Devils Lake inter-ocean., December 17, 1909, Image 10

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TOWNSEND 8MITH.
1909, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
(Copyright
Peter Young and Frederick Ayres
were playmates in childhood, attended
the same school and left the same col
lege in the spring of 1861 to enlist in
the same regiment in the Union army.
They campaigned together and after
each fight immediately sought each
other to learn of their mutual safety.
On one occasion Young shot a Con
federate who was about to run a bay
onet into his friend's breast On an
other Ayres carried Young, who had
been wounded, for miles on a retreat,
saving him from a southern prison
and perhaps death. Their devotion to
each. other was well known in the
army in which they served, and they
were referred to as furnishing an ex
ample of a typical friendship.
In the fourth and last year of their
service, they quarreled. Both had be
come subaltern officers and were tent
mates. One day Young entered their
tent and. looking under his cot, missed
a chip he kept there as a rest for his
soap.
"Whafs become of my soap dish?"
he asked his friend.
"What soap dish?"
"That chip I had here."
"Oh. that dirty thing! I threw it
out"
"What did you do that for?' angrily.
"Because 1 propose to have the tent
I live in respectable."
"And I propose to have something to
put my soap on, and 1 won't allow
any man to Interfere with It"
It is not essential to give the steps
toy which these two bosom frlendB be
came more and more angry and finally
alienated. The contemptible cause
was a chip which its owner considered
soap dish and his friend as not suf
ficiently aesthetic to grace their can
vas habitation. They did not speak to
each other during that campaign and
before another Ayres bad been trans
ferred to the staff and assigned to
duty with a different corps.
In 1860 Young and Ayres were both
again In civil Ufe. On Christmas
morning of the next year on going to
the postoffice for his mall Ayres was
handed an envelope addressed to him
In the familiar handwriting of his
Mend. Opening it be drew forth a
card on which was a picture of a
dove with an olive branch in Its
month. Nothing was written on the
card, nor did any letter accompany it
but the recipient knew that his friend
had remembered his birthday and sent
a peace offering. He was not a de
monstrative man—nor was Young, for
that matter—so be put the card in his
pocket saying nothing to any one
about It. .bnt-thinking on It a great
deal.
The next Christmas morning Young's
wife, whom he had just married, hand
ed him an envelope the superscription
on which was in Ayres' handwriting.
It contained the Christmas card he
had sent Ayres on his twenty-third
birthday. Mrs. Young asked her hus
band what it all meant. He prevari
cated. He was ashamed to tell her
the* story—firstly, on account of the
Insignificant cause that had separated
him from his friend secondly, because
he blushed at this missive passing be
tween them, worthy rather of two
schoolgirls than two veterans of a
great war.
For forty years the card continued
to pass at Christmas time betweeu the
two friend-enemies. Picture processes
Improved, and the little dove of 18tS5
was a sorry looking bird beside the
dove of the twentieth century. Be
sides. the *ard was worn and soiled.
Possibly bud the two friends been
near each other they would have re
turned to a closer relationship. But
in all these years they never met.
Ayres never married, and Mrs. Young,
who meanwhile had come into posses
sion of thg story of their quarrel, said
facetiously that she believed be loved
iter husband too well to marry a wo
man.
A Christmas came round when Peter
Young was in no mood to remember to
-send the card with the dove and olive
branch. A crisis bad come in bis af
fairs. and what he had been for years
building fell with a crash. The crown
of his and his wife's sorrow was that
his health broke down under the
strain.
Had he not after these many years
come to tread in a rut he would have
written to learn the cause of bis not
receiving bis token. But be bad never
written a line or spoken a word to the
man with whom be bad quarreled in
his youth,. and it seemed too late for
him to begin. Tbe result was that be
refrained-£&am .writing and worried.
CW^^dayr^tt was shortly before
Chrtetflfir&-ifrs, Young, rummaging in
her husband's desk, found the old
card. It occurred to her at once that
In her husband's preoccupation and
distress be bad for tbe first time for
gotten It. She bad saved a paragraph
taken'from a newspaper mentioning
her husband's failure In business and
another stating that he was suffering
from nervous prostration. Placing
these items with the card in an en
velope, she sent It to Ayres.
