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Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18

ditches constructed for that purpose. There are no expensive fumes and vast stone dams to build, as in some of the southwestern states.
 Irrigation has been accomplished in many localities by the organiza- tiOn of cooperative irrigation com panies Incorporated under the state law) each composed of a number of farmers for whom common ditch will suffice. Each farmer pledges himself to do his share of the work of building and maintaining the canal and to pay his portion of the cash assessments for the cost of the survey, material used, etc. The wa. ters of the state are free. Only those farmers whose land is watered by the canal are permitted to own stock in the enterprise, although it is said that the stock of any of these incorporated companies is readily ac- cepted by the banks as collateral These water rights are indeed the farmers most valuable holdings.
 The first government cooperative canal in Montana is located near Great Falls by the Montana State Arid Land Grant commission. This canal is still in course of construc. tion, but when completed it's waters will benefit some 60,00o acres of arid land. The actual area set aside for redemption, however, amounts to only 33,O00 acres. More than one. third of this territory has been placed under ditch and divided into farms not exceeding 160 acres each. These have been sold or offered for sale, according to the state law, at
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18
LAUDS AMERICAN METHODS.
EnEIish Educator Speaks Words of High Commentator for System
 in Vogue in United States.

The British board of education has issued two volumes of special reports containing essays on secondary in struction in the United States. Sir Joshua Fitch chief inspector of train ing colleges, contributes an introduc- ton in which he compares the British and American systems. He says that in America there is no distribution of parties corresponding to the English conservatives and liberals, because there are no dynastic or ecclesiastical privileges to conserve. The whole na- tion, he says, may be described as a party of progress. The politicians in America differ only in their views as to what progress means.
 The other essayists include D. S. Sanford, of the Brooklyn high school; G. l.. Fox, of New Haven, Conn.,, and H. T. Mark. The Daily Chronicle in reviewing the reports says the most striking fact in the study of American education is the universal enthusiasm and the conviction that it is the duty of the nation to provide the best avail able instruction and training for the young American.
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18
TRACING GREAT WATERSHED
Geological Survey Engaged in Ex- nmining Water Bearing Rocks
 in the Great Plains.

The geological survey is engaged in an examination of the water-bear- ing rocks in the great plains between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains for the purpose of indi- eating the distance of underground streams and reservoirs from the sur face, and the depth of the wells nee essary to reach them.
 From careful study of well-bor- ing and other geological phenomena of the region it has been discovered that extensive water-bearing strata underlie the whole plains region and are bent upward and reach the sur face on the eastern Hanks of the Rocky and Big Horn mountains, and in the Black Hills uplift.
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18

ing fully 3,000,000 acres of land re- gently withdrawn from entry. Other orders will be frequent. It is no boys play that Uncle Sam has en- tered upon and the business in hand is being pushed in a large way.
 The traveller in Montana, viewing the country from the car window, arrives at the conclusion that he has ventured beyond the confines of &reason and that there is no curse like the curse of the desert. Nine cas- ual observers out of ten, perhaps, will breathe a great sigh of relief when Gods country is again reach ed. And yet the tenth man will see something of value-something which gives him a hint of the vests future agricultural glory His impressions will be the correct ones. The land ;s not irredeemable. This has al- ready been effectively demonstrated in small areas throughout the state. Those dry, verdureless ditches are to be the lands salvation.
 Up to the present time the total irrigated area in Montana amounts to only 951, 1,154 acres. A comparison of this total with the three or four million acres which will soon be added to it, we'll reveals the stu pendous nature of the governments enterprise. And this is to be only a beginning.
 Already the redeemed land in va rious parts of the state and espe- cially, just now, in the northern DOT ton around Hinsdale, on the Great Northern, is attracting the attention of the agricultural world. Irrigated
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18

