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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28

The man who is renting in the east
ern states and has his stock, machinery,
anu a little money, can come here, buy a
farm on easy terms, produce as much
per acre as he can there, if he works the
land IN the same way, and soon own his
ting handsome profit in the advance in
value. The average renter pays more
1 year after year for the use of farm in
| the states named above, than he would
have to pay on the purchase price for a
farm. here, and at the end of his
rental period has not one cent S worth
Of interest in the land itself. While, if
that he makes gives him that much in
terest in the land, and in a few years
he has a home of his own: ' .. @-
There are two reliable real estate con
Germs at Lisbon, Ransom county, Walter
l.. Williamson and the Adams g. Frees
company, who are making a speciality
of selling to just this class of people,
giving them terms so that they can Day
for tie la1'' i1: easy annual Payments
without danger of their beng dis
tressed. r ~
AS thrcshing progresses in Ransom
county the results are even better than
were anticipated at the date Of my last
letter. The crop Of 1904 in Ransom
county will produce more money than
any crop raised in any former year,
and and farmers are all rot only COY eontented
dustrious, intelligent class. of people,
with more push and enterprise than you
will find in the east, and public spirited
to the last degree. 20
There, is absolutely no question as to
the future of this country. Conditions
here are now stable, values on a sound
basis, the land is advancing rapidly, and
I am satisfied that the coming year will
see a greater advance in price, and a
larger settlement than in any two form
er years.
j am thoroly convinced that now is
the time,. and Ransom county is the
place, to buy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28


The number Of schools for 1908 was
1928, with 5,O4l teachers and 1851
school children. Expended in 1903 for
public schools, 1888 1914. Value of
school property, $3,11S, 101. The fol
+ loWing is a list Of the schools and col
leges: State university at Grand
Forks ,, agricutural college at Fargq' nor 7f
City, state manual training school at
GLENDALE, deaf and dumb school at
Devils Lake, school for the feeble mind
ed at Grafton, over fifty high schools
and 25O graded schools, with 1857 de-
partments, about 1,450 rural districts
having one or more schools each.
In addition there are two denomina-
tional schools-the Fargo college, Con-
gregational, and the Red River Valley
university at Wahpeton, Methodist;
the national' industrial school at Fort
Yates and training school in each
county or group Of counties each year.
With this array of educational ma
cheney as each year passes, what stage
of development may the State reason
| ably expect: to reach in ten or twenty
| years hence? When one attempts to
| estimate, what a man can accomplish,
| he bases his conclusions largely on
! what he has done in. the past If the
same rule applies to the state, one may
1 1ook Tor t ) q most gratifying develop
wealth twenty years hence.
No Waste Land.
r., North Dakota has no waste land:
The whole vast plain is pasture land
no rocks, no bramble, and leaf Gov
cred forest lands, no rugged bare hill
| sides, or sandy wastes-all is fertile
and grass clad. Until every inch is
plowed, there will yet remain the native
grasses. - =; =
In all, the state is represented by a
species, of which more than seventy-five
are relished by cattle.
The climate and soil of the state is
such that it is the natural home of
grasses. So truly is this so, that cul-
tlvated, fields left idle speedily return
to sod and pasture status. Weeds and
shrubbery cannot compete with grass in
such as here exists. : '~I,.S
The chemical quality, nutritious ma
ture, follows as consequence of the
cool rapid growth conditions Of the
spring months, followed by the bright
long houred sunshine and the dryer
atmosphere Of the summer and harvest
months. Chemists find that the same
conditions affect the texture and nutri
tive qualities of cultivated grains, for
age crops and grasses. .<.< = !: -
That the state will have the tame
grasses and forage plants to fill thi
place of those native ones which gc
. with the advent Of the pillow, is not
matter of conjecture. As the native
noted wheat fields Of the world, Showing
a quality which sets the standard fol
i that cereal, so also North Dakota ha.
the bronze grass and Turkestan Alfalfa
forage plants which grow with per
sistent, luxuriant grass and hay quality
thruout the entire state, unexcel1ed By
any similar plants elsewhere. They
are not only induces of the future
wealth to come to this state, in pas
turage and forage, but they are, il
themselves, guarantees Of dairy ant
! beef future second to that Of no stat.
/ in the Union.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28
Out They CO to North Dakota.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE
It Doesn't Pay to Rent Farm When Buy
County Land at the Present Loay Prices
and ON Easy Terms.