Christmas morning brought a letter
^ifrota After inclosing his check for.
$10,000 and a note stating that it was
-r*ent in the hope that it would place
frtend again on bis feet The
-Christinas card he would thereafter
his possession.
That was tbe end at the partial
.estrangement. Mrs. Yoongtelegraph
4C& Ayr*s urging him to ft#
4bat evening at a Christmas dinner.
"-J&jrnii tooktbe first train aAd reached
{he ftoese of his old friend tp tad him
#nd fete irtfe waiting tar Wm. ABd
By C. L. POINEER.
(Copyright, 1909. by American Press Asso
elation.]
Dr. Prettyman was a specialist in
brain diseases and visiting surgeon at
ai hospital.
At one of these visits the regular
house surgeon was temporarily ab
sent Dr. Prettyman was sitting in the
medical office, waiting for him, when
a nurse entered and told him that a
patient who was considered almost:
cured and had been given the post of
cook was acting strangely. Would tbe
doctor go down and see him? The doc-.
tor went to the kitchen and the nurse
to a patient who especially required
bis attention.
Dr. Prettyman found the cook alone
in the kitchen. Indeed, be had driven
every one else out He was a large,
muscular man. and it did not need the
doctor's practiced eye to see the light
of insanity in his eye. He was stand
ing over a large boiler which was
filled with steaming soup.
"Doctor." said tbe lunatic, "come
here and taste this soup. I fear It Is
not flavored right"
The doctor hesitated a moment, won
dering If he had not better call assist
ance, then concluded to humor tbe pa
tient He went to tbe range, in which
there was a very hot fire. The cook
ladled out some soap, and the doctor
tasted It, burning bis tongue.
"it'a all right" be said.
"But doctor. I don't think there's
neat enough in it Ifs too thin
should have more stock for it bat I
haven't Tbe steward Is stingy with
his supplies. He gives me nothing, lit
erally nothing, with which to feed all
the months In this vast tonse. He's
putting all the money they give
for provisions in bis pocket I wish 1
had him here. I'd chop hlin Into bits."
Seising a cleaver, he blandished it
over the doctor's bead, then went on
excitedly:
"There's got to be more stock for
this soup, and where Is it to come
from? 1 have It. You'll do. doctor.
You'll do first rate. Your bones are
small, but there's marrow In them,
end your flesh Is meaty, not fat"
He made a step toward tbe doctor..
It might be expected that the dapper
physician would shriek for help. He
knew only too well that this would ex
cite the patient and before assistance
could arrive tbe big cook would be
chopping him up Into soap stock. He
kept bis eye fixed steadily on tbe pa
tient
"Do you want your soup to retain
its flavor?" be asked.
"Certainly 1 do."
"And don't want it to taste of asa
fetldar
"Of course not"
"And para go ric."
-No."
The doctor went through with a list
of medicines, keeping his eye on tbe
door, hoping that some one might bap
pen In. But he was disappointed.
Those whose place was In the kitchen
purposely kept obt and others had no
occasion to go there. At last tbe doc
tor was constrained to conclude.
"Well, if you don't want your soup
to taste of these drugs I'd better get
rid of m.v pot-ket medicine case which
contains tbem all."
He spent as much time as he dared
fumbling for bis" case, the cook grow
ing Impatient the while, then took it
out. opened It. extracted- one or two
corks, snielled of tbe bottles and put
one of them under the cook's nose. It
contained ether. But the doctor knew
very well that be couldn't put tbe luna
tic asleep with ether unless be could
hold it over his mouth and nose. He
hoped to quiet bim and to gain time.
The cook thought it would Improve
the soup and with a wild laugh poured
the contents Into the caldron, stirring
it with the. ladle. Then he turned
'again to the doctor and seized bim by
the arm."
"Hold on a bit" said the doctor.
"Here's something else."
He took a vial from his Case marked
"Choral."
"Taste that" be said, banding it tc
the cook.
Tbe cook took a swallow.
"Fine, Isn't it?" asked the doctor,
breathing a sigh of partial relief.
