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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08

you intend any, such return to the soil
as you have outlined"
But what II am already committed
to tor at any rate she considers I
am?"
II will tell you. You would simply
subside into a not overvaluable meal
ticket as the expressive phrase Of her
calling has it. As soon as she tired Of
that costume she has planned she
would begin to long for the lights
again. It would be the simplest thing
in the world for her to convince you
that she ought not to be depending
upon you wholly when she could get
a part for the asking.
'You, Of course, with your unadven-
turous spirit, would stay where the
weekly stipend was-with no possibili-
ties in existence beyond the doubtful
chance Of meriting that vulgar rural
compliment Of being a good provid-
er!'"
But what is the average man but a
meal ticket to repeat your own vul-
garism? What are all those that trav-
ell back and forth, morning and night,
between their Harlem flats or Brook
Ign homes, with only an empty Sunday
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08
Myself and | Back to the Soil
BY MELVILLE UPTON.

back to the soil. She has already Sc
lected her costume"
WELL that is interesting. suppose
it will be modelled along the lines of
those that heroines wear in those So
called Western playa sombrerro, a
knotted silk handkerchief topping a
waist cut V-shape in the neck, short
skirt, leggings, and mayhap re-
volver."
81 must confess you have part of the
costume as she suggested it when we
were talking over the matter the other
| day. But you are in no mood, so l
shall not go into Details
But what do you propose doing
when she gets that costume and you
! go back to the soil, as you put it?"
She says she could have garden
and raise chickens and squads. Some
one who knows has told her there is
money in squabs.'
"My dear boy. these things are de-
lusions. They have been tried time
and time again with disastrous results.
Besides, she wouldn't know squDb
unless it came before her broiled and
accompanied by the proper salad, and
rs for your poultry raising. see pic
| ture of her standing in the wings of
tie kitchen for her cue to go on and
feed the hens"
''Oh. I don't expect to find you SYM
pathetic. The commonplace of the
average are too deeply ingrained in
you for me to hope to have you raise
above them. But you might at least
have some respect for her and her
aspirations. She lived on farm when
size was very young and knows most
vegetables by sight now, and she
wants to get back where she can use
a hoe and feel that she is close to ma
ture again. She is sick of the stage"
"a !audable ambition, no doubt. But
can she set back? Can't you realiza
man. that you can't wash grease paint
out of the pores? Once there, it is
there forever. Why, even she, if she
! went out to hoe corn couldn't help
making up to do it. And then the
attitude of the neighbors! You would
not be there week before every staid
cid deacon in the township would have
q wry neck from driving by the place
to watch her posing with that hoe"
But you do not suppose I intended
to let her do any work, do you, beyond
a little to give her a chance to occupy
her mind when she is out getting the
air? The real work shall do myself,
or better. have some one else to do it,
"But isn't it possible for you to real
ize that with all your years of getting
things over she could not step into
the yard without being very much over
the fence, if may so phrase it? You
might as we'll put footlights on every
individual post and be done with it, if
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08
When the President Receives.

Among the unwritten sumptuary
laws of the American court" at
Washington is one that prescribes the
wearing of hat to presidential even
ing reception. Especially is the pune
tilio sartorial to be observed at the
diplomatic levee. Two oblivious fe-
males advancing the other night
toward the presidential presence
under weight of millinery were held
up by the maids and made to stand
and deliver their headgear. While
decolletage is not obligatory, it is the
proper caper. Yet even a shirt waist
and skirt does crop up now and then
upon the horizon of a White House
evening. The most dazzling buds are
always on view at the diplomatic and
the army, and navy receptions. The
sartorial display is generally more
democratic at the two intermediate
functions, the judiciary and the con-
gressional. Schoolgirls in large CON
signments are always accorded invita-
tions at the two latter. The White
House management endeavors to give
each new student at the capital an
opportunity to attend one levee during
his or her sojourn there.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08
The Retort Courteous.

