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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-31

some antismoke committee to see him,
and he told her that smoke was what
made her husband bring home his
wages from the pay roll on Saturday
night! He told us about it, and
thought | just couldn't live through
the night, | was so ashamed! Mr.
Nertrees has always lived on his In,
come, and papa didn't know him, Of
course. They're the stiffest, most ele.
CANT people in the whole town. And
to crown it all, papa went and bought
the next lot to the old Vertrees coun-
try mansion-its in the very heart Of
the best new residence district now,
and that's where the new house Is,
right next door to them-and l must
say it makes their place look rather
shabby! met Mary Vertrees when
l joined the Mission Service Helpers,
but she never did any more than just
barely bow to me- and since papa's
break | doubt if she'll do that! They
haven't called" 49,. ~.
"And you think If spread this gos-
sip about Vertrees the First stealing
Danl Boone's gun, the chances that
they will call"
Papa knows what break he made
with Mrs. Vertrees. l made him I'm
derstand that" said Edith, demurely,
"and he's promised to try and meet
Mr.. Vertrees and be nice to him. Bob
by Lamhorn told Sibyl he was going
to bring his mother to call on her and
on mamma, but it was weeks ago, and
I notice he hasn't done it; and if Mrs.
vertrees decides not to know us, I'm
darn sure Mrs Lamhorn III never
come. That's one thing Sibyl didn't
manage! She said Bobby offered to
bring his mother"
''YOu say he is friend Of Roscoe's?"
Bibbs asked.
"Oh. he's friend Of the whole fam.
ily," she returned, with a petulance
which she made no effort to disguise.
''RoAcoe and he got acquainted some
where. and they take him to the the
alter about every night. Sibyl has him
to lunch, too, and keeps She
broke off with an angry little jerk of
the head. 1--WE can see the new house
from the second corner ahead: Roscoe
has built straight across the street
from us. you know. Honestly, Sibyl
makes me think Of a snake, sometimes
the way she pals the wool over
peoples eyes! She honeys up to papa
and gets anything in the world she
wants out Of him, and then makes fun
Of him behind his back-yes, and to
his face, but he can't see it! She got
him to give her twelve-thousand.
dollar porch for their house after 1t
was
Good heavens!" said Bibbs, staring
ahead as they reached the corner and
the Car swung to the right. following
bend in the street. us that the new
house?"
"Yes. What do you think of it?"
"Well." he drawled. I'm pretty sure
the sanitariun's about half a size big.
ger: can't be certain till measure"
And a moment later, as they entered
the driveway, he added, seriously:
But it's beautiful!'
(To be continued next week.
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and wild canary, or perhaps playing
peek with the wren and saucy chip

and wild canary, or perhaps playing
peek with the wren and saucy chip
munk?
With continued settlement, the wild
bird and animal life of our country is
gradually disappearing and it be-
hooves us, if for no other reason than
the future enjoyment Of our children,
to do our utmost in the protection and
conservation of those things which 90
to make beautiful our farms, homes
and public grounds.
In order that we may show our ap-
probation of the benefits derived
from these messengers of a glorious
springtime, !, L., B. Hanna, Governor,
do hereby proclaim and set apart,
Friday, April 2Sth, as
ARBOR AND BIRD DAY
in the State of North Dakota for the
year 1916. and earnestly recon-
mend that the day be suitably observ-
ed by the students in our colleges,
the teachers and chil>ren in our
schools, our public officials and the
people generally throughout North
Dakota.
Done at the Capitol at Bismarck,
this 25th day of March, A. D. 1916.
t... b. tD. l.. B. HANNA, 10.
Governor,
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q Didn't Have Any Place Else to Go"

