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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-09-08
Band Gives. Fifth Concert

The Minot Community Band gave
it's fifth and last concert for the sea
son in Riverside Park Sunday after
noon to q large and appreciative
crowd. This organization has added
much to our community life during
the season.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-09-08

Coal at Beighle Mine Every fore
noon during September. 9-8-16cg
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-09-08

Rotary-Norman Ellison, %; DR.. r.
w. Pence, 40; DR.. A. N. Hardaw ~,
~; Frank Taylor, 80; Otto Ellison,
%.
Kiwanis-Dr. ]. r. Pence, 80; DR..
De Mots, AZ; Duane Clapp, Al; Dick
WEIGH, "a; VIM. Henderson, 81.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-09-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Miller, old time
residents Of the Saline settlement
north of Granville, visited with Minot
friends this week.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

from the landing at the other end of Doane
we took buckboards to Moquette and went to
camp in motor boat
The best chance we had was that Kiko
didn't know station, and would have to
watch, everywhere, to see whether we got
Off Broome took our porter aside and talked
to him, and when we came to New Forge the
door on the side away from the platform was
open.
''rhe door the other side done got
stuck" said the porter.
We all got settled down; | heard the con-
ductor calling to the people to hurry Broome
was sitting with Carol, and he'd pulled down
the shade--on account of the sun, he said
| kept looking back from my window Our
little engine puffed and wheezed a bit, and
gave it's best imitation Of whistle and we
began moving, jerkily. And just then Carol
leaned forward and pulled up the shade-and
IN that same moment / saw Kiko come tear
ing around the end Of the other train and
start after u.s. helbent for election
Lord, but he covered the ground. But,
fast as he came, he wasn't fast enough. We
were getting up speed every second, and he
couldn't catch us. Kiko certainly had more
brains than you'd ever have thought. He
stopped running the second he saw he couldn't
catch the train instead of running on till
he dropped, the way most people have For
a second he stood still.
Then he turned and jumped for blackboard
that was tied to a stump--the team was tied
that ls couple of men ran out il front Of
him, but he made them jump out of his wav
and Strengthened those two horses out in pal
lop in road that, as I knew only too darned
well, led to Doane. 1t was q rotten road: only
blackboard could make it. But it was miles
shorter than the railway
j NEVER looked at Broome until I'd seen
kiko get away with that buckboa He
was pretty shaky.
"kiko"' said Carol-and he groaned "What
in the worlds the matter? Tell me at once"
He swallowed or twice and stared at
her. What could he do? He wasn't in any
shape to think up lie that would have fooled
any one, much less Carol And neither was |.
So he told her.
It's that waiter you saw-the ore with the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

course. When | got up the whole perform
ance seemed meodramatic and absurd But
that was before | ran into the real Kko. He
was dressed up in his Sunday clothes, and he
was sharpening the biggest razor I'd ever seen
rubbing it up and down, lovingly, against
the palm of his hand.
"That-all's some razor, George!' one of the
other walters said to him. "Take off yo'
beard, all right
II amt a-amn' to shave with it," said Kiko,
N that ey-dipped voice of his.
I made up some explanation of Broome'S
absence that passed muster. ] chevvied them
ashore, somehow, and got them on the train,
and when the porter opened the door of the
drawing room there Broome, sure enough.
shaved and looking fine | never was so glad
to see any one in my life.
After lunch he said he needed exercise and
made me walk through the train with him
to if there were any one aboard we knew,
he told Carol. But it was Kiko he was looking
for, of course. So we walked through a train
as long as from New York to Albany-up to
the smoker, way in front, and then back to the
last Pullman. And in the last car of the lot,
at the very end of the train, there was Kiko
He sound asleep on the little back plat
form. The porter of the car saw US and
grinned and explained that Kiko was friend
Of his and was going to help him with his
work when he woke up. He was going to some
summer hotel to be a waiter.
at may be just an accident" / suggested
feeby. "We don't know that he knows you're
on the train"
"He knows, all right" he said. "And he's
after me. Well, I'm going to give him the slip
if can But if he catches up he'll know he's
been in fight before he gets a chance to fry
my heart with onions for dnner
HE was still pretty nervous as we went back
to our own car, and Pm hanged if !
blamed him. Carol complicated things lot, of
course. I could see that he wouldn't want to
explain to her. And we were getting nearer
to our station all the time We left the
main line at New Forge. From there mar
row-gauge' road ran through the woods to
Lake Doane. There got a steamer, and
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

