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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
BIG MEN AT POKER TABLE
Post Writes of Games in Which
Statesmen Figured.

" Cleveland was fond-not over
fond-of g rds. He liked to play the
noble game at, say, q dollar Limit
even once ard a while for a little more
but not n-ach mor And, as DR..
Norvin Green was wont to observe of
Commodore Vanderbilt, "He held them
exceeding close to his BOSOM"
MI. Whitney. secretary Of the navy
in his first administration, equally
rich and hospitab1e, had often "the
road gang" as a certain group, mainly
senator's, was called, to dine, with the
inevitable after-dinner seiree or
seance. 1 was, when in Washington,
invited to these parties. At one Of
them / CHANGED to sit between the
president and Senator Don Cameron.
MIR. Carlisle, at the time speaker OF
the housewife handled his cards like
a child and, as we all knew, couldn't
play a little-was seated on the oppo-
site side Of the table.
After a while MI. Cameron and l
began bulling the game-I recall that
the limit was $5-that is, raising and
b~ack-raising each other, and whoever
else happened to be in, without much
or any regard to the cards we held.
1t CHANGED on a deal that I picked
up d pat flush; Mr.. Cleveland a pat
full. The Pennsylvania senator and I
went to the extreme, the president. of
course, willing enough for us to play
his hand for him. But the speaker Of
the house persistently stayed with us
and kept on.
We could not drive him out.
When it came to a draw Senator
Cameron drew one card. Mr.. Cleve-
land and I stood pat. But Mr.. Car
Isle drew four cards. At length, after
much banter and betting, it reached
a showdown and, mirabile dictu, the
speaker held four kings!
"Take the money, Carlisle: take the
money! exclaimed the president. eff
ever I am president again you shall
be secretary of the treasury. But
don't you make that four-card draw
too often"
He was president again, and Mr..
Carlisle was secretary of the treas
ury.-Saturday Evening Post.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Hometown
WORK FOR "H0ME BEAUTIFUL"
Government Demonstration Agents
Give Advice Concerning Pretty
and Convenient Dwellings.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
1t does not cost any more to build
a house which will be pretty and con-
venient than it does to erect a homely
and inconvenient dwelling, the home
Representation agents are telling the
people in their territories. The state
agricultural colleges and the United
States department Of agriculture are
backing up this "home beautiful"
movement. In some states the work Is
yet in the lecture stage and in others
demonstration homes are being erect
ed which are to serve as good ex-
amples Of architecture in that COM
munity.
, Such a home was built last summer
in Talladega county, Ala. Not only its
plans, but it's decoration and land
scape setting as well, have been made
according to the designs of the govern
ment experts. 1t is up-to-date in every
detail, but strict economy has been
used in the plans. Beauty Of line and
material are to be found in this dwell
ing. So much L has been put on
the floor plans and so many labor
saving devices have been built in that
housekeeping in it will be easy. The
house is built of lumber cut on the
Urn and it is located on a main thor
ughfare, where a comfortable, we'll
Tanned, and pretty farm home can be
ii source Of inspiration.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Electric Matching Of Chicks.

A third of a million chickens a sea-
son is the proposed capacity which q
customer of the Electric Power COM
pany Of Portland, Ore, intends to at
tain in his electrically operated chick
en- farm known as "Henacres." His
output this season will be in the neigh
borhood of 100000 chickens, as com
pared with $4,000 for last year. This
farm started with one small electric
Incubator in 1915 and now is equipped
to operate on a large scale, having a
single incubator with & capacity of
10000 eggs. The total connected load
for this plant consists of 1876 kilowatts
of heating and 3 kilowatts of lighting.
For emergency service, continues the
Electrical Review, a 20-kilowatt direct
current generator is installed at the
farm and is SO arranged that it may
be driven from the owners truck.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Magic carpet up 70 nate

