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ME VWO Valley City Times Record VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA L. P. HYDE Editor and Manager Subscription, $1.50 a year, in advance Entered at the postofflce in Valley City, No. Dak., as second class mail matter. Official Paper ol City and County SETTLERS FOR NORTH DAKOTA. "land business" is speculative, being done in too many There is room for this company and for many other like organizations in this state. There is room in North Dakota for thousands where there are now hundreds. In the crowded east ern sections of the country these thousands are only waiting to be con vinced that the conditions in North Dakota are right—and they will come •fo fill up the empty places here. Over in Canada the Canadian Pa cific railroad has worked out a plan to get the real farmers onto their ex tensive holdings. The C. P. R. real ized that there are large numbers of desirable settlers who have not the means to get started in a new coun try. This company solved the prob lem by financing those who could not finance themselves. Undoubtedly something on the same order would prove even more success ful in North Dakota. The land here Is just as fertile, just as productive as the land over the Canadian line, and it has the added advantage of be- ,ack ing much farther south, without the danger of an early frost and with the proved ability to raise an excellent eorn crop. North Dakota is accumulating capi tal. It has many men who have be come wealthy out of North Dakota soil. They know what the state is doing, and can do, and here is an opportunity for North Dakota capital to benefit itself, by upbuilding the state, at the same time getting di rect returns.—Fargo Forum. EYE-STRAIN AND CRIME. A San Francisco schoolteacher, who he seemed to take a stupid pride in learning nothing and thwarting all her efforts. The only physical defect no ticed was that he held print unusually elOse to his eyes. Examination show ed one eye had two-sevenths and the ether one-fifth of normal vision. The boy was dumbly indifferent in the beginning to the eye test, but aft er much labor and aggravation, lenses were placed before his eyes, giving practically perfect vision at once then he showed symptoms of being al most human. The glasses were order ed and the case gladly dismissed. More than a year afterwards the doc tor saw the teacher again and in *®ixies were made with misgivings. The report was jubilant and astound ing. She said that after she procured the glasses and had gained consent for Logan statue on the lake front. new "Spirit of the Great Lakes," his wearing them, the child's transfor mation was Tapid and complete. He bad become the willing sluve of the teacher, where before he seemed to resent her every interest in him n^ never missed a day in school, where formerly playing truant was chronic with him. He was the head of his elass now, where previously he was too dull :o be classed at all ho had Toluntarily stopped his numerous bad habits and had become the marvel of the neighborhood as well as the joy of his parents, and so on. The explanation of this metamor phosis is simple and natural. The child was more than three-fourth blind and no one had known It. He could not learn because he could not see, and his eyes and head undoubtedly pained him when straining to see. His incorrect and absurd answers made the other pupils laugh at and guy him, so he hated everything connected with the school, and in playing truant he met the worst possible associates and learned from them his notable array of vicious habits. When he put on hi3 There is a wonderful business op- glasses he saw the world for the first portunity in North Dakota. That op- time clearly and in comfort. He there-. portunity is to bring actual settlers f0re was able to learn and his ambi into the state. Much of the present tion was aroused. Hence he loved It is schooling and the opportunity to show Instances,' his real capability, and by regular at- merely to "turn over" a land deal and' tendance at school lost the bad com-' not for the purpose of bringing in ac-) panionship which was really respon- human body, we would not find them tual tillers of the soil, who will aid sible for his show of criminal tenden-' after a few years going to the back in developing the state. cies. After the boy became the pride door of saloons to see corruptions of In this issue of the Times-Record is of the school, his parents took an in- this sort. Art in this country has an account of the organization of a terest and aided him, where before, meant, up to this time, a place where new land company, in which cue gov- they ignored so unlovable a child. A we hung pictures which we would not ernor of the state is actively interest- boy who at the age of 11 was the admit to our himes. It has meant ed. The company proposes to bring in 1 settlers to the country in the central borhood and was absolutely callous to kept, and where we went to be bored part of the state surrounding New all moral suasion, would probably to extinction rather than elevated. All Rockford. The Times-Record believes (have that the organization of this company no exaggeration, therefore, to say that, American people have begun to build will have a marked effect on the de- the development of a dangerous break? eight fthe finest art museums in the velopment of that portion of North Da- er of law and order of an extreme type world. We are beginning to be recog was prevented by a pair of glasses. kota. CLAY FIELDS