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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-20

And now all looked at Sammy
Muskrat, and he blushed. and had .
very handbag look. In his little
brown face. 1t was a funny sight in
deed to e his sheepish manner. as If
he would like to run off and hide in
some little hole!
But Sammy Muskrat looked up and
saw Benny Mink wiping off his whisk-
ers with both hands, and Sammy ex-
claimed. "All look at Benny Mink. for
he looks worse than I do, or worse
than Dick Otter"
And Benny Mind said in a cheer
full way, Well, just look at me and
my whiskers, and you'll no see any
of that yellow stuff on me. I'd be
ashamed to have a face all dripping
with that yellow stuff. like Sammy
Muskrat and Dick Otter! You better
both run. right home, and ask your
mothers to give you a BATH"
Now what was this yellow stun?
Had they been stealing birds eggs?
I'm afraid SO. Tom and Jerry Beas
yer would not do such a thing.
Tomorrow-The Beaver Twins Scold
Their Friends.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-20

Miss Elsa Bendeke left to-day for
Minneapolis, where she will join her
sister, Miss Marion Bendeke who has
been attending the University of Wis
consin at Madison. and together they
will go to Chicago, where they will
spend the holidays as guests at the
home Of DR.. Thomas Warloe. Miss
Elsa Bendeke has been the guest at
the C.. c. Gowran home here since the
closing of st. Mary's hall at Fari-
bault, MINI.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Peoples Of
New Battleford, Sask., are expected to
arrive here Sunday for a short visit
en- quite to Park River. where they
will visit at Mr.. Peoples home.
Mr.. Peoples was married yesterday,
December 10, at New Battleford' %
Miss Bessie Sowles Of that city.
Miss Alice Ward Of the public well
fare committee of women and chill
dren has returned to Bismarck after
spending several days here and in
Fargo in connection with her work.
While in this city Miss Ward was the
guest Of Mrs. u A. Poppler. Miss
Ward is working under the direction
of the national council OF defense.
The adult choir Of st. MichAel's
church will practice Christmas songs
this evening at the home OF Mrs. H.
I Burton. South Third street "A social
time will be enjoyed after choir prac-
tice.
Il i
Miss Helen Ness and her brother,
Emmett Meas, have arrived home
from Minneapolis to spend the Holt
days. Miss Ness is employed In the
Northern Pacific offces there, and
institute. !
Mrs. George H. OlmsteAd ~ Reeves
avenue left last night Tor Ocean Point,
lCal., where she Will spend the winter.
~. st5Asn.s as,id x.li hold 81.
LOT homS.nnade1 candy y Wilson's
/ Srocsry stoso tealerrow a~3ternc0n.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-20

urging all local chapters to speed up
work already started and to readjust
their future plans. s5if
The surgical dressings and comfoHs
kit departments here have been closed
and the salvage department, which
has been helping to finance the local
chapter, will wind up their work ~
soon us they dispose Of their stocks
on hand.
knitting Of socks and sweaters will
continue, however. There also will be
intensive work upon refugee garments
for the deported French and Belgians
returning from Germany. Junior
Red Cross work will continue along
slightly different lines than formerly
planned, it is understood.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-20

Many a man Is happy only because
he believes himself so.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-20
Red Cross no,, cal,
WORKS on PEACE BASIS.

Minneapolis, Dec. 2o.-with the
Of the armistice, the American
peace time basis.
Certain departments which were
directly. with the fighting
lover there" are now disbanding. The
northern division of the Red Cross,
has its headquarters here, is
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-20
Cross Roll Call
NJ. A,eo1 uv;o.-,, rooo;,od -a.

Mrs. Ansel Wineman received word
yesterday that Lieutenant Wineman
will arrive here tomorrow or Sunday
to spend the holidays. Lieutenant
Wireman has been i'll at the hospital
in Hoboken. N. j.. for several weeks
and has just received his hospital dis
charge.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-20
BY ELOISE.

1t is far past time to discard that
first hat" The hat for mid-winter
must now occupy milady's attention.
Since her suit and coat have been
carefully selected a hat to match must
be the next thing bought. Fur coats
seem to be the favored thing this year
and although so far the winter has
been very mild even in the north the
women are desperately wearing these
heavy coats of expensive pelts in
hopes that a bitter day may yet re-
ward them. And what is more ma
tural than fur and fur-trimmed hats
to match these wraps.
Pictured is a most becoming turban
for the young matron. It is made Of
black panne velvet. A broad band Of
black fur and an aigrette Of uncurled
ostrich form the trimming. Such a
hat is suitable for wear during many
hours of the day and will be as smart
at the afternoon tea as it Is during
the morning shopping hours. Fur
trimmed hats like his may be worn
with any kind Of fur coat for one of
the vagaries of the season is the wear
ing of two or more kinds of fur at the
same time.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
Treasure From the Jungle.

