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HATIORM. SLOGAN SUG GESTED BY PROMINENT MEMPHIS ORUGGIST Wculd Rtmind the Publio to Prevent 8iokn«M by Removing th« Caui* T. D. BALLARD a prominent druggist of Memphis says: "Much sickness could and would be prevented if the people would only re member that constipation is one of the first causes. As a reminder, I would suggest the slogan, 44 'Rexall Orderlies, the laxative tab let with the pleasant taste.' "I suggest Rexall Orderlies as I know their formula and believe they are the best remedy for relieving constipation. They Can be used by men, women or children." We have the exclusive selling rights for this gTeat laxative. Trial size, 10 cents. McCOY DRUG CO. BENNO DRUG GO. TAYLOR DRUG CO. THE REXALL ST0RE8 Main St., South Suits at City Bakery HUSI HAVE MANY ROOMS NORTHWESTERN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO BRING GREAT CROWD TO MINOT. The Northwestern Educational As sociation will meet in Minot, April 20th and 21st, and as there will be be tween 400 and 500 teachers in attend ance at the meeting it will be abso lutely necessary for many of our peo ple to throw open their homes in or der to take care of these visitors. The Association of Commerce will co-operate with the Normal school people with the end in view that all the visiting teachers will have pleasant places to stay while here. Therefore a general call is hereby made on all our people who can take care of one or more of these teachers for the two days named, to call up the Secretary of the Association of Commerce, tell ing him how many they will be able to accommodate, and he will in turn make out a card index to be used by the guides furnished by the Normal school. It is imperative, or this general call would not be made, so it is hoped that everybody will attend £o this impor tant matter at once. Call up phone No. 243 today. Farmer Working in the Field. Vac Barta, who lives a short dis tance north of the city, Monday start ed harrowing in a field which he had plowed last fall. The field is high and dry but it will be another week before many other farmers are able to do any work. Phone 30 Minot, N. D. BEST BREAD NUT BREAD RAISIN BREAD FANCY PASTRY "If it is in our line well make it" New Spring Styles in Coats, Suits and Dresses Our stocks are complete, and we invite you to in spect our offerings before making your purchases. We want to impress upon your mind the fact that our garments are "Popular Priced." We only want a fair profit on our garments, and they are marked accordingly. You can buy here with confidence early in the season, because we do not mark them sky high to commence with, with the idea of cutting prices later. Our regular prices are sometimes less than many Half Price offers you see so often. Ladies' Coats in all leading styles and colors priced from $12.50 to $25.00 $14.50 to $25.00 When shopping don't forget our Bargain Basement We have recently added several new lines and are about to make extensive improvements in this department. When completed, we will have one of the largest and best appointed bargain basements in the State. Keep the department in mind, and make it a point to visit this department regularly. THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT STORE "The Big Store on the Center" MINOT, N. D. The Independent's Job Plant is Complete—Try Us The Scrap Book A Boxing Battery. On summer nights the baseball field of the Brooklyn National league club, In Flntbush, is turned into an open air boxing arena, with the ring stretched •n platform over the home plate. A1 McCoy, who claims the middle weight championship, was fighting Young Ahearn, an Englishman, one evening and was getting a liberal plas tering from the' gloved hands of the Briton. It was such a poor show that the crowd soon lost interest and settled back Into a deep silence. Along about the sixth round, with Ahearn keeping up a steady bombard ment of McCoy's bleeding features, a voice was heard Inquiring: "Wonder who're the batteries for this game?" Out of the hush that lay over the up per tier of the grand stand came a loud roar as a big fellow rose in his seat and announced, with true umplrl cal effect: "Ahearn pitchin', McCoy catchin'!"— Saturday Evening Post. Three Gate*. If you are tempted to reveal A tale some one to you has told About another, make It pass, Before you speak, three gates of gold, Three narrow gates—First, "Is It true?" Then, "Is It needful?" In your mind Give truthful answer. And the next Is last and narrowest, "Is it kind?" And If It reach your lips at last In passing through these gateways three, Then you may tell the tale nor fear What the result of speech may be. —Mutual Magazine. Wrong Diagnosis. One dark night three friends were crossing a deep, dry ravine, the banks of which were very precipitous. As the party had been imbibing a little too freely, one of the three had to bo as sisted up the incline. When, thinking him safe at the top, his friends turned him loose he .fell to the bottom. He lay very still, and the other two, sup posing him severely injured, rushed down to him. As they leaned over to discover his condition the fallen one exclaimed: "For heaven's sake, strike a match! I think I'm unconscious!"