W i! -6— a' risit j,,n I #fc*dS* ^4^M SOfficial Paper of Mower County. 5S«i Vol XLV—I FARMER BEN'S I'm bigly interested in the way the Fhiladelphy society women hav ben poundin' down the retail price of eggs there and it's spreadin' all over. They bought up a big pile of eggs and sold 'em from six to twenty cents under the market price and then sold at a profit. It was a effort to get the producer closer to the consumer. Those very eggs that the retailers was holdin' the consumer up for fifty cents a dozen were bought of the farmers at around eighteen and put in cold storage until a combination figgered they had a corner and could let out a few at a time and in the artificial scarcity could extort outrageous prices. I verily be lieve that some scheme can be invented "by which the farmer can get mom for his eggs and still the middleman can sell to the consumer at a much less flgger and still make profit. I'm glad that the Philadelphy women hav tack led this extortion and next may come like rippin' up of the butter and the meat trusts. That^money trust investigate by congress is a eye opener and shows up the menace of concentrated capital in a few hands. Eighteen leadin' financial firms of which J. Fierpont Morgan is one hav 746 directors in 134 railroads, financial aod industrial corporations feprtlentin' an Aggregate of i25,$2i, 1,000. Mark you, this is twenty-five billions enuf to ruin any business that jt wished to clean out. It's no use for Morgan to say that all the banks in Christendom could not make a money •trust. Any fool knows that if I con trolled twenty-five billion dollars I fcoiild tie up money in deals that 1 fay bred and refuse good loans to manufac- turin' enterprises that 1 wanted to uinir Congress is openin' up just such •a deal in Hew England- where the ^Canadian Grand Trunk railroad had L, Jtartfid, a thru ljne jQ Bea^qpselUft break the present monopoly and sud denly had to quit after spendin' $2,500, 000 because the mosey trust called a halt in advancin' any mere money. 4» I'm teetotally agenst the .proposed bill in congress applyin' the readin' and writin' test to immigrants. I don't believe it would be worth a feather in keepin' out undesirables. Up this way the most desirable immigrants would be good farm help at reasonable wages and plenty of it but whether a man could read or write wouldn't help to fiBd out whether he could plow good or pitch bundles. On the other hand, the ones wo want to keep out, the criminals and vicious and shiftless classes who fill np our pens and charities could probably make a good showin' In readin' and writin'. Last year over 18,000 were turned back from this coun try for bein' diseased, defectiv, prosti tute or likely to become public charges and they didn't ask 'em whether they could read or not. There's a way of openin' our doors to the worthy from abroad who wish to find opportunity here to develop along honest, industri ous, moral lines that shall be of civic value to the nation. Literary tests prove nothin'. This "Safety First" rule that rail roads are at last layin* down ought to hav ben interduced a century ago. It's simply to put all employees on every department of a railroad on the job first of all of makin' for the safety of trains and tracks. No matter what else may come in the way of temporary delay or inconvenience to passengers and train men no risks must be taken. All spikes stickin' up, all other causes of danger must be fixed right then and there. It's high time something of this kind was done. In the last fiscal year,the railroads of this country killed 10,585 persons and injured 160,538 so fur as reported and the actual figgers would be larger. If we had a war goin' on and this awful slaughter was resultin* from it, there would be a unl ... versal wail of sorrow go up to high heaven on account of is. The murder in' railroads too much let rotten ties stay in and use rotten rails and skimp just where they ought to be most thor ough in order to pile up dividends on watered stocks and build million dollar terminals for show. But when the interstate tells us that 63 per cent of all accidents are ascribed to mistakes on the part ot railroad employees this "Safety Flrsf cry sounds awfully good. ui- i'U, It beats me why more folks don't eat Johnny cake. Iff half pur livin'at this ranch. Of cairn* nobody but downeaster knows really how to make 'em. There's all the differ In the world p- I've ben interested in the success of that church matrimonial bureau down to Kansas city the past year. They claim that they've actually had 17,000 applications from all over the world and that nearly 85 per cent of them hav ben from women It looks like they found less in single blessedness (ban the men. One signifyin' fact reported is that most of the womeu applicants named wealth as ope of the qualifica tions of an acceptable husband. Just how far this indicate a sordid desire for a permanent-meal-ticket deponent saith not.