The Wahpeton times. [volume], August 12, 1915, Image 4

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DWIQHT
Mrs. Marvin Olson entertained
a large number of ladies on last
Thursday, August 5th. Her moth
er, Mrs. Rustad being the honor
guest. The ladies spent the after
noon sewing and visiting. A dain
ty and delicious lunch was served
at five o'clock.
The Congregational Ladies Aid
society held their monthly mis
sionary mei'fing at the parson
age last Wednesday. Topic: Pris
on Work. Miss Maude Hamer was
the leader. The next work meeting
of the society will be held at the
home of Mrs. Durkee o,n Wednes
day, August 18th.
Some of the younger Dahls ar
rived home last evening from Bat
tle Lake where Dahls have their
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Farm Loans
I am in a position to make you a loan on
your farm at a reasonable rate of interest
and if you are in need of money call or write
Louis Fligelman, Wahpeton, N. D.
Choice Lots for Sale
We can offer you the finest
resident lots on 5th, 6th and 7th
streets at reasonable terms. The
choicest in the city for a home.
Call us up and let
us show you them
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Wahpeton is a geographical point with three
transcontinental lines of railroads, at the head of the
Red River, the Nile of America, and with the progres
sive development of the fertile land surrounding—the
richest land in the United States—is destined to have
a large population and become the chief city of the Red
River Valley.
My remaining 71 lots fronting the Indian School
in Park Side Addition are now offered at exceedingly
low prices in twos, threes and fours with small 'cash
payment and balance on three or five years time. See
J* Q* BURBANK, My Agent
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summer home. We understand
thai Rev. and Mrs. Dahl are ex
pected home later in the week.
.The people of Dwight and vi
cinity were shocked and sadden
ed last Saturday afternoon by the
report of a suicide committed at
the Adolph Nordhous' farm about
two miles west of town.
The man, who came here from
Minnesota last spring, and has
been working for Mr. Nordhous
for some time,, had been brooding
over some family troubles, real
or imaginary, until his mind be
came unbalanced and he commit
ted the cowardly deed of taking
his own life by severing the ar
teries at the throat and wrists.
Dr. Durkee was called as soon as
the tragedy was discovered, but
the man was dead when he arrtr-
ed. We understand that the re
main are to be buried in Wahpe
ton. He is survived by a wife and
three children.
The Christian Endeavor Socie
ty's meeting at the Lutheran
church was well attended last
Sunday evening in spite of the
warm weather. At least some of
the people of Dwight and vicinity
prefer the church to ari automo
bile even on a hot August even
ing.
On Saturday August 7 a large
number of people were entertain
ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Bjonson. They all report that they
spent a most enjoyable afternoon.
At the Congregational church
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last Sunday morning Jlev. Foss
spoke on the topic "A Real Man."
The sermon topic for Sunday
mornin gAugust 15th will be "The
Greater Man."
Mr. John Myhra has received a
car load of lumber for the new
township machinery shed and al
so for the town hall.
Mr. Pester is busy at the Far
mer's Elevator building founda
tion for the new 16 horse power
engine and installing the new
fanning mill.
Both elevators are ready for
business and a considerable
quantity of grain has already
been received.
Mrs. C. H. Sundell entertained
a number of her lady friends at a
most enjoyable afternoon party
Tuesday, August 10th. Mrs. Bos
lough gave several splendid piano
selections and Mrs. Friswold and
Mrs. Bjornson delighted the
guests with a couple of their love
ly piano duets.
Service at the Norwegian Luth
eran church next Sunday morn
ing. Rev. Dahl who is expected
home from his vacation trip will
have charge.
HUMAN CURIOSITY.
An Evil and a Bora at Times, but, on
tha Whole, a Grand Quality.
Humanity has never been able to sat
isfy Itself as to whether curiosity be a
virtue or a vice. When inconvenient It
Is labeled as a vice when it leads to
discovery or adds to knowledge It is
applauded as a virtue of the highest
order. Certainly it is an instinct deeply
Ingrained in human nature. On it the
whole of the progressive steps of child
hood's career are based. The first intel
ligent expression of the Infant is won
der this quickly develops into active
curiosity, until life becomes an enthrall
ing and breathless voyage of discovery.
Its possession is the great distinction
between youth and the purlieus of age.
Youth is passed when the sensation of
adventure Is ended, when, Instead of
boundless expectation and of curiosity,
that penetrates into all the corners of
existence, a man is content to take
things as they are, when eagerness
gives way to complacency and ques
tioning to the cynicism of experience.
