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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-04
HOSPITAL NOTES.

Patients to enter the Bismarck hos
pital during the week end were John
Brenneise, Cole Harbor: Fred Sven.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-04

Dance tonight At Patterson's hall.
OConnor's Orchestra.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-04
HIGH SCHOOL PLAY
MAKES BIG HIT

Anamoose, April 3.-The four-act
drama entitled 1.-The Corner Store,
given by the local high school at the
Grand theatre last night, was not only
a success in every sense of the word,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-04
CITY NEWS

ACCEPTS POSITION HERE. 4.
Miss ,Bina Foster of Eathgate has
accepted position as clerk in the
Finney pharmacy.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-04

st. Paul, April 3.-The Northern
Pacific road is making plans to
handle the largest tonnage in its his
tory during the remainder OF 1916.
G. r. Slade, first vice president, in
charge Of the operating department.,
left for an inspection of the lines be-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

ing a man of ingenuity, called a wen-known telephone number AMI summoned
Jimmie. Jimmie, it seems, was prime favorHe with the "doc' and his class.
Jimmie whisted on his way as he answered the call. Maybe he didn't
Know what was ahead. Maybe he's more than q near-hero. ANYWAY, he
whisled the popular melody which assured those in his immediate vicinity
that "Ths is the life"
The doctor ushered him into the classroom, cap in hand. He was given
a chair and remembers vaguely sitting down. Forty pairs of casual eyes of
gray and brown and blue-"gons, feHers, an only the doc and me p-were
raised and swept him appraisngy He only remembers the rest vaguely.
AS through a mist he became suddenly conscious that it was awfuly
hot His feet insisted upon spreading all yer the place and his hands kept
growing larger and larger. Why did they all keep looking at him? Was
there anything the matter?
And then he heard the concluding sentence of the doctors lecture. He
says it was something like this:
"An' now, ladies' he sez we shall practice bandagn' a wounded head, a
badly wounded head. This young gentleman has agreed to act as de patient
he sez OATS me, felers. Den he TOMS to me. we shall need lots of band
ages he sz Will you step out in de hall an ask the Nurse for a handfulY"
Jimmie stepped, nay, more, he stepped with aawiy. Oh, yes, he stepped,
nor did he cease the process till he had reached his bicycle. Nor even then.
That was the end of the incident. They may have obtained a substitute
up at the frstad class. But this is the story of Jimmie.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

the saucer thus formed. The pulp itself is pure
ana the water stored in it is likewise pure and re-
~freshing.
Not all the water-bearing cacti are as gracious to
famlshlng man, however, as the "water barrel" for
most OF them have protected themselves against
the maraudings of those who would drink and live
by imparting a bitter taste to the water they con-
tain. The "peyote' especially, which abounds in
the plains and deserts of Arizona, has a trick of
discouragins depredations upon it, for its plump
and juicy pulp secretes a bitter and poisonous
juice.
In the last dozen years scientists have Interested
themselves in the study of the cactus for its possi-
bihties as food, fodder and economic by-nroduets.
Dr. Leon y. Landone, foremost in the study of this
desert plant, several years ago conducted extensive
experiments In Los Angeles to ascertain the value
OF the thornless cactus as an article OF food for
human beings. In an effort TO prove his conten-
ton That 1t contains food properties sufficient TO
enable a man 10 work IS hours a day, he and his
two secretaries for two weeks lived on a daily diet
of the leaves and fruit of the cactus. the former
being served green or fried and the latter either
raw or cooked. While the cactus suuad' SIR.
vived the experience and professor to have en-.
Joyed their novel diet, 1t is a fact tiat the cactus
never has attained the popularity, Of a flet mignon.
In the whole vegetable kingdom probably there
Is not another plant family having SO many diff
ferentlatiqns OF form as the cacti. For IL Is nos
sible to find among them species that crawl and
creep like vines, other than stand erect in a single
unbending stalk, like a green living monument Of
the desert still others that are rooted to the spot.
with their highest growth close to the ground and
bearing almost no resemblance to usual forms ~
vegetation, and others, again, that branch out in
thick u%nblooming branches.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
Ana 50 we firmly believe YOU do feel.

