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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
RoeeINe n SOIL.
Matter Rapidly Being Burn
ed In Ev Cultivation

ed Up BY Cultivation.
The trouble with the soils in the
United States is that in growing food
for our own people and other hungry
nations, we have burned up the Vege-
table matter. The more we plow, the
more we harrow, the more rapidly we
burn up the humus material, this. vege-
table matter. Then we meet with a
great surprise. says Wallace's Farm
er.
When the farmers first. settled in
Illinois, Iowa and adjoining states,
coming from the east, where the vege-
table matter was more or less worn
out Of the land, they exclaimed: II
never saw and that would stand dry
that would stand wet weather so
we'll" But when cultivation has gone
on for a generation or so, they begin
to complain and say the climate Is
changing. the seasons have changed,
times have changed. This land, which
In my fathers time turned up mel
low n kept mellow, bakes and cakes
and crusts in dry time. 1t won't stand
he dry weather that it used to, and
1t won't stand the wet weather."
OF course it won't. simply because
you have worn out the vegetable mat
ter in the soil. You have been un-
doing the work of the Creator. who
took thousands of years of patient
growing Of grass in order to store his
soil with plant food for your use. In
getting rid Of a part of the plant food
and in reducing the vegetable matter,
you have allowed the land to get out
OF physical condition.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
Woman's Trip to Mongolia.

The story Of an English woman's
travels in Mongolia and her visit to
Crga, the sacred capital, when the
country had risen against the Chinese
republic and was in a most unsettled
state, was told at the Lyceum club by
Mrs. Bulstrode, says The Manchester
CEngland) Guardian. 1t was a strange
story of a people kindly, h~ospitable,
almost invariably ready with a well
come for the travellers. fond of bril-
liantly cOlore2 garments of wonderful
embroideries, decorating their person.
al belongings with delicate O%rnalnen-
tation, decking the heads Of the wo-
men folk with richly wrought jeweled
silver head dresses. The country is
~abundantly stocked, flowers .bestrew
the lonely prairies, where travelling is
extremely rough, and on the noun
tain side, a wealth Of blossoms, roses,
peonies, anemones, red and yellow
lilies, and delphinium, flames against
a background of dark pine. She gave
a vivid description of a festival-the
shooting copetitiOns, the wrestling, the
horse races with children as jockeys,
and the extraordinary ineXplicable
dances, which can only be supposed
to exhibit in pantomime the early his
tory Of Buddhism.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
THE SHORT BALLOT
GENUINE DEMOCRACY,

Spokane Spokesman-Review: New
York presents additional proof of the
virtually universal concurrence of
American citizens in the conviction
that lessening the number Of elective
o1flclals or states, municipalities and
counties is indispensable to the attain
ment Of efficiency in their public bus
mess. The legislature of that con
servative commonwealth has enacted
an amendment to thee constitution pro-
viding for the short ballot, and has
done SO without the utterance Of a
single objection to this policy, albeit
there was some variance of judgment,
as is natural nj inevitable, over the
working out of details.
The American voter has had a cen
fury and a quarter Of experience. OF
choosing among multitudinous candi-
dates for nomination to public office
and then among the numerous nom
inees for the many positions of gov
eminent. Discouraging and expensive
experience has taught him that he can
neither obtain adequate information as
to their fitness nor pay enough atten-
choose intelligently and then to place
the responsibility for performance Of
their respective duties.
He has accordingly drawn the con-
clusion that whenever it may prove
practicable and advantageous to elect
a single official, to endow' him with
authority and POWER to appoint the
subordinate officials in his department.
n to hold him to account for their
results, then it to the interest of the
commonwealth to adopt this method and
policy.
This conclusion runs. on the road of
genuine and better democracy. For
self-government by the people does
not consist of their electing many
servants of the state. 1t consists in
their having the, substance. of sover-
eighty and exercising real power. To
elect a servant as to whom one knows
little or nothing and over whose con-
duct the voter has no real control is to
elect a master and torcease to be SOW
ereign. To choose an official as to.
whom one has full knowledge and over
whom he retains full control is to. re-
main master and ruler.
The long ballot is the shadow. Of
democracy and the shelter of oligar-
chy. The short ballot Is the substance
Of genuine democracy.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
ReAR.
ADMlRAC
FleTCNGssAs e.,
&&Ake 8 Alsasaa&