OF NORTH DAKOTA. If the opinion of W. C. Kirkpatrick, expert consulting engineer, of Chicago, is to be taken at its face value, the building industry in North Dakota will be revolutionized as the result of in vestigations and experiments which have been made recently, with the clays of the state. In "The Clay Worker," the official organ of the National Brick Manufacturers associa tion, Mr. Kirkpatrick has recently made a report of the results of his in vestigations, which is of vital import ance to every manufacturer, and build- er, in the state. In part Mr. Kirkpatrick says: "The western manufacturers at the present time is confronted with prob lems vastly different from those of the easterner, the greatest of which is the bad suffered much from eye troubles the highest economy and efficiency, herself, at one of her visits to her] "in the western portion of North oculist's office described an incorrigi- Dakota and other western states are ble child in her school who appeared found inexhaustible lignite coal fields to have some defect of sight. This and often we find manufacturing plants suspicion had been repeatedly report- located in the lignite fields shipping in ed to. his parents, but as they were bituminous coals. But ultimately, sci poor as well as ignorant, nothing had entific methods will eliminate all the been accomplished so far. She de-' objectionable features and' permit the elded, therefore, to make an indepen- use of lignite coal in a most efficient dent effort in the boys' behalf and so- and profitable manner." licited the assistance of her oculist's "Too much credit cannot be given •id. There were doubts of any good Dean Babcock for the great results ac complishments being possible, as complished in the School of Mines the boy seemed both extraordinarily along scientific lines in developing this dull and superlatively mean. His efficient method of accomplishing the teacher said that at the age of 11' greatest result from lignite. years he was the worst child in her "The system as worked out at the experience of many years in school University of North Dakota will result work. He frequently played "hookey," in great economy in the production of associated with the worst boys of all clay products and should bring about ages, smoked cigarettes, swore like a the erection of plants equipped with trooper and lied outrageously besides,! all of the devices for labor saving, fuel economy, etc., and finally give to the people of the state an almost inde structible building material, produced entirely within their own boundaries with their own material and labor, thus building up a most profitable and permanent industry in the state." of a market wfthin a reasonable freight limit." Long hauls, high priced labor and high fuel add greatly to the high cost of production, which, added to the high freight, almost pro hibits the sale of the product. This is I especially true of the manufacturer of clay products, and in addition scarcely any of the manufacturers through North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Texas take advantage of the most economi cal methods that can be employed. "Through the skillful and effective work of the School of Mines of North Dakota, the inadequate methods that have retarded this industry are being replaced by processes which make for CHICAGO ART EXPOSITION. Art has been commercialized in the United States to such a degree that the worst statues in the world, an ac cusing critic says, are to be found in Chicago. Just what statues Dudley Crafts Watson of the Art Institute had in mind, in his accusation, has not been disclosed, but immediately there were staunch defenders of the Lincoln monument in Lincoln Park and of the •V- The by Lorado Taft, was excepted specifically by the art critic, who said: "We are beginniing to take down these worst statues in the world and replace them. When an artist produces a work of art it is only half done the other half de pends on the people. We must train ourselves to an appreciation of the beautiful. We must take the ugly thiingi out of our homes. If we did »It Will Stick to you always, of count it will, because it's a Huol-Menthol Plaster made to stick on until it drives out the pain of Neuralgia, Lumbago, liheumatism, eto. Yard rolls $1.00 regular size 25c. At all druggists or direct by mail from I Davis & Lawrence Co., New ork. Sample glie mailed on request. Be. tamps. ALLEN'S COUGH BALSAM used when attacked by a Cough prevents dangerous .bronchial and pulmonary ailments such as Croupi Asthma, eto. CantalnM no harmful drug*. 2Sc., 60o. and $1.00 BOIIIM. DAVIS LAWRENCE CO. New York. u°t worst child in the school and neigh-, museums where plaster casts were PURE FABRIC. After years of agitation by the press of this state Prof. Ladd has started a movement for pure fabrics. The time will soon come now when a. man who wants to buy a suit can tell by looking at the label of just what the cloth is composed. Whether wool, shoddy of a mixture and in buying them will be able to judge somethings as to value and not be entirely at the mercy of the manufacturer. The same will be true of all kinds of cloth as well as read-to-wear garments. When substi tutions ar made it must be shown on the garment by a tag. When this pro posed law becomes effective it will be one of the best measures to be passed in years and will meet with a warm welcome. BIG CHANCES. There has never been a year in the history of the city when there was so little excuse for anyone to do their shopping out of town as