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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-02-21

1t is the size of a mans heart that
counts. not the size of his mead.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-02-21

Write for book saving young chicks. Send as
names of { friends that use incu ba tors and get
book free. Raisall Remedy Co., Blackwell, Okla.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-02-21

If &c were not for the fools, the way
of the wise man would be all uphill
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-02-21

Only One "BROMO OUININE"
That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUiNINH Look
for the signature OF 10. w. GROVE Cures a Cold
in One Day, Cures Grip in Two Days 2c.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-02-21

The Pompous Man-Why, sir, I'm a
er-er-seif-made man.
The Lean Chap-When are you go
ing to call the strike off and COM
plete the job.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09
KEEP FRUIT GROWERS HERE
Horticultural Association Exhibit Eye
opener to Men Planning
to Go West

The State Horticultural association
convention, which opened Tuesday
morning at the West hotel in Min
neapolis, may cost the Western rail
roads neat sum of money. The dis
play of Minnesota grown appIes ana
the facts presented in regard to cost
of orchard land, cost of growing,
packing and shipping and the average
prices paid growers are expected to
cause change of heart on the part
of many men who had contemplated
going to the Pacific coast to engage
in apple culture.
Minnesota apples mean half again
as much money for the grower as
Washington apples" said E. D. Nc
Donald of the Excelsior Fruit Grow
ers' association. with proper organ
ization for selling, Minnesota growers
can realize on 80 per cent Of their
crop. In Wenatchee they are lucky to
sell Is per cent. I think the display
here ought to make some of the men
who have been thinking of Western
orchards sit up and take notice"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09
A LARGE ORDER

One of the men attending the inau-
guration Of Florida's new governor
told this story Of Albert w. Gilchrist,
the retiring incumbent of the guber-
material office:
Several years ago former Governor
Gilchrist was a member of the Florida
legislature and was trying to get a
committee appointed for the carrying
out of some.pet measure. The speaker
of the house asked the member from
De Soto" just what kind Of men he
wanted on the committee.
"One lawyer, one doctor and two
men of common sense" was the reply
that brought down the house.
1t did not detract from the general
enjoyment that the humor of the reply
was Observation-Disclosures.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09

acres worth fifty dollars an acre, and
the uncleared balance worth twenty;
or a total Of nineteen hundred dol
lars for the tract.
Suppose, finally that this tract were
sold to settler at that price. The
five hundred and forty dollars taken
from the reclamation fund would be
returned to it. The rest, thirteen
hundred and sixty dollars, would go
into the permanent school fund. I'll
timately the fund would get all the
rest also.
Where is the loss or harm to the
school fund here? This land, UNI
drained, uncleared and without roads,
was worth at the outside five hundred
dollars; and it could not have been
sold, except to a Spectator, at any
price.
The Result
Instead of a very improbable five
hundred dollars, the permanent school
fund would get thirteen hundred and
sixty dollars, and ultimately nineteen
hundred. The state would be ahead
one farm, one thrifty settler, one in
dustrious and prosperous family,
eighty more on the tax rolls.
The figures, of course, are arbi-
trary, and are used only for illustra-
ton. But even if the profit were only
five dollars instead of thirteen hun
dred and sixty, the state would be the
gamer. 1t would be the gamer if
there were no profit at all, and if the
school fund only got what it might
possibly have gained without the
work of reclamation. By the reclama-
ton work it would get this amount
sooner, and, more important, the state
would get the settler sooner.
There is nothing impossible about
this plan There is nothing imprac-
tical about it. 1t is, OH the other hand
not only possible, but highly practical.
1t is just good business common
sense.
1t is question for lawyers, of
course, but it is to be doubted if the
Constitution stands in the way of a
temporary diversion of the proceeds
of state land sales for purposes of
improvement that will return profit
to the state and to the school fund.
1t is merely an investment of these
funds in an enterprise that will GER
tainly return profits vastly greater
than those involved in investing them
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09
in Alabama bonds at 8 per cent.
Amend Constitution


