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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
Do you work ?o I asked.

Do you work?' asked.
 And he smiled as he asked me if had any chairs that needed new cane bot toms.
 Do you prefer to live down here on the east side?"
 pie seem to understand me better down here. I can't tell just what it is, but there is a difference. I can tell much from a voice, and those of this section who speak to me and offer to help me over the streets seem to make me feel more at my ease with them, and not as if I were indebted to them for a great service. including a condescension. I get over on Broadway now and then, and even over there they are nice to me. but there is difference in their voices, and like the voices of the lower east side best. My life here is a very con tented one'
 Blind, yet contented! Poor. but not dissatisfied! Living in the most baligned section of Manhattan yet preferring it to any other! It was the true spirit of the lower east side as I have found it.
 We had walked about three blocks to- gether, when I asked him where he wished to go. He replied that he wanted to go to certain store.
 II am afraid can't find that for you unless you can tell me just where it is located" said.
 Why was his astonishing reilly, Hook right in front of you? Isn't that it?' And it was. by all that's remark ablei
 New York city has taken up new game. and it is game which has come from out of the south. It's name / "tac- ties" so-called because of it's military character. It is a "preparedness card game which has a material educational value, in these trying times when war, and preparation therefor. seems to be move popular than even love or moon light.
 Some gentleman of the city of Louis ville recently put out this new game. ana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

which he knew so we'll as a pilot He 'said 'If you will peel an apple in one long pairing and throw it over your head, the shape it will have when it falls on the floor will represent the ordinary curves of the river We shall find this true of the upper Yukon. The stream winds about like snake It narrows and widens. Now it is only few hun dred feet from bank to bank, and now almost a lake. The river is full of sandbanks, and there are rocky canyons through which the boat shoots, almost grazing the cliffs.
 Our ship is the little steamer Selkirk. It is of only 800 tons and it draws but it is so well managed that it twists and turns with the current. l believe it could turn in it's own length. for at times it swings about as though on pivot. Now the pilot throws the boat across th< stream, and lets the current do the work, and now shoots it through the rapids, put ting on steam to make the paddles go faster.
 In addition to the boat itself We have a great barge to care for The most ot the freight is carried on barSeS which are pushed along in front of the steamers. The load of today consists largely of cattle. The barge is inclosed in a high board fence, within which are eight COW pens and a double deck sheep fold at the back. There are 150 sheep in the fold. The animals have been brought from the other side of the Rockies by rail from Calgary to Vancouver. At Van- couver they were loaded on Canadian Pacific steamer for Skagway, and car ried through the thousand miles of in- land waterways that border the west coast of the continent. They were taken over the mountains on the White Pass railway, and are now on their way to Dawson where they will get another steamer that will push them 1000 or 1500 miles more down the Yukon and up the Tanan;. to Fairbanks.
 The steamer trip will be more than z week, and they have already been weeks or the way. Do you wonder that goot animals are selected? They have to bt good to stand the heavy cost of tho freight. The steers will average three fourths of ton and several of then weigh close to 2000 pounds each. They were raised upon grass and are now fec OF the bales of alfalfa piled around tht edge of the barge.
 But we have other live stock on board Down in the hold there are 800 chickens bound for the hen fanciers of interior Alaska. They crow night and morning and with the baaing of the sheep and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

