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GOOD LUCK NOT FOR HIM
One of i Life $ Little Ironies'' on the
-: Z: Sidewalk. ..-. $780,
New York Mail

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What might. be construed as one of
''1ife's little ironfes'' presented itself clear
ly enough enc day last week to the New
Yorker with a taste for philosophy.
It was in the very heart Of the shopping
district, where fakirs and ''sideWalk mer .
chants" push their wares almost under the
very noses Of the passersby. But this par
ticular one did not His business meth
DDS, and his appearance in general, were
such as to make him marked figure In
that hustling, bustling throng.
Hour after hour he stood, silent,
crouched up against one of the big de-
partment stores, 50 as to be as much as
possible out of the reach of the cutting
wind, which made life misery for all
that were not provided with warm, winter
clothing. His seedy frock coat was but
toned tightly across his chest. His derby
was neatly brushed (tho 1t spoke of the
L style of some five years back), and it was
set ON his head with primness. His linen
and tie were both frayed, and there were
places, in his gloves that betrayed the
amateur member. Genteel poverty and
hopeless despair! He was the incarna-
ton Of them both, and all that was miser-
able besides. All this was emphasized by
the tray which he at times pushed for
ward. It contained "Oriental Good Luck
Stones! Only Is Cents Each.
Two women were caught in the swirl d.
rectly opposite him.
"Oriental Good Luck Stones. Only Is
Cents Each" read one from the placard,
| IT wonder why he doesn't put one in his
pocket and go home and live happy and
prosperous ever after?' 80. - 49,. T.. e..
1T wonder" rejoined her companion, as
they passed on. But neither they nor any
one else bought one. And he continued to
! stand there, as if he had imbibed some
| of the eastern stoicisrn from his stock in
! trade. '" "''-
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GOWNS FOR LITTLE GIRLS
Voiles and Canvas More Popular Thar
Ever. 49, 49,. .-
New, York Evening Post

IT,, ~, New York Evening Post:
Little girls gowns of wolfe and canvas
arc more than ever popular. In light
browns, blues and reds they are pretty
hardly. durable enough for school. A
cadet blue wolfe for a child of 10 was
made with skirt plated at the waist
line, the shallow plaits stitched for sew
eral inches and hanging free to the
hem. Three tucks appeared above the
hem The waist had q shallow yoke
and collar of wool lace dyed to match
the material. This was in up and down
stripes fagotted together. A bertha fell
below this yoke, dropping low over the
full sleeves. Two tucks crossed waist
and sleeves: The latter, were full to
the cuff, which was high and pointed
and made of the dyed lace. 49,,
same. age had a full skirt laid in plaits,
but stitched FOR barely nineh below the
belt. - Two fat bands Of the material
were applied. like tucks about the hem.
| The waist had a square-cut neck filled
in with very deep cream lace ,.guimpe
high elbow cuffs. Stitched bands of
! the material were put on UP and down
on the waist, Stimulating plaits. Three
of these appeared on either side Of the
waist running from the shoulders tc
the waist line. .sA..---....
.@Sadstos relate, there. seems to be ten
4 dency to depart from these cha1rminglly
! overturned garments. Aside from the
] extra expense and trouble involved il
providing elaborate clothes for children
I there is a moral effect Of overdressine
{ which should not be overlooked. One
feels sorry for child decked out like
la fashion plate. It is impossible thai
I its whole character should not suffe1
i from it. 49, -. ..
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MEXICAN LINEN WORK
Women Who Make It Work According
to Peon Contract.

