davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1909-11-12

porous, or even to escape eventual
poverty, are not complicated and are
within the reach Of the most modest
MT ans They include study of soils
and seeds, SO as to adapt the one to
the other; Investigation Of industry,
including the cultivation of different |
crops and the raising of live stock; a
careful rotation of crops, so that the
land will not be, worn out by success
sive years of single cropping; intelli- |
gent fertilizing, by the system of sro-
tation, by cultivating leguminous
plants and, above all, by the economy
and use of every particle of fertiliz-
ing material from stock barns and
yards; a careful selection of grain
used for seed; and, first Of all perhaps
in Importance, the substitution of the
small farm, thoroughly titled, for the
large farm, with its weeds, it's neglect
ed corners, it's abused soil and it's thin
product. This will make room for the
new population, which added product
will help to restore our place as an ex-
porter of food-stuffs. The fruit farm
er, the truck farmer, every cultivator
of the soil who has specialized his
work, has learned the value of these
simpl@principles. The problem is, how
to impress it upon the 90,000,O0O or
more such persons who live on the
land and till it."
The value of our annual farm prod
uct is now about $S0,000,0OO,0OO. MT
Hill declares it might easily be dou-
bled. when the forests are all cut
down and the mines are nothing but
empty holes in the ground, the farm
! lands of the country will remain capa-
BILE of renewing their bounty forever
But they must; have proper treatment.
To provide this, as a matter of self
interest and of national safety, is the
most imperative present duty of our
people. Incidence, bad farming meth
DDS, greed, and the idea that it needs
no brains to run farm, have pre-
vented agriculture from taking it's
true place in the national life and null
tiplying the value of both the soil and
it's product They should not be proof
longer against the progress of new
ideas. The armed fleets of an enemy
approaching our harbors would be no
more alarming than the relentless adj
vance of a day when we shall have
neither sufficient food nor the means
to purchase it for our population. The
farmers of the nation must save it in
the future, just as they built its great
ness in the past" -
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1909-11-12

vation, seeding harvesting and mar
keting. The farmers OF a county could
see, must see, as they passed its Dor
ders, how their daily labors might
bring increased and improved results.
The example could not fail to impress
itself upon an industry becoming each
year more conscious Of its defects and
its needs. AS fast as. it was followed
it would improve farm conditions,
make this form of enterprise more
attractive to the young and intelligent:
and add enormously to the volume of
farm products, which constitutes our
enduring national wealth" 3.s S+ z
Mr.. Hill would bring the model farm
into every agricultural country, SO that
every farmer could see and find out
what he ought to have done and what
he could do next time. 1T would do
for the farming population what the
technical school does for the Intending
artesan, and the schools of special
training for those who enter the pro-
LESSONS. Side by side with the com
mon cshool it would work for intelli-
gence, for progress, for the welfare Of
| the country in moral as well as a
| material aspect" Mr.. Hill argues that
! we cannot wait for the agricultural
colleges, because the emergency is not
| for the next generation, but for this.
The average wheat yield per acre i'll
the United States, in 1907, was IA
bushels. The average for; the last
10 years is 1888. That is, in 1907, it
reuired 45,211 900 acres to produce the
634, OS7 900 bushels raised. 1T is dis
-graceful record" says Mr. Hill.
! about century ago this was the
average production per acre Of Great
Britain. After the appointment Of a
royal commission and campaign for
better methods of cultivation begun
over 100 years ago, the fields of the
i United Kingdom, titled for 1000 years,
in a climate whose excessive moisture
yield over 80 bushels of wheat per acre
Germany, an agricultural country al
most from the time of Tacitus, pro
duce 27.6 bushels per acre. Suppose
! that the Unietd States produced %
, bushels, or double it's present showing.
That would be nothing extraordinary,
in view of what European countries
have done with inferior soils and less
| favorable climate. 1T would have
added 634,ooo,ooo bushels to our prod
uct last year." #a5
Good Farming the Solution.
There is scarcely a limit, at least
none has yet been reached by the
most intensive cultivation, to the value
which an acre of ground may be made
to produce. Right methods of farming,
without which no agricultural country
such as this can hope to remain pros
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1909-11-12

