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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
ELECTRICITY WORKS FARM
The Moving, Reaping, Stacking and ThrashIng Done With One
 Motor.

New York world.
 Thomas ". Lee. until about two years ago General Passenger Agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West ern Railroad. Is the first man in the world to farm by eleeticity. Mir. Lee owns the Bungalow, a tract of more than 2,000 acres, in the vicinity of Idaho Falls. All that Tom Lee has to do now when he wishes to farm Is to push a button. Electricity does the rest The ground in Bungalow was bro- ken for cultivation two years ago. It is fenced, has fine buildings. machin- cry, and stock is managed by q man to whom system is as necessary as breath.
 One year ago Mr. Lee utilized steam, but hat proved slow and two expensive. This year the grain of Bungalow will be reaped, stacked. thrashed, sacked and made ready for the market by eletrIcity.
 simple contrivance containing heavy coil of wire is taken to the de- sired position. Motor and machinery are set, and in few minuets the pleas ant. steady hum of certain power Is heard. This power Is transmitted a. out twelve miles. The feed wire on the ranch Is fitted with plugs and juice is ready for coil and motor wherever 1t may be located.
 Mir. Lee has installed private tele-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.
Annual Crop of Lightning PrOmfses to
 Break the Record.

Annual Crop of Lightning PrOmises to
 Break the Record.
 New oYrk Press.
 The United States is now gathering its annual crop of reports of the freak of lightning Most of the lightning freaks are fraught with tragic con- sequences to man or beast. Up in Le Roy, N. r., two horses were standing in a barn when a bolt struck between them. bursting the ear drums of both animals. but leaving them otherwise unintured.
 Down in West Virginia. a man was diring a horse and hurrying to shelter from an oncoming storm. when the lightning struck the horse, Killing 1t instantly. but not harming the rider in the least. The motorman on a trolley car in Anniston, Ala, actually was un- dressed by a bolt from the sky. The lightning tore him clothes off conn pletely, ripped the face of his watch, melted the chain. and left a burned spot on his knee.
 At Hornell N. r., one of the resi- dents was sleeping on a feather bed when bolt of lightning struck his house. The sleepers was thrown clear out of bed on to the floor, but was oth- ! erwise uninjured. Tn Willimantic Conn. one of the local fire engine houses was struck and the electrical apparatus put out or order. NO one was in the house at the time. so thC damage was not noted in the neighbol hood. But an alarm was set ringing | in the residence of the fire chief, some | distance away, and he hastened to thu | engine house, to discover that tht | lightning had struck the alarm. l Out in Petersburg, Ind, three young | men were sitting on a farmhouse porcl I when a bolt struck them and the near l by barn at the same time. The feel | of the men were badly burned, and when one of them recovered conscious ness he declared he felt something strike him on the shoulder and run | down his back to his feet. On being examined a broad mark of livid red | was found on his back from the should | CT to his heel. The same bolt struck two harnessed horses in the barn. and | not only rendered them unconscious | for two hours, but also melted all the | harness buckles and riped, the shoes of their hoofs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
BiIiousnessp
 Bowels Ofp
Out os sorts, Bad Breath, Sick Head
 aehe, All Easily Relieved.


 "Biliousness" ds simply another name in nine cases out of ten for disordered stomach and lazy liver and bowels When the skin and whites of the eyes are tinged with yellow; when there is pain in the back and right side: dizziness; spots appearing before the eyes until momentary blindness occurs; severe headaches and bad breath, de- pend upon 1t your sluggish liver and bowels are the cause. Empty the bowels and keep them empty" It's the poison that the blood distributes through the body makes you out of sorts and out of health.
 A digestive laxative that rights the stomach, clears the bowels in an easy. natural manner and makes them reg ular again will do more to relieve the bilious man or woman than all the pills and calomel you can give. Take pr. caldwelrs syrup Pepsin and see how soon all tho disagreeable symptoms of biliousness will disap- pear. Your appetite and "restfu1" sleep come back. and you are ready and willing for your daily tolls again. C. E. Cook. Greenville. Ill., says he never found anything to bring him ous of a bilious attack like this famous laxative and digestive tonic.
 All druggists sell 1t at soc and s1.00. Pepsin Syrup Co., 330 Caldwell Bldg. Monticello. H.. will send a free sample to any one who has never used 1t anu will give 1t fair trial.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
LONDON CLUBS.
They Are Peculiarly SOeial--The old
 Ones, That Is.