struggling. But he was too late. Just as |
got there he let out an unearthly screech, and
| saw what had happened. Broome had
hammer lock-he had caught Kiko's wrist,
and brought his arm around, so that he was
pushing it up, against the joint of the elbow.
Get his razor, Bill" ne said
| bent down and pried Kiko's fingers apart
He was muttering ard moaning all the time
1t was easy enough he had no strength left.
But it wasn't a razor | found--it was a roll
of dirty paper money-French money.
Broome and I stared at one another, and
Broome SO surprised that he let Kikos
wrist co. and the poor negro stood up.
Say, whaffo yo' go treat me lax that,
Misto' Murray Broome?" he said, in the most
absurd voice I've ever heard-he was so sur
prised and injured. II know l done wrong
to steal yo' money! done got religion before
/ spen' it. An l been tryin' to find 20 to
give it back
CAROL had come up by that time, and she
had to hear the explanation. 1t wasn't
Kiko at all, of course; it was some poor devil
of buck private from another company of
Broome's regiment, who'd stolen a hundred
francs from his tent one day in France.
Broome had never even missed the money,
much less known who'd taken it.
Well Broome gave him $50 to keep with the
100 francs and promised to square the buck
board business SO the negro went off happy.
But my idea that Broome's case of nerves
would fix up his trouble with Carol didn't work
out at all. 1t wasn't Carols fault; she was
perfectly happy. 1t was Broomes own black
heart, that the real Kiko had sworn to cut
out, that got in the way. He sulked all the way
to camp. And they had frightful row that
night, and he went back to town the next day.
It's fact. He'd been trying for weeks to
make her marry him, and now, when she was
willing to do it, instead of snatching his chance.
he turned sulky because be knew she had some
thing on him.
| put my foot in it, of course. | told Carol
he'd come back when he through sulkng
You're SO clever, Bill, DEAR" said Carol.
"You know everything, don't you? You know
he'll come back. But do you know whether
he'll find me when he does?'
said I ddntt. But he did
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

to the men from Headquarters-that Tai Shlng
is an authority on Chinese religion, government
and history; that he is a master of the Chi
nese language is familiar with all forms of
Chinese art and has peculiar appreciation for
music.
Tai Shing's young manhood may have been
crowded with adventure and excitement, but
his old age, as his neghbors will tell you, is
proving singularly serene. He is regular and
methodical in his habits, allowing nothing to
interfere with his daily routine. He rises at
a. m, goes to bed at 10. Every night before
retiring, in his abode behind the red curtain,
he dimes on tea, rice and lychee nuts. Tai
Shing's program never varies
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

scar, who waited the boat last night
he said. He's got grudge against me. He
says he's going to cut my black heart out with
razor and guess he means it."
Carol laughed She isn't one of those silly
giggling girls. But I wish you could have
heard Broome. Any one would have laughed
at him.
She'd heard the story, Of course But even
then she couldn't take it as seriously as we did
1--WE can have him arrested" she said.
Well it did seem that there must be some
thing to be done. | thought of appealing to the
train crew. But they were obviously pension
ers, old and decrepit men, who were too proud
really to retire.
Carol was beginning to be frightened. But
she tremendously interested too. She
baffled me, rather. Because there were times
when I could have sworn from the way she
looked at Broome, that she tckled to
death. Finally [ got clew. She had some
thing on him, at last. He was human; he did
have nerves; he could be scared
We could see the road at last, and while
the steamer still two hundred yards away
Kiko came around the turn in the road, with
his horses all in a white lather.
All right, SdlQ brOOme. HIS voice was
almost gay $50 long, you two," And he
went to meet Kiko. 1t seems to me that was
probably the first really brave thing Broome
had ever done-because it was the first thing
he'd been afraid to do. Kiko had
jumped down from his blackboard, and he was
running, too, to meet Broome. Kiko had
something in his hand-his razor, of course
It's hard to describe what happened be-
it so quick. Broome did the only
thing that would have given him chance
If he'd let kiko get his arms around him.
there'd have been fight. So he left his
feet, without ever breaking his stride, when
he was still about ten feet from Kiko. and
went for his knees-brought him down with
the sort of flying tackle you see in big foot
ball game.
| could hear the grunt that came out of
Kiko when he hit the ground. And then,
while l still kept running, with some fool
idea of trying to get that razor, could see
Broome squirming around, on top of Kiko
and reaching for of his hands. He was
after the razor too, I supposed Kiko was
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

