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The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1901-03-20
CORVALLIS.
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CORVALLIS, March 18.
The benefit dance given at the hall
Wednesday, evening was largely at
&nded.
John Slack returned Sunday even
Ettg after = two months stay lin the
4ellowsrcae country.
Miss MaS Mckinney, who is attend
Ing school at Missoula, is visiting her
rilother for = few days.
Ehe carrom social at the home Of
Mrs. ] M. Jones Saturday evening
Was very much enjoyed by those pres
eht.
=. A. Chaffin and family returned
n their home Sunday evening from an
extended visit to relatives in SOUTH
west Missouri.
The Misses cramer came up Friday
attended the social At Mrs. J. M.
Jbnes' Saturday evening, and return
- to Misscula Sunday morning.
John Stow and family have moved
70 the Hamilton ranch last week
and Jack Reed and wife win occupy
the honse made vacant by tiaeir repov-
~.
Ro6t. Myers and family moved from
t4own,down to his ranch this week.
IFrank Stevens and family moved into
the house Mr.. Myers family had oc-
leupied.
Il Jasnes NJ. Jones and family moved
into the Stanley property this week
and Mrs. Ferd Wenr moved into the
lJalnes NJ. Jones house which she has
purchased.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1901-03-20

THE CURSE OF 'WOMANKIND..
Is sick and nervous headaches. Sher,
mans Headache cure gives instant re
lief. One dose cures. Guaranteed
perfectly harmless. Immediate ~e-
lief. 25c and 1Oc box. It cures
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For sale by Corner Drug Store. :
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1901-03-20
* county Core pondence.*
VICTOR.
Special Correspondence to the Western News

V11lOk.
Special Correspondence to the Western News
vIcroR MARCH, IS.
Mrs. J. M. Buker has been i'll for
several days.
Fred r. Jamison was up from Flor
ence Thursday.
School reopened this morning with 4
full attendance.
| J. H. White came over from Ciintons
returning this morning.
Judge v. r. Woodmahcy spent We'd.
nesday in the Garden City.
Mrs. F. J. Johnson of Burnt Fork
visited Victor friends Friday.
Mr.. Franks representative of the
Standard wa. in town Friday. M
Mr.. aud Mrs. Snodgrass Of Missoula
attended the Parker koll ,nu ptials.
The Mcvey and johnson saw mill
began saving last week with a small;
crew Of men.
n. Fulkerson and family Of Grants
! dale were visiting Mr.. Fulkerson's
parents last week.
Mesdames S. w. Gavin and NJ E.
Gregory spent several days last week
in the county seat.
/ D. c. Rider of Bozeman has pur-
chased r. j. Dunlap's ranch aud i,iov-
ed his family over last week.
Mrs. JohnaCole and little. daughter
Beatrice of Hamilton spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives near Cur
lew.
The families Of J. T. Firth and y.
w. Myers who haye been spending
; the winter at Coloma, returned Satur-
day.
Miss Carrie Harlan of Como came
, down this morning to attend the Buk.
er-Ault wedding which will take place
! March 19.
/, People in need of doors and wisdoM
frames, stairs, or porch work, cal
! on G. c. Vandenberg on Fourth strest
North Of Main. s
r. F. West stArted for st Josepi,
! Missouri last Tuesday morning having
received telegram announcing th'
/, death of his mother.
If you intend building house cal
on G. c. Vandenbcrg for plans ant
specifications and contract with hin. t.
I build your house. tt
; Mr.. and Mrs. S. Kughn startet
; this morning for Nebraska They ex
pect to spend some time visiting rela
tives in Nebraska and Iowa.
: Joe Menard of the M. a. Company
) hardware department spent last weel
, setting up buggies, wagons and farm
> implements for Victor people.
al A. A. Keirns returned Sunday from
> an extended visit to Osborne City
; Kan. A younger brother accompanie
, him who will probably spend si
months in the valley.
Il After three weeks stay in Missoul
= nursing her two daughters and eldes
= son through a hard siege of measles
Mrs. J. w. Simpson arrived home Sal
urday to find ner son Morton quit
i'll.
~ Benjamin Cameron of Meadervill
2 Butte and w. H. Buckridge of Woo,
= side have purchased the Bones ranch
Mr.. Cameron is possessor of II
eighty on which the house stands an
Mr.. Buckridge has already begun Il
- erection Of cottage on his ne
= possession.
Married: at the hcne of the bride
parents Thrsday March IA
high noon Lncius Parker and Mi
-lEyelyn Roll. Elder G. w. Wells
NJ. Deer Lodge officiating, A large nnl
s Der of friends and relatives were pre-
s ent at the wedding and the happy CO
s pie were the recipients of numero
s beautiful presents. Mr.. and MI
s Parker went to housekeeping and a
6 now ''at home" to their friends on t
S. Kughn ranch.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1901-03-20

