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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Canada at the
Chicago Land Show
WILL MAKE A MAGNIFICENT EX
HIBIT OF GRAINS AND
GRASSES, VEGETABLES
AND FRUIT.

A carload of grain in straw, grasses
and other of the products of Western
Canada arrived at Chicago the other
day. and is now installed in the
Coliseum, where the United States
lane and irrigation exposition is under
way. Those who are interested In
the Back to the land movement" will
find in the Canadian exhibit n OF
the best displays Of the agricultural
products of Western Canada that has
ever been made. There are repre-
sentative men there, who will be
pleased to give the fullest information
regarding the country.
The exhibit shows what can be
lone on the free grant lands of that
country and most of the grain was
produced on the farms of former resi-
dents of the United States who have
taken advantage Of the homestead
lands Of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta.
The vegetable exhibit will attract
a great deal of attention, and some
marvellous potatoes, carrots, turnips,
cabbage and c~aulifower are shown.
1t is true that the homestead area
Is being rapidly taken up and the
bulk of that now to be had lies north
of the Saskatchewan river in a por-
ton of the country known as the park
country. Here there Is a large guam
tity of open prairie interspersed by
beautiful groves of poplar and willow.
Water Is in abundance, hay is plenti-
full and consequently fodder for ami
mails is right at hand. Those who
have taken advantage of farming in
these districts and watched the efforts
Of those in the prairie proper feel
that they have the advantage of their
brother, who is not able to secure fuel
and the other conveniences Of the
park district on his own farm.
The crop conditions throughout
Western Canada the past yea have
been generally good, and some won
derful crop yields Of wheat, oats and
barley are recorded. The Canadian
Government, under whose auspices
the exhibit spoken of is being made,
is preparing reports on crops in the
different Western Canada districts,
and while these will not be ready for
distribution at the lane show COM
mencing on the 18th Of November
and closing on Dec. 9Th, application
made to the Canadian Government
agent nearest you will bring them to
you as soon as they are published.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Menu of First Thanksgiving Feast

mouth, and the Indians went out and shot a
large number of them, and made them their
contribution to the feast. Governor Bradford
says in his history that they were delicious
to eat. How fitting it is that the bird that Is
the GROWING glory of our Thanksgiving board
should have been the favorite meat of that his
toric first Thanksgiving dinner!
There were. doubtless, onions. beets, pars-
nips, cabbage or colewort, squash, and perhaps
other vegetables, for a good variety OF seeds
were brought over from Holland. perhaps
there was succotash, and the Indians must
have made it, for it was something that the
Pilgrim cooks had never heard of before, and
we know that they learned later from the In
dams how to make 1t. Now, what did they
have for dessert, I wonder? | think they may
have had some sort Of pudding with buckle
berries for plums. | doubt If they had much
sweetening for their pudding and pumpkin
pies, as their stock Of sugar and molasses was
very limited. Perhaps they had a substitute.
There were fine wild grapes in the woods, and
they had doubtless dried a store of wild straw
berries. cherries and plums. They surely did
not have any mince pies. since the Pilgrims
thought mince pies were very wicked, and
savored of Romanism. So they condemned
those who afterward made and ate them
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
THANKSGIVING

| thank thee. Life. for many, many gifts;
For wealth of bloom and tender song that lifts
My life the heated highways path above;
But most of all | thank thee, Life. for Love!
| thank thee for the body's health; for friends;
The daily bread thy kindly bounty sends;
For all the goodly things that are or were;
But most Of all | thank thee. Life. for Her!
For Her count OF good thine utter store
That ~surfeits avarice. Thou hast no more,
No boon to win one covert sigh from me
When | have that whose giving beggars thee.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

