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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-03-08
ROTH NEWS.

There will be meeting Thursday
eve, March Is at o'clock of all in
terested in the Roth baseball team.
At the meeting it will be decided
At the meeting it will be decided
whether or not Roth will have local
club this year. It is hoped that
there will be a large turnout.
We understand that another dance
will be held in the local hall, Friday
evening, March 16.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-03-08
CARLOAD OF BEER
CAPTURED AT MINOT.

Minot, N. D., March 3.-Last eve
ming States Attorney Herigstad and
Deputy Sheriff Shirley took possess
sion of a car of beer sent over the
500 line for parties in Minot. The
officers intend to hold the car and the
beer until the consignees are located.
They expect to find large amount
Of the beer was sent to fictitious ad-
dresses.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-03-08
Baptist Church.

The special Evangelistic services
now in progress at the Baptist church
will continue next week. Rev. Will
liam r. Hill, the Evangelist, will
preach. Sunday services at the usual
hours.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-03-08
To Bottineau County Farmers.

To B0ttineau County Farmers.
I will call on you in the spring to
take your orders for Michaud Bros,
Of st. Paul and also orders for WOOL
en- goods for the Northern Woolen
Mills Co. Reserve your orders until
I see you.-John McCaughna. 81
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-03-08

The county commissioners convened
Tuesday in their regular monthly ses-
sion.
Evening star., 1917-12-09
"Attaboy!"
Standard-union.

From the Brooklyn Standard Union.
There is one purely American cry
which was heard on the battlefieids
of Europe before our first troops ar
rived there some weeks ago. 1t is the
base ball yell, "Attaboy." which is the
brief and sharp way Of saying That's
the boy" an expression OF approval
and encouragement.
This word may become the battle
shout, the rallying cry. the yell OF the
charge when our boys go INTO actlon;
Certainly IL has been frequently used
along. the western front from the chan
mel to Switzerland, and also on the
Italian front. Carried abroad by Eng
lish, French and Italians who lived
in the United States, but who re-
distinctly base ball expression has
often echoed in the trenches.
American newspaper correspondents
visiting the front in Flanders. and in
the snow-buried italian Alps, have
time and again been greeted by this
word. 1t was like a message from
home and was intended to let the visi-
tors know that some one from home
was there doing his bit 1t has been
a cry of recognition and welcome.
All base ball fans are familiar with
this word made famous by Hugh Jen-
nings, and doubtless a majority of
them firmly believe he coined the ex-
preston Perhaps he did. although it
is stated on fairly good authority that
1t came into use in the days of Pop
Anson. But it was Jennings who fast
ened it upon the public mind. and Jen-
nings will be always associated with
popularizing 1t.
"Attaboy,' cannot but puzzle the SOL
diers on the other side.- They won't
know what 1t means. and explanations.
especially to the French. will be most
difficult.
Evening star., 1917-12-09
Forest Service in China.
ON the New York Paper Mills.

From the New York Paper Mills.
Writing in the Indian Forester. F.
sherfesee. adviser in forestry in China,
gives an interesting account of what
has been done and what is intended to-
ward the establishent in China OF a
forest service under the ministry OF
agriculture and commerce. He states
that China has suffered. and must con-
tinue to suffer, owing to the wholesale
deforestation which took place CEN
truies ago. and that it was not until the
establishment of the republic that the
Importance of forestry was recognized.
To Mr.. Chow -Tzuchi, recently minister
Of agriculture and commerce, must be
given credit for the inauguration of a
national forest service SO recently as
1916. Among others. an English expert.
trained at Kew-namely, William Pur-
dom-serves as the chief of one OF six
divisions Into which the service has
been organized.
The general policy laid down is as
follows: To lessen the present scarcity
and high price of timber fuel and other
forest products. by the afforestation OF
public lands unfit for agriculture and
practically waste. To regulate stream
flow by the planting Of river sheds and
catchment areas. To protect and man
age on forest lines such public forest
resources as still exist. To encourage
private owners to plant by supplying
advice and practical assistance. To
Evening star., 1917-12-09
THE APPETITE FOR PRAISE.
Reflections on the Ego That Is in
Most Men.

