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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
NATIONS DEBT TO PILGRIMS
Their Famous Compact of Government
Rightly Treasured as a Great
State Document.

In the harbor at the tip of Cape
Cod occurred the first birth and the
first death among the Pilgrims in
America. On board the Maytower, as
she lay at anchor, was born Pere-
CRIME, son of William and Susanna
White. Here was another child for
the ships nursery, already occupied by
little Oceanus Hopkins. who. first saw
the light Of day far out at sea.
The death was that of Dorothy May,
wife Of William Bradford, future gov
emo of Plymouth colony. She was
drowned.
First of importance, however, Of
all that occurred here, and also in
the sequence of events, was the draw
ing up and signing of the famous COM
pact Of government, originally desig-
mated by Bradford in his history as ga
combination" And so it was, in the
most literal sense, a combination.
This agreement, made in writing by
a little group of Englishmen who had
been dismissed by their mother coun-
try as good radiance to bad rubbish"
is now treasured by the nation in
America, to which they contributed as
much as one of three great documents.
The other two are the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of
the, United States.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
How to Know Poetry.

We literates have been taught to
read poetry, and taught also that it
is highly cOmmendable to enjoy it. In
order to know what kind of poetry
ought to be especially enjoyed, we read
other books, written by critics. In Or
der to understand what the poetry
that ought to be admired means, we
read other books by professional
grammarians. BY the time we have
finished this preparatory reading. we
are somewhat confused. We are in
doubt as to what poetry actually is,
and how it differs from prose. In this
predicament we fall back on the print
er. If every line begins with a cap
ital letter, we assume that if is po-
etry.-Samuel McChord Crothcrs in
the Atlantic Monthly.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
DESIRED TO TAKE THE VEIL.
Oldest Daughter of Thomas Jefferson
Attracsed by Quiet Life Within
Convent Walls.

Martha Jefferson, Oldest daughter
of Thomas Jefferson, third President
OF the United States, came near to be-
ing a catholic sister. She was a STU
len at the school of Abbaye de Pan
themont at the time the French Revo-
luton was in progress. The daring
n fippant %infidelity of the French
frightened and disguised her, and she
chung to the calm and serene life of
the convent with all her strength. Her
mother had taught her in the ways
Of the Church of England, but the sur
roundings at the school overreached
this. and she decided to become a
nun.
She wrote to her father asking his
permission to adopt the veil. No
answer came for several days, and
then Jefferson appeared in person.
He greeted the girl with a tender
smile, interviewed the abbess, and
h e came out and told the girl to
pack her things. Her school life
was ended at that moment, and the
next day she was introduced to So
ciety and made the mistress Of her
fathers household. She declared years
afterWard that neither she nor her
father had ever alluded to the sub
ject by a single word from that
day on
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
Historic Standardization.

The history of Stratford-on-Avon
may be traced back for a period of
LOO years, and as the birthplace of
Shakespeare is has become Il classic
center visited annually by some $4,000
people. The Guard house, where
Shakespeare was born; Shottery,
where he courted Anne Hathaway;
Charlotte park, once the seal of Sir
Thomas Lucy, whose ~displeasure
Shakespeare incurred by stealing
his deer; the Shakespeare Memo.
rial theater, on the banks Of the Avon.
and Shakespeare's monument, are all
places worthy Of visiting in the old
market town of Standardization.
The Shakespeare hotel, situated in
the center Of the town and close to
the Shakespeare Memorial theater,
was erected in the Fourteenth cen
fury. A few doors from Shakespeare
hotel is the Harvard House, which
was the early home Of the Harvard
family, founders of Harvard univer-
sity,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
TWO IDEAS OF CIVIL LIBERTY
Difference Between Governments of
Greece and Rome and Those of
the Gothic Tribes.

There was this radical difference be-
tween the governments of Greece and
Rome and those of the Gothic tribes.
In the former the state was every
thing, the individual nothing; the
state was thought to have a perfect
right to the property, liberty, and
even life, of it's citizens. In the lat
ter the individual was everything and
the state comparatively nothing; all
rights were thought to exist, to inhere-
by nature in the individual; and the
state could demand nothing from him
for public use without giving him an
equivalent. Here we find the funda-
mental principle Of civil liberty; that
principle which has been so carefully
guarded in the English and in all the,
Anglo-American constitutions, and
which was so happily and tersely ex-
pressed by Jefferson in the Declaration:
Of Independence. Our rude Saxon an
c%estors, though under a kingly govern
ment, had more real liberty, and a
more just appreciation of the true dig
nifty of man, than had the polished cit
liens of the republics Of the Mediter-
ranean. The legislative authority was;
vested in the witenage-mote, or assem-
bly, OF wise men.-DeXter A. Hawkins.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
Begone Dull Facts.

