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VILLAGE OF LAPRARIIE First Addition to Akeley In Whose Name Assessed. . A. Clarkson .... W. Imp. 'Co. W. Imp. Co. D. McCallin .. D. McCallin .. D. McCallin .. . A. Clarkson .. .. A. Clarkson .. . W.{Imp. Co, . W. Imp, Co. Reed & Orman .. & + ee : ACAMHOM MBSE GaTME MO SCwrsT aw. wonmeag ewe y. Imp, Co. y. Imp, Co. . y. Imp, Co. . y, Imp. Co. F, Fraser . W. Imp. Co. . 7. Imp. 7. Imp. . Imp. W. Imp, Co. .. Blackman .. . Clarkson .. Clarkson .. Wm. “Van. Brunt .. .. ‘Wm. Van. Brunt .. .. Wm. Van. Brunt .. .. North Star Const. Co. Wm, Van. Brunt .. .. . W, Dalton .. \ A. Clarkson ae w. & —® woe A, Clarkson A, Clarkson ’.. .. .. : A. Bowman s 100 ft. of W% .. «- L. Churchill, s 100 ft. of e%!..|-- Blackman .. .. .«. dal ee H, McCot H. McCoillin A, Clarkson .. A, Clarkson .. A. Clarkson .. 7. Dutton . . Kearney . ee . Clarkson .. - . McLeod .. McLeod .. ” Clarkson |.. A. Hayes .. A. Hayes .. Imp. Co. . Mosier s% of A, Clarkson balance A. Clarkson W.:Imp. Oo. .. A. Clarkson .. Blackman .. . W. Imp. Co. Blackman . Blackman .. .. WwW. Imp. Co, Blackman .. .. Blackman Blackman . - Imp. ,Co, .. W. ‘Imp. Co. .. y. Imp. Co, .. - . ‘Blackman W. Imp. ©o. North Star Const. € Stephen Merchant .. North Star Const. Co., .. North Star Const. Co., .. North Star Const. Co., North Star Const. Co., North Star Const. Co., North Star Const. Co North Star Const. Co., North Star Const. Co., “North Star Const. Co., VILLAGE OF LAPRAIRIE, Plat of LaPrairie Cloquet Lbr. Co. I. W. Imp. Co. .. N. W. Imp. Co. .. +N, W. Imp. ©o. .. Noquet Lbr. Co. . Doquct Libr. Co. « oN. W. GilTand .. Mogquet Lbr. Co. . Mloquet Lbr. Co. . ©C.0A, Buell .. .. N. W. Inp, ©. Cloquet Lbr, Co, - | Cloquet Libr. Co, . N. W., Imp: Co. .. N. W. Imp. N. W. Imp. Cloquet Lbr. oe Cloquet Lbr. Co. . Cloguet Lbr. Co. . Edna D. Mendel .. Hana D. Mendel .. Edria D. Mendel .. N, W. Imp. Oo. . % Bowman, Jr. . H Hubbard . y, Imp. Co. .. ~ Imp. Co. .. y, Imp. Co. .. y. Imp. Co. .. SO eee LeeLee yr LTS Sarah N. A. z. z. N. a. J. FF. F. N, F. F. tN. F. F. F. iN. N. w. F. N. REBoewaaehankeony & Baa & RRS cmon aame Ne roaee th bansweownrBESewmradah . CO, .. NN. W. Imp, Co. .. -. - “North Star Const. Co, N. W. Imp. Co. ..- McDonald & Sawyer ‘McDonald & meat N. W, Gilliand . NN. W. Imp, Co. He NN. W. Imp, Co.!. N. W. Imp, Co.!. Cloyuet Lbr. Co Cloquet Lbr. Co, . Cloquet Lbr. Co. c. A. Buell .. c. A. Buell .. wc. A. Buell .. -O, L, Mather .. -- IN. W. Imp, Co. « N. W. Imp, Co. - NN. W. Imp. Co. . " A, Clarkson .. ‘A. Buell |e 35 ft. of w’ A. Buell w 2% nm BES eussaneBe Woe poweney & R&R BGR GaWobaeanunagcd Lot we g DO SOS OSES OOO HH WM Go O_O Ay 0g gD APA Mm mh gH 69 69 Co Co HD gg 09:19 BO EO ® Assessed Vaulation for ~ the Year 1912. PE a I Oe OOM Mo Me & gu glee ci ks PESShEsatancvbsasndeneebenna ene HEE EO a pat pak Ea pe pp pp pS OO RE ep a et OL that became delinquent for Yeans 1898 to 1912 Inclusive. « Total Amount of Taxes tr'en a-$ EE J 1 56 2.03 3.18 4.17 4.565 4.54 2.68 3.88 4.55 4.22 1,30 351 g 1914, Imerest to March 21, $ Cts $ 2.72 Q Total Amount of Delin. § quent ‘faxes and Interest. 3.93 224 78 647 1.55 5.81 6.43 6.47 4.27 5,69 6.48 6.05 1,90 .78 38 78 78 :78 6.23 78 78 2.48 <8 8 “78 78 78 18 78 8 8.65 12.10 22.97 2.20 ‘78 "78 78 68 £8 1,91 -78 78 .78 73 78 1.91 -78 -78 -78 78 8 2.28 78 1.21 12.26 2.33 ' i VILLAGE OF LAPRAIRIE Chas. F. Hubbard .. Chas. F, Hubbard .. N. W. Imp. Co .. N. W. Imp.{Co .. N. W. Imp. Co .. .. Chas. F. Hubbard .. N. W, Imp. Co .. Davis Shaw ... IN! W. Imp. Co. N. W. Imp. Co. . NN. W. Imp. Co. . Angie Smith .. Angie Smith .. Angie Smith . David Shaw .. .- N. |W, Imp. Co. .. N. /W. Imp. Co. N. |W. Imp. Co. oe oa STATE OF MINNESOTA, county OF M. A. Spang, being first duly sworn, County Auditor of the County of Itasca, geNg : (i : ee ees, | E bai ee = | 2 g ee ae a = i aq 4.3 Ee PS 3 ig c} g ze a8 Ee a 3? i ee ee eee & #46 E 22 Lot Block $ $ Cts, $ Cts $ Cts. 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We were each and all of the fifteen lyears next years 1898 to 1912, inclusive, Ofte prior to the year 1914, to-wit: For the County Auditor, Itasca County Minnesota Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of January, 1914. (District Court Seal) I, D. RASSMUSSEN, Clerk of District Court, Itasca County, Minn. FLINT STONES WERE SCARCE.