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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

ing city, there was something mex
pressibly reposeful about wide vistas
of green-engirdled horizons, and peace
full slopes. A long and intimate &C.
Quaintance with the woods and
streams, an almost Druidic love for
trees, whole year spent on a farm
in my boyhood, closeness to out
doors strengthened by many years
with gun and rod, had only intensified
my longing to get to the open, and
stay there.
For my wife, she was luckily as
glad to be in the country as l was.
Without her own deep affection for all
that lay in outdoors, this sojourn on
farm would of course have been i'm
possible. And still, this contemplated
residence of two years away from
what is popularity but enormously
termed civilization was somewhat
of an experiment with us both. We
had been on a farm together for a
month at time, when the quail shoot.
Ing season was on, and what with the
excitement of hunting and fishing,
amateur photography, going hickory
nutting and dawdling about in the dim
October and November woods, the ef-
feet was idyllic. But somebody else,
In those days, did the cooking. Here
was to be point of view at another
angle.
The golden-wlnged woodpeckers fit
ted from post to post along the road
as we went by, and occasional pairs of
doves, swift-winged and impetuous,
hurtled by like arrows overhead. In
the fields the farmers were plowine.
preparatory to planting the corn, and
the spectacle of a moving" interested
them little unless they were close to
the fences. Blackbirds hoped about
the fields, searching for angleworms
In the freshly upturned soil. and a
steamy odor of severed burrows came
gratefully to our nostrils.
The roads had lost the sponginess
and mud OF early spring, and our
progress was made comparatively
easy. Here turn and there turn
here descent into a little. valley
there long climb up steep hill. and
at last we rounded the curve that
marked the final half mile.
Further on. powered in a eroup Of
soft naples, stood the house. It waa
the prettiest place. from many consid-
eradons. in the country round. Those
who had lived on it longest had been
lovers OF flowers, and although desert
ed for many months the yard bore
plentiful evidences Of the care and
pride with which the cultivation az
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

mainly of few square feet of dingy
sandstone, an iron scraper to remove
dirt from shoe soles, a perforated rub
Der door mat and an electric "bung-
starter" used to notify the prisoners
In the institution of the approach of
peddlers, friends or bill collectors.
We had yearned for something Diff
lerent from this. For a tree or two,
and maybe patch of green grass; a
glimpse of real sky, a white cloud &C.
casionally, something to tell of the
change in the seasons; perhaps even
the song of bird-who knows? We
had heard, and read of these things.
"A wish that we scarcely dared to own
For something better than we had
known"
The last pleasing feature of city
life that was characteristic came to us
just as the furniture vans were about
to drive to the depot with our house.
hold belongings. A man hurried up
to the director of CUR caravan and
said: pull up; take your horses out;
you can't take this stuff away; the
strikes on" Here was a lovely stu
alton. The great impending strike Of
thousands of teamsters, truck drivers.
furniture movers, and freight handlers
had begun, and my drivers Waited with
raised whips for the outcome.
In books that show up the perfidy
OF laboring organizations would have
found relief by bribing the runner for
the strikers; in any well-regulated
novel which argued in favor of the
laboring class would have been extri-
Gated by the runner recognizing me as
man who had once paid his rent. AS
a matter of fact, however. l never
knew why the runner relented. No
money passed, neither did the labor
representative fall on my neck after
the display of well-remembered
strawberry mark on my right arm.
My chief driver argued with the run
ner most earnestly, and I heard him
mention my name. Politically, at that
time. was still supposed to be alive.
Finally. with parting injunction Of,
well, that's your last load, then,
happen to know the guy" the runner.
with searching look at me. departed.
4 Our caravan lost no time in driving to
the depot and unloading the vans. I
had never been proud of the appella-
ton guy" until that day. wore it
proudly, though, on that occasion. As
it turned out, it meant the saving Of
several months delay, as the strike
stretched out almost to the crack of
doom before it was settled.
After IN interval Of dust. dirt.
1hsisking babies. gruff conductors,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

serves to enter the earth more or less
deeply as the plow is drawn forward.
and carry the excavated material to
the surface. At its forward end this
blade is braced by means OF support
D, which is tasted to the beam A. AT
the forward end of the beam A is
clevis bar E, which is secured at its
upper end to draft bar F, extending
to the rear of the beam A. lii this
clevis bar are a. series of apertures
adapted to receive link to which a
pulley block is connected. This block
serves to receive the cable that Is
passed to the windlass or drum of the
traction engine, for the purpose OF
drawing the car forward. Owing tc
the lightness of this plow, it may
readily be loaded upon a truck and
transported from place to place.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12
The Christmas Tree Scare.

