The Washburn Leader from Washburn, North Dakota • 8

The Scrap Book Couldn't Stand the Hoodoo. He was ii college hoy. home for vacation. and mother's cook bad prevailed upon him to lend her (5 for two weeks. Much to the surprise of the family, cook departed from her practice of keeping such funda indefinitely and paid the debt promptly.

When questioned about it she said: "No dat boy never once ask me fer dat money, tie never dun me at all, but when 1 serves his late breakfast in de moinln" he always leave five biscuits on de plate when be used to eat 'cm all, an' be tells me he likes five lamps of sugar in his coffee when everybody knows duf's too sweet. Den when I goes in my kitchen 1 finds five raw potatoes? on my table an' five lumps of coal laid by my stove. Dem £vts jes' natcbully ha'nts me, so I York Post. At the Door. 1 thought myself indeed secure.

So fast the door, so firtn the lock Hut. lo. he toddling comes to lure My parent ear with timorous knock. My heart were stone could I withstand The sweetness of ray baby's plea. That timorous, baby knocking and.

"Please let me in: it's only me." 1 threw aside the unfinished book Regardless of its tempting charms, opening wide the door, took My laughing darling in my arms. Who knows but in eternity like the truant child, shall wait, The glories of a life to be. Beyond the Heavenly Father's gate? And will that Heavenly Father heed The truant's supplicating cryAs at the outer door I plead, 'Tis I. Father, only Field. A Shining Mark.

A lady grievously tormented with a corn on her toe was advised by one of her friends to auolnt it with phosphorus, which in a weak moment she did, but forgot to tell her husband be fore retiring at night. It bad just turned 12 WBB wheu the husband awoke and startled to see something sparkling at the foot of the bed. He had never heard of a firefly in the locality, nor did he ever remember seeing such terrible looking object as the toe presented. Reaching carefully out of bed till he found one of bis slippers, he raised it high in the air and brought it down with great force upon the mys terious light. A shriek and an avalaucbe of bed clothes, and all was over.

When at lost be released himself from the bod elothes be discovered bis wife gripping her toe and groaning in a corner of the bedroom, but she had got rid of that phosphorated klrapfcic. Naming a Hone. Commenting on the curious names often given to racehorses, a writer in a London dally recalled the historic case of Potoooooooo. The Earl of Kg rem on had a horse he intended to Potatoes, auU iu going around the ble one evening he gave the stable In charge of the horse a piece of chalk and told him to write the name on the com bin. Tbe boy wrote Pot and theu.

evidently in some doubt as to the cor rect spelling, finished the word by repeating the letter eight times. This so amused Lord Egremont and bis friends that the horse was so named forthwith. Tragic Tale of a Tragedian. uwfulcst and the funniest stage wait I ever lived through." said a sprightly English actress, "was when a certain well known London actor-man sger, whose name 1 dare not divulge, was doing a tremendous curse scene on a darkened stage. He bad tbe audi ence spellbound with his sonorous declamation.

which, of course, they didn't know depended largely upon his ample mouthful of false teeth. At the very climax of bis blood curdling maledictions tbe entire dental collection droppad out suddenly in the excitement of the moment and bounded into some obscure biding place. The tragedian's mighty voice died down to an unintelligible mumble as be groped about frantically in search of tbe missing masticators. We were all too helpless from laughter to be of muc-b help tn this critical situation. At last, after what seemed like half an hour of the most hysterical suspense, the stage manager located the teeth with tbe aid of a dark lantern and restored them to the frantic star, who clapped tbem Into his mouth and began cursing again wttb redoubled earnestness.

I never knew what tbe audience tbougbt. and90 one ever dared to ask tbe actormanager." Not Stumped. Once, when the renowned Mrs. Siddons was playing in the Theater Royal, Dublin, she. as Lady Macbeth, came to tbat part where a drum sbonld sound and she exclaims: dram! A drum! Macbeth doth come!" There was some difficulty or neglect in obtaining tbe necessary instrument, and to ber amazement a trumpet sounded.