-.1..... The Pilgrim.
The woman who makes drawn work
on a Mexican estate Is not an indepen-
dent worker to whom comes the money
for all the work her deft hands accom-
plish. She is a woman whose father or
brother or uncle or mother is in debt
to the "great don.' She can do the
her with linen or lawn, frame and the
requisite implements, and indicates the
design that she is to follow, for tho
you may not know it, there are fashions
in drawn work quite as exclusive and
quite as popular as there are in women g
hats, for instance. When her work is
done, that poor woman cannot fare
forth to market and offer it for sale.
It is, by the term of her peon contHsct,
perhaps already sold to the '1great
don,'' whose tenant she is. Miguel,
his agent, takes the work, by now as
grimy as the overalls of an engineer;
he has kept account of the time the
woman has been engaged upon it, and
for each of the many days she may
most IL cents; but, never the last
amount, unless she be a thoro mistress
of her craft.
Once year the Mexicans for whom
the women do this work somewhat as
the sweatshops' toilers Of Chicago and
New York drive their needles for a
master, meet. in solemn conference and
determine what the prices shall be.
So great is the popularity of drawn
work generally that the supply never
equals the demand and the profits made
| by the Mexican masters of the drawn
work "trust, - for it is really that, are
enormous. The dealer pays these
, Operators what they demand-and
they demand much. Therefore the buy
er pays $40 for a "cloth' that cost the
manufacturer IL cents a day, labor
hire, for, say ninety days, to produce.
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CAPITAL COMING
FROM THE EAST
NORTHWEST THE BEST PLACE
FOR IT, SAYS AUTHORITY.
Wall Street journal Representative, At
ter Tour of States from the Lakes
to the Pacific Coast, Says Possible
ties of This Country Are Beyond the
Belief of Fasteners.

John. H. Fayant Of the Wall Street
Journal, who is returning to New York
from the Pacific coast, passed thru the
city today. Of conditions as observed
by him, Mr.. Fayant says:
The northwest, from the lakes to
Puget sound, was never so prosperous
as it is today. Even, a car-.window in
oping country served BY the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific roads is
enough to convince the tenderfoot from
the east Of the enormous possibilities
Of this country. One notes very little
indication Of the unstable business con
ditions resulting from sudden booms
From Minneapolis to Portland CONNER
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Development Just Begun.

Many new branch lines are either
being built or surveyed. These feed
ers are opening up new mining, agri-
cultural and manufacturing sections
and will swell the steadily growing vol
ume Of traffic. There are enormous
|undeveloped resources in the Pacific
Northwest which are latent assets of
the railroads. The development of
western Montana. Idaho and Washing
ton is in it's infancy.
"Before left for the west, Mr.. Hill
CT the Great Northern said to me that
within ten years the big business OF
his road would be on its western end
There can be little doubt of this. The
mineral resources of this country have
only been scratched. It's timber out
put will be in increasing volume fol
many years to come.
tHThe agricultural possibilities OF
this section are far beyond the belief
Of fasteners. Already it is a big pro
Queer Of cereals and fruit, but it has
only begun. Irrigation schemes are
being undertaken on a tremendous
scale.
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The Red River of the North Is one Of
the few important streams in the
United States which run in a northerly
direction. 1t gathers its waters from a
group Of lakes in central Minnesota
Whsshs HE Where the the sM5fft aso
rises, and where the St. Louis and other
streams flowing to Lake Superior have
their sources.
Z This watershed is broad, undulating
plateau, COVERED With forests Of hard hard
multitude of lakes and ponds. The
Otter Tail river leaps from the general
level of this plateau by series Of rap
ids and cataracts at Fergus Falls; flow
ing in westerly direction twenty.-six
the Bots de Sioux river at Breckenridge,
forms the Red River of the North, and
then turning to the north, pursues its
long course to Lake Winnipeg, in the
Canadian province of Manitoba.
Only few decades since the people
Of the United States were ignorant even
Of the existence of that scope Of coun-
try, now known over the length and
Valley'
Less than. fifty years ago the buffalo
and the Indian d +h r9a%ed at VIII and IN
gion. Today the Red River valley is
known, not only in, America, but in
Europe as we'll, as the most productive
secti on of this, the greatest productive
fGeuntry in the T gpri It has esrp led
World.' The valley is about 300 miles
long and from thirty-five to forty miles
wide. lying on either side Of the river,
which divides Minnesota from North
Dakota.
Red River Valley Soil.
The alluvial soil of the Red River
Of from four to eight feet. There is a
surface covering Of pure vegetable
mould. produced by the decay Of vegeta.
Ition, and the loan rests upon a light
yellow clay subsoil, which contains a
good deal Of mari. and is very rich, pro.
ductive and lasting, being capable of
producing good crops for many years.
without the use of fertilizer.
30 rich in the elements required for the 1e
support Of plant life that a good
growth Of wheat can be raised on ii
when all the surface soil has been re-
moved. ..... .. ~ F.
The entire valley is the bed of the an
Gent lake which the biologists outline
upon their maps. and to which they
gave the name Of Lake Agassiz The
valley soil is therefore the deposit of al
luvial matter formed in the bed Of Lake
Agassiz thru countless prehistoric ages
AS Wheat-Producer.
The reputation Of the Red River val
ley as a wheat-producer is so well
known as to scarcely need mentioning
The wheat grown there is of such q
quality as to be first at home as well
as abroad. It is Familiarity known as
mo. l hard,' and is grade unto
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cial conditions are as sound as they are
in the east. Bankers, merchants, min
ers, lumbermen, ranchmen, farmers,
manufacturers and railway men whom
I met in North Dakota, Montana, Ida
imbued with that great faith in their
country which is so characteristic of
the west. Everywhere I noted the con-
tinual influx Of new capital from the
east. Certainly no section Of our coun-
try presents greater Inducements to
capital than the northwest.
Railway business is expanding with
the country. Both the Great North
ern and the Northern Pacific show the
effects of many millions Of dollars spent
in. the past four or five years for bet
ter eau ipment, roadbed and stations
! New masonry culverts, steel trestles
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STRONG EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES OFN. OAK;
AzNOT AND WARD CO.'S SCHOOLS UMSURPASSEl