A fine line of fresh, fancy candies
inst received at the Banner Store-Ba-
kera & Coulter, proprietors. If
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17
Victoria Bridge at Montreal
Marks Great Advance.

That which marks more clearly than my
thing else the great advance In American
bridge building, during the last forty years.
Is the reconstruction Of the famous Victoria
bridge. over the st. Lawrence, above Mon
treal. This bridge was designed by Robert
Stephenson. and the stone piers are a monu-
ment to his engineering skill. For forty
winters they have resisted the great fields
of ice borne by a rapid current. Their d.
mansions were SO liberal that the new bridge
was put upon them. although four times as
wide as the old one.
The superstructure was originally made Of
plate-iron tubes, REINFORCED by tees and an
giles. similar to Stephenson's Menai Straits
bridge. There are twenty-five spans of 80
feet each and a central one of 800 feet. Per-
haps these tubes were the best that could be
had at the time, but they had outlived their
usefulness. Their interiors had become
greatly corroded by the confined gases from
the engines and the drippings from the
chemicals used in cold-storage cars. Their
height was insufficient for modern large
cars, and the confined smoke made them so
dark that the number of trains was greatly
limited.
1t was decided to build q new bridge of
open-work construction and OF open-hearth
steel. This was done, and tho comparison
10 as follows: Old bridge, sixteen feet wide,
single track, live load of one ton per foot;
new bridge. sixty-seven feet wide. two rail-
way tracks and two carriage ways, live
load. 1--WE tons per foot.
This old iron tubes weighed i0.05c tons.
cost s. ,13,oW. and look TWO &, asors to erect.
The new truss Bird 80 weighs 21.G0 tons, has
cost between 81, $4,000 and sl,4e0, 0o6, and the
time of construction was one year,
During his experience thu writer has seen
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17
Saving of Natures Stores Is
The Problem of To-Day.

There nave been vast numbers Of patents
taken out for wave motors. One was in
vented in Chill, South America. which fur
nished a constant power for four months.
and was utilized in saving planks. The &C
ton of waves is more constant on the Pa
cifc Coast of America than elsewhere. and
some auxiliary power. such as a gasoline
engine, which can be quickly started ana
stopped, must be provided for use during
calm days. The prime cost of such a ma
chine need not exceed that of q steam plant.
and the cost OF operating is much less than
that of any fuel-burning engine. The saving
of coal is a very important problem. In a
wider sense. we may say that the saving
of all the great stores which nature has laid
UP for us during the past. and which have
remained almost untouched until the Nine
teenth Century. is the great problem of to-
day.
The ores of gold, silver and platinum will
not last forever. Trees will grow, and iron
ores seem to be practically inexhaustible.
Chemistry has added a new metal In alu-
minum, which replaces copper for many
purposes. One Of the greatest problems or
the Twentieth Century is to discover Soma
chemical process for treating iron by which
oxidation will not take place.
Coal, next to grain, is the most important
of natures gifts. 1t can be exhausted or the
cost of mining 1t become SO great that II
cannot be obtained in the countries where
it is most needed; water. wind and wave
power may AXE Its place to a limited ex-
tent, and greater use may be made of the
waste gases coming from blast or smelter
furnaces, but as nearly all energy m
from coal. its use must be economical. and
the greatest economy will come from pull
verifying coal and using it In the shape OF a
fine powder. Inventions have been made try
ing to deliver this powder into the hre-box
as fast as made. for it is as explosive as
gunpowder and as dangerous to store or
handle. II this can be done. there will be
a saving Of coal due to perfect and smoke
less combustion. as the admission of air
can be entirely regulated. the same blast
which throws in the powder furnishing oxy-
gen. Some investigators have estimated that
the saving of coal will be as great as 70
per cent. This means 100. 600. 00 tons of coal
annually.
Bituminous coal will then be as smokeless
as anthracite. and can be burned In locomo-
tives. Cities will be free from the nuisance
of wasted coal. which We call SCOT. This
process will be the best kind of mechanical
stocking, and will prevent the necessity Of
opening the doors of fre-boxes. The boiler
rooms of steamships will no longer be
floating hells." and the firing Of large loco
motives will become easy.
Another problem of mechanical engineer
ing Is to determine whether it will be found
more economical to transform the energy of
coal. at the mines. into electric current and
send it by wire to cities and other places
where it is wanted, or to carry the coal by
rafl or water, as we now do, to such places,
and convert 1t there by the steam or gas
engine.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17
THOMAS G.. CLARKE.
THOMAS G.. CLARKE.


