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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24

THERE are still quite a num-
Der of the North Dakota news
papers publishing that Public
Forum plate dope furnished
by the National Liquor Dealers
association, the Railroad inter-
ests, the Telephone trust and a
few of the other special inter
ests. These enemies of the
public good have banded
themselves together to secure
free publicity through a press
bureau operating under the
guileless name of the Farmers
Union. If the North Dakota
editors who are prostituting
their columns by running this
stuff would run the blank plate
bases rather than this nefarious
matter they would serve their
readers far better in place of
lowering the standard of their
publication to a level that is al
most repulsive.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24
CALLING THE PRESIDENT.

w. J. Bryan in the Common
err: The presidents prepared
ness program is revolutionary
it is an abandonment of the
historic policy of his party and
the traditions of the country.
He has departed from the safe
path of experience and is fol-
lowing the devious ways point
ed out by the big papers which
voice the wishes of the manu-
facturers of munitions. He is
joy riding with the jingoes and
is applauded by grand-standers
whose voices are unfamiliar to
democratic ears. He is being
praised by militarists who sell
dom, if ever, vote the ticket of
his party, and he is grieving
those to whom democracy is a
religion.
What is the cause of this
change of attitude? He has re-
Gently declared that we are not
threatened from any quarter,
that we are at peace with all
the world and that there is no
fear among us. What, then, is
the cause of the change? Is he
automatically so close to the
European war that it's uproars
prevent his hearing the still.
small voice. of the people?
Has he gazed upon the floor of
the transatlantic slaughter
house until the soil of his
country looks red?
In an address to the consult
ing experts he declared him
self convinced that the people
want preparedness; where did
he obtain this information?
Not from senators or represent
atives, for congress was not in
session and he has not consult
ed them. Not from the people
themselves. because he had not
heard from any considerable
number. His only source of
information were a metropoli-
tan press, subservient to big
business; and navy leagues,
defense" leagues and ''securi-
ty' leagues, Differed by repre-
sentatives of big business. He
had not heard from those dis
interested citizens who pro-
duce the nations wealth in
time of peace and fight the ma
tons battles in time of war.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24
ONE of the speakers at tn,

ONE of the speakers at the
recent Nonpartisan League
meeting held in this city re-
ferred to the painful silence in
the daily press of the state re-
garding the campaign now be-
ing waged by this organizat-
ion. And is it not a fact? That
the movement is tremendous
in its scope as we'll as the inter-
est shown even a fool would
not hazard to deny. It is the
biggest political uprising the
state has ever seen. That it is
gaining adherents apace is
very evident. All these things
are incontrovertible facts that
must be admitted, whatever
we may personally think about
the league and what 1t stands
for. 1t would seem that the
state dailies, particularly those
that admit their own greatness
as news perveyors, are overlook
ing one of the biggest news
beats they ever had access
to. Can it be possible tina they
really do not know what is GO
ing on about the state? Or is
it true, as suggested by above
named speaker, that the publ
cations wear a muzzle that
does not even permit them to
print news except such AZ has
the approval Of their owners7
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24

The BoTTINEAU COURANr
says that the race between Tom
Marshall and Gunder Olson for
republican committeeman, re-
solves itself into a beauty con-
test-since Marshall declares
that all republicans are pro-
gressive nowadays. This be-
ing the case, we will bet our
money on Gunder. His name
has an enticing ring-in North
Dakota-and while he may not
be a twin-six thinker, he gets
there just the same, and he is
some looker-as compared to
Tom. Devils Lake Journal.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24
A WHOLE drayload of catalogs

A WHOLE drayload OF catalogs
from one of the big Chicago
mail order houses arrived at
the Bottineau postofice one
day last week, and most homes
in this territory have no doubt
been entertained during the
last few days looking over the
alluring illustrations and des-
criptions of the thousands of
articles depicted. Here is a
suggestion: Before mailing in
that order bring it in to one of
the Bottineau merchants and
ask him if he can meet these
prices, freight added. If he
cannot, mail in the order. But
if he can fill your crde~ at ap-
proximately the same figure,
would it mol look like good
business on your part to give
him the order? You also
have the satisfaction of know
ing that you have given the
home man the first chance at
the business.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24

The Sherwood Tribune sug-
gests that the Nonpartisan
League endorse candidates for
delegates to the national con-
vention, regardless of party
affiliations. That it is one of
the impossibilities in politics.
A delegation to a national con-
vention must be composed OF
members all of one party. A
delegation to the republican
convention in Chicago compos-
ed of democrats. republicans,
socialists and bull moosers
would find itself in rather an
embrassing position-if indeed
there was any arrangements
by which such a cosmopolitan
delegation could be elected.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24

