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Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-12-29

road facilities. It is safe to say thar
the population Of the country west
OF the Missouri river will double
within the next decade, as it has done
in the last ten years. The whole
state is growing by leaps and bounds
faster than is realized.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-12-29
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES

not is to be opened with ball given
under the auspices of and for the
benefit of the public library there.
The village board of Drake han
purchased fire engine, 1000 feet Of
hose and a hose cart.
The Grafton News and Times gave
several nearby towns an illustrative
write-up for its holiday edition.
The newspapers of Dickinson in
sist on having a new court house
built for Stark county.
The Farmers State bank, at Tay-
lor, which was recently incorporated,
has just completed a brick buildin.
and expects to be ready for bust
ness soon after the first of the year
New England in Bowman county is
trying to establish creamery.
There still seems to be contest
on in Ward county over the election
of the sheriff-because the square
was left off the top of the ballot.
The Tribune claims there is too
much rowdyism on the streets of Mo-
hall.
A woman was pushing her baby
in a sled along tie streets at Mo-
hall when drunken man attempting
to get past fellTand landed on top
of the kid. -
Masquerade balls are not as num-
erous as formerly.
The Beach Chronicle after closing
its piano voting contest gave a free
dance to all parties interested.
The Mcknight Land company at
Russell recently purchased eighty
two quarters of school land in Bot
tineau county-and some of the pa.
pers up that way think that while
| it was a good thing to have such
| ready buyers for the land it would
have been better IL actual settlers
had purchased it.
The brass band at Williston gave a
street concert lasting two hours in
that city Christma5 day.
Some of the farmers seem to for
get that the postofice department
demands that the roads along the
rural routes be kept open
The Barnes County Bar associa-
ton has endorsed Herman Winterer
|of Valley City for the appointment
of supreme Judge.
% -2asG# 49, sz5
A former manager of moving pic
ture show at Dickinson is wanted
for having disposed of property that
did not belong to him. ss
Tie officials of Dunn county have
moved into the nesJ court house just
recently completed.
Fargo gets the meeting of the state
veterinary association the 18th Of
January.
Several fourth class postofices over.
the state have recently been raised
to the presidential class.
The meeting of the North Dakota
educational association which meets
at Valley City this week has a long
drawn out but well prepared program.
There will be big demands upon
the legislature for increased appro-
priations this session.
-e-e-~ y
Ward county still continues to send
conyicts in bunches to the peniten-
tiary.
Editor Beyeridge Of the Lakota
American who takes possession Of
the Ellendale Record D-l first of
the year expects to make some great
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-12-29

Pre-inventory sale-2O per cent dis
count on anything and everything at
Webb Brothers. 35Si. 5 :.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Plants channe.

Plants change their characters ac-
Cordmg to the conditions in which
tney are, and this is more true of the
artificial plants than any other. Take
ene Wheats by way of illustration.
Ihey have been so artificially bred
LOT a long time that they are very
susceptible to conditions. A wheat at
.ne Tennessee experiment station that
nad been bred to have large
amount of protein and a small amount
Vi starch suddenly developed a great
ueal OF starch in a wet year when the
eaves grew large This change, &C
oording to season, is the hardest
uning to combat in any artificial plant,
ana any plant that has been modified
W man is artificial. The more changes
we make with plants the easier are
cnanges made. The last 25 years has
seen more new brands of cabbages
brought on the market than ever be-
lore and some of them are very diff
ierent from the old varieties.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
WHEAT AND cHAFF.

How about storm windows?
The man who simply marks time
never gets anywhere.
1t takes manhood as we'll as brains
and muscle to run a farm.
About now the farmers wife en-
Joys good dry stove wood.
how about the wood lot? Are you
doing anything to preserve it?
what are your plans for a more at
'ractiVe farm home next year?
Ihere are still places in this coun-
Try where straw stacks are burned.
Inc man who really likes his work
ands profitable amusement in it.
Its the country worker who gets the
"eneht of the beautiful fall weather.
me manure spreader feeds the land
more satisfactorily and economically.
self confidence, not conceit, is the
most desirable element in the farmer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Ru+f,es for Pantry Shelves.

