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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-18

Maine guides authority for the statement
that summer sojourner's outfit for that part
of the country has been considered complete for
the last four years unless it contained copies of
Holman Days up in Maine" and pine Tree
Ballads" The books are read in camp around
the fire at night, possibly for the purpose of
idealizing the days experiences for the less
imaginative. Mr. Day has volume this
summer. entitled kin o. Ktaadn." which camp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-18
WHI.STLERIAN1.
The artist Portrayed by One Of His
TntimateS.

WHISTLER AS KNEW HIM. BY Mortimer Men
pcs. Illustrated Ato. PIP Nxvi loS- The Mac
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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-18
Lyon County.
NEWSPAPER LAW.

Subseribers tcho do not give express notice to
the contrary are considered tcshing 10 continue
heir subscription.
II Isubscribers order the dtseontinuGnee Of their
periodicals. the publisher may continue TO send
hem until all arrears are pad.
n subscribers neglect refuse 10 take their pc
riodicaLs from the oce TO Which they are directed
hey held responsible tiH they hare settled tAeT
bill and ordered their paper Discontinued
II subscrtbers tnoue to other places tcitkout
aforing the publisher, and ths paper q sent to the
rormer direction. they are held responsible,
5 The courts haze decided that refusing 20 take
periodicals from the sNcs, or removing and leaving
tiOnal fraud.
8. Any person l0ho receives a nesospdper and
makes use Of i i0hetheT he has subscrtbed for or
not, is held in Iaw as a subscriber
T. The Postmaster ioho neqLscts 10 gtue the Legal
notice Of the neglect Of person to take from the Or
ice the newspaper addressed TO him Is liable to the
publisher for the subscription price.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-18

provided for the donation of a
homestead tract to every man who
would create home upon it, thus
becoming more substantial
citizen, building up the community
and prospering the nation. This
spirit should again prevail, espec-
tally now that desert lands are to
be reclaimed by the government
and entries allowed upon them
under the Homestead act. Ger
tain other land laws enacted by
Congress since the tide of West
emigration reached the arid line,
have allowed the taking of land
in much larger tracts, but the ir-
rigated farm is always small
unit; and now that the govern
ment is to provide water for one
hundred million acres of desert
which can be transformed into
these small farms, the time for the
requirement of large areas has
certainly gone by. There has
been too much laxity in the hand
ling of the public domain in the
West, growing out of the general
impression that the area was prac-
tically without limit. This is not
the case. The good lands, suitable
for reclaim alton, are comparatively
limited, and the injunctions of the
President to the effect that every
acre of the remaining public do
main must be held for the use of
the actual homemaker, should be
needed"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-18
WILL NOT HURT THE EAST
Secretary WlIsoa Says the New irrigated
West viii Not Injurc the fast

Secretary Wilson, of the De-
partment of Agriculture, himself
farmer in State requiring no
irrigation, stated very clearly in a
speech at Washington during the
pending of the irrigation bill the
relation between western irriga-
tion and eastern farming:
The policy of the United
States for the last forty years" !"
said Mr.. Wilson, "has been to
build up home markets not only
for our manufacturers but our
farmers as well. We have built
up our manufactures in order that
we might have home markets for
our farmers.
When / was a boy, 46 years
ago, | went to Iowa. Our friends,
the farmers of the East, were
somewhat alarmed as to what the
result might be, and the result in
regard to the marketing of east
ern farm products was, in some
cases, unsatisfactory to eastern
farmers. But the eastern manu-
facturer got such a market as is
not to be found anywhere else in
the world outside of the Mississip-
pi Valley. And the prosperity OF
the eastern manufacturers has, in
turn, brought prosperity to the
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-18

chants woke up and began to put
in plate glass fronts and to adver-
tise, and all their lost trade came
back and more with it.
Zone of the things we did was
to clean out all the wells in town.
There were nearly 200 of them,
and some of them had not been
pumped out for twenty years.
The year before we started in we
had eighteen cases of typhoid
fever. The year after we had not
one single case. Some of the
householders had to run in debt
to make their improvements, but
as an offset real estate is worth rs
per cent more today. Not only
that, but several new business
men and at least a score of new
families have come in, and we
have got more new houses under
way today than any other town Of
our size in the State. In place OF
the cows and hogs we have flower
beds and shrubbery, and in place
of weather beaten houses and
decayed fences we look like a gir1
in her Sunday clothes. 1t took g
lot of talking to get the thing
started, and we almost had to use
a crowbar on some of the property
owners, but we've got a town now
to brag of and are going to keeI
it up and head the procession. >
A. B. Lewis.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-18
BOOMING WHICH PAID
How One Town Was Bullt and BeautIfied by
Its Citizens.

