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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
HOME GARDENING
IS FASCINATING
Becomes Sport When There Is
Rivalry With Neighbors for
Fresh Vegetables.
ENJOYED BY ENTIRE FAMILY
Getting an Early Start by Indoor
Propagation Will Help Gardener
Some Suggestions for Get
ting Ahead of Jack Frost.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Gardening a be made a very in
~teresting game with many Of the fea-
lures Of friendly competition which
make golf, tennis and other summer
sports so fascinating to many people.
Like these sports, skill and practice
increase the probability of winning
honors, but unlike them it is remuner-
attve and is enjoyed by the entire
family, who can take part in the gar
den work and enjoy eating the vege-
tables produced.
Gardening becomes a contest or
game when there is rivalry between
neighbors to see who has the first
mess of peas or the first ripe tomatoes,
or who can raise the largest potatoes
or melons. There is a pride, too, in
having some prize product exhibited
in the window of the local store or
seeing a notice of some accomplish
ment published in the home newspa-
per.
Beating Jack Frost.
To those who enter the game Of
gardening and covet the honor of hav-
ing the first ripe vegetables, garden
ing specialists of the United States
Department Of Agriculture offer some
suggestions for beating Jack Frost
and getting garden operations in mo
ton before the open season for plants.
At least four weeks time can be
saved, specialists say, for many crops.
like tomatoes and cabbage, by starting
the plants in the house. If operations
are to be conducted on a small scale,
two or three cigar boxes filled with
soil and placed in a south window fur
nish a seed bed for starting a few
plants. For most home gardeners a
more desirable seed bed can be made
by placing good soil in a fiat tray
three inches deep and of convenient
size to fit in a well-lighted window
with southern exposure. A little care
will be necessary in keeping the tray
properly watered.
All garden plants are dependent
upon light for growth, and wheE start
ed in the window Immediately begin
to turn their heads toward the light
To overcome this the box in which
they r grown should be turned
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
ALIVE WITH GOLDFISH
Japanese Variety Were First Placed
There Years AGO. :

SoPopSSS VaiiSty WCTG FIST Placed
There Years Ago.
Millions of goldfish We're discovered
one day recently in the big lake east
of Big Springs, Neb.
The fish ame to the openings in
the ice while it was being cut for com
mercial purposes, and a large number
were caught. The fish are said to be
of the Japanese fantail variety, and
weighed from several ounces to a
pound.
The fish are believed to be those
placed in the lake Is years ago hy C.
A. Elker, a rancher and now captain
of the Keith County Farm Bureau
Membership Campaign committee.
Elker, who visited the lake and saw
thousands of the golden colored fish,
said that about Is years ago he put a
large number of goldfish in the lake.
Big Lake was formed from the seep-
age of the irrigation ditch.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
4 rEsT OF FAITH
chattanooga News.)

We have frequent occasion to pro-
test against the efforts Of Japan to
impose her dominion upon unwilling
peoples, yet we have thus far failed
to exemplify the ideals which we rec
ommend to Japan. IF we should with
draw u sovereignty from the Philip
pines, in accordance with our repeated
promises, we could the more consist
emily ask Japan to follow q similar
course toward Shantung, Manchuria
and Siberia. Our plea would have a
great deal more force ,if we. could
make itswith clean hands. To say that
the Philippines are not ready for In
dependence Is merely to express an
arbitrary. gratuitous opinion. It is
perfectly easy to create conditions
in ones own mind-that no people
ever could comply with. Our delay
about respecting our own pledge Is q
reflection on our national good faith
and "a constant invitation to interna-'
tional complications in the far east.
NWt" ia 50 AE NNEt ~ H LNEN H q ~ ~
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
SKULLS OF PREHISTORIC
RACE FOUND On ISLAND
Gave DWeners Believed to Have
Inhabited Masbate, One Of
Philippine Group.

Nearly fifty skulls, believed to have
belonged to people who Inhabited the
island Of Masbate, n of the Philip
pine group just south Of the island of
Luzon, at a much earlier period than
the present Filipino race, were found
in a cave recently on that island by
DR.. w. D. Smith, chief Of the mines
division Of the bureau Of science of
the Philippine government.
1t is the belief of Doctor Smith that
the location of the cave was not known
to the natives Of the island, being far
from any h%abitation.
Besides the skulls many primitive
implements Of carpentry and warfare
were collected and brought to Manila.
These consisted of stone hatchets,
axes, scrapers, pipes, pots and a
strange amulet. Deer teeth and shells
were also found in the. cave, leading
Doctor Smith to the conclusion that
the primitive cave jewellers lived by
hunting and fishing.
Prof. 81. o. Boyer Of the anthropo-
logical department Of the University
Of the Philippines, who has the skulls
and other relics brought from the
cave, expressed the belief that they
belonged to the early Indonesian peo-
pies, who emigrated to the Philippines
in prehistoric times. Some of the
skulls also were found to be artificial
ly deformed, a custom Of deforming
the head artifcially having prevailed
in some parts Of Europe in very early
times.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
There areh hundreds Oft thousands of this type ct young men in the Philippines
They are t o be The future rulers Of the desinies of the islands

