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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20
THE EXECUTIVE POWER


 Gov. Judson Harmon, ohio's new deIn ocratic chief magistrate, prefaced hi inaugural address with few reflections on the changed attitude of the public toward the executive power. Recall ing that the long struggle for individua liberty was one for restraint of tn, executive, and that in our own govern ments he is subservient to Legislative control over the public purse, Gov. liar mon remarks that in spite of all thi' "the chief magistrate still holds every where the foremost place in popula; interest and concern.
 Though changed in character,
 as well as reduced in the scope and
 limited in the exercise of his pow
 CTS, he continues to wield the force
 which makes government effective
 and against which individuals are
 powerless. He commands the mili-
 tary. Through the pardoning power
 life and death are In his hands.
 Though the three departments are
 of like dignity and importance, the
 authority of the others is divided
 equally among many men. The
 chief executive stands as the single
 embodiment of the active power
 which, by happy idealization, the
 people respect none the less, though
 they themselves create and grant it.
 They realize that the consent of the
 governed, notwithstanding all the
 restraints it imposes, really magni-
 fes and ennobles the authority 1t
 conSers and makes him who governs
 in their name the grandest and
 most powerful of magistrates.
 The governor might have added tha though originally regarded with sus picion, the executive in our time ha come to be trusted by the people evei more than the legislature. Recen American constitutions, expressing tn popular will, have placed additional re straints upon the legislature. depriv ing it of initiative, prerogative and pow CT. Many of our legislative bodies ar notoriously incompetent, or incapable o rising to their opportunities, and tn people must perforce look to the execu tive for both administration and leg islation. Who would not prefer to trus the entire government of Ohio to Jud son Harmon rather than to legislatur which had hardly been in session da, before Boss Cox had it by the throat We do not doubt that Governor Harmol will eventually have the people of 0hi on his side, as against the legislature before his administration has proceede far, or that he will more truly represen the better judgment of the voters thal the legislature supposed to stand fo popular interests, but really in contrc of a political boss. Gov. Hughes, i New York, long ago reached the emi hence of tribune of the people in opposi tion to the efforts of party bosses an a suppliant Legislature to defeat meas ures popularly demanded.
 De rocqueville long ago predicte that democracy would end in central ized despotism. There are many wh fear that this prediction approaches ful fllment and that its realization fraught with peril to free institutions But the people seem satisfied that tn peril is small so long as they choos the executive at frequent intervals an' have ample opportunity to pass judg ment on his acts.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

The precedent established by Presi- dent Roosevelt in naming his successor seems to meet with the approval of at least one federal office holder in Ari- zona. But, fortunately, under the Taft administration, the real republican lead CTS in Arizona will have to "put in" when it comes to naming office holders.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

We sometimes feel that the country would not be ungrateful altogether if the criminations, recriminations, ac- cusations, and so forth, were called of now, and the orderly procedure of con gressional business undertaken.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

The speaker of the Tennessee house of representatives is football player. We suppose he issues his orders after approved football methods--16, 20, 8, g, l7--and so on.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

A theatrical manager is advertising for "a girl with Cinderella foot. !" This is unfortunate only in that it fur nishes opportunity for the revamping of a lot of worn-out jokes on the Chicago girl.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

A Savannah woman recently changed her name three times in three hours. We suppose, however, woman is privi- legged to change her name as often as her mind, if she choses to and can effect it legally.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

We have read the Tillman editorials in various papers with some care. We conclude that his defense suits some, and doesn't suit some; that 1t partly suits some, and partly doesn't suit some-and then some!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20
THE DELIGHTS OF YEsrERYEAR.


