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corrode' the stem Of the plant, and,
being much more concentrated than
water in the tissues of the plant is
drawn out, and the plant willis. Thus
1t can be seen how greatly UGH plants
as oats or wheat will be affected. hav-
the season. This alkali is doing a
great deal Of damage in this way in
many parts Of the west. and it must be
said that the majority of the farmers
whose grain yield is being greatly les
sened on account of these barren patch
es are taking no measures to hring
such spots back to a state of produc-
tiveness.
Treatment Of AlkaIi Soils.
To reclaim spots which lave become
~unproductiVe on account of alkali
means a little care and extra labor, but
In most cases the additional time spent
on this work brings gratifying results.
1T is obvious that the first great essen
surface cultivation, which effectively
prevents evaporation, thus keeping the
salts below the surface in the subsoil,
where they will do less damage. Then
tilfage OF a thorough nature should be
begun early in the season, because it is
at this time that a great quantity of
the salts are washed down into the soil
by the spring rains. If this practice is
followed with an early crop, it can
often be brought to maturity without
having sustained any severe injury.
This surface cultivation car be supple
mented by a mulch or by litter, and it
must be remembered that this treat
n1ent is primarily the most essential
one which can be adopted. Another
method which is often adopted, and
which has proven very satisfactory, is
the application of calcium sulphate or
gypsum. The chief effect of this land
plaster is to change the small amount
of sodium carbonate, which is injur-
ious to the growth of the plant. to
sodium %sulphate, which Is the least in
which plants are able to stand large
quantities. Gypsum is not very expen-
sive, and is usually easy to obtain in
the west, and. its use can be strongly
recommended.
Drainage Important.
The remedies mentioned, however, do
not permanently remove the salts, but
they are very effective as far as the
crop is concerned. The fact remains.
however, that the alkali spots which
are SO plentiful,in the west generally,
form in the wet places, and so it is ap-
parent that good. under drainage will
be in weak solution. Thus a good sys-
tenn of the drainage will afford perma-
nent relief. Where under drainage is
not practicable, surface DRAINAGE will
do a great deal of good, but it is not
so immediate as the tile system. The
Importance of drainage can hardly be
over estimated, asst has been found by
'cessive moisture is one of the great
cases of alkali. In conclusion, it may
be mentioned h a liberals application
of barnyard manure will also be great
ly Instrumental in counteraetine the
effects of the alkali.
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Heaton News.

Heaton. N. ID. Sept, 5.-To The
Forum: Miss Hannah Reiling return
ed Wednesday from her visit in South
Dakota.
Abraham Loeppe returned Wed1es-
day from Oklahoma. where he visited
his father.
Mr.. Louis Falk ana daughters. Sar-
al and Esther. returned to Minneap-
oils the first Of the week to eside
during the school year. GlER&l ssi1
j.. Il. Harris has purchased and is
removing the floor or the hardware
store that was left after the cyclone
of three years ago had taken away the
Su~perstructure. He will build a gran
ary on his farm with it.
That corner lot opposite the depot
would be a fine location for a hotel.
The new school building is being
plastered. School will probably begin
about Oct. 6. =.
Rev. Mrs. M. A. Tompkins of sOber-
On conducted services here morning
much appreciated. Mesdames Turner,
Hubert and Barber sang an anthem
in the morning INT Mesdames Barber
and Hubert a duet in the evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Mulvain made a
business trip to Darlington Tuesday.
Fred Paul and family motored over
from F~essenden Thursday and visited
G. I. Turner and family.
The Ladies' Aid met in the church
Thursday afternoon. .Mesdames Mary
FL. Barber and F. 0. Klinger served
light refreshments. s Z" >'%
Rev. E.. E. Saunders spent Sunday
In Oberon, with the Congregational
church. He was entertained at the
home of Abram Baldwin.
Ernie Davis motored up from Iowa
to look after his farming interests
here. Co.,.
Lee Wilson has bought the house
and lot on East Hopper street vacated
by H. Collier and family, from Mrs.
K. Alison.
H. Collier has moved into the James
Holt house.
Rev. H. c. Baughman and two
daughters came up from jamestown
Quoted services in the Lloyd school
house In Cottonwood morning and
evening on Sunday, returning home on
Monday. One of. his daughters re-
NAMED a guest Of Mrs. James Miller.
This is fine weather for threshing.
Barley is the 'big CROP here this sea-
son. -,
: Miss Hattie Mason came up from
Sykeston last Friday and visited her
sister, Mrs. E. T. Piper, leaving for
Darlington on Saturday. She has Sc
cured a school northwest from Ken
sal. Mrs. Piper went to Sykeston and
brought her father, Charles Mason, to
spend Sunday here. He left on Mon
day for the Mayo hospital in Roches-
ter, Mimi. to undergo an operation
for appendicitis.
Monday. One horse was SO badly in
tured that it had to be killed. No
other serious damage was done.
H.. . Cor. H.
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Combustion Without Flame.