The most costly, and scientifically
the most noteworthy, animal in the
grand collection of the New York Zoo
logical society in Bronx park is the
pigmy hippopotamus, of which there
are three specimens. Not only are
these the only captive pigmies In this
country, but anywhere in the world.
except a pair captured at the same
time and now in Europe. Even skins
and skeletons are so few as to be re-
garded- as great prizes by museums.
It's habitat is apparently restricted to
the hinterland of Liberia, where 1t
roams restlessly through the forests
and haunts small streams, making rest
fng-places of hollows under the shaded
banks. This rare little beast from an
unknown land is true hippopotamus,
but a midget in size beside the huge
amphibian with which we are famil-
lar. One might make a dozen of them
out of the bulky carcass of that old
Behemoth Caliph, the monarch of the
herd at the zoo. The male of the
pigmy is fully adult, yet stands only
80 inches tall, and weighs about 42o
pounds.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
No Unmixed Good.

All good things are subject to abuse,
and when abused become pernicious.
. Great powers, commerce
and riches-or, in other words, great
national prosperity-may,i in like man.
ner, be denominated evils; for they
lead to insolence and inordinate ambi-
ton. a vicious luxury, RIGHTEOUSNESS
of morals, and all those vices which
corrupt a government, enslave the
state and precipitate the ruin of ma
ton. But no wise statesman will. re-
ject the good from an apprehension
of the i'll. The truth is, in all human
affairs there is no good, pure and I'M
mixed. Every advantage has two
sides; and wisdom consists in avail
ing ourselves of the good, and guard
ing as much as possible against the
bad.-Alexander Hamilton.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
NOT GOOD JUDGE OF POETRY
One Explanation for NapoIeon's Pecu-
liar Worship at Shrine of Second
Rate Writer of Verse.

The curious Partially which Nsapo-
leon showed for the poems of Ossian,
particularly "Temora," puzzled his
contemporaries, as it since has his BIZ
ographers, says the Christian Science
Monitor. 1t Is related that he carried
a beautifully bound copy of Ossian
with him to Egypt, and that on being
read passages of the Odyssey by the
poet Arnault, while on board ship, he
contemptuously exclaimed: You call
that sublime! What a difference be-
tween your Homer and my Ossian,"
and, reading some passages from tie
mora" he said, "This is grand, and
sentimental and sublime l. Ossian is a
poet Homer mere drivel." Napoleon's
preference for the works Of the mys-
terry poet of the North continued
throughout his life. He was reading
Ossian in 1897, and q well-thumbed
copy was among his books at st. He
lena. There have been many explana-
tons given for so strange a literary
preference. The Countess de Montho-
lon unkindly remarks that Napoleon
was VIGOROUSLY deficient in his sense
of rhythm and that therefore poetry
which was not poetry at all as far as
form went, for he read Ossian In
French prose, suited him very nicely.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
TEMPORARY MASK OF WISDOM
Even Most Foolish Man Has Look OF
intelligence When He Is Light
ing q Pipe.

Why is it that q man always looks so
intelligent when he is lighting his
pipe?
Probably 1t is because the intake of
breath which is necessary to start
proper combustion causes a drawing
up of his brows, a wrinkling of the
forehead, a concavity of the cheeks
and a puckering of the mouth, all of
which produces an owlish and oracu-
lar demeanor. This mask of wisdom
and soberness, when brightly lit by the
CLEAN and yellow shining of the
match flame which leaps up and down
over the bowl of the pipe, has dis
mayed many timid observer. We
know that our friend, like ourself, was
but q well-nourished simpleton whose
mind. even If spread at its thinnest,
could not shelter more than one-tenth
of his doings with common sense. How
came 1t, then. that this simple act
of laying fire to dried vegetation could
so uplift and ensage him?
Whenever a man lights his pipe his
mind seems born anew; in Other
words, 1t leaps back into the vast ocear
of simple absurdity whence most Of
our minds come trickling. The mo
mentary right gives him time to think
and he starts afresh upon argument
rebuttal and contradiction. And inev
itably he says something particular!
| MISUNDERSTANDING
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
Introducing the Monocle.