ana SO we firmly believe you do feel.
we all hear it repeated that patriotism is a
tmhg OF the past; that our people have become
colnmercialized; that the masses have no deep
rooted loyalty to the country; that our rich men
put dollars above the obligations of their citizen
ship; that our poor folk care little for the ideals
of free government; that we Americans are de-
cadent in the virtues and valor which marked
our fathers.
That is not true.
II there be any power in the world which plots
war against us Americans and promises itself vic
tory over US on the assumption of our decadence
in loyalty, that power will find how terrible was
its mistake when our country calls her sons to
battle in her defense.
We have, it is true, in our capacity as n col
lective people, left undone things that should
nave been done and done things which should
have been left undone; and there is more truth
than there should be in much that is ieeringly
said by those who hate us.
We acknowledge that much of our politics Of
tends common decency.
we see, here and there, painful evidence of cor
ruption among lawmakers and even among the
Judges, VINO should know only justice and in
tegrity.
We see rich men who do betray their country
and foul their hands and soil their souls with
most infamous dealings and most shameful
profits.
we see Americans who do put the dollar above
every consideration of right and duty, above the
claims of our common humanity.
But While these things are true, it is true also
that the heart and conscience of the American
people, take them as a nation, are sound and
sane and wholesome.
The blood of our fathers still runs in the veins
OF their sons. The spirit of the nation may in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

- ~ < - NAASA oh H AilSiL lsl
~ ~ offer up gratitude to God.
He reflected that across the Atlantic millions
Of human beings We're at that very moment en-
gagged in the dreadful task of killing s other human
beings with every invention which ingenuity and
skill could bring forth from the laboratories Of
science and the workshops of industry.
In other lands at that very moment tens of
thousands upon tens Of thousands of helpless
folk-feeble, aged men and women, mothers with
babes clinging convulsively to their breasts, little
children sobbing in terror, q vast army of the in
nocent and the anguished-were enduring the eX-
tremities of exposure, of hunger, and of despair
as they fled from their wasted farmsteads and
burning villages, escaping from the pitiless cruelty
OF savage men only to lie down to suffer and die
under the pitiless skies of God In the winter and
the bitter storms.
AT that very moment most dreadful war hid
half the world in the b~lackness of it's darkness
and from that horrid cloud rained destruction
upon unhappy Europe-upon her ancient capitals,
upon her pleasant cities, upon her villages, her
fields, her temples, her treasures of art, upon all
the accumulations of a thousand years, of genius,
of learning. of industry, of skill and of patient
advancement Of the happiness and the civilization
of the race of man.
SO he that considered all this wickedness that
was being done under the sun, this drunken dance
of death and hell above the fetid corpses and the
multitudinous graves, this awful nightmare Of in
describable woe and wrath, said in the bitterness
of his heart that no God ruled over such a maniac
world and there was no thanksgiving due to the
Giye- of Gifts that were not good, but everyone
altogether evil.
And when the man had made an end of his
thinking. he went and stood in a window and
looked out upon the evening, because it was fair
ito see.
fAsaw in vision at that instant the ~vastness
OF the republic and the multitude of the good and
happy folk who live under the shelter of it's
strength. He reflected how brief a time had thus
m%agnifed the works Of our pioneer fathers and
our pioneer mothers. those brave and simple men
and women whose names should never be men
toned with anything but profound gratitude
And to this American, glad with a great pride
in the deeds Of his people and the story Of Ills
country, and grateful to the Goodness which has
guided and sheltered his fathers and his folk,
lifted up his eyes to the night, to the quiet stars,
to the brooding immensely above, and said. in his
heart:
"Thank God that / am an American y
And, citizens, that Is the one outstanding,
splendid fact for which each one Of us should
soberly and most gratefully thank God on Thanks
giving day this year.
The finest thing you possess or ever can pos
sess is just your American citizenship. 1t Is
neither necessary nor becoming, on this day or
on any other day, to cheaper this blrthright of
ours by brag or spreadeagle defamation.
But 1t Is highly becoming on this Thanksgiving
day 40 feel a deep gratitude and n manly pride
kAfhis heritage.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