And If the Constitution stands in
the way, then the Constitution ought
to be amended.
I'm the meantime, instead of quib-
bling about technicalities, the state
officials should be studying some way
to work out such plan as this.
And, in the meantime, arrangements
should be made whereby the remain
ing half million acres of government
land yet unpatented shall be patented
ONLY with the restriction that, Con-
stitution or no Constitution, the pro-
ceeds Of their sale MUST be used as
the basis for a reclamation revolving
fund to carry out this idea.
Hereafter, too, there should be no
discussion of reclamation in this state
that does not proceed on the basis
that reclamation means exactly what
it says-not only reclaiming land from
its submerged condition, but reclaim
ing it from stumps by clearing and
from inaccessibility by road building.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09

Nearly 200 members were present
Tuesday morning when President Tho
mas eastman of Owatonna called the
first session to order. It is expected
that between 600 and 700 members
will attend during the course of the
four-day session.
Nearly fifty standard varieties of
apples are entered for the premium
contests, besides hundreds of expert
mental varieties shown by the state
farm at Zumbra and by individual
growers. 1t is possible that the prize
of 500 offered for a seeding apple
up to a set standard may not, be
awarded this year. This prize is Of
fered annually for seven years, this
being the second year, but no award
has yet been made, last years en-
tries not being up to the standard.
The apple must be grown from seed
planted not later than 1906. This year
there is but one entry.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09
Duluth Herald on
Public Land Policy
Northern Newspaper Sees No lncOn-
sistency In Use of Funds in
Reclamation
Would Make Circulating Fund to Aid
Drainage, Clearing, Road Making
and Schools
Constitution Should Be Made to
I Fit Needs Of State In This
Respect

Everybody who discusses the states
public land policy, from the governor
and state auditor down-or up-as-
sumes that there is an irreconcilable
Inconsistency between using the pro-
ceeds of the sale of these lands for
reclamation purposes, as the Federal
grant requires, and putting them in
to the permanent school fund, as the
state Constitution requires.
There is no such inconsistency, nor
is there anything irreconcilable in the
situation.
II there were, doubtless the state
Constitution would have to give way.
If constitutional provision can alb
Togate contract on which these gifts
OF land are based, then the vendee of
q piece of land can change the con-
tract for sale without consulting the
vendor
But it isn't necessary even to go
into that.
Where everybody who has dis
cassed this question misses the point
Is in assuming that when the pro-
eeeds of the sale of state land are used
tor reclamation purposes, that neces-
Sarily means that the money is
diverted from the permanent school
fund and will never get there.
Profit for Fund
That isn't so. The diversion is
OILY temporary; and because of it, if
the state will simply apply itself in
telligently to creating sensible and
business like land policy, the perma-
nent school fund will profit enormous
H, =
Suppose that the state provided by
law that the proceeds from the sale
Of state land should go into reclaim
alton revolving fund, but with the un-
Outstanding that this should be only
y temporary fund and that when anc
as the need of it ceases this fund shall
be transferred to the permanent
school fund.
This would provide fund for re.
claiming state land; and RECLAIM
ALTON means not only DRAINING
submerged lands, but CLEARING
stump-covered lands and BUILD.
ING ROADS to inaccessible lands.
What would happen to the state
land, to the state and to the perma-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09
nent school fund, can be illustrated
Principle Applied

Principle Applied
Take, as an example, an eighty
acre tract of state land, half in swamp,
all of it covered with brush and
stumps, and without road to reach
it. What is it worth? Actually, moth
ing at all; potentially much; and as
there is Constitutional minimum of
five dollars per acre, put its original
value at that. That takes the tract
worth four hundred dollars as it
stands. :.
Suppose, out Of the reclamation
fund, the forty acres of swamp were
drained at cost of eighty dollars
high price. The tract then would
be worth, say, ten dollars an acre, or
eight hundred dollars for the whole.
Suppose, again, that road were
built by which settler could get to
this land and bring his produce to
market, at cost, say, of two dollars
an acre. 1t is not saying too much
to assert that this additional expen-
diture of hundred and sixty dollars
would make the tract worth fifteen
dollars an acre, or twelve hundred
dollars.
Suppose, now, that the state took
from it's reclamation fund three hun
dred dollars more and cleared ten
acres of the tract so that the settler
could make living from the begin
ming. This would make the cleared
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-12-09
Share Your fortune

