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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
'kThevInstitutionthe
That Makes the farm­
ers of Worth Dakota Ont of
Boys.
state educational institution
more closely touches the interests of
our people than does the agricultural
college. The type of education it re
presents is for the uplifting and inde
pendence of the toilers in field and
shop. Instead of educating a few to
guide the many, it would train the
many to do their own thinking and
to dignify the sphere of activity
wherein the great majority of our cit
izens employ their energies.
The 7S0 students now enrolled at
the agricultural college come from all
sections of the state and represent
our future producers of wealth and
the bulders of North Dakota homes.
They come mostly from the rural
districts and are pursuing subjects of
educational value, both for culture of
the mind and for accquiring skill of
the hand subjects that will give
them breadth of vision as citizens as
well as mastery of nature's forces for
the development of the latent wealth
of the state.
Upon the success and energy of our
farmers will depend the prosperity of
the commonwealth. These students
cannot make intellectual improve
ment and accquire skill in mechanical
or agricultural pursuits for their own
selfish ends. The state will share in
their achievments. Every business
and professional interest in North Da
kota also will be effected favorably
if the farmer prospers. If he loses—
they suffer with him.
The soil is the primary source of
all our wealth production, and the
type of education that embraces soil
physics, farm mechanics, plant
growth and plant diseases, animal
husbandry, dairying and agricultural
chemistry, as well as language, math
ematics and history, connects direct
ly with industrial life and helps the
citizen both to make a living and to
enjoy it. The subjects just enumer
ated are cultural as well as practical.
They embrace the laws of God and
the forces He created to serve the
highest interests of man. To under
stand them and to co-operate with
them is the highest function the stu
dent can aspire to. It enables him to
enjoy the bouuties of nature and the
advantages of a cultivated mind. So
ciety may have decreed otherwise, but
nature always has and always will
afford the best—the chief—source of
investigation and study that will en
noble and benefit mankind.
The educational mission of the agri
cultural college is to those who toil.
It would raise their standard of
intelligence. It would prepare them
for their work. It would professiona
lize agriculture. It would do more.
The agricultural college recognizes
the fact that farmers are invested
with large civic responsibilities, as
citizens, and would place them on an
even intellectual plane with those
whom the law bars from public ser
vice unless specially educated for the
calling they wish to follow. By force
of numbers the farmers of North Da
kota must bear the responsibility of
whatever there is of local law or'gov
ernment, whether good or bad. This
responsibility cannot be shifted from
the majority. The majority must not,
therefore, be rendered helpless for lack
of education or training, whether
such education and training relates
to the production of wealth, the scince
of government, or the regulation of
values and distribution of products.
Other schools will prepare men and
women for other spheres of useful
ness, but th* soil and its proprietors
must not be overlooked in our state.
Education having special reference
to this dominant industry should be
uccorded a place proportionate to the
importance of agriculture as related
to other interests. This, however, is
not done.
For the past three years the A. C.
has been ebarrassed for lack of facil
ities to accomodate students desiring
to enter its special courses of study.
Prom 200 to 300 applicants are
turned away every winter. Can the
state afford it? Is it just to the farm
ers of the state that this condition
exists? These questions are not ask
ed in a patronizing spirit, but in the
interests of those sturdy boys who
must work overtime on the farm sev
en or eight months of the year but
who yet have a keen desire to com
plete some one of the shorter courses
of study outlined in the A. C. .cata
logue—courses of study crowded with
practical information for young farm
ers. At all events the boys desire the
work, but many are turned away ev
ery winter for want of proper facili
ties. This is especially true in the
division of steam engineering.
A type of education bearing thus
upon the foundation of the state's par
amount industry, that stands for pre
sent material development and ot the
same time alone can conserve the
state's chief source of wealth, that
operates the engines and prolongs the
life of farm machinery, and what is
vastly more important and in addi
tion, that equips the farmer for every
duty social or political, so far as edu
cation gives equipment, should not be
the only type of education that is de
nied our young people—for want of
buildings and equipment.
The Morrill law provides for in
struction in agriculture and the mech
anic arts, or those subjects having a
direct bearing on them, together with
such other academic subjects as may
be necessary to afford the student the
means of obtaining a "liberal educa
tion." This type of education has
grown immensely popular within re
cent years and it is little wonder that
our state so peculiarly agricultural in
character, should find the provisions
it has hitherto made for the agricult
ural college wholly inadequate to
meet the demands made upon it.