 Ones, That Is.
 Town and Country.
 As everybody knows. our oldest clubs were developed out of the orig Inal coffee-houses nearly two een- turtles ago. and the newer clubs. as they were formed from time to time, consisted in the first instance of many members. experienced in the oiaer. and so the good tradition was kept up. This applies at least to the really social clubs. like Whites or the Gar. rick. It does not apply in the same degree to the large, ceremonious. more stately clubs like the United Univer- sity of the Oxford and Camnridge. where a member probably knows only q small proportion of his fellow-mem- bers, or to an eminent political club. like the Carlton, where a man Is eelct- ed for services to his party. And 1t does not apply at all to these clubs which are merely large proprietary concerns for convenience. and which are generally and very rudely known as pot houses"--I had better not give instances-where admission Is swift and easy and where the membership largely consists of very young men who have not had time to get into better institution. But really social club even though new has the advant- age of old exemplars.
 Thus the Bachelors. comparatively recent club, has a character very like that of Whites. which is one of the very oldest. The tone of the really social club Is that of an easy famil- iarity. member going in for his luncheon or dinner drops naturally in- to a seat close to another member and starts a conversation. Tn the more ceremonious clubs, or in the pot house." If he has not arranged to meet some one or invited a guest he prob ably eats solitary. In the latter sort men move in silence and isolation; in the former there Is a general hum of "Hullol how are you?" and When did you get back" and Seen Tommy iately?' and so forth--and incidentally 1t Is dificult to write your letscrs or read your newspapers undisturbed. There are the real clubs as the Eng lish society of a hundred years ago. which was like a great family party, understood them. and they are the hardest to initiate. The others may confer some assurance of position, like the .Athenaeum, or confer nothing ex- cept more or less dubious comfort, like the-never mind, but they have not the essential quality and can be imi- tated anywhere, more or less.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05

phone and eletric wires. These are stheatched two miles from the main line of the power company.
 Water Is pumped. grindstones turned corn shelters. root cutters, hay forks hay cutters, cider mills, grist mills, ensilage cutters, cement mixers, turn ing lathes, ice cream mixers, churns and separators are all run by eletric- ity. A 25-horsepower eletrtc motor accomap1ishes all these things.
 The Bungalow is wired from corner to corner. Miles of poles and cables motors. revolving droms and the most up-to-date farming machinery that money can buy constitute the equipment.
 This season the entire crop of the Bungalow. aggregating 2.000 tons of hay, alfalfa and clover, 10000 bushels of grain and potatoes and other pro- ducts, will be placed on trucks and with cable reels be handled with greater facility than 1t could ever be handled with human hands.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
From the Rich Land Owner to the
 Ha1f-Share Man.

From the Rich Land Owner to the
 Ha1f-share Man.
 Outing.
 In France there is a hierarchy of farmers.
 The great land owners we need not consider. They are not in their fields. They are idling. gaming, talking polo tics in Paris. They number their their acres by the thousands Take the French Rothschilds. for instance they own 4o0 000 acres of land. Other barons of finance and many gentlemen of ancient house are masters of similar estates.
 Such farmers" as these are at the head of the gentlemen farmer. Their lands are exploited in the broad, busi- ness-like way that rules the syndicate wheat farms of the great Northwest. Let us go down the scale. Next in order come the farmer generals They are middlemen. They are capitalists who stand between the owner. from whom they rent hundred farms, and the ten ants to whoAn they sublet. Few of them have ever turned a furrow. The farmer general is an Intermediary parasite.
 At this point fin the agricultural hier- archY comes the man who cultivates his fields. The largest class is made up of those who rent their farms-as in EngIand--from some great land owner If the lease be long and the terms be good he fares not i'll, He owns his stock and implements. Usually he is well-to-do. He employs a dozen men. laboress, shephards. More and more he is becoming the type of the French farmer, for the small iowner-he who plowed his own acres-is giving giv- ing way before the universal tendency toward iconcentration; even so the little shopk eeper Is being destroyed by the an-ab sorbing department store.
 In a. great measure the man Is in- dependant Twice year he pays his rent; probably he rents his farm on a lease of three. six and nine years. He is master in his domain. He may sell, buy. SOW and gardner as he will Per haps his greatest difficulty is in procur- ing Iaborers, for the. young men go to the cities, to the factories; so he works from dawn to dusk and with him in the fields his women work.
 Lower in the scale is the farmer who works his land on shares. receiving one-half of the product. His farming is done under the direction of the owner or farmer general. This is the method in vogue at Ferrieres. the great estate of Baron Rothschild in the Seine-et- Marine, usually but q small farm is allotted to the "half-shares man." Tn reality he is the serf of the new regime. for financial feudality has preserved many of the old servitudes of the soil.
 Tn the first place. he may at any time be called away to work in the owners fields. He must make all re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05