The chief forester of the depart.
ment of agriculture, Clifford Pinchot.
says that as far as erdangering future
forests is concerned, the effect of cut
ting for Christmas trees is infinitesi-
NAL compared with forest fires and
wasteful numbering. He says that
trees suitable for Christmas do not
grow in old forests, where reproduc-
ton is most important, but in the
open. Even if serious denudation
were threatened the proper remedy
would be not to stop using the trees.
but to adopt wiser methods of cutting
and growing.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

IalrS OF the Union and brooklyn Ele.
waited railroads into one prosperous
concern. Among the others the men
whose peculiar talents also run to cor
poration law are Samuel Untermyer
and Secretary of State Root.
Mr.. Untermyer is credited with hav-
ing received fee, or commission, of
more than 100000 for the deal by
which he induced foreign capitalists
to invest money in this country and in
the consolidation of the American
breweries. It is estimated that with
his genius for financial law he can
earn 100000 a year and command
1000 day for appearances In court
Secretary Roots Sacrifice.
Lawyers regard Secretary Root as
probably the greatest corporation law
yer in the United States. Mr.. Root
gave up law practice estimated to
be- worth from $4,000 to 100000 a
year to take place in a cabinet pay
ing $1,000 a year. This was when he
succeeded Secretary Russell A. Alger
of the war department.
But most typical of all the corpora
ton lawyers was man found in a re-
mote room on an upper floor of
William street skyscraper. In appear.
ance he might have been brother of
George William Curtis. He is John
E. Parsons, New Yorker born and
bred, legal adviser for big corpora
tons and estates, and as lawyer be-
lieved to have the finest practice in
the country.
Mr.. Parsons is reputed to have re-
ceived one of the largest fees ever
taken by lawyer when he drew up
the charter of the sugar trust. Ac-
cording to common report, he realized
100000 for this service. AS general
counsel for the trust he also defended
it during the attack upon the combi-
nation a few years ago. That defense
is said to have added another 500, 900
to his fortune.
Contrasted with these types of cor
poration lawyers is the general prac-
| titioner. Former Ambassador Joseph
! H. Choate is typical example. John
| G. johnson of Philadelphia is another.
Speaking facetiously of Mr.. Choate
at a public dinner, Chauncey M. De-
pew is said to have remarked that
"only unselfish millionaires could en-
ploy Mr.. Choate as their lawyer be-
cause they would have to give up
about all they had to pay his fees"
| Yet lawyers said last week, indeed,
that Mr.. Choate's fees were not large
compared with the $1,000,000 Mr..
Cromwell received in the Panama ca.
nal deal, the $750,OO0 paid Mr.. Guth-
rfe in the Plant will contest. or the re-
puted 100000 fee to Mr.. Parsons for
forming the sugar trust.
choate in Many Great Cases.
Mr.. Choate was admitted to the New
York bar in 1856. AS protege and
partner of William M. Evarts he won
immediate success, and gained an
enormous practice and very large in.
come. BY 1870 he was considered q
leader of the New York bar. Fol-
nearly 30 years there was hardly q
great case in which he was not one
Of the counsel-the prosecution of the
Tweed ring, the famous Investigation
of Gen. Fitz John Porter's conduct
which ended in a reversal of the judg
ment of the original court martial;
the celebrated libel suit against Gen
Di Cesnola, the Tilden will case, the
litigation over Commodore Wander
bits millions, and the suit of David
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cut. He went to Connecticut few
days before his death, so the contest
ant claimed, to avoid the New York
law and establish residence in New
Haven.
Lawyers say that Mr. Guthrie de-
served all the credit he got for win
ming the suit. To his persistence in
gathering evidence that should make
Mr.. Plant a New Yorker and set aside
the codicil, to his skill in presenting
it and questioning the witnesses, Mrs.
Plant owed the 100000 her attorney
won for her. Mr.. Guthrie's fee is said
to have been between ten and IA per
cent. of this fortune, somewhere be-
tween $4,000 and 100000.
OF the many big fees Mr.. Guthrie
has received, the most significant was
the $4,000 paid to him in the proceed
ings to test the constitutionality of
the income tax. 1t was a case in
which methods counted for more than
fees, and Mr. Guthrie's tactics made
his fame national. He devised the
method under which the proceedings
should he brought so that they would
not violate the statute against suits
to restrain the assessment or collec-
ton of federal taxes. He drafted all
the papers and made the opening ar
guments before tho United States su-
preme court.
In Corporation Cases.
When you hear of very large fees
paid to lawyers by corporations" said
the lawyer, you must remember that
the knowledge and ingenuity of these
attorneys often make the big comb
nations of capital possible. The business
man goes to the lawyer with the germ
of the idea. The lawyer arranges a
corporation that will be legal and able
to withstand attacks upon it. Often
the lawyers original ideas go into the
consolidation. The lawyers usually re.
ceive block of stock for their work,
It is, to certain extent, a contingent
fee, for it's value depends upon the
success of their work.
To this class belongs Edward Lau.
terbach, who promoted the East River
Bridge company, reorganized the Phil
adelphia & Reading Railroad CON-
pany, consolidated the turbulent af-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12
Keep Young Cows.

