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The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-04
,ohation for
Prisoners
,..IIndsey's Psea
,,A,e Lindsey's Pea

E society in LEN psnVer ,...s". p. ,e~
: ago Judge Ben l. b. .'na'ey
IT,. practical suggestions In
.torns, that are Of more than
'.lt interest. He declared that
j, the laws now on the statutes
,or such severe punishment
bsy could not be enforced and
he believed that fully 70 per
tbe men now in Canon City
:, t,upht by careful treatment
chow could be released on
op at stated times Judge
i said in part;
,s on]y in the minds of the
# and the thoughtless that
xbo advocate certain reforms
.,p,l procedure and in prison
4 can be charged with being
erstood as being apologists
lime or criminals. What 1
" tonight shall not be in de-
crime or to apologize for
It Is said in defense of human
Of men and women, and with
TO arrive at the best method
Espting crime and correcting
lis. 1t is a great mistake to
that the severity Of criminal
\ prison management will
prevent crime or reform
u.s. 1t may have just the
b effect.
a fact that the very sever
|ur penal system is contribut-
kctly to the increase Of crime
than to bring about its pre-
The remedy l would sug.
this unfortunate condition is
pplying the principle of pro-
10 those offenders who, in the
on Of the district attorney
court, should be subjected to
j and yet corrective infiu-
great trouble with our penal
Is that it is built upon the
bat we are dealing with GER
Ings capable of'defnition and
ation. and that man, in his
bite, weak way, is capable of
the punishments for each.
lance, the law undertakes to
be doing OF certain things as
For instance, we are told In
lutte what shall constitute as
burglary. arson, robbery,
and so on. The definition Is
he penalty is fixed, without
10 the Individual. who he is,
Is, how he came to do the
be law forbids, how often he
United like oflense, his en-
Fnt, training, opportunity,
3, character; these have
to do with the case. The
Bystem, therefore, is founded
and absurd notions.
probation system, applied to
5 we'll as to minors, would
to correct this unfortunate
10.
difficulty with our present
system is that the individ-
that he is being prosecuted
"; that he is made an out
an outcast; that he Is made,
very pressure Of the condi-
aich surround him, the very
Mich society. II it would per-
lfue mission, seeks to pre-
nely, a criminal.
INK the cell system for every
Is absolutely wrong. II
'at stripes for every prisoner
l.ely wrong, and l expect to
.lme come-ands that at no
uay-when only a small per
prisoners will be clad in the
V Stfipe, or placed In an iron
' no sympathy with the
Sllllmentalists. who would
y 'ile OF the criminal easy.
VINO violates the law must
IT. but the point l make IL
's,meht is more swift and
See generally believed, and
nuiyldual who persists In
NY ny necessarily suffers for his
we incarcerate him to pro-
IVY but when we face the
h., substantially half of all
~ reS oi prisons have been re-.
,t ' second. time, we must
MO-. nS1 lhe prison system, as
.maocted, m as a means Of re.
'te hs individual, is not a sue
.s s'a''se it is not a success
We have.
ieVe tho t;, go,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
,ss,ROAD. A a @
1lNPRiyO !
-. -. u
WHAT is A GOOD ROAD?
A Discussion by Edward X. Parkin-
son, and Comment by Editor
Country Gentleman.

The best roads that have ever been
built were those constructed by the
Romans ten or fifteen centuries ago,
and which are to-day almost perfect
examples of what roads should be.
Their roads had a width of 80 feet,
and pavements Of heavy stone at the
bottom, and often one or more layers
of stone bedded n cement to make the
road waterproof. The two cuts show
the best types Of ancient Roman
roads.
1t has been argued that such roads
would cost too much to build in these
days of high wages. To be sure, the
initial cost would be enormously
greater, but the final cost would, on
the other hand, be much less.
Some of the Roman roads are 1000
years old, and are still in fair con-
dition. will say, for the sake of
argument, that a modern macadam
road will last 20 years without hav-
ing to be extensively repaired; at the
end Of that time, however, the road
will have to be practically reconstruct.
ed, at least to the extent of half the
original cost. So a new road will be
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