- - -E-FL TE E-~
men, 500; captain, George r. Evans.
New Jersey-T'wenty four guns. Ia
s4S tons. 10. 0oo-horsepower, four T.
inch; intermediate battery, eight &.
e secondary battery, twelve s.
lnch. four a-inch field guns. six ma
chine guns; men, 500; captain. joseph
Il. Jayne.
Rhode Island-Twenty-fo four guns
l4,948 tons. 1s,000-horsepower, four -
inch; intermediate battery, eight s.
inch, four S-inch field guns, six ma
chine guns; secondary battery, twelve
5-inch guns; men, 800; captain, Clar-
ence s. Williams.
Kansas-Twenty-fou guns, 5000
tons. 1880 horsepower, four 12-inch:
intermediate battery, eight s-inch:
secondary, battery. twelve 5-inch, four
3-inch field pieces, six machine guns:
men soO:. captain. William b. Fletcher.
tons, 6,ooo-horsepower. four liz -inch.:
|i~nternediate battery, eight S-ineh
secondary battery, eight 5-incl1. fan.
S-inch field guns. six machine guns:
linen. 1905 captain Edward Simpson,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
Town Gardens.

Life: A garden is a place into which
you put quantities of seeds, time and
money, and from which you take out
weeks and backaches, and occasionally
flowers and vegetables. Every garden
should have attached to it a trust COM
Dany, a hired man. and a water meter;
also faith, hope and charity.
Gardens are useful in many ways
They DISPOSE Of rain showers in April
and dust showers in August; they are
also used as a summer resort by your
neighbours hens. who find no other
places so restful to a tired and feath-
cred upholstered stomach.
If corn is grown in gardens, it af-
fords a comparatively safe refuge for
the village cat n kittens and often
supports whole families Of crows in
comfort, if not luxury.
Gardens are usually made of top
Gardens are usually made out Of TOP
soil, which your local florist or land
scape architect imports from the
neighboring quarry at great expense
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

ing force in the material world is the
continuous medium which unites all
the scattered Particles of matter. The
Whoie universe is linked up together
by this continuous, a1l-penetrating,
uniform, cohesive medium"
Sir Oliver explained how he had
optical arrangement. He demonstrated
that there was no friction between
matter and ether. The earth Travelled
through ether without any friction
Whatever. Then, vas there any con-
nectlon between matter and ether?
The connection was of the electrical
KIND. Sir Oliver referred to gravita-
ton as a puzzle. People though Isaac
newton discovered gravitation, but
Newton himself knew better. 1t was
not explained.
could you imagine a., limit beyond
which there Is nothing? I cannot. It
seems to me to go on and on without
END. Can you imagine anything like
that! l cannot. Yet one or the other
must be true-either there must be a
boundary, Or there must not. They
are both uncomfortable, yet one is
true. .
This world must have had an in
finite past and an infinite past must
pc going to have an infinite future.
The past has gone through great Ia
Dor, great preparation, and has now
reached for the moment this climax:
1T mas produced u.s. The future
does depend to some extent upon our
activities, upon our connections. We
are a conscious part Of a scheme"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
Sir Oliver Lodge Tells Of Some Of
F Puzzles Science Is Graphing With

London Evening Standard: Science
is an affair of yesterday" is the
epigrammatic summary by Sir Oliver
Lodge of all that the minds of to-
day have achieved on the outer fringe
Of The Mystery. Sir Oliver spoke to
the City Temple Literary society,
and succeeded easily in showing how
little is known and how much is
limited at, far beyond, by our crumbs
of knowledge. .
THE action between mind and brain
cell is absolutely unknown to us at
present" proceeded Sir oliver. There
Is a gulf there. a bridge, an interlock-
ing of two apparently different forms
Of activity. There is a connection be-
tween the mental and the material.
How h a Is managed we do not know,
but we are surrounded by puzzles,
and when we begin to look into things
we ind ignorance-ignorance-ignor-
ance! Not hopeless ignorance, but
deep-seated ignorance, which it will
take many centuries Of scientific CROP
ing even partially to solve.
Sometimes we think we have done
wonders, and have got a long way on
towards understanding. Well, as
compared with previous centuries, we
have but there is an ininitude be-
yond Of which we at present have but
a partial conception. The ether we
cannot solve.
1T is perhaps the next big dis
covery that remains to be made in
physics" continued Sir Oliver. MANY
are working at it. The uniting, weld
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
Scandinavian Revolt.