A good cow is young. She should
not be more than four or five years,
old when you buy her. The next
four years will be her best. You
want her during that time. Again.
the good COW will have good big
bag and fair sized-teats. You can't
get milk without some place for stor-
ing it. Then, follow the milk vein
up and see If it be large, entering
the body through a good-sized aper-
ture. These are signs. of the good
COW.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12
How to Keep Down the Weeds.

V5OW % NSSP 0OWH INC "eeoS.
termination of weed seed is pre.
vented by keeping the soil well pul.
verified by frequent stirring, hence il
frequently cultivated or hoed the
moisture will be conserved and weeds
killed. It is a difficult matter to cul-
tivate the garden too much because
stirring the soil admits of air and heat.
which aids the work of the bacteria in
the soil, making the plant food more
available.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

In the United States much Of tho
farm land needs thing. even the land
thai is not subject to being over.
flowed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

Stewart against Coils p. Huntington.
to mention only few of them. Mr..
Choate is said to have received fees
of 100000 on a number of occasions.
When he was named as ambassador to
England by President Mckinley in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

wooden curb, and furnished out with
the old oaken bucket, the moss-covered
bucket, the iron-bound bucket that
hung in the well.
It took us perhaps a week to accus.
tom ourselves to the newness of
things. The baby, Lenore, was like q
wheat-straw when we got there. a
mere slip of a child, wan from fat
life, with little appetite and hardly anv
strength or animation. Life in the
open changed things for us all, and for
her in particular. She was like flow.
er that had been robbed of sunlight
when In the city; here she blossomed
rapidly. gaining in strength almost
mfraculously, staying in the open air
all day, eating ravenously, drinking
milk like a thirsty pussy cat, and
growing and fourishing like a green
bay tree.
Remember that ali these details
were part of the life down there. In
subsequent chapters, when we get to
where we were finally settled in the
house, these details of domest:city will
be less intrusive. At the little s,ue
porch to the west we would gather az
the sun went down and look over
many mile of hill and hollow. valley
and slope, and watch the never-endinp
wonder OF the suns downward flight
1t was all ours for the asking. who.
ever held the title to the land. I fonnd
myself more than once quoting spail.
ingly-
"Cieon hath q million acres.
Ne'er one have r. 49,,
- We looked westward il the track
Of dying sunset.
ERNEST M'aAyFYY.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

EW YORK.-Fifty millions
of dollars-enough to buy
Newport and all of it's
villas at their assessed
valuatiOns-is a cOnserv-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-12

