The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume], December 16, 1903, Image 16

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If you would
see the
(Store Opien Evenings)
Our Picture
Department
Our assortmertt offers a splen
did opportunity fS selection
of gifts.
Exquisite novelties in
Pastel, €plor Photos,
Etchings, Sepia Prints
and Water Colors.
'Many small Pictures of
remarkable beauty. We
,sfiggest an early inspec-,
tion.
Bamboo
Music Racks
And
Book Racks
Just received another
assortment—all neatly
made—strong and sub
stantial—from
$1.50 up
French Haviland and
Austrian Decorated
China and
Hand Painted China
in Cups and Saucers, Plates,
Salad Bowls, Olive Dishes,
Cracker Jars, Manicure Sets,
Chocolate Sets, and others too numerous
to mention.
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THE GARLAND
BASE BURNER
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Warms th« Floors,
Saves the Fool and
Boeoratoi tki Homo.
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-For Sale
Broadway, Fargo.
PROPOSALS
FOR
OF
FUNDS.
Bfsmarcfe N. f)., TtetT'i, tc$$.
The state board of auditors will con
l^ider, January 12, igo^, proposals in
accordance with the provisions of Sec
tion 237 of the Revised Codes, frotn
any national or state bank of .the state
which wishes to be a depository for
Stattf funds for the ensuing two years.
AH kanfcS that are at present state de
positories will be obliged to make new
applications, accompanied by new
Address all such proposals to.'
PORTER,
Secretary of State
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By-
H. Harrington,
of the new year the spirit of enthusiasm
rises visibly among those who are con
cerned in the. completion of the
World's Fair—the greatest ever. The
preparations for opening day are going
on apace everywhere. The thin crust
of frozen earth gives way beneath the
spade and even now the landscaping
goes forward asr it has." done for
months. Tlie finishing of the thousand
buildings that will inake the'complete
picture will not be delayed now by any
kind of weather that may come for
good roa(|s have been constructed
everywhere* the mile of pike has been
paved with "brick and mud cannot hind
er construction ae it has hindered oth
er expositions The installation of ex
hibits has begun, for all the large ex
hibit palaces are practically complete.
It is too much to attempt in a short
letter to tell of all the phases of the
great work, so I shall touch only.upon
a few. The admissions department is
one of the interesting places now. How
to enable one man to keep'a watchful
eye upon the vast bu^in^ss of this de
partment has been the problem! But
necessity is the mother of invention
and some curious children she has.
One of these inventions is' an auto
matic registering device. With each
quarter tujrn of a turnstile, as the Visit
or enters, an etectriea) -cotttalt vis tn»'d^
which acts upon a magnet in tlie office
of the chief of admi^p|js,v The arma
ture of the magnet Is Jttached to a
counting divice sp th?
ber passing thfe'stile i
To find the total nwm
at any motnent it is
take the totals of the
entrances are pfovid.^ ....
may be a total of a irtygjired stiles or
more,: all electrically connected with
the chief's office. 1
Another inventip
cue with an a tiro
This deviee rec
the slot and deliyeii^
of tickets froijii
permitted to teair
Bismarck, N. D.
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The Forum.
'Ofe ptk' State News .Read
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GRANDEST DISPLAY
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REGISTERING THE MILLIONS.
The System of Keeping World's Pair Attendance Records-Mechaii'j
ical Devises Come to the Aid of Perplexed Chiefs-There M^y,
Be No Selling of Tickets Whatever~A Silver Half Detiail
May Do the Whole Trick. I
^ennittf %ith» the approach
e total num
tys t*l sight,
of admissions
necessary to
listers. Eleven
which ithere
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Our display of X-a
»dies' Dressers is now.
dt its best. We are
Rowing some of the
very newest and lat
est" designs wel 1
iflade and fini&he&4~
fijom ,.
$11.73 up
Dressers, similar to cut in Golden (f iA AA
Oak, Bird's Eye Maple and Mahog- Jkjll
any, from $18.00 to tjFIveW
'". n
'®4to*$4
$*?«*• A#
And you will be astonished at the magnitude of the Stocks and Surprised ai the
EXCEPTIONALLY LOW PRICES.
Dressers
tHOBk
•*«$ V: IWi
l|H
Corner Chairs
of very choice patterns
in
Whaft^triSSld be more ^ccepftatft'e than
a nice Roll Top Qesk and Revolving
Chair. We have the best on the mar
ket today.
