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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
Montana Raptists.

twenty fourth annual meeting of the
Montana Baptist association opened
here today and will continue until
Sunday. The convention proper will
open this evening with religious SER
vices and sermon by Henry Van En-
gelin. The morning was devoted to
the reception of the arriving delegates.
An interesting programme has been
prepared for the convention, including
many addresses by prominent speak
ers from this and other states.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
Low One Way Hates 10

San Francisco. Los Angeles. San Ts-
ego, California, Ogden, Salt Lake
City, Utah. Denver, Colorado Springs,
Pueblo. Colorado. and nnny other Cali
lfornia, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado
points through Council Bluffs ard Via
Union Pacttls. on sale every day d
Oct. 81. For full information inquire
of Fl. r. Carter. n. r. A. s76 Robert
street. st. Paul. Mimi.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12

Brooklyn Eagle: A reduction OF the
English navy would have infinitely
more effect in furthering the principle
of general disarmament. than a reduc-
ton of the English army has now or
will have. But England has no more
intention of reducing her navy than
Germany, France, Austria, Italy and
Russia have of reducing the forces
they maintain on land.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12

stand, baseball grounds and other
forms of amusement
But even with all this success Mayor
Forsythe is not yet satisfied. AS soon
as the street car line and city hall
are completed he intends to take up
the matter OF interurban car lines,
and is maturing plans to connect
Monroe, by electric line, with all the
towns and cities within radius of
fifty miles.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
DAMAGE BY FLOODS.
Many Mexicans Homeless and Much
+" Damage to Railroads fa

Ell Paso, Tex, Sept. 2.-Correspond-
ence to The Herald reports that the
recent rains between Tuxpan and Col
ina, Mex caused vast earth slides on
the Manzanillo extension of the Mex
lean Central railroad. The towns of
Mexicaltilan and Tuxpan on the San
tiago river have been practically
washed away and scores of persons
are homeless and suffering.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
An Insidious pannsr.

One of the worst features of kid
ney trouble is that 1t is an insidious
disease and before the victim realizes
his danger he may have fatal ma
lady. Take Foley's Kidney Cure at
the first sign of trouble as it corrects
irregularities and prevents Brights
disease and diabetes. H. H. Cassel-
man, Lion drugstore.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
Fairbanks III Fair.

Concord, N, III, Sept. IT, Today is
Governors day at the state fair In
this city and the fair grounds were
crowded from early this morning.
Thousands came here to take In the
sights and events Of the day. Vice
President Fairbanks and the governor
of New Hampshire arrived here this
morning and will spend the afternoon
at the fair. It Is expected that both
will deliver short addresses.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
Matson.s Restaurant.

Front st, First-c1ass service. Provis-
ion room and kitchen open to visitors.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
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VII. SoSo11 PA1u,VVV' .sEtN
10 o o o o O o Q. @ @ Q. o 8 90 &. q
New Orleans, Sept Pin spite of
all the talk of municipal and govern
ment ownership of public utilities which
has been going on throughout the
country for years, 1T has remained for
Monroe, Louisiana city of $4,000 to
open the ball with the first municipal
owned street car line.
On Sept. 20, with an old fashioned
southern barbecue and general JOLT
fication, this street car line will be
formally opened. In the meantime cars
are being run over the line and the
people of Monroe are enjoying the
novelty of ride on street car line
which they themselves own.
Progressive Mayor.
Eight years ago Monroe elected as
mayor DR.. Andrew A. Forsythe. man
with ideas. He believed in doing things,
and the first he was pledged to do by
the platform on which he was elected
was to make Monroe an up date
city. The results of the last eight years
show what man can do If he makes
UP his mind to do it.
The year that Mayor Forsythe first
took office Louisiana adopted a new
state constitution. which per-
mitted municipalities to issue
bonds for public improvements.
At the election an issue of $155, 900
was voted, Monroe being the first city
in the state to take advantage of the
new provision, there being only eight
votes against the issue.
This money was to be spent as fol-
lows: Street paving, $4,000; sewer
system, $4,000; clarity hospital. S.
600; high school building, $4,000; light
and water plants 100000.
City Buys.
Prior to this time the only public
utilities in Monroe were water and
lighting plants, which were owned by
private concerns. The service In both
cases was poor, and tax of 3.5 mills
had been previously voted to pay the
private companies for service. The new
mayor had shown the people that ii
these franchises were profitable to the
private companies they were much
more valuable to the city itself. The
$4,000 In bonds voted for, that purpose
were used in buying the two plants
and Monroe began its march towards
complete municipal ownership. The
special tax was at once abolished, and
| light and water were furnished at the
old rate. Since then the two plants
/ have been practically rebuilt, new ma
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-12
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10 Fares cents, to be reduced.
9 Transfers-None There's only
10 one line.
10 Wages-Ccnductor and motor
10 men, $S5 per month Chg for (
10 Monroe).
% Appointments-By the mayor,
9 who manages the line. Council (
10 approves.
10 Civic SerVice-Not yet.
10 Special regulations Employees
q not allowed to drink or gamble.
% Length of line-Six and one
10 half miles.
|@ Tracks COL pound steel.
|&rr Cost-$110,O00.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
WHY Hax Coz no w.. News.