IL, hlsp opi, n: p: Sept. 2s;lAs l drive
thru THIS beautiful and fertile county
and converse with farmers who have
lived mere Tor many yeaIss,5lt becomes
q matter OF Wo one to me that SO
many people VIII be c COZ l5 to rent
i i III me sIates east 81. TINS, paying
large rentals. each year for the use OF
the land, without 31l1 acquiring a: dolla Of
interest III the land Itself While the fer
tile lands OF Ransom county can be
bought at the present. low pric and on
the very easy terms on which they are
sold. s.=.>'t:-z3,s
"A feW days SINCE. met a farmer who
4oVeu IRON IoWa.a YEAR ago last spring.
lie rented a quarterssse ction of land,
and when ne threshold he discovered
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28
Special Correspondence.


: MinotY NJ D., Sept. 26.---It was Viii
liam Won Humboldt who said that
whatever you wish to see introduced
into the life of a nation must first be
introduced into it's Schools North
Dakotans not only believe the state
ment just quoted, but they also belleye
that the proportion tof well-taught chill
dren to the population is the best meas
Very few states in the union have
been so richly endowed by the federal
government in the way Of common and
high school education as North Dakota.
1t has 100000 acres Of land set aside
for the upbuilding and MAINTENANCE of
her common schools. e ust a small"frac-
ton of this vast tract Of land has" been
sold, and yet it has already produced a
permanent fund Of almost $4,000,OO0.
The income from this fund, Including
| the fines and tax fund, gave to the
children of the state 100000 in 1901.
| This land has sold up to date at about
$3.50 an acre. In five years from now
this income will probably exceed 81 5O0,-
900, and the boy is now in the schools
of the state who will see North Dakota
with a permanent common school fund
of $50, 100000. Can any one doubt the
high position which this splendid young
state must occupy in it's relative posi-
ton educationally with that OF other
states?
The North Dakota university, normal
schools, agricultural college and indus:
trial school are largely attended and
magnifcently equipped, both as regards
the men and women who teach within
their walls and the character of the
splendid equipment in2modern apparatus
for teaching that surrounds them ~. -.
| In 1901 the state expended $2,237.
27328 to educate $4,000 pupils who
attended $3.50 schools, and were
taught by 1919 teachers, whose com
bined wages amounted to !$879.28l:2O
This sum was exclusive of $76,6S4.S:
of school houses, sites and furniture fol
1901 was $3.50, 3l7.52 and the tota
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28
NORTH DAKOIA'S PRE-EMZNENCE
AS AN AGRICULTURAL Sz1AZE
tile Soil Haray Been More Titan
System of the Bestof
z.
Schools and Colleges.

!. IL 4 i I ( & : / . Z. T. &, ~ 4 h
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28
L. w. TORGESON.
Real Estate and Investments,
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA.
NOTICE.

Land interests wishing repre-
sentation on Journal s weekly
page devoted to North Dakota,
write Ward D. Williams, manager
northwest advertising.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28

Nineteen hundred and five will witness great
advance in prices, and those who buy now will
reap 2 handsome profit if they wish to sell.
), Most, of the new settlers come to stay; they
are not spectators. r., .
VIM. H. Brown Company Of Mandan, N. D., on
Septic alone located twenty five substantial
farmers from the eastern states on part Of the
company's tract in Hettinger county, and are
continually bringing in homeseekers who are at
tracted by the rich soil, splendid crops, abun-
dance of coal and water and prosperity of the
older settlers. ,@%
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28

Landseekers now visiting northern Hettinger
county. North Dakota, find stacks of wheat in
every direction.
Threshing is we'll begun and yields are reported
as high as twenty bushels acre. With
wheat above 81 a bushel, such a crop will more
than pay for the land twice over
Every train brings eastern farmers who buy
and homestead and many are improving their
claims this fall; others will return in the spring
Dairymen and stockgrowers find successful cream
cries In operation and herds of fat cattle and
focks of sheep grazing the unoccupied lands.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28
100000 Acres for Diversified Farming r.
In Central North Dakota