Buy five yards Of common white
lawn at five cents yard. Take the
length of four yards of it and make
ruffies five and one-half inches wide,
including a hem Of one inch. then
measure the length of your shelves
and out of the other yard make mar
row binding to sew the ruf1es in. Tack
to the edge of the shelf with brass
headed tacks and your pantry viii al
ways look inviting. This amount Of
goods will do for four shelves two and
a half yards long. 1t will cost only %
cents, and can be taken of, washed
and ironed, saving the expense Of pa
per and does not tear, which makes a
pantry look disagreeable. In appear
ance it is far better than shelf oil
cloth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
KEEP UP the WHEAT LAND.
Fertility Of the Soil Must Be Kent o..
at Any Cost.


The fertility Of the wheat land must
be kept Up at any cost. but we are
certain that in some parts of the west
the fertility is surely declining. Only
a small per cent Of our farmers have
as yet reversed the process. 1t is easy
enough TO keep up the fertility of the
wheat fields if the owner of the wheat
farm Is willing to take the informa
ton that has been collected from the
experiences Of other men. Wheat land
cannot be kept up in fertility If the
process of wheat raising every year is
followed.
Two things must be done-a rota,
ton must be established and some
fertilizer such as potash and phosphate
must be applied in some quantities
each year. Rotating so as to bring in
leguminous crop every few years
Will help keep up the supply of nitro
gen and will improve the physical tex.
ture of the soil. Potash and phos
phorus can be applied in small quaint.
ties each year at a small cost per acre
and this must be done If the quality OF
the land is to be maintained Rota,
ton is a good thing, but it can never
bring In potash or phosphorus that
have been taken from the land OIL
which the land lacks.
With proper handling our wheat
lands can be made to produce the
great crops they did 40 years ago
In fact, it is possible to make them
produce more than they did in theil
old condition, for in addition to put
ting back the fertilizer we can i'm
prove them by draining, many of the
wheat fields being in need of this
But this cannot all be done in a day
A little should be done each year il
the way of putting in the fertilizer
the crops must have. The benefits o
rotation cannot be gained in a few
years, but the periodical turning unde
of sod or the roots of leguminou
plants will be a constant method o
improving soil conditions.
In the middle west are millions o
acres Of land that are kept in whea
year after year, but which are nov
r producing ten bushels less per acr
than they used to produce, says tn
Farmers Review. The returns wi
> be still less in years to come, if step
. are taken to prevent further exhaui
] ton. 1t is not only the loss of tn
: fertility that has to be considered
!. but the badness Of the physical cor
5 dition resulting from the loss Of fe
t tility. In fertile ground the root
s strike deep and spread out in all
/ rections. These roots rot and leay
: the soil in a good condition PHYSICAL,
b But in poor soil the root systems al
weak and the soil gradually pacl
0 down so hard that the frosts even Z
e not go down far. There is no way
o which the farmer can make none
|. easier than by improving the fertiAt
?. Of the land he has in wheat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
FARM SCALES
The Satisfaction Which One Farmer
Gets Out of Their Possession.

A pair of wagon scales on the
farm are like the necessities of life
IN the home and family. l would
not know how to do without them, de-
clares a writer in Farm and Home.
l never owned a farm without scales
and it seems to me the farmer that
can could go to sleep if his barn was
on fire. There is no end to the rea-
sons for scales on the farm. The sat
isfaction they afford is alone worth
ten times their cost.
At this time l am delivering 10000
bushels of onions to a large storage
buyer. l weigh the loads as they go
out and the wagons as they return.
/ compare my weights with the buy
ers'. Although they may weigh me
short so to 100 pounds some loads, ii
is a great satisfaction to know what is
going on and that it is not a great
deal worse. The farmer is a back
number that will deliver grain to an
elevator and cattle and hops to a
shipper, not knowing his weights.
might enter into a long, practi
cal use for scales on the farm, fol-
scientific uses in the feed lot, ETC., but
l do not believe that the farmer who
has made money enough to buy q
pair of scales needs details. He only
needs to wake up. install a pair Of
scales on his farm, read good farm
Journals and do business on bushes:
principles.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Didn't Mind Showing Her Ankle.

