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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
DEVICE RESUSCITATES SEVEN.
Firemen Pronounced Dead From Sufso.
cation Saved.

Seven frenen taken from the ruins
of the Westinghouse warehouse ir
Pittsburgh, which was destroyed by
fire, were pronounced dead from suf-
location. but We're restored to life by
the prompt use Of resuscitators. the
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
NOVELIST MAY SUCCEED REID
Thomas Nelson Page Mentioned For
High Position.

Following President Taft's decision
not to name a successor to the late
Whitelaw Reid as ambassador to the
court of st. JaAes, Thomas Nelson
Page came into the spot light as prob
able choice. 1t was widely mentioned
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12

new machines that draw poisonous
gases from the lungs and instil pure
oxygen. 10
A young ambulance surgeon was call
ed from the Homeopathic hospital. two
blocks away. TO attend twelve uncOn-
.scious firemen overcome by the poison
Gus fumes OF sulphur and pitch. In
seven of the men he could not find the
slightest sign Of life. But he remem
bered the pulmotors at the hospital.
Murderous Turks Hanged.
In retributiOn for the thousands of
murders com mitted by Turkish troops
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
WomanOwner Says
%
Baseball Team Is Z
White Elephant

. 4 ever woman was left with Il
white elephant on her hands that
woman was I when fell heir f
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02

HERE was snow o n the ground, and Jack and Evelyn looked forward
to a jolly sleigh ride with grandpa the next day.
Perhaps the snow may melt before that" daddy limited
"Oh, dear; we hope it wont!' the children exclaimed.
"Oh, dear; we hope it won't" the children exclaimed.
"Once on a time the snow queen thought she would have a grand snow
party" said daddy, so she sent out the little snow elves tt sprinkle snow
fakes all over the woods and the little frost elves to make a beautiful lace
work on bare bushes and trees and knit fancy coyerets for the little brooks
and springs. ## .#&H#
There a to be dancing or the snow by moonlight and coagdng and
tobogganing and skiing and skating.
"Then she sent out invitations to all the little snow and ice and frost
elves, to the little squirrels, the snowy owls, the mtnks, muskrats offers, rb-
bits and snowbrSs and other forest creatures. a# @"A@4a- = E.
"1r Fox ws t asked. He heard about the party from that little gossip
Mrs. Winter WI n You see, the rabbits are rather afraid of your eating
them, and so the snow queen didn't ask you to her party sadM FRS. Wren.
"Mr. Fox wa in a great rage because he hadn't been asked to the snow
queens party E@ @
AT last he thought of a way to get ever He rotted of to the home Of
the wind elves.
"Ho' the wind elves cried; a party and we're not invited? Thank you
for telling us, Mr. Fox, but there won't be any party Then the wind elves
laughed. D. -
"Mr. Fox troted home, grtnning with ghe, but he said nothing OF what
he had done to any ne in the woods
"The night of the snow Queens party was lovely and clear She had just
seated herself N the throne and begun to make her speech # welcome when
suddenly a loud roaring was heard.
at was the unlimited wind elves making their way to the party. They
were blowing their horns al loud Is they could. The win from these made
a strong blast that stirred the snow into columns IN cascades n clouds
till every fake seemed to rise from the ground and whhl about in the air.
The snow queens guests went scurrying about unable o find their way home,
while the elves could do nothing but crouch o n the ground and wait or
the wind to pass. The elves stayed all night SO the snow queens party
was completely spoiled.
you could almost hear Nj. Fox laughing above the rar of the wind, he
was 81 pleased. He was a mean old fox" |"-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02

charm M delight which ome to
the naturalist, the camper or the
sportsman. And 1t is so easy to pass
over the most interesting as well as
the most obvious with unseeing eyes.
The city boy Is at home in an en-
Vironment of pavements and alleys
and lights and general a~rtificiality.
If he is to get the desired benefit
from trips to the woods and noun
tains, If his sooty and cramped per-
sonarty is to gain the inspiration
and breadth of a rea love for the
out Of doors, he needs to be taught
the fascinating secrets of the wild
and the clean and absorbing pastime
of he camp and trail. Dumping him
down for an afternoons holiday
won't do it. But extended tramps,
books with the real spirit of nature
in them. and the actual business Of
roughing 1t for a month or so every
season may lead to the necessary ap.
probation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
APPRECIATION NEEDED.