—Farmer.
SOIL HUMUS.
Some Pertinent Observations as to Its
Hntire and Use.
A correspondent asks regarding soil
humus, its, formation, use, etc. This
can wall be aiujweredby giving, in
fact, some statements from bulletin.
No. W of^the North Dakotag tat Ion as
follows:
"The matter oLjwmus in the aoil is
attracting the attention of all thought
ful farmers, and many are asking for
taranact&m afid tew fo pret#&t^tts
)o—» kow-to- iBcreasesolllHMBuB.
attempt *111 herebe made to ex
li meant by the, tern .soil
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swTbased in part npotfovr own
.teveetitfBtloiis fi» partHpon
drawn from data of.
other
Afewd«finitionsju|dflS]
may assist in better tutfajmwu*?
at ttaay 'follow. A
portion of the earth Oat lscul
for. plant growth ls tke aoll.
np of mineral and Wrimi'
what
matter. The mineral consists of lime,
potash, phosphates, iron, magnesia,
aluminum and various other minerals
of less importance.
The organic matter Includes every
thing that once existed as vegetable or
animal matter.
Volatile matter consists of the mois
ture, gases and organic matter, all of
which can be driven off from a spade
ful of soil by heating it or burning it.
Humus is that part of the organic
matter in the soil which has partially
decayed, such as leaf mould, rotten
roots and blades of grass, clover or
peas. Rotted manure is rich in hu
mus. Unrotted manure or green
crops plowed in soon make humus by
rotting down in the soil.
The opinion seems to be gaining
ground that much of the available
plant food is the portion in the humus,
and as the humus increases in the
soil the potassium, phosphoric acid and
other mineral products existing in the
soil in insoluble forms not suitable for
plant food are taken up by the humus
to form new compounds better suited
to nourish the growing plants.
In eight determinations of North
Dakota soils, 41 per cent of the phos
phates was found in the humus, and
the proportions ranged from 10 per
cent to 891. Of the nitrogen from 46
to 80 per cent of the total was found
in the humus, and on an average 61
per cent.
What becomes of this nitrogen when
the humus is destroyed by decay? It
goes back into the atmosphere, or is
washed into the rivers, and so carried
out to the ocean. In these ways five
pounds of nitrogen are lost for every
pound used by the growing crops
If, then, the mineral matter taken up
by the plants and the nitrogen are
drawn largely from the humus of the
soil, it will be seen how important it
is to maintain well the supply of or
ganic matter in the soil, that it may be
transformed into humus as needed by
the plants under cultivation. Contin
uous wheat- growing is a process de
structive of humus and of all organic
matter in the soil. Not that the wheat
uses up such quantities, but, under
conditions of wheat-growing as gen
erally practised in this state, there is
a rapid decay of organic matter, ni
trification under these conditions be
ing very rapid, and the products es
cape as gases into the air and are
washed out of the soil, or, in case of
the mineral products phosphates, etc.,
they combine in such forms as to be
no longer readily available for feeding
the plant.
An acre of soil to the depth of one
foot weighs about 3,225,000 pounds, or
1,600 tons, and some soils as much as
1,800 tons per acre. Experiments
have shown that soils containing the
most humus hold the most moisture,
are warmer, looser, mellower, most
easily worked, and most fertile.
Following is a summary of this im
portant bulletin on soil humus:
1. By twenty years of wheat grow
ing from 40 to 60 per cent of the or
ganic matter of our soils have been
lost.
2. For every pound of organic mat
ter that has gone to furnish its nitro
gen to wheat five pounds have been
lost.
3. Many of our soils that originally
contained from 8,000 to 10,000 pounds
of nitrogen per acre to' the depth of
one foot now contain from 3,000 to
6,000 pounds.
4. By the loss of humus our soils
have become less retentive of moist
ure, and give it up by evaporation
sooner than when they were well sup
plied with humus.
5. Bare summer fallowing and burn
ing of the wheat stubble destroys large
quantities of organic matter and hu
mates.
6. To keep the supply of humus in
the soil we must imitate nature and
grow for the present at least one year
in five a grass crop on our land.
7. By keeping up the supply of hum
us in the soil, the crops will feel the
effects of drouths less than in soils
poop in humus.
8. Clover would be an ideal crop to
maintain the humur in the soil and to
aid in collecting nitrogen from the air,
but any grass will serve the purpose
of supplying humus, and bromus iner
mis has done well in this stPt«, and
may be used.—North Dakota Farmer.