A plan for seeing strange sights
comes from France, in the announce
ment of the Compagnie L~atecoere.
This aerial line will take you from
Toulouse, at $50 a. M, yer the
Pyrenees to Barcelona, Spain, by lunch
time. Next day you lunch at Malaga,
then fly across the Mediterranean to
Tangiers. Then you sail above the
Atlas mountains to far-away Rabat, a
green oasis Of the Sahara, or ever to
Fee, where 1T is said the company has
opened the grand vizier's palace as a
hotel. These are indeed the days of
magic carpet and the seven-league
boots TO those who fear o adventure
In the air!-The Outlook.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
HOME = J
TOWN -
7ELpSD
FATAL LACK OF ENTERPRISE
Some Communities Seem to FORGET
How Vital Are Business Enter
prises to city's Growth.

Contrast the intelligent employment
or present opportunities in certain
communities with the lack-of-plan stu
alton in most cities.
Contrast it, if you will, with the
attitude of an Indiana city which
found not long ago, that one chief in
dustry Of the community, a glass fac
tory, would likely move because the
supply of natural gas, which had at
tracted the factory in the first place,
was about to fail.
In the gas-boom days the commu-
nifty had sunk gas wells and had in
vited this factory to come. But the
old spirit soon died, and no effort was
made to get additional gas or the ad-
ditional factories which would have
resulted.
And when the glass manufacturer
found the supply failing, two or three
years ago, he appeared to be about
the only person in the community who
was particularly concerned. There
was some vagrant talk of the posi-
bility of finding some additional nat
ural gas. But nothing was done about
it until the manufacturer himself de-
cided that rather than move his home,
he would take a chance on a new well.
He found gas and is still there, though
not through the enterprise of the city,
which would apparently have allowed
him to move rather than bestir itself.
And even now there is no movement
for sinking additional wells, though
this experience indicates that such
wells might reasonably be expected
to pay.-From The Nations Business.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Music to Ouell Mobs.

There is an authentic story of a
dangerous Sedition in LacedemOnia
having been quelled by music; and
Boetius tells us of bands of rioters
being dispersed on more than one
occasion by the playing of the mu-
sician Damon when the troops and
civic authorities had proven power
less.
Imagine today in case of a mob ont
break sending for a cellist ~ Jazz
outfit instead of calling II 'he ma
tional guard; placing a battery Of
trombones at strategic points instead
Of a battery Of machine guns. Yet,
after all. it might n be such a bad
tdea.-Chicago American.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Hometown.
URGED TO BUILD HOMES NOW
Labor Department Prompts Those In
tending Construction to Begin
the Work at Once.

The home builder-he who builds
for his immediate s rather than for
rental purposes-appears to be getting
under way with his building plans.
This especially is noted in the central
West. The BODYBUILDING program
will be facilitated and augmented if
small investment money is made avail
able for building loans. In one or two
communities this is being attempted
by private organizations, brought to-
gether for this sole purpose. In other
and more numerous cases the regular
banks are giving thought to the prob
lem. The building-and-loan interests
already have formulated a plan under
which a system of federal home loan
banks would enable them to rediscount
their first real-estate mortgages and
make available for further loans more
than 81, 1000, 1000 of their assets.
While the Department of Labor is
%endeavoring to cooperate with state
and municipal authorities in getting
under way road building and public
improvements, and with private inter
ests in their more extensive building
operations, it is convinced that home
building, for the use of the builder
rather than for rental, must be looked
to as an important factor in providing
better employment for labor during
the transition from war to peace pro-
duction, and for the stimulation Of
business. For this reason the Depart
mens of Labor is making a determined
drive for a nationwide Gown your
home" campaign.-Chicago Evening
Post.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
TRACE JAZZ MUSIC 10 CHINA
Deals With Musical Criticism
to the Point.