One interesting thing about the
monocle is that the fashion of wearing
it was introduced at the Congress Of
Vienna, that congress which remade
the map of Europe and, in the opinion
of many, laid the mines whose explo-
sion was the great war. Sir Horace
Rumbold, in writing on the subject of
the origin of odd fashions and Gus
toms, said that a Dutch exquisite,
Jonkheer Breele, was the first man to
wear monocle, and that he showed
the then brand new fad to the diplo-
mats and others assembled at the con-
gress. After that Introduction the fad
spread to all parts of Europe, but 1t
took it's deepest hold on the English
well-to-do classes.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
Honi Indians.

The first knowledge of the Hopi In
dams by Europeans was in July Of
1910, soon after Captain General Don
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado had
found the famed golden Seven Cities
of Cibola in the poverty-stricken pu-
eblos of Zuni. In the summer he sent
westward an exploring party, headed
by Don Pedro de Tovar.
Though the very name of the tribe,
"Hopitu," means peaceful people," the
Spanish chronicles of their land, known
as the province of Tusayan, showed
that of all southwestern Indians they
have resisted encroachment most, and
have, till very lately, generally re-
fused the ministration of Christian
teachers. About the time of the Span
iards' coming they transferred their
habitations to the mesa tops, whereon
they now live in a half dozen villages
to which the women pack water ur
steep and rocky trails.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
How Indians Tell Time at Night.

To ascertain the time at night the
apache Indians employed a gourd on
which the stars of the heavens were
marked. AS the constellation rose in
the sky the Indian referred to his
gourd and found out the hour. BY
turning the gourd around he could tell
the order in which the consultations
might be expected to appear.
The hill people of Assam reckon
time and distance by the number of
guilds of betelnut chewed. 1t will be
remembered how, according to Wash
ington Irving, the Dutch colonial as
sembly was invariably dismissed at
the last puff of the third pipe of to-
bacco of Gov. Wouter Van Twiller.
A Montagnis Indian. of Canada will
set up tall stick in the snow when
travelling ahead of friends who are to
follow. He marks with his foot the
line of shadow cast, and by the change
in the angle of the shadow the oncom-
ing party can tell on arriving at the
spot, about how far ahead the leader
is.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
GREAT MASTER OF THOUGHT
Influence of Aristotle on the Minds Ct
Men Has Been for Two Thousand
Years Supreme.

Aristotle was the most famous nni
influential of the Greek philosophers
He was born CS4 B. G. and died In 81
B. c. In the history of western civiii-
cation there is no example of any oth-
er philosopher having exerted so great
and so permanent an influence on the
minds of men as Aristotle. For nearly
1000 years his authority was not only
predominant, but almost despotic, In
all countries where the light Of learn
ing had penetrated. During the. dark
ages when Attle. attention was paid
to learning, even In the most favored
portions Of Christian Europe, the
philosophy of Aristotle was encourag-
ed and his works diligently studied In
the Moslem capitals OF Bagdad and
Cordova. On the revival of letters In
Italy and other parts Of Europe, Aris-
totle reigned for a time In the schools
without rival.
After the reformation his influence
decreased, and for nearly 200 years
after the time of Bacon the works OF
Aristotle were almost universally neg
lected among the learned in Europe.
Toward the close of the last century,
however, attention was again directed
to them. His true position in the realm
of intellect is admitted to be fully
equal, if not superior, to that of any
other Of the great masters of thought
that the world has ever seen.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
OIdtime "Craters."

The word crater" from the hole
made by n mine. and afterward fought
for, has thoroughly established itself
in the language of the trenches. 1t is
a highly obvious and inevitable Dor
rowing from the volcano. But the vol
cano itself took the word from the
original "crater"-the mixing bowl
(from the verb meaning to mix), in
which the Greeks, from the earliest
known times, mingled water with wine.
These craters, which stood in conspic-
rous positions in the hall, were often
of huge size, and the resemblance to
them of the volcanoes orifice struck
all ancient observers who used the
word "crater" in the modern volcanic
sense.
Connecticut western news., 1918-11-21
RESULT OF BALLOON TRIP
Account OF ori-.n cF First Pair of Sus-
renders That Seader Is Net
Forced to Ge.ieve.

