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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Get BUSY!

Real development lies in arousing
the potential worth that has been ~
ing dormant in your character. The
first step is in starting something that
will challenge the whole being to ac-
tivty. Many a man does not feel
ec' al to the tasks OF the day. But
circumstances are such that he has to
make the start. The first few strokes
Of the pencil may not mean much. bnt
the fact that he starts something
arouses him to keener thinking, and
before long he may be doing his best
work. And each idea beges another
until the fellow is aroused to full ca.
pacity. Yes, and there are occasions
when the very stress of necessity
makes a man rise to the supe"nan
that lies within each of Gods crea.
lures waiting the challenge worthy
Of it-Grit.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
WHITES 10 ABSORB MAoRs7
That Fate, Rather Than Extinction,
Said to Be Assured to New Tea
7 land Tribe.

The ingenious explanation that they
wouldn't have eaten neighbors had
beef, mutton or pork been more album
dant on the early New Zealand market
stamps the native Maoris as race
with working brains, and their ply
stques have long been praised. It is
not surprising, therefore, that, as q
correspondent records, these ab0rig-
inats are among the few in modern
times who instead Of promptly vanish.
ing, Will doubtless be absorbed into the
white mans family.
Fifty thousand pure bred Maoris still
remain. half Of whom are practically
civilized. Many have attained to high
political position. There are four Mao
ri members in the house Of representa-
tiyes. two IN the legislative, council
and one Is an important minister In the
executive council.
Themselves Polynesians Of remote
East Indian blood, these natives. be It
added, are not strictly abOrigfnals.
They are thought TO have displaced,
} la table dhote, some 500 years ago q
savory stock Of Melanesians or Pa
puans."' 4. . .3s,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
SEES GOOD I'M THE TEA CUP
Doctor Eliot, Aged Educator, Goes On
Record as Having Faith In That
Moderate Stimulant. }

Dr. Charles w. Eliot, now in his
eighty-sixth year, confesses to q devf-
alton from the strict rule Of abstemi-
business which cannot but cause CON
Germ In the inner circles of moral re-
form, says the New York World 10.
Though he has always INDUCED 10
"stimulants like tea, coffee and al
cohol," and in tobacco not at all for
more than half a century, he vet finds
q certain virtue ia tea drinking. y
have used tea most" he says, because s
it seems to me to facilitate the men
tai effort Of writing and speaking.
II the venerable ex-president OF
Harvard university had merely said
that he derived some dietic benefit
from tea, 40 exception would be taken
to the statement. It Is his frank ad-
mission that he uses tea as stfmu-
liant and finds that it helps his mental
processes which will be challenged.
Can there be good in. any stimulant'!'
Can the willful excitation of the mind lrl
by any kind OF brew be other than,
immoral in it's essential nature al
slmon-pure reformers Of the drink evil
will feel sure that the use OF tea has
drugged Doctor Eliot's intellect and
robbed it of its highest productivity.
But what the world has lost in that
particular will count as nothing to
the self-revelation that this distin-
guished champion of temperance is
not 100 per cent perfect in his pro
hibitiOn views.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
VILLAGE 0vERRuN BY DOGS
Housewives Of Silver Lake, New York,
Had to Guard Kitchens From the
Hungry Amin ais.

The hamlet Of Silver Lake. on the
outskirts of White Plains, N. Y. is all
''het'' up because of the large number
of dogs that have migrated to that
section according to the New York
Evening Sun. In the daytime they for
age through the town and at night
they make sleep impossible by their
bowling.
Silver Lake has population of
about 500 persons, and it is said that
there are l41 dogs. one lap poodle and
half q dozen hounds by actual count.
A staid old resident says that there
is every kind of dog imaginable in
Silver Lake-small ones, big ones,
short ones. long ones, dogs with no
tail and one eye, lean ones and fat
ones, but mostly lean ones.
This great influx of dogs to Silver
Lake has created many nuisances. In
fact, the housewives don't dare leave
their kitchen doors unlocked or half a
dozen hungry nuts will be roaming
around trying to find something to eat.
The story is told Of how one woman
baked a raisin pie for supper for her
husband. She left it on the Kitchen
table to cool while she went about her
household duties. A little later she
heard great commotion, and when
she went to the kitchen she found half
a dozen hungry CANNES, big and little,
fighting for the last raiSin of her ME
She struck them with Il broom, but
that did not do any good, because they
had her pie. ~ K H..
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Thread in Manohurja.