of certain legislative bodies toward Chinese
immigration, Tai Shing, wearing his queue,
walked down gangplank on the Pacific Coast
He was in America, his new home. He fingered
for some time in the West and ssse:. dIi-se.~
East and found his way to New York City, to
Chinatown and to Doyers Street. There he
intends to remain.
From what the planclothes men have
learned the Doyers Street patriarch has been
wearing his queue all his life. He took vow
at one time never to part with it. The fact
that he is the only man of his race in China
town who possesses the fashionable pig
tail has disturbed him not at all. If he has
been impressed in any way by the close-cropped
heads of the other Chinese Of the quarter he
has not said so. He has been known to grunt
contemptuously when the subject was men
toned. And with that grunt the argument
ended.
While it is known that some Of the Chinese
Of the district have been inclined to poke fun
at the druggist Of Doyers Street because of his
queue, the entire colony-young and old alike
respects Tai Shing's learning.
They know-and they have conhded as much
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

rectly opposite is the Chinese mission, once
the old Chinese theatcr. step to the left is
q billiard parlor, a-swarm with Orientals and
with tobacco smoke drifting in heavy clouds
from It's doors and windows. A few doors away
white-collared Chinese are filing into Chi
nese barber shop, its interior ablaze with light.
From a tearoom beneath the sidewalk there
floats up the wall of Oh. lese musical instru-
nent. From another restaurant there comes
The raucous whine of a player-pano
There is something stolid, almost forbid
ding, in the appearance of Tai Shing's shop
as viewed from the Doyers Street curb. The
window is covered by heavy wire netting
The door is always closed. When YOU peer
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24
wnee Doye Street with the

Manchus, who ran things to suit themselves
throughout that vast country from the sum
ner of 644 until the winter of 1911 Then
came the revolution, resulting in the expul-
sion of the Manchus and the abolition of the
queue. Of course, many Cinnamon have re-
fused to cast aside the pigtail, and among
them Tai Shing. The Manchus, holding forth
at Peklng until the establishment of the Chi
nese Republic, brought the queue to China,
but cannot be held responsible for the foot
binding evil. This was never practiced among
Manchu women
Turn into low-lit Doyers Street any night
and you can find Tai Shing. His shop, which
serves also as his residence, is at No. 8. Di-
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

INTO The place you find Tai Shng perched on
his box or standing behind the counter
Against one side Of the shop there rises a wall
of drawers filled with indescribable roots and
herbs AT the rear is a dngy showcase. A
thin partition separates Tai Shngs shop
from his "residence.' Somewhere behind a
red curtain Tai Shing makes his bed after
oStinguishng his lights and boiling his door
On the counter in the shop there rests
spindle, clad in fragments of vari-colored
paper on which prescriptions have been writ
ten by Chinese doctors for Chinese patients
These prescriptions filled by Tai Shing or
his assistant. If you asked the aged druggist
to enlighten you regarding the strange pre-
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24
Another Business
Story

THIS story should be included in the sup
| plementary reading course of every bust
ness college. 1t is about efficiency. The
aafacters are Abner and Archie.
ohe day at school Abner read in penman-
aHp bankbook. "If you desire thing real
'ne' do it yourself" 1t was an unlucky day
ne never forgot the maxim, and determined
shape his career by it. He made such sue
Wy oi 1t IN the business world that his fellow
s'ks let him do their work as we'll as his
w" Abner was always busy. In time he
"qulred head bookkeepers job and perma-
FA' curvature of the spine.
Archie was different He early realized
~as 'he only ones who really got anywhere
vie business world were those who sat at
s'ss nat-top desks that had nothing upon
r' ae'a out onyx inkwels and vases of orchids.
1's 40 Archie knew, was efficiency.
ae determined to become adept in the use
Iour expressions. They were:
~ ~ Get in touch with
W Take it up with
~ Waste motion.
l4) Overhead,
,.., -, say these glibly enough" reflected
,ss, ss"'e i shall be deemed a great executive
D. nave desk with a row of push-buttcns.' -
q. .aFe1ul avoidance of effort he soon won
b.., a'ehtion of the head of the firm. The
svs' W. VI the firm decided that Archie was an
sss sspuohally promising young man because he
A,.s. sl mad the appearance of being busy.
aon. "'e nad read of great executives-that they
ss.sa, uio anything but sit tight so long as
a,s a,,s'''hg was going @. K.
md a'erythang is going o. X" said Archie,
Aras: aay the head of the concern heard
se.s. speak guardedly of Overhead" and
boss NOTION" and from that moment the
n was decided. He knew then that he had
uoor.. "'e budding combination of Herbert
l., and Henry P. Dawson.
lhe very few years the chief worry of
hnrl:1'u :'ud'ng Superintendent was the new
burchs b,sa rug, Q by ~, which had just been
SAca''sesa by the firm for Archies private
ltons..,'e 'e was afraid, as it had cost but a
'' a0'ars that it was too cheap looking.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