—Every body's. Lacked a Mere Detail. "When Irving Bacheller was run ning a newspaper syndicate," says the Woman's Home Companion, "and pub lishing a juvenile magazine in New York he always sat in a large porch rocking chair before a flat desk so heaped with letters that every few minutes a little epistolary avalanche would shoot down from it to the floor. One day Orson Lowell, the artist, who was a partner in the magazine, found him in a more than usually meditative mood and said to him: 'What's the matter, Irving? Got an idea?' 'Y-e-s,' answered Bacheller, very slowly, 'a big one. One that will make us all rich. You know the great auk is extinct and that there are only four of its eggs in existence. They are worth thousands of dollars apiece, and a great auk itself would be priceless. My notion is to get these eggs and hatch 'em.' "'But how will you hatch them?' asked Lowell. 'Oh,' answered Bacheller, visibly annoyed, 'I haven't given that point any thought yet. But it's a mere de tail—a mere detail. The plan is bound to succeed. And it will make us all rich.'" Rough on the Doctor. A certain doctor, who is, on his own frank admission, "the ugliest man in four counties," has a keen sense of humor, which enables him to enjoy many real and unconscious reflections upon his facial deficiencies. Once, after be had arrived too late to succor a poor woman who had been hurt in a factory, the local newspa per published an ambiguous account of the case, which the doctor, with grim appreciation, preserved. Having first described how the wo man had come by her injuries, the paragraph went on to say: "Strong hopes were entertained of saving her life until the doctor arrived, but these hopes unfortunately proved ill founded, for the moment he phowed his face within the door the poor wo man fell back with a gasp and ex pired." Why an Aliaa? One afternoon when the Duke of Edinburgh and Sir Arthur Sullivan, having finished a duet, were» sitting down to a homely "dish of tea" pro vided by Mrs. Sullivan, the composer's mother, it suddenly occurred to her to start the subject of family names and titles, which puzzled the good lady considerably. "Sir," she said, "your family name Is Guelph." "My dear mother"— began Arthur. "But it is, Isn't it?" she persisted. "Certainly," replied the duke, much amused. "What's the matter with it, Mrs. Sullivan?" "Oh, nothing," returned the excellent old lady musingly. "Only I can't un derstand why you don't call yourself by your proper name." Arthur wanted to explain to her, but the duke would not. allow him to. "There's nothing to be ashamed of In the name of Guelph, Mrs. Sullivan," he said gravely. "That's exactly what I say," persist ed Arthur's mother "nothing what ever as far as I know, and, that being so, why you should not call yourself by it I can't understand."—F. C. Bur nand's "Records end Reminiscences." HUMOR IN TRAGEDY. Tree|a Literary Friend Experienced a Change of Heart. In a recent address at Bli'mlugham Sir Herbert Tree, the eminent actor, related the following personal recol lection. "I had," he said, "constantly relieved the Importunities of one who claimcd to be a literary man on the grounds, I subsequently discovered, that he ad dressed envelopes for an advertising firm. His constant plea with me was that he wanted to get a glass eye out of pawn. I received a letter couched in these terms: "'Sir—Unless I receive 10 shillings this evening by 10 o'clock my body will be floating down the Thames. On your head be it! I will call at the stage door.' "I told my secretary that he had bet ter send out the 10 shillings. At the end of the evening I thought of my friend. 'Did you send out the money to that deserving suicide?' I asked. 'No.' replied my secretary, 'I did not' "I felt myself guilty of manslaughter at the least and was much relieved on leaving the stage door to find the im portunate literary man outside. 'Good evening, my friend,' I said in cynical revulsion. 'I thought you were in the Thames,' 'Don't be flippant, sir!' he said. 'I did mean to submerge myself, but on gazing on the dark river my better feelings conquered, and I've come back —for the 10 shillings!'" London Chronicle. Goodneaa and Greatneea. Goodness comes from within—from feelings, thoughts and desires result ing in actions. Greatness is the conse quence of bold actions, great energy, ambition, enterprise and perseverance. Handel's Retort. It is said that when Handel was told that a certain melodic strain of his bore an alarming resemblance to one by another and inferior musician he would say: "Is it? Veil, it's much too goot for him! lie did not know vhat to do mit it!" Caught In the Act. A story of a famous physician is told by Harriot W. Frishinuth, the sculptor, who recently executed a life size bas relief of the Now York doctor. The figures gives a profile view with the hand in the coat povket. The doctor CRITICISED ONE POINT. was delighted with it. He said it was the best portrait he had ever had made, but lie criticised one point: "1 like everything but the hand in the pocket," he told the artist. "I nev er put my hand in my pocket." "Where is your hand now, doctor?" queried Miss Frishmuth. He looked down. The hand was iu his pocket as the artist had por trayed it.