From, the Fhiladelphia Ledger.
II is a human frailty to want praise.
We begin young to crave the approving
notice of others. There is none like to
me-" SAYS the cub in the pride of his
earliest kill "But the jungle is large.
and the cub he is small; let him think
and be still" Children brought up in
school can generally be told from those
who have been trained solitarily, for
the children thrown much with other
children are less likely to develop ar
rogance selfishness and conceit. They
do not find their schoolmates in a frame
of mind to put them on a pedestal or
crown their brows with laurel. They
are not regarded as little tin gods on
wheels; they are lost to sight IN the
shuttle of the classroom and the play
ground. Nobody defers to their opin-
ions; nobody minds when they stamp
the foot and shout angrily.
Children of a larger growth often
crave an admiration which they do not
get. They think to draw an audience
by harping on the theme of self, and
they find that the audience for that
kind of recital is likely to be limited
to the performer. To knock the r. out
of ones conversation is not necessarily
to make il interesting Many times a
narrative loses greatly in pith and
pungency by the impersonality in which
II is couched. A story of adventure
greatly gains by the sense of the first
hand participation of the narrator in
the incidents he describes. When the
first person is introduced for the sake
of the edification of the reader. there
need be no apology; when it is in
troduced for the glorification of the
speaker, it is odious altogether.
a man must do his work as well as he
can. whether he is praside for il or not.
The taste of publicity is likely to be
what the taste of blood is to tiger or
lion. IL whets the desire for more of
the same thing. There are SOME who
rarely do a good deed without rushing
to neighbor or newspaper to let it be
known. To others the free advertise
ing" is abhorrent. They are made
happy by a glowing consciousness that
the right thing was done. and that
auto-satisfaction of virtue is their re-
ward But most of us have not reached
that lofty pinnacle whereon we can
abide serenely independent of what
others think or say. We want kind
word now and then to keep US going
We hunger for appreciation. even when
we tell ourselves we are not worth it
Who has not known the lift letter OF
encoura cement. a sentence of com
mendation, has brought2 The day is
brighter for it, and we feel refreshed
renewed. Blessed are they who speak
in time the heartening. quickening
word.
Evening star., 1917-12-09
Effects of Cold and Heat.

From the Scientific American.
The effects of freezing and thawing
on building stones are to be tested at
the United States bureau of standards
by means of an ingenious form OF ap-
paratus designed for this purpose. 1t IS
well known that all kinds of stones.
slate, brick, concrete, etc, will disinte-
CRATE in time when exposed to the ac-
ton of frost especially in humid cli-
mates, like that of the eastern United
States, the action being due to the
freezing and consequent expansion OF
water held in the pores of the material.
1t is obviously very desirable to ascer-
tain the merits of different building ma
terials as to their susceptibility to such
damage, and many tests have been car
ried out for the purpose. The novel
feature Of the testing apparatus design
ed at the bureau Is it's rapfdity of op-
Grafton. The apparatus will automati-
| caIly move a charge Of stone. concrete
| or other material back and forth from a
| freezing chamber to a thaWing chamber
at the Intervals required to completely
CONCEAL and thaw the contained mois-
{ ture It is expected that by this means
| 80 to 100 freezings can be made in one
| day, whereas such a test formerly re-
auired several weeks. Thus 1t will be
possible to determine definitely the
Evening star., 1917-12-09
SAY EXPRESS FIGURES
ARE ENTIRELY TOO HIGH
Western State Railroad Commissions
Disprove Depreciation Claims
at Hearing.

Western state railroad commissions
ae the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion hearing on the express companies
application for 10 per cent rate IN
crease began yesterday to show deprecia-
tion figures presented by the companies
are entirely too high.
Even IL a rate increase were found
justified, they maintained. it should not
apply fatty to the entire country. but
principally to the east.
L. C. Powell. rate expert of the Ne
hraska railroad commission. eross-ex-
amined express company accounts 10
show that depreciation figures present.
cd at the opening Of the hearing yes.
terday We're based on an estimate thae
equipment would wear out more QUICK
ly than 1t actually does.
The need of the Northern ana Great
Northern Express companies Tor an
Increase was challenged by O. y. CAL
derhead. representing the washington
state public service commission, VINO
said their net earnings had not de-
creased In the last year.
Evening star., 1917-12-09
Musical Conductors.

