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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13
SULTAN OF TURKEY
TO HAVE OPERATION
Told That He Would Not Live Six
Months If He Did Not Submit
to the Knife.

Constantinoplc, Aug. 13.-It has beer
learned that the illness from which the
Sultan is suffering il kidney trouble. 4
fortnight ago his physicians advised an
operation but the Sultan refused to sub
init to the knife. On August the ply
sicians held another consultation and AZ
its conclusion told Ab Dul Hamid that
unless the operation was performed he
would not live six months. The Sultan
then agreed to take his physicians al.
vice and summoned Prof. Bergman, d
well known German specialist.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13
FIVE PER CENT INCREASE.
Affects 1000 Mill Operators of New
England.

Boston. aug. 10. A raise in wages
.Hectine upwards Of 1000 operators IN
tbe cotton mills OF New England, went
;nto eject today IN three communities.
Adams and Pittsfed, Mass, and Exeter,
II. H., the increase amounts 70 five per
cent.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13
LABOR PARTY HEADQUARTERS.
Rooms in Old City Building Over Perry
& Camps Store.

The labor party campaign committee
has secured headquarters in the old city
building, over Perry & Camps store.
The rooms VIII be open tonight and
viii remain open during the remainder
of the campaign.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13
PROMINENT BANKER DEAD.


Springfield, Mass, Aug i3.--James D.
Stafford, former president Of The City
National bank, died at his home here
rat 1880 this morning.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13
SCARED BY EARTHQUAKE.
People Ran from Their Homes at Green
castle, Ind.

Greencastle, Ind, Aug. 49,. An earth
quake shock was felt here at 7;10 this
morning. No damage is reported, but
the people ran from their houses in
fear.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13
S0-CALLED ICE TRUST
WILL BE ROBBED
0fiially Announced Today That Inter
state Commerce Commission
Investigate Toledo, Ohio,
Case.

Washington, d. G., Aug. ls.-It was
officially announced today that the I'M
terstate Commerce Commission will IN.
stitnte an inquiry into the so-caled ice
trust at Toledo, Ohio.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13

Mrs Lizzie Gladding and Miss Edith
Gladding returned yesterday from
Plainhcld springs, where they have been
spending 3 two weeks vacation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13

The two men tied in guessing on
the bottle Of beans are requested to
meet tonight al the Clan Gordon
rooms.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
BARGAROUS PUNISHMENT.
Russian General Gives an Exhibition
of the Brutality of the Cars
Minions.

Gen. Dragomiroff, the aged adviser
of the car, rose from the ranks, and
always dressed according to the army
regulations for the common soldier
One day, relates the New York Times,
while driving about st. Petersburg in
his carriage, he noticed soldier with
hair longer than the regulations called
for lie had the horses stopped, alight-
ed, and, taking off his hat, ordered the
soldier to seize him by the hair. The
soldier hesitated. He feared to lay
violent hands on his general; besides,
the hair was clipped too close to af-
ford hold Tor the hands
The general surveyed the soldier
sternly for few moments; then. twin
ing his fingers in the latter's locks. he
literally wiped up the street with him.
the victim not daring TO resist. Final
ly, having impressed the lesson thor
oughly, he reentered his carriage and
drove on, ordering the soldier to fol-
low. At the first BARRIERS shop they
came to he again aighted, and had
every yestige of hair shaved from the
soldiers heal. then turned him loose
as a horrible example to his fellows.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
THE AMERICAN DRAMA.
Seeking Its Origin, One Must Go
Back, 1t Almost Seems, to the
American Circus.