Almost all of the $2,OOOOOO worth OF
cotton thread imported annually into
Manchuria comes from Japan; partly
because Japanese manufacturers have
the advantage over possible competi-
tors of government encouragement and
support, and partly because there has
been little competition from those suf-
ficiently interested in this market to
study its requirements as have the
Japanese, says the New York Times.
Goods were placed with merchants
On consignment until they became
known, were extensively advertised,
and are now sold on liberal credit ba-
sis, so that American manufactu
entering the market will not only have
4 to compete on quality basis, but
should adopt similar methods Of push
ing their goods
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
OF the Once Mighty Cities Of Babylon
and Nineveh Hardly = Yes N
y tige Remains.

When the ancient Kingdom Of the
\ Assyrians fell through effeminaey AMI
negligence 300 years after the Troian
war, many petty states arose out Of
Its ruins. two of which raised them
selves to a high degree Of power. The
kings Of Media subdued the mountain
land OF Persia, and established rela,
tions of amity with hordes chat
wandered on the eastern side OF the
Caspian sea; they conquered also a
portion Of the empire which had CEN
tered in Nineveh. At the same time
the king Of Babel or Babylon. -four.
Ished with still greater magniticenca
and power. ~ III
In Babylon. ancient Seat of learning
and science. Nabopolassar, after I.
long period Of anarchy and division,
erected a most powerful monarchy,
whose sceptre Nebuchad nezzar, t,is '3
son. extended from the Caucasus
mountains, where he defeated the
iIberians, to the sandy deserts Of Lydia
He burnt Jerusalem; defeated Ananon,
Moab and Edom; conquered Tyre, the
richest city Of the Phoenicians; laid
waste Egypt, and formed his empire
on new boundaries. He adorned Baby
Ion. the city of his residence, with the
noblest works of architecture, but OF
this city the ruins are scarcely dis
cernible. 1t is still more difficult to
trace the vestiges Of Nineveh. which
lie three days journey from 1t. and
whose ruins have sunk in the marshy
soil @sg ts5 %$5, s s }s i.533 s@ as -&g5
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
| STUCK IN THEIR MEMORIES
American Slang Phrases That Became
Popular Among the FiIipinos
and Frenchmen.

"All right was generally the frst
English phrase the French picked up
from American troops. "All right" an
swers probably quarter Of the ques-
tons that an American is called upon
to reply to. In the great mass OF jar
gon in a strange tongue, it stood out
on account of constant repetition.
The poilus were wont to practice it,
over their cognac and vim blanc
glasses. in place of their own tres
bien," and yell it out to the Yankees
on the side of the cafe.
As the French mastered Fall right"
so the Filipinos took up "gangway"
during the American occupation of the
Philippine islands 20 years ago. Pur-
suing rough-house tactics that were
not permitted during the last war in
France, the American troopers would
90 down the streets of the island
towns, pushing the natives into the
gutter and yelling ''gangway It be-
came so that whenever native heard
"gangway" half a mile off, he imme-
diately began to make way for the
gang.
During the insurrection, at the
height of one Of the rebels "of-
fensives," the American troops were
astonished to see a great swarm Of
Aguinaldo's soldiers come rushing over
the top, waving bolos and spears and
yelling "Gangway! Gangway"
The Filipinos thought "gangway"
was vile American cuss word. They
later decided that Col. Fred Funston
and his Twentieth Kansas doughbOys
didn't care even If they were sworn
at.-Ralph Duffy in Home Sector.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Infant in Red Cross.

Seattle, Wash.-May Rogavich en-
tered the world at 2::2i o'clock one az
ternoon, gazed on things in Providence
hospital a little time and at GIL
o'clock in the evening joined the Red
Cross. May Rogavich is the daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Rogavich, 10
West Crockett street, and weighed.
when born, seven pounds and one
ounce. The Red Cross has offered $40
~ he paid during the present roll call
drive TO the youngest member enrolled.
..Beat that" chuckled Mr.. Rogavich
when his daughter had been given the
vhife-and-red button Of membership.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
sh.ke.peare Farm 70 8. sold.


