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Why Should I 9 Ask Yourself this Question: Why Should I buy my build ing material at The Imperial Lumber Yard? Because you [want the very best material you can get at the lowest possible price. Because we can supply all your wants in that line promptly. Because we are anxious to please you and will appreciate your business. Because no bill is too small to re ceive prompt and cour teous attention and none too large for us to fill satisfactorily. V. B. DAT Manager. Dry pine slabs for summer fuel, at the Imperial Lumber Yard. Sheldon makes a specialty of fitting spectacles correct ly. All eye troube les diagnosed Satisfaction guar in teed. Second door south of Stone Hotel. (Apl7tf) SAKHALIN AS A PRIZE Russia Wants It For Its Oil, Japan For Its Fisheries), DREARY ISLE RICH IN BES0UB0E8 A Territory Nearly m» Large aa Ire land and Vieleu For Farming. Storm of Coal and Game In Abun dance—An Untouched Wealth of Forest Land. As big as Belgium and Holland put together, very nearly as big as Ireland and fully twice as big as Greece. Sakhalin Island, one of the bones of contention between the Russian and Japanese peace envoys and recently taken by Japan, will add about 25,000 square miles of territory to the mikado's empire. It Is a narrow island, nowhere wider than the state of Massachusetts is long and at certain points not wider than Nan tucket:, says the Boston Evening Tran script. But this ribbonlike Island, ly ing northwest of Japan, stretches along the coast of Siberia (from which ii narrow sen separates it) for a dis tance of 070 miles. Sakhalin has a river lir»0 miles long and mountains 3,000 feet high. It's by no means a vest pocket country. Japanese enterprise, then, will have plenty of room to knock about In, but square miles aren't everything, even when you can count them by the tens of thousands, and unfortunately Sak halin's climate is nothing to boast of. To be sure, the island isn't far north (it lies in about the same latitude as France), bu. the sky is almost always clouded, anil the cold currents flowing from the Okhotsk sea keep the eastern coast pretty well ice strewn all sum mer, while on the western coast the ice from the Amur clogs up the narrow •space between the island and the main land and long remains unmelted. No body is ever too warm on Sakhalin. The climate resembles that of Siberia, and Alexamlroffsky is colder in winter than Archangel. Another thing, equally discouraging as far as it goes—you can't farm to ad vantage on Sakhalin. Only here and there is the soil at all fertile, and even then you must content yourself with raising market truck and expect to get malaria while weeding your garden. Such at least has been the experience of Russian penal colonists who have tried to wrest a living from the soil. Moreover, the country looks every whit as inhospitable as experiment has proved it to be. They say that when Russian exiles get their first glimpse of that rocky coast and those grim, cloud capped mountains they often burst into tears for very despair. When such of them as are not life prisoners have served their term and become "free colonists," they are almost cer tain to leave Sakhalin and settle in Si beria. They call the country of their imprisonment "the Isle of the Lost." Cold, untillable, but big. Is that the whole story? If it were, then we should certainly be at a loss to know why the peace envoys at Portsmouth have been .haggling over the question of who is to own Sakhalin. But that isn't by any means the whole story. The Isle of the Lost is also the Isle of Poten tial Wealth. If it had no other claim to importance, its deuse forests would be enough to make it worth owuing. Practically untouched, they stretch from one end of Sakhalin to the other. The Japanese will know what to do with them. Besides, there Is coal—not easily mined, but abundant. At Duey the toughest criminals have worked chained to their barrows, and each year they spent in the mines has count ed as a year and a half toward hasten ing their discharge. Sakhalin has long supplied ships with fuel. Perhaps the Japanese will develop the coal mines to the full extent of their possibilities, but it is certain at all events that they will develop the oil fields. According to C. S. Patonoff, the oil regions of Sakhalin are richer than those of America. Subterranean lakes, some of them with an area of 8,000 square feet, lie so close to the surface that natural gushers can be easily estab lished. The oil regions lend themselves readily to exploitation, for the east coast is only from twenty to twenty five miles away, and there nature has provided harbors that boats drawing twenty feet of water can safely enter. For four months of the year, to be sure, those harbors are ice locked, but the- ice can be broken by specially constructed steamers known as "ledo kol." The war promised to do won ders for the oil business. As coal couldn't be got for love or money from England or Japan, Admiral Rumgin whisky (as the Dogger Bank fisher men still call him) was to supply his armada with oil fuel from Sakhalin. Under government auspices the Rus sian Sakhalin Oil company came sud denly into existence, a glorious monop oly that proposed to employ cheap Russian, Chinese and Korean labor, turn out from 600,000 to 700,000 tons of oil a year and drive Mr. Rockefeller out of business In the far east. Meanwhile another sort of game will fall to the Japanese—in the north a fine menagerie at large, composed of bear, foxes, sable, antelope and rein deer in the south an occasional tiger on the coast a remunerative profusion of seal, sea Hons and dolphins, not to mention a species of plebeian whale little prized by blubber hunters. But the chief source