neck
 crop;
 And I've thought that I surely was
 drea ming
 With the peace O the world piled en
 top
 There are no settlements on the Yukon between White Horse and Dawson. The distance is 460 miles and we do not see a half dozen people at any stop of the steamer, although there are here and there deserted camps with the abandoned cabins of prospectors and woodchoppers. One such is at Chisana, near the mouth or the White river. It rose during the rush to the Chisana gold mines. and for time was a thriving village with government telegraph office. hotel of two stories and a log stable that would accommodate dozen horses and numer. ous sled dogs. The White Pass and Yu- kon company built the hotel and the sta ble, expecting to bring the miners in by it's steamers, and send them into the in- terior with horses and dogs. It kept re- lays of teams here and had kennels for the dogs. It did good business until about two years ago. when the bubble burst and the camp busted" Today the Chisana hotel is deserted, all of the cab ins except that of the woodchopper arc empty, and under the wires leading into one of them is notice. written in pencil: Government telegraph, closed August g. 1914"
 The woodman's cabin is open. There is horseshoe nailed over the door and a rifle stands on the porch at the side On the wall at the back of the hut a dog harness hangs to peg. The skin of g freshly killed bear is tackled up on one side. and the remains of rabbit skins lie here and there on the ground
 The cabin itself is not more than eight feet in height. It has earth banked up abount the foundation. It is made of logs well chinked and there is a weather stripping of bagging nailed to the door, posts The door is a framework, filled in with sections of condensed milk boxes for panels. Entering we find that the cabin consists of two rooms One is a Kitchen. and the other the living room and bedroom combined. Three rude cots. made of poles and covered with blankets form the beds. There are some benches for seats and a knocked up table stands under the window. Clothes of the owners hang from the walls or lie upon the floor The Kitchen has a stove and table The latter is covered with .unwashed dis3rcrr | There is a guitar on the shelf near the stove and pack of cards on a ledge in the logs. The whole is by no means in viting, but doubt not is fair type of the home of the prospectors and wood- men throughout this whole region.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

Ihv wings of your imagination and
 come with me for a 500-mile lS&A%8 trip on the headwaters of the
 Yukon. Within the past 15 days have made most of the journey on foot, on rail and on steamer, and can point out the sights as we go. We begin in the coast range of mountains only 10 miles from the Pacific ocean. Here the river has one of it's sources It starts as a trickling stream of icy cold water and winds it's way down the hills and pours into Lake Bennett. We take the White Pass railway and ride 25 miles along the east short of that lake to Caribou and thence an hour or so farther to the town of White Horse. We are now at the bead of the steam navigation of the mighty river, and sail for more than 20tv miles to where it pours into Boring sea, not far from the Arctic ocean.
 But before we take ship at White Horse let us look at the size of the Yukon. The river is one of the largest in the world There are only four on the North American continent that surpass it in length and in area of the basin it drains. These are the Mississppi- Missouri, which rises far up in the Rockies and is lost in the Mexican gulf; the Winnipeg-Nei Neison that begins with the Saskatchewan m southern Canada and pours it's waters in- to Hudson bay, the Mackenzie that flows to the north and empties into the Arctic ocean and the St. Lawrence. the down. spout which carries the waters of the great lakes into the Atlantic
 The length of the Yukon, from the source of its longest tributary to Ber- ing sea, is as great as the distance from Boston to Salt Lake City, and the navigable streams which flow into 1t, if joined together. would make canal fit for lowdraft steamers that would reach as far as from Seattle to Shanghai.
 The volume of the Yukon is about half that of the St. Lawrence and two thirds that of the Mississippi Missouri. It is three times as long as the Rh1ne 800 miles longer than the Danube, and of just the same length as the Volga.
 The basin of the Mississippi Missouri takes in one-third of the United States. and the basin of the Yukon has an area equal to one-tenth or one-eleventh of all the lands under the American flag.
 The navigation of the Yukon compares in it's difficulties with that of the Mis- sissippi. It makes you think of Mark Twain's description of the great river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25


 G62822 saggur the stoutest soul. In those early
 days had grate expanse of territory, occupied by few svvilzed peepul and hords of hos tile red armed with the festive scalpng nife and peevish dspossion. They not, at that time, consumed predatory weelth the grind of monopoly; they fased the future with squirrel rifle and the ordinery broad of commerce, desiring only to be left in peese to out the destiny of grate nasion They urged and invited all peepul in forran countries who weer dissatisfied with the eff feet and totterng dynasties under which they lived to to America and enjoy new and sturring brand of ibberty Those not pleased with the brand of bberty handed out by tyrens and despotick mon- arks assured that in America they would have vose in the guvvermint and would be allowed to the administration and vote against the party in power with grate gusto. They did make it plain, however that evvery who swore allegiense to this country would be peced to rise up Wyum on all occasions when dangur threatened and peal off his coat and bite the ennemy the leg enny uther spot convenient at the time, and willingly shed his gore for the coun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
By FRANK G. CARPENTER Copyright, 1916, by Frank G. Carpenter