 No wonder complaint is registered with ever-increasing frequency that the pies, the cakes, and the biscuits are not made nowadays as our mothers made them. The matter of cooking in the olden, not to say. golden, era was never an exact science. The variety of the thing was the spice that gave it it's most abundant, compelling, and delight fui piquancy. indeed.
 They are doing things along new lines these modern times, if they are not do ing them better or quite SO much to our liking. The day when one might sit down to one's meals in dignity, delib- eration, and peace, and partake calmly of the foods presented for ones delecta- tion, nourishment and palate-satisfac- tion is the day the tender grsce of which shall never come back to us, we fear. If We are able to indulge our selves in one meal per day. even re- motely approximating the ancient and
  honorable order of things, we are for tunate-much more so, perchance, than many of us realize. The causes respon- sible for these dire effects are varied and bewildering. The rush of the life We live, the desire to get ahead of our fellow-men at any cost, the idea that the exact and precise moment pending is the only one worth worrying about all these things enter into the final analysis of the problem, in all probabil. ity. Read this:
 For restaurant use an auto
 matic saucepan has been invented
 which, at the end of given time,
 pours the contents on a plate and
 turns oil the electric current"
 Do you realize, gentle reader, that we are apparently approaching the point in this country where one will merely press button on slot machine and get tablet for one's daily lunch? La Dor saving devices are being exploited in the field of gastronomy no less than in other directions. Time was when reg ular eating was considered something of pleasure as we'll as duty one owed to nature and its benign endeav- ors. Now, alas that notion has been severely junctured, and all but col lapses. Eating in this year of grace is almost entirely business matter; or rather an undesirable incident to other business matters temporarily deemed allabsorbing. In fact, were 1t not for certain irrisistible demands of our physical makeup, we seriously suspect eating would be voted bad, if not positively vicious, habit, and something to be rid of at all cost.
 The mechanical cook has largely SUD- planted the good housewife of sweet and honorable memory. Chemical con. coctions and curious contrivances have crowded out the old range and the luscious things it used to yield. Ungod- ly contraptions? Perhaps We go bit too far. It isn't as bad as that yet. mayhap But conditions are such that wo are given anxious pause in our philosophical contemplation of things in general, the while doubtfully we in- quire in the matter of eating. Whither are We drifting?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Congress, however, should realize that there is such thing as carrying the all-work- and d-no-play doctrine a bit too far. ''Uncle Sam would like to get some sort of a run for the money he pays for congressional salaries--even during a short session!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Wilbur Wright was named core spondent in a French divorce suit re- gently merely as little joke" Mon sieurs petite jocularities are sometimes just too. cute for anything!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

The appointment of Geo. w. P. Hunt to the presidency of the territorial coun- cil is a fitting recognition of a faithful public servant and boquet which Gila county had coming.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Abdul Hamid is said to be "the hap piest man in Turkey" Abdul, how ever, was never inapt at picking up his cue at the psychological moment
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20
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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Fashion papers are hinting at the early advent of a double-end hatpin. We have no doubt this may be traced directly to the growth of the suffragette movement in this country.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

The Rev. Dr. Theodore Cuyler says Mir. Roosevelt is ''too combustive. |" The good doctor is eighty seven, how ever, and may take an exaggerated or old-fashioned view of peace and its vic tories.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Where will naval expansion eventu- ally end?" asks writer of the Rich mond News Leader. That is hard to answer. It must be confessed there is whole lot of room in the oceans of the earth.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

We fear 1t will greatly tax the super elastic ingenuity of MT. Loeb to explain away all of the recent speech delivered in the senate of the United States by the senior senator from Ohio.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

"A Washington lawyer made $17,000 out of gas" notes the Richmond News Leader. He might have made even more, perhaps, had he been in on it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Alfred Austin's latest poetical effu- sion is better than the one preceding it. If there was to be any difference at all between them, that was inevita- ble, of course.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

From all over the territory come re- ports that F. c. Jacobs is the choice of the people as the rightful successor to Judge Nave. Shall the people or the federal office holders rule?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

"A man should be careful in choos- ing hat" says London Lancet. Els pecially in barber shop should he be careful that it is his own hat.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

A scientist has discovered that Mir. Rockefeller's exact prototype existed 23,0oo years ago. Are we to accept this as an encouraging sign that they only happen once in every 23,oOo years?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

''It is doubtful that any such person as 'salome' ever really existed,'' says minister. Beware how you seek tc consign Ananias to the goodly company of myths.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Prosperity has struck Korea says the Cleveland Leader. We sincere ly hope prosperity will survive the shock.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

The Kansas bank commissioner s re- port "shows $145 on deposit for every individual in the state," says the To- ledo Blade. Kansas people must have reduced economical Christmas shopping to a fine art.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

If Jack Johnson will wade into the booze with all his might and main for few years, we rather think he will find the color line not drawn quite so taut against him by some of his pugi- listic near brethren.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

''The Shah of Persia has revoked the constitution, remarks the Augusta Chronicle. Apparently, number of our statesmen would have us think Mir. Roosevelt beat the Shah to 1t.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

And Mir. Kibbey's appointment still lacks confirmation. Don't accept this as an indication that statehood is assured at the short session. MT. Kibbey may be under fire.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

