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HfcPROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A. M. HARDAWAY,
Doctor of Dental Surgery,
Office In HaugebergBlock,
Resident Dentist. WASHBURN, N. D.
ANDREW MILLER,
attorney at Law,
Practice in State and Federal Courts
Special attention to Trial Cases and
U. S. LandOlHce practice. Office oyer
First National Uuuk Building
Tel. No. 2S5.
English, Scandinavian and German Spoken.
Underwood, North Dakota.
W. L. NUESSLE,
Attorney-At-Law,
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U. S. Commissioner,
WASHBUBN, KOBTH DAKOTA
Huugeberg Block.
GEORGE P. GIBSON...
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HEAL ESTATE AND LOANS.
OFFICE ID POW OFFICE BLOCK.
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REAL K8TATK AND INSURANCE.
Money to Loan on Real Estate and Uomesteads.
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA.
Haageberg Block.
H. R. BERNDT, Late Special Agent O. L.O.
More than 12 years' experience in all
branches of the land Dept.
H. R. BERNDT
Law, Laid Office and Departaeat
Practice aad Real Estate
CONTESTS A SPECIALTY
We Speak German.
First Natl Bank Blk. BISMARCK
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United states Land Office Plats and
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
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WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA.
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Copyright, 1907, by P. C. Eastmcnt.
"Do you draw up resolutions and
things?" asked Kate Masters eagerly.
"Xo," scorned Matie. "You send a
committee to the boss and tell liim we
won't work any more."
"I'd rather write," declared Grace
Kelso. "I'd be scared to death to go
in there and talk to him."
"Writing isn't half so good," declared
Matie. "You just tell him what the
matter Is and that we'll go on strike if
Bromley isn't dismissed, and that's all
there is to It."
"All," repeated Kate. "I should think
it would be enough. The idea of going
right in to Mr. Temple and telling him
that we're not going to work any more
unless Bromley is sacked. I'd be so
scared I couldn't speak."
"I'm not afraid," said Matie dis
dainfully.
"I vote that we make Matie Lester a
committee all by herself," suggested
Grace, and the motion was unanimous
ly carried without the formality of a
seconding.
"No, you don't," cried Matie. "I'll do
the talking, but we want a lot of. girls
for the committee. It has a good ef
fect."
In the end a committee of five was
appointed, and It was agreed that the
noon hour the next day would be the
proper time for making the demand.
Matie lay awake half the night think
ing what she should say, and her argu
ment was continued in her dreams.
The room was all excitement the next
morning, and as the noon hour ap
proached the excitement grew more
Intense. Every girl in the room left
her lunch untouched to accompany the
comipittee on its errand of protest and
left them only at the beginning of the
short hall at the end of which was
Edward Temple's office.
The departure of the escort seemed
to have a bad effect on the others, for.
as Matie rapped on the door and a
deep voice responded, the other four
girls right about faced as by common
impulse and fled down, the passage
way.
For a moment Matie watched them,
dismayed. Then with a firm hand she
turned-the knob and entered the room.
In place of the gray haired man she
expected to find the room was tenant-
"I BEG YOTJB PABDON," BHB STAMMERED.
ed only by an alert young fellow, who
looked up expectantly as she ap
proached.
"I beg your pardon," she stammered.
"I thought that this was Mr. Temple's
room."
"So it Is," be responded briskly, "and
this Is Mr. Temple. Only it happens
that my father did not come down this
morning. Anything I can do for you?
I am Frank Temple."
"I don't know that you'll do," she
said dubiously. "You see, I'm a strike
—I mean a strike committee," she cor
rected.
"A single committee is rather unusu
al," he smiled. "Do I understand that
you represent the factory?"
"The finishing room," she explained.
"There were five of ns, but the rest
ran away."
"I see," he said gravely, though his
eyes twinkled. "And may. I ask the na
ture of the demands to be inade?"
"It's that horrid Jim Bromley," she
exclaimed. "We don't want more
money or anything, but we want a new
foreman. He's Just as mean as can be.
He wouldu't have Beds Bradley's, ma
chine fixed the other day, and when It
broke down and hurt her hand he
decked her for the time-she was away.
He's always fining ns for every little
thing, and he's that mean"—
Matte's pause spoke volumes, aiid her
eyes added to the story. Temple
grinned.
','1 shall havo to look into this," be
paid. "Take a chair, please." He left
her to herself, but presently he came
back with another young man as clean
cut as himself.
