
Il wish to advise you that the boart
ut their meeting yesterday, raised
your salary ten dollars a month, max
ing your salary now $S5 per month
This Is n way the public fund.
are diverted to assist a public oflcia
on to political fortune.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
Supreme Court
Eddy County.
w. q. Baird, Plaintiff and Respondent

w. u, Baird, PLAINTIFF ana Respondent
VS..
Charles u. Matteson, Defendant and
Appellant.
Defendant perfected an appeal
from a judgment of the District Court
of Eddy county to this court Sept. IS
1911, and on March 8, 1914, the record
had not been transmitted to this
Court and no abstract OF briefs filed,
Held:
Cd In the absence of a showing OF
extraordinary reasons eXcusing appel
liant for his delay the appeal should
be dismissed on motion Of respondent,
ca The only act done by the ap'
pellant between the perfecting of his
appeal Sept. Is, l91l.sand March, 1914,
toward securing a determination OF
such appeal vas to settle a statement
OF the case in October, 1911, on Sept.
20, 1911, to write the Clerk of the
District Court enclosing his check for
S., stating that it represented the
Clerks fees in the matter of the ap.
peal, and requesting that it be credit.
ed, and in transmitting to the Clerk OF
the District Court on Nov. Z, 1911, a
statement of the case, etc, and re,
questing that the Clerk tell counsel
Immediately when the record was sent
to the Supreme Court. Held, that
under these and other facts stated in
The opinion it devolved upon counsel
for appellant to see that his record
was duly transmitted to this Court,
and that the rule permitting the res
pondent to notify the appellant to
cause the record to be transmitted
within twenty days and providing for
the record being transmitted by the
respondent is not exclusive, but that
respondent may move for dismissal Of
the appeal for want of prosecution.
(3) On the return day of an order
to show cause why the appeal in this
case should not be dismissed defend
ant submitted a condemnation to have
the record remanded to the trial
court to enable him to move that
Court to open the judgment, and per-
nit the introduction Of evidence dis
covered since the trial and judgment
from which the appeal was taken.
Held that, inasmucn as such evidence
is shown to have been discovered
May 8, 1912, and no application was
made to this Court to have the record
remanded until after the notice in
March, 1914, of a motion to dismiss
the appeal for want of prosecution,
and the absence of the record on ap-
peal in this Court, such delay is I'M
warranted, and the facts stated fur
nish no ground for remanding the
record over the objection and in the
presence of the motion of respondent
to dismiss the appeal.
'h (sy|Iabus by the Court.)
Maddux & Rinker, of New Rockford,
N. D., Attorneys for Respondent.
Thorp & chase, of jamestown, N.
d., Attorneys for Appellant.
Opinion OF the Court by Spalding,
c. J.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
WHERE THE WORLDS GREATEST
BATTLE WAS FOUGHT.

Great among the landmarks of the
world stands the Lion of Waterloo on
its mound two hundred feet high. Ten
miles from the city of Brussels 1t
marks the plain where history's great
est battle was fought, where over
fifty thousand men were killed,
wounded, and missing. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that it was fought
on June 18th, 1915, and that it culmi-
mated the campaign following Napol-
cons escape from Elba and stopped
his mighty effort to conquer all Eur
ope.
The Duchess of Richmond gave a
ball in Brussels on June 18th; at mid
night Wellington, having already heard
that the outposts had been engaged,
went to the ball. Here he found the
Prince of Orange, the nan who SEEM
ed fated to cause useless loss of life
through his plumbers. Even now he
ought to have been at Binche, where
the Duke promptly sent him, after in
curing for news.
Far from being surprised at the eve,
ning's attack, as some writer's assert,
the Duke had dispatched his orders
before he went to the. ball, for at 2
a. m. strange sounds broke the nights
silence, and great masses of troops
were on the move, bugles were blow
ing everywhere, and people opened
their windows to see the various reg
iments tramp past. A Highland band
were playing their bagpipes to the
swing of the "Black Watch as they
went out to battle through the Namur
Gate. Curiously enough, many Of the
officers were still wearing their silk
stockings and dancing pumps, for the
heat was so intense that men went
made and died or the march; but for
the rest, they pushed on and were
soon under fire. The battle itself is
eclipsed by the thought of the awful
aftermath; the plain so filled with the
dying and the dead that for three
days parties brought in the wounded,
who In many cases were saved by
having had their bleeding stanched by
the frost. :
In the hurry three hundred bodies
were flung down a we'll. For thirty
years the corn crops we're of a deep.
er color where they grew over the
blood of the slain on the scene where
the Lion Of Waterloo now forms the
greatest of the landmarks OF the
world,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
WHERE MOSES RECEIVED THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS.

