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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
TENNESSEE LYNcHINe.

Tennessee has added another tragic
lynching to the numerous d~isgraceful
affairs that have occurred in that
state. Recently three drunken negroes
created a disturbance on a train. They
resisted the efforts of a special rail
way officer to make them preserve or
der-hnalIy throwing him from a NOV
ing train. The fall proved fatal.
They were being arraigned before a
justice Of peace at Shelbyville and had
just been held to the grand jury
when a mob. of 500 stormed the Of
ficials, shooting the negroes. One
was killed outright, another fatally in
jured and the third will live.
There appears to have been no rea-
son for lynehing in this instance. The
crime was not one that is popularity
supposed to arouse southerners to the
highest degree Of excitement. There
had been no delay in the enforcement
of the law. The officials were pro-
crossing as rapidly as possible toward
the conviction of the criminals.
The repeated instances of this char
acter are not adding to the good name
of Tennessee.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
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No AlZ

Grafton Record: Al letter from +.
Y. Helistrom. under date Of Feb. IL,
states that that gentleman Toes not
consider the provisions Of the new
BOARD OF control law ia any way bar
ann from becoming q candidate for
the position of governor. He argues
mat our state institutions should be
sept out of politics and wants to agree
20 become governor and keep them out
q the rnire of p~artfsanship. Mr..
Hellstrom is a lawyer and probably
ms W. construction on the law. but
other lawyers read it differently and
argue that heads of state institutions
can not mix in politics. We incline to
thIs construction and think Hellstrora
y violating not only the spirit but the
Ietter on the law. Just how MI.
Fellstrom or any other man can be q
canaluate for public office as partisan
WhiIe acting as the head OF a state in
stltution and not drag the institution
and its officers and EMPLOYEES into the
political game, is more than we can
understand. We still believe that.
helistrom should resign as warden of
the penltentiary or withdraw from the
race Q governor. Governor Burke
inc ms friends, including Hellstrom,
crltlclzed former Warden Boucher.
Tor mixing In politics and dragging the
~penltentiary into the political mire.
and Hellstrom is as partisan as
Boucher and now seeks personal ad-
Vancement while holding the position
OF warden contrary to law. TO us it
LOOKS as If the sauce for the republic
can goose should be of the same kind
as for the democratic gander.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
HOW MANY HAVE you?

It takes th~irty-nine suits of clothes
to make a man, according to the Ma
tional Association of Merchant TaiIors.
This estimate-paraphrasing the old
opera idea that 1T takes nine taiIors
to make a man."-will be particularly
interesting to those two thirty-ninths
of men Who make up the major portion
Of the population.
Here is the list of togs that the arr
biters say one must possess in order
to be a member of the smart set:
Six a suits, four business cuta-
ways, two dress suits, two dress cuta-
ways, four suits OF fannels. one rag
Ian suit, one Norfolk suit. two week
end suits, one camping, one yachting,
one full dress yacht. one informal
yacht, n riding frock. n riding
sack, one riding full dress, one hunt
ing, one polo, one fishing. two tennis,
one golf. two double breasted frock
coats, two doubIe-breasted sack coats.
L L
CT course, if one doesn't play golf,
he might utilize the golf suit for wear
while feeding the furnace. The yacht
ing suit for h yachtless, might be
donned while helping friend wife with
the dinner dishes. Folks that don't
care q hang for fishing can get into
the fishing suit when the water Mrs
breaks in the cellar. 1t is quite pos
sible to play pinochle in a tennis gar
ment-providing you know anything
about the game.
Tailors r not really concerned
about the occasion for wearing the
clothes-bu they are unanimous that
nobody who is anybody can hope to
be long unless he has the entire thir-
ty-nine suits on tap-ready for social
inspection.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23

my fawn colored trousers away from
me at z o'clock last night. / say my
"fawn-colored trousers" to delude our
readers into believing that 1 have 9TH
er trousers, but you know. man to man,
down in your heart Of hearts, that
when I say my "fawn-colored trous-
ers'' / mean my all-all the trousers
I have. You at least will appreciate
the point OF this story. 1t was only
Z o'clock and l told him / wasn't ready
to go to bed, but he said that / would
simply have to go to bed right then or
not have them pressed. al he had to go
to a dance. I suppose / should have
been suspicious, but / am of a trusting
disposition, and there is considerable
about the colored population of this
town that I have yet to learn.
Just before i jumped into bed I hap
pened to glance out OF the window in
time to see my fawn-colored trousers
disappearing down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. ~escorting a colored lady with a
green parasol.
The young gentleman was arrested
for fiourishing a razor while at the
LAE EF
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
FRIDAY, FEB. %, 1912.
CANADIAN SITUATION.