 manner if the state were not given the old basis of interstate rates This code section has the swing of a Big Stick in. 1t. The provision is as follows:
 'sThe Commission. when deemed by 1t necessary to prevent Injury to busi- nesss . sin consequence ofs sin- equality of interstate rates. or in case of any other emergency. to be judged by the Commission. may temporarily alter, amend. or suspend. except as otherwise provided by law. any exist ing passenger rate. freight rates, schedules, and orders on any railroad or parts of railroads in this State. and such rates by the Commission shall apply to none or more of the railroads of the State,Nor any portion thereof. as may be directed by the Commission. and shall take effect at such time and re- main for such time as may be prescrib- ed by the Commission"
 It remains to be seen what. further action will be taken by the Comu1is- sion if yesterdays order is not com piled with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
Wonderful Development In Hts Use and
 Chaapened Production.

Wonderful Development Tn Hts Use and
 oheapened Production.
 Wall Street Journal.
 Forty years ago steel rails were sell ing for six times what railroads pay for them at the present time. But in that year only 2.s77 tons were made. at S166 a ton. and there was a duty of t5 per cent ad valorem on imports. Four years later they were down to t102.52 a ton. but finally dropped be- low the hundred-dolIar price In 1878. after the duty had been reduced to s25.22 a ton. From that time. only three years passed until the price fell finally below $50 ton, with the OK ception of a rise for two years In 1880 and 1881.
 This rapid fall in prices came after the resumption of specie payments in 1s7s In 1881 the country passed the nillion-ton mark sof bessemer rail output for three years in succession. When the tarif was reduced in 1885, from s2s to si7 ton. the price quickly fell to the lowest point up Co that time. Tn 1893 it was tsS.B2 . ton, almost where 1t has been for the six years between 1902 and 1907. in which t2s a ton has ruled without change Meanwhile there has been but one year when rails averaged as high as ss7.0a. and that was the year of 1887, when the country for the first time put out more than 2.0eo.00o tons of steel rails. The lowest average was Sf7.e2 in 1898.
 Not until 1899 did the output over take this figure of 2,10t.so4 tons. but by that time the tariff had been req duced from sri a ton to si3.44. and again after 1894 to s7,SA a ton. which prevails now as fixed in the DinHiay bill Meanwhile the eosntry has gone forward until the steel rail production reached the maximum of s.97l.t59 tona in 1908.
 These records have to be interpreted with the rise and fall Of prosperity with changes in tarifS. end with an unparalleled improvement in the meth@ ods and economies of production. If the steel rail could tell it's own story without promptings from politician from producer or from purchaser. there would be little left for the hls- torian to supplement in the annals of material expansion of the United States during the last four decades.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
THE DAYS OF CHANTS.
Whea Joint Debates Formed the Fea.
 ture of Political Campaigns.

gwhea Joint Debates Formed the Fea-
 ture of Political Campaigns.
 Boston Transcript.
 Seven cities claimed old Homer dead. through which the living Homer begged his bread. and seven cities in Illinois. each apparently with a clear title, claim the distinction of having been the reap battle grounds of the Lincoln Douglas joint debates fifty years ago this summer. These seven cities are Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston. Galesburg, Quincy and Al- ton. Of course. after the manner of these days, such a semicentennial an- niversaFy cannot be permitted to pass without formal recognition and ex- pIoitation. Each city has it's program. but the common purpose of all Is to recall and impress upon a new gener- ation the memory and significance of those ante-bellum discussions of the slavery question.
 There were giants in those days. The Little Giant had