The descent of democratic governor and a blizzard simultaneously out Ohio way doesn't necessarily mean any thing, we imagine.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

A New York youth pawned the fam fly Bible for two theater tickets and thereby furnished an excellent text for a lot of timely sermons. Which shows anew that good can come out of evil.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

"Who is the most important person in the world7" inquires the Wichita Eagle. Really, is there any doubt about it?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Group positively stopped in twenty minutes, with Dr. Shoop's Group Rene dy. One test alone will surely prove this truth. No vomiting, no distress A safe and pleasing syrup-5oc. Sold by Palace Pharmacy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

''If the kaiser is so hard up, why doesn't he get into the dollar-a-word class7'' inquiries the New York Amer ican. Because he can't, and hold on to his big job, too.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

"A New York poet claims that he was robbed recently of $2O,o00,'' says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Poetical license, we suppose.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Mir. Taft should understand, however, that 'possum and ''taters" come under the unwritten pure food law down south.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

It has apparently reached the point in New York where mere burglars get out of it as easily as embezzlers.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Tn our humble opinion, the present congress will be pretty glad to get rid of itself on March 4.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

An Illinois man says Adam was a loafer.'' Well, anyway, Adam wasn t a politician.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-20

Why are people so prone to speak of the truth as ''naked?" Because 1t has so few real friends?
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08
Jones Successful With Clover
Minot Man Who Ha. Five Acre. of Fine Clover and Tim
othy, Is Preparing to Sow Whole Farm to
This Grass--How He Made it 4 Success

r. w. Jones, Minot man. who
owns a 800 acre farm south of Minot,
seeded fifty acres Of land to clover
and timothy last season, and inspect
ing his field this week.. says that he
has the prettiest stand ever gazed up
on, and the crop has grown three
inches this spring already. He SOW
ed fourteen quarts Of the seed to
the acre, which is considered a good
deal, and would advise the farmers
to SOW plenty of seed. He mixed
the seed half and half, using the
Medium Red Glover, which was so
highly recommended at the Farmers
Institutes. Mr.. Jones says that If
this proves successful, and he firmly
believes now that it will, he will
sow the whole farm to clover and
timothy, for there will be more mon
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08

ey in it for him than In raising grain,
besides the land will b., put In the
best kind of shape. He says that he
was advised at the farmers insti-
tutes to sow clover on old land, but
he experimental by sowing some on
comparatively new land and some
on land which had been cropped for
ten years. The new land sowing
seems to be the best.
Mr.. Jones says that clover and
timothy mixed will make the best
kind of hay and if the stand is good,
he ought to get two cuttings a sea-
son. Surprising that he gets two
tons to the acre, which is a very
low estimate, he, will still be ahead
of grain growing, for he can III the
hay at ten dollars ton.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08
ssooooo.Do]o.

t3 The secretary OF the United Slater
Department Of Agriculture has just
issued the advance pages of his
twelfth annual report. In this
he shows the tremendous volume of
wealth which accrued upon the
American farms during 1908. He
says: After offsetting losses
against gains in comparison with
1908, there remains net gain
which raises the total value Of all
farm products of 1908 to the most
extraordinary amount in the worlds
history, $7,773.0O0,0o0." Following
this is list of the various farm
crops and products showing the
value of each. Speaking of dairy
and poultry products. the secretary
says: ''The value OF the farm pro-
ducts of the dairy COW are getting
closer and closer to $500, oO0, 900, ana
the eggs and poultry produced on
the farm are worth as much as the
cotton crop, seed included, or tho
hay crop, or the wheat.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08
Report Of Farming Conditions
W. H. Mann is Sending in Monthly Reports to the Orange
Judd Farmer-A Boost for Ward County

w. H. Mann, our we'll known farm
er-gardner, has been selected by the
Orange-Judd Farmer, to send in
agricultural reports from Ward coun-
ty, each month. Mr.. Mann wants to
keep in the closest touch with the
farmers of this big county, and those
who desire to send reports from their
respective localities may do so. by
addressing the Independent, and
these reports will be handed over to
Mr.. Mann. We note from his March
report, that he has good word to
say for this part of the state. We
publish it as follows: "~-.~ $685..
Ward county farmers are in high
spirits. They were enabled to do an
exceptional large amount of fall
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08
Farmer Makes Friendly Criticism