"You ask how we doomed our
town." said an Ohio man who
halls from one of the cleanest.
neatest villages in the Buckeye
State. "Well, l shall be glad to
tell you and hope other towns
may profit by it. My town has
about 1000 inhabitants and 400 or
500 buildings. Up to the time we
began work, which was three
years ago, at least half the build
ings were unpainted. There
wasn't what you might call de-
cent fence in front of any resi-
dence, nor could one find ten rods
of good sidewalk. Hogs and
cattle were allowed to roam at
large, the streets were full of
holes, and our courthouse was a
disgrace. 1t was what you might
truthfully call a slipshod, RAM
shackle town, and it seemed as if
everybody who could sell out was
ready to do so and get away.
There wasn't place in the town
but that had gradually deterior-
rated in value, and rival villages
had drawn much of our trade.
We'll, it all began by my speak
ing to my wife and asking her to
make a move in the matter. She
got three or four other women
interested, called a meeting, and a
committee was appointed. When
they had got to work called for
meeting of the men, and it was
agreed that we should take hand
and do something for the town.
We first took hold of the streets
and filled and graded them. That
was done at public expense, as
were also the repairs to the court
house. Then we took the side
walks block by block. We got
our lumber cheaper by contracting
with one dealer, and the work
was also done by one contractor
The next thing was the fences
and we pursued the same policy
The paint and oil were bought al
wholesale and every citizen paint
ed his own fence One day
twenty-five women turned out and
handled the brush all day long.
"Of course we had few RiT
Van Wrinkles who wanted to con
tinue their slumbers, but after {
few improvements had been made
they began waking up and doing
their share. We started our work
about the middle of April. Before
snow fell we had made a new
town of it. Not a dwelling Oh
fence was left unpainted. We
had good walks, good streets
flowers and shrubs everywhere
and the railroad company gave II:
| - ., Jao0t ,>f bricE The nar
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-06-18
Uncle Sam has a

great deal of land and a great
deal of water out in the West.
That land is arid, and the water
which would make it productive
is running to waste. l would wet
some of those great mountain
valleys and plains and build more
homes and make more markets.
The eastern manufacturer will sell
in the West, but the western
farmer will not sell in the East,
except fruits and things like that
which will not compete with the
eastern farmer.
This great work will take time.
1t will take many years to wet all
that dry land, but We ought to
begin now and go along carefully
each year until the task is done.
You will not get many dams built
or neighborhoods started before
the business men will have their
travelling men out there to sell
goods. Stop for moment and
think what our home market is to-
day. The whole world wants to
get into the United States to sell
things, but our home market is
for ourselves first, to develop it to
the fullest extent.
There are, according to the gov
ernment surveys, something like
seventy-fve million acres of desert
land which can and will event
ually be reclaimed by irrigation,
and many good authorities say a
hundred million; but with the
utmost expedition possible this
will be a labor of not years but
decades.
The reclamation of arid America
will to great extent balance our
one-sided development. The
eastern half of the United States
to-day has a population of over
seventy million, while the western
half contains somewhere in the
neighborhood of six million, or
less than 10 per cent of the whole.
The new irrigation law is being
worked out very satisfactorily.
The country was fortunate in
finding a bureau of the govern
ment equipped to take up the
question of surveys and construc-
tions Immediately. Mr. Frederick
H. Newell, the national hydrog-
rapher of the geological survey,
had, as we look back over his
record, apparently been in train
ing for just such an emergency
during a period of ten or twelve
years. The new law found Mr.
Newell familiar with every section
of the West, and with a general
knowledge of its water resources
its reservoir sites, and its possible
reclaimable area. The work upon
! which he is now engaged under
this law is the greatest under
taking which has ever been placed
before this government. The
dams and bitches to be constructed
will be the greatest in the world
they will stand, not for genera
tions, but for centuries, and con
tribute to the we'll being of hun
dreds of millions of people. Arid
America will contain by far the
greatest irrigated area of any
country in the world.
In the light of the above grea
work before the government, it i.
necessary to remark upon the
somewhat serious condition which
confronts it at the inception o
that undertaking. Far-sightee
statesmen, than whom there i.
none more friendly to the Wes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20

