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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
war AND FRAUD.
(John Quincy Adams,l

My own deliberate opinion ia, that
the more pure moral principle is car
ried into the policy and conduct of
a government, the wiser and more
profound will that policy be. :
The path of virtue is. indeed. not al
ways clear, and in the complication
of human affairs artifee and simula-
tion itself must occasionally be prac-
tieed, The sternest moralists all
low it in time of war, and there may
perhaps be occasions when 1t is
justifiable In contemplation Of war,
or defensively against receptions Of
the same kind. But 1t may, / believe,
be laid down as universal maxim
that fraud is never justihable where
force would not be equally justifiable
to effect the same object. Fraud is,
therefore, weapon essentially be-
longing TO the relations of war, and
in them to be very sparingly resorted
to; for every instance Of 1t, even
when justifiable, tends when dis
covered to impair the confidence of
mankind in the sincerity and in
tegrity Of him who uses it.
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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
"oUR DAY TO HOWL.

Scarcely more than a week ago,
pessinaistically inclined Fargo resi-
dents were engaged in their annual
rite of kissing the crop goodbye.
Today they have hardly yet realiz-
ed the good fortune Of Cass county.
and other counties adjacent to it..
From being down in the dumps with
what was left of the crop burned to
a crisp, the residents OF this dis
trict are just coming to the full
realization or the fact that they have
the record money crop" in the his
tory of this part of the state.
There doesn't seem to be a fly in
the ointment, unless II is that all Of
the state cannot share in the eastern
sections good fortune. The yield, If
not a bumper one, Is big one. Re
ports of 20. 25 and even 30 bushels
TO the acre are coming in.
The wheat is of the very best
quality, clean. we'll filled out, and
grading the highest.
The price is higher than ever was
paid even in years of crop failures.
It is a big mortgage lifting" crop
indeed. Many a farmer will receive
from his farm this year, gross re-
turns greater than the sum he would
have taken for his property last fall
II he could have found a purchaser.
: Such a crop means everything to
Fargo. We don't want to appear
selfish about it. when other parts Of
the state have really suffered. but
this Is 'our day to howl, and there
is no particular reason for conceal
ing the fact that we are just little
hilarious over the sudden change in
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08

ever that is-into this country has
fleshened up considerably since the
days of her initial terpsichorean tri-
umphs among the society folk along
the eastern seaboard Nevertheless.
she continues to select audiences Of
artistic souls.
Not long ago Finley Peter Dunno,
the humorist, was lured to one Of
these entertainments. The lady,
wearing very few clothes and, as a
result Of their lack. looking even
pIunper than usual, danced in an
effect of moonlight calcium beams.
AS Dunn was leaving one of the
patronesses hailed him.
aOh, Mr.. Dunno" she tWittered,
how did YOU enjoy the madame's
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
Is BLOW AT PROHIBITION.

The pop-gun argument of per
eonaI liberty" which has been used
against prohibition, Is in a fair way
10 being turned into a AZ centimeter
howitzer, by the attempt to bar non
Intoxicating drinks from the state,
because they Took like beer"
1t requires a certain amount of
persistence, determination and ca
pacity to become intoxicated on beer
1t can be done, however, even by
those accustomed to the effects of
alcohol on the human system.
Beer contains from 31s to Az per
cent of alcohol. It can be brewed
with q much smaller content, but
that is a. fair average.
Many warm temperance advocates
Endorse the drinking of beer, but
they have been willing to forego
their own desires, for the general
good and have Joined the cry for
prohibition, believing it better to
make a clean sweep of John Barley
corn, than to attempt to compromise
with him.
But the beer substitutes which
have flooded the market are, not in
toxicating. Many of them contain no
alcohol at all, and others have but a
fraction Of a per cent of alcohol.
THE largest amount found in any of
them was one part in 500. Such a
drink, even by the widest stretch of
the imagination, could not be class
ed as intoxicating. Amy drink with
sugar in it, even tea. might prove to
have a trace of alcohol on analysis.
Many of the big brewing COM
panies have attempted to save from
the wreckage some of the capital
Invested. by perfecting new drink
which would be harmless and yet
take the place of beer. They have
spent large sums experimenting,
erecting plants and equipping them
II Is not even claimed that these
drinks are intoxicating or harmful
III any way, and 1t is simply perse-
pution to attempt to interfere with
the sale OF them until 1t is shown
they are Intoxicating. II this attitude
became widespread. IT might prove
Ne one factor that would prevent
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
CHANGE IN WAR METHODS.

