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The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
FORTUNES SPENT In T0YLAND

pecially popular with the boys and girls
Of English birth or ancestry.
American toys are, 1t would seem, es-
pecially popular among those of Eng
lish birth or ancestry, since of the
three -fourths of a million dollars
worth of toys exported In 1908, $2S1,-
600 worth went to the United Kingdom,
$113,O0O worth to Canada. and $4,000
worth to Australia and New Zealand,
making more than half the. total ex-
ports of toys to the United Kingdom
and her two principal colonies. Cana
da and British Australasia. The next
largest expectations were: TO Germany
$56, 900 worth to Cuba, $4,000 worth;
to the Philippine Islnds, $4,000 woth;
to France, $4,000 worth; and to Japan,
s10 900 worth.
The high water mark in the export
of this class of American manufactures
was reached in the fiscal year just
ended, the total value of toys exported
exceeding for the first time one million
dollars. On the import side the high
water mark was reached in 1908, when
the value Of toys imported was seven
and one fourth million dollars drop
ping to about FIVE millions in 1909.
|. Despite the fact that the manufac :
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

Up in the reporters ONCE there Is a
pindle, and upon that spindle there
IRE certain things intended for this
weeks notes, such things as you would
ike to hear about, an account Of crop
Yields as furnished by the field crops
nan, Professor Churchill, and a write
lp of the vocal work of the musical
department. But the other day the
spindle was deserted and the key
turned In the lock, and to all intents
and purposes, de key frown In de
we'll" as the old darkey song has 1t.
The reporter is enjoying i'll health, and
hopes you are the same.
Next week we expect as old Hi Boss,
my boyish ideal of the threshermen,
used to say, when sitting down to
table, 'To open the eonvaces and feed
from both sides" once more.
Mighty funny, come to think of it,
how men will let themselves be blinded
oy pin held close to the eye. | am
thinking now of the young men in
this state to whom education would
give largely added earring power, yet
who fears to risk the expenge involved
N getting It, Yet such men think IT
no risk to put whole seasons work
against the chance of earning $240.
In either case results depend largely
upon the man. There are lots of keys
n this world who have lost the key
aole, and once in a while an education
Doesn't help them in their search for
she work that fits. Ordinarily, though,
il does. Rather say, the right kind
does. knew a young fellow who
wanted to be a bookkeeper--wanted to
the worst way-That's about the kind
of booI1keeper he would have made,
Just about! But we got pressure to
bear on him, and made a dairyman out
of him. He makes a crack "a jack of a
dairyman--rflts the key hole to nicely.
And suspect-just suspect mind
you-that there are more like him,
country born and bred, who head to-
ward the wrong keyhole under mis-
taken idea of lifes values.
It's too bad! Nineteen years ago ]
had a chum whose father offered to
send him to school. He was bright,
quick at figures, he making of keen
clerk of business man. / went; he
stayed at home. The goose that lays
he golden egg never adopted me as
an owner. still al it by-and- large,
{ have had a tolerable bit of living out
of life Nit? We'll, Nit has grown
into a work broken, discouraged man
/ thing--think, you understand-that
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
FARGO COLLEGE NEWS

baum by the well trained chorus were
heartily appreciated, as We're also
the selections by the quartet, the trio
and the solo by Miss Crothers The
accompaniment by Professor Boehmer
and members of the orchestra and the
directing of the singers by Professor
Stevens did much toward presenting a
delightfully."- interesting musical. The
festive Christmas tree, laden with the
good things afterward eaten, was q
center of attractiveness, Miss Perley
deserves much credit for the enthus-
iastic enjoyment of the German lang
uage that she has awakened In many
students through her teaching and the
direction of the German club.
Miss Marie Lindgren and Mr.. Tai
bot were elected delegates to the sixth
National Students Volunteer conven-
ton which meets at Rochester, N. Y
Missionaries from all over the world
will be present and make addresses al
this four day conference. On the way
TO this gathering Miss Lindgren and
Mr.. Talbot will visit at their early
homes, the former in Minnesota and
the latter in Ontario
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

Mrs. and Miss Morgan delightfully."-
entertained at dinner Tuesday evening
several members of the college circle,
Miss Agnes Moore and Miss Florence
Pinney. The dining room was taste
fully decorated with garlands and
Christmas bellr and the company was
a very animated one. Between the
course the distribution of snap crack
ers at the various tables added very
greatly to the general merriment,
Tuesday night the dormitory girls
reviewed their childhood experiences.
and left the way open for Santa Claus,
who filled numerous stockings. No
rising bell was necessary the next
morning for the Christmas carols
were sung at an early hour.
Miss M. Elizabeth very pleasantly
entertained the eighty five students of
the German department and a number
of her friends in the chapel The early
part of the evening was passed in play
ing German games and speaking that
language while doing so. The singing
of German songs was most enjoyable.
Stille Nacht, Feste Burg and Tannen-
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
TIE CHRISTMAS MAGAZINES.