Two friendly little neighbors, aged
respectively AZ and 5 years, recently
seated themselves on the %curbstone
near my windows for a religious dis
cuSsion. 1t seemed they had over
heard some groWn-ups repeating a
recent prophecy of a certain sect as to
the imminent end Of the world and
We're greatly exercised at the report.
The elder child, a fair-haired skeptic
from a northern state, scornfully de-
clared that he didn't believe the story ;
but the swarthy, dark-eyed little Texan
solemnly asserted: eyes, It's true; ]
know it's true; fob this mo'nin' l
read it in nah Bible" The midget
doesn't know one letter of the alpha
bet from another, but he refuses to be
pinned down to vulgar facts when his
spirit wishes to soar. Are children
of the period brighter than their pred
ecessors? At his age l am sure l
could not have fibbed with so solemn
and convincing an air.-Los Angeles
Times.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
CHRISTMAS DAY IN AFRICA
Pretty Picture of a Charming Abode
in the Hills Above the Old
Town Of Alaer.

Christmas day in Africa! And
what a dream of beauty and color,
blue sea, blue sky, groves of eucalyp-
tus and olive trees. climbing roses,
white-robed Arab women closely
yelled, their eyes only showing, bare
brown legs and feet, sometimes a sill
yer bracelet on n leg, donkey boys
with a nondescript, flowing garment, a
red fez on their heads. color every
where. Our villa is charming, stands
in a little wood Of eucalyptus trees,
with a big garden, balconies, terraces
and marble steps, large, high rooms
and lovely views on all sides, Nine.
Washington writes from Algiers to
Scribner's. It is quite in the u
try, five n six kilometers from AL
giers, very high up in the hills. Very
few people live in the town and the
whole hillside is studded with villas.
Moorish almost all, dazzling white, fiat
roofs and narrow windows. Quite at
the top, where we are, there are some
very comfortable Eastern modern
houses. 1 am writing at my window,
which gives on a terrace, from which
there is a divine view Of the sea and
the snow mountains Of the D%jurjura,
miles away in Kabylie, and from one
corner through the faded dropping
leaves Of the eucalyptus I have a
glimpse Of the town of Algiers, lying a
long, white streak far below.
The dr%awing-room is a delightful
room-runs all the width of the house,
with windows on three sides, so that
we always have the sun. The furni-
ture is sketchy, not much of it, and
what there is is very ugly, but when
the Paris cases arrive, with a few
tables and chairs and silver, the room
will look very different. There are
some carpets in the house, which are
absolutely necessary, as all the floors
are tiled. However, Charlotte has
done wonders with the meager mate
rial she has.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
LAID BIBLE SCENES IN CHINA
Native Artist Had No Conception of
Any Other Land Outside OF
His Own.

In north Fukien province there .dwelt
an artist who painted pictures on silk
for the gentry of his little village. The
people in this secluded hamlet nestled
amid the hills, had never seer automo-
biles or airplanes, nor did they take
the long journey to Shanghai to watch
the great steamers come in laden with
merchandise and messages from the
ports Of the world. But they knew the
words Of C%onfucius and Lao-tse and
they lived and died with simple dig
nifty as their fathers had done before
them. One evening the artist, who
had been working all day on a me-
mortal portrait, strolled out into the
dark, cool street to refresh his tired
soul, writes Elsie f. We'll in Asia Mag
azine. The tiny white church Of the
foreign god beyond the tea shop was
brilliantly lighted. The artist stood
a moment in the open door. The young
missionary was talking most eloquent
ly; he was not preaching, but he
seemed to be telling stories that were
as fascinating as those recited in the
bazaars. Almost iii spite Of himself
the artist sank u~nobtrusively into an
empty seat. For the first time he
heard some of the beautiful old stories
of the Bible, which have held the peo-
pie of the West enthralled for 1000
years. And the artist returned to his
home and made pictures of the story
Of Noah and the flood, and of the par
ables of the lost sheep and of the prod
igal son and Of many others that were
in the book of the western missionary.
But he had never heard of the Pales-
tine. To him Noah was Chinese, and
the lost sheep belonged to a farmer of
his province and the prodigal son
might well have been a dissolute youth
of his own village.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
WATER "CUREs" OLD BELIEF
Fountains Have Been Considered
Pools of Healing.