OIe day during tie warm summer
Of M Gable swallow, ;.n honest farm
er of Horseboro, desisted from his
work in the squillion field and leaned
against his rake while he wiped his
honest brow with the sleeve of his hon.
est shirt.
His face being upturned for this OPP
Grafton his eyes caught speck In the
sky.
by spinach eff UNI beant a balloon !"
he exclaimed, "and shoot me for
weasel eff the man beant havin' trouble
with umT'
He was right. The balloon was de-
scending at a fearsome rate, the an
Choir swaying and jerking wildly.
We'll, I'll be Numbered and light
ningedI What's got msf" cried Gabe
Swallow.
The anchor had him. 1t had him by
the nape of the belt and 1t lifted him
5000 feet above the hills and dales Of
Horseboro and swung him gaily In the
breezes for two hours and set him
roughly In q treetop at Kinetown, SO
| miles north. The only change In his
appearance was that his belt, Instead
of being completely around his waist
was partly around his waist and partly
around his right shoulder
"By spinach, 1t do feel all right this
away, tool" he thought, and, improv'
ing on the idea when he reached home,
he made the worlds first pair of sus-
penders.-Detroit Free Press.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-11

war tired The German nation Is war
weary-but this applies also to others.
There is probably no more popular
growing in Germany than here. Mu-
nitions trains continue to roll to the
west and Germany is making aero
planes, submarines and shells at a
rate hitherto unequaled. Two or three
million prisoners are all making mu-
nitions in one form or another.
AS to the possibility of revolution,
Heine, the keenest student of Prus-
sian psychology once remarked that
revolutions in Germany were impos-
sible because of verboten.
This is cynical-but it is literally
true. The machine gun awaits every
German with revolution in his heart
Leibknecht, the only Prussian who
would ever lead a revolution, is now in
penal servitude.
The Germans won't stop fighting I'M
til we make them see that militarism
and war do not pay-that is, when we
are able to impose peace on defeat
ed German army and navy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-11
UPON
BAKERS REPORT
Continued from page Ii

supplied with artillery, ammunition
and other needs"
Probably" interjected Chamber
lain.
Don't you think we ought to take
the country into our confidence and
tell them we haven't got enough artil-
lery" asked Mcclellan.
Il see no reason to afflict the coun
try whit a doubt I don't feel" said
Baker Il am confident the supply will
he adequate for all troops sent to the
front"
Mcclellan insisted that the impress
sion had not been left with him and de-
clared Baker had been wrong about
the initial rush needs so long as the
"rushest need, training of men, is be-
ing delayed by lack of equipment
Wadsworth declared the artillery
program in his judgment is not nearly
extensive enough and thought the
country ought to know the exact fact.
Senator Weeks told of lack of equip.
ment at Camp Bowie, Fort Worth,
Texas.
How do you reconcile the statement
that there is no general lack with
that2" he was asked.
ST didn't say that" snapped Baker
81 said initial rush needs We're cared
for
gu ought to have defined initia.
rush needs" said Weeks.
Those are simple words" replied
Baker.
YES, but they give the country the
wrong idea of the situation" main
tanned weeks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-11
WAR LITERATURE
REPLACES FICTION
keokuk Public Library Patrons Are
Engaged in Reading This
Kind of Books
Nowadays.
HISTORY rs POPULAR
Empey, Peat, Hay, Mcclintock, Ger
ard and Wilson Are More Popu-
lar Than Cham
bers, ct al.
HISTORY is POPULAR

It's all on account of the kaiser.
There has been a decided falling off
in the amount of fiction being read
in Keokuk during the last three
months, and war literature, history
and sociology has taken it's place.
The report of the librarian for the
last three months, as read before
the library board at it's meeting last
night, showed that Keokuk people
were reading war books more extern
sively than they are fiction, and that
history and sociological studies are
more in demand than usual.
Empey, Peat, Hay, McClintock,
Gerard and Wilson, not to mention
many others, are proving decidedly
more popular than Chambers,
Hughes, ct al. The war table is
much more enticing than the fiction
shelves this year.
The Keokuk library through the
donations of Keokuk people, was
able to send close to a thousand
books to the soldiers library, and
contributions Of 500 were received
for the fund.
The Librarians Report.
The librarians quarterly report
follows:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-11
Meetings Resumed.