From tbs Christian Science Monitor.
Really great musical conductors are
few. and of these Hans Richter stood
in the forefront. 1t is difficult to de-
fine just what differentiates a good
conductor from a mere time beater. but
a story that is told of Richter may
help indirectly. In the prelude to
Tristan und Isolde" occurs a beautiful
passage for the oboe, which rises.
swells and dies away to pianissimo
most effectively. To indicate the quail
ity Of the playing which he wanted
from this instrument. Richter, beating
the time with his right hand. placed
his left hand over his heart, and the
Evening star., 1917-12-09

sands of vessels that are plying the
seas today are equipped with bulk
heads that are absolutely useless be-
cause they do not extend high enough
to prevent the water from running
from one part of the ship to another
when the ship is partially submerged.
Then. again. the pumping system is so
arranged as to reach the water in the
lower part of the hull when the ship is
up by the head. Should the ship be in
jured in the forward part and sink by
the head. these pumps would>be. unable
to reach the incoming water before her
condition had become desperate. There
is vessel operating from New York
today worth approximately a million
dollars, and If she were equipped with
suits BILE pumps that would cost about
thousand dollars, her safety would be
increased about 40 per cent. Her own
Evening star., 1917-12-09
Taking a Mad Risk.

John Hays Hammond. jr.. in the Atlantic.
While endeavoring to devise fntricat !,
and ingenious mechanisms to sink the
submersible we overlook the simplest
safeguards for our merchant vessels
Today the construction Of the average
ship is designed to conform to the in
surance requirements. This does not
mean in any way that the ship is so
constructed as to be truly safe. Thou
Evening star., 1917-12-09

conduct a vigorous proforestry prope.
Eanda throughout China, showing to All
classes Of people the need Of forestry;
what it means to tho country: how u
affects health and prosperity. TO traln
young men to become foresters ana
what are called inspecting forest nurs-
erymen, whose duties will be chiefly the
supervision of the initial work OF Tor
estry. 1t is also intended to INSTRUCT
and interest school teachers IN the prln-
ciples and Importance of forestry In or
der that they may impress upon the
general student body what 1t means 70
the country and what the state Is doing
to foster it.
Evening star., 1917-12-09
A Chinese Feud.
From East and West News.

From East and West News.
The Peking Daily News tells OF, a
curious enmity between two. wealthy
families living near Shining. The cause
is a dispute regarding the limits of
piece Of land. What is considered for
tune in China has been spent in litigation
sums exceeding many times the value Of
the property The people of the sur
rounding country have taken sides with
one of the families which fact the
Daily News thinks, indicates that the
other side is in the wrong.
In evaporation. the litigant carried
Evening star., 1917-12-09

number Of dressings required to bring
about q certain degree OF dfsintegra-
tion. Having obtained this information
with respect to a given kind and grade
OF material, it should be possible. on the
basis Of climatic statistics, to predict
approximately the number of years
service It may be expected to give in q
specified locality.
Evening star., 1917-12-09

the case on appeal to Lanchow and z
Sinfne to hear final arguments. Before
the magistrate arrived. however. an
alteration between the ltigants oc-
Cured. 1t developed into gun hight,
in which the head of the family tnas
had appealed to Lanchow was killed
by a member of the other family, OF
whom eight have been arrested. This
means feud handed down for genera
tions to come" concludes the Daily
News
Evening star., 1917-12-09

ers, however. prefer running the risk
Of losing her to expending thousand
dollars.
Evening star., 1917-12-09

Gen. William Murray Black. L. s. A.,
chief of the Engineer Corps, was born
at Lancaster, Pa. sixty-twc years ago
yesterday.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02