E#KIWID all DdppIIIE55 anu JOYS 81 tt)E- S
O.RJ merry Christmas season think OF those
az less fortunate those on whom the
Gun Of plenty has failed to chine during ,
the past twelve months. Cbfnk Of the beart-
aches that will be there on Christmas morn !
ing; think OF the tear statned eyes Of the little
cbtldren weeptng because Santa Claus could
not call at their bomes. nalf OF your pleasure
at Christmas will be derived from making
otbers happy. from sbartns pour good fortune
and eowtng seeds Of ktndness wherever
you happen to be on Christmas day. Give
eometbtng, be It ever 80 trtfltns. to the little
child to whom Christmas otherwise would
mean nothing. You can Keep tears OF eorrow
from those eyes and brighten the day bun
dredfold for yourself. Cry It.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
ADDITIONAL SPORTS
COLLEGE
TOSSERS Won
SNAPPY GAME WAS SAVED IN
THE LAST INNING BY CLEVER
PLAY BY RUSNESS-THE FINAL
SCORE WAS 8 TO 2-FiRST GAME
OF SEASON.

The Fargo college ball tossers play
ed and won the first game OF the sea
son yesterday when Coach Watkins
took the recruits to Moorhead to clash
with the promising youths of Concor-
dia college. -. -
'Litz" Rusness. the classy second
baseman for Fargo college, won the
laurels with a pinch grab in the last
inning. &
With a man on second, another on
third and two down, Concordia had a
chance to win. A. Johnson stepped up
to the plate and swatted out a bingo
that looked like a ure hit. One score
would have tied, two would have
Rusness turned turtle and connected
with the ball back near right field,
catching the running on first and saw
ing the day for Fargo, 3 to 2. %>t
For Fargo Palfrey did the singing
act for -four innings, Tillotson for the
other three. Venice did good work in
the box for the Moorheadftes, but a
stolen base, two singles and an error
gave Fargo college their first run.
f.. In the fifth BUSINESS singled, an err
ror followed, D~rummond, the Fargo
college shortstop, doubled, and two
more runs came in. "hs., :#
Concordia crossed home twice in the
sixth. 0. Rusness landed first on A.
Johnsons bingle; both advanced on
Tillotson's hitting the batter, OVERLY,
and both scored on a crooked bounce
thrown in from the field by Boise.
Game ended 8 to 2 in favor Of Fargo
college. II III - r
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
Will SEE FINE
WRESTLING MATCH
GREAT INTEREST is BEING TAX
EN- IN TIE BIG ATHLETIC CAR
NlVAL THAT WILL BE PULLED
OFF BY THE GRADE SCHOOLS
TOMORROW. r..

There Is a lot Of talk and interest
being shown in the wrestling match
which is to be staged al the grade
school athletic carnival on nex Fri
day evening at the Agasslz gymnas-
1unl, for the championship or the grade
Boys OF the city. q
wrestling has come down as a lead
ing form Ol athletics from the earliest
OF time ana sun holds it's place among
the leaulng athletics today. In the
early Gays OF Greece it formed one OF
the important vents in the olymplcS,
many d hot contest having taken
place. Sometimes the men would
Wrestle till they dropped oown to-
Sether on the mat, both dead. The
TWO boys who are to compete Friday
evening are both strong and in good
trim n while. there is a big chance
that the contest will be close and hot,
neither lad Will be allowed to go be-
yond what is good for him n if
there is no fall within a limited time
the contestants will snake HANDS and
give up the tiOor to the neXt number
on the programme, leaving the city
championship undecided.
Both fellows ave Deen studying the
latest in wrestling ana know all the
new holds and breaks TO perfection.
McPhail n Henning are the two
strongest boys in the grade schools OF
the city, and this, OF course, has made
them keen rivals In all the athletic
events in the school league this ear
these two boys ave always been op-
ponents, except. when they, played On
the all-star football teamelast fall. In
the indoor track meet Henning beat
out McPhail by one point for the indi-
Vtdual championship of the city.
A ring has been put up in the gym
nasium and everything is in tine style
for the meet and the parents of Fargo
will have a chance to see a good clean
wrestling match for se\ eral minutes.
All h events for the carnival are
fast rounding into shape and the eX-
hibition tomorrow night promises to
be the best ever put on by the younger
children Of the city.
Today all the different grades that
are to represent their buildings to-
morrow night are out at the Agassiz
getting used to the floor and their
standing positions. Watch tomorrow
nights Forum for the complete pro-
gramme of the evening and cut them
out and take them with you as there
will be no printed programmes at the
carnival.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
GLAD TIDINGS
mission REPORT