The hunt for the origin of jazz has
led to the African jungle and to the
music Of cannibal feasts and orgiastic
dances. But, further back it can be
traced to the beginnings of civilization
In China itself. C%onfucius, who lived
nearly $500 years ago, edited a book
of ceremonies called the "Li XII" The
book Of ceremonies was a venerable
Chinese classic long before C%onfucius
gave his attention to it. The sayings
in the eli XII" represent a viewpoint
Of musical criticism in China which
perhaps corresponds to the date as
signed by the Jewish chronology for
the Garden of Eden. The Iii ri" de-
scribes music as a powerful influence
for good or evil, and pictures the pre-
historic syncopation as follows:
"The airs Of Kang go to wild ex-
cess and debauch the mind; those Of
Sung speak Of slothful indulgencies
and Of women and submerge the mind;
those Of Wei are strenuous and fast
and perplex the mind; and those Of
Xiii are violent and depraved and
make the mind arrogant. The airs Of
these four states all stimulate libidi-
nous desire and are injurious to
virtue"
If not jazz, what else falls in with
the description? Kang, Sung, Wei and
Khi-all their cores have been lost.
Only the monotonous drum beat which
they doubtless contributed to prehis-
toric jazz remains in modern Chinese
music.-Toledo News-Bee.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
FRANCES SURPLUS OF GIRLS
Overwhelming Preponderance Of
Babies Born to Wives Of War Vet
Grams Are of Female Sex.

French physicians see In the nerv-
GUS reaction following the trials and
perils Of war the explanation Of the
epidemic Of girl babies which has
swept France in the last year.
They base their conclusion on the
remarkable fact that, while over so
per cent Of the children recently born
to men who served under fire are girls,
60, per cent of the babies of war prof
iteers, slackers and men physically
unfit for combatant service have been
boys.
Sociologists looking into the future
predict that If the present dispropor-
tional feminine birthrate continues
over half of the girls born In France
in 1919 and 1920 will be doomed to
spinsterhood. The proportion of young
and middle-aged married men in
France who saw no service on the
front is so small that the boy babies
born in their families are outnum-
bered more than two to one by the in
FAINT daughters Of the war veterans.
While at a loss to explain the work
1ngs OF the mysterious influence ore
determining the sex of the children
born to ex-soldiers, French physicians
agree that the relaxation Of mems
nerves, suddenly relieved from the
high tension Of constant perils and
h%ardships, is at the bottom Of the puz-
zling question.
So long as the war continued and
men remained keyed to a high ervou
pitch their children were more often
boys than girls. Sixty-five per cent Of
soldiers babies born during the war
were boys. Now that the hectic days
Of shot and shell are over the pendu-
lum Of gravity has swung to the other
extreme, and the pages of Frances
birth registers are filled largely with
names of newborn girl babies
Amaroc News.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Diseased Trees

Owners of elm and maple trees who
lind small reddish or light-colored
punches on the leaves will have to rest
as easily as possible for a while, says
G. l.. Fluke, entomologist at the Wis
consin experiment station, for no con-
troll measures for this particular
trouble have yet been found. The
punches are gals caused by small
mites which look like tiny spiders.
They live within the gals and thus
cannot be reached by sprays. Undoubt-
eddy there is some point in the life
history of the mites where control
measures can be used, says Mr.. Fluke,
but so far there has not been much
study of these insects and this point
has not been found. The injury to the
elms is in the form of small. light
colored globular punches. The gals
on the maple leaf are red or black,
and there are sometimes as many as
a hundred on one leaf. Naples are
also subject to blister gals, caused by
the larvae of the flies called gall midg-
es. These gals are in the form Of
spots having a green center surround
ed by rings of yellow and deep red.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Famous London Tree Gone.

A famous old mulberry tree in north
London, England, under which IA
years ago it is said the American Dec
laratfon of Independence was first
read in that country, has fallen under
the weight of it's age, American boy
scouts attending the International
scout conference in London visited
the tree only a few days before it
crashed and it's history was told to 300
OF them, who had their photographs
taken beneath it's branches. The tree
stood on one of the lawns of the Mild
may conference hall. Many religious
leaders have addressed meetings I'M
der its ample shade. Hundreds of re-
quests for chips from the historical.
tree are being received.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Frest, Eucs.