scrptions and his method of filling them YOU
get nothing more than grunt or a shake of
the head. Tai Shing is a man of few words
When a customer enters and Tai Shing's as
slstant takes the responsibility of serving him
Tai Shing gives outward sign that he is
conscious Of the presence of third person
He reclines against the wall with his arms
folded, his eyes half closed, putting dreamily
on his long pipe.
Orientals not SO secretive as they were in
former years have confided to plainclothes
men that Tai Shing is seventy-three the oldest
settler m the Chinese quarter man of pro-
found wisdom.
Fifty years ago, despite the hostile attitude
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

Hlstlng streets have come away disappointed
|M are as safe as you thread your way
sNugh Mott Street crowd as you would be
"a surging mob on Broadway-safer, most
|0ly. But for all that the district retains
|.Hh of its atmosphere. 1t still has its maze
underground passages, its crazy flights of
ars leading to weird tearooms and res
grants and its innumerable curtained re-
ases above and below ground And it has
Tai Shing, the druggist of Doyers Street
Eearer Of the time honored queue.
The other Chinese may find pleasure in
DIX hose, soft shirts, dainty cravats and the
aest designs in collars Tai Shing will stick
10 MS loose blouse, his frayed slippers, his
hing pipe-and his queue.
The queue, as you know, was once Just the
hing in China. 1t was introduced by the
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24
Germany Refuses
to Believe
Continued from page three

II have been at the head Of these mills for
twenty-five years, yet at times ] feel as though
| must run away from it ALT makes one
want to die he said "And what was it all
for? We were we'll off we did not need war
We passed some stacks of wool from the
Balkan States. During the war;" he ex-
planned, ''the government furnished the raw
materials to make military cloth, but it
difficult to get the people to work.
"Why was that?' we asked
The girls went off to the munition plants
They could earn more at that work, but, above
ALL there was food for them. there. To be
sure, many never came back. Nothing was
ever said in the papers about the explosions,
the girls just never came back"
'And to-day we inquired, "are they not
eager for work."
"Now everybody is demoralzed; the men
who have returned from the war are lazy and
do not want to work; they a wild lot. As
for the children, they have been neglected SO
long, their fathers away soldering and their
mothers in factories, that they are absolutely
undisciplined and have learned nothing"
Just then we passed some great machines
marked "Mulhausen, Esass"
when we S-st began to get these he
mused, they came marked 'Mulhouse, AL
sace; to-day that is changed to 'Mun1ira.rs .rsen,
Elsass; tomorrow they will De coming again
marked Mulhouse Alsace-such is the course
Of time"
We stood for a moment speilbound IN the
great hall where the machines had been idle
for five years A hush fell over us as in the
presence of death, knowing, as we did, that the
day when work could be resumed as before was
far removed-might never come
Thus, many stand by, awaiting the hoped
for change. They refuse to believe thatAfor
Germany "the day" is past
New-York tribune., 1921-04-24