She Immediately saw how absurd it would be to say "dram" while tbe well known sound of tbe trumpet met tbe ears of tbe vast audience. So she said: "A trumpet! A trumpet!" then stopped short, not knowing bow to rime It. when a- voice from the gallery called out "Macbetb dotb stump at which tbe bouse broke out tato one peal of laughter and applause, and tbe tragedienne advanced to the footlights and bowed ber acknowledgment for tbe relief. PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Dont Hasty In Judging by It, Loot You Deceived.

Bret Harte wrote in one of bis atortM tbat yon couldn't Judge anything by appearance of bis The big seat scamp bad a Raphael face, the bravest man In camp was tbe smallest tbe sorest shot bad but three fingers and the best dressed was tbe wont gambler In tbe state. Tbe same rale often works oat ID rail Ufe. Nobody wrote more dry phil osopblcal books tbao England's prise philosopher, Francis Bacon. Bat one day while til and wltbout consulting any works of reference be dictated a volume of Jokes which Is still tbe best collection to be found In London. When 8tephen Crane wrote bis Badge of Conrage" old soldiers tbougbt tbe author must have gone through tbe war.

Just out of college, Crane bad scarcely ever beard a gun fired, and be was not born until years after Appomattox. A 220 pound bally was making trouble In a Philadelphia street railway car when a small, pleasant faced youtb remonstrated. Every one expected to see tbe giant literally crush tbe young man who had Interfered. As tbey stepped off tbe car the bully was knocked senseless by a blow of the other's the fist of Billy Rocap, then champion amateur lightweight boxer of America. I beard Bob Burdette, tbe funny man.

tell bow tbe soldiers laughed at a young fop of a cavalry officer until tbey saw him just once leading a charge. Then tbey knew It was General Custer, and tbey laughed no more. So you cannot always tell what ia In a man's bead or bis fist by bis personal appearance or by bis previous Philadelphia Ledger. HE SIMPLY FORGOT. The Hurried Married Man Didn't Think, but His Wife Did.

He really meant to kiss his wife this morning as be left tbe bouse to go to work. But be forgot He was thinking or tbe cares of tbe shop, of tbe thousand and one matters wblcb concern blrn In tbe big world with wblcb be wrestles for a living for ber and tbe kids. Anyhow, be said to himself afterward, what's a kiss? It ougbtn't to take sucb a mere formality to convince of his love and trust tbe woman be bas made tbe mistress of bis borne, tbe motber of bis children. Pshaw. The chances are she never noticed tbe omisslou.

So wby should be worry? But back home a woman not becaose she doubted her nusband's constancy, not because she felt tbat be wouldn't prove big and true and fine in an emergency, bnt oecause. womanlike, sbut within home's foiu walls, doomed to another day of petty routine, much of It to be endured all alone, she wanted tbat kiss as a token and a it as proof tbat not In ber case could tbe poet write: He's lost, you see, 'cause ha married me: Coodby. my lover, goodby. Now If you. Mr.

Man. made sucb a oreak as tbat this moruing. do yon know what you ought to do? Go borne tonigbt with a present tn each band aud plant two kisses where mie grew Orleans States Belgian Hedges. In Belgium there are no stone or hawthorn hedges like those in England, instead or being inclosed by a hedge the fields are raised up by fairly high earth banks and tbe roads are cut out of them, as It were, so tbat when you are walking iu tbe country you are down in a sort of valley with low green banks on either side of yon. Tbe things tbat are cbietl.v cultivated in Belgium are tbe beet makiug tbe obeaper kind of sugar, yon yon can see field upon field of their red-green leaves stretching on either side of you as you walk along.

Flas Is also inticb grown ovet there, and in summer lime thr fields are a pretty sight when the pale blue fiax blossoms are out hill binoui. Belgian asparagus Is also renowned all over Europe. It has white iustead ot purple-green Mail. Tougn Ola Vessels. It tbe life of the old man-ot wat was longer than tbatot ttie present Oread nought tbe old merchantman lived louger still.

