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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-23
Unless Loan Is Made There Will Be
Land Slumn Saws Louis Hill,

Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. 18.-That
the agricultural lands of the North
west will suffer a slump in price, the
same as the fruit lands Of the Pacific
coast, unless the billion dollar loan
goes through, is the prediction Of
Louis w. Hill, head of the Great Nor
them who is spending short time in
Devils Lake following the Veterans
meeting at Grand Forks. In the opin-
ion of Mr.. Hill there is no way to keep
the prices of grain up unless an export
customer is found for the immense
crop. A slump in the price Of grain
means a slump in the price of lands,
says Mr.. Hill. The Northwest, he be-
lieves, is the particular portion of the
particular portion of the country
keenly interested in negotiating the
loan, along the lines outlined by
James J. Hill. ...
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-23

The Independent for up-to-date COM
mercial printing.
, 1915-10-21
MEANT YES ALL THE TIME
Kitty Feared Lest Answer Of shs
Previous Evening Might Be Taken
Literally by Her Lover.

Il am in too much of q hurry to
write a superscription, or whatever II
is you write at the beginning of a. let.
ter, and l am going to send this of
at once by a delivery boy; because
1t suddenly came to me what a risk
1 was running-with life SO uncertain,
and all. You see, it's like this:
Last evening, when you told me
you loved me, and I was so startled
n surprised (and all the time I'd
known more about 1t than you) and
when you begged me to marry you,
and I said No. I never could, ard no,
and no over ard over, all evening-o.
dear, how can I explain? Well, It
seemed all right, and all-but then
this morning it suddenly came to me
what If you should die or something
before you come over again, and never
know,
Becaus you see everyone of
those nos was as black as the trey
Of clubs, not little white lies at all,
but regular ebony. Because it isn't
mo- at all. It's yes o, a great big
yes; only l wanted to make you wait,
and make me say it! o, why are
girls made like that? l don't know
I'm as ignorant of the machinery In
side of me as I am of the little Gravity
wheels In my watch. And I just did
what my diabolical ancestor grand
mothers did, / suppose, when l said
no. and I meant yes But l was
scary this morning when I got think
ing Of what If l never had a chance
at all to change it, and tell you the
truth.
so 1 Just took a pencil stub out of
my smallest brothers. pocket and a
piece of mothers best stationery and
sat down'here OF the floor, with my
door locked, to scribble this OF to
you. Good-by. And-'yes, yes, yesl'
Kitty. Chicago Tribune.
, 1915-10-21
Ace of Oysters.

AS the result Of examinations of the
surface lamellae of the shells Of over
six hundred oysters of known age, and
OF various ages from eighteen months
to six years, made by Miss A. L. Mas
sy, and noted in the Scientific lnvesti-
cations" under the section on fisher
les, the following conditions prevailed
as to the relation between age and the
number OF surface lamellae, or growth
rings. Miss Massey states that an oys-
ter Of eighteen months or two sum
mers appears to possess at least two
rings, but may have as many as five;
one OF three summers has at least
two rings, but may have six. A four
year-old oyster may have only three
rings, or may possess seven or eight.
, 1915-10-21
Plan Billion for Defense.

washington. A national defense
''osram that probably means an ex-
'enuiture on the army and navy of
awards Of $1,000, 00o, 900 in the next
I'VE years will be laid before the peo-
20 by President Wilson Nov. 4, when
% goes to New York to make his first
'uOho address since the scope of the
'o'icy upon which his administration
l4s embarked became known. The
resident will speak before the Man
'a.tan Club of New York on national
te'ehse and the reasons which have
uupelled him to approve the pIana.
, 1915-10-21
Reading Ones Own Books.

Cultivated men and women have al
ways counted good books among their
most valued possessions, and one AN
not believe that this taste a be sac
rificed without definite loss to our
civilization. The spoken word can
eve supplant the written word; and,
in fact. the present tendency is all to-
ward substituting print for speech.
Nor can reading in public places take
the place of reading ones own books
in the quiet of ones home. Books
hal are owned wait patiently on the
readers leisure; and to have just the
book one wants, when n wants it. is
and must remain n of the supreme
luxuries Of a cultivated life.
Books, too, when personally owned,
gather around themselves a wealth of
personal associations. The very bind
ing, paper and title-page recall the
conditions under which the book came
into our possession. AS we open its
pages we remember the last time we
read it, the place and circumstances,
and the people with whom we dis
cussed 1t. Cooks have personality;
and they must always remain the
warm friends of their possessors.-
Atlantic Monthly.
, 1915-10-21
FALLACY OF LONG STANDING
That Frost Is Most Likely to Occur
In the Light Of the Moon"
10 a Wrong Idea.