he cost of f5gettInE the water on the
 land, plus 20 per cent, which in this
 instance amounts to total charge
 of S15 an acre. The purchase of the land includes the purchase of per petual water right, else, of course
 the whole project were defeated
 The soil of Dearborn valley, the re 1 zion in which the first governments l experiment. was tried, was well adapted for first trial of this kind 1t is 3 rich, sandy loam that has been washed down by the streams in ages past and now forms a deep mantle over the country that serves as most excellent soil for crops when the necessary amount of water is available.
 This state experiment. was mada possible by the Carey act of congress, by the provisions of which the nation pesented the state with 1,0O00O0 acres to be reclaimed, thus allowing Montana the distin6tion of owning and operating the first governmental irriga tion canal in the western hemi- sphere. The canal, when completed. will have cost not less than $40O,O ,OO0.
 This Dearborn canal system, as it is called, embraces 100 miles of main waterway and several hundred miles of laterals, the water being uniform ly distributed. The main canal is 3S feet wide and five feet deep, with an average grade of 3.1 feet to the mile Subsidiary canals range from 16 feet wide on bottom to seven feet in width. The reservoir system in. cludes about 5000 acres with an average depth of 20 feet, thus storing 50 .o00 to 60,0OO acre feet. The water supply is always adequate, the water being taken from the Grand canyon of the Dearborn river. As this river is supplied by 175 square miles oi the main range of the Rockies, the streams source is perpetual. By ar interesting engineering feat this state canal diverts a portion of the water of Dearborn river, at a cer. tain point up the canyon, and, carry ing the water over hill and vale to g reservoir in Summit Lake, distributes it to the several small valleys of Fla creek, Auchard creek, Dry creek Simm's creek and Spring coulee.
 The few irrigation experiments | that have been tried i'll Montana, al though necessarily upon smal scale as compared with the grea problem of irrigation throughout th' state, are quite successful and sig nificant enough to arouse the en thusiasm of whosoever takes th pains to study the matter. The. teach the lesson that there is no big ger or more important problem be fore the nation to-day than the irri gation of it's lands. MAX OWEN.
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18
Uncle Sam 70 Try Irriga- ton Methods fr1 Montana The Recent Law Be Put in Operation a
 Large Scale in That State

patches in that vast northern region,
 greater in area than the state of In- diana, known as the Milk River
 Valley (which will benefit largely by
 the new government ditches) have
 made such rapid strides in produce
 tion IS even to suggest that arid
 lands, when properly irrigated, not
 only produce more uniform crops.
 but also br;pg them forth with moro
 certainty and regularity than lands that lie within the great humid belt where the crops may have moisture only when it falls from the heavens. Heretofore, of course, most of the irrigation of the Milk River Valley has been carried on by private en- terprise. The method employed is that which is known as throwing and flooding. By the former plan water is run between the rows of vegetables, corn, garden truck or anything planted in rows. The water is allowed to run in every alternate row so that two rows are supplied from one furrow Grain and hay crops are irrigated by the second process known as flooding. Water is turned upon a piece of land to be ir rigated until it is entirely flooded and all parts are thoroughly wet, when the flow is stopped and the surplus waters are drained off by
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18
Eupion Oil

When buying Illuminating oil insist on having EUPloN, tho family safety. This is dou- bic distilled process oil that IS oRDoRLEss and absolutely safe. If yoE will use clean burners and wicks and EuPIoN OIL you will have best light obtainable. The only merchants in New
 port that sell this high grade oil are: ff-Goldman Mer. Co.. w. B. Chastain, WilmaDs Bros, R. D. Wilmans, Heili- gers Union Market Co.,, Martin Bros, and Harris & Daugherty, Waters-Pierce Oil Comply
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18
Abundant sxmpathx.