Dldnt Mlnd showing 7er Ankle. .
Conductor John Gaudam was very
sensitive about his name, and always
insisted that friends addressing him
hastily should call him john says
a correspondent. He was one of the
best fellows l ever worked with, but
he was continually getting into hot
water.
"On one of our trips Gaudam was
passing through a coach when he no
ticed a woman asleep in a seat. Her
head was on the window-sill, and her
feet extended to the aisle. Her dress
was so badly disarranged that her
ankle, and a good portion of an ex-
quisitely fashioned calf were plainly
visible. A number of men a few
seats farther down were contemplat.
ing the scene with keen enjoyment.
Now, Gaudam was always very
strict, and kept things straight on his
train, and he noticed this. He touched
the woman on the shoulder and woke
her up.
Madam. he said, politely; excuse
me for disturbing you. but your dress
is so disarranged that your ankle is
exposed
"'Oh, that makes no difference, re
piled the woman, smiling sweetly. It's
nothing but cork
in three seconds Gaudam was in
the baggage car, where he promptly
lost his religion"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Railroads in Spain.

The doors Of the third-class cars are
narrow, writes Thornton Oakley in
Harper's Weekly. l remember at
one of the mountain towns how
a fat man kept the train waiting
with his efforts to get out. He was
huge and round, with a red face full
of wrinkles and shining shaven head.
A Maltese cross shone white upon his
brown expanse of cassock. He got
wedged tightly in the door and could
move neither in nor out. His face grew
apoplectic. Precipitation streamed
down his forehead. His hat rolled be-
meath the train. He dropped his bag
upon the platform, and as it fell, it
burst open. Glass crashed; cigars
were scattered all about AS the bell
sounded he began to shout The guard
came running. The station idlers
crowded up, They tugged at him, pull
ing at his hands, his robe, his fat
striped legs. Over his shoulder within
the ear. you could see men pushing
from behind. Suddenly he came
through with a rush, his cassock torn
and flying, his little eyes wide with
fright.
l looked back as the train moved
of. He was lying back painting on g
bench, his feet spread wide, while 8
woman was pouring something dowr
his throat"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25

take care of the freight business for
the present on the Cazadero division.
Passenger trains and individual cars
will continue on the line equipped with
automotors as heretofore, the locomo-
tives being intended for freight SER
vice entirely, having displaced the
steam engines previously used on the
run
The new electric locomotives are
of 40 tons weight. and are of the
latest model. These engines are in
use on most of the eastern trolley
lines that have suburban freight ser
vice and are found to be adapted fol
the purpose better than anything YET
COMMUNICATIONS Oregonian.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Potatoes Once Boiled.

If you have a quantity of cold boiled
potatoes and wish they we're hot, put
the usual amount of water in pot on
the stove. Let it come to the boiling
point. Drop the cold boiled potatoes
into the water, if possible without
lowering the temperature. If the po-
tatoes are small boil for five minutes;
if large, boil for ten minutes. In this
way they will not have a warmed-over
taste but will be as white and mealy
as when freshly boiled.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Sow Bean Experiments.

Recent experiments by the Indiana
experiment station indicate that the
Ogema soy bean requires about 50
davs to mature seed. Ito San and
Early Brown about 115 days, No. r.
See about 1870 days and Medium
Early Yellow approximately $50 days.
In Weld of seed per acre Early Brown
ranked first with 294 bushels and
Ogema last. with 14.5 bushels for
northern Indiana. For central Indiana
Early Brown was first, with 1913 bush
els and Ogema last.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
This Makes a Good Road.

which are driven ordinary harrow
teeth about three inches apart This
is attached to the rear piece, a, which
is a 2x6 oak timber ten feet long faced
with three inches of one-fourth-inch
metal on the bottom, e, which projects
one inch. These pieces are kept apart
by wooden blocks, d, upon the bolts,
f, and by the top strips, c. each 2x6.
This makes a fine level road as it har-
rows it and scrapes 1t at the same
time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Elephant and Engine Meet.

An elephant was crossing a railway
line when a down ballast train in
motion tried to whistle him off the
line, says the Madras Pioneer. He
obeyed the whistle. but instantly was
on the line again and pushed the en-
CINE back with all the strength he
could muster, causing the derailment
Of the engine and one of the trucks.
The driver fell of and received some
injuries. and the mahout, who had
apparently lost all hold over the ami
NAL. and had perhaps anticipated the
accident, jumped down, but was un-
hurt The elephant was only bruised.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Ennlneer,s Heroism.

