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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27

LIE new SHOEl nOTn sire recently
purchased by Professor Richards while
attending the International Stock show
at Chicago for the A. c., Is to replace
the exceptionally good one which has
been in service at the college for the
last four years. The new one is from
the best families and breeds and will
be used both for class and breeding.
The North Dakota Stock association
of which Professor Richards is secre-
tary, will hold it's annual meeting as
heretofore in connection with the
Tri- State convention. The programme
is not as yet fully prepared but will
consist of speeches by number of men
who are authorities along livestock
lines Capt. w. 8. A. SAINT Of Sioux
City, Ia, has been secured for an adj
dress. Captain SAINT Is a noted beef
cattle raiser and feeder
A banquet for members and visiting
guests is being arranged for. The ex-
act date OF the banquet is, however,
not as yet decided. The plans being
laid for the meeting all point towards
one OF the most successful meetings
ever held.
Dean Ladd spoke at the mid-Minter
fair held at Larimore, N. D., last
Thursday. His subject was, Foods and
Their Aulterations.
Special Food Bulletin No. SO will be
ready in few days. This bulletin
covers the analysis of some foodstuffs
and fake patent medicines, also the
results OF the sugar beet analysis for
1911.
Professor Ladd and his assistants
are busy getting their annual report
ready to be sent to the governor the
last OF this month. This report COW
ering food and drugs will make a vol
ume Of about zoo pages.
Miss Johnson, secretary Of the food
department, is busy getting out the
semi annual report to the county audi
tor. This report contains a list OF
adulterated foods which will be pub
lished in the official county papers In
January.
The chemical department is busy un
packing q large amount of supplies and
apparatus to be used during the win
ter term.
Preparation is being made for the
class in short course pharmacy. Pro-
fcssor Ziefie expects an extra large
number Of students in this course this
year, as the course will be discontinued
after 1912. Dozens Of letters have been
received regarding this course and the
pharmacy department expects to be
swamped BY those having aspirations
of becoming pharmacists.
Dean Shepperd Of the department
of agriculture has returned from d
trip through the south. Leaving Fargo
in company with Professor Richards,
Professor Shepperd visited the inter-
national Stock show at Chicago and
from Chicago went to Florida, where
he visited the state college and expert
ment station at GAINESVILLE After
making d trip through the state he
journeyed to Georgia and took in the
Georgia corn show. where he acted as
Judge III place or one of the men
chosen who was unable to officiate.
y Dean Shepperd says that the corn
show was very good and the exhibits
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27
Knees Became Stiff
Elva Yaara of aeNera Rheurn diam

FlN0 feaFS OF sewers K1eunatI8nI
The cure OF Henry J. Goldstein, il
Barton Street, Boston. Mass, is anoth-
er victory by Hoods SarsapariIla.
This great medicine has succeeded in
many cases where others have utterly
failed Mr.. Goldstein says: II suf-
fered from rheumatism Ave years. it
kept me from business and caused ex-
circulating pain. My knees would be-
come as stiff as steel. / tried many
medicines without relief, then took
Hoods Sarsaparilla, soon felt much
better, and now consider myself en-
tirely cured. i recommend Hoods"
Get II today In usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27
Used Gasoline. Caused Fire.

Aberdeen, $. d.. Dec. 27.--A young
women who was cleaning a skirt with
gasoline started a fire yesterday aft
ernoon which did about 5000 worth Of
damage to the home Of Mrs. A. w.
Pochart.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27
TrCaSurer'S NOtiCetO Tax
payers for 1911.