Bv WARD MOREHOUSE

-AI SHING lives in Doyers Street. tn
tiny thoroughfare that curls from tho
Bowery into Pell, in the heart of
New York's Chinatown. Tai Shine
,sdom leaves his front door and never ven-
ares beyond his street Day and night be
an be found sitting on a box or dranoa
,rainst the wall behind the musty counter in
ss musty shop--a squat, frame structnr.
.,ueesed in between buildings of brick.
Tai Shing is the only Chinaman in CHM.
,wn who wears a queue. The plainclothes
,en who prowl the quarter know that: thev
,row also that Tai Shing is the oldest inhahi-
ant of the district and that he will cling to
is queue as long as he lives. But there ara
many things about Tai Shing they don't know
things known only by the chattering. shur-
sng, slippered folk who swarm ON the street
arners and fill the tearooms after nightfa,
md discuss the gossip of the hour oblivious
4 the stares of curious sightseers.
Chinatown in recent years has been snh-
ested to ptiless undermining process. It's
ong wars have passed. Linen collars and
scia messages have become a part Of its
sily and its nightly life. Visitors who have
yurht thrilling experiences in its narrow
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-08-04
WOOD COUNTY FAIR
arrangements Completed for EXPOSE.
ton ut Parher.burs
.tu.ust -.

Ian: local people are Interested j /
IL" II i.."uhc, Incnt thar the annual
N""d c"uhty fdir will hc held at Shat
'u'': ''"rs frrl-rslury. during the
,v"L of August =. aud thar ARA. *.
&c rs hay" bee, ME.d,. for the finest
NJ S.t.p:, and race meeting that has
& .cc.. held there.
Exhibits a. the ilir This wear will
coi lied strictly To the products of
wood county. and If those of other
years are anything TO go by. the show
ing this year should be most excellent
one. including cattle. horses. swine.
sheep. poultry and other live stock as
well as all kinds of grain and other
farm products.
The premium list which is inst com
pleted shows there will be some fine
racing during the four days of the fair
more than 100 running horses having
been booked to he there following the
big race meeting Mt Lexington. Ken
lucky. the week before. Special rates
nave been granted and the railroads
VIII hold their trains until after the
fair each day as heretofore.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-08-04


In speech which WAS given very
close attention and was frequently ap.
plaudrd
Al one time" said Commissioner
fhbaid"n, CONGRESS had hrfur.. il un
less than thirty resolutions rvl,rr.~.r,::
Sfi'irsthy with the aspirations uf The
Irish people, II not actually ur:ir" l':,:,
Iahd to grant Independence To Ireland.
N mat time, also the Filipinos were
knocking at your door Out Of the
womb or war, many European repub-
lies were born, and America has re-
Joiced to uphold the same. And vet
the claim OF the Filipinos Is still I'M
needed. Must there be exceptions.
then. in international Justice?
My plea, gentlemen OF the Ameri-
can Congress, Is that you ignore no
longer the repeated requests of n de.
serving people for an independence
that rightfully belongs to them. The
granting OF independence now affords
the United States golden opportunity
10 give TO the world unanswerable
proof OF its sincerity, its consistency
and It's altruIsm. 1t will be the great.
history OF the ages.
do not think. we are not appre-
ciatiVe Of all you have done for US.
We are. America has truly treated
the Filipino people as no other nation
has ever treated an alien race I'm all
history. The high points of the Amer
lean policy In tho Philippines have
been consistently Inspired by altruism.
We know that you were actuated In
your labors by the desire to contrib
ute TO our own welfare.
"And we love you perhaps most OF
all for your solemn promise to grant
us that which we hold dearer than life
itself-our freedom. Independence ls
our national ideal. 1t Is our all alb
sorbing aim. 1t grows stronger every
hour. For the spirit OF nntionallsm
never dies. Much less can 1T be sub
dued. We believe that we can never
hope to be sturdy nation II we are
to rely forever Oh the magnanimity Of
the United States.
"Amcrica's task I'm the Philippine
Islands Is finished What you have as
sumed as your sacred obligation i'm
that part of the world has been full
filled. A people with medieval sys-
TEN OF institutions has been trans
formed into conscious nation. i'm
bued with all that is modern In the
activities OF nations And II you give
us Independence our gratitude to you
VIII Increase thousand fold It will
last forever II you keep faith with vs.
There is but one issue ln the Phil
ippine question, and that is: Is there
today stable government on the Is
lands? IN the Jones law you promised
Independence upon the establishment
OF such n stable government Your
own GovcrnOr-General has officially
reported that there IS a stable gov
eminent In existence today, and we
also have submitted plenty OF evidence
20 substantiate its existence There
fore, we hope and expect America will
now carry out it's pledge"