Atlanta Journal: The fever Of po-
litical unrest with which nearly all
Europe is now disturbed has reached
a particularly acute stage in the Scan
dinavian peninsula, Norway and
Sweden, dispatches relate, are tense
with expectancy and one observer OF
the situation declares that the abdica-
ton of the kings of both countries in
the near future would not be surpris-
ing.
In Sweden the differences between
King Gustaf and the people center in
a QUESTION of, army increases. Great
crowds Of peasants have swarmed be-
fore the royal palace at Stockholm
and protested against new war taxes
n heightened military service. It
seems that the king has undertaken
to put these measures into effect with
istry representing the majority in the
parliament. The ministry has accord
ingly resigned, parliament will soon
be dissolved, and an election will en-
sue, the main issue of which will be
royal encroachment IN constitutional
rights.
The Literary Digest notes in an in
teresting review that while the peo-
pie of Sweden are trembling in the
fear OF being trampled upon, like Fin
land, by the remorseless heel OF Rus
STA, or threatened on their coast by
the navy of Germany, they are angry
with the king because he has at
tempted to enforce his own will with
out consulting either his ministry or
his people, 49, g.
The king has been 'actuated entirely,
it appears, by a earnest desire to
strengthen his country against pos
sible Russian aggressions. During the
last few years Russia has been maxi
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

o,s,S. CONNECTICUT

Rear-Admiral Charles J. Badger
will have under his command, when
the mobilization of the Atlantic feet
off Vera Cruz and Tampico is COM
plete, nineteen great battleships in
four divisions, each consisting Of
three or Jul battleships Of the first
class and numerous auxiliaries under
the command Of an admiral.
The photographs given here show
the commanders of the divisions and
their f1agships, as well as the rear
admiral of the fleet and his flagship,
the Arkansas. The tonnage, equip
ment in men, armament and COM
manders are as follows:
Arkansas-Thirty-th guns, &c, 900
tons, 28,000-horsepoweE. four screws,
twelve 12-inch guns; secondary bat
terry, twenty-one 5-inch; four 3-inch
field pieces, eight machine guns;
men, LOO; temporary flagship of fleet
IN flagship of Rear-Admira1 Charles
J.. Badger; captain. Roy C. Smith.
Florida - Twenty-six guns 21,S28
tons, 49, 00-horsepower, four screws,
ten 12-inch; secondary battery, six
teen 5-inch, four :3-inch field pieces,
eight machine guns; men, 1000; flag
ship Of Rear-Admiral Fletcher; cap
tain, William r. Rush.
Louisiana-Twenty- -four guns. 10000
'cAiS AV,vO0-AAcA ASAE S-ihSA
intermediate battery. eight 8-inch;
secondary battery, twelve 5-inch, four
3-inch field pieces, six machine guns;
men, 900; flagship Of Admiral Clifford
j. Boush.
Virginia-TWenty-four guns, 14,94S
tons, 5000 horsepower, four 12-inch;
intermediate battery, eight S-inch;
secondary battery, twelve 5-inch; four
3-inch field pieces six machine guns;
men. 900; flagship Of Admiral Frank
A. Beatty; captain, John g. Leonard.
Connecticut - TWenty-four guns,
16, 1000 tons. lis, 500-horsepower, four H.
inch; intermediate battery, eight s.
inch, four 3-inch field PIECES: Sec
ondary battery, twelve 5-inchs six ma
chine guns; e 900; flagship Of
Rear-Admiral Henry r. Mayo; cap
tain, John J. Knapp.
Utah-TWenty-six guns, t21,820 tons.
2s, 000- horsepoWer; ten 12-inch; sec.
'ondary battery, sixteen 5-inch. four. 81
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

to you. He then puts upon it a FROST
ing of patent fertilizer whose presence
becomes Immediately evident to all
within the sound Of it's voice. Some
fertilizers, such as We have mentioned,
are said to fertilize, but we speak only
from hearsay.
Gardens are of many kinds, inclu,l-
ing the common or garden garden and
the Italian or sunken garden. A sunk
en- garden does not differ materially
from others except that, as a rule, you
sink more money in it.
Gardens should be tested OCCASION
ally bv packing them up and sending
them by parcel post to the department
of agriculture at Washington. Or, if
YOU do not wish to wait, have them
chemically examined by the nearest
soda clerk.
The results in each case will prob
ably be the same.
If you live in the suburbs, always
I'lace around YOUR garden a high
hedge. This will prevent your neigh
bors from looking over and remarking
that if you had followed their advice
in the beginning you might have some
thing to brag of. q
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
% RtEags