IT would seen that some
public use could be made of
the old steam laundry building
located on South Thompson
street. This is a large, sub
stantial brick building that
should certainly not be per-
mitted to go to utter ruin. The
thousands of dollars worth of
machinery in the building has
already been reduced to junk,
as a result of the ravages of
the elements. The building
itself will soon be worthless if
left in the present condition.
Whoever has any interest in
the property should make an
effort to get it repaired and &C.
cupied for some purpose
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24
THE editor Of The American

THE editor Of The American
has always been a. staunch re-
publican (which same doesn't
mean the insurgent or progress
i've ~ variety, but the stuff
the republican state central
committee is sending out to
publishers at the present time
is enough to turn the heart Of
cast iron Iudian cigar sign.
For unlimited gall you'll have
to hand it to the present state
central committee. -Antler
American.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24

The North Dakota publishers
appear delighted at the pros
pect of their outing at beauti-
full Lake Metigoshe next sum-
mer. We're going to take our
bathing suit and plenty of fish
ing tackle along and depend on
Mike Breen or Gil Teien to
furnish, the bait. -Mirot Inde-
pendent.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24

SECRETARY Of War Daniels is
to be commended for swatting
with a vengeance the childish
whim to raise money for a bat
tleship among the school child
rem of the country. The school
children are grated for every
fake and fad that hits the coun-
try and this promised to be the
worst tt inot Optic. Re
porter.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-02-24
As TO ESTABR00K.

nave Deen opened IN tnaC CITY
in the interests of the president
ial candidacy of Henry @. Esta-
brook of New York. The pur-
pose of the campaign being
launched is to secure the dele
cation from this state to the
national Republican conven-
ton for the New Yorker. The
situation seems to have more
substantially then the major
ity of the dope fiend stories on
political subjects that come out
of the state capital. But it is
none the less absurd.
Mr.. Estabrook has no more
show of being nominated for
the presidency than Bryan has
Of being made war adviser to
the kaiser. The fact that he is
a New Yorker would kill him
politically in any western state.
His affiliations with the cor
poration interests of his city
stops him from receiving the
support of the great mass of
the people who believe, whether
with or without reason, that
Wall street controls too much
of the financial resources of the
country to swallow.
Mr.. Estabrook is a political
obscurity. He is an able law
yer, but there are tens of thous-
ands of them turnout the coun-
try, some of whom can be
found in Minot. Standing in
his profession is not the meas
ure in the coming campaign.
The people will demand a
man whose record on public
Questions is known of all men
aud who has proven in the
past that he has the moral
courage to stand like adamant
for what he believes. What
Mr.. Estabrook believes on any
of the problems that are vitality
important to this country is en-
tirely unknown. The public
will not stand for the making
of a set of beliefs that are shap-
ed to suit the conditions-tem-
pered to the shorn lamb. 1t
will demand that these beliefs
be those made when the maker
could not fit them into the ex-
igencies of his campaign. The
absence of these except as
emergency affairs will not put
the candidacy of Mr.. Estabrook
on the blink.
North Dakota is a small
state politically. Its represen-
tation in the councils of parties
is small in comparison with
other states. Mr.. Estabrook
was brot to the state by the
Star Bar Association a few
months ago to deliver the an
nual address,, It is fair to be-
lieve until the reverse is prov
en- that he was invited strictly
because of his professional
standing and not for political
reasons. But the visit made
him probably better known in
this state then in any other in
the union, not even excepting
New York, were able lawyers
are the rule rather then the ex
ception, and where such abil-
ity must be utilized in some
spectacular, if not sensational,
manner like that of Justice
Hughes in the insurance scan
dial Investigations, and District
Attorney (now Governor)
Whitman, in more recent in
vestigations. Il takes some
thing Of the limeliRht to bring
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
SUCCESS OF FARM BUSINESS
Size Of Farm, Yields Of Crops and Di.
versity Are Three Of Most impor.
tam Factors.

There are certain factors on which
the success of farm business usually
depends. From these 1t is usually pos
sible to determine not only the good
points in system Of farming, but also
its deficiencies. The latter being
known, the method of improving the
system becomes evident.
On a great majority of farms. sue
cess Is primarily dependent on three
important factors. These are ID the
size of the farm business; (2) the
yields of the crops and the returns per
animal, representing the quality of
the farm business; and (3) the d.
versity of the business. OF course
many other things have their infiu-
ence. but the farmer whose business is
efficient in these three respects is
generally successful. Those farms
that are excellent in none of these
respects almost universally fail. Those
deficient iE one or two may succeed,
but their chances Of success are great
ly lessened.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
GRANDMA USED SAGE TEA
TO DARKEN HER GRAY HAIR
She Made Up Mixture Of Sage Tea
and Sulphur to Bring Back Color,
Gloss, Thickness.