At Chicago dressmakers' conven-
ton they are going to show all the
different styles Of feminine wearing
apparel since the days of Eve. Peek
a-boo! !. y r..
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1909-11-12

In County Court, before Hon. John r.
s State Of North Dakota, County Of
Ramsey. S5fsy Va Ss A EsS5:5 me FEs i5ss5>
i IN the matter. Of the estate ZOE Kari
Thompson, deceased. ~ lf:ss ,ss SIS SIS
Z Notice is hereby given by the under
signed John Berg, as admin stratorsso Of
the estate Of Kari Thompson, deceased.
Ramsey and state Of North Dakota, de-
ceased, to the creditors of and all per-
sons having claims against aid deceas-
ed. to exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers within our months after the
first publications Of this notice to the sun-
dersigned, administrator at hisafesidence
near Doyon in the county of Ramsey and
State Of North Dakota. {SsSE agSSs 81
Dated October 20, 1909..Szs5 43z, M. 81
&8ss%ft >SsSS ERE ERE Issg$ j ohm Berg 3$
As Administrator Of the estate OF b
Kari Thompsons deceased; .!.sta 49, ,,,fs
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1909-11-12
Notice Of special Tax Receipt.

Notice is hereby given, that a Govern
ment Tax Receipt IS issued to Zernan e.
Fish; thatsthe date Of such Receipt is
Feb 23,,$1909; that the description of ti,e
ed is the front room Of the drug store
building situate on, Lot g. Block 3, of the
village of the township of Lawton. Ram
sey County, N. D.: and the name Of the
owner Of said property in which said
Tax Receipt is posted is Davidson & Za-
man and the name Of the lessor OF said
property is ZeI1,an & Fish, $50 4 +
Dated Oct. 81, 1909. 5&ssss<:5% s. 5s::2:
- -zeman & Fish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

1t is oh, to lie where the soft winds sigh
And bark to the waters fall;
And to hear the breeze through the
rustling trees
To the things of the forest call;
TO be near akin to the rabbit IN
And to stroll at will in the evening still
And to be a vagabond!
Meath a sunny sky where the wheat fields
In a mass Of tumultuous green.
From their places old where the trees un-
fold
All their leaves in glittering sheen.
It's joy to go and to feel and know
That the earth is glad and fond,
To cheerful vagabond.
And It's oh. to walk where the squirrels
In the. somber beechen shade.
vines fling
Out their arms with their broad leaves
And to fall asleep in the forest deep
On the bank of lily pond
And to gather cheer from the smiling
year
For happy vagabond.
There's a voice that calls when the
And 1t lures with its siren song;
There's beck ming hand from mystic
to answer its signal song.
70 be of to the i1es far ar be W5ia oes're
Where there's none to say I must go or
Where RI be vagabond.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison GIL

+
1t is a common experience that
chiggers prefer the white meat.
A man will occasionally admit he is
a coward, but how he resents such in
ference from another!
Investigation shows that girls have
worn shirtwaists upon every occasion
except to be buried in.
1t is said the most enthusiastic ball
player in the world will quit playing
as soon as he gets married.
If you attended a party, and didn't
have a nice time, think it over; wasn't
it because some one else did all the
talking2
An Atchison young man is cigar
cite fiend, and every time he rolls a
cigarette, he sings softly to himself,
Nearer. My God. to Thee"
Recently, we saw a woman over 20
years old engaged in cleaning out
storeroom for a church social. After
As, men are not allowed to do active
service in the United States army, but
the army of the Lord seems to have
higher limit.
When you file complaint against an
automobile owner, for running too
fast, be sure you have four or more
witnesses with you; the automobile
owner will have at least three with
him, and they will all swear they were
running at lawful speed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
JAYHAWKER JOTS