Human curiosity may be stifled, but
mercifully It never can be killed. In its
best form it raises man above the level
of the rest of creation it becomes the
desire to know, to penetrate to the root
of things, to ascend to the stars and
wrest from them their secrets, to solve
the problems of the past, the present
and the future. At Its worst It may be
low and vulgar, unworthy prying Into
matters which concern us not, the de
sire to apprehend evil as well as good,
a curiosity that Is morbid and unwhole
some but, taking it all In all. It Is an
excellent stimulant to progress.—Lon
don Academy.
AN ARAB LEGEND.
Story of tha Covetous Man Who Want
a 8t»p Too Far.
The Arabs tell a story to show how
a mean man's philosophy overshoots
itself. Under the reign of the first ca
liph there was a merchant of Bagdad
equally rich and avaricious.
One day he bargained with a porter
to carry home for him a basket of
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celain vases for 16 paras. As they
went along he said to the man "My
friend, you are young, and I am old.
You can still earn plenty. Strike a
para from your hire." "Willingly," re
plied the porter. This request was re
peated again and again, until, when
they reached the house, the porter had
only a single para to receive.
As they went upstairs the merchant
said, "If you will resign the last para
I will give you three pieces of advice."
"Be it so," said the porter. "Well,
then," said the merchant, "If any one
tells you it Is better to be fasting than
feasting do not believe him. If any
one tells you It is better to be poor
than rich do not believe him. If any
one tells you It is better to walk than
ride in your carriage do not believe
him."
"My dear sir," replied the astonished
porter, "I knew these things before
But if you will listen to me I will give
you such advice as you never heard be
fore." The merchant turned around,
and the porter, throwing the basket
down the staircase, said, "If any one
tells you that one of your vases is un
broken do not believe him."
8eaing an Eclipse.
In December, 1870, a solar eclipse oc
curred, the partial phases of which M.
Flammarion observed in Paris while
the enemy's shells were dropping in the
besieged city. The total phase of the
eclipse was visible In North Africa,
and Bismarck, being aware that before
the war arrangements had been made
for Professor Janssen to go to Africa
to make scientific observations of to
tality on behalf of the Paris observa
tory, sent a message into the city of
fering the scientist a safe conduct
This was politely refused by Profes
sor Janssen, says the London Stand
ard, but, nevertheless, he went to Af
rica to see the phenomenon, leaving
Paris'by way of the air in a balloon,
tbanks In large measure to the assist,
•nee of M. Flammarion In
necessary arrangements for the aerial
voyage,
We acquire the virtues by doing the
sets. We become builders by building,
and so by doing right acts we become
righteous.—Aristotle
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THE SHADOW
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1S15,. by the MeClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
What means this?
Are these men crazy?
in the .days of the Overland trail,
before the wildest financier darted to
predict a highway of Iron rails stretch
ing across that great tract of country—
almost a continent of itself—which we
used to call the far west, a caravan
had been picking its slow way along
over the green prairies and sterile
plains for days and weeks, every man's
face turned toward the Bl Dorado
more than a mile of white topped wag
ons, more than 300 men, women and
children. There have been Jealousies
and heart burnings, even in the pres
ence of the hostile Indians, moving
swiftly about by day and crawling and
lurking like deadly serpents by night
Two wagons haul out of the line at
widafternoon and start away at aright
angle. Two wagons—two wives, eight
children, three men. It is foolhardy,
dangerous. They drive away in the
shadow of death, the children crying
and the women pleading.
The three men will not even look
back. They feel that they have been
wronged and insulted, and their pride
Is at stake. Men will listen to no argu
ment at such times—stubbornly refuse
to reason with those they love. These
men realize their danger, and tomor
row when they have grown calmer and
when something like an apology is
borne to them from the main party
they will return to the line, satisfied
with having shown their "Independ
ence."
The little band has gone Into a "dry
camp"—no water to be had for man
or beast Three miles farther on there
is plenty, but they could not travel In
the darkness. It has been a long, hot
day, and man and beast are suffering,
but no one complains. Even the chil
dren choke over their bread and do not
ask for a drink.
By and by, all but the sentinel close
their eyes In sleep. A single sentinel
to watch a camp in which there are
so many precious lives menaced by
such fierce enemies, over which great
vultures had circled all that day! No,
all did not sleep. Then were two
wives who lay awake listening to the
song of the crickets, to the rustling of
the night breeze, to the dismal voices
of the coyotes circling about the camp.
There was a threat to them in every
sound—a warning of evil in every gust
of wind, and there were children who
did not sleep, though they were as
quiet as the dead. They had heard
of the tomahawk and scalping knife,
of the lack of mercy in the heart of an
Indian warrior.
Where is the sentinel? There were
two wagons. He stood or sat between
them as much for the company of the
inmates as for their protection. At
midnijght the guard Is changed. The
relief takes up the same position as
his predecessor did. He notes the same
surroundings. The only change Is In
the position of the moon, which has
been sinking away until the big cac
tus now throws a dark shadow' to the
east. That shadow Is the blackest
spot in all the foregrounds, but it ex
cites no special attention. Why should
it? Waat should there be about a
shadow cast by the June moon to cre
ate alarm.