Among the numerous landed prop
critics which are coming into market
during the next few months is one OF
more than ordinary interest. namely,
the Grendon Underwood estate, Buck
fnghamshire, says the London Tele-
graph. This belongs to Mrs. Pigott, a
member OF family resident in the dis.
trict fol. centuries, who has decided to
sell. This village has many historical
and literary associations. which chiefly
center round It's westerly portion,
where stands the old Elizabethan hab-
itation now known as Shakespeare
farm. s
It was here. when the house was
wayslde hosiery, then named the
Old Shippe. that Shakespeare, It Is
affirmed. used to stay when journey
ing to and from Stafford on-Avon.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Rims or skirt, Saves Boy.

New York.-Among the crowd that
gathered when fve-year-old Leonard
HONEYWELL Of sol West One Hundred
and Forty-seventh street, was run over
hy q trolley car at One Hundred and
Forty-seventh street and Amsterdam
avenue, was woman who tore off her
underskirt and fashioned tourniquet
which she bound around the boys right
ankle.
Surgeons at ST. Lawrence hospital,
eho amputated his mangled foot, said
the woman's action saved his life. She
slipped away without revealing her
identity.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Keeping Warm With Games.

Games We're never so popular as
now in country houses, and the rea-
son is not far to seek. Living rooms
are not heated as they were in the
good old times, and guests, young and
old, vote for games because they are
warming. There isn't a better game
Of ball than "fives," known in the days
Of Queen Elizabeth and declared by
her to be "the best sport she had ever
seen"-The GentIewoman.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Velocity Of Liaht


Physicists never tire Of efforts to
Increase the accuracy Of their know!-
edge OF the fundamental facts of
science. A REORGANIZATION Of the We
locity Of light BY the Fizean tootheti
wheel method was made at Nice. These
experiments were remarkable on az
count Of the great distance over which
the beam Of light employed was trans
mitted. Previously such beam had
been caused to travel about ffteen
miles, but on this occasion the reflect
Ing mirror was so placed that the total
distance traversed by the beam, going
md returning, was fifty-seven miles.
The mean Of 100 observations gave
Tor the velocity Of light 186225h
niles a second.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
REVIVE OLD SWINDLE
Many Americans Said to Have
Fallen Victims.
Madrid Police on Trail Of Gang That
Operates "Dying Prisoner
Scheme. .a

Madrid.+The Spanish swindle''
has shown it's head again. America
has been inundated with letters from
"a dying prisoner, prosecuted by pollt-
lea! enemies, only able to communl-
cate with the outside world through
the kindness of prison chaplain"
The writer of the letter claims rela'
tionship with the person addressed
and explains that a valiSe containing
raluables has been concealed outside
Of Spain, the contents to be left to
an only daughter and the American
relative.
Should the American reply. he later
receives a letter from 'the chaplain"
stating that the prisoner is dead and
that a certain sum is required to re-
lease the prisoners baggage, including
the mysterious valise. Fortunately
when the correspondent reaches this
point the american relative usually
becomes curious and as result the
embassy in Madrid and the consulates
throughout Spain have food OF cor
respondence on the subject.
In other cases the victim takes the
bait without question and parts with
his money, or even worse still, goes to
the expense Of travelling to Spain to
pay the required sum to release the
yalise and claim his share Of the con-
rents.
In the latter case the swindler is
generally brought to book, for the
Spanish police are on the lookout and
the presence of a stranger looking for
lost relatives arouses their suspicious.
Recently an American arrived in
Madrid with a certified check to claim
his share of a prisoners estate. The
Spanish police put him in prison until
he could be convinced that he had
been the victim of a clever swindler.
1t took all the eloquence of an Ameri-
can consul to do this and induce the
man to return home.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Coaches to Go in the Trossachs.