• It might took like a strong commerciar taint in it. Howsomee'r. the efforts of this church bureau is along rite lines when held where it ought 19 196 There are millions of lonely men Ufifharried and millions of lonely women livin' by theirseives and if these could only be brought into con genial matrimonial relations both would be unspeakably benefited. It looks like a church bureau might come nearest to conductin' the business on a unselfish and ethical basis. I C*V*f» .1* StStfeHistorical Society FARMER REN. Rug and Carpet Weaving I am prepared to do rug and carpet weaving at short notice. Bring in your rags and have them woven ihto good rugs and caraetft,, li&nua JKnoblfe About Marriage Licenses. The Minnesota law requires that a license to marry "shall be taken out in the county wherein the bride resides." Assistant County Attorney Roerner of St. Faul says no county clerk in Minnesota will issue a license to Min nesotans unless the person procuring it takes an oath that the briae.is a resi dent of the county where the license is procured. If the license is obtained by deceiving the clerk in this respect, Mr. Roerner says it constitutes perjury under the statute and is proper subject for grand jury investigation. Deputy county clerks have been care fully watching the newspapers and assert there have been announced nu merous weddings recently that had been "kept dark" because the contract ing parties had secured a license in some other county of the state, it is passible an investigation will be made into some of these weddings and into the conditions under which licenses were procured elsewhere to marry St. Faul girls. You'll Never be Sorry— For living a pure life. For doing your level best. For being kind to the poor. For looking before leaping. For hearing before judging. For thinking before speaking. For harboring clean thoughts. For standing by yonr principles. For stopping your ears to gossip. For being as courteous as a duke. For asking pardon when in error. For bridling a garrulous tongue. For being generous to an enemy. For being square in business dealings. Forgiving an unfortunate fellow a lift. For promptness in keeping your promises. For putting the best construction on the acts of others. You will never, never be sorry for giving light to the blind, knowledge to the ignorant, strength to the weak,help to the struggling, and a Savior to the heathen.—New Orleans Times-Demo crat. A Gift with a Thought In It. The chances are that no present you could buy for the young mend or the family you delight to honor could con fer so much pleasure as this gift of The Youth's Companion for a whole roupd year—fifty-two weeks' issues,and the fifty-second' as keenly anticipated and enjoyed as the very first. There will be stories for .readers of •very age sound adviee as to athletics suggestions for the girl at college or making her own way in the world good things for every member of the family—all for §200—less than four cents a .week.. The one to whom yon give the sub scription will receive free The Com anlon Window Transparency and alendar for 1913 in rich, translucent colors.. .Itis to be hnng in the window or over 'the. lampshade. .Yon, too, as giver of the present will receive a copy of, it. The Youth,'* Companion, 144 Berkeley Sir, Boston, Mass. E New subscriptions received at this offiee !r 1 «i Me* •. .» ,1 t? 4 between bavin*" 'em resemble a fairly durable pavin' material and havio' 'em right so they are as tender as a leaf of fresh lettis and melt in your mouth. A coupie of hundred year® ago the folks called 'em Journey Cake because when traveling, they could slap these onto the lire when they didn't hav time to raise bread and bake it. ileal Johnny Cake can't be beat. It'B to the genuine Yankee what oat meal is to the Scotch man. It's brawn and brain. At our house it plays no minor part but is the solo in the gastronomic symphony. The plans and specifications differ in differ in' Idealities but the real thing are neither over thin or over thick just three eights to half inch in thickness, crisp on top and bottom and with a soft and mellow interior. Made out of dry ripe corn meal aceordin' to.correct rules, it alwus tastes like more. V' C» A T. 1 ^i. .V 'Jlf-fj, li 4 v, 'If '1 AGRICULTURAL SHORT COURSE To Be Held in Austin for One* Week Beginning January 20. Fifteen Prominent Speakers and Instructors Will Take Part —Home Talent and Other En tertainment for Evenings. The Mower County Agricultural Short Course for farmers, housekeepers and teacher? will be given in