or Mare Africano, from a lordly will
derness of supreb temples and magnifi-
cent buildings of all kinds. To-day it
is worth a pilgrimage from the ends
of the earth. There is perhaps no
place of ruin in the whole world more
beautiful than this. To see 1t. as the
present writer last saw it, in gold
en- sunset glow, with the great temples
cleaning like yellow ivory, and the
town itself of a duslzy gold, and the
sea beyond and uplands and noun
tains behind, irridated with a serene
glory of light, is to see what will be for
life an unforgettable impression, an
ever deeply moving remembrance.
To localize the three loveliest views
in Sicily (and l fancy that most trav-
elers would agree with mel, should
specify that from the terrace of the
Hotel Timeo at Taormina, that from
the monastery-hostelry of Madonna
del Tfndaro over Tyndaris and the
Aeolian isles, and that from the ter
race of the Hotel Belvidere on the
south wall Of Girgenti, looking out on
the lovely temples, the beautiful up
lands and slopes, and the blue sea
washing Porto Empedocle below.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
coNoUERINo SQUASH BUG.
Best Methods Of Protecting the Vines
from the Ravages of This
Pest.

After the squashes, cucumbers and
melons are we'll started the squash
bug makes its appearance. Those who
have garden know the fiat, rusty
black creature with it's vile odor. In
spring or early summer the eggs are
laid on the leaves and stems of plants,
sometimes singly, but usually in
groups of from u to so. They are
brownish-yellow and easily found
Fortunately the insect confines it's at
tenCion almost entirely to cucurbi-
taceous plants.
AS the bugs grow they scatter over
the leaves, melting five times before
they reach maturity. Naturally the
plant is weakened by such attentions
A leaf that has nourished many bugs
will turn yellow, and if the pests are
numerous enough the whole plant may
be killed It is sometimes claimed
that the bug stings the leaf and kills
it, but it would be more to the point
to say that the leaf is tapped and its
life blood sucked out. In autumn the
adult bug crawls under a board, stone
or rubbish and remains till spring.
The Nympha may be killed by a
spray of kerosene emulsion or tobacco
water, as their bodies are soft and
unprotected. But the old bugs are
proof against this kind of treatment
Their hard-shelled backs protect them
The most practicable remedy thus
far seems to be hand picking, says
the Orange Judd Farmer. 1t should
begin with the first bug and be
repeated at short intervals. The best
time for it is in the morning while
it is cool and the bugs sluggish.
A convenient way is to drop the
bugs into a can containing water with
a little kerosene. The bugs will swim
in clear water, but the film of oil on
/ the surface is sure death. Boards OF
shingles placed on the ground are an
assistance in gathering the bugs. They
will seek these shelters in mid-after-
noon and remain dormant till it Is
warm in the morning, when they car
easily be gathered. Crushing the egg'
CT the leaves is preventive measure
that should not be neglected.
So far as my experience goes, th'
best way to guard against the bug i
to plant the vines among potatoes. 1
has rarely found them there hav'
grown good crops of squashes in thil
way and found few or none of the in
sects, though in other places the.
were numerous.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
oIRoENTI THE BEAUTIFUL.
No Place of Ruins in the Whole
World More Beautiful
Than This.

Writes William Sharpe in "The Gar
den of the Sum-" in Century: Every
one has heard of Girgenti, as of SYRIA
cuse, before coming to Sicily. The
most beautiful city of antiquity has
left an enduring name, and If the Cir
GENT Of to-day be far from the Agri-
gentum of Roman splendor, and still
further from the Acragas of Green
beauty and magnificence, it is still
nobly worth seeing. Even the least
responsive imagination can hardly fail
to apprehend some idea of what this
town must have been of old, when
Acragas; with its vast extent and over
100000 inhabitants, looked out across
the dark-blue waters of the Greek sea,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
sheen Had wooden Leg.

Bucyrus, GA sheep with a wooden
lao e attracting a great deal of atten-
Atom o at the home of Ira Quantanee, in
nallas township. The sheep has learn
u N manipulate it's wooden member
- we'll as a man. During a storm
% aor,y this year the sheep was struck
80 Co i;ghtuing, its foot and part of the
w, ~ was torn off. AS the animal was
ie5 ,,ohle and was injured in no other
1a Mr. Quaintance concluded TO
wa; ,,o q wooden leg and foot for it..
lnaaV artificial limb was covered with
~ and SO we'll does the sheep use
woV ,.,ss leg that, except for a limp,
l's . ,a would be unable to detect the
a,Nerence.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