Ernest Thompson Seton makes a
significant comment regarding out
BIZ door life for boys in his newest
book on Woodcraft and Indian Lore.
He says that boys must be taught
10 enjoy nature as well as to have
4 chance to get into the open now
and then, and uses the following story
BY way of illustration:
"Not long ago a benevolent rich
man, suppressed with this idea, char
Etered a teamer and took some hun
fdreas of slum boys up to the Catskills
fxor q day in the woods. They were
duly landed and told to go in now
ana have a glorious time II was
! like gathering up a net full of cat
fish and throwing them into the
woods, saying: GO and have a glori,
GUS time.
saTte boys sulked around and sui
lenly disappeared. An hour later, or
being looked up, they were found ii
groups. under the bushes, smoking
cigarettes, shooting craps and play.
ing cards--the only things they
knew
lit takes an appreciation of the
ways Of nature and the open to be-
come .iSnbusd with . sense OF tht
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
FOR THE HAsTY OF TEMPER.

Experience with the parcel post
which went into effect yesterday, will
be. trying to many persons. They will
meet with rules which will upset life
long custom and they are bound TO
feerirritated with regulations which
to them-Will seem cumbersome.
revolutionary, fussy. They will be
annoyed by the rule which forbids the
mailing of parcel post matter in the
street mail boxes, by the rule which
requires the use of special parcel post
stamps, by the requirement as to re-
turn cards and, particularly, by the
institution of the zone system.
Upon these persons should be urged
tp%atience. All great changes, for good
as often as for bad, nave involved in
: conveniences. They cannot be made
e~asy-running in a day. They betray
faults, flaws and blow-holes. Con
gress, in it's wisdom, laid down the law
from which the postal department
composed its rules. Congress, in its
wisdom, many sec fit to better its
laws. Until then and until a fair test
of the parcel post is had under all
possible conditions, the earnest citizen
VIII be patient, no matter what
develops.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
FLAGS AND FOREIGNERS.

Massachusetts is officially inquiring
whether any flag save the stars and
stripes should be permitted to fly un-
der unrestricted conditions in that
state. A patriotic citizen has pro-
posed that in parades, for example, a
foreign flag shall be permitted to fly
only for the purpose Of indicating ma
tionality," and that it shall, in this
case, be kept at least ten feet to the
rear Of the stars and stripes.
There isn't anything particularly
wrong with this sort Of attempt at
Regulation says The ST. Louis Times.
There is, however, something wholly
useless in it.
The best way to bring to any for
.eigner the good sense of preferring the
American flag to that of his own ma
ton, is to permit him to do pretty
exnuch as he pleases, so long as he is
dnjuring nobody.
Foreigners who have spent but a
short time in the United States may be
tpardoned for longing for a sight oil
their flag, which represents a govern
nent far less than it speaks of ole
friends and an old home and familiar
surroundings.
1t is a noteworthy fact that those
foreigners who have got their bearings
in the new home do not have to b.
forbidden by American officials to d.
the things which are deemed unpa,
Ettriotic from an American standpoint
1.-THE earlier arrivals among the for
ksigners themselves take care of tn,
matter quite adequately. They ridiculC
their more newly-arrived fellow coun
trymen for barking back to the things
that are old. They point out to then
kby various methods - sometime
roughly, sometimes by gentle ways
t.ahat America is the land Of the future
If it is to remain the and Of tn,
future, it will not descend to the petit,
fears and ~jealousies which fill tn
breasts of narrow people when the
see our foreign brothers barking bacl
in sentimental memories to the land
beyond the "a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
THURSDAY, JAN. 2. 1918.
BANK CHECK LEGISLATION.

There is urgent need for an amend
fnent to the laws of North Dakota
Regulating the issuance of bank
checks. In this state a man can issue
a check or a bank in which he has
no funds, and has not had funds for
a. year or more and the nan who ac-
cepted the check in good faith has no
redress. In most Of the states Of the
union there is a law making such a
Transaction as the issuance ot checks
when there are no funds, a mis-
demeanor.
aThe Forum believes that the IegisIa-
tors could devote some very profitable
time to this subject at the coming
session.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
And a Certain Rich Man,