The pert proprietor Of q grocery in
East Twenty-fifth street, is nothing if
not good at repartee.
The other day, rather early in the
forenoon, II of the good wives in
the neighborhood stepped into the
store and inquired: !.
"Any real fresh eggs?" (Great M
phasis on the real freshly
ooh, yes, ma'am," he replied. Some,
just laid this morning"
A day or two later, somewhat earl
Ter in the forenoon than before, the
good wife again dropped into the store
and inquired:
"Any more Of those real fresh eggs?"
Whereupon the grocer cried to his
clerk;
"Ruh to the back room, boy, and see.
Ii this mornings eggs are cool enough
yet to sell."-Indianapolis News. So
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
No Great Harm Done.

Juanita. knowing that her playmate,
Jack wanted a kitten, picked one up
one day when it started to follow her.
and. taking it over to Jack, sold ii.
to him for five pennies.
"Juanita," said her mothes,: .oz,,find-
ing out what she had done, don't you
know you have no right to self or ever
give away a kitty that isn't your.
own?"
Well" said the young business
woman, Il guess it ean goshome when
1t gets ready, can'tsit?"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Fall Garden Preparation.

Land that is to be used for vegetable
or flower gardens next spring will be
greatly improved by lining it heavily
at this season and turning it over with
the spade or pillow.
Next spring, before planting, ma
nure heavily and turn the soil over
again. AT that time fine the plowed
soil well with a disk harrow. Where
the spade is used the pulverizing is
done with the spade, working the top
soil carefully with a steel rake.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Looking to Business Future.

A manufacturer who finds that there
is a market for a certain product
does not aamElon that and turn to
something 9a his facilities are not
capable of $50 tng. He multipljes the
product fc" manufacture of which
he has equ g9oa himself. BY Che anne
token, the BUSINESS man who is inter
ested in coWiAdnity development nealls
to look about him. ;inalyze whai he
sees, and while undertaking the in,-
provenen' aud further promotion and
enlargement IF present factories ac,;.
new one in the sn,le az in n similar
line. II II appears that shore Is room
for them--nnd there usually is En-
change.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Community Gardens Valuable.

Last year 1880 war gardens were
conducted In Manchester, N. H.. as a
part Of the c~nnipaign to raise food for
the world. ihe system Of operation
was confines "a his year. and the plots
cultivated " hin the municipal b0un-
dnrles were llown as Victory Gar
''Fi's." There " no reason why 30 good
u thing as gardening. In the vacant
pinces Of communities. should not he
come an established custom.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
CITY Needs Trees.

A city shorn Of it's LEAKAGE is be-
reft OF all Of its mellowness. 1t is
left a gaunt, stark thing, its face deep
lined, with hard contours and angular
outlines. It looks old and bold and
linashamed, and it turns its face upon
The world like a creature without
ideals, without purpose.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
She Wae optimistic

MY dear" monIrd The patient. M
he tossed restlessly on his bed. "it's the
doctor I'm thinking Of. Ills bill VIII he
terrible"
Never mind. Joseph" said his wife,
'"nsolIngly. "Yon know there's the In.
slrance money"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
His Uftlmatum.

Henpeck-IM have to get a new hat,
1~.ucretia.
Mrs. Henpeck (warmly)-Are you
l,oor, spineless men slaves to fashion,
Henpeck--No, sir--er, mean,
rna'arn! But, ], for one, shall never
wear a straw hat and an overcoat Mt
the same time.-Buffalo Express,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Wanted His Moneys Worth

Mother Helen's music teacher
seems quite impressed with her. II
looks to me like a love affair.
Fathefs-What's that Now see here,
I'll have that young man understand
he's gof TO do his counting evenings
and not while I'm paying him SO an
hour.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Seems Like Extravaaance

Mrs. Styles-Is that a new silk hat
you've got, Nicholas?
Mr.. Styies-Yes, my dear.
How much did IT cost?"
"Why, ii vas eight dollars. dear"
what! Eight dollars, and not a
bird or n ribbon or n feather on it?"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
immersion Heater.