A new dancing club at Frankfort
has been named the Young Turks.
Likely it holds progressive parties.
The Sun City correspondent of the
Medicine Lodge Index most appro-
priately wrote recently: Bob Massey
blew himself for $45 cornet."
The Ottawa Herald accuses the
Hutchinson News of mIsquoting Bret
Harte- That is worse than splitting an
infinitive, thinks the Wichita Beacon.
The Greenleaf Sentinel explains that
the new automobile which it recently
credited to a prominent citizen is not
new automobil but a new baby.
That's pretty near the same thing as
far as noise producer goes.
A letter from William Allen White
says that most of the fine paintings
in the galleries in Rome are of the
same sort that Carrie Nation smashed
in the Wichita bar-room when she
first started on her career.-Kansas
City Star.
Walt Mason thinks the snake wor-
shippers at Hutchinson made the mis-
take of their lives when they failed to
establish their Mother Church at Sa-
in Kansas who can do Justice to their
lives in that town.
A Wichita man was fussing because
of his aching teeth. ''Why don't you
no the Den 5 asKed one cot OF t hs
nerve" was the reply. Never mind
that" replied the friend, "the dentist
will find the nerve all right. kansas
City Journal.
One of the papers in the state re-
Gently asked as to the whereabouts on
it's anatomy to "swat the fly" With
it's usual fine discernment the Salina
Journal replied: THE spot he is
swatted is the only wrong
Ieft.''
Now that the memory Of the old
settlers who were killed by Indians in
Lincoln county has been honored by
the erection of a granite monument,
the G. A. r. veterans have started a
fund to erect one in
memory of the old soldiers. The fund
Is growing rapid1y.-Beloit Gazette.
The Salina correspondent has again
flooded hundreds of acres of corn and
wheat. Not long ago he killed the
crops on these same fields with a food
and then had the farmers getting rich
by gathering up fish from the fields.
He will cause the waters to subside
again in few days and will then
gather another fish crop.-Wichtta
Eagle.
II am spending everything that 1 can
earn now and intend to have a good |
time until I am thirty. Then I will |
begin to save something" No, he |
won't ever save up anything if he
waits until he is thirty to begin. His |
habits will be formed and he will |
continue until the end of the chapter |
10 spend all he can earn having a |
good time. After he Is forty he can /
1ot earn acknowledgements Tribune.
Good people make a mistake by |
alking of 1.-The pleasures of sim"
There is really very little pleasure in
lin, and the sinner is always miser-
abIe as the result of SHINING. Any |
honest sinner will tell you so. Judg-
nent and punishment do not wait
i'll after death, either. They are
lere now, and every sinner knows it
ind suffers it. When good people !
ak of "the pleasures Of sin" they are
putting bait on the trap for foolish
-oung folks who would otherwise not
ute. Teach them the truth: That
here is not only no pleasure in sin,
,ut that the penalty and punishment
follow the shining
Howard Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

way on this subject within a few
years time. There will be days Of
encouragement for them, or that
portion of them which has been re-
sponsible for driving the beer and
whisky sellers to cover. There will be
times when it will seem to them that
prohibition is a failure. This has
been the experience of Kansans. But
if they stick to their guns as have
the people of Kansas, success will
finally crown their efforts, and their
reward will be a state of prosperous
communities filled with happy. pros
porous peoples.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

TFrom the Chicago News.J
The road to ruin is always kept in
good repair.
When trouble goes to sleep don't set
the alarm clock.
Better a good paying job than a low
salaried position.
If you are not satisfied with your lot,
trade it for better one.
Some people fast because there's
nothing to eat in the house.
The tax assessor thinks he has an
excuse for being pessimist.
Five-cent tonsorial parlors are re-
sponsible for lot of bad scrapes.
It gives US a terrific jolt every time
we hear our friends praise our enc
mics.
1t will soon be the open season for
over again.
Although people realize that they
can't live forever, dying is the last
thing they want to do.
Most of the people who want to get
out of the matrimonial frying pan do
so because they want to get in it
again.
A womaRss idea of economy in shop
ping depends on whether she is buy
ing things for herself or for her hus-
band.
About the meanest thing one woman
can say of another Woman's appear
ance is that she looks as If she had
dressed while running to q fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
Gamekeeper,s GaIIows.