In pursuance OF law, /, r. Gilbertson.
North Dakota, do hereby notify the tax
payers thereof that the rates OF taxation
aud the amounts raised for each specific
purpose for the year 1911 are correctly
stated in the following tables showing the
number OF mills and tenths OF mills levied
on each dollar of taxable property in each
city, village, township and school district OF
said county.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27

Annie Garter; treasurer. Moliie King
Man; assistant treasurer. Ida Crow;
care of sick, Anabel Spotted Horse;
collector, Christine Nichols; doorkeep-
err, Angelique Blue Body.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27

New Leipzig. N. D.. Dec. 27.--A
brazen act OF animal manning has been
reported. The COW OF Jacob Wolf had
gone to the place Of the man accused
and 1t Ii claimed the man seized his
gun, and shot the cow in the hip.
The COW has fostering wound where
the shot entered and she may die Of
it. The matter Is to be investigated.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27
COLDS CAUSE HEApAcHE

LAXATIVE BRoMO Quinine, the
wide Cold and Grip remedy removes
cause. Call for full name. Look for
signature E. w, GROVE. Csc.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27

Mckenzie County Journal: Taking
advantage of the perfect weather and
good sleighing, great many farmers
have been hauling grain to the rail-
road this week. thousands of bushels
large portion of 1t being fiax--hav
ing gone through Charlson. This
ought to ease up the financial situa-
ton somewhat, and should make bust
ness lively in the railroad towns most
accessible-Ray, Tioga and White
Earth.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27

Carpio, n. d.. Dec. 27.-Lars Yep
son, the grain man. said the other day
that as nearly as he could figure out,
there had been over 100000 bushels of
grain marketed at Carpio this fail.
This means that something like $780,
600 has been paid out to the farmers
of this vicinity and there is great
deal of threshing to be done yet. The
late rains and the last three weeks of
moderate weather have been a great
thing for the people of this vicinity,
and have turned crop failure into a
very fair return for the years wark.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27
FARMERS INSTITUTES
FOR JANUARY

Hannah-Jan. 3.
Edinburg-Jan. 4.
Rugby-Jan. So.
Devils Lake-Jan. 10-11.
Kindred-Jan. Is.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-27
NEWS NOTES FROM
THE N. D. A. c.

The new Short Horn sire recently
purchased by Professor Richards while
attending the International stock show
at Chicago for the A. c., Is to replace
the exceptionally good one which has
been in service at the college for the
last four years. The new one is from
the best families and breeds and will
be used both for class and breeding.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
HOW THE WORKERS IN THE PATENT OFFICE HAVE TO 1
WORK ELBOW TO ELBOW IN CONFINED QUARTERS
appeal of Officials for Roomier Quarters
Prove Unapailing, as Congress
Turns Deaf Ear.

rust and dust of age beneath the annex
of the House of Representatives. 80
In addition to the immense inconven-
ience which this present arrangement
FORCES upon those who desire to inspect
the models, the commissioner seemingly
is continually violating the law by keep
ing these miniature machines stored away
in another building. for an act of Con-
gress, passed July s, 1870, provides that
there shall be in the Department of
the Interior an office known as the Pat
ent Office, where all records, books, mod
els, drawings, specifications. and other
papers and things pertaining to patents
shall be safely kept and preserved"
Visit the research and file rooms of the
bureau. There you will see persons
perched on the tops of desks or sitting
OH the floor, pouring over dusty files in
search of the information which they
desire with regard to former patents.
There is no room for them to work at
the desks, for these have already been
pre-empted by the first-comers, and
those who were not so prompt have to
take their chances of sitting on the
floor or of waiting until a more propi-
tious time to conduct their research.
But it is not only the visitors to the
office who are thus incommoded. Even
the clerks find themselves crowded out
of their rooms and forced out into the
corridors. On the third floor of the Pat
ent Office there is a large room where
the ceiling is only eight feet three in
ches in height, and here the clerks are
packed as closely as the size of their
desks will permit, sometimes the space
being so crowded that desks are placed
in what would ordinarily be the aisles
OF business Office. When one consid-
ers that the ceiling of an ordinary room
frN, - "a
will be seen that the conditions in this
section of the bureau are far from what
they should be to bring out the best
work of the clerks employed there.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