THEX A XI) NOW.
Some Crisp Comparisons of Condi
tions Now and a Quarter
Century Ago.
L. W. Strogaard has the following
graphic comparison of things in Da
kota twenty-five years ago and now, in
a recent number of the Dakota Farm
er: The sod shanty has disappeared
and in its stead we see comfortable
homes with modern conveniences, and
these surrounded by groves of stately
and thrifty trees, and many places
where twenty-five years ago there
grew neither brush nor twig of any
kind, we have seen fruit spring up so
abundantly as to go to waste at times.
Now the furnace, the hard coal heat
er, the steel range, and the gas stove
is the rule in the farm home, where
then we were well satisfied with small
cook stoves and our fuel was the hay
of the prairies.
Instead of a curbleSs hole In the
ground, a bucket and a rope, we now
have on the farm quite elaborate wa
ter works, and all through the great
artesian belt the waters are piped to
barns as well as houses, and modern
bath and toilet rooms are by no means
rare.
Then the Dakota farm barn was
made of poles banked up with manure
or straw, while now modern comfort
able structures stand on the old sites.
Then the slow moving oxen were
our main motive power, while now
great well-bred drafters and sleek
fleet-footed drivers can be met with
most anywhere. The man who could
afford a new lumber wagon in those
days was one to be looked up to in the
community. Now fancy buggies and
costly carriages are very common
place, and the past summer we have
several times viewed the stock and
the grains on Dakota farms from the
owner's automobile, and they were not'
long distance farmers either.
Then our roads were trails, and we
traveled the prairies as the crow flew,
section lines being imaginary only.
Now we travel fairly well kept roads,
often skirted by (rows of beautiful
trees. And these /roads have grown
much shefrter with years. Then w*
had long distances to town—30 or 40
mjles nut .being, considered far—jyhlie
now over the greater portion of Da
kota, It is possible for most farmers
to get to town once' or twice a week
without losing much time.
Then railroads were few and-far be
tw«en,and much, ofourterrltaj'y was
supplied by steamboat and "freight
Now the?.country is cofe
with steel rails."
"we were.,lucky to get mail
~*fom twice to* foor UqM a month.
vWow
we hare it delivered at our doors
Then when going visiting we yoked
the wagons and
tfofwe Now we sttp
Uj ine pnone and visit with everybody
and anybody wlthMt,stepping out
doors,
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Then our educational Institutions
Were small, scattered and primative
school houses, whose only equipment
many times was an old cheap stove,
a water pail and a' tin dipper, with
rough home- made benches and desks.
Not Infrequently, school was held at
the house of some centrally located
settler, and that house a sod shanty.
The teacher was often some one of
the settlers who had a bit more of
learning than the average.
Now we have modern universities,
agricultural colleges, normals to
spare, institutions for the blind, the
feeble minded, the deaf and dumb, and
many of these with a strong industrial
and mechanical learning even to that
of practical and scientific mining.
Every little town has its high school,
and so has many a rural township, and
the district schools are comfortable,
modern and well equipped, presided
over by teachers specially educated
and fitted for the calling. Then a
school library was never heard of.
Now they are general.
The wide-cut push binder has super
seded the dropper or the clumsy reap
er, the self-feeding, self-stacking, self
weighing and grain loading 35-horse
steam thresher the little horse power
outfits. Since then the gasoline en
gine has .been invented and made prac
tical for the farmer.
Then our cattle were spotted, brin
dle, line-backed or streaked, and of no
particular breed. Occasionally one
would hear of a "Durham" bull but
those we saw could never have been
charged with having been "bred too
fine." Our swine were '"just hogs,"
while Indian ponies were dignified
with the name of horses. While we
have yet much to go In the breeding
line, Dakota bred stock is now going
into the biggest shows and winning
over the best produced anywhere else
and the fact tttfe a horse is bred in
Dakota is good for an extra bid in
eastern markets.
TREE CULTURE.
The fruits found native in this state
indicate along what lines fruit culture
can be made most successful. Aside
from the plum, the native fruits are
confined to the smaller varieties. The
following is only a partial list of the
native edible small fruits: grape,
cherry, (five kinds), raspberry (two
kinds), Juneberry, gooseberry (two
kinds), currant (three kinds), cactus,
highbush cranberry, black-haw, night
shade (two kinds), buffalo berry and
hackberry. While all of the above
might not appeal to every one, yet
they all have possibilities of improve
ment, perhaps as great as many of our
best modern fruits originally had.,
which of course were once known only
in the wild state.