ThomAs Curtis Clarke, consulting engineer has designed and built more thar
LIS miles Of iron md s bridges, vhduc5 n elevated railways. He is past
president of the American Society of Civil Engineers: he is a member ant Tel
ford gold medanto of hi Institution of Civil Engineers Of London and he is a
member Of the AmercanP Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. In conjunction
with his associates he designed and built the Girard Avenue Bridge of Phla-
dlphia: Poughkeepse Bridge; 10 also desgle TIT Third Avenue Bridge ant
Willis Avenue Bridge. New York.
Mr. Clarke vas born at Newton Mass, in 1877 m graduated from Harvard
in 1Ma. He is a specialist in bridge engineering. m in his more than half a
century's service has been o factor in the evdopmen of the science of an
cheering n bridge building
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17

the rolling load Of bridges increase from
5000 to 1000 pounds per lineal foot of track.
with an extra allowance for concentrated
loads.
The modern high ONCE building Is an in
terestins example Of the evolution Of q high
viaduct pier. Such q pier of the required d.
mansions. strengthened by more columns
strong enough to carry many floors. is the
skeleton frame. Inclose the sides with brick.
stone or terra-cotta, add windows and
doors. and elevators. and it Ii complete.
Fortunately. for the stability Of these high
buildings. the effect OF wind pressures had
been studied in this country in the designs
Of the Kinzau. Pecos and other high VIA
ducts.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17
John Wesley on Cleanliness and
Its Relation to Sewerage Systems,

1t was reserved for good John Wesley to
point out that Cleanliness is next to godli-
mesa" Now sewerage works are as common
as those for water supply, Some of them
have been of great size and cost. Such are
the drainage works Of London, Paris, Ber-
lin, Boston. Chicago and New Orleans, A
very difficult work was the drainage Of the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17

high rates Of freight as those Of 1867 would
have checked traffic. This much can surely
be said: The reduction in cost Of operating
our railways, and the consequent fall In
freight rates, have been potent factors in
enabling the United States to send abroad
last year 81. Ask. 00o.0 o worth of exports and
flood the world with our food and manufac-
tured products.
Picturesqueness in Bridges Has
Given Place to Cheapness
And Ugliness.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17
Question of the Method of
Transmission of Power.

In favor of the first method It can be said
that hills Of refuse coal now representing
locks5-up capital can be burned. and the
cost Of transportation and handling Be
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17
Effect of Wind Pressure on
High Office Buildings.