Christmas coming. One may know 1t
BY the magazines on sale.
All their special papers SHOW It;
There is cheer in every tale.
Each contains merry message
From some well exploited pen.
Echoing the ancient presage.
Peace on earth, good will to men.
Here's a pretty tale OF phthisis,
Here is one on cholera;
Here was have the last advices
C.n typhoid bacteria.
DO you think OF getting married7
Read the paper on Divorce;
You'll be exquisitely harried
BY the rollicking DISCOURSE
More about tuberculosis,
More about pellagra's bane;
Yuletide thoughts about cirrhosis
And the cure. OF the insane
For the wayworn and the weary
There's a paper on Gangrene.
o, how sunny, o, how cherry
IL the Christmas magazine.
Chicago Tribune
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
N. D. Agricultural College

he missed the keyhole that would have
opened the door of large living, when
back yonder when we were boys, the
pinches cost of 800, for a winters
schooling outweighed the chances of
his future.
Some folks the Lord made farmers,
and some bankers; some He told to go
work in the machine shop, and some to
60 work the ''nachine" perhaps
have never fully satisfied myself that
He had much to do with politics as we
Am ricans play the game. But the
great bulk of us He just made, and
left us to find our keyLole to success
for ourselves.
That's where a bit of widening ex-
perience comes in handy. To the aver
age man not sure of himself-and three
months Of schooling will widen man
as fast as anything car do--for the
school is not a new experience-it Is
succession of them. 1t is the vivid
experiences of ages upon ages placed
upon the films of life moving picture
machine, and run before the eyes of the
| student He see5 things in the large
He is a bit bewildered, more than q
bit ogreen''-and that is no mortal sin
-and sometimes inclined to take the
bit in his teeth and bolt.
| Schooling doesn't make a man, but 1t
does bring out the grain in him. 1t lets
him see some of the larger issues OF
| life, and adapt himself TO or against
them Really. my friend with the
mix dup alphabet handle to your
name isn't that all education amounts
| to? And is it not enough IL it amounts
| to that, and the face of the learner set
toward me things worth while?
| So think 1t pays to get an education
AS much Of 1t as you can. But look
| ing backward over nineteen aFs OF
| time / am free to say as my candid
belief that the first term spent in
college meant more to me in shaping
the future than did the eighteen years
that followed
| So am believer in the short course
If II does for you what that first term
j did for me-what the first three months
| of outlook and uplift has done for
| thousands of other young mcn-ii
would be cheap at any price. Cheap
though YOU gained no dollar making
fact in all it's experiences. But thai
would be impossible. OF it's immediate
value you need have no fear. Any the
memory of it's days and weeks will &C
with you and become one of the larger
and lasting values of your life.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

turers Of the United States have in
creased their investments OF capital in
toy making from less than one million
dollars in 1880 to four and three
fourths millions in 1905. and increased
the value Of their output of toys from
one and half millions in 1905,
the importations of this class of mer-
Ichadise have grown steadily mean
time. To be sure, the figures of the
fiscal year 1909 are slightly below those
of 1908, the record year. but this Is a
part of. the general reduction in i'm
ports OF manufactures which charac-
terizes the record of the fiscal year
1909. and can not be looked upon as q
permanent depression in this line of
importation. since the monthly figures
in the closing part Of the year 1909
showed larger totals than the corre-
spending months of 1908, thus indi-
eating a revival in the imports of toys.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

THE NEwssoY's EXPECTATION.