The rapidity with which war
methods change is shown by the re-
port that the navy department has
abandoned the plan for a great fleet
of small submarine chasers.
The small swift launch" which
was hailed as the solution of the
submarine, would probably find itself
the chased instead of the chaser in
these days of super -submarines
mounting six and eight inch guns on
their decks.
The destroyer is the only water
enemy the submarine fears, and the
destroyer accounts for them only
one at a time. The one route open
70 the breeding place of the under
water pirates is through the air.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
PUT FRUIT JUICES AWAY FOR
IEIIX

making can be steriiized and bottled
without sugar and made into jellies
at the housewives convenience. This
enables her to do with fewer jelly
glasses and to distribute her pur-
chases of sugar for jelly-making
through the year. Moreover. with
the bottled juice she can make a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
TABLE PAD.

A table pad with extra leaves is
quite expensive This homemade
one proves very satisfactory. Worn
tablecIoths or sheets could be used:
Open your table; lay material on
double. Mark shape of table, allow
ing an inch for seam, then cut. Now
lay material double on each leaf, and
after allowing for seam, cut these.
Lay bottom of any part on table
and cover with sheet of cotton, Add
the top, haste and quilt on the ma
chine. Parts may be fastened to-
gether by adding snap fasteners,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
NJ EMU HINT.
Breakfast.

Stewed Prunes.
Sour Milk Waffles with Maple Syrup
Coffee.
Luncheon.
Stuffed Egg and Tomato Salad.
Hot Sour Cream Biscuits.
Baked Rhubarb. Cake.
Iced Chocolate.
Dinner.
Clam Cocktail.
Roast Beef. Drowned Potatoes.
Fried Summer Squash.
Cantaioupe with Ice Cream.
Coffee.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08

A young married lady was ex.
planning the difference between sil-
yer and electro to a small domestic,
and said:
Mary, you will always find Q
lion on anything that is real silver"
Yes, num-" said Mary, It'll re-
member. and I've heard say as there
is always carrots on gold, though ]
amt seen them.
One of the ladies' who first intro
duced interpretativa daneing-what-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
dancing?"
Immensely" said Dunne., Made
me think of Grants tomb in love-"

Northerner-Has the European
war affected you people down herei
Southern Ngro-Yes, sub. Pow
ehfully, sub! Dere's Cunnel Shahp,
foh example, suh-him dat used to
tell about de time in de rebellion
when he smit a thousand Yankees in
one day. Dat was some rm'nis-
ence, sub; but since last August he
don mixed sech a lot o. Belg1ans an
Turcos an Cossacks in dat story dat
yo' can hardly unfathom it. All tells
yo' h wah hab suttinly 'dulterated
our wah stories. sub.
greater variety of jellies, as juices
which will not jell can be put ur
when the fruit is ripe and combined
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
WHY NOT JUST "AMERIcANr

Sammy as a nickname for the
American soldier does not appear to
have struck the right note.
It smacks just a little of the
effeminate or the diminutive, and is
lacking in the proper respect.
There is nothing very inspiring
about the prospect of being a
Sammy. 1t must be nearly as
nauseating to the men themselves,
as being referred to as our brave
boys in khaki.
Sammy was the name given the
American troops by the French
popuIace. Coming from them, it was
all right as a novelty, but why not
call them just Americans, and re-
fer to the army as the American
Expeditionnry Force, until a better
title suggests itself.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
GUARDING BABY.

