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IhaSe sUld CAamAsriain's Collie. Cbo-
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Sciatic Rheumatism Cured At

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Edgar, of Germantown. Cal. Il was
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cd. tried everything could bear OF
and at last was told to try Chamberlain's
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since returned" Why not use this liDi-
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ESTRAY NOTICE.

have COW years old that came to
my place since 1899. color white with
the ears red. The owner can come and
prove his property and pay cost. The
COW is branded thus: S "
MARCEL FRANcOIR,
May 10. 1902. st. Martinville. La.
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Mr.. Paul Bertrand of New Or.
leans arrived here last week to
pass a few days with his relatives.
We learn that Mr.. Bertrand has
made arrangement with DR.. Geo.
Delaareal to open drug store in
Broussardviile shortly.
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Shoulders At His Past.

SnudQcFS At Ills asst.
II recall now with horror" says
Mail Carrier Burnett Mann, of Lee
wanna, O., my three years of suf-
fering from Kidney trouble. I
was hardly ever free from dull
sches or acute pains IN my back
TO stcop or lift mail sacks made
me gfosn. 1 felt tired, worn out
about ready to give up. whenI be-
gan to use Electric Bitters, but
six bottles completely cured mo
and made me feel like a new man"
They're unrivaled to regulate Sto-
mach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels.
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed by
T. J. Liable. Only 80 cents.
The Conservative, 1902-01-23

the individual with variation bet
ter adapted to its surroundings than
the remainder is the one which is most
likely to survive. To quote Mr..
Spencer's phrase, there will be "sur-
vival of the fittest.' Please note
that l am not, at this moment, refer
ring to variation, apart from the con-
nection with natural selection, nor
am speaking of heredity In pop
ular address the points must be dealt
with one by one. It may not be out
Of place here to give Darwin's defini-
tion Of natural selection in his own
words. "This preservation Of favor
able individual differences and var
iations, and the destruction of those
which are injurious, have called
natural selection. - Every form of life
has congenital tendency to vary !;
these congenital variations are trans
mitted to the next generation, and
marked changes are gradually pro-
duced. From analogy to the manner
in which, by selective breeding, al
terations are produced in domestic
animals by man, nature may be de-
scribed as selecting those forms which,
varying advantageously, thereby sur
vive, and propagate. Natural selec-
UlOus uOW0NSl, uOOS uOU SuppOSe, DIS
some people seem to imagine, any
nature. but merely that existing con-
obvious, of course, that the congenital
tendency to variation is really the key
note of natural selection, and our
master, whose work am attempting
to describe, was very we'll aware of
that fact. I will ask you to listen to
a few of his remarks on selection.
1T may metaphorically be said that
natural selection is daily and hourly
scrutinizing throughout the world the
slightest variations; rejecting those
that are bad, preserving and adding
up all that are good silently and in
sensibly working, whenever and wher-
ever opportunity offers, at the i'm
provement of each organic being in
relation to it's organic and inorganic
conditions Of life. We see nothing of
these slow changes in progress, until
the hand Of time has marked the lapse
of ages, and then so imperfect is our
view into long past geological ages,
that we can only see that the forms
of life are now different from what
they formerly were.' "What
natural selection cannot do is to modi-
fly the structure of one species without
giving it any advantage for the good
of another species; and though state
ments to this effect may be found in
works of natural history, I cannot find
one case which will bear considera-
tion." A very little thought will
show the Importance of this last re-
mark. If it could be proved that ami
mails or plants varied not for their own
advantage, but only for the benefit of
some other organism, very serious
difficulty would arise in accepting the
theory of natural selection as the very
basis on which it rests, would be
undermined.
The ultimate result of natural selec-
tion will be, that by preserving and
accommodating beneficial variations,
each creature tends to become more
and more improved in relation to it's
conditions. This Improvement leads
The Conservative, 1902-01-23

