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The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
FLUNkEY OF BACkUS
FL0uNTS FEDERAL LAW
Logging Superintendent Utters
LaWless Sentiments When
Called to Book.

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, March
4.-(Special to the Rip-saw. )-"To
HI with the law! We make the law
around here.'
That's the way George Mclean, su-
perintendent of logging for Baron
Backus at International Falls, expressed
himself when informed that it was ille-
gal to run locomotives after they had
been condemned by the government in
spectors.
If working man uttered an ex-
preston like that, he quickly would be
lynched by some of these "Treat 'em
Rough organizations or else hurried
through the courts until he went to
prison for ten years or jumped into
the river.
The highly anarchistic Mclean was
softly and timidly told that the Baron
Backus bunch might make the village
laws in their neck o. the woods, but
that they had no power to make fed
eral law and that good citizens do not
flaunt laws, federal, state or other
kinds.
Aho oCIlhc against DdrOn bacKuS SClll
seems to be on. Soldiers and gunmen
still affront the peacable. people of
this village by their unnecessary pres
ence.
Koochiching county now is in the
hands Of a sheriff who is not a citizen
of the county. He holds his authority
by virtue Of appointment by Gov.
Burnquist. Koochiching county is
somewhat in the same position as Ire.
land-governed by non-residents, ap-
pointed by an outside and unfriendiy
authority.
Poor Hugh Mcintosh has not been dis
covered to date. No trace of him has
been found. It is firmly believed by
great many that his body will be
found floating in Rainy River after
the ice goes out. If so, it will be i'm
possible to convince citizens of the bor-
derland that he was not murdered by
some of the desperate gunner imported
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
BERENlCE HIKES FOR HURLEY
Sinful Siren of the Underworld Deserts Bngoand and Pitches
Her Tent in Bank Saloon on Silver Street-Harpy
Fails to Come Between Husband and Wife.

There is dep regret, even mourning,
in Bingoland's smart set over the de-
parture of Berenice Andres, one Of the
most consistent followers of low moral
endeavor ever known in the lowland
city of Superior.
Berenice not only was shining light
In redlight circle in Bingoland, but
she was boon companion Of Old John
Barleycorn. Many time did the pull
chritudinous creature, in company with
NPig-eye" o 'Brien, try to put the old
rowdy on his back but, each time, Old
John won out, hands down.
Now Berenice has gone to Hurley.
She has attached herself to the Bank
saloon ON Silver street, in that noted
old burg of whoop and hurrah.
Berenice came prominently into the
limelight in Superior when the last an
nual assembly of the Congress Of
Rough Riders" was held last summer.
Midnight was made hideous at that
time by q quarrel between two prom
inent Superior business men as to
which one bought Berenice bouquet
of sweet peas.
Berenice Andros, as she is known in
Hurley, visited that live burg last June
and she liked the atmosphere so well
that she packed up and went back,
despite the fact that she was ordered
ont Of town by the chief Of police
when there before.
Incidentally, too, when Berenice was
in Hurley half a year or so ago, she
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

