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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

It is widely claimed that the big
line companies terminal elevators
are mixing houses that always ship
out grain at higher grade than it
was bought in. These houses claim
that if the farmers sell dirty grain
that brings low grade, that can be
cleaned and graded up, it is a bust
ness mans privilege to do SO. They
say that is the way it is done. This
might be important, if true The
fact is that the experiment. has been
tried, not only by farmers, but by
elevators, Of cleaning and grading up
wheat without getting the results.
The inspectors will give grade that
is correct, but the facts are that
when it is sold at the chamber, the
grade has nothing to do with the
price and the seller is as much out as
before. It is a good plan to clean
grain before it is marketed, but not
for the advance in grade or price, but
only for the feed gotten out of the
screenings.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

John W. Daniels, of St. Paul, 1.-THE
worlds champion sculptor in butter'
has whole gallery Of buttered statu-
airy at the National Dairy and Food
Show at Chicago this week. Old
Fort Dearborn is produced entire and
on a colossal scale while there is a
whole gallery of famous men done in
butter, Washington, Lincoln, etc.,
etc. Mr.. Daniels has already prepar-
ed wonderful bust of f. w. Taylor,
chief Of the United States DEPART
ment of agriculture, which will be
exhibited. Mr.. Daniels is rapid
workman and he will add to his COL
lection butter busts of all the famous
personages who attend the show.
While this is supposed to draw a
large attendance we have a bunch
that another nickel or two added to
the price per pound of butter would
discount the interest obtained
Through sculpture pretty heavily.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

The state high school inspector re.
commends the establishment of
twelve new high schools at the fol-
lowing places: Cass Lake, Chaska,
Gilmore, HaWley, Jordan, Kasota,
Mabel, Mora, Morton, New Prague,
North St. Paul and West Concord.
The only counties beside these now
without high schools are Benton,
Clearwater, Cook, ..Isanti and Roseau
They are due for representation next
year. There are liza state high
schools in Minnesota, and the enroll.
ment is 20,2l5 pupils. This is an in.
crease of 1900 since 1904. AS tc
graduates, 1858 were turned out ir
1905. The instructors employed
number 1926. One thing lacking
which should be supplied without de.
lay, says Mr.. Alton, is the industrial
element in the high schools. He
thinks classes in cooking and sewing
household economy and agriculture
pursuits should be established il
every school. He contends that il
should be given immed iate attention
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island

Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
is chairman of the Interstate COM
merce committee of the Senate. This
committee has the rate bill in
charge, and Aldrich has plainly
shown his inclination to delay it, as
much as possible Senator Clapp, of
Minnesota is member of that
committee, and being used to have
something doing, he told the chair
man a few things, the other day,
that astonished that worthy greatly.
The ''Black Eagle" Of Minnesota
made some forcible remarks to the
effect that the committee had had
the bill under CONSIDERATION for year
or more and that it was time to get
a move on. We feel quite sure that
Nose used phraseology and emphasis
that shocked granny Aldrich very
much.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

When Mabel Mckinley went on the
stage there was more disappointment
than pleasure manifested at her &C.
tion. 1t was not considered deli
cate thing for her to do, as she had
occupied a good deal the same posi-
tion Miss Roosevelt does now. She is
the daughter of Abner Mckinley,
and a niece Of the martyred presi-
dent. Abner Mckinley died greatly
in debt. His daughter has paid it
all and has now retired from the
stage to domestic life where she is
known as Mrs. Baer. ''This is a
pretty good lesson on the value of not
passing Judgment on other peoples
acts. In a majority of cases we do
not know the secret springs"of their
action. Every man who passes judg
ment on his own thought will have
enough to do to keep him comfort
ably employed' says A. j. Russell,
in the Minneapolis Journal.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
GOOD GUESSING CONTEST,
Programmes Ornamented with Cats
Each Word in Game Begins
with Word "Cat."