In the summer OF the commence
ment of the Russo-Iap wal the late
Secretary of State John Hay came to
his summer home az Lake Sunapee
for a few days rest. Naturally, it
was important for him to have close
and constant communication with
the outside world, and arrangements
had accordingly been made for tele-
grams to be sent up to him from the
telegraph ofice.
AS the s~itcation OF the eastern af-
fairs became more tense and eXcitin :
S%scsetarr Fay was expecting very
imroctant communications, but rc27
cane. A C.y went by, and no v3r &.
The next Lorning a messenger " )
dispatched early to e ii there a.I
any message.
NO said the operator. there )
none"
But has none Gomez" he VA
asked.
Well. = came yesterday. y
there was no sense t. it, SO ! did LOT
send it up"
The message had come in cipher.
Boston Herald.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
DeadIl Herb smokers.

Mexlco's War Department has
found 1t necessary to issue orders
strictly prohibiting the selling of
marehuana. the deadly herb which
grows wild H. parts of Mexico, to the
soldiers. This action was taken be-
cause many soldiers became insane
through smoking the herb.
1t was discovered recently that the
soldiers contained TO get hold OF the
herb and IN investigation revealed
that many women were engaged in
the practice Of gathering the herbs
and secretly selling the poison to the
soldiers.
The smoking OF marehuanna gives
a pleasureasle sensation that is al
most indescribable. If the practice is
kept up for q few weeks the user be-
comes violently insane. Although
the fatal power of the drug is wen
known to the people OF the country
there are many who cannot resist
smoking the herb occasionally.-St
Louis Globe-Demoerat.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
Phillips Brooks silence.

Bishop Brooks of Boston occasion
ally used to surprise those not intim-
ately acquainted with him by sitting
silently while conversation was go
Ing on around him briskly. The
bishop explained his rather unwoat-
ed taciturnity by relating that on one
occasion while seated in a railroad
train opposite an intelligent-looking
man the latter seemed about to say
something. Il beg your pardon"
said the bishop, were you about to
make a remark?" No." was the re-
ply. "Oh, | thought you looked as #
you were going to say something to
me-" answered the bishop APOLOGIZE
cally. Eyes, | am said to be very de-
ceptive that way. / used to say things
and make remarks as soon as /
thought them. ! have often thought
l had something to say and diseoy-
cred after l had said it that ! oaeat
to have kept silent" And the bishop
would conclude his story by saying:
II have foInd myself in the same
position more than once, so l do not
speak until l am reasonably sure
that | have something to say."-Cli-
cago Chronicle.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
CHEAT IRRIGATION WORN.
II Has Reclaimed Ten Million Aci IS
in the Southwest.