A few days ago farmer reader
of the Independent took the editor
to task for not showing up both sides
of the mail order question. He stat
ed that he did not send away for
many of his goods, and made an
effort to do most of his trading with
the home merchants-which In q
wise plan and for which we wish to
commend him. At the same time, he
states that some of the merchants
did not treat all of the farmers
right, all of the time. He stated
that they were accommodating, court
eous gentlemen, willing to grant any
reasonable favor, as rule, but said
that he did not believe that they
ought to send away for their eggs,
potatoes and certain other produce
at certain seasons of the year, when
the farmers at home could supply
them just as we'll. Of course, he
said, that the farmers could dispose
of their products by meeting the
prices of the east, but naturally, the
prices are inclined to be considerably
lower than they would naturally be,
were the products not shipped in.
Take eggs for instance. The eastern
hens begin laying earlier than
those in North Dakota, and the
freight on the eggs, not being very
high, the merchant can buy the eggs
in the east for quite d low figure,
ship them west and sell them at a
profit, and still the price is much
lower than the home farmer would
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08

get. were the merchant not to glut
the home markets The farmer con-
tends that the merchant would make
just as much money were he to
stick to home produced eggs. True
he might have to ask his customers
a little more dozen for them, but
the farmers would be benefited o.
ten. the farmer says, business men
ship in baled hay because they say
they can get hay that is baled for
about the price that the farmer
wants for his hay that is not baled
Now we do not want to tell any mer-
chant how to run his business and
perhaps there are two sides to this
question. However, the Independent
believes that the farmers appreciate
a good home market, and we also
believe that the merchant should be
very careful to give him all there is
in it for his products. If the mer-
chants would talk this over at their
next meeting, we believe that they
would be doing wise thing. The
farmer wants to get all that he can
and the merchant wants to buy so he
can sell it again and make fair profit
The expenses of the merchant are
heavy, and sometimes it takes some
close figuring to make both ends
meet. Mr.. Farmer, don't be too hard
on your home merchant, and Mr..
Merchant, don't be hard on your
farmer friend. Get together. Work
this problem out for your mutual ad-
vantage.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08

blowing, owing to heavy rains and,
as rule, plowed deeper than usual.
Spring finds them with q large
share OF the million bushel crop Of
last fall still in their hands, hence
seed is plentiful. The winter has
been mild. and the teams are in good
shape for spring work. Farmers feel
no depression whatever. All kinds Of
real estate are on the rapid advance
in Ward county, some land already
selling at 500 an acre and many
buyers are looked for this spring.
No place offers better or surer
place for Investment than the Mouse
river valley. and especially In Ward
county" r.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08
Short TAX No. 10.
lBy Prof. o. o. Churchill.l

>(By Prof. o. o. Churchill.)
Many people in North Dakota will
by trying alfalfa for the first time
this spring. Some Of the more i'm
portant factors to consider are:
l. Alfalfa will not grow on wet
flooded land. -..
2. Alfalfa will not grow in soil
which has a pronounced hard pan.
e 3. Prepare the soil we'll and SOW
in May, Is pounds per acre.
4. Do not seed with a nurse crop.
S. Use only northern grown seed:
either Montana or Turkestan varie-
ties.
6. Cut the first year If the leaves
turn yellow, rust badly or if the
plants begin to- blossom
Z. Do not cut late in fall.
8. Do not pasture in fall or winter
8. Use liberal amount of manure
10. An old potato field is best ad-
apted for alfalfa.
Is the grain carefully screened and
ready for seed? ..5s s,ts.Et.. .
If hay is scarce, why not grow
some millet or fodder corn. Large
yields of fodder corn can be produc
ed when the hay crop is practically
a failure. 1t makes an excellent feed.
No man can carry on a line Of
business unless he knows the profit
in the different operations. Is farm
ing a business? Why not take an in
ventory now and commence to keep
farm accounts?
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-08

L. J. Renicker who left for Pier-
mont. Ind, last fall, is back to North
Dakota and has resolved that he will
never leave again. at least he will
not return to Indian. He has a
valuable farm near Surrey which ne
is occupying Mr.. Renicker tells OF
the conditions of the Indiana farm
hands and there are Just thousands
of them in the same boat. One man,
who ia considered an unusual hustler
Is working by tho year for 1925. He
has a family and must provide for
them out of this sum. He gets his
house rent free and, one quart OF
milk a day, besides he gets all the