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Evening star., 1918-06-29

NEAR nth AND s SITS. NV.
4 handsome downtown home. IA
a high class and convenient lnr1-
tion. Contains 10 rooms and has
hot water heat and elertri" iiqnt.
Large buffers pantry, back stair
way and many other up-to-date
features. Reasonable terms. Price.
s9.750.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07

There is today in the city Of
Washington in active operation un
army whose exploits attract little
notice, but those members are d.
ing a very large ''bit" toward
winning the war fo1 America-an'
army of stenographers and typists,
twelve thousand strong, recruited
from every state in the Union. A.
ma ority of the soldiers of the
notebook and typewriter are girls.
Day in and day out their nimble
fingers carefully click out the
tremendous volume of correspon-
dence and records required by a
great nation at war. They wear
no badge nor uniform; their work
is all work and has no thrill nor
romance but the United States
could not stay in the war a month
without them. The rapidly ex.
panding departments of the GOV
eminent in Washington employ
stenographers and typists with =
greed that seems Unsuitable. The
United States civil service com.
mission estimates that there will
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07

LaFollette and Cummins on Job
Senator LaFollette and Senator
Cummins, across the same table,
are watching and asking questions
too. They are showing that the
people of this country want real
government operation Of the roads
and not through any one-man sys-
TEN, either. They are showing that
the only sane and sensible method
Of making the railroads serve the
public it to buy them at just what
they are really worth.
The game will 60 to the senate.
The debate will make good cam
paign material. The people have
a chance to elect congress this
fall that will buy the roads and
put them in the hands of the In
terstate Commerce commission, in
stead of into the hands of three
railroad presidents.
But when you read the news
papers stories about government
operation, just now, you can laugh.
Then you can get busy at max
ing it come true, through more
sincere congress.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07

The writer made business trip
up to the thriving and progressive
little village of Abercrmobie last
Friday afternoon and found as
nice bunch of business folks and
citizens as there are anywhere in
this state or anywhere alse.
We met E. w. Hutchinson, the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railway depot agent and found his
Office quarters as slick, and span
and clean as a parlor in we'll
kept residence. He is a booster
for everything good in Abercrom-
bic and is a livewire. He is a
benedict and was at one time edi-
tor of the Messenger, a paper
formerly published there, his wife
having done the mechanical work,
as Mr.. Hutchinson was not a
printer.
Next We met /. E. Lillegaard,
who has a well-kept hardware
establishment and his store was
full of customers and he enjoys a
good trade for miles around that
territory. He was a former farm
er and by dint of hard work and
energy worked himself up into his
present position. He is pusher
for the upbuilding TO Abercrom-
bic and surrounding country.
Then we met j. p. johnson. the
garage man, who has one of the
best equipped and most modern
establishments in that part of the
state. Mr.. johnson is doing fine
business. is a No. 1 mechanic and
a fine gentleman to meet.
Then we went to the Abercrom-
bic Hotel where there is always
served the most appetizing vaind,,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07
VISITS ABERCR0MB|E, A
LIVE, PROGRESSIVE TOWN

dished up in the latest culinary
art. They are doing a good bust
ness also.
John H. Loft, who conducts i
general merchandise business, has
a well-stocked store and an up-to-
date stock of goods, with a first
class meat market in connection.
He is good fellow, fine BUSH
ness man, and is popular among
his acquaintance who are all over
that country. He is a believer in
advertising and has an establish
ment and business of which any
man would be proud to be the
owner.
j. G.. Holkestad has clean, up
to date stock of groceries, with
fine fixtures and pretty interior
decorations, and his shelves are
well-stocked with fresh and up-to-
date goods. He is a booster for
Abercrombie and is doing his share
of the business.
Abercrombie has first-las
barber shop, livery barn and
lumber yard.
NJ. NJ. Borman. is proprietor of
the drug store and is doing a fine
business. He is an old timer in
the county, an expert pharmacist
and has an up-to-date stock.
Olaf Bjorke is pastomaster.
The Abercrombie Dray line is
another business enterprise that is
worthy of mention.
Abercrombie has two live banks,
First National, and State Bank.
Both are barometer of that town
and conntry's prosperity and are
up to-date institutions.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07