The Filipino has been much misrep-
resented in the United States. This is
largely because the Sunday supple
ments have made a speciality Of por-
traying the semi-naked non-Christian
hill tribes as typical" Filipinos, which
lis far from the trsth.
The total population of the Philip
pines is 10,350,64O, Of which 9,495,272
are Christians and civilized, and have
been so for 300 years, possessing a cul-
ture and refinement that will compare
favorably With that of other countries.
The number of non-Christians is $685.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

The United States isn't the only
country that has homesteaders-those
e%nterprising pioneers who leave thick
ly populated districts and take their
families into virgin territory to create
homes for themselves. The Philippine
islands have thousands Of thrifty home
steaders.
The above photograph shows a pic
ture of a Christian Filipino homestead
er and his family rear Pikit, Cotabato
province, Mindanao, P. I. Five years
g he was a cab driver working for
low wages at Cebu, a thickly populated
city. He went into the, then wilderness
Of Mindanao, planted hemp and cocoa
nuts, paid for his land and has be-
come wealthy. Thousands, of similar
instances could be cited. One Mindanao
homesteader is worth 100000.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
MATCHES BROOD IN TREE
Pennsylvania Puilet Picks High Place
for Family.

A Rhode Island Red pullet on the
Sanderson farm, north of Lock Haven,
Pa. Matched last spring. has brought
forth a brood Of chicks on the limb
of a willow tree from the first eight
eggs she laid.
The nest and setting hen were dis
covered by a member of the Sanderson
family. Three chickens were chirping
under the mother hen and more are
expected. The place selected by the
hen for the nest is in a depression on
the remaining portion of a large limb
attached to a willow stump. about six
feet from the ground and is exposed
to the elements.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

around each day. Out of doors they
get the light from all sides, but in the
window they get it from only n side.
TranspIanting the Seedlings.
When the seeding plants are big
enough to handle-that is, when they
have formed about two leaves in addi-
ton to their seed leaves-other. boxes
of soil should be provided and the
plants transplanted about two inches
apart each way to give them plenty
of room. More window space. must be
provided, and 1t may be necessary to
build a stage and support one box
above another. The same precautions
as to watering and turning to get uni
form light will be necessary. On warm
days the boxes can be put outdoors.
When it comes to planting in the
garden, the plants grown in boxes are
cut apart with a cube of soil around
the roots of each. Those grown in
pots are Jared loose, turning the head
Of the plant downward with the stem
of the plaEt between the first and sci
ond fingers of the left hand. Where
tin cans without bottoms are used,
the ball of earth is pushed nearly out
of the can. The plant is then set with
the can sticking up around it as pro-
lection against cutworms. After a
week or two the can is lifted yer the
top of the plant. This practice is be-
ing extensively followed by CONNER
cial gardeners in certain. sections. who
by the aid of one of the little can-seaI-
ing machines now on the market Gu.
off the tops and the bottoms of thou
sands Of discarded empty cans for use
in TRANSFORMING plants. Some garden
ers dip the cans in a thin solution OF
shellac to keep them from rusting.
One way of extending the garden
season and getting ahead Of neighbor-
Ing gardeners is by starting several
early crops in a h0tbed. In addition
TO starting plants. the hotbed is useful
for growing n few early vegetables fc'
the table.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

The Philippine government is c
aging the immigration OF Filipinos
from the thickly populated sections in
to Mindanao. This is the second larg-
est e the islands of the archipelago.
It IS still sparsely settled although
it is one Of the richest and most pro-
'ductive islands in the world. Many
Americans have established planta-
lions there and become rich.
Filipinos are using the stories of the
many successful Filipino hemesteaders
as an argument for independence. They
make the point that a people that can
go out into a tropical wilderness with
no capital save their patience, perse-
verence and energy and win homes 7or
themselves, have the necessary stamina
to run their own affairs.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
WRECKED AFTER
CREW vANISHES
"Ghost Ship Adds Page to Seas.
Book Of Mystery.
NONE saw SCHOONER STRIKE