r An epoch Of more1than local interest
was closed recently, when the fourth
hand and other coaches formerly in
use on the famous Trossachs route
were brought under the auctioneer's
hammer a
For more than so years the fourth
hand coach with its team Of powerful
horses and its post-boy in scarlet coat
and white hat has been familiar and
picturesque feature Of the season on
the road between Callander and the
Trossachs.
The picturesque four-in-hand coach
is being displaced by the unitarian
motorcar, and a fleet of them. is be-
ing put upon the road by the new
company which has taken over the
Trossachs hotel from the Blair fam
lily, in whose hands the famous hos
telry has been for more than half a
centlry.-Edinbu Scotsman.
The origin Of the word Canada is
obscure, but it is now generally ac-
cepted that it is derived from ap In
dian word, "Kannatha," meaning a
village or collection Of huts. and it is
supposed that Jacques Cartier, hear
ing this word used by the Indians with
reference to their settlements, mistook
it's meaning. and applied it to the
whole country Quebec is said to be
derived from the Indian word 'Kebec,'
meaning a strait, and was given tc
the site of the present city Of Quebec
! from the peculiar configuration of the
st. Lawrence river at that point. fol
the river there grows narrow and from
! its deep waters rises the bold heigh1
on which the ancient city stands.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
i<eepina Water Cool.

The only way to keep water cool
to surround it with some mate
Hal that is a bad conductor of heat.
,r in other words, does not pass on
he heat too rapidly. The poorest
conductor Of heat is a vacuum or SPACE
rom which the air has been excluded !:
renee. a thermos or vacuum flask
makes the best container for cold wa
.er. Other bad conductors Of heat are
wood. feather. felt. horn, bone; con-
.ainers male of or covered with these
materials will keep liquids cooler than
hose made Of metal or glass.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Y Get Lucky Tipa II DRAINS.

When an Italian has a dream he
doesn't go tell his friends about 1t
;or the sake Of making conversation,
Sut hurries to get his dream book to
ind out what the dream portends. The
,ook has number for everything man
wears, has. eats and sees. Things
shown in dream are looked up, and
he corresponding numbers are played
~ the Italian in the weeks national
Ottery. And If he doesn't win, says
Kenneth L. Roberts in the Saturday
evening Post. he feels positive that
somebody with the Evil Eye has looked
It him and broken his chances. The
nan with the Evil Eye is hated, feared
ind Stunned.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Trucks Grow In Favor.

There were go, O93 trucks in use at
the end Of the year 1910. as compared
with approximately 100000 for the
preceding year. This is a gain of q
per cent, is per cent greater than the
Increase shown by PASSENGER cars
Only eighteen states make compila-
lions of truck registration. New York
leads With others following in this or
der: Illinois, Ohio. PENNSYLVANIA, Cali
sfornia Iowa and Texas. Nevada with
TOO Is at the foot OF the list.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Has Served Country Well.

Z Sener Portal for the last 80 years
tho leading journalist Of Peru apd the
author of II best sellers In that c0un-
try, has dome for his native land what
Luis Taboada did for Spain, Mark
Twain fer the United States. and. long
ago, Moliere for France; while wag-
ing war with his pen, he has created
true literature. Thirty years ago. when
he laid down the sword he had carried
with honor through the Peruvian strug-
gle with Chile, he took up arms against
every imaginable weakness, shortcom-
ing, sin, and vice Of his fellow coun-
trymen; and in laughter-provoking sar-i
casm and scathing irony he has de-
picted all the wickedness to which flesh
and particularly Peruvian fiesh-is
heir.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Coal in Mexico.

The only state in Mexico producing
coal is Coahuila. Normal production
is about 100000 tons a year, but at
present only about half that quantity
is obtained and none Is exported. The
shortage is supplied from the United
States. Coal is not needed for heating
purposes and charcoal is used for
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
-. ~.kxL, r,ms.REcoan VALLEY CRY. NORTH DAkoTx
Give Proper Pronunciation to
Their Absurd Words7

Take the city Of Troyes, favorably
known throughout the "a. p. F. rs a
practically M. P.-less burg, writes Tip
Bliss in the American Legion Weekly.
Naturally, any human being would
pronounce 1t to rhyme with noise, /"
apd 60 on his way rejoicing in the
knowledge Of a good deed we'll per-
formed.
Not so the frisky prot. He calls
it "Twa." though why and wherefore
lie bon Dieu alone knows.
But If you want to get even with the
(. p, try him out with regular word
with plenty Of "w'S' and his and
"th's' in 1t. whether" is the cats
fur, as the army expression almost has
it. Tackle him with whether" and
watch him gargle and stammer and
sizzle and finally turn up his toes and
pass away while somewhere in his in-
sides are still resounding the last de-
spairing notes of his internal inter-
probation of good, Christian word
into "vay-zair-r-re."
'Vay-zair-r-re!" Shade Of Babel! u
Now, as regards the matter of spell
ing. One of the Frenchman's pet
monstrosities in "Kiss-ka-say." Does
he spell 1t that way? Ouija answers.
no. He goes to work and unburdens
himself of vOwels and sibilants and
things until he has gotten rid of
"Qu'est-ce que cest!"
What does it mean? 1t means:
what is this that this ISL" Which Is
a fine healthy way of maltrea ting,
"Huh?" II
Huh is right. s
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Peanut Production.