When yon drink mineral water do
you do it because you believe in it's
curative properties or because you are
superstitiouS? Or both?
Extraordinary virtue has been at
tributed to the waters Of pools and
streams by nearly all peoples of all
times. Among the modern Greeks to-
day we find the remnants of the. old
belief that the water from the Grotto
Of Macedonia would cure all those
who drank If they entered the cave
with a lamp or torch in one hand and
a pitcher in the other. filled the pitch
er and left some scrap of clothing be-
back from "being scared by the noises
that ensued." And not only in Greece,
but in England, there are many spots
where the bushes around a certain
pool will be hung thick with shreds of
clothing left by/those who came to be
cured.
According to modern Greeks the
mineral springs are under the protec-
ton of the Nereids. and the virtue of
the water depends upon it being drunk
in silence and with appropriate sacri-
flee. Old Church of England canons
dating back to 1902 forbid the wor-
ship of wells without the bishoD's per-
mission, %attributing the custom to
heathenishness and a survival of the
worship of the fountain as a symbol
OF the son""@ # life. 1t was pointed
out then tlat the naming of wells was
as old as the days Of the P%atriarchs:
that Abraham and Isaac are both
spoken "t in the Bible as having done
so, hut that worshipping them was a
different matter.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
Remorseful Ghost.

A pathetic story is told of ~the ghost
of Bisham abbey. 1t is said that the
wife of Sir Thomas Hobby was I'M
naturally severe with her son. who, it
seems, had a peculiar aversion to writ
ing, and in his obstinacy would wilful-
ly blot his copybooks. One day his
mother, enraged at his perverseness,
lost her self-control and beat the poor
boy so numerically that he died from
his injuries. Since then one of the
bedrooms in the abbey has been haunt
ed by the specter of the cruel woman,
who glldes through the chamber in the
act of washing the bloodstains from,
her hands.
It is stated that some years ago.
when an old window shutter of the six.
teenth century was removed, "a packet
of antique copybooks of that period
was discovered pushed into the wall
between the joists Of the skirting, and
several of these hooks, on which young
Hobby's name was written, were GOV.
cred with blots."
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
Movie Theaters in Rio.

1t is at the cinema theaters that
the Cariocas (citizens of Rio de ia
neiro) know real comfort; for, I'M
like u moving-picture houses.
those in Rio have spacious waiting
rooms, where you sit, listening to ex-
cellent music, until the hour for the
first reel comes round. The pioneer
house of the kind inaugurated this
custom, and now the people refuse to
stand outside waiting for the even
hour to arrive or to enter. after the
film has started. With so much profit
able space taken from the auditorium.
the movies in Rio Janeiro I not as
great money-makers as with us. The
American favorites are popular, quite
~outclassing Italian and Brazilian film
stars.-Harriet Chalmers Adams in Ma
tional Geographic Magazine.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
SEE ADVANTAGES
IN COOPERATION
Nest Effective Organizations
Found Where Farmers Were
Drawn Together.
MANY OBSTACLES OVERCOME
That Principles Are Fundamentally
Sound and Practical Is Proven by
$4,000 or More Successful So
cieties Now Working.

