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The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26
SATISFIED
WITH OPERATION OF
HIS MEXICAN POLICY

Washington, d. c., Dec. 24.-With
any impending dangers to life or pro-
perty of Americans and other foreign
ers on the coast of Mexico well guard
ed against by United States war
ships and in the opinion of official.
OF this government, that the Huerta
government is growing weaker and
the financial condition growing rap
idly more acute, President Wilson ex-
pressed satisfaction with the opera
ton of the Mexican policy before leav-
ing for his Christmas holiday. Ar
rangements were made by the presi-
dent with the department of state to
keep him informed at Pass Christian
of any unusual developments in Mex
leo, but ordinary events of the revolu-
ton will not be communicated to him.
A few dispatches were received by
the state department today, but moth
ing official has been heard of the
reported re-capture of Terreon by the
rebels, news of which came from Ju-
arez. Relief orders from the navy
department today relating TO battle
ships in Mexican waters made no
change in the number of ships to
remain in the Gulf of Mexico. The
Michigan will be relieved by the Min
nesota and the New Jersey will be
relieved by the Georgia
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26
Don't Let Your NeighbOrs Garry
Cholera TO Your Hogs.

A contribution to the current issue
Of Farm and Fireside writes in part,
as follows, about the prevention of
cholrea among hogs.
There is farm in central Ohio
which is noted for its fine hogs.
zone day neighbor came wander
ing through the place. The owner
halted him, and asked him whether
the report was true that he came from
farm infected with cholera. The
neighbor admitted that his hogs were
dying Of it. Then get off my placel
said the owner. The neighbor grew
hutfy. Well, said the owner, you
wouldn't come into my house if you
had smallpox, would you?' No, of
course notH Well, then why come
into my fields when You come from
farm that's infected with cholera? ?
We are always glad to be neighborly,
but we can't affod to pay for calls
with our herd of hogs The neighbor
admitted that this position was cor
rect, and went away feeling perfectly
satisfied"
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26
His Delay

A man nearly eighty years old
walked ten miles from his home to an
town. When he reached his
destination he was greeted with some
astonishment by an old acquaintance.
"You walked all the way?" the lat
ter exclaimed. "How did you get
along?"
"Oh, first rate" the old man re-
piled genially. THAT is, | did till
came to that sign out there: Slow
down to fifteen miles an hour That
kept me back some"
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26
Despite General Villas statement

Despite General Villas statement
to the United States government
that he is not OBTAINING the wives
and children of men who have left
the country, it is known here that
he had denied them facilities to leave
The demand for military trains being
given as a reason. One million pesos
in rebel money has been issued under
the seal of the state of chihuahua.
This greatly relieves the financial sit
uation brought about by the lack OF
small currency.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26
GENTLEMEN POKER
PLAYERS ARE PARDONED

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 25.-E. r.
Lyman mad Harve Riding, the two
gentlemen of Mena, who would not
tell about a poker game and were
later convicted and sentenced to
year in the penitentiary for perjury
have been pardoned by Governor
George w Hays. Both men have
been out on parole since September
3. Ebert Mayberry who was paroled
on November after being sentenced
to six months for manslaughter from
Jackson county was also pardoned.
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No Wonder He Was Angry

Spratt (to the grocer )-"You seem
angry, Mr.. Peck"
Peck-"Yes, am The Inspector
of weights and measures has just been
in"
"Ha! Ha! He caught you giving
fifteen ounces to the pound did he ?"
Worse than that He said I'd been
giving seventeen"
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26
Teachers Meeting

The following topics will be discuss
ed by the teachers of the Methodist
Sunday School at the regular meet
ing next Sunday morning at 900.
Plans for increasing the enrolment
me school next year.-General dis.
s;on.
Special days we should OBSERVE
G. {. Calhoun and others.
Bro. Few's message to the teach
ers
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26

Parcels Post clerks will now take
d fresh breath and get ready for
new year,-a year that will see more
business than ever.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26

Read the Daily News.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-26

HON. EARLE W. HODGES, Secreta.
ry of State.
One of the most popular officials in
Arkansas and prominent candidate
for reelection.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11
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Daddy Bedtime
q. The Clever
OCOI VI Crabber and the
Giant Crab.