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The Canadian papers are filled with
sensational stories about the wheat
blockade in the Canadian northwest.
Because of the car shortage millions of
bushels of grain are scattered over the
country in small pens. in heaps at the
stations or in the fields just as the
grain came from the threshing ma
CHRIS. ,veral papers have special
correspondents travelling through the
provinces to learn the true situation.
Among the results Of the wheat
blockade is a cessation Of business.
Merchants can no longer give credit.
Everything is stagnated. Farmers are
reported to be becoming discouraged
and land sharks are grabbing their
land at a song. Some Of the farmers,
having been unable to market their
grain-could not pay off the farm Ia
borers they employed last fall. In
some localities the hired men have re-
mafned all winter-without funds to
return to their eastern homes.
The ~ngested conditions has made
tho farmers howl louder than ever for
markets in the United States. The
condemnation Of eastern Canada for
defeating reciprocity is bitter.
The situation to the north shows
what a narrow escape the United
states had-and how fortunate this
country is that reciprocity vas de-
feated across the line. Had reciproc-
ity won, the U. S. markets would have
been flooded with Canadian wheat and
the prices here still further crowded
down.
One of the leading Saskatchewan
papers prints daily quotations between
wheat prices at Canadian and U. S.
points-and shows the millions of
doilars lost to Saskatchewan farmers
through their inability to take advan-
taee of the markets on this side.
with the statement that No. 3 Can
adam wheat is the same as No. 1
Northern on this side of the line-the
PAPER shows that the spread" in
prices is from Is to II cents against
the Canadian farmer-and in favor of
the American wheat grower.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
ARE NECROSIS IN YOUR scALpa
II Has Been Proved That Microbes
Cause Badness.

Professor Unna of Hamburg. Ger
many, and DIR. Sabourand, the leading
French dermatologist, discovered that
a microbe cause badness. Their the
DRY has time and again been amply
verified through research experiments
carried on under the observation of
eminent scientists. This microbe
lodges in the sebum, which is the nat
ural hair oil, and when permitted to
flourish 1t destroys the hair follicleg
and in time the pores entirely close,
and the scalp gradually takes on a
shiny appearance. When this hap
pens there is no hope OF the growth
of hair being revived.
We have a remedy which will, we
honestly believe, remove dandruff. ex-
terminate the microbe, promote good
circulation in the scalp and around
the hair roots, tighten and revitalize
the hair roots, and overcome badness,
so long as there is any life left in
the hair roots.
We back up this statement with our
own personal guarantee that this rem
edy called Rexall "93'' Hair Tonic will
be supplied free of all cost to the user
If 1t fails to do as we state.
1t will frequently help to restore
gray and faded hair to it's original
color, providing loss of color has been
caused by disease; vet it is in no sense
a dye. Rexall "9S" Hair Tonic accom-
plishes these results by aiding in maxi
ing every hair root, follicle, and pig
nlent gland strong and active, and BY
stimulating a natural flow of coloring
pigment throughout the hair cells.
We exact no obligations or promises
we simply ask you to give RexalI
"a3" Hair Tonic a thorough trial and
II not satisfied tell US and we win
refund the money you paid us for 1t.
Two sizes, prices 90 cents and $40
Remember, you can obtain 1t I'm Fargo
only at u stores-The Rexall stores.
The Fargo, Drug CO., Economy Drug
Co, Waldorf Pharmacy.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
PURE FOOD
The New York Journal of Commerce