"Mr. Everett will look Into the mat
ter," said Temple. "Just tell him about
the mean Mr. Bromley."
"Now you're laughing at me," said
Matie Indignantly,
"Far from -It,"
ance committees
moat seriously."
"And this Is serious,'
tie denied,
should be
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treated
she declared.
This was news indeed, and the girls
crowded eagerly about her. For a mo
ment she fought off their questioning,
but at last she faced them defiantly.
"fin going to be married to Mr. Ev
erett, if you have to know," she said.
"That's what you get for being on
the committee," said one of them en
viously.
"Well," reminded Matie, "there's
four of you that can't say you didn't
have a chance, and I don't mind telling
you that I'm glad you didn't take It.
Jim Everett is worth Interviewing the
president himself for."
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Dumas' "Camilla."
Dumas' famous play "Camille" Is a
dramatized novel. The book is called
"The Lady With the Camellias," and
the author, Alexandre Dumas, Jr..
based bis central character on Marie
Duplessls, a Parisian actress, to whose
kindness and patronage he owed much
of his early success. He stopped one
day, through missing a train, at a com
mon little inn at St. Germain, frequent
ed by laborers and carters. The idea
of the story struck blm while there,
and he began it, writing on a corner of
the inn table. He remained there
three weeks, at which time it was fin
ished. The first publisher of the story
gave the young author $240 for the
privilege of printing two editions, ag
gregating 2,700 copies. When Dumas
proposed a third edition he was told
to go about his business, which be did.
making an Immense sum for himself
and his next publisher.
Two Odd Blunders.
There staqds In Westminster'abbey.
London, a splendid monument of Crom
well In riding attire. The spurs which
adorn his high boots are npslde down,
showing that while the man who cre
ated the statue was an expert In thl6
line he was totally unfamiliar with the
art of riding. These reversed spurs
are not always noticed by visitors, but
those who ktiow about them find them
ne of the most Interesting features
of the monument. One of the famous
swords wielded by that warrior, the
Black Prince, Is to be seen In a window
In the same building. It Is a painted
window on the landing leading from
the floor of the palace to the commit
tee rooms above. On the weapon held
In the bands of the prince may be read
an Insterlptlon In which the words
"rtjuce of Whales" figure prominently.
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iurning to Everett. Her sense of
wrong sustained gave her eloquence,
mil her eyes snapped as she recited a
long tale of Bromley's wrongs. Ever
ett listened attentively, though at
times he and Temple exchanged sym
pathetic glances as some quaint turn
of speech caught their sense of humor.
"This is a matter that most certainly
should be looked into," he said. "I do
not believe in fines except as a last
resort. Suppose you help us get at the
bottom of the trouble."
"I'm telling you all about It now,"
she cried.
"I know," he agreed, "but to get
Bromley right we shall have to wait.
Now, if you will explain to the others
that the matter will be properly set
tled if they will go on as they have
been doing for a week I think we can
hand a very unpleasant surprise to the
enterprising Mr. Bromley. It appears
from the books that few fines have
been turned in. On account of the
number of employees the envelopes are
made up several days ahead, and the
foreman of each department takes out
the fines. Now, on Saturday make a
note of all the fines, bring the envel
opes to me. and we will have the mat
ter straightened out."
Matie looked him squarely in the eye.
"Do you really mean that?" she de
manded.
"Most certainly," ho assured.
"Shake hands on it," she demanded.
Everett blushed as his fingers closed
over the smaller hand—and lingered
there.
Matie went back to the room with a
sense of importance. Word was pass
ed along that It was all right and to
meet on the corner after the factory
closed. There was a babel of voices as
the plot was unfolded, and when at
last the impromptu meeting adjourned
Everett was lingering there.
"I saw the crowd forming," lie
laughed as he fell into step beside
Matie, "and I waited to hear the out
come."
She tucked her hand through the
proffered arm, and together they went
down the street.
The next night Everett was waiting
again, and so on until Saturday, when
at the noon hour the girls were paid
off. There were the usual heavy fines
marked on the envelopes, and Matie
formed a line and marched off to the
office. Bromley had already turned
back to the cashier the fines he had
collected, but a rapid computation
showed that the envelopes and the
statement to the cashier developed a
discrepancy of more than $10. The
foreman had been detained In the of
fice on a pretext, and when he left the
building it was in company with a
blue coated official, and the girls lin
gered on the corner to hold a jubilee
over the downfall of their enemy.