Austin one whole week January 20-25 for One Dollar. The program will consist of practical exercises in the study of corn and small grains. Demonstrations and practice in judging cattle, horses, hogs and sheep feeding and care of farm an imals. General lectures and demon strations on soils, drainage, tiling* al falfa, silos and silage, hog cholera and tuberculosis, and the judging and butchering of two beef steers. A course of evening lectures and en tertainments of a popular nature/for everybody. A Short Course means an Agricul tural School brought to you. ou get the' benefit ot the expert knowledge and practice without leaving the COQQty. Management and instruction will be ip the hands of those who have made the Sh6r& Uourf« a success in other counties of the state. Mr Theodore Sexauer will have gen eral charges and will instruct in Farm Crops. He and his work have a na tional reputation because he is amain who has "started something." The Farm ..Stqgk. jyork will bejfc charge of Mr. G. E Rogers who we all know is a practical farmer* He will* be assisted by some of the leadip officials of the Animal Hiisbahdry Dt partment of the University This will* insure a thorough and profitable courpe in this important branch of farming. Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones is one of the founders of Domestic Science as is now presented in our schools ahd: colleges, and all housekeepers and' teachers should be sura tQjhear her ftnff nrrffll fp hor ofw The evening talent will, be the be.* that is obtainable, President Vincent of the University* of Minnesota will lecture one evening He is one of the greatest speakers in the country, always pleasing, entertain ing and instructing his audience, Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones will lecture on the subject "The Girl Who Can" and we all want to meet this particular girl. One evening will probably be given over to a home talent entertainment, the nature of which has not yet been decided upon. All sessions and lectures are free to those holding season tickets. When you ean get a week's schooling, five or six lectures on farm subjects, and as many popular evening entertainments for one dollar, surely nobody can afford to miss the opportunity. The following able speakers and in structors have been secured to take some part in the school course: Pres. Geo. E. Vincent, Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones, Mr. Theodore Sexauer, Mr. Glenn E. Rogers, Supt. C. G. Schultz, Mr. E. M. Phillips, Dean A. F. Woods, Mr. Samuel Quigley, Mr. H. R. Smith, Miss Frances Lapham, Mr. John. T. Stewart, Mr. A. V. Storm, Dr. Chas. C. Lipp,Mr. J. E. Neil,Mr. L. F. Knowles. Tickets will be on sale in the banks of the County and can be secured early. Every early ticket taken means a good word for the success of the course quite as valuable as the cost of the ticket. All tickets will be interchange able in the family of the purchaser but will not admit two persons at the same time. Suitable prizes will be offered in line with the subjects of the Course. Anyone interested can offer a prize within the line of exhibits. Financing the Farmer. It is singular that the United States has been so long in awakening to the tremendous importance of farming as an industry, and to our inadequate pro visions for financing the farmer. Agri cultural credit societies are now a lead ing topic of discussion, and occupy page after page of the newspapers and magazines. The organizations abroad are being studied with a view to adapt ing them to American conditions. And the fact has been thought forcefully home that each of the agricultural credit societies abroad is buttressed by a scientific hanking system Not one could do extensive good without such support. Before we can finance the farmer as he deeerves, our unscientific banking system mu6t be reformed. After Christmas Exchange Items, (Clipped from any. Newspaper). To Exohajngb -J- Three gold-filled braMifts for a pair of shoes. Gladys D. Wuw. ExoHAxafe Hand-worked smoking jacket for a half dozen eorn cob pipes* Arthur S. I HavJ several pairs of hand-worked bed slippers to exchange for t^ree pounds of beefsteak or other meats. Reverend C. Nick PjjR tllk suspenders for a ham sandwich- Dick. WiLii ExoHAiies^Sand embroidelr ed socks for sonoe ijlk and., stamps. Buffalo, Minu, Austin. Mower County, Minnesota, Wednesday, Dec. 25 Terms—$1.50 Per Annum, In Advance A Kick from the Farm. E tor Minneapolis Daily News: the U. S. Department of Agricul as well as the Harvester Trust, Id get off our back and let us alone thare would be some show for our up lirang. lo load us down with 42,000 more lunkhead parasites does not appear to be the proper thing. The farmers are doing the very best that