One OF the most tenacious beliefs
is that the weather is affected by
the movement of the moon. 1t is gen.
orally considered that frost is more
likely to ecu In the Tight of the
moon than at any other time. For
this reason crops which the frost is
likely to destroy are planted at such
a time az to be certain to avoid q
full moon.
The noon reflects sunlight to the
earth and produces the tides. 1t has
minor effects, such as changing the po-
sition of the earth and causing min
ute reflections Of the magnetic needle;
these last, are, however, so small that
they have only effect upon refined in
struments of detection, and 1t has
been proved ~conclusively these two
have no relation to the change of
weather. Regarding the two former
effects named, It is quite easy to IN
derstand that reflected sunlight from
the moon cannot affect the weather.
In the first place, more light is re-
cefved from the sun in thirty min
utes than from the moon in one year,
and, moreover, the greatest reflection
is at full moon; from a logical point
OF view then II should be warmer In
stead Of colder at full moon. This
should disprove any argument that
the reflected light makes 1t colder
at full moo
, 1915-10-21
STRIKE MEoiAroRs DISAGREE.
Owners Said to Object to ReInstate'
ment of Discharged Union
"Auitators,"

FL Paso, Textile demand for re-
instatsment of all the striking Arizona
copper miners and of all the men dis
charged by the mining companies be-
tween Sept. 1 and the opening of the
strike was the first issue on which
the mine managers and the strikers
delegates locked horns in their peace
conference.
While both sides declined to reveal
what had taken place behind the
locked doors of the conference room,
1t was understood that the mine own
ers objected to the reinstatement of
some of the union organizers who
were discharged shortly before the
strike was called.
The miners claim that the discharge
OF Western Federation organizers was
a primary cause Of the calling of the
strike on Sept. 11-that but for that
action on the part Of the operators
mat strike would not have been called
al that time, If at all. The position
OF the managers, on the other hand,
Is that the discharged men were "agi.
tators" who were stirring up trouble
among the employees.
, 1915-10-21
GIRLS AND BOYS MENTALITY
Female Begins Early to Develop It,
Scientists Say, But She Stops
Before the Boy.

1T may be taken as an accepted
fact" writes a German scientist, that
the average 6 of speech-develop-
ment is several months earlier in the
girl than in the boy. While it is not
very rare to find a year-and-a-half-old
boy still unable to talk, the develop
ment of speech has made considerable
progress in girls of this age, and in
certain later periods of life her further
advancement is ven more obvious.
AT fifteen the male is generally
only a big boy. while the girl is often
quite a finished young girl. But her
mental development not only begins
earlier, but steps earlier. 1t is prob
ably not to be doubted that in the
young woman of twenty-five all the
powers of the intellect which are capa-
BILE of developing are at least indi-
Gated and formed and generally al
ready quite well established. The
twenty-ive-year-old youth, On the 9TH
or hand, is still full of u~nguessed pos
sibilities for the future. The excep-
items that occur do not vitiate the av-
erage law that the comparative cycle
of development is relatively smaller in
the girl. In women the conservative
tendencies natural to their sex are
most marked; in men, the progressive
tendencies"
, 1915-10-21
Jokes Taken Seriously.

Doctor Huxley, the great English
scientist, who (being a good judge Of
mem both admired and trusted Doc
tor Ward Of Oxford, once made q joke
about Ward having a stake for here
tics in his back garden. That joke is
probably known more widely, and
taken more seriously, than all the
serious debates of these two great
men.
The same sort of people who can
only remember about Huxley a mira
Gle which he regarded as q legend.
car only remember about Ward, a
phrase which he took as a Joke.
Why hearty 'levities of this kind
are eve discussed seriously afterward
must be a mystery to any mar who
has had any friends; but they are so
discussed-about w. G. Ward as about
Doctor Johnson.
, 1915-10-21
FIRST TO PERFECT REVOLVER
Colonel Colt Has a Place In History
for His Observation-Disclosures
Makers Of Ordnance.

