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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06
SCHOOL NOTES

The following is list OF the stu
dents who rank the highest in their
respective classes:
Seniors: First, Viola Olson; Mary
Helen Cassell; second, Grace Eriek-
son; third, Amy Cookie.
Juniors: First, Abigail Heselttne;
second. Wava Plaine, Nellie Lund-
ing; third, Hazel Bowling.
Sophomores: First, Frank Carpsn-
ter; second, Hazel Dean; third,
George Klovstad.
freshmen: First, Donovan Kraa.
bel; second, Ella LOCKWOOD; third.
Helen Turnbull.
Donovan Kraabel ranked highest In
hi n school.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06
BLAB0N LOCALS

Henry Chalmers new piano came
Friday
NJ. Il. Langager went to St. Paul
Saturday.
Mrs. r. j. Schmidt was Finley
visitor Saturday.
M. G. Sund and family spent Thurs
day with John Larson's.
Miss Torg-nson returned from Sic
Intosh, Minn., Saturday morning.
Mrs Hanson, of Page, spent Mon
lay afternoon with Mrs. Art Holt.
The Misses O ga Langager and An
ma Swanson spent Friiay in Fargo.
MIR. and Mrs. Dell Burner announces
the birth of daughter Monday, Dec
3rd.
j. B. Oxton and family were visit
RS ut J. G. Walters Thanksgiving
Day.
Those who missed the lecture Satur
day night surely missed something
worth while.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barclay and Mis-!
Gibson called on Mrs. Walters Mon
day alternuOn.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Dell Burner anc
children spent Thanksgiving Day will
Viii McLean's.
The Misses Ruth Swanson and An
IL Gilbertson sIent several days with
nome folks the past week.
| Mrs. A. L. Stewart and children au
coed to Valley City Wednes lay even.
Ing, returning Friday evening.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06
MELROSE p.CK.UPS

Martin Rieder was a Hope business
caller last Friday.
ALMA Anderson visited with Geo.
L,ckwood's Friday.
Louis Gunkel and family spent Sun
day With Joe Colegraft's.
Hector Hanson visited with his
friend, James Anderson, Sunday.
Frank Vadnie and fan lily ate
Thanksgiving dinner with Louis Gun
kel.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Moffett and child
rem spent Thanksgiving with Jens Wis
by's.
George Davis has been spending
the Thanksgivil g h ,lldays with Nels
Hanson.
Miss Lydia Escher left for her home
10 Iowa after spending about three
months here in Hope.
Geo. Gregorson an | family and Ed.
Gregorson helped to eat turkey at
Robt Anderson's on Thanksgiving.
Walter Buhrer aud Frances Lock-
wood we're entert.i ined f'r dluner at
Robt. Anderson's last Saturday,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Nelson and
chiIdre. and Miss Lydia Escher spent
Thanksgiving Day with Olaf Bakke's.
Ed Gregorson came up from FarA o
Thursday morning to visit with his
br 'ther, George, during the Thanks
giving holidays.
Jas. Cullifer and family left for
points in Missouri the first of the
week where they will visit for month
with relatives.
Alma Anderson, Elsie and Frances
| Lockwood and JaImer johnson and
! Walter Buhrer were enterta ined for
| supper 1T Mrs. Gilbert Johnson on
Thursday evering.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06

Warren Pope called at the Brace
farm Sunday.
Ralph Haugan is spending few
days at Fred Pope's.
Mrs. N. Freund is visiting her
daughters in Chicago.
Ralph Haugan and Meryl Pope au.
toed to Galesburg Tuesday evening.
Myrtle Brace aud Meryl Pope spent
Thanksgiving Day at c. H. Carpen-
ter's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Brace have
moved on the farm vacated by Ole
Larson.
A number of young people from this
vicinity attended the dance at Gales
burg Thanksgiving. All report q
good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Freyberg au-
toed to Fargo Thanksgiving day and
visited with Mr.. Ere, berg's parents
until Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Haugan and son,
friedrich, MIR. and Mrs. Fred Pope
and son, Meryl, were Sunday visitors
at the Dresher home in Page.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. NJ. Carpenter, Mrs
G H Carpenter. and Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. Carpenter and children spent
Sunday evening at G. w. Ere. srg's.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06
THE KAISER'S DREAM