dtSiluSOned husband wife
desoating succession Of gray years and says he
vast ma jority Of men and willingly un
willingly victimzed by another of these
fes. 1t is in the secret nature of things
helped"
In the vast majority Of marriages there
readjustment necessary the transition from the
love of courshp to the SOBER everyday affection
jugal life The newly welded pair have to become &C.
quainted intimately and thoroughly possible to NO
other relation Of fe to discover and fit themselves
anothers little pecuarities, which heretofore been
kept sight To the fortunate who are really
souls with but single thought readjustmen
necessary each is the complement other and
friction disllusionment possible with
others there is usually less need for orbearance
endure, to hope and to believe, if things vet
enough hurt DISBURSEMENT is always painful proc
ess, and In marriage it is douby 1t is hard con-
ones self that silver is good gold only one
has enough Of it. When precious coin proves to be
only FURNISHED nickel "copper" it takes be thank
full that the metal such is pure duly
mnted.
Much Of the happiness and alas much Of the
married life from the fact that sensitive are
apt to hold themselves personally responsible words
and acts of the whom they love and rejoice suffer
accordingly. Where friendship and love unite each
strengthening and sustaining the other is the ideal
marriage the Creator instituted it made the
first woman as helpmeet for the first man, not the
modern partnership where the husband provides in
come and the wife spends it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20
The End of a Most Remarkable
Man and His Wonderful
Career.
MADE AND LOST FORTUNES
Had Great Love for Children and Was
Often Seen Playing with Crowd
of Little Ones.
TRAVELLED ALL OVER TIE WORLD.

New York. Jan. 19.-George Francis
Train, who died late last night at Mills
hotel No. 1 in Blocker street, probably
was one of the most picturesque figures
in the history of America. Only year
ago, when he was then. IA years old, he
dictated the "reminiscences of his extra
ordinary career and the result was pub
lished in book form. Summarized in his
own curious fashion, this contained the
following information about his career:
Shipping clerk, 10; manager, IS; partner
In Train & Co., 20, with an income OF
$4,000.
Estabish9d firm George Francis Train
Co., Melbourne Australia, 1858; agent,
White Star line, income $4,000. Started
forty clippers to California In 1919. Built
railroad connecting Erie with Ohio and
Mississippi.
Pioneered the first street railway in Eu-t
rope, America, Australia, and England.
Owned 5000 lots in Omaha, worth So 0O0,GOO.
Been in fifteen 1ails without crime.
Wandered All Over World.
Mr.. Trains parents, with several
brothers and sisters, died at New Orr
leans from yellow fever and his child
hood home was on his grandmother
farm in Massachusetts,. Not long after.
entering the Boston shipping house
founded by his cousin he went abroad,
and from that time on he wandered all
over the globe.
In 1873 he began career as lecturer
and agitator, and held public debates
with some Of the ablest orators in the
country. A few years ago he made u
trip. around the world in. sixty-six days,
saying afterward that his psychic force
enabled him to overcome all obstacles.
Love for Children
When Mills hotel No. / was opened
several years ago, Me. Train went there
to live and since then made it his head
quarters. One Of the features Of his
eyentful life was his admiration for chill
dren and for years a familiar spectacle
IN Madison Square was "Citizen' Train
on bench surrounded b. a group Of
little ones.
Mr.. Trains last misadventure occurred
last summer when he was Quarantined at
Stamford, Conn.,, in o smallpox isolat ton
camp and threatened that city with u
suit for $4,000 damages. He was the
author Of at least forty books and fire.
quentlv asserted that his psychic pow
er" eventually would make lin the most
potent sovereign Of the earth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20
Auto-Cars for Smugglers.

The latest use to which the high
speed automobile has been put in
France is smuggling. A few days ago
a motor car with a large quantity of
tobacco on board rushed past the Gus
tom house station at Hazelruck at
sixty miles an hour. and had disap-
peared before the astonished custom
house officers had realized what had
happened. The smugglers had cover
ed the automobile with a sacking, so
that it was impossible to telegraph it's
number or description to the authori-
ties farther on.
AS the custom house officers were
convinced that the smugglers would
repeat their exploit they prepared to
arrest their progress by holding a
length Of wire rope in readiness to bar
the route. Their expecta tons were
realized. Monday last the same auto
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20

I PRS Il :f1iE RE0IPII

magazine-written, if mistake not by one who has
since attained prominent position in dramatic literature
in which the possibility Of phoographng eye
duly made the pivot Of the tale scientist aiding Justice
in the tracking of the murderer.
The other day read story in which writer with
thorough to date appreciation of the utilization the
sensation Of the hour, made the substance radium
the central idea Of his tale supposed to
have amassed large quantity Of the element and burg
lar knowing it's value thought he would radium
He entered the house Of the scientist
work But radium has its dangers course burg
lar meets his fate in being practically annihated This
l repeat is fiction we'll up to date
Theories of hereity have escaped the attention
philosophical novelsts There is attraction
for the writers OF fiction to around the old saying
regarding 'he sins Of the many social
The child, in such regarded being propelled
UPWARDS to his fate by influences beyond his OF
troll AS in the story relating the of the black
graduated at oxford and who marrying English girl
returned missionary to his people, find heredity
drawn The black reverted his primitive instincts
and was one night seen by his wife taking in
orge Needless to she made the shock
The influence Of such Impressions by dis
tnct atmosphere of doubt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20
"Graft" in Trade