American irrigation was old
when Rome was in the glory OF its
youth" says G. j. Blanchsrd In THE
National Geographic Magazine" The
ancient aqueducts and subterranean
canals of South America, extending
for thousands of miles, once sup
piled great cities and irrigated I'm.
mense areas. Centuries before The
venturesome Norsemen landed upon
the bleak and inhospitable shores OF
New England a large population
dwelt in the hot valleys Of the far
Southwest. From the solid rock,
with primitive tools of stone, they
cut bitches and hewed the blocks for
many chambered palaces, which they
erected in the desert or on the lime
stone lodges OF deep river canyons.
These v~oiceless ruins, older than the
memory of many centuries. tell the
story OF a thrifty, home loving and
semi-cultured people, concerning
whose fate history brings us no
word. In these palaces and In many
miles Of canal we may almost read
the story of another Egpyt-a peo-
pie toiling under the burning sun of
the desert, YEARLY and patiently ex-
ecuting the commands of an Ameri-
can Pharoah."
In the last quarter of a century a
crop producing area of 10000, 900
acres, equal In size TO the State of
Massachusetts, has hoen wrested
from the desert. Irrigation canals
long enough to span the ea1tl twice
and representing an outlay OF $780,
GOO, 900 have been built. Every year
this area returns a harvest valued at
nearly swice the cost OF the irriga-
tion canals. The United States is to-
day the largest owner of the Great
American Desert-no doubt, as Mr..
Blanchard explains, because ii was
not considered worth stealing. For
many years the sentiment has been
growing that the government should
make this vast empire habitable, and
this sentiment crystallized into the
Reclamation law, signed by Presi.
dent Roosevelt or June IT, 1902.
The first OF the great irrigation
works undertaken by the govern
ment Is in Nevada. In the bed of an
Client Lake Lahontan and embrace
Ing what was long known as Forty
Mile Desert, the most desolate and
arid spot on this continent except
Death Valley, the engineers com
pieted the plans for an extensive ir-
rigation work involving some rather
novel engineering features, the
greatest and most important OF
which is that of lifting the waters of
the Truckee River into the great
canal, which will carry them over
into the Carson River Reservoir.
whence they are diverted into lat
erals and carried out upon the des-
ert. When completed the TIuckee-
Carson works will cost hore than
100000 and render productive
more than 100000 acres o abso-
lutely- worthless but which, when
irrigated, will sell readily for $780,
100000 II Is estimated, .a,rsa., (,
ss4srrrss sRsEa
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
Evading the Lions.

A hundred natives employed on
the Fort Hall road. who were re-
Gently charged by SIX lions, sought
refuge in the water, where they re-
manned for more than an hour, the
lions in the meantime resting quiet
ly on their launches near the bank
of the river until the report Of a re-
volver dispersed them, much TO the
relief OF the frightened blacks.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
NORFOLK & WESTERN RY
Schedule in effect May ~, 1906.
~SoUTHBoUND
Leave Shenandoah Ii,nct,f

Leave Shenandoah Junction.
No. I3.-8.3S a. m. for Roanoke n
Intermediate stations. Bristol. Knox
vile and Chattanooga. Pullman sleep
er for Knoxville. Also for Bluefield
P~ocahontas, Columbus, Cincinnati an
points west. Pullman sleeper 70
Roanoke and Columbus.
No. I.-2 IS a. m. daily, for Roanoke
Bristol, Bluehell, Pocahontas. Welch.
Pullman sleepe. to WEIGH.
No. 27.-o o5 p. m. ioT Berryville, From
Royal, Luysy. Elkton and intermediate
stat ons. Pullman cars.
NORTHBOUND.
No. 26.-Iol5 a. m. for Shepherdstown
Antietam and Hagerstown.
No. I4.-oo4 p. m, for Hagerstown and
points north. Pullman sleeper to New
YORK
No s-2:35 a m. daily for Hagerstown
Pullman sleeper for Philadelphia.
For rates, schedule. etc, apply 10 any
zen n. & w. X. r.. or
w. B. BEvILL. M. F. BRAGG,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Trav. Pass. Agt.
Roanoke. Va.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
DECFTvING THE PUFUo.
Explanation of the SeerNn.gly impos-
Sihla STAGE ~,Cks.

Explanation of the Seer'n.gly impos-
sible Stage v.cks.
When you see a mar come out on
the stage and shoot the ashes off a
cigar which is being smoked by an
assistant. don't believe all you see.
A hat pin is run through the cigar,
the point Just reaching the ash. The
assistant just pushes the knob at the
other end and down falls the ash to
great applause on the part of the
audience. OF course, only blank cart
ridges are used. Breaking two glass
balls with two pistols is almost as
simple. One of the pistols only is
loaded, and with shot; the other has
q blank cartridge, The loaded pistol
is aimed between the two balls and
shot scatters, breaking them both.
Distinguishing several numbered
candles by number on request of the
audience is seldom more than q hol-
low joke. Behind each candle is a
hole in the target. An assistant aid
den behind it simply blows out the
candle, taking care to blow the right
dlOlc al TIE IiEut NAN-Au~N ~
when the pistol cracks.
Painting a complete picture in a
fifty in presence of the audience is
also artihce. What looks 60 yoI ike
I'll Immaculate and untouched can
vas is In reality a finished picture
covered with whitewash. All the
"a-sist" does is TO simulate painting.
while he merely wipes off the white
wash with his brush. The result is
an excellent picture.
Those awfully heavy looking dumb
bells of the strong man are some
times somewhat hollow at the core
You will notice that they are always
put in the same place, preferably on
g special platform when the mar
from the audience is invited to lift
them. Under the platform are pow
srful magnets holding the weights
down. Suddenly roll the bar off the
platform and you can probably lift Il
with one hand, as that operation re
leases st from magnetic control.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
TWO VIEWS OF CURZoN.
He Is an unbroken Colt. Or a
Genius; Take Your Choice.