be twenty thousand government
employees of this class in Washing.
ton at the end of the this year.
Owing to the general demand the
commission is finding it diff
cult task to meet the calls of the
departments. Examinations are
held every Tuesday in $50 cities,
and the commission states that an
examination will be held in any
city at any time. day or night,
when there is prospect of assembl
ing class of three or four comper
itos. Eligibility may be obtained
through passing an examination in
practical tests in shorthand and
typewriting. 1t is practicable to
complete such an examination in
one hour. Representatives of the
civil service commission at the
postofice in all cities are furnish.
ing definite information to persons
interested.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07
WAHPETON LADY DOING
HER BIT

''More than a year ago I took q
course of Mayr's Wonderful Rem
edy for gall stones. severe collie and
stomach trouble and have been en-
tirely we'll ever since. 1 have re-
commended it to many other stom-
ach sufferers, as l felt it was my
duty to tell them just how much
good it has done me-" 1t is a
simple, harmless preparation that
removes the catarrhal mncus from
the intestinal tract and allays the
inflammation which causes practic-
ally all stomach liver and intesti-
nal ailments, including appendicit'
is. One dose will convince or
money refunded. H. Miller & Co.
41-t1
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07

cent year on the stock of % Of
the biggest railroad systems in the
country. For the Burlington it
would mean % per cent a year, and
for the Northern Paicfic and Great
Northern about 9.5 per cent a
year.
McAdoo For Generous Rates
Director General McAdoo wants
congress to pay these generous
rates to the stockholders of the
roads, and wants the whole ques-
ton of public ownership to be put
off until the end Of the war. So
does Chairman Sims of the house
committee on Interstate Commerce
who is following the administra-
ton program. They say that the
big thing is to get the bill through
now, which pays the railroads &C
cording to their earnings of the
last three years, and debate pub
lie ownership some other time.
On last Saturday McAdoo
seemed to be opposed to public
ownership, Oh Monday he had
changed, and was pinned down by
Senator C;am!nins to admit these
two things.
First. That it will be wro.r 4,
the public. after the war, to put the
roads back in their old competi-
tive game.
Second, That this competitive
game is necessary to private own
ership.
May Be Political Issue
That looks as thought McAdoo
were secretly willing to try pub
lie ownership, but wanted to save
it up as a campaign issue for
1920.
He said plainly that it was the
spectre of government owner
ship" that prevented this country
from having merchant ships for
this war, because it killed the ship
ping bill in 1914 that was to build
up American ships ards.
Chairman Smith of the senate
committee said he had a clear"
of government ownership. Cum
Minis said he would not call his own
sentiment "fear;" on the contr-
airy, he showed that he was for
public ownership right away.
Public ownership is not a spec
tire; it is here," was Sentaor La
Follette's way Of putting the sit
uation.
Real Economy Impossible
As a political issue, government
ownership is here.
But that is all.
1t is not going to carry that
senate committee this winter nor
will it carry the house committee.
Government operation-the kind
that will take up all these roads
and whip them into one big system
run with one big plan for carrying
the people and their freight as
cheaply and as quickly and as we'll
as possible-is not here. That
$3.50, 100000 with Ti.1emore, the
railroad traffic manager, spoke
about, won't be saved.
But the political issue is here,
sure enough.
Senator Kellogg is sitting at
that senate committee table watch,
ing like a lynx for every possible
bit Of evidence that will justify
more to the railroad stockholders
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07

cent year on the stock of % Of
the biggest railroad systems in the
country. For the Burlington it
would mean 25 per cent a year. and
for the Northern Paicfic and Great
Northern about 9.5 per cent
year.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27