%H%HEY were going to the seashore some day with grandpa, and Jack and
@ Evelyn could talk of nothing else for a week ahead. Grandpa and
LII a friend were going grabbing The friend lived at the seashore and
owned a boat. E-@ "#I #s@ @E
"Be careful the crabs don't catch you' daddy warned.
why, w e are a heap bigger than they are" Jack said. #
"Crabs don't catch people" Evelyn added. #
"WeL some crabs are most large enough to catch folks. I once knew a
man who was very fond of grabbing. He had grabbed every since he was. a
very small boy f@%
when he had spare time and wished to amuse himself he would go crab
bling. So it was quite what might be expected that when he went to Japan
on business one of the first things he should ask about was the grabbing.
1.-THE little brown fishermen shook their heads. They did not go grabbing
for fun. My friend did not have much of N opinion of the japanese after this.
"In hire a boat some day and go out and get some crabs he said.
"He took the boat and went out He hshed with a net known as a seine,
and it was a good thing he did.
"After the boat reached what he thought might be a good place over went
the net. >|
SIT seemed as If this crab must have been prowing around under the wa
ter waiting to hop into that net so Dol did he catch it,
When he felt the net grow heavy the man dragged it up. AS it reached
the top of the water he drew it over into the boat but not without some trou-
BILE. When he saw what he had caught he almost tainted. e.
= "The crab was a huge fellow and vas struggling to get out of the net
He looked so fercely at his captor that my friend just took the net and
dumped it overheard. Then he made for shore as fast al he could.
"EIe had lost his net and when the old Japanese fisherman from whom he
had rented both boat and net asked fr his seine he al ashamed to tell him.
He had been so frightened that he had thrown it overheard with the cab he
had gone to catch. .##a
"This gentleman lived in Japan to learn about the giant crab. 1t can deal
hard blows with its big claws. The Japanese fishermen are very careful when
they go out to catch it, for a crab ca give them a painful wound if it gets a
chance. s-L
"In the American Museum of Natural History in New York there is a crab
which is twelve feet long, and crabs have been seen which are sixteen OF
eighteen feet across. These, l a m sure would not be nice for small boys and
girls t. meet o. the seashore when the crab was in a bad humor"
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SATURDAY CLOSING.

1t cannot be well said hat Fargo
fails to keep abreast of the times.
What city of its size in the northwest,
or in any other section of the country
for that matter, observes the Saturday
half holiday among the general stores
for their employees?
1t vas not so many years ago that
Chicago, setting the pace for the
American cities-as Is generally the
case-established the custom among
the leading merchants there. 1t has
only been usual among the other big
cities of the continent but a very brief
term Of years.
That Fargo merchants should adopt
a step in adding six additional
hours to the week end respite Of their
employees got only augurs we'll for
their progressive spirit but is an adj
vanced step towards brighter indus
trial conditions.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11
EXAGGERATED BATTLE LOSSES,

Says. The st. Paul Dispatch: The
current Army and Navy Journal
contains an article on Losses in
Battles, Ancient and Modern, by Gen.
c. C. Andrews Of st. Paul in which
the conclusion is drawn that the
statements in several of the ancient
histories of losses in battle must have
been made from hearsay and are
greatly. exaggerated. He first shows
what the losses were in q number of
historic battles in modern wars. For
example, the number Of union troops
killed and mortally wounded in the
battle of Shiloh was 3,099; In the bat
tie of Antietam, killed and mortally
wounded, 1855; wounded, 9,549. In the
battle of Spottsylvania. the greatest in
respect to- loss Of any of the battles
of Grants campaign of the Wilder
ness, and ranking next to Gettysburg
among all the battles Of the civil war
IN regard to the number killed and
wounded, the number of union troops
killed was t2,725; wounded, 13,146. Six
teen per cent Of the latter, as repre-
senting the mortally wounded, is 2,146,
sc that the killed and mortally wound
ed m the union side in the battle Of
Gettysburg was 1921. being nearly the
same as that sustained by the allies
IN the battle of Waterloo.
One. Of the principal battles in the
Franco German war was 4Gravelotte.
The number Of French killed and NOR
tally wounded in that battle was 2,29a.
The German loss in killed and NOR
tally wounded was 5,238; wounded,
not including MORALLY wounded, a.
442.
The writer states that among an
cient historians, T~hucydides is the
only n whose accounts of losses j n
battles appear reasonable, but the case
is very different when we come to
Herodotus. Polybius. Liyy. and Caesar.
all OF whom mention battles in which
10000 or upwards were killed on one
side. Polybius mentions a battle in
which 10000, one in which 10000, and
one In which 10000 men were killed on
ID side The writer states that Livy
%aat
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