CROP LEAKAGE.
Iowa Crop 40,000,000 Bushels Short
of Government .Estimate.
Sioux City, Iowa, Jan.—Official fig-,
ures regarding the Iowfk corn crop dis
close a discrepancy similar to that
which culminated in the'cotton scan
dal in connection with the department
of Secretary Wilson some months ago.
Iowa's corn crop during the past
year'was 40,000,000 bushels less, ac
cording to the government crop report,
prepared by Hon. John Cownie, of Des
Moines, than that reported by director
J. E. Sags, of the Iowa crop bureau, an
official also of. the national department
of agriculture.
Mr. Sage gives Iowa a total of 346,
577,988 bushels, while the government
report places the total at 305,788,000
bushels.
Basing his report on the observation
of 1,500 subordinates throughout the
state, Director Sage gives the average
yield of Iowa at 37.2 bushels per acre,
while the government report places
the yield at 84.8 bushels.
But the widest difference is in the
reported acreage. Mr. Sage, basing
his figures upon reports of assessors,
aaye the acreage is 9,542,956. The
government report of Mr. Cownie,
places the acreage at 8,787,000.
A mild sensation in grain circles,
particularly among the speculators,
was created by a discrepancy of 20,
000,000 in the report regarding Iowa
last year, it i« twice as bad this year.
Those who have studied the situation,
particularly the speculators, believe
Mr. Sage's figures to represent a far
more thorough and accurate compila-
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Some Interesting Things About
From the Pen of a Prominent
Authority.
By L. R. Waldron, director of the
Dickinson sub-experiment station:
The problem of tree culture will al
ways be an interesting one in this sec
tion of the country. The remark is
often heard that "this will never be
much of a corn country," and perhaps
the same expression might be more
aptly applied to trees. It is no doubt
true that the North Dakota farmer will
never raise corn for the market as
they do in Kansas, and it is even more
evident that this territory will never
support great forests or produce fruit
in any considerable quantities. Yet
such facts should not deter us in the
least from trying to do what is possi
ble along these lines.
As nature has done something in the
way of fruits and forest trees in this
state, it will be well to follow in her
footsteps as far as practicable and im
prove upon her methods when possi
ble. In this way we will be most cer
tain of success. Our most important
forest trees are the box elder, elm,
hackberry, ash, cottonwood, poplar,
basswood, oak, iron, birch (two kinds),
alder, pine, red cedar and cherry.
Some of the above are not strictly
forest trees, such as the cottonwood
and cedar, as they do not grow thickly
enough in nature to afford true forest
conditions. It is seen that our list of
trees is quite an imposing one—for a
treeless state—and it is certainly
varied enough for the would-be tree
planter to produce excellent results
Some of the trees such as hackberry
and basswood, are found mostly in the
eastern portion of the state, and per
haps would not do so well in the west
ern portion. Others, as oak and red
cedar, are rather chary of being trans
planted, but if great care is exercised,
success can be secured, even with
these.
Our story would be but half told if
no mention were made of our native
shrubs and woody vines. Fairly good
results can be obtained with trees
alone, but shrubs are also necessary
to make foliage an effective decorative
factor. A list of shrubs and woody
vines, native to this state, which are
ornamental in character, would sur
prise the majority of people by its
length. In fact, we have no fewer
than fifty species of shrubs which may
be planted with effect, either by them
selves or in clumps. Thirteen of these
are found in the rose family and ten
in the dogwood and honey-suckle fam
ilies. Among the woody vines may be
mentioned the moonseed, wild grape,
Virginia creeper, honey-suckle and bit
tersweet. It is perhaps natural for
most of us to desire the exotic and the
rare, but in the case of plants we will
obtain greater satisfaction by restrict
ing ourselves to the native and ac
climated kinds.
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THE EVENING TIMES, GIAND ROMS, N. a
tion. He devotes bis entire time to
the work. Mr, Qownfe is a member of
the state board of contfol a&d has no
time
Ao
devote to the work. Yet his
figures aire accepted by the govern
ment and. prevent thu year's crop
from gdlng down Into the records as
the banner crop.
THE MAN WHO RENTS.
Advantages for the Benter Who Buys
la North Dakota.
