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The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23

Rev. and Mrs. Doty of Oakes
Sunday School Missionaries hav,
been holding evangelistic meeting.
the past week
(; Mr.. and Mrs. r. p. Bacon left fol
Henrietta, Minnesota, where they
will spend the winter months with
relatives.
Miss Edna Barker spent the weeh
end as the guest Of Miss Thelma
Smith at her home near Page.
Mr.. I. H. Stralka is filling the va.
cancy in the depot agents position
caused by Mr.. Kaaras' departure
Mr.. karras is now located at Fin.
ley.
I Miss Doyle spent the week end at
her home at Fargo.
Edna Barker. Ida Carlson, Jimmy
Hueston and Herbert Zimmerman
were Thelma Smiths dinner guests
Sunday.
1nga and Mabel Gorseth visited at
Hope, between trains, Saturday.
The Embroidery Club organized
last winter, was reorganized as The
Ideal Club. The first meeting was
held at Mrs. Orser's home. The fol-
lowing officers were elected. Presid-
ent Mrs. S. Wiswell. Vice-President
Mrs. VIM. Sherman and Secretary
Mrs. Howard Curtiss. A set of BY
laws were drawn up among which
were the following; the hours shall
be from $3.50 till S. A fine shall be
imposed on a tardy member, no eos-
siping tolerated and every member
must bring some work. An enjoy
able time was enjoyed by all pre-.
sent and the hostess served a del.
icious lunch. The club will meet
next with Mrs. Geo. Brooks Thurs
day, November %.
VIM. Sherman purchased the
Knight building and has moved his
poolroom into it and has fitted up
the hall so that Colgate again will
have the advantages that a hall Of
fers. The grand opening will be in
the form of dance given Friday ev-
entng, Nov. oath.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23

The Red Cross Roll Call is on this
week. Have you Joined? Do your
share in keeping up this work.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
KIRBY LEAVES

S. r. Kirby, "the Medicine Man."
who for about year past has made
Northwood the mecca for 1.-The lame,
the halt. and the blind" who have
benefited as their faith, Imagination
or the possible curative powers of his
peculiar medicines ana decidedly
obnoxious treatment may have de-
creed, left Northwood, on Tuesday
afternoon to resume his practice
whence he came-on his farm near
Theft River Falls, Mimi, where re-
port has it that he has erected a
large private hospital for his use and
that of his large following.-North-
wood Cleaner.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
Eoys, GIRLS COMING
TO INSTITUTE SOON

About 1875 members OF boys and
girls clubs in North Dakota, winners
In the various counties in which club
work is carried on, will be the guests
Of the North Dakota Agricultural
College at the ThirteenthI Annual
Boys and Girls Club Achieve :, en-.
Institute, the date having been ten
tatively set for the week beginning
December 18, according to an an.
nouncement made today by Harry e
Rilling, state club leader.
Among the counties which will
send delegations are Barnes. Cass
Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman, Bur.
leigh, Grand Forks, Steele, Bottin.
eau, Ward, Williams, Billings, Ben.
son, Walsh and Sargent In each
of these counties the winners of the
various projects will be selected by
the county club leaders this week
The projects include raising of swine
beef and dairy cattle, poultry, corn
potatoes, gardening, clothing, baking
and canning.
The program will last during the
entire week and will be made up OF
entertainment and study. Home &c.
onomics problems will furnish the
subject matter for the girls and stock
and crop Judging for the boys. Off.
GERS Of he Institute, elected by the
boys and girls at the 1921 meeting
are Herbert Warner, Minor, pres.
ident; Harvey Hill, Hesper, vice.
president; Mildred Pierce, Ellendale
; secretary, and Della Gransberg
Kempton, treasurer.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
Fire DEPARTMENT RESPONDS
TO CALL SATURDAY NIGHT
RAIN AND MUD HINDER WORK
FIRE CONFINED TO BARN ON
j. NJ. CURTIS PROPERTY