Desks as low as. 11^$13*50
Chairs as low as.. .$4.25
Gelded OkR,
Weathered OalK,
Ma­
hogany and Gold Leaf
A
nice line to seleq|
from, at Special Price|
Chair like cut, Rattan* very
handsome in design, Gold
Leaf finish—Special .Pricefr
CrocRery, Art China, Silverware and Cut r.|« i
Yoa will find the Christmas buying crowds in dep«rtments. for here's where the mos^proprlrte gifts are kept. You'll find im, practical suk^kH#
consi&ting of
Wine Sets, Water .Sets, Water
Bottles, Vases, Olivib Dishes, Salad
Bowls, Cream and Sugars, Berry
Dishes, Salt and Peppers, Knife
Rests. Get our pri^s^c^re,!^-
Kesis. oet our pri^s,{3Cti
chasing elsewhere,
chine heSdk^ibry t$gii grasp on t&
maining tickets arfd nobody s lia^f
passing once through the mechanism,
the mute phalanges of ticket sellers
was to have been displaced by this sys
tem of ticket-vending machines.
Now comes another inventor and
the ticket-selling mechanisms sre nd
longer in such favor. This latest in
ventor proposes that there shall be no
tickets whatever. He has offeried a
turnstile that will receive the half-djpl-j
lar of the visitor and release the stjK
for a quarter turn. In other woMs-.gx
visitor gets a quarter for his half bui
sees the whole show. The mo^kis!
operandi will be thus: The visitor jpni
ters the passageway, gives his half dol
lar to the stile keeper who puts it irttd
the slot. The coin releases the stile
for a# fourth of a turn only, thus ad-i
mitting the visitor to the grounds
There will be money changers convent
ient sq that there may be no scarcity
of half dollars. Hie inspection of thd
coins by the stile keejper will prevent
the passing of bogu$ coins, blanks or
slugs and tl\ere can of course be n6
counterfeit tickets. The system Wilt
do away with a vast number of ticket
counters and checkers, clerks and
er help that the ticket system reqfiir^d.1
The coinstile makes a savihg in the
counting of money,.for^ all the!
Befng of the sattie denominatiort
be counted by an automatic wfiS
counting machine. It should alsar
favor with the public for it does'
with the likelihood of Wbrklfig the.
change swindle on the unwary vis:
With the adoption of the cohi
the tests prove entirely satisfy,
other automatic machines for cotti
ar«
came to the res
Itic ticket seller,
half dollar in
the en44 of a roll
HCPii KAfA I *. v-.j ,*'V
it re
do!-«
o 3 Q4IU II w li vVlj' Uvl AJ v o
lar could get more than one ticket byi
out jftf business. V
.labor.of Handling tiat«ts jnaf be'
terstcod wheh it ip reMt«fl that
wete over 27,o»,oooji(dmi
World's Fair in a
which St. Louis expect^ 16
sutp
ChicSgo it took twenty to
clerks worMng all rtay
the
Ijuyer: was
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... HANOSONfc
Parlor Suited
Yhe Karpen Guaranteed Kind
caG?
With the coinstile there will be noth
ing to do but to count the coin ahd to
compare the total with the figures on
the stile register. The World's Fair
at St. Louis will be open a total of 185
days, being closed to the public on
Snudays the seven months of- its Con
tinuance. The saving will amount to
thousands of dollars, to say nothing of
the greater accuracy secured.
A detachment of the Orte Hundred
and Nineteenth Coast Artillery has ar
rived at the grounds and begun the
,nstan*tIon
The gdv#nflhertf. ne#r t^ok
profnlnent a pairt in an etposititttt.
main exhibit building is the grande
in this liiif fhat his
^Oite by federal anthority. It is
«*t long and 'ago feet Wftkf,
««ie of the grearf^t ivenue^ of th
*ition. The ffsheHes pa
square, the re
^ipeiia* Mtttfse—v^.^
ehtesic even to the nfeffli
.the otrtside. it will
ifc' 644 U the names. Unrft^l
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Many Choice designs of Colonial
and Empire Styles, Mahogany
frames, selected Wood, exquisite
ly carved and highly polished, up
holstery of the finest materials.
Many exclusive novelties at very
Special Holiday Prices.