The New York journal of Commerce
says:
Responsible advices from Washing
ton show that conditions in the de-
partment Of agriculture, for a time
slightly improved in consequence of
President Taft's rebuke of last fall,
are r~etrograding to their original po-
sition. Some think they are worse in
regard to the administration of the
pure food law than they were last year
before the investigation by congress.
That can hardly be. 1t is, however,
obvious that the change in the board
Of food and drug inspection which was
made when DIR. Doolittle was trans
ferred from New York to Washington
has turned out to be purely nominal
and without any real effect. One OF
the first steps taken by the board aft
eF its reorganization was to. adopt the
plan of sending out tentative inspec-
ton decisions to the trade in order to
get the judgment of Uniformed
men preliminary to making the de-
cisions permanent. This system has
worked well in practice, but has just
been abolished by Secretary Wilson,
and other phases of the work have
slipped back into the old rut.
Bad as things are in an administra-
tive way in the department, they are
equally bad in congress. 1t had been
confidently expected that the commit
tee on agriculture would report a plan!
improving the administration of the
pure food law and changing the status
Of the Remsen Referee board. Such a
course was recommended by the inves-
tigation committee of last summer.
Republicans as well as democrats join
ing in the findings. Nothing of the kind
has been done, but on the contrary The
bill retains the same language as last
year. The referee boards not even men
toned by lame, but is left upon the
basis which has already been found Ia
be Illegal and unauthorized. 1T would
have been an easy matter to provide
for the board in a definite and self
respecting way. mentioning it by
nanle and appropriating none to its
Uses, defining at the same time is
powers Inc placing it upon a distinct
legal basis. The same could have been
done with reference to the other ela-
ments of the administration of the food
law in the department of agriculture.
But that has seemed too difficult in
view of the highly political and strong
~ t~ntrenched position of certain in
terests at Washington. 1t Is precisely
this timidity on the part OF members
that encourages sundry ~officiaIs In the
department of agriculture to continue
the practices that have been so severe
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
ADVICE ABOUT oRip.
How to Escape It's Dangerous After
Effects.

How to Escape It's Dangerous After
Effects.
with so much grip in town this
winter a few words of advice viii not
be out Of place.
First, grip is no trifle. Its after eff
fects are often very serious.
Second, grip is particularly bad on
children, old people and all who are
not in the best of health.
Third, grip hangs on-takes away
your energy and appetite-leaves you
feeling weak and played out. That lie
a dangerous condition.
The best thing you can do is to
build yourself up with ViTol. Il de-
licious cod liver and iron preparation
without oil. It tones UP the system
and makes you strong and vigorous.
Read this letter from r. j. Lown,
Oneonta, N. VI: II had an attack of
grip last January which left me in
d very badly weakened and rundown
condition. Lately I began to take
vinol and / find 1t strictly all right.
1t began to help me from the very
first and now ! am as well as ever
Remember we guarantee Vinol to
do just what we say-we pay back
your money If Ii does not. Fout q
PorterfHeld, druggists, 81 Broadway,
Sarge, N. ID.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
North Dakota Kernels

Who has seen the first robin?
Lisbon has a poultry organization.
900
Tolley.
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Those Ryder editors might set on a
peace basis.
90
There is plenty Of feed in North Da-
kota this fall.
Mckenzie county is listening for
more railroad talk.
Some editors complain OF being
bilked by travelling shows.
600
Three travelling dentists were billed
FOR Courtenay the same day.
600
Siopers are boosting hard for Simp-
son of Dickinson for congress.
90
Some Pembinans decline to be drawn
into the row Over the Meridian road.
900
A ferry is to be operated across the
river on a line between Tioga and
Charlson.
There is a great deal Of talk in the
western part of the state about rail-
way construction.
600
Many farmers are planning to keen
books this season-and see how they
come put in the fall.
800
The Crosby Review wonders what
has become Of the Honest John" ia
vorite son movement.
&&~ =
some people wanted Henry Hale OF
Devils Lake to become a candidate for
national committeeman.
900
The incompetency of some of the
legislators and the attaches at the last
session seems quite noticeable.
600
The Devils Lake Journal calls The
Valley City Times-Record a stalwart
republican paper. That may start a
libel suit.
Rev. Homer M. Cook, formerly Bap-
fist pastor in Fargo, has accepted the
call to the First Baptist church of
Grand Forks.
The rapidity with which final proofs
have been made in the eastern half of
the state shows that North Dakota is
becoming quite settled.
%p%s~S
Former Editor Schleppergrell Of Up
ham is said to be signing for the ink
and the presses and the type. He may
soon be in charge of another paper.
900
DR.. Ladd's department at the A. c..
has been helpful to the farmers OF the
state in making hundreds of analyses
of water. In some state that work is
ignored by the state chemists.
zoe
The Devils Lake World says there
were fifty-six people put to hear
Houser at the Ramsey county metrop-
oils. 1t says that Houser admitted
there was no chance for LaFollette to
capture the nomination.
900
Assistant Attorney General zuger
who was reported by The Valley City
Times-Record as likely to withdraw
from the Judicial race in the Fifth dis
trict, appears to be in the contest to
the finish. His friends announce he
not withdrawn, as reported, and
not. Mr.. Euger studied law and
had his initial experiences in Fargo,
afterwards moving to Valley City ana.
to Bismarck.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
HARDWARE (