Almost everyone knows that Sag,
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color ant
lustre to the hair when faded, streakei
or gray; also ends dandruff, itchinf
scalp and stops falling hair. Years
ago the only way to get this mixture
was to make it at home, which II
mussy and troublesome. Nowadays
by asking at any store for "Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy" you
will get large bottle of the famous
old recipe for about 80 cents.
Don't stay gray! Try it! No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as it does it so naturally
and evenly. You dampen q sponge OF
soft brush with it and draw this
through your hair, taking one small
strand at time, by morning the gray
hair disappears, and after another ap.
plication or two. your hair becomes
beautifully dark, thick and glossy
Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
WHY DONKEY WAS IN CLOVER
Punishment That Surely Might Be
Classed as Unusual" Though
Possibly Not "Cruei."

Not very long ago there lived in
England an old man who always rode
on a donkey to his daily work, and
tethered him while he labored on the
roads or wherever else he might be.
1t had been pretty plainly limited to
him by one of the local landowners
that he was suspected of putting IL
in the fields to Craze at other peoples
expense.
"Eh, squire, cud ma do SIGH a thing
fer my donkey won't eat nowt but net.
ties an thistles."
One day the gentleman was riding
along the road, when he saw the old
fellow at work and the donkey I'D to
his knees in one of his clover fields
feeding luxuriously.
"Halloa, John!" said he. 81 under.
stood you to say your donkey would
eat nothing but nettles and thistles %
Aye" said John, but he's been
misbehavin' hisself, sir. He nearly
kicked me / tn chest just now, SO |
put him there to punish him."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
Wen spent? Rest content!

Well spent? Rest content!
Folly is generally bone deep.
Trust and confidence heget their
like.
Many a well-to-do man is also hard
to do.
A resolution is like butter. easier to
make than to keep. -
Don't worry. It's the devils own
Job. Leave it to him.
Money talks-and it is usually in a
hurry to say "good-by"
Tell it to the neighbors, IF you
want to get into trouble.
Marrying rich young widow isn't a
bad sort Of get-rich-quick game.
He who hates to raise a sweat is
not apt to raise much of a crop.
Farmers who have separate houses
for their laborers usually have no diff
ficulty in getting help.
A small farm is large enough when
1t affords profitable employment to
each member of the family
Offers Of help given and taken in
the right spirit, bless both him who
gives and him who receives.
The man who works long hours
works better when he has a cool, COM
Portable bed in which to sleep.
A successful financier is one who
can separate other people from their
money without using sandbag.
Happiness does not consist in get
ting the things we want, but in being
contented with the things we have.
Don't put your thoughts in cold stor-
age. Pass them around; be sociable.
Get good and give good everywhere
you go.
AS the winter season advances
study the problems you have stumbled
over during the past summer and see
If they cannot be remedied
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
BIG MONEY MADE BY FARMERS
Larger Returns Obtained In AgrIeui.
ture Than In Any Other Division
OF Human Activity.

It is susceptible of proof that agri.
culture yields larger returns on the
capital employed and the energy ex.
pended than any other great division
of human activity.
It is self-evident that the individual.
fly of the farmer is less hampered
than that of the clerk who is one of
a large Office force or the workman
who is but one cog in the human ma
chinery of some great Industrial plant.
1t is clear that T., most cases the
blame for Improbable farming lies
at the doors Of the farmers them.
selves. 1t is seldom that a farmer
employs the care and intelligence of
the manufacturer, or even of the small
merchant, in figuring costs, in STOP
ping waste, in striving for quality rath-
er than quantity, and in keeping well
informed regarding modern business
methods.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
BIG GAINS BY COOPERATION
Kentucky State Agent Explains How
Farmers and Merchants Can Profit
by Working Together.

How farmers and local merchants
can cooperate to their mutual ad
vantage was explained by Godfrey
Morgan Of Richmond, KY. state agent
for the United States department OF
agriculture.
The average farmer, whose knowl.
edge of marketing is limited, feels
that the local merchant has but one
aim, and that is to buy his products
as cheaply as possible. while the local
merchant feels aggrieved that the
farmers too frequently purchase i'm.
plements and goods away from home.
The solution is an organization
through which farmers and mer-
chants may cooperate. Mr.. Morgan
cited some examples of how local mer-
chants have aided farmers. thereby
gaining their good will and increasing
their own wealth. In one county they
found the price of fertilizer too high.
The merchants got together and ar
ranged shipments that reduced the
price, aided the farmers, unable to
pay cash, to secure 1t, as conse-
quence increasing their own influence
in that territory and increasing the
farmers purchasing capacity.
In another instance the county
agent foresaw that many hundreds of
bushels of apples would rot on the
ground because there were too many
for the local market. He took up the
proposition with the local merchants,
who disposed of the apples at a fair
price in a distant city. for the farm
ers. and themselves looked after the
sorting and packing.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
COOPERATION IN HOG SALES
Often q Difficult Problem for Shipper
to Find Ready Market-Good
Plan 10 Outlined.