Hr-E@teHetH lttY .NrtNr GFAHE
Bones Of the Carroll A. Deering Now
Bleaching in Graveyard of the At
%Iantic," Its Master and Crew Van
inshed, No Man Knows Where or
Why-No Mark to Show Why 1t Had
Been Observation-Disclosures Is No Rec
ord of Last Voyage.
A grim specter stood unseen at the
helm of the Bath built schooner Car
roll A. Deering, when it cleared Rio
de Janiero harbor last December, rid
ing light, and winged out to sea with
Norfolk port to make via the Barba-
dos.
The ship was tough and trim from
truck to keelson, sound throughout
and no more than sweetened to the
ways of the sea by its year off the
building stocks. A stout New England
shipmaster, weathered to all the gales
that blow, trod the quarterback.
Above him clean, sound canvas tow
cred away to the five great masts that
drove more than a thousand tons
through the water on airs that no more.
than famed the cheek.
Ghost Ship of Shoals.
Today it is 1.-THE Ghost Ship of the
Diamond Shoals" it's bones bleaching
in "the graveyard of the Atlantic"
it's master and crew vanished, no man
knows where or why. 1t has added
one more page to the seas great book
Of mystery.
There is no record of the behring's
last voyage. It sailed full handed,
thrilling with life and power. A
month later it staggered blindly shore
ward, alone by night, to ram its way
to a last berth, on the shoal. No hand
tended the wheel; no man stood to
clack a sheet or spill the wind from
the tortured canvas to ease the death
struggle. 1t was a dead ship. No
living thing saw it's end.
Sunset was drawing down the gloom
Of night on a Sunday evening when
patrols from the life , saving station
looked their last for the day across
the storm fretted shoals. The surges
ran white over the lurking menac of
the sands, headstoned with relics Of
many a stout craft. But there was
no sail in sight. The wide reach of
sea beyond was empty in the gather
ing gale.
In the morning, the Deering lay be-
fore them in the grip of the sand, It's
canvas set and Stating to ribbons in
the wind, its boat gear hammering
oversize, its boats and it's. people
vanished. All day the life savers
sought to reach 1t. Some of the
crew might still be aboard. Time and
again they were beaten back by wind
and sea and it was a day later before
it was known positively that it was
an empty ship, stripped Of all life be-
fore 1t had plunged into the death
trap.
No ciew to Missing.
There was no mark on the boat to
show why it had been abandoned. It
was apparently unchanged until the
, wind and sea and sand had their will
Of it and slowly ripped it timber
from timber, on the shoal. Under the
drive of its sails the ship was buried
beyond the power of tugs to pull it out.
And in the weeks that have passed
not a word has come to tell what be-
came of the crew. Nobody has been
washed up; no remnant of lifeboat or
clothing has come ashore.
WILL SHIP BABIES TO U. S.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

The great task of the bureau of
chemistry of the department Of agri-
culture, where food is tested and an
alyzed to safeguard the public against
impure products, is practically un-
known.
All articles of food are analysed by
experts of the bureau and products
found injurious to the health Of the
nation are seized and condemned.
The accompanying photograph
shows a chemist making a test Of
the branding ink with which meats are
stamped.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
AGRICULTURE A NATIONAL
B

A sober national thought with
regard to the importance, the
absolute necessity, of q sus-
tained agriculture in this coun-
try is imperative. There is,
perhaps, no single solution for
the situation which the farmers
ARE now facing, but there are
many steps which car be and
should be taken to place our ag-
rfculture on a more satisfactory
basis and to stabilize the bust
ness of farming, not in the in
terest of the farmers alone but
in the interest of the nation as
a whole. The matter is of such
tremendous Importance to our
entire population that it should
be recognized everywhere as a
national problem and dealt with -,
as such.-Annual Report of the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
WILL SHIP BABIES TO u. S.

British Perfect Plan to Have Tots
Adopted by Americans.
The National Adoption society of
England has perfected a plan to send
a considerable number of British
babies to the United States for adop-
ton.
These babies include orphans, H.
legitimate children o children of par
ents unable to care for them. At pres
ent the matter is held up by a techni-
cality in the immigration laws. It
is planned to overcome this difficulty
by getting individual Americans TO
sponsor financially each baby sent
over.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

36s and only a small percentage of
them are uncivilized. They are fast.
becoming educated, and will. ultimate
ly make good citizens.
Seventy per cent of the inhabitants
Of the Philippines oyer ten years of
age, according to the last census, are
literate. This is a higher percentage
of literacy than that of any South
American country, higher than that Of
Spain, and higher than that Of any
of the New Republics of Europe whose
independence is being guaranteed by
the Allies.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

Montana Proposes Tax on Bachelors.
A bill providing for a special poll
tax of So annually on all bachelors
residing In Montana has been passed
by the senate. The proceeds of the
tax would be paid into the widows
pension fund.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
$a15 for Grease Spots on Gown.