drogen fame and unites with alkalies.
More resistant still is alumina, which
fails only in the electric furnace, and
resists all such corrosive actions as
oxide Of iron, to which silica yields.
Chalk, though subject to chemical &C,
ton, withstands heat wonderfully.
Magnesia, titanic acid and iron oxide
are other simple natural compounds,
but the electric furnace is producing
many complex manufactured materi-
ais, like carborundum, that are taking
their place for practical purposes. In
working with great heat the electric
furnace offers an enormous advan-
tage, as the intensest heating is in
ternal and substances can be acted
upon by temperatures that would de-
stroy the crucible walls if applied from
the outside.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
BETS AND CARROTS.
Both Are Excellent, Says Prof. Thomas
Shaw, But Too Expensive
Feed.

A dairyman of Abbotsford, Mich.,-.
is DESTROYS of finding out the value II
sugar beets and carrots for dairy
COWS. He also asks for the experience
Of others who have fed them.
Sugar beets make an excellent food
for dairy cattle, but the cost of grow
ing them is more than the cost of
growing mangels, hence where roots
are grown for dairy COWS, mangels
are usually preferred to sugar beets~
The tonnage of mangels is consider
ably greater, and the labor is also con-
siderably less. For milk production,
the difference in value of the two is
not great, pound for pound, but the
value of the sugar beet is more in
fattening animals.
Carrots are excellent for mich COWS,
but the same objection applies to
them that applies to the growing of
sugar beets, that is, the labor. AS with
beets, it takes much time to thin them
and also to harvest and store them.
The labor, however, is much Influenced
by the variety grown, the Mastodon.
q large white variety, being one Of
the best. s
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

law-abiding citizens. The other day,
while the sun was shining, the town
was invaded by gang of Is men, who
came down from the surrounding hills
so quickly and SO quietly that the
townspeople were completely IN their
power before anyone knew what had
happened. The raiders were all armed
and at once a reign of terror began.
Women and children were afraid to
venture out on the street and peeped
fearfully from behind closed blinds
Men Seemed to have lost their power
tolact.
Brandishing their revolvers and be-
ming more bold with the constant
g Of whisky, the bandits made the
z one of terror. They held up indi-
Wdlals on the streets and entered
soes, and with their weapons COM
peIIsd the owners to give up whatever
the robbers demanded. After night had
falIst two of the gang went to the
laHgraves saloon, which adjoins the
Fatgraves hotel. They had complete
ly ntimidated the crowd of men there,
and every man in the saloon was
backed up against the wall with his
hands in the air, when the door burst
opeE and Mrs. Fairgraves entered.
Just at this instant Frank Wood,
VALLEY Junction man, had started to
grab the gun from the nearest robber,
and the two were struggling when Mrs.
FsrTves darted forward and
wrenehed the revolver away. Then
while Woods and several others threw
the man down, she stood over him, the
loaded revolver in her hand, and kept
him lying on the floor until the mar
shall came. inundated by the woman,
the other bandit made good his es-
cape Several of the marauders were
caught and are now lodged in the city
jail awaiting trial, while the rest fed
to the woods.
Mrs Fairgraves had never before
handled firearms, and the revolver
which she pluckily grabbed was load
ed. 81 wasn't going to have any blood
shed in our saloon" says Mrs. Fair
graves. We've always tried to run
It in a decent, orderly way, and as my
husband was out of town, 1t was up to
me to see that there were no carrying
on in there"
II is thought that the men now in
ial here are members of the famous
Bsrns gang, which in years gone by
has terrorized Iowa villages by loot
inc and numbering. Nothing of the
sort has been attempted of recent
years, and the descent of the gang on
VALLEY Junction came as a bolt from
clear sky
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
CHEMICAL REsIsTANcES.
Engineers Intent Upon Finding a
Substance Which Will With
stand Intense Heat.

Hunt the slipper when the slipper
is a heat proof material is the game
the engineers are playing. The ex.
IRENE temperatures necessary in mod
ern industries have developed a new
kind of engineering work in the selec.
tion of materials that are adapted for
containing vessels and utensils by
their resistance to both heat and chem.
ical action. M. Auguste Morel, a
French engineer, finds carbon in the
form of graphite to be especially val
liable, as it resists almost all temper,
atures, but it unites chemically with
iron and cannot be used in work with
that material. Pure silica is most use
full, though it softens in the oxyhy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
CURIOUS HABITS OF FOXES.