Now that Lord Curzon is no longer
viceroy the Indian press is paying it's
respects and disrepects to him with
| great freedom.
An ex-president of the National
Congress says that Lord Curzon de-
parted the shores of India "nnwept,
unhonored and unsung." Those who
did him reverence were his unquali-
fed pangyrists, 1.-The men who had
blinded their eyes and stuffed their
ears with cotton all the time that
there vas going on a most unequal
and deplorable struggle between the
people, the educated classes speci-
ally, on the one side, and the un-
bridled and irresponsible autocrat
on the other"
he then proceeds to characterize
the ex-Viceroy as n utterly with
out modesty, and blowing his own
trumpet. He carried about him"
says the writer, throughout his
viceregal career the impetuosity Of
the boy at Elton and all the insobriety
and immaturity which accompany
youth. The fact Is, he was an unbro-
ken colt. He conjured himself as an
autocrat ruling a larger population
than that Of the Gar of All the Rus
sias. He pictured himself as n who
blended a Tiberius and SULLIVAN the
Magnificent into one"
On the other hand, an equally de-
cided article in the Calcutta Review
declares that st would be hard to
find another ruler who combines in
himself all those qualities, mental
and moral, which Lord Curzon
brought to bear on the difficult task
of governing a vast country like In
dia, and that it is no disrespect to
Lord Mimic to say that he does not
possess the genius with which his
predecessor Tas gifted"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
No Kalser's CnNes.

Does the Kaiser pay taxes? Yes, TO
q certain extent, for 1t has just be-
come known that he pays fifteen shil-
lings a year for his gun license,
which is probably more than King
Edward does. II his majesty enjoys
the same immunity from burdens OF
this, kind as he does with respect to
his motor car, which is the only one
in the kingdom without a number.
The emperor's ticket runs: Valid
for n year. Twelve months shoot
ing license for His Majesty the
Kaiser and King, living at Berlin
from December l till November 80,
1906. Won Berries, Chief Of Police,
Berlin"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
CHr-AFEAkE STEAMSHIP coMPAsH.
CHESAPEAKE LINE"
ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMERS
"AUGusTA AND Atlanta"

AUGUSTA AND ATLANTA"
for OLD POINT COMFORT and NokFCLk.vz
Steamers leaves Baltimore daiy lex
cept Sunday at $50 r. NJ, n arrive z
Old Point Comfort at 6 A. NJ. and Norfolk
at zig A. M.,where connections i. made
with the Rail Lines for all points South
and Southwest
YORK RIVER LINE"
ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMERS
"cHARLOTTE' AND "BALTIMoRE."
For WEST POINT and RICHMOND, VA.
Steamers leaves Baltimore daily lex
cept Sunday at 5 P. NJ. and arrive West
Point at 7 80 A NJ, and Richmond al
gas A. NJ
Steamers leave Baltimore on MONDAYS
Wednesdays and Fridays, ano
leaving West Point on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, call at Gloucester
Point. Clements and Almonds; and
steamers leaving Baltimore on Tuesdays
TT tuesdays and Saturdays. and Wes'
Point on Mondays, Wednesdays ano
Fridays, call at Yorktown and Clay Bank
weather permitting.)
STEAMERS LEAVE BALTIMORE PROM
PIER IL AND Io LIGHT ST. WHARF.
Through tickets to all points may b.
secured, baggage checked and state Dom,
reserved from the City Ticket Offices
I1o E. Baltimore street. ARTHUR w.
ROBSON, Agent, r27 E. Baltimore
street, or the General Offices, $50 Light
street 3 .ltmore. Nc.
REUBEN FOSTER, E CHISM
General Manager. Cent Pass. Az;
r. H. MCDANIEL. Ass t GenI.
P~assengerge Vm
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
Underground Telegraphy

There l$now underground teleg-
raphic COMMUNICATION between Lon
don and Scotland. Germany's under
ground SYSTEM dates from 1870.
France followed suit, in 1879, as the
result of a great storms that isolated
Paris in 1875. Up to date her sys.
TEN has cost $50. 100000. but is be-
lieved to have more than paid for it.
self. Lines constructed in 1880 are
still in excellent condition.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
Dried MILK in Australia.

