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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10
At owser S
Point
Jessie Lost Her Voice and
Suddenly Found 1t.
By DONALD ALLEN,

Towser's Point was owned by
Farmer Towser, and Farmer Towser
and his good wife were uncle and
aunt to Miss Jessie Carnot, whose
father was lawyer in the city and
who had come to the point to spcnd
the summer and be coddled up like
d child Of ten.
"My stars, but how handsome she
isl" exclaimed Aunt Rebecca.
"she's certainly as clipper as the
chippcrest, and if there were forty
fellers around here they'd all be
after her. added Uncle Joe.
Opposite Towser's Point were
Bayside and Penny Cove and Lob
ster Beach. At all these resorts
there were numerous camping par
ties, Uncle Joe had a skitf, and
Miss Jessie took to boating and fish.
ing at once. She had not been out
more than three times when she
came home one day and said:
"Aunty. something's got to be
done"
"Well, tell Uncle Joe, aud he'll
sure do it,"
"But / don't want q new fish line
or anything Of that kind. There's a
camp OF men across the bay, and
this morning two Of them came out
ia a boat and fished right where /
was fishing | heard them talking
about me to themselves, bat / never
looked up. just know they will
make some excuse to speak to me-
MEN are dreadful crcatures--all
but your Uncle joe" signed Aunt
Rebeeca.
'tBut what shall do? want to
row and fish,
III 1t was me Id keep my eyes
on my fish line and my mouth shut,
/ Fhat'n discourage them. II it don't
| Ill have Uncle Joe row out there
| and tell them that speaking 10 a
/ good looking girl unless she wants
to be spoken to is the same as as.
sault and battery
/ "Oh, aunt. but you've given me
IN idea~--sueh an idea! Whyl il
will be the funniest thing in the
/ world. 1t will he such a joke on
them. You and Uncle Joe must
help me-"
"Wc certainly will. child"
'8rhen I'm going to play deaf and
dumb, II they speak to ME I'll
make motions that | cant talk,
Some Of them may come over here
/ for vegetables some day, and you
mustn't let on. Say, il will be i'm,
mensel I'll be deaf and dumb this
very afternoon"
swell, ii won't do no great
harm,' was Uncle Joe's reply wltal
| he came in to dinner. "I4ots of wo-
men ought to be more deaf aud
dumb than they are. Too much
| hearing, too much talking'a
| "And lots Of men folks ought t.
| be made to sew on their own patches
| and do their own darning," was tn,
retort Of the wife, and then the sub.
/ iect was closed.
That afternoon as Miss Jessie
rowea out to the oyster beds anc
dropped her line boat with a sin.
! gle occupant came stealing acres:
the bay. lie was young man. ans
1 he seemed to find it hard work t,
4 locate, himself to WOO the fish, III,
! threw out his line here and there
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10
The hookah In India.

The hookah is smoked as q re-
freshment and sign of fellowship
by the natives of India and not
merely as luxury. When group
of natives are seated together and,
as is the custom, the hookah is
passed around to each in turn, it il
considered very bad manners for
any one to decline to have a few
puffs. Ii the hookah is thus re-
fused in a friends house or while
one is the guest of another it is re-
garded as an insult. If for any rea-
son a native is put out of caste
the fact is strictly marked by his
former caste fellows refusal to
smoke with him, and any one who
eats, drinks or smokes with an out
cast is himself outcast. Chamber5
Journal.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10

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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10
Drowned Fish.

They have curious way of catch
ing fish in some parts of Japan.
Herbert L. Pointing in his book on
Lotus Land Japan" describes some
traps which he found in one Of the
rivers of Full. "They were set in
artifcially damned up narrows and
consisted Of long, conical bamboo
baskets tied to poles. The fish
bound downstream rush headlong
into these traps and, being unable
to return or even turn around, are
speedily drowned. Curious as this
may seem, it is yet but matter Of
few minutes to drown a fish hold
head downward to swift current"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10
An Untimssy JeI<s.