THE animals on which the fox usu-
ally preys are often left untouched
round his own home; and it is even
asserted that nothing is killed on the
side Of the hill in which that home is
made, says Native Notes.
In a small patch of nettles within
a few feet of the mouth of the foxes
earth a partridge placed her nest and
brought off her brood. Round this net
tie bed the cubs were constantly to
be seen, and in it they played hide
and seek. In aMStheC case the en-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

trance to an earth was surrounded
by five or six rabbit holes, the tenants
of which were unmolested by their
next-door neighbors.
In third a litter of cubs was placed
in large pit surrounded by fencing.
from which there was no escape, and
in which there were a number OF rab-
bits. None of these was attacked by
the cubs, though they would seize a
dead rabbit Ia fall sight of the per-
son who hal shot and thrown b to
them
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
TYPES OF OLD ROMAN ROAD.

built and paid for every 40 years.
Therefore in 1000 years, the age of
some of the Roman roads, we shall
have built and paid for 40 poor roads.
Evan granted that a mile of Roman
road could cost 40 times as much as
a mile of our macadam road, which
it doesn't, wouldn't the loss of money
from INSTRUCTED traffic and inconven-
fence be sufficient reason for building
roads that would last at least 100
years? The old excuse, that the con-
ditions are so different and our eli
mate so hard on roads, does not seem
to have much weight.
The truth is, we build our roads in
such a hurry, and oftentimes with so
little judgment on the part of the en-
gineers, that the wonder is, not that
they don't last long, but that they
last as long as they do.
Macadam, who was one of the best
modern road-builders, constructed his
roads on the idea that when any road
bed is thoroughly underdrained, so as
to remain permanently hard, crushed
stone alone may be used, the pave
ment of Roman practice becoming I'M
necessary. Please note-thoroughly
undetermined and crushed stone may
be used. The point is, how many
macadam roadbeds are thoroughly IN
derdrained, so that they remain per-
manently hard? I feel safe in say
ing not one in ten; in fact, the roads
| built outside of cities and suburbs
are not, as a rule, underdrained in
any way.
In France, which has perhaps the
| finest roads in the world, the roads
are divided into sections, and one or
! two men are put in charge of a Sec
ton to keep it in perfect repair.
They are required to go over the
road every day, and in every section
there is a Toulouse, with a quantity
of stone ready for repair work al
ways on hand. The result is the cost
of maintenance is very low and the
roads last for years.
Edward K. Parkinson.
In commenting upon the above ar.
gument by Mr.. Parkinson, the editor
of the Country Gentleman says:
Mr.. Parkinson has preached a sub
ject that certainly deserves most
earnest consideration. If a macadam
road becomes rutted and Quilted the
first winter, it may be questioned
whether it is very much better in the
long run than the mud-bank it re
placed-that is, it will shortly revert
to a condition about as bad.
On the other hand, the weight oil
expert opinion seems at present tt
be against the attempt to build Ro
man roads in this country. Not only
is the expense excessively great, bu
such solidity is unnecessary, with or
binary care in draining. Thus Mr.
w. P. Judson, in his book on road.
and pavements, says that the Roman
roads were remarkable for theil
strength and durability, and for lit
tie else. If anyone were so unwis,
as to attempt to build similar roadi
now. the cost would be from four tt
eight times the present cost of oul
most expensive modern pavements
which are, in every way. better To-
modern uses, and upon which tn,
cities. of the United States are esti
mated to have expended half a bill
lion of dollars"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
CEMENT TROUGH.
A Job Which Amy Farmer Can Do
Better and Cheaper Than One
Built of Wood.

The ability to do things well and In
workmanlike and substantial man
ner is not possessed by every farmer.
Yet to make a cement watering tank,
does not require the mechanical skill
that it does to construct one of wood.
The lower illustration on this page
shows the stave mold for a 35-barrel,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

round tank, lately made by Mr.. F. NJ
Goodwin, Delaware county, Ohio, says
the Ohio Farmer. After excavatings
the foundation was built to about the
level Of the ground The slaves were
then put in place and filing with con-
crete was continued to the top. In
order to strengthen the tank, several
vertical iron bars were imbedded In
the concrete during construction;
while around the circumference a num-
Der of wire hoops were likewise i'm
bedded. The material was mixed as
follows: Crushed stone, eight parts;
sand, three parts; cement, one part
This upper illustration shows the fin
sshed tank.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
Knocking Them Again.