An exchange has the following per
tinent remarks on the man who rents
in the old states:
"He gives his tlnve and labor for the
benefit of others, when In North Da
kota he can obtain, land at low prices
which will* more than pay $10 an acre
net if sown to flax, wheat, oats or
corn. Are yott living on a rented farm
back eagt? Have you teams and
farming implements? By all means
come to North Dakota, and get a farm
of your own, and in a few years' time
you can become worth more money
than you can make in a lifetime where
you are how. The improvements you
make on a farm will be your own.
All farmers with large families and
moderate means can do better in this
country than in any other region in
the United States. Those who have a
mortgaged home east would better sell
and come west and buy anew on what
they can save out of the wreck. Any
young farmer who controls from $500
to $1,00Q can grow into independence
here. Those who have stock and ma
chinery, but no land, come here and,
rent land and buy a home from the
profits of the Qrat season. One crop
will often more than pay for the land.
The industrious and sober men are the
aristocrats of North Dakota. They be
come the men of wealth and standing.
The only classes her are the thrifty
and the shiftless. The state is con
trolled by the former."
POTATOES THAT WILL KEEP
Boon to Farmers Found in South Sea
Islands by an Ocean
Captain.
Berkeley, Cal.—A sweet potato that
will, like the Irish potato, keep for an
indefinite length of time under normal
conditions is the discovery of Capt.
J. A. Macomber, of Oakland, frho re
turned from an extended trip around
the world on his schooner Gotama.
The box of potatoes, which were car
ried for eight months on the ship, and
whirl) remained in a perfect state of
preservation for that time, have been
turned over to the department of ag
riculture at the University of Cali
fornia, and steps will be taken towards
the introduction of this most valuable
plant into this state.
The potato was* discovered by
Capt. Macomber on Papan island, in
tne Lad rone group in the South seas.
It was taken from the ground last
/April, and was, of exceptional flavor
and quality. So impressed was Capt.
Marcmber with the richness of the
tuber and its value as a delicacy for
his table that he took a lot with him
on leaving the island. He expected
that, like all other sweet potatoes that
he bad seen, they would spoil in a few
weeks, but, to his surprise, they did
not. They kept until he arrived home
and are still in good condition.
Upon arriving at Berkeley Capt. Ma
comber took his find, along with some
other plants he had gathered on his
trip, to Prof. E. J. Wickson, head of
the department of agriculture at the
stats university, and Prof. Wickson
says that the discovery is as valuable
as any that has been made in many
years.
"It will mean millions of dollars
3aved if we can get a sweet potato that
win not only not have to be refrigerated
to be kept, but keep as long as the
other potato. During sweet potato
season and out of it sweets are high
because they will not keep. Mer
chants put them In cold storage and
command a high price for them when
the crop is all used up. And then
millions rot every year in spite of
everything that can be done to pre
serve them."
ADVISES A LIMIT IN HUGS.
Woman's Hint to Oirls on Courtship
Topic May Prove of Great
Value.
New York.—"If a man is obliged to
stop in the midst of his ecstasy he is
likely to come back again. Whereas,
if he is sated he is likely to hug an
other girl the next night. Therefore,
1 say, if you Would keep your best
beau, limit your hugs."
This is the unqualified commenda
tion given by Mrs. S. M. Cory, of the
Society for Political Study of Dr. T. S.
Hanrahan's rules for courtship. The
aocior, who is rector of the Sacred
Hfcart church, of West Fitchburg,
Mass., outlined his ideas on the cur
tailment of tenderness in a Christian
sermon to young women.
"Lights in the parlor," he said,
"should not be turned down too low.
Don't be stingy with gas. The final
hug Bhould be at ten o'clock sharp.
Young men should not stay later than
this hour."
"I thoroughly agree," declared Mrs.
Cory, "with the ten o'clock theory of
stay-at-home nights. I am a firm
believer in no chaperones. I think a
young*man should take his girl out
and entertain her during the period
of courtship if anything in that line,
is to be expected of him as a husband.
If he is content to sit about the house
all the time it-is a bad sign.
"The matter of turning the lights
low largely is dependent on how
pretty the girl is. If she answers the
description of 'certainly plain,' I
should suggest a little softening of the
illumination might be a good thing.
"I should like to explode the theory
that a good son makes a good husband.
I think on the contrary a* good son
is so wrapped up in the virtues of his
mother it frequently blinds him to
those of his wife.