a doughnut mentally. Each of them says today that they had never at that
early date eaten one in reality in that hotel because they feared the price
would be something like 40 cents apiece, and they didn't care to squander
that much o n a sngetube doughnut without antAd appliances. But they
would glance over at the table where sat the commanding bank directors
ana railway magnates and 1t seemed to be bending in the middle with dough-
nuts. They wondered when they, too, could sit down and order all the
necessities of life. and add a plate of doughnuts just for good measure.
In fact, doughnuts in a hotel grew to be the mark of extreme luxury for
these two young men. Then one day they found they were commissioners of
the District of Columbia, and the center of a group of administrative officials
who wanted to get together every day at luncheon to talk things over.
So they went to tn" big hotel and arranged for a round table daily
The first day they all sat down the head waiter placed on the table about
one bushe of those George ii. Harnes doughnut.
"We didn't order these" said Lous-I mean Commissioner Brownow-
weakly
II know" returned the waiter with a smile. "They are like bread and
butter We make no charge for them"
And then Louis looked at Ollie and Ollie looked at Louis, and together
they tried to figure out how many doughnuts the hotel owed them for past
luncheons.
And that is why that big round table at a certain hotel near the District
building is reserved for what they cal. "the doughnut cabinet"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

In the pursuit Of Villa and his bandits through
the arid regions of northern Mexico the United
States troops traversed a region whose only yege-
tation is the barbed and forbidding cactus. To
any but n cowboy or a trained plainsman of the
Southwest, inhabitants themselves of the cactus
belt" this plant seemingly has no more value than
the veriest weed, but it may well be that it may
prove Of great value to the troops in the absence
of water, fodder, or even food for human beings.
In the punitive expedition there are many cow
punchers of the "cactus belt' serving as scouts,
and in the cowboy and the Indian of the South
west the lowly cactus has its greatest admirer, for
they know what a game struggle for life this plant
has to make against an unlaved desert soil. Even
their ponies and cattle and the poor beasts Of the
desert know of these uses of the cactus for water
and fodder, says the New York Herald.
There are some thousand varieties Of this mon
strous vegetable family, not counting the 300 va
rieties Of the agave, or century plant-incorrectly
included by many-in northern Mexico. The va
rieties Of the yucca palm and all other forms Of
vegetation known to the arid region have the same
faculty of sucking up from the soil every drop of
the all too little moisture in 1t and storing 1t up in
their tough and leathery leaves and roots.
Of the many varieties perhaps the most remnrk-
able Is that member of the family known to those
schooled In desert craft MS the "water Darrell This
plant Is shaped G like a beer keg and Is
about the same size. Through all the years Of its
growth II has been sopplng up what moisture the
furnished earth contained and retaining III. IL is the
sole reliance of desert jewellers In time OF drought.
and the troops, far from water holes and with wa
ter scarce, may yet be obliged to drink from II
The water barrel is tapped by sllcing Off the
top with a sword or machete and pounding the
pulp until the water contained In 1t wells up into
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
From The 9th Psalm.

