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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

Average Woman Unable to Be Happy
Among Surroundings That Fave
Become Monotonous.

A certain woman was restless. She
was worn out, but 1t was not with
physical work Her husband was
wiser, perhaps, than most husbands
He did not send her to the top of a
mountain where she was the only in.
habitant. He sent her to resort whore
there We're many new people, with
new personalities and new topics OF
interest. She needed contact with the
world more than she needed cool
climate Frequently men who brush
elbows with a dozen persons each day
do not appreciate the solitude of their
wives. Sometimes when man needs
as a rest to get away from miscel-
laneous humanity, contact is just what
is needed by his wife. Frequently
even if she has enough feminine so
ciety she lacks the society of men.
Perhaps her husband never really
converses, or is able to converse, with
her. A man hidden behind his news
paper at the breakfast table is not
creation of the comic paper; he is q
too frequent fact. Too often his wife
does not interest him because the
sphere which is imposed upon her is
too limited. Yet she may have been
so confined to, her own Thoughts all
day that she feels she will go crazy
If she does not have some one to talk
sincerely with, or some other human
excitement. Birds often divide the
care of the young, and when the fe-
male leaves the nest it is sometimes
merely for change and rest. There
are some who believe the French
woman is more content than the av-
erage woman in other countries be-
cause she has a share In the family
business. She is a partner. instead of
q sort of upper servant.-Editorial in
Golfers.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

The Democrat accused p. D. Norton. who is q
candidate for congress- of giving the Independent
the presidential primary ballots to print, hoping to
receive the support of the Independent thereby.
The work was given to us by the printing commits
sion Of the state because this concern was one OF
the lowest bidders. The Independent did not even
know that had opportunity to secure the
work until Mr.. Norton called us UP by phone and
asked for bid The Democrat most likely would
support Mr.. Norton anyone else for considera-
ton, but the fact Of the matter is, the candidate
with a lick of s-nse would rather have McGahan
against him than for him. McGahan rs a terrible
load to carry around. No. brother, we don't intend
to support p D. Norton for congress. We have
several candidates right here in Mnot, one of whom
we hope to elect.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07
One Old Thing.

Said the superstitious friend OF TIE
conservative bride who eschews al
e1emes in dress:
II do hope she will have good luck
Il wonder II she wore anything old1~
Yes. the fashions said the friend,
whose motto is "Style or death"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

Gail hands and the cook are busy this week
getting out the presidential primary election bal
lots for the counties of Ward Mountraf, Burke and
Renvile This is portion of the first job Of the
k1nu ever printed in the United States, North "a
kota being the first of the six seven states that
have adopted the system, to hold the election. The
BALLOTS six inches wide and do not exceed thirty
inches in length. On the Republican ticket the
rames of Taft, Roosevelt and LaFoette appear;
there is for vice president. E. C. Cooper
and Thos. F. Marshall are candidates for national
committeeman, while there candidates for
presidential electors; five only to be elected. There
are % patriots who willing to go delegates
to the national convention to be held at Chicago,
although but ten of them be successful The
John Burke our governor, appears as candidate for
the presidential nomination. There are eleven can
dadates for national commit e-nan, while for dele
gates to the national convention there are just
seventeen willing Democrats. The job of getting
ABB of these ballots for the four counties is
no easy task The names must be rotated, giving
each candidate equal show. There are to he
four separate s. aled packages for each precinct,
each one marked plainly with the number and kind
Of ballots contained. The official copy arrived Sat
urday and the entire job by this time is in the
hands of each county auditor. We have had to do
this in addti On to getting out the regular edition of
the Independent and looking after large job
business. Even the devil" has earned his salary
this week.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

You can look for something to be doing in Ward
county politics Immediately after the presidential
primaries The various candidates for legislative
Offices have not desired to become very active to
date because they did not care to go on record a.
favoring any particular candidate. Not solitary
candidate for any Office has yet declared himself In
Ward county, altho there no less than fifteen
candidates In the field in McHenry county and as
many more in others. There's plenty Of time left,
however, for red hot campaign and there's sure
to be some interesting developments soon.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07