Tbe Lively, for instance, when wrecked at Cromer to bad Oeeu afloat two years over a century. Tbe Liberty, too, built at Whitby to 1750. was in regular use till 1856, and tbe Betsy Cains, wblcb began life as a frigate and ended as a coliiei. went down tn ber one uundred and tblrtyseventb year. And In 1902.

according to a dally paper, tbe Anita, then trading between Spain and America, dated from tbe days of Sun. Her Amendment. Little Lola bad been given a short poem to commit to memory by ber teacher. In It these lines occurred, "Sail on. ye mariners, tbe nigbt is gone." Later wben requested to repeat tbe poem sbe rendered tbe lines mentioned thus.

"Sail on. ye married men the light is Chicago News. Avoid Introspection. Photographer (taking plain looking girl and ber try not to tblnk of yourselves at all-think ot something Opinion. The Turkish EiMpire.

The Turkish empire Is composed or many mixed races. It Includes Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, Armenians, Jews and Circassians. There Is no wisdom like Beaconsfleld. HUNTING A SPY By DONALD CRAMBBRUN 8hortly before, the war broke out In the Balkans between tbe Turks and the allies left Adrianople one evening about dark for Belgrade. Tbere was one passenger in the compartment besides myself, and I noticed that while waiting for the train to atart he was very ill at ease.

When tbe guard shut and locked the door he seemed to breathe easier, but was still evidently impatient for the train to be off. When at last it began to roll out of the station he put hla head out of the window eagerly. Following the direction of his eyes 1 saw a man, whom I knew to be a Turk by his fee, running for tbe train. He ran like a dew, my fellow passenger watching him breathlessly. The latter occupied the window so that I could not see if the Turk caught the train, but presently my companion fell back gasping.

"Lost!" be moaned. I had some knowledge of one or two of the many languages spoken in the Balkans, so that 1 understood tbe word. I also spoke some French and German and tried the man In both, getting an understanding in the latter tongue. "What is your trouble?" 1 asked. "Are you German?" he asked instead of replying.

"No American." "Oh, American. You then are a lover of liberty. Certainly you have no sympathy with Turks. I am doomed. I have been in Adrianople spying on tbe fortifications.

I was arrested, and drawings were found on me. I was sentenced to death. While waiting to be executed I caught my guard napping and escaped. I hoped to get away by this train, but this man, in whose charge I was placed, will go through the train when It stops and recover me." Then, taking out a pencil and tearing a bit of paper from an old letter, he wrote his name and address on It and handed it to me. "When you reach Sofia," he continued.

"will you tell my wife what I have told you and what follows? Say' that my last thoughts were of ber and our dear children." "If you are sure to be executed, why not take the chance of jumping from the train?" "I am going to do that, but death Is as sure as If I suffered myself to be taken back to Adrianople." "You may strike soft grouqd." By tbe time I hadspoken tbe words he was out on the footboard. I put my head out through the window awl saw his dim figure not far from it. It was very dark. Presently I ceased to see him and believed tbat he had jumped. The first stop the train made warf at Tcbivinen, which we reached In about half an hour after the spy had disappeared.

The guard unlocked the door, but would not let me alight till after the compartment had been examined by the man whom I bad seen running for the train. As soon as he 'had passed 1 stepped down on to tbe platform and followed him to see if he got his quarry. He did not tind him. and tlie train moved on. I wondered what had become of tbe spy.

He must have jumped or he would have been found on the train. Nearly all the passengers were Turks, and I noticed the moment 1 alighted that there was a chain of men wearing fezzes surrounding the train, probably passengers who had volunteered to help the official in bis efforts to arrest the spy. Before we passed over the Turkish line to enter eastern Roumelia train stopped for. long while. felt sure that it was for the purpose of making a final search for In time we started on ami in a few minutes were among a differentiation ality.

"What a pity." I said to myself, "that the man could Then in the blackened features I recognized the man with whom I bad sympathized. "Is it you, and alive?" I asked. "Yes it is I. and very much alive." "How did you do it?" "I walked forward on the footboard till I reached the locomotive tender. Climbing over the coal.

I told the engineer, who was a Servian, my story. He suggested that since tbe -train would be searched I had better hide under the coal. So I lay the floor of the tender, and tbey covered me with the coal." When we reached Sofia nothing would do but tbat 1 should go to the man's home with him. I did so, and so begrimed was be that his family did not at first recognize him. His Wife knew the errand on which be had been to Adrianople and.