Electrical World: If a porous plate
OF refractory substance is fitted on one
side With a close fitting cup and sup
PLY. pipe, and infammable gas Is
driven through the plate outward from
the cup, the gas issuing from the plate
can be ignited and the fame will cover
the plate. If the right amount Of air
is now mixed with the gas in the cup,
SO as to produce an explosive mixture.
the flame a be cut down to a mere
surface film, the combustion occurring
famelessly inside the pores of plate.
The plate becomes thereby intensely
heated, since all Of the combustion
of heat which previously was liberated
at, the surface of the enveloping gas
flame is now liberated within the much
smaller surface of the porous plate.
The plate is thus able to radiate off a
large proportion of the generated heat
from the highly, heated solid plate
substance. 1t may be that the greatly
increased luminous intensity Of a gas
burner. produced by covering it with
a Welsbach gas mantle and admitting
air on the inside, partly owe its eff
fort to this phenomenon of fameless
combustion.
If, instead OF using a porous re-
fractory plate, use be made Of a metal
pipe filled with coarse granules Of fire.
clay. n the explosive mixture of
gases be admitted through a fireclay
plug at one end, there will similarly
be an intense heating Of the granules
and a f1ameless combustion within
their pores. The metal tube contain
ing the fameless burner may then be
placed in a boiler to produce steam,
or in a tank to melt lead. The explo-
sion of the entering mixed gases In
the case Of a porus plate is prevent
ed by the chilling effect of the pores
on the cool or admission side. In the
case of coarse granules the speed OF
the entering gaseous jet can be made
to exceed that at which fame can be
propagated backward through an .ex-
plosfve mixture.
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Soils and
Their Treatment

