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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-24
How the Wise People Re
turned the Rainwater to
the People Of Nickletown
BY. Julius Muller. Illustrat-
ed by j: 81. : Knicker-
WV HEN the cunning but wicked people Of Nickle-
W. town: needed money, they always planned to
v Y Get ayuisa of ennvville. So

"a 4
. W. town needed money, they always planned to
~ get it from the wise people of Pennyville. So
one day the and the town clerk Of Nickletowns
mounted their donkeys and rode to Pennyville. ..~
Good-day," they said. - How you all today9
Do you feel as wise as usuale so, we have splendid
t'How do we feel'' said the mayor of Pennyvile to
The schoolmaster took out his notebook and looked
into it. ago. said he, 1--WE had great COM
full ideas. So glad that this time Of the
is evidently an extra wise time for us."
IT. So = M tell you at savs s fSr
ifed with the moonlight that have been getting
since we bought the moona'
- every well, indeed said the mayor of Pennyve
s.. '"Well'' said the mayor of Nckletown, "we have
bought the clouds now and if wanted to be we
at But love- So that we
willing to let you have all the rain you need If you WILL
bargain without getting all that there is in it, You
would have to agree that you WI" let us nave the very
s.tertainly,'' said the mayor of Nickletown "Do
you suppose that would cheat youf' n :"
So the town clerk of Nickletown drew up the con
tract and the people of Pennye signed it and put their
For several after that the weather exactly
right The shone just long enough and the rain fell
81 PnnyVe sent Cunning people of
town, and while the people OF NickeoWn rubbed their
hands in glee, and said -.":* ~:.<
aren't we just the ceverest persons that
iveds the people of Pennyve went thru the streets
singing: r.
ooh! good bargain have made! What
- splendid quality of rain getting .~~~.1
81 But then there came month when it rained and
raned and rained Every night when the people of Pen
nyviIe went to bed, it porting; and every morning
when they awoke it was pelting down like mad The
streets ankedeep with water and the ponds over
flowed and the streams became swollen and flooded all
the FARMS the got sick and the pigs did not
thrive and the people all got colds the head and the
only living creatures Pennyve who really happy
were the ducks and geese. 49,, -. . >-... -
It rained and rained and rained At last, after it
had rained twenty days without stopping the people
of Pennyville meeting and the schoolmaster said
81 have an idea. Surely there must be way Of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-24

turning the water
off. Let us write
to Nickletown.''
So they wrote a
letter which said:
"Dear sNickle-,
towners: We have
rain enough: for
, the present, and
we should feel
obliged if you.
were to turn the
water off for q
!. little while,
The people Of
Nickletown wrote
a reply, saying:
cit is impossi-
BILE to turn, the
rain off. You
should not object,
for you must bear
in mind that we
are not charging
you a. cent more,
atho you are get
ting such an ex-
ira fine lot Of
rain. You must
remember that i
is the very best
quality. We reaf-
y should charge b 81
you double rates
this month, but
we are unselfssh
and will let you
have it at the reg.
ular price. i, /
When the PEG
Die of Pennyyillp
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cause they did give good service. So the water
does belong You have for nothing after
this and you have your money back if you will only
close up the hole in the bank there at once
Hurrah!' cried the people of Pennyvile, and they
closed the great gap in the pond bank Immediately Then
they put a tablet the town gate, saying
sHonesty Is the Best POLICY
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-06-08
THE FARM LOAN QUESTION:

Western farmers have grown rath-
er particular about their indebtedness.
One of the common requirements of
the modern mortgage is that the mort
gage shall accept any portion of the
principal at the time of any interest
payment. This means that the har-
vesting of good wheat crop, or the
fortunate sale of bunch Of cattle,
may wipe out the debt, and the loan
agent must find another borrower.
However, one insurance company
has $40,000,00O in western farm mort
gage loans, and the interest thereon
is sufficient to pay all it's death losses.
Another company has s99,OOO.OOO in
loans, scattered over the Mississippi
valley. The larger sums are in Ill
inois, with about s2S,OOO,O0O Min
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/ Infer-Ocean. Devils Lake. N. D.. June ), 1906.

