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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1915-05-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS OF
COUNTY AND STATE

In.one county in Wisconsin
$50, 900 will be spent on highways
The old settlers of Wells coun-
ty will have a reunion this sum-
mer at Fessenden.
Col. Roosevelt won the libel
suit at Syracuse and VIM. Barnes
will appeal the case.
McClusky will celebrate the
Fourth and have three days
base ball tournament.
The cakewalk is coming back
in style. The dancing teachers
can now begin all over again.
Work on the country club at
Mandan was started this week.
The building is to cost about $3,-
600.
Open air concerts are being
given in Williston and Minot.
They begin here on Memorial
Day.
Senator McCumber will give
an address at Wahpeton on June
%, the day Of the old settlers
celebration.
Kenmare will enjoy oiled
streets, something Valley City
tried but did not have the price
to- keep up.
The school attendance law is
being enforced in Williams coun-
ty and the perents are paying
fines as a result.
Wilton will celebrate the
Fourth of July on Saturday the
third. They carried out a sue
cessful program last year.
An old kettle containing 1920
was found in a tree near Balfour.
The money was that issued during
the civil war and is now obsolete.
DR.. Darrow Of Fargo gave a
stag dinner to thirty-five men,
many of whom were leaders in
the recent "dry campaign be-
fore Moorhead went dry.
Hundreds Of pennilessgand job
less Austrains and Russians tried
to get into the United States
from Canada this week but were
stopped at Emerson, Manitoba. 1
President Wilson has been
twice blessed within the year.
He now has two grandchildren.
A daughter was born to- Mrs. We
liam McAdoo last week. Her
name will be Ellen Wilson Nc
Adoo.
Cannon Falls (Minn.) Beacon:
The legislature voted six times
as much for hog cholera serum
as it did for diptheria serum for
the human. It appears that the
average Legislator considers a hog
worth six times as much as a.
human. A
The body of the seven year
old son Of Gus Soderberg, who
was drowned last November, was
found last week in the Red river
near Climax. Two other Soder-
berg children were drown at the
same time. One was found on
May 4.
It is estimated that no less
than g, 600 geese are feeding on
the fields south Of Buffalo, this
state. They went north, but not
finding water in sufficient guam
titles, drifted back. Farmers are
alarmed for fear that the young
wheat. will be damaged.
North Dskotans are speculat-
ing as to what the. new official
state census will show the popul-
alton % be. The final returns
will not be made to the secretary
Of state until July 10. The more.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1915-05-28

declare that the stork is going
to- work overtime in order that
at the next census taking the
present record may be surpassed.
An automobile road will be
buil+ from Harwood to Grandin,
by the county commissioners, it
assistance in sharing the expense
of the project will be given by
the township through which it
will pass. 1t IS also proposed by
the county commissioners to i'm
prove several other Of the roads
in Cass county.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1915-05-28

TO ONE IN PARADISE.
Thou vast that all to me. love,
For which my soul did pine
A green isle in the sea. love,
A fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with fairy fruits
and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
All, dream too bright to last!
All, starry hope. that didst
arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the future
cries.
ION. onw But DER the past
dim gulf3 My spirit hover.
ing lies,
Mute, motionless, aghast!
For, alas. alas. with me
The light Of life II DER!
No more, no more, no more
(Such language holds the solemn
sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder blasted
tree
Or the stricken eagle soar!
And all my days are frances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray, eye siances
And where thy footstep CLEANS.
In what ethereal dances.
BY what eternal streams.
Edgar Allan Poe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1915-05-28
Memorial Day
Program Prepared
Washburn Band, Boy Scouts and
Camp Fire Girls Will Head
Parade to Cemetery.
PROGRAM