The success or failure of a farm de-
ponds almost entirely upon the results
obtained in marketing the products
grown. Experience has proved that
the farmer who undertakes to market
lis products through spectators or
who attempts to ship and market them
in some very distant market is labor
ing under a great disadvantage.
Marketing is q specialized function
and is really the most serious problem
confronting the farmer today, and the
rank and file Of farmers are not
equipped TO perform this service for
themselves in O satisfactory manner
Many difficulties encountered in mar
keting farm rr0Ds have been over
come through III" organization and
operation Of farmers cooperative
marketing associations. Cooperative
marketing has passed the experiment
tai stage, and the $4,000 or moro ex-
amples of successful organizations in
operation in this country of&2r posi-
tive proof that the principles Of CO.
operative marketing are fundamental
~ sound and practical.
Work of Organization.
The most successful cooperative or
CARNATIONS confine their efforts to the
shipping and marketing of certain spe-
cialiZed products, such as citrus fruits,
apples, peaches, potatoes, melons,
poultry and eggs, dairy products, live
stock, tobacco and grains. The sub
stantia! growth of cooperative mar
keting activities in this country is
perhaps best illustrated by the fact
that the aggregate volume Of business
done in a single year through coop
erative associations and exchanges
runs up into the hundreds of millions
Of dollars.
The handling Of farm crops by
groups CT farmers through central as
sOciations and exchanges offers many
advantages, such as the Improvement
and standardization Of grading and
packing; the obtaining and use Of re.
liable crop and market information
the intelligent development of perma;
nent markets; the effecting of savings
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
JUNIOR JUDGING
CONTEST HON0RS
Missouri Team Of Three Boys
Captured First in Passing
on Dairy Cattle.
ILLINOIS IN SECOND PLACE
Spectators Were Impressed With Bust.
nesslike Procedure of Youth
full Judges-Two Girls Fortu-
nate in Winning Prizes.

In the second national boys and
girls dairy-cattle judging contest, in
which Is teams from as many states
competed for the Junior judging hon
ors, the Missouri team Of three boys
won first place in judging all breeds
of dairy cattle, second place going to
Illinois, and third to Texas. A Mis-
souri, boy, Arthur Gwinn, made the
highest individual score for Judging
all breeds. Another Missouri boy, Ar
thur Bennett, was second, and Clar-
ence Doran of Illinois was third.
The awards for the best teamwork
in judging different breeds were as
follows: -Ayrshires, Missouri; Guern-
seys, Maryland; Holsteins, Illinois !;
Jerseys, Ohio. The contest was con-
Quoted at the National Dairy show
by the Boys and Girls club section,
office of extension work North and
West, states relations service, and the
dairy division, bureau Of animal in
dustry, United States Department of
Agriculture.
Spectators Much impressed.
During the contest, spectators were
much impressed with the businessllke
way in which these youthful stock
judges went about their work of judg-
ing the eight rings of animals, consist
ing Of a ring of cows and a ring Of
bulls of each of the following breeds:
Ayrshire Guernsey, Holstein and Jer-
sey. 1t was a big days work, but we'll
worth the effort, as all the contest
ants undoubtedly gained a broader
knowledge Of judging dairy COWS
through contact with excellent types
of cattle, experienced judges, and
through other educational features.
Among the As contestants were two
girls. One of the girls, Helen Green
lee of Ohio, furnished a surprise by
taking first place in the judging of
Jersey cattle, while Pearl Baker Of
Michigan won the bronze medal for
judging Guernseys.
Contest Far-Reaching in Effect.
The judging work at the dairy show,
while a great benefit to these boys and
girls who took part in it. was only a
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
INFLUENCE OF LOAD ON PULL
Harder to Haul Waron When Bulk OF
Load Is Placed Near Front,
Says Iowa College.

Tests recently conducted M Iowa
State college show that a wagon pulls
harder when the bulk Of the ;o:.,' -
placed over the front when,s Ian
when it is loaded over The rear ores
he nctla' difference in pounds nf
pun amounts to nearly Il hnrmi~ed
pounds. so that the man who carried
the load from the ear of a wagon to
the front not only works harder him
self but he causes more work TO be
done by the team as well.
One nf the reasons for this, say the
testers. is that the front wheels are
smaller and that they open up tracks
for the rear ones.
Where trucks arc used 1t is of an
advantage to load on the rear since IL
aids In the traction and keeps the
wheels OF the ground.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
India's Fertility.

India, more than half the size of
Europe, has every variety of surface,
climate and production. The contrast
between the level monotony Of the
Great plain and the beautiful con-
tours Of the Milgiri and Pulney hills
is no greater than that between the
arid heat Of %Jacobabad and the polar
frigidity of the Himalayas; or that
between the palm groves of Cochin and
the wheat fields of Lyallpur. The pro-
ductiyity of India extends over three
zones: the tropical, sub-rropical, and
temperate; though on account of vary
ing elevations these do not always
comply with mere considerations of
latitude.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
FARM INVENTORY
HELPS BUSINESS
Farmer to Determine
Whether He Is Going or
Coming Financially
ANSWER TO MANY QUESTIONS
Complete List of Assets and LiabiIi-
ties Each Year Tells Land Owner
Just How Much Increase or
Decrease Has Been.