! Justice Richter has awarded sl15
damages to Mrs. Katherine Seymour
of Detroit, Mich, who sued a hotel
for damage done to a costly gown
she wore when a waitress spilled al
plate of soup in her lap
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
DRY PLACE FOR SEED BEANS
lMoIds Will Quickly Attack Crop II
Moisture Gets to Them, Killing
terminating Qualities.

Beans for seed should be kept in a
4 dry place or molds will readily attack
them. Beans will heat if the least
bit of moisture gets to them and de-
stroys their terminating qualities.
shoyeling them over will help keep
them dry.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
chile May Be Mecea Of Sd, GOO eer,nans,

Chile May Be Mecca Of $4,000 Germans.
Germany is planning to send 10000
colonists to Chile. The government In
Berlin has requested a South Ameri-
can bureau to estimate the cost OF lIy-
Ing for iahorers in Chile so that 1t can
make the necessary arrangements for
sending them there.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

Cat Mothers Rats in Bank Cupboard.
A cat, which makes its home in the
First National bank in Richmond, Va
was found nursing three infant rats
in a cupboard. The cat, with her
curious litter of little ones. was dis
covered by the night engineer.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
Manuel Z. Quezon
President Philip.

TETE Er-HH Ea-h Easg&TSEE-
pie of the Philip pine Senate
pines covet their freedom, liberty and
political emancipation SO much that
they will not hesitate to receive from
the Congress Of the United States
complete and absolute Independence
without protection. Queen said.
If the United States, dictated by its
own interests, decides to extend pro,
lection to the philippines, well aud
good. We4wssa!a accept that as ii So
tuition Of u problems If not. lei rs
have absolute Independence in wlla,
ever foim}iwe can Iet H.
l.fesit n Que ON drelnred ,nat II
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

Boy Set Fire to Hated Sunday School.
Unable to think Of any other way
to avoid attending Sunday school, Mil
ton Jenkins, thirteen years old. of
Baltimore. Nd, set fire to the church
after his parents insisted that he at
tend Sabbath school.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
INDEPENDENCE or PHILIPPINES
(Atascadero tCal.) News.)

The Philippines should be
given absolute independence. which is
their natural right, even Il w are
well aware that they have not YET
reached the full stature OF American
ism. We ourselves have not reached
II 80 long az we insist upon govern.
Ing other peoples against their wili,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21
ASKS INDEPENDENCE WITH
OR WITHOUT PROTECTION
Manila, p. I.

Manila, P. l.
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Philippines a n I
independence in
" h a t CIV e r form
they can get It,
NJ a Qaezon,
president of the
Philippine senate,
declared in an ad.
dress before thai
body.
Let the Amer
cans in the Philip:
pines and those in
the United States
t,ay tbnt fnn rnS
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

around each day. Out of doors they
get the light from all sides, but in the
window they get it from only one side.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-12-22

MEN, READ THIS-A further ,ssut. on Stetson Hats
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-16
FUN SCHEDULED
FOR ~ CIRCUS


More than 150 athletes will par
ticipate in the eighth annual circus
to be given at the Y. N. c. A., Thurs
day, March 81 and Friday, April /.
Plans have been completed and
those to take part are practicing
hard to make this years event one
Of the biggest and best ever pro-
duced. All gym classes from the
props to the seniors will take part
In the entertainment and the even
ing win be crowded with stunts Of
various sorts There will be acts Of
all kinds, gymnastics. displays Of
apparatus work and daring aero
batic feats. Several side shows
will be given and the human fly
and the scare crow dance" will be
introduced.
The Boy Scouts will be feature
in the close Of the program and
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-16
ORION
Especial Correspondence

VcpecaA correspondence.
Miss Ruth Nelson Il recovering
from = severe attack Of Quinsy and
mas been at her home in Cambridge
the last week.
Walter Essenpries Of Waterloo.
IOWA. was . Sunday guest 1t the
Arthur Boutwell, home.
Mr.. and MYy. Forrest WAYNE re-
turned Saturday from q three
days visit in Rock island at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Com
over.
The ". N. s.. Of the Methodist
chuEch entertained the ladies Of
the congregation At the church Fri
day afternoon, when the mite boxes
were opened. A splendid program
wassfollowed by q season Of socia-
buity. and q delicious lunch was
served. The tables were beauti-
fully decorated in green and white
the favors and CONNECTIONS being
In shamrocks. Over $7S was real
lied from the boxes and donations
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Blade have re-
turned from Sweden and are living
tn the former Moody home.
Mrs. Susan Cooper hab returned
from q several weeks visit with
her daughter. Mrs. Linell Of Oal
Park.
Miss Efie Williams of Galesbure
is with her mother, Mrs. Orpha
Williams, for an extended visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kimball, who until
recently lived in Nebraska, have
moved to the tenant house, on the
Arthur Chase farm.