DdWSU1I, I ukUll ItrTItOfy.
 JCKLE on your shoulders the wings of your imagination aud come with me for a 500-mile trip on the headwaters of the vrr:4l;~ +l,o ,~oct K 6auS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

crop; And I've thought that I surely was dreaming, With the peace O the world piled en top.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

-@ISTUR EDDITUR: Our forefathurs estab- VII | lished this guvvermint under series of try zu ing circumstances and condisons that would 21S staggur the stoutest soul. In those early
 days we had a grate expanse of territory,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

1w YORK, June 24.-(Special.)
 Up here in Manhattan. there is no section where more money
 is supposed to be in the pos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

Washington, D. c.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-12-13

This year those who are doing
regular musical work under compe-
tent supervision will receive credit
for same. The credit will be based
upon amount of time spent on such
work and the quality Of the work
done. This refers to either instru-
mental or vocal music and includes
regular work done in outside musical
organizations: An effort is being
made TO get the University to allow
entrance credit for such work but as
yet no definite arrangements for such
credit have been made.
The Warren schools allow it's
pupils to earn one Of the Is credits
necessary for graduation, from work
done outside the school. Our various
"Home Projects" when properly car
ried thru and passed upon by COM
petent instructors are given credit.
Musical work may be considered I'M
der this head. ..
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-12-13

of the value of bull is the character
of his offspring, and this is the safest
and surest guide. Many aged bulls
with good records and splendid Off
spring are sold at bargain prices to
avoid inbreeding, and afford an excel
lent opportunity to the man who
wishes a good bull at moderate cost.
Strength and virility must go with
good ancestry to make good sire.
The grade sire should have no place
in the dairy herd.
Select Cows on Their Records.
Cows may be selected according to
type and apparently by men who are
good judges, but the only safe and sure
basis for selection is the annual milk
record.
The keeping of milk records in all
parts of the country and in all classes
and kinds of herds has shown:
1. That some herds make large an.
nual profits while others make none.
2. That in the best herds there are
usually some Improbable COWS, and
very many such in the poorer herds.
3. That without records the owners
of the herds could not tell with any de-
gree Of accuracy which COWS We're pay.
ing protitably and which were not.
4. That many dairymen would have
made greater yearly profit had they
sent their herd to the butcher at the
beginning Of the year, thus saving hall
their feed and labor expenses and get
ting all the profit from their best cows
A fact worth noting is that several
worlds record COWS of different breeds
now worth thousands of dollars each
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-12-13
High School Notes