deed seem to Slumber in the soft bed of long
enjoyed peace and security. But let war come
against the land and no man need doubt that that
spirit will spring up instantly awake.
We can r~ightfully be grateful that it has fallen
to our happy lot to live in this most wonderful
of all ages and to be citizens of this most won
derful of all the nations.
Let your hearts swell with Just pride as YOU
your country, so august, so splendid,
so renowned in the earth.
Look upon your flag as it streams its bright
folds yonder above your heads with proud and
happy eyes. Remember how honorable is it's
story, and forget not how many thousands of
brave and good men died that it might wave yon-
der, the ensign of a free people.
Tell to your children the story of their fore
bears, of those men and women who, amid the
wilderness and forests that stood where now
stand mighty cities and stretch cultivated farms,
erected, with hardships and endurance and most
heroic faith and valor, the noble edifce of our
republican liberties.
Speak to them of Bunker Fill and Valley Forge
and Saratoga and Yorktown, and of the great
Declaration-that most famous Charter of HUI
man Freedom.
Tell them to thank God for their fathers and
mothers hardihood and courage, for the wars
they fought, for the victories they won.
Tell them to salute their flag with high and
proud hearts.
Tell them to thank God this Thanksgiving day
that they are Americans.
And then do you soberly, gratefully. nroudIv
thank God yourself that you are an American.
Oh, dear and mighty motherland, what better
gift or more to be desired could God give than to
be born and to die, strong Daughter of Liberty.
between thy shining feet!-From the Chicago
American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
OF INTEREST TO MOTHERS

The cost of food today is a serious
matter TO all of you. To cut down
your food bills and at the same time
improve the health Of your family,
serve them Skinner's Macaroni and
Spaghetti two or three times per week.
Children love it and thrive on it. 1t
is the best possible food for adults.
Write the Skinner Mfg. Co., Omaha.
Nebr., for beautiful cook book telling
how to serve it in a hundred ways.
It's free to every mother.-A6y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Brazil's independence centenary will
BE in 1922.
New Jersey factories employ $4,000
operatives.
Atlanta, Ca, has raised $4,000 to
equip Boy Scouts.
The average speed Of the phono>
graph record under the needle is 1.s2
miles an hour.
Mrs. NJ. j. Croker, age eIghty-seven,
Is learning lace making in q Los An
geles rehcol.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
WHERE THEY CALL HIM 4cHARLlE.r

Charles NJ. schwab, the Bethlehem steel king, is
probably the most beloved boss in America. His
men say there would be no strikes If others were
like him. The American Magazine prints an ar
ticle about him Ia which this occurs:
sThey call him Charlie at Homestead; he Is
Charlie when he goes back there now to visit the
boys Those who were there in the old days
he still knows by name, and just how long they
baye been on the job. When he went down to
Homestead to say good-by, after r~esigning as presl-
dent Of the Carnegie steel company, five thousand
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

J. O. NIckerson of Plttsfeld, Mass,
still wears an oyercoat he bought So
years ago.
Competition of American llnoleum
factories Is every year decreasing
~scotland's export TO- this country.
John Britt, age nlnety-one, of Berke-
ley, u. l., walked the whole length Of
the preparedness parade in Provi>
dence.
Three deposits Of coal In Haiti have
been investigated by French engineers,
and efforts will be made to develop
them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

]. 2. Morgan, the famous financier,
was talking at a dinner in New York
about a young banker who had failed.
at was his youth that made him
fail" he said. Youth is always failing
failing in business, failing in loce.
Frenzy de Gourmont tells us truly
that in the game of life youth has all
the trumps-all of them-but plays
r~ecklessly, and invariably loses"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

such plenipotentiaries as Gen. George
Fl. Harries would be commanding in
fine style. The thing which attracted
the attention and appetite of Messrs.
Brownlow and Newman in those days
was the large supply of doughnuts on
the big table. They were twisted
d%oughnuts, not the old-fashioned
doughnuts shaped like a life preserver,
which gives the small-minded jester
the opportunity to say a word Or two
about wishing he had a job making
IL. I-I-u Gil
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

Jimmie is a messenger boy and a
near-hero. He has freckles, has been
known to call successfully to the alus-
i've Phoebe Five in a secluded area
way, and a pal Of his has ~vouchsafed
the information that "he's a bold wild
his mitts." Be that as it may he has
one sterling accomplishment. He
knows when to quit.
The frst-aid class wanted a pa
tient upon whom to practice lately
acquired skill in the art of scientific
bandaging. The doctor in charge, be-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
The Partial Teacher.