broke off, flushing again, and then
went on hastily: ''Of course, mammals
never been SO busy in her life; we all
haven't had time to do anything but
keep on the hop. Mamma couldn't
even come to the station today. Papa's
got some Of his business friends and
people from around the dollhouse
neighborhood coming tonight for big
dinner and house warming'-dreadful
kind Of people-but mammals got 1t
all on her hands. She's never sat down
minute; and if she did. papa would
have her up again before" .s e..
"Of course said Bibbs. do you
like the new place, Edith?",
II don't like some of the things IA
Their would have in it, but it's the finest
house in town, and that ought to be
good enough for me! Papa bought one
thing l ike-a view Of the Bay OF
Naples in oil that's perfectly baauti-
full; it's the first thing you see as you
come in the front hall, and it's eleven
feet long. But he would have that old
fruit picture we had in the Murphy
street house hung up in the new din
ing room. It's horribly out of date to
have those things in dining rooms. and
l caught Bobby Lamhorn giggling at,
It; and Sibyl made fun of it. too, with
Bobby. and then told papa she agreed
with him about it's being such fine
thing, and said he did just right to
insist on having it where he wanted it.
She makes me tired! Sibylv'
Edith's first constraint with her
brother, amounting almost to awk-
wardness, vanished with this theme,
though she still kept her full gaze al
ways to the front, even in the extreme
ardor of her denuncia ton Of her sister
in-law.
''Sibyl~ she repeated, with such heat
and vigol that the name seemed to
strike fire on her lips. I'D like to
knew why Roscoe couldn't have mar
ried somebody from here that would
have done us some good, instead of
this Sibyl Rink! I met some awfully
nice people from her town when man.
ma and I were at Atlantic City, last
spring, and not one had ever even
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Suffered for Years
There many people will be interested in the experience
Mrs. Julia eyard, Fort senton, Mont. She writes:

many who will be interested in the experience
Julia eyard, Fort eenton Mont She writes:
years with gallsones. friend wrote me
about Fruitola started taking and
pletely feel better than have felt for wen
ty years. "' 's. ..s - NIX #
Mrs syards testimony similar that Of many who have
oiven remedy them FrutoIa powerful
lubricant the intestinal soning the
much suffering exoe'ng the con9ess
natural single dose usually san-
clearly indicate its efficacy Traxo splendid ton
the Kidneys stimulates the HOW
Of gastric bile from the gen
circulation.
Fruitola and raxo are Pus laboratories At
Monticello w. ments have been made to supply them
druggists In bismarck they can ee
tanned Cowans Drug Store 2os Fourth ST.
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SEARS GOING RAPIDLY.

Seats are going very rapidly for the
New York Symphony Orchestra,
which win appear at the Auditorium
on Saturday evening, April LIST. Seats
81 and $3.50. Select your seats now
and make sure of your reservations.
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STATE NORMAL GRADUATES 81
..-..,, EIGHT
Degrees Awarded at Commencement
Exercises at Valley City.

Valley City, n. d., March 30,-Eight
graduates of the Valley City Normal
school were given their degrees at the
midyear commencement exercises yes
terday The graduates were Thomas
J. Brudeset of Valley City and Zelda
Williams of Chinook, Mont, from the
four-year course, and Antonio Bowe,
Goodrich; Adelaide kenna, Danvers,
Mimi; Laurette Sheehan, Darlington;
Airline Shetland, Willow City; Esther
Sisell, Coal Harbor; Helen Sodergren.
Austin, Mimi. from the elementary
course. All members of the class who
sought positions have found them.
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kittersbys and the ]. Palmerston
Smiths"
Strange names to me-" he inter.
rupted. Poor things! None Of them
have my acquaintance"
mo, that's just it!' she cried. Sand
papa had never even heard the name
Of Vertrees! Mrs. Vertrees went with
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER 1-Sheridan's attempt to
Make business man Of his son Bibbs by
96sidhih. l MN IN the machine shop ends in
wreck. 49,. ~
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21

to catch them by hand as they hid in
little lunches of drift, or to stir up
the mud puddles when the creek has
dried into holes, and see the curious
assortment of heads when the poor
creatures came up to get a little air
and escape the mud. Some of those
heads were Of water moccasins. too.
Uncle baltimore Sanders could take
moccasin by the tail and crack him
like whip, his head flying off; and
he could kill fish with rocks-feats
which raised him in my estimation,
but which could not initiate.
Then, with the fall, came the glories
of hazel-nuts, walnuts, hickory-nuts
and butter-nuts. | ought not to have
sighted the blackberries, strawber-
ries and huckleberries of summer.
And just think of the golden pawpaws,
the black muscadines, the blue sum-
mer-grapes, and the shellbark hick-
ory-nuts! And say, when the snow
was on the hill. and we had to cut
postoak, blackjack and hickory trees
for the winter fire. who loved any
better than l to get down where the
syrup was oozing out of the end of
the hickory logs, and who ever tasted
any finer sweet than that? No honey
ever made by bee equal to it. Yes |
could click lasses with pap" from the
hickory logs. Harking back to the
summer. there was the sensitive bri-
ar with its shy, almost heavenly per-
fume, and the little mushroom we
called Sweet spunk," with scent
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21
Another dear recollection is that