lin numerous districts in the west,
particularly those which are visited by
a heavy rainfall, alkali spots are caus-'
ing considerable trouble, and many
farmers seem to be at a loss as to the
best method of treating thse patches,
SO as to make them produce a crop,
and; while any treatment yet recon-
mended entails considerable trouble,
with sometimes a very mediocre re-
suit, a great deal of Improvement can
be brought about by a little judicious
treatment. One of the chief reasons
why these bare alkali patches are be-
coming more numerous in the west Is
the poor cultivation which the soil, in
many districts, is receiving. This poor
CULTIVATION causes excessive eVapora-
ton, which causes the salts to be
brought to the surface, where they re-
main, giving the surface of the ground
a white or broWnish- white, appearance
Alkal1 salts are generally divided into
two groups. CD soluble, CD less solu-
BILE salts. The commonest of the solu-
BILE salts have three ingredients, sodium
chloride or common salt, sulphate of
soda or Glauber's salts, and sodium
carbonate. Al Of these constituents
are detrimental to plant growth, and
are usually found together. odium
carbonate is usually known as black
alkali, because of the fact that 1t has
soil, thereby causing black spots or
puddles. Other salts which are gener-
ally present are magnesium sulphate
potassium sulphate, sodium phosphate
and sodium nitrate. The less readily
soluble alkali salts are calcium sui
plate, calcium carbonate, calcium BIZ
carbonate and the carbonate and bicar-
Donate of magnesium. II these are
present in large amounts they tend to
stimulate growth, and are thus bene-
fetal. In this way they may be profit
ably added to those soils that contain
a high percentage of the soluble salts,
thus preventing, by a chemical reac-
ton, the caustic effect OF sodium car
bonate. ~
How Plants are Injured by Alkali.
On examining plants that have been
injured by alkali, 1t is found that the
damage ordinarily occurs near the base
Rarely does the injury occur at con-
siderable depth in the soil. This eff
feet, in the case of green hebaceous
stems. shows on the bark, which turns
to a brownish tinge for half an inch
or more. and can easily be peeled off.
The salt girdles the stem, n this in
time poisons the whole plant. which,
healthy manner. thus producing a poor
crop. The Injury is usually found to
occur near the surface of the soil in
cultivated land. which goes to show
that the maximum amount of salt
found on the surface is due to eyapor-
alton. This evaporation may be so
complete as to leave the surface of the
of earth cemented by the crystalized
salts. This crust will gradually de-
compose, resulting in a layer of whit
ish dust later in the season. a sight
which is very common in many parts
Of the west. This very strong salt will
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Golfers: A merry raj wages be.
tween Sheffield ingalls,, lieutenant
governor Of Kansas, and a score o.
artists whose work is on exhibition ir
Statuary hall, or the chamber OF hor-
rors,' in the capital at Washington.
ingalls, recently declared his inten-
ton Of seeking the removal. of the
statute OF his father, the late Sen
John J. ingalls,, from the hall. Reyer-
ence for his parent made. such action
imperative, the son said, inasmuch as
the entire collection of statues had
due to their poor arrangement and, in
many cases, inartistic execution, be-
come ridiculous and mirth- provokine
curiosities to tourists. Followed, then
the sound of mallets falling on the
younger ingalls,.
There is much truth in his state
nent. The arrangement obviously is
bad. Forty-one statutes are crowded
into a space which might accom-
modate ten artistically. Forty stand
in a row that extends around the hall
and ambles into several corners. The
other statute, that of Senator Muhleh-
berg Of Pennsylvania, is the first figure
in what will be a SECOND row. Each
state has the privilege of placing two
statutes on the floor, SO ifty-ive more
are to be received. Guides expect To
grow wealthy ~rescuing lost tourists
when the entire ninety-six r placed.
The only rule that sculptors have
to follow in making statuary FOR the
hall is not to produce figures too large
to pass through the entrances. AS a
result Ethan Allen stands about eight
feet tall and would weigh In real
flesh and blood perhaps 400 pounds
Near by is Stephen +. Austin. a strip
ling of possibly ninety pounds.
Many of the s~aTtorial effects are
rather distressing. zachariah Chand-
Ter, the latest addition to the hall,
wears neatly creased trousers and a
new white topcoat with fashionable
roll lapels. Lewis Cass. who stands
beside him, is clothed iii a suit SO
badly wrinkled that one look will
make a. tailor's hands witch. General
Lew Wallacess right coat sleeve is laid
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Russia's Vast Farm Industry.

Illustrated London News: RusSia's
present productive area for cereals is
considerably larger than that Of the
United States and Canada combined.
Russia has more land under wheat,
rye, oats, potatoes and harvest grass
than the great republic and the great
dominion together. Russia's crop area
Is more than ten times greater than!
Canada's. Russia's wonderful progress
in agriculture is due to well-deflned
causes, among which may first be
enumerated the peace of the country
since 1906; secondly, the increased
production Of mineral fertilizers. the
consumption of which has increased
from 356,461 tons in 1908 to about L.
600, 900 o n in 1912; thirdly, the great
increase in the imports and home
manufacture Of agricultural machin-
cry; f%ourthly, the increase in the
number of agricultural societies,
which now number nearly 1000. and
last but not least, the increased ag-
economical staff. The latter reachedI
5,185, composed Of specialists and in
structors supported by government or
public funds.
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A BOYS MAN,