No problem is more fascinating to
the stuGent Of Elizabethan drama than
the attempt TO trace its splendid
achievement to its earliest sources.
The quest leads one back to primitive
folk plays, TO secular improvisations
and medieval renderings of sacred
story; and all study of perfected types
shows clearly here and there the de-
terminate influence of these first at
tempts.
1t Is odd that no one has undertaken
similar investigation of our Amer
lean drama, species of art so dis
tinctive from drama proper that we
are not only justified in seeking, but
are compelled to seek PARTIALLY diff
ferent origin The materia drawn from
American life, developed by American
talent, and appealing TO American au-
diences has peculiar characteristics
pointing irreSistibly, in conception, de-
velopment and execution. to our first
artistic achievement, the American
circus; and inquiry as to origins takes
us back to our own-shall say medi-
aeval days?-when Mr.. p. T. Barnum
was pertecting the entertainment that
was 10 burst upon the eyes of an as
founded world.
Though W" can hardly be said To
have evolved new species. we have
given such arked cole. ,pg to exist
ing types ,omedy that we may fair
ly claim the credit of creating new va
rieties. The local color play, the So
ciety play, the melodrama, the comic
opera, flourish as strictly national
productions upon our SOIL differentia
being perhaps more firmly established
in the case of the first two than OF
the others. In all, motif, plot, charac-
terization, setting show Enthusiastically
the influence of the great prototype al
ready suggested.
Circles and circles of unrelated ac-
ton; swift ralloping from one to an
otter lest the audience should have time
to think; the ruling out II cause and
effect in order that something, no
matter what may happen every min
ute-do not our plots betray their
origia in the planning Of circus dsy7
! venture to affirm that in no other
country can legs wriggle so swiftly.
can the swinging and leaping of the
trapehs performer 90 so alertly and
firmly on. would pit our contortion-
lists and our hoop-jumpers against
those OF all other lands With equal
hrmness | assert that in no other
drama does action follow so so swiftly.
so unconnectedly as in our own
From The Point Of View" in scrib-
ner
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
SEASON OF EXAMINATIONS.
When the Teachers Are Treated to
Some Rare Examples Of
Erudition

In this examination season school
teachers talk much of the examination
papers that, from sunset until the
small lours, they sit and mark.
Some teachers the other day were
lunchinS together, relates an ex.
change.
"A little boy" one said, handed me
a paper on physiology yesterday. In
this paper, describing shoemaking az
an occupation injurious to the health,
the boy wrote: This trade is injuri.
Gus because the shoemakers press the
shoes against the thorax, and, there
fore, Il presses the thorax in, and II
touches the heart, and If they do not
die they are cripples for life"
In an etymology lesson" said a
second teacher, "a little girl defined
dust as mud with the juice squeezed
out, A boy defined snake as "a
thing that is tail all the way up to
the mead A young Indian defined a
baby as meat don.'"
Those definitions" said third
teacher, "are as good as the we'll
known ones that describe a ship as a
prison with the chance of being
drowned; dogmatism as puppyism
come to maturity anxiety as fear
spread out thin, and prodigy as
every mothers first baby"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
NAMED MISSISSIPPI.
representative williams Gives Some
Interesting Historical Data Con-
seIning Famous Ships.

ii recent convention Representative
John Sharp Williams, OF Mississippi,
gave some interesting historical Incl
lents of warships which have borne
The name of that state.
"One of the ships engaged in the
blockade of the Mexican coast during
the Mexican war, under the command
Of Capt. Connor," said Mr.. Williams,
was named the Mississippi She
was Gfterward under the special com
man1 of Capt. Forest. with the fleet
that secured the neutrality of Yucatan
and Captured the Mexican flotilla at
rObasco. II was the name OF the
American battleship which flew Ad-
mirdl Farragut's pennant when he
broke through the distractions from
the mouth of the Mississippi to New
Orleans on the expedition which led
to the separation of the cis-Mississippi
from the trans Mississippi confederacy
II was the name of a confederate
cruiser, then being built for Admiral
Sommes, and not yet quite completed,
which was taken by the federal forces
when they captured New Orleans, and
when, If completed, might have taken
the place which the confederate cruiser
Alabama subsequently took in the his
tory % the naval affairs of the world.
1t was the name of the battleship of
Admiral Perry when, in 1852, by the
wise exhibition of big stick he pro-
cured from the old Japanese GOWN
ment the conditions under which
Japan, that rejuvenated giant of the
twentieth century, opened its ports
to the commerce of the United States,
and, as a result, to the commerce and
fellowship OF the world. II may be
said therefore, to have been, in a
way, the opening wedge whereof. the
trunk of old prejudices and Chauvinis-
tic isolation in Japan was split and
destroyed. From its guns, belched the
seed which, when grown to fruitage,
has developed into the present en-
pire of Japan the most stupen 'ous ex-
hibitiop of the rebirth and rapid
growth to national manhood of peo-
pie, which the world has ever wit
messed.
1T was upon the same ship. Missis-
sippi, that Capt. Perry afterwards Wis
tied Halifax nnd Cape Breton, on ac-
count of the seizure of our fishing YES
sells by British cruisers. The result of
that visit Vas the reciprocity treaty
with Canada in 1854. And last, but by
no means least, in my estimation, II is
the name of a state second in the
union TO nonC-a state whose great men
have illustrated the virtue of American
citizenship on the bench. in the cab
met and in legislative halls; state
whose men have illustrated the virtues
and greatness in life-rendering of
American soldiery on the field. May
the good ship Mississippi, when she is
commissioned. so forth in herself an
objec: lesson to the world of the ex-
cellence of American naval architec-
ture, ard in her crew and her officers
an object lesson of the fact that Amer
lean intelligence and daring are all as
fully to be found now as in the most
heroic days of the republic!"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
Drew Line at Scarfpin.

