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ADVERTISEMENTS By Becoming a Stockholder of .. A Northwest Institution You Will Create Your Own Live Stock Market APPROVED BY ALL FARMER ORGANIZATIGNS ' Authorized Capital $1,000,000 Fargo, North Dakota WM. OLSON, Treas,”Valley City, N. D. : A N. D.; D. C. Lindvig, Fargo, N. D. DIRECTORS: Mr. Farmer Promote Your Own Interest ~ Co-Operative Packing: Co. Anthony Wa]{on, Minot, ND Tzewis: Altenbernd, Sabin, Minn.; J. C. Bergh, Hendrum, Minn.; A. E. Walley, Velva, N. D.; C. D. King, Menoken, N. D.; Wm. Olson, Valley City, N. D. Market your grain and livestock on the co-operative plan through your Own Selling Ageney. Consign your shipments of grain to St. Paui, Minnesota or Superior, Wisconsin. Consign all shipments of livestock to South St, Paul, Minn. WHAT OUR PATRONS SAY Edinburg, N. D., October 12, Equity Co-Operative Exchange, : South St. Paul, Minn. : 1917. Gentlemen:—Shipped a carload of stock to the Equity and it was sold above my neighbors that shipped to other concerns and 1 also am well pleased * with the manner in which they were handled and wish to recommend the Equity to any shippers who have stock to sell. ? Yours truly, (Signed) K. N. BYORNDAHL. Werner, N. D.," Sept. 20, Equity Co-Operative Exchange, 3 i South St. Paul, Minn. Attention ¥F. B. Wood, Mgr. . 1917. Dear Sir:—Have just received returns from my car.of: cattle whicitzul shipped you and wish to say that-I am well pleased with the same. not expect to get $10.50 per 100 for any of my steers but I motice that two ' of mine brought that much, Thanking you very kindly for this service, I am, Yours truly, (Signed) A. F. DONOHOO. ! Hoople, N. D., Sept. 27, Equity Co-Operative Exchange, South St. Paul, Minn, 4 Attention F. B. Wood, Mgr. : Dear Sir:—Sales of my hogs and_cattle received and am more 1917, .than pleased with the price and service and recommend the Livestock Department of the Equity to any one shipping to South St. Paul. » Yours truly, (Signed) WM. GINDER. The Equity Co-Operative Exchange St. Paul, Minnesota—=Superior, Wisconsin Livestock Department South St. Paul, Minn. Maention I.eader when writing advertisers ‘PAGE Fom; 2y The species of the pavement views the genus from the soil, marching slowly down the sidewalk and perspiring from the toil; he takes in the borrowed swagger and the ill affected ease, and observes the pedal action and the fluctuating kuees; he beholds the -cut-glass stick-pin in the multi-colored tie, and he notes the trouser bottoms are aspiring rather high; he observes the rubber collar with its camphor and its glare, and anon the terrace fashion of the mother-shingled hair; the side-draught of the shoulders also strikes his eritic’s eye, and a leather shoestring trailing as the genus marches by! ‘‘A country swell,”” he snick- ers, ‘‘and some punkins, too, I ween—but a green-horn in the city of the greenest kind of greenl’”’ .. This species, of the pavement seeks some tissue-building toil, - and some nerve-recuperation with thé genus of the soil; he essays to milk a Jersey with his talcum-scented hands, but forgets all city polish—for 3 Jersey never stands! A dozen squealing pork- ers make a bid for barley mash, and manicured decorum gets » another mighty smash! -Old Dobbin must be harnessed, and the species, firm but pale, straps the breeching on his bosom, and the . bit behind his taill The genus’ hay is spoiling, and the species . tries to stack, ‘but performs a Delsarte tumble on his urban- polished back! ' ‘/You may have some city breeding,’’ yells the genus in alarm, ‘‘but you’re greener than the greenest on a scien- ~ tifie farm 12’ Both the genus and the species knew the keyghoté ‘of HIS "niché, but neither could with comfort take the piteh, other' fellow’s J.E. T. r 4—4--'—_“. - IS b4 - TRUE WORDS UNSAID el - - Grand Forks, N..D. Dear Farmer Jones: ; I'am writing this letter to apolo- gize for the way ‘| have been using my . position, in making speeches for the Red Cross and the Liberty Loan, to knock- Governor Frazier and the farmers. The reason | did it was that | was sore