Alabama is the leading state in
peanut production, with s, $40, 600 bush
els to her credit in 1919, while five
other states produced from 3,4O0, 600
bushels to $4,000 bushels each.
The total production Of peanuts in
the United States last year was 80, !.
363, 600 bushels, having cash value
Of $SO,OOOOOO. Last winter the aver
age price paid for peanuts was $40
per bushel.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
rwvins az N;nefv.Eive

Living in the Scotch village Of In
verkip are twins, James and William
Ford, nlnety-fve years old. Neither
Of them has had days illness, and
James has never been single night
out Of the house in which he was
born.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
$4,000 Orphans Roam
Homeless in Armenia

Characteristics the massa-
cring of 100000 Armenians
during the war, this people Is
being still further reduced by
demobilized Turkish troops, who
are killing them and robbing
them of what is left Of their
possessions, says DR.. Kunzier,
a Swiss pastor, who was in Ar
menia throughout the war.
He made this statement in an
address at Zurich. He said 25O,-
600 homeless orphans are wan
dering about the. country.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Too Much q ! strain.

Jud Tunkins says he's never going to
allow, any summer boarder to remain
fsr more than a week. because it's too
much work to learn new stories to en- !.
terrain the same old crowd.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21
Good sion,.

One good gn-Safety FIRST !!
Watch your STEP" Another Value
First-Watch your shoes Boston
Shoe Retailer.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-09-23

any longer as though they we're
different from any other race of
human beings. 1t is evading
justice. President Lincoln, refer
ring to boards, bureaus and COM
missions, called them Schemes to
defeat the Government" 1t is by
scheming the Government That the
Indian Bureau has existed so long.
Cato Sells, and the Board of Indian
Commissioners are all wrong to
Judge the Indian race as depend
ents.
If the Indians had been treated
as human beings at the beginning
of the settlement of this country,
there would be no Indian Bureau
today to thwart and throttle the
highest object which man seeks
for, from The Indian races, namely;
freedom and citizenship.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-09-23

for the indians, only to keep them
and care for them until death takes
them. Poor things! The country
owes them a living"
This has been about the extent
of the education of the public rela.
tive to the Indians. No wonder
when an Indian comes into civil.
zatien that he is looked upon as q
curiosity. He is eyed from head
to foot. He is asked if he under
stands English. If at a table, q
curious person speaks up, 20 he
leafs the same as we do! See him
lafght f wonder if he can dance
a war danceg Is it not strange,
|'he acts the same as we do? l
wonder if he ever scalped any per-
son? He must be awful wild when
be gets mad. Gee! l do not think
I would dare to trust him." When
seen on the street, some one speaks
up, There goes a Chinaman.
Those quotations may be flippant
and thoughtless questions, but
they carry suggestiveness of how
much the public is posted on the
Indian as a man. It shows plainly
that the public has never been
taught that Indians are human
beings, in the likeness of Gods
creation.
mo one can say to the Indian:
'sYou are an Indian, and you be-
long there and l up here. You
are an Indian, you can have that
and have this.
You, Mr.. Indian, can be govern
ed by that law, and another law
will govern me. You can have
the Indian Bureau to rule over
you, but I will enjoy the just laws
that rule people of the United
States. Don't forget you are an
Indian. Remember you are an
Indian and not a human being"
1t is all bosh to treat the Indians
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-09-23
Advertise in The TOMAHAwK
it brings results.
God In Nature.

More than ever we need to appre-
ciate the works of God as shown III
the material world. A blue sky, flick
ering shadows on the grass, the grace
in the flight of bird-these things
should give us the sense that God Is
still in the world. Let us listen to the
voices of the brook. Let us watch the
waves of the lake. We may or may
not know what is on the farther, un-
seen shore, but we can build mental
pictures of great beauty. There are
thousands of beautiful pictures all
around US If we have eyes to see and
soul to appreciate them.