A New York artist who painted a
portrai: of President Roosevelt had
the privilege of spending several days
knocking around the White House to
get some mental notes of the presi-
dent'a varying expressions, He would
sit mere, there and yonder to watch
the head OF the nation rs he attended
TO al! sorts OF business. The portrait
had been finished, but adverse criti-
cism rendered the artists visit neces-
sary. When he was about to leave
the executive mansion TO hasten to
New York to put his new impressions
on the canvas the president shook his
finger at him ana said very earnest
ly: New, nina, no scarfpin!"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
Languages Not Sroken.

The most spoken language is Chi
nese. but as there are so many dia-
lects IN this language, and as these
differ so greatly in the confines of
Mongolia and Thibet from those
around Pekin, 1t is scarcely correct to
say that 3S2,O0O.000 Celestials all
speak one language. Putting, there
fore, Chinese aside. the most spoken
languages in the world are as follows,
in millions: English, 100; German,
70; Russian, 6S; Spanish, A; Portu.
guese, 80. If we are to measure these
in ratio or a two-foot rule we should
get the following results: Portuguese,
four inches, Spanish, five and one-
half inches; Russian, eight and one
half inches; German, eight and three
quarter inches; English, one foot and
three inches,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
Island Mystery.

Treasure island is still mystery.
The steam yacht Rose Marine, which
left England in October, 1903, to search
for The treasure which tradition says
pirates concealed On Cocos island, in
the Pacific, has returned 10 Southamp-
ton. Capt, Mathews, the skipper, is
reticeut as to the results Of the voyage,
and only says that his belief in the
pro.ec; has been strengthened. The
WORK CT searching the island is very
iitfiC.Ht
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
Left Handed Comr ment.

THAT was a left.har IA compli-
ment," said Upton Sincl l', the noted
author of The Jungle" spropos of a
rem ( made by butcher. 1T re-
mind' me-" Mr.. Sinclair went on, "of
con liment that was once paid to a
physician.
This physician had married a
widow. He said one night to his wife,
with complacent sigh:
We'll, I've pulled old Jones
through, after all. And a critical case
1t was, let tell you
Yes, dear, said the lady; but,
then, you know, you are such an ex-
cellent doctor. All, if | had only
known you four years nrlier! | am
certain my poor dear Join would have
been saved"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
Royal Artizan ms.

King Edward has played many parts
In his time, one of them being brick
maker and builder. At Osborne there
still stands a small fort erected by the
king and his brothers. At Balmoral
there is a tool shed which was entire
ly constructed by Prince Albert and
sons.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01


August Flower is the only medicine
free from alcoholic stimulants) that has
been successful in keeping the entire
thirty-two feet of digestive apparatus in
normal condition, and assisting natures
processes of digestion, separation and alb
sorption-for building and rebuilding
by preventing ALL irregular or unnatural
causes which interrupt healthy and per-
feet natural processes and result in intes-
final indigestion, catarrhal affections
Causing appendicits-stoppage of the
gall Duct, fermentation of unhealthy
foods nervous dyspepsia, headache, con
stipation and other complaints, such as
collie, biliousness, jaundice, etc.
August Flower is natures intended reg.
ulator. Two sizes, 2sc, Use. All druggists,
City Drug Store, Logan, Utah.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
Not in His Line.

