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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-03-18
Personal Points

Location-Dr. Fitzgerald Den
fist. Stern Block. 11-15tf
Read the Times and keep post
ed.
Mrs. Oscar Hanson is suffer-
ing from lagrippe.
Peschel's grocery got a new
hardwood floor the past week.
Senator McCumber is visiting
the expositions in California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Olaf Olson spent
the past week at Vining, Mimi.
Miss Eleanor Weisert visited
at her home in Fargo, last Sun
day.
Mrs. George Meahle is suffering
from a severe attack of pneumon-
ia.
Voves Bros. are flashing new
spring coat on their delivery wa
gon.
Mrs. Maertz spent Monday at
Abercrombie, visiting the schools
there.
M. A. Wipperman of Hankin-
son has been suffering from la
grippe.
John Weber of Mooreton trans
acted business in this city last
Saturday.
Frank Sandra of Fargo is
spending a few days here with his
mother.
Pete Smith of Kent, Mimi,
transacted business here Monday
and Tuesday.
Deputy Sheriff R. v. McMichael
made an official visit to Wynd-
mere, last Friday.
Mrs. j. Silvernail of Cayuga is
visiting this week with her son
John and family.
Chas. Klein and C.. McGregor of
Fargo visited friends here last
Saturday and Sunday.
j. P. Olson of the sheriff's Of
flee made a business trip to Fair
mount, last Thursday.
Utmer Manchester and A.
aduSkeu SpenL laSL saturday anu
Sunday at Lidgerwood.
Dan Oslund has bought resi-
dence lot on Fifth ST., and may
build on it this summer.
E. Meyers and v. Beginner of
Crookston were business visitors
in this city last Saturday.
Mrs. M. Sandvig, of Plentywood,
Mont, is visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Forman.
Morley Kelly spent last Friday
and Saturday in Valley City. He
reports a very pleasant time.
There was north wind last
Monday and Tuesday, but the
snow disappeared fast anyway.
Miss Lena Schmidt of Aber-
crombie is in Superior, Wis, Wis
iting with an aunt who is ill.
G. L. Harris has bought a fine
residence lot on Eighth st., and
may build on it this summer yet,
Mrs. Homan Anderson and
children, of First ST., visited rela-
tives in Fergus Falls, last Satur-
day.
S. j. and Vim. Forbes of Mar
shall, MIMI, spent the week end
here with their brother, J. G.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-03-18
On. PFlsrER, DENTIST
Over Dietz & Murray's
Phone SOP

B. +. Lounsbury is again on our
streets; after a visit of two weeks
at the old home in Wisconsin.
George Wralstad, jr., is at
home this week visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Wralstad.
ST.
DR.. Pfister has bought a lot on
Seventh ST., and we shall look for
a new residence on it this sum-
mer.
John silvernail, Jr., has re-
turned home to this city after
spending the winter at eastern
points.
Ellen and Charles Bailey of
Hannibal. Mo-, visited with their
brother, j. A. Bailey and family,
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Robinson OF
Colfax visited at the w. j. Robin
son home over Saturday and
Sunday.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-03-18
CABS"
BILLIARD PARLOR
cARoM AND POCKET BILLIARDS
BASEMENT OF NEW STERN BLOCK
CABS
ALBERT wEIMAR, Proprietor
uIuu nHU Mu I!|u lIIu NUu DIIu TIu II|u IIIu ITIn

Mrs. +. H. Henderson and Miss
Edith Glass of White Rock Visited
at the S. H. Miner home over Sun
day. Mrs. Henderson is sister of
Mr.. Miner.
County Judge Van Arnam and
County Superintendent Hanson
iourneyed to Walcott, Tuesday, to
vote at the annual spring cleo
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. G. Fandel and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Mccoy spent
a delightful evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. j. P. O'Brien last
night.
Jack Hagen and Art Gilsby of
Fargo were Wahpeton visitors
last Friday while en- route to
Fergus Falls to attend the Elks
meeting.
A. G.. Divet and James McCann
of this city were initiated into the
mysteries of the first degree of
Elkdom at Fergus Falls, last Fri
day night.
Arthur and Herbert Hodel, ac-
companied by w. S. Simard, de-
parted monday morning for Far
go, where they expect to transact
some business.
The two little Sherley boys, LIE
Roy and Walter, of Christine,
were Sunday and Monday guests
at the home of County Superin-
tendent Hanson.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-03-18
We do pressing, clean
mn alfanlnn md nan a lnlnn

