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The New York herald., 1922-06-25
NV Own Chinese Romance

Wilfred, for he IS our eldest son, on
whom we place great dependence
And Alfred of us all he seems least
fitted for the southern climate. The
summer heat has left him a little
pale and listless. He needs the sea
voyage. AS for Alicia, she is the
baby. and our only daughter. Do
not think US unmindful for all yJu
have done. But ! fear we should not
know how to make our home with
out our children
After all, it was evidently not IN
expected. They shook their heads a
trifle ruefully at each other and then
smiled.
Every well,' Father assented.
But this you must promise: that at
intervals. whenever your work per-
mits, you will come back-all Of
you-and spend year with us again.
Do not let the children forget US nor
their Chinese speech. In four years,
at most. all come back together"
We promised readily. Motf er and
1 repeating the phrase to each other.
In four more years, all come back
together" Our eyes were full of
tears.
That evening we sat together in
the quiet garden. From Mothers
apartments came the sound OF her
young nephew's voice as he chanted
his morrow's lessons. We heard
the subdued merriment of two little
maids, teasing each other in the
hall beyond. Along the outer path
a sedan chair passed with rhythmic
sway, the bamboo supports creaking
a soft accompaniment to the pad
pad of the bearers sandaled feet.
From varying distances came the
clang of braas gong, shuddering
on the stiffness, the stacca.o sound
of slender bamboo sticks shaken to-
gether in cylindrical box, the
measured beat of a small drum rat
tie, as the diffe, ent street yenders
announced their wares. Over the
hills, now purple in twilight, the
round moon swung leisurely into the
violet sky. Strange breaths of in
cense waited about us. The sea
breeze stirred the branches of a near
by dragons eye tree, where the rip
ening fruit balls tapped gently
against each other like little sway
ing lanterns. For long moments We
sat in silence. with clasped hands.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

Out Of that silence my husband
spoke softly, words / had long
yearned to hear: Absence, Mar
garet, teaches many things. Once it
showed you your own heart. This
time it has taught me to believe
with you in the Immortality of love
like ours. Physically. We may De
separated at times, hut mentally.
spiritually, you and are one for all
eternity"
The moon rose higher, golde n, per-
feet, even as our love
A few days later we sailed for
America The rest may bs told in
a few words, for after all. no words
could adequately tell it. A week af-
ter our arrival in America. Chan
King was stricken with influenza
For several years he had been in the
shadow Of O slow illness, but with
stout resistance and such buoyant
recurring periods of good heath that
we had for time almost forgotten
that early and sinister threat. But
those years of struggle were all
thrown into the balance against him
when the decisive hour came After
six days he died. Quietly. with ter
rible implacability. death closed over
him. We feared a sudden end, it is
true. but were still incredulous of
such a calamity. We gave each
other what assurance we could; our
ultimate farewells were simple re-
newals of faith, a firmer Tightening
Of our hands for our walk in dark
ness. "Of all the world. you are my
love-" he said many times More
than any one else you have under
stood, you have been unfafin g-you
have been my wife" And almost as
he spoke, my arms held no longer
my living beloved. but only the clay
where his spirit had been and would
come no more.
So, by the visible evidences, my
history is finished. But 1t has begun
anew for me, not as / wished, not
as l hoped, but IN a level that can
endure. For / have my children
and my memories and my home in
China, which waits with the gentle
healing of sight and sound ard place
and 1 have learned that in
love, and only in love, we can wiring
spiritual victory out OF this defeat
of the body.
THE END.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

are called upon to do to help stem the
tide Of adversely that flooded the
country during the civil war. Only
10 years old, he was the sole sup
port of his mother and five brothers
and sisters, while his father was abb
sent fighting with the Northern army.
Determined to learn all he could,
book was his companion at the plow,
in the woodshed and at the sawmill,
where he worked for the pittance of
IS cents night. The little sleep he
obtained was barely sufficient to
keep him fresh and alert for the
arduous tasks imposed upon him, and
it is not improbable that the boy
dreamed many of the hottest hours
of the day away, asleep in furrow
of freshly upturned earth, while the
oxen browsed in a sheltering nearby
thicket.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
The Old Home Shack.