It Is 1 o'clock.
Though standing on his feet, the sen
tinel has nodded—almost asleep. He
rouses himself with a shake, turns to
every point of the compass to peer and
listen, but all Is quiet
The shadow! It has grown many
feet longer in the hour. It is like a
great black tongue thrust out toward
bljp from the base of the plant but his
eyes do not dwell .upon It. The wagons
also cast shadows to the east so do
the. horsey yet standing on their feet
Shadows are but shadows. The perfect
silence of the night lulls the watcher
on to a feeling of security, and be says
to himself that the night will pass,
without even an alarm to wake the
lightest sleeper.
"Ha! What's that?"
A movement, a rustling, a faint noise
as of something stirring. A prowling
wolf or coyote—that is it. The beast
is dodging about in hopes to pick up
something from the evening meal of
the emigrants—that's all. How silly to
be startled by the sound!
The shadow! It has grown until It
now almost touches the sentinel's
feet Will he take warning now? Will
he heed the black object which has
been creeping forward as the black
shadow crept, noiseless as the footfall
of a specter, fierce as the growl of a
wounded tiger? No! He takes a step
or two to relieve his limbs and glances
over at the horses.
From the blackness of the shadow a
dark, figure rose up and sank his toma
hawk Into the sentinel's sfcull, and the
next moment a horde of dusky demons
were In th% camp—shooting, shouting,
tomahawking, using knife or war club.
Five minutes later there were no more
victims to kill. Thank God, none were
carried away to torture and captivity!
A few moments more to hack and
mutilate—to plunder, to rejoice, and
then the camp of the dead was left tor
the dead to guard. The wolf came
creeping down to the horrid feast, his
eyes blazing with greediness and his
yellow fangs ''sharpening as he drew
closer and closer. Half a mile away,
on the line of a dead tree, the vultures
drew their heads from under their
wtngjr~ ahd utterod a ihorse croak!
croak! They could not fly In the dark
ness could not be present with the
wolf to gorge themselves, but morning*
would do! There would be
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Wonderful Remedy in
Tiie to Save Woman
After taking Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy, discovered for her by a
kind friend, she found herself on
the way back to health. Mrs.
Williams wrote:
"I have taken Mayr's Wonder
ful Remedy for the fourth time
and I am feeling like a new wo
man. I am entirely out of pain. I
had been sick for eighteen months
and four of our best doctors
could do nothing for me. They all
agreed that an operation was the
only thing. One day a man told my
husband of your remedy and that
night he brought it home to me."
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
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Glacier
National Park!
Season June 15 to October 1
This tremendous mountainland, high in the splendid
Montana Rockies, now maybe enjoyed as never before.
Anew mammoth mountain hotel, die "Many-Glacier," has
been erected on Lake McDermott, in tfle Park's heart.
The gateway hotel, the "Glacier Park"—at the Great
Northern's trackside— and nine enlarged chalet groups
complete a chain of delightful hostehies.
New tours—by auto-stage deep in among the mountains, a-saddle over
wonder trails onto the Continental Divide—have been arranged.
California Expositions via Glacier Park
By overland trains across Rocky and Cascade Mountains to Pacific
Northwest—enroute a tour of Glacier Park—aboard steamships Great
Northern and Northern Pacific to San Francisco—going or returning,
travel this "Great Northern way."
Mrs. Williams Qets on Way to
Health After First Dose of
Treatment
Mrs. Peter Williams of 2749
Eighteenth- St., S. Minneapolis,
was desperately ill with stomach
Irouble. She faced the probability
of an operation.
0. L. HARRIS, Agent
Wahpeton, N. D.
H. A. NOBLE, General BrnwiHf A|ait
ST. PAUL
Now is the time to paint
before fly season
& ,, WrtSwiMSis.
gives permanent results for
stomach, liver and intestinal ail
ments. Eat as much and whatever
you like. No more distress after
eating, pressure of gas i.n the
stomach and around the heart.
Get one bottle of your druggist
now and try it on an absolute
guarantee—it not satisfactory
money will be returned.—Adv.
I GERMAN LUTHERAN
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Service next Sunday morning at
10:00 o'clock. Gor. 5th St. and
Pembina Ave.
The Wahpeton
Candy Kitchen
Painting
Kalsoming
Interior Work
Paperhanging
HOME MADE
Ice Cream Cones
Fancy Sundaes, Soda
and Soft Drinks. Also
Fresh Egg and Milk
Drinks.
Heine Sisters
CLASS WORK GUARANTEED
Phone or Send
Phone No. 155J
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