The hardware people are certainly
hustIers. They not only have had an
interesting association meeting but
have had a real exposition. There are
fifty booths filed with interesting
displays of things that hardware deal
ers sell.
The exhibits were SO varied in char
acter and so interesting that many
Fargoans have taken advantage of
the opportunity. to inspect them.
The members of the state ~associa-
ton and the local committee have ev-
cry reason to feel we'll satisfied with
the convention the results.
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Devils Lakers are proud OF the band
The chessmen had a round in Far
oriska is said to have a local strong
man.
Minot is to have 1 paid FIRE depart
ment.
Dawson is to have a new school
building.
A new creamery is to be organized
Potato shippers around Garrison
want more carsl
Barnes county poultry ratsers may
organize an association.
There were numerous cases Of dog
poisoning around Sawyer.
The papers are issuing a warming
against the oil solicitors.
Newspaper publishers will never be
come rich with adless issues.
90
The campaign cigar is in the down
and out class in North Dakota.
If the Meridian road is constructed
there win be many cross roads.
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With the warmer weather some of
the boys are printing more legible
sheets.
There is a report that the name of
the N. p. is to be changed to North
Pacific.
The Grafton Record and Warden
Hellstrom place different construc-
tions on the law.
80
Near Haynes a rattlesnake crawled
from under a haystack recently and
exterminated.
go
Another batch of N. D. postof1ces
will have postal savings bank attach
nents next month.
&$&
Political candidates in Rolette coun-
ty appear hashful. No announce
ments are being made.
@&~
Any community that fails to give its
home paper legitimate support is MAX
ing a serious mistake.
90
All the newspaper boys Will want to
vote for Tostevin and Mike Breen-
two of the Roosevelt boosters.
The Plaza Pioneer sent out some
papers which contained either mashed
flax seed Or mutiliated bed bugs.
900
Atty. II. A. Libby of Park River is
the new supreme court reporter to
succeed Judge Ames of MayviIle.
&&@
Editor Gee of Powers Lake is a great
patriot. He refers t 0 the U, 8. army
as Morsan's army-and things like
that.
Some Dawson business men are eX-
pected to go into business on the new
line of the N. p. between Pingree and
Wilton.
Miss Catherine Clements, a former
resident Of Cayuga, has been picked as
one Of the ten most beautiful women
in the w S!
New Rockford is coming to the front
and if it gets another Great Northern
line to Lewistown-the town will be a
division point.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
The Boon Of Health
Makes Manly Men
From statIstie student.l