can be done under the circumstances. Tftlcontinually tell us to raise more to th$ acre is silly and becoming very monotonous. The few of us are now supporting nearly 100.000,000 people. What we really are in need of is help, notjonly farm hands but more farmers. ^hat asinine herd at Washington is cominually figuring on the number of buspels raised. It is all guesswork doel not come within a million miles of ^accuracy. It is expensive and harmful, vonder if it ever occurred to that ish herd at Washington or to any :pf those wiseacres at our agricultural colleges who figure out the exact Jtmciunt annually destroyed by rats, etc. dp it ever occur to them to figure on the amount of energy wasted through football, baseball, and basketball annu ally.' Roughly estimating, I should say that the energy wasted at those games annually would, rightly expend ed, harvest every bushel of gram raised iA. the United States. Do we hear anything about efficiency? Not only are football and other balls not discouraged but we that are already carrying far more than our proportion al share of the burden are still further taxed to build an armory so that the dear louts may play indoors when it storms without. W. F.LUDERMAN. dreameries Are Organized. Representatives of«^ghplQve local co-operative creameries i^ihMinnesota met fn St. Paul Thursday and organiz ed tljre Minnesota Local Creameries and factories association, for the purpose of fighting the centra iiery plants and protecting restB of the local creameries, dreamery will pay a 15 entrance id dues at the rate of one cent for 100 pounds o'f butter fat bought, which will give a fund of about $10,000 a yeaf. The first annual meeting will be held March 6 in St. Paul. Directors ^re elected as follows: F. D. Currier, Jet .: J. Farrell, Carver A. J. lire. Grand Rapids Emil Ek, Co ana Peter Englestad, Thief River ^Was:declared at the meeting sany times cream rejected by lo fwl creameries is shipped to a centra lized plant and used, and it was pro posed to have the new association trace this sort of thing. It will also work for protection in the line of railroad rates and service, and enforcement of the law against unlawful competition. The association was addressed by Joel G. Winfejer, state dairy and food com missioner, and by H. C. Larson, assist ant dairy and food commissioner of Wisconsin. Were You at Gettysburg? Grand Army posts of Minnesota have been asked by the Gettysburg state committee to send in the names of all veterans who participated in the battle of Gettysburg. This work is prepara tory to the request which will be made to the legislature this winter for an ap propriation to pay the traveling ex pense1) to and from Gettysburg of every Minnesota citizen who took part in the battle. The semi-centennial of the battle is to be celebrated next July on the field with a reunion of blue, and gray, and the federal government is going to provide for the maintenance of all the veterans in quarters on the field during the reunion. It remains for the states to see that the veterans get to the reunion. General L. A. Grant is chairman of the Minnesota committee, and the headquarters are at his office, 513 Northwestern bank building, Minne apolis. Captain W. H. Harris is sec retary. Shingling His Roof. Chaplain McCabe tells a Rtory of a drinking man who, being in a saloon late at night, heard the wife of the saloon-keeper say to her husband: "Send that fellow home: it's late." "No, never mind," replied her hus band, "he is shingling our house forus." This idea lodged in the mind of the drunkard and he did not return to the saloon for six months. When passing the saloonkeeper in the street, the latter said: "Why don't you come around to my place any more?" "Thiink you for your kind hospitali ty"'replied the former victim, "I have been shingling my own roof lately." When We Had Competition. Hie good old days of real competi tion in railroad fretjght rates, uow gone forever, are thus recalled by a thirty five-year ago clipping ttom the Win 4om Reporter: uThe completion of the Southern Minnesota road to Jack son promises to make that place a strong rival of Windom in the sale of lumber, hardware, etc., as it is under stood the Southern Minnesota railroad will oarry freight at rates that will en able Jackson dealers to undersell our own, tout we presume the St. Paul will not aliow the Southern company to takis much of their business. '(•v & 'U Why He Did It', .. *fSo your oldest hoy hes joined the ffee cluht" "Yes." "What caused him to talBe that step?** *1 dont know. But, judging sound, guess It moat -,/•* jr Housework. Drudgery! simoiiwsifwOn IS Mbs. Bkiqgs. Housework is drudgery for the weak woman. 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