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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20

If you suffer with indigestion, consti-
patton, feel mean and cross, no strength
or appetite, your system is unhealthy.
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. makes
the system strong and healthy. &c,
Tea or Tablets. -McCoY& Go.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20

Builds up waste tissues, promotes ap-
petite, improves digestion, induces re-
freshing sleep, giving renewed strength
and health. That's what Hollisters
Rocky Mountain Tea will do. IS cents,
Tea or Tablets. Mccoy & Co.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20

Why get up in the morning feeling blue,
Worry others and worry you;
Here's a secret between you and me,
Better take Rocky Mountain Tea.
McCoY & Co.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20

Wanted-A girl for general house
work. Inquire at Renwald's residence,
525 SO. Main street, Minot, N. d. til
Horses for Sale Frank M. O'Neill,
r. F. D. No. /, Minot, N. D. 2-17-tf
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20
Wanted 100 choice 5 yea

farm loan applications for an
eastern client, also city loans.
If accepted you get your money
right away. / want 10000,
10000, 10000 for a year at
current rates on choice securi.
ties. Farm lands and city prop
lerty. See III. N. Midtbo, 1l2
North Main st.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20

For sale-A span Of good mules, al
90 Q pair Of bay horses, weight 2600
lbs. new wagon and one good dray.
Inouirs 1t Independent once. TIP
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20

Banker Smerud came down from
White Earth Monday to transact
business.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-20

We are paying the following prices
for Hides and Furs until further notice:
Hide market firmer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
SHOP EARLY

NITIZENS who have not already
done their Christmas shopping
" should attend to 1t early in the
day and early In the week. One of the
best methods of showing the Christmas
spirit is to have consideration for the
store clerks, delivery men and errand
boys. Do not put off until tomorrow
the shopping you can do today. Christ
mas shopping has often become so
strenuous toward the close of the time
in which purchases may be made that
the Christmas joy of the workers has
been turned into pain. No one has any
right to rob another of Christmas. 1t
is the universal holiday which should
make the whole world kin" If you
would enjoy Christmas do not be one
of those who heedlessly or carelessly-
not willingly or malevolently-make
Christmas miserable for their fellow
human beings, the store attendants and
other employees Long before Christ
mas eve all your purchases should be
made and most of them mailed. A
rush during the last week makes life
miserable for postoffice employees as
well as for store clerks.
Really, friends, WE HAVE NO
RIGHT TO INTERFERE WITH OUR
NDIGHBOR'S ENJOYMENT OF
CHRISTMAS. He or she is as much
entitled to happy holiday as you or
I. If you have not bought all the pres
ents you intend to give, get right up
after reading this article and go out
and do your duty by completing your
Christmas shopping TODAY. DO IT
NOW. Then when you hear the choir
caroling-
Hark, the herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn king,
your conscience won't prick you, for If
there are any stories in the newspapers
about fainting or dying store en-
ployes, sacrificed to the last-hour rush
of Christmas shopping, you will know
you had no part in the barbarous out
rage.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
NATIONS AWAKENING

T LAST the sultan of Turkey is
n popular. Abdul Hamid, the viii
IA lom monster of iniquity," who
by a British member of parliament
was nicknamed Abdul the Damned, is
now a reformed and universally es-
teemed man. What has brought about
this amazing change of sentiment?
Abdul has learned to trust his people.
Despot no longer, but constitutional
monarch, he has accepted the situa-
ton with good grace, and the American
people Will approve and indorse the
resolutions of congratulation and
good wishes of the senate and house
of representatives cabled by our gov
eminent to Constantinople on the open
ing day of the Turkish parliament. The
influence on world politics OF the blood
less revolution in Turkey is what
chiefly concerns the United States. The
federation of the Turkish empire is now
possibility. and for the first time
since the Moslem invader tore down
the cross of Constantine and renamed
the capital of Christendom "Istamboul"
there will be peace in the Balkans.
Verify, this is Eurasia's Christmas
story, and none viii be found more
fascinating and thrilling and moving
by those who understand.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
SUGGESTION PURELY NATURAL
PHENOMENON OF THE MIND