We do pressing, clean
ing. altering and repairing
Of mems and ladies' gar
ments. Our dry cleaning
plant is the best equipped
to be found west Of the
Twin Cities and the work
we turn out Is second to
none.
Our charges are very
reasonable. " your clothes
are dirty and greasy we can
make them look like now.
Hats cleaned and block
ed
Ladies' white short.
gloves cleaned. TOO. Give
US a trial.
Phone No. 345, and We
will call and deliver.
0PPlE8' f000ERY,
If. Wahpeton, N, D.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-03-18

II $500 Is your price
for a suit Of clothes, you
want to get the best you
can for that money, don't
your 0ppIe's Toggery
specialize at that price.
$500 no moro and no less
In ready-to-Wear suits for
mon and young mon. All
sizes 80 to e.
You should SEQ them.
"a 3m
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-03-18
Meat Grinder Accidentally ac-

Neat Grinder Accidentally ac-
cident Mrs. w. p. Cairncross
started to make sausage meat of
one of her fingers, getting it
caught in meat grinder, Monday.
A doctor sewed up the finger and
now it is healing nicely.
The Paramount Pictures The
Patchwork girl of or at Braun's
last Saturday was an excellent
fairy tale. This is one of the
Paramount picture shows and
Braun's has a future program
which embraces the best in the
Paramount line.
Oldest Court Reoord-The old
est court record of the county is
that of w. A. Seeley & Co., VS..
knute Nepstad & Co., in which the
summons and complaint were fill
ed July 31st, 18S2-nearly SO
years ago. j. H. Miller was then
clerk and N. G.. Herring was his
deputy. Probably the most inter
esting fact connected with this
oldest court record Of the county
is that w. E. Purcell was an at
torney for the plaintiff, the firm
name being Pyatt & Purcell.
Thirty-three years is a long while
for an attorney to have continu-
ously practiced law in the same
Dakota town.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
MAKING BULLETS

From Chambers Journal
Considerable interest has been aroused
in metallurgical circles by the perfec-
ton in America of new machine for
automatically casting rods of metal In one
operation by means of a specially designed
machine. At present this apparatus is
Of more than usual interest, for the simple
reason that by recent improvement it
is now possible to cast rods of lead ard
soft alloys in bars one quarter of an inch
and upward in diameter. The casting of
such rods enables the production of bullets
for shrapnel shell to be expedited and
facilitated to an enormous extent, mas
much as the preparation of the rod consti-
tutes the first stage in the bullet-maSing
process. BY means of this machine suffi.
cient lead rod can be cast to enable 200, 900
bullets to be produced per hour. The pro-
cess is not only rapid and automatic, but
it has the advantage of being very ci1eao
The electric motor for driving the ma
chine need only be of two or three horse-
power, while only one workman is re-
quired. 1t is stated by the inventor that
the operating cost in America is about
shilling per ton of molten metal poured
into the form of rods The outstanding
feature of the system is the di-Sct trans
ference of the hot liquid metal from the
melting crucibles into the machine DUR
ing the passage through which solidifica-
ton takes place, the rod issuing from the
opposite end in a continuous length OF
solid homogeneous form so long as moi
ten metal is being poured into the ma
chine
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
THE HoHENzoLLERNs
From the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journal.
This year marks the five hundredth an
niversary of the accession of the Hohen-
zollern family to sovereign rank, and the
two hundred and fifty-eighth anniversary
of the birth of Frederick l., the first OF
the Hohenzollerns to rule over Prussia as
King. 1t was in 1415 that Frederick l. of
Nuremberg, of the house of Hohenzollern,
was made Elector of Brandenberg by the
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
The dynasty continued to rule as Mar
graves or Electors of little Brandenberg
until 1918, when John Sigismund assumed
also the title of Duke of Prussia. Fred
erick Ill, eleetor of Brandenberg and
Duke of Prussia, who was crowned king
in 1701, was born in Konigsberg on July
%, 1851. The Hohenzollerns had long COW
eted the title of King, and this elector
achieved this ambition, assuming the
title of Frederick L., King of Prussia in
1701, when he placed the crown upon his
head with his own hands. He was thrice
married His third spouse became insane,
but Frederick was kept in ignorance of
the fact until one day she escaped and
rushed into his apartment, SO terrifying
the King by her wild actions that he never
recovered from the shock. The present
Kaiser of Germany is the twenty-frst
Hohenzollern sovereign, and the ninth
King of Prussia. and the third Emperor
of Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22