After all have assembled, pass pro.
grammes Ornamented with cats, and
tell the guests that the questions are
to be answered by one word, the first
syllable OF which is cat
A waterfall and a disease? (Catar-
act.)
An instrument OF torture and an ami
NAL? (Cat.)
A deluge? (Cataclysm.)
A burial place? (Catacombs.)
Sometimes used at funerals? (Cata-
falque.) ~.
An unconscious state? (Cataleps,.)
A list of names or things? (Cata-
logue) -.-y r. .s.-.
An animal found in the mountains
(Catamoust.) 49,.
A great calamity? (Catsstrophe.)
A disease that afflicts many? (Ca>
tarrh.)
A boat rarely seen? (Catamaran.)
A class or order of ideas? (Cate-
gory.)
One who provides for the inner man?
(Caterer.)
What becomes a butterfly? Cater
pillar.)
| A cry oft heard in the night? (Cat
erwaulJ
A religious edifice? (Cathedral.)
A beam at ships end? (Cathead.)
An instrument of torture? (Cat O
Nine Tails.)
Domestic quadrupeds? (Cattle.)
| An article used in illness? tCata
plasm.)
A book of questions and answers:
| (Catechism)
For prizes copy of the Black Ca,
magazine and a penwiper ornamented
by stuffed kitten may be given. Fol
refreshments, spread the table: with &
red cloth, use black cat candy boxes
for favors. red candles in blacl
wrought iron holders. and the effec
will be unique. Shades may be mad,
from red paper with black cats pastet
on
Serve deviled crabs. sandwiches, cot
fee, olives and a mulled cider if no on,
objects. Madame Merri.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

of detail, this law provides that. the
interstate commission shall hear
complaints Of unjust rates, and if It
finds justice in the complaints il
shall fix maximum rates to go into
effect in thirty days and remain in
force until the courts decide that
the substituted rates are unfair.
The people demand some sort OF
governmental regulation Of railway
rates, and this law embodies the
views of President Roosevelt in the
matter. The senate may, however,
amend itsin some particulars.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
d were piled and burned with

dirt and were piled and burned with
out difficulty. u
The burning was of value to the
land, the charcoal a sweetener and the
ashes fertilizer After they were
spread over the land, half carload of
manure to the acre was also spread on,
and then ploughing begun. The land
was twice narrowed, and rye was
planted, bushel and a half to the
acre. The planting was late, but it
was thought there would be sufficient
growth to help considerably in supply
ing humus vegetable mold) to the vir-
gin soil.
The farmers laughed at this idea,
and here are their words as the re-
porter gives them: .How many BUSH
els to the acre dye reckon they'll cut.
sow:n' two months late?" queried the
farmer. '.Cut!" the other almost
roared. Don't reckon railroad sows
with the expectation of harvestin' any
thing, do We, Hiram? Where was you
brought up? They're justh sowin' it to
have somethin' to plough up next
spring. They call it .humissin' the
soil. Referring to the manner In
which the rye was planted. by use Of
q drill. one Of the neighbors remarked
''Drilltn' rye, an ef they amt dom it
with ordinary horse drill. I 'spected
to see 'em usin' q locomotive with
headlights on both ends and men
strung out across the field wavin.
their arms to go ahead or back up
The experiment appeals to Others
besides the natives We are used to
hearing about the great waste lands OF
the far west, but that there should be
such lands at the very gs.tes Of
New York is q subject OF novel
interest.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

City farmers are very free with
their advice to the farmers of the
Red River Valley to raise corn. Our
opinion is that the farmers will raise
corn just as soon as the land and
conditions are fit for it. Corn and
stock go very we'll together but the
stock has to have little bit the lead
in the parade. Good stock is possible
without corn, but corn without stock
is a certain failure.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
Well Grooned.

Remember that to be well-dressed or
well-groomed or even considered q
careful person in your toilette, you
must to-day present to the world a
shiny, well-brushed, well-kept head Of
hair. There must be no sag over tho
ears there must be no stray ends and
flying locks. There must be nothing
of the blow-away couture which was
popular five years ago. The hair must
be close to the head, and II It is not
naturally neat. it must be made SO By
2nHisibla net and invisible nina.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
MOVE EXP [R|MEhT
LONG ISLAND RAILWAY CON-
PANY GOES IN FOR FARMING.
Believe Waste Lands May Be Re-
claimed with Fair Profit -Farmers
Of Neighborhood Ridicule Idea
The Agricultural Beginning.

