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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03

or sometimes at Is cents II the pattern
happened to be In special demand. In
the United States. with its prohibitive
tariff. the retail price is always much
higher. The standard price retail is IS
cents for the fabric wholesaled at 10.
But when the tariff is e~xcessive-it is
81 per cent on this printed dimity-the
dishonest retailer a get away with"
his deception and double or more than
double his normal profit by selling the
domestic article as imported" The
retailer Knows that he could not buy
8 genuine imported dimity Of this
quality from a foreign manufacturers
agent in New York for less than 1919
or 1917 cents. and the trade would re-
tail this at 25. He compares the do
nestle and foreign fabrics and finds
the American made Is equal in every
respect to the fabric from abroad. So
he says to himself, why not sell it as
foreign goods at a price that will make
it a%ttractive?"
Mill Man Pockets It.
In some cases the manufacturer
takes the tariff favor for his own
pocket. Tariff board sample No. ga
Illustrates this. No. "a is a fancy
white goods used for dress wear. Its
manufacturer encountered a fair de-
mand for this material during the past
season. Table No. 169 Of the tariff
boards report shows a manufacturing
profit of 80 per cent. 1t costs to manu-
facture this cloth 1916 cents a yard.
The mill refuses to sell to any one ex-
cepting the jobber. and through this
channel the cloth reaches the retailer
at 22h to 25 cents a yard. The retail
er charges the 35 to 80 cents.
according to location and local compe-
tition.
For comparison take tho value Of the
fabric on weight. At the manufacture
ing cost Of 1916 cents a yard one
pound Of this goods is worth $1.23 as it
leaves the mill. When it reaches tho
consumer lat 80 cents a yard) tho
price has been boosted to $4.2o a
pound.
The manufacturing cost of this cloth
In England is practically the same as
mere, YET the English manufacturer
sells it for 1914 cents a yard. the job
Der at 1926 cents and the retailer at %
cents.
Bear in mind that the difference in
cost of production at home and abroad
in this class Of fabric represented by
sample No. 81 amounts to nothing.
but the Payne-Aldrich tariff on it
equals $3.50 per cent. or 80 cents per
running yard.
Fancy goods Of the type Of sample
No. "a are products of the Lippitt-Mc-
Coll class of mills. The Payne-Aldrich
bill raised the duty on this cloth from
IS to $3.50 per cent. Is it any wonder
that Senator Lippitt and Mr.. McColl
were interested in amending the
Payne bill.-New York World.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
THE TARIFF IN SUMMER DRESS FOR HOT
READING

A fancy wash fabric manufactured In New
England for 9 23 cents a yard Is sold by the
manufacturer at 14A cents-a manufacturing
profit Of 47h per cent, less selling expenses of
5 or, at most, 6 per cent. The jobber whole
sale distributer) adds 3A cents-a profit of 22A
per cent, less selling expenses. The retailer
adds another 42.S per cent, and the American
housewife gets the cloth at 25 cents-cloth that
in England can be bought retail for II cents,
identical in weave and quality! WHY?
Cotton curtain scrim, found in millions of
homes, is made in America at a cost that gives
the manufacturer ample profit. selling it to the
print works at 6 cents a yard. The print works
sells to the jobber at 10 13 cents, although it
finishes the goods at a cost Of 1877 cents. The
jobber adds 20 per cent, laying down the cur
tain scrim to the department store at 1914 cents.
The retailer charges the American housewife 10
to 20 cents. More than likely he advertises it
as and sells it for the top price,
because the tariff is so high that the genuine
imported goods cannot be sold for less. 1t costs
just as much in England to make this curtain
material, yet the English retailer sells it for
1922 cents (7h PENCE a yard, against 10 to 20
cents under the American tariff! WHY?-Erom
N. Y. World.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03

Items Covering North Dakota
and Nearby States.