What is the net worth of your farm
business? Is it more or less than one
would imagine from a casual inspec-
ton Of your farm? Do you know for
sure whether you are going or coming
in financial standing?
Question Not Easily Answered.
These are important questions to
the farmer and questions that are not
so easily answered as would at first
appear. Farming is an intricate bust
ness and one in which returns from
investment are sometimes long de-
layed, so that progress cannot be &C
curately measured by the amount Of
money taken in in a given time. Some
times cash income may be almost
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
Malignant Ghost.

Last Christmas, Il house in Leeds
was visited by an amazing ghost.
A woman. returning home. went into
the kitchen to warm herself at the
fire. Suddenly she was startled to see
two long white arms emerge from the
danes. Nearer and carer they came
Until they crippled her arms above the
albow.
The touch was like red hot iron aud
she fell fainting to the ground. NE;aen
size recovered she was surprised 10
find that there had feen no fine n thp
grare. She visited :. doctor who q
amined her arms and found distinct
signs of burns. This w,s af,erNard
corroborated by another doctor.-Lon-
don Mail.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
EASY TO WINTER FALL PIGS
Where Farmer Is Properly Equipped
He Can Raise Young Animals
Without Difficulty.

More fall pigs are being raised now
adays than was the case a few years
ago. This is due largely TO the fact
that grain is relativeIV high-priced.
When a mar is properly equipped for
taking care of fall pigs through the
winter season he can raise them about
as cheaply as he can spring pigs and
he gets more out of his sow by breed
ing her twice a year than only once.
1t is not difficult to winter fall pigs
If me gives the matter proper atten-
tiOn.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03

Contest,
small part Of the ~f;u-reaching contest
which, beginning in the local boys
and girls clubs in many hundreds of
communities, progressed to the con-
tests for county supremacy, and then
to the state championships, many Of
which were finally settled at the va
riouS state fairs. These state cham
piOn teams were the ones sent to COM
pete for national honors at the dairy
show.
In the. contest last year only six
individuals were entered, from as
many states, While this veal Is states
were represented with teams of three
each. These Is contestants were the
guests of the National Dairy associa-
ton for five days, and were taken by
the association Oh a tour of the pack
ing and machinery plants, and on auto
mobile tours of the city. On the day
following the contest they participant
ed in a banquet. where the awards
We're presented by representatives of
the various donors.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
TANNING MILL VERY USEFUL
Present High Price of Grain Should
Bring Machine Into More Use
on Stormy Days.

In many parts of the country there
has been a tendency to let the tanning
mill rest and rust and gather dust and
to pay the mill or elevator for cleaning
the grain, paying the bill by accepting
a low price for the uncleaned wheat
or oats or barley. Besides, the chick
ems lose the screenings. The present
high price of grain should bring many
a neglected flaming mill into nrofita-
BILE use. Incidentally, farmers will
have profitable work for stormy days,
and much cheap feed for chickens,
pigs and other animals.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
"The Rioht Kind Of Child"

Give a little love to Il child, and you
get a great deal back. 1t loves every.
thing near it, when it is the right kind
of child-would hurt nothing. would
give the best 1t has away, always. IL
you need it-,loes not lay plans for
getting everything In the house for 1t.
self, and delights in helping people;
you cannot please II 81 much as by
giving II u chance OF being useful. In
ever so little d way.--John Ruskin.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03
inspect Moths by Machine.

An elaborate machine called the
choseiki is used by the Japanese in
the inspection of sillkworms for dis
ease. The machine in the inspection
house of Nagano prefecture requires
1000 microscopes and a large corps OF
workers.
Moths are made TO lay their eggs
each on one square of sheets of card
board bearing % numbered squares
They then are killed. their bodies pull,
verified and examined. Is the bacilli
are found y" ~ - Nontnining iht
eggs ~ if NJ n>ed maths Is mi
out md ,it'fra frlpn All iiscr.