His home was one room shack. of
rough if not rude appearance, a tenn
porary abode simply for shelter, and
would be jarring note in the land
scape effect of such a home as Mr..
Wattles has now taken possession of
amid the orange groves of California.
But its memories are probably so
fragrant that even to-day as Mr..
Wattles wanders with pride in and
around the flower garlanded walks
of his new home he recalls the trans
formation he was wont to conjure
for the old home shack, as when he
barefooted and happy followed the
plow. Perhaps, also, the locale of his
childhood home nesting as it did
amid the rolling hills of Tioga
county near the little town of Rich
ford, n. Y, inspirited those ideals of
beauty more so than the prairie
flats of Carroll county, Iowa, to
which place his father AMI mother
emigrated at the close of the war.
When the father, James Wattles,
returned from the civil war he found
his family in deep distress. They had
been evicted from the farm. Young
Wattles was still doing mis- best to
keep the wolf from the door, but it
was herculean task for boy of 10,
and as the farm had been foreclosed
his father determined TO emigrate
West.
BY slow stages the reunited family
Travelled by oxen drawn wagon
through Ohio, Illinois and finally to
Iowa, where they arrived and built
a lean-to, in which the family took
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
A Dream Comes True.

The monotony and tedium of plow-
ing unbroken ground with slow mov-
ing oxen and the uncommon labor
the old fashioned plowshares made
for the tender lad lent to the read
ing of the books he was able to OBJ
tain in those primitive days a greater
zest for knowledge, and the glamour
of chivalry and romance. so early
imprinted in his precocious boyish
mind, veiled his maturing years with
a love for the beautiful in art that
at last has been gratified in the ex-
quisite home he has retired from
business to at the comparatively
carly age of So.
Chance or luck which has had so
much to do with the success of many
prominent Americans does not an
notate the margin of the business
record of Mr.. Wattles.
AS boy he had to pull a much
stronger oar in the domestic econ
omy of his home life than many boys
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Continued From. Preceding Page.

that Father was to be with Mother
when Chan-King and took our
selves and our three children from
the home where, according to the
old Chinese custom, we all right
fully belonged.
The question of leaving one or
more of our children there for time
was discussed one afternoon later.
''Under ordinary circumstances"
said Father to Chan-King. you
would go alone, as your brother does.
leaving your entire family with US.
At the very least. YOU would allow
one child to remain in your stead.
But, of course. your mother and l
understand that these are not ordi-
nary circumstances. Your wife Is
an American. She has been con-
siderate of our point of view in many
waysHmore than we cxpected-and
in this matter we do not fail to con-
slider hers. which is no doubt yoir
own as well. We understand that
according to the American view the
children belong with their parents,
always. We cannot, Of course, de',y
your right to this manner Of living.
But we want you to feel that If you
can leave even one child with us. we
shall be very happy. You under
stand what protection and care viii
be given it."
For a moment there was silence.
Ny heart was very fun, and. even
had it been my place to speak. /
should have been unable to do so.
Mentally I pictured Mothers lone
illness at losing so many Of her chill
dren. Vainly / tried % imagine our
home in America with even one small
face missing. j watched my hus-
band, noted the tiny traces Of con-
flict in his face, impassive perhaps
to the casual glance. AT last he
spoke.
.Father. Mother" he begsn ear
Iestly, I'VE do indeed appreciate
your great kindness and generosity.
You will understand that, just as you
understand most truly our situation.
We know that here with you our
children would have many advan-
tages that we, perhaps. cannot give
them. But which one could we leave
to enjoy those advantages? Not
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

n stories of the grandeur of the
palaces of Italian princes as
he guided his fathers plow, Gordon
w. Wattles, multimillionaire, has
just moved into an Italian palace of
his own, with sunken and landscape
gardens, terraced and balustrated in
Carrara marble. just as he dreamed
about, said to be the most beautiful
in the West.
AS young Wattles, then slender
boy of 10 years, trod the uneven fur
rows of black loam, holding aloft in
one hand romance of Roman chiv-
airy, while with the other he kept
the oxen on straight line breaking
the virgin prairie, the pictures he
conjured of fairylike domains under
italian blue skies have within forty
five years of that time become a
reality. That makes the story of Mr..
Wattles's life a romance of success
that is hardly equaled in the lives of
successful American business men.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

aSounded in the virgin underground
of the unbroken prairie. as well as
hostile marauding bands of Indians
in the sixties and early seventies,
who resented the usurpation of the
lowan and Nebraskan lands by the
whites. and the rudiments of philoso-
ply in the books he read. The pa
thence with which he overcame the
obstacles met with in clearing the
grourd for cultivation was perhaps
the real propelling force that led him
to almost immediate success. Know
ing how to do thing was a natural
trait learned in the school of the
great outdoors, with just instinct as
his mentor, and when he did have
the advantage Of a school training
he made such strides in his studies
that when he was is he obtained a
teachers certificate.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
A Chain of IL Banks.