| : Our War Office Had to Advertise For Them In 1776. “The war office calls upon all per- sons who know where flint stones can be secured to notify congress.” Was there aught of prophecy in this brief appeal printed four days after the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence? A copy of the Pennsylvania Packet contains the advertisement. The news- paper bears date of July 8, 1776, and in the same column explains that the flints are to be used for rifles. And without the old flintlock there would have been no American independence —at least not for many more years after the Boston tea party. if indeed. the colonials unarmed could have mus- tered up courage to dump the lead lined boxes into the bay. Further perusal of the old news- paper shows Jamaica rum and sugar were offered for sale by the hogshead; a reward of $6 was offered for the re- turn of a horse that had strayed away from the range, and a woman who had lost two cows rushed into print with the statement that the individual who would lead the bovines home again would be remunerated to the extent of Sheriff's sales occupy a column and a half and the Packet’s publisher takes space to announce “advertisements are thankfully received,” adding that “un- less subscribers pay their back dues at 10 cents a copy it will be impossible to continue publication after another month.” THE OLD TIME “YE” It Was Simply an Abbreviation and Was Always Pronounced “The.” How does it happen that in copying and reading ancient manuscripts we call the character our ancestors meant for “the” by the ridiculous “ye?” They said “the” just as we do, and the only apparent reason for mistaking the character is that two centuries ago the letter “h” was usually written with a tail below the line and with a razeed top. which made it look like our “y.” Then the word was so frequently used that it was contracted, just as the word “and” was then treated and con- tinues to be treated to this day by many of us. When I was a boy, more than eighty years ago, the alphabets in our school books always ended with the “short and.” We called it “ampersand” and considered it a fine snapper when we rattled off the alphabet. Sometimes when sufficiently cultured we gave it the full title “and-per-se-and.” Now, it is likely that our “&” will become obsolete, just as “ye” ‘thas be- come. Then our descendants of the next century or two will be puzzled perhaps, but 1 do not think they will be so foolish as to say “ampersand” when reading our manuscripts and coming to the little quirk we meant for “and.” Do fet us drop saying “ye.” —Dial. MAULED BY A LION. An Unexpected Attack and a Perilous and Exciting Mixup. Captain C. H. Stigand*was once mauled by a lion, and he recounts the adventure in his “Hunting the Ele- phant In Africa.” The captain had shot a lioness, and while watching the body from a tree he saw two lions ap- Proach. They stood over the lioness and roared alternately for half an hour. He succeeded in shooting them both, but on approaching the body of his second victim he found that it was not quite so dead as it had seemed. “I ap- proached the edge. aud immediately the inert mass assumed life and, with a roar, sprang on me with one bound. The orderly, who was a few yards be- hind me, immediately retired precipi- tately. As the lion sprang | fired into his chest, and he landed on me, his right paw over my left shoulder, and he seized my left arm in his teeth. As my left arm was advanced in the firing Position, it was the first thing he met. “The weight of his spring knocked me down, and I next found myself ly- ing on my back, my left arm being worried and my rifle still in my left hand underneath his body. 1 scram- bled around with my left arm still in his mouth until I was kneeling along- side of him and started pommeling him with my right fist on the back of the neck. He gave me a final shake and then quickly turned round and disap- peared in the grass a little nearer to the station than I was.” The author adds that he was drench- ed with blood, and upon examination he found eight big holes in his arm and three claw marks on his back, a damage that partially disabled him for two years. He remarks-modestly that since that adventure he has bagged seven more lions. Armenian Peasant Life. Among the Armenian peasants the old patriarchal system prevails. The entire oe. of a score or two of several igpcean re lives Beneath single roof. Together both en and ee yond the fields in a peicaittes janner, and when the grain is ripe, thay take take a sheaf to the road- side that the passing stranger may give a present and thus bless the crop. Their houses are of stone roughly laid or of mud, or frequently they are-half underground, and from a distance their domelike roofs resemble the mounds of a prairie dog settlement.—Christian Herald. i Reflection. “Not everything in this world is ap- propriate.” “What makes you think of that?” “The fact is that navy widows do not wear sea weeds.