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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

E.. #H-# II S1O &NSdl HdStS
are volunteers serving with a high
purpose, and they do not recognize
hardship when they meet it.
They have had their opportunity to
withdraw with honor from the field Of
famine and d%esolation. They have re-
fused to leave, because they know that
their departure would mean death for
tens Of thousands Of women and chill
dren whom their efforts have kept
alive and whom they are determined
to save for a better future.
A dozen cables are on my desk from
various centers in Armenia, Anatolia,
Cilicia and Syria pleading piteously
for the lives of hundreds Of thousands
who are homeless: "~Sixty-five thou
sand refugees Constantinople alone ;"
Refugees 1ocking. into Aleppo :"
Twenty thousand refugees at Ismid :"
Zone hundred thousand people at
Alexandropol Will starve unless relief
Is provided ;" Refugees arriving from
Caucasus, escaping persecution, naked,
destitute! Urgent need to save most
Of them from death y 1.-TWO hundred
thousand starving between Kars and
Alexandropol! Severe winter adding
to Distress"
Above all towers the mute appeal of
the more than 100000 little children,
orphaned, homeless, whom these Amer
lean relief workers have saved and
whom we here at home must sustain
not only through the winter and
spring, but through the summer and
autumn as well. If we do not provide,
they perish! And with them dies the,
hope of a New Near East.
The Easter season is here-the sea-
son that commentaries the Great Sac
rifice for mankind. America. is known
as a Christian nation. She is also the
wealthiest nation that history has ever
known.
Can we really enjoy our wealth and
claim the name Of Christian if we turn
a deaf ear to the appeal which General
Leonard Wood, in behalf of the Near
East Relief, has sent forth broadcast
for a Lenten Sacrifice Offering to save
these little children in Bible Lands?
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
FARM EQUIPMENT ESSENTIAL
Successful Management of Crops De-
ponds Greatly Upon Efficiency
Of implements.

The successful management of a
modern farm largely depends upon
the efficiency of the equipment with
which the work is performed, special
lists of the United States Department
of Agriculture point out.
The equipment of the average farm
can be divided into about three more
or less distinct classes, as follows:
First and most important, are the
buildings, fences, implements, machin-
cry, wagons and all appliances used in
the more important farming opera
lions; second, utensils and machinery
used in connection with the dairy, gar
den tools, butchering outfit, and the
numerous small things for general use
about the place; third, the tools, ma
terials, and facilities for keeping the
first two classes Of equipment in good
working order.
In order to secure the greatest eff
cheney, all implements and machinery
should be properly housed when not
in actual service, so as to be in good
working condition when required for
use.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
INNOCENT, SERVES is YEARS
Swiss Convicted of, Killing Girl to Be
Freed-ReaI culprit Makes
Confession.

Geneva.-After serving more than
fifteen years of a life sentence for a
murder of which he has always claimed
to be innocent, a young nan named
Hirschbrunner is to be released, the
real culprit having confessed.
On the day following a masked ball
at Soleure in May, 1906, the body Of a
young Swiss girl was found in the
waiting room Of the railroad station,
where she had been strangled to death.
She had been seen the previous eve
ming in the company of a young man
dressed as a peasant woman. The de-
scription of her companion tailed with
a costume worn by Hirschbrunner, and
he was tried and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment entirely on circumstantial
evidence.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

Mr.. Weevils overthrow. "Cal" de-
scends upon Mr.. Weevil from "A bat
terry of horse-drawn machines, of
which 40 are shown in one spectacular
scene taken in early summer. Work
is shown in the departments labora-
tories at Tullulah. La, and in Wash
ington, D. c., where. the methods
which ave cotton planters $20,OO0,000
or more annually were devised.
One interesting feature is the labor
atory work by which bogus weevil ex-
terminators are detected. The second
part of the film, taken in the fall,
shows thousands Of acres of snowy
cotton fields with pickers gathering
the snowy bolls. Two or three con-
trasts are shown between fields where
calcium a%rsenate dust has been ap-
piled and adjoining rows which were
neglected. From actual experience
the saving to n 5,000-acre planter is
given at more than $64 an acre. The
film is designed primarily for demon
stration work in the South, and is
n of about 500 films covering more
than 100 subjects showing different
phases Of the work of the depart
ment. Copies of the film may be
bought from the department by insti-
buttons and organizations interested
in boil weeviI determination. It's use
Is suggested for state agricultural
colleges. boards of commerce. etc.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
JEALOUS OPPONENT OF DYES
Objection Made by English Quaker
Was That They Led to Con.
cealment of Dirt.