There's story Im told, tho strange it may seem,
How the Great Kaiser Bill had wonderful dream
He " dreaming of Allies as he lay in his bed
When his switched about and he dreamed he
In very fine coffin he was lying in state,
And thousands there tho mourned his fate.
His soul buzzed about and found to his
That he and his soldiers doomed be lost;
He wouldn't believe it, to Heaven straight,
And arrived at the portals, knocked loud at the gate:
'Hey, Peter, get busy, quick open the door,
See who's here It's the Kaiser Make everything roar,
Beat the drums blow the horns have swell banquet made
Tell Gou have come and we'll have parade.''
Saint Peter looked out. Then in voice loud and clear,
Said, 'rry down below, Bill, you can't get in here"
Tut, tut said the K tiser you re very uncivil,
Don't probably know I'm friend Of the Devil
And I'm going with pleasure" So he started go,
A-whistIing like bIazes, to make big show,
When he came HelI's door filled with dismay
For while waiting outside he O'erheard Satan say:
'Lnk here, boys notice. give you all warning,
I'm expecting the Kaiser down here the morning;
But don't let him in he'll mus>ng ab ut;
So give him the ha! na! and kick him right out.'
''Oh Satan. dear friend" !" the Kaiser then cried,
'Excu>" for listening while waiting de,
pleas. !-; me- in, for VIII re else can y.?''
''lnci ed" SAID the Devil "Im id If know +"
'Ach, please let ne in, for 'ru f"eng quite cold,
Ana il YOU want n"'n"! I've ent" If g'"'I;
Ii sit in hnw IT,
NIX, hein." s lid tile Dew, 'm''>t rt,iD
You can't gain ndmitL.nc- by y"ur offer pelf
Here >"Iprur aud t.L"r. max. ;I- tr !"u'f.
D..'l W Ii m i.. tlun,rr n,l z!
have ,e"t! lief for The Sultan Fr,z
From his trnub|.ls sleep Bill awuke in ,
And said, THAT'S dream | shall forget
That won't Heaven know Very weII
Isut I "rvsr believed Ia be KICKED! gu. Of He'll"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06
BROADLAWN AND COLGATE

A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. SelstrOm Dec 2ud.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Brace and son,
Neal, returned from Washington,
where they visited with relatives the
past month.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06

G. P G. Washing Crystals and
Starch Dressing save labor and
clothes. Ask for samples of
Mrs J A Bowen.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06

Every soldier lonely and hpme>ck The
THAT ,th and khaki still only human
And that lump his
which lie just can't swallow there nothing that helps
quite much good COOL soothing kind of smoke
he used have back home.
Good smokes have been the trenches But
have made for the folks home the right kind
the boys want that there's really for them
to be without them
Twenty five Tobacco Fund will purchase
twice smokes buy the They
packed in nice little Kit ready o sendng and in that kit
card, gave
quarter
Ahe when that soldiers message
is the biggest worth satisfaction the
Try and for yourself
Total last week $41 co. Christ Matsen 81, T,al S42 90
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06
Stomach Trouble and Constipation

Those who are afflicted with stomach
trouble and constipation should read
the following: II have never found
anything so good for stomach trouble
and constipation as Chamberlain's
Tablets. have used them of and on
now for the past two years. They not
only regulate the action of the bowels
hut stimulate the liver and keeps ones
body in healthy condition." write
Mrs Benjamin Hooper, Auburn, NY.
ADV.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-12-06

Ole Sander recently completed q
large machine shed ON his farm.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
A POVERTY STRICKEN ARMY
Even the Serbian Prince is Without
A Motor Car

There is no upholstered car at the
Serbian front for the use of a corre-
spondent. complains Herbert Corey.
Even King Peter had no car for a
time. Prince Alexander had a cur +,
but at the moment his staff had none,
and so his car was used for staff
errands. Voivode Mischitch the ge-
MUS Of the Macedonian campaign.
rode in a tin Lizzie. Serbian officers
below the rank OF general rode in
box cars on the single track railroad
that leads to Monastfr, unless they
knew military surgeon well enough
to beg ride to the front In an ambu-
lance.
All this is not to be wondered at.
FOR the Serbs are the poor relations Of
the allies. In a land where it is so
very hard to get the barest necessities
for living and fighting. the distant
kinsfolk can hardly expect luxuries
Correspondents travel just as colonels
do when they visit the Serbs. Box
cars became familiar to US.
You must have tent" had been
told at the Serbian headquarters
So / got tent which was SO small
that l was forced to back into II, like
a prairie dog. My head made a
dome In the roof when sat at work
on the typewriter
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
THE REMEDY.