Col. Samuel Colt has a worldwide
fame as the first man who perfected
a practical revolver. His first impor-
tant patent was taken out in 1885, but
he had to face a skeptical public and
army and navy officers refused to
grant permission for an official test of
his weapon. However, the effective
ness of the Colt revolver was shown in
the Seminole war, in 1887. A COM
pany was formed to exploit the inven-
ton. but soon failed, as no market
was found. Gen. Zachary Taylor. who
witnessed the work of the revolver
in the Seminole war, at the outbreak
of the Mexican war persuaded the gov
eminent to order a thousand for the
use of Texas rangers. Stories praising
the American revolver soon began to
come back from Mexico and the for
ty-niners" made it well known. Colt
shortly afterward found a market in
England and orders were placed in
America for the Crimean campaigns.
The revolver of that period, however,
was a clumsy weapon compared to the
types in use today. Calling, Maxim,
Remington, Farrott and Dahlgren are
names of other Americans who won
fame as rifle and ordnance makers.
, 1915-10-21
Process Of Making Blood.

Natures process Of making blood is
interesting. Briefly, it is on this wise:
When the stomach and other alimen-
tary organs have completed their d.
gestive work the blood-forming mate
rial is absorbed by innumerable little
mouths, and conducted through a
of assimilating glands to a storage
pocket in the regions Of the kidneys.
From this receptacle the refined blood
material passes upward through a
long goose-quill-sized tube emptying
into a great vein between the neck
and the heart. The heart receives
this crude. rich bleed and pumps 1t
into the lungs. where 1t is oxygenized
and purified. Then the l~ife-sustain-
ing stream returns to the heart to be
forced out to the remotest tissues Of
the body.
, 1915-10-21
Education City Girls Miss.

City girls of any class rarely II ever
have any domestic education or train
ing, unless they get it in their schools.
They are taught the boundaries of the
United States and the source OF the
Nile; they learn that If you buy prod.
ucts at a certain price and sell at a
higher you make money, but what to
do with the money when you make 1t
no one discusses. 1t is all making
money or things, neve the right use
of money or things. that is impressed
upon boys and girls from their primary
class on to the bitter end. The chill
dren of well-to-do families in smaller
places have opportunities for educa-
ton in the real things Of life which
these others often lack, but since our
grandmother's day education and train
ing In home AFFAIRS within the horne
walls has been neglected to a dan
gerous degree.-Woman's World.
, 1915-10-21
Proper Llahtlna.

ADD immensely to the attractive
ness Of your home by diffusing the
lights instead of focusing them on
one point. Eye strain will be relieved
and shadows and outlines will be soft
ened, especially when amber lights
are used. The new indirect lighting
fixtures are replacing old-fashioned
ones. raking the lighting problem
more artistic and less expensive.
Much the same effect may be pro-
duced with less expense by frosted
bulbs and globes. There are various
types OF this indirect lighting suitable
tor all rooms. from the kitchen to
the parlor, and it is to be recommend
ed as . blessing to the BUSY eyes and
the tense nerves of today.
, 1915-10-21
British Emancipation.

The first day of August, 1884, is
often mentioned. but enormously, as
the day on which the slaves in the
British colonies were set free. They
did not get their actual freedom, but
an apprenticeship which was to pre-
cede and prepare for their freedom.
1t was enacted that all slaves should
become ~"apprenticed laborers" to their
masters. These slaves were of two
classes. One class received actual
freedom in 1888 and the other in 1910.
1t was found that on August 1, 1884,
there were 770,2SO slaves in the col
onies affected by this emancipation
act. All negroes born after that date
were born free. Twenty million pounds
sterling. 800, oOO, 900, was ultimately
paid to the n OF these slaves,
this sum being distributed ratably &C
cording to the market price of slaves
in each colony.
, 1915-10-21
CHILDREN HURT BY NOISES
How the Little Ones Suffer From the
Various CONNECTIONS of a
Big City.