The most popular figure in the ma
ional game, replete with favorites.
and" one OF the most d~eservedly popu-
lar" because Of his wholesomeness Of
nature, ever produced by he game is
the Washington teams great pitcher,
waiter johnson, known as the big
SWede. Among grown-ups, who view
the sport as a stimulating relief from
the more serious businesses of life.
and among youths, who regard the
game as an end in itself, this vo,ns
man is a hero. Would all objects of
hero -w~orshiping were as worthy Of
devoted following as. Johnson isl
His character is in everything as
admirable as his skill and his phv-
steal strength. His disposition, in
an employment that is not free from
worries and severe strains, is even,
quiet. friendly. There is nothing of
~ostentatious good fellowship" in his
makeup or department, nothing of thc
professional genial" but a sober, sinh
stantial bearing. On the field and off,
his manner Is the same. Even when
heyis moving them down." rival bats
men and rival managers acknowledge
h~is9proWess with a tribute the more
fully yielded because SO gracefully re-
ceiRsd. johnson is as temperate in his
acceptance of praise as in all other
things that affect or might affect a
young man for the worse.
Itseems but consistent with this
nature that he should be genuinely
helpful, through the game which is his
range and BEYOND the game. Without
aag canting assumption Of RESPONSE
bflity, johnson still aaanages to be re-
sponsibIe insthe face Of many hopes
rsdrsquests, Like On successful bal
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Crahhinn the SIanuuist.

Grantland Rice: (Re-entered in ac-
COrdance with the frenzied discussion
now going on upon various editorial
pages as to whether regular English
or slang is better in detailing reports
Of ball games.)
Nix on the slang; chop out the stuff.
OR feed 1t with the old honk-honk;
The COW who shoots this slangy CUFF
Is comical around the conk..
Why make the English spiel a joke
BY Grabbing up the conservation?
Give 1t a chance, correctly spoke,
Without some wise NUTS explana-
ton.
Why jam in with a bunch of talk
That listens like it had the cancer
Until somebody calls a balk
AND grabs a chart to pick the an
sWer?
I'll take mine in the simple buzz
When old Doc Webster led the bat
ting;
He had these slangsters on the fuzz
When it came down to big league
chatting.
Nix on this slang; it's on the smear,
And my remarks are here en-
phatic-
The bloke who spills it in your ear
Has rodents housed within his attic
Let's kick in on the Big Revive
For scholarly and classic diction;
Come on, o rummies. with the dive
And do a Brodie at this fiction.
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to which they cling. in the daylight
Of Investigation. The difference, both.
normal and physical, between con-
%yersation and books in that you need
a clear light to read by, but you may
talk as long as YOU please III ssthas
twilight. One could wish at times
that there were more play in con-
'versation--not more levity4 (of that the
is ample)--rather less leyity
and more play.--Tnore forays into the
unknown, more hide-and-seek with
truth, more temptings OF. possibility.
should share the detectives right.
Of .belying the truth in the endeayor
to evoke or ascertain it.
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'
VOLUME XxxVI, NO. 249.

The Fargo Forum and Republican Is
published every evening except Sunday
In The Forum Building, corner of First
avenue and Fifth street north. Fargo,
N. D. ,
Daily Republican. by carrier, 15c per
week, or Acc per month, in advance; 81
per year. The Fargo Forum and
Weekly Republican. 81 per year. Sin
gle copies, sc. Subscribers will find
the date to which they have paid
printed opposite their names on the
address slips.
Address all communications to The
Forum Publishing Co., Fargo, N. D.
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players, he has a large encourage OF
friends or would-be friends, and re-
ceives a huge mail each day. But I'M
like other successful ball players, he
strives to make the most OF this form
of homage to the betterment Of those
who pay it; for those who in largest
crowds surround him and in greatest
number petition him are boys. The
baseball reporters say. that he never
fails to answer a boys letter, to di-.
rect a youthful ambition or to alleviate
a boys disappointment or pain. .
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Diarrhoea Quickly Cured.