| (By e. L JORDAN, Louisiana Experi-
ment Station.)
Thefproblem of finding q ready mar
ket for hogs when they are ready to
ship is often difficult one for the
shipper, particularly when he has not
enough to make up a carload. The
best solution In such a case is to make
use of the cooperative shipping club
plan, which has been found very Salts
factory in many communities. The
plan is as follows:
A sufficient number of hogs to make
up a carload is ready for market. A
car is ordered and placed. Each ship
per brings in his hogs and they are
marked with paint or by clipping GER
tain markings on their backs or hams.
A record is made of the number SUD
piled by each man and the markings.
This record is mailed to the commits
sion firm to which the shipment is
consigned. Upon arrival at market the
hogs are assofted according to owner.
ship and according to the class in
which they will. sell and each is sold
on its merits. The costs, including
freight. feed, commission. etc.. are pro-
rated and deducted, and each shin
per receives statement of the sales
and check in payment of his share
of the proceeds.
Any commission firm will be glad to
furnish market advice on application
and be of every assistance possible to
shippers. The commission charges are
regulated and are the same for all.
Most commission firms issue a daily
or weekly market letter that will be
sent free Of charge to anyone who
wishes 1t.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
A n u II ICl
The Newest Discovery in Chemistry

simply ask for a 50-cent package Of
"Anuric" manufactured by DR.. Pierce.
or even write DR.. Pierce for q large
trial package Q0c). II you suspect
kidney or bladder trouble, send him a
sample Of your water and describe
symptoms. DR.. Pierce's chemist will
examine it, then DR.. Pierce will report
to you without fee or charge.
NOTE. =" Anuric" is thirty-seven
times more active than lithia in elimi-
mating uric acid, and is harmless but
reliable chemical compound that may
be safely given to children, but should
be used only by grown-ups who actu-
ally wish to restore their kidneys to
perfect health, by conscientiously
using one box-or more in extreme
cases-as "Anuric" thanks to Dr..
Pierce's achievement) is by far the
most perfect kidney and bladder cor.
rector obtainable.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28

This is a recent discovery of DR..
Pierce, who is head of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo.
N. Y. Experiments at DR.. Pierce's
Hospital for several years proved that
there is no other eliminator of uric
acid that can be compared to it. For
those easily recognized symptoms of
infiammation-as backache, scaldiig
urine and frequent urination, as well
as sediment in the urine, or II uric
acid in the blood has caused rheuma.
tism. it is simply wonderful how sure
ly "Anuric" acts. The best Of results are
always obtained in cases of acute
rheumatism in the joints, in gravel
and govt, and invariably the pains and
stiffness which so frequently and per
sistently accompany the disease rap
idly disappear.
Go to your nearest drug store and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28
CA[0hEL IS MERCURY, It SICKENSI
STOP USING SAuvAT|NG ORIG
oo Use pays Work! Your Liver Is Sluggish or Bowels
Constlpated Take "Dodson's Liver Ione.n.Irs Einei .

you're bilious! Your liver is slug.
sish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all
shocked out. Your head is dull, your
tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach
sour and bowels constipated. But don't
'ake saiivating calomel. 1t makes you
SICK you may lose a days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
~nicn causes necrosis of the bones.
Caiomei crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That's when
you feel that awful nausea and cramp.
ing.
IL you want to enjoy the incest. gen.
uest liver and bowel cleansing YOU
ever experienced just take a spoonful
OF harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. Your
druggist or dealer sells you a 5O-cent
bottle OF Dodson's Liver Tone under
my personal money-back guarantee
that each spoonful will clean your
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-01-28

sluggish liver better than a dose OF
nasty calomel and that it won't make
you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn.
ing because you will wake up feeling
hne, your liver will be working, your
headache and dizziness gone, your
stomach will be sweet and your bowels
regular. You will feel like working;
you'll be cheerful; full Of vigor and
ambition.
Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and can.
not salivate. Give it to your children!
Millions Of people are using Dodson's
Liver Tone instead of dangerous cal.
omel now. Your druggist will tell you
that the sale Of calomel is almost
stopped entirely here.