very few mothers realize how ex-
tremely sensitive young children are
to noises of all kinds and how much
OF heir "naughtiness" is due to nerv-
GUS irritation set up by all the house
held noises of the day.
To a certain extent every woman
h has the care of children realizes
Ills TACT. When the baby goes to bed
all the house is hushed In order that
it may sleep.
But once the child awakens no con.
sideration is shown to its tender
nerves, and the evil consequences to
the child's health r often very seri-
Gus and cling 20 it all through life.
Doctors are always insisting OF this
paramount Characteristic of the young
chilo-its great v sensibility.
And any mother who observes the
child when a door is banged, a dog
tarks or a street trader shouts will
notice its distress. At every bang or
otter sudden noise there is a
frightened start.
The result of a days noise of all
kinds to young children, especially il
they are delicate, is a state of nervous
depression and irritation.
This is commonly mistaken for tenn
per and naughtiness, but it is real
nervous illness. They net only be-
come petulant, but their appetite fails
and their digestion is thrown into dis.
order.
No doubt the evil effects of city life
on children are due in great part to
the incessant noise.-Kansas City
Star.
, 1915-10-21
Nova Scotia's History.

When discovered by the British IN
1898 Nova Scotia was not named.
A few years later it was settled by
the French, who called 1t Acadia. 1t
passed to the English by the treaty of
Utrecht. in 1913. and they changed the
name from Acadia to Nova Scotia.
This name was first used in a grant
made by King James l, who was born
In Scotland, and chose a name In
honor of his native country. The
royal grant under the name was made
tc Sir William Alexander, a Scotch.
a who wrote poor poetry. and was
created Lord Stirling by King James.
, 1915-10-21
ALWAYS CLUBS OF A SORT
In Civilized Life the Association Of
Men Of Like interests Has Been
Matter of Course.

In the eighteenth century the man
of London passed the largest part OF
his time in coffee houses and taverns.
and when n seeks for him after
midday he will probably be found in
a tavern.
No habit was SO universal in every
class as this OF association in some
place of entertainment; it vas part
of the life alike of the nobleman and
the tradesman.
While the former enjoyed himself
In m of the numerous houses in the
west end, the latter was surrounded
by his business rivals at the Globe
tavern in Fleet street or at the Six.
penny Card club or at the Free and
Easy at the Queens Arms in st.
Paul's churchyard.
But when we go with the man of
London to his coffee house or tavern
we should no think too much of the
place, for coffee house and tavern
were each only a building which by
reason of its existence was the most
convenient for the purpose of assem-
hlies, whether of business or of pleas
ure.
The important fact is the remark
able and constant and often informal
association of men of like interests,
tastes or occupations for purposes po-
itical, commercial. literary or social.
These associations, every one of
which is usually called a club, even
II 1t was without rules or officers,
sprang rapidly into being from the
beginning Of the century. so rapidly
that places by no means always suit
able had to be used for their meet
ings.
, 1915-10-21
How to Tell a rraln,a Speed.

Count the clicks of the wheels on
one rail (because joints alternately
for 20 seconds, and the result will be
the miles per hour the train is run
ming. There are 176 30-foot rails in
$3.50 feet. The train, say, is travelling
at As miles per hour. 1t yer 1858
rails In one minute, or 2.25 rails in one
second, which, multiplied by 20, equals
As rails in 20 seconds, or As miles per
hour. If 32-foot rails are used the re-
suits would be 40 rails in 20 seconds
at As miles per hour, but 1t is fairly
accurate and can be done easily with a
little practice.
, 1915-10-21
TEUToNic ALLIES STRIVE TO
PUSH SERBS BACK BEFORE
SID REACHES THEM.
CARSON OUTS CABINET
SIR IAN HAMILTON is REMOVED
FROM COMMAND IN THE
EASTERN FIELD.
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union news service.
London, Oct. 2O.-Sir Edward Car.
son, attorney general, has resigned
from the British Cabinet.
Following the news of C~arson's re-
tirement came the announcement that
Major General Charles Carmichael
Monro has been appointed to COM
mand the Dardanelles expedition. He
will succeed General Sir Ian Hamil-
ton, who is returning to England to
make a report. The announcement
was made by the war office.
The resignation of Sir Edward Car
son, the first open manifestation of
the divergence of views known to ex-
ist among the ministers, is the result
according to an authoritative state
ment, not of the controversy over con-
scription, but of the condition of af-
fairs in the near East.
London.-while the Serbians and
Montenegrins in northern and west
eru Serbia are strenuously contrasting
the march of the Austrians and Ger
mans. on the east the Serbians are
fighting lard against Bulgarian at
tacks, the Anglo-French forces to the
south with bases on the Aegean sea
are declared in unofficial reports to
be making progress in their efforts to
bring relief to their harassed allies.
Report has it that the allies al
ready have occupied the important
strategic town of Strumitsa in the ex-
.rnrna o,tthuuncfarn mart nf pu1Ro ria
lust across the Greek border, and that
a landing has been made by them in
Turkey-at Enos, at the mouth Of the
Martha river, a short distance south
east Of the Bulgarian port of Dedeag-
hatch.
The Germans are still making a
great effort between Riga and Dvinsk
and have met with some minor sue
cesses, but thence to the Rumanian
border, wherever there has been any
fighting, 1t is the Russians who are
attacking and they, too, claim some
gains.
Much the same conditions prevail
on the western front. The British
lave been attacking east of Vermelles,
according to the Berlin report, while
the Germans attacked the French near
Souchez and the French took h Of
~fensive in Champagne. Lorraine and
the Vosges. None of these attempts
is making any marked alterations in
the positions of the armies.
The Italians, according to the latest
reports, will not send a contingent to
the Balkans, but cooperation of their
navy in the Aegean, where an allied
fleet has already gathered, is looked
for.
, 1915-10-21
Let Contracts for Sixteen Submarines.