Rich black loan opsoi clay subl Prices from 81 90 to $1,000
onethird balance
This is easier than and the
Wheat 70 bushels
80 bushels flax IS busheny of these crops will leave margin
paying for a
following the Napoleon Homestead
North Dakota
September 10th, 1904
this
Of
yielding and he selling
bushel F. j. Lyons macaroni wheat
| Steele went
i
Northern Pacific Line and Milwaukee,
land wilso be a O. past ...
while United
S fifteen thousand
Homeeke will profit getting particulars about holdings
address, -. .4Tu >~#%=>
JOSEPH M. HACKNEY,
Life Building. PAUL, MINI.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
MILKING WITH WET HANDS.
It Is a Practice Sanctioned by Long
Usage, But 1t Should Be
Discontinued.

In milking, the hands do not need
to be wet. The habit of wetting them
should be abandoned, as it is prac-
tically impossible to keep the hands
moist without using the foam on the
milk as a source Of moisture. The
mixer may imagine that by merely
touching his fingers to the top of the
foam no injury comes to the milk, but
the habit had better be abandoned in
the interest of cleanliness. We think
however that some of our writers
%overdraw the matter when they talk
of mixers dipping their fingers into
the milk. The inference is that the
fingers of the mixers reach the solid
milk. The writer has never seen a
case of this kind. According 10 the
writer's referred to, the mixers dip
their fingers into the milk and convey
to the teats Of the GOV so much of the
milk that the latter drips from the
teats into the pail and oozes out from
between the fingers in milking. Who
ever saw a case of this kind? But
even at it's best, the habit of moisten-
ing the teats with milk is not one that
should be perpetuated. If the hands
were to be moistened at all, pure
water would have to be kept near for
that purpose. This is im%practicable.
Therefore let us put aside the practice
of moistening the teats at all and mill.
With dry hands Farmers Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
DEPARTMENT LIFE EFFECTS.
Clerical Life in Government Offices
Is Said to Be Very De-
pressing.

l have no sort Of doubt that
there are old, gray-haired men
v~egetating in the departments
who, if they had never secured a
clerkship in Washington, would
have become great lawyers, doe
tors, preachers, editors, authors,
scientists or merchant 2 princes,
writes Champ Clark, in Saturday
Evening Post. To many of them
the notification of their appoint
ment, which filed their hearts
with joy and conjured up before
their minds gorgeous visions of
conspicuous and lucrative ca.
reers, was an unmitigated curse.
They(came to Washington full of
lusty life, of high resolve, of lofty
ambition; they are here now, fall
en- into the sere, the yellow leaf,
their energies gone, their aspira-
tons dead, their talents frittered
away by service on a treadmill,
with only one purpose remaining
to hold on to a job; and unless
dismissed sans ceremony, they
will be here when the memorable
and inevitable messenger, who
comes for all and will not be re.
fused, knocks at their doors, even
though he should postpone his I'M
welcome visit a thousand years.
"'Tis true, tits pity; and pity it's tbs true"
The Unsuitable desire for a cler-
ical position under Uncle Sam is
comparable only to being stage
struck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
FORTUNE IN A STATUETTE.
Accidentally Broken by a Servant
Seen to Contain Valuables
and Cash.

Many old-fashioned French peo-
pie are given to slowing away
their %pecuniary possessions in odd
hooks and corners, often to the
bewilderment of their heirs, says
the London Telegraph. A charac-
teristic story comes from the en-
yirons of Paris, the heroine of the
adventure being an old lady who
expired a few months ago. She
had put by a certain amount of
money which she bequeathed to
two nephews. One of them
waived his right in favor of his
brother, merely asking to be al
lowed to Keep a small statuette as
a souvenir of their departed rela-
tive. One day the servant of this
self-denying individual happened
to break the statuette, and to the
amaZement of it's owner a lock of
hair, a medallion, and last, not
least, a number of 1,000-franc
bank notes dropped out from
among the fragments. He re-
tanned these articles as some com
%pensation for the smashed statu-
cite without mentioning the affair
to his brother, but having had oc.
casion shortly afterward to dis.
miss his servant, she betook her.
self in hot haste to that gentle.
man, and related the whole Incl.
dent. The owner of the ~statuette
was requested to hand over half
the sum to his brother, and was
threatened with a lawsuit in the
event of refusal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
SAMPLE OF FUTURE HISTORY
The Way the Securing of a Vice Pres
identia1 Candidate May Be
Recorded.