Here's the clockmaker cone 10
repair our sitting room clock said
a humorist's wife. won't You 70
mp and get it for him p ssWhy, Ii
isn't upstairs. IS it?' he replied laxi-
~. 30f course it is. Where did.
You think il wasy ooh. / thought
il had run DOWN.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10


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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-10

and dining room in her orderly, eff
fective way "a way businesslike,
eminently womanly and good. The
waste apparent everywhere annoyed
her thrifty soul. She set the table
with fresh cloth and put a good
supper to cook on the stove she had
blackened. 1t was nearing 6 o'clock.
After little Jimmy awoke and
without warning began to cry, re-
fusing to tell what troubled him,
but denying that il was his foot.
Finally Ann got low rocker. took
the child in her arms and began to
rock him. Great boy that he was,
- masglsd h har. hia unlorAa lii
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
BEGIN HOT WAITER
DRINKING lF YOU
DON'T FEEL RlGmT
Says glass Of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes. out poisons.

II you wake up with a bad taste, bad
breath and tongue is coated; II your
head is dull or aching; IL what you eat
sours and forms gas and acid In stom-
ach, or you are bilious, constipated,
nervous, sallow and can't get feeling
just right, begin inside bathing. Drink
before breakfast, a glass Of real hot
water with a teaspoonful Of limestone
phosphate in it,. This win flush the
poisons and toxins from stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels and cleanse,
sweeten and purify the entire alimen.:
tary tract. Do your inside bathing i'm
mediately upon arising in the morning
to wash out of the system all the pre-
vious days poisonous waste, gases and
sour bile before putting more food into
the stomach.
To feel like young folks feel; like
YOU felt before your blood. nerves and
muscles became loaded with body i'm.
purities, get from your pharmacist a
quarter pound of limestone phosphate
which is inexpensive and almost taste
less, except for a sourish twinge which
is not unpleasant.
Just as soap and hot water, act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, 80 hot water and limestone
phosphate act on the stomach, liver.
kidneys and bowels. Men and women
who are usually constipated. bilious,
headachy or have any stomach dis
order should begin this inside bathing
before breakfast. They are assured
they will become real cranks on tho
subject shortly.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
THE BURNETT BILL,

From the big house vote in favor
Of the Burnett immigration BILL sos
to 81, it might be supposed that its
enactment is assured. The president
Is expected to veto it. for. the same
reason that he vetoed similar meas.
ure last year-because OF its discrim
ination against immigrants who can
not read. But the advocates OF the
Burnett bin seem confident that they
can pass it over his veto.
II precedent counts for anything,
they need not be too confident. There
we're only "a votes against the immi.
grafton bill last year, and yet when
it came to the question of passing 1t
over the presidents head the support
ers failed to muster the necessary
two.thirds. 1t was the same with the
bill that went through Congress in
the Taft administration. II command.
ed big majority in both branches,
and the Senate re.enacted it over
President Taft's veto. But when Il
came back to the House. the opposi
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
BIG Comedy FEATURE
At GRAND TODAY