b) My Dream OF the U.
S. A.
Lincoln s Gettysburg Address
Hon. Geo. P. Gibson.
Flag Drill-Boy Scouts.
Girls Glee Club
(a) Rally Round the Flag.
(b) Men of Harleck.
Drill-Camp Fire Girls.
Address-Hon. C. J.. Young.
Song-Battle Hymn of the Re
public, Audience.
The Memorial Day parade will
form at 1000 o'clock a. M, in
the square west Of the tennis
courts. The line of march to
Riverview cemetery will be az
follows:
Automobile Section:
Program committee with
the speaker Of the day.
The Veterans.
County Officials.
Citizens.
Section IL:
The Empty Saddle.
Washburn Concert Band.
Knights Of Pythias.
The Boy Scouts.
Camp Fire Girls.
School Children.
Citizens (in vehicles.)
Marshall Of the day j. H. Olse1
At the cemetery, after the de-
coration of the graves, appropri-
ate exercises will be held and
Hon. Geo. p. Gibson will deliver
an address. .vs
: (Signed,
Rev. j. &C. N. Pengelly
H. L. Whitlock
w. G.. Hendricks
Committee on Parade.
The above will be the program
for the Memorial Day exercises
to be held a. the Opera House
Monday, May 81, at two o o'clock:
The program will be preceded
by parade, in which the band,
Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls
will take part, followed by the
old soldiers and the carriages
and autos OF those who wish to
join. The parade will be formed
at ten % 'clock on upper Main
street and the march made to
Riveriew. cemetery where short
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
Are Colleges eood7
From the Pueblo Chiefta,l

In the May Woman's Home Com
panion Anne Bryan Mccall, writing a
Tower Room Talk" on The Indepen-
dent Woman" comments as follows on
women's colleges.
Tits h II objection that I see to
college, that it does often shut off a
girls life from the interests and com
partnership Of mems lives, and this at
a time, too. when each most needs the
inspiration Of the other: and tho
sometimes a girls college life seems to
tend to foster a kind of covert antag-
onisnl to men, or. what is perhaps
worse, a secret belief In the superior
ity Of women
what are the mothers thinking of.
I wonder, to allow their daughters to
grow up without any of, this fine
friendship and companionship? And
what are girls thinking of who limit
their ~companionship with men, as
many Of them do. to light f~lirtations
and banter. Or to a kind OF bridled an
tagonisrn, or who remain, shy, self
conscious, shut off from them alto
gether? Such girls are independent Of
men! Upon my word. yes-pitifully
so, 1t seems to met"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
CHILDREN OF FRANCE
LEARN HISTORY OF WAR

Correspondence Of the Associated Press,
Paris-The history of the war Is be-
ing taught to the children Of France as
it goes on. BY order Of the minister OF
public instruction the schools nave
observed a patriotic day. Every teach
er talked about the war n brought
out the patriotic character of the con-
flict from the French standpoint. There
followed a Belgian day devoted to King
Albert's heroic attitude, a Serbian day.
and a day consecrated to the praise Of
the celebrated three-inch field gun.
Instead of distracting the minds OF
the children from school work, the wal
has been made to heighten it's interest
and the attendance has been normal
throughout the winter. The greatest
difficulty was the necessity If finding
new quarters for the primary classes,
most Of the school houses having been
utilized by the army barracks and
hospitals. but this has been overcome,
The details Of instruction in mat
ters pertaining to the war are left to
the discretion Of the teachers. Some
of them read and comment upon The Of
fetal communicates. Others read the
exploits of officers and men as dis
closed by the citations in the orders of
the day, and many letters sent from the
front by soldiers of the vicinity are
read. 1t is often the soldier II person
who tells the little ones Of his ex-
periences. for many teachers, disabled
for further service in the army. have
returned to their school duties. Some
times 1t Is a soldier that has never
been a ~pedagogue who relates his ex-
perienceS.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
MAN TRIMS A PRIZE HAT
Did 1t to Prove His Argument About
Superiority of the Male
Sex.

Mere man has again proved his yer
satll1ty. 1t was only the other day
that Derwent Till, who, as everybody
in Bayonne knows, is the son of vii
liam Till, picked UP an old old argu.
ment with Mrs. Theodore Bayles, and
acclaimed:
"Who build the railroads? Who run
the big corporations and the weather
bureau? Who brings the money home
every Saturday night? Mem"
well" retorted Mrs. Bayles, pass
ing over an obvious remark about the
weather bureau, | would reply that you
cannot trim a hat"
And that is how the other night, I'M
der the critical eye of the Ladies' Aid
society of the First Reformed church,
of which Tillis father is the organist.
and Mrs. Bayles' husband the pastor.
the young protagonist of his sex set
men to prove his contentious. says the
New York Sun.
He proved them, and incidentally
won a prize for a cute little toque
with suffrage ribbons on it, the ribbons
showing that Mr.. Till is also some
thing of a diplomat.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27

MEMORIAL DAY.