At one Of the big receptions given by
the feet at Newport News just previous
to its departure for the Pacific the six
year old son Of noted geologiist was
''among those present" AS the young
ster reached Admiral Evans, at the head
of the receiving line. the admiral, who
has warm spot in his heart for small
boys, picked the little fellow up,
perched him on his shoulder and re-
marked. Nov, little lad, what have
you got to say for yourself?"
Not whit abashed by his exalted
position or the distinguished company
around him, the small boy looked the
commander straight in the face and de-
handed, why does wabbit wiggle
his nose?'
AS, nature study is not as yet .re-
CURED for the navy, the admiral was
beyond his depth. He parted the Ques-
ton by asking another: why do you
asksrne little MANI"
Because" answered the youthful
scientist, because think you look as
If you ought to know."-Philadeiphi
Leader.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08
ADULTERATED CIGARETTES

MANY persons suppose that the
harm done to boys and young men by
cigarette smoking is due to tobacco.
and others have the idea that there is
something in the cigarette paper which
does the mischief" says we!l-known
physician of this city. CAS- Il fact,
neither the paper nor the tobacco is
especially responsible. 1t is true that
the use of tobacco by boys and young
men is followed by harmful results.
but if the tobacco is pure it is much
less likely to be nschievous. In
France, Spain and Italy men smoke
cigarettes all day long, with no more
harmful consequences than would result
from the smoking of pipe or cigar.
More cigarettes are 11abitually con-
sun1ed by men and boys in those coun-
tries than in our own, but the tobacco
used is pure, and SO the ill results OF
cigarette smoking are by no means so
apparent as they are in the United
States.
1T is said that some of the cigarette,
tobacco made in this country for do
nestle consumption is adulterated with
the leaves of the deer's tongue, plant
called by botanists liatris odoratis-
sima. 1t is one of the snake roots, and
grows as a common weed from the
Ohio river to the gulf, and from the
Atlantic to the Western plains of Okla
homa and Texas.
when used as an adulterant of to.
bacco, it causes peculiar exhilara-
ton, far more stimulating and quite
different from that afforded by even
the strongest brands of tobacco, and
when once the smoker becomes accus-
toned to tobacco adulterated with the
deer's tongue he will have no other
kind If he can get it. An ordinary to-
bacco smoker can, by a determined eff
fort of the will, break off the habit, but
the slave of the snake-root leaf is al
most as helpless as the slave of opium.
He must have his cigarette, and they
must be Of that particular brand. He
does not known why he prefers that
kind to any other; the only reason he
can give is the fact that he likes it bet
ter. Thus he becomes victim of an
almost incurable habit before he re-
allies that anything is the matter with
him.
"The weed is so common throughout
the South that. of course. it is much
cheaper than the tobacco. It was
probably this fact which induced it's
use as an adulterant. and the popular
ity it gave certain brands of smoking
tobacco and cigarettes no doubt caused
its continuance. It's use, however, is
far more harmful than that of pure
tobacco, even if the latter is consumed
in much larger quantity.'-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08
EVANS FAMILY TRUCE

Rear Admiral Evans probably has
more relatives in and near Washington
than any other officer in the navy, and
therefore the progress of the fleet UNI
der his command is watched here with
special interest. Many. of these rela-
tives have never forgiven him entirely
for remaining in the navy when his
only brother. Sam, and his uncles and
practically every other male able to
shoulder a gun in the neighborhood
of Fairfax, Va, his home town, Went
with the South. So angry was his
mother that when she heard of the
death of one of her brothers by a
Union bullet she wrote out resigna-
ton for Robley and mailed it to Presi-
dent Lincoln. In due time he received
notice that it had been accepted and
he was Immediately relieved from
duty. He fastened to Washington to
see what it all meant Here he was
shown the resignation. Recognizing
the handwriting, he choked. up for a
moment and then told how it hap
pened.
One of his relatives told of the Incl
dent to-day and said that when the
war was over he returned, cripple. to
his home in Fairfax. Few of the ma
tives deigned to recognize him, but his
mother met him with open arms and
tears of joy. That evening she de-
creed that the brothers who had fought
on opposite sides should sleep together.
On going to their rooms Bob" took
from his trunk steel apparatus w;lic!1
a surgeon ordered should be worn at
night in order to prevent shortening
of the leg. For two hours the broth
ers snapped experiences, and OCCASION
ally sectional feeling came dangerous
ly near putting harmony on the run.
Finally Sam slapped his brother on the
back and said: well, Bob, it's time
for me to screw up that damned YAM
kee leg of yours, and from now on
We'll pass up the war;"
That's CO.,
And they did.-New York World.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08
thrown in by way Of reward? What
ore all the commuters p"