Spoons, Knives mad F»f«Kt f~
Rings, etc.
*«uge cOast defense guns
tear the government buildings. The
guns will be one of the most interesting
of the outdoor displays, as they will in
clude one of the great mechanisms by
which heavy guns are made to disap
pear behind the parapet of the fort is
soon as the shot is fired, being raised
again in position after reloading. The
gun squads will operate
1
the guns and
go through the loading maneuvers. I(
they were to fire a shot there wpuldti't
be a whole pane of glass in the vicinity
an.d
most of the buildings would., b«l
shattered by the cohcussion.
.Niext to Seeing a battle ship in ac-i
tion is the reproduction of such ai scend
by means of moving pictures. Th^
secretary of the navy has ordered' the
battleship Indiana to put to sfcS and
go through a series of maneuvers^ in
cluding the tnanipulation and firing of
the great giihs, as Will as dHlls demons
strating the life and duties of (HRtfcri
and chew at sea. The battleship
be accbnipa'riiied by a naVy yard t*i|j':.Ciir|
rylng a moving picture camera ahd ex-^
pert operators Who will pfgpafe 1
series of life-like scenej?. ITiese wil.
be shown oil a canvas fifteen by twen*
ty-.five fefet hi the exhibit of thte natj[
department in the goverrtmeilt building
at, the Wcwlf« Fair. •.
hit
the out 4dors
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€*& $&»$»
(Store Open Bvetttogg)
Thoroughly dif
firable styles in
Golden Oak and
Mahogany firtteh,
jiighly polished,
complete die s ic
Sectidni, Frerttto
bevel mirror, larffe
book case sectiY
W-Thla
Week
SeclioAil Book Cas»s
a new shipment. .^vpoIdfn,-9^c''a"ifif
a o a n y 1 v
greajt variety of
designs and color
ings—Ranging ill
low a*^-:^
?:$•
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.00
In elegance and execution of design, beauty\
and durability of finish is superior in all in
spects to any made. Satisfaction guarapr^
teed or your money back at any time.
Children's Sets, Cork Screws, Ta
ble Spoons, Tea Spoons, Orange
Mttfft, Nipkm
gardens, the diseased plant gardens the
school garden and other choice things.
The Indian exhibit is his—forty acres
or so of Amerjehn Indians at work in
all their industries front the primiti%
tasks to the printing of books.' Til#
fojfty a^res pf Filipinos are also kPartJy
a government exhibit While Ithfc' Alas-j
kah and Indian Territory exhibits are
paid for tn part from the government
Strong" box. A crew ffotn the life saV4
ing sefvice will perform their interest*
ing drllls in a lake below the police
agriculture—* deep hike s^eci^Ry
made for "this interesting feature,
forty-three rations which have to'
deemed ^cf tfke pert hi theiWoi.^,
Fair, ipeiitfirtg $7^*6^00, are atl hefi
upo# fl^eraiipnt's cordial invita*
tiqnV exhibit of the ag-^
riculturtil cottages costing $ioo«oct is
another expression of the lifaiioiiat
government's interest in the Univer
sal Exposition of 1664. A prtfty big
shfrn
it would l^e if Undfe Sam sldue
i|e the show iman, but his lAg fcttfW-
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is ohly one of the fifteen large
ctures, to say nothing of the small
er strifafare* by hnnd^ros.
tol. R. C. Maricel ^nd fatnily, of
.Qnincy, IH., dfe anxiiVBS to 'see the
Wdrld's Fair,
ts
will appear froth a
"tetter he wrote asking if. if p^ace cottld
£|dt be tngfte for hfftt on tW musical
prografctfne. Anonk^ other thtUgs the
'e clfim itht
no "fir
j*rn
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STS^UiQE EXj"0HENCE.
B«M*r «t St. Thmmm, Wte I
.m*,.
9ne
v-i,
St vtiiomAs Tiniest Tte: |ii|f'§
'The Tijrnes has had many novel expetf-
ettces
I*It J#r
'•ft. 3ky.
dttririg his life, but noite
his
teMMSf
eyes
closed. O,
and mighty high feeling? All day lopg
he stiod behind the counter with a big
bulldog revolver close at hand and at?