Copyright 1907. by Joseph b. Bowles.)
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06
Miss Elkims TO Wed n Duke.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-Miss Katharine
Elkins, daughter of Senator Elkins, of
West Virginia, and granddaughter of
Henry Gassaway Davis, is reported en-
gagged to the Duke d'Abruzzi, the noted
Arctic explorer and mountain climber.
Close friends Of Miss Elkins are response
ble for the circulation OF the report, al
though She said today that there a moth
ing 10 be said about the rumor. She de-
MED knowing whether the duke contem-
plated another visit to America soon.
During his recent visit here the duke
was entertained by the Elkins family and
expressed his admiratian Of Miss Elkins.
and close friends Of the family intimate
that the engagement actually exists. al
though for reasons of their own the inter
ested parties are keeping the matter secret
now
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06

viduals DOES not clarity the nattcr in IN,
least. 1t has long been known that then
has hccn iohbcry-r,al old-fashioncd Job
hery-Practiocd i'm the manasemcnt o
our town affairs, and We confess we an,
glad the goVVrnmcnt has gone into th,
hands ot the Democrats, as il is generally
concelcl that new broom Sweeps clean.
We may gct something better than We
have bccn having
The tiJ~i step ot our new city dads
should la to clean ont men who aro ~
cclNing So per month whose scryiccs
amount to less than $40 Ia the TAXPAYERS
The collection and disbursement of the
taxes IL worth 8 per cent and no mon.
and would hc gladly accepted at that hy
some of The towns most responsible citi-
hens. Tho police work is worth the icrs
that are i'm it and NO mor,. The collector
could attend TO both. The idea that a
man must Ia a muscular giant to bc a
good officer IL a great fake. Officers of the
law arr not rcquir'd "a depend ON their
physical strength when at their command
all muStWspond.
~, whether Mr Groundhcg has any
responsibility in the matter discussed. let
us hope for better things at the hands of
Our national, state, county, ami munich
pal governments than We have ever had
before. Ii W. arr advancing education-
ally, rciigonsly, socially, and morally as
We are rHprcecntcd To be, better govern
mcnt must come Ia sustain the theory.
- let us not bc backward in demanding
what we arr entitled to.
SQUNWE nEN.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06
BAD BLAZEsAT BUCRHANNON.
Six buildings DESTROYED IN Sunday
Morning Fire.

flre IN Buckhamon Sunday morn
ing at 6:l5 in the Central hotel building.
caused the utter destruction of six build
ings entailing a loss OF between S35. 900
and SIC, 900, and before the blaze WAS
gotten under control at | o'clock u. m.
1t threatened to destroy large part of
the town. The other buildings which
were destroyed were Starcher' feed store .
hlddys furniture store; Whitescarver's
furniture store, and DIR. Endseys resi-
dence.
The postofiice building is complete
wreck, but Some of the letters and other
valuables which were in the office at the
time were saved by the postmaster. The
contents OF the Central hotel were all
burned as was the major portion of the
personal property in the other buildings
which were destroyed The force of the
wind caused the flames To spread 40
rapidly, eating up one after another of
the frame buildings, that it was next 10
impossibleto save from destruction what
was on the inside of the buildings.
Owing TO the enormous rates there IL
but little OF tine loss covered by insur-
ance, but it is thought that what insnr-
ance there was on the property will lie
equivalent to about half of the loss sus.
tanned through the fire.
Withal it is the most expensive fire
which has visited Buckhannon i'm years
and it will he some time before the town
fully RECEIVERS from its effects.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06

Correspondence Of The Argus
J. ~. Molisee was visitor at Ray
Rohr's las, week
Wesley Wolf, OF Masontown, is
visiting his father, J G. Wolf.
Clarence Gibson and Hough Mo.
lisee we're visiting at w. T. Taylor's
Sunday.
The weather man is handing us
out the genuine article now. The
mercury fell TO IL below zero one
night last week.
rhe Rohr correspondent OF THE
ARGUS last week came forth waving
a bloody shirt, and with a great
blare Of trumpets and beating Of
tom toms SAID that in our former
letter we led. This disciple OF the
truth takes exceptions to our state
ments concerning the spelling bee At
Enterprise We do not intend to-
reiterate our former statements. bit
we say they we're positively true.
We have now and then for several
years past given The ARGUS the
news of or little villa, and this is
the first time that an attack has been
made on anything we have written.
Had we made a willful and gross
Misrepresentation Of facts with the
intention OF Injuiing some one, ,hen
we would have thought observer"
right in attacking US and would have
treated his attack as just correc
ton. As II is, we have toll Ihe
truth as we knew il and all the raw
ing of "Observer" will not make us
retract. RILEY. q
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06