A number Of farmers and local dealers are buy
ing seeds from seed houses outside the state OF
North Dakota. Some of these seedmen are not as
careful with regard the seeds which they SUBMIT
in this mail order business as they are Of the
seeds which are shipped direct to and kept In
stock by dealers within the state subject to in
spection. ..........
To illustrate this point quote poruon OF
letter lately received in this Office:
''Washburn n D.. Feb. 13, 1912.
Dear Sill l an sending you sample of alfalfa
seed under another cover. l would like very much
to have YOU test this for I bought 800 pounds
CT this seed from Forsythe Montana, and intend
seeding 80 acres myself. l expect to send for
more seed from the same firm if it is good, for my
neighbors This test will do for all of US
My answer was in part, as follows:
Dear Sir: Referring to Record No. 7O1S
your alfalfa I am very sorry that you did not
have this tested before you bought it. This sam
pie is illegal for sale or distribution in the state
of North Dakota. The foreign seed present is the
small seeded alfalfa dodder. In one-sixth of an
ounce there we're IA seeds of this dodder, SO that
on the average there would be over Is seeds per
ounce This sample is also of rather low germina-
ton, giving only 81 per cent, with II per cent of
actual dead seeds.
If farmers buy from seed houses outside Of the
state where we have no authority to inspect they
should take special However, if You will
give me the names of such firms think that
will be able to get them to DO better business
in this state"
The lesson is obvious. If farmers contemplate
buying seeds from mail order houses they should
insist on having liberal samples submitted, and
should either test them themselves or should sub
NIT them to the pure seed laboratory before they
purchase and after they receive the supply
dered.
H. L. DOLLEY.
Rotanst and State Seed Commissioner,
Agricultural College, N. Oak.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

The tuberculin test for cattle is most important.
Recently state veterinaries tested 200 cattle At
Cando and found that thirty cattle were affected
with the disease in Alex Curries herd alone. The
cattle were killed. The state pays SIS head for
the unregistered cattle and $50 head for those
that are registered.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07
Claimed az Record BRIDGE.

Claim is made that the new bridge
spanning the Eel river at Weeott, Cal.
u the longest and largest reinforced
lconcrete structure Of the kind n ~
world. It Is 2,601 feet over all.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

II you want to slap Union Labor in the face just
throw your business to the Democrat, shop that
has little ,gard for It's employees that it doesn't
even carry the label. The hundreds Of railroad
employees, and other union men in Minot ask you
to patronize the shops that treat their employees
like men ought to be treated Call for the Union
Label on every piece Of stationery that you buy.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

The levy for school tax OF the Minot Special
School District for the year 1911 was but ten mills,
which 10 lower perhaps than 1t has been during the
past fifteen years. This Is proof positive that the
school board has guarded the interests Of the tax
PAYERS we'll and has shown marked ability in tax
ing care of the fnancesof the district.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

The Ryder News and the Plaza Pioneer, owned
by Frogestine Smith, and the Democrat, owned by
McGahan & Co., have come to the defense Of the
Ward county commissioners. Well that's way
Of separating the sheep from the goats.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

In this issue Of the Independent appears a very
able article the drinking cup on railway trains,
from the pen of DR.. A. j. MCDANIEL who has gone
into the subject in very comprehensive manner
Read the article and the next time you have oc-
CASTOR to travel, carry your own cup with YOU
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

Advertising is Like counting a girl. You must
have something good to offer and keep on calling.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

One of our contemporaries thot it strange because
the Independent did $500 worth of printing and
advertising for the Mnot school district, during
reriod of years. That's nothing strange. Why
we have done an annual business of $1,000 with one
business man on Main street during the past eight
or ten wears and he considered that We
were grating" him.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

It is to laugh. McGahan refers to the editor OF
the Independent as big Mitt.' Well, we'll say
one thing for McGahan, he's high principled
honorable honest gentleman, and never touched
dishonest penny in his whole Life. If don't be-
eve it, just ask McGahan.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