ternal commerce and forcing her people
to look to other lands for countless
manufacturers which they could tackle
themselves; when one sees that the last,
the greatest resource of every country,
an appeal to national feeling, will be
lost on ears deaf to the din of civil
bloodshed, it does not need much acu-
men to arrive at the conclusion that
Mexico as a state is doomed to ex-
tinction. and that the Stars and Stripes
will float over all America to the Pan
anna Canal"
MortgaGed to Foreigners.
Mexico at present may be said to be
largely in the hands of mortgages. Be
hind all the schemes of improvement
one finds the foreigner. The excellent
street car service of Mexico City was
until recently owned and operated by
an English firm. Many new towns and
terminals are creations of such mechani-
cal geniuses as Sir Weetman Pearson.
Pearson is a member of Parliament and
the president of S. Pearson C Son,
Ltd, a great English contracting firm,
with large holdings in Mexico. In re-
cent years the commercial invasion by
the Germans has practically come to a
standstill The English are chiefly CEN
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
APES TRAINED TO SERVE
IN HUMAN CAPACITIES

soldiers who were drawn up for drill.
From that day he gave the baboon a
very wide berth.
The highly-cultured monkey which can
give the human being points in manners
Is not latter-day production, for as far
back as 1740 Button had a chimpanzee
which wore clothes, walked upright, sat
down to table, opened its napkin and tied
it round its neck, made use of spoon.
fork. and knife. poured out wine, fetched
cup and saucer, put in sugar and milk.
poured out tea, and let il cool before
drinking it Buffon's monkey was clever
in many other way. 1t could sing a song,
do housework, clean boots and windows,
and brew tea and coffee for its master.
How to Capture Monkeys.
To catch the ordinary type of monkey
in its home in the forests requires no
skill whatever. All one has to do is
to make 1t drunk. The monkey hunter
walks into a forest carrying with him a
sweet drink called sake, which is pre-
pared from the fermented juice Of rice,
and is highly intoxicating. Having come
across a tree swarming with monkeys,
he halts below it and pretends to take
sip from the bottle. Then he walks away,
leaving the bottle on the ground.
Monkeys are by nature curious and
initiative. and so they make a rush for
the bottle when the hunters back is
turned. They drink and drink until the
bottle is dry. When the hunter returns
he finds the sinians lying all over the
place intoxicated. 1t is then the easiest
thing in the world for him to bundle
them into a cage and hurry them down
to the coast.
Sake is the most powerful intoxicant
known. and a monkey made drunk with
it will not regain its senses until twenty
four hours after
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

Illuminated objects always appear
larger than unilluminated ones, the doc
tor said. and cited the incandescent wire
of an electric lamp. A white square on
a chart seemed to the spectators to be
larger than a black square of exactly
the same size.
have here what Roosevelt's Rough
Riders would call 'self-cocking' hat" /"
said Doctor Cannon, as he released an
opera hat It's height appears to be
greater than its width, yet ii Is six
inches high and seven inches wide. This
Phenomenon Is caused by the fact that
our eyes always exaggerate vertical
lines"
The doctor then produced large round
rotating card. Watch this spiral for a
few moments and then look at the hat
there on this table" he said. Those
who did were astonished to see the hat
apparently moving away from them and
growing smaller, as a disappearing rail-
road car seems to shrink in size as Il
moves away. The experiment was re-
versed by the doctor by turning the
spiral the other way. and then the OBJ
servers seemed to see the hat returning
toward them. growing larger as it ap-
preached.
Experiments with parallel lines that
apparently became curved when other
lines were laid near them with a machine
that simulated q waterfall that seemed
to reverse its motion when that motion
had really ceased, ani several other
OF the freakishness of
the human vision under certain condi-
tons, concluded the lecture.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
VISION PLAYS MANY TRICKS

During a lecture on Vision. and some
of its Illusions" by DIR. w. B. Cannon
at the Harvard Medical School. several
hundred men and women witnessed sew
eral interesting experiments.
The sense OF sight IS the most impor-
tant of those by which we are in contact
with the outside world" said the doctor.
His hearers were impressed by his state
ment that the spot at which the optic
nerve is attached to the eye is blind
spot in the Cye-the only blind spot, in
fact in the normal eye.
"A curious thing in connection with this
blind spot is that il we shut one eye and
look at an object, a person, for example,
so as to get that object in the blind spot,
we cannot see that object Thus we may
behead our friends usually" he said.
The phenomena of eye fatigue and Of
persistence were explained by the doctor,
who used in this connection a device that
was made by DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and from that distinguished writer passed
on % Dr. Cannon. By this machine the
spectators were able to continue to see
colors after the colored objects them
selves had been hidden from view.
The apparent change of colors when as
sociated with other colors was illustrated.
much to the establishment of the specta-
tors, and then the lecturer, telling his
hearers that color sensations were not.
nearly so important as the element OF
size, performed curious experiments in
that phase of vision.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