Stealthily the stalwart, determined men
surrounded the house, undetected, owing to
the darkness and the dense fog tnat covered
everything, relates the Chicago Tribune.
Posting one of their number, fully armed,
at every possible avenue OF escape, the lead
er, accompanied by a CozeE trusty followers
upon whose courage and fidelity he knew he
could rely in any emergency, approached a
rear door.
It a given signal they threw their united
weight against it. ,
The door yielded, and the next moment
they were inside.
Rushing through the house, they soon
found the man for whom they were search
ing.
He was sitting in the back parlor, sur
rounded by his family, unprepared to resist,
and evidently taken wholly by surprise.
Surrender" cried the leader, pointing
his revolver at his head.
Gentlemen" said the man, pale but out
wardiy calm, II see you have me at a dis.
advantage. But you need not have brought
those handouts along. I'll go with you
quietly" -,
He had just been nominated by one Of
the great political parties for the office Of
vice president of the United States.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
Value CT the Sunfower.

The value of the sunflower as a field
crop is unknown in this country, and
yet there are few plants which, in pro-
portion to the attention required, make
larger returns. Almost every portion
is useful. The seeds are valued as a
food for cattle and poultry; and from
them may be obtained an oil not in
ferior to that of the olive. They have
also their uses in medicine, making
soothing emulsions like %naxseed; In
Russia they are eaten like nuts, and
in many parts of South America are
ground to meal, of which bread is
made. The leaves are equal in nour-
ishing qualities to corn fodder, and
the stalks are an excellent fuel. In
Italy and Spain, these plants are ex-
tensively cultivated as a field crop for
the sake of the oil expressed from
their seeds. An acre will produce so
bushels, each yielding a gallon of oil.
Farm Stock Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
why HOT WEATHER MAKES WOMEN NERVOUS.
Suggestions by Or. Hartman. How
to Combat the Nervous Depression
Incident to Warm Weather.

Nervousness is very common among
women. This condition is due TO anaemlc
nerve centers. The nerve centers are
the reservoir for nerve vitality. These
centers become bloodless for the want
of proper nutrition.
This condition is especially noticeable
during the warm season. Every sum"
mer an army. of invalids are produced as
a direct result of weak nervous systems.
This could easily be overcome by the
use of Peruna. Peruna strikes at the
root of the trouble by correcting the
digestion. Perfect digestion furnishes
increased nutrition for the nerve centers.
Perfectly digested food gives these reser-
voirs of life a vitality which creates
strong, steady nerves, and in this man
ner fortifies and nourishes life.
Miss Blanche Grey, a prominent young
society woman of Memphis, Tenn, in a
recent letter from TIA Alabama street,
writes: ITO a society woman whose
nervous force is often taxed to the utmost
from lack of rest and irregular meals,
know of nothing which Is of so much
benefit as Peruna. l took it a few
months ago when I felt my strength
giving way, and 1t soon made itself
manifest in giving me new strength
and health. Miss Blanche Grey.
Pe-ru-na Contains no Narcotics.
One reason why Peruna has found
permanent use in so many homes is that
it contains no narcotic of any kind. Pc
runa is perfectly harmless. 1t can be
used any length of time without acquir-
ing a drug habit. Peruna does not pro-
duce temporary results. 1t is perma-
nent in its effect.
1t has no bad effect upon the system,
and gradually eliminates catarrh by
removing the cause Of catarrh. There
are a multitude of homes where Peruna
has been used off and on for twenty
years. Such a thing could not be posi-
Bile if Peruna contained any drugs of q
narcotic nature.
At this season of the year we are
peculiarly liable to determinations of the
stomach and bowels. 1t is the part OF
wisdom to learn how to cut them short
and in the easiest and quickest manner
Peruna does this by its peculiar power
over all forms of catarrhal troubles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
FUTURE OF SUN AND MOON.
Present Solar System May Become
Compact Mass Of Cold and
Dead Bodies.