! Y
Mr.. Hatton, the east side photo
grapher, has presented the picture Of
last years graduates to the school.
We appreciate Mr.. Hatton's kindness.
The basket ball game between the
Warren and Crookston boys which
was to be held Dec. 18th, has been
cancelled on account Of the latter's
failure to obtain the Armory for
practicing.
The Freshmen held their party last
Saturday. All reported an enjoyable
time.
Miss Rankin, assistant county SUI
perintendent, gave an interesting
talk on tuberculosis during assembly
period, Thursday.
Have your seed grain tested and
learn what it contains.
One sample Of wheat tested in the
University Seed Laboratory recently
was found to contain the following
weed seeds: COW cookie, kinghead,
corn cookie, hare's ear mustard,
lady's thumb, pale smartweed, wild
buckwheat, tickle grass, lambs quar-
tiers, barnyard grass, wild rose, wild
mustard, wild oats, yellow foxtail,
green foxtail, canada thistle, and
perennial sow thistle. The other
seeds it contained were oats and bar
ley. The purity test of this sample
was $3.50 per cent.
One sample of barley was also,
tested and contained the following:
wild buckwheat, lambs quarters, vel
low foxtail, green foxtail, rough pig
weed, wild mustard, night Towering
catchfy, Canada thistle, and peren-
NAL sow thistle. The other seeds it
contained were oats and wheat. The
purity test was 91.49 per cent.
One sample of oats contained the
following: wild buckwheat, green fox
tail, wild oats, dragonhead mint,
lambs quarters, wild mustard, Can
ada thistle, and perennial sow thistle.
The other seed was barley. The pur-
ity test was 1896 per cent.
The Zoology class is studying fish.
Ask Miss Alderman if you may have
a piece of "sill."
High School Program, Dec. 2Sth, in
the High School Auditorium.
The first regular program Of the
high school, given in the new school
building, will be given Thursday ev-
ening, Dec. 28th, beginning at 1880.
The program will consist of several
musical numbers by the high school
boys quartet, high school girls glee
club and the high school mixed dou-
BILE quartet. In addition to these ex-
cellent musical numbers a very inter-
esting and amusing farce will be Civ
en-. The program will be worth so
cents to any one but we have decid-
| ed to make the tickets Is and Is
t-Ce11rs: In1s program IS being given
for the purpose of earning money
with which to procure music for the
various musical organizations Of the
| high school.
The. declamatory contest between
the schools on the Great Northern
rail road between Warren and Can
ada, including also Oslo, Alvarado
and Boxville will probably be held in
Warren Jan. oath. This contest is
to determine which school Of this
group will be entitled to compete for
the silver loving cup at the Crook
| stOn Farm CrOnc Show from ,Foh XIII
to 9th. This cup it will be remem-
bered, was won by our representative,
Abner Wilson, two years ago. Last
year Crookston won it. 1t will be-
come the property Of the school win
ming it three times. We have num-
Der of good speakers in the high
school and will make fight to win
this year.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-12-13
Scrub Cow Which Lacked 1884 of
Producing Enough Milk to Pay for
Her Feed and Care in One Year.

were sold to their present owners for
small sums by men who had not taken
the trouble to find out what kind of
COWS they were keeping. ....->. .....-
Essential to Keep Records.
It is difficult, therefore, to see how a
dairyman can afford to run the rick
of keeping Improbable COWS by refus-
ing to keep records. A merchant who
could not take time to keep books
would soon go bankrupt; and business
methods must be the rule on the dairy
farm if profitable business is to be
built up. Even if it should take one
weeks work in a year to keep a good
system Of records, the time will be well
spent if the work Of the year were to
result in an annual profit of $1,715, or
q loss of $500 as consequence of
keeping records or not keeping them.
The time required is really very small
The milk record is the dairyman's
barometer by means of it he can keep
checked up on his individual cows, on
his mixers and on his system Of feed
ing. By means Of it he will notice any
Increase or decrease in milk flow, and
In the latter case be able to avoid trou-s
BILE by removing the cause. More inter
est is taken in feeding the cows care
fully when their records are kept. A
circular balance scale and sheet Of
paper ruled off, together with the Bah
cock test will do the work. Cow test.
/ Ing associations are doing good work
(all over the country. From ten to
twenty or more farmers may club to-
gether and agree to pay a qualified
man to test their herds each month,
sharing expenses equally. The system
Is particularly valuable to the men
with purebred herds, as they can get.
their good animals tested for the adj
vanced register. Record keeping helps
the dairyman to get rid of his rob
Der"
Gull Out Improbable Cows.
Cows that prove improbable should
be sold at once. Those paying only q
small profit may be kept until better
ones are bought or raised to take their
places. Young heifers that do not
show up during their first lactation
period may sometimes make : good
showing on a second years trial Good
COWS can often be purchased that VI Il
pay for their feed, care end cost prices
IA enc .yes.r and return agaod prof.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-12-13

Improved farms and wild land for
sale in the vicinity of Argyle and
Stephen, Marshall County, Mimi.
For prices and descriptions write or
call on w. M. Rybaski, Argyle.
MINI, r..
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-12-13

The principal ingredient Of Royal
Baking Powder is Cream of Tartar,
which is derived from grapes. nat
ural, healthful food. .r- -~s
The principal ingredient of many
baking powders sold at lower price
is alum or phosphate, both mineral
acids, and used instead of Cream of
Tartar because they are cheaper.
Housekeepers who are influenced
by low price when buying baking
powder will find that it pays to con-
slider quality first:
The label on the can will show
whether the baking powder you now
use, or any brand, new or old, that
may be offered contains alum or
phosphate instead of cream of tartar.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-05


