The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-22

the intention Of sending American machines
across in this way to save cargo space
We have almost six months yet to go on the
prophecy.
During the last few weeks occasional dis
patches have come from Russia telling Of the
growing activity Of the Czecho-Slav army.
who are the Czecho- Slavs?" has been COM
mon question
During the early days Of the war many
thousand Czecho- Slavs deserted from the Aus
TRAN armies and Joined the Russians, with
whom their racial sympathies lay. They made
but one condition, and that was that they should
not be used against men Of their own race
fighting with Austria.
The signing Of the Brest-Litovsk peace
treaty left them in an embarrassing position
They could not return to Austria where they
would be shot traitors, and they did not
want to remain under Bolshevik rule. Thous-
ands Of them banded together and started east
ward along the Siberian railroad with the in
tention of reaching Vladivostok and getting
passage to America, to rejoin the Allies the
western front.
The Germans heard of the movement and in
| sisted that they be disarmed.
The Bolshevili attempted to do it, and found
the task too much for them. Now the Czecho-
slavs have control of big sections of the rail-
road, and have choked choked off all grain sup
plies from European Russia They can thus
dictate terms to the tottering Bolshevist gov
eminent, and if the Allies decide to intervene in
Siberia, they will be the nucleus Of an Allied
army.
Anyone who has cussed impotently at a
dripping faucet; anyone who has been over
awed by. a pounding hot water heater; anyone
who has stood in utter impotence beside an
electric fixture Of any kind that refused to
function, may rise up some day and bless the
name Of Professor Keene Of the North Da-
kota Agricultural college. -s...s
Our recollection of the science Of physics is
not a pleasant one. We have very hazy mem
cries of meaningless chapters labelled heat"
Tight" and, sound" which appeared to have
been written out Of sheer spite toward strug-
Cling youth.
But Professor Keene has taken the amaz-
ing stand that physics should be Of prac-
tical use. Out at his workshop he has, for
ample, the cross section Of a faucet, You can
see the internal workings Of faucet, and know
why 1t leaks. You can study the cross section
of a heating plant, and the dark mysteries of it's
interior become an open book. You no longer
view it with mixture of awe and detestation.
You can learn all the mysteries Of the tee-
phone, or the electric bell, electric switches,
or the entire wiring system Of house.
USSS
and the book has been adopted textbook
at Columbia university.
BY reading the book or taking the course. any
man should become that rare jewel, "a handy
man about the house.. We believe every wife
should take the course and study the book.
Many years ago George T. Lanigan, clever
Canadian employed the editorial staff of
The New York World, was reading the tee-
a message that the Ahkoond of Swat was dead.
He promptly sat down to his typewriter and
wrote the following lines which were recently
unearthed by The New York Times from the
old files: a
What, what, what,
What's the news from Swat?
Sad news,
Bad news,
Corneth by the cable led
Through the Indian oceans bed,
Through the Persian Gulf, the Red
Sea and the Med
Iterranean--hes dead
The Ahkoond is dead!
For the Ahkoond mourn,
.r Who wouldn't?
He strove to disregard the message stern,
But he Ahkoodn't -r #
f> Dead dead, dead, ..
(Sorrow, SWats!)
Swats Wha haze wi Ahkoond bed,
Swats Wham he hath often led, ''t
Onward to a CORY bed, a..
or to victory,
AS the case might be-
Sorrow, SWats!
Tears shed,
Shed tears like water,
Your great Ahkoond is dead
That's Swats the matter!
Fallen at length,
It's tower of strength,
It's sun lis dirnmed ere it had ,nooned
Dead lies the great Ahkoond,
The Great Ahkoond of Swat
Is not.
If you are still curious about Swat, we looked
it up. It's province on the north border OF
India, peopIed by Mohammedans and ruled by
kind OF high priest who bears the title OF Ah-
koond Just who is Ahkoonding there at pres
ent we weren't able to discover 1t probably
doesn't matter anyway.
Our heart goes out in sympathy to the editor
OF the Rocky Mountain Cyclone, published some
place in Nevada who tells his troubles in this
fashion:
we begin the publication OF the Roccy
Mountain Cyclone with some phew diphicuties
in the way. The type phounder phrom whom
we bought our output phor this printing ophice
phailed to supply us with any ephs or Gays, and
it will be phour or phive week bephore we
can get any We have ordered the missing LETT
ters and viii have to get along without them till
they come. We don't liuue the look ov this
ers, but mistaix win happen in the best oy
regulated pnamiliaa, and, Jpn the his and Ga
and KS and p's hold OUT we shall eaep, fsound
the g hard1 the Cyclone Whirling apnteE
phasion TIL the sorts arrive. 1t is no Joqua to
usi It's serious apnair.