Well, skinny it is coming. the gift gladly hail.
without 1t we'd be lonely Christmas cheer would fail:
In years gone by met it, with hearts aglow with PRIDE
What home would be without it, all the
Dear Christmas Times
Thrice welcome
It's
And If success has 1T to The Times;
Our people know blend
And seadfast
so this grand will with
A boon alike to rich childhood old
And expectations Skinny
Its promise it. has fulfilled,
Dear OF greeting here
We wish e'er
will
And Peace
Tis this wish s
each
And this thought
Those efforts
And skinny, in we'n
To shout the of
And antic
No
Then
To Christmas Number all
But hang
Q Q o Q o o o @ o q 90 q = q q Q q q o
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

(Staff Specially e
Chicago, Dec. 24.-Dreary days of
convalescence in hospitals, hotels and
boarding houses in Chicago are to be
frightened by the Cool Cheer society.
Miss Theodore Carter, daughter of It.
w. Carter, retired millionaire of Sc
atle, Wash, who says she is a cousin
of w. J. Calhoun, minister to China.
came to Chicago last night with news
of her plan. After the holidays she is
coming back, she says, to organize the
society.
Out OF her illness at the Great
Northern hotel a year ago and the
loneliness she felt then sqrang the idea
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

gone into colleges and universities and
1t is we'll. They merely provide oppor-
tunity for those who are personally or
parentally ambitious for the fruits OF
education, but Gunckel and his hackers
take many who neither personally nor
parentally can see any ray of hope for
a better life, financially or socially, and
open to them a new world.
The one sows seed in a rich valley,
the other reclaims an arid waste. The
one grooms a domestic horse. the other
lassoes an uncurbed steed of the plains.
The one gathers fruit from a cultivated
orchard, the other creates a spineless
cactus. Americas greatest need is to
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

Toledo. o., Dec. 25.-But for the un-
firing labors OF John Gunckel, the
King of the Newsies," the little chaps
would not be enjoying a Christmas
dinner today In the finest newsboy's
home in the world. A newsboy himself
Gunckel has devoted himself TO the
work of making the burden lighter and
to making men out of the little urchins,
who know no home and few friends
Every year 'Gunck" has something to
fill the stockings Of his little friends.
This year IL is to be a surprise party
at the Valentine theatre.
The Newsboys' association will flll
the theatre, the largest in the city
every Sunday afternoon, to listen to
addresses and other appropriate exer-
cises. The body Of the theatre is filled
with boys, the galleries with adults.
They have had as many as two thou
sand packed, in the theatre and one
thousand turned away.
Looking down upon that sea Of up
turned faces. Negley D. Cochran said
one day, This is the greatest Sunday
school in America Here we study
God in the making of men. Here are
Methodists, and Jews, Unitarians and
Catholics"-"and niggers''-broke in a
little fellow as black as the ace of
spades, on the front seat. yes" said
Cochran, "all children Of God, regard
less of creed or color
When Gunckel began these meetings.
twelve years ago, he had no distin-
guished citizen to sit with him on the
stage, but got his newsboys together
i'm a small lodge room on the third floor
on st. Clair street. He was crowded
out of the lodge room into a hall. then
to the Empire theatre, then to the
Lyceum, and finally they took posses
sion of the Valentine.
The Significance of it All.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

husbands and son faced the ',ullats are
i'm desperate straits. Coffe plantations
have been destroyed, the woods filed
with brutal hordes, fields have been
pillaged and food confiscated by the
armies. The real secret Of the triumph
of the revolution SITS lies i'm the cour-
age, self sacrifice and determination
Of the Indians. Creoles. and half breeds
who have forced Zelaya to yield.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

which she has already put into effect
in New York, Boston and Seattle. A
twenty eight story building she says
is to be erected in New York. and 1t is
part of the plan to erect building in
Chicago.
Life saving stations" are what Miss
Carter terms the societies. Little notes
of cheerfullness, calls, flowers and tele-
phone messages sent to convalescents
are the methods of the Good Cheer So
ciety. Mark Twain is the only man in
the organization. Young women are
the workers, dispelling the shadows
from the sickrooms and Frightening
the lives of the patients away from
home.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

Managun, Dec. 21.-There is a great
rejoicing in every humble hut In Me
aragua today over the adbication of
President Zelaya. tories Of suffering,
starvation and heroism nave been COM
ing from the heart of the rebels homes
for weeks. Thousands Of women and
children in the interior, lefs alone to
fight their battle with poverty while
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

failed. He tried the scheme at the
postoffice at st. Charles and failed, and
that was where the authorities got on
his track, and he worked his game a.
Dover just before being arrested, and
was compelled there to refund the
money he had secured,
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
4short chanaae Man Arrestsd.