Its -danger. He was a week overdue, and. she had given him up. Covered as he was with coal dust, sbe embraced blm. I was -entertained royalty at his house and left It with regret PROFIT IN GOLDEN SEAL A Woodland Crop That May So vatod With Little Trouble.

8peaklng of plants tbat nay be cultivated with little trouble and with profit to tbe grower, a writer in Green's Fruit Urower advises those who have a bit of nnnsed woodland or underbrush to plant golden seal. Ho considers it one of the most remunerative of plants to raise sod aays that tt reqoirsa very little cam. The roots of this plant sold fifteen years ago at 80 cents a pound. Tbe price baa ateadlly advanced. The root la now worth ISA) a pound, and the dry leavea and stems now sell for 25 cents a pound.

It Is one of tbe most widely used drugs known to tbe modern pharmacopoeia. At tbe end of three years yon can sort out tbe mature roots from tbe young ones and wash and dry tbem for sale, while you put tbe young roots back in tbe ground. At tbe end of tbe three years the grower bas a yearly crop of roots, and, beginning with tbe first year, be baa a yearly crop of leaves and stems. This Is one of tbe crops on which tbere Is an abaolute certainty of a market that will run after you as soon aa any golden seal buyer knows you have tbe gooda to sell. Go and ask your druggist or your doctor about tbe value of golden seal.

WHISTLER AND HIS GROCER. An Overdue Bill, a Threat and a Payment Not In Cash. Whistler's financial affairs were tbe mingled joy and terror of his friends, and tbe Penuells. In their "Life of Whistler," give a most amusiug glimpse Into this side of bis life On one occasion be bad actually run up a bill ol £800 with a Cbelsea greengrocer, who at last called to insist upon payment Whistler came out strong on tbat occasion: of course, you have sent these ex cedent tbey have been eaten, you know, by most excellent people. Think what a splendid advertisement! And sometimes, you know, the salads are not quite up to tbe mark fruit, you know, not quite fresb.

And if you go Into these unseemly discussions about tbe you know. I shall have to go into discussion about all tbis, and think bow It would burt your reputation wltb all these extraordinary people. I think the best thing is not to refer to tbe let it go. And In tbe future we'll have a weekly you know!" Tbe greengrocer left without bis mon ey. but received tn payment two turnes.

one the blue upright Valparaiso A Calamity. Five-year-old Tot's motber waa telling tbe youngster tbe story or berselt and ber twin sister. "One morning wben we were a week old tbe nurse was bathing us, and she took tbe blue ribbon off Delia's wrist and tbe pink ribbou off Stella's wrist Wben sbe was ready to pat them on again she could not remember which one of us was Delia and which was Stella, so she took us In to motber. but mother could not tell either, and no one ever did know whether oi not we bad our right names. Then wben we were seven years old one ot us died, and nobody Knows whether it was Delia or Stella." Kiltie burst into an agony or tears and sobbed out.

"I just ul tbe the spy. not have ed himself on the train till we had passed the border! In case he would have been safe." Tbe first stop we made in Itouinelia was at Hermaui. There 1 alighted to stretch my legs, slowly walking toward the forward end of tbe train. I saw a man coming who I supposed was a coal shoveler on the engine, only be was blacker than any stoker I ever saw. What waa my surprise wben.

rushing toward me, he threw bis begrimed arms around me. "Don't you know me?" he said. "I am the spy." Know it was my own mother that died when she was seven years Companion. A Rhineland Legend. Tbere Is a Rblneiand legend of three German robbers who.

having acquired by various atrocities what amounted to a very valuable booty, agreed to divide tbe spoil and to retire rrorn so dangerous a voeatiou When tbe day appointed for this purpose arrival tbem was dispatched to a ueigbboriug town ro purchase provisions for ibeir last carousal. The other two secretly to murder biro on his return thai they might divide Ills share between them. They did so Hut tbe murdered man was a closer calculator even than bis assassins, for be bad previously poisoned a part ot ibe provisions, tbat be might appropriate to himself tbe whole ot tbe spoil, i'bls precious triumvirate were found dead together. A Different Reason. "What bright eyes yon haver' said tbe visitor to five-year-old Tommy "Yon must get plenty of sleep." "Yes'm." be answered.