Another dear recollection is that
OF drinking. in the thirsty heat Of
summer, from the cold, clear water
coming up in wooden gum" in a
little valley under the beech and horn
beam trees. On my last visit in 1918
to the old home place in McNairy, |
drank from the chalYbeate spring and
out Of the same gum that my great
uncle put in there seventy-fiive years
ago. 1t was the same cold, grateful
water, but it was not the same face
that used to look into its pellucid
depths and smile at what the future
might bring. Why can't we sit down
by ourselves in childhood why can
not the man that is to be get to talk
with the boy that was, and tell him,
kindly and convincingly, what he
ought, and ought not to do, in the
light of the life to be? If | could
have half an hour with my childhood's
self, what could | tell him! But would
that child do any better, or believe
what was told him? And, suppose /
could sit down by that spring and let
fall the faults and the wrongs that all
the following years have brought since
lastI drank from it's crystal cup.
Vain thoughts! and yet, my mother
used to think there must be a future
life, because this one is SO incomplete.
Come back again in your golden prime,
Summers of Tennessee;
Come back again, with the olden time,
Loved ones used to see;
Come back again, like a bird on the
wing,
Peace of the long ago;
Hover once more by the dear old
spring,
Dip in its crystal flow!
Then, as the waters again we quaff,
Life shall be shorn of care;
Trouble shall hurry away like chat.
Lost in the summer air!
LINDSAY S. PERKINS.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21

that defes description, but more de-
licious than altar of rose, said to be
owing to a little bug living in the
fungus. And the long fat honey-lo-
Gust blades that came tumbling down
the soft autumn air; the scent of
burning woods and sedgegrass fields;
the first crying of the frogs in spring,
the bursting Of the red maple buds
and the making of maple sugar; the
making Of cider in early fall, when
the yellow-iackets would get into the
press and get their share; the scent
Of white and red clover, and the smell
Of burning rags when father went to
rob the bee-gum-are not such MEM
cries part of our very lives, and would
we exchange them for any other sort
of memories? Indeed not And
then, down by the pasture, were big
sweet-gum trees with the clear tears
of gum oozing from old scars. and
fragrance about it that no store gum
ever had. Now. when your little girl
friend and you could swap chews of
gum, you certainly were getting along
amazingly! And when the swapping
could take place without the aid of
hands, it was real bliss. All, why
should | torture US with those old,
sweet recollections of things that will
never return this side Of the Land of
Recompense? And who would want
better heaven than to be surround
ed with the sweets of his childhood,
with all the bee stings, stone-bruises,
COLES and walloping left out!
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21
Our New York Letter.
EDITOR INDEPENDENT:

In former letter | referred to
costly dishes to be had in the New
York restaurants, but did not men
tion the best or most expensive Of
them. A spoonful Of Russian caviar
(salted eggs Of white sturgeon from
the Black Sea- costs about its weight
in silver, and not half as good as fresh
herring roe fried in meal. And Mary
land diamond-back terrapin at $72 a
a dozen are not worth ten cents on
the dollar for one of US.
Nothing in the world tastes as good
now as the simple things | used to
love away back there in the seventies,
when a boy in McNairy. Now, ! am
going to let little old New York drift
awhile, and take my readers back to
those cid days. and make their mouths
water. We will begin with winter.
There is more good eating. and
more good kinds of eating. about a
good tender hog. fresh killed, than
any one thing can offer in the world.
When we think of the first mess Of
all, the ''hasslets,' Of the lights
heart, liver and melt or spleen, cooked
while the hog is being cut up; the
head, with its brains, kernels, tender
nose, and juicy ears; the melting flesh
of the baked ham and shoulder, the
criss spare-ribs. rich back-bones and
succulent feet, to say nothing Of the
glories Of smoked ham and bacon, and
that good old hog-jowl and turnip
greens, we almost feel that Mr.. Pig
ought to be our national emblem In
stead of the tough Mr.. Eagle, who is
not fit for anything in the world but
robbery and loud screaming.
Now add to your pig, mall its lux.
ury, the blessings Of I've hominy
Take dozen fine ears Of corn; shell
them into the biggest kettle on the
place; get a peck Of corncob or hick'
ory ashes, fill up with water, and sci
on a roaring big fire early in the morn
ing. By noon the children will be
robbing the pot with wooden paddles
on which the swollen yellow grains
are washed off and eaten; the skin il
slipping and the heart is ready t.
come out. Don't stop the children
in later years, nothing but death vii
efface that hominy pot from theil
memory. BY night the corn has
turned Into great swollen and tender
hominy, but the ashes must be washef
out, and the hominy fried with fresh
pork gravy. with some black pepper
and cream and enough salt on it. M
store stuff called hominy, and no grain
treated with anything but I've, ashes
or potash, has the same taste as this
1t is an Indian invention. In 0klaho.
ma the Indians used to feed me OF
"connehanie," made of pounded corr
treated with ashes and boiled into ;
thin Cruel. So that these poor red
skins. returning GOOD for evil, gave
us this glorious dish of big lye hominy
in exchange for our robbery of thei
land. | must say, however, the In
dams in Oklahoma have been well
treated DO our government.
Next to hominy in my estimation
comes cracknel bread. This must b
made from gut-fat and not from an
and every fat place on the hog, tn
corn meal should be of the water
ground sort, and the cracknels put i
so thickly (great big fallows with kel
pels in END that the pone Of brea
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21

like yellow niger with smallpox.
And where the dark spots in the crust
show the biggest cracknels, break my
piece of, and give to me with glass
Of cold sweet milk. Then, there's the
smell of sausage, with sage flavor, in
the morning air, and you don't need
any other summons TO call me to
breakfast. And how The women did
work out there in the freezing air,
stripping the fat from the entrails,
while the men cut up the hogs! And
how they knew the best way to put
up sausage and head cheese, and how
We all did steal more than our share
when we got a chance! | used to
love to loaf around the kitchen when
mother was stewing dried apples for
the pies. A sly spoonful of the fra
grant stuff would find It's way to the
open air and to my waiting mouth
very often, and the good mother
knew about it all the time, although
she pretended not to, and was always
wondering what made the fruit Cook
away" so. All, there isn't any more
Of mothers cookery now; the peach
cobblers, the chicken pie, and the
glorious potato custard with its mod
est allspice favor, the gold-brown
biscuits and the egg bread or raised
corn bread, like she made, cannot be
bought anywhere for money; not even
love can duplicate it.
AS the long winter neared its end,
we were rayenous for greens, and
then it was that mothers native skill
shown especially bright. She took a
case knife aud pan and went on the
search for poke sprouts, dock, tongue
grass and, later on, lambs quarter
There is positively no vegetable or
any market now, as good as those
wild greens we're. II was better thar
medicine to eat them. and the pot.
liquor was as good. Poke greens sell
as we'll as asparagus in the markets
Of Washington City. and farmers are
beginning to cultivate poke and make
| money of it. And sprouts from tur
nips that were "heeled in" for the
winter taste mighty good in spring
Here, they cook cabbage in cleal
water and try to season it afterward
Might as we'll try to convert sinnel
on his deathbed! Cabbage should b
cooked with bacon for ten hours, til
it is red and soft and rich with fat
nd smells to heaven.
And. say, there we're lots Of delica
cies of the wild sort for the McNairy
boy. dealt out by natures own liberia
hand! | used to love wild onions, bu
the breath was disreputable, afte
such a feast. PeeliDg bark off chest
nut and oak trees, while the sap wa
running, and scraping off the sap will
a sharp chip, and eating that blaish
fragrant sap was a delight. Ant
where the sassafras bushes had beer
burnt over in the spring, long, tender
sprouts came up that were delight
to eat. The red-bud blossoms. grow
ing in rosy lunches on the limbs Of
the trees IN the woods in spring
were sweet to the taste. The dog
wood blossoms were not sweet, buI
their opening meant that the fish wer'
running in the creeks, and also tina
it was time to plant corn. (Cando
compels the confession that the latte
J token did not interest me in the least
but the fishing did, Deep holes i
! the creek were the home Of suckers
Dream and hornyhesds. / do no
| know which MAS the most deliohtfn
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21
Mothers Club Program