Quarrel with the young for failure
properly to observe Memorial day is
quarrel with human nature. 1t is the
way of the world to look forward. in
age no less than in youth. For the
young there Is the promised harvest of
the later years, for the old the hope
of Immortality.
Seeing he leaf turn scar and yell
low and the snow carpet the earth,
men on that account do not despair,
as though winter marked the end
of all. There is the faith that the
birds will come ack to delight The
ear with song. that the colors of he
rainbow will be found in the tulip
and the deep red of the harvest moon
in the rose; that the fields will yield
again the staff of life and the waters
fish for food.
1t is this faith hi gives %sprightli-
ness TO the step and brightness to The
eye. 1t is the mothers faith as she
gives of her life to the sucking babe;
strength to the son sorry from sore
travail. 1t is. in its last analysis,
faith in God, and trust in His infinite
wisdom.
Memorial day has its value In re-
miuder. AS the trail blazer marks the
trees in the forest to guide his return
steps, so this day Is set aside to recall
to the living the service of the dead. If
a graveyard may be said to preach
Il sermon it is of counsel to the living
to take account of precedent; nor
slavish account, as though precedent
could not err. but to give cousidera-
ton to it in the measure Of its bear
ing on the throbbing life, and CLEAN
wisdom from its lessons. S~oliloquiZing
upon h grave of a veteran soldier
ones thoughts would tax in a nation.
rounded to secure justice which should
be one and indivisible, of men en-
chained by slavery, Of a war for their
liberation of lives offered in defense of
country and that it might survive; Of
wives widowed and children orphaned
and n soil drenched with blood.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
PEER WHO SWAN NIAGARA
Skeptical American Not Satisfied With
Desborough's Statement So His
Lordship Does 1t Again.

Among the peerage a fine patriotism
has been shown during the war, but no
member Of the nobility has interested
himself more in patriotic causes than
Lord Desborough.
He is known as one Of the most re-
markable sportsmen of the day, but
very few people are aware that he
has swum Niagara Falls on two sepa-
rate occasions.
After accomplishing the feat ono
he was about to return to England,
and before the boat sailed was discuss
ing the subject with some friends.
An American, who was standing by,
skeptically at last broke in with: did
l hear you say you had swum Mia
gara?" "
Yes, I have,"y answered his lord
ship.
That's not good enough" laughed
the Yankee. mo man could attempt
it and come out alive"
Lord Desborough shrugged his
shoulders.
Then | had better go back and
swim 1t again" he said. So, to the
amazement Of the American, he calmly
went back and swan Niagara for the
second time.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
TERRITORIAL TROOPS
BEST, FRENCH CLAIMS

London (Correspondence~of The
Associated Press). The more he has
seen of the territorials, says Sir John
French in his Neuve Chapelle dispatch,
the more he has been impressed with
their value. Sir Johns words, They
acquitted themselves with the utmost
credit" ave taken all of the vino out
of the campaign to fix CONSUMPTION on
Great Britain.
The British territorial system is
practically the same as the national
guard of the United States, without the
political weaknesses of the American.
So far as organization, service and
equipment go, the systems of the two
countries are Identical. The men en-
list for the same period and in peace
times drill for o the am number
of hours weekly and spend the same
length of time in annual maneuver
They wear almost the same uniform.
But instead of suffering from state
politics, as in America. the British SER
vice is directly under the war depart
ment. which appoints the colonel in
command. The colonel, in turn, passes
on the qualifications of the officers,
who receive commissions from the war
office. This method Of differing the
terrltorlals is much more effective both
tS W dlSCllllllS ana elllCieIlCy ludI Inc
American method of letting the men
elect their w officers on the basis Of
personal popularity instead of profess
sional fitness.
Territorials in time of peace enlist
for home service only. But by the
simple process Of volunteering for for
elgn service they become volunteers
without the elaborate process of trans
ferrlng accounts from state to federal
government as in vogue in the United
States, which involved a vast amount
or clerical work and red tape.
In the present war, over 80 per cent
of the territorials are known to have
volunteered, and of these the larger
part are already serving in France or
Egypt. They enlist under the general
volunteer act for three years or the
end of the war.
One advantage of the territorial
army over the regulars lies in the vari-
Gus kinds of skilled men in the ranks,
who with little training can TURF their
trades or professions to the use of war.
The territorial supply of doctors has
been a needed help.
When a foreign service battalion is
sent away a home battalion takes its
place. 1t is curious to know that the
territorial force has proved more at
tractive to recruits than kitchener's
army.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
WOMEN OF PARIS ARE
DOING MOST OF WORK