All st. Paul, a representative part OF
the big Northwest and distinguished
men from all parts Of the United
States honored James ]. Hill, the
Northwest's big man, who could fore
see and who built as he foresaw. 1t
was Mr.. Hills seventy-fourth birth.
day.
Such birthday party had never been
seen thereabout. 1t seldom has been
equalled in magnitude, spontaneous
enthusiasm and obvious sincerity.
The st. Paul Auditorium was gor.
geously decorated. A band played.
The 1920 hosts to Mr.. Hill sang and
cheerd ecstatically. Some speakers
poured forth 1attering laudation OF
the honor guest; some gave sober,
bus1nesslike impressive analyses of
his commercial genius and personal
popularity and philanthrophies.
Through it all Mr.. Hill sat smiling
happily, now leading an unfollowed
cheer for a friend or associate whose
name crept into the talk of empire
building in the Northwest, now depre.
eating with violent gesture of mega.
ton some bit of superlative praise. At
times when he smiled it was through
swimming eyes.
The climax to the dinner came with
the presentation by William B. Dean.
vice president of the Second National
bank. of a loving cup to Mr. Hill as a
remembrance of the occasion.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
REAL IRISH DIVINITY.
10 cts.


We procured samples Of all of them.
There was not one piece of imported
goods in the lot. Investigation proved
that the store buyer had purchased
these Irish" dimities from a Boston
jobber at 10 cents a yard and that they
were made in a New England mill.
Here was a supposed bargain" in
a supposedly imported" fabric. on
which the retailer was taking a profit
of 80 per cent!
Ibis happens to be a fabric repre-
senting the highest efficiency in Amer
lean manufacturing. 1t is a class of
goods In which we can compete ad-
vantageously with any country in the
world. The tariff boards investiga-
lions discovered on sample No. Sc an
American cost of production Of Z 1-3
cents a yard. In all the mills inves-
tigated the boards representatives
found that the low and high costs of
manufacture Of this fabric did not
vary half a cent a yard.
Who Gets the Profit7
The manufacturer of this American
dimity, that is sold as imported" and
Irish" does not get the excessive
profit In some instances the manu-
facturer does. but here he sells to the
jobber at 8 cents. taking only a nom
inal manufacturing profit of two-thirds
cent a yard. The jobber sells to the
retailer at 10 cents. a Is per cent mar
gin for the jobber.
In Canada, with 25 per cent tariff. a
cotton fabric costing 10 cents a yard
would be sold to the consumer at 1914
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
STAYS HIS WIFE'S SISTER
st. Paul Man Then Ends His Life by
ShootinQ,


William G. Schmidt, formerly pro-
prietor of the Iris theater at Midway,
which collapsed last spring, shot and
killed Mrs. Bertha Lille, his w1fe's
sister, in the back yard where the two
families had been living at St. Paul.
Then he ran upstairs and, turning the
gun on himself, committed suicide.
The killing of Mrs. Lille, who was
the wife of Albert G. Lille, proprietor
of a picture framing store, occurred
in full view of Mrs. Clara Rekow,
mother of Mrs. Lille and Mrs.
Schmidt.
All the testimony taken agrees that
the motive for the murder was an
outburst of anger on the part of
Schmidt when he came into the yard
and charged Mrs. Lille with inter-
ference in his family affairs.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
TO PROBE INDIANS HEALTH
Inquiry Will Be Made on Minnesota
Reservations.

A thorough inquiry into health con-
ditions among the Indians at White
Earth and other reservations in Min
nesota is about to be undertaken by
the public health service of Wash
ington. Orders to this effect were is
sued by Surgeon General Blue.
AS a result of the disclosure by the
Graham committee, of the prevalence
Of tuberculosis and other diseases
among the Indians at White Earth
congress authorized an investigation
Of health conditions. on the various
reservations. On motion of Senator
Clapp and Representative Miller OF
Minnesota a provision was inserted in
the Indian bill appropriating $4,000
to defray the cost of the inquiry.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
Home Hint.

what can I use to clean carpets?"
asked a correspondent signing her
name very bashfully. young Bride"
"Have you tried your husband?" re-
piled the answers Acknowledgement
Plain Dealer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
BRYAN SCORES ROOSEVELT
N~ebraskan Criticises Former Presi-
dent at Helena.