May irwin, the distinguished COM
edienne and star of a great number of
Successful comedies, plays the title
role in the film production of the most
celebrated Of all her stage triumphs,
that screamingly funny farce, Mrs.
Black is Back" written by George V.
Hobart. AS the unfortunate but Jolly
Mrs. Black, who in haste lies to her
husband about her age, and repents
thereafter at leisure (said leisure be-
ing chiefly employed in the manufac c.
ture of more receptions to account for
the firsD, Miss Irwin is at her best,
and her inimitable facial expression
and excellent pantomime work render
her art especially adaptable TO the
screen.
Mrs. Black, formerly plump and
good-natured widow, tells Professor
Black, her newly-madc husband, whom
she adores and fears, that she is TWEEN
ty-nine, instead Of thirty-siX, her real
age, thus neatly knocking off seven
years from the sum total. TO further
convince him of her youth, she tells
him also that her son, John, whom he
has never seen, is aged ten, when
Little Johnny" is in reality a husky
young fellow of seventeen, in school
in England. He is fully six feet tall,
broad shouldered, and quite up to date
even to his Irish valet, Larry Nc
Manus. Not being able to tell the
Professor this, Mrs. Black invents a
mythical Aunt Prue, living IN New
England, with whom Johnny is sup
posed to be staying. The Professor
has to curb his Impotence to see his
new son, and meanwhile vents fond
ness in buying toys for 1.-The child SO
does the Professors class Of gushing
young girls, who look forward With
equal eagerness to seeing Professors
Little Johnny" In order to regain
the slimness Of her youth, Mrs. Black
takes reducing exercises from ply
steal culture teacher, Tom Larkey,
but loses more money and patience
than flesh. AS Son Johnny writes he
is in need of money, and wants to
come home, she takes the four hun
dred 9dOllars due Larkey, which she
sends 70 her beloved offspring, telling
him he:must stay in England, and fin
ish his college course. The Profess
sor decides he needs building up, and
sends for an instructor to teach him
the proper exercises. The instructor
proves to be Larkey, who adds to Mrs.
Blacks troubles by bounding her for
the debt due him. Meanwhile her son
has promptly lost the money sent him
in poker, and gives a Spaniard an
0 u for Four Hundred dollars on the
back of an envelope addressed to his
mother, Mrs. Black. Pedro, the Span
lard, coming to America decides to
look up Mrs. Black, and finding her,
demands the four hundred owed him
by her son; SO all her ingenuity is
taxed to dodge the two creditors and
keep her husband away from them I'M
til she, shall find some means Of OBJ
tanning the money due. But the worst
is yet to come! Son John falls in love
With a pretty girl in England and fol-
lows her to America, telegraphing his
mother on his arrival in New York
that he will soon be with her. And
Mrs. Black has just learned from her
dignified husband that he never for
gives a liar! Then things begin to
happen. with Mrs. Black as the prime
factor. Jack and his valet arrive; the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF
REDEMPTION

State of North Dakota County of Bur
leigh, S.; Office of County Auditor,
Bismarck, n. Oak.
To Andrew c. Cross:
You are hereby notified that the
tract of land hereinafter described
and which was assessed in the name
of A. d. Cross for taxation for the
year 1909 was on the 18th day of De-
cember. 1910. duly sold. as provided
by law. for the delinquent taxes of
the year 1909. and that the time for
redemption from said sale will expire
ninety days from the completed SER
vice of this notice.
Said land is described as follows:
Sturgis Addition to the City of Bis
marck. Lot 2, Block 81
Amount sold for. SIS.
Subsequent taxes paid by purchaser,
$25.OS.
Amount required to redeem at this
date, $500.
In addition to the above amount yol
will be required to pay the costs of
the service Of this notice: and unless
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
LANGUAGE REFORM.

OcCidentals are apt to think OF
China as vast plain of homogenity
j . men and manners. They imagine
hlprdes Of Cinnamon all as much alike
as silted peas in d can, all speaking
tin , same squeaky language.
rhey are quite wrong. China is
col opposed OF great numbers of separ.
ate provinces, the written and spoken
dJA |ects Of which are so utterly diff.
fc.a mt that the people of different
Or, vnceS cannot at all understand
eac II other.
7 here Is a project now on foot to
sim, ,lify the whole Chinese language.
The plan is to have board of lin
guist 90 through the whole mass of
dialec Is and vocabularies, taking out
for or binary use about 5000 words.
The chyaracters used in writing these
words tire to be made simpler, and
the wrilI ing and pronunciation of them
is to be standardized Then these
Standard zed words and characters
would be the same in every province,
and by us ing them in this way in the
schools, In one generation it would
be possible for all China to intercom-
municatC. At present the man from
Canton callnot understand either the
Written or spoken language OF the
man from pekin. There will also be
an effort tot use the less horid Ian
guage in ery-day expression. TO
encourage this the simplification
board woull turn some of the classics
into simpler language written in the
simplitied chal 'acters which can be
made without shading by ordinary
pens.
Only upon sue III a basis, many Chi
nese educators think. can any real
educational reform can be built. 1t is
one OF the subjects now most dis
cussed by the progpssves of China,
and one attracting much attention in
the Chinese press.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
D. v. GRIFFITH
PRODUCTION TO-DAY