Managing Editor - See here! we
didn't have 4 line about that fire early
this morning
City Editor-No, | didn't have any
body To send out but the society ed
itor
Managing Editor-Wen?
City Editor -- Well, he simply
brought ~ list of the names OF
those present.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
It's All Nonsense

that any kind of piano will do for be.
ginncrs in learning to play that noble
stllment. 1t will not do. The ear
cannot be trained Alright, agility of
fingers acquired, unless there are true
tones and perfect action" We chal-
lenge investigation and comparison,
competition as to quality and price
Our "mainstay" pianos are the Estey
and Newman
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-09-01
VI. g. L. COAL &
WOOD co.
Both Phones No. "a
WoodchucI as a Family Pet.

WoodchucI as a Family Pet.
An odd pet Is owned by Brunswick
family. 1t Is a twoyears-old wood
chuck, which has become very tame.
He lives in a hole near the cellar of
the house, and always comes out when
the Swimming OF the milk is going on.
In which he appears much interested.
September %, 1905, he seemed to be
very sleepy and disappeared and moth.
Ing further was seen OF him until
Fast day, when he reappeared. He had
been in a state Of Attenuation for
seven months and one day. He was
very glad to see the family and was
In very good flesh despite his long
winters sleep.-Kenneboc Journal.
Wonder Worker.
James Bruce, the eighteenth-century
traveller and explorer owe his discov-
cry OF the source of the Clue Nile to
his ability 70 amaze the Abyssinlans.
He had some reputation as an astrolo-
ger, but his cure of smallp,X was more
OF a feather in his cap as a medicine
man His firing OF a tallow candle
through a table established his fame
still higher as worker OF miracles.
His tanning OF savage horses and
shooting of kites on tie wing were the
final maneuvers which opened the way
TO the river TO whose discovery he had
dedicated his life.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
Explains Estray Law.

HELENA, Jan. 3l.-An opinion to
do with estray., which is of especial
interest to owner, of horses, was rem.
dered today by Attorney General Ga.
len in response to a letter from Couu-
ty Attorney Porter of Miles City. AT.
ter defining estray to mean any mare,
gelding, stallion, etc, the owner of
which cannot with reasonable dill.
y"nce be found, or which may have
eetrayed from its accustomed range,
the opinion continues:
''The law provides that any person
VINO shall take up from the range and
retain ia his possession any estray
animal, of which he j. not the owner,
is guilty OF grand larceny.
1.-THE law is so comprehensive ia its
terms tina. it must OF necessity be held
to amend or repeal by implication any
aud all prior laws relating to lost or
estray domestic animals found on the
public range, and under its provisions
there is no possible way by which a
person can take up a lost or estray
horse and acquire the right to use or
dispose of the same
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
Where Mnrrfaxe Para.

"1srried people have the best Of It
& ocean travelling" said a sea captain,
"lor they have a stateroom to them
selves. People travelling alone, unless
tney are willing to pay Il good deal ex-
ira. have to sleep in the same room
with strangers, an unpleasant thing.
Some Of these lone travellers, to Sc
cure privacy, pay extra fare. Others
many. many o~thers-try to secure pri-
vacy by giving US lies instead of
money.
"One man will tell the chief steward
that he has an intolerable snore. An
other will say he Is subject to epileptic
attacks, wherein in the small hours he
becomes a shrieking and dangerous
maniac. Another will say that In the
throes Of acute seasickness from the
beginning Of the voyage to the end he
fills the cabin day and night with dis
NAL noises.
mo matter. They all have to share
their stateroonls with strangers. The
only way out 81 1t is to plank down
the coin."-New York Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
The sherman Murder Trial

LEWISTOWN, Jan. 3l.-After hear.
ing some additional evidence this
morning concerning the circumstances
under which james Shermau made
confessions of numbering Samuel
Studzinski, Judge Cheadle ruled that
he would admit all confessions made
subsequent to December Is, on which
date Sherman called upon Judge
Cheadle, 10 chambers, and asked to
BE- permitted to make a confession to
the Judge. At that time, Judge Chea-
die stated from the bench. he refused
TO permit Sherman to make any state.
ment and Informed Sherman fully as
to his rights. Holding that. because
he then informed the accused of his
rights. confessions subsequently made
were voluntary, Judge Cheadle ruled
that all confessions made after the in-
terview between himself and the pris.
oner should be admitted in evidence.
Mr.. Huntoon, attorney for the de.
Tense. took an exception to the ruling
OF the court on this point, which is
considered the most important in he
case.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
Origin of