Never let baby play with sharp
pointed toys or toys with sharp
edges. Never let him have WOOL
covered toys or those covered with
hair; they are germ collectors. Be
careful about letting him have but
tons or tiny things which he might
swallow or get in his ears or up his
nose. Don't let him chew old pocket
books or painted toys.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
PED BEET SALAD

Take the tender stalks of red beets
and chop fine, use little salt, pep
per and vinegar and sugar if pre-
ferred. II u q
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08

ture and color as we'll as fruit put up
in strip. Fruit canned without sugar
to be used for sauces or desserts must
he swaetened #E.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08
Scenes in one of the Curtiss Aero
plane company's plants.

plane company's plants.
The factories OF Glenn curtiss, one
of Americas pioneer flying men, are
turning out hundreds of planes of
the scouting and battle-cruiser type.
At the same time Uncle Sam is
training a small army Of men to
pilot them. The upper photograph
shows the shop in one of the curtiss
plants where the motors are as
sembled and tried out before being
placed in the planes. Upper photo
shows one OF the workrooms of the
plant.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08

the coming of nationwide prohibit
ton within the next five years. II
would disgust countless fair minded
men who have become convinced
that prohibition is right. 1t would
convince them that their personal
liberty" really was jeopardized by
the prohibition movement.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-08

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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28

And who is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
King wondered; but he did not ask
that question because his wits were
awake again. 1t pays not to be in too
much of Il hurry to know things in the
Hills"
AS it happened, he asked no more
questions, for there came a shout at
the cave entrance whose purport he
did not catch, and within five minutes
after that, without Il word of cxplana-
tion, the cave was left empty of all *
ccpt his W five men. They carried
away the men too sick to walk and
vanished, s%natching the last man away
almost before Kings fingers had fin
ishcd tying the bandage on his wound.
"Why is that?" he asked Ismail.
"Why did they go? Who shouted?"
at is night" Ismail answered. ut
was time"
King stared about him. He had not
realized until then that without aid of
the lamps he could not see his own
hand neId out in front of him his eyes
had grown used to the gloom, like
those of the surgeons in the sick-bays
below the waterline in Nelson's fleet.
'But who shoutedY"
"Who knows? There Is only one
here who gives orders. We be many
who obey" said Ismail.
"WhOse men were the last ones?"
King asked him, trying II new line.
"Bull-with-a-beard's."
"And whose man art thou, Ismail?'
The Afridi hesitated. and when he
spoke at last there was not quite the
same assurance in his voice as once
there had been.
II am hers! Be thou hers. too! But
it is night. Sleep against the toll to-
morrow. There be many sick in kim
jan"
King made a little effort to clean the
cave, but the task was hopeless. For
very bones were water. He appointed
two-hOur watches, to relieve one an
other until dawn, and flung himself
on Il clean bed. He was asleep before
his head had met the pillow; and for
all he knew to the contrary he dreamed
of Yasmini all night long.
1t seemed to him that she came into
the cave-she, the woman of the faded
photograph the general had given him
in Peshawur-and that the cave be-
came filled with the strange intOxicat-
ing scent that had first wOOed his
in her reception room In Delhi.
He dreamed that she called him by
name. First, king sahib !" Then
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28
King witnesses wild doings In
the cavern and sees narrowing
sights. Yasmini appears, a love-
Iy vision, and the army Of fight
ers 90 wild with enthusiasm.
Gao BE
WHY FEAR DEATHS CALL?
Philosopher Regards Passing Away as
Only Natu, al and Good-Fears
the Unnatural.

They were discussing death, a little
group of men. all of them in the best
OF health and the glory of living. Men
OF the world, In a sense, and enjoying
life to its utmost. the subject Of death
was introduced by the announcement
that a widely-known man with whom
all of them had been acquainted had
passed away.
One or the party, according to the
Columbus CO., Dispatch, said he hated
to think of death. that he was actually
afraid to think of 1t. He so loved life
that death seemed a terrible enemy,
and he would like to escape it. But
the philosopher of the party-only ne
was not known as a philosopher until
he delivered his little preachment-
said he could not understand such an
attitude toward death.
II am not afraid of anything that is
NATURAL" he said. ut is the unnatural
that alarms me. 1t would be unnatural
to live forever, and l would hate to be
sentenced to such a punishment. But
death Is natural: l am not afraid of it.
Billions of people have died; they are
dying every day. Little children have
died and old men and women, and the
birds and beasts all pass away, and the
hshes In the streams. and every living
thing upon the earth is to die. Why.
then, should a great hulk of a chap
like myself, one who has had and Is
having his time. why should l fear
death"
Not afraid Of that which is natural?
II only all of us could understand that
the natural is good and the unnatural
bad, what a splendid world it would
for everything and everybody.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28