weeps big tears copiously and blubbers
Like a small boy after his mother. Col
Burnside is both ridiculous and patbe.
tic in his maudin actions over the red.
light midget.
Burnside is spending his easily-made
money like drunken sailor. He fairly
thrusts it on the Burton woman. He
will throw out cash for her at any time.
for any old thing. For many weary
moons, Nora Burton owed the Corey
Lumber company a bill for lumber
Very recently, the bookkeeper of that
firm sent the bill to Col. Burnside who
quickly and gallantly paid it.
A fair but very frail young girl at
one time bestowed redlight favors on
Col. Burnside. She later took up life
Of concubinage with a chap at Spooner.
Death cut the young creature off from
her sinful career last winter, and she
was buried in Duluth, where her DOOR
old mother lives.
Colonel Burnside commissioned 2
Bngoland lady to buy a harp for the
bier of the deceased. She picked out a
big, handsome and expensive one. Sev
eral times. "Daddy Jim" was told that
he had not paid for the floral harp
and, each time, he drew a check. Ali
in all, that harp cost him good $500.
At the funeral of that poor girl, too.
bottle Of booze fell out of Col Burn.
sides pocket, as he knelt in PRAYER
in the church. He picked it up, un.
broken, but dropped it again on the
church steps, registering a total loss
that time.
Although Madam Burnside is not
highly popular with her sex in Bingo.
land, she is entitled to considerable
sympathy. She has served Daddy
Jim' faithfully and we'll for six wears
and now he is throwing away his mon
ey on other women.
After the previous Rip-saw came out
and after all the trouble that eventful
might, Col. Burnside did feel it incum-
bent to square himself with Madam
Burnside. He bought her a new $500 fur
coat and then he took her "out step
ping' through Bingoland. They visited
the salons of Nora Burton, Madam La
whisky, Genevieve Torrance and Madam
Peterson. They bowed low, talked fast
and licked up many brimming beakers
of the stuff that makes Bingoland
both noisy and unsafe for sobriety.
1t is authentieally stated that the
Burnside bunch still carries on a heavy
traffic in booze. Thursday, of last
week, Col. Burnside is credited with
getting in 25 cases of illicit booze. Ma
dam. Burnside, for convenience in car
rying booze from the Burnside resi-
dence to the Burnside bingo parlors, has
petticoat, made of butchers linen,
provided with many pockets, in which
! she puts the bottles of booze. On one
occasion, it is alleged, some bad boys
threw madam down and stole six pints
from that magic petticoat. Folks than
the Burnsides would be arrested for
such stunts.
It further is alleged that a little
Burnside girl helps pa and ma. by bear
ing booze from the house to the store.
Over year ago, the Rip-saw called
the attention to the Superior humane
society to improper conditions in the
Burnside home and within the knOwl,
edge of the Burnside children, but the
matter was ignored.
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did her dirtiest to break up family
there by trying to come between a man
and hi wife. Happily, her designs on
the husband were foiled.
1t is quite likely that dear old Bin
goland will see Berenice again, despite
the dull days in Superior and the ten
dency of Bingoland sports to start an
exodus to Cuba. The sinful siren has
her household goods stored in Superior
and she also has a married sister in
Duluth, a woman said to bear the name
of Fern Thiery.
Madam Thiery, little daughter and
a sister occupied the hotel Neva cou-
pie Of years ago, adjoining the munich
pal court rooms on East Superior st.
There were some hoarse whisperings at
that time as to the curves Madam
Thiery was cutting and Duluth's then
chief of police was credited with max
ing long New Year call there two
years ago.
Whether or not that same Madam
Thiery was a sister of Berenice, the
records fail to say. May it not be pos
sibae that she was and that Berenice
was the sister, thus accounting for
the attraction the Neva had for ram.
bling men.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

from the slums of the big cities for
the purpose of doing dirty deeds for
Baron Backus, the untamed Bolshevist
of the Borderland, but the man who
failed to get away with his flounting
of the Canadian government and the
newspaper publishers of Western Can
ada.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

Organized labor in Superior IS nav
ing a troublous time in securing news
paper space and publicity. As last re-
sort, the Weakly Leader, bruised
reed Of journalism, has stepped into
the breach and loudly proclaimed that,
henceforth, it will function as the Of
ficial mouthpiece of the labor union
lists.
To a man up tree, this looks very
much like a case of the lion and the
lamb lying down togther, with the lamb
inside of the lion.
It is believed that, before this pro-
nouncemnt can become permanent
reality, some clever alchemist will have
to discover the secret Of making oil and
water mix.
Sane, thinking, experienced union
lists believe that the Weakly Leader
will utterly fail to reconcile the aims
of Superior's organized workers with
the interests of the Water, Light &
Power company, the Street Railway
company and it g union-hating policy,
the rapidly-growing telephone monopoly,
the Shields Hanton-Ahlgren-R Rosenberg
bunch of politicians and that bevy OF
solid doves, such as Ada Griffith, Vir-
ginia Reed, Ella Howard Bell, Nora
Burton, "Babe Stevens, Bernice An
dros and others.
Such combination as the foregoing
will be imperative if the unionists fol-
Low handful of blind leaders and per-
nit the Weakly Leader to become and
remain their journalistic mouthpiece.
It remains, to be seen whether or not
a few officious labor leaders can hog
tie and deliver to the Bingoland pol
iticians the thousands of sturdy union
men. It remains to be seen if the Weak
ly Leader, always consistent enemy or
organized labor, can change its spots
and be an unselfish friend where, ever
before, it was a bitter, implacable and
consistent enemy Of organized labor
and the higher ideals Of that element
in the lowland city.
There is some interesting history as
to the Weakly Leaders stand on la
Dor questions in the past, as we'll as
questions in which organized labor has
shown deep interest and taken an ac-
tive part.
Two years ago, organized labor went
after the political scalp of "silver
Joe" Konkel, then mayor. That willy
old politician, personally and in the
column of his paper, now the Weakly
Leader, intimated that the Trades &
Labor assembly did not represent or
ganized labor. He old the union men
that they did not know what they were
doing, but on election day they proved
-conclusively that they had a most posi-
tive idea Of what they wanted and OF
what they were doing.
The following fall, mayor Baxter
who had been elected by combination
of organized labor and decent citizen
ship, submitted to the people proposal
to municipality acquire, own and oper
ate the water, gas and electric light
plants. That was the very first time in
the history of Superior that a mayor
would submit the question to vote Of
the people.
Organized labor alway had advocat
ed the municipal purchase of those
plants and all the unions rallied to the
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
SNEEZENABLE,