Paris.-(Correspondence of the As
ISOLATED Press). T~hirty-two per cent
OF the Work formerly done in Paris by
men street SWeepers, subway guards,
elevator attendants. trolley car con-
ductors and telegraph operators. is now
lone by women.
Every reimbursement or administra-
tive district in Paris has a municipal
employment agency, where employers
who want help n persons who want
work register. No other agencies are
recognized by law. The employer must
pay the nominal fees. Inquiries at va
rious bureaus show that among labor
ing classes ervants suffer most from
n war. Most French families reduced
the wages of their servants the first
week OF mobilization. and many We're
discharged. There are now long wait
ing list OF servants. looking for any
sort Of employment. This category in.
cludes many ~governesses and private
tutors, who, owing TO the economy
campaign in French families. find
themselves out of work.
Two months ago, there We're 20 per
cent more dressmakers and tailors' as
sistants out of employment than at
present. showing that with the coming
OF spring, fashions are again receiving
some attention.
Fol- certain branches OF office en-
ployment, such as messengers. offices
boys n porters, more applications are
received from employers than can be
tiled. The scarcity has led to the in
crease in wages from 5 to 10 per cent
as youths are being continually sum
moned to 1oin the colors with the rev
classes. On the other hand, highly
trained employees, accountants, book
Keepers, stenographers, office managers
n typists find difficulty in securing
situations. as the majority of large Of
fees v either adopted a policy of
r~etrenchment, or are holding open the
vacancies caused by the mobilization OF
former employees.
Hitherto it has been the custom for
an applicant for a position to state the
minimum salary required, also the
kind of employment desired. AT pres
emit many say that they will perform
n duty. even the most mental, and
will rely on the bounty Of their EN-
ployer.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
II SECRET

II good coffee is to get pure, sound coffee.
If you ask your dealer he will tell you
that all coffees are pure, as the law pro-
hibits the sale of substitutes as coffee.
Not al! apples are pure although they
are apples. Some of them are often rotten.
Some coffees are windfalls, and whilst
the law allows them to be called coffee
they are impure and have a harsh taste.
Denison's Coffees are picked %coffees, the
berries picked by hand from the trees.
consequently they are always pure and
sound in every sense of the word, reliable
and delicious.
Denison's Cotfees are always packed in
cartons, bags or cans with the name on
every package. All others are limitations.
If your grocer does not stock Denison's
Coffees, write the Denison Coffee Co, Chi
cago, H., who will tell you where they
can be obtained in your vicinity.-Adv.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
Low Mound In tho Wilderness

j know a grave on southern soil,
A lonely little mound,
Where three tall pines their sentry keep
And scare Il sound
The silence breaks. Naught but the
rush
OF storms, the caroling bird,
And soughing wind among the trees
Is eve heard.
No human hand has touched that low
Green tent" for 80 years.
The falling rain and shimmering dew
The only tears
Have been that moistened it. But far
North. where the cold waves foam,
A mother mourns her drummer boy
Who ne'er am home.
But think not while a nation decks
The graves of hero dead
That where this brave boy sleeps no
Rests DER his head;
For. blown by breath Of God. kept by
His hand a poppy seed
Took root and grew 1000 fold.
Its every need
BY Him supplied. And when each year
Flowers deck the patriots tomb
That low mound in the wilderness
Is all abloom.
And ever DER the drummer boy
The tall pines sentry keep,
And ever blooms. a crimson pail
The flower of Sleep"
Virginia Bioren Harrison.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
American EHic;.ncv