WI. "o ouOo oo!iho yOu, anu IL -
subject which, 1 think, has not re-
ceived sufficient consideration. In
letter to DR.. Wagner in 1876, Darwin
makes an admission concerning this
matter. SIN my opinion he writes,
"the greatest mistake I have COM
mitted, has been in not allowing
sufficient weight to the direct action
of environment, j. e., food, climate,
etc, independently Of natural selec-
tion.''
While assuming that the environ
ment may produce Variation in an or
ganism, the extent to which that vari-
alton will survive and persist will
largely depend upon how largely it
renders that organism better adapted
to its environment as whole. If the
variation makes the individual more
in harmony with it's surroundings, it
will aid in it's preservation and per-
petuation; if, on the contrary, the
variation renders the individual less
fitted to it's environment, it will favor
it's destruction. It is an obvious tru-
ism that the preservation and surviv-
al Of an organism depends on it's being
adapted to it's surroundings When
that adoption is perfect, the organism
will remain stationary, and natural
selection is at a standstill. But, as
matter of fact, the environment is
perpetually changing; adoption is
continually being disturbed, and
hence, natural selection is constantly
in action. Now the beauty, accuracy,
and completeness of the many adap-
tions in nature have been theme for
the wonder and the admiration of
naturalists and philosophers from time
frcopp To %n1y 20 G.,
examples-the eye for light the ear
which assists in its fertilization the
color, or the shape of an insect, which,
by Stimulating some other object, OBJ
tains protection from its enemies; the
wonderful instincts Of birds and ants
it is unnecessary to add more. Be-
fore Darwin brought forward this
theory Of natural selection, the COM
monty accepted explanation of all
adaptions was that the adapted OBJ
jects were specially designed for the
position they were found to fill. 1t
would be vast of time for men to emu
merate the difficulties which this
hypothesis involved. The explana-
tion given by Darwin, upon the other
hand, accounts for the most difficult
cases. I dwell upon this point be-
cause so great all amount of this won
derful mans work demonstrated the
adoption in cases not easily understood
at first 1 have in mind his work up
on Orchids; upon the Power of Move
ment in Plants; upon Gross and Self
Fertilization in the Vegetable King
dom. 1t is the extreme completeness
with which Natural Selection is able
to explain all the innumerable adap-
tions of nature which has done SO
much to enable it, not only to en-
trench itself in the minds Of the
scientific world, but also to take hold
of the popular imagination, although
I feel very confident that many people
have only hazy idea of it's meaning.
Darwin had seen from the first con-
ception of his theory, as far back as
1888, that it would, as necessary
corollary, include men. On such IAN
important point it is desirable to give
The Conservative, 1902-01-23

genitally in animals and plants, and
then transmitting those variations to
their offspring Whatever form, there
fore, selection may take, the import
ance of variation is equally manifest.
Variation is the starting point of the
whole argument. Now, as this is the
keynote of the arch Of Darwinism, we
must be absolutely assured of it's ex-
istence, for without such assurance
there can be no certain belief in the
verify of Darwin's theory. If one is
convinced of variation and heredity,
natural selection follows as neces-
sary corollary. Darwin's book upon
the subject Of variation-he called it
"The Variation of Animals and
Plants under Domestication' was be-
gun in 1860, but was not published
until 1868. This book contains an
enormous number of facts illustrating
variation, and. although it consists Of
two large volumes, I strongly advise
the reader to forsake Hall Caine, Mrs.
Burdett, Thomas Hardy, ct hoe genus
omne, until he has read this remarkable
work. Anybody who has mastered it,
will see what great Importance Oar
win attributed to variation, and how
he appreciated the necessity of con-
vincing his readers of it's reality and
extent.
The advantage of long thinking and
pondering over his theory for twenty
years before publishing his book, is
well brought out by the poverty Of
the criticisms, as regards their novel
ty, passed upon the Origin of Species
after it's publication. Darwin himself
was evidently struck by this, as shown
Of Il; %0 ~,
ber, 1860, in which he says: "Few
thing have surprised me more than the
entire paucity of objections and diff
reviews -
The enormous extent of variation in
the vegetable kingdom is very strik-
ingly brought out by one fact not
generally known. 1t is that flower
garden as we know it, is comparative
ly speaking, modern innovation.
One of the earliest gardens in Europe
if not the irst-was the little Bo-
tanical Garden, still existing at
Padua, in Italy, formed in 1916. All
the vast variety of fowers-both in
form and color-which we see today
have arisen from a very few simple
forms during the past three hundred
and fifty years-in other words,
through an extraordinary amount of
variation, and by natural selection,
aided of late years by mankind
adopting the process Of artificial Sc
lection.
Variation is fact beyond all dis
pute; but it's causes are clOuded in
mystery. Darwin attacked the sub
ject, but he felt the extreme difficulty
of giving, with our present knowledge,
any satisfactory solution of the prob
lem. It would be out of place for me
to say much upon this point here. I
will ask the reader, however. in this
connection, to note the influence of
environment as linking together Dar-
win and Lamarck. I have already
mentioned the Importance attributed
by Lamarck to environment upon ami
NAL development Darwin, from his
observations upon animals and plants
under domestication, formed the
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-25
RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.