the friendly demeanor of the dowager empress
Naturally this illadvised policy has had very
bad results At the beginning of the war many
Firms were in favor of the allies, chiefly by reason
of their English trade connections and English
sympathies. But when Russia's most powerful
md necessary ally forbode to say one word IN
favor of a reasonable treatment of Finland ana
when the English press by its undiscfminating
praise of all things Russian actually gave more
strength to the powers of reaction, then the rims
cannot be blamed for looking elsewhere
Their exiles fiocked to Germany in great num-
bers, and it is said that more than 5000 rims
took up their residence there. The Germans are
further credited with making active propaganda
for their cause among the professors ana students
of Finland but it seems doubtful whether they
would really have found it worth while, when the
allies themselves were uncOnsciously doing SO
much 10 spread proGerman sympathies there IL
but no one can say more than if-Finland was
occasionally used as a channel for commune
cation between Germany and the traitOrous party
In Russia the allies have only themselves to blame
However this may be, it seems pretty clear that
there were several German agencies in more than
one mart of Finland trying to stir the people up
to an armed revolt
Since our reactionary press at one time TOOK
upon itself to repeat the venerable and discredited
cliches about Finland's desire for independence
or for union with Sweden, it is well to say once
more that Finland's great nationalist movement
was all directed against Swedish influence, anu
that there are not five wiseacres in the whole
country who would dream of the possibility OF
such a union. Nor has the fiercest advocate OF
Finnish freedom ever contemplated absolute IN
dependence. The position of the country and ITS
very small population wholly forbid it,
Surely this tiny nation has magnificent future
It nav even be possible for Them highly trained
and politically qualified they are, TO hurry
through the intervening stages of their economic
development and show to Europe the working
model of a cooperative commonwealth. They are
in the main Mongolians, patient, passive, secret
and unfathomable, and their kinsmen in Japan
and China have done equally marvellous things.
Yet alien from us they are racially, their de-
velopment is so western that no Engshman who
has spent much time in Finland has any sense of
race barrier. On the contrary, they seem, once
known curiously appealing and sympathetic, this
brave. ugly little people, with their high cheek
bones, great foreheads and deep-set eyes.
Their literature, like their landscape, is ex-
traordinarily varied and beautiful and there runs
through 1t sense of the timeless forests and the
unbounded North. 1t haunts you; no one who has
felt the charm of Finland is really content till he
sees the Land of Thousand Lakes again.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27
PAPER FAMINE IN OLD TIMES.

There was paper famine in Europe in the
seventh century. In A. D. $40 the Saracens con.
ouered Egypt, and at the same time by order Oh
omar their caliph, the renowned library at Alex
andria, consisting of 100000 volumes, was burned.
Tho naper supply of the then world was derived
from the papyrus bark. a reed which grew only
in Egypt Consequently, when the Saracens
gained possession of the country the paper supply
was cutoff This led to the adoption of a curious
expedient The writing on used papyrus paper
was erased and the paper, which was thus made
available again brought into use. An old author
has suggested that probably owing to this many
valuable contributions from classic writer's, Taci-
t1,s Ivy and others, were lost TO the world.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27
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CHEAP RATIoNs FOR HORSES
Animals Performing Hard Work May
Be Given Straw and Corn Slower
in Limited Quantities.

Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Cheap feeds, such as straw and corn
slower, have a place in the horse ra-
ton. For growing colts and for horses
doing hard work these roughages may
be fed in limited quantities, supple
mentary to q more nutritious ration.
A caution is timely in regard to feed
ing bulky roughages low in nutrients.
Horses have comparatively small
stomachs and their digestive anatomy
is in no way suited to handle great
bulk of feed. Little nourishment is
derived from a pound of such rough
age, and in maintaining a hard-work-
ing animal too great bulk OF feed
would necessarily be taken into the
body. 1t is therefore desirable to COM
bine with limited quantity of slower
or straw sufficient legume hay, grain,
or other nutritious feed to meet the in
dividual requirements of the horse.
A small portion of some laxative feed,
such as silage, roots, bran, or alfalfa,
may well be included in q ration con-
tanning a large proportion Of corn
slower or straw.
Cottonseed meal has met with con-
siderable disfavor among horse feed
ers, but it may be fed In limited guam
titles If due care is exercised. 1t is
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27
ICE AS A sWEETMEAT.