are all the commuters?"
"Ah, there, my boy, must part COM
pany with you. The commuter system
is the most subtle device yet conceiv-
ed by man to give himself the maxi
mum Of liberty while apparently bow
ed with chains of the heaviest respon-
sibility. The feverish morning rush for
the train inspires confidence, compass
sion almost. The various commissions
with which the commuter is charged
give him an Importance he might not
otherwise wholly possess, and make
his evening homecoming have mo-
mentous import it possibly might lack.
ITO be sure, he pays something for
his heightened tether. Going the round
of the department stores to comply
with any feminine within is no easy
task. The wares of the grocer and the
baker and the rest have an unaccount-
able way of becoming heavier and
somehow getting misplaced on the way
home. But for all that they are boon.
Without them and the connivance of
the railroads committing could not ex-
list. Some day these same railroads,
wearied of the criticism to which they
are subjected, may turn on the COM
muter and give perfect train service.
When that day comes there is an end
to the delights of the system, and it
will fall of it's own weight. For with
trains invariably on time what is the
advantage CT committing? But, incl
dentally, fail to see how this digres-
sion helps your case in the least. You
were not thinking of putting her on
that farm and trusting to finding her
there very often when you got back
late for dinner, were you?
Nothing to say? Apparently, then,
that was your idea. But before we
leave the subject really would like to
know where you got the idea that she
was tie one to fit into SO primitive a
scheme as you have in mind. suppose
the truth of it is the part appealed to
he: and for the time being she was try
ing to live it, and that was enough for
you.
THEN again, wonder how you aa.
CURED your taste for such highly sea-
soned dishes. 1t is not so long ago
wheh it seemed like treason to the flag
to you to give up hot biscuits and the
products of the frying pan. Now, moth
ing that does not SAVIOR of paprika or
cayenne seems to satisfy you. l am
f:sid that she somehow seems to har-
monte with this laborously acquired
taste Of yours, and despite her desire
to return to life nearer to the soil
she would find it as wearisome and
tssteless as a perpetual diet of mush
and milk.
mo, am afraid it will not do, much
as hate to destroy the latest attempt
at an ideal that you have been able
to conjure up. You see you would both
have so much to forget-so many ways
to begin life over again-and that calls
for admirable tact, and unfailing men,
ory when only one is engaged at the
game. I hesitate to try in fancy even
to realize the possibilities when two
MJ.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-08

are toying with so hazardous situa,
ton.
"But the performance must be near
~ over. Let's go down and wait for
her at the stage entrance and 60 out
for bite Of something"
New-York tribune., 1908-01-15
MILITIA BILL PASSED.
Tofe in Assembly 81 to 2O-Demo-
Gratis Fight Bill.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Albany Jan ls.--The Assembly to-day passed the
wainwright military bl. making the national
guard IL this state conform 20 the organization
n the regular army, by g vote of 81 TO 90 A deal
NJ fuss and furry raised by the Democrats
oyer the ''1nconstitutionalty Of the measure. Its
design 70 centralize power and the way in which
IL was railroaded passage" but some of them
voted for Il
Asserblyuan Wainwright. himself officer in
tbe rational guard and a member of the investi-
explained that the reorganization of the state
militia made necessary by the provisions OF
The Dick bill The overwhelming sentiment in the
service he believed. for reorganization. Ger
tain officers would be reduced slightly in rank but
they looked this in sensible and patriotic light.
The proposed changes would result in a betterment
of service while Il the state did not adopt them
& would lose about s15o0oo year received from
TIE federal government for the guard
D. c Robinson of Chenung, in his maiden speech
termed this bill OF the most mischievous which
ever entered the Legislature. 1t advanced. ne
maintained with the threat that If il not
adopted ''t1is great state would lose beggarly
:l5oooG' He said il unconstitutional Donihee,
q New York and other Democrats took the same
attitude. CuvilIier. formerly a militiaman, sup
ported the bill II viii go to the Senate tomorrow.
and the indications that Il will be adopted there
without especial difficulty.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-15
TELL BRIBERY STORY.
Ex-Judge Palmieri's Name Mentioned in the
Mullaney Case.