Tbe cook turned, threw the bottle
into tbesoupi then, again seizing tbe
doctor, lifted bim. despite his efforts,
on to a table used for cutting meat
Then the maniac IdQked about for bis
cleaver, which be bad laid aside while
flavoring the soup. The doctor, white
as chalk, watched tiim. dreading that
he might retain consciousness long
enough to make one chop. Tbe cleaver
was within reach, -bnt tbe cook did
not see it. He pat bis hand to his
head, reeled and sank to: the floor.
The doctor got down from tbe table,
wfent oat of the kitchen, touched an
alarm bell and went back to the in
sensible cook. In a moment several
attendants came flying Into tbe room,
and wben the cook came to himself he
was tn a strait jacket *Jn an upper
ipom.
^Wheif the dlnncr wal served that
day in tbe asylum every one com
plained of the remarkable flavor of
the soap. Fortunately, the drags with
which It bad been flavored were so
diluted that no ode was Injured by:
them. It turned o*t feat th« cook
who finished preparing the dinner in
lb* excitement bad not been informed
of the additions pad* to the soap
from Dt. Frsttymsn's msdictoe case.
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S-:' t-
Facinators, Kitted Scarfs^Golf Gloves,.
Sweaters, Back ComWBeltBuckles, and*
Brooches, Stick Pins, Cuff Buttons, Neck
wear, Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Mittens, and
Shawls, Toquei-/^¥^SS^®.''
24-inch China Silk, in staple and
delicate colors, special^fofc'Jihis QO
sale, per yard, only
Men's neckwear a fine range of
colors and patterns, 35c values,
your choice for only.
Men's neckwear in big.
ment of die newest colonags and
designs, 50c value8, now..__,
Automobile scarfs, a very pretty
line of these useful scarfs, worth
up to 1.25, for this sale, only
Automobile scarfs, beautiful style
in these, materials are very fine,
and you'll be pleased 'with die
showing, worth 1.50, now
34c
88c
1.19
Fancy ribbons, a big line fancy
as well as plain ribbons, worth 1
up to 35c, now only per yd. 1 «lu
Very wide, plain and fancy rib
bons worth up as high as 50c, O OI
per yard only
Imported Dress Gpod&webave
selected from our stock a iarge
Gne of die very best goods the]
stock, goods worth 125, '-liSS
and 1.50 per yard, which we
now offer at din. sale onily_
NOTICE TO TELEPHONE 8U8
I SCRIBER8.
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In view of the fact that the e*p$&se
of operating the local
change has increased greatly with the
extra cost of labor, cable work and
material during the last several years,'
and that with the Increased number
of subscribers the corresponding per
centage of profit has been decreased
on the above account. The ImprdW
ment company will on the first day. of
January, 1910, put into effect theafpl
lowing telephone rates:
Single party business lines, $2:75
two party business lines, ¥2.50 single
party residence lines, $1.76 two par
ty or more residence lines, fL&O.
Free farm connections to remain as ai
present. This is a raise of only twen
ty-five cents per telephone for private
lines, against Minot's raise of $1.60
per telephone the first of the year.
Subscribers to local exchange paid
12.50 for business telephones and $1JQ
for residence telephones when there
were less than two hundred tele
phones in the city, and these without
any long distance, or free farm con
nections, and with midnight service.
Since then the exchange has almost
trebled In size, long distance and farm
connections obtained, in all giving reg
ular subesribers much more for their
money without correspondlng compen
sation to the exchange/1
It is a situation well known in t&ia
telephone Held that to provide for an
exchange of six hundred subscribers
costs a great deal more then six
what it would to «MMMmodate
hundred subscribers, and unless rati*
are adjusted td meet eonHttoQ^ it Is
more unprofitable too In proportipu to
operate a large exchange than a smal
ler one.
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Here lre Some Things You May Be
Dress Goods Special we offer
choice of some 20 Pes. fine dress
goods in blacks and colors worth
75c, 85c and $1, per yd. only..
Ladies* embroidered handker
chiefs, at this sale only, each
30 dozen ladies' embroidered
handkerchiefs, each_______
20 dozen ladies' embroidered
handkerchiefs, each __ ...
Ladies* embroidered handker
chiefs worth 29c and 35c, goat..
Pillow top handherchiefs, same
as you always buy at 10c at this
sale only 1_
Fairy handkerchiefs for die little
folks, 3 for
lms true.