Winona, Mimi, Dec. 25.--J. G. Ma
son has been arrested at Dover and
brought back to Winona on the charge
Of working short -change game here.
1t is feared he Ii not the same man
who on las. Saturday secured SIS IN
this manner from the. stores OF the
Interstate Mercantile company and
Beinhorn q Meier, but he has been
identified as the same party who tried
this game at the Fulton market and
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
"kidnaped" Boy Found.

Modesto, Cal. Dec. 25.-Stephen SUI
megi, a Hungarian boy who was sup
posed to have been kidnapped from
his mothers home at Cleveland, Ohio,
two years ago, was found today at
the ranch Of G. w. Hanford. near here.
He was taken in charge by the au
thorities.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
Card Of Thanks.

w. e. Collins and Mrs. Schultz of
Gardner wish to thank their many
friends for the kindness shown in their
late bereavement.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

universalize such work as Gunckel Ia
doing in Toledo.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
CUTLERY.

Anything you want IN mat Ims7
keep onlr the very best Ben RarI
Remembe-. the Best.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25

A Forum want Ad VIII Sell 1t For You
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-12-25
Observation-Disclosures
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1909-03-13
La VilIania AriZOniana.

Dos semanas ha dimos noticia
oportuna q nuestros lectores del alb
surdo y villanfa que habia cometido
la legislature del territorio de Arizo-
ma, contra el pueblo de habla espafio-
la de allf, aprobando una ley que dis
pone que no Sc les permita votar en-
las elecciones, tenidas en- Arizona,
los que no sepan leer el ingIes.
El proyecto, aunque aprobado por
las dos camaras, fu6 rechazadO por
el gobernador, con su veto, pero, este
no obstante, la legislature 10 aprob6
de nuevo, votando dos tereeras par
tes de los miembros en- ada camara,
en- favor de sn epr0baci0n. Pero con
todO \ esso, la villanfa no esta del to-
do c0nsumada. AL ser aprobado de
nuevo el proyecto, sobre las ohIecio-
nes del gobernadOr Sc lie olyid6 4
uno de los Presidentes de la Leglsla-
tura, al que presidfa las sesiones de
la camsra donde Sc origin6, certifCar,
tai cual requiere la ley organica, que
el proyecto de ley habfa sido aproba-
do por dos terceras parties de los vo-
tos de los miembros de cada una ca
mara, no obstante las ohjeeiones del
gobernador, y de allf result6 que no
pasara a ser ley, Pero va Sc ha pre-
sentado de nuevo ell proyecto y los
que 10 favorecen hardn un esluerZo
supreme porque Sc apruebe y pase a
ser ley en- ell eorto tempo que queda
de session.
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1909-03-13
Segunda Caria de nn Apache.

va veo, sefor editor, que no Sc
ha llevado a cabo la suggestion que
con tanto trabajo y desvelo traslade
"a las Columns de la prensa, sema-
mas ha, dc poner en- las aulas legisla-
twas del territorio 4 un cuerpo de
presidiarios de Ia penitenciarfa te-
rritorial, para que legislara en- bien
y pr0vecho de la moralidad, pero
con todo y haberse echado en- saco
roto mis- sugestiones, tal vez por que
eran de un apache, no doy mi brazo
4 t0rcer nj he de callar.
De los muchos que fueron q Santa
he on husca de chancita, pocos,
muy pocos, fueron escogidos, y los
chaslueados volvieron sus casas
con las bolsss vacfas ST, pero llenos
de arrepentimiento y muy tiesos en-
la resoluci6n de no volverse dejar en-
gahar pOr sus reyes.
Estos pobres verdaderamente no
merecen la Reproduction del pnblico;
10 que merecen mas bien es Ia com.
pastor pues 4 nadie hicieron daf0
sino d s. nlsmos y sus propios boil
.slllos, y oiald que 10 mlsnO que Sc
yolvieron ellos 4 sus casas se hubie-
ran vuelto los legisladores, pues asi
SO habrian ahorrado elos el trabajo
dc sudar Ia gotta gorda llenando los
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1909-03-13

