Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-04-13

the Chicago Tribune. The associa-
ton consists of farmers in the vicinity
of Rockwell, Ia. Eleven years ago
there was a firm Of brothers in the
neighborhood that grew rich SO rap
idly by buying the produce of the
farmers and selling them supplies that
the latter resolved to secure these
profits for themselves. They formed
a cooperative association, selling
stock to ninety-fve farmers in four
townships in shares of 800 each, no
man being allowed to own more than
three shares. The association built
an elevator and began the business OF
marketing the grain and hogs of it's
members and selling them their sup
plies. l.
A unique provision in the consti-
tuition has been the bulwark of the as
ISOLATION. The members are paid
one-fourth of a cent more than is given
the seller outside the society, and
members are compelled to pay one
fourth of a cent commission on all
grain they sell to competitors. The
manager pays the highest price pos
sible based on Chicago quotations, and
if any competitor offers higher prices
the members sell to him and pay the
the associations members always have
a market where lney can get the high
est prices or else the competitor must
pay more than the market price to the
benefit Of both the association and its
members. AS a result the farmers
have actually always received from
rs cent to ~ cents more for their
grain than do the farmers in neigh,
boring counties. The goods sold by
the association are at prices from 20.
to % per cent less than at regular
stores in nearby, towns. The asso-
~ciation mas grown until it now has 500
members, and did over 100000 bus
mess last year.
The success of the association is due
largely to the excellent management
of it's affairs and also to the fact that
public sentiment prevents a break.
The two or three. farmers who have
Esold grain to outsiders without paying
the commission have been %astracized
socially. It's profits, of course, are
due to the fact that the middleman is
eliminated and its managers are on
tent to work for merely nominal sal
aries. The wreck of most co-opera-
tive associations has been due to bad
management and the lack of sound
business principles in the conduct of
their affairs.
President Mckinley is in excellent
health Notwithstanding the strain
under which he has labored since MS
induction to odiee-in war and peace.
Few presidents have had greater
problems to deal with than Mckinley,
and yet, in speaking OF him recently,
an intimate personal friend says:
The president is in his usual good
health-better, perhaps, than it was
four years ago. He is a light eater,
does not touch alcoholic liquors be-
yond an occasional glass of wine at a
state dinner, the wine Invariably being
diluted with mineral water. His
nervous condition is such that every
afternoon at 4 o'clock, after the off
cial routine duties are out Of the way,
he takes a SOUND nay for fifteen min
utes or half an hour, and gets UP re-
freshed. He has his mothers tenn
perament. She a a self-poised
woman, with a pale but clear CONF
plexion and wen temperament. She
lived to be eighty-eight years old. The
presidents father reached the age of
eighty-five. After Major Mckinley
became president a well known life IN
surance company Of this city wrote
j him a policy for $4,000, and the same
company. since the beginning of the
present year, after giving the president
an informal looking oyer, offered to
write one for 100000, believing that
the risk was what they style a good
one. There can be no doubt that tbs
president is in just as good, il not
better, shape to undergo the strain OF
a national campaign as he was foul
wears ago.
W. had thought this was a British
war in South Africa, but it appears X
be Irish. The following Irish organ
izations are at the front
First Royal Munster fusileers.
First Royal Irish rifles.