there is this year. Each of the stores seems to have undertaken to outdo all others in amount as well as in variety of goods shown until about everything that might be thought of, as well as thous ands of entiirely new novelties are to be seen on display in the windows and on the counters. Whatever may be wanted ranging from an automobile to a five cent toy is to be found in the stores, at prices that will compare favorable with prices offered any where. Pupils' Completion Examination. Regular examination of applicants for completion certificates in any of the common branches of study will be held Thursday and Friday, December 18th and 19th, 1913, in the following school houses: Dazey, Dickinson, Fin gal, Kathryn, Leal, Litchville, Lucca, Nome, O-iska, Rogers, Sangorn, Ur bana, Hastings and in the office of the bounty Superintendent of Schools. ••"•.' "•. THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1918. foolishly deny our children the m°st beautiful thing in art, the nude developed into a criminal. It is this is changing. In the past year the nized in Europe as a nation to be reckoned with in art. For the past three years Americans have won the grand gold medal of the Paris salon, a thing hitherto unheard of." November weather was good most of the month and so far this month the weather has been the nicest in years. In some sections of the state trees are beginning to bud and grass is turning green. For farmers and stockmen this means a great saving of feed and for the family man a great saving in fuel. There are many cases of sickness re ported which is attributed largely to the damp weather and on this account freezing weather will be welcome. The people of North Dakota are ac customed to winter weather during the winter months and there is not so much rejoicing over the mild fall arid predictions of a mild winterf as one might expect. On the contrary the opinion seems to be very general that an open winter is undesirable. MINNIE J. NIELSON, Supt. Barnes County Schools. 12-8-ltd-ltw TO LATE TO CLASSIFY. WANTED—Two maids. Apply to ma tron Normal .Dormitory, 12-8-tfd-tfw FOR SALE—Cheap if taken soon, one 18-months old Poland China pig. Ja cob Faust, Valley City, N. D. 12-5-6td-ltw* FOR SALE—Spring "wagon, two seat ed, and set of harness. 216 Elm wood Ave. 12-5-6td-ltw* FOR SALE—N. W. of Sec. 20-142-56 Minnie Lake Township, and the S. Vi 24-157-56 Grand Prairie Township. Phone 75. 12-7-3td-ltw MYSTERY OF THE DESERTED HOUSE Strange Experience of a Man on Robbery Bent. I've hud every avenue of escape cut off. I've been chased over tin roofs. I've been shot at. but I never was ap palled but once, and that was-by si lence. I'd served term for burglary, spent what money I'd beeu given on getting out and wus looking for a job—not a job of houest work. I'd tried that on getting out once before ahd found it impracticable. When an ex-convict knows that he's liable any moment to be spotted and discharged it takes the zest out of him for work. I'd made up my mind there was nothing left for me to do but stick to my business, which was burglary. Well, as 1 was saying. I was looking fcr a house to get into and, walking on the outskirts of a city saw one that struck me as being very inviting. It was in the center of a six acre lot. with no neigh bors near enough to make it unpleasant for the burglar and a wood in the rear affording a safe retreat. I made a careful survey of the premises. No one happened to be visible in or about it at the time, but tb?re was plenty of evidence that it was occupied. New ly washed clothes were hanging on the lines smoke was issuing from the chimneys children's sleds and wagons were scattered about in the yard. The night was cold and blustery. At about 10 o'clock 1 took position in the yard, shielded from the wind by a car riage shed, with a view to determining by the lights what rooms werie occu pied. The whole house was lighted. 1 got into a vehicle and sat watching my quarry. The seat was comfortable, and some blankets and robes that bad been left in It kept me warm. The result was that I fell asleep. When I awoke every light in the house was out. A distant clock struck 1. I got out. went to the bouse, ,took a pane of glass out of a kitchen window, turned the "catch." raised the sash soft|y. pulled myself up and crawled inside. Striking a match. 1 lit my dark lantern and surveyed the room. Every thing bad been put in order after the evening meal. A fire was burning inv the range. I went through a pantry to the dining room. Here, too, all was iu order. Passing through the parlors. I en tered the ball and went upstairs, tak ing every precaution ugainst waking the inmates. A hedroom door near the landing stood ajar. I listened, btft could hear no one breathing. 1 went in and felt of the bed. There was no one in it. There being nothing of value in the room, 1 passed on to the next, examined it and found It also empty. Coming to one of the front bedrooms, 1 certainly expected to find it occupied and entered it with all possible stealth, listening long for the sound of a sleep ing being. That I heard no sucb sound began to affect my nerves. An empty room Is a good find for a burglar, but the advantage in this case was over come by the unexpected vacancy. I groped my way to the bed, felt of it and found it unoccupied. Then, flash ing my lantern about, I saw a woman's clothing that had been evidently taken off at bedtime lying on the chairs. The woman had vanished. I went to another room and another with the same result In some of them 1 found clothing that had been laid aside, but no one in the beds. None of the beds showed signs of having been occupied. I went on to every story, and not a single living being did I find. There was some plunder on the dressers, but not very much. I did not think of taking it My mind was fixed upon the lights I had seen in the bouse a few hours before and the present absence of those whom the lights had served. There is no similarity between day fight and dark for weird Impressions. One human being, even if a policeman, would have broken the spell. 