John Woolman, the Quaker, refused
to wear any clothing that had been
dyed. He carried his scruples so far
that he wore a hat that was of the
natural color Of the fur, thereby pre-
senting, as one of his biographers re-
marks, the aspect of a sort Of Robin
son Crusoe. One Of John Woolman's
objections to dyes was that they con-
cealed dirt. Travelling often in wet
weather through narrow streets, he
was frequently distressed by various
1mpurities-especially when his jour-
neys took him to places where cloth
had been dyed, so that at sundry
times he had to walk over ground
where much of their dyestuffs has
drained away" This produced in his
mind a great longing that people
might come into cleanness of spirit,
cleanness of person and cleanness
about their houses and garments" AS
a further a against dyes he ar
gued that the spirit that would hide
dirt leads to the concealment of any,
thing that may be materially or NOR
ally d~iSagreeable, and is therefore
contrary to sincerity. He, contended
that if the money spent on dyeing were
devoted to the promotion Of cleanliness
much good in every way would result.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
DETROITER LAYS CLAIM
TO GIFT OF $50O,OOO
Remembered In Will for Saving
Woman From Drowning 80
Years Ago.

John +. Steen OF Detroit, Mich, and
not John Wagner of Milwaukee, is the
real inheritor Of 5000 or more,
said to have been left by Miss Ada
Burlingame of Edinburgh, Scotland, to
the man who saved her from drowning
in the Mississippi river 80 years ago,
according to the story told by Steen.
Press dispatches reported Wagner to
be the heir and that he had refused
the bequest, saying his memory had
been impaired as the result Of a sun
stroke, and he could not recall rescu-
ing any woman. Steen recalls the adj
venture, and is arranging to receive
the money, he says.
Following a countrywide search for
Steeh, he was found in Detroit by
agents Of the Burlingame estates
Steen says he was assured he is the
man named in the woman's will, and
that as Dor as proper Identification
can, be made, steps will be taken to
make claim to the money. With the
finding of Steen, a promise made to
him by Miss Burlingame when he is
said to have dived into 30 feet Of wa
ter at the risk of his own life, has
been fulfilled.
According to Steen, who now Is GO
years old, he and a chum were seeing
the country, making their way from
city to city on freight trains. He was
a robust young man, a good swimmer,
and keen for adventure.
"My pal and I had just been showed
off a freight train in the railway
yards" said Steen. "The police were
after us, and we were making our
way toward the river when we noticed
a runaway horse and carriage coming
toward us. The carriage was over
turned and the only occupant was
thrown into the river. Ny pal had
but one leg and could not swim, but 1
dove in with my clothes on. I sue
ceeded in saving the woman, and al
most was drowned myself.
1.-THE woman asked me for my name
and address. and I told her, but my pal
refused to give his name. She said
she wanted to remember me for what
I did. She gave me $40, and my pal
and I, who were hungry, spent most
of It in a restaurant"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
MOVIE REVEALS BOIL
WEEWL AS VILLAIN
THc.Rccl Film Shows Activities
CT Little Insect.
Calcium Arsenate Plays important
Part in Destroying Pest and Saw
ing Southern Farmers Thou
sands of Dollars Annually.

prepared by the United States Depart
nent of Agriculture.)
"Good-by, Boil Weevil," is the title
of an entertaining and instructive
two-reel, film just released by the
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture. MI. Boil Weevil, destroyer of
American crops to the extent of many
million dollars a year, is the "heavy"
villain. He appears several times in
dividually in the course of this lively
production, but the principal part is
devoted to the activities of the hero
Of the sketch, Mr.. Calcium Arsenate,
who is aided and abetted by the de-
partment in his efforts to bring about
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
MUST PAY HIGH
FOR PASSPORTS
European Countries Tax Ameri-
cans Equivalent Of $40,
the Rate Here.
LESS FOR OTHER TOURISTS
President Mitchell Of the Red star
Line Suggests Action by the United
States Chamber Of Commerce
Peasants Go Back to Land.