Don't you sympathize with the peo- pie who are complaining of high prices?"
 q do," answered the monopolist. Ut shall never be said that l was dere- lict in the matter of sympathy. sym pathize with the people you mention a great deal, and if things go as l ex- pect them to in three or four months I'll sympathize with them twice as much. W Washington Star.
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18

IGMyEzM1l1I HAT the action of con
 N8A gress in providing for the
 N irrigation of arid lands is
 NWLK now to prove it's benefit
 suS=z in actual retaining of
 the wilderness is nowhere
 more apparent at present than in the
 Great Falls district of Montana. IT, rigation at the hands of national au- thority is now a realization, and the public is watching with great deal of interest the early irrigation pro- jects of Uncle Sam. By the provi- sions of the law, arid lands are to be watered at the expense of the gov- ernment upon very much larger scale than has hitherto been possible through the limited means at the dis posal of individuals and small com panies. As rapidly as practicable, large tracts of government lands are to be withdrawn from entry, sup piled with an adequate system of ir- | and again opened up for l settlement in sections as the irriga- 1 tion dtches are extended. The | means to carry on this great gov ernment work is taken from the | various revenues derived from gov ernment lands. The most recent or der from Washington provided for the withdrawal of 100000 acres of land in the Great Falls district, mak- l
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18

 enabled stockholders their add surplus profit s7414s
Newport daily independent., 1902-09-18

DREcToRs:A Bailey V Y Cook C. Decker, John T Flynn, Thos. J. Graham, J. w. Grubbs, R. M. Johnson A. E.
 Shonner, J. M. Stayton
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29
MODEL COUNTRY RoAp.
Kspt Up by the Farmers Iix,.
Aloagside of ID for Their Ov,
Comfort and ConveRience. !,

One Of the best kept roads l kn,
of anywhere is in Caldwell county. M,
between Nettleton and Hamilton
have driven over this read at all tin.
of the year. but have never seen }
rough or muddy. II is not becap,l
Missouri has superior road law,|
There are roads in the state nd
would wreck leather bag in a spri,l
wagon. Neither is it because M
township trustees compel the ro,I
overseer to attend to HIS busine,
Township trustees and road oversee,
here are about ordinary, but are a
dinarily not about when needed.
This is the explanation. On ca,
side of that road are fine farm
Beautiful farms with ciean-cut hedy,
well-kept orchards and fine meadow
On these farms are well-built, wei
painted and nicely ornamented fam
houses, with beautiful lawns a,
trees about them. In those hous
live progressive men, who have agre.
that this road shall be well kept. Eaa
man owns a scraper. Each farm
takes the piece of road along his fan
just as the city resident does his SD
walk. When one is busy, anotb
takes care of his road. When
bridge is to be built they all come
gether and build it. The road is era
ed in the middle, so the water ru
off at once. When it begins to
rough they run a scraper over
During parts of the year they 90 o1
this road from three to six time;
week. Sometimes even oftener.
1t takes some time? Yes, but
half as much as it does some ot
men trying to sell their farms vi
they want to change. An average
three hours per week for each ia
keeps the road. When they want
go to town, as they often do, the dr
is pleasure. It's pleasure for OF
people, too, and when one of th
wants to sell his farm he gets n
five to ten dollars more per acre Il
if he were located at the side or
of narrow quilted buggy-breal
bypath. Then they have free mail
livery along that road now. Som}
the rest of us haven't. and l am
the road had something to do wit
w. II. Handy, in Orange j
Farmer
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29
NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS.

II honey IS overheated both color
and transparency is injured.
Keep bees TO make your OWL
honey. Begin with a few hives.
Strong colonies protect themselves
against robbers and bee moths.
1t is quite an item TO breed the
hive full of bees just before winter,
Never leave newly-hived swarm
near the place where it clustered.
Bees generally require about 80
pounds of honey on which to winter.
Thick. well-ripened honey will not
granulate so readily as that which is
thin.
In rendering beeswax use tin,
brass or copper vessel. An iron one
will darken il.
1t is n good plan to do what feed
ing is necessary at night, so as not
to excite robbing.
A little pine tar smcared on a
board and put next the hive will
drive away ants.
In making candy to feed to bees
be careful not to burn it. Burnt
candy will kill bees.
In cold weather when bees are
quiet is when they are doing best;
do not disturb them.
There are three porSonagcs in the
beehive proper--the queen, the work
er bee and the drone.
Unite week colonies and their
stores. They will winter better to-
gether than separately.
Besides loosing IFS beauty and fine
appearance, honey kept in a cellar
gets watery and its flavor is lost
Agricultural Epitomist.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29

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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29

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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29
USE HOME MATERIAL.
A ROad-Duilding Hint Which Apu
with Equal Force to Characte|
Building.