Enterprise and persistence, and hui
NOR, all have marked the effort made
by the Long Island Railroad company
in reclaiming portion of the So
called waste lands lying within hum
dred miles of New York city. The
president of the company, Mr.. Ralph
Peters, believing verltable gold mine
might result from the proper treatment
of these lands, has established an agri-
cultural experiment station in the re-
gion OF pine barrens and scrub-oak
waste.
The farmers laughed at the idea of
railroad taking to farming, ridiculed
the idea of anyone being able to raise
anything out there, on land so poor
even the appraisers regarded it as
worthless. Later we shall present
some OF their sayings as put down by
New York Herald representative;
doubtless it is needless to remark that
the remarks are a trifle Electrically
"tarmy." Farmers we know speak
English of the usual sort, are not al
ways suspicious of progress; but may
be the Long Island native is a type
similar to the stage "Hiram''
To go on with the work of the rail-
road company->purchase was made Of
small plot of 17.S acres in the heart
of the waste lands,' and the work be-
| gun of putting ten acres under culti-
| vatiol, the land was absolutely unpro-
ductive as it was. Experimental sta
ton No. 1 considered of the two typi-
cal classes of Long Island forest
growth, pine barrens and scrub-oak
waste. The lands had often been
burned over, everywhere about stood
blackened poles of dead trees. From
the farm site decided upon dead trees
and underbrush were cleared away,
aid wind brake of living trees left.
Then a company of sons of Italy was
set to work, under the direction of an
expert, at the dynamiting of the num-
berless stumps. The fuse method was
used, and at a single explosion there
would be uprOOted from II to IA aver
age-slzed stumps; some of the larger
ones came up in twos and threes.
Dynamite clearing, besides blowing
the stumps out of the ground, tore out
nearly ell the large roots, loosened the
earth for considerable distance and
aerated it and made it friable to a
depth of from two to three feet It left
the soil in condition which made SUBJ
seQuent plOughing less difficult than
turning sod. From so to 1O6 stumps
day we're blown out, the larger number
requiring in the aggregate 56A pounds
of '1yanmite, which averaged a cost Of
!! Is cents per stump.
"A stump six and one-half feet in di-
ameter was split and lifted clear and
was CARRIED free with roots from six
to eight feet long. The time taken to
remove a similar stump by other means
was found to cost from 80 to 40 cents,
and the large roots were left in the
ground to interfere with subsequent
ploughing and narrowing. The stumps
blown out by dynamite were free from
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

material of the tight-titting part of the
sleeves is slightly draped on the linz
ing, the pointed wrists being finished
with galloon. The puffs are cut in
one piece, but are gagged up few
inches from the lower edge to form a
small puff below the larger one
Materials required for the bodice:
Two and one-half yards 46 inches wide,
ree-fourths yard crepe-de-chine, two
yards galloon, two yards lining.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

School dramatics are very common
now. They afford great deal Of di
version to those who form the cast
to the rest of the class interested, and
to the spectators. In our colleges an
event Of the year is the rendering of
play of Shakespeare. such as 'Mid-
summer Nights Dream" or Much
Ado About Nothing" The properties
arc usually simple, and the stage set.
ting is necessarily whatever the girls
can manage with screens and portieres
and their own clever wits. But there
is far more. than diversion secured
in the care and pains with which the
characters axe selected, in the many
rehearsals under the supervision Of
teachers, ard in the fidelity with
which the girls repeat the lines as
signed them. H.. .'.s.
Whatever part girl may take, she
Is expected to prepare for it with dill
gence ard accuracy and to regard it
as important, whether it be that OF
a leading lady or Of maid in wait.
ing. On the mimic stage of the school
room there must be respect for the
| work for the works sake; there must
be due consideration OF the honor of
the school as a whole, and there must
be also great patience and forbearance
among the girls themselves, because
when a group of people are rehearsing
for a play. there may be impulsive
criticisms of those who blunder and
little frictions which, for the moment
hurt the sensitive and annoy the
quick-tempered. Girls rush to superla,
tives at such times. We have to put
temper wholly aside whenever we
are working towards a common end.
One of the most important lessons
IN life, one that girls need to learn
Is how to work in harmony with 9th
ers. In this life we are all somehow
bound in one bundle, and if anybody
declares that she is going to stand
all alone and do her work all alone
and have her pleasures all alone. she
i Is making a great mistake. one th1l
she will find out to her cost alta,
swhile. .s
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