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.-LEditor
Herald]: Ever since man became
self-conscious animal he has asked
three questions: "Who am u" Where
am II" where am 1 going?" And
there has been class of folk to an
swer-"for consideration" because
man has ever been willing to pay hand
somely for the answers.
Messrs. Hobbies, Clodd and other
authorities tell us that all primitive
religion grows out of mans fear and
ignorance of natural phenomena. 1T
was fear that first created the gods.
Primitive man did not understand
shadows, eclipses thunder, dreams,
ural entities, spirits, etc. He assumed
himself the central point of the uni
verse, as children always overestimate
their own Importance. Science gradu-
ally explained these things to a degree.
but as man developed mentally his
fears took on more psychical aspect.
This fear of the unknown, however,
dominates all religions even today more
or less, variety of labels notwith-
standing.
When we first heard of suggestion,
hypnotism, mental therapeutics, we
were afraid and called them the works
of the devil. (Some do YETI
But when Mrs. Eddy studied psychic
phenomena (mental healing) from p.
p. Quimby, she evidently understood
this human weakness or fear of the
unknown, the mysterious. and she
banked on it. Accordingly she incor-
porated it upon Christianity, and took
advantage of the uncertain meaning of
the scriptures to prove her claims.
Humanity drifts along lines of least
resistance, for ii is much easier to be-
lieve than to reason, especially when
one learns ito deny what we perceive
materially"
Whatever good Christian Science ac-
complishes is not due to its tenets,
but in spite of them. Sugestion-a nat
ural phenomenon of the mind-with its
finite and material limitations, is the
force that does it.
DIR. HUMANITAS.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
Presidents Names Are Used
Freely by TOz0r Founders

guished only by its Jail and capitol, Is
nrobablv the best known of the name
sakes of the author of the LOUISIANA
purchase, although twenty-four states
have each a Jefferson. Grant pass IS
doubtless the most conspicuous OF the
geographical terms which recal! the
eighteenth president, just as Mou UNI
Mckinley, the highest elevation on ne
North American continent gives INC
twenty-fourth president his best POSI-
ton In the Biographies. The Roosevelt
dam, the greatest piece of engineering
in connection with the countrys lrrl-
CATION experiment, is prominent among
the objects which bear our present
executives name.
It is to be hoped that President TAFT
will have something worth while named
in his honor before long. One presi-
dent made It q rule to have polite
acknowledgment sent to any parents
who reported that they had named
child in his honor, but to pay no atten-
ton to missiVes, though plainly writ
ten IN good faith, conveying the intelh-
gence that his name has been bestowed
on a favorite dog, horse, revolver OF
motor boat, Even some honors must
be accepted grudgingly. Samuel BoWles
wrote half a century ago that IL was
poor compliment to the father OF the
country to have the northwestern cor
ner of the country named for him. put
this was one of the instances Wners
Samuel proved a poor prophet. Per-
haps Taft, Mont, may yet be FAMOUS
for it's boulevards and cathedrals.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
Jury DUTY
crisis.