All this had been thoroughly worked out
and known to our engineers before the fal
Of the Tay bridge in Scotland. That disas
trous event led to very careful experiment:
on wind pressures by Sir Benjamin Baker
the very eminent engineer of the Fortf
Bridge. His experiments showed that n WIND
gauge Of 800 square feet area showed a max
imum pressure of thirty-hve pounds pei
square foot. while a small one of one and
one-half square feet area registered gusts
of forty-one pounds per square foot.
The modern elevated railway of cities is
simply a very long railway viaduct. Some
idea may be gained of the life of n modern
rivetted-iron structure from the experience
of the Manhattan Elevated Railway CT New
York. These roads were built in 1858 to
carry uniform loads of 1000 pounds per
lineal foot, except Second avenue. which
was made to carry 1000. The stresses were
below 1000 pounds per square inch.
These viaducts have carried in twenty
two years over 100000 trains. weighing
over 5000. Ooo. 900 tons. at a maximum speed
of twenty-five miles an hour. and are still
In good order.
Bridge engineers of tho present day are
free from the difficulties which confronted
the early designers Of iron bridges. The
mathematics of bridge design was under
| stood in 1870. but the proportioning CT de-
tails had to be worked out Individually.
Every new span was a new problem. Now
the engineer tells his craftsman to de-
sign a span Of a given length. height and
width, and to carry such a load. by the
light Of experience he does this at cnco.
Connections have become standardized SO
that tho duplication Of parts can be carried
to its fullest extent.
Machine tools are used to make every
part Of a bridge. and power rivetters to
fasten them together. Great accuracy can
now be had. and the sizes of parts have in
creased in a remarkable degree.
We have now great bridge companies,
which are so completely equipped with op-
planes for both shop drawings and con-
structlon that the old joke becomes almost
true that the can make bridges and sell
them by the mile.
All improvements of design are now public
property. All that the bridge companies do
is done in the fierce light of competition.
Mistakes mean ruin. and the httest only
survives.
Having such powerful aids, the American
bridge engineer OF to-day has advantages
over his predecessors and over his European
brethren. where the American system has
not yet been adopted.
The American system gives the greatest
possible rapidity OF erection of the bridge
on its piers. A span Of 5lS feet, weighing
1000 tons. was erected at Cairo on the Mis-
sissippi in six days. The parts were not
until they were put upon the
false works. European engineers have some
times ordered a bridge to be rivetted to-
gethcr complete in the makers yard, and
then taken apart.
The adoption Of American work in such
bridges as the Atbara In South Africa. the
Gokteik viaduct in Burmah. 32O feet high,
and others, was due to low cost, quick de-
livery and erection, as well as excellence of
material and construction.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-05-23

An oxford professor was giving his
pupils lecture on Scotland and the
Scots" These hardy men," he said,
think nothing about swimming across
the Tay three times every morning
before breakfast" Suddenly a loud
burst Of laughter came from the center
Of the hall, and the professor, amazed
at the idea Of anyone daring to inter-
rupt him in the middle Of his lecture,
angrily asked the offender what he
meant by such unruly conduct. II
was just thinking, SIR" replied that
individual, that the poor Scotch chaps
would find themselves on the wrong
side for their clothes when they land.
ed!"-London Answers.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-05-23
CLIAPTER XIII.

Mildred descended the stairs and
hurried across the hall, giving herself
no time to think of or mediate on
what lay before her, and, going into
the drawing-Toom, found Lord Lyndon
standing with his back to the fire, She
went up to him, and held out her hand,
II want you to do something for me-
she said, In a low, choked voice-"will
you do it?"
"Of course, will" he responded In
his pleasant, CHEEKY way, "Why do
YOU ask me that? Have you yet to
learn that there is nothing in the
world ] would not do for you II |
could?'
"Hushl" she said, 81 would rather
you did not promise just yet Wait
until you have heard my request for
It Is no ordinary one, do not think
you can grant It, shall not think
It in the least strange II you tell me
you cannot"
At least let me hear what 1t ls," hc
requested, gently.
Il want you to lend me, for an indef-
mite period, fifteen thousand pounds. -
Lord Lyndon was SO taken aback
that at first he scarcely recognized the
Importance Of an immediate reply. He
was rich, certainly--richer far than
many men who were accounted well
possessed of this worlds goods; but
fifteen thousand pounds was sum
that few could put their hands on at
moments notice. He hesitated, there
fore, for a little, and then recovering
himself said quietly:
What day shall bring it to you?
Or would you prefer paying 1t In any
where?"
you will give 1t to me, then? You
really mean It? Are you sure-cer-
tain?' Think what a large sum 1t Is,
and how small is your hope of repay
ment, and do not speak in too great
a hurry"
Il am sure" he said "I promise
you"
And about securitles?" questioned
Mildred, trying anxiously to reGollect
all that she had ever heard about
money matters, and not succeeding at
all.
we will not speak about securities" +"
answered Lyndon, gently. Let 1t be
an arrangement between you and me
alone; shall trust to you to repay
me the moment you are able"
The utter kindliness and nobility Of
his nature touched her to the heart.
What shall say to you?" she said,
in low tone, while strange trem
bling pervaded her voice, How shall
thank you?"
Say nothing-do not thank me at
ALL" he answered, in n hurried, pained
manner, moving back few steps from
her.
Meanwhile time was flying One,
two, three minutes passed, marked by
nothing except the small ormolu orna-
ment on the chimney piece, as 1t licked
away Its little monotonous existence.
He, gazing absently in the fire, be-
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-05-23
sTAoNANT AND RoTTlNo.
IL tho Country Now Ruled by tho OucS
AIl~Conuucriug Moors.