The alterations now occurring
in the distribution of the solar sys.
TEN have led Prof. George Oar
win, says Harper's Magazine, to
predict that the moon will ulti-
mately return to the earth which
gave her sudden birth so many
ages before, and it may further be
prophesied that the planets and
their satellites must ultimately
yield to the gravitational infu-
ence of our dying sun and must re-
turn to the bosom of their parent.
We must conceive of the solarsys-
ten of today, then, as gathered
into one central mass, closely ag-
gregated around that point which,
from the beginning, has consti-
tuted it's center of gravity. And
what will be the stage of this
shrunken object? 1t will be a dark
star, a dead sun. There are
myriads such in the heavens. Sir
Robert Ball has said that to count
all the bright stars that we can
see and say these r all there
are" would be like counting the
red-hot horseshoes in England
and saying: "This is thetotalnum-
ber." This dark to-be will there
fore be just as such another as
millions more. There will be no
life upon it. We cannot conceive
the terror Of it's cold, for the nebu-
la has been dissipating energy, in
the form of light and heat, into
the chilly depths Of intersidereal
space ever since the first hour Of
it's long-aeval shrinkage.
What is the destiny of this dead
sun among whose constituent
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30

atoms, remember, will be those il
the printers ink before your eyes
and those in the eyes themselves?
Are they forever-''stable in des-
olation," as Stevenson has ito
be borne onward through infinite
space? No; this shriveled globe,
the common tomb of sun and
earth and Mars and of the bodies
of the great that once breathed
thereon, may live again. Give it
but the consuming embrace of
such another voyage and in a mo-
ment a new nebula will be born.
The force of their impact will suf-
fee to evaporate their substance
into another cloud which will re-
peat the history of the old. The
path Of the two dead suns will de.
termine the position of the ''prin.
cipal plane" which will form the
ground plane Of the new system.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
A FLAT WAGON RACK.

cross arms and bed pieces to look well.
Floor with 6-inch flooring. Across
each end fit a piece Of 2 by 4-inch
7 feet long halved out at the corners
to fit the side rails, which are of 2 by
4 and IA feet long. Bolt these at the
n where halved together, and
through cross arms. Better use planed
lumber. Added stiffness and strength
is secured by spiking four pieces of
2 by 4-inch 4 feet long to the under
side of bed pieces over the holsters,
Two pieces Of inch lumber 5 inches
wide fitted back of holsters between
bed pieces prevent sagging inward.
This is for trucks. To raise above
hind wheels, false holsters may be
used. Paint the rack.-E. Hollen-
beck, in Farm and Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30
The Preachers Evidence.

Roland, ILL.,, June 27.-Diabetes has so long
been looked upon as an incurable form OF
Kidney Disease that a sure cure for it must
rank as one Of the most valuable medical
discoveries of the age. And every day brings
forth fresh evidence that Dodd's Kidney
Pills will cure Diabetes. Important evidence
in their favor is given by Rev. Thos. b. Nor
man, the ~well-known Baptist minister here.
Mr.. Norman says:
II had all the symptoms of a bad case of
Diabetes and received so much benefit from
the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills that ! cheer,
fully recommend them to anyone suffering
from that dread disease. Dodd,s Kidney
Pills will cure the worst form of Diabetes"
Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure Diabetes,
one of the final stages of Kidney Disease.
All the earlier stages, from B9ekoche to
Rheumatism, are naturally much more cas-
lily cured by the same remedy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-30

bright, not too pale, yet not too highly
colored, while the salt should be evenly
distributed and thoroughly dissolved.
The package should be neat and clean,
using a good grade of paper for wrap
ping. AS I said before, we should cater
to the trade. If we are making for a GER
tain market, make what that market de-
mands. If making for special CUSTOM
ers, endeavor to suit their tastes in every
particular. This is important, for, while
one customer likes a f~ull-favored but
ter, another likes a mild one. One likes
the butter pale; another highly %colored;
one likes very little salt; another quite
a quantity. 1t is by catering to these
likes and dislikes that u butter will
be in demand, and we shall receive a
! good price for it."
The little cut shows the appearance
of the bacteria-immensely magnified-
which produce good flavor in high grade
butter.