duck or goose for the regulation lhahhssivine
fowl. The cost is much less ana lhe 'iS
ton equally great-once a householuer d
freed himself from the tradition that Ihahhs-
giving without turkey would not be lhahhs.
giving. Then, too, the increasing NUMBER OIL
vegetarians and persons who have aoopteu d
diet of nuts or other meat substitutes, nave
devised some very ingenious proxies LOT lit
Thanksgiving dinner-non-meat dishes tnat
even simulate the appearance or a turkey.
However, these new-fangled dishes can scarce
ly be recommended as cheap. owing to the
amounts of nuts and the number Of eggs the
recipes call for.
In the face of soaring prices In so many
food lines, it is gratifying to note one Thanks-
giving Indispensable, the cost of which re-
mains virtually unchanged. This Is our old
friend, the pumpkin, dear to youth and old
age alike, in the form of the pumpkin pie. No
person has ever attempted to corner the
pumpkin crop. and probably no person ever
will undertake such a miracle. The fact that
the great golden globes with their luscious
"fllin'" can be raised in every section OF the
United States, and that, too, without any
trouble, once the vines are planted, Is doubt
less responsible for the moderate prices that
always prevail. Probably there is no town or
city in the country where a good-sized pump
kin cannot be purchased for so cents, and In
most American markets one may buy a small
pumpkin-an orb of joy with ammunition suf-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

learn that Texas leads all the other states III
the Union in the number of turkeys u. ~.
Proximity of the market to the ruiai u.s.
trict whence it draws its supply OF hoiiua.
fowls is a highly important consideration ~"
adays, because the mistress Of a city none
can no longer purchase her Thanksgiving u
KEY from a farmer who drives up to her door
marketing the products Of his own tarm. All
the turkeys are handled nowadays through cohi
mission merchants, which means, OF course,
that there is a middleman's profit to be pala
by the ultimate consumer. Another secret Oh
the present high prices of turkeys is found
in the fact that the live birds are shipped long
distances. If they are transported by express
the expense Is considerable, and If they make
the journey by freight the trip is nearly as
costly, inasmuch as the live birds are sent
by freight only in carload lots. which involves
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
PHYSICIAN ADVISES
CUTICURA REMEDIES

'Four years ago l had places break
out on my wrist and on my shin which
would itch and burn by spells, and
scratching them would not seem to
give any relief. When the rouble first
began, my wrist and shin itched like
poison. / would scratch those places
until they would bleed before ! could
get any relief. Afterwards the places
would scale over, and the flesh I'M
derneath would look red and feyerish.
Sometimes it would begin to itch until
it would waken me from my sleep.
and / would have to go through the
scratching ordeal again.
Our physician pronousced it "dry
eczema l used an ointment which
the doctor gave me, but 1t did no good.
Then he advised me to try the Cuti-
cura Remedies. AS this trouble has
been in our family for years, and is
considered hereditary, / felt anxious
to try to head it off. I got the Cuti-
cura Soap, Ointment and Pills, and
they seemed to be just what l needed.
The disease was making great
Roadway on my system until | got
the Cuticura Remedies which have
cleared my skin of the great pest.
From the time the eczema healed four
years ago, until now, l have never felt
any of it's pest, and | am thankful to
the Cuticura Soap and Ointment which
certainly cured me. / always use the
Cuticura Soap for toilet, and l hope
other sufferers from skin diseases will
use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
(Signed) Irven Hutchinson, Three Riv-
ers, Mich, Mar. 16, 1911. Although
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold
by druggists and dealers everywhere,
a sample of each, with 32-page book,
will be mailed free on application to
"Cuticura," Dept. IL K, Boston.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
The Cats Thanks
giving Soliloquy