Mayor j. T. Daley was in Fairmont
and Clarksburg last Thursday and Friday
ON legal business.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
has been filed in United States court
against the Orr Coal and Coke Company,
of fIiorra.
Thomas Il. Sidwell, aged 20, and
Lunda Smith, aged 22, were granted A
marriage license by Clerk Walls. Our
Twilight correspondent gives an account
of the wedding.
Mrs. Jane Ridenour, of near town,
died Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, aged
aboyt so years, and was buried in the
kingwood cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. I. j. Kendall, of the u. b. church
conducted the services.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06
Mrs. Jane Shaffrr Dead.

Mrs. Harriet Shaffer, who had been in
with pneumonia for some time, died
Monday forenoon at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. +. Bolyard where she had
been making her home this winter. She
was aged about - years, and had been
resident Of Kingwood number Of
years. The funeral took place yesterday.
interment being in the Camp chapel
cemetery near Function. Services were
conducted by Rev. j. H. Hess. She was
twice married, her first husband being
William Fortncy. Three sons 10y this
marriage survives. Miss Julia Bona
field, Of India, aud Mrs. Wilbur Posten
and Mrs. G. IT, Maxwell, ol Morgan
town, were in attendance ut the funeral.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06
Aurora.

Special Correspondence of rhe Argus.
Edward Teets has bought and
sod seven car loads Of corn this
season.
A crowd from here attended the
oyster supper at Eglon Saturday
evening.
Denis Alternately is now operating
frs, class shoe and carpenter shop
in mldIIe row.
A slrighing party from Terra Alta
and one from Oakland recently paid
Aurora visit.
Mrs. Jessie StemE lie and little son
Clifton paid her father, Walk err
Mason, visit last week.
George w. Sell reports work pro-
crossing on the new addtloa TO the
Brooksrde summer MOTEL
Herbert Sbaffer returned from
Oakland Monday with his sister
Iella, where they we're visiting rela-
tiveS.
DIR. c 'l- took the daughters of
William Moore and Peter Knots 10
Baltimore This week, for treatment
at the hospital
Walt Sp'gle claims he has hsuled
;he larges; load ~ coal from the
mines this season with his two brap
horses-55 bushels.
Charley vii; awoke Tuesday
night and found himself lying on
the floor several feet from the bed.
He has been confined to his room
ever since.
On Tues''ay Oscar Lan'z moved
to the Dinwiy farm near the Mar,
land line. II is owned by Omu.
He viii fred IS head of large cattle
and 100 head 81 AngoIa goats.
II G. Wnrnog informs rs that
the Kendall humber company OPP
Grating twelve miles south Of here,
dispensed with most OF the foreign
Labor aud are only working a few
men at This time.
Two Of Union distinct citizens
are down at CharIeston-L. G..
Shaffcr and Julius Sherr. We find
no fault win the administration but
the voters Of this section would be
highly grsufed II they could OBJ
tain an linking on the machine
candidate for sheriff.
Last Wednesday evening a sled
load of young men and women Of
our town went TO Sunny Side to at
tend Maryland spelling bee Nj,
Stall tainted juG as the orchesira
began the evening program She
was carried into the open cir and
soon regained consciousness. Que
William McG9ry, who veIi 10
the sled, was left by the crowd
in the aims Of Maryland belle. Hc
has not yet returned William IS
surely lead iu love y happy win
your Maryland dow.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06
MeelIng Of KolIi Post.

Kelly Post, No. III G.. A. r.,
held its regular monthly meeting in
X. Of J.. hall February, at p. m. ,
at which the business of the past
ycaI was closed and other matters
Of importance discussed.
Comrades S. NJ. Martin and S.
a. DdI, OF Reedsville, faced the
Indictment weather and were present
to The great pleasure OF the local
comrades.
The next meeting of the post will
h. held in the east jury room Of the
con- thous" March 4 at p. IN.
GO TO MIR DOCK
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-02-06

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