w E- - --N~~ -
az 900 tons, .25, 1000 horsepower, ten ~
inch; secondary battery, fourteen s.
inch, four 3-inch field pieces, eight ma
chine guns; men, $50; captain. Charles
p. Plunkett.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. guns. 10000
tons, 16, 500-horsepower, eight 12-inch;
secondary battery, sixteen 5 -inch, four
3-inch field pieces, six machine guns;
men, 800: captain, George w. Kline.
South Carolina-Twenty-fo guns.
$1,000 tons, 16,000-horsepower, eight
12-inch: secondary battery. sixteen s.
inch, four 3-inch field pieces, six ma.
chine guns: men. 500: captain. Robert
Il. Russell.
Georgia-TWenty-four guns, IA, 9A3
tons, 10000 horsepower, four 12-incll;
intermediate battery. eight s-inch;;
secondary battery, twelve 5-inch, four
3-inch field gums, six machine guns;
men,, 500; captain, Robert e.. Coontz.
Observation-Disclosures guns, ia, 948
tons, 10000 horsepower, -four 12-inch:;
intermediate battery, eight s-inch;
SECONDARY battery. twelve 5-inch, four
t3~inch field gaEass. six machine gums;
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
PROVIDENCE GREE1S
GREAT REATDNR DRAMA
Running In Many Cities now;
I 100000 In Attendance.
CHURCH "A ROYAL DIADEM"

RusseIl Personally Conducted
3, Opening Exhibitions - In Discourse
! He Outlined Divine Purpose In Call
ing the Church-"A Peculiar People,"
"No& Many Rioh"-'No& Many Iearn-'
.ed"-"Not Many NoblS"-ChIeay "the
Poor of This World" "Rtch In
: Faith"-HeaFt Condition the Basic Of
Selection -- Cutting, Polishing and
Mounting the Je~eIs-GoHs Work.
manship 70 Be Observation-Disclosures
to AnaeIe-s ssons to Mankind.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

ails your feet
or what under
the sun you've
Sried
getting relief,
just use 'cTIZ. !"
'rTIZ" draws
out all the poi
sonouS exuda-
tions which puff
up the feet
"TIZ" is mag
ical; f'TIZ" Is
grand: "TIZ"
win cure your
foot troubles so
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

ing extraordinary preparations in Fin
land; she has established numerous
barracks and supply depots, has al
tered the gauge of Finnish railroads
to accommodate Russian trains, and
has gradually assembled there an
army Of $4,000 men. The only ex-
PLANTATION for this unusual activity is
a design on Russia's part to extend
Their.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

come more active, more alert, more
useful. If he can take advantage of
opportunity to make this bank &C.
count enlarge his field of work and
interests he will help to set UP high
community.
So your bank account becomes a
moral bracer. Chicago News.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

machine guns; men, 1000: captain
James II. :Glennons
DelaWare-Twenty-four guns. 10000
tons, 25,000-horsepoWer, ten 12rincIl;
four 3-inch field pieces eight machine
guns; men. 1000; CAPTAIN. William II
Rodgers.
North Dakota--TWenty-four gums
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

The Philippine government recently
granted it's first concession to foreign
capital, an English company getting a
twenty-year right to develop hardwood
forests. .. 0
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

Providence, r.
l., April 19.-Pas-
tor Russell per.
sonally conducted
the opening ex-
hibitions Of his
now famous Pho
Drama Of Gre
alton at the Colo
NAL Theatre here
today.
It was given QUE
that there is a
c hahn Of these
n1sa YY1aa perxRy nv
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

you'll never limp or draw up your faes
In pain. Your shoes won't seem tight
and your feet will never, never hurt or
get sore, swollen or tired. >.
Get q rs cent box at any drug or
department. store, and get relief.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

inch field pieces, eight machine guns;
captain. John III. Gibbons; men, $50.
Michigan-Twenty- four guns, 10000
tons, is, 000-horsepower, eight 12-inch;
secondary battery, sixteen 5-tnch,
four 3-inch field pieces. six machine
guns; men. $50; captain. Albert r.
Niblack.
New Hampshire- TWenty.four guns,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20
''T|z" FOR TIRED
SORE, ACHING FEET