New York.-According to Percy ".
G. Mitchell, president of the Red Star
line and general manager of the Inter
national Mercantile Marine company
in Belgium, the charge Of $40 for an
American wise on passports is not only
a tax upon immigrants who have to
pay the high rate Of exchange, but also
upon American business men abroad.
"Since the charge for a wise has been
raised from So to $10," said Mr..
Mitchell, s"the countries In Europe have
retaliated by making Americans pay
the same amount. They have arranged
to base their charges for a wise on a
sliding scale. For example, I have to
pay IT'S francs for my wise at the Bel
gian consulate because I am an Amer
lean, while an Englishman has only to
pay 10 francs, which is a big differ
ence when a man is accompanied by
members Of his family.
All Are Doing 1t.
Since the war Europe has been split
up into a number Of small countries,
and each Of them is charging Ameri-
cans the equivalent of $40 in United
States currency. A business man has
to pass from one country to another, to
get anywhere, and in each case he has
to pay heavily because the State de-
partment in Washington, without any
reason that l have been able to learn,
has raised the fee to $40.
a tHNhn raStiyar 30 tho T1nitnA S&ofoc
has to pay $40 for his passport in the
first place, and then to pay another $40
to return from abroad, and the same
amount for the countries he visits On
the continent. Why the United States
Chamber Of Commerce has not taken
up this question, which is so important
to American business men travelling
through Europe, I am at a loss to I'M
derstand.
Tourist Travel Hit.
I'm addition 1t will also interfere
with tourist travel in the summer,
which had already decreased consider
ably through the increase in passen-
ger fares made necessary by the high
cost Of operation Of the steamships, In
creased wages, food, fuel, ETC."
: Nh. Mitchell said the Belgian govern
ment was putting the peasants back on
the land in Flanders, and in place Of
the small cottages with earthen floors
which were demolished by the German
guns they were erecting neat, small
houses with tiled floors and modern
sanitary conveniences. From what he
had heard recently in Brussels before
sailing for New York, the government
would not rebuild Newport, the former
fashionable seashore resort, as it had
been blasted to pieces by shells and
bombs, the approaching it be-
ing ruined.
Dixmude. where the severe fighting
took place at the bridgehead on the
User, was to a great extent demolished
also, but the people had started to re-
turn there in the summer of 1919 and
build on the ruins of their former
homes. The Belgian peasant loves his
country and does not want to go
abroad to live. Mr.. Mitchell added.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
RATS ARE HARMFUL ON FARM
Rodents Use Surprising Ways to Get
Into Cellar and Can Be Exter- !.
minated In Many Ways.

Rats are the busiest creatures on the
farm. They take surprising ways of
getting into the cellar. Make a trip
all round before you go to bed tonight.
and fill every hole with powdered
glass and cement. Use traps, poisons,
gas, cats and terriers to get rid of
rats.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
Breaks Wooden Arm as
He Punches Mans Nose

Martinsburg, w. Va.-W. b.
Welty, an alleged doorkeeper of
"a suspected gambling joint,
broke his wooden arm over the
head Of Philip Hack, a Taren-
tnm (Pa.) business man, who Is
reported to have tried to enter
by force the room which Welty
guards. The blow seriously
damaged Hacks nose. Mayor
seibert fined Welty $12.60 on a
charge Of assault and battery.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
a!sssa

This unique suit, possessed by Harry
Crop, a London coster, covered with
10000 pearl buttons, far outshines any
thing known to New York's Bowery
in the pearl button days. Crops suit
is the envy of all South London and
with it he has won many prizes at
various coster celebrations. The but
tons are arranged in many original and
artistic designs.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
SUPERIOR RATION FOR EWES
According to Feeding Tests at Iowa
College Soy Bean, Corn, Corn
Silage Is Excellent.