I'm just about tired of waiting
For my Thanksgiving treat;
see them about the table,
And they eat. and eat, and eat
They do not think Of poor pussy.
Who has had so long to walt;
Why doesn't some one remember
That it's growing very late.
And haven't | smelt that turkey
Since into the oven 1t ven
If they'd give just one drumstick,
Why, then I'd be content.
But no, they sit there talking
n laughing lou with glee;
| wish that some one among them
Would throw down a bone to me.
There's that greedy little Teddy,
Three times he's passed his plate;
And that turkeys growing smaller
At a very rapid rate.
And see Jacks face! 'Tis shining
With gravy up to his eyes.
| wonder they take no notice
When they hear my hungry cries.
Oh, dear! There's dessert to follow,
The buildings and pumpkin pies
And the fruits and nuts and candy,
And oh, how fast times flies!
All. there's gentle little Ethel.
She's so loving and so kind.
She's bringing me some turkey bones
And a grateful cat she'll find.
FRANK II. SWEET.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

the dinner is decidedly the most important fea-
ture Of the program, for. of course, there is no
football game and no matinee such as many
Americans rely upon for Thanksgiving diversion,
and in the case of many of the eXiles who OBJ
serve Thanksgiving overseas there is not even a
Thanksgiving religious service such as is uni
versal at home.
1t is not merely, either, that the officers and
men of our army and navy have introduced the
Yankee Thanksgiving dinner to benighted lands
long in ignorance of it's delights. To be sure the
eptcurean bluejackets and the lads in khaki
have been responsible for much of this CASTRO
nomic. missionary work" but it is also a fact
that American diplomatic and consular officials.
and indeed all classes of Americans resident
abroad, have done their share to preserve all
the traditions of the Thanksgiving dinner as a
reality In every transplanted home. Especially.
where there is a little American colony in an
allen environment, is the Thanksgiving dinner
right jealousy guarded.
But whereas the American Thanksgiving din
ner has been winning its way around the world
1t has likewise come to enjoy more and more
prestige at home. The one Earring note in any
present-day eulogy Of the Thanksgiving dinner is
to be found in its greatly increased cost over
the expense involved for a corresponding menu
a few years since. No person who grasped the
import of the high cost Of living issue in the
recent political campaign can fail to realize
mat the matter is a very grave one to the aver
age housekeeper, and especially when it OBJ
which ought to be an occasion for carefree feast.
Ing instead of domestic perplexities.
Inc one consolation, II not compensation. in
this situation is to be found in the knowledge
that our Thanksgiving dinners in this day and
generation are vastly better than the like holi-
day spread of years gone by. 1t is not 80 much
that the dishes that go to make up the bill of
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

beautiful woman in England, he de-
termined to unite by means of a canal
his coal fields with Manchester, then
beginning its career as a
turing town. In those days good roads
we're the exception, bad roads the
rule. The cottons OF Manchester and
the woolens of Leeds were conveyed
from place to place on pack horses.
which logged along in single file. The
freight charge from Leeds to G
was 500 a ton. When the dukes n
was finished the prices OF coal n
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

other commodities in Manchester fell
one-half.
The success of this canal started
the duke to build n which would
connect Manchester with Liverpool.
To procure the funds he reduced his
personal expenses to G400 a year
So straitened was he at times that
the London bankers hesitated to dis
count his note for 8500. Sometimes,
when hard up" he would SEND his
steward upon a collecting tour among
the tenantry Of the ducal estates. The
steward would ride from tenan to
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

stomach and there was no cure. I al
most thought the same, for my breath
was offensive and 1 could not eat any
thing without great misery, and l grad
ually grew worse.
'Finally I concluded to try Peruna,
and I found relief and a cure for that
dreadful disease, catarrh. I took five
bottles of Peruna and two of Manalin,
and 1 now feel like a new man. There
is nothing better han Peruna, and !
keep a bottle Of it in my house all the
time"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
His Honor ~UnImpaired.