An exceedingly practical contriy.
ance for a mother. Is anNelectrical i'm
merslon heater, cylinder shaped. This
VIII heat water or milk for the babv
or invalid In a moment at any Time
day or night. This cylinder lis sImnly
plunged into the liquid md the Ming
attached, i takes only Il moment 10
rake the liquid boiling hot.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
No More Amateur Architects.

Beauty is officially approved by the
Estate of Pennsylvania. The legisla-
iture has enacted a new law, under
which no tyro can try his hand at
architectural creation. In order to
practice as an architect a mar will
have to pass an examination, quite
after the fashion Of lawyers and ply
sicians.-From The Nations Business.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
The Reason.

"you don't seem inclined to embark
on the sen OF life In u matrimonial
craft"
mot !: 1t is too much OF a revenue
cutter"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-06
Bio SODA Deposit.

A single deposit Of soda In British
Fast Africa Is estimated by geolo.
asiats to csstain mors than 2o0.oOR.0ce
f0ns.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-01

they do with il? Will things be
better or worse?"
Let the Daughters Of 81" give
the answer"
Let them lead the way! Let them
clasp hands across the chasm, and
forgive and try to forget their diff
ferences. Let them cherish the
memory of Lee as of Grant, OF
Stuart as of Thomas, Bull Run and
Gettysburg. Charlottesville and
Appomatox and the common herit-
age Of the American people. Let
them insist that the heroes Of the
south as well as those of the north
shall be honored in our national
cemetery. The hght which our hus-
bands and fathers fought. made pos
sible a stronger union than We ever
knew. Our sons and Grandsons
have been fighting side by side in
the world war. Shall We withhold
from them the precious privilege Of
seeing their honored dead placed in
ground consecrated to their nations
heroes.
The daughters of 81 have a great
and glorious opportunity before
them. They can do much to keep
alive true American ideas.
Let them vote that our beloved
America shall be strong to defend
it's rights, and shall set the example
of justice and righteousness to all
the earth.
THE WIFE OF A
NORTHERN SOLDIER.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-01
Adding Comedy to Satire.

WHEN Sinclair Lewis published shed Main Main
w Street." his boyhood home, Sauk Center,
Minnesota, he had it in mind as he wrote.
When Claude Washburn published his second
novel, many certain residents of his
home city, Duluth, pictured in its characters.
'Zona Gale has been similarly believed to have
taken characters from her immediate environment.
There are as many Friendship Villages" as there
Main Streets"
The fate of Robert J. Quinn, of Washington,
is but that of all his brothers of the quill who
picture in fiction the realities of things as they are,
they them. There is no such thing as
fiction in the raw. Such fiction would be but
fable, and fable appeals as it more or less
clings close to human nature. Students of literature
read fiction largely history, not alone as
examples of literary style There is no other COM
plete disclosure of any period equal to its fiction
and drama.
So when Mr.. Quinn took his pen in hand to
transfuse his views of life and his ideals into
fiction, he inevitably suffered the common fate. For
I8 years he had been in the office OF the adjutant
general of the United States army, trusted and
able cmploye, with responsibilities which did not
lift him from comparative obscurity He had seen
adutant generals pass in review, as it were They
came and went, it were he stayed.
When writing his Lair Of the White Lion"
chief characters, he could hardly escape COM
posite portraits by including certain characteristic.
of those under whom he had served with whom
he had been brought in immediate contact. Prob
ably it did not to him that any out Of these
would take all the glory to himself, or be so
devoid of of humor as to identify himself
the hero.
Yet such was the unhappy outcome. An anus
ing bit of satire became a serious infraction of
military law or discipline. He at reported
with charges of conduct to the prejudice of the
good order and morale of the civil service" or
other such highfown and Falstaffian high
crime, adding the spice of comedy to the tragedy
which followed Quinn summarily dismissed
and summarily went into business for himself
with advertising for his book and its hero-inc-
dentally with advertising for his chief-which is
without price. He became frst-page sensation and
probably will have trouble in getting publisher