H'"NNhNhNashk
Morocco, n country naturally rich
and fertile. Is kept poor by the greed
and power of the throne, 1t Is gov
ernment Of the sultan, by the sultan,
and for the sultan; nothing else
counts; the people have no rights; thq
sultan Is the embodied might and right
Of the nation, Fields untitled, crum-
bling homesteads, rich minerals LETT
untouched, ruin and desolation every
where--all tell the story Of the Sultan's
terrible rule. For how shall It profit
man to lay up treasures for the mon
arch to seize? So every talent Is
buried In the earth, every light Is hid
den under bushel
The Moslem religion, once a splritu-
al and rivillzlng force in Africa, now
acts as check to all proglessi It's
morality, It's soul Is dead; the petrilled
shell alone remains, and that Is q dun
geon of darkness. Within Its influence
all things remain stationary or else
crumble into ruins
II Is difficult to believe that these de-
generate Moors belong to that same
great race that Cnce conquered Spain,
who were liberal minded and progress
slyo for their time, and masters Of tho
fine arts. When the Moors were cX.
PEELED from Spain they found theip
chief haven in Morocco, but Il strange
change has come over the spirit OK
their dreams,
The land of the Moor Is stagnant,
rottng under the terrible incubus of
It's government and It's religion. It's
only hope lies in It's conquest by some
civilized power; ItS gods must be ban
ished, It's idols shattered, else II must
die of It's own corruption. Not from
that rocky eminonce whence BoabdiI
turned with tear-dimmed eyes to look
upon the lost Granada, but from Mo-
rocco today as bend cl ultimo susplro
del Moro the last sigh of the Moor
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-05-23

We talk a great deal about the speed
OF our railway trains and Of our ocean
greyhounds, but we are apt to over
look the fact that there are some swift
travellers where no rails have ever
been laid and no steamship has
steered her course, The carrier pigeon
will fly at least thirty miles an hour,
and some have been known to travel
at the ratio Of sixty or even ninety
miles an hour. Wild pigeons often fly
hundreds Of miles day to feed, re-
turning to their roosts at night,
Audubon says they travel mile a
minute.
Water-fowls gulls, terms and petrels
literally fly on the wings Of the wind,
If surprised in storm, They will rise
high in the air, facing gale, and
making u little progress forward as
we'll as upward Then they will sud
denly descend with rapid fight to-
ward one side Of the storm-swept path,
but falling off at the same time In the
direction Of the blowing wind, Once
more they will sweep around and face
the storm, ascending heavenward, and
striking desperately out toward the
direction Of the storm, until finally
they work themselves to one side of
the storm center
During tremendous wind storms
birds may sometimes be seen flying
overhead at great height When
this Is noted 1t may be taken for
granted that the upper air is COM
paratively quiet, and that the storm Is
confined chiefly to the lower regions,
1t Is when the storm extends too high
up that they drift away with the wind,
or fly away on the edge of the hurri-
cane. Migrating birds fly over dis
tances so great that they must needs
have great strength as well as great
speed in flight. Bobolinks often rear
their young on the shores Of Lake
Winnipeg and like true arlstocrats 90
to Cuba and Porto Rico to spend the
winter. To do this, their fight must
twice cover distance Of more than
$500 miles, or more than fifth Of the
circumference Of our earth each year.
The little redstart travels 5000 miles
twice a year What wonderful mech
anism 1t is that, In stomach no larg-
er than q pea, will manufacture its
own fuel from two or three slim cater
pillars. fly, moth, or a spider, and
use 1t with such economy as to be able
to propel itself through the air during
the whole night at rate of about fifty
miles an hour, and at the same time
keep its own temperature at about 104
degrees Not all the swift travellers,
however make their Journeys through
the air. Some fish attain great speed
in the water. The salmon and the
swordfsh are the fastest swimmers of
all the forked-tall fishes. Only fast
running horse could outstrip a salmon.
for 1t swims a mile in less than two
minutes, and any horse could be left
behind in long race, for the fish
can cover thirty miles in an hour.
When leisurely ascending rivers, with
frequent rests in attractive pools, it
averages from fifteen to twenty-five
miles day. In leaping, the salmon
can easily beat the horse, for salmon
have leaped up waterfalls twelve feet
high. and he prepares for leap Just
as hoy does. with short, sharp rum