because John M. Baer beat my Brother George so bad when he was running for congress. |t made me pretty mad for awhile. That was why | roast- ed the Norwegians ‘so hard—be- cause they voted for Baer instead of Brother George- But | am sorry. now. Will you take this up with Governor Frazier and the farmers and apologize for me?. TRACY BANGS. Investigation shows, however, that Tracy Bangs didn’t write this letter. He might have—but he didn’t. * * * IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Here is another letter which should be given publicity in the Leader: 2 St. Paul, Minn. Dear Farmer. Jones:. I have this day removed Louis Keane, secretary of the public safety associa- tion of Otter Tail county, from office, because of his illegal threats that rot- ten ‘eggs 'and other missles would be used to break up the farmers' meeting at Fergus Falls. If I find that Keane's statement that the mayor of Fergus Falls has agreed to these noutrages is true, he will be removead too. The pub- lio officials at Lake City, who threat- . ened the farmers with the fire hose, and officials at. Mankato and Slayton, who refused to allow meetings, will also be punished. While I.am governor, the constitution: of Minnesota ‘will be up- held. . .‘ et J. A A. BURNQUIST, A “* Governor of Minnesota. But inyestigation shows.that this let- ter, like the one above, has not been written by the man whose. name is ap- pended. He might have written it—but he didn’t. * * x = The dirtiest political club ever used in a political fray by political 'fraid-cats is the charge of disloy- alty hatched up against the Farm- ers movement in the Northwest. : * % » THE MODERN WAY OF SPELL- ING ROOSEVELT IS “ROSE-N- FELL.” g N * * » A certain railway system hinted a few years ago that a distinguished de luxe traveler from Oyster Bay owed it One Hundred Thousand Dollars for special trains. or was any refutation of:.’ered? ; » * A FIGUREHEAD IS NOT 9"a=m Lessee, was that pafd, IF THIS BE LOYALTY—! Let’s take another look at: this man Roosevelt: — George W. Perking . was his financial friendi—HE WAS .DIS- LOYAL TO PERKINS! " Taft was his personal and political friend—HE WAS DISLOYAL TO TAFT! He promised in 1912 to support for president any “good Progressive>—HE WAS DIS- LOYAL TO THE MAN WHO ‘SEEM- ED LIKELY TO BE NOMINATED! The Republican party showed him the highest honors—HE WAS PISLOYAL TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY! He created the Bull Moose party, ' that party trusted him as a leader—HE WAS DISLOYAL TO THE BULL- MOOSE PARTY! Washington and Jefferson set a precedent of a two-term limit for the presidency—HE WAS DISLOYAL TO THAT PRECEDENT! Probably it’s poor decorum for anyone to lose his temper, but when some men talk about their loyalty, by the Long Harry, it's time tc get the hook! “Anything to kill the League in Minnesota before the next primary” is the hope of the solemn- seniors of that state. » » » If the League has been disloyal to Uncle Sam in word or deed it deserves to die, hut when circum- stances over which it has no con- trol gives an opportunity for a wrong light to be shed upon it, it makes the League feel all the more like living. o s » » » { SOME OF THE PAPHRS NOW CLAIMING THAT THE LEAGUE IS NOT BACKING THE PRESIDENT PUT IN FIVE SOLID MONTHS LAST YEAR ACCUSING HIM OF ALL THE MISDEMEANORS ON THE CALEN- DAR. : i 7 * * » The man who sees no difference in the positions of Kaiser of Germany and King of England is either deliberately unfair, or unnecessarily ignorant. The Kaiser is the head, the king 1is the figurehead. { » » » SOME PEOPLE ARE SO NARROW-* MINDED THAT ALL THEIR KNOWLEDGE SLIPS oumT THROUGH THE CRACKS IN THEI HEADS. i » * » One advantage of being assigned ‘to the heavy artillery is the op- portunity it affords for getting in with the big guns. / * » » Calling 42-centimeter shells “saus-: ages” I8 pure metonymy, a figure of gpeech which text books define as fol- lows: ‘The naming of anything by some accompaniment.” & ; : #* * » . - “Asleep By the Switch” isan old favorite poem, evidently written by an old maid who had lost her hair.