In olden days the gamekeeper set
up his vermin gallows in each of his
big woods. It was to his credit to
show that he had killed a large
amount of vermin; on his gallows he
wrote his own testimonial. Nearly all
the vermin he killed was duly dis
played. Now the day of the gallows
is passing.
Keepers have little time to give to
the display; nor do employers always
encourage it. No doubt there is a
growing feeling against the destruction
of wild life involved by the preserva-
ton of game; the gallows foster this
and lead to bitter, If often misjudged
attacks. Keepers are contenting them
selves with a modified form of gall
lows, as the trunk of a tree, to which
the heads, tails, or claws of the male
factors are nailed. Of course, small
gallows do not speak of the keepers
successful war waging in the old man
ner of the old fashioned, full meas-
ure pattern, but there is much in their
favor. AS one old keeper remarked Of
his tree trunk gallows, the faint odor
was only enough to set off the scent of
the flowers.-London Evening Stan
dard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

it's Peter!" she gasped- stop a min
ute and see what he's doing"
AS the big motor car stood in the
shadow of the trees, Peters voice
came to them. He was speaking in
Italian-and Annette, thanks to three
winters in Rome, understood all that
he said.
AS she listened. she felt herself
growing smaller and smaller. This was
the Peter whom she had accused Of
lack of patriotism, this man who was
speaking so eloquently to these new
corners to his native soliciting them
what it meant to be good citizen
what 1t meant to live for his country
as well as to die for it.
"Oh, Peter, Peter" her heart cried.
although her lips were silent.
But when the speech was ended, she
spoke: I'm going to get out a min
ute. want to see Peter
Swiftly she walked straight over to
the aStonished Peter.
ooh, you wonderful man." she said
with shining eyes. 81 never heard such
a speech"
mot even Arnold's?" he asked, as
he led her through the smiling crowd.
mot even anybody's oh, Peter. I
want my ring"
Dear heart" he murmured, as he
bent tenderly over her.-(Copyrigh
1909, by Associated Literary Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
QUAKER MEDITAToNs.
Iron the Philadelphia Record. ]

Iron the Philadelphia Record.1
When it's an uphill fight, a man
can only do his level best.
Many a man who rides a hobby has
been thrown from it to find himself
broke.
The BARRIERS son ought to be a
sharp boy, if his father straps him Of
ten enough.
The widow who looks well in black
wears it as much for her next husband
as for the last.
In the game of love, when hearts
are trumps, a fellow is expected to
lead a diamond.
Although railroad engineers may be
separated by many miles, there are
always strong ties between them.
No. Maude, dear. an artist can't be
arrested for obstructing the highway
just because he draws a crowd.
NeIl-"What makes you so sure they
are in the social swim ?" Bell-"They
have a dozen dogs, and no children
Blobbs-"The girl to marry is the
girl who believes in love in a cot
tage." Slobbs-"Yes, If a girl believes
that, you could stuff her with any old
thing
LAS ye SOW, so shall We reap" quot
ed the Wise Guy. you can't make
the suburbanite who has planted his
first garden believe that" re arked
the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's whole lot of beauty in the
world that's not even skin deep.
X \
The profit that men make off the
mistakes of others should not be very
satisfying.
Were kicking beneficial exercise
most husbands would have wonderful
physical development.
q e
If opportunity knocked but once at
each mans door there would be more
utter failures in the ranks of mankind.
> \ \
No girl ever had another girl for a
friend who was much more beautiful
than herself. She looks on all such as
enemies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
A Chinese Custom.