FUDGE WILBUR gave an iIlumi-
mating and instructive address to
- the members of the City club on
the question of changes in criminal
procedure. He thinks judges have
permitted too great latitude in cross
examination, and says they frequently
"allow a witness to be badgered ana
browbeaten and insulted by attorneys
in violation of the plain duty imposed
upon them by the law and by the very
fact of their position" He says one
of the most important changes which
can be made in criminal practice is IN
the matter of instructing juries. He
made the criticism that in very many
cases instructions are given to juries
in such a way that they do not COM
prehend at all the meaning of the
court. and he added: II think in our
effort to state the law, and not to state
the facts or conclusions based upon
the facts, because of frequent re-
versals for so doing, we have struck
the pendulum to the other extreme"
Ali citizens who have done Jury duty
will feel grateful to Judge Wilbur Tor
an outspoken assertion Of fact which
for various reasons they might per-
haps be reluctant to acknowledge. We
believe it is true that sometimes a
judges charge will befog a jury the
members of which have followed the
course of a case with the ordinary
business intelligence and aptitude for
the discernment Of actualities which
characterize our clear-headed Amer
lean citizenship.
To expect a man to conduct CONNER
cial transactions day in and day out
and then suddenly to acquire, as
If by intuition, a sagacious and
exact knowledge of legal technicalities,
is asking ''just little too much" To
enlighten a juror explicitly and sim
ply as to every technicality or tor
tuosity which may puzzle him might
sometimes almost require the services
of an interpreter.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
AMERICAN RIGHTS

A cCoRDING to our appreciative
n and highly esteemed contempor-
- airy the, Brawley News, 1.-The Los
Angeles Herald has set halo on the
heads of all the profession in its unique
and winning fight for the poor and
neglected element of that city. st.
Peter will wink with both eyes at once
when The Herald tries to pass" This
deserves a word of comment The
fight we are making is in line with our
present policy, which, as we have fire.
.uuently told our readers, is an asser-
ton of the first principles Of Amer
icanism, which compel us to believe
ALL men are created EQUAL, that
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. We believe interference
with these rights to a large extent was
responsible, not only for the Repub-
lican panic, but for much of the pow
erty and distress of which in recent
years more has been heard and more
seen in the United States than ever
before In recorded history. Washing
TOMS soldiers starved at Valley
Forge, and starvation attended some
of the sieges conducted during
the War of the Rebellion, but never
in the peaceful and civil history of the
United States, when its liberties were
not menaced or interfered with by
armed foes, had starvation claimed as
many victims. This starvation was the
result of disorderly social conditions,
which had paralyzed some industries
and had disorganized the finances OF
the people.
These disorderly social conditions
proceeded from a contemptuous dis
regard of the first principles Of Amer
icanism exhibited by certain so-called
magnates, among whom we must in
clude some of the traitors to their
country who dined in purple and fine
linen with Taft the other day, while
the bread line was still on Broadway
New York, where the snow is begin
ming to fly. We should have thought
they would have been unable to swal-
thought 1t would have choked them,
but they seemed to be and doubtless
are sublimely unconscious of the very
serious fact that in the modern history
of industrialism in the United States
there is a history Of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute
Industrial tyranny over the States"
That tyranny is already to great ex-
tent established. Every prodigiously
rich beneficiary of the system which
robs children of education and spreads
disease, starvation and death among
the poorer CLASSES of this free"
nation, where class is crime, is
traitor to Americanism. Taft VIII
have to be a cautious and sagacious
chief executive, or during his term of
office there will be an assertion OF
Americanism that may amount to
| crisis.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21

II ECENT destruction by fire of the
X town of Taft, in Montana, which
~ aside from that calamaity had
dwindled greatly in population and was
said to be a frontier town of tough
repute," suggests that even a president
may not always be fiattered by the
places named in his honor. Prominent
men differ greatly in their Tuck in
this particular. Gen. Denver, not a
great historical character, lived to see
the city named for him the most sub
stantial in a great section, whereas
many presidents and other national
leaders have had no town, mountain
lake or pass named for them important
enough to be recalled by any person
ordinarily we'll informed. The older
presidents. the towns named in their
honor profiting by a century's growth,
are better off I'm this particular than
the later ones. Madison, Wis; Monroe,
Mich, and Jackson Miss, are better
known than any Hayes, Garfield, arthur
or Grant that appears on the map, says
the Boston Transcript.
Our federal capital is the greatest
city named in honor of president.
Cleveland, the largest city bearing a
presidential name, may centuries hence
be thought OF as named for Grover, IN.
stead of Moses. This may be one of
the catch questions of 25OS The
Adamses. in Massachusetts, and many
other states, appropriately bear the
name of the second president. Jetfer-
son City, the capital of Missouri, al
though miserable little place, distin-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
SAYS ARGUMENT AGAINST
SEX EQUALITY Is FOOLISH