The locomotive engineer in Arizona
who ran burning powder train hall
a mile to save town and was blown
to bits in the expected and inevitable
explosion, was hero of the most pro
nounced type. But striking feature
of his heroism was that he did not
think of it in that light. but sacrificed
his life as a matter of course and plain
detail of duty, knowing there was nc
reward for him this side of the grave
That is the sort of heroism which tells
in the lettering of the human RAGS
and IN the raising of its standards.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
WORK OF "SPESHES"
DETECTIVES ARE IMPORTANT
PART OF RAILROAD SYSTEM.
Organized for the Protection Of Ship
pers and the Travelling Public
Have Put a Stop to Dis
honest Practices.

Il don't know what the railroads
would do without the speshes nova
days" said a railroad official, using
that cryptic contraction "speshes" as
II everybody ought to understand what
II meant.
He was referring to the members Of
the Association of Railway Special
Agents. Compactly, they're the rail
road detectives, the railroad secret
police; and railroad special agent"
has been contracted by railroad folk
to "spesh."
There were railroad detectives OF
a sort; men with no particular train
ing and summoned for special pur-
poses, before we organized" said one
of the speshes. But speaking general
ly, before we got together and began
to branch out in our work the rail
roads, the shippers and the travelling
| public were virtually at the mercy OF
| all sorts of thieves and swindlers.
For one thing, the railroads had NO
reliable method of discovering and
stopping populations or outright rob
berries on the part of their own EN-
ployes. The tracing system, so-called
in the course of which the railroads
sent supposedly honest employees or
the trail of suspected employees, never
worked out in practice. The mer
chosen to do the tracing work general
ly showed themselves to be incompe
tent, or they were easily led into be
lieving anything they we're told b.
the employees under suspicion, or TO
a rakeoff of the swag they swuni
along with the crooks, so that the rail
roads were all but helpless in runninI
down plunderers.
But it took the railroads, all tn
same, a good many years to acknow
edge their helplessness in this respeci
A group of powerful railroad me
finally came to the front with the sul
gestion that the railroads would hav
to be secret poheed. The railroa
secret service was regularly organize
not long after that. The fine work a.
complished by the secret service of tn
American Bankers association an
the American jewelers. associatio
was an argument in favor of the o
ganization of a railroad service.
AT first it was intended that I'll
work of the railroad corps should
confined exclusively to the protectic
of the railroads from dishonesty {
the part of their own employees and I
running down robbers of freight
transit. Fact is, the service did o
crate exclusively along those lines Fl
a while, and with whooping success.
is now pretty generally understood
, railroad employees tempted to engal
, in dishonest practices that they ha
, about the same eventual chance of /
ing grabbed with the goods as countC
feiters have of being corralled wi
, the merchandise by the United Stat
, secret service, and needn't enlar
upon the dimensions of that chance.
. Our work for the railroads, in
:, way, is comparable with that of t
, postoffice inspectors. When it is l
! derstood how inevitably the postofi
. inspectors get the postoffice employ
= who yield to temptation, this comps
: son will be the better understood,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
GETTING A RAILROAD JOB.
Unfortunately, Novice Made Bad Bun
gle of His Application.

His name doesn't matter, but he re-
sides near Forest Park. He was 20
when this happened (which is only a
few short weeks ago), and just out OF
school. He wanted a job-something
good, of course, for he had conquered
in his struggle with the class valedic-
tory. and everybody, including his rel
atives, had said that he was destined
to become a great man. He thought
he'd like the railroad business, and he
told his desire to a friend.
The main thing" advised the
friend, lis to convey the impression
that you know something about the
business when you ask for job. And
the more they think you know the bet
ter the job you'll get. When you
tackle the big noise who sits at the
mahogany desk try and talk like rail
road man."
The future great man spent two OF
three days practicing what he though
was railroad lingo" and then wen
down to the office of one Of the biz
railroads.
Entering the employment depart
ment, he repeated to himself the littl'
speech he had prepared, and b
handed his card to the secretary witt
the assurance of a time-tried bushes
man. But when he was escorted int
the presence of the superintendent b
lost his nerve and his memory d.
serted him. However, he chung to hi
hat bravely, and blurted out: rs ther
any danger of getting job aroun
hege?"
I There wasnt.-St. Louis Globe-Den
ocrat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
TREATING Seed Potatoes for seab.

