The Wahpeton times. [volume], December 19, 1912, Image 9

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COMMON FAULT OF HUMANITY
ViwbaMy Condition of Abeelute •all*!
faction Never Yet HM BMH Ab
•olutely Arrived At.-
Man Is a curious animal. He is nev.
«r satisfied. When we ny "man," we
mew man and women—the —tbat
Qod created In his own imase.
Reetleesneas la a common attribute
of humanity. It begins with the eran
die. It never ceases until we reach
the grave. The only quiet man la thq
dead man.
The school becomes irksome to the
boy and It requires all the pressure
of the parent to keep him at his'studi
He "thinks 'he knows better than
tether or mother. They point out the
need of an Vacation if he would sue*
ceed. He replies that he has two
hands and a brain and that he can
make his own living in his own way.
8ometimes he tries it When he fails,
in the bitterness of his soul he recalls
with repentance his refusal to his
parents.
The glri, willful and headstrong, ac
cepts questionable company. She neg
fleets the church for the Sunday picnic
jnnd gives up the Bible for the sensa
tttonal, silly and romantic novel She
IwanU a change. She must have it
Ead
he will have it Finally she has it
perhaps repents In tears and un
speakable anguish.
The patient who does not lmmedi*
•tely recover wants to try another
physician, other remedies or a
»f climate. The doctor may warn
agalnat the danger they invite, but
the restless soul cries out for a
change. It takes the chances of life
fnd death, and with the latter comes
the greatestof all changes in theestllt
ness of the grave.—John A. Slelcher.
In Leslie's Weekly.
|G00D PUZZLE TO WORK OUT
Occupation In Enforced Idleneee le
Good Test Of One'e Knowledge
of the Bible*
Evidently the matter of occupation
|when one is confined Indoors is a
problem ty the Swiss as well as to
(Other people. The Bonne Revue comes
{forward with an answer to the ques
tion: "What are we to do indoors
Instead of bemoaning the inclement
.weather it says people should solve
the following problem:
Divide .the number of Job's camels
before they were captured by the
Chaldeans by the number of men sent
to take Jeremiah out of the dungeon
add to the quotient the number of
lords entertained at Balthazar's feast
(Subtract from the sum the number of
tjust persons who could have saved
iSodom. Multiply by David's age when
he commenced to reign. Divide by the
number of Philistines that' Samson
slew with the ass's Jawbone. Sub
tract the number of Solomon's songs
multiply by the number of days dur
lng which Job did not speak to his
frteri9_. .Subtract the number of fish
as
tdknrih thnmrscao-dr j«Nr4HhUig.
Add to the result the number of
prophets hidden by Abdlas. Subtract
the number of ungrateful lepen healed
by Jesus, and you will have a mys
terious figure contained in the Apo
calypse.
Logic of Phoclon., ^rj
Why tell me that a man Is' a i»«
speaker If it ia not the truth that he la
speaking? Phodon, who did not speak
at all, was a great deal nearer hitting
the mark than Demosthenes.
He used to teU the Athenians—"Ton
can't light-Philip. You have not the
slightest chance with him. He Is a
man who holds his tongue he has
great disciplined armies he can brag
anybody you like in your cities her
and he is going on steadily with an
unvaryfaft aim toward hla object and
he will Infallibly beat any kind of
men such a* you, going on raging from
ehore to shore with all that rampant
nonsense."
Demosthenes said to him one day
—"The Athenians will get mad some
daynnd Ml you." Yes, Phoclon said,
"wnen they are mad and you as BOOH
aa they, get sane agafe."—Thomas
Carlyle.
Original Confidence Man. I
A story Is told of old New York
•nd of how the expression "confidence
man" meant a man In whom one could
not place confidence at a!l. It Is
that some, years ago a very well
dressed man with a courteous ad
dress was wont to walk up and down
the principal streets of the city,
Whenever he met a stranger who
pooked hopeful to him he would ap
proach the man and with the most
delightfully frank manner he would
ask:
"My dear air, have you confidence
enough In me, an entire stranger -to
you, to lend me $5 for an hour or
jtwo?"
LAnd
Candies—Christmas Nuts
Wejhave a nice fresh
stock of candies and
nuts for the holiday
trade. Bakery goods
of all kinds at the
WAHPETON BAKERY
Carl Jacofcson & John Harles, Props.
I Have Just Received
A CARLOAD OF SMOKELESS
COAL BRIQUETS
And would like to sell you a trial order.
Remember that I always carry a full line of nut
and stove sizes in hard coal, Pocahontas coal and
West Virginia splint and the best grade of soft coal
and wood.
H. M. Chrlstenson
Phone 111L1 Yard 314 3rd Street
It Is said that the man made
extremely good living by this very
simple means.
8alarlea of Naval Officers.