We Americans eat more ice cream and similar
frozen desserts than the people of any other ma
ton, but the japanese have us beaten as eaters
OF Ice According to the Tokyo Advertiser one
of their favorite dishes is small cakes of ice
broken into tiny pebbly pieces and eaten with
sugar and lemon. or any other mixture that they
may fancy. The commonest way of eating ice in
Japan however, is to shave 1t into snowy fakes
and to swallow 1t with sweetened water into
which various appetizers. such as fruit juice or
sweetmeats, have been thrown.
Ice cream, milk and eggs shaken with Ice and
other kinds of cooling beverages are sold in an
everncreasine quantity, but the old style OF eat
ing raw" ice, In what the japanese call the
kormizu fashion, is still In the greatest vogue
Youths Companion.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27

In no case is the federal government
to pay more to the owner than is paid
by the state, county or municipality.
No payment by the federal government
is to be more than $25 for any grade
animal or more than $50 for any pure
bred animal, and no payment is to be
made unless the owner has complied
with all quarantine regulations.
This provision is expected to re-
move much of the opposition among
cattle owners that has hlndered tuber-
culosis eradication work. Through IL
the federal government, the states
county or municipal governments and
the owners of cattle will share in the
loss resulting from slaughternig in
fected animals for the protection OF
other animals not infected.
Another important development ex~
pected to hasten tuberculosis eradica-
ton was the unanimous adoption by
breeders and live stock sanitarians Of
national reputation of regulations for
accrediting pure-bred herds Of cattle.
This action, taken last December,
marked the coordination of efforts OF
individuals and the state and federal
governments for the suppression Of
tuberculosis In pure-bred animals.
On July 1. the department issued its
first list of herds officially accredited
as free from tuberculosis. The herds
numbered on that date approximately
24O. The list also named herds that
had passed one successful test. They
must pass another annual test success
fully before being placed on the &C.
credited list.
The annual loss from tuberculosis
among cattle and hogs Is reckoned az
SAC, OO0O00 in the United States. The
federal campaign to eradicate the dis
ease is of comparatively recent begin
ming. 1t has been divided into three
well-defined projects. The first project
is the eradication of tuberculosis from
individual herds of pure-bred cattle :.
the second is the eradication of cattle
tuberculosis from cireumscribed areas !.
the third is the eradication OF tubercu-
losis among swine.
It is estimated by officials In close
touch with available records that ID
per cent of pure-bred cattle In thisl
country are affected with tuberculosis
In grade cattle and swine the percent-
age of infection Is gradually increas-
ing, as shown by post-mortem records
in establishments where meat inspec-
tion is maintained. Infected animals
are not only dangerous to other ami
mails but may transmit the disease ii
mankind through milk and flesh.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27
TUBERCULOSIS LOSS IS BIG
Federal Government Bears Partial
Loss of Animals Slaughtered
Because of Infection. ..

prepared by the United States Departs
ment of Agriculture)
The 1919 agricultural appropriation
bill just passed by congress contains
an item expected to be of great im~
portance in the federal and state cam-
paign to eradicate tuberculosis among
cattle and swine. 1t provides that the
federal government shall pay indem"
nifty to owners,whose cattle are slaugh-
tered because they have been found Inc
fected with tuberculosis.
The department of agriculture is to
pay one-third of the difference between
the appraised value of the cattle and
the salvage value Of the slaughtered
animals, provided that the state, coun-
ty or municipality in which the cattle
are owned and kept is cooperating in
the tuberculosis work and pays at
least an equal amount to the owner.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27