The movement on foot to estab-
fish free rural mail delivery in the
county should receive the active
assistance of every business man and
is designed to deliver mail each day
at the door of every farm house on
the various routes. &c will benefit not
only those who live Immediately on
the route, but those living at a dis
lance can have mail boxes on the
route and thus secure their mail
each day without going to town. The
service will enhance the value of
every farm within it's reach. 1t will
benefit the business of every mer-
chant by putting him in touch with
his customers. It will promote the
development and settlement of the
county, and with that development
will come the rapid growth and up
building of every town in the county.
Many towns and cities of the west
make strenuous efforts to increase
their population by advertising and
other methods, and by such means
many towns are doomed to death.
Let the country be improved and set
tied and the towns will take care of
themselves. AS the business of the
country increases the villages will
grow into towns and the towns into
cities, and nothing will contribute
more to the rapid development of the
country than daily rural mail deliv-
cry. The Flathead valley is particu-
larly well adapted to the REQUIRE
ments of the department for the es-
tablishment of such service. The
roads are almost uniformly level and
hard, and the requirement that 1OC
families must be served within 80
miles can easily be met as some of
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-25

Editor of the BEEN connection
with your editorial of January II,
Competition VS.. Royal Milling Com
pany.' Presuming that bushel of
wheat will make 40 pounds of
straight flour, and the wheat as
graded and bought here does not av-
erage over so cents a bushel, the one
mill is equal to 1875 barrels of -four
per day, gives us the following:
Out of five bushels of wheat, cost
$3.50, the mill makes one barrel OF
flour worth at least 81 at Wholesale
and 40 pounds of feed and bran worth
70 cents, leaving a profit of so cents
per barrel to the retailer and SITS
to the mill.
With a capacity of 1875 barrels per
day the feed and bran produced
amounts to 1880 pounds, worth
even at so cents per hundred, $62.50
enough to pay the cost of milling
which leaves the net profit on ,125
barrels of flour at $3.50 per barrel
amounting to $187.50 per day. But
why call this profit-it is extortion.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-25
THE FARMERS MEETING.

The meeting called for this after
noon at the court house in Kalispell
should command the attention of
every business man in the city; for
while their interest in the subject is
not as direct as that Of the farmer, it
is none the less real; for if the farm
ers of the valley are not prosperous,
the merchants of Kalispell will do
but little business.
The object of the meeting is to
find ways and means of putting it
beyond the power of single corpora
ton to dictate the price of wheat
and flour in the valley,
James J. Hill says that competition
is a bad thing because it means
so much useless expense in the adj
ministration of business. And from
Mr.. Hills standpoint it no doubt is a
bad thing; but for the safety of those
who work for living it is an abso-
lutte necessity. The Kalispell mills
purchased by the Royal milling com
economically now than they were I'M
der separate arrangements; this saw
ing is put into the Golfers of the
Royal Milling company together with
the ten per cent increase in the price
Of -four and the SO percent reduction
in the price paid for wheat To be
sure competition would be a bad thing
for the Royal Milling company or for
James J. Hill, just as the policeman
is a bad thing for the burglar
If this county is to grow and pros
per, it's products must bring what
they are worth in the market and not
what some corporation sees fit to
give for them regardless of the out
side market. AS the matter now
stands, the farmers of the Flathead
valley are nothing more than SerV-
ants of the Royal milling company.
Whatever that company sees fit to
give them for their crops they must
accept and the company is very care
full to reserve all of the profit to it.
self
Such methods may be all right in
Russia, where the farmers are mostly
serfs, but this country is not popu-
lated with that class of people.
Today's meeting should result in
some concerted action designed to
remedy the present deplorable con-
ditions.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-25
THE OLD STORY.

Gambling has wrecked more homes
and brought misery and shame to
more families than any other vice. The
story which comes from Great Falls
is the old, old tale. A young man of
great ability, of spotless character
and high standing in the community.
He was not content with the modest
returns of honest toll and resorted to
speculation, the gilded term for gam
bling His first ventures were no
doubt small, but, unfortunately, he
won, and this lured him to his ruin.
With the fall in stocks his gains were
swept away, together with his saw
ings, and to save himself he bor-
rowed from he funds of the bank of
which he was cashier. By this act
the upright, honest cashier fell below
the standing of the highwayman and
the burglar, for he not only com
mitted the crime of the common thief,
but used his confidential position as
a means of committing the crime.
In the penitentiaries of every state
in the union are men wearing stripes
who, like Mr.. Matteson, stood high in
the communities in which they lived,
who were prominent in business cir
cles and society, who were considered
as absolutely trustworthy, but who
nave suddenly turned to thieves in
order that they might gamble. But
little sympathy would be wasted on
such cases were it not for the fact
that such culprits nearly always drag
down innocent victims with them, as
in the present case, where a wife and
four children must share the dis
grace.
This story has been re-enacted for
the thousandth time, and so long as
humanity exists will no doubt be con-
stantly repeated, for human nature is
ever the same and no record is to be
had of the men who have been sue
ceesful in gambling and returned the
funds which they had stolen.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-25
CHARLESTON.