To accomplish this end Mr.. Watt
ties, with the assistance of men who
believed In him. organized the Roch-
ester Loan and Banking Company of
Rochester, ". H, and within seven
lucky years Mr.. Wattles and his as
sociates bought chain of seventeen
country banks in Iowa
Mr.. Wattles always professed to be
influenced by spirit of wander
lust" He said that he inherited il
from his father, who when after
returning broke" from the civil war
started West. THAT was all right.s
said Mr.. Wattles provided you keep
on the right road. / chose what 1
thought was the best road in 1892
after making a success of the Roch-
ester Bank when / moved TO Omaha
and bought control of the Union Ma
tional Bank Of that city.
My contact with the farmer. nv
faith in the farmer. my success with
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
His Banner of Excelsior.

Mr. Wattles admits this teachers
certificate was his banner of F,xceI.
sior. 1t bore him onward through
class after class Of diverse personali.
ties. giving him an insight into hu-
man nature and coaching him hou
to weigh or estimate men.
He entered college-the Iowa State
Coliege-paying his way by selling
ice, waiting on table, doing odd iobs
IN and around the hotel where he
had the privilege Of sleeping; in fact.
nobody was too poor for him to rev.
erence-if il meant work.
Thrift had become an obsession.
and. as Mr.. wattles admits. he
worked the problem of saving much
out of little down to an exact sci-
ence.
The most extravagant purchase
l made during my school and college
days" says Mr.. Wattles, was s5.25.
The five dollars was for a coat and
the quarter for comb, the only tci-
let article 1 possessed
This coat and comb carried Mr.
Wattles through a course in law,
and leaving the college he was elect
ed county school superintendent.
The children of the schools appre-
ciated the interest he now took in
their education, they told their pa
rents about him, the farmers met
him and soon began consulting him
about their crops. Many Of the
farmers of the district had their
lands mortgaged. and Mr.. wattles
added to his school duties those OF
consulting attorney to farmers VINO
needed assistance in negotiating
and paying off loans.
The business OF the law inter-
fered with the superintendency Of
schools, so Mr.. wattles was admit
ted to the bar of the State of Iowa
and opened a law Office. The farm
ers trusted him implicitly. and
their needs were urgent. He orga.
nized the Farmers, Bank of Carroll.
Iowa, with capital of $4,000 fur.
nished by farmer patrons. He was
the entire crew of that bank. He
polished up the handle of the front
door so carefully that in ten years
times the capital Of the bank fn-
creased to 500. 900, with deposits Of
100000. His youthful training In
patience behind the plow, his abil-
ity to overcome obstacles and get
through school and college with hons
ors, had matured a business acu-
men which was the effective ele.
ment in the organization Of the
bank and had secured its success.
Just as the golden foot of the
oxen had consolidated the land Of the
prairie. the experience he gained
guiding the plow around deep root
ed trees helped him to meet all kinds
Of men on a footing of equality and
overcome their inherent prejudices
against farm loan business. He
made his bank a national bank that
grew to such an extent that some
outlet for its returns had to be
found.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

farm he had staked in the newly
opened section of Carroll county in
which he had settled. The father
worked at odd jobs. but the necessi-
ties of life were hard to obtain. How
ever, lack OF food or clothes did not
dampen the romantic ardor of young
Gordon Wattles; he continued to
delve in Italian romances, travelling
miles barefooted to borrow books or
old journals from neighboring set
tiers, and do odd chores in exchange
for provender for his fathers live
stock and provisions for the family.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
His First Wage, So a Month.