"Who's going to be cashier now?"
demanded one of the celebrants. Matie
grew red.
"I'm to be in charge for little
while," she said. "Mr. Everett ar
ranged that last night."
"That's too bad," said one of the
girls.
"Why, please?" demanded Matie
hotly.
"We won't have any one to speak
for us when we want to go on strike
against you."
"That's so," laughed one of the oth
ers. "All the other girls on the com
mittee ran away."
"I guess I shall not be in charge long
enough for you to get sore on me,"
said Matie importantly. "I'm to be
married in a month."
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By RITA KELLEY.
Copyright, 1807, by Homur Sprague.
Eloise was having thoughts. That
they were not pleasant thoughts was
proved by the hurry with which sho
donned her tan ulster and close brown
walking hat and slipped out of the
house. She hurried down brilliantly
lighted Broadway, hoping that the new
experience of being alone, unchaperon
ed, unprotected, amid the rush of life
on all sides, might divert her mind.
She was halted at last by a man with
a megaphone. He was shouting: "All
aboard for Chinatown! Right this
way. Tickets two dollars. All aboard
fpr Chinatown!"
She looked up at the huge, ugly "rub
berneck wagon," now fairly transform
ed into a bower of beauty of red, white
and blue electric lights and Chinese
lanterns bobbing in the chill breeze.
It seemed to offer surcease from the
insistent, uncomfortable thoughts at
the back of her brain. The old wagon
in its brave array held some of the al
lurements of fairyland and its happy
irresponsibllity, and on the spur of the
moment she whipped out her puree
"WHAT ABE YOU DOING HEliE HS DE
MANDED.
from her ulster pocket, bought her
ticket and climbed in among the lan
terns well toward the front.
George had dared to insinuate that
she could not get along without him.
He had acted as if he were as much
a part of her life as her daily ride in
the park, her nights at the opera, hei
cotillon favors. Worse still, there had
been, too, the suggestion that he was
so much a part of her existence that
she could not get along without him.
Other girls were wooed and hard won.
She was taken for granted. And she
wanted romance—"heart Interest" she
had heard it called when the drama
was under consideration. All her life
had the conventional been wrapped
around her like a dun colored cloak.
She would have freedom from conven
tionality—and George.
A thrill of anticipation ran through
her as the big, clumsy vehicle wheeled
cautiously and threaded its way down
the crowded streets. Through the Ten
derloin, the Ghetto, the Bowery—all
those localities of which she had bbard,
but never seen—it went. When it halt
ed at last she was In the front of the
party, still determinedly eager to get
outside of herself. The conductor bad
taicen her under bis wing, and she felt
very safe and sure.
They bad climbed up and up and up
many winding, creaking, unsafe stairs
to the joss house, a heathenish, garish
place filled with a mixture of rare
carvings, embroideries, ivories and ap
parently worthless junk. The conduct
or of the party waited to give his ex
planation until the loiterers bad gone.
"Ladles and gentlemen," be said,
"wait a few minutes, and I will ex
plain this interesting place. There are
some people present who did not come
with tbe party and who are waiting in
the hope that they will get the benefit
of what I am about to tell you."
A little woman in a blue tailored suit
edged her way with asperity into tbe
crowd.
"Do you mean me?" she demanded.
"I guess we have as good a right to be
here as any one. And we'll stay here
till we are ready to go."
The conductor turned to Eloise for
approbation.
"The members of this party have
each paid $? fdr thlf valuable informs
tlon, and It Is not fair to them to allow
yon to hear this for nothing. I know
your kind. You have been following us
around just to get this Information
free. Not a night passes but I have
trouble of this kind, and it's got tc
stop."
Tbe little woman fought off her
friends who strove to lead her away.
"And who are you that you should
talk to me that way?" she cried. "Do
you know who I am? I'll bave you ar
rested for Insulting a lady. My broth
er Is down now looking for a police
man. Do you bear?" she shrieked,
maddened by ber inability to Impress
the cool conductor.
There was a commotion In the door
way. and two men pushed through nnd
thrust their fists under tbe conductor's
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She gathered fier forces suddenly for
retaliation.
"What If I haven't?", she said, some^
what breathlessly. "I am old enough
to do as I choose—and—it is not in tbe
least your affair what I do!"
She pushed past him into the Incense
laden Interior to have the conductor
present her with a package of joss
sticks and a slip of paper coVered with.
Chinese characters.