districts in 1901, was SLY ,9l6, 706.6O. !.
AS striking example Of the remark
able development this state has made in
education, in the past few years.. the
COUNTY county ef M an adng e Teg IS he
haps the best illustrations. In the year
1901 Ward county had but forty-two
schools July, 1904, it had 237 schools.
In 1904, this county had 1912 children
Of school age, which is 1855 more than
there ,oo were people in the , entire county
school townships in the county. -Four
years ago there were but twenty. The
city of Kenmare has just completed a
school building that cost $4,000 tore
place the one that burned last spring,
that cost $4,000. This city has a pop
ulation Of about 1000 people and had
its birth but seven years ago. All the
'cellent school buildings, the most of
them being constructed in the latest APP
proved style of school architecture.
Four years ago Minot had common
school with six or seven departments in
operation with teachers with little or no
one Of the best equipped high schools
in the state with a corps of fifteen in
structors each Of whom. is profession
allv trained and selected for the espe-
cial character Of the work he is to do.
This change has been brought about
with the binding swiftness Of enchant-
ment, and it is doubtful if any county
in any state in the Union can duplicate
this performance. That change is here
to stay. Not only to stay, but to grow
until Ward county shall have one Of
the best and most complete systems for
found within the borders of any state.
Let the emigration boom boom on,
and yet North Dakota will never be
1 great either relatively or intrinsically
until we learn to do our own work with
our own hands; until North Dakota g
Snendd are are 1 deveioPRed 9y
brain educated on North Dakota soil.
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and steel bridges of the best construc.
tion are noted all the way west. The
Northern Paciic's new steel bridge at
Sand Point, Idaho, which was opened
for traffic last week, is an example OF
the kind of work the northwestern
roads are doing. This bridge is 4,60C
feet long and cost $1,000,OOO. The road
beds Of both lines have been brought
up to a high standard and the traveller
is as comfortable as on the older east
ern lines. . ~ =
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An unsuccessful attempt has been made
in France to revive the fair Of Beaucaire
on scale comparable to that of the good
old times. These. fairs began in the thr-
tenth century and gradually rose to such
proportions that in 1870. for instance, the
business transacted amounted to 10000
900 francs Before the middle of the lask
century the railway changed all this, and
today the fair is mere shadow of its
former self.
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Special Correspondence.
& Minot, N. D., Nov. 16.-It was Will
liam Won Humboldt who said : that
whatever you wish to see introduced
into the life of a nation must first be
introduced into its schools. - North
Dakotans not only believe the state
ment just quoted, but they also believe
that the proportion of well-taught chill
dren to the population is the best meas
ure Of the civilization of that people.
Very few states in the union have
government in the way of common and
high school education as North Dakota.
It has $500, 900 acres Of land set aside
for the upbuilding and MAINTENANCE OF
her common schools. just small frac-
tion of this vast tract Of land has been
sold, and yet it has already produced a
permanent fund Of almost, $4,000 900.
the fines and tax fund, gave to the
children Of the state $500,00o 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 100000, and the boy is now in the
schools of the state who will see North
Dakota H with r. aoH COZ
one doubt the high position which this
splendid young. state must occupy in its
relative position educationally with
that of other states9 .S$$% t..
The North Dakota university, normal
schools, agricultural college and indus:
trial school are, largely attended and
significantly equipped, both as regards
the men and women who teach within
their walls and the character of the
splendid equipment in modern appara
tus, for teaching that surrounds them
In 1901 the state expended $2,237,
273.2s to educate $4,000 pupils who
attended $3.50 schools, and were
taught by 1919 teachers, whose com
bined wages amounted to .y$S7S,281:20
This sum was exclusive Of $685.. 81
paid to school officers. The total value
1901 was $2,75O,317.52 and the tota
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township and sold $4,000 worth of fax
from his first crop, or $4,000 more than
the farm cost him.. 4 -.
North Dakota has an average popu-
lation of only ten persons to the square
mile. The average Of Rhode Island is
nearly five hundred to the square mile.
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While women are allowed to vote in
Australia, no disposition is shown to elect
them as legislators. The most popular
woman candidate at the last election re-
ceived only 10000 votes. as against the
so, 900 Of the man lowest on the list of
competitors.
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NOTICE.