CONSERVING OUR HEIREssEs.

A democratic member Of congress
has asked that there be added to the
income tax amendments one to in
clude American women who marry
foreigners. The suggestion in part
:. runs thus:
Just now there is a distinct peril
due to the fact that numerous ladies
- (the list is startling) nave elected to
marry busted foreign dukes and lords
and have carried abroad fortunes
%, made by American men, and have de-
posted them with their foreign titled
husbands"
Just how the tax could be collected
is not stated, but in some i"nternation-
al matters navies have presented
themselves to enforce payment of OBJ
legations and possibly, in this time of
unrest, the ~dreadnaughts might I'M
dertake to settle matrimonial prob
%lems affecting two countries.
s In general, there is an impression
athat a bright American girl who mar
ries a nobleman must necessarily fnd
her environment strange and uncon-
genial, and personal effacement is the
usual result, though that is not so
easy to bring about in American wom-
anhood.
American scholarships at oxford
have not proved attractive to our
young men, who fail to see the ad-
vantage OF a course, even though
free, hat adjusts them to a career
somewhere in the British empire and
social world.
With few exceptions they prefer
Yankee Doodle with fit and quick
step to the British drumbeat, though
it girdle the globe. There is a play in
which the English ~aristocrat introduce
ed confines his language merely to
ooh, Ah!".
1t may be presumed that there was
an American heiress with so
limited a vocabulary.
l. A rule of the German diplomatic de-
partment is that none who are con-
snected with it shall marry an Amer
lean girl, heiress or other, without
rendering his resignation.
% The point is that American women
transplanted abroad can more thar
hold their own If their husbands are
concerned in the management of state
affairs.
Democratic members find that the
imposition Of an income tax in time Of
peace involves new perplexities every
day.
Heiresses who buy a title get so
little for their money that it is a mis-
take to suppose that a special fine
should be added to the other forms Of
punishment.
Apropos Of international marriages.,
reference to the universal note of
commentator accorded Miss Jessie
Wilson, the presidents second daugh-
ter, in her acceptance of a plain Amer
lean young man, might be we'll taken.
That a title did not lure her over
the seas, when so beautiful a young
woman occupying so envious a posi-
ton could have had her pick of for
eign men Of all ranks is pleasing to
the American heart. Most White
House brides have been sensible in
late years, however, for they have not
forgotten the fate Of Nellie Grant.
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THEY SANG "AULD LANG SYNE.'

Em-Pe-Co News: The most i'm
pressive moment this editor has ex-
perienced in many days was at the
close of the North Dakota Press AS
ISOLATION convention at Grand Forks
recently when all Joined In singing
Aud Lang Syne.
The spirit of god will. good fellow
ship and genuine appreciation of rub
bling shoulders with folks who were
experiencing much the same grind and
trouble, pleasure and profit that you
are, came to everyone present in a
closer, more intimate manner than eve
before.
This same spirit Of brotherly love
was present not only at Grand Forks
but all over the country-in Illinois,
Nebraska, Minnesota, etc. Business
men are realizing today that higher
ideals exist than trying to do their
neighbors, and are willing to give hon.
or where honor Is due.
The printing and newspaper business
of today rests on a higher plane Of ex-
cellence and Of knowledge of the bust
ness than any other profession or
business. This is largely due to the
earnest work of members of editorial
and press associations. the typothetae
and Ben Franklin clubs.
The printer or publisher who ne
elects enrolling in one Of these asso-
Citations will live to regret deeply the
day he failed to join hands in this
work Of uplift and betterment to the
newspaper and printing world.
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jewelers. and Opticians