Soy bean hay. corn. corn silage and
salt Is an excellent winter ration for
pregnant ewes, according to feeding
tests OF the Iowa State college. Less
corn IL required when soy bean hay
Is used instead OF alfalfa and pound
for pound OF soy bean hay excels al.
faifa.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
Asks World to Honor ST. francis.

London.--Pope Benedict has made
public an eneyclica' letter inviting the
Christian world 10 s~oienpiyc IN 1926
the seventh r%enfeaess - HE tleaih at
NJ. Finnrls ~ - 'nGnde5 ~ ilNe
order ~ I'Tgtnis'u ~ sars5 g Central
News dispatch is.i
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

Bell Boy's Liquor Had Fatal "klck.~
Shortly after he had taken one drink
of liquor purchased from q negro
beilboy IN d hotel NJ Jacksonville, Fla,
Q. ". johnson, Q salesman OF Chicago,
dropped dead.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
HEROISM SHOWN BY
AMERICAN WORKERS OF
NEAR EAST RELIEF
Cables Reveal Appalling Ar
menian Need-Hundreds Of
Thousands Starving.
BY CHARLES ". vIckREY
General Secretary, Near East Relief

Approxima
American men and
women are stand
ing Loyalty and he
roically at their
posts In Armenia,
Turkey and the
Near East. Many
of them during the
long winter Of iso-
lation are undergo
ing what we in
America call "hard-
ship" But these,
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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
ISSUES OWN LICENSE
Woman Deputy County Clerk swore
Man Who Was to Be Her Husband.

The novel experience of issuing her
own marriage license was experienced
by Miss Victoria Fourier. deputy
county clerk, Of B~artlesville. Okla.
The party of the second part was
Warren Mulligan, q newspaper report
er. When the blank was filed Miss
Tournier directed Miiligan to raise
his right hand and swear to the truth
OF his statements. He obeyed.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-16

II In the dust Of the shop floor. Pres
emily he looked up with sort Of mock
ing leer.
Been trying to carry sentimental
water on both shoulders, haven't you?
I'm telling you right now, Broughton,
it's no use. / filed on the little Blue
eyes claim over yonder In Twombly's
cabin long, long time before you ever
saw or heard Of It,"
That remark of his carried things
over the edge for me.
"See here, Bullerton," l said, and /
suppose / stuck out my jaw at him as
people say / do when I'm beginning
to feel ugly, there are limits, and
I'll pay you the compliment of assum-
ing that you are not quite a born fool.
We are going to leave Miss Twombly
out of it.; completely and absolutely
out Of It,"
You may; but | shan't," he grinned
back at me. ''In point of fact, my
dear fellow, now that come to think
of 1t. you'll have to leave her out"
"Not for anything you may say or
do, or leave unsaid or undone."
"Yes, you VIII; and for something
that / may say. And l guess this is
as good time as any to mention 1t.
Have you forgotten that you have adj
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-16
CHAPTER VIll.-Contlnued.


you're not the only pebble on the
beach, Fullerton" | said, looking him
squarely in the eye. what you can
do with this mine, another mining en-
glneer can do quite as we'll; and the
other man will probably be willing to
do II without asking the fenced in
earth for his reward"
'IIunphl" he grunted; $50 that's
your play. is it," Then, after a scowl-
ing pause: You're licked before you
begin You're fighting without ammu-
milton, Broughton. You haven't any
money and youll look a long time be-
fore you'll find an engineer able to
finance his own experiment on your
drowned proposition"
THAT may be-" / retorted. "But If
you ted me the story straight that
night in the Pullman. you can't turn
wheel until l tell you to go ahead.
SO your contract, if you've got one,
doesn't amount TO a hill of beans"
THAT point may make nice little
question for the courts to decide" he
snapped. But / don't want TO 60 to
law about this thing. and neither do
you. As a matter of fact. you haven't
any money 10 throw away In legal
scrap You make me a deed to fifty
one per cent of the Cinnabar property.
JUS ts il stands, and then you may 90
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-16