The name of ex-Judge PalmierI mentioned
in connection with the bribing of a labor union
delegate when Joseph MuiaHey, Of the Insulators
and Asbestos Workers Union. arraigned In
the Tombs court yesterday and charged with per
jury The District Attorneys Office began John
Doe proceedings ii said to determine whether
Judge Palnieri had violated the Penal Code in
alleged transactions with Muaney in trying to
induce him TO call off a strike on a building being
constructed at Oak and James streets.
Thomas J. Curtis, agent CT the Rock Drillers and
Tool Sharpeners Union, testified at the hearings
that John S. Henry and Charles Cyr had concealed
themselves in a closet in Palnlieris Office and
AIuIlaney enter. He is alleged to have said. ''I
have come after the rest of that and Pamieri is
said to have refused to pay money after showing
checkbook which written ''s2l0' and PAY
J. MuIlaney for graft At the hearings A1uI-
laney swore that he had not taken the money. a
warrant for his arrest the charge Of perjury
obtained from Magistrate Harris Monday.
He pleaded not guilty yesterday and held in
81 900 bail for examination February 3. District
Attorney Jerome and his assistants refused yester-
day to discuss PaImeris alleged connection with
the case It is understood the investigation still
IN progress
Judge Palmieri said yesterday that he had heard
nothing of either the investigation the charges
he said that IT must have been some other man or
the same
New-York tribune., 1908-01-15
MANY BILLS THIS YEAR.
Assemblymen Cu7illier and Gluck Are Espe-
cially Active.
TBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]


Albany. Jan. l4-If present conditions continue
the session Of Is0s VIII break records for the num-
Der of bills introduced Two New York members
can accept whatever credit there may be in food
Ing the Assembly with bills Assemblymen Cuvil-
lter and Glucz. both Of whom failed 10 get many
bills 10 the Governor last session reintrOducing
all their pet schemes Of a year ago and adding q
few ideas which have occurred 10 them. besides
adopting bills presented last year by other mem
be-s- The Senate Is maintaining semblance Of
dignity The bI question ana Is not piling Up q
batch of measures 70 be killed in committee
Bills introduced to-day include those Of:
Senator McCar-eR-GIvlrE the Commissioner Of
Bridges u New York CIJy, on approval Of the
Board Of Estimate, Tie power 10 select sites for
STi1z= approaches
Senator Sohraer and AssenblyInan Schuaidt-Pro-
vld-g for Iar=@-plaroon system for the New York
Fire Department
Senator S1ame~-Providing for q three platoon
system for the Police Department
M SreelCe-EE'r l-6itIEg short sales OF STOCK
~. EackeLr- FTlirltinE operation Of freight and
express cars on the tracks Qf elevated, subway or
surface lines IN New YORK City.
N- 52CE-tr-tte1E-rl-E -VD T1OTOrUen OF surface,
subway and elevated cars in New York City.
M S~EElIct-E-Te-cTtl-E real estate OF religious
c--porE-i01s in New York City from assessments
NJ Scn-5r-F=--a-tinE the Police Commissioner
% New Eo~z CITY 70 promote patrolmen who have
ICr medals for bravery.
II Bosha---AIaking II manslaughter for .
hunter 70 sLoo- human being.
M Keler-EsJabIlshng a sixty-hoUr week for all
women
NJ Harn-Requiring eight wheels all freight
CeEoczes-
New-York tribune., 1908-01-15
MR. WIETING REPORTS.
Diseases Among Cattle Discussed
Lar Generally Obeyfd.