SOUTH PASADENA, Dec. 15.-EEd-
itor Herald: 1 have for some months
taken a great interest in the Public
Letter Box, especially in the letters
written on Socialism. Socialism to me
means stagnation. or, worse still, going
backward, because 1t does not take
into consideration human nature.
While it promises bread to the indo-
lent and money to the lazy, and good
clothes to the shiftless, 1t offers moth
ing better to the thrifty the persever-
ing, the intelligent and the ambitious.
Socialism offers no opportunity to rise
above the general lsvel Of the masses.
AS 1t promises to all a good living, 1t
really means that the best workers
will have to keep the thirftless and
lazy in good food and clothing, where
as under present conditions, If the
masses will only vote intelligently for
straight men every one has chance
to work, and those who are ambitious
have a chance to rise and to assert his
or her individuality.
Under socialism they will just be a
cog in a state wheel, working longer
hours because a vast army of ne'er-do-
wells have to be kept on full pay, in
stead OF on short rations.
NON-PARTISAN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
RAILROAD TAX

7 the New Year the railroads pro-
"a pose to tax California industries
IA and products by making an ar
bitrary and unwarranted increase or
freight rates. Some railroad magnates
were tempest tossed during the Repub-
lican financial storm and the earnings
of their roads were not up to the aV-
erage. It has become a tradition with
the railroads that there must be big
profits and dividends, otherwise the
enterprise is not success" and 1t is
the fact that in order to provide profits
the public is expected to pay more
than the cost of hauling, which gives
plausibility to the contention of those
who assert it is time the railroads
were put on a somewhat similar basis
to the postoffice service and taken un-
der national control.
In an ideal republic, it is urged,
transportation would be conducted on
the theory it is a public necessity and
therefore not necessarily governed al
together by the ordinary. commercial
laws of supply and demand. In fact,
under circumstances WHICH TdllrOduS
are about to demonstrate, they may
actually interfere with the laws of sup
ply and demand and upset the econom-
ical balance by introducing an abnor-
NAL and unnecessary condition.
There is no reason why California
should be taxed for the benefit of the
Golfers Of the railroad magnates who
are the ultimate and inevitable bene-
fciaries of the great sum derivable
from an increase in rates.
All persons who have cut their Wis
dom teeth know there is only thin
veneer Of truth over the statement
that the public owns the railroads,
because there are hundreds of share
holders" The smaller shareholders
were not thought of by Hartman and
his associates when they adopted a
new rate schedule. Hartman Is not a
philanthroplst. His best friend is
Hartman and he is always willing 70
do more for him than for any other
human being in the world. Some men
have become famous for self-sacrifiee
but the self devotion of Hartman
makes him a pathetically grand apo
noble figure in the American Nalhalla
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
SAYS PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
SHOULD BE MUCH DISCUSSED

BAKERSFIELD, Dec. Isl EDITOR
HeraId1. I have noticed with pleasure
two criticisms of the presidents mes
SAGE al the reassembling of congress
and I have regretted that there were
only two, for President Rooseveit ~
q. great thought-stirrer, ana what ne
saws is we'll worth consideration.
To me. and to those who pelleNe ID as
T do that the multiplication OF OIL
cials is a. curse; to all who watch WIN
anxiety the gigantic dimensions TO
which bureaucracy is growing, and 10
ali who hold that government Is COM
nrlsorv force, the very antithesls OF
freedom. the direction in which our
civilization should grow, the presl-
dents policies represent everything
that is fraught with disaster to us ana
our children. But he presses ms case
with admirable boldness and ne az
lords us the rare spectacle OF a man
who is not afraid to say what ne
am firm in the belief that as the
result of this outspokenness the
country will understand before long
that what Mr.. Roosevelt wants IS
gigantic bureaucracy, with an auto
crat at it's head-as, indeed, every pu-
reaucracy always has had and always
must have-and that the masses VIII
comprehend that of all the masters
that press heavily on the back OF labor
there never has been and never can DC
one SO weighty as bureaucracy.
VICTOR II. lTELFOhD'
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
WORLD TRUST