St Paul Dispatch: For seven years
WhitelaW Reid has been a brilliant
and competent diplomatic repre-
sentative of the United States at the
court of Great Britain. Our govern
mcnt has been rather fortunate in
combining in the person of this dis
ttnguished journalist all of the quail
| ties necessary to the finished ambas-
SadOr Of the first order, and, under
our system, the succession presents
both difficulty and embarrassment. 1t
is easier for a camel to pass through
the eye of d needle han for a poor
man, however brilliantly endowed by
nature and equipped by training and
experience, to attain to one of the
great embassies.
Washington advices significantly tell
us that "wcll-known republicans of
wealth are being discussed for the
LOndon post but they are silent upon
the subject Of prominent men qualified
by special gifts of mentality, by knoWl-
| edge of international Jaw and by dipfo-
matte tact and training adequately to
represent this government at this i'm
! portant station. Our system erects an
insuperable barrier to all out men Sf
great wealth. A salary Of ST, 500 goes
with the embassy, yet the ambassador
is saddled with expenditures to meet
which the annual stipened does not
amount to a 1.-THE. Ambassador Reid
paid an annual rental of at least $100,-
900 for Dorchester house, while the
state and social functions inseparable
from the duties Of the embassy must
have totaled a cost of at least as much
more.
The situation created by the neces-
sity Of limiting the selection Of Mr.,
Reds successor to men Of great wealth
may serve a good purpose in emphasize
ing the advisabiIity of laws providing
for better care Of frst-ClasS ambassa-
dOriCal positions. The least the gov
eminent should do is to house suitably
and provide for necessary eXpendi-
lures. Other nations are beforehand
in this respect, and Great Britain
especially so. 1t is a disgraceful re-
Election upon America that it calls up
on it's diplomatic representatives for a
personal outlay which puts capacity
and fitness out of the running and mar
rows appointments to "Well-knoWn
republicans of wealth"
A Whitelaw Reid is not always
forthcoming at the summons of diplo-
matte necessity. Not a John Hays
Hammond nor yet a Charles w. Fair
banks will fill the vacancy created by
his DEATH.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
An unIuokv War CORRESPONDENT.

Brooklyn Eagle: angus Hamilton,
the Scotch BondOner, who tried to be
a war correspondent with the Turk
ish army, seems to have a no
trouble with the courteous moslems.
But when he got over the lines by
mistake and fell into the hands of
the gentle ch~ristianiZed Bulgars he
was tortured for hours, beaten about
the face. threatened with death and
declared to be a Turk and not an
Englishman. This was adding insult
to injury. A true Briton finds having
his bound arms twisted behind him,
and having a loaded revolver held at
his head for ho<lrs and denial Of food
and drink mild by comparison with
having his nationality doubted:
In spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations
He is an Englishman;
For he himself has said it
n it's greatly to his credit
That he is an Englishman.
Angus Hamilton was let loose after
his Identification papers were examin-
ed at the Bulgarian headquarters, He
is not injured for life. He must
charge up to profit and loss the ex-
perience he has undergone. The war
correspondent isn't really a completed
product of civilization till he has suf-
fered some such barbarities. HamiI-
ton knows now that General Sher-
nan was right about war. But he
knows also that no war Sherman
knew anything about was so deserv-
Of archaeological exploitation as the
that the Balkan allies are now
prosecuting against the Turks who
tgeated hamilton SO politely while
he vas with them.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
DECISION OF The
SUPREME COURT

In the supreme court. state of North
Dakota, October, 1912, term.
Alex McKinnon, Peter Thiel, John Fl.
Hafener, an ]. C. Leines, suing on be-
half of themselves and all other per-
sons similarly situated, plaintiffs, VS..
w. J. Robinson, G. Fl. Ebel, John z.
Polfus, L. A. Carlson and p. e. Slet-
moe, constituting the board Of county
commissioners of Richland county,
Karl L. Mikkelson as county treasur-
er of Richland county, North Dakota,
a municipal corporation; V. lngemann,
L. P. J~orgenson and G. Ingemann, CO.
partners as Ingemann & Co.; Chas. w.
Buechner and Henry w. Ortiz, CO.
partners as Buechner & Ortiz, de-
PENDANTS.
/, Plaintiffs as residents, citizens
and taxpayers of a county, have such
an interest as entities them to main
tain an action in their behalf and in
behalf of all Others similarly situated,
to enjoin the carrying out by the Of
ficials of the county of an unlawful
contract requiring an extraordinary
! expenditure of public funds in the
| erection OF a courthouse.
2. In an action by citizens and a
prayers to enjoin county Of
ftcials from carrying out a contract Tor
the construction Of a courthouse. Held,
l lIldI tie COIIlpldlhI 10 " NHAAS4 ~ ~
attack by demurrer upon h ground
that it fails to allege facts sufficient
to constitute a cause of action. 1t APP
pearing from such complaint that the
| proposition for the construction OF
such courthouse was not submitted to
a vote Of the electors of the county,
and also that the alleged contract is
voidable for other reasons stated in
the opinion.
(Syllabus by the court.)
Appeal from district court, Richland
county; Allen. J.
A demurrer to the complaint having
been sustained, Judgment was rend-
cred for defendants, from which plain
tiffs appeal.
Pierce, Tenneson & Cupler, Of Fargo,
n. D., for appellants.
Chas. e. Wolfe and Wolfe & Schnel-
Ter of Wahpeton, N. D., for respond
ents. .
Oninion nv Fisk. 7 Order reversed
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
QUEER TRICKS OF coLoRs.
Red and Blue Will Distort True Dis
tances-OAher Odd Effects.