EVERY DAYS SPECIAL /
! 10 yards 27 inch Sea Island 39c
I 10 yards Sc inch Bleaching, slightly
\ starched 59c
I 10 yards Sc inch Sheeting 59c
! 10 yards 30 inch Bleaching, slightly
4 starched 48c
4 10 yards good apron Bingham &c h
y 10 wards good 10c Drill 75c
I 10 yards best 10c dress Bingham z9c
I yards 40 inch white Lawn 39c
yards 40 inch Pajama Checks 39c
yards best 10c Cheviot 39c
yards best 10c Check Homespun 34c
9 yards best II lie Mattress Tick z9c D
10 yards best Calico 4Sc
We have a big line of Ladies, Misses !
and Children s Millinery. A look and you
will buy.
) yds. 1914 PeppereII Sheeting $1.15 !
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-03-11
MIR. FRASER EXPLAINS

Il notice" said Atty. Harry T. Fras-
or to reporter for The Diamond
Drill, That the buck has been passed
70 the city in this library matter. II IN
claimed that the city could have had
library had tile council been willing
20 furnish a site
Now. as I remember the PROPOSE
tion, the city was asked TO furnish
site and to promise to contribute
100000 per year TO the support OF
such a library.
"At the time that this proposition
was made the city was raising an an
nual tax Of sl2O0OOO. Reduced to
figures the proposition was that the
city pay one-third Of It's income TO the
support Of a library and this the alder
men felt that they couant do
That Is all there is to the part of
the city IN This library matter and Il
seems TO me that the council ought
not TO be ceusured for refusing TO add
one-third TO the city's expenses for
library"
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-03-11

Sheriff Sensiba went to Iron River
last Saturday and raided two places
obergs and Flannigan's and in both
OF them sufficient evidence was found
to warrant his asking for warrants.
The Oberg raid was made Just In
time to get the goods there before he
went out OF business. He had rented
his place and was TO move out this
week and quit business.
In the Flanagan place il is claimed
hole was cut in the floor and the
bottle of booze kept so conveniently
close that IL could be kicked into the
cellar and broken when a raid was at
tempted.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-03-11
MICHIGAN JERSEYS
Roycroft Farm Makes Record Ship
mcnt 10 a California Stock Farm

w 5. Prickett. owner OF the Roy
croft farm az Sidnaw. has reason TO be
proud this week He established a
record last Monday when he shipped
from his farm carload. consisting OF
IA head OF Roycroft Jersey stock TO the
Colusa Butter co. OF Colusa. Cal. MIR.
Prickett made the sale in competition
with the entire east A representa-
tive OF the Colusa company toured the
United States aud after careful inspec-
ton decided upon the Roycroft farm
stock as the one 20 buy
The shipment was made over the
Milwaukee road and, stretched along
the side OF the car, was banner
which read. "Roycroft Farm. sidnaw.
Michigan, Michigan the land OF big
Jerseys sends greeting TO California.
the land OF big oranges" Some idea OF
the value OF the shipment may be es-
timated from the fact that the car OF
cattle was insured for 100000. The
Milwaukee road, in order to insure
quick shipment held the crew at Sid
nav until time to make close connec-
tions with the through train at Chan
ming and rushed the car OF cattle
through 70 Milwaukee where it was
taken on the transcontinal lines
OF the country and hurried across the
west TO destination
Included with the car OF cattle were
three calves Of the herd OF wm. Poys-
cor Of this city Mr. Poyseor's stock
was secured from the Roycroft herd
so that they were all OF the same fam
ily
The shipment was minutely examin-
ed in every way All OF the animals
had to stand a rejection test for tuber-
culosis made by DR. Clark. state vet
erinary surgeon before they were
loaded.
II is needless 10 say that Mr.. prickett
feels pretty elated over his accom-
plishment and Cloverland Is getting
it's share of advertisement from his
success.