Love, pity NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are
the big motives which D. w. Grit
fifth knows SO well how to handle.
Never has he used them more sincere
ly than in the intensely touching dra-
ma, Home Sweet Home" Home,
Sweet Home is a life drama-a ser.
les of plays within play-showing
the birth of the famous song, Home,
Sweet Home" a portion Of the life
of its author, John Howard Payne,
and the effects of the song on the
lives, actions and morals of many
people. It's cast embraced the entire
acting personnel of the Reliance COM
panies, including Henry Walthall,
Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert
Harron, Lillian and Dorothy Gish,
Donald Crisp, Ralph Lewis, Earle
Foxe, Owen Moore, Edward and John
Dillon, Courtenay Foote, Irene Hunt,
Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden. Fay
Tincher. Teddy Sampson. Mrs. Grow.
ell. W. E. Long, Jack Pickford, F. A.
Turner, w. E. Lawrence, George Seig.
mann and Spottiswoode Aitken.
Home, Sweet Home is a photoplay
you will never forget Special music
tonight-piano, violin and cello. If
you wish to enjoy an afternoon or
evening at a high class amusement,
then follow the crowds to the Or
pheum Theatre, matinee and tonight.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
SKATERS FOR sLEEPERs.

A gentleman who KILLED thirty-se.
ven flies in March, on a Pullman car,
en- route from Jacksonville, Fla, to
Chicago, writes to DR.. w. A. Evans,
former health officer of Chicago and
now writer on health objects for sew
crai newspapers, asking; that he sug.
gest through his column that Pullman
sleepers eeach be equipped with a fly
swatter The wreck AK, says DR..
Evans, is needed only at long inter
walls. A fly swatter is needed every
tip. The fly swatter rack should be
alongside the AK rack.
That trains transport flies and mos
Cuitoes frequently and for long dis.
tances is known to many people. II
is also true that one OF the great diff
fculties in the Canal Zone has been
with the mosquitoes brought in by
trains. Cattle trains attract them,
and so do dining-cars. Almost every
train coming into northern station
from a warmer climate brings in its
fly passengers as we'll as its human
ones. Some of these undoubtedly die
Of cold before they can do much dan
age. But there are always few that
find warm cracks to hide in, waiting
opportunity to increase the fly popu.
lation. II every passenger who sees
fly on his train would kill him,
some of this trouble would be avoid.
ed.
And, needless to add, if everyone
would kill him, much of the country's
disease would disappear.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
tion had grown 50 that it failed 0

tion had grown SO that it failed of
passage by five votes.
The increased yea vote seems
now to indicate stronger senti.
ment in it's favor. But when Con-
gressmen begin to hear from their
districts, after the reaction always
following a presidential veto message,
they may change their minds. Along
with other considerations, the fact
must be recognized that there is
very large number of foreign.born cit
liens unalterably opposed to any
measure preventing their bringing
to America relatives still living in
the old country. The illiteracy provi-
sion would forbid the reunion of hun
dreds Of thousands of families, and
the protests Of the American mem.
bers of those families is likely to be
stronger than ever before.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
HON COW MING.

Henry FOrd's methods OF beneVo
lent paternalism called public atten'
ton to the fact, long known quietly,
that home.owners are more desirable
citizens than transients The Davis
Laundry Cleaning company OF CleVe'
land. Ohio, has become so thoroughly
convinced that owning property
makes a man a better and more com.
petent workman, that 1t began two
years ago to help its employees I'm.
ance the buying or building of their
own homes. .t..- ...... ... ..
The company required only that
the applicant for assistance be reli-
able. temperate and industrious. A
small down payment was required
when possible, but in some circum.
stances this also was advanced by the
company.
In these two years, seven men
have bought their own homes. Some
made down payments as high as $500
out OF their savings. Some of them
are now paying as high as $50 per
month on the principal. These seven
have been the nucleus from which
the movement is spreading rapidly
among the employees of the company.
One man. preaching his homecoming
gospel to his friends. said that while
he was renting he didn't care about
going home evenings. but now that he
lived in his own home he couldn't get
there quick enough. He takes con.
slant interest in making little i'm.
provements about his property. but
his chief reason for hurrying home
is simply that he likes the feeling of
being property-owner, and on his
forty-foot lot, monarch of all he sur.
veys.
There is no doubt about the in.
creased self-respect acquired by PEG.
pie who own their own homes. And
Self.respeCt is one of the essential
elements in citizenship. The man
who gets the HABIT of taking care OF
his own place gets also the habit of
looking on the city as an extension
OF his home, needing his care and
thrift quite as much. When it comes
to children, the desirability of living
in real home. with its sense of per.
manence and responsibility, is beyond
question.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
COOPER TO STUDY j.
Z. /. !. FARM MARKETING
North Dakota Experiment Sta
ton Takes Up New Phase
@si of Work.