mo-" said the old shoemaker,
sternly, Il will not do it. Never lave
l sold anything by false representa-
lions, and l will not begin now"
Fol a moment he was silent, and
the shopman who stood before him
could see thai the better nature of
his employer was fighting strongly
for the right.
NO" said the old man again, Il
will not do it. 1t is an inferior
grade of shoe, and I will eve pass
If off as anything better. SO just
mark it "A shoe fit for a queen and
put it In the window. A queen, you
know, does not have 70 do much walk
ing"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

the rental Of a special
type Of car for the jour
ney and pay for the
services of a man who Is
sent along to feed the
birds en- route.
Owing to the mount
ing prices of turkey and
an occasional shortage
of supply - although
there Is no prospect or
a turkey famine this
year-has induced an In
creasing number of fam
lilies all over the coun-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Tilted, Builds Many Canals

just after he had attained his major
ity. A dispute arising between the
couple, the match was broken on.
The dukes chagrin changed the course
OF his life. He gave his first and last
ball to the London world of fashion
and then buried himself among his
coal fields at Worsley. Eschewing
the society OF women, he refused even
to employ them as servants in his
manor house.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

ries Is Quickly reflected IN the Price Ho"eVer'
cranberries are never so very much u al "a
travapance because 1t requires such a mooest
nortion 70 make up a batch Of cranberry sauce.
When cranberries are plentiful they sell whole
sale as low as 81 per barrel. but a few years
ago, when there was a cranberry FAMINE. inc
price went as high as $40 per barrel.
The business side Of the problem OF supplying
q THANKSGIVING dinner for the American people
ia by no means the least interesting phase OF
this subject. The city Of Chicago alone re-
ceives during the week or ten days before
Thanksgiving as many as half a million turkeys.
valued In the aggregate, at wholesale prices, at
much more than a millions dollars, From Cape
Cod, Mass. the greatest cranberry growing dis
trict, there are shipped each autumn more than
one-third Of a million car loads of cranberries.
and the major portion Of this harvest finds It's
way to Thanksgiving dinner tables. Many car
loads of celery from Michigan and other states
swell the total cost of our Thanksgiving dinner
to millions.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Inland Navigation of Great Britain
Had Its Inception by Disastrous
Love Affair of Duke.

The British system of artificial in
land navigation, which includes sew
eral thousand miles of canal, may be
said to have had its origin in a mat
r1monial disappointment. The duke
of Bridgewater, the originator OF the
system, was engaged to be married
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
CATARRH
OF The
SioMACH
Could Hardly Eat. Gradually
Grew Worse. Relieved by
Peruna.

Mr.. A. M.
Ikerd, Box 81.
w e S t B u r
~lington, Iowa,
writes:
"I had ca
tarrh of the
stomach and
S ID a intes-
tin e s for a
n m b e T of
years. I went
to a number
of doctors and
got no relief,
and fin al
O c of my
doctors sent
me to G h j.
C a G o, and 1
met the same
fate. II h e y
S a j d t h e y
could do moth
ing for me;
s al d l had
o,poar of the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

tenant, getting SIS here and 910
there. When he had collected money
enough he would return and pay the
canal laborers their weekly wages. In
a few years, however, the dukes can
ais paid him an annual revenue OF
ESQ, 900.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

Illinois, Ind1-
ana, Ohio and
other states
a n t b 9
backbone OF
the country
are the great
centers of the
turkey indus
try, although
it will doubt
less surprise
some Of our
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Proved,

Orator. thought your paper vas
friendly to me?
Editor-So 1T is. What's the mat
ter?
Orator. made a speech at the
dinner last night, and you didn't print
q line Of it.
Editor-Well, what further proof do
you want?-London Opinion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Lose TheIr Freed ON.

All men are born free and equal
said the philosopher.
81 know" said the mattsr-of-facs
person. But some Of en- get marIao1
afterward."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Tense S.

Teacher-Tommie, what is the fu
ture of Il give?'
Tommie-"You take."-Life.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Dnuhfless.