"Im not to doctor hfs men. There
fore it's a fair guess thnt he and I are
to be kept apart. Therefore he'll be rs
far away frOIu me now ss possible,
supposing he's here"
Reasoning along that line. he tried
to see the faces on the far side, but the
problem was to see yer the dancers
heads. He succeeded presently, for
the Orakzai Pathan saw what he want
ed, and In his anxiety to be agreeable,
reached forward to pull back a box
from between the ranks in front. Its
owners offered instant fight, but made
no further objection when they saw
who wanted it and why. King Won
dered at their sudden change Of mind.
He found a man Don who was not
interested in the dancing, but who had
eyes and ears apparently for every
thing and everybody else. He watched
him for ten minutes, until at last their
eyes met. Then he sat down and
kicked the box back to it's owners He
touched the Pathan's broad shoulder.
The mar smiled and bent his turbaned
head to listen.
Opposite" said King, "nearly ex-
actly Opposite-three rows from the
front, counting the front row as one
there sits Il nan with Il black beard,
whose shoulders are like a bulls. AS
he sits he hangs his head between
them. Look! See! Tell me truly
what his name Is I"
The Pathan got up and strobe for
ward to stand on the box, kicking aside
the elbows that leaned on it and laugh
ing when the cursed him. He
stood on 1t and stared for five minutes,
counting deliberately three times over,
striking n finger on the palm of his
hand to check himself.
"Bull-with-a-beard !" he announced
at last, dropping back into place beside
King. "Muhammad Amin. The mullah
Muhammad Anim."
"An Afghan?" King asked.
HE says he is an Afghan. But un-
less he lies he Is from Ishtamboul
(Constantinople)."
Itching to ask more questions. King
the hakim Kurram Khan-blinked
mildly behind his spectacles and looked
like n to whom q savage might safe
ly east his mind.
HE babe me go to Sikaram where
my village is and bring him a hundred
men for his lashkar. He says he has
her special favor. Wait and watch, l
say!"
Has he money!" asked King, appar-
emily drawing a bow at a venture for
Conversations sake. But there is an
art in asking artless questions.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28
King of the Khyber Rifles
By TALBOT MUNDY
The Most Picturesque Romance of the Decade
cwhmn observation-disclosures

those lying about in confusion when he
woke.
"Ismail !" he shouted ut the top Of
his lungs, thinking they might all be
outside.
He heard n man hawk and spit. close
to the entrance, and went out to see.
A man whom he had never seen before
leaned on a magazine rifle and eyed
him as a tiger eyes his prey.
"NO %farther!" he grOwled, bringing
his rife to the port.
"Why nOt?" King asked him.
"Allah! When a camel dies in the
khyber do the kites ask why? Go in !"
He thought then of Yasmini's brace
LET, that had always gained him at
least civility from every man who saw
it. He held up his left wrist and knew
that instant why 1t felt uncomfortable.
The bracelet had disappeared!
He turned back into the ave to hunt
for it, and the strange scent greeted
him again. In spite of the surround
ing stencil of drugs and filthy wounds,
there was no installing it. If it had
been her special scent in Delhi, a.
Saunders swore 1t was, and her special
scent on the note Darya Khan had car
ried down the Khyber, then it was hers
now, and she had been in the ave.
He hunted high and low and found
no bracelet. His pistol was gone, too,
and his cartridges, but not the dagger,
wrapped in n handkerchief, under his
shirt. The money. that his patients
had brought him, lay on the floor I'M
touched. 1t was an unusual robber who
had robbed him.
"WhO's Bull-with-a-beard'?' he Won
dered. "NObOdy interfered with me un-
til doctored his men. He's in oppO-
sition. That's a fair guess. Now, who
in thunder-by the fat lord Harry
can 'Bull-with-n-beard' be? And why
fighting in the Khyber so early as all
this? And why does Bull-with-a-beard,'
whoever he is, hang backY
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28
SpIinterless Goodies,

Splinterless goggles are q new de-
velopment that is expected to be of
great value in military gas masks and
for aviators, as well as for machinists,
welders and other workers requiring
protection for the eyes. The lenses con-
sist Of two layers of optical glass sep
arated by a layer of celluloid, the
whole being perfectly welded together.
The product is claimed to have the adj
vantages of ordinary glass without its
dangerous splintering on being broken,
and the strength of celluloid without
Its inflammability and lack of rigidity.
The heat insulating effect of the cellu-
loid is said also to prevent clouding by
moisture.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28
And the JokesmIth Dodoed.