.It there are any suoscribera who do
net wish to retain their telephones at
the revised rate, kindly notify the Im
provement company, in due season
and telephone will be removed.
t- Devils Lake Impvt. Co.
DR. J. C. ARNEBERC
Specialist In diseases the eye,
ear, nose and throat, has returned
after a year and a half of special -r
a tody and practice huthe EOYAL
.. HOSPITAJU of Vioana, .Austria,,
and in private, clinics of Berlin.
y- YSoywiany|.
OFFICE GRAND FORKS, N. O,
Black Taffeta Silk, a yard wide^h 1 jC
J.50 quality, per yard 1
MenrycGhristmas mid a Veify Happy New Year
PURE A8 THE LILY V,
l« the guarantee we make regarding
Dakota flour. There Is absolutely noth
ing in It but the clean, selected k*r
JMis of the best whMt grown. It
ooets more to auiw
THAN ANT OTHER
sell it at th* same prtee as
tried it say they wonldat
ordinary floor in order that every oae
iqut"alWif.Ute'-ljew. 'Ibmr oMer a
•iwt wifl Hee'tanr-good h:f*.. Oflfewni,
for aay.noaeyi
^MadeatHoioe
r„4Bw.tes'ii
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59c
Great Handkerchief Sale
2ic
5c
83C
20c and 25c lines of ladies' em
broidered handkerchiefs, this sale I O li
reduced to mm 2t
18c
5c
Extra Specials
3000 yards of Fleeced goods for
wrappers, house dresses, children
dreiues, inmooas and dressing
''saqftesjjjjgBy colon and patterns.
s' £H»eaegoodsfcaa-^e bought else
where for 12$c p& _yard, we *5*1
offer diem at only, per ycfc^-— 2l
OLD STAND
Devils Lake, North Dakota
.ToTttuattsiA
North Dakota Improvement Co.
No'
$110.00
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W$'
Black Taffeta Silk, a yard wide
1.25 quality, per yaird-.CjL.,-'--..
About 125 Ladies and Misses*^
long cloaks, we want to dean tip
all ready-to-wear goods, so offer
these garments, worth as high asfZ. A /5[
12.50, at this sale
Black Silk Petticoa6, here is' a
stunning Value, voy good quali-
ty and well made, each only__
..... ..
Stamped Lineni, we have' air
raged our line of stamped linens
in two lots, there are: hundreds
of pieces to choose from lot 1
stamped linens worth up to 25c
for each
Lot 2 stamped linens worth up
50c, for each
3.75
10c
Standard wash embroidery silk*
regular selling price 6c, at dus
sale per/skdn mm2\
Our entire lot of ladies' $3 shoes
will be put on sale at die follow
ing price these shoes are both
drbsity and desirable. Ladies'*) ffll
$3 shoes f»only
Sk
25c
There are numberless articles on display at
this stc»e that are priced lower than they
ought to be, but we prefer tQ do a large
business at a small profit than to secure a
(urge profit of a small volume biimess.
A Reward For
....cChe Dividend Check••
JOHN SMITH
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN bOLLAftS
AnnM*l Divufcod on Ten Year Profit Shoring Invotment Cjntnct.
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Ladies' felt nuMers, di«e are
woidi 1 JO, very cozy for house 1 1 S
wear, per pur at dus sale 1«1
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FARGO, N.D., JAN. 1st, 1910.
Series
~Psyable through
_C6mmerdal
Every man feels a eencr sense {Measure in receiving^
an annual dividend check than he does his monthly pay
^envelop*!. Why the difference? ...
One is the result of tofl to provide for Jiving r^nrrr
the other the Reward 01 sacrifice and self denial that ha'
made possible the creatim of^a .fund lot investment,
The Improvement Cwnpany'g Ten Year Profit Sharmg
wvMtment t^onbraet, asud in any denomination, fumnhe»
die ideal plan oi investment for youz surplui
|nuig mese in^ortant featurec
4' a!1^ yapro rauAawofAenrt
J2. Dmdcadf, due and t*omp% paid Jsa. Irt of enth
Stcurty lire .income property, ttratqpcaDy located.
:'4' Contracts of any site ob caiy monthly pawnenU or l^y. im
rag booUd Q.
it fit
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NOMH DAKOTA
MFR0VEMENT CO.
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