To The Forum: This is a report
of a months work which is but one
Of the twelve out Of each year now
as the mission is prepared to take car
of the work with their new build
ing.
Number of religious meetings
held, 3S.
Number of conversions. 4.
Visits made by the superintendent
90.
Calls made by the nurse, 131 AND
in fifty different families.
Secured employment for 40 diff
ferent men, and II different m
Days work secured for men. 70.
Days work secured for women 40
Permanent positions secured fol-
men and women g.. ,..
Articles of clothing given away, IN
Guiding household goods, 500.
Contributions of clothing and house
hold effects from 20 different
families. .... ..... -
Families assisted with cash, pro-
visions, or clothing 20.
Transportations secured, e., n Il
st. Paul n one to Helena. Mont.
Money received. from all sources fol
this work for the Office girl, the nurse
and the superintendent, and assistance
given to the different families for the
month, $122.45.
The work of the mission was never
so encouraging as to opportunities
and we take this means of expressing
our gratitude to those who have botf
spoken and written us words of en-
enlargement and promise them the
best Of service possible in whatever
way we can render assistance and ask
the continued cooperation Of all OIL
friends and the inspection Of oul
building and work at any time BY
those interested.
o, E. McCracken,
Superintendent.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
Some Facts About Holland;
One Of the Most Prosperous
Agricultural Countries

The Christian Science Monitor re-
Gently had the following article as a
special from Amsterdam, Holland:
The Dutch government has always
maintained the policy Of constructing
great dykes to keep the sea out OF
their country, but it has erected no
high tariff walls on its frontiers TO
keep out foreign competition. On
the contrary, all agricultural products
are on the free list, and a duty OF
about S per cent ad valorem is levied
on only a few imported manufactured
articles. In fact, the Netherlands can
be said to nave almost unrestricted
free trade.
Up to about thirty or forty years
ago Holland had a protective tariff
on products Of the soil, since when, it
may be stated without eXaggeration,
its ascendency as an agricultural
country. began. Higher duties, and
protection for certain industries, have
been industriously advocated from
time to time, usually by special inter-
eSts with sinister motives, but the
farmer, the small tradesmen, and the
independent manufacturing element,
have presistently adhered to the prin-
ciples OF free trade. TO say nothing
of the fourishing manufacturing in
dustry that this small nation has built
up without q protective tariff, its
agricultural prosperity equals, if in
deed it does not rpass, in quality
and intensity, if not in volume, that
of n other country in the world.
Farmer Not Tariff Man.
The Dutch farmer does not want a
high tariff; and the farmer of Hol-
land is frequently a manufacturer too,
He has shares in the cooperative
potato-hour, cheese, and straw-board
factories of his community. He makes
butter to sell INC exports large quaint
ties of beef. He argues that the
farmer and the manufacturer have a
very common interest and would be
alike affected by a high tariff, because
a higher cost of living, which is not
offset by higher wages and higher
prices, results in a lower purchasing
capacity. He contends that raising
import duties is merely a process OF
taking money from Peter to pay Paul
1T may raise wages, but as it raises
the cost of living p~erforce the effects
of b operation are lost. Moreover
tariff legislation can scarcely be en-
acted without favoritism to certain
classes. Summing it all up, he pre-
fers the natural consequences as they
are to doubtful artificial remedies
though formerly a protectionist.
From a purely hypothetical view
point, Holland is in a perfectly natura
economic state. Competition is allow.
ed to- run its own free course. Only
such manufacturing exists as cal
thrive; other manufactured articles
are imported. The theory prevails
and the practice proves, that there ar
enough industries native to the coun.
try and able to compete with TIL,
world, to employ all the surplus labor
Why should a great portion Of thu
population be undnly taxed to bolster
MP the manufacture OF articles tina:
q be more clleaply imported.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01

