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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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ffee cluht" "Yes." "What caused him
to talBe that step?** *1 dont know.
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Housework is drudgery for the weak woman. She brushes, dusts and scrubs or
is on he^eet all day attending -to the many details of the household, her back ach
fflv W quivering under the stress ot pain, possibly dizzy
feelings. Sometimes rest in bed is not refreshing, because the poor tiled nerves do
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Daddy doesn't go out
to hunt for rabbit skins
to keep the baby warm.
He is less romantic,
but more practical.
He buys a
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Smokeless
and all during the cold Fall and.
Winter
months his house is kept warm
cozy for his wife and babies.
A Perfection Oil Heater is almost indispens
able when there are children in the home. Every
home has uses for it.
Made with nickel trimming», plain steel or enameled tartjac'se
blae drama. Ornamental. Inexpensive. Lasts Jot years.
Easily moved from room to room. At dealers evetywhere.
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An Indiana Corporation'
Pay Bills at Your Mail Box.
Every mail box or post-office is a
government station where you may
pay all yeur bills at one time.
Simply mail your Austin National
checks and concern yourself no
further.
This is one of the conveniences of
a checking account at the
The Austin National Bank
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA.
Capital 50,000.00 Surplus 910,000.00 -Resources $525,000.Ot)
C.H. DAVIDSON, JR., Pres. J. L. MITCHELL, Vice-Pres.
C. F. ROSS, Aice-Pres.
P. D. BEAULIEU, Cash. F. C. W1LB0UR. Asst. Cash.
There's lots of new blood in the Great
Western, and the whole system is feeling a
new life. Eveify employe works hard for the
upbuilding of thejroad in a way that id bene
ficial to you. They are competent and cour
teous and contribute in every possible way to
your comfort and peace of mind.
Take the Great /Western on your next
trip to St. Paul, Minneapolis/ Council Bluffs
or Omaha.
Tickets, berths and information at
C. G. W. Depot. Phone 76.
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in order that he may make a bigger profit.
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