ROnfires are a survival of the rites
Of Raal and Moloch. When Christian
ity ruled old ways and customs could
be abolished. and so the heather. still
laundering after the ancient dcities. but
half controlled by pope Dr. bishop. made
their boniircS on the eve Of st. Peter
y st. John. One use of boniircs in the
not so far distant past was as a means
Of uisinfection. In his History of the
Plague" Defoe tells of bontires in Lon
don streets. There is reason to suppose
that in kindiing such fires there was
still Il remnant of superstition left. 1t
was in Il measure Il sacrifice to Baal.
AS to the excellence of the method Of
making fires to drive away Il plague
the benefit would be questionable.
Anyhow II may he dwelt upon as the
earlies, effort made toward cremation,
for it WAS of some slight Use when an
infected n"ighhorhool caught fire and
was rrlurrl to ashes. But. then, the
remedy might have been worse than
the disease.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
The February Weather Record.

A bulletin issued by Observer c. w.
Ling, of Havre, gives the following
weather bureau data for February,
compiled from records covering the
past % years:
The mean or normal temperature for
February has been ii degrees. The
coolest February on record was thai
OF 1887. with an average of three be-
low zero. During this month, the
record minimum temberature Of IS be-
low zero was reached at the local
weather bureau station
The average February precipitation
has been O.5l inches, but it was nearly
three times that amount ia 1883. The
heaviest February snowfall recorded
was six inches in 1886.
February has an average of seven
clear days, eleven partly cloudy and
ten cloudy days.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
Imports Have Increased.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The imports
into the United States have practically
doubled 10 value in the last seven
years, according to a bulletin issued
by the bureau of statistics 10 the de.
partment OF commerce and labor. In
the calendar year 1905 the imports
aggregated in value l.l79, 600, 900 as
against $685. ,0OO, 900 in calendar year
1898. The increase 10 imports is dis
tributed through all classes and prac.
tically all articles OF merchandise.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
To Bridge Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received by the county
clerk of ChOuteau county, Montana, up to the
hour of : O'Clock p. n. of March 9TH, 1906, for the
construction of II combination bridge across Milk
river at Il point about one and one-hHlf miles
from DodsOn station, on the Great Northern
railway. Said bridge to be 200 feet long, IL feet
wide, and sO feet of approaches: ret In steel tn
bular piers filled with we'll driven piles and con
crete. Bidders to submit their own plans and
specifications. Bids must be accompanied by Il
check for 10 per cent. of the bid, paya-
BILE to Jno. G. sullivan county treasurer. A
bond of double the amount of the bid will be re-
quired of the successful bidder. Bids should be
addressed to the county clerk and marked on the
outside to indicate their nature. The right is re-
eerved to reject any or all bids.
BY order of the hoard of county commissioners.
". II. LEFT, Clerk of the Board.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
Luckiest Man In Arkansas.

"I'am the luckiest man in Ar.
kansas" writes H. l.. Stanley, OF
Bruno, ''since the restoration of my
wife's health after five years of con.
tinuous coughing and bleeding from
the lungs, and l owe my good fortune
to the worlds greatest medicine, DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump.
ton, which l know from experience
will cure consumption il taken in time.
My wife improved with first bottle and
twelve bottles completed the cure.''
Cures the worst coughs and colds or
money refunded. At w. J. Minar's,
druggist. SOC and 100. Trial bottle
free,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07

A telegram was received this norm.
ing by Jere Sullivan, Of the Choteau
House, and John C. Sullivan, county
treasurer, announcing the sudden
death of their mother at her home at
Dunville, Ontario, after an illness Of
only q few hours. Mrs. Sullivan was
about SO years OF age, and had lived
at Dunville since 1850, being one of
the oldest aud most respected resi-.
dents of that locality. Mr.. John Sui.
livan will leave for his old home to-
to attend the funeral services.