"A long engagement Is bound to. be
bad. Warmed over sentiment is much
like warmed over- potatoes—flat and
tasteless."
HopeCaL
"I don't suppose I'll: get a chafice to
make a speech for a kmg t!»e," said
the new member of ooagress.
"Maybe It's all for the best," an*
iwered hls entfneatly practical wife
"Many a mafi's qliinfes for nwlectlb*
Aave been improved by allenc?."—
Washington Star.
iBjibscribe for.TbeJBveninf Timei.
Ml
WON OUT
Leeal Basketball Team Defeated la a
Sensational Game Saturday Even
ing By the Fesston Team—Scon
The basket ban game between the
Y. W. C. A. team of this city and the
girls team of the Fosston high school
was one of the most exciting and sen
sational ever witnessed in the Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium. The young ladles
played a cleiver and fast game from
start to finish. While the visitors
were larger and over-reached the lo
cals, the latter did better team work
and the game wavered back and forth
from the^very beginning, but the su
perior size and endurance of the vis
itors made it apparent that victory
would incline in their direction from
the beginning.
The playing was faBt and furious.
The girls were here and there and
everywhere, going down on the pol
ished hardwood floor and taking the
bumps with all the grim determina
tion of the gridiron. The locals played
a reckless game and were penalized
repeatedly and the visitors real
ly won the game on baskets made in
this wise. They invariably made a
basket when the locals were penal
ized, but the locals failed to recipro
cate when they had the opportunity.
At the end of the first half the score
was tied, two to two. At the end of
the second half, it was tied again, four
to four. It was decided to play off the
score, it being necessary for one side
to make two to break the deadlock.
The girls played for half an hour and
the score stood five to five. On afoul
the Fosston girls made a lucky bas
ket and ended the contest.
Ada Coulter for the locals and Mary
Anderson for the visitors played star
games, although the piaying was of
a nature to aw^ten the enthusiasm
the spectators in tho ability of girls
to do an athletic stunt. The line-up:
Y. W. C. A.—Neel Ackerman,
Florence Secord, If Lillna Tagley, rf
Ada Coulter, rg Zella Sheppard, rg.
Fosston.—Mary Olson, Ida Bak
ke, rf Tillie Solberg, If Clara Fln
seth, lg May Johnson, rg.
VOX POPIIU
M. R. Brown: J. H. Griffin of the In
dustrial department of the Great
Northern, is one of the men who has
earned advancement under the liberal
policy of that road for rapid promo
tion of deserving men. I first knew
him as station agent at Argyle and
from there he went to Crookston,
Grand Forks, etc., until today he Is
one of the trusted-agents of the sys
tem. It is the young man who does
more than his whole duty to his em
ployer who gets the promotions.
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Rev. Frank E. R. Miller: The young
man who earns more than his salary
who does more work than he is hired
to do, that wins promotion. Long and
faithful service is the only road to
eminent success,, whether you are
working for yourself or somebody
else. This is equally true of the
christian life, long and faithful ser
vice wins the great reward.
Sheriff Turner: The Evening Times
is a good newspaper. I am much in
terested in watching it "keep up with
the procession." I am pleased to
know that it is getting a good circula
tion.
J. H. Griffin' The Evening Times
is a newsy sheet. I read Saturday's
issue through very carefully and it
was filled with interesting matter. I
notice that it is everywhere along the
lines I travel and is being read and
admired.
TOOTHSOME JELLY PUFFS.
Becipe for One of the Daintiest Ad
ditions to a Dessert or an After
noon Tea.
Take a broad pan and put into it a
pint of rich milk and half a pound' of
good, fresh butter. Cut up the butter
in the milk, put in a warm place until
the butter is quite soft, but do not al
low it to melt or turn to oil it must
be merely warmed so as to soften.
Then take it. off and with a knife stir
the butter well through the milk until
thoroughly mixed. Hate ready a pound
of flour sifted in a deep dish. In a
pan, beat eight eggs until they are
light and thick, then stir the beaten
egg into the pan of milk and butter
In turn with, the sifted flour, a little
at a time of each. Stir the whole very
hard and then put the mixture into
buttered teacups, filling them only two
thirds. Set them immediately into a
brisk oven and bake 20 minutes or
more, until they are well browned and
puffed up very light. Then take them
from the oven and with a knife open
a slit on the side of.each puff and care
fully put in with a spoon sufficient
fruit jelly or marmalade to fill up the
whole cavity. Afterwards close the
slit and press it together.