dent at Helena.
William J.. Bryan challenged the
progressiveness of Colonel Roose-
welt in a speech made at Helena
and declared at best Mr.. Roosevelt
was but an eleventh-hour convert of
the cause of progress, joining only
when it vas apparent that the pro-
gressive LUZ was sweeping the
country.
Colonel Bryan was greeted by a
large audience and was vigorous in
his attacks upon Mr.. Roosevelt. He
called the roll of reforms for which
he declared the progressive Democrats
had been fighting for years, and want
ed to know where Roosevelt when he
was president stood on these ques-
lions.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
Honors Even,

First Boy-Come down here and I'll
fight yer. Second Boy-Shan't. First
Boy-Yer a coward and afraid to come
down. Second Boy-Yes. and yer
knows it, or yer wouldn't have wanted
to fight me!
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
NAMES THIRD PARTY TICKET
Minnesota Progressives Select p. v.
Collins for Governor

minnesota Progresslves select P. v.
Collins for Governor.
The Minnesota Progressive commit
tee met at st. Paul and nominated P.
V. Collins Of Minneapolis for governor.
The nomination, coming after hours
of wrangling that carried the meeting
past midnight, was a general surprise
and came only after j. F. Jacobson,
the choice OF the committee, expressed
through his brother-in-law an absolute
refusal to accept the honor.
j. A. A. Burnquist for lieutenant
governor, Lyndon A. Smith for attor-
ney general, Walter j. Smith for state
treasurer, Chief Justice Start, James
Manahan for congressman at large,
all Republican candidates, were en-
dOrsed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
AVIATOR BLAIR is KILLED

Machine Falls and Victim Is ManuIed
in Wreckage.
Aviator Russell Blair of Kansas
City, while making an exhibition flight
at Shenandoah, Ia, was killed in a
fall from a height of thirty feet.
Blair was pinned underneath the
wreckage and when aid reached him
he was dead. His head had been
crushed under the engine of the ma
chine.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03

Sick headache is caused by a dis
ordered stomach. Take Chamberlain's
Tablets and correct that and the head
aches will disappear. For sale by all
dealers.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
New York World
Time and

Time and Trouble.
Ten minutes would get rid of lots of
trouble that it takes hours to tell
New York Times.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03

"Had dyspepsia or indigestion for
years. No appetite, and what 1 did eat
distressed terribly. Burdack Blood Bit
ters reached the ID. II. Walker,
Sunbury, Ohio.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03
PRESENT TART.
FOSTERS FRAU;
Domestic Cotton Fabrics Sod
Americans as "|npo1t&"
CHEATING the CONSUMER

Less Than 2 Per Cent Comes From
Abroad. but Americans Pay Ex-
orbitant Price For Home Goods Be-
cause Of Deception and Prohibitive
Tariff.
BY ROBERT KENNETH MAC LEA.
formerly consulting expert of the tariff
board.l
New York. Aug. The prohibitive
tariff, revised upward by the Payne
Aldrich law, permits and fosters
wholesale frauds upon the American
consumer of cotton goods.
Less than 2 per cent Of the cotton
fabrics consumed In the United States
comes from abroad. because the pro-
tective duties have been made so high
that Importation is improbable.
Yet fully one-third of the cotton
piece goods going over retail counters
is sold as "IMPORTED" or under
names implying a foreign origin.
This deception is generally perpe-
trated upon the consumer for the pur-
pose Of obtaining exorbitant prices for
domestic goods.
The consumer. believing the goods
are imported and knowing that the
tariff adds excessively to their cost,
pays so to 100 per cent more than a
fair price and does not suspect that he
Is being cheated.
Drains tho Pocketbook.
Let us go straight to a specific ex-
ample Of the operation of this fraud.
Take the tariff boards cloth sample
No. Sc, described as a printed dim
ity." This is a medium priced cotton
fabric known to almost every Ameri-
can housewife. What woman or girl
hasn't possessed a dimity dress within
the last few years? And if she went
to the cotton goods counter and
bought the material by the yard she
no doubt saw such signs as:
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03

The Telephone In Egypt.
Telephone operators in Egypt are re-
CURED to speak English. French. ItaI.
ian. Greek and Arabic.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03