"My mamma makes me go to bed every nigbt at 8 o'clock." "That's to keep yon nealtny." said the visitor. "No, It ain't'' replied tbe youngster. "It's so sbe can mend my clothes. '-St. Loula Globe-Democrat Platinum Is dissolved by aqua regis, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric aclda.

No acid known ro cbeiuista. alone, will dissolve this metal, but these two combined, to the proportion of one volume of nitric and three or hydro chloric, York American. -c Safety Firat ifkCk Bill Burglar-1 ain't gouna rob no poor lone woman. I alu't Mike. Thief de matter? Gettin' soft? Bill Burglar-Soft, nothin Tbem lone helpless women's de kind dat half killa ye and then sends you to Ledger.

Free Nieatlne. By sprinkling tobacco daring the car tag wltb a 'i per cent eolation of dtrlc add the free nicotine, which causes the "bite." is eliminated. BEAUTIFUL DRY CLEANING OF STREETS IN PROVIDENCE. Municipality's Bituminous Pavements Are Net 8prinkled With Water. Tbe fact that bituminous pavements laid in tbe city of Providence are not sprinkled wltb water Is a subject that has occasioned frequent comments on tbe part of visitors to this city who are interested in tbe maintenance and cleaning of aucb pavements, says Walter F.

Blade, commissioner of public works of Providence. R. 1., in the American City. He says: I will say briefly that we are convinced that bituminous pavements maintained in good repair can be kept in a condition more satisfactory to all classes that travel the streets, both afoot and in vehicles, without rather than by using water for sprinkling. We keep them clean by the patrol system and reasonably free from dust We believe that the use of water has an injurious effect upon the durability of the pavement.

It emphasizes every slight depression and gathers and retains the fine particles that collect on a street, creating an unsightly appearance and a muddy, slippery condition. This results in the skidding or automobiles and a vast increase iu the number of accidents. By keeping the pavements free from water we escape another prolific source of complaint. Upon tbe best of pavements there will be depressions sufficient to retain a thin sheet of water. The rubber tires of the swiftly moving auto, and especially the auto truck, will act as a syringe and force the muddy water in a small stream upon the clothing of any one passing along the sidewalk aud even across the sidewalk, covering windows and buildings with muddy spots.

That more might be learned about the action of water as affecting the durability of bituminous pavements it would be instructive to bring out tinresults of laboratory tests and a comparison of the condition of streets laid about the same time where water was used and where not The whole question is a subject worthy of the earnest consideration of all officers that have charge of the maintenance of bituminous pavements. THE BILLBOARD MUST GO. Supreme Court of Our own supreme court has just treated us to a pleasant surprise in its deeislon in the Chicago billboard case. It has upheld a city ordinance declared null aud void in a lower court ordinance which, by giving property owners in residential districts the right to veto ugly, unsightly and offensive billboards by withholding consent. enables tbem.

and consequently the community as a whole, to control the billboard and preserve or promote the amenities of city streets, to cultivate external beauty and symmetry and to force narrow, shortsighted commercialism to reckon with national artistic standards. A few years ago the courts everywhere treated billboard regulation ordinances with severe and icy Safety, they held, in billboard construction the cities had a tight to demand: art ami beauty were strangers to the law. and tbe citizens who complained of ugliness risked ridicule. We have moved onward aud forward since. The city planning movement, the educational campaign for civic art and tbe reclamation of tbe landscape and the development of public taste have conspired to raise even tbe legal standards of municipal outdoor living.

The courts are marching, and the choice between wholesome beauty and tbe beast of towering, screaming, offensive blllboardism is getting to be consonant wltb reason and public interest Enviable City Record. Kokomo, is proud of uie fact tbat in the last quarter of a century there has been neither a strike nor a lockout among the 7,000 factory employees of the town and tbat the death rate of the' eity has never exceeded. 13.5 per thousand. QUALITY OF LIGHTING. The citizens of one city may demand bod their municipal authorities agree to supply a high degree of illumination on congested thoroughfares or a more uniform distribution of lighting units, including the lighting of alleys, while another city which' is satisfied with much less illumination may establish a policy to appropriate proportionately more for policing their streets than lighting thein.