torio c insistieron en- procesar crimi-
naimente los que Sc deeia entonees
y Sc dice a0n que han defaudadO al
gobierno de valioSos terrenOs en- este
territorio, y los cuales han podidO es-
caparse de su merecido castig0 solo
por su prominencia en- les circulos
sociales y pOlitieos.
Los que han presentado Cargos ante
Ia comisi0n senatorial en- Washing
ton han imputado el cargo al Goher-
nador Curry y 4 su procandor gene
rat que 10 era en- ese tempo el
Juez Fall, de que ellos fueron los que
Sc empenaron con el procuador ge-
neral de los Estados Unidos porque
retirara 4 McHarg de Nuevo M6xi-
co, d todo 10 cual ell Juez Fall ha con-
testado dieiendo que es verdad que
.el pidi0 el retro de McHarg, pero
que 10 hizo porque 10 considerable in
competente para hacer bien el traba-
20 que lie tenia encomendado ell depar-
tamento.
En- 10 que tomaHos del referldo pc
riodico de Washington, cuyo repor-
tador Sc hallaba presente ante Ia co.
mission senatorial sobre territories v
tue testigo ocular de 10 que allf pas6,
no hallamOs nj una sola menci0n de
10 que los despachos recibidos aquf
atribuian al ex-gobernador Hager-
man, de quien Sc deeia que Sc habia
eXpresado muy mai en- contra de Ia
gente de habla espailola de este terri
torio, todo 10 cual resulta como noso-
tros 10 sospech0bamos, un atentado
de parte de Andrews v sus amigos
encaminado a desviar la atenci0n del
pdblico del iugar donde debe ser fla
do y ponerla sobre personas que en-
NADIA han contribuido a la Consuma-
cion de la derrota que nos vino.
I'll peri6dico de Washington nos
intorma Utra cosa que no nos infor-
maban los primeros despaChos, y es,
que los democratas de Ia comisi0n
senatorial sobre territories, suma-
mente disgustados con Ia condueta
de los republicanos, por no querer
conceder la autonomia de estado q
los Territories de Arizona y Nuevo
Mexico, despu6s de habera prometi-
do solemnemente en- su programa de
principles, Sc salieron del cuarto de
la comisi6n y no quisieron tomar
parte en- la session donde Sc aplaz6 Ia
consideration del acta de habilitaci6n
indeiiuidamente.
La voz del pueblo. [volume] (Santa Fe, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1889-192?, 1909-03-13
La Ultima Nevada.

La nieve que comenz0 4 cRer al
marles en- la nache Y sigui0 eayendo
hasla casi el lueves en- Ia manana, Sc
dice que ha sid0 Ia mas abundaute v
Ia mas general que ha caid0 en- el Te-
rrit0rio on much0s amos. En- Ia par
te sur del lerrit0rio es d0nde parece
haher sido mas afiundsnta segin los
despaehos que se han recibido de
Roswell, El paso y Albuquerque.
Los parties de Roswell dicen que IA
nieve, en- esos Iugares, creci6 d la all
tura de mas de dos pies, en- terreno
plano. Antes de que c0menzara q
caer nieve lego alli una tempestad
de vientO, la mas seyera que Sc ha
conOcid0 en- esas comarcas por mu-
chos amos. Las ltneas de diligencia
suspendieron su traaco por muehas
horas causa, primerO, del aire, Y
luego dc la nieve.
De Hucumcari sc han recibido des.
pachos anmciando que Ia nieve en-
esOs lugares creti0 4 Ia alt1ra de cosa
de tres pies, en- terreno plano, pero
ESQ probablemente es una exagera-
ci0n.
De Albuquerque han avisado que
como resultado de la terrible tempes-
tad de viento que principle ALI el
martes en- Ia noche Y la cual m6s tar
de Sc convifti0 en- tempestad de ME-
vie, azotando q toda la parte central
de Nuevo Mexico, SO sabe ali que
pereci6 an hombre y Sc perdieron
8 pastores de ovelas los cuales Sc cree
tambi6n que han pereeido. I'll que
Sc hello igual que los que Sc perdle
ron, Sc hallaban en- los llanos al Este
de Albuquerque, cuando Sc desenca-
demo la t0rmenta.
En- Ia ciudad de Albuquerque SO
sinti0 la tempestad con intensa seVe-
ridad el marles en- 10 noche, Y como
resuItado de Ia fuerza con que sopla
ba eI yleuto, varies edihcios y casas
de resldencia sufrieron descalabros
lie consideration, calcuandose que
asclenden vari0s miles de pesos las
perdidas ocasionadas por esa causa.
La nevada en- Duran, Corona Y
otr0s puntos en- las lineas de los fe-
rrocarriles Rock Island y Northwes.
tern di6 por resultado la suspension
del trahcO dc trenes dc ferrocarril
por varias h0ras.