.a AAAIGA@ILEa.# III
Private statistics Of a physician
with & national practice, Indicate
} that fully fifty per cent Of middle
aged men are partly or wholly de
fcient in ability, manliness and
health. If men could only know the
meaning of the usual symptoms
which presage The oncoming OF pre-
mature age many could be saved
from misery, despondency and an
early grave. Symptoms should not
be COMPOUNDED with disease, out
should be accepted as warnings Of
the approach OF disease.
That many may know what TO do
when such symptoms exist the fol
published:
A premature breakdown Of the
vitality Is Indicated by dull, sunk
en- eyes. cold ~extFemities, back
ache. headache, fatigue, pains in
small of back, pains in back Of
head, spots before the eyes, weak
ness In spine, twltching and tremb-
ling. impaired memory, loss of appe-
tito, wasting, thinness Tor abnormal
fatl, shrunken, fiabby flesh, wrinkles,
dizziness, languor, constipation, kid
ney disorders, ~irritability, lack Of
ambition, timtdity, w~eak-spirited,
dragging walk and unmanly car
rlage.
III the reader decides to try 1t,
get three OUNCES of ordinary syrup
OF s~arsaparilla compound, and one
ounce compound huid balmwOrt; mix
and let staud two hours; then get
one ounce compound essence cardiol
aud one ounce tincture cardomene
compound mot caTdomom), mix all
together, shake well and take a tea
spoonful after each meal and one
at night.
This contains no oplates whatever
and may also be used by women
who suffer with their nerves with
absolute certainty Of prompt and
lasting benefits.
BY preparing the treatment at
home secretly no one need know
of another's trouble, while the in
gradients are much used in filling
various prescriptions, so that even
the purchase of them separately
need occasion no timidity.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-23
WASHINGTON
A eREENHoRN in WASHINGTON.
BY ROY K. MoULTON
Copyright 1911. by North American Press syndica

dance, and is now in jail with my
trousers on. 1t is a good thing ]
hrought my lo~ng-tailed overcoat to
washington or I would not now be
able to leave my room,
The Congressional library is called
the great how place of Washington.
Belasco and Frohman and Earl &
Clawhammer don't have any shows
there and neither does Buffalo Bill or
the Ringlings, but it is a great show
place just the anne.
Vi building is of the Italian renais-
sance style OF architecture. and of
course you know what that means. and
its cost, exclusive of the site. was
6,0S 2,124.54. There is some dispute as
to what the 81 cents was for. Per-
haps 1t was for the books. 1T Is pure
white, covers three and one-half acres.
AMI If it had an ash can standing by
the back door and a bill collector
standing at the front door, it would
remind me strongly of my residence.
There are several fine paintings
around on the walls. but / will not at
tempt to describe them, as our paper
goes into h home. and one cannot be
too careful The one feature Of the
library which struck me forcibly is the
silence. n must wear gum shoes
and slip along as quietly as a congress-
mar who is trying to get an appro-
priation for a new federal building
through congress. In the reading room
no whispering is allowed, and a per-
son who ear false teeth which click
liz nnfE al1rxvAd fnZ nLn--v ~.,-. ri 4
great place to go and think over the
deeds OF a messpent life, There is
enough silence manufactured ia that
place every day to supply al OF the
present needs Of Colonel Roosevelt and
last him a long time into the future,
o can please all the people part
of the time and part Of the people ali
Of the time but you cannot please all
Of the people of all of the time. and the
weather bureau has evidently taken
this fact into consideration when
manufacturing atmospheric conditions
for the city of Washington. Yes, we
are going to pound out q few words
about the weather, for washington has
the most versatile weather that can
be found on the North American con-
tinent. 1t is exactly like a continuous
vaudeville show-something different
every twelve hours.
"A seasoned Washington. man who
essays q trip o. foot from the treas
ury to the capitol building, which is
about n mile, takes a bearskin over
coat, fur cap, linen buster, straw hat,
yarn mittens and palm leaf fan. al
sreenhorn who IL here on a brief Wis
It the clothes he wore from
home and never hits the weather right
at any spot In the road.
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FARMERS 10 MEET.

sewman County Men Get Into the
Better Farming Work.
Bowman, N. D., Feb. 23.-Farmers
OF Bowman county will meet in this
city tomorrow and Saturday, the pur-
pose being to place a movement under
way which will result in putting Bow
man county in the list of those work.
ing for better farming conditions.
BoWman farmers are urging the dele
cation Of n expert to this county.
and at the gathering here during the
next two days an opportunity will be
anorded to determine Just what sup
port will be rendered the movement.
j. p. Phelan of Bowman and w. r.
I1axon, the latter in charge Of the
state demonstration farm at Hettinger,
are heading the movement,
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Institute az New Rockford.

New Rockford, n. ID, FEB. 2s.-supt.
r. A. Hoverstad, assisted BY Pro-
fessors Shaw and Palmer OF Fargo,
has just closed . successful two days
farmers institute Ia this city. A large
enthusiastic gathering OF farm
ers attended all the sessions Of the
institute, and much good instruction
was given. The Institute was held I'M
der the auspices of the New Rockford
Commercial club.