Northumberland for sixteen
submarines and six destroyers were
awarded by the Navy Department.
one destroyer will be built at the Nor
tolk navy yard and one at Mare Island,
SaL Six of the submarines will be
quit on the Pacific coast. The Brem.
erton, Washington and the Ports.
mouth N. H., navy yards each will
build one.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-04


grade teachers has received a raise in
salary.
But we did not say there is no use
for us to fight for more money for the
schools as we get none of it. Oh, no!
We found the schools were robbed in
more ways than one and we have
been using our best energies ever
since to bring our public schools into
their own. We have done this in the
past and will continue to do so
whether our salaries are raised or
not.
What the federation has done has
been told in The Day Book so many
times that it is a waste of time for
me to enumerate them again.
The issue of Aug. % tells you a.
very concise report of the work and
aims of the Teachers Federation.
And right here l may state that
The Day Book is the only paper I
have seen which gave an account of
the midnight lease" of the board of
education, and other affair of like
nature.
take exception to w. H Miller's
letter to The Day Book accusing it of
favoring the Catholics. have read
The Day Book every day for at least
three year and l cannot see that it
favors any church or any political
party. believe it is searching for the
truth. We are at liberty to expose
anything that is crooked in church
or state or in business. If 1 knew any
thing crooked in the Teachers Fed
Grafton 1 would expose it. But can
only say it is fighting your battles for
better schools, betters systems, bet
ter environment for the children, and
always has a hand outstretched to
aid every good movement for the adj
vancement of humanity.-A Teacher.
NORTH AND SoUTH.-By the
70 Ito Oin11c Of Mr. Mathew
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-04

11E ODA1N IO1NOI1
THE TEACHERS FEDERATION.
i would like to reply to w. H. Mil
ler's attack on the Teachers FEEDER
alton, Aug. %.
l am a Protestant, the sister of a
Mason, member of the Eastern Star
and the daughter of an Orangeman.
I believe in fair play for all and favors
for no one.
am teacher in the public schools
of Chicago and have been a member
of the Teachers Federation for a
number of years and have kept in
formed on it's proceedings, especially
during the past ten years or more. If
there was any secret collision be-
tween the Teachers Federation and
the Catholic church l most certainly
would expose it.
l have known a deuout Catholic
member of the Teachers Federation
ask another devout Catholic, her
friend, to become member Of the
federation and her friend refused
Now, if the federation had any de-
signs on our public schools it would
be very easy for one devout Catholic
member to pass the tip to her devout
Catholic friend, and it is not likely
she would refuse if the Teachers
Federation was in league with the
Catholic church. l am not going to
speak for any other organization but
the Teachers Federation. l firmly
believe it is not allied to any church
or political party. 1t is interested in
every progressive movement that will
elevate the schools or better human
ity.
1t has been said that we are work
ing to have our salaries raised. We
are working for. much more than
that. We are working for a princi-
pie.
Years ago we asked for a raise in
our salaries and were told there was
no money in the treasury for a raise
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-04

NORTH AND SoUTH.-By the
fallacious arguments of Mr.. Nathan
son every state in the union can be
proven illiterate and unable of self
government.
The Jewish people should find out
that the Jews are better liked and
better treated in the south before