article saying 1t would be senseless to
go to war with America over the
Lusitania, If any honorable way could
be found to prevent it.
Both of these parties number adj
herents who have great influence on
affairs in Germany and they are
struggling for supremacy while taking
it for granted that German arms will
be victorious. In the demand for the
annexation of Belgium may be seen
the natural result of militaristic
policy, while the opposition aroused
to this plan seems to represent the
more liberal and humane thought of
the empire, which fears that the vault
ing ambition of the Prussian militar-
lists may prove menace to the well
fare of Germany in the future.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22

ionship of the beauties of the stage.
olnnati
In my home town the stars of vau-
deville and of opera have admirers
among the well to do bachelors and So
ciety youth and when once these fell
lows get the stage craze nothing, it
seems, is able to shake their infatu-
alton except one or two real hard
jolts.
AS matter of fact the average
actress Is not such a cruel person as
Is often painted Naturally they take
pleasure In 'stringing the egotistic city
fellow sport but this. l believe, Is all
IN the game Taken as a class, stage
people are decidedly human and the
so-called artistic temperament only
neightens' the pleasure of the casual
acquaintanceship. This kind of thing,
however, Is most too rich for a steady
diet and sooner or later the disillus-
sionment is sure to come to the man
who invades the green room.
: Actresses of course have their little
weaknesses. Nothing pleases the chorus
girl more than an opportunity to hum
some vaudeville -ditty off the stage
which may have made hit with her
audience and in the course of ordi-
nary conversation two girls will often
casually pull off some dialogue which
they have acted to the edification of
new companions The girls have
great time. As l heard one remark
once, they say, we may well be com
pared to the sailor, for we have
sweetheart In every port
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22

uglier than it ever could have beer
otherwise. This is the way most re-
demption is wrought. Many wife has
saved drunken husband by simply
sacrificing herself to his sin-suffer-
ing with him the ignominy of his
weakness and vice, until terrible
revulsion is born in his soul. Many a
lover of his kind has gone into the
plague-spots of the earth and re-
deemed the jewellers there by exactly
the same process. Christ does this
supremely for the reason that no other
sufferer with men for men has had
or can have His perfection of charac-
ter.
2. He makes US love holiness. It is
not enough to hate sin. That is only
negative. We must see and espouse a
positive ideal. Christ presents that
ideal. Alongside the ugliness of our
sin we view with new eyes the lowell
ness of His holy life.
This is the very natural way, in
which God works His supernatural
purpose. The miracle of regeneration
is not lessened in power or grace be-
cause we see it moving along natural
lines. But this is not all; nor can all
be written. But one more thing must
be mentioned.
3. He gives US the right idea about
God. We have our hatred of sin and
a new ideal of life; but we are afraid
of God He seems hard and distant.
Where fear is there can be no saliva
ton; because fear is unhappiness and
weakness, and salvation is happiness
and strength. And communion with
God, comradeship with God, is the
very crown of saved life.
Christ, then, does away with the
fear and the distance which are be-
tween us and God, by assuring us that
God is as He is. He is that very image
of God. He and the Father are one.
If He is. gentle, and full of compass
sion and understanding, and ready to
forgive, so is God. The mere change
of the minds attitude towards God
may mean the difference between hap
piness and unhappiness, between
strength and weakness, between
heaven and hell. To look on God as an
enemy is death in life; to look on God
as friend and father is to enter into
that companionship which is the high
est privilege Of the human soul.
HENRY NJ. EDMONDS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
Policy of Deliberatio