The solutions of tbls economic problem of tbe protection to our citizens should be gradually brought about by bettering tbe quality of lighting in each city, thereby aiding the present police force, rather than by appropriating proportionately more for additional City. ft Will Stlek to you always, of will, because it's a ItamMkaftsI riatftr made to stick on until it drives out the pain of Neuralgia, Lumbago, Rheumatism, etc. Yard rolls 91.00 regular sire At, all druggists or direct by mail from 9sm A aulteJenwqowt.se. ALLEN'S used when attacked feyaCowap prevents dangerous hrowohlnl and pulmonary ailments an Asthma, oto. mm MmimM Me.

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MINN. Desl diraot with thelarseitand1 oldeathease iathaWeit. HishestwioM and imnadlate caah returns. Writs fer price lilt, tsss sad full' Information. Gems In Verse THE PEACE PALACE.

rpHEY have builded a beautiful palace Beside the wild heart of the A pledge before earth and high heaven Of peace to humanity. And love was the stone of foundation. Its pillars the honor of kings. Within the white halls of that palace The spirit of peace spreads her wings A fair aa the dream of an angel, Resplendent, majestic it stands. But, alas, for the beautiful palaca, It is built on the shitting sandal For the passions of men have assailed it And around it the storms never cease.

They beat in their passionate fury Against the (air palace ot peace. Illinois Upholds Ordinance Against tt. The law Is a progressive scienceeven if legal procedure lags badly behind with occasionally a court of last resort takes a long, bold step forward that surprises a whole community very pleasantly, says the Chicago Tribune. and greed and hatred Have triumphed o'er right again. Forgotten the oath of natlona.

The brotherhood of men. The fields are reeking with slaughter. And the menace of famine and plague Is among the grim hoet of the specters That haunt the fair palace of Hague. world, you have builded Mindly. Oh, kings, you have planned deceit.

For the army of peace defenceless Has met with a crushing defeat For while in those halla you were pledging. In that beautiful palace of light fou were making new weapons for aiaughter. You were Keeping your sabers bright. world, you nave builded bltndiy the shifting words of men. For not tn mere stone and marble Shall peace come to earth again.

For the Prince of will triumph When tbe passions of men shall ceaaet And in every Is builded A beautiful palace ot peace. rpHEV have builded a beautiful palace Beside the wild heart of the sea. Around it the moans of the dying In the winds cry mockingly. The souls of the vanquished soldiers And the wraiths of famine and plague Are among the army of specters That haunt the fair palace of Hague. THE MAPMAKERS.

WHEN the war drums beat no longer And the battle flaga are furled Will you Keep the same old spelling Of the cities of the world? When the maps are' all made over Will the spelling -plainer be. So that those who read the papers May pronounce the names they see? Must we always speak one letter. And then choke upon the rest? When that new map. you are making Pity us and do your best! M. Lowater.

AT THE RAINBOW'S END. AT the rainbow's end Is a bag of gold. Oft nave I heard the story A ND once 1 sought for the rainbow's end." And 1 found not gold but a friend. ANDing once the curve of the shinbow Dipped down from eky to a home below. found a the home heart loving But of the gold not a gleaming part.

nriTH the rainbow ends of life divined. Not gold but richer prize we find. Wallace Peach THE WAR WIND. THEAnd north wind sweepe the coufcprslde, brings the blinding snow. The war wind sweeps the country-, side With fierce advancing toe, And men may bide from the north wtaA But from the war The rainstorm beats the eropa to earth And frees the foaming flood.

The war storm breaks the men tike oatst And the rivers flow with blood. And man may brave the rainstorm. But the war storm beeda no hood. 'V After the north wind tomee the spring. After the storm the But the war wind leaves no living thing Aftflr MM ll And the war storm, needs to.

blow but Its work Is fully done. r. To him who Ssnds the north wind Unending pralsea bs, But God have mercy on hla soul Who sets the war wind free. P. Biidseye.

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