Conquering Might of Weakness

BY REV. CHARLES r. AKED
Famous Minister and Peace Advocate

Some OF the nobes lives which have
those OF chronic lnvad None sick it would
wherever find
PVentabe evils ought to be prevented that if the
records OF the worlds great sufferers should destroyed should
~ VI Tue orlgh pages IN all the history of life the planet
Inc entire conception Of heosm has raised
all tne and Tor all the by those ae poor things
the slckbed mount of TRANSPORTATION
"here amongst the giants the
ne 1eelng their beps and thanking God there morbid fb
IN their bode will find the sweetness and pndo
which the annals of sickness show?
Weak and women, the suffering the DAYS u
OF pan the nights heavy with the epes hours women
the hom the office the the schoroom righteousness and
lind that made perfect weakness God for the
heroic sufferer The world would poor place without the like of Won
Is comfort something soothing inducing placid sweet content
anodyne the sou No, forude weakness are
hard bear They take from onhx Life But the half that
remains is greater than the whole
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02
Evolution of Envelope.

There are many persons now living
who can remember the days when let
ters went through the mails in the
form of a folded sheet of paper sealed
at one edge, for envelopes were not in
common use until about 1855.
In that year a machine was patented
for producing these now indispensable
covers for epistolary correspondence
a machine which, as compared with
hand labor, did the work of five girls
A better machine was produced i'm
1852, which performed the work of
seven girls. Three years later came
the machine with a device for gum
ming the flap of the envelope, which
did the work of ten girls. Next came
another machine of American device,
which did the work of 20 girls, and
still largely used. This has rival in
an invention which gums, prints, folds
and counts the envelopes, and binds
them with paper band in packets of
%. This machine supplants the La
Dor Of 80 girls. 4
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02
Modern Armies Can No More
Carry on War Without Wood
Than They Can Without Food

"We might as we'll be without food
as without wood"
This from the German socialist or
gan tells the story of how valuable
| from all it's points of development the
tree Is to the army of a nation at
| war.
One of the mysteries OF the present
war is the source from which Germany
obtains the nitrocellulose necessary in
the manufacture of smOkeless powder
and ordinarily made from cotton. A
| well defined belief exists in England
that at least part of the nitrocellulose
needed by German powder factories is
being made from wood, the Manufac-
turers' Record states.
Ordinary black powders contain
about Is parts charcoal, with special
properties, and are made largely from
dogwOod, willow and alder. In spite
of the advent of smokeless POWDER
enormous quantities of black powder
are still used. 1t is employed in shrap-
mel, also to fill the rings of the time
fuses with. which shells are equipped,
for which purpose no satisfactory sub
more, it is used in most armOr pierre
ing Shells which should attain great
penetration before they go off, and for
which the majority of high explosives
would be unsuitable because of their
eXplOsiveness on contact. Another
product of the forest, rosin, is en-
ployed for filling the spaces between
bullets in shrSpnel, so that on explo-
sion the missiles will be evenly distrib
uted in all directions.
Millions of gunstocks are made from
American walnut. A new rife is re-
quired monthly for every man at the
front. The development of trench war
fare, when vast armies of men dig
themselves in on fronts hundreds of
miles long, calls for an amount of tim
Der for trench walls, floors and braces
that it is difficult to estimate.
Germany, fully prepared for Eng
lands embargo, makes a soft, absorb
ent surgical cotton from wood cellu-
lose. Two factories in Sweden also
are making this substitute.
Methyl alcohol, the other product be-
sides acetic acid obtained from the de-
structive distillation of hardwoodS, has
a multitude of uses. 1t is essential
in the manufacture of many medical
preparations. 1t is employed in the
making of aniline dyes. 1t is also the
ground of formaldehyde, for the manu-
facture of which large quantities of
wood alcohol are exported to Europe.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02
Some Recipes for Success
Given by a Successful Man

Judge Gary gives his recipe for sue
cess. He says about a young man:
81. He should be honest, truthful,
sincere and serious.
$50. He should believe in and preach
and practice the Golden Rule.
SO. He should be strong and healthy,
physically and morally.
II. His habits and mode of living
should be temperate and clean and
his companions selected with regard to
their character and reputation.
"5. He should possess good natur-
al ability and a determination con-
stantly to improve his mind and men,
DRY.
SO. He should possess a good edu-
cation. including particularly the fun
damentals, such as mathematics, gram
mar, spelling, writing, geography and
history: and also a technical educa-
ton concerning the lines he proposes
to follow.
81. He should be studious and
thoughtful, keeping his mind upon
subject until it is mastered.
IS. He should be conscientious,
modest but courageous, energetic,
persistent, even-tempered, economical,
faithful and loyal to his friends and
the interests he represents. ''-Ameri-,
can Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02
Lot of Professor Is Hard,
College Survey DiSCloSes.