Wilmington Every Evening: IL on
q screen of black velvet placed al a
distance of ten feet from the speeta-
tor large letters are pasted. some
blue, some red, they will not appear to
be at an equal distance from the eyes.
TO some, persons the red letters will
seem nearer than the blue letters,
while to other persons the contrary
effect will be manifested.
TO produce this effect both eyes
must be employed. When one eye is
closed the letters are all Q lei at
the same distance. On opening the
other eye one set OF letters imme-
diately appears to take the position
in advance of the others.
The explanation offered for this eff
feet is that a sort of stereoscoptic IL
fusion Is produced in the eye itself.
depending upon color. The image OF
d blue object lis shifted by the eye
toward one side and that Of a red
object toward the other side.
IL on looking at blue and red letters
on q black background placed ten or
twelve feet away o see the red let
tiers nearer than the blue, screen off
on-half of the pupil Of each eye or
the outside and you Will see the red
letters retire behind the blue ones.
If you screen the pupils on the side
toward the nose, you will see the red
letters advance apparently still further
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
Skim Milk Helps LAYING.

Two tests are reported from the
West Virginia experiment station,
made to ascertain the value of skim
milk as compared with water, for wet
ting a feed mash. In the first test,
which covered 122 days, twenty-five
hens fed skim milk laid 1,244 eggs, as
compared with 996 eggs laid by
twenty-five hens fed mash moistened
with water.
In the first period of the second
test, lasting thirty-seven days, sixty
hens fed the skim milk ration laid S62
as against 632 eggs laid by an
equal number of hens fed without
skim milk. In the second period,
which covered fifty-six days, the ra-
lions we're reserved. The chickens fed
skim milk laid 1926 egg and those
fed no skim milk laid 97S eggs. In
each experiment more eggs were pro-
duced when skim milk was used in
stead of water for moistening the
mash.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02

You old people, syrup of Figs Is
particularly for You who don't
exercise as much as you need to; who
like the easy chair. You, whose steps
are slow and whose muscles are less
elastic. You must realize that your
liver and ten yards Of bowels have
also become less active,
Don't regard syrup OF Figs as
physic. 1t stimulates the liver and
bowels just as exercise would do II
you took enough of it. 1t is not harsh
ike salts or ~catlartics. The help
which Syruc of Figs gives to a tor
Did liver and weak, sluggish bowels
is harmless, natural and gentle.
When eyes grow dim, you help
them. Do the same with your liver
and bowels when age makes them
less active. There is nothing more i'm
portant. Costive, clogged-up bowels
mean that decaying. fermenting food
is cIogged there and III pores or
ducts in these thirty feet of bowels
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
ELDERLY FOLKS! CALOMEL, SALTS
and CAIHARTICS AREN'T FOR YOU
HARMLESS, GENTLE SYRUP or FIGS" IS BEST TO CLEANSE
YOUR STOMACH, LIVER AND 30 FEET OF BOWELS OF SOUR
BILE, aDEcAYlNG FOOD, GASES AND cLoGGED-uP WASTE.

suck this decaying waste and poisons
into the blood. You will never get
feeling right until this is corrected
but do it gently. Don't have a bowel
w~ashday; don't use a bowel irritant.
For your sake, please use only gentle,
effective Syrup Of Figs. Then you are
not drugging yourself, for Syrup of
Figs is composed Of only luscious
figs, SIENNA and aromatics which can
not injure.
Al teaspoonful tonight will gently,
but thoroughly, move on and out of
your system BY morning all the sour
bile. poisonous fern1enting food and
grippe, ausea or weakness.
But get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for the full name. Syrup OF
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA Refuse,
with contempt, any other fig Syrup
unless it bears the, narne--prepared by
the California Fig Syrup Company.
Read the label. -Advt.x
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
How TO Cure rheumatism
Prominent Doctors Best Prescrip-
tiOn Easily Mixed at Home.