3 Fargo, N. d., April 5-Thomas
Cooper, director Of the North Dakota
station, is making plans
for the scientific study of the mar
keting problem. Heretofore, the &C.
tivities of the station have been con-
fined to questions Of better farming.
4 1T is my desire;" said Mr.. Cooper,
ITO help farmers solve the marketing
and finance problem should like to
take each product of North Dakota
farm and follow it through all its
movements, from the farm to the ulti-
mate consumer, showing the cost of
each step in the process of market
ing under the present system. Accur-
ate information would be valuable.
Again, this department ought to be
in position to answer any and all
questions pertaining to cooperative
farming enterprises. For instance,
there is movement for a co.opera-
tive packing plant in this state. I
should like to be in a position to
furnish the promoters with in1orma.
ti0n as to the management, degree of
success and other features of coop.
erative packing plants in operation in
this country.
, There are two methods by which
the income OF the farm may be in
creased. First, by efficient farm prac-
tice and organization; second by Sc.
curing Increased prices for products.
The first method ia in the hands Of
the farmer. The second is a world
problem which the individual affects
but slightly. Higher returns for
produce may be secured by farmers
through organization and standard.
izatiOn.'
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06


valet is presented as Aunt Prue's'
husband, and Jack masquerades first
as the Sas-man and nnally as Lizzie,
the new cook. or course the fatal
truth at last comes out, and the peni.
tent Mrs. Black leaps into an auto,
about which she understands nothing,
and runs away. Her frantic husband
sees the machine smash and when, az
ter believing her gene from him for
ever, he learns that she escaped in
jury, he is so glad to find Mrs. Black
is Back" that he readily forgives her
deception, welcomes son Jack, and the
comedy ends as comedy should
with laugh.
This big special will be seen at mat
inee and evening performances at reg
ular Grand prices
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
From Trail County
State of North Dakota, "
Plaintiff and Respondent,

flalnClH anu respondent,
VS.. .af f."
c. II. Stevens, -"
,,,,.:. ., Defendant and Appellant.
Syllabus, TO a criminal informa.
tion attempting to charge facts suf-
ficient to constitute the crime Of
openly outraging public decency and
injuring public morals, under section
'1O250, c. l.. 1918, demurrer was in
terposed and overruled. After con-
viction, defendant appeals. .
Held, the demurrer should have
been sustained, as the facts stated
in the information are insufficient to
constitute the crime attempted to be
charged. @a ..r. .....
(2). Prosecution under said statute
must be for acts constituting no 9TH
er crime defined by the penal code.
60 The word "openly" as used in
said statute. requiring that to be
prosecuted hereunder the acts must
Openly outrage public decency" is a
part of the statutory definition and
to constitute said crime the act must
be openly done, instead of secretly
v, with yNh, the pubic excluded from obsery-
From a. Judgment of the District
Court Of. Trail. county, Pollock j.. de-
PENDANT appesisss.
Reversed. Opinion of the Court by
Goss,Et
Chas. a.. Lyche, of Hatton, States
Attorney, for plaintiff and respond
ent. ~
John GaFinody and c. E. Leslie, Of
Hiilsb0fo attorneys for defendant
and appellant. ,,. j
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
W \ | IL SONGS

The songs that were sung during
the great civil war-that had their
origin directly from the hearts Of the
people while athe fierce four-year's
struggle was going on-these songs
deserve place in history. They serv-
ed to soothe the fears and allay the
anxious moments of many crisis
when the humming wires might flash
a message that meant the destruction
of the Union. They Gained and COM
forted the women who were left at
home-with. grief and suffering para
mount in each of the days that drag
ged out their weary length. They
served as the outpouring of that sill
emit agony which must find utterance
or break the heart. They were the
audible and visible applications of
the millions that could only watch
and pray-while the gallant boys in
blue and gray fought the battles at
the front.
The music and the words of these
war songs cannot be reproduced to-
-.