Application OF the presidents recent
declaration that the one essential
preparation for winning the war was
the abolition of selfishness and the
establishment of a national conscious
ness hits in more ways than one. 1t Is
self-evident that as long as individual
citizens exert themselves to make hay
while the sun shines In the sense
that they expect lots OF people to make
money over the nations distress and
want TO get their share while the get
ting is good, just so long will we fail
to attain that national coheslveness
and unity OF purpose for which the
occasion calls. The crisis now upon
us demands nothing short OF self
the whole people instead OF allowing
the natural inclination to fatten our
purses At the expense OF our fellow
citizens. This much Is conceded, and
IL only remains for each individual
citizen TO make the application to his
own case. We are all too much in
cllned to recommend course of con-
duct for others that we are slow to
apply TO ourselves. We see the neces-
| slty of universal unselfishness II we
are to win this war or accomplish any
other great national enterprise We
/ know we'll enough the scandals that
have occurred In past emergencies
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
WHY A MELTING-POT?

When doctors disagree. 1t is then
time for the ordinary citizen to use
his own common sense and take the
pronouncements of authority with a
liberal dose OF salt. The events which
have signalized the opening up of a
war era have demonstrated plainly to
the people of the United States that
there is something wrong with our
system of assimilating to ourselves the
varied peoples of the earth under one
banner and one government. a promi-
ncnt writer in the New York Tribune
argues against the "melting-pot" idea.
He says IT was never intended and Is
utterly impossible to expect that the
many races of mankind should be
gathered together in such cohesion as
to lose their racial characteristics and
habits and become fused into what is
practically a new race with new ideals
and aspirations. What he favors is
continuation of the native loyalty of
each component part of our popula-
ton, the retention OF their distinctive
ldHEudSt nibllS, lruuitlons anu modes
of thot. What he plans is really
confederation OF aliens of various
sorts banded together for mutual i'm
provement and defense, rather than
a cohesive nationality born anew out
OF the fusion of their former entities
He maintains that the United States Is
not and never can be melting pot,
and that the best results will follow
letting each foreign strain maintain
Its individuality while all pledging al
leglance to common authority.
In distinct opposition to this is the
notion OF Theodore Roosevelt that II
is as important that we should have
one language in this country as that
we should have one flag. 1t would fol-
low that an ability to read and speak
our national tongue should be test OF
fitness for full citizenship, which in
wolves further the giving up by the
alien OF all those other things that
bind him to the land of his birth and
hinder him from becoming a new citi-
zen OF new allegiance. This is the
meltingpot idea in eXtremis. AS long
as an immigrant clings to his for
mer tongue and to former habits of
thot there is n smaller chance that he
may become imbued with ideas dis
tinctly American. and less probability
that he will achieve that unity of
spirit and purpose which alone can
make n congenial and lasting fellow
citizenship. Should he purposely cling
to the relics OF his former existence,
he manifests an Indifference to tho
new duties OF his new connections
that speaks Ill for his ever becoming
n good citizen or an intelligent voter.
Should circumstances initiate against
the adoption of the new things he
meets, 1t is plainly the duty of those
already naturalized to lend him a
helping hand.
While the Roosevelt idea may be
classed as harsh and extreme. yet IL is
certainly more sensible than the OPP
posite extreme. A confederation OF
divers races under on flag could not
endure or prosper. A modern Babel.
lingually as we'll as socially and po-
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22

| litically, would result. Under such q
plan our present dilemma in the face
OF war with a nation from whom we
have drawn so heavily for our best
blood would be desperate indeed.
Every portion of the population would
be following after different aims and
aspirations and no power could unite
them for efficient effort And, II the
melting pot idea be discarded as an
economic question. we are sure that
physically 1t would remain fact. The
dividing line between races, with few
notable exceptions. has long ago been
obliterated, and the natural result Of
this blood -mingling, If from no other
cause, is inevitably the production of
a mongrel race of people which will
preserve some Of the characteristics
of its ancestors, but all modified by
tho coaloscence and none OF them
identical with the original source
Nature makes no mistakes, and so
long as we undertake to live as a free
and united people the processes of
nature will continue in one way or
another to fuse the varied races of
men into new type and the melting
pot will remain on the job. The new
race may be better than its COM
ponents, or 1t may be worse but at
any rate 1t will be n hew race and
will have one language, one flag and
one ambition.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
HAIL TO THE STAID PEONY
IL is Rival of the Snowy CIrysanthc-
mum of Late Fall.