the Secretary of Agriculture is author
lied to report upon such samples, par
GELS Or consignmeilts from time to
time, and the reports so made, shall
serve as "a basis for the fixing of
definite grades, to be determined by!
the Secretary of Agriculture as the
evidence at hand may warrant. 3
Under the authority given by this
provision, the Secretary Of Agriculture
will proceed to establish laboratories
at the three principle points Of ex-
port in the United States, San Francis
co, New Orleans, and either New York
Tor Boston. The business of the officials
in charge of these laboratories will be
to receive samples of grain from ex-
porters, to make a: proper analysis, so
as to find the quality and condition of
samples. and to report such findings
to the Secretary of Agriculture. Up
on these reports the Secretary. is au-
thorized to issue certificate which will
serve as the basis for fixing the grades
of the consignments from which the
samples are taken
This proposed legislation is advocated
in the interest of the grain producers
of the country, the grades upon those
dividuals and commercial bodies inter
ested in the grain trade. The north
western senators are very positive in
their contention that under existing
rules relative to grading, the grain
grower is grossly Disseminated
against, and that American grain for
foreign export is persistently dis
credited.
1t is the belief of Mr.. Hansbrough,
the author of the proposed law, that
foreign purchasers of American grain
will not accept consignments without
they are accompanied by government
certificates, and that when the pro-
posed laboratories are established. and
in working operation, all exporters of
grain will see the necessity of protect
ing their shipments and will be appeal
ing to the Secretary Of Agriculture for
official certification. 1t is claimed that
leading grain exporters at the Port of
Boston have already solicited the de-
partment of agriculture to certify to
the grades of their shipments and it is
more than likely that one of the pro-
posed laboratories will be established
at ROctOn .'-- " .-.r
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The Cow For Dakota.
81 N. S. French, Berlin, N. D.


The Twin States are prospecting and
many other parts Of this great country
are fast finding it out. We; are almost
entirely a farming community and
while all branches of the farming IN
dustry are prosperous and entitled to
due credit for our well being, let us
never forget. that the animal that
helped us when we most needed help
was the COW. Not a registered and
pedigreed COW either, but mostly of a
class that is pretty universally de-
scribed as lust cow" The breeders
of pure-bred stock sneeringly speak OF
these cattle as scrubs but the record
that they have made here for the past
fifteen years is certainly not a
"scrubby" one. Dairy bred cows,
trained to this work for centuries, may
be more profitable, but taken as a
whole, the COWS of Dakota have done
a grand work.
But the true Dakotan always wants
the best of whatever is going, and
dairy bred stock has been bought and
introduced in many different parts of
the two states. Some have said that
the Dakota farmer would not or could
not care properly for the dairy COW,
but a good many of them now seem
willing to try, just as sure as 1t has
been in other branches of farming.
The Dakota lexicon has no such word
as fail" VI .n
Let the good work go on. There is
room on our prairies for millions of
herds of the best COWS on earth, the
COWS that keep their owners instead of
those that their owners have to keep.
At an institute in South Dakota we
lately found a dairy that instead of
selling cream to some big butter fac
tory, was churning at home and sell
ing the finished butter to a large hotel
at a figure very close to the price of
butter in New York Others can do the
same provided the butter has the
quality. Nearly all private families
and first class hotels would rather pay
fancy prices for good homemade but
ter than use creamery goods at any
price. All grocery men complain that
they cannot buy one-tenth enough
good butter for their customers Some
creameries try to supply this trade,
while others do not. But creamery
butter is not what they want. Those
who know good butter and have money
to buy it are always anxious to con-
tract, at fancy prices, for clean, sweet
homemade butter. 1t really costs no
more to make a good article than it
does to make grease, while the price
is nearly three times as great.
Some farmers talk that the dairy
business will be overdone. This sort
of talk has been heard for fifty years
or more and in all those years the
only overproduction has been of stuff
that 'smelt to heaven" and was only
fit for lubricating purposes, and was
mighty poor lubricant even when
used of that purpose. Then don't
try to buck John D. Rockefeller out of
the axle grease business; he needs all
of these little side lines to support his
family. Any man, in any business,
who offers thing for sale, must fur
nish just such an article as the buyer
wants. If he does this his product
virtually sells itself. But when you
try to supply the buyer with what he
doesn't want, you have to hire him tc
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Some Of Their Record.