About 10 O'Clock Saturday night
the fire department was called out
to fight fire In the barn belonging
to j. M. Curtis, located in the north
west part Of the city. Owing to the
rain which had teen falling for
number of hours the streets were
ankle-deep with mud and moving the
apparatus was no light job.
Owing to the locE Etion of the fire.
1t was necessary toa % the fire en-
gine from thG fire had to the cistern
just east of Mrs. Thompson's resid-
ence. The rain and mud combined
put the ignition system out Of order
and caused some delay In starting.
During this time bucket brigate was
formed and devoted their attention to
protecting the surrounding property
The fire was first discovered by
Mr.. Curtis who was returning from
down town. He Immediately got out
his cows, pigs, horse, chickens, and
automobile and somo small tools. His
loss outside Of the building consisted
of quantity Of feed and hay. The
delay in starting the engine caused
no additional loss as 1t would have
been impossible to have saved the
building. The NOW was full of hay
and this was all ablaze before the
fire was discovered. The loss is part
ly covered by insurance.
The saddest part Of the fire was
the death Of Mr.. G. I. Carney, a mem.
Der of the engine company. He as
sisted in hauling the engine for sew
eral blocks and then announced he
could go o further. He and a COM
panion then went over toward the
fire to see If they could be of as
sistance there. At the corner of the
Blocker property, Mr.. Carney COL
lapsed and had passed away by the
time DR.. Samms could be brought to
care for hime. Death was probably
due to an internal hemorrhaEe
caused by over-exertion.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
STATEMENT OF REUsLTs OF THE
CAREFUL CROSSING CANIPAING

preliminary figures just compiled
by the American Railway Association
show in part the results of its Care
full Crossing Campaign" for the re-
duction Of highway crossing accid-
ents. The Campaign began on June
1st and extended to September goth.
These preliminary figures include
returns from 108 railroads, covering
2O4,091 miles, or about four-flfths
Of the Glass l Railroad mileage of
the United States.
Despite an increase Of 81 percent
(as compared with the same period
last Year, in the volume of railroad
business during the campaign per-
iod as indicated by the car loadinEs.
and an increase in registration for
the same period Of 2,0O9,O21 auto
mobiles and trucks or FL percent, the
number of accidents at highway cross
ings increased only 3.6 percent, the
non-fatal injuries "a percent of
fatal ipjuries 3.6 percent. This ia
an average of percent for non-fa-
tai and fatal injuries.
The total of the accidents reported
for the period was All. an increase
of 1853; the total non-fatal injuries
was 1900, an increase Of AZ and the
total fatal injuries was 693, an in
crease of "a.
1t Is believed that when final com
pilation is completed the figures will
not vary more than 2 percent from
those shown above.'
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
atiyHoDIsT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
W. w. Smith, Pastor

Church service Sunday at IL a. m
&ubiec:-'The Good Samaritan"
Evening service-"A Mighty Con-
virtion"
Sunday School at ~ a. m.
Plan to stay to this service if pos
sihle.
Sunday December 3rd church roll
call. An earnest invitation is ex.
tended to every member to be present
sent
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
COLGATE NEWS ITEMS

Rev. and Mrs. Doty of Oakes,
Sunday School Missionaries have
been holding evangelistic meetings
the past week
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
LUTHERAN CHURCH
H. l.. Wiese, Pastor

Nov. 26th. Divine worship in the
English language at 10:30 A. NJ.
Bible Study at 11:45 A. M.
Nov. 30. Thanksgiving service at
the usual time, English language.
We shall be pleased to have you wor'
ship with us.
The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
$4,000 REWARD

The City of Hope, Steele County,
North Dakota, will pay reward of $50
for the capture Of or for information
that will lead to the arrest and convic-
tion of any person Or persons guilty of
stealing Turkeys from anyone residing
in the trade territory of Hope. This re-
ward does not apply to any duly author
lied officer of the law.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

one evening when Paris seemed dearer to
him than ever it had seemed before, he
sought the Princess.
NO." Pierre said. mo. l cannot"
Then Princess Takau went back alone to
her cottage by the sea and began to wait
for the true knight to come.
"He must be an American" she said.
There came an American; a handsome,
foot loose, carefree fellow from the Mid
die West of the United States. He was
born of the corn belt a stalwart son of
the great prairie country. His body was
the body of white god He stood head
high above the other white men of Tahiti
and head and shoulders above the native
males.
The young American heard of the beau
tiful Princessl His Middle Western curl
osity was piqued. Then he met her and
paid court to her. The island began to
buzz and blaze with gossip of an imminent
marriage between the adventurous Ameri-
can and the Tahitian Princess. He was
paying her such court as none but the
American knows how. And she was, SEEM
ingly, agreeable.
And then one day out of a clear sea
arose Pierre dAlembert, the Partisan poet.
Again a chattel of his impulse, he had de-
cided one day that Paris was far less de-
sirable than the Princess Takau, and he
had set sail for Tahiti in full confidence
that the remainder OF his days would be
spent beside her in the cocoanut grove that
overlooks the blue harbOr of papeete
"Papeete is the Paris of the South Seas"
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