Hail the departing peony! What a
wonderful flower II is-regal in size
and color, grateful in fragrance. gen.
erous in its wealth OF bloom
Developed from the staid "piny"
that blossomed in the old fashioned
gardens, the peony has come to share
with the rose the floral popularity of
June. 1t is one of the triumphs OF
modern Horticulture.
1t is the rival of the snowy chrys-
anthemum of late fall. which is fairly
surpasses because of its fragrance ana
the outdoor beauty of the plant that
bears 1t. In variety of hues and
shapes it perhaps does not equal that
floral gift of Japan but the patience
and ingenuity of American florists
have done so much for the peony that
they may yet put II In the front in
that respect.
Indeed, a newspaper dispatch the
other day announced the development
of n yellow peony-which suggests an
indefinite extension of the plant $
floral color scheme. It's cousinship to
the butterfly and other golden ranun-
Gull may account for the success OF
some eXperimenter in awakening an
atavistic strain of yellow in the
peony's colorature.
Flowers, like fruit and grains, re-
spond gratefully to human experiment
tation. What n fairy tale Is the story
of how the rose, the peony, the dahlia,
the chrysanthemum, tho carnation,
the tulip, the orchid and other floral
wonders have been developed in end
less variety from their humble pro-
genitors OF the field and fen and
forest.-Minneapoli journal.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22

when mercenary individuals were per-
mitted to grow rich over the demands
OF crisis that could not be avoided
and which gave the chance for things
to be perpetrated without attracting
public attention. This, then. Is the
| highest grade of patriotism, and an
essential condition. that we learn to
submerge the interests OF the indi-
vidual pocketbook to the needs of the
nation.
But tho individual is not the only
sinner that needs to be brought to
repentance. There is all tho time a
hue and cry against pork" in legisla-
tion. 1t is important that the pork
evil should not be allowed to rear its
ugly head in these war times. Yet,
like the poor. It Is always with us. We
are In danger sometimes, in our zeal
TO overcome this wrong. to go to the
other extreme and incline to parsi-
mony In public expenditures. That Is
swapping one evil for another. But
we do want TO find way to keep the
public money from being expended in
unnecessary local interests which can
do no good except to strengthen tho
hold Of an office holder upon the
voters of his district, or for the ex-
ploitation of any other enterprise
which is essentially political asset
to any man or party.
1t is beside the question to ravo
about grating congressman. They are
only meeting the demands the people
put upon them. We elect new men to
represent us In the vain hope that
they viii stand as a rock against the
pork evil, yet at the same time we de-
mand Of them the pushing OF schemes
which are essentially of the pork or
der. a little boy defined pork as that
which called for the expenditure of
money for somebody else's plans, but
ship when applied to our own inter-
ests. That is the secret of why pork
is not abolished. 1t is Il good thing
to get congress to spend its money
for things we are Interested in, but
bad when il il spent for the benefit of
some other region. What we need
then is to get rid OF regional selfish
ness. There would be no pork legisla-
tlon II there were not large sections
of the country which demand 1t. No
rivers and harbors bill could be passed
except by dividing the fiat" around
the country. No member of congress
would vote for the other fellows pork
bill II his own district were not taken
care OF in some way. Where the
blame lies, therefore, is in the people
themselves. They demand the pork,
and tho congressman knows his seat is
not secure unless he grants what his
district demands and to do so he is
compelled to vote for similar steals
I'm the interest of other members.
When we learn to renounce our own
share of the fat" for the general good
of the whole country, then we can
demand OF our congressman a like
renunciation. They will be honest
whenever we will let them.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
"TO Lie in the Leu"