But the durum farmers, non-co-oper-
ative and unorganized, went along
yea after year. willingly and stupidity
.discounting their superb wheat 80
cents per bushel and again stupidity
throwing into the pockets of the ele-
vators $4,000, 600 to 100000 of good
dollars represented in the 80 cents per
bushel holdup! Easily figured; 50,-
600, 900 bushels of durum wheat, dis
count 30 cents per bushel, $4,000, 600.
You can't get away from that. The
durum farmers, instead of keeping that
sum at home, handed it out to the in
digent elevator men to buy automo-
biles and build more elevators, instead
Of buying autos and building new
barns for themselves! Generous, al
truistic, benevolent, philanthropic,
wise durum farmers, d~isorganized into
a charity organization society for the
support of the poor and needy elevator
men-and worthy poor millers.
Now let us trace UP this so, 100000
bushel crop and see where it goes, run
it down to- finish. Well figure on a
SO, 200, 900 crop, although the day is
soon at hand when the Panama canal
opens up and the swarms of immi-
grant peasant farmers from Europe
begin to dry-farm the Turkey rec
winter and durum spring wheat on the
900, 900, 900 acres of Semi-arid, dry
farm lands that are waiting between
the Pacific coast and the Rocky noun
tains, above the irrigation bitches
where our durum crop will crawl up
to 200, 000, 900 bushels, and far in X
cess of this figure8for we are to hav
a census of 100000, 900 in 1888 and
they must have bread.
AS Secretary Wilson predicted, the
great plains of the southwest are to
| give bread to the east. They are to
L 1n Taonrn than fh1t. fhou ora IN oiUn
butter, cheese and beef to the east, if
Burbank's spineless cactus that grows
100 to 200 tons of green fodder the
IYear around, per acre, rings true in
prairies, producing 20 to 80 per cent
more milk than from alfalfa hay fed to
the dairy cows. In years to come
| cheap, spineless cactus fodder will be
sliced in the east, shipped from the
semi-arid lands of the southwest.
Let us see where these so, 900, 900 of
bushels of durum CO.. The macaroni
wheat buyers. abroad have gotten so
tired of educating our durum wheat
exporters pom the question of clean.
properly graded wheat that our ex-
ports have dropped to 500, 900 bushels,
when they might just as we'll be u.s.
900, 900 bushels. So through Grass ig-
norance and carelessness our. durum
| wheat exporters nave made a singed
cat of durum in the European mar
kets, given the durum 'houns" a bad
name in Europe and it is kicked
around town. 1t will take years to
remove from the foreign buyers this
blot upon durum. Once stung they
keep rubbing the spot for years and
don't forget.
So, evidently, that 5 100000 bush
els remain at home. Where does it
go? In the spring and before the new
crop comes in every bushel of durum
is cleaned up. None in the market
Continued on Page Three.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11
HARMON

Morton County, North Dakota, Al new
town on a new railroad in a country
that has been settled for 80 years. AT
the present time there are q grain
elevators, lumber yard. general store,
ETC., and a demand for many other
lines Of business. The first lot sale
will take place July "a. 1913. For fur
Their particulars in regard to natural
advantages, business openings, labor,
ETC., address
HARMON TOWNSHIP CO.
q. .. Tubbs. Sec, Harmon. N. o.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11
In The HOTEL LOBBIES