Blobbs-Is the population of London
more dense than that of New York?
Slobbs-Sure. Didn't you ever try
to tell an Englishman a jokeA-TAI-
adelphia Record.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
INnutates Own Leg.

dan while gathering coal on
Snln0rnnsylyania track Harry Fisher.
the ..oors old, was run down by a
nine train. one leg was cut off and
trelsl aser hung by a thread of flesh.
the o'n' tbe boy lying where the car
leaV,ns oould Craze him. Impeded by
trucks ing leg, and fearing another
the nsu ,onld come along, he drew
train w., nO his pocket and cut the
knife LA = sesh that held the leg to his
string ~ rh an he rolled away from the
body bod ~ died an hour lsteE.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

method described by my diagram we
think the very best. Place your track
on an incline with the roof, and put
on rollers on the doors at the same in
cline They will open very easily,
says Rural New Yorker, and shut hard,
but they can easily be managed from
inside.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
Poor Seed Corn.

If late, poor seed corn is planted
only an uneven stand may be expected,
with lots of barren or untitled stalks.
Select ears which are even and well
filled at both ends, then shell and
run tue grain through tanning mill
with strong blast to blow out the
small. lkht seed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
MANS DARING ribs
TOWN OF MARAUDERS
Gang of Toughs Terrorize Valley
Junction, Ia, Until She Dis
arms One of Them.

Des Moines, Ia.-Quite heroine is
Mrs. John Fairgraves, of Valley june
Ton, who, by her cool pluck and dar-
ing, helped to break up a gang of
roughs and thugs that descended on
the town few days ago From the
simple routine of her housewifely du-
ties about the hotel owned by her hus-
band, this woman has suddenly leaped
into fame.
valley Junction is little railroad
town within a few miles of Des Moines
and connected with it by an inkerurban
trolley line. 1t is a town of peaceable,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
Noisv Apnarel

"Strong contrasts" the London Out
filter says, are to be a feature of mems
clothing this spring. 1t adds: even
in Scotland overcoats are undoubted-
ly noisy"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
Hay DOORS IN BARN.
Placing Tracks for Them on an In
cline Will Facilitate Open
ing Them.

There has been great trouble in find
ing a suitable method of hanging doors
for unloading hay with fork or sings
from the outside of building. The
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

respondent OF inc FaIW anu f1OIHs.
and l have made muzzles out Of
smooth wire, like cut, which have
proved first class. They do not scratch
the moss OF the horses or trouble their
breathing as do cloth bags. etc.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24

nail muzzle. For
cultivating corn
or drilling wheat
in corn muzzling
is always neces-
sary, says a cor
~. IT,.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
Wasted in Worry.

'rMore strength is lost in worry than
in meeting the difficulties when they
arrive"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
MuzzLE For CORN FLOWING
Necessary Protection When Cultivat-
ing the Growing
Crop.

This wire muzzle is very easy to
make and is much better than the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-07-24
JoTTINGS.

Try to harrow as soon afte9
ing as possible.
Two good stalks of corn
the best number.
An even stand of three
to the hill is desirable
better results than mS
Most farmers take
is the cause of mu,
The quickest w
Irish potatoes is
pieces, lay in
and place them
Why spend
make the bea
tie them togo
of four and
stakes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11

bers of the three branches who are
handling the affair comparatively.
The accompanying pictures are of
the executive committee members
from Treiber Branch No. IS, which is
the newest branch in the city, organ
lied since the building of the Saint
Mary's church in the south end and
named after Rev. Father Trieber, the
first pastor, who was active in the or
ganizatiOn of the society.
Starting with a handful of mem
bers the lodge jumped in a few years
to hundred and is still growing rap
idly until it is now able to take its
stand with either of the older
branches. AS the accompanying pic
lures show, it has succeeded in gain
ing that. which is the object of all
organizations, namely young men
which is almost wholly responsible for
its prosperity and rapid growth.
The convention will be opened today
with solemn high mass at st. Johns
church.
LINE OF MARCH.
The line will form at North Market
and Third streets in front of Leo
Branch club rooms at $50. The pro-
cession will be escorted by the Grand
Army band, with the present grand
officers first, followed by the delega-
tions and the local branches with
their branches bringing up the rear