All! what relief. No more tired feet;
no more burning feet, swollen, bad smell
ing, sweaty feet. No more pain in cornn
callouses or bunions. No matter what
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-20

Continued on Page Eleven,
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-02-05
sILo TOWNS

The advent of the sin Is develop
iug In Southwest Texas an entirely
new industry. Il Is 20 new and the
development so recent that the future
is not yet apparent 10 those engag
I'd in the growing OF green siun for
silos. but IL will soon be clear that
Southwest Texas is going 90 have
what might be termed siio towns.
Their principal reason Tor existing
win BE- that the cattlelnen will build
silos n lsrge numbers az these
places and buy green stun there frvm
the farmers. and later. feed their cat
tie At these points II can easily be
seen that town having 100 or more
large siIos VIII 10 an important trad.
ina place for the farmers.
The shipment Of cattle 10 and from
these places ALL make them impor
iant 10 the railroads The feeding II
large pens ~ cattle there viii call
for many employees
The cattlemen are the advocates
Of me silo w this part Of The com
try. because they are Ear more sub
ect TO the vagarios 81 Southwest Tex
a. weather than the farmers. most Of
whom irrigatc. when tho ranges be
come dry and the grass scarce. u
has been necessary in the past "a
ship hnndr, d. 81 train loads Of cattle
out % this part ~ the state into
North reNas This expense was tire
mcndous The cattieman win fuli
siios need not worry about the dan
ger Of brown. scorchcd pastures. And
with good silase. ana little cotton
seed meal. he can bring his steers
10 the hnest condition NJ q minimum
cost
Since the farmers arc rather bacN
ward shout building silos. and the
caitlemsn need the silage in enor'
nous quantities they are themselves
taking the lead In constructing these
wonderful Instruments Of cnnserva
ton. Most Of them pay ~ rate OF
$500 per ton for the sllage accepted.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-02-05
Chamber of Commerce Column
oGice No s heS'oe"co fu'"' w. 49,
Geo W. Briggs, Secretary.

fortune. and one OF $40 acres is a
downright calamity
or course. We must take into con
sideration the fact that he was q
poor. ignorant foreigner. and knows
no better But |, is a fact that
among the best farmers that we have
as rule. are these foreigners.
And this mans successful experience
can be multiplied many times over
the country in kind. II not In amount
OF profits
We are not trying to- siam the
American farmer. but merely trying
10 point out the facts. There IS no
question but that he average Amerl-
can. If he will can do JUST as well
as the foreigner. OF even better ana
when he goes at II he does do so.
But the trouble. II seems 10 us. Is
that many do not go after IT,
There are too many farmers who
are trying 10 farm more than they
can handle While we wouldn't adj
vocate that every man sell on his
land until he mad but 90 acres. yet
the majority could get rid Of many
acres and b. better on than they
are now. Many "A poor man Is poor
because be is trying 10 farm too
much.
A smaller farm is better because
the question of help Is not so great.
The man on the large farm II con
tinually pushed to get his work done.
And the result Is that much II either
left undone or only half done.
Again the average American Is a
wasier This applies. not only 10 bhe
farmer but TO all cinsses II Is said
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-02-05
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY

The responsibility OF individual EN-
ployes OF bp business concerns. both
public and private. Il recognized
more today than ever before The
policy ~ every modern enterprise Is
10 treat the public With courtesy and
consideration. 10 be frank and truth
ful. and 20 render efficient service.
Individual employees are depended
upon 10 nilhll the promises Of such
a policy. One cross word. one care
less promise By al employe can do
irrepaable damage and make last
ing enemies. II Is particularly I'M
portant that those of Ne who are Ell.
gagged solely In the work OF sersins
the public should bear this Ia mind
constantly D..
When the public deals with anyone
Of us We are the company TO all In
tent and purposes. Our acts are re
.garded as the acts Of the company
and the impression No make upon the
public Is retained In the mind AS
good or bad Impression OF the CON
psny.
There rs no need to suppress one
personality and Individuality In rep
resenting a corporation. but II is ur
gent that those Of u who hope q
attain a lasting success remember al
ways that upon our appearance. our
manner and our bearing depend the
maintenance Of such relations with
the public as are ESSENTIAL TO the sue
cess OF every business enterprise
Southern Telephone News.