Mothers club will meet at the
school building Friday, Jan. 81, 2::3O
p. m.
/. What the home owes the
school, Mrs. Mary Peoples.
2. Cooperation with the Teacher,
Mrs. Hawkins.
8. The School Child and his Health,
Mrs. Lutte Alternately.
4. Duties of the general officers
of the Mothers Club. discussion by
all.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21

Read The Independent for tn
NEWS of the county.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-01-21

TO change the shape and
color of unstable brands
to initiate the Prince
Albert tidy red tin. but
ii 10 impossible to imi-
tate the flavor of Prince
Albert tobaccoi The
patentsdprocessprotects
thati
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-29

cent basis and that it will always re-
main there, save for an exception or
two as noted. Had the men behind
the movements started on a higher
price level they would have gotten it
easily. Soon, if they are not already
doing Sc. they will be feeling chag-
rined that they did not start to charge
admission at twenty-five cents. It's
too late now.
THE SKATING FAD.
Milwaukee is in the whirl of the
new skating fad. AS yet no down
town amusement places or dance halls
have flooded their floors to appeal to
skaters. l predict it will be done be-
fore the winter is out. The rivers
and ponds, vacant lots and recognized
Kinks are crowded with skaters. AS
one girl remarked. Isn't this fad
fox skating wonderful. Six months
ago no one skated." But seriously,
the fad is good one. Skating is
healthy outdoor exercise, and can be
INDUCED in by many. Father. mo-
Their and children can all enjoy an
evening on the ice. Skating clubs are
being formed. A woman organiza-
ton is advocating the flooding of all
vacant lots by the city. The lagoon
back of the projected Lake Shore
Drive has also been suggested as a
fine place for rink. Every one is
having skates repaired or sharpened.
The head Of a sporting goods house
here said they had sold more skates
in two days recently than they had in
the whole year past. Another told
me that he could have sold fifteen
hundred pairs the week before Christ
mas. But this city hasn't monopo-
ly as is proven by the fact that one of
the above mentioned also said that
his New York and Chicago branches
had asked that all his extra skates(l)
De shipped TO them and had made 81
miiar requests of all their other
branches. So the skating fad is ma
ton wide. It's better than dancing.
1t is out of doors, doesn't carry with
it the cocktail and cigarette, means
fairly early hours and a good night s
rest afterwards. There might be
worse things than a skating fad.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-29
EXIT THE COLOSSUS.

Historians long ago disposed of the
schoolbook story of George Washing
ton and the cherry tree he chopped
down with his little Ratchet. There
may have been a cherry tree and a
Ratchet at the Washington home, but
there is no evidence that George cut
down tree under the circumstances
of the legend, which was current about
other great men of the day and was
used by Parson Weems in his biog-
raphy OF Washington to point a moral
liam Tell shooting the apple off his
boys head went by the board, too,
along with d lot of other things we
thought were true. Now, within the
last few weeks, two other cherished
traditions have vanished under the
cold eye of investigation. One was
about the little boy who stood outside
independence hall in Philadelphia,
July 4, 1916, and called to his grand
father, Ring, grandpa, ring. There
was no such little boy. The other is
about the Colossus OF Rhodes, We al
ways supposed this seventh wonder of
the world bestrode the mouth of the
harbor of Rhodes and that ships and
galleys used to sail under It's strad-
died legs. 1t was that way in the
schoolbooks and the picture showed a
large galley sailing under It. A re-
cent dispatch from the war zone said:
"The tradition that this gigantic
image once bestrode the harbor of the
sapital has lately been exploded by
scholars who have made exhaustive
explorations on the spot" So goes
another fond illusion OF childhood.