Constipation cause headache, indiges-
tion, dizziness, drowsiness. For a mild,
opening medicine, use Doan's Regulets.
25 cents a box at all stores.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-15
Jump" HOGAN EXPLAINS
Writes North Adams Transcript in
Relation to Decision.

b. NJ. Hogan of Williamstown.
whose decision in the ninth inning
while umpiring the North Adams
Bennington game at Fowler Park on
Sunday was not well received by the
local players, writes the Transcript
as follows, giving his side OF the sto-
ry:
Sporting Editor:
Dear Sir:-Kindly permit me lit
tie space to make a few corrections
in your wrlteup of the North Adams
Bennington game on Sunday last. In
speaking of my questionable decis
ion" your reporter claims that the
North Adams players did not main
tain that j. MacRobbie touched third
base but that | did not see the play
also that | was Influenced in render
ing my decision by the gathering of
Bennington players at the time |
wish to state in answer to the first
point at issue that over half the
North Adams players positively did
claim that MacRobbie touched the
bag and MacRobbie himself asserted
the fact with all the emphasis Of
which human being is capable.
AS for the second point, anyone ia
miliar with the rule governing the
play is aware OF the fact that the
umpire cannot make his decision I'M
I'll an appeal is entered by the team
in the field. The instant that the
appeal was made and the ball felded
to the proper base, / declared the
runner out. The gathering" about
me was composed solely OF North Ad-
ans players.
The fact that my back was toward
third base when MacRobbie crossed
home plate is scant basis for assum.
ing that IL was at the moment the
player rounded third, but coming at
such critical junction in the game
1t was baseball.llke and natural that
North Adams should make that as
sumption.
Very truly yours.
b. NJ. Hogan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-15
HAY cRop ANp EERrILIzERs
Tests Which Showed Value Of Top
Dressing

For three years past the writer has
made experiments in the use OF com
merciai fertilizers, or minerals, in an
endeavor to increase the timothy hay
crop and the money expended in these
trials has been returned several fold
on the experimental plots and in field
practice, says f. M. Lutts of Norwalk
o., in the New York Tribune Farmer
The first experiments consisted OF nj
trate of soda only on the second cut
ting of the seeding or the first cutting
after the clover. IL was applied at
the rate of 100, rs and so pounds an
acre, respectively. These tests have
been from observation only, but when
the increase is so great that the diff
ference is plainly seen, both in the
height of stalk and the denseness of
growth near the ground, there is no
doubt of the investment paying well.
The difference between the thickly
and thinly sown could also be easily
seen in the observation test Test
plots were one-fourth of an acre in
size with a check plat one rod in
width between. The results were so
satisfactory that it was deemed adj
visabe to try it out on<a anger area
Last year the writer had IL acre
field that had been moved twice, so
that no clover remained TO furnish nj
trogen to the timothy, and the seed
ing on the regular field in the rotat-
ion not being as good as the old mea-
dow, it was thought, from the preced-
inu M ohVfC hln faan
the older seeding and NOW 1t for the
third time, rather than be short of
hay When the field was originally
seeded, 81 pounds of phosphoric acid
was applied to the acre mostly in
steamed bone, and it was thought
this was nearly used up in the pre-
ceding crops removed so this elem
ent was deemed necessary, as well as
small amount of potash, to get the
best results; therefore they were add
ed to the nitrate, the whole making a
complete fertilizer The mixture was
applied broadcast at the rate of 200
pounds an acre, which furnished Is
pounds of nitrate nitrogen, 10 pounds
of rock phosphoric acid and FIVE
pounds of potash.
The ingredients to make the mix.
ture consisted of 100 pounds of nj
trate Of soda and 100 pounds of 10
per cent acid phosphate and 5 per
cent potash fertilizer and the cost
was approximately 1915 an acre 1t
was easily mixed and applied. The
mixing was done with a sand screen
and a shovel in the front end OF a
wagon box. the wagon being driven
drought the center OF the field and
the sowing being done from each side
Two men will easily mix and SOW 10
TO IL acres in half a day. The treat.
ed field cut two tons of fine timothy
to the acre, and was admitted to be
the best field of timothy in the neigh
borhood. a check strip was left and
1t was estimated by all who saw il
that the treated portion OF the field
yielded double what the untreated
portion did, and II this is a true es
innate, the returns for the expendi.
ture OF $375 in money, and rs cents
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-15
ATHLETES START
Party Of Americans Leave for Olym-
pic Games at Stockholm