A simple cross marks the snot
which investigators of Sinai have de-
cided is the place where Moses read
out to uhe children of Israel the laws
of God. The mountain itself must
stand for the monument. Rus Suf.
safeh, the elevation on which the
cross stands, is wild, barren, and
rocky.
About three hundred yards from
the base Of the mountain there runs
across the plain a low, semicircular
mound which forms a kind of natural
theatre; while farther distant, on
either side of the plain, the slopes of
the enclosing mountains would afford
seats to an almost unlimited number
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12

A curious incident is reported from
British East Africa, as a result of the
stock stealing which is going on on
. very extensive scale there. A local
Justice Of the peace has resigned his
commission on the ground that the
laws Of His Majesty, which he, as a
Justice Of the peace, has sworn sol
EMMY to uphold and carry out to the
best of his ability, are so inadequate
OF perhaps so ~inadequately admins.
tered in the country, that he finds it
impossible to live up to this solemn
undertaking, as he is now fairly driv.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
Amusements
AT rHE

chauncey OIcott in "Shameen Dhu."
With his perennial youth, his smile
his strut, his curtain ~speech-and ms
Wild Irish Rose, Chauncey Olcott
blew into Bismarc-- last evening ano
warmed the cookies of u hearts
Time has dealt gently with him, leav
ing many of the charms that place
him in the premier class as a matt
nee idol. He has sung himself into
more hearts probably than any one
man on our stage today, and is dis
tinctively in a class by himself. Many
are his imitators, but there Is only
one "Chauncey."
He is not a great actor and makes
no. such p%retensions, but he is an III
imitable entertainer sand his gift OF
mimicry is rare. Melodrama and bur
lesque, with just enough of a plot to
carry the songs and the sentiment,
compose the regulation Olcott vehi'
Gle. y.
""Shameen Dhu" is no exception to
the rule. The same old songs fit into
their regular inches; the Irish humor
and repartee are as frequent, as clean
ana refreshing as ever.
The company was a capable one.
Miss Constance M%Olineaux made a
charming Peggy OIDea. Her work at
the spinet was fetching. Miss Beth
Franklin as Shiela Farrell was win
ming and buxom enough for the role.
Jennie Lamont as Betsy was respon-
sible for much of the comedy. In
fact, the company is well balanced
and gave a creditable performance
in every sense of the word.
Stage settings were excellent and
in strict accord with the Eighteenth
century. If the costumer is correct,
in the conception Of the gowns, the
dress of 1779 had much in common
with some Of the present day crea-
tons.
In his curtain speech, Chauncey o.
colt complimented Bismarck upon it's
excellent theater and its golf links,
where he was defeated yesterday al
tcrnOon.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12

Norway holds the record in the EN-
ployment of women on the police
force, since "policewomen" have been
appointed in Christiania and three OF
the other principal towns. The du.
ties of the "policewomen" are mainly
confined to the surveillance of girls,
women and children, and they are oc.
casionally sent on night duty, when
their beats may lie in the worst quar-
tiers of the city.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
Ancient Euypt Musical.

During my recent travel in Egypt I
was greatly interested in the hero
glyphic records which show that
thousands Of years ago the harp. the
guitar and the cithara were in COM
nor use. Some of the enthusiastic
~archaeologists with whom | talked de.
clared they still had hopes of uncov-
erlng SOM actual records of the mu.
sic performed during the Rameses
dynasty.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
COMING BACK TO NORTH
DAKOTA.

There is. food for thought in the
return of so many American farmers
from the Canadian northwest to North
Dakota and other northwestern states.
"A recent report issued by a commits
sion appointed in the province of Sas,
katchewan to investigate conditions
shows that the cost of growing wheat
in that province last year was IS cents
q bushel. This of course leaves a
mighty slim profit for the farmer.
The cost of producing wheat in Sas
katchewan, tho Canadian provincial
commission found, has increased II
per cent since 1909, and the price has
decreased from 81k cents a bushel to
66h cents, leaving the farmer a profit
Of only Az cent a bushel.
OF course some of the loss can be
credited up to ignorant marketing.
AS soon as the farmers wake up and
uAA " SHC OlCOIy VI Z dtIFc
marketing on the terminal markets
they will find that grain raising is
much more profitable than now.
Conditions are not so bad in North
Dakota. but eve here the grain grow
ers are realizing that there is not the
profit in wheat that there should be
when the investment, interest rates
and other factors are taken into con.
s~ideration. i
The farmers, however, are aroused
and marketing conditions are being
studied now as never before. Within
the next few years the entire system
of marketing farm products on the
great terminal markets will be chang.
ed either voluntarily or through legis.
1atiol.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
Seemingly Optjmistic.