The business l am connected with uses
some anilines, writes "A Prominent Man
ufacturer' in The World Today, and
once when our chemist was absent I .sa "
salesman from a company with whom
we had never dealt. He did not catch
my name, and after the offer of a cigar
he leaned forward and whispered:
IF you can get those colors in I'll see
that you get 8 per ceDe. on all orders
/ looked a little astonished and he
FASTENED to add:
Make it 10 per cent This tempted
me into leading him on and / said:
''Oh, you don't do as we'll as your
neighbors." He Strengthened up and said:
Fix the price on that color $3.50 per
pound Che had already quoted 81 per
pound on it, and we'll give you 65 cents
on every pound you order"
AS we order 800 or 400 pounds at a
time this would make a very tidy sum.
Needless to say, the order was rot placed.
But did not tell the fellow the reason.
Another aniline salesman once told me
he had to do il or lose his job l simply
told him we tested and bought goods on
their merits and did not take commits
SiOnS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20
"PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS"
In Great Britain. $50 Ont Of Every
1000 Die ION Public Charity"


1000 Die ION Public Charity"
Mr.. London, in his People of the
Abyss" tells us that in lesser London
over 1 100000 people receive twenty-one
shnlings or less week for each fam
lily, and the family is reckoned at five
persons. He tells us that one out of
every four persons who die in London,
and 939 out of every 1000 in the Unit
ed Kingdom, die ION public charity
He says that 100000 people in London
live in one-room tenementS-an aver
age Of five to room. He tells us that
10000 homeless walk the streets Of
London every night.
He says that in the United Kingdom
37,5OO,O 600 people out Of 100000 re-
ceive less than $50 month for each
family; that 100000 are in daily re-
ceipt Of poor-law relief; that 100000
have only q weeks wages between
them and starvatiOn; that 500 hered-
itary peers own one-ffth Of England,
and that they and their dependents
spend every year $1,S5O,OOO,0OO, Or 80
per cent Of the total wealth Of the
country, in the maintenance Of their
vast estates and the qualification Of
their personal luxury.
The primary cause for this condition
of things, Mr.. London thinks, is the
struggle for commercial supremacy,
and the immediate cause gross and stu
pendous mismanagement on the part
Of the governing class. From Mr.. Lon
dor,,+ ,,oipt ne Wow sstho Do1itiool ma :
chine known as the British Empire is
running down." but he sees smiling
future for England when the discred-
tied machinery shall finally be cast up
on the scrap Observation-Disclosures Post
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20
FIRE PANIC IN BIG
APARTMENT HOUSE,
Flames Discovered Under Stairs of Build
ing Which Was Not Provided
with Fire Escapes.

Marion. Ind, Jan. 19.-Two hundred
persons have narrowly escaped being
burned to death in fire which destroyed
the fye-story Colonial apartment build
ing. There were no fire escapes on the
structure and the fire started under the
stairways.
A number Of the women had tainted Or
were overcome by smoke when the fire.
men reached them
The elevator operator deserted his
post, but Albert McCarty, porter.
rushed into the building and operated
the car. He succeeded in carrying thirty
persons to the ground floor before being
driven out.
The fire originated in the basement.
near the elevator shafting, from a live
wire, and an explosion of gasoline in
storage caused the flames to spread rap
idly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20

for eXampe) occur Balance OF the
cell community, the body, party results from Inherited
forces chiefly the influence of environment on
those forces periods of stress before birth
AS rule the organs lower in type suffer for the ben
eft the higher and instances becoming useless
tend to disappear The BRAIN nervous SYSTEM liver and
other glands heart and blood vessels and the organs con
nected with Of the bones teeth
hair, skin and bowels.
has been for Of usefulness through the
training the periods which it's defects
enforced Charles Darwin from heavy heritage of nerve
disorder preserved thereby from the strain OF school
of medical practice and Of business. At school Darwin
displayed scientific tendencies and therefore took much
outdoor exercise During his at Cambridge the
procvities appeared Aided by his natural science
fessor Darwin did not bother about his college standing
His ailments played great in his acceptance Of the
post the Beagle whose originated the doctrine
OF natural selection expounded by Charles Darwin
Darwin thus escaped the dwarfng tendencies Of the
gsh schools and universities though to lesser extent
than Herbert Spencer who, defective youngster
had to be educated privately.
Degeneracy is always factor of advance when ii
useless for the benefit of the organ
ism whole The strength the athlete may enhance
the primary but crippled form may compel training
which creates devoee of the golden rule AS advance
evolution results from creation checks on undue ex
pendlture Of force bodily defect degeneracy
panied by healthy BRAIN thereby enforces advance