A versatile girl from Seaview
Was booked for a speech on "Who :
WhosH
When the time came, behold!
The poor thing had a cold,
So about all she said vas, "Kachoo!'
Penn State FrOth.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
HISTORY BY EAR.

"Now, boys, who can tell me who the
apostles weres" said the Sunday school
teacher.
"I can!0 exclaimed Wide-awake
Willie. "They were the wives of the
epistles.-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
MERELY A REMINDER.

"Five years ago you promised to
buy me car,' said Mrs. Gadspur.
$50 I did, my dear,' replied Mr..
Gadspur, as he flicked the ashes from
a 25-cent cigar. "And I intend-ahem
to keep my promise.
~ don't wish to hurry you. but
don It wait until the only vehicle I can
ride in is wheel-chair. ''-Birming.
ham Age Herald.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
THAT DEPENDED.

"You don't intend to have the hoi
polloi at supper, do you, Mrs. Come
upg"
"Why, Of course, if we can get hold
Of cook that knows how to make it. &"
Baltimore American.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

BOLSHEvISTUALLY SPEAKING.
"The laborers Of today remind me
of the old fashioned parlor Matches"
"You mean They're dangerous to
have around loose?'
':Rather, and they strike anywhere. !"
Yale Record.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
IN THE FLAT BELOW,

"Why does that composer overhead
have to go tramping around?'
"Sh-sh; he's composing a march. "
"Well, I'm glad he isn't composing
a galop. Judge.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
FOOEY!

"Music hath charms!' some poet
cried.
But this fool poet makes me groan;
This poet never lived beside
A man who plays a slide trombone.
-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
A LACHRYMOsE MOMENT.

A LACHRYMOSE MOMENT.
"The high cost of living is enough
to make us weep"
cit isn't necessary to do any copi-
Gus weeping. All that is required is
to shed a few profiteers. ''-Washing-
ton Star.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
WAGERING PHoNETICALLY.

James Lawlor says there once was a
fellow who said to his friend: "I'll
bet, you $40 that Lake Michigan is Su-
perior to Lake Ontario.' And the
friend, being good sport, though poor
ly versed in geography, replied:
"Huron. '-Grand Rapids News.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

HE AVOIDED THE RUSH.
"Last evening distinctly saw my
daughter sitting in your lap. What
have you to say for yourselfg"
81 got here early, sir-bef6fe the
others. Judge.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

Benson Smith, a Cohasset farmer, in
Itasca county, will plant two acres of
the oderiferous onion this year.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
A POSER FOR PA.

"Pa," said Willie, looking up from
his picture book, els zebra white
animal with dark stripes or dark ami.
NAL with white stripess''-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
THEIR NOSE KNOWS

II16IH NVS6 hNVWO.
Slick-How do you get so many
girls?
Slicker-Oh, I just sprinkle little
gasoline on my handkerchief.-Stan.
ford Chaparral.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
RISE UP! AMERICANS!

Nearly fourteen months have gone by since the Ar
mlstlce was signed and the world that million
lives and bankruped nations ended yet is no
All Europe is sleeping their arms fearful of the
row. Throughout the civilized world all is contention
and chaos, ruin and riots.
In this state the men who when were at war,
came among US farmers sowing seeds of dscord and dis
of all classes still spreading their poisonous doc.
trines bolder than The who when liberty hung
In the balance said Ths is not but you must
buy the bonds, although when you have bought, then
Big Business will depreciate their vauebuy them from
andnn alo rzifl
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

d1eS
money Men
then under their breath added Food for food for
powder These
institutions
all
Simon
Calm
whom
and
a in
protection
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06

ALL THE SAME IN THE END.
"What 8 the difference between an
old man and a worma'
"No difference. Chickens get them
both. Michigan Gargoyle.
The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
ALMOST A BOAT-ROCKER

AhMO0I "A oOAI-hOCA6h.
"Only fool rocks the boat.'
81 suppose so,' assented Mr.. Grow
cher. "But when the boat contains a
couple of guitars and an off-the-key
tenor, there comes a terrible tempta-
tion. .'-Washington Star.
The Washington herald., 1920-01-24
The Methodist Episcopal Unihcation.