Montford post office thence west
erly five miles to Kalispell post office
Total, 26 "a miles.
Route No. 6.
Beginning at Montford post office
thence running east three miles, to
the Early ranch; thence north one
mile, to the August Fehlberg ranch;
thence west one-half of a mile, to
the residence OF Lars Nelson; thence
north two miles, to the residence OF
Peter Dugan; thence east one and
one-half miles, to the residence OF
O..o Hansen; thence south two miles
20 the residence of w. J. S. Trail;
thence east one mile, to the resi-
dence of William Byrne; thence
south two miles, to the Jessup &
Smith saw mill; thence north one
mile, to John Zimmerman's resi-
dence; thence west two miles, to the
residence of Elder Farley; thence
south one mile, to the residence OF
Louis 'Felburg; thence west three
miles, to the George Stowell ranch /;
thence north one mile, to Montford
post office. Total distance, 81 miles.
Route No. 7.
Commencing at Montford post
Office; thence south one mile, to the
residence of George Stowell; thence
east three miles, to residence OF
Louis Fehlberg; thence south one
half mile, to residence of Aug. Veg
enr; thence east one and three-quar-
tiers miles, to residence of George M
Yenne; thence southeast three-quar-
tiers of mile, to Creston post Office
thence south one and three quarters
miles, to residence of William Am
brose; thence southeast one-half of a
mile, to residence of Merry Sullivan;
thence south one mile, to residence
of J. J. Grant; thence west one and
one-quarter miles, to residence of O.
w. Johnson; thence north three and
one-half miles, to Joe's place; thence
west one mile, to August Wegner's;
thence north one-half of a mile, to
Louis Fehlbergs place; thence west
two miles, to residence of I. S
Prand; thence south one mile, to res
idence of Charles Thompson; thence
west one mile to residence of John
Long, ST.; thence north two miles
to Montford post office. Total, %
miles.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-25
BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY.
Travelling Salesman Loses Valuable
Diamonds at GIendiVe, Mont

St. Paul, Jan. PA special to the
Pioneer Press from Glendive, Mont,
says: Robbers secured between $780,
600 and $4,000 worth of unset and
set diamonds Tuesday by stealing
trunks from the baggage room of the
Northern Pacific station and breaking
them open. Nothing is missing from
the trunks except bag of unset dia-
monds and three or four hundred
rings mounted in gold settings. A
tray containing "a set diamonds was
overlooked by the robbers. The
trunks were the property of B. F.
Clausen, the travelling representative
of S. H. Claussen & Co.. wholesale
manufacturing jewellers of Mime
apolis..
Mr.. Clausen arrived from the east
Monday night and left his trunks in
charge of the baggage agent.
The robbery was an unusually bold
one, as four men were in the upper
story of the station asleep, and the
express agent slept in room ad-
| joining the baggage room. None of
these men heard the robbers at work.
A window of the baggage room was
forced open and through it the two
trunks, which weighed $50 pounds
each, were hoisted out. They were
taken only a few feet from the sta
ton, where they were broken open
and the diamonds taken. They were
found early yesterday. Local Off
GERS have made one arrest on suspi-
cion.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-25

In the District Court of the Eleventh
Judicial District of the State of
Montana, in and for the County OF
Flathead.
Thomas Kirwin, Plaintiff, VS.. 4 !.
Tobie and Geo. Golfer, Defendants
Alias Summons.
The State of Montana sends greetings
to the above named defendants and
to each of them:
You are hereby summoned to
answer the complaint in this action,
which is filed in the office of the clerk
of this Court, copy of which is here
with served upon one of you in
each county wherein any of you re-
side, and to file your answer and
serve copy thereof upon the plant
ifs attorney within twenty days
after the service of this summons,
exclusive of the day of service; and
in case of your failure to appear or
answer, Judgment will be taken
against you, by default, for the relief
demanded in the complaint. This a.
ton is brought to recover Judgment
for 100000 for money had and re-,
ceived on May LIST and July LIST, 1901,
and no part thereof having ever been
paid.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said court this 10 day of January,
1902.
[Seal.l
JAMES K. LANG, Clerk.
F. L. Gray ATTORNEY for PLAINTIFF