pic Games at Stockholm
New York, June 13.-Up to mid
night of the eve of the departure of
the American Olympic team for
Stockholm, all but four Of the "a
athletes selected as regulars" had
been checked up as ready to sail on
the steamer Finland tomorrow morn
ing. The four who will not go are
Russell Beatty, the Columbia Uniyer-
sity jumper and shot-putter; Edward
!. Beeson the hurdler and jumper
from the University of California; j.
p. Hooker of the Chicago A. A., dis
Gus and hammer man; and II. c.. Lott
the Mohawk A. c. iavelin champion.
The absence of these men will be
felt. but their loss is more than off.
set by the fact that "a men on the
supplemental list viii 90. either pay.
ing their own way or being aided by
admiring friends. The supplemental
men who will go are: Burdick. Lip
pincott, MADEIRA, McCurdy, Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania: tombstone, Hol.
den, Halpin, Chisholm and Whitney
Boston, A. A; Dukes. Kaiser. Oler
New York A. c.; Meyer and Rosen-
berger lrish-Americcan A. c.; Harry
j. Smith and Samuel Schwartz, un.
attached McNair. Newport torpedo
station; Fritz, Cornell; REM. Mo
hawk A. c.; Strobino. Paterson. n
j.; Wendell, Wesleyan University
Holland, Xavier A. A.; Coyle. Chic
ago A. A.; Voelmeke, Pastme A. c.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-15
rHE cHAMPLAIN MONUMENT
Elaborate Ceremonies Of Dedication
Sixth of Next Month. q

Troy, n. Y, June 4-The Troy
Times has the following:
Plans are being formulated for the
dedication of the monument to Sam
uel de Champlain. which will be
erected by the tercentenary commits
sion. The granite for the monument
is now in the city. and the work Of
preparing and placing the pedestal
is going forward rapidly
The monument will be dedicated
with elaborate ceremonies Satur-
day, July 9. The celebration will be
second only to the tercentenary Gel
ebration of 1909. President Taft,
Governor Dix, Lieutenant Governor
Conway and other prominent nation
al and state officers will be invited
to be present and take part in the
celebration. The Hon. Francis Lynde
Stetson of New York a former res
ident of this city, has accepted the
invitation to deliver an address for
the occasion Mr.. Stetson has always
taken an active interest in the affairs
of the city.
The monument is to be placed at
the mouth of the Saranac river on
rise of ground overlooking the har-
Dor of Cumberland bay The site
itself is a historic one, as the monu-
ment will stand on the ground over
which sung the bullets of the British
and American armies in the War of
1912, and commanding a view of the
bay, where was fought the famous
Battle of Plattsburg, September IL,
1914. q
monument and separated from it on
ly by the road, is the old Delord res
idence where the British officers
were quartered at the time of the
conflict.
The monument itself, commence
rating the three hundredth anniver-
sary of the discovery of Lake Cham
plain, will have at its base a canoe
with the figure of an Indian in the
attitude of peering anxiously out as
if at the invasion of the white stran.
ger. Surmounting the pedestal will
be heroic statue of the famous dis
coverer, in whose honor it is erected
Samuel de Champlain
Many relies of the red man have
been found in the vicinity of the
| proposed monument, as this was a
well-known stamping ground of the
aborigines. Arrow heads. Indian pot
terry and spear points have been pick
ed up in large quantities in Platts
burg and vicinity.
A curious coincidence is the fact
that few years ago on the grounds
OF the Delord property, while the
owner of the house was having some
excavation done for the cellar of an
outbuilding at a distance of about
six feet from the surface, the same
shovelful of earth produced to view
a large cannon ball, evidently used
in the Battle of Plattsburg, and an
exceptionally large and perfect
spear head of Indian origin.