"She left me for some motive or an
other"
Probably another" Lippincott's
Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

It is only those who live on low
ground who complain that the world
is overcrowded.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

For over, fifty years Rheumatism, Neu-
ralgia, and other painful ailments have
been cured by HamIins Wizard OIL. 1t is
a good honest remedy and you will not
regret having a bottle ready for use.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

d., Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invieorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granulss, easy to taks
- candy.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

The man who is envious Of evil
doors will soon be one himself.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

ficient for at least a couple OF
pies-for the modest sum OF -FOUR
or five cents. The newspapers
have given prominence this year
to the exploit OF an Indiana farm
err who has raised a pumpkin as
large around as a wagon Wheel
and weighing $50 pounds. How
ever, the record in pumpkin
growing is claimed by a COLORADO
planter, who gets credit for pro
ducing n few years ago a pump
kin Weighing more than U
pounds.
Cranberries are a Thanksg1v-
ing commodity the price of which
f~uctuates widely in different
years. And yet we feel that we
must have them. almost without
regard to price, for If Thanks
giving is incomplete without the
turkey, certainly the turkey ls
incomplete without the
ry sauce. Cranberries are cult
waited to any extent In only three
states, namely, Massachusetts,
Wisconsin and New Jersey, n
the producing area being thus re-
stricted it naturally follows that
when there comes a lean year
the shortage Of the ruddy Der
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

Policeman-That fellow is hunting
trouble.
Mr.. Want-to-Know-Why?
Policeman-He's looking for the
marriage license bureau.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

Miss Antique have so much on
my mind; l wish I knew what to do
for relief.
Miss Caustique-Why not remove
your switch?
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24
Poor ConversationaIist.

TOOT OOTVCT
us your husband a good after-din-
ner talker?"
mo, indeed. AS soon as he's had
dinner he lies down on the couch and
falls asleep, and l neve get a word
out of him.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

rEAD1LY growing In signih-
canoe year by year and in the
fame of its appetizing attri-
butes the American Thanks
giving dinner has become
very much of an institution.
1t might almost be said that
1t has become more of an In
stitution than the American
Thanksgiving, itself. At least
If the feast does not over
shadow the holiday at home
it does in foreign parts. For.
be is known, the American
Thanksgiving dinner is now
eaten around the world"
and in these detached realms
oP Aronricor coil ar canfimnpt
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-11-24

Love never fails. because it mover
stops trying.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-29
THE RIGHT KIND or PUNISHMENT

From the Raleigh Netcs and Observer we
learn that In Georgia five men OF means and
standing were convicted on the Illegal sale OF
liquor. The Judge refused to allow them to
escape with a mere tine bat sentenced them 70
the chain gang. In delivering his sentence he
said
ii has been urged that some or you are per-
ss3ps Of prominence and from the best families
In the county. So much tho less excuse Tor
Violations OF the Law. The higher the
msn stands In society the more reprshe nsible
ne violation of the law and the ouense h as
grRsated and not mitiEated You shows ed
NJ mercy 20 the good women and men MO
appealed 70 yun 10 cease your wicked work and
aaxe. their bo$s frotn -rulH mental PHYSICAL
and etaruat You showed no mercy GO good
morals or the public good,
Pressure Was brought 10 bear Upon the Gov
srnor and the Board Of pardous 70 have them
pardoned. but failed OF it's purpose The GOV
ernor endorsed the sentence in these words
with the judges IL tho Superior courts put
ting their influence vigorously behind the Stu
f0fcement ef th@ law We Will hear httie more
Ahcut Inability "a stop the illegal sale og uqUor.
III punishment Of such onenses we're general
Nv adequate the oneuaes themselves would
GENERALLY decrease No violation Ut ttsn merits
severe punishment than crime of illegal
nqaor selling TIE violation ~ prohibitton
laws u a airoet and Migrant defiance of tAt
wiii Of the majority OF citizens expressed al tb,
asolsa and moreover there - no erime more
conducive of social disorder and more subs "a
ssve Of the peace et tbs continually lt is IN
saplent ANARCHY
Instead Of the usual nne which Ii paid Nitt
j smile and IN ia euecs license 90 sell Liquor
rssa mfter she sale instead 81 before. II Nom
y nnsxsnn or hard work were substituted Their,
wauIa he very beneficial result but atdi
narfly. for aons reason. the iesser punishment
and ths one that has no deterrent efeot d
saeted out
guhihas In aoms sections there az aay rate and
sslI ~ hong as th@ courts administer chs nmt
- penalty.