Eleven hundred people make a fair
sized village. Imagine all the inhabitants
of this village spending a part of each
day doing flip-flaps in midair, turing
somersaults on the backs of galloping
horses. riding in automobiles that leap
through space. or handling the most
dangerous beasts of jungle and forest
You would say that the ambulance sur
geon and the undertaken would do rush
ing business in this strange community.
There is such a community. During
eight months of every year it migrates
from point to point in the United States.
1t numbers over eleven hundred people,
and their occupation is the doing of
thrilling stunts. The name of this COM
munity is the Greatest Show on Earth" :"
But here is the surprising fact: During
the past seven years there have been
only four deaths in that community.
Where is there a village of eleven hun
dred peopIe-and even though their occu-
patton be the most prosaic-that can
boast of an equally gdod mortality re-
cord? 1t should be said here that the
past seven years is mentioned specifi-
cally because that is the period that
came under the observation of the cir
Gus man who talked with the writer
Not one of these four deaths occurred in
the arena or had any relation to the per-
fornance. One man was struck by a
train in Stamford, Conn, while he was
smoking his pipe late one night after
the show was over. Another, an acrobat,
died of heart failure on the platform of
a railway train. The train had stopped
in the midst of a California vineyard
The acrobat went to get a bunch of
NH
to make a hard sprint to catch it. He
Just managed to swing on the platform
and a few moments later fell dead.
Another man, who had been fifty years
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

Desks jammed against desks, chairs
against chairs, no room to turn around,
air hardly fit to breath at times and light
ing arrangements ruinous to the best of
eyes-these are the conditions under
which the many employees of the United
States Patent Office have to labor.
Not only are the clerks and their su-
periors forced to work under conditions
that are unhealthful as they are IN
comfortable, but so greatly has the busi-
ness OF the Patent Office outgrown the
old quarters that the valuable models of
inventions, which the Commissioner of
Patents is required by law to preserve
with the utmost care, have to be packed
in wooden boxes and stacked up in the
cellar of the House of Representatives
Office Building. There. under the side
walk, with tar and dust continually fall
iEs from the ceiling, $4,000 models are
stored away in more or less hopeless
confusion. A visiting inventor, who
wanted to have his own model brought
out for exhibition would have to wait
while clerks and porters excavated for
an hour or so among the piles of wooden
cases
Congress Will No Give Money.
Why does this condition exist?
Simply and solely because Congress
will not allow the Commissioner of
Patents to spend the money which his
own department has saved in the three
quarters of a century which it has been
in existence. In the last report made by
Commissioner Moore to Congress. dated
december 81. 1910. the commissioner
made the following statement:
I desire again to invite the attention
of the Congress to the great need of a
new and more commodious building to
house the Patent Office. The present
quarters provided are wholly inadequate
and there is urgent need for newer and
better quarters in which to carry on the
work of this important branch of the
government.
The Patent Office has been more than
seIf-supporting since its creation. The sur
Plus of receipts over expenditures eaC
year is absolutely Il net surplus, after
CeduCting salaries and every item of ex-
pense that is charged to the bureau At
present this surplus amounts to $685.
% Ga and it is strongly urged that this
sum, or as much of it as may be nee
essary. be used for providing a new
building in which ample room will be
provided to properly and promptly trans
act the business of the inventors for
which they more than pay the total cost.
1t is due to the inventors of this coun-
try that the money should be utilized
for the purposes Of providing suitable |
facilities for expending the work of the |
Iatent Office" |
But Congress, as usual. had more i'm |
portant matters to attend to, and Wash |
ington and the nation al large will be |
without a new Patent Office for some |
time to come, and the inventors and |
others desirous of obtaining information
the condition of former pat
nnts and the models which accompanied
hem will have TO continue to dig in the
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