The election of the Russian duma and the tenn
porary restoration Of Finlandis constitution. Yet
restored" is hardly the word, for that restricted
cautious and eminently bourgeois constitution OF
1868 resurrected into something democratic
and terrible-a popular government, based upon
full adult suffrage and proportional representation
with elected house, containing at its f1rSt as
semblage in April, 1907, 80 social democrats out
of a total of 200. And these were genuine uncon'
promising Marxist social democrats, the outcome
of party which first formed in 1899. Since
then the social democratic representation of Fin
land has steadily increased at every election
From the spring of 1907 to that of 1909 Finland
experienced "two crowded years of glorious life
in which the country simply hummed with internal
progress and political development. The old feuds
of Svekonan and Fennoman were taken up with
renewed vigor, although the Swedish speaking
Films were now only one-ninth of the population
and still decreasing.
We all remember how in May, 1910, 120 men,
bers of the British parliament signed a memorial
to the duma expressing the apprehension with
which they regarded the proposal to deprive Fin
land of her constitutional rights, while a large
number of German, French, Italian, Belgian and
Dutch deputies formed and addressed similar
memorials But oil this was in vain. and by July,
1910 the bill for the classification of Finland be-
came law
1t was not Immediately and violently put into
practice. The landtdag was still assembled at in
tervals though 1t had rather less power than a
municipal council. A number of official dimissals
took place. Russians given full Finnish
rights in Finland and the usual series of arrests.
imprisonments and exilings followed, but until
1912 the Finnish press was only internationally
censored. However, this second series of bad
years was much harder for the Firms than the
period of 1S991906
Soon after the war began Finland was practical
ly cut off from the civilized world. classification
set in with full force and the most stringent CEN
sorsrip of the press of correspondence and of all
written matter whatever was established. Even
the internal business of the country suffered great
w. and the whole people were put under Matches"
as it We're and assuredly very short rations for
an unlimited time.
One piece of news only came through In the
early DAYS of the war, to the effect that the dow
ager empress of Russia had returned from Den.
mark by way of Finland and had shown much
courtesy and common sense on her passage. 1t
was said that she had caused her personal guard
to be greatly relaxed. that she had talked with
Firms everywhere and had taken pains to create
a good impression. But shortly after her return
the Firms were specially and officially warned NOT
to build any false hopes of restored liberty upon
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27
FAMOUS BRITISH REGIMENT.

The Coldstream guards is regiment of foot
pnrrds in the British army forming part of the
royal household brigade. 1t is one OF the Oldest
regiments Of the British service, dating FROM
1859. In that year General Monk who, after the
death OF Cromwell took sides with the pariia-
mept and the army, organized the regiment at
co,dstrean a border town of Berwickshire. Scot,
land. whence the name OF the regiment and
marched with it into England 1t has seen service
n every British campaign of any magnitude. and
has ernblazoned on Its regimental cOlors the
names Of many of the most brilliant victories OF
British arms.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27
TATToolNe ANCIENT CUSTOM.

The antiquity of tattooing Is evidenced by It's
almost universal employment among primitive
peoples In New Guinea the young women are
tattooed all over their bodies. their faces being
similarly treated after marriage
In the Solomon islands girl is not eligible for
marriage unless she has been tattooed. The girls
of Borneo are thus adorned from waist to knees
in most elaborate fashion; likewise their hands.
feet and ankles
In Burmah, under the last king. every male
was required by royal edict to be tattooed from
waist to knees; and it was customary for the
girls to have their tongues tattooed with charms
to attract the men.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27

Corn fodder with ears). ....is pound
Alfalfa pouni
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27
GROUND SOY BEANS FOR PIGS
Found TO BE About 10 Per Gent Supe-
rior to Wheat Middiings In Test
al Wisconsin.

ASIA supplement to cornmeal for
growing and fattening pigs. the Wis
consin station found that ground soy
beans proved about 10 per cent supe-
rior to wheat middlings, figuring the
cost Of the feeds as the same. The In
diana station compared rations Of two
parts of cornmealg and one part OF
soy-bean meal with cornmeal and
wheat middlings In equal proportions
and with five parts Of cornneal and
one part Of tankage for pork produc-
ton. The soy-bean ration produced
the largest daily gains, and this with
the smallest quantity of feed consumed
fer each pound CT grain.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-12-27

N 1916 Emperor. Alexander I OF
Russia wrote to Steinheit, then
governor general of Finland, in
the following terms: "As re-
CARDS the conditions of Finland,
my intention has been to give
this people a political existence,
SO that they may not feel them
selves conquered by Russia, but
united to her for their own clear