—Baltimore Ameri- can. A Snapshot. “Here’s a case where the police caught a photographer they wanted in A Rash Adventure Wherein the Hunter Was Hunted. CLIMAX OF A CURIOUS BATTLE The Conflict, Which Was Forced Upon the Jabbering Brutes, Resolved Itself Into a Living Avalanche That Swept Down the Hill—A Lucky Escape. When I was in South Africa, a corre- spondent writes, I left Mangwe one afternoon in company with a couple of men who were traveling up country. We rode at a slow canter through the long grass, for grass grows long in Af- rica, over your head very often. None of us carried a gun or even a revolver. | All we had were sjamboks, whips made of a single strip of hippopotamus hide and stout enough to maim a man if the blow were well directed. We were about a mile below the only pass in the south of the Matoppo hills that leads through to Bulawayo. Sud- denly we saw that the grass on our | left was being disturbed over a pretty wide area, and out of curiosity we rode over. We found out that the grass was simply alive with hundreds of ba- boons marching toward the hill. There were brown baboons and gray baboons and baboons almost black, lit- tle baboons, big baboons, mamma ba- boons, pickaninny baboons and old granddads almost white with age. We reined in our horses and watched. | get acquainted with us. They looked at us over their shoulders, the mam- mas hugged their babies tighter, and | they quickened their pace. We ought to have let them pass, but of mischief that we should help them | along. Before you could say “knife” the three of us were in among them and began to slash with our sjamboks in all directions. The baboons jab- bered and showed their teeth, but nev- | safe so long as we were mounted. Pretty soon they came to a clump of} | trees, which they tried to climb. But | the trees were thorny and they had to give it up. Then they started for the hills again. We drove them right to the foot of the hills, but there we had to stop, for we could not take our horses over the rocks. The baboons swarmed up like acrobats. I didn’t stop to think. but was off my horse and after them. My was, but I was up that bill almost as quickly as the baboons were. A black old man baboon was near- est, and I made a rush for him. He didn’t run. 1 cut at him with the whip. He only bared his teeth and snarled. I looked round. On every side were big men baboons, and each bared his teeth as I caught his eye. They had no intention to run away from me or to let me get away from them. I lost my nerve and couldn’t even think of a way out. All I could do was to back up to a rock, keep the ‘baboons at bay with my .sjambok and wait there until my companions could come to my rescue. Before I'd gone two steps stones began to fly— stones of no small size, either. Luck- ily a baboon is not a good marksman. He makes a jump as he throws. Those baboons hit one another as often as they hit me. Very slowly I backed for the rock; They were waiting for something. That gave me hope. If they didn’t mean to rush me, why not back down the hill until my companions could reach me? So I changed my direction and, amid the fusillade of stones, approached the brink of the declivity. I reached it at last and began carefully to back down. The stones fell thicker than ever. In protection I had to hold my arms over my head. All the time there was a hideous jabbering and screaming. Presently I was virtually underneath some of them. The old black fellow who had first faced me picked up a | Tock as big as himself an dropped it. I dodged, stumbled over a rock behind me and fell. Then I knew what they were wait- ing for. A score of them were on me in a moment. They tore and bit me fiercely. If there had not been so many they would have got me at once, but they got in each other’s way and damaged themselves as much as they did me. I tried to keep their nails away from my eyes and face and throat. and to- gether we rolled over and over and down the slope of the hill, I was scratched and bleeding in a dozen places and my clothes were torn to shreds, but somehow I was not bitten very badly. Perhaps the pace was too great for any accurate work! So we bumped and roiled downhill— first I on top, then the baboons on top, then at last a rolling ball of baboons with me inside. I was too scared even to think of death, althongh if I had been alone death was certain. All at once I heard the sound of hoofs that scrambled over the rocks, shouts in the whistled as they lashed round. Baboons | turned to filmy things and took wing, as, saved, I fainted—Youth’s Com- panion. Memory’s Pleasure. From the crushed flower of gladness on the road of life a sweet perfume is wafted over to the present hour.—Rich ter. If a man would learn to pray, let him go to sea.—French proverb. | They showed no fear and no desire to | one of the fellows suggested in a spirit | friends called to me to stay where I; very slowly the baboons followed.’ English tongue and sjamboks that} Points For the Purist beans Found Flaws In Gray’s “Elegy. F To look for and find in masterpieces little flaws, real or imagined, is an oc- cupation that must have its mysterious joys, otherwise, as it brings no profit, the task would not command all the time and labor that are devoted to it, nor would every such discovery be so exultingly proclaimed. This condition is based, or, rather, its repetition, by the letter in which a correspondent confessed that, having heard verbal perfection ascribed to Gray's “Blegy,” he was moved carefully to examine the verses on the chance of proving this praise undeserved. And he did, he thinks, having found no less than two errors in the lines: ‘Their name, their years, spelt by the un- lettered muse ‘The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews To teach the rustic moralist to die. “Name” should be “names,” this au- thority declares, for the reason that the stones bore not one but several names, and “many a holy text,” being singular, demands “teaches” instead of “teach!” Now, just why Gray put the word “name” in the singular and not in the plural might be made the subject of in- genious inquiry, with any one of half a dozen sufficient explanations as recom- pense and all inconclusive, but to see force in the diversity of village patro- nymics—that requires more than inge- nuity; it deands perversity. As for “many a holy text,” that does indeed, the grammarians say, insist that a | verb in immediate sequence be singu- lar. Even the grammarians admit, however, with innumerable writers of | both verse and prose, that if the verb be in a later clause the plural idea in- volved in “many” can properly be al- lowed to govern. Would our corre- spondent insist that when the estima- ble W. Scott, quoted by Goold Brown in debating this very question, wrote In Hawick twinkled many a light, Behind him soon they set in night— the “they” should have been turned to \ “it?” The change would at least be { amusing. That much can be said. | Critics of this sort never will learn that rules for linguistic usage are not applied to but are deduced from writ- ers like Gray and Scott, that what such men do is right because they do it and that no further justification is needed.—New York Times. COURSE OF A PITCHED BALL. Why a Straight Fast One Jumps Side- ways In the Air. That a pitched baseball curves in the direction in which the nose of the ball is moving because of the spin—upward if the twist given by the pitcher is up- ward, toward the right if the twist is to the right, and so on—is a matter of experience that is quite comprehensi- jump sidewise in a most irregular manner, although pitched straight without spinning is certainly arco In the Journal of the Franklin Insti. tute Professor W. S. Franklin of i high university expounds the phenome- non as well as the philosophy of twist- ed balls. Multitudes of “fans” who have always supposed that the baffling qualities of a straight pitched ball were due simply to its swiftness never suspected this eccentricity. Professor Franklin states the case in this way: Consider a very smooth ball which is moving through still water without spinning. There is certainly no more reason why the ball should jump to the right than to the left. Therefore it must continue to move straight for- ward. That is good logic. But such a ball is no more subject to logic than is asharp stick. The fact is that the bali does jump sidewise and in a most ir- regular manner. This may be shown by dropping a smooth marble in a jar of still water. The marble goes nearly straight for several inches and then suddenly jumps sidewise. Similarly a smooth baseball jumps sidewise irreg- ularly as it moves through the air if the ball is not spinning. The explanation lies in the fact that a rapidly moving stream of air splits when it flows past a ball with unstable dividing lines or vortex sheets. The unstable sheet will spurt now upward, now downward. The condition is the same when the ball splits the air and is shunted in a glancing manner past the bat. The only requisite for this baffling effect is power in the pitcher's arm. one might imagine, but to water for birds. The birds are said to bring good fortune, so the drinking are not provided wholly for them. Helping Her. “You loved her very much?” “So much that when her first hus- band died I married her that I might share hergrief and so lessen it.” “And how did it work?” “Fine! I’m sorrier now for his death than she is.”—Houston Post. Probably. Mrs. Newlywed—I wonder why we are growing tired of each other? New- lywed—I baven’t an idea. Mrs. N.— Yes, Maybe that is the reason—Lon- don Telegraph. Mrs. Helter—Tommie, don’t you think you've had chocolates? are two 4 i