Il was taken with diarrhoea and
MI. Yorks. the merchant here, per-
suaaed me to try a bottle Of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. After taking one dose Of 1t
7 was cured. 1t also cured others that
/ gave 1t to-" writes M. q. Gebhart,
Oriole, Pa. That is not at all unusual.
An ordinary attack OF diarrhoea can
almost invariably be cured by one o +
two doses OF this remedy. For sale
all dealers. Advt.
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HORSES KILLED
PETERSBURG Man
THRESHER TRAMPLED TO DEATH
BY FRIGHTENED ANIMALS
DIED INSTANTLY,

Petersburg, II. D., Sept. 6.-Henry
killed near here when the. team he
was working with became frightened,
trampling him. Hanson's skull was
Fractured and his neck was broken.
The young man is survived by two
brothers, residing in this county, and
his mother and a sister, residing in
Norway
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MeritoI Rheumatism Powders,

The unusually large sale Of this
remedy is the best evidence we could
made of effective ingredients, and ia
guaranteed to give permanent relief
for rheumatism. We will gladly show
YOU the formula ana explain its merits
to you. Central Drug Store. 66 Broad
way, Fargo, N. D., Local Agents.
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A New Lima,

Kansas City Journal: why has
your daughter dropped her hospital
work SO soon"
"sh found she'd have to nurse poor
patients for two years before they en-
trusted her with any mi1lionaires. So
comedy ~
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A Fool Order Rescinded.

Boston Post: The Post is glad to
note that returning good sense has re-
scinded the short-lived rule of the
Boston & Maine railroad thai pas
sengers must travel on the same train
with their trunks, or be refused the
checking privilege. The thing was
silly, impractical and a fine maker of
enemies.
Their probably are some people
who take advantage Of the checking
system to get transportation for their
trunks, then travel by trolley or auto
mobile and sell their unused 'ticket:G
The railroad should not be the help
less victim Of that kind of dishonesty
and it should be permitted some way
to circumvent it. But the recent reg
ulatlon was clearly not the right Wav.
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Reverse Action.

Boston Transcript: He (ardently),
You are the most beautiful, the most
adorable girl in all the world.
She. Indeed! Then, sir, you must
be very conceited to think that I'd look
at ssall.
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Registration for the Fort Peck lands
to date at all points total less than
10000 whFch is several thousand less
than at any previous registration
within the last ten years.
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Charles Frazier, jr., who is visiting
Mandan from L~ethbridge, Can. at the
home Of Tom Rodman, sustained a
fractured leg when he was thrown
from a horse. q g. -
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Consolidation in the county schools
is urged in a letter sent to the county
superintendent of the state by N. c..
Mcdonald, state inspector.
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Elmer Francis. a pioneer resident Of
Ward county, died at the Rochester,
Mimi, hospital. An operation for kid
ney trouble failed to bring the relief
anticipated. Mr., Francis resided in
Ward county thirty-three years.
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GREAN ~ OhtIIAa4xN.
I'm ksIlect March 40, INlS.
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40. "a, VIA 9 sisu s Balls. $3.50. 1865 a. IN.
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Buy Armor Plate in EUROPE.

New York Journal Of Commerce:
There is another alternative to which
the secretary of the navy seems to be
reluctant to resort He has a right
under the law TO contract for arrno1E
UlGte for naval vessels In Europe if he
thinks American manufacturers are
imposing upO the government by
their coincidert bids. Why should he
not invite bids from thai quarter
Why should not the competition be
entirely open to all who would comply
strictly with the specifications and
who would supply the material at
prices which would be advantageous,
taking into consideration the cost Of
transportation and all other charges?
1t is said that Secretary Daniels be-
lieves in keeping SUCH work at
home, even, if the government has to
do it. That is not in accordance with
the professed policy of the adminis-
tration in tariff matters affecting 9TH
er Industries hi shipbuilding. 1t is
not at all certain that the work would
not stay at home, and that American
steel companies would not discover
that they were able to do it at a reas-
enable profit in competition with the
foreigners Of whom they always pro-
TESS to be so afraid. 1t might be a
good thing to put them to the test.
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The Refugee View of 1t.

Mexican Herald: We can't help
wondering how the man who aban-
dons his property and returns penni-
less to the United States will learn
VIXEN his holdings nave been entirely
destroyed, and how living with his
Wlfe's folks in Vermont, he will prove
the same before a mixed claims COM
mission sitting in the valley of Anu
hac in 1925.