McCumber is telling the people to vote for Taft,
Hanna is strong for Roosevelt while Gronna ana
Eelgesen are supporting LaFollette. Our repre-
sentatives in congress may have worked as a unit
in the Canadian reciprocity matter, but they are
pulling in every direction on the presidential ques-
ton.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

The Plaza Pioneer is losing much sleep because
it considers that the Independent has lost its m
fuence with it's readers. Why, brother, we never
claim to be able to Influence" our readers. We
pride ourself upon having few thousand readers
who are able to think for themselves. We merely
give them the facts and let them draw their own
conclusions That's about the only way any news
paper can Influence" it's readers in these enlight-
ened times.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

Sometimes when you are making success OF
your business, some little contemporary giving in
to the green-eyed monster will attack you malic-
iously This generally acts as boomerang SO
cont pay any attention to the gnawing of the lit
te<rats '..r
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01
All Grand Rascals Look Alike to
The Fool-Killer.

Some folks cuss me for being a So
ciaIist, and others cuss me for not
being one, and SO there you have it.
But it don't make any difference what
they call me. I want it understood
that / do my own thinking and / don't
take orders from anybody. I am in
full sympathy with the doWntrodden
masses, and with any movement that
honestly strives to better their con-
dition. The modern business world
is nothing but a huge skin game, and
the average politician cares for moth
ing except to get his own Internal
snout in the trough. Take away the
element Of personal gain and see if
you don't hear a mighty loud silence
in the political arena. And that's why
I say that the big pot-gutted "lead-.
ers" in business and politics are
nearly all grand rascals and hypo-
critics. But the fact that I see these
things and speak of them isno reason
for calling me a Socialist. The truth
is, I will skin a Socialist just as quick
as [ will any other kind Of a person if
/ think he needs it-and lots Of them
certainly do need it, all right.
ET|Z# @-
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01
Can you use some samples?
O r DOPE.

80 ~ o-& =
The Fool-Killer hastens to take
off its 17-jewetled rabbit-fur bon
net and make its manners to the
gentle Queen of Spring as she
comes toddling down the pike
with her arms full Of violets,
peach blossoms, homemade bit
tiers and plowed ground.
Behold the farmer as he get
teth up before day and falleth
over two chairs hunting for his
breaches. Then he goeth to the
barn to feed, and again he stun
bleth over a new plow-stock and
sticketh his head into a bag Of
fertilizer.
Verify, this is the hustling sea-
son down on the farm. He that
expects to have plenty of hoe-cake
and something to sop it in next
winter must p~ointedly get up and
sift.,
And the garden should not be
neglected. Every family ought to
raise its own cut-worms and po-
tato bugs. Some people have an
idea that potato bugs are hard to
raise, but that is a mistake. I have
raised them for a number Of years
and never fail to have a good
crop. 1t is necessary, Of course,
to plant some Irish potatoes. You
cant expect potato bugs to live
and fatten on rag-weeds.
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01


In an era of peace, we are hav-
ing war on sight. The big Powers
are taking the little ones by the
throat and shaking the coin out
of their pockets. France after
Morocco, Italy after Tripoli, Rus
STA after Persia-al III for what? For
commercial advantage, for filthy
lucre. Any pretext will do. It is
the strong against the weak.
Meanwhile, the halls of The
Hague Palace Of Peace are emp
tied and the doors closed. But
there is a God in Israel.
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01
THE OLD WAY.