had never seen such lightness, such 1.-THE
ness, such evident grace Pierre was i'm
mune no longer he knew that.
And then one day he heard her sing.
Pierre fell in love.
There can be but one explanation for
Pierre's susceptibility to the loveliness of
this Polynesian beauty in contrast TO his
immunity to Pariss most gracious maids.
That explanation is that Pierre loved,
primally and first of all, poetry. And he
saw in the body and ltheness, heard in the
voice of Takau the personification of that
love- Hence he loved Takau.
Some say in Paris to this day that she
loved him. others say she admired him,
but that he had no appeal to the depths
of her heart. At any rate, she submitted
for months to the most ardent wooing of
an ardent poet He asked her to marry
him, and she told him that she would--on
one condition. that he go to the cocoanut
grove by the far away Tahitian shore and
live there in her cottage for all their days.
Pierre asked for time to think. Paris
was of him; he of Paris. 1t was his in
evitable setting. Paris was in his face, in
his manner. In his heart. He loved IL
and Paris loved him. He loved every &C.
customed haunt and rendezvous with his
art. Paris was the heavengiven back
ground of his art, and he tried to avoid
the thought of giving 1t up.
But he loved the dusky Takau-loved
her deeply. His was. indeed, problem!
Pierre was an impulsive youth, and SO
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Fatal Lure of Islands
Hits Old and Young Alike

Men of wealth and culture and refine
ment have turned their backs on the civil
lied world and become beach combers in
order that they might find the fountain of
romance in the South Seas. The lure of
Polynesia is more powerful to-day than
it was in the latter part of the eighteenth
century, when Bougainville enthused
aristocratic France with his Nouvelle
Cythere The life of the South Seas
which some call 'tawdry"-has been called
upon by many men to afford relief to the
mental depression made by the war.
South Sea bound!
What motley crew every mail boat car
res to those regions south of the equator!
Painters and literary persons in the van.
Then students and pedagogues in quest OF
new things chronological, anthropological
and Psychological. Tired and disillusloned
men seeking oblivion from some old sorrow.
Silent, mysterious fellows fleeing the ueme-
sis of the law Bibulous persons seeking
surcease from prohibitions style cramping
tentacles. A horde of nondescripts who
seek food and pleasure without the COM
pensation of work.
Then, adventurers-romantica adventures
pure and simple.
Wherein lies the lure of the South Seas?
Not such an obvious question as 1t may
seem. No one knows the fundamental
answer. Man cannot and consequently
does not understand the witchery and
magic enchantment of these lovely isles.
II is elusive; it is vague, intangible.
There is a manner of saying thing in
the South Seas which cannot be said in an
other way and which defes analysis.
"The South Seas have got him!" That
is, to civilized man in uncivilized lands,
tragic Characterization. IL is that he has
stayed too long and there is no getting
away. There Is no reason for white man
to remain in the South Seas--there Is no
explaining why-but after while one just
stays on and on and on. Then the sad
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

he had thought "It may be I can
have bit of Paris and at the same
time have Takau."
But Pierre was doomed to disap-
pointment
The Princess scarcely remembered him
in her new enchantment. The vitality of
the youthful giant from the Middle West,
his strength and his power and his rug.
gedness obscured the Old World charm of
manner and the poetic delicacy of thought
and speech that characterized Pierre
d'Alembert.
Pierre remained in Papeete less than a
week, and then, disconsolate, he left the
Paris of the South Seas" and sought the
outlands of Polynesia and the lower
Archipelago to find some wild and soothing
setting to be balm for his hurt pride.
Not so long after his departure the
American suitor of the Princess Takau
learned that the lands and properties of
a Polynesian Princess could not be sold
under the law. Consequently, he reasoned
the valuable lands of Takau could not be
disposed of by any means. That was too
much for him. he was a practical person.
Papeete and Tahiti awoke one shining
morning to discover vacancy where the
great hulk of young American had been
the day before. The Princess Takau Sc
cluded herself in her cottage for little
while. but soon she came out again and
took her station by the sea, her eyes
turned toward America.
Where the practical romancer" went Is
a question. Some say he sought the corn
belt of his native land and there found
corn fed" daughter of thousand acres
whom he married Who knows?
In all of Polynesia the Princess has no
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