1t is reported by the directc
the Office of public roads inqr
that a costly mistake is sonnet
committed by districts which
anxious to improve the conditic
the local roads. Through not
ing scientifically determined
valve --es. diEerent
terials, they use an unsuitable
stance to harden the surface Of
highway, when all the time the
at hand a more suitable mat
which can be obtained at less
pense. If they knew their owl
sources they would not send
from home for what, after all,
not be turned to as good accoul
the substances easily within real
II we are ever tempted to la|
the lack of educational advanta|
or Whatever the particular d
back may be-in our neighbo1
and to envy some more fortun|
endowed locality, let us post
our discomfort until we have
the best of such things as we
The library of our district is |
perhaps, in the number of
but have we extracted all the
row out of it's Shakespeare and
ton? The society is uncultivate
has not the narrowest member
something to teach us? To buJ
a strong and even beautiful cl
ter, it is not necessary to travel
far; we may find all the materl
it very near home.-Wellsprid,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29
An E>idcnce OF Civilization.

Roads are at once means and ar
evidence of civilization. The re-
mains of the Roman highways testi-
fy of their advancement, and show
how they carried Roman ideas to
the utmost bounds of the empire.
There is nothing our people more
need than to "mend their ways;"
nothing for which they would more
willingly be taNed.-Rev. Philip J..
Jones, American Baptist Publication
Society. PHILADELPHIA.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29
Get Out Of the Mud.

In the constitution of human af.
tnirs we are obliged to travel knee
deep and sometimes neck deep elong
the moral roads of life; and since il
seems impossible to get macadam for
these roads, it does seem that the
organization of society and govern.
ment might at least give us macnd-
amized roads for our physical pill
grimage.--W. u. Harte, Boston.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29

When q reliable concern Of 35 years sta n din z
offers its product direct 70 the user under posi-.
tive guarantee. there 10 no good excuse for
buying aduterated goods unattended by a
guarantee OF any kind. See thu advertisement
OF The Hayner Distilling Co., which appears In
this issue.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29
FOR LOADING LOGS.
An Arrangement Which Save
Of Labor and, in Some Cas-
Lots Of Profanity.

Arrange two stout timbers,
with one end Of each on the 4
and the other on the sled or \
Double . 1A.inch rope Of 81
length. Loop the middle thru
cleVis, 80 It will not slip. Tie tA
Of the rope to the side Of th|
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29

"VVu NUaos s" uVcs
Better roads often mean
church attendance. II is not
significance that the Jews we
manded to "prepare the wa,
Lord" To -gsther out the
and to "take up the st
blocks" may be q duty in {
as we'll as q figurative sens
invitation: "Let us go up
house OF the Lord" would
more effectual il 1t were not
cult q thing to get there.-Rs
Lamson. Manchester. Mass.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29
EASY WAY TO LOAD 10,

EASY WAY TO LOAD 10
farthest from the leg, b B.
the clevis back over the sic
around the log so It will balanc
take It back over the sled, hitcl
team at D and 60. ahead. Have
rack on the sled and remove tn,
from the side on which the 10
ceived.-L. Z. Emmons In Fa
Home.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-29

The most fertile sources o
in poultry are lice and fit
come unsuitable quarters,
feeding and oveycsowding.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-04-25
GIRLS LONG TRAMP.
Two Young Women Beat Their Way
from Chicago to San Francisco.
On a Wager They Succeed in Cross
ing the Continent without
Cent and without Begging
for Money or Food.