Sumed an air of indifference to surroun4
ings. He issued New York drafts,
Minneapolis drafts and received and
paid out money by the hundreds. 1J
waS bewildering, delightful an/ yet feap
Iful. All went well until Monday morn'
ing Whdh Cashier James started to bat*
atice the books. Then the sweat begin
to stand out on the scribe's forehead*
goose pimples, chased'themselves up apl
down his legs and cold shivers playtfd
tag ttown his spinal column. The nesd/
'er the cashier got to the end of tffe
task the more frightened the ediit&r
became. He wondered how it would 3II
end and if the yawning door of the
penitentiary Would close behind him
an embezzler. The strain was like thfct
on the single suspender which suppoifs
the trousers of a boy who is getting in
old fashioned paddling with
mother's slipper. At last the accouflU
were added up. The credits and debits
arrayed ag&inst each other and jn
sepulchral tones the cashier announced
that we were $881.29 short. For a mi-'
mitnt the poor newspaper man thought
th^t Gretna would be a splendid place
of residence. Then he thought of 'ft
mortgage ort the plant and just as he
was about to clear his throat and offer
the latter, tfie cashier dug up some foW
gbtten items and the shortage meltfd
and \Ve were long $56. It was like coin
ing out of acold storage plant-.itito ,|i
hot house and the scribe suggested th|t
he would take the $56 and call^t
squire, but no, more figuring, mora
checking and more counting of cash.
Finally the books were balanced and
the editor walked back to his den to
clip exchanges and stick type. It was
like a bit of fairy land for a brief diy
and now as the smell of sour paste steapp
across his senses and the call of '"copji*
ring in his ears he wakes up.and rir
member that Kis nose is again ont^e
grind stone and that he is not scratcfc'
ing off ai New York draft for $5,000 &r
ui
K
a xuiiv uiaii iui
rieceiving a deposit of $3,750.
of seventjr-flve by 100 feet. The
ing was erected and made ready fafr
the staff covering by the contractor!,
in twelve days. The building stanw
in the northwestern section of tfee
groands aad in it the American Rice
Growers Association will demonstrate
the many uses in which the grain
be put.
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FA€KAftD'S VIEW.,
Mati^i Thnes: Jermane, the Wash
orrespondent of The Minnd^
goes to consiaenfH^
exercises commendahfo in,v
y in tetting his pra^ h^r.irft
unsuitable for Natth Dikot|,
Jwt the thing for SlontMia.
has the (^npoa 8all,
little Missouri and other N'onh
Kota streams rising in ISonUlfiii
nc^ fh^ht,
atcofahig
ccrnrse ftct" thS
fri^hfi (iiWeiufi is. tiic
ilk
a
fc
quite
strihg^ as that of last Saturday.
ife
He
was called up at h^ home by tele
phone abput 9 o'clock in the twortiilig
and informed that E. T. Thompson of
the First National •Bank was ill attd l#'
able to attend to bis duties and aa
Cashier James' was in Farfeo haVitt|"
treated the Jbank w&nld ha^e^
to be closfed for the day unless the
Editor would come up and mo it. Tbiflk
of it gentle reader! A country newi
paper hian, used.to handling print
paper,
lead type, wood furniture and braAs
lilies called upon to run a bank. Will
his #ettt tip to thie institution and aftfer
considerable difficulty threw oft tfii
btirglar alarm,, opened the vault and got
"jntar the hioney safe. There he fotifett
gold in piles, gold in bags, silver wrap
per paper and piled in htige pilM,
green backs and bank notes stacked tn
Heat layers and Wrapped with paper
which were marked the amount
& js*
^v%
&
yb*!
en­on
joy of it To run your fi|i»
gets through the. glittering coins afyd
handle the cVisp bills. Do you wondtt*
that the editbr was suddenly puffed tip
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LINj
Of the Chicago Oreat Western Raih-^
offers two finely equipped trains ftafqr
between the Twin Cities and Omahp.
tor Denver. Salt Lake City, San Fraft
fcisco i fdrrits west. The
pressiifi the best train lor Austin,
City,1 Fort Dodge and Omaha. Por
fuf^ief^mformation apply to
Jonesy iMfthnx agent, Fargo,
ii0*1
vtfe.
to jt
is $t|n fer h^flialion. gut t^
Milk River in Mooter is
hi( id
He tells how ulkfijr thousand ictes
the Milk River Vlflley can hi It
says the1|l0^/j4aic
scKllt{,
ty, we
iind to speak
jrtjpane
?'teliey^
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