Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-06
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aoh4ert "A. McWade.

Washington, March AT the close
Of the fiscal year Of 1913 the total
debt of the AZ states IN the Caion
footed up $4~l9,157,00O, Of which:
about $4,000, 900 represented floating
debt, and nearly $4OO,0 900 funded
debt. OF that funded debr, t$359.n000.-
OOOO are represented by borls, and
4l,OOO, 900 are speeiaE debt obliga-
tions. to public trust funds. As an
Offset against tho. total de0t, inc; ~
states reported .$77 ,O32 900 in sinking
fund assets, thus leaving the debt
0ess sinking fund assets) $342,25l,-
900.
The Weekly News Letter to- crop
correspondents, issued by the United
States Department Of Agriculture, Is
one Of the most useful and en1ightenn..
ing bulletins W isned BY any
branch OF the governments scrvlce.
To farmers, fruit growers, gardeners,
cattle raisers and. dairy interests II.
is alike informative and valuable.
Lots Of folks will smilingly ncknowl,
edge that We've neYeEs heard OF the
typhoid fly" but they wont remain
in that state of ignorance Il they will
induce their congressman to ask the
secretary of agriculture to put them
on The News Letters mailing list.
Congressional pr%0gressives are dis
Tgusted over the merciloss way 10
which Senator .Borah has fayed their
financial angel, the benign Perkins,
the head Of the Harvester trust,
which has made its millions;;1' accord.
ing to official records. from the work;
OF women and girls to whom It paid
the scanty wages Of IS and So week
many Of them working at night las
a permanent custom"
Uncle Sans forest service urges
the growing Of white pine as a prof
table investment. They say that the
tree grows rapidly, has a heavy yield,
is easy to manage. and furnishes a
profitable undertaking att per cent
compound interest" - =
Congressman Dick Austin of Ten,
ncssee has closed his successful cam
paign to prevent %suffocation in Wash:
ingtOn's homes through defective
heating apparatus. as a bill has been
at last intrpduced in congress pro-
viding for a house,to-house inspec-
ton by practical inspectors, with
authority to remove all defective
"Sensitiveness is %self.conceit with
a hair trigger" says Elder Spicerf Of
the Seventh Day Adventists., !, ~,
Representative John A. Key Of,
Ciiio,a author of the bill to pension
widows and orphans of soldiers, sail.
ors and marines Of the Spanish.Am.
erican war, has just been. mustered
in as a member, Of The Presidents
Own Garrison, No. f04, Army and
Navy Union, U. S. A. :. u
Experienced army and navy Off!
GERS and others who have lived In
the Philippines are laughing over: the
recent declaration of the Filipino leg
islature that slavery, in a legal
sense, does not exist in the archi-
pelago," and that Dean Worcester''s
charges "are false" -"
It's the same gang of brown.skin.
ned and ungrateful Lilliputs that
manifested it's hatred Of the Ameri-
a government by amending the
Marconi wireless stations bill, by
striking out Americans" and insert
ing philippine" government in the
provision which specified that "inH the
event of war the American govern.
ment could take over the wireless
system" aeAii =" 49,
"Strange as it may SEEM" said
Miss Eliza Lord, relating "a spins
ter's experiences" before the College
Women's club, at a dinner at Raus- .
cher's. when l was a girl the sphere
of women was actually thought to be
intirely in the home" Astounding as
that must have Seemed" to her sis.
ter collegians, she went a bit afield
in telling them that 1.-THE spinster