—New York Times. The "Little Cuas." Professor Marsh, the distinguished paleontologist, once met P. T. Bamum. the showman, in a railroad car. He knew Barnum from his portraits, but Barnum did not know him. They en tered into conversation, and Barnum told him of a number of curios which had been picked up in Mexico for his museum, but which his agent in New York, not realizing their value, offered for sale. "And they were sold?" asked Profes sor Marsh. "Yes some little cuss up in New Haven bought them," answered Bar num. "I thought so," said the scientist, smiling and handing out his card. "I was the little cuss." Why George Ade la Single. George Ade, the man who writes the "fables in slang," says he had often been asked why he never married. "I came very near marrying once. The girl was very beautiful, and I sat down at my typewriter one night to propose to her in a passionate love poem. The first line of the poem ended with 'Cupid.' I made a thorough search, but found that the only word that rimes with Cupid Is stupid. This made me hesitate, and I've hesitated ever since." The Hallmark Store 1 HSrijJ Pi Pi !j|:M I 2 Si S! is Winters Co/s SPECIALS For the next five days you can get at H. L. Winters Co.'s Store the following big specials Sterling Silver Thimbles 10c Sterling Silver Thimbles, regular price 35c, are now offered to you at 10c This is an exceptional value in silver thimbles. No lady can afford to be without a silver thimble at this price Cloisonne Enamel Thimbles $1.25 We also have a few Sterling Silver, Gold Plated Cloisonne Enamel Thim bles, while they last for Si.25 The regular price was $2.50 Self Filling Fountain Pen $1 The greatest Fountain Pen value for the money we have ever been able to show you. Remember, self filling. .. $1.00 Watermao's self filling, safety, straight and pocket safety fountain pens, with 14K solid gold pen Point._$2.50 to Waterman's fountain pen ink in all size bottles |Oc Lingerie Claps 65c per Pair Sterling Silver Lingerie Clasps, regular price 76c to$1,00, now MM selling at y* off on Lockets and Chains Ladies' Neck Chains and Lockcts, either in Solid Gold or Gold Filled at 25 per cent off the regular price, regular prices range from $2.00 to $40.00, making discount prices from $1.50 Pearl Beads $2.50 Fine White and Flesh Colored Pearl Beads. Very tine lustre. Exceptional value for $2.50 Beauty Pins 25c per Pair Gold Killed, Sterling Silver and Solid Gold Beauty Pins on sale at off the regular price. A large assortment ranging in price from 50c to $3,00 per pair You can always use another pair of beauty pins Hat Pins 50c per Pair A tine assortment of Hat Pins just received All Hat Pins from $1.00 to $2.50 now H. L. Winters Co, Minot, N. D. 121 S. Main St. 'Phone 121 We also want to call your attention to the fact that we have on hand the largest and most complete line of Lumber and Building Material ever shown in Minot. This means that with our ample stock and with our facilities for piling and caring for this material, that you can be assured of having nice, bright and well dried lumber to put in that new barn, house or out buildings which you are going to erect this season. Call on us at our yard, or, if not convenient for you to visit our city, write us and we will be only too glad to assist you in. drawing out your plans or telling you what any of your improvements will cost. Our business and trade is built upon the firm foundation of Service, Quality, Quantity and Courteous Treatment to Alj Give ua a trial PIPER-HOWE LUMBER COMPANY E. C. BRITTEN, Mgr. Minot, North Dakota Northwest Machine Shop Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Blacksmith Forging, Boiler Work Gas or steam power of all kinds rebuilt or repaired General machine shop work, lathe, drilling, etc. Out of town work will receive prompt attention Telephone 982 Minot, N. D. Subscribe for Tlie Independent—$1.00 per Year The Hallmark Store IOC to 50o 65o to A tine selection to pick from $30.00 $1.00 BE Wire, Gates, Stock Tanks and Cupolas We have just received two cars of Fencing and we wish to call your attention to the new combination stock and hog fence. This fence has just been put upon the market this season, and we were very fortu nate in getting some included in our cars. We want you to see this fence, and we will be very glad to tell ou about the merits of this combination fence, and of ow it will save you time, money and worry by using it around your different fields on the farm. 607 2d St. N. W.