of wealth In the Sakhalin of today is the fisheries. The rivers teem with salmon, the waters along the coast with herring. In a single year Sakhalin yielded $1,500,000 worth of fish, and this in spite of the most discouraging conditions. The Russians wouldn't give the Japs a fre« hand, nor would they themselves de velop the full possibilities of the fish eries. As long as the island remained a sort of Siberian back yard, into which exiles were constantly to be thrown, it was bad policy to encourage fleets of fishing boats to come prowl ing along the shore. The boats might thin ouli the population. But when once the ivtnal colonies are withdrawn and Japan takes control the Sakhalin fisheries will have a chance at normal progress. Some day, unless all-trav elers are liars, they may rival those of Newfoundland. Now, the moment jrou begin to talk tbout fish the Japanese prick up their ears. No fish, no rice no rice, no Japs. Every year Sakhalin sends a million dollars' worth of fish fertilizer to the Japanese rice fields. The fer tilizer, nee herring, Is so indispensable to rice growing that when the^^nr cut ott the Japanese fishermen from the Sakhalin coasts two Japanese towns, Hokkaido and Otaru, petitioned the mikado to send troops to seize the Is land or, if that could not be doue, to permit the two indignant towns to fit out an expedition of their own. The director general of prisons asked per mission to organize an army of Japa nese jail birds for service in Sakhalin. Such overtures as these met with gov ernmental discouragement, but the seizure of Sakhalin by trained troops was undertaken as soon as practicable. Nor did Japan fail to perceive that.a Sakhalin in the grip of a foreign power would constitute a standing menace to Japanese agriculture. It was the case of Korea over again, only with herring substituted for grain as the vital point. KID GLOVES AT TENNIS. Part of Contnme Worn by Engllih* woman Defeated by Miss Sutton. Miss May Sutton, the clever Cali fornia girl who recently won the wom an's tenuis championship in England, arrived in Cincinnati somewhat unex pectedly early the other day, says a Cincinnati dispatch. She will participate in the tristate tournament, which will open at Cin cinnati in a few days. In discussing her experiences in England Miss* Sut ton said: "The Englishwomen are fine tennis players. You see, the Englishwomen have been playing tennis for centuries. We are rather new at the game in America. Mrs. Blanche Hiliiary and Miss Wilson, the English tennis cham pions whom I defeated at Wimbledon, are the best players In England. Mrs. Hiliiary has been playing for about fif teen years, but is not as good at the game, however, as Miss Wilson, the younger of the two. "The Englishwomen are athletic. They wear white linen chokers, long skirts, and their shirt waist sleeves are primly fastened about their wrists. Mrs. Hiliiary—would you believe itV— wears white kid gloves on the tennis court. My short skirts and rolled up sleeves made a sensation. "The English manner of giving prizes —the presentation to the champion of an order on a silversmith—Is preferable to the American habit of donating cups and bowls. "I got an order on a London jeweler and silversmith for $75 after winning the all England championship." New Danger to the Heron. Surgeons have long been seeking for some material for sutures and liga tures which should be more satisfac tory than those at present in use, which Include catgut, kangaroo tendon, silk worm gut, horse hair and silver wire. Dr. Charles P. Kieffer has recently used and suggests In a medical journal that the tendons of the crane and heron make excellent sutures and liga tures and seem to possess some ad vantages over the materials at pres ent in use, says Forest and Stream. Should these suggestions be generally approved by physicians birds of the heron group are threatened with a new danger. Some species of heron have already so greatly decreased in num bers that they are even thought to be on the verge of extinction, and all have become much less abundant than they formerly were. The herons are not prolific birds. The danger which threatens this group is thus a very real one. A Sleuth's Swimming Feat* With his wife on his back John E. Murphy, chief of the secret service In St. Louis, swam fifty yards to shore after his boat had capsized in Sturgeon bay by his efforts to land a big fish the other day, says a Sturgeon Bay (Wis.) correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. While Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were ducked several timeq, and she was slightly strangled, they suffered no se rious effects. Murphy had handled the fish cautiously. Drawing In as closely as possible, he reached down to grasp his catch. As he seized the fish it jumped. Murphy lost his balance and upset the craft. Oregon'! Deacon Harlc* Back* The harvest's drawin' to a close, 1 The field is all one glare, An' In another month or two We'll feel the frosty air. The quail's sharp note I hear afield, The China pheasant flies "Whizzln' through the yellow blare. The sun beats frum the skies. But as the days come on apace. An' summer shorter grows, I notls that the flowers Is gone. The vi'let an' the rose. Ole summer's dyln' days are here, An' with it all I'm sad, For fall an' winter seem more drear Than when I was a lad An* we walked down the bottom with The brown leaves rustlin' through An' pledged our troth one autumn day, Me an' my sweetheart Su^. But that was fifty years afltyN An' fifty years ia some— There's aomethin' hurtln' in my eyes. It's that durned sun, by gum! —Ii. A. Long In Portland Oregonlan. 