The pay of commissioned Qfflcers in
the navy varies with rank and length
of service,' and there are numerous
other factors which must be taken in
to account The amount received in
Individual cases may be worked out
by a study of the regulations con
tained in the Navy Register, which is
obtainable In any well-equipped publta
(library. The commander of a vessel
of the naval anxlliary service would
not be correctly called' a "captain,"
but "master." The rates of pay ol
•this class of officers are not set forth
in-the Navy Register, since they arq
.not regularly commissioned officers o|
•the navy.
German Socialist Papers.
Germany has more than seventy
dally papers which are battling foi
.the cause of labor and Socialism.
I
A RESPONSIVE CHORD
my NORA NAHLT
"What did he ever see in lierfi
The question fell from the lips of a
girl of twenty, fully conscious of the
budding beauty of young womanhood
and all it meant of power. "She
hasn't apparently one redeeming fea
ture why. she Is positively gawky."
The woman addressed, an,attractlve
matron of about 35, turned a criti
cal gase after the figure of the little
woman disappearing down the street,'
and a knowing smile curled her lips.
"I will tell you," she said.
"About five years ago Arthur Smith
was engaged to the most beautiful girl
In our set you are too young to re
member just how beautiful she was—
at any rate, she completely conquered
Arthur—he had eyea for no one else
when she was near. At every funo
tlon he was her devoted slave—every
wish was anticipated and gratified—
nothing was too good for her—no task
too difficult to perform that would add
to her comfort and happiness. I
"When the Spanish-American war
broke out, Ann Reynolds, now Mrs.
Smith, had been studying for two
years to be a trained nurse. She had
one supreme gift—the gift of tender,
ness, and Nellie, In a woman this is
not to be despised.- All women do
not possess it Ann's brother and AT*
thur happened to be injured about the
same time and were placed on beds
side by side In the same southern hos
pital. On account of her training
and hef brother's illness, Ann Rey
nolds volunteered to go as a nurse to
this hospital, and endeavor to save
not only her brother's life, but to do
what she could to save the lives of
others who had become ill in the gov
ernment service.
"About this time Arthur had writ
ten an appealing letter hdlne, or, rath*
er, had asked that it be written, as
he was too ill to do more than ex
press a wish, asking that his sweet
heart come to him (they had been
engaged Just before he left for the
south), as he feared he had contract^
ed a dangerous and contagious dis
ease, but usually the ones we love
do not consider such things as tilts
when a life Is concerned at least,
I am generous enough to think that
most women would not Well, to
make a long story short, Arthur's
sweetheart refused flatly to go to his
bedside. It afterward came out—«
somehow these things always do
that she feared contracting the fever
and thereby marring her beauty.
"When Ann arrived at the hospital
and found that the patient in the bed
next to her brother was from the
same city as she, they said she work
ed untiringly with him night after
night with an intensity that probably
saved his life—at least, the doetors
gave her the credit—aud won out
with glowing words of praise from
them all. When It was all over, how
ever, and he was on the high road to
health, she succumbed under the
strain, and lay for weeks hovering be
tween life and death.
"During her illness Arthur wrote a
short note to his fiancee, releasing her
from her engagement, and when he re
turned home, which did not happen
for many weeks afterward, he an
nounced his engagement to the little
woman who had risked a very pre
cious and useful life to save that of
a perfect stranger. One of his old
friends said afterward that In an
nouncing the news to him .he had
made the remark that those few
weeks in the hospital had taught him
the most valuable lesson In his life—
that beauty of face and form, while
pleasing to the eye, were but fleeting
possessions, and that as he watched
the devoted and self-sadHflcing little
woman moving from one to the other
of the sufferers, giving her service
willingly and with a grace and sweet
ness that brightened the whole place,
bringing hppe and sunshine to many
homesick and despairing man, he
had realised that there was something
deeper, nobler and more transcendent-!
ly beautiful In the world than mere!
physical beauty, and one which would
last until death .and he finished by!
saying: 'And so I lost my heart, or,
rather, gave it Into keeping of the no
blest woman I had ever met, or ever
expect to meet In this world.'"
The speaker finished the story In
a low, soft voice, and as she glanced
over at the beautiful ysung girl oppo
site, she noticed a tear trickling down
her cheek, and the serious look that
met hers from the brown eyes told
her that the recountal had touched a
responsive chord In her nature.
Telling the Bees.
The custom of "telling the bees" is
often referred to bjr those Interested
in curious happenings. In some parts
of England It has always been the
habit to Inform the bees whenever
there Is a death In the family, par*
tlcularly when It Is that of the mas
ter or mistress.
Some one raps upon the board sup.
porting the hives and says: "Mourn
with us. Master (or mistress) of the
house Is dead."