ITO lie In the lew"
Country ideal Of lasstude and peculiar stiffness
the minute of bees and grasshoppes and field
Time was when marched bravely the dusty highway
With those who carried banners and had great things
to do
And time travelled steadily along the quiet by-way
Now-I lie in the lew
l fell out of line long before they took the city
To which all marching far too we'll knew
That the lame and the lazy evoke contempt not pity
But-to lie in the lew!
Not lame enough good Lord for that still travel
Let find quiet path that in time will lead me thru
Grass-path clay-path, or even path OF gravel
But-to lie in the lew!
So found the quiet path and not wholly Disconnected
| kept along in hope for the end thot knew.
But who shall dare think he his fate has circumvented
1t led to the lew!
Cool the grass and soft and the great hedge throws
shadow;
And the road is out of sight almost out of hearing too
And the sounds are the voices of peaceful summer
meadow,
AS lie in the lew
And should thankful heart be singing auds and praises
That the chance to fight gone that there's nothing left
to do?
Tell me- oh million hearts that this dreadful life amazes
For my heart very cold and is not singing praises
AS l lie in the lew
BY Margaret Vandegrift.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
SET HIM A GOOD EXAMPLE.

Dear Miss Glenn:-I am "a years old and
have been married eight years Ny husband
is 2s years OF age and before our marriage
he was very particular with his clothes and
was very handsome, but now he doesn't care
for his appearance he never brushes his hair.
only when he is going some place and he will
not be careful Of his Sunday clothes. He
will dress up and then go out and harness
the horse and feed the stock and get his
clothes all greasy aud dirty. ! try to get him
to be nice, but don't know how. We have
two sweet children, little girl of three years
and boy four months old, Omd both are very
bright. My husband has only one bad habit
and that Is swearing and II could break him
OF that and teach him to be more particular
about his appearance we would be the hap
picst family in the world lie will swear be.
fore the little girl and then she says the same
words. Please advise me.-Hoartbroken
Wife
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
The Story.

In Waterwallopus, the capital OF
Calico Island. Princess Ina Cough
inghard, only daughter of old King
Heeza Coughinghard, lies upon her
silk covered couch in the smokehouse
hankering for excitement. Early in
the morning a trusted mail toter in
the service OF his Majesty arrived
from the south end of PIlverized
county with the startling news that a
couple of soused sailors. from tho
Armenian windjammer "Goshdern",
engaged in smuggling prunes from
the Wiffletree Island to the northern
extremity of Horneo, have captured
the police force and assumed control
or the saloons and cabarets.
Still Another.
In the afternoon another courier
arrived. With feverish haste King
Heeza ripped open the missive, only
to learn that the tenth assistant su-
pervisor of constabulary had failed to
mention whether the sailors had
shaved the past week or were grow
ing full boards.
Flinging curse upon the saunter-
Ing afternoon breeze he kicks the
courier a pair OF times in the left eye,
commanding him to traverse the
three thousand and eight miles for
the purpose of obtaining all the de-
tails. As the messenger-Shortrib
Spittinbacker-turns distant bend
In the kings highway, old HeeZa re-
turns to his sixteen-gallon keg of
I'abst beer, ordering u larger goblet,
the one having been supplied by his
favorite attendant holding mere five
gallons.
He Sleeps.
Throwing a goblet of beer down
his parched throat with great gusto,
he reaches blindly for n cigaret, lights
the cube, inhales a great cloud of
smoke, whereupon he grimances gro
tesquely, cursing wildly. He has ig-
nited a violet-perfumed cigaret,
whereas his favorite flavor is garlic.
Removing the taste from his mouth
with a five-gallon swallow of suds,
be calls for his opium pipe, and after
smoking five pills falls into Il rum
bling slumber
Princess Ina stretches lasily upon
her couch. gains her feet smells q
fragrant rhinocerous ham hanging
from n peg nearby. and steps into
tho simmering sunlight. Far down
the county pike a small speck is seen
moving toward the palace. lima bel
lows for her favorite spy glasses.
Strangers Approach.
strangers approach" she growls
to herself, slapping the waiting serv-
ant in the mouth. Perhaps at last
I am to enjoy n change from this
beastly life" She re-enters the
smokehouse, shifts three pounds OF
coke, passes out of the smokehouse
thru the simmering sun into the
palace up flight of stairs to tho
room where the king is snoring
Failing to awaken the king after
fifteen minutes effort, lima kicks the
old boy seven times on the left ear
and empties the beer keg. She lights
n perfumed cigaret, which she puffs
furiously as she enters her boudoir
on the tenth floor. As she enters she
"busts" her maid on the nose with
a sledge- hammer for wearing over
shoes in the house.
(TO b ECONTINUED.)