Here, you fossilized aggregation
Of stagnation, otherwise enemies
of progress, listen to me a minute!
Did you know that the world IS
moving serenely forward and leaV-
ing you with an empty bag to hold?
It is you fellows who are crying
down social betterment and politi-
cal advancement. With your
mouths in a twist you say, Stick
to the old way, the true and the
tried" But your argument is
not worth three whoops in Helgo-
land. If your policy had been
followed through the centuries
we would right now be living in
caves, eating. raw meat and wear
ing a heavy coating of sunburn
for clothing.
/ have the uttermost respect for
the thoughts, precepts, teachings
and memories of our forefathers,
but | do not believe that they
knew everything movable. /
don't believe they fixed things
SO wisely and unerringly that we,
their descendants, need do nothing
but worship at their tombs and
weep sluices OF tears, hugging to
our bosoms the delusion that it
would be absolute blasphemy for
us to question anything that they
did, or to even presume that we
can improve upon their crude
ideas and methods. It makes me
very tired to have to listen to the
Cabling of you old mossbacks
who are continually clamorfng
for the "oId way Why, bless
your souls, if the rising genera
ton were to heed your advice we
would discard all Of the inventions
of the last thousand years and go
back to blowing with crooked
sticks and doing a hundred other
fool, clumsy things like that.
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01
Send in that club right quick!

could plant a collar button and
a Wart and raise a, better president
than some of the candidates that
are out saving the air with their
old squeaky jaW-bones.
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01

Now, boys, as a parting word
! ask you to show this paper to
all your neighbors and friends
and get them to subscribe. The
Fool-Killer will get better and
better each month. In next issue
there will be some juice that
will quicker the devils mouth to
beat sixty.
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01
THE
BY ROBERT CULLEN.

featured to save walking and pro-
mote profanity. Almost any one
can talk into a telephone, and once
in a while people can hear through
them. Some people think a tele-
phone is deaf, and they always
yell their conversational a tone of
voice that sounds like driving
hogs. Other people stick their
faces inside the mouth-piece and
slobber while they talk. This
doesn't damage the telephone to
any great extent, unless the
talker is chewing plug cut. In
that case the juice runs down in
to the thorox of the machine and
rusts- the golixemeter.
Telephones are operated by
means of girls who chew gum in
a place called central. The girls
look like ordinary girls but they
are saints in disguise. They have
to, be, to hold their jobs. They
do not have to chew gum, but it
is necessary to bite something
and 10-penny nails damage their
false teeth. Sometimes these
girls become cross and talk
sassy.
Once, a travelling man who
was stopping in Spartanburg
called long distance and asked
what it would cost to talk to
Laurens. The girl told him thirty
cents, and he kicked.
Why" he demonstrated,
when I was in Greenville Icould
talk to hell for fifteen cents"
Il know" replied Central, but
that was inside the city limits 2
The girl got a raise.
The man who invented the tele-
phone was an anarchist. Hespent
five years trying to think up some
low-down, devilish trick to play
on humanity, and finally decided
on the telephone. No effort was
ever made to lynch him, but he
lives in constant terror.
A desk telephone is more pop
ular with business men than a
wall phone. A desk phone can
be slammed down on the floor and
kicked across the house when it
is stubborn, but a wall phone
cannot be Jared into docility
without the aid of an axe. After
a desk phone has been kicked in
to the middle of next week it will
usually sit quietly for hours with
out emitting alsputter.
Sometimes it is advisable to
apply a mustard plaster to the
phone just where the farmohar-
dren joins the nenfordrix. This
draws out the tobacco spit and
grippe germs and gives the thing
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01
LETTERS FROM THE FOLKS.