| Grace Fosland and Louise Gauss,
the two young Chicago girls who set
out from that city about month ago
to cross the continent without ex-
pending any money, have just reached
San Francisco. They left Chicago
with a capital of As cents, and have
reached the Pacific coast without do
ing much walking. They Jared bet
ter in the way of receiving transpor-
tation than they did for food, for
after leaving Aurora they went four
days without anything to eat. By
the terms of the pact the girls en-
tered into before setting out they
could not beg, but were ready to ac-
cept anything that was offered them.
Their friends in Chicago were sur
prised to learn that they had reached
their destination so soon, for it was
expected that they could not reach
the coast before the month of June.
Miss Gauss is resident of Lock
port, ILL.,, but has spent much of her
time in Chicago during the last two
or three years, studying at the Amer
lean conservatory of music. Miss
Fosland is also musician and gradu-
ated from the normal school at San
Jose, Cal, two years ago and came
to Chicago to continue her studies.
She has an income from her fathers
estate in California, and it is not for
lack of money that she beat her way
to her old home.
The young women planned their
trip secretly, confding in but one
friend, who furnished them the
money to pay their transportation to
Aurora, after which they were left to
their own resources. 1t was from
there they did most of the walking
during the trip, doing 20 miles in one
day to Millbrook. They reached Oma-
ha March "a, where man, learning
of their trip, paid their fare to Og-
den. From there to San Francisco
they had to beat their way, and were
put off trains on several occasions.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-04-25

over Abyssinia, evacuated the kingdom
of Tigre, and the boundaries of Italian
possessions were definitely drawn.
The Negus rules over a territory Of
100000 square miles and a population
of 3,50o,ooo; people of Coptic, Jewish,
Arabian and negro extraction. The
ruling class are the Ethiopians,w who are
of Arabian descent. Owing to the fact
that the form of Christianity is derived
from the ancient Alexandrian church,
the Russian government has been
interested in the maintenance of the
independence of the empire.
The French and English have per-
manent representatives at King Meme
lexis court. The French are building
a railroad from Jibutil to Harrar and
Adds Abeba, a distance of 47O miles.
The telegraph has also begun it's work
in that country, and its click is heard
at Adds Abeba, the capital of Abys-
sinia. KATHERINE POPE.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-04-25
WOES OF CHILDREN OF RICH.
Mr.. Perciva1 Chubb Declares That
What They Need Is a Good Roll
in the Mud.

"Too much tutor and too little ia.
ther; too much clothing and too little
mother; too much boarding school
and too little home," is the way Perci-
val Chubb summed up the misfortunes
of the children of the wealthy on
Thursday at the meeting of the Soci
ETY. for the Study of Life in the Tux.
edo, New York city.
"Our wealthy children are disrepu-
tably clean," said Mr.. Chubb. "They
are little patterns of anaemic prim-
ness. They exist merely for their
clothes. A good roll in the mud is
what they need. Mud pies, that bless
ed institution of happy normal chill
dren, would be their salvation.
ga plush civilization is not the one
for children. The home on whose
walls the pictures are crying out for
space is not the home for children.
Parents must decide whether the up
holsterer, the tailor or the child shall
rule the home.
"Many Fifth avenue houses" he
said, "look like the place of tombs'
or of lost souls. The children have
also the great misfortune of not go
ing to the public schools. The private
schools have too long vacations, dur
ing which the hotel piazza disease fas-
tens itself upon the children"
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-04-25

sinian kingdoms. Massowah is very
hot place, unfit for residence by Euro
peans, and the Italians presently be-
gan to look for more salubrious sur
roundings. Persistently they pushed
their way southwark, making consid-
cradle headway until Menelek's men,
an army over 10000 strong, assumed
the aggressive toward them. During
the conflict with the Italians, Menele1
and his officers treated their adver-
saries with courtesy and generosity,
on one occasion furnishing them with
transportation for their wounded and
their baggage. The Italians, at the
battle of Adowa, March /, 1896, were
utterly defeated, $4,000 being left dead
on the field. When peace negotiations
were concluded with Menelek, the
Italians renounced their protectorate