Land interests wishing repre-
sentation on Journals weekly
page devoted to North Dakota,
write Ward D.. Williams, man
aper Northwest Advertising ~
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VALLEY OF THE RED AND
u ITS WONDERFUL FERTILITY

great deal of drainage work has been
done in the Red river valley in that
state. Many thousands Of acres of land
which was practically valueless before
the drainage work was commenced has
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The gold production Of the entire Alas
kan district for the present year is esti-
mated at $26, 100000.
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been redeemed and made profitable and
valuable by: systematic ditching.
.... >z..-. County Drainage.

James j. Hill was one of the first to
realize and urge the Importance OF
drainage for the northwestern part of
Minnesota. AS the future Of this sec
tioil is matter Of large moment to his
line of railroad extending thru it, Mr..
Hill offered to bear one-fourth of the
expense Of constructing a system OF
bitches which should give some relief
ia; the lands suffering for want OF
drainage facilities, and he contributed
to the extent of many thousands OF dol
lars.
In the past few years county drainage
work has been undertaken and in sec
lions where more than one county was
interested in the undertaking the work
has been done under the direction OF the
district court, and such d1tches nave
been known as judicial bitches. The
nlanshas been to assess the cost of con-
struction on The property benefited ac-
cording to- the proportional benefit re-
ceived ~
tits nearly ten years since organized
efforts .look king to the construction OF
drainage systems on the North Dakota
side Of the Red river were made. Diff
ficulty was experienc ed IN securing the
passage of an, adequate and satisfactory
law under the proVisions Of which drain
age projects might be undertaken and
carried thru. Two such state laws in
succession, altho carefully drawn, were
declared unconstitutional, and thus the
work was delayed.
In the past few years consid erable
Pembina and Walsh counties, and it is
believed that the state drainage law
| now in operation is proving very sat
isfactOry
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FOR sALE-1eo ACRES OF RICH WHEAT.
producing land: located two miles from towAs
IS acres in cultivation, balance all pillow land.
except 10 acres of meadow worth $50; price
SIG per acre; more land agents wanseSs
Frank P. Root, Lakota, N. D.
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I itself, as it Is not grown in the country