tered in mining interests But the Amer
ican investors and capitalists have turn
ed their attention to almost every form
of pursuit, according to a recent article
in the American Magazine. In
Southern Mexico, in the states of
Oaxaca and Chipas, large American in
terests in rubber are found. Corpora
tions with headquarters in American
cities operate extensive rubber planta-
tions. In these districts, as in many
others in Mexico. peon slavery, which
only recently came to the notice of the
world at large, is said to exist in its
worst form.
The Yucatan and Valley Nacional. the
later a small valley in the northern
part of the state of Oaxaca, are the
worst slave holes in Mexico. In the
state OF Sonora, in the northwestern
part of Mexico, where there are many
American mine owners, the Yaqui In
dians are taken and deported to the
Yucatan, where they are used as poems.
Until recently the deportations took
place at the rate of 500 a month, it is
said.
Most Of the clashes between the in
surrectos and the federal troops have
taken place in the northern part Of
Mexico, not far from the state of Son.
ora, in which are many American mines.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

with the circus, died of heart disease
and the fourth man of consumption.
What of the circus stunts, then? Aren't
they really dangerous? Is the audience
fooled every time it holds its breath and
gasps a sigh of relief when the double
twister'' has been turned from one flying
trapeze to another. when the slide for
life" has been made? Or is the answer
to be found in the big rope net which is
spread between the flying acrobats and
the arena floor?
Metz said the circus man. Can you
surround a gallOping horse with a net?
Can you protect the men who somersault
over line of elephants with a net?
The net can only be spread under the
people who do the high aerial acts, and
it is only spread for them because the
law requires it. 1 should say that less
than 40 per cent of the circus acts
are performed over nets. And the other
60 per cent of the acts are just as
dangerous to the life and limbs of the
performers.
And speaking of nets. don't think for
a moment that they are automotic life
savers, that all an acrobat who has made
a miscalculation need do is to fall in the
net spread some sixty or seventy feet be-
low him. kiss his hand to the audience
and make a graceful exit.
II you SnOulu Idll lrOIl one vi InOSe
trapezes into a net, it's ten chances to
one that you would make your exit on a
stretcher. That net is made out of stout
rope. Except that there is a certain
of give to it, ii is as hard as
the arena floor. If a performer should
fall into it and land on his neck or on a
leg or arm, bending it under him, there
would be some badly smashed bones.
IF a performer falls, he has got to
keep his wits about him. and just at the
right second twist in the air and land
on his shoulders.
But as 1 said. the performers them
selves don't care much about the net;
they scarcely ever fall. During the
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
PARIS POLICE DOGS THAT
TACKLE TOUGH APACHES

| Apache" who Immediately fed from the
scene OF the outrage A police sergeant
who had seen the affair from a distance
ing criminal, bit his legs until he
stopped and then stood. guard over him
until his master came UP and arrested
the man.
To offset the work Of the dogs against
them, several "Apaches'' undertook to
train a dog which would do as good
service for them as the police dogs did
for their department. This dog, an
enormous creature, was trained to at
tack passers by and throw them to the
ground, keeping them there until the
bandit could rob them of their valu-
ables. Finally. however, both the dog
and his Apache" owner were captured.
A dog named Dox holds one of the best
records in the department for courage
and intelligence. Early one winter morn
ing thief sneaked out Of a shop car
rying bundle. stop THEIR the cry
was raised. and Dox was let loose In pur-
suit The thief was a good runner, and
finally ran such distance that he was
in another reimbursement Dox saw
other policemen joining in the chase, and
knowing that they were not of his arron-
basement, he gave up the pursuit The
thief might have got free, but unfortu-
nately he turned into Dox's arrondisse-
ment again, and the dog promptly flew
at the man, threw him to the ground,
and kept him there until the police ar
rived.
The success with the police dogs in
Paris led to the training of dogs to put a
stop to poaching. Just as the police dogs
are taught to spring for the arm that
holds weapon. so the antipoaching dog
is trained to attack the gun arm of the
poacher. In his effort to defend himself
the poacher drops his gun and the dog
then guards both man and gun until the
samekeeper arrives to take the matter In
hand.