Nothing makes a .woman so angry
as the silence of her husband when
she wants to fuss.
Sib of the best--:
mmm
#p®
the popuiar traveling men
who 'make this 'city th)lr hetftifrar
ters is Rus Grant of the Griggs
Cooper oDjnpany of St. Paul.'
He gofln Saturday evening from
New York, where' he went dh*buffth$ra
and pleasure, and, was surprised to
see the following Clipped from his
home paper, the Albany. Argus, by the
Evening TimeB man:'
"Speaking of. traveling men reminds'
me of the fact that Rus Grant Is here
looking us over after an absence of
two years. Rus is a Salesman .for
Griggs Cooper ft Co., of St. Paul,
Minn., the foremoBt wholesale grocery
house in the northwest, and that: ha.
has made good Ib evidenced by the
fact that hiB employers have promoted
him several times during the paBt fewN
years. He is now covering a big
field in North Dakota and his head
quarters are at Grand Forks. Riis
has been traveling and working with
his eyes open wide and his mind re
ceptive and as a result he is an up
to-the-minute young man and an in
teresting, congenial companion. He
is being cordially greeted by his
many friends feere and all wish him
continued Buccess and the same
physical Bturdiness his appearance in
dicates that he at present possesses
Rus says the East Is all rijght, but
a trifle slow when it comes to busi
ness push and hustle and cities of the
same size, there are far behind those
of Nocjti Dakota In this respect.
C. A. Barnett, representing the^ L.
A, Becker company, of Chicago, manu
facturers of soda water fountains' and
fixtures, was in the city last evening.
He has just been on a trip in South
Dakota and stated to an Evening
Times representative that for busi
ness push and activity South Dakota
did not compare with North Dakota.
"The push and energy of the people
here is in the very air," he said, and
was profuse in his expresions com
plimentary to the state.
North Dakota has as many expen
sive soda water fountains in its cities
as many states of double the popula
tion, according to Mr. Barnette. It Is
not considered any great load by pro
gressive druggists of this state to put
1n a fountain costing $4,000, while In
other states they are slow to take up
with a proposition of this magnitude.
A traveling man recently received
a package of a new explosive Called
"hot foot" from a friend In-the south,
and livened things up at the Dacoteh
last evening by dropping some on the
floor and watching the guests side
step.
The explosive is harmless but very
demonstrative and bears out its name
creditably. As soon as one steps up
on it, snap, sputter, bang, and ten
thousand or more little balls of fire
start" a race about a person's feet,
here, there and everywhere," like
things of life. Some amusing inci
dents occurred in the lobby.
Hon. Jud La Moure, the well-known
Pembina statesman, -was a visitor in
the city last evening and left for
Bralnerd on the evening train, from
where he will go to Gull Lake, south
of Bemldji.
Mr. La Moure will make some im
provements in his summer cottage at
the lake In preparation for its oc
cupancy by his family next season.
MORE PAUPERS IN LONDON
Those in England Now Beceiving Be
lief Are Greater Than for Forty
Years Save in 1867-1871.
1
London.—Official figures relating to
the legal poor of London show that the
numbers In receipt of pauper relief in
nearly every month of, the year just
ended have been greater than in any of
the previous 40 years comprised in the
ceturns, with the exception of the pe
riod of 1867 to 1871.
The ratio of padpers to each 1,000 of
population has been higher In most of
the months of last year than in any
previous year since 1874.
Not only has there been a,remark
able Increase in outdoor relief, but the
rise in the numbers entering work
houses has continued.. In no year ot
the history of the poor law has the
population in the workhouses been
greater for December.
If a wise young man calls on a girl
and she requests her little brother to
recite for him, thtf hint is quite suf
ficient.
TELEPHONE
67
Train
No.
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8:00 p.m.
4:10 a.m.
8:0Ra.m.
7:86, p.m.
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4 26
10
33
Ajs
8 06 p.m
they
ere filled, place each'on a large dish
and before sending to the table pow
der white sugar over them. Eat them
cold. Instjsad of jelly they may be
filled with boiled custard flavored with
vanilla, or extract jOf bitter almond,
and made'with the yolks of eggs, omit
ting the whites.—Philadelphia Press.
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137
138
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8:20 a-m.—For
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11:00 e.m.1-
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MONDAY, JANUAKY 22, 1906
CASH CHECKS
tifottUigiiam Did Land Offior
Business—Lands in Jail
Liter.