Have you got a nice teacher?"
asked Uncle Ed.
NO" said Belle. "She amt nice"
"Why, Belle" said her mother, I'm
ashamed of you; your teacher is nice"
"She's meal t me-" declared Belle
running her words together. "She let
George Brown dust her desk and twas
my turn"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
THE BRUTE.

Mrs. WIllis-wake up. Johni Wake uni
MIR. WiIlis--What's the matter?
Mrs. Whilst hear d harsh, grating noise. I
think someone is trying the door. :
Mr.. Willis-Nonsense. It's some rat trying that
cake You made today.-Llfe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

come to thim' he says. Thanks p says l. whats
your name9" ITS Schwab,' says he, "Charlle
Schwab" . An faith, he'd give me a match
today as quick as he was after givin' It to mo
thin,"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

Il found your son was suffering from
nostalgia, my dear madam"
Mercy me, doctor! | never dreamed
it was so serious as all that. thought
the boy was only a little ~homesick."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
How the Districts Doughnut Cabinet Originated

MHEN Louis Brownlow and Oliver Newman were newspaper men they
W would occasionally go to the grlroom of a big downtown hotel for
lnncheon; and There thew would cast ongins SIances at the round taLle where
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
First-Aid Girl Pupils Were Too Much for Jimmie

HE frstaid class, now being held under the joint auspices of the American
! National Red Cross and the Navy league in Washington, doesn't even
know his name. So we'll call him Jimmie"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

THIS is THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly. grizzly, gray hairs by
using La Creole Hair Dressing ADV
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

Local flag dealers report that the
~wool-bunting flag, which is the best
and formerly was the most used ma
terial, nov has almost fallen into dis
use on account of the increasing cost
of the goods. The cotton-bunting flag
has nearly s%upplanted its worthier
competitor. At that the cost of cotton
and dyes has so increased that it costs
almost as much to produce a cotton
flag as it did in ~antebellum times to
manufacture a wooden one. The cost
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

In the up-to-dnte school, the black
boards are cleaned by a vacuum de-
vice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

after their departure from the better
class of the hotels. It is said that
this is true of all the hotels through
out the country, and the cause of it all
has not yet been discovered.
One Washington manager says:
IF everything that has been taken
from this hotel was to be returned I
would have to turn the lobby and a
large part Of the hotel to storage
rooms Our loss each year of the last
20 years has been approximately S10,-
600 in table silver, linen and room
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

20 per cent and the end is not yet Asked whether the tremendous increase
in export of cotton, coupled with the existing shortage, would stop the man
uacture of flags, Arthur Copeland, president of the NJ. G. Copeland company
declared the people of the country would always insist IN having flags, and
cited historical instances of the use of rags as standards when nothing else
was available as evidence of the lengths to which patriots will 60. Mr.. Cope
threaten a suspension of flag production.
"The cost of dyes is a factor which makes for expensive flags" said Mr..
COPELAND.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23
Stolen Articles Sent Back to Washington Hotels

SN AsHINGToN hotel managers are much amazed over the fact that the
w American public seems to be getting consciencestricken and slowly but
steadily returning without exclamation, humorous articles missed Immediately
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

ONOD be nercau unto U.S. and bless us; and cause his face to shine 20
W us; Sehh. That thy way may be known upon EARTH thv saxno
health among ALL nations. Let the people praise Thee, o God; let all the
people praise Thee. Then shall the Earth WELD her increase. and Cod
even our own God, shall bless Us. God shall bless us; and all the ends of
the Earth shall fear him. Emm6Mpn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-23

articles such a curling irons electric fans, and boudoir necessities" This
same hotel manager declares that within two weeks he has received more
than so separate packages, from the United States and Canada, containing
articles supposed to have been taken away from the hotel by guests. These
packages contain nearly 200 pieces of hotel property, but not a single package
carried a line of explanation or a clue that would disclose the identity Of the
sender.