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune
a leading English newspaper, the Man
chester Guardian, devotes a column OF,
cheney as demonstrated In the relief OF
Belgium. That relief work. which the
Guardian describes as among the entirely
has brought Dug pa aheut ."'h e aes Whled Il th1 tb,n Mar
TO provide zone of the most Inspiring
pages Of American history" Swiftly re.
yiewing the terrible straits TO- which the.
Belgian people We're reduced In Septem-
Der last, the Guardian declares that Bel.
Eium,s need was desperate, Immediate.
and alsaarently impossible to meet. Amer
week or two, from nothing. one OF The
biggest and most amazingly efficient brsi-
ness concerns the world has ever seen,
and applying 1t to charity. = The
slower moving people will not In future
forget that the spirit they call American
saved Belgium from starvation, that
America made good where an ounce less
OF well directed hustle might have cost a
thousand lives"
!. I. r tr 4 ,,t,,a y. we, we think b ksasssryed: The
g6y the testimony 81 practicaliy ali eye
witnesses. regardless OF their nationality,
Amazingly efficient. This 10 not by any
mea's : !. the first demonstration Of amaz-
Ing efficiency by Americans. They have
a Wv of meeting emergencies that usually
:cctnpels the admiration of foreign observ-.
eHs, Why is Y. than. that the Slower
Gssin describes them, put 1t over tho
Americans In 80 many cid where COM
PARSONS are possible and inevitable? For
example. patriotic Americans frankly con-
Tess the superiority of municipal govern
ment In some OF the European countries.
Both German and British t~hcroughness
In trade y industry are mentioned FREE
squertly to our disadvantages. In for
eign trade fields our European competi-
tors have surpassed us. and nearly all
comparisons Of trade getting methods In
th0Ae fields are ate0ur expense.
With hts ability resourcefu4ness, inia-
tive and energy. the American combines,
~ IL evident; suIldry defects which cost
him dearly at home. and through which
fiS European rivals profit in competitive
fields. For the good nature or Indifference
which permits inefficient n wasteful
government, he pays millions annually.
Ills mistakes In foreign trade getting,
which he Ii slow to correct, though they,
ave been repeatedly pointed out. cost
az I'm other millions Ia loss OF obtainable
sstBireSs. Yet In great emergencies he
.:::.ss..s5a a.ssssits with mis- coit. and dis
the same well directed hustle" and re-
aourcefuaness and skill that worked what
Manchester Guardian calls q miracle
IN. BAlgthm. Americans may seize the full
poesi6les advantage, from the trade
sKettinx opportunity now offering. why
M clAaetfy that opportunity as d great
s01nArkeDcYaandsme id with an .amaxing
SeelcteaSyYtha may be hardened. with
s0fActtceT&intO habit?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
HESOLDIERIKNEW JEST

tablet flecked ground Of Chattanooga
and the inspiring heights of Lookout
mountain. l saw the fields where
man thousands of men. some in blue
and some in gray, had lain down their
llves together. | marked the inter
rows of marble slabs which a
grateful government had erected in
their memory. And when l came back
the simple annal Of the soldier / knew
pest were glorified to me forever. |
am not much given to sentimental dis
play The we'll spring of my enthu-
slasm never gushes. But the little
bronze button and the men entitled to
wear 1t are II part of the mummery
or my life.-Dodd CASTOR.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-27
"one Day Not Al, do Days"
From the Christian Herald.

From the Christian Herald.
Africa Is a remarkably beautiful
country. It's coast lines are picturesque.
graceful, fascinating. alluring. It's sea-
port towns and cities are usually clean,
pretty and reasonably healthfui. Equa-
torial Africa has, until the last two
decades. been called the white mans
graveyard, but clean living, quinine,
mosquito netting, sobriety and sanitary
improvements have made Africa a
place where n can not only exist, but
live in as much comfort, take it all in
all during the ear as In the city Of
New York, and with some advantages
in favor Of Africa.
L.!se IS simple, placid. calm, and moi
so complex. The work life IS not siren
ous The people do not rush and
drive as they do here at home. II you
try to hurry a man who is working for
YOU he will calmly tell you. zone day be
not all de days. daddy" And you stand
rebuked. for 0 know he is telling you
the truth.