A WORLD TRUST is being formed
n by copper producers, refiners and
IA manufacturers. The copper IN
dustries of the eastern and western
hemispheres will be combined in such
a manner that they will transact busi-
ness comparatively and regulate pro-
duction to suit the market-in other
words, they will give an example OF
something resembling Socialism in
every respect excepting one, which OF
course is highly important. Profit
taking by the "heads" of the various
concerns will be continued. The reg
ulated association will not be conducted
for the benefit of mankind, but for the
benefit Of a few exploiters.
Whether civilization will permit this
trust to operate on the extensive scale
proposed remains to be seen, but pre-
vious experiences show civilization will
probably not interfere excepting per-
haps in the United States, where an
academic and oratorical campaign may
be conducted against the great trust.
This campaign will not really hurt the
business Of the copper octopus, but
will give it some of the advertising for
which under ordinary conditions it
would have to spend some Of its
money. 1t will also provide an excuse
for retaining an attorney at an enor-
nous salary and may be responsible
for various other minor philanthropies
of that kind. But the operation Of the
trust and its influence in the business
world will not be disturbed There Is
only one way in which civilization can
deal effectively with the trust ques-
ton, and that is by owning the trusts
a step for which even the United
States, with more advanced views and
methods than any other nation. is far
from being prepared.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-21
AN APPRECIATION OF MERCY;
A RETROSPECT AND APPEAL

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.-tEdltor
Herald: Hats off and heartiest Christ
mas greetings to Judge Jamison-the
Judge who has the best kind OF cour-
age. the courage to be humane ana
merciful in a. court whose traditions IN
an opposite direction would nave rem
dered it so fatally easy to be heaTIless
and severe. L do not know Judge
Jamison even by sight, and ! nave no I
had my attention drawn TO the geheI di
character of his sentences; put Ger
tainly he is on right lines IN ms acIlol II
in granting a probationary term TO
vol1ng man convicted of highway ROD
berry, 1t was a first offense; the man >
record was not bad one, ana ne hau
a vouno wife and two small chlldren'
Taking all into consideration the judge
like a mar (and not ike an lrol mo nc
chine for crushing the bones or ITS VIC
tins) took the better part OF mercy
as well as of reason ana placeo .ne
prisoner on probation for hVe years;
Mercy and kindness, like curses anu
cruelty. come home to roost; anu
predict for Judge Jamison the peace
of mind that comes Of good act; anu
complete justification of ms ienlehcy
in the future good conduct OF the con
yicted man, not to mention the OleSs-
ing and prayers of the wire. 80
Now. a word more: Just year aSo
for remember noting it as a CHRIST
mas" sentences man (named White,
think was sentenced by Judge J Ia1. :
sons predecessor for a crime similar al.d u
the one above noticed. The accuseu
was said to be an old, soldier, and des-
titute, with no known blemlsh on M hlS
record. The judge himselt cod airo ond
him for his candor in confesslng ana
saving saw the court and police all trouble
and said, Il viii take this into con,
sideration." Yet he gave what at,II, mus US
cali the STAGGERING SENTENCE
OF FIFTEEN YEARS. o5
who will show their ChristmSats5 .goo1,,
will by cooperating with me It tilt =, y
Lnerhaps Judge Jamison would leno
the weight of his recommendation-foi
a Communication of that dreadful SEN
'e''0'' A MAN AND A BROTHER.