More than adherens of the Methodist Episcopal Church
North and the Methodist Episcopal Church South the
conferences OF the bodies the decision the joint
denomination and the Protestant body
Part OF the task OF this commission has been bring
principles involved and finally
based traditional feuds that have
jory of the clergy and y Its members
coordinate make approval dsappova
ton OF the united body This task that calls
for ecclesiastical craftsmanship To the public
significant detail of this plan the
ference subject the Supreme General Conference
negro membership OF the church,
Not until fuller details of the whole
cessbe be seen how fundamental the changes
policy that has snguay
habits OF democracy
take advantage OF the supervising
epscopacy without undy interfering with the rights
tons and individuals
These daughters OF the mother Weeyansm,
their than years
well this uncture Of history when society rocking reng
for lack OF cancu leadership the realms religion
unite forces, waste dsputing about
old and help usher the worthy Canadian
Methodism long became With these
the Wesleyan iod the United States planning
bring Gnc the Of
is trend that has American Lutheran
lately BapiSts and Presbyerans proof
resting them
The Washington herald., 1920-01-24
Correct the Sugar Situation Now.

The the
refined about pound Tor the present
This the increase OF cents
public the that maintained tor nearly
two years by Sugar Equalization Board
Equalization Board has stated that the production OF
sugar its maximum in March April and that there will
supplies and reduction in price be
hoped other hand the board has repeatedly pointed out
of for the and while there
may supplies height of the producing the
public be confronted by famine fall
improbable the SPECTATORS will allow much decrease the
price of if the prospective ahead becomes certain
uncertainty the ability of Europe for the
it would like to buy.
The reduce the Of and guarantee
adequate household supplies for the reduce the
by the candy drink and other nonessenial
This of by making
supply approximate the demand would the
householder defense the powerful buying
1t awake fall and ration these indus
when been consumed If there be raionns
should be done and it, when the law expires
the goth OF June the of continued shortage
today then should extend the McNay
continued reduction of the nonessen demand
until the production of the world the
continuation of candy orgy.
The proposed remedy would work great hardship candy
There be
drinks candy available by virtue of the aionng
1t merely that less would be used by the
industries barley
The cheaper would then be left the
holder
The time for raoning if famine is
to be avoided the year.
The Washington herald., 1920-01-24
D. G. RENT BODY
ADOPTS RULES
Commission to Settle Hous.
ing Disputes Picks Tenn
porary Headquarters.

A set Of rules and regulations gov
erning the procedure to be followed
by landlords and tenants who seek
adjustments OF their disputes by the
Rent Commission of the District OF
Columbia has been drafted in tenta-
tive form. according to an announce
ment last night by Guy Mason. one
Of the three members OF the COM
mission. and will be given out for
publication late this afternoon.
Application for space for Offices for
the Rent Commission has been made
to the Commission on Public Build
lnGs and Grounds, OF which Senator
Smoot. of Utah. is chairman. II is
understood that the Commission on
Public Buildings and Grounds will be
able, to provide quarters. within a
day or two.
Meanwhile the members of the rent
board are meeting at the Offices of
Capt James F. Oyster, chairman.
soo-e0s Pennsylvania avenue north
west
Commissioner Mason stated last
night that a few complaints are be-
ing received from tenants and land
lords from day to day, but reiterated
the request OF the commission that
all complaints be withheld for a few
days until regular offices are opened.
as it is desired to docket, record and
file these complaints in an orderly
way. Complaints will be handled in
the order in which they are received.
The Washington herald., 1920-01-24
"Y" MEN ADOPT PLANS
FOR $4,000 CAMPAIGN