It Is thought that If this duty Is
neglected the bees will die, and many,
old servants are fond of telling how'
the bees pine away when no one
thinks to give then the sad message.
•—Ave Maria.
1
Catrlee Him Baok.
1 never drink coffee with cream
la ft"
"Why notr
It always makes me homesick."
1 don't understand."
"I was born on the banks of the Ids*
seurl river."
"Yest"
"A cup of coffee with cream In ft Is
•Just about the color of the stream
used to sport In when a boy."
FORTY-SIX MILES OF BOOKS
British Museum'e Library Is Greatest
In tht World and Keeps on
Growing.
Many Americans must have studied
as well as sat beneath the great dome
of the British museum, and few of
them will fail to remember the cour
tesies which were always so gener
ously extended there by D. G. K.
Fortescue, the "keeper of printed
books." The retirement of that official,
after forty-two years of service,
focuses new attention upon what has
been called the greatest library in the
world. When Panlzzl took charge of
the museum in 1837, it had a collec
tion of 250,000 volumes, all of them
badly arranged and poorly catalogued
When he rellngulshed his charge,
thirty years later, order had been
brought out of the chaos, and there
were 1,500,000 books in the library.
Doctor Fortescue succeeded him in
1&79, and since that time the contents
of the museum have grown by leaps
and bounds. It now holds about 4,
000,000 volumes, arranged on shelves
which, if put end to end, would stretch
distance of 46 miles, with the num
ber Increasing at the rate of 60,000
volumes a year.
In 1880 work waa begun on the
great catalog, and there are now 080
volumes of It, from 15 to 20 being
added every year. A complete set'of
these printed lists—and they have
not yet been brought up to date
costs nearly |500. It Is an interesting
fact that this mighty collection of
books is the youngest of the great
libraries of Burope, and began with
out any regular Income.—Boston
Herald.
GOATS WILL PROTECT SHEEP
Pennsylvanlan Keepe Two Angoras
to Drive Away Panthers and
Other Animate of Prey.
In order to frustrate an attack on
his flock of sheep by a catamount, or
panther, David Glover of near Haney
vllle has purchased two Angora goats.
The pugnacity of these goats is such
that no animal of prey dare attempt
to despoil a flock.
The sheep raisers of that wild sec
tion have suffered severe losses to
their flocks of late years since the big
increase in black bears and cata
mount, and now with a real panther
In the neighborhood it became neces
sary to do something desperate. Mr.
Glover hit upon the Angora goat idea,
and It seems to have settled the prob
lem. The goats are masters of all
they survey, all right, even the men
folk fighting shy of getting too close
to the sturdy creatures. At this sea.
son of the year the sheep are on the
wild ranges. Other sheep raisers are
watching Mr. Glover's experiment
Philadelphia North American.
Fit His Case Exaotly
"When father was sick about
six years ago he read an adver
tisement of Chamberlain's tablets
in the papers that fit Lis case
exactly," writes Miss Magraret
Campbell of Ft. Smith, Ark. "He
purchased a box of them and he
has not been sick since. My sis
ter had stomach trouble and wai
also benefitted by them." Foi
sale by all dealers. Adv.
IIP
Wahpeton
i1 'M''
407 Dakota Ave.
FOR A LOAN
on
City Property or Farm Lands
Cement Gun.
There Is a cement gun which Is
used to apply a mortar covering to
structural steel work. A mixture o*
dry sand and cement is shot frou
nozzle by compressed air. A secoi
hose delivers to the same nozzle
supply of water under pressure, and
the mixture of sand, cement, and wa
ter is shot out with a velocity of about
three hundred and fifty feet per sec
ond. The nozzle is arranged to pro*
duce a thorough wetting of the map
terlal. As the mixture strikes the
surface to be covered the coarse sand
grains rebound until the fine cement
mortar, which adheres Immediately,
has formed a plastic base in which
the coarse particles become embedded.
A covering of required thickness is
then rapidly built up.
One of these guns has been used in
the Panama canal in covering the
sides of the Culebra cut with cement
to prevent the unstable earth from
sliding into the canal.—Harper's
Weekly.
How to Bankrupt the Doctors
A Prominent New York phy
sician says: "If it were not for
the thin stockings and thin soled
shoes worn by women the doc
tors would go bankrupt." When
you contract a cold do not wait
for it to develop into pneumonia
but treat it at once. Chamber
lains cough remedy is intended
especially for coughs and cols,
and has won a wide reputation by
its cures of these diseases. It is
most effectual and is pleasant
and safe to take. For sale by all
dealers. Adv.
Toys, Sleds, Dolls, Books
and Christmas Novelties
New and Complete Line
Now on Display at
Miller & Company
Call on the
Peoples State Bank
Columbia Restaurant Annex
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First Class Meals and Lunches
Served to Order at all Hours
Short Orders a Specialty
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