The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 20

. / - why not?2” b"' 'BY RIP, THE REPORTER . ' Deér Mistur Editurs - T must tell you ®bout an amusin’ incident which I--had the pleasure of witnessin’ the other day on the train from Grand Prongs to Satans Lake, I wuz a-ridin’ in the smokin® car an’ wuz deaply absorbed in that poplar ‘an’-interistin’ book entitied I'wenty Years On The Sterage Deck uv a ,Bljom‘,o;Pony. "IN tell' you Mistur Editur you ort'to read ‘that book, I got it frum the feller what sells books, papers, chawin’ gum an’ crackerjacks on the trane and he tole me it was just. out. Wel}, I 'wuz a-readin’ a chapter whur %he cowboys wuz attacked by -a-barid of wild and ferocious injuns: ' As I red how them cowboys lade behind their pros- fraight ponies while . the injuns come dashin’ at ’em like mad men and how them cowboys picked ’ém off like killin’ fiies with a bean shooter, my hare stood strate on end and the goose flesh went a-creepin’ down my back like sopesuds down a wash| R I ¢ Well, as I started to say, thar wuz a tfeller, a nice, dudish lukin’feller, a-settin’ across the ile frum me a.readin’ uv the Daily.. Perpetual Abuze. an’. smokin’ a Wong, black, fat seegar an’ a-curlin’ his Jmustach. ‘tween times. Purty sune the trane stopped at a fittle stashun and several peeple got on, among them a farmer with hayseed in --his hare and dust all over his face, fur it wuz a windy day, as you might kmow. TThe car wuz purty well crowded and so that farmer sot down in the same seet Wita wne aroremenshuned dudish lookin’ feller. He hadn’t more'n tuck his sSeet than he “pulls out'n his pocket a copy of the Nom-partishan Leader an’ beegun to turn threw it. ‘No suner did he due: this than the dud’sh lookin’ “feller’s eyes beegin to snap like parler matches and he bit an inch off uv his seegar at one bite. The farmer never pade no attenshun to him but kept .right on a turnin’ threw his paper. Purty sune he come to cartune uv a farmer a-standin’ in his yard while every chicken, dog, ole plow and fence -~ post had = lable on it which seed “Taxed”, In the. background wuz a “trane uv cars—tank line cars—and on them wuz lables which sed, “Not taxed.” The farmer he smiled a big, broad smile an’ the dudish lookin’ feller he gritted his teeth. I'mode they'd be sume firewurks purty sune an’ so I stuck a peece uv _paper in the book:right where . the injuns retreeted fur another dash an’. 1ade it on'thé séet while the trane.sped D e e " farmer: exploded with the exclamashun, “I’ll be dadgumed ef that aint the truth.” : +As that dudish feller looked at that farmer..I cood see a string uv little daggers a-travelin® from his eyes toward : . that farmer ‘like wheat straws on a country telefone wire on a windy day. .. . HE HAD TO TALK. Then it wuz the dudish feller’s time to ; explode an’ he ‘did an’ done a good job uv it too. “Do you believe all that stuff?” he sed;*an’ most-ever-body in : the car turned to look, he sed it so loud. : The farmer, he ‘turned a’dusty face . upon that- dudish’ guy- that wood haye - withered' a' asbestus’:sun flour and-he i1 looked at him purt néer'a minute an’ then o he sald, at'the same time pintin’ to the !+ Daily Perpetual Abuze whish the dudish . - feller wuz: a-holdin’ in his hand, sez he, “Do you believe ‘all uv that stuff?” . : Excep fur, the rattle uv the trane silence raned a -perfeck’ downpour for about fifty seckonds, meanwhile the farmer waz - a dookin’ strate at the dudish feller and - the string uv little daggers begun to travel back the other way. < Y The dudish feller’s eyes coodn’t stand . the stare an’ so they shifted while he confusedly answured, “Certainly I do, iShure enuff, in another minute that ' His Bluff Called . ¥Certainly I do, too,” replied the far- mer. 37 : “You do what?” asked the dudish. fele der. . "“T believe this” indicatin’ the Non~ partisan Leader. e : “Why, thats nuthin’ but a pack uv lize,” exploded the dude. “So’s that,” retorted thefarmer, pintin’ his finger at the Daily Perpetual Abuze. "Then silénce raned. another downpour, The farmer turned another paige in his paper. The dudish feller turned to the first paige uv the Daily Perpetual Abuze. “Here,” he said, “what about that? Is that a ly?” ‘The farmer looked an’ red this " hedline, “Every . Member . of the Leagué 'Respensible - for' Debts of Lea- ders.” AR ' . THE BLUFF CALLED “Certainly it’s a ly,” said the farnier. “That shows. how much you know ’bout_law,” sed.thé dudish _one. The farmer went down in his pocket, pulled out his wallet,: opened .it wup, tuck out ‘a hundred doller bill, laid ii or the seet and sed, “Thar’s a hundivd bucks ‘that sez Im right. Cover it, if you like.” ot “Who'll ‘we leave it to?” asted the dudish one. . “To the Soopreme court, ef you like,” sed the farmer. X : : Thar wuz another downpour uyv silence. “0, I don’t want to taik your money,” sed the dude, backin’ up. . The farmer picked up his money, say- ing, “I jist paid out $25 for legal advice on that very question an’ I know what I'm talkin’ about.” : ..., The. dudish .one looked surprised and jist then the stashun wuz called and he ‘got up and left in a hurry. . ~ - The farmer looked over on'the winder sill and thar lade that' dudish feller’s card. He picked it up an’ it red this: “Will Skinum, of the Law Firm of Catchum, Holdum and Skinum, Grand Prongs, N. D.” Then down in the lower left han’ corner wuz theze words, “Can- didate for Representative, at the June The farmer looked at the card, tore it to bits and throwed it on the floor and turned to readin’ the Nonpartishan Leader. . Fur a few seckonds I wuz lost in deep thot and meditashun and then I suddenly come to.an’ the first thing that entered my. hed wuz that it wnz about time them - injuns wuz dun retreetin’ ‘and -that by this time they ought to be making an- ° other dash on thém brave cowboys layin’ behind their ponpigs an’ so I Cotpori8 Eight ‘ inch' doll, unbreak- dressed, stuffed GRAND FORKS, . Fine ‘white mercerized tables ‘cloths, sizes 56 * by &3 inches, check ‘pattein’ with * broken -stripe’ - hemmed Large linen finish huck towels, size 18 by 89 * inches, red or plain ~.good border, our price postpaid is only 9c hujh-ied on to reedint before Tt wuz over - with.—Yoors Trooly, Rip. © ~ LIVE STOCK MARKET . . South St. Paul, May 29.—With about 4000 cattle on the market today the mar- ket ruled steady on choice stuff, on com- mon stuff' 10 to 16c lower. Prime fed steers $8.75 to $9.75; good to choice $8 to $8.75; fair to good $7 to Prime fed- cows and heifers $7.75 to $8.50; good to choice $6.75 to $7.50; fair to good $5.75 to $6.75; canners and cut- ters $4 to 3$5; shelly old cows $3.75. or less. Butcher bulls $6.75 to $7.50; bolognas $6 to $6.50; common and light bulls $5.25 to $5.75. : “Veal calves steady, top $10.75; sec- onds $8.75; culls $6.50 to $7.25; weaners $4.50 to $5.25. Stocker and feeder market 15 to 25¢ lower today. This makes it 25 to 50c lower from-the high time and look for still further decline. Good to choice- feeders $7 to $7.75; fair to good $6.50 to $7; common to fair $5.50 to $6.50. Yearlings and calves good to choice $6.76 to $7.50; fair to good $6.25 to - $6.75; common to fair $5.50 to $6. Stock cows and feeding heifers also suffered same decline. Good to choice $6.50 to $7; fair to good $6 to $6.50. - Feeding cows good to choice $5.50 to $6; fair to ‘good $5 to $5.50. - - Stock-bulls $5.50 to.$6.50. Dairy cows steady to 5c lower; choice kind held steady while the éommon ones ruled bc lower. Good to choice cows $65 to $80; fair to good $45 to $60. . The hog market today ruled 10.to 15¢ lower, sales ranging from $9 to $9.50; bulk: $9.20 to $9.35. Pigs around $8.25. - Sheep market 25¢ lower.'. - 2, J. R. KIRK COM. CO. _(By Courtesy Equity = Cooperative Exchange.) AR .. St. Paul, May 30.—The wheat market for the past week has' been very erratic in . its movements. From Tuesday to Friday each day’s closing showed 'a gain of about’ Y2cent over the previous close. The. strength being caused. by damage reports * coming in" from' Kansas and Oklahoma. . On.Saturday -rains were re- ported where needed’ and prices were sharply . lower, . closing. the . calendar week with' about two cents loss from the previous Saturday. The market under the same influen- ces opened weak on Monday. 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Compared with a year aga the movement into sight at present is much larger and the total visible is 52, 980,000 bushels larger. . ‘This extraordinary statistical position of wheat in North. America . holds true of the other surplus countries. Port stocks in Argentina are large and accu- mulating and the same must be true of Australia and India. It is true, of course, that this piling up of wheat does not reflect a proportionate falling off' in the demand. The: accumulations in large part are the result of a restrice ted distribution due to-limited and high cost ocean transportatiom.. With new crops coming on and nothwithstanding the generally unfavorable harvest oute look, the gathering of this fresh sup- ply in the face of a heavy old crop surplus cannot help but keep the importers at éase as to their imme- diate and future needs and with some advantage to them in the matter of prices. - Receipts in the St. Paul cash market Monday were larger than for ‘any day the past two weeks. The arrivals were for the most part of low grade wheat, There was a very good demand here for all grades today. Corn and oats were soft in sympathy with wheat but there seemed to ba good support on the decline and prices - rallied on very . small transactions. Locally there was a good demand for cash oats but offerings were light. Bar- ley was about unchanged in price. There was a good demand for all grades in the local cash market and all offers ings were readily absorbed. MONDAY QUOTATIONS. St. Paul, May 29.—Cash grain closed as follows: No. 1 hard, 1.19%@1.19%; No. 1 north 1.13% @1.18%; No. 1 north to arrive 1.123% @1.18% ; No. 2 north 1.09% @1.13%; No. 3 north 1.03%@1.09%; No. 2 hard Montana to arrive 1.07%; No. 1 durum 1.05% @1.12%. Corn, 72@73. Oats, 38@38%. Barley, 61@71. Rye, 92% @93%. Flax, 1.90@1.94. Special $1.98 SHEETS flat center seam, PILLOW CASES match 9¢ NORTH DAKOTA S il