One of the more prominent eastern
colleges has been conducting a survey
of itself. 1t finds the students living
in magnificent dormitories and palatiai
fraternity houses, some of which are
heavily endowed, going to classes in
their own automobiles and possessing
more changes of raiment than Samson
lost by his ill-advised bet to the Phil
istine youths.
The survey was pleasant until it
looked into the homes of the professors.
There it found scholars of Greek and
Latin, profound teachers of physics,
cranking up clothes wringers and put
ting bluing in the family washtubs.
The average pay of professors in
this particular college is considered
high, but it is less than good bar
tender can command. The unctuous
head waiter at a fashionable restau-
rant makes considerably more.
The professor is another IMAM with
white collar"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02

shower bath room and pauses proud
ably look blank. Shower baths are
not such uncommon objects as all that
Oh, but they are, she tells you, in
France, for the blind SO uncommon
in fact, that only at the Phare you
are visiting can blind men, after exer-
cising, have the stimulating tonic of
showering water, which helps so much
to tone up the system shattered by
the nervous shock of wounds. This is
one of the Americanisms of the Phare
Look at it respectfully
AT the door of the court your guide
hesitates between possibilities and
then decides to show you the printing
press in the big room above the gym
nasium. This is an American ma
chine, the only electric press which
prints books for the blind in France.
BY the time this article appears the
first issue of monthly magazine for
the blind will have been issued from
this press.
Blind Editor Busy.
The magazine is under the direction
of blind editor, who with a corps of
seeing assistants (volunteers), will
also, during the winter, arrange for
the publication by this press of a Sc
ries of manuals in raised type, which
will help the blind in their re-educa-
ton.
You descend the stairs, glance in at
the gymnasium, where a couple of
blind men are now fencing, under the
careful direction of a teacher, and
your guide tells you that the teacher
is perhaps the best-known master of
arms in France. In spite of being
modified he manages to come three
times week to give himself to his
blind comrades.
You cross the court to the room of
the handicrafts. Here you see sights
which, if you are inexperienced in
what may be done for the blind, seem
miraculous to you. You see a one
armed blind man who in five weeks
has learned to manage a knitting ma
chine so that he can earn a good liv-
ing by knitting sweaters and bands.
You see another blind soldier with
only one arm who is weaving success
fully by means of a device of his own
invention, which enables him to make
one foot do the work of his missing
hand. You see blind men weaving col
ored rugs with but slightly more SUI
pervlslon than is usually given to
sighted weavers, and others who are
making filet work.
Then your guide steers YOU away
ana aStoniShes you by saying that Won
have not yet even set foot inside the
main building proper. This main build
ing is a beautiful old palace. belonging
TO the Vatican. The entrance hall is
a nobly proportioned room. which
serves as general meeting place.
You Are Astonished.
Here come wives, sisters svoo+-
hearts to visit with their men, TO hear
OF progress made in re-education RI
guide the sfghtless heroes out for q
walk in the pleasant paths of the near
by park. Through this room mass
the teachers of stenography, tvne-
writing, Braille reading and writing
clay modelling, who daily fill the
rooms of the old palace with such use
full industry as it can, never have
known before. Here the blind men
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02
Knew the Species.

IS a v, p a W."
queried little Ben
n Y B u m p e m ,
what kind of fish
is an angel fish :"
can angel fish,
son." replied the
fond parent, who
had once pinned
his faith to a
comic opera star,
"is a sucker who
backs an actress
who things she
owns a shape she
can travel on"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-02-02
Mysterious.

ooh, dear!'' sighed the man whose
wife was away, 81 can't find a pin in
the house. l wonder where they are
all gone, anyway"
That's a difficult question to an
swer," replied his mother, because
they are always pointed in one direction
and headed in another"