They were discussing that joke
about getting down off an elephant.
How do you get down" asked the
jokesmith for the fourth time.
"You climb down."
"Wrong!"
"You grease his sides and slide
down."
"WrOng!"
"You take a ladder and get down."
"WronS!"
swell. you take the trunk line
down."
"No, NJ. quite. You dena sss down
off an elephant; you get Il of a gooss."
indianapolis News.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28

that point they were cut into by the
ramp of a bridge, and by a lane left
to connect the bridge with the arena.
The bridge end formed a nearly square
platform, about fourteen feet above the
floor, and the broad track thence to
the arena, as well as all the arenas
boundary, had been marked off by
great e%arthenware lamps, whose greasy
smoke streaked up and was lost by the
wind among the stalactites.
"Greek lamps, every one Of 'em I"
King whispered to himself, but he
wasted no time just then on trying to
explain how Greek lamps had eve got
there. There was too much else to
watch and wonder at.
No steps led down from the bridge
end to the floor; toward the arena 1t
was blind. But from the bridges far
ther end across the hurrying water
stairs had been hewn out Of the rock
wall and led up to n hole of twice a
mans height, more than fifty feet
above water level.
passage had been left clear to the
river edge, and nobody seemed to car
to invade 1t, although 1t was not
marked off in any way. Each passage
was about fifty feet wide and quite
straight. But the space between the
bridge end and the arena, and the
arena itself, had to be kept free from
trespassers by fifty staggering ruff
fans, armed to the teeth.
Every mar of the thousands there
had a knife in evidence. but the arena
guards had magazine rifles as well as
Khyber tulwars. Nobody else wore
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28

"Kurram Khan" And her voice was
surprisingly familiar. But dreams are
strange things"
"He sleeps!" said the same voice
presently. 1T is good that he sleeps ~
And in his sleep he thought that a
shadOwy Ismail grunted an answer.
When he awoke at last it was after
dawn. and SIGHT shone down the pas
sage into the cave.
"Ismail!" he shouted, for he was
thirsty. But there was no answer.
"Darya Khan"
Again there was no answer. He
called each of the other men by name
with the same result. He decided to
go to the cave mouth, summon his men,
who were no doubt sleeping. But there
was no Ismail near the entrance-no
Darya KhanZnor any of the other
men. The. horse was gone. So vas the
mule. So was the harness. and every
thing he had. except the drugs and in
struments and the presents the sick
had given him; he had noticed all
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28
Won His Lost Watch.

An extraordinary watch story is told
by a Welsh campaigner home on leave
from African battlefields. When he
was in German West Africa he lost a
wristlet watch. 1t was not very valu-
able, so he did not worry a lot about It.
But many months later, when on a.
tive service in German East Africa, he
took a share in q rafile for a watch. He
won, and to his amazement found that
the prize was his own watch.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28
UNDERGROUND RIVER FLOWS, AND IN A GREAT
CAVERN MEETS THOUSANDS OF FANATICS

Synopsis-At the beginning of the world war Capt. AthelStan
King OF the British Indian army and of its secret service, is ordered
to Delhi to meet la>lnini Il dancer, and 20 with her to Kinan to
meet the outlaws there who are said by spies to be preparing for n
jhnd or holy war. On his way to Delhi King quietly foIs II plan to
aSsasSinate him and gets evidence" that InSnnini is after him. He meets
Rcwa Gunca, YaSmniS man, who says she has already gone north,
and at her town house witnesses queer dances. Ismail, an Arid, be-
ltlnon and takes them north with him, tricking the Hangar into going
ahead. The Hangar deserts him III a dangerous time. He meets his
brother at Ali AaSid fort. The disguise he assumes there fools W.
the sharp-ryod cuthronts composing his guard. He enters Khinian
caves thanks to his lying guides.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-28

God is the giver, life a partnership
humanity q byotherboo4"-Selected