otipH why vi DtGDE1dliO1i
If the sinking of the White Star
liner Arabic by German submarine,
resulting in the loss of two American
lives, does not come within the defini-
ton of deliberately unfriendly,n it
will be difficult to imagine what else
it could mean.
1t had been hoped that President
Wilson's last note to the German gov
eminent, to all intents and purposes
an ultimatum, would put a stop to the
torpedoing without warning of vessels
carrying American passengers. But
no such change in German policy hav-
ing been made, the situation becomes
all the more grave. There are. many
reasons why Germany could i'll afford
to engage in war against the United
States.
But unless Berlin can offer,
within the next few days, some
explanation of the sinking of the
Arabic that will satisfy the Washing
ton government, there will be nothing
left for President Wilson to do but
hand the German ambassador his
passports and recall Ambassador
Gerard. Further action would be with
Congress.
Tense as the relations are between
Germany and the United States the
state department feels that a diplo-
matte rupture may be averted. At
any rate the administrations policy
of deliberation is right and it should
have the cordial Endorsement of all
patriotic Americans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
Woman! Oh, Womani

Verify mans life span is long and
beset with varied troubles-not the
least of these frequently being the
effort to please friend wife.
Great abuse has been melted out to
man because he loved not his mother
in-law; indeed that lack has oft got
ten him into difficulty with his part
ner and brought upon his defenseless
head the barbed edge of jest and joke
perpetrated by the alleged humorist
in funny papers
At least one man, George Sangui-
netti, says the San Francisco Bulletin.
determined to set good example. He
resolved to treat his mother-in-law
with such courteous consideration that
Mrs. George would adore him as a
model husband.
But did it work out that way?
No indeed-his wife is suing him
for divorce, basing the action that
Sanguinetti asked her for her mothers
picture and insisted upon giving his
mother-in-law the only feather bed in
the house.
Woman was ever inconsistent, but
it seemeth her caprices grow ever
more incomprehensible, and who shall
say what will please certain of the
gentle sex?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
The Anti-Cigarette Measure