Synopsis. Under his GRANDPA
theirs will, Stanford Broughton,
society idler, finds his share of the
estate valued at something like
$4,000 lies In safe repository"
latitude and longitude described.
and that is all. 1t may be identi-
fled by the presence nearby OF a
brown-haired. blue-eyed girl. a pie
bald horse, and a dog with. a split
face. half black and half white.
Stanford at first regards the be-
quest as a Joke, bat after consider
alton sets out to find his legacy.
on his way to Denver Stanford
hears from a fellow traveller.
Charles Fullerton. a mining engi-
neer. story having to do with a
flooded mine. He has a ''hunch"
this mine is the safe repository"
OF the will. Fullerton refuses him
information. On the station plat
form at Atropia. just as the train
pulls out, Stanford sees what APP
pear to be the Identical horse and
dog described in his grandfather's
will. Impressed, he leaves the train
at the next stop, Angels. Unable
10 secure a conveyance, Broughton
seizes a track-inspection car and
escapes, leaving the impression on
the town marshal. Beasley. that he
Ia demented. Pursued. he aban-
dons the car. which is wrecked.
and escapes on foot. In the dark
ness he is overtaken by the girl.
the horse and the dog. After he
explains his presence, she invites
him TO her home, at the Old Cinna-
bar mine. Broughton's hosts are
Hiram Twombly. caretaker of the
mine, and his daughter jeanne.
stanford does not reveal his iden-
THY. Hiram and Stanford go put
tering about the mine. Stanford
gets Interested in the work and
fails in love with Jeanne. who saves
his l'fe- Fullerton shows up at the
mine
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-16

vertised yourself in this out-of-the-way
corner Of the world rather successful
ly as one of two things: a pretty
dangerous sort of lunatic, ora Grim
lnal? AS a matter of fact, the rail
road detectives have been looking high
low and level for you ever since you
stole that inspection motor at the An
gels platform and got 1t smashed"
''Twombly knows about that; and
so does Miss TwombIy." l cut in.
"They wouldn't give you away of
course; In a certain sense you are
Twombly's guest, and in another you're
his employer. But you1l notice that
neither OF these restrictions apply to
me. Now. perhaps, you can understand
just why you are obliged. in ordinary
prudence, to leave the girl out Of it
and why | am not so obliged"
Miss Twombly. herself, has the
casting vote on that" is what flung
ut him
"She has already voted" he said
coolly. Then: You're not in the
game. Broughton; you don't hold any
thing higher than a seven-spot, and
you are bucking a straight flush. Do
you take fifty thousand and vanish?
That is the one live question of the
moment"
"No"
"very well; I'll give you another
day to think it over; but I'm warning
you here and now that the price will
shrink 1t is fifty thousand today. say
up to sunset: tomorrow 1t will be for
ty thousand"
l slid from the anvil and half I'M
consciously picked up the blacksmith's
hand-hammer.
You go straight to hi" said
and at that he left me.
l sat down TO try once more to think
things out to some sort of an action
focus. Should l take BuIlertOn's fiji
" Thousand and quit? Common sense
said Yes, spelling it with capital and
understanding it for emphasis. What
was the use in hanging on? Hadn't
we proved that the mine was undrain-
able, save, perhaps, at the enormous
cost of driving an undermining tunnel
from lower slope of the mountain?
Then there was jeanne Then, again. |
there was Lisette Fifty thousand |
dollars at six per cent would buy ner
1t wouldn't buy much else |
| could picture the calm and collected /
way In which she would say, "Yes.
Stannie; you've succeeded nicely in
the hats. But you know as
we'll as | do that we couldn't buy hats
md keep car on three thousand
year"
had just climbed down to this bot
.om round of the ladder of detection
when J heard a bit OF noise and looked
Up TO see a small, trim figure darken-
ng the engine-room door. Then a
1olce that / would have recognized in