1 feared a haunted house, but 1 feared more that something in my brain had gone wrong. Had that which I bad seen in the afternoon and evening been an hallucination or did I now experience something that was not? Coming to a window overlooking the rear yard. I flashed my lantern down into it There were the clothes still hanging on the line. 1 walked back through the hall, bringing my feet down heavily on the floor that I might hear a sound. The carpet was thick, and there was but a faint response—a response that add ed to my growing terror. Suddenly the rays of my lantern struck a living figure. At once my In stinct of preservation ordered me to cover my light. I did so and waited. There was no sound. Believing I had been mistaken, I mustered courage to raise the lantern again. There was the figure, but It was my own reflect ed from a mirror. I now had but one desire—to get out and away. Descending to the main floor, I saw a piece of yellow paper on the floor. What prompted me to pick It up I don't know, but I did and read: "Mother dying. All come at once." Here was a clew. The hour of send ing and receipt of the telegram was written out and gave evidence that It bad been delivered while I was asleep in the carriage shed. The family had doubtless hurried to a train, taking even the servants with them. I could have taken away anything I could find, but I was so rattled that I bad no desire to do so. I went away empty handed and the next day re solved to go at legitimate work, a res olution I keep eTen to the present day. The Bdars Are Sorry When the Boy Cries. JACK •:•••'..'•. Ore Yoti Blue and Worried News of the State The Bismarck water works must pay taxes according to a decision just handed down by the supreme court. Nervous Some ol the time really ill Catch cold easily and frequently from biliousness or headache The reaaon is that your system does not rid itself of the poisons in tbe bjood just as impossible as it is for the grate of a stove to rid itself of olinkere. The waste does to us exactly what the olinkers do to 4he atove make the fires burn low until enough clinkers have accumulated und then prevent its burning at all. Your liver is sluggish—-yoii are dull and heavy—sleep does not rest, nor is food appetizing. In this condition illness develops. Doctor Pieree't Golden Medical Discovery eradicates the poisons from the body—a glyceric alter* ative extract made from bloodroot, golden seal and mandrake root, stone and queen's root, without the use of alcohol. No matter how strong the constitution the stomach ia apt to be out of kilter at timeij in conse quence the blood is disordered, for the stomach is the labo ratory for the constant manufacture of blood. Mas. BENJ. BLAKE, of Port Dover, Ont, Box 36, writes: "I have been a great sufferer for years from throat trouble, catarrh, Indigestion, female troubles, bloating, constipation and nervousness—at times I would be in bed, then able to be up again. Was under many different doctors.* care, and would get better for a little while, then I would go down with chronic inflammation all through me. For nineteen years I bad this poison In my blood. After trying nearly everything I got worse. I read in The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser or Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. I have taken the Golden Medical Discovery' and 'Pleasant Pellets,' and have used five Dottles of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. I am now able to do my work and walk with pleasure. I feel like a new woman. I enjoy everythbur around me and thank God for letting me live Ions enough to find thing that made me well again." lbs. Bun Dr» Pierce'a Pleasant Pellet* regulate liver sad bowels* called to Evelyn. "Come on It's time for another story!" Evelyn came upstairs just as daddy settled into his favorite easy chair by the tire. "There's a bear in Boston that I'm sure you'd like to know. I should, rather say there are two of them." said daddy. "They come from Canada, and their owner gave them the names of Donner ahd Blitzen. H* got the bears when they were quite young. "Perhaps because be named them after two of Santa Claus' reindeer they have the agreeable and gentle manners which you expect from a nice big dof rather thau from a bear, which is generally thought to be cross and grouchy. "Donner and Blitzen are very fond of children. Unfortunately they do not look as, amiable as they really are, so most children run away when they come sidling up. anxiouB to make friends. "One boy. however, is not afraid of the bears. He is Robert the three year-old son of tbe bears' master He has played with the bears ever sines they came to tbe house. Whenever they see Robert coming the two bears give a grunt of de light and shuffle to meet him with a pleased look in their little round eyes. "They allow Robert to push them about and pull their ears or poke bM little fingers in their eyes. When he gets too rough they gently shake him off and trot