just as the old prejudice against the
cigarette is dying out certain members
of the Alabama legislature have been
urging the passage of an anti-cigar-
cite bill-a bill prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes in this state.
There is already law against the
sale of cigarettes to minors, and it
is good law. Tobacco is a stimulant
that is practically harmless to adults
when used in moderation, just as the
moderate use of tea or coffee is harm
less. But the boy who abstains from
coffee and tobacco is all the better off.
Years ago there was popular no.
ton that every whiff of cigarette
smoke was injurious; that it was, in
deed, just SO much poison. But the
highest medical and scientific authori
ties have long since exploded that
fallacy.
The London Lancet, than which
there is no higher authority, after
having made thorough investigation
OF the cigarette and it's effects on the
lungs and heart, reached the conclu-
sion that its temperate use was in no.
wise injurious. Scores of tests have
been made in university laboratories
and the results have been substantial
ly the same. The cigarette was found
to contain "less nicotine than any
other form of tobacco product"
Fanatics there are who would stop,
If they could, the use of tobacco alto
gether. Anti-tobacco societies exist
and if the agitators had their way
cigars and pipes would be seen no
more. People who believe in sumptu-
airy legislation cannot conceive of such
a thing as personal liberty in matters
OF innocent stimulation. But for
tunately not all so-called temperance
folks are so extreme. Thousands and
thousands of prohibitionists use to-
bacco and thousands of them who do
not are not averse to seeing their
neighbors indulge in pipe, cigar or
cigarette.
If the anti-cigarette bill, now on
the senate calendar, were to become a
law the state of Alabama would be
cut out of something like 100000 a
year in the way of revenue. But the
principle of the matter should deter
mine in all such questions. The anti
cigarette bill, if it ever comes to
vote, should be and doubtless will be
defeated by an overwhelming ma
jority.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
PUNS ON NAMES
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe
F THE man who would make a pun
would pick pocket, what are we to
= say of the abandoned creature who
makes jokes upon proper names? He
may not know it, but he is ripe for
penal servitude. Everybody with name
upon which punning is possible remem-
bers the anguish of the first days at
school. when, trembling wretch, he had to
disclose his unfortunate cognomen to in
quisitorial bigger boys and watched with
apprehension as the possibilities of the
name for word-play brought a delighted
grin to the face of the questioner. And the
sorrows crown of sorrow was that every
pun: SO that to the dignity of having
ones name made the subjetc of jest and
mirth was added the intense ennui pro-
duced by listening to the same not-too-
brilliant jeu desprit over and over again.
Schoolboys are very tenacious of any
thing that appeals to their crude sense
of humor; and the unhappy new boy was
never allowed to hear the last of the ex-
quisite joke.
There are certain formulate about name
jokes In the ranks of our regular army.
Every recruit called Murphy is imme-
diately rechrlstened "Spud"-the deriva-
ton is obvious. Also, in the same way a
Lee becomes gypsy" his comrades
reigning to believe that he must of ne
cessity belong to the famous Romany
family. All Clarks Cor Clarkes) are
MODIFY" but the applicability of this
nickname is a mystery.
In the days of Theodore Hook and his
merry friends, jokes upon proper names
were quite the thing; and while the
auditors grinned. the victims bore the in
Fiction with as much dignity as he could
summon up. AS a specimen of Hookian
wit Of this kind the following may serve:
A humorist of this epoch q am not quite
sure whether it was the sprightly 'Theo-
dore himseify invited to the house of
Mr.. Pepper. greeted his host with the
words: How happy you must be, Mr..
Pepper, to see your friends all mus
tered" A better instance, perhaps, s
Hooks improptu when tax collector
called Winter was seen to at the
door:
Here comes Mr. Winter. collector of
taxes;
I advise you to pay him whatever he
axes
You had much better pay him without
any fiummery;
Though Winters his name. his proceed
ings are summary"
This form of pun is no new one m
deed Even in the seventeenth century
it rankly f1ourished. During the proteco-
rate some of the late Kings adherents,
drinking together. would follow crumb
Of bread with draught of wine, and
then utter the pious wish: GOD send
this crumb we'll DOWN. No follower Of
Oliver could possible object to such an
innocent wish
Even the solemnity Of our law courts
has been disturbed by the name pun.
There il story about . certain barrister
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-22
ALL IS DISCORD
rom the Pittshurg Sun.

From the Pittsburg Sun.
The United States industrial commits
sion is endeavoring to formulate its re-
port on the nations industrial condition
and the members are so much at logger
heads that it looks as though there were
to be three reports made to Congress- All
efforts to arrive at an agreement have
proven futile. There are three reports
and a supplemental statement by Chair
man Walsh, all of which are to be made
public August % or thereabouts. One of
the reports was prepared by the commits
sions experts on the testimony ten
tative report by Professor Commons, one
by Weinstock and lastly the chairman
gives his personal views.
This apparently irreconcilable divergence
of opinion practically nullifies any good
that might have come from the inves-
tigation. The varied reports would seem
to indicate that facts have been perverted
to suit the purchase of the investigator.
How many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars have been expended by this commits
sion will be disclosed eventually, and it
Is extremely doubtful IL tue-sONtiHihSht
will derive a single beneficial idea from
the activities of the body. The attitude
assumed by Chairman Walsh at the very
outset of the investigation was at variance
with his position and the purposes of the
commission of which he was the head. He
stated uneauivocaly that he did not APP
proach the task with judicial poise. In
other words his mind was not receptive to
truths but was unauallfiedly biased.
The oftener we have commissions bent
either on Investigations or exertng adj
ministrative functions the less one Is in
clined to look with favor upon them. In
every state there are too many commits
sions, and when New Jersey wiped them
all out and turned the work they pre-
viously performed over TO one body it ac-
complished praiseworthy piece of work.
The industrial commission fiasco surprises
few people. -