One of the most important measures
and of the greatest Importance to
farmers that was introduced last SEES
sion was known as the Screenings
Bill, +" introduced by Representative
Dickinson who carried it through the
committee and ably; defended it on
the floor of the house, where it passed
almost unanimously. This bill was
killed in the senate by prominent So
called insurgent. It should have be-
come law.
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nesota. with $10. ZOO. 900; Missouri.
I$11 100000; Iowa. SO. 700. 900: Ohio.
$S.000,OoO, and lesser amounts in a
dozen other states. IT places ap-
proximately 1000 farm mortgage loans
every year, and has in its history loans
ed $3.50, 1000 900 in this way, with prac-
| ticallys no loss. III II ss
a report in the Annals Of the Ameri-5
, can Academy Of Science gives the.
amount of mortgages held by the life.
insurance companies at $500 2,50S, or
PIT per cent Of the companies assets.
This, however, includes loans on city
property as well as those on farms.
The percentage is second only to that
invested in bonds, indicating the par
TALLY for this form of investment by
the most conservative Of investors.
The insurance company is safe
guarded in every possible way. The
HETEROGENEOUS of the application COW
. : fE
Ter four large pages, and include every
! thing from the size Of the borrowers
family to the use he proposes to make
of the money They even inquire into
his habits and his standing in the COM
munity, for the well-informed investor
realizes that the best part of his Sc
curity is the personality Of the bor-
rover. 4s ii II
Thus, it happens that the insurance
companies have few foreclosures and
practically no losses on this class of
investments. OF recent years the
value of land has Increased so rapidly
that every loanmade. as these invest
ments have, on basis of 40 per cent
of real value became 'gilt-edged,"
and the best possible security.
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take the, goods. "A suited customer is
a sfeady CUSTOMER - III AZ gltssS n

take the goods. s suited customer Is
steady customer. 3Sj sg :ssSs
Many farmers anu would-be dairy
men apparently doubt the statements
made as to cows making two or three
or more pounds of butter per day. All
such doubters and all that are in any
way interested in increasing their
dairy product, will do we'll to send to
the dairy division of the department
of agriculture at Washington, D. c.,
for bulletin No. IS on records of dairy
cows. This shows the records of all
the dairy breeds as well as the Short
horns. Red Polls and Brown Swiss,
and some herds of ''just cows A
one cent post card will, bring the book
to any address and quite a lesson can
be learned by careful perusal of its
pages. Nine times out of ten, those
who get poor returns from their milk
ing will find out that they do not have
good cows. f
Every railroad station being now a
receiving point for cream and prac-
tically the same as a creamery, al
most any one can try dairying who de-
sires to, and who can drive to the
station two or three times a week.
0OmCllLlSS OuS lSdul uoulS ali l1o
cream from neighborhood to the sta
ton thirty or forty miles away. By
using covered spring wagon, this
may be done, but we do not advise it.
Yet, strange as it may seem, the most
interest in dairying is generally found
in the western and more thinly set
tied portion of the Dakotas. A fine
herd of registered Holsteins was late
ly shipped into the country west Of
Mandan, N D., and another small herd
to Pierre, S. D., while all over the two
states great interest is being shown in
dairy stock and it's improvement.
Those who have of late been lucky in
raising wheat are not buying COWS, but
there are Others" " "
These machines as shown at Chi
cago in February last were evidently
nearer perfection than any yet intro
duced. This or at least some milking
machine is evidently needed badly and
whenever the American farmer has
needed a machine in the past he has
generally got it sooner or later, so his
chance seems good for getting some
kind of milking machine But for the
present, we had perhaps better stick
to the good old way-not the type
writer way either. And remember
that all the machines in the world
cannot take the place of the watchful,
careful cow-keeper at the most criti-
cal of all times-the calving time. He
who is Johnny on the spot" at that
| time always has the best luck
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New York, June 1.-The Tribune
prints the following from its Wash
ington bureau in regard to grain in
spection: .= r.. AZ r 4.
There is very important item in
the Agricultural Appropriation bill,
which was passed by the senate on Fri
day and inserted in the committee by
Senator Hansbrough and agreed to in
the senate after a very full debate.
The item referred to, is as follows:
ITO enable the secretary of Agri-
culture to establish at such points of
export as he may deem expedient,
laboratories for the purpose of ex-
aiming and reporting upon the
nature, quality, and condition of any
sample, parcel, or consignment of seed
or grain, fifteen thousand dollars; and
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For County Superintendent.