position IQuS outlined ny SZeEQlu anu
approved by Kuehlmann.
Meetings Resumed.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 11.-After
Brest-Litovsk dispatches received via
Berlin had declared the Russo-Ger-
man peace negotiations definitely
suspended yesterday, messages ar
irving late this afternoon reported a
resumption of the meetings. 1t was
stated that the Ukrainian delegates
were presenting their demands.
Whether this meant that the full
conference was resumed or that the
Friday meeting was merely between
central powers delegates and repre-
sentatives of Ukrainia, now recog-
nized as an independent state-was
not clear in dispatches received
here.
Foreign Minister Trotsky was re.
ported in the earlier messages as
himself moving suspension of the
peace meetings.
MiIitarists Defied.
[By ]. w. T. Mason, Written for the
United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Rus
isan Bolsheviki apparently have de.
fled the right of the German mill
tarists to dictate terms of peace.
Suspension of negotiations at
Brest-Litovsk by the Russians means
that the Bolsheyiki seem to be sin.
cere in their demands for a demo.
cratic peace A new challenge has
possibilities of immense Importance
D.
Litovsk is one of Russia's great fort.
resses, occupied by the Germans. To
contine to discuss peace there would
be to keep the delegates constantly
menaced by the spirit of German
militarism 1t Is to escape from such
condition as this that the Boil
sheviki demand the removal of the
seat. Of negotiations to neutral ter.
ritory.
I In a neutral capital the influence
of democracy working upon the dele.
gates could not be controlled by the
kaiser's militarists. Therefore kaiser.
ism has declined to consider the Boil.
shevilsi demand. There could be no
more typical instances of tho ire.
concilable differences between demo
Tacy and mititarism than this.
The kaiser's love for the spectacu-
lar unquestionably was responsible
for the Germans original demand
that the Russians be compelled to
consent to peace terms within one
of the greatest of their own lost fort
resses. BrestLitovsk has thus come
to be significant of triumphant Ger
man militarism. 1t is tribute alike
to the sincerity and democracy of
Trotsky that he saw the kaiser's
trap and refused to be caught
The result will depend largely on
the actual power the Bolsheviki have
In Russia. II Trotsky can continue
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-11
Chicago Cash Grain.

CHICAGO. Jan. 11.-Corn-No. 4
yellow, $1.65@175; No. yellow,
s14O@147; No. yellow. s1.35@1.42;
No. white, No. a white, SLIT; No.
g white, $1.42; No. mixed, $1.40;
No mixed, S1.35.
Oats-No white, SOA oslo; No.
a white, 79h@S0Ac; standard, S0h
@81kc.
Peoria Grain.
PEORIA, ILL.,, Jan. 11.-Corn--Mar-
ket unchanged. No. yellow, s1.61
bid; No. mixed, s1.56 bid; No. 6
mixed, $1.40.
oats-Market nc lower. No. 8
white, Sic.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-Hog receipts
$4,000; market slow, steady, sc low
er. Mixed and butchers, s15.s0@16.50,
good heavy, s16.15@16.50; rough
heavy, $15.75@15.95; light, $4,000
1876; pigs, $12.40@15.25
Cattle receipts 1900; market slow,
weak Beeves, SS.10@13.65; COWS
and heifers, s5.70@11.60; ST ckers
and feeedrs. s6.fO@10.75; calves, $s.75
@16.O0.
Sheep receipts $4,000; market weak
15c lower. Native s96o@13.O0; west
ern, s1o.15@13.25; lambs. $4,000
1850; western, s14.25Q17.65; ewes,
$9.00@12.60.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 11.-Cattle
receipts 5000; market steady. Steers
$7.O0@140O; cows and heifers. $6.25
@11.25; stockers and feeders, $500
lips; calves, $6.5O@13.50.
Hog receipts 1000; market loo
lower Bulk, $15S5@16.2O; heavy,
$16.O0@1635; medium, s16.00@16.2O;
light, S1595@1620.
Sheep receipts 5000; market
steady. Lambs, $16.25@17.00; ewes,
s950@1200; wethers, s700@15.50.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-11

given us by a powerful republican
leader topped by the dramatic and
effective entrance of Mr.. Mann to
cast the great weight of his infiu-
ence into the republican scale just
as the vote was to be taken"
Mann came from a hospital at
Baltimore where he had been under
treatment for some time, cast his
vote and returned Immediately to the
hospital His action made tremen-
dous impression on the women and
was described as the deciding fac.
tor on the floor of the house" by
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of
the woman suffrage party of New
York City.