Albany. Jan. 14-Corn-nissioner Charles A viet-
ing Of the State Department OF Agriculture, in
his annual report submitted to the Legislature
to-day discusses the question Of bovine tu5ercu-
losis and other Infectious and contagious diseases
among animals. The COMMISSIONS recommends
relative 10 tuberculosis that authority and
adequate means should be given 10 the end that
milk shall not be sold upon the markets OF TINS
state that comes from diseased herds particularly
from herds suffering from tuberculosis he rec
ommends also an examination Of each ana every
herd from which milk IS drawn and sold for con-
sumption as such. and adequate SUBSEQUENT ac-
ton" tuberculosis was found in 70 OF the o.
counties Of the state He reports that -''o0 call
were tested and 62S reacted TO the test
The report says that among the other infectious
and contagious diseases which have existed among
the animals OF the state during the last year the
most prominent anthrax and glanoers ana
that anthrax has been found TO exist IN St Law
renee County SC different farms Commissioner
wieting reports that l050 animals were vaccinated
for this disease. and 33 COWS and one horse died
from it. IS horses were tested during the year for
Glanders and y condemned and killed
Commissioner -Weiting reports that he has re
1erred 70 the Attorney General for action ll56
alleged violations OF the agricultural law, divided
Is follows: Milk cases. 316; renovated butter and
oleomargarine. rs vinegar 20; pure food. S3I' bob
veal 20: commercial fertilizer. IS; concentrated
commercial feeding stufs 81 special milk cases. s.
TIE agricultural law. according 10 the report. IS
beng obeyed generally in the state, and good re-
suits are being obtained
During the year $50 nurseries in the state were
examined and certificates issued TO 4S5 Of them to
the effect that they were apparently free from San
Jose scale and other infectious and contagious dis
eases. IN these nurseries growing over 50 900.
G5 trees and plants most OF them subject 10 attack
of san jose scale
The department placed AIS single men and 70
families upon farms Of the state during the year
as farm help. and % per cent Of them gave salts
factory service. The department has issued a
bulletin giving list Of 2Z3 farms for sale rent
Il the state This number Commissioner Weiting
considers small in view Of the whole number OF
Zz6.720 farms in the state.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-15
SHERIFF GUSTS PASTOR
Latter Put Out of Parsonage 4fteT
Fire-YeGr Fight.

East Brookfeld. Mass, Jan. l4-The Kew j.
c. Duncanscn. leader Of one of the Baptist fac
tfons here. which has been holding services in
the First Faptist meeting house, was elected
from the parsonage to-day by Deputy Sheriff
Warren z. TarbeIl, following a decision of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court in favor Of the
Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society
against Mr.. Duncanson and his followers This
action settles a dispute which has divided the
Baptist brethren Of this town for five years
The break in the ranks Of the congregation
took place five years ago. when one of the fac
tions seeded. The seceders maintained that
they constituted the true Baptist society,
decided the church to the Massachusetts Baptist
Missionary Society, and petitioned the courts
TO establish its title to the property The courts
have just decided in their favor, and Sheriff
Tarbell seized the church property.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-15
FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE.
Wealthy Italian Of Ardsley Murdered in
Lonesome Spot

Frank Nunno. wealthy young italian baker,
of ArdsIey, Westchester County, found
dered yesterday afternoon beside his delivery
wagon in a lonesome section the SawTnll
River Road. between Hastings and Ardsley The
county authorities believe that the same gang
that shot and robbed an insurance agent near
Elmsford about two weeks ago and looted q
number Of postoffices is responsible for this
latest crime. Nunno had been stabbed in the
jugular vein, apparently during a desperate
fight
It is known that Nunno had large sum Of
money when he left his shop in the morning.
This is missing. and his watch was stolen. The
body found by F. L Odell, Of Ardsley, and
il was removed by Coroner Wiesendanger to
Bakers morgue, at Hastings. Nunno was mar
ried six months ago. He had received several
threatening letters from the Black Hand So
ciety, demanding money, and 1t is believed that
men connected with that society traced him to
the lonely spot where he met his death.
Sheriff Lane has detailed Deputy Sheriff Law
renee on the case, and efforts are being made
TO trace three men seen on the hillside about the
time the body found.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-15
NEW R4CETR4Ck BILLS.
Il gRe5c and Hart promise
Penalty Is I'm priSonment.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


Albany, Jan 1.-Two anti-racetrack
gambling bills enfhodying the harrnonized views OF
Senator Agnew and Assemblynan Hart and es-
tablishing unconditional penalty Of imprison-
ment for gambling racetrack, viii be in
troduced in both houses of the Legislature to-
morrow. This announcement was made following
conference this afternoon.
The original bills of Senator Agnew prescribed
a maximum penalty of one years Imprisonment or
$500 fine or both; those of Assembyman Hart fixed
a penalty of not less than six months nor more
than one years Imprisonment The perfected bills
prescribe term of Imprisonment without mini
mum and with a maximum of year. This will
permit short sentences for five ten days, whereas
the Hart bill requires sentence OF at least six
months In general effect the Governors recon-
mendation is met. Senator Aguew yields his
money penalty and Assemblyman Hart softens his
term OF Imprisonment.
A date for . public hearing will probably be fixed
for week after next Senator Hill, chairman of the
Senate Codes Committee, is in Buffalo to-day, but
VIII return tomorrow and the introducers OF the
bill win probably hold a conference with him then
TO the date for public hearing.