Last fall Harvey Mesaingham, a for
mer resident of Britt, Iowa, arrived in
Granville to visit some of his old. ac
quaintances. He stated that he had a
position wlUi some contractors who
were then building the new Boo line.
He told' C. A. Stubbihs that he was op
his .way to Mihot to purchase .some
meat for the pontractors and askfed
him to cash a draft on the Grano bank
for him. Mr. Stubblns took the draft
w^tlch was for '$100 uid after a day or v.
two advanced him 4ome money on it
and he left He went to Norwich to
visit E. W. Stubblns and Incidentally
got him to cash a smatl check. From
there hid went to Minot and'succeeded
in getting two or three inore checks
cashed. He then came back and -went
UP to Deerlng and inveigled two par
ties up there to cash checks for him
which were drawn on the Granville
State Bank of this place. He then
skipped out A day or two after Jre
had left the country, the draft on the
Grano bank came back marked n. g.
and so did all the checks. The Bank
ers' Association took hold of the mattf
ter and the detectives have been work
ing on the case ever since. The first
of the week a telegram was receivd
here from some one in Grand Forks
Who knew Messlngham that he was
there, and the authorities were noti
fied to gety him. They got him and
Deputy Sheriff 8. J. Lyng was dis
patched after him and arrived here
Tuesday night with the prisoner. He
was taken to Townier where he was /.
bound over to the district court His
bond was fixed at $1,000, but as the
funds were not forthcoming, he now
languishes In the county bastlle. It is
reported that he is a had man and la
wanted at Omemee and several other
places in the state. He has a brother
near Blsmarck who is a thrifty farmer
and respected,—Granville Herald.
Souffles and Kisses.
MME. LA BERNE
All customers given
her personal.attention
SECOND FLOOR,
SECURITY BLK.
5 4
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8:35 a.m.—For
8:25 p.m.—For
9 7:46 a-ral".
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8:16 p.m.—For* Larimore, Devils iAke. Mthot: Havre, Spo
kane, Seattle and Portland.
a.nK—For Hillsboro, Fargo, Fergus Fails, St Cloud,
Minneapolis and St. Paul.
From Crookston,
CaM
-For' Emerado,
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Trains 'Three' and 'Four
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"Lighter than vanity," somebody calls
them. Yet in their alry lightness thesa
sweet trifles add something to a dainty
table, and arie Sure to please the young
and pleasure-loving. When perfect of
their kindv they gratify in their maker i
tjiat sense of satisfaction in her handi
work which is nowadays accounted ,'
^closely akin to Industrial virtue. It is Wr
"certainly well for the housekeeper and
active home-maker to love her work and
take an honest pride in it. If Bhe does
not, it is pretty certain to be dull
drudgery. Qy all means, .then, let the
pretty and less essential1things have
tbeir own place.
January 22 and 23. In
order to meet the peo
ple of Grand Forks
and prove that her'
remedies will do work
no others will, tickets
will be sold at the fol
lowing astonishingly
low prices*
Kefdsr $10 Come lor 12
Trestaenia
0NLYm..««...mm.m..$5
leftdar $28 Cosne for
37 Trestaeata ONLY..*...
$15
Unprecedented offers good
for these days only.
Examination and advice free.
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all pointe west, .Laririiore to Wllliston.
5?,-' -Crookston, Ada. .BarneSville, Fer
gns Fails, St«F. Clo.ud, ..Minneapolis fit
C"s
i—Prom Bt, Paul, Minneapolis, Sioux City. Wil
m*r Breckenridge, Fargo and Hills
7 56
Superior and
sl Vincent, Qpeetabuch and Fisher
8 10 a.m —For Visher. Crookston, St. Vll?c^nt Greenbu8h
Set™ldil'
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like, Superior and Du-'
—For Mlnto, Grafton, Neqhe and Winnlnee
—Neche*
Grafton and MPnui
IS1?! 5rafton, Cavalier and Walhalia.
From WaihaHa, Cavalier, Grafton and Minto
For Emerado, Arvilla. Larlmore. Northed
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"tab* Fear,
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merado, ArvillaL Utrlmore, Park River
/Langdonr amrHanrtah.
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Hannah, Langdon, Park River, Larimore
Arvilla and Emer&do. .more,
-t-W. B. SINCLAIR, Agent
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