The Washington Y. NJ. c. A. needs
$685. to meet expenses for the
year for those Of its departments
which yield no revenue.
At a meeting yesterday Clifford
L. Johnson. director Of the cam
paign for funds. explained the plan
to be followed. which is not TO be
a drive" Finance Chairman C. A.
Aspinwall declared.
Workers were furnished with a
list Of prospective contributors
from which they are to select those
whom they will solicit. Only one
canvasser will be assigned to a
name. and then he must secure an
authorization card emitting him TO
make the individual request
Meetings will be held daily dur
ing the campaign. beginning Mon
day, January rs, and ending Mon
day. February 2. from 1880 D. m.
to ] 80 p. m. at wallis restaurant.
Twelfth and @ streets northwest
Fred s. Lincoln has donated
downtown quarters for the director
and publicity department at e12
Twelfth street northwest. for use
during the noon hour. Hesdouar-
ters will be at the Y. NJ. c. A. Gen.
trail building, 1875 G street north
west.
The Washington herald., 1920-01-24
New York City
BY o. o. Mcintyre

New York. Jan. 2.-Tragedy stalks
over the homes Of 1000 garment work.
ers in the new strike situation which
may result in the industrial paralysis
Of 1916, and from which Manhattan il
recovering slowly at this late date.
One sees only serious faces now on
lower Fifth avenue-dubbed Bolshe-
Wiki iBouIevard-where the Thousands
Of garment workers stream forth from
the loft buildings on the side streets
to parade during the noon hour
It lis a new world to many who
come from Russia and the Orient
At night they 60 from the occident
back to New York's Orient on the
East side where the thunder Of the
elevated, the clang of cars. and the
street rabble are as loud and as
piercing as the wall of the rowing
packs of dogs in Constantinople OF
ISaloniki.
when they are out of work the
Russiaus. always moody, fall into
a state of lethargy that is suilen
and dangerous. The Orientals sit
ohA uey iohB fohr
pipes and brooding. Agitators fnd
quick response to their appeals and,
OF course, 1t Is true that many big
cloak and suit houses were founded
on the sweat of manN generations
of these workers.
But the garment worker of to-
day lives in an entirely different
world than that OF the worker OF
even ten years ago. His shop is as
clean and airy as sanitation can
make 1t. His hours are short. His
foreman Is not a taskmaster and
his salary-well. many make more
than $500 a week
In normal times the Russian IN,
his home and social life Is COM
panionable. He likes to talk poll
ties. literature and philosophy. but
when he Is on strike he Is changed.
He Is dull and avoids all discussion.
He wants to think alone. His griev-
ances are always magnified.
Consequently the home life be-
comes funerea1 and drab. Children
do not romp on the pavements to
the hurdy-gurdy's catch-penny
tunes. The wine cellars and little
different world on the East Side
Yone Noguchi. the poet laureate
of Japan. is seeing the sights Of
Gotham. He declares that Walt
Whitman, not Kipling. is the favor
.ite poet with the Japanese. He
also says that westernized litera
ture Is becoming orientalized and
eastern literature Is becoming west
ernized.
The Washington herald., 1920-01-24
Folks and Things
Around Washington
Labert St. Clair.

A budding genius in a Western
State has Just invented and has sent
to Washington for patenting a door
mat with an electric attachment
which promises to revolutionize the
bill-collecting and the book agency
business.
This marvellous mat when laying
at ease on a doorstep looks like any
other mat of good family habits. And
so it is a docile mat g long as the
owner or someone else who is IA
milar with the electrical attachment
to the invention does not turn on the
Juice. But once the juice is turned
on the flow is SO strong and so
steady that the person staAding on
the mat is given a servere shock.
In setting forth the merits of the
invention the young genius who ia
thered It pointed out that the mat was
no respecter of persona and that. the
householder simply by touching a but
ton could throw bill collectors, moth
ers-in-law. politicians or anyone else
out into the street As yet, a patent
has not been granted. hence. anyone
desiring to improve upon the inven-
tion by adding a shot gun or rock
salt attachment Is entitled to do so
The Washington herald., 1920-01-24
"NOW IS YOUR CHANCE" "

by EDMUND VANCE COOK.
Now is your chance" A common
phrase!
And yet a wisdom 1t displays
For this day and for all the days.
AS you'll allow.
No matter what your circumstance
No matter where you lift your
No matter what your quest. your
chance
Is NOW.
No matter where you lift your
blaze
or all your purple yesterdays.
The past is past. Its greenest days
Fade on your brow.
And though your future may ad-
vance.
To untold conquest and romance.
The moment OF your living chance
Is NOW.
So leave no laugh un-laughed to-
day,
No prayer unprayed you ought to
pray.
Time forges ION and does not pay
A backward glance.
You cannot cash the past. nor bor-
Upon the credit of tomorrow
You live today in joy or sorrow
Now is your chance,
Copyright. 1920, N. Il. A.