To the Voters Of Ramsey County XIV III ia s.}j
83 AT the solicitation of my friends in various
parts OF the county. announce myself as g.
candidate for the office Of county 5superinten-
dent OF schools. In asking your support for
been my life work, having held the position Of
principal. OF some Of the best schools in this
country and also having had nine years xperi-s
e el as county superintendent OF schools in
Dakota. ~ # ~ Isz- 4 lI -
j assure YOU that if nominated and elected.
that 1 will devote my entire time and energy to
the tional work which will deYolve upon
me as county superin tendent Of schools. III B
a sSF, g3tj Very respectfully, I'll
SEslE IN 85t 2yS ii ohm A. Haig, Il
III III .33 .s. 35!$1i Webster, N. d.
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81 so I'd S Is 90
Clothing for DO Us

IS the strongest depa rfHellt of this store.
We have the kind that stands hard wear.
New styles, choice patterns in fwo.piece
5Or three piece suits, with long oil Knee
length pants. Make yonr boy look hand
some; dress iIl one OfSOur suits we give
with each boys suit an elegant boys
watch like pa guaranteed for one
year Boys clothing ranges from
rs to 81. 100 per suit
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For Member Of Legislature.

hereby announce myself a candidate for
state representative of the 2lst legislative
district and most respectfully solicit the sup.
June 10Th. I assure you If I am nominated and
elected Twill in the uture as in the past do
all in my power TO faithfully and honestly re-
ing to legislation, never forgetting that as yonr
representative 1t is my duty to know your
wishes on all important questions and thereby
be IN posi- ZION to work for your best interests
n 81 - Geo ". d. Davis. 4
5s 80 Evanston NJ ID
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4 Notice of School Election Special
District Annual Election

Notice is hereby given, that On the third
Tuesday in June. being June 10, a.. ID. 1905, an
annual election will be held at high school
building in the special school district Of Devils
Lake. County of Ramsey, State Of North Dako.
TIA, for the pnrpose&of electing the following
members of the board of education Two
Ii The polls will be opened at q clock a. M,
and closed at 4 o'clock p. m. Of that day 4
. Dated at Devils Lake this LIST day of June,
"A. D. 1906. ss "a
I By order Of the Board of Education.
}s Ii 81 Ole Skratass, Clerk,
q Sections sos and 800, Revised Codes, iso5. eSs
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Notice TO Creditors.

In the matter of the estate of Frederick NJ
Morgan, deceased. 8 go - - -
NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned
Cordelia e.: Morgan, administering OF the
township of Ontario in county Of Ramsev
and state of North Dakota, deceased, to the
creditors Of, and all persons having claims
the necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this notice. to
said administratrix at her residence in the
Dated May 20, A. D. 1906. 81 Z, - 3 N,
Burke & Middaugh, Adm,nistrst try
Attorneys for Executrix, =" 80 - =
Devils Lake. North Dakota.
A. D., 1906 - e - - - : - une 2
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For Register 81 Deeds.