Besides, the importation Of sue
wares gives employment and means to
a large number of tradesmen, so hat
all benefits Of not manufacturing
everything at home are not lost.
Trade Unrestricted.
The country seems to prefer unre-
striCted trade, leaving such matters to
adjust themselves. This dispenses with
legislative assistance and its resultant
doubtful operation, periodical discus
sion of tariff charges, and other eco
nOmic disturbances, which upset bust
ness and require constant readjust-
ment of industries.
~Disregarding the manufacturing
class for the present, the farmer Of
Holland has certainly prospered in
ibis free trade state. Since farm prod
lets were put on the free list the lane
LAS gone up in value and the cultivat-
id area has steadily increased, most
Of the increased area being reclaimed
swamp lands. The country is produce
ing 100000 more cattle, 10000 more
horses and 1000, 600 more pigs annual
ly. In the last five years the annual
output of butter has been swelled by
1000 tons and the export Of bulbs has
increased threefold. Besides, it is a
universally accepted fact that food is
cheaper, that more of it is eaten, that
wages are higher, labor more plentiful,
M that working people are better
housed In Holland than in any other
European country.
Duty Reacted on Farmer.
To encourage agriculture Holland
kept a protective duty on agricultural
products until about 1870. 1t thought
to do SO by shutting out foreign COM
petition, particularly American. AS a
result, the farmer became inactive and
depended OF this advantage rather
than on his own efforts and initiative.
Farming remained backward, food
products were high and the country
suffered from this lack Of inertia in
! the rural sections. Expert cultivation
Of the soil was ridiculed by the farm
er. He preferred the easy way Of pro-
ducing a few bushels from an acre
which brought him a big price to the
more complex method of producing
list became INDECENT and trif1ing under
the protective system and the rich
soil of the fertile lowlands vas scarce
ly tapped.
The first step toward helping out
the farmer in Holland was therefore
taken by letting in competition. He
did not do well under protection; GER
tainly he could not do much worse I'M
der free trade. At any rate, it was
thought that it was time to make him
show his mettle, whether he survived
or persisted. The experiment proved
successful, however, and the way he
gagged the soil after decades of guag-
ing the public with a high protection
lis one of the marvels of the age. The
country is now a large model farm.
Result Is Object Lesson.
After the oars of protection were
let down in Holland, the farmer tool
his farm into the laboratory and put
it under a microscope. He began tc
i anaIyze the different properties of the
soil; he began to select seeds, to i'm
iproys his stock. and In general tt
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
PROPOSALS FOR
BRICK BUILDING

. The Forum is in receipt of a copy
Of notice that the Department of the
Interior, office of Indian affairs, will
receive proposals for a new brick
hospital which is to be erected at the
Wahpeton Indian school at Wahpeton.
Plans and specifications can be seer at
The Forum office and for further in
formation application should be made
to the superintendent of the Wahpeton
Indian school. F..
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
Health a Factor in Success.

The largest factor contributing to a
mans success is undoubtedly health.
1t has been observed that a mar is
seldom sick when his bowels are reg
ular-he is never well when they are
constipated. For constipation you will
find nothing quite so good as Cham
berlain's Tablets. They not only move
the bowels but improve the appetite
and strengthen the digestion. They
are sold by all dealers.-Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
Money in Truck Gardening.

:" - = 80 3 y q
culture in Holland is truck gardening,
especially cabbage raising. Cabbage
growing land rents as high as f1.1O0
per acre annually. The farmers who
began this had sixty to seventy acre.
farms, but they soon found that ten
acres was the profitable area, because
so much depends or personal atten-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01
pa I,atest

Kansas City Journal: II see you
leave your husbands card and your
own card; but what is that other
card?"
all the dogs in our set"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-01

The new nickel has evoked much
unfriendly criticism, yet the coin
might have been a great deal worse.
Suppose some cubist had been allowed
to furnish the design for it.