"A bill has been introd uced in con-
gress for ablishment of a parcels
post system in the rural mail ser
vice. It is proposed to make the
rural carrier collect and deliver par
GELS at the following rates: Parcels
up to eight ounces, cent; parcels
over eight ounces to one pound, 2
cents; parcels over eleven pounds to
thirty pounds (half bushel), 10 cents
parcel over thirty pounds to sixty
pounds (busheD, Is cents; parcel
over sixty pounds to one hundred
pounds (half barely, 20 cents; parcel
over one hundred pounds to two
hundred pounds (barrel), 25 cents.
This plan is different from parcels
post in the entire postal system, as
by this plan the parcels can be carri-
ed on just the one rural route where
they originate. We believe that
some such plan would be of great
benefit to the rural population, and
not detrimental to the local mer-
chants and would also make the rural
mail service self sustaining. A par
GELS post extending through the en-
tire postal system would inevitably
tend to build up the big commercial
centers at the expense of the small
towns, and would, in our opinion, be
harmful to the country as whole.
The plan outlined above, however,
would have no such destructive
effects.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

The Sheaf considers it a pleasure as
we'll as duty to recommend trading
at home in preference to patronizing
the catalogue houses, when the home
merchants do business on a plan that
backs up the recommendation.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

The home merchant who adyertis-
es and states prices, qualities and
modes in his advertisements need
not fear the competition of the mail
order people. Every country editor
knows this, and every country mer-
chant who is making a success of his
business is also aware of it says Mary
McFadden in the Duluth News-Tribt
une.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

Lost, strayed or stolen, a multi
millionaire who answers to the name
of John Dollars Rockefeller. When
last seen he wore a brown wig, pa
per vest, grayish pants with black
stripes and a black derby hat. Sup.
posed to be fugitive from Justice.
Any one knowing his whereabouts
should promptly notify Thomas f.
Lawson or Miss Ida Tarbell. - go.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

The Evening Times, the new daily
at Grand Forks, seems to be getting
to the front in fine shape and MAX
ing room for itself in what might be
considered crowded field.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

We know of no one in Warren who
has been invited to the Longworth-
Roosevelt wedding scheduled for this
week, but all the same we are sure
every citizen will wish the Presi-
dents daughter all the pleasure and
JOY that wedding day can possibly
bring. y. .. .
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
PRETTY ALPACA WAIST.
Trimmed with Galloon and the Vest
Should Be Of Crepe de Chine
or Like Material.

The tight-titting lining fastens up
the front; on this is arranged the vest
of crepe-de-chine. which is draped
horizontally. the right edge being
neatly finished. and made to taste n
over to the left side; the material
fronts are also gagged horizontally, the
edges being finished by galleon. The
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

The house Of representatives pass
ed the Hepburn railroad rate bill
with but seven dissenting votes, and
now it is up to the senate. That
body will hardly dare to turn down
a bill passed by such an oyerWhelm-
ing vote in the lower house. Shorn
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

Crookston papers report strong
inquiry for valley lands fitted for
stock raising and dairying. The past
season laid better foundation for
increased land prices than the biggest
crop of wheat could have done, by
showing such a general increase in
dairy products.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

The story that General Douglas, of
Moorhead, is going to race Congress-
man Stevenson for the nomination
from the Ninth District next sum-
mer blew into Crookston the other
dow
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
SCHOOL DR,AMATICs|
TO-DAY AN APPROVED PoRrIoN
OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The Schoolgirl Who Takes Part in
Plays Learns How to Work in
Harmony with Others - College
Girls Annual Shakespeare Play
Grace, Poise and Forbearance Ac-
quired Through Participating in
Dramatics The Memory Is
Strengthened and Familiarity
with Good Literature Obtained.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
Sl.OO PER YEAR.
THURSDAY, FEB. Is, 1906.
The Chippewas at Mile Lac have
agreed to join the tribesmen at White
Earth. The removal will occur soon.