"A fortune," he said gallantly. "Ask
your Chinese laundryman to read it
for you."
"I haven't a Chinese laundryman,"
she exclaimed passionately, "and I
never will have one!"
She ran almost blindly down tbe
stairs and into the street, trusting to
her Instinct for locality to guide her to
the nearest subway station. The ori
entals fell back in wild astonishment
at sight of her fleeing figure, and a few
fat old fellows said unintelligible
things to her which caused a roar of
laughter.
Her cheeks were burning, her breath
was coming in gasps, as she came into
the little square marking the one time
wickedest place in New York. All at
once she felt that she was being fol
lowed. Quick, llglit footfalls were
coming behind her, were keeping pace
with hers, and terror clutched her
heart. A few drunken men sprawled
on the park benches. To return was
Impossible. She could never find the
"rubberneck" party. There was noth
ing to do but keep on as best she
could.
She emerged from the park ready to
drop with exhaustion and was obliged
to slow down to get her breath. To
her relief she found the steps had
ptopped, and no one was in sight. She
went on and on through the better
streets of the wholesale district and at
last saw the twinkling lights of sur
face cars ahead. She reached for her
purse. It was gone!
She stopped stock still ou a corner,
frozen with horror. Alone at 11 o'clock
at night on a deserted street, with no
money and home miles away! The ills
of her guarded, pampered life showed
uppermost In this dilemma. A less fa
vored girl would have known what to
do. She stood there dazed, helpless,
till the sound of rapidly approaching
footsteps startled her Into action. Sho
sprang forward.
"Eloise!"' A man's voice echoed her
name commandingly among the sky
scrapers.
She collapsed all in a heap ou the
curbstone.
"You—you—lovable girl," he said,
looking down at her limp person strugr
gling for breath.
"Oh, George," she panted, "I didn't
know it was you!"
lie sat down on the curb beside her.
"I thought you did," he said.
"And there wasn't any real danger?"
she asked, wide eyed. "Oh. what a
simpleton!"
"None at all except from this ogre
me," be laughed shortly.
"Oh, George, you are simply fine!"
"You didn't think so last w^ek this
time," be said relentlessly.
"But you didn't lnsipt," she pouted.
"A girl likes to be convinced."
"Oh, you—you—I will say It—foolish
girl!" be said, witb adoring eyes.
The Word "Explode."
"Explosive" was first used in Its
modern sense in the first quarter of
the nineteenth century. "Explode" in
tbe sense of "blow up" or "go off" is
scarcely a century older. Before tbat
people talked of a ball being "explod
ed" from a gun, tbe clouds "exploding"
lightning or 8 volcano "exploding"
lava, but tbat was very much nearer
the word's original sense of driving
away with scorn. "Explode," in fact.
Is literally to clap away and was a
technical word for driving an actor off
tbe stage by contemptuous handclap*
ping. Tbat Is tbe real meaning of an
"exploded Idea."
Her Glanoe Backward.
In a Broadway car long past mid
night a robust, motherly woman sat
with a well grown boy of about fifteen
oeslde ber. Tbe boy bad fallen asleep,
and his head rested heavily against her
shoulder.
A man entering tbe car was cordially
greeted by tbe woman and was about
to slap tbe boy on tbe knee wben the
mother Interposed.
"Don't wake blm," she pleaded.
"He's so big now tbat be is ashamed
of doing childish things. This Is tbe
first time In a year tbat be bas been
my baby boy again. Let' me enjoy It"
—New York Globe.
VNot Diplomat.
Lady—Yes, I want a good parlor
maid. Why did you leave your last
place?
Applicant—Ihe missus was too bossy,
ma'am.
Lady—Too bossy!
Applicant—Yes. ma'am. She was al
ways telling m» to do things Instead of
nskiug mc to do 'em.—Hoiiston Post.
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they yelled.
"I'll report you,
Insulting a lady."
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and tied to tbe balcony overlooking the
main street of the Chinese quarter.
It was horribly low. She shuddered
at the thought of where she was and
under what protection as she gazed
down from the lantern hung balcony
Into the street crowded with Chinese
In their native dress—their pig faces,
long cues and long nailed fingers hold
ing paper bags filled with vegetables.
"Eloise!"
She jumped at the sound of her
name and a man's step on the balcony
and pressed back against the wall of
the bouse, staring with wild eyes at
the man before her.
"What are you doing here?" he de
manded. "Why. you have never betm
out like this! What does it mean?"
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