I am seeking HE Republican nomination for
the Office of register OF deeds, for Ramsey
county, subject to the will of the voters at the
primaries, to be held on the 18th of juno, next.
i believe in clean and honest politics, and that
every office-holder should be chosen BY a direct
vote of the people. / promise, that if elected,
to use my best efforts to conduct the business
of the; office in the interest of the tax payers
Hoping that you may be at liberty to cast your
vote for me, am. n M
Il y ours very truly, XII
" 55.ss g s{3 Steve Jones.
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CANDIDATES, ANNOUNCEMENTS,
For Member Of LepisIature.

II hereby announce that am a candidate On
the Repu blican ticket for member Of the legis-
lature from the 21st legislative district of
North Dakota, subject to the will of the people
at the primaries on June 10, 1905. If nominated
and elected.I shall at all times endeavor to
apply the doctrine offthe square deal. u n
4$Ss5g N M Sincerely, Ri Il s{#
s;5 20. p. N. Anderson, #
n s5S ~; Nj i Starkweather, N. d.
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"A Fair Question.
III arrisonE MINES. /

Why don't the Good Government
league come out and say who it will
SUPPORT At the state convention a Has
not Governor Sarles given one of the
man can but answer in the Affirmative.
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his is 4 he lace

TO buy mems furnishings Of ali kinds. Mems
shirts ia the famous Cluett and Monarch
brands We show a wide range of choice
patterns, many with cuffs attached, some
without. ALL il the newest designs ana
fabrics. ranging from 81 100 Sto IS. 90 each.
50 dozen mons soft negligee shirts acc, $50,
ss75c each. Mems neckwear iii tie new plain.
coiorss and fancy patterns sell them at
S25c and SOC each.
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What is Better

Than q cravanette or waterproof coat
Tor wear in sun or rain. This is gar-
menf that is indispensable, suitable for.
all occasions. 1t has style as well as
wear. They have never been So popular
as this season. You can have your
choice IN mixtures Or plain black rang-
ing from
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How Abb OUT Hats?

We have the famous Knox hat, Gordon and
Stetson in the new spring and summer
shapes IN soft or derby style Pearl grey.
brown ors black. Hundreds Of new CAPS ii
ell the newest shapes for Sllc 4 u al s n
men Or boys, from, each DUO 10 9l.5U#
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discharge n u duties as d representative OF
Ramsey county. Sincerely,
fS Devils Lake, NJ d.
For Member Of I Legislature.

hereby announce that II am a candidate on
the Republican ticket FOR member 81 tie legis-
lature from the 21st Legislative district Of
Dakota snbjees g the XIII qf the people
and elected shall at all times endeayor tos
discharge my official duties as atrepresenta5iYe
OF Ramsey county Respectfully, s5 a
s - Bernt An(lersoIl.g
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For3Coroner.

hereby announce myself as candidate for
the Repub lican nomina tion for the office Of
tion June 10, and solicit the support Of the
voters at such election. SsI believe that &
physician: ought to hold the office Of coroner
III z5 Il FL "a Respectfully al. III a ny
t ~ s35R DIR. Thor MoelIer.s
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hereby announce myself as candidate for
coroner OF Ramsey county at the primary cleo
ton June Is, and solicit the support Of the
voters at such election. Mr.. G. lbertson receiv-
lsioners of Ramsey county, being one Of seven
candidates. II reelected he pledges to serve
the county to the best of his ability. u.
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On Men S Shoes

We have no competition. Over 1900 pairs shoes
or oxfords III stock We show al All times ta new
shapes in patent Or polished leather. The new
8bench-made shoe III q beauty. You can lind iii
stock the proper shoe FOR field or street wear.
from ~. 75 10 s5 90 per pair. Il I
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For Member of Legislature,

/ hereby announce that am a candidate on
the Republican ticket for member Of the legis-.
!ature from the 21st legislative district Of
North TT Dakota subject to the will Of the people
and elected shall at all times endeavorS to