This simple and harmless formula
has worked wonders for all who have
tried 1t quickly curing chronic and
acute rheumatism and backache. From
your druggist get one ounce of Toris
compound Gin original sealed package)
and n I'M of syrup of S~arsaparilla
compound. Take these two ingredients
good Whiskey. Shake the bottle and
take a tablespoonful before each meal
and at bedtime" Good results come
after the first few doses. If your drug
gist does not have Toris compound in
stock he will get it for you in a few
hours from his wholesale house. Don't
be Influenced to take a patent medi-
the genuine Toris compound in the
original, o~ne-ounCe, sealed, yellow
package, This was published here last
winter and hundreds of the worst cases
were cured by it in a short time. Pub
lished by the Globe Pharmaceutical
Laboratories of Chicago. -Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
COST OF PRIZE GRAINS.

The Toledo Blade speaking of prize
corn contests has the following
criticism;
There is an item missing in all re-
ports about prize Crop-grOWing. a very
important item, ~indecd-that of cost.
When the state of Texas awarded
its purse and medals and certificates
Of honor for good rOp the other day.
IT announced that one farmer proved
a yield Of 1871 bushels of corn to the
acre, no claimant to prizes showing a
yield of less than ~siXty-tWO bushels.
These are very wonderful shOwings
when it is remembered that the aver
age yield of corr in Texas Is only
about nineteen bushels. But it must
have cost a lot in time and labor and
money to make even the sixty-twO
busheI lark. To get 1872 bushels
out Of the acre must have called for
tremendous labor, paticuCe and at
tentiOn. How MUCK higher was this
cost than that Of getting the average
Texas field to produce nineteen
bushels?
Until the costs are known, the real
value of extraordinary corn yields will
not be known.
The point made by The Blade ono
pun intended) ppears to be well
taken and applies TO all prize grain
growing contests. The real value Of
these contests would be much en-
HANGED if there were some way of
determining, just how much extra
cost n effort per acre was neces-
sary to develop a prize winner.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02

DO some foods you eat hit backs
taste good, but work badly; ferment
into stubborn Jumps and cause a sick,
sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr.. or
Mrs. Dyspeptic jot this down: Papes
Diapepsin digests everything, leaving
nothing to sour and upset you. NO
difference how badly your stomach Is
disordered you get happy relief in v
minutes, but what pleases you most IS
that 1t strengthens and regulates your
stomach so you can eat your IaVoFlIe
foods without fear.
Most remedies give o relief some
times-they are slow, but not sure
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
GREATLY DOES" PUT STOMACHS IN
ORDER AT ONCE---PAPE'S DYSPEPSIA
TIME It'll I'M JUST FIVE MINUTES THERE WILL BE NO INDIGESTION
souRNEss, HEARTBURN, GAS OR DYSPEPSIA

Diapepsin is quick, positive and puts
your stomach in a healthy condition
SO the misery won't come back.
You feel different as soon as LA
nepsin comes in contact with the
stomach-distress just vanishes-your
stomach gets sweet, no gases, no belcfl-
ing. no quotations of undigested food,
your head clears and you feel fine.
Put an end to stomach trouble by
getting a large fifty-cent cas- of Papeg
Diapepsin from any drug store. YOU
realize in V minutes how needless
it is to suffer from Indigestion, dys-
pepsia or any stomach disorder.
-AdYt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-02
Rhode Island Reds Lead.

Single combed Rhode Island reds,
with 1876 entries, were in the lead at
the poultry show of the Lynchburg
Poultry and Pet Stock association of
,Lynchburg, Va, but were hard pushed
by the barred Plymouth rocks, which
had 129 birds on exhibition. Single
comb white Leghorns, white Wyan-
tdottes and white Orpingtons also were
good classes. There were fifty-three
single comb black Minorcas displayed,
an unusual number for any except the
largest shows. A total of 1000 birds
were judged by Messrs. Nixon and
Kennor. ,~s