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you to skin and salt. Only objection
to The Fool-Killer is, it don't come
often enough. Long may it live to adj
minister the medicine, for they need
tip. S. JOHNSON, Lott, Tex.
Since you have got a new printing
press I have decided to get up a club
for you. Please send me some sample
copies Of The Fool-Killer. | like it
very much-my only objection is, it
is too small and does not come often
enough. J. T. CLARK, Saint Charles,
S. G..
Please send me about so or Is sam
pie copies. OF The Fool-Killer, or
more. I will distribute every n
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1Hackett, Ark.
have just finished reading your
March issue of The Fool-Killer, and
think it worth while for to read.
+ am one of your old subscribers, and
and am now getting up a club for
you. Please accept my thanks and
appreciation for what your paper is
doing for the benefit of all.-M. G..
BARRICK, Johnson, w. Va.
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] sent for a sample copy and was so
long getting it I thought it was not
worth sending out samples. But I
have found what the delay was. 1
was only going to send five at first,
but everybody wanted it and I got the
20 in about forty minutes.-H. J.
PIDGEON, 1856 Maplewood Avenue,
Toledo, Ohio.
Please send me your paper one
year. I enclose % cents in payment
for same. My sister who lives in
Western Massachusetts, where / was
born, sent me several copies. That is
how 1 got hold of it. l am glad there
are a few people who dare to speak
out and tell what they think. If this
world needs anything it needs people
who cannot be bought Or sold with
the Almighty Dollar.-L. WHEELER,
Fairhope, Ala.
Please find enclosed $1.O5 for seven
new subs to The Fool-Killer. Every
time I would come from my mail-box
my little 13-year-old girl would say,
Papa, did you get The Fool-Killer?''
The answer would be no, until she
said, "Papa, the Fool-Killer man
won't send your paper" But I re-
Piled, IT am not uneasy; he is an
honest man, and poor like we are.
He is either sick or has had bad
luck" I am for the. under dog every
time, and when you get on your feet
and have some sample copies to spare,
let me hear from you. Good wishes
for you and your cause.-GEORGE
STEWART, SR., Forestville, KY.
MANY thanks, Bro. Stewart, for
your confidence in me. / received
many complaints and inquiries while
/ was chung up" which shows that
the people want The Fool-Killer, AND
that they miss it when. it fails to
80 Del 49, 49, ~o~- goo4t,
The fool-killer., 1912-04-01

The only man who ever lived
who could talk over a phone with
out cussing about it was job
and he never had chance.
There are no telephones in
heaven.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-05
League Leaders Beaten in the
Morning-Fortune Smiles
in Afternoon Game.
rRv Telegraph to Tho TrIbun,

philadelphia. July 4-The Boston Red
sox. present leaders in the dash for the
Nag, and Connie Mack's Athletics. the
champions Of the baseball world, divided
the honors in the holiday double header
here to-day. With Eddie Plank, tho grlz-
zled veteran of a dozen hard campaigns on
the mound, the White Elephants won the
morning game from Joe Wood by score
Of 4 to 8. The afternoon game was won
bv the Red Sox, who closed with rush in
the fifth inning. tieing the score on iout
hits from Earl Brown with an error wh'ch
allowed three runs TO tally. Brown was
then taken out Of the box. Chief BeHd'F
WAS sent out on the mound. II was EVIL
IDENTIFY not the day for the copper coIored
American, and the Red Sox hit him freely
and scored two runs. enough to stave OF
a ninth inning rally and win the game by
score Of TO 8.
The greatest crowd that ever gathered
together in Shibe Park. excepting tho
worlds series game last fall. was on hand
TO witness the games. In the morning
twenty-eight thousand rooters pubhed
through the turnstiles. Every seat In the
stands was filled, and the late arrivals.
coming in droves, focked over tho field
making ground rules necessary.
II was on July I. 1911, that the Athletics
took command OF the American League
pennant race, and began their triumphant
march toward the pennant and ultimate
worlds series championship. Tho crowd
was eager TO witness the struggles which
they believe will mark the upward ana
onward march Of the Athletics. The morn
ing victory gave the crowd something 10
enthuse over, and when the batteries Tor
the afternoon game were announced fuly
5000 persons were on hand.
The battle between Plank and Joe Wood
was one that thrilled the blood and lad
the fans up on their chairs, cheering In
number Of hits allowed Wood had "A shade
the better OF the match. allowing only
eight. while the Boston man gathered In
nine. The Athletics, however. were more
fortunate in punching their safeties. The
hitting was sharp. Two-baggers by Wood,
Speaker, the irrepresslble Baker and Bris-
coe Lord whistled off the bats into the
crowd and well placed singles kept the
outfelders on the watch continuously. Bril-
liant fielding and daring running OF tho
bases was seen alta its best, and Baker.