equal as a dancer and singer. In her
very modern cottage in one corner of the
broad parlor there is piano. In another
corner is her phonograph-she is very
fond Of this and calls it: 'My tin can
music" No doubt that entitlement came
to her from the departed American suitor.
This is only one romance of the South
Seas. There have been thousands through
are made for romance and for nothing but
romance. OF course all romances cannot
include a royal princess of lotus land.
But all are interesting, as all real romance
is interesting.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Gripping Lure of the South Seas E
Tahiti Maid Educated in Pa
a Mans Love and Hon Fate Rel
Her OWn Romance why tn
Women of Polynesia Dram Men

THE example of the sirens who at
tempted to lure Odysseus to their
fascinating rock, as told by Homer,
has been followed with more success and
more tragic climaxes by modern sirens
ever since Homer established the prece-
dent. There always has been speculation
as to just what might have been the read
justment of NEUROLOGICAL history, if Odys-
seus had not filled his ears with cotton
when the Sirens lured, and, instead, had
listened and succumbed to their wiles.
In later years We have seen the whole
course of an empires history changed, be-
cause some important parsonage, a king,
for instance, listened to feminine persua-
sion, instead of stopping up his ears. But
it is not often that we hear of the more
humble instances-the every day affairs
which, after all are the most interesting
because the easier understood.
From the South Sea Islands there has
just come the story of the romance-and
tragedy-of a beautiful island princess
who practiced the arts of the sirens, lured
her beloved from hectic Paris to her own
colorful land, and there, after keeping him
devotional and hopeful for two years, cast
him aside for another devotee whom her
charm had held captive to the island. This
would not be a circumstance sufficiently
unusual to retell, were it not that she. the
siren, beautiful in the beauty-language of
the warm and glamorous South Seas, was
in turn dashed to despair and repentance
by turning of the tables that made her
siren princess jilted-served with her own
medicine, as it were.
And then, too, the story that brings to
mind once more the ever intriguing mys-
terry of the South Seas-the strange allure
of their palm flung slopes, their coral reefs
and their gayly, though scantily garbed,
daughters, who loll on their shores, and,
like the sirens of Odysseus, look to the seas
to bring them romance.
For centuries and centuries the family of
the lovely Princess Takau ruled Tahiti She
Is the highest of the high caste. Her blood
is royal blood. All who have seen her
have said that she is as beautiful as any
woman could be- Such lines Of body as
hers can scarcely be conceived, for such
are seldom seen. And her features are
ideally perfect. Her light bronze-almost
white-complexion glows in the soft. ca
ressing South Sea breezes. Her hair is
coal black and severely straight. Her
brow is high; her cheek bones are high.
Her nose is clearcut as the nose of white
queen.
And the Princess-the last of the reign
ing Tahitians-is wealthy. She has much
land.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Educated as Girl in Paris.
She Charmed Many Frenchmer

Takau was sent to Paris when she was
16, and there she completed her education
and her musical studies. Her beauty and
her charms attracted hundreds of young
Parisians, and wherever she went she was
observed by yearning eyes, She was aloof,
however, and few and fine Of instinct
were the men whom she countenarced to
sit and talk with her. Offers of marriage
she spurned. Most she spurned because she
had no love in her heart-and for no other
reason.
1t Is reported that she loved more than
one in her few years time in Paris, how
ever, and that she would have married
either of two men who laid siege ~ her
heart had he agreed to go back with her to
the little cottage in the cocoanut grove In
Tahiti. The one Interchangeable condition
is that her husband must live his life be-
side her in the bungalow beneath the
cocoanut palms.
In her grove by the seaside she sits and
looks out to the sea- Doubtless she looks
toward America, for from America the
Princess hopes her mate will come. She is
certain of that
HE must be an American, for Americans
love and respect their women" she says,
"and when he is a good American he wants
but one wife. In Tahiti man wants
wife for every day in the year."
And so she sits beside her cottage on
beautiful knoll overlooking the sea and
dreams of that ideal-an American, of up
right and steadfast qualities, willing to
share the comforts and joys Of home in
beautiful Tahiti where food may be had
for the taking, where life and love and
languid happiness pulsate in unison.
The Princess Takau has loved an Ameri-
can, but she does not love him now. He
was one who did not prove himself OF
those fine qualities which she had hoped
and truly believed were his. He was, in
deed rather base; but the trustful Princess
is not disillusioned. She believes that
America holds the man of her heart. and
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

that some day he will come to her and she
will meet him at the seashore-that they
will know each other for the preordained at
the meeting Of their eyes.
Indeed, the heart of the South Seas beats
tenderly. 1t is the land of romance, truly.
Princesses and dancing girls and maidens
dressed in garlands of deep forest flowers
alike dream in their hearts of romance.
Favored Partisan Suitor
Much Sought as Husband
1t was in Paris that the lovely Princess
met and was wooed by the dashing Pierre
D'Alembert. And he was a suitor who had
been much sought. Paris society matrons
with marriageable daughters had set their
snares for the charming Pierre, and he had
proved immune to all their wiles. Few
young men of all Paris had had the chances
for high marriage that Pierre D'Alembert
had thrown at his feet. And none, perhaps,
had survived the campaigns of ambitious
mothers and remained so unentangled as
Pierre.
Then he met the Princess Takau. 1t was
at a the dansant one winter afternoon
that Pierre the poet was introduced to the
lovely Takau. They danced, and Pierre
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
At right is the

At right is the
beautiful Princess Takau
of Tahiti in native
costume. She appears in
the civilized garb
she wore in Paris in the
topmost photograph.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-27
Wanted-Live Stock

). /. REDS-Twenty-tw hens and
rockerel 30 Autumn ST. Gardiner.
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Parents have come to regard with
disfavor any further additions to the
already overloaded courses of study
in public schools, some of which arc
more ornamental than useful. They
will, however, favor the Ohio plan,
which makes instruction in fire pre-
vention compulsory by law in all
public schools of the state, begin
ming with the kindergarten classes.
In addition to the customary fire
drill, scholars arc taught the ,loca-
ton and operation Of fire. alarm
boxes and how to send in fire
alarm: all about hand fire cxtinguish-
ers, why and how they work, and
how to use them: when to use water
to put out a fire and when not to use
1t. and the proper, handy substitutes.
like flour or sand: also instructions in
the many ways TO avoid fires: e5-
pecially in and around the home.
The result of this training begun in
childhood will enable even those Of
quite early age to know just what TO
do when a fire tarts, and instead III
going into panic, which renders one
helpless. they will be enabled 10 keep
their head, Because the mind will be
occupied with doing the necessary
and appropriate thing. The instruc-
ton will commend itself as extreme
ly practical. and in years to come
will result not only in much saving
of life, but should tend to decrease
the present fire loss IN this country
of half billion dollars yearly. The
city Of Toledo has given the new
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Animals in Various Places Show No
Fear of Man

There was a curious case reported
recently of a stoat chased by boy
with a stick turning upon him and
biting him badly.
But cornered rat will turn, and
SO in like case will good many
other creatures which usually fly
from man. There are, however. quite
a number of wild animals which seem
to have no particular fear of man.
One is the skunk. creature best
known in this country by its fur, but
common all over North America An
extraordinarily pretty creature, but
dreaded like the plague.
The skunk, seemingly aware of its
own powers of offense, will walk
along the road in front of you, even in
broad daylight, scorning to give right
OF way.
Under such circumstances there Is
nothing to do but wait until his
skunkship chooses to move off.
The African wild dog IS almost
equally fearless.
These wilde boudcn," as the Dutch
call them. hunt in organized packs
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Nellie Turner; singing; address, f.
H. Libby, secretary of Maine State
Grange; singing; clippings, Costello
Weston. Idclle H. Love, Stanley
Hight, Charles w. Crosby; remarks
George Crane of Winthrop, also A. S
Robinson.
William r. Lincoln of Main street
Lewiston. has purchased the house
on Church street Readfield. of Mrs
George w. Carson, and will soon
make his home here.
Mrs. Mary Carson. whose home is
now in Glendale, Cal, and who has
passed the summer in Readfield,
started on her return trip to Cali
fcrnia on Monday. She will visit with
relatives on the way. at Raymond, n
H., and at Boston. Mass. Mr.. and Mrs
Cyrus Denton and brother. James,
who left last week for kalamazoo,
will join Mrs Carson at Chicago and
go on with her to Los Angeles, Cal,
where they will pass the winter.
The congregation at the NJ. e.
chapel Sunday A. M. listened to a
fine sermon by Rev. George w. Love.
The regular pastor, Rev. Royal A.
Rich, who is still patient at the
Maine General hospital. is not gain
ing strength as h should.