'A&iS. SHOCK FOR SULLIVAN Paris Sights Startled Congress man From New York. GAVE HIM THE CREEPS, HE SATB »Big Tim" Declares If "Old Nlek" Is Allowed Any Freedom on Barth He Has Taken Hla Holiday In the French Capital—Regards New York Away Ahead In Morals. Congressman Timothy D. Sullivan of Aew York, who recently arrived hoAe from abroad, wrote a letter to a friend In New York, In which he describes the remarkable sights he saw in Paris. Some of the best parts of "Big Tim's" letter are here reproduced, says the New York Journal: "We have arrived in France, and It certainly is a beautiful place. The first evening we bad dinner at one of the most attractive places I ever visit ed— Armonarville, in the outskirts of the city. "On our journey I got my first idea of Paris. We stopped on the way at the Jardin de Paris, a sort of music hall. They charge $1 admission, or 5 francs. A dance is given which would land the whole business in the Tombs in New York. Later on I found out this was a very decent place when you measure it by the others. "The next day was Sunday, but there is no such thing as Sunday In Paris— not our Sunday. We visited the race course in the afternoon—Maison La Fitte, it was called—and it was one of the most delightful places I ever was in, with line accommodations for the public not like England. I saw many of our American boys who were ridiug there also Eugene Leigh, who is considered the most successful trainer here now. "The same evening we went to some of the resorts, and Sunday apparently had entirely disappeared. Every day you can visit places here of great in terest, and the night is livelier than the day. How they stand it I don't know. "Kessler called on us and invited us to visit the castle of Versailles the next day. He came with two of the finest autos in the world, one piloted by the famous Fouruier, the ex-champion cy clist and in my opinion the greatest auto driver in the world. "We stopped at Kessler's home and had a midday lunch of such a quality and excellent service that I would not like to state for the reason that my old Bowery boys might say I did not have such kind of dishes when I sat at John ny Meehan's or Mike Lyons'. Then Mr. Kessler brought us to his new house, which he is building at a cost of $2,000,000. We left in the cars for Ver sailles, and he showed us some speed, more than I wanted, but I was not going to let any Frenchman see me weaken, so I took the ride smilingly, although at some places we were going at seventy-five miles an hour. "We arrived at the palace, and, oh, what a palace it is. A person could stay there a month and still have lots to see. I cannot describe one-half of it, as I have not time, but I never thought there was anything so magnificent in the world. We visited all the different rooms with a private guide. Mme. du Bafry's, Louis XV. and all of the other historic chambers were visited. The furnishings are splendid, and the gar dens and fountains are kept up Just the same as In the days when those fa mous people lived. "After leaving we halted and saw the beautiful view from St. Germain, which is hundreds of feet high. From it the landscape of all Paris and the Seine, with its valley, lies before you, and I can say it Is most magnificent. We then stopped at Aimenville and from there rode to the Grand hotel here (Paris). "After a short rest we visited the cheaper part of Paris, where we had a splendid dinner. We then went to the Moulin Itouge, where they give a vari ety performance. There is a prome nade there, where the ladies execute that dancing which is known only in Paris, and you cannot tell whether they are on their head or their heels. "We also visited the Cafe Le Mort, where the waiters are dressed as un dertakers and chant death songs as you enter and each man holds a wax taper in front of him, with a coffin for a table. "There were ladles there, all sight seeing, and I wondered how they stood it. It gave me the creeps. Then we visited other resorts, and I wish to say right here I am for a liberal city but, being a New Yorker, I am glad New York is not Paris. I would sooner have the city at the bottom of the river. "In visiting around Paris I saw a few gentlemen who figured very promi nently in reform movements in New York city. They were not personal re formers here by any means, so they must need reform at home. "While everything over here (Paris) has been fine and It is a great educa tion to see those places, for my part we have been away long enough, and now we cannot get home any too soon to suit me. Ireland gave the Impres sion that If there was any good in you it seemed to bring it out of you. Some bow or other a feeling of sadness came over me. "England gives a commercial feeling with their eyes to the main chance all the time. The Scotch are a hard people to get talking to. Then they are all kindness to serve you after you know them if It did not cost anything. "Paris—the less said about it the bet ter for Paris, outside of its beauty. But If "Old Nick" is allowed any free dom on earth be has taken his holiday in Paris." Tkt •HSemtWIuille Moon's Non-Loakabl* Fountain Pmn Is guaranteed NOT TO LEAK when carried in any position in the pocket Nothing Like It! Good Music Stone's Music House, Fargo, North Dakota. You can have it if you own a Bush & Gerts Piano. In the leading musical institution of the United States, the New England Conservatory of Boston, they have one hun- dred and twenty-one Bush & Gerts pianos in use. This alone is a good criterion of & their superiority over the other many makes R. B. Kilbourn of Bottineau handles all of our makes. Over twenty-five of the lead- ing citizens of Bottineau and vicinity have our pianos in their homes and everyone has a good word to say for them. Drop in j| and examine them and get prices. 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