About sixty Cinnamon proceeded to
the graves of two recently buried Ce-
lestiaIs in Anfield cemetery, Liverpool.
A gigantic tray carried by four China
men, and containing foods, including a
fully grown roasted pig decorated with
red rosettes, cooked fowl, beefsteaks,
oranges, and sweets, was brought on
the scene. A bottle or two of Scotch
whisky fianked with eggcups and
liquor glasses, were also placed on one
of the graves. The spirit was plentiful
ly poured upon the meats, and rice
was sprinkled upon the grave, and
afterward joss sticks, paper offerings,
and boxes of crackers were burned.
The explosion of the fireworks made a
lively diversion in the otherwise SOL
emn proceedings Tit-Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
Dearth of Teachers in England.

In a memorandum accompanying the
rev regulations for the preliminary ed
Ucation OF elementary school teachers,
which come into force on August 1
next. Sir Robert L. Morant, permanent
secretary of the board of education,
states that it is necessary to call the
serious attention of local education
authorities to the doubt whether the
number Of bursars and pupil teachers
row being brought annually into the
earlier stages of the teaching profess
sion is sufficient to maintain a supply
of adult teachers adequate to the needs
of the elementary schools of the coun-
try. After referring to the marked
decrease during recent years In the
number of boys and girls entering upon
bursarsnip and pupil leadership in Eng
land-the number last year being only
1856 against 10.359 in the previous year
Sir Robert says that the number of
boys and girls brought into the early
stages of the profession this year. in
order to secure the country against
deficiency of adult teachers in 1912,
should be about $4,000, or rather more
than half as many again as were adj
mitted IN 190S-London Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
KANSAS COMAENT
CONSERVING THE SON.

CONSERVING THE SOIL
1t has often been remarked that
town farmers are prone to give advice
to their brethren in the country, who
really do the farming, and that such
advice is worth about as much as free
advice usually is. But when the ad-
vice comes from a scientific source
IKE that OF President Van Hise of the
University or Wisconsin, as published
in the Worlds Work this month, it is
certainly worthy of more than passing
attention. President Van Hise is
member of the original conservation
commission appointed by President
roosevelt. and his article on 1.-THE
Future of Man in America deals
largely with the question of mans fu-
ture physical existence on this con-
lnent. He shows that the three plant
foods which are likely to be present in
insufficient quantity in the soil are
three that are most important for fu-
ture production and most expensive to
supply, once gone-nitrogen, potas-
SUM and phosphorus. Naturally, then.
anything that tends to conserve these
elements IS important.
And here is where the Importance
OF his advice to farmers comes in. He
SHOWS that it is their duty, not alone
TO themselves from an economic stand
point, but to their children and their
children's children, to society in gen.
eral to keep the land they own and
control producing just as much from
year 10 year as II is possible for 1t to
produce. There are two principal ways
in which this may be done through
rotation of crops. by which these ele-
ments are not so rapidly exhausted
and by the use of fertilizers on the
soil Careful farmers do both these
things, but it is not by the careful
farmer that this advice is needed.
incidentally Professor Van Hise
comments on the failure of congress
to aid in the work of conservation of
natural resources, by refusing to make
appropriation for the carrying on of
the work or even of publishing in
large quantity the reports of the con-
serYation congress. He holds James
A.. Tawney of Minnesota and Charles
B. Lands of Indiana chiefly RESPONSE
Bile for the inactivity Of congress on
these matters as they were chairmen
of the house committees that had
charge of the necessary legislation.
But Professor Van Hise says the work
of education on the subject of con-
servation in all it's bearings will go
on, with or without the aid of the ma
tional congress, and efforts prosecuted
to secure a systematic effort toward
the conservation of all the natural
resources for the benefit of posterity.
News.