Again we give the proper method
of treating seed potatoes for scab;
Soak them for two hours in a solu-
ton containing one-half pint OF for
malin to Is gallons Of water When
planting. avoid ground which has re-
Gently produced a scabby crop Of
tubers
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25

The army cookbook contains many
recipes that sound strange in some
sections of the United States, be-
cause the dishes have been learned in
Texas and Mexico. They comprise jam
balayas, and chill con carne, and tor
tillas and many other novelties.
jambalaya, which is Spanish
Creole dish, is made by frying some
sausage, cut up ham, onions, toma-
toes, red pepper and parsley In a
little meat drippings" or other fat
Boiling water is then added and some
rice; the pot is covered and it is set
back to cook slowly. It is sailed to
taste A iambalaya can be made from
chicken in place of the sausage, and
oysters or shrimps may be used
For proportions smaller than given
in the book for the soldiers use half
pound of rice that has been washed
and soaked for an hour, half pound
of ham cut small, one onion, one to-
mato, a quarter of a pound of sau-
sage cut up. a small piece Of red pep
per pod and sprig of parsley.
Instead of baking the heart of veal
or beef creatures the hearts may be
| stuffed and steamed first and then
! Drowned in the oven and rich gravy
made for them. Some persons think
them quite like duck if the same kind
of savory stufing be made. Another
way is to cut them fine and stew
them with onion, celery, etc
To refer again to the cookbook is
| IF
subsistence there is a recipe for
cooking hearts by stewing them,
which sounds SO well put together
that it would not be a hardship to
partake of it. The heart is to be cut
into small pieces and all tough parts
removed. Then it must be washed in
cold sailed water The meat is then
to be put in a pot of cold water with
two teaspoonfuls of salt and covered
closely. The scum must be taken on
as it rises and the meat removed after
ten minutes cooking. The liquor must
be strained and the pot washed out be-
fore the liquor is returned to it. Add
the pieces of meat, a pound of pota
toes sliced thin, two medium-sized
onions cut fine, one head Of celery cut
! fine or one level teaspoonful of celery
: seed, half a pound of fresh tomatoes
canned tomatoes or three tablespoon
!, fuls of tomato ketchup, two bay leaves
! and some cayenne pepper, little
!, chopped parsley and butter or clari
fed beef drippings the size of an egg
All these are to be stewed togethe
!. until they are tender. stirring nov
= and then. Season with pepper and sal
and serve. A little Drowned -four ma,
be used for thickening the stew, OF
!. it has boiled away too much, ad
some water.
Hearts are not in general use TO
= food, and at public table recent
= when the waiter announced the choic
p of meats for dinner there was que'
tioning and surprise openly espresso
y the word heart" being repeated a
= If the diners had never heard of /
= OF course the hearts Of chickens al
- included in giblets.
- Carrots may be boiled in stock. tn
gravy must be made thick with
n- little -four, seasoned well with pepp'
and salt and some ketchup poure
over the carrots.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25

After the tablecloth is spread. place
in the center a mat, which may hold
banquet lamp, or candelabra, or a
small vase filed with flowers, or tall
vase holding a single rose, or, for
everyday use. small pot of ferns.
II the ferns are well cared for they
win last during the entire winter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Missourl,s Elrst RalIroad.

The first railroad in Missouri was q
track FIVE miles in length, laid from
Richmond to a point on the Missouri
river opposite Lexington. some time
between 1s49 and 1851. 1t was made
of timber, the rails being Of sawed
oak and the ties of hewed oak. aud
was operated by horse power.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
Honey Cookies.

One quart of honey mixed with a
half pound of white sugar, one-half
pound Of butter and the juice of two
lemons. Stir this mixture very hard,
then mix in gradually enough flour TO
make stiff paste. Cut in round cakes
and bake in buttered pans.