He COVE the name of John Norris
sey as he sat on the stool of repent
ance before Police Judge Miller, and
he was somewhat morose and inclined
to be a. little ugly when his honor was
interrogating him as to how he came
to be in that condition ?"
He admitted that he had been over
loaded the night before, but said that
he didn't think it was anybody's bust
ness SO long as he was able to get
home and he started in to tell the
court the duties of the policemen and
hoy they ought to act towards a man
who was under the influence. He also
intimated that many a Ia who kind
Of staggered maybe wasn't full of
booze and might be under the infiu-
ence Of medicine Or illness.
The judge asked him if he wanted
to infer that he wasn't drunk the night
before M he said that he didn't, for
he was how come you So all right
and then, he acted ugly and drew down
the corners of his mouth and was go
ing to say something very mean,
when the court stopped him and said:
There is no necessity for you act
ing so rancantankerous for it will
only go harder with you"
The fellow at once frightened up
and said: -.-
Say that 'rancantankerous' one
more time, judge, and then write
write it down for me, for I want to get
it off on my wife," and then he laugh
ed right out and the court said that be-
cause he was in such good spirits and
hadn't done much harm he might go.
J. B. Reeves of Beach, the well
known horseman who started the
races last week in Fargo and who has
several other similar contracts in the
state, was a guest at the Waldorf, n
remarked that the Fargo fair was well
conducted and was enjoyable. Il was
very we'll pleased with the attendance"
said he at the hotel after the show
WIS over, "and it was very c~reditable
that after a big state fair such as you
had last year it Is pretty hard to keep
up the trip with a county or as you
call 1t, an interstate fair. Still, I
want to congratulate the management
on the success of the one of a few
days ago. They were up against a
good many trials. for the weather all
week was not fair weather and that
worked against you. Yes, the fair for
a county fair was all right"
O. e. Daualt and Arthur Hamel. two
well known business men of Caring
ton. were in the city a day or two ago
and were stopping at the Gardner and
they We're very much pleased with the
looks of the crops in their section of
the state. I'VE are expecting some
thing very fine in the way of crops"
said one of them to The Forum, and
we will be very much disappointed If
we don't nave a banner year. Every
Thing is looking exceedingly good out
our way and everybody is therefore
pleased"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

DON'T use a cough medicine con-
tanning opium or morphine. They
constipate the bowels and do not cure,
only stifie the cough. Examine the
label and if the medicine contains
these harmful opiates refuse it. Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound contains no
opiates, Is healing and soothing.
Economy Drug Co.; Fargo Drug Co.,
Fargo, N. D. -Advt, ,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11
VOLUME XxXVI. NO.. 200.

The Fargo Forum and Republican Is
published every evening except Sunday
avenue and Fifth street north, Fargo,
NJ. =.
Subscription-The Fargo Forum and
Daily Republican, by carrier, 16c per
per yea The Fargo Forum and Week.
~ Republican. 81 per e Single cop
les, &c. subscribers will find the date
TO which they have paid, printed oppo-
site their names on the address slips.
Address all communications to The
Forum Publishing Co. Fargo. N. D.
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For Tomorrow. SATURDAY..

At Howard Moody's you will find bar
gains, that are sure to please. Take
advantage of u great July sale: it's
worth while. Read over the big ad.
Cut out the items that interest you
and take them to the store.r-Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

mentions fifty battles fought by the
ancient Romans in which the loss in
killed on one side varied from 5000
to Sc, 900.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

According to the Buffalo paper, the
people are complaining about the
shameful condition" of the country
roads in the vicinity of that town.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

The Presbyterian church at Buffalo
has been greatly improved by paint
ing outside and redecorating the in
terror of the sacred edifice.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

The Plaza Pioneer. says there is 60
ing to be a scarcity of horses and
binders on and about the reservation
when harvest time comes. .
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

So far the maximum temperature at
Mayville was 81 degrees M that has
only been exceeded nee in two years
when one day the reading was SO
degrees.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

1t is to be hoped that The Register
at Scranton in Bowman county will
have to revise it's crop report, con
ditions are not as bad as he has been
told.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

The family of State Treasurer Olson
has moved to Bismarck where they
will reside for the remainder of Mr..
Olson's term Of office.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

The papers at Cakes appear to be
very chesty over the splendid crop
prospects. The recent rains came in
the nick Of time and were very hene-
fetal.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

If the new gambling law is not en-
forced it will not be for the lack of
advertising, as a paper cannot be
picked up that does not give it a
boost,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

The states attorney Of Walsh county
is doing his own boosting of the new
law against gambling which he says
will be strictly enforced in, common
with other laws.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-11

chief game warden for the northern
district of the state In the person Of
&. b. MeCutcheon, who succeeds Hart,
removed. w. r. Francis. the Velva
editor. declined the appointment and
Mr.. McCutcheon was rendered the
place.