Australia has adopted the system
of drying milk, which originated in
England. The milk Is dried between
steam rollers and sold as a powder.
from which nothing but water Las
been extracted, and to which Doth-
ing but water requires 20 be ad ID.
A leading medical oflcer is repo
to have said that the adoption Of
dried milk at some of the asylums
for consumptive patients and in gem
eral hospitals has proved a success.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
AFTER THE OLD FIREMEN
Young Men Would SuppIant Those
Who Hinder Promotion.
is fAR-REACHING MOVEMENT
Would Affect a Number Of the MAJ
rinsburg Firemen Will Meet
at Deer Park.

An effort il being made by the
young ~fireaIen, employed on the Con.
nellsville division of the Baltimore
and Ohio. to have the old hremen,
who refuse to become engineers.
placed at the foot of the list, in order
to give the younger men q show. The
Connellsville Lodge, b OF l.. f., has
already taken mp the matter and has
applied to the road foreman of en-
gines. The older firemen. who have
refused promotion, have good runs,
and are retaining them in preference
10 an engine on a less desirable rnu.
Among them ara Jerry Casselman,
on Nos. Sc and 81. the Cumberland
accommodation, one OF the oldest men
in the service Jesse Woods, on the
Somerset and Cambria branch. who
has been in the service for nearly
score OF years; Charles Graf OF the
Morgantown accommodation J.. M.
elder, of Mes. as and Az; David
Shaffer, Nos. 3 and 6 L. NJ. Meister,
Nos. and 2; and Lawrence Curry,
Nos. IL and IL.
TO MEET AT DEER PARK.
The annual meeting Of the operat'
ing and engineering officials of the
Baltimore and Ohio system is to be
held Friday and Saturday of this week
AT Deer Park, Md, Matters of Import.
ance in the operating. maintenance
and construction departments will be
taken up by the officials present. In
this regard the meeting is something
on the order OF the monthly staff
meetings, as questions which by the
nsnal lengthy method of corresponds
ence would take weeks to settle. are
brought up. considered and settled in
short order, a great deal of good work
being done. 1t is hoped that Presi,
dent Oscar G. Murray will be present
at the meeting.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
Labor In New Zealnnd.

Labor is so scare in New Zealand
that the Government of that colony
has asked its High Commission In
London to find in England and send
out 1000 laborers for the construc-
ton of a new railway in the North
Inland. They are guaranteed three
yetTs' work and inducements will be
offeted them to remain permanently
The1e is also great demand for agri,
cultural laborers in Western Aus.
tralia&
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
birds os Weather Guides.

When swallows Fly low, wet
weather may he expected, because
the insects which the swallows pur-
sue in their fight are flying 10" 10
escape the moisture of the upper re.
gions OF the atmosphere.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
TheTwice-a-Week American
The Cheapest and Best Family News
diaper Published.
ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
Six Months, so Cents.

THE TWICE "A : WEEK AMERl-
CAN is published in two issues, Tues
day and Friday mornings, with the
news of the week in compact shape.
1t also contains interesting special
correspondence, entertaining roman
ces. good poetry, local matter of gem
eral interest and fresh miscellany
suitable for the home circle. A care
fully edited Agricultural Department
and full and reliable Financial and
Market Reports are special features.
CHAS. Z. FULTON & co,
FELIX AGNUS, Mgr. and Publisher,
American Office.
Baltimore. Nd.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
Use Of Paper Handkerchiefs.

Paper handkerchiefs after Chinese
fashion are TO be supplied to the
children of the communal schools of
the city of Paris as a hygienic meas
ure to prevent the spread of tuber.
culosis infection.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-06-23
Fuel from Irish Roc.

Experts calculate that Irish hogs
are capable of turning out 10000
tons of fuel a year for a thousand
years, and at the present prices this
would realize G 0,000,0 600 a year.