away out of his reach. "Tbe city does not allow animals like the bears to go out on the street, and so they have to stay in their yard, but luckily they have a good sized yard to stay in. "Robert has a little carriage in which Blitzen will wheel him about the yard. The bear gets up oh her hind legs and pushes at the carriage just as a human nursemaid would do. Blitzen seems not to get tired of the work and will wheel the littlfe boy as long as he cares to have her do so. "When Robert gets hurt or begins to Cry the bears are greatly distressed. They will conae running up to him 'and try to kiss him. As their kisses are cold and wet the little boy does not care mueh for these and in trying to keep from being kissed by his bear friends often forgets what he began to cry about and ends by laughing heartily at the awkward antics of his big friends. "When the little" boy' takes his nap outside in the summer the bears will guard1 him as carefully as a pair of dogs. If any one should try to hurt him when they are around I'm afraid the bears would show some really savage bear temper, for they are perfectly devoted to their little playmate. "Robert's parents say they are not in the least afraid to leave him alons with them, for tbelr big clumsy pets are never happy when he is out of their sight" 4 G. L. Bickford must serve time. The higher courts have just affirmed his sentence. Mathias Schwartz of Hazen fell un der a load of bay and sustained what will probably be fatal injuries. Banker J. H. Movius of Lidgerwood was badly Injured by being thrown against the deckhouse of an ocean lin er by an ocean wave. Upon arrival at New York he was taken to a hospital and is slowly recovering. —•. Scottish Rite Reunion closed in Far go yesterday after a session lasting most of the week. George S. Robers, who was dis missed as stock inspector on the Stand ing Rock reservation, may appeal to the civil service commission for re instatement. D. F. Sinclair of Grand Forks was badly injured when an automobile he was driving skidded and turned over, throwing him to the ground. His left elbow was dislocated and a portion of the bone was broken. He will be tak en to St. Paul, where he will consult a bone specialist. A company of thfrty-tWo boys have been gathered together in the organ izing of the company of boy scouts in Cando. The company has been divid ed into four patrols, with leaders and assistants who will take up the work at once. The use of the high school has been granted them by the school board and the 'basement of the Pres byterian church has been secured as the barracks. Lakota—W. L. Brown, a school teacher, was arrested yesterday charg ed with furnishing libelous matter to a newspaper, while Gilbert Teien, editor of the Aneta Panorama of Aneta, this county, will be arrested charged with publishing libel. C. G. Eckenrod and B. L. Eckenrod, 'brothers, make the complaint against Brown and Teien, and sensational developments are an ticipated at the hearing, set for De cember 6. The matter in question was published by the Panorama last week and this week Mr. Teien published a complete retraction. It should be known by everybody in ,» -Ai'V Hf*r,% '\i Bedtime Donner and Blitzen Are Two Jolly Playmates these days of gasoline lamps and stoves that gasoline will not, explode until its fumes have been mixed with at least six parts of atmospheric air. Gasoline will catch fire as quickly as any liquid known, but let it alone and it will burn out, doing no damage and leaving no scar or sign of fire. Mixed with air in the proportions mentioned it is far more dangerous than dyna mite. No receptacle of this liquid should ever be left uncorked for to do so is to make the room where it is kept far worse than a powder maga zine. This matter of safely handling gasoline is very easy, and no one should be ignorant of how ft fr done. SANBORN ENTERPRISE TIPS. Mr. and Mrs. Ledebur and Mr. and Mrs. McKean entertained at Woodmen Hall Tuesday evening, "50ft" being the diversion of the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Isensee proved themselves cham pion card players. Mesdames Ledebur and McKean were assisted in serving by Misses Thrall and Vogt. Smith Nichol, a former Sanborn boy was here between trains Tuesday morning, accompanied by his wife. He was en route to Binford to visit his mother. For the past six years he has been a resident of Tacoma, but spent the past summer in Stanton, N. D., helping out his brother-in-law, Fred Grannis, who had the misfortune to have a finger taken off. WOMEN OPPOSE SUFFRAGE MOVE Washington, D. C., Dec. 6.—-Women opposed to equal suffrage had an in ning today before the house commit tee on rules to protest against a res olution championed by the women suf fragists which would create a suf frage standing committee in the house. Scores of women from various parts of the country, marshalled by Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New York, appealed to the committee not to permit the suffragist's pleas. Tomorrow the suffragists will be given an opportunity to answer tbe attack of Mrs. Catherine McCulloch, of Chicago, who has been chosen to sum up the case. Through anti-suffrage women occu pied most of the day, their argument was closed by a man, Everett Wheel ock of New York, representing the Mann Suffrage association, who sound ed a battle cry to the suffragists. HERE FROM MINNIE LAKE. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of Minnie Lake spent the day in town Friday shopping and looking after business. It I :1 I I* •SMk