itself, as it Is not grown in the country
at large. -:
Its superiority consists in the fact !
that it contains the. two most .impor-
'tant observation-disclosures and richness
in albuminoids. This statement is based
on the report from the bureau Of chem
istry Of the United States department
of agriculture, which, after an analy-
sis of 2,700 specimens Of wheat taken
from every section of the United States
as we'll as from foreign countries, came
to the above conclusion. -.
1t was also demonstrated that given
quantity of flour made from this grade
will make q larger amount of bread
than the same quantity of flour made
from any other kind Of wheat. That is
to say, a barrel Of -four made from No.
l hard wheat produces twenty-five or
! more loaves Of bread more than the
same quantity Of any other kind Of
-four.
The analysis further shows that this
flour contained the highest per cent of
both gluten and nitrogen. The denomi-
mating and important elements, then,
are richness and albuminoids, which are
to the construction Of the human body
what raw cotton is to the: woven fabric.
Gluten goes to the making of muscle
and nitrogen contributes to the non
combustible element, which enter into
the composition of the more enduring
parts of the human body to which the
relation may be said to be to the body
what iron is to the stove. ..,.:, .
To quote the words of the report:
'lThere is no doubt that the north
west has furnished the country finer
flour than it has ever before pos
sessed.'
! Lands Reclaimed.
A considerable proportion Of the Red
river valley is apparently very fat and
has been freq frequently w, described rib as
variation is almost imperceptible at
many points in the valley. No. -.
This is particularly the case Of the
tportion along the river on either side.
At distance Of from five to- fifteen
miles the land becomes more rolling
and is broken at frequent intervals,
! rising also to a considerable height
! above the lower lands nearer the river.
In unusually high spring floods these
low fat lands in the center of the val
ley are sometimes flooded and seem like
series Of lakes. :. d.
These lands might take care of their
own surplus water, but they are bur
dened with the food water coming down
1 the coulees from the higher land on
either side, sometimes for weeks after
I their own surplus water is disposed of.
! These conditions are a serious detriment
\ to these otherwise finest and most
valuable lands in the valley. =
The difficulty can be adequately rem.
edied only by complete and adequate
4 drainage systems and facilities. Min
nesota has had for years a drainage
commission, and under its auspices a
-
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Markets and Transportation.

Lake Superior is within twoshundred
miles Of the Red River valley. Com
peting railroads carry the valley IS prod
ucts to the head Of Lake Superior,
whence they are landed at the seacoast
at less cost than they can be carried
from Chicago to the coast. .ss4s rs
Charles Baker of Ramsey county
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be Of n
richly level Heart bottom land miles Of
adjoining,
miles "a town y 2 Ry store postohee
address the has
and i. N CARY, Mandan,
The Somerset reporter., 1904-03-17
The Forks,

Just at present we are having real old
fashioned March
P ]. WEIGH, who is working for Geo.
Groder, is at home for few days.
Walter Bloom, formerly of this place
arrived in town last Thursday, with the
remains OF his wife, who died at the in
sane hospital at Augusta. where she has
been great sufferer for neary year,
Besides the above she leaves 7 children
and other relatives; the funeral took place
from her fathers home. Joseph Durgin.
conducted by the Rev. Mr.. McNeel oil
Bingham and many friends called to pay
there respect to one they had always loved
her age was SO years.
Among the people who attended the
Rebecca and Star fair at Bingham were
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Whorff and daughte
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Filzsimmons and
Mrs. S c. Durgin and Hazel.
Mrs. F. J. Durgin and Mrs. Henry
kennedy are on the sick list at this writ
ing
James Kinsley is at home for few
days
T. J Durgin, James O'Brien, o. c,
Adams and William Adams with party
from Bingham are at the Big Garry Pond
fishing.
Scion Bunker was up from No. Arson
last week.