In the spring young Wattles, just
IL years old, barefooted, dressed in
cotton trousers. cotton shirt and
wearing a hickory hat, hired out to
break virgin prairie sod and clear
land at 50 a month.
The man he worked for possessed
a few books, which young WattleS
read and reread until he could recite
them line upon line by heart.
jefferson was the nearest town.
and his employer took young Wattles
to see a circus for the first time.
This was the first real moment in
the boys life. The circus, small
pony and dog affair, had the good
fortune to possess a camel and an
old elephant. also a NANCY, toothless
lion. The young boy farmer was SIM
ply flabbergasted: he stared il
open eyed wonderment as the animal
trainer put his head into the hons
mouth, was dumfounded to see the
ponderous old elephant walk upright,
and thought the music of the wheezy
band wagon was heavenly.
While returning from the circus,
young Wattles was driven by a small
school house, and there and then he
determined to secure an education.
The farmer he worked for was a con-
siderate, kind hearted man, and he
took an affectionate interest in the
boy and helped him I'm his ambition.
So for six years young Wattles
worked in winter and in the summer
months attended school II was
during this period that young wattles
cultivated and nourished the spirit
that was to place his name on the
list of men who have triumphed
He had learned at the circus that
there was little or no danger in put
ting ones head In a lions mouth,
and that il was easy for an elephant
to. walk uright -Patience, watchful-
ness and knowing how" was his first
elementary lesson in philosophy
learned at circus.
Patience he had learned behind a
yoke of oxen hitched to a plow,
also watchfulness. for reptiles
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Beginning With
" a g e of SO a
Month Wattles
Wrought a n d
Prospered.

. ECAUSE a farmers boy read
stories of the grandeur of the
palaces Of Italian princes as
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21
Notice of Mortgage Foreclo.ure Sale

Notice is hereby given that that certain
mIortgage executed and delivered by Torkel
aatsd iss s 70 M
vemDer 1920. and filed for record In the offlce
Of the Rexister OF Deeds Of the County Of
SIOUX and state OF North Dakota. on the 18th
and recorded In Book BIS Of Mortgages at
page lsl, and assigned by written instrument
to H. 8. Beknapp, dated the 22nd day of
November 1920 and filed for record in the Of
flee OF the Register OF Deeds OF the County OF
Sioux and STATE OF North Dakota. on the l4.n
day OF September 1922, a. s:45 O'Clock A. NJ.
page 63l VIII ne foreclosed by sale OF the
premises In said mortgage and hereinaf ter des-
cribed ut the front door Of the Court House in
North Dakota at the hour OF ten O'Clock 4.
on the LIST day OF February, 1923, to satisfy
the amount due upon said mortgage. on the
date Of sale. The premises described In said
mortgnge and which will be sold to satisfy the
same are described as follows: South east
Quarter lsEt, Of Section Twenty six t2e) in
Range Eighty six 1867 West OF the Fifth Prin-
clpal Meridian. Sioux County. North Dakota,
amounting TO Seventy (s7o.o6) Dollars due
Seventy $50 00) Dollars due November 1, 1922
on the mortgage being foreclosed. and notice
of intention to foreclose said m prtgage having
Assignee Of Mortgagee hereby elects and de.
clares the full amount thereof due and pay
able. and there will be due on the day of sale
the sum of One Thousand Forty nine and $500
(S1040.5S) Dollars together with the statutory
attorney 8 fees and disbursements allowed by
law. The mortgagor having failed to pay taxes
levied and assessed against the hereinbefore
described land for the years 1920 and 1921 o.
mounting to One Hundred Seventy five and
A-l00 (&l7534 Dollars. the assignee OF mort.
gagee paid the sald amount which s included
In the amount claimed to be dua under the
mortgage being foreclosed.
Dated December is. 1922.
H. 8. Belknapp,
Assignee OF Morgtagee.
E. A. Ripley,
Attorney for Assignee,
Mandan, N. d.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21
Sioux County News Items
As Reported BY the Pioneer Correspondents

Il : 4
winter.
Theresa Hough returned Tues
day from visiting in Mobridge with
reltiaves.
A large crowd gathered at the
Ed Cahill home Thursday evening
as surprise on Ed. A Jolly even
ing was spent and at midnight a
delicious lunch was served.
Bert Wells is feeding a bunch Of
cattle at the old Parkin ranch on
Leaf on the Hill. 4
Chas. Snyder is still keeping a
crew Of men busy on the hay baler.
He is shipping it as fast as it can be
baled.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21
Chronicles Of the West

.-. lJi44+5 81 to- sst - q
Miss Eldora Dokken returned
home Sunday afternoon from Nor
ristown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bart Egan and
family visited at Ira Herbert's Sum
day.
Harry Knoke has been used up
the past week with rheumatism.
Roscoe Wilfone closed his school
Friday and left for the ehst satur-
day evening.
Edith an John Davis spent Sum
day afternoon at F. L. Bush's.
Halvor Dokken delived three
loads Of hogs to Keldron last Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Colville were
Morristown callers Saturday.
Ernest and Myrtle Davis and
Clifford Bush spent Sunday even
ing at Bart Egan's.
George Jakes is working for NAL
colin Colville.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21
Pebbles From
Rogers Greek