The Canadian land boom is not en-
tirely without bottom. They rails
ed lis, 900, 900 bushels of wheat up
there in the western provinces in
1905.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

The finest saddle animal we ever saw
was a we'll bred and we'll trained iron
gray mule. What that mule did not
know and could not do no horse need
try for. ..-.- ILL
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
BY MARGARET E. sANGsrER

z" ACA was SCuOOlS1rl we uSeO 10
look forward with great anticipation
to our annual school exhibitions. l do
not know why the powers that we're
then in authority made distinction
between a girls reading her own essay
and a girls reciting poem by some
body else, but this they did ! Boys
were required to declaim and great
stress was laid in their education on
the cultivation of ease before an audi
ence. But we girls, as a r!le. sat
modestly in the front seats of the
chapel, in our white frocks, while
members of the school committee or
local clergyman read our compositions
for u.s.; In the ideal of that day WON.
ans place was in the sweet shelter
and beautiful background of her home,
and young girls were not encouraged
to take part in public exercises of any
kind. The exception was in favor OF
the smaller girls, who were dressed
like fairies and came tripping out to
sing a solo or recite a bit of verse,
and who were taught to curtsey deep.
ly in response to applause from the
listeners.
In my later schooldays there came
change. | remember very we'll the
first time stood before what seemed
to me crowd of attentive faces and
read a composition of my own. The
subject was Temperance" and it was
treated with great force by the L..
year-old girl who had chosen so big a
theme. In the middle of the reading
she became frightened, lost her place
and her voice, and could hardly have
gone on, but for kind gentleman
who came and stood by her side, say.
ing: "Never mind them, my dear
Read straight ahead. I'll stay right
by you" still remember that man
most gratefully
Still later we had in our school
what to-day might be called a venture
in school dramatics. We of the senior
class dec1\ed that we must have a
May Queen, with court attendants,
fairies, elves, trolls, queens of flow.
ers and Of grains, Ceres, a Flora,
a fersephone, and train of people
representing different phases of the
earth and the sea. Our scheme was so
ambitious that we could not find any.
thing in print by which we could carry
it. out, and the girls with one consent
| turned to me, saying: "You must
| write play for us, or else our May
Queen will be a failure Looking
back. I have always been surprised at
Ithe way the teachers acted in the mat.
ter. but our lovely principal when ap-
preached was really most gracious.
why, yes" she said. Miss NJ
may be excused from all her classes
for the next week, while she is writing
the May Queen play"
I wish had it now, but it long
ago was lost in the limbo Of forgetful-
ness. The thing can see with my
eyes shut is the beautiful pageant,
with the prettiest girl in school as
Queen of the May. and everyone from
the oldest to the youngest taking some
part in her coronation. either singing
song or making an address while
the whole school, drilled by the mu.
steal director, broke forth into fre-
quent chorals. ,y A. :. s.s
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
AUCT ION
At the Old Edwards Farm
FEBRUARY 2Ist. 1906.

The following described property,
will be offered for sale: Two white
mares, with foal, one white horse,
one black mare, with foa', one iron
gray horse, coming four, in spring,
one iron-gray horse, S years old, four
steers coming in summer, four
young COWS, two lumber wagons, one
steelframe two horse hay rake, Nc
Cormick binder, Mccormick mower,
one Tricycle. gang plow, and about
$50 bushels of oats. w. H. Dixon,
Auctioneer.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

Pound for pound the mule will sell
for more money than the horse. and
pound for pound it is worth more
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15

LOST: A lady's gold watch.
Finder will please leave at Sheaf
Office ..
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-15
Farm For Rent

All or part of Sec. 26, Farley. Four
miles south of Warren. II
TT. NJ. j. McCann.