To some this may seem a bit too
tlmls but when n recalls that
only a short time ago these archaeo-
logists found a harp in the tomb Of
ameses II, where it had reposed be-
SIDE It's royal master over three thou
sand years, there seems to be some
reason for the hope expressed. This
tnree thousand year old harp was in
an excellent state of preservation.
Inc strings were cat gut and were in
.marvelously good condition,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
All Have Examples but Music.

In architecture, sculpture and paint
ing there are ancient examples which
speak to us today much as they spoke
to the first beholders centuries ago.
When considering poetry, the voice of
some of the oldest may be said to be
as fresh and clear today as it was in
the generations in which it arose. A
notable instance is The Bible, which,
even thrills through the d%eadening ef-
feet of an ancient and at present un-
spoken tongue.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
Music Goes to the aeainninu.

When one stops to ponder over this
the impression becomes deep rooted
that there is a continuity in musical
art dating back to the very dawn of
Creation. There never. was a dearth
or decline in music nor was there a
gap-there are only a few pages lost
out OF the history of the art. If the
links of the chain appear to be brok-
en- it is only because the historians
have not yet discovered how to con-
meet them.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
No Echo, Reaches Us.

But looking backwards in music we
cease to hear its living soul and
from its primitive effects comes no
echo save through the imagination.
The notes of the musicians of old are
gone as completely as their contem.
porary bird notes, yet distinctive evil
dences of music apear as far in the
past as any light extends.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12

Patricia, the new territory which
has been added to the province OF
Ontario, is estimated to contain 147,-
900 square miles, or one and one-fifth
times as large as the British Isles.
This addition to the province in
creases it's size to over 4OO,0 square
miles and makes it the second larg-
est province in the Dominion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
The Weather

eismarck, N. D., June IL, 1914.
Temperature, 700 a. m. yesterday, 81
Highest temperature yesterday :. u
Lowest temperature yesterday -. AZ
Precipitation last "a hours -. Trace
Highest wind velocity and direc-
ton, yesterday ........ 12-4NOrth
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12

English railroad companies had a
summary and rather primitive way OF
dealing with delinquent servants in
their early days. For instance, a val.
liable piano was damaged in transit
on the liverpool and Manchester rail-
way in October, 1882, and a claim had
TO be paid. 1t was shown that the
damage resulted from careless sheet
ing, and the porters concerned we're
punished by having half the amount
OF the claim deducted from their
wages by instruments.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
All al for Music.

Nearly everybody nowadays pays
some attention to music and a very
great many people sem to regard It
as n of the modern arts. In arch.
lecture or sculpture in its impressive
phases m naturally goes back TO The
days OF ancient Greese and Rome.
When n regards painting the
thought centers on the time of Raph-
ael and Michael Angelo and with the
thought Of music as a fully constitu;-
ed art common consent seems to
point, .atv
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12

Must we give up the old nursery
rhymes for the children? Recently a
little girl, acting, it Is said, on the
Suggestion of ding, dong, bell
Pnssy's in the WELL" dropped a kit.
ten into a we'll in the garden and was
drowned next day in attempting to
get 1t out. The Animals Friend sees
in this instance "the d~emoralizing
effect of silly old nursery rhymes"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-12
AMERICAN FOOTBALL IN GER.
MANY,

Nothing has been more pronounced
in the German life of the past decade
than the eolutio1 Of sport. While
gymnastics (Turnen) have beer prac-
tlced for nearly a century and the in.
fluence of jain, the father of gymnast.
les, has permeated the whole nation,
inspired as he al by strong patriot
ism, it is only in recent years that the
Germans of all classes have developed
an interest in those sports which have
long occupied their neighbors across
the English Channel. The German
youth of today is adopting new Gus.
toms, and football promises in a mea
sure, to change the national. life.
In a recent article on the German
Football Association der Deutsche
Fussball Bu1d), from the pen of AL.
fred Rain, publisher Of the Deutsches
Jahrbuch, the situation is briefly DOR.
trayed:
There is no sport enjoying such fav.
or from young and old, great and
small, poor and rich, as football. rs
it, therefore, not natural that the pro.
mot2r OF the football movement in
Germany, the German Football Associ
alton. should, of all clubs cultivatine
physical exercise, have proportionally
the largest increase of members and
should now be the most powerful
sport organization in point of memb.
ers? 1t has already more than 200,
900 organized football players, which
constitute only a fraction of the tota1
number of Germans who play the
game. The constantly progressing in
naturalization of our fatherland has
exalted the sport movement and made
of the popular game football a socia1
and national factor of the first rank.