Wilbert Neumiller, the youngest
son of G. P. Neumiller, has been
quite sick this week but isaimprov-
at present.
H. H Clary and F. B. Baxter
called at the Melvin Rye home
Thursday.
Verlie Cain spent Tuesday with
the Heistad girls
The ]. A. Couture family are
moving back from the Nobel Rose
farm for the winter. Roy Couture
will attend the coal mine on the
Rose place.
Miss Anna skotvold is staying
with Mrs. Melvin Rye at present.
The basket social held at Sunnyside
school was we'll attended and over
thirty dollars were taken in from
sale Of baskets. The money will be
used for hot lunch equipment in
the school. Last winter hot lunches
were. served at the schools in the:
district aud met with approval; by;
both, pupils and parents so they,
will be continued this wear. I
Merle CaHill visited friends and
relatives here last week gong to.
Ft. Rice where he will spend the
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21
Swastika i k; Items

Mrs o, ]. Brennecke visited with
her daughter Mrs Barney Ten
Brock Sunday and Monday Of last
week.
Dan Perkins finished haying last
week.
Ennis Alderman helped S. L.
Tysdale put in furnace the past
week.
The treasurer Of Belden township
calls warrants numbered % to 3S
inclusive on.the road fund and "a
to 112 on the general fund. Inter-
est ceases the Goth of Dec.
Fred Engel is helping Ennis
Ackerman preparatory to the Acker-
man family going to Minnesota for
their Christmas vacation.
Ben Printz is at home with Dad
for the present.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21
Second Summons


State Of North Dakota
County Of Sioux In Justice Court
Before Thomas A. Short. Justice OF The Peace
HokansOn Bros, cO'partnershtp consisting
Of Goodwin w. Hokanson and Gus W. Hok-
ansOn, Plaintn
VS.. .4,.
Ed Gruba, Defendant
second Summons
The State Of North Dakota to said Defendant:
BY this secord summons he Elm YOU are
directed to appear beto me III my otli!e III
the town of Fort Ya,es Coun.v - Sioux.
state OF North Dakota. at zen ., q. :K IL ht'
forenoon Of the eth day OF Decemh,.t, 1922,
there to answer the complaint uf HokanSpn
Bros Plniutih above named, againsJ you, ;A-
leging that you are indebted to said ilanIitf
in the sum Of Sl0a for goods, WI. rs nnd
merchandise delivered to you for. use IN Your
hotel business at said town OF Fort Ya,ss and
demanding to recove of YOU the sum Of sl0s.;
10 together with the costs, OF this actio'; And
YOU are notified tnat unless y,u so app -ar ana
unsw er tue plaintiff will Take Judgment agapssi
you accordingly for the sum Of sos l0t"getht.'-
with the COSTS of this acttOn. Further That
The First State Bank of Fort Yates, N. D.. a>
Garnishee herein has disclosed money IN It's
hands belonging to you In the amount Of
$ll6.24.
Given this 1st dag Of December, 1922:
= Thomas A. Short
Justice Of the Peace, Sioux County.N N. D.
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21

Brand notices run in this paper cost
$1,000 per year. Send in legible brand
drawn with ink, and give full descrip
tion. Address Pioneer. Fort Yates, N. d
Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-21

"Mother, quick, look
xuhat Billy has gone
and spilled-a .Dhols
big boz Of kellogg's
Corn Flakes. PM say
he likes tltss1s q lotl''
New Britain herald., 1922-08-31
BRITONS HARD HIT
English Press Attributes Recent De- feat of Selected Team to Tendency of Making Long Drives.

London, Aug. 31.-(By Associated Press. )-British golfers are hard hi, over the defeat of their picked play CTS in the international matches a, Southampton, N. Y. There is much comment in the morning newspapers and the upshot of the experts analy- sis seems to be that the British lost their supremacy by making a fetish of long driving.
 The Daily Mail editorially recalls the remark made by Walter J. Travis when he surprised the golf world IS years ago by capturing the British amateur cham pionship. Travis said:
 T won because the British play CTS are engaging in a debauchery of long driving
 That is still the trouble here, ac- cording to Harry Vardon. who in an interview is quoted as declaring:
 "Al that our leading amateurs, and our younger professionals too seem to bother about is hitting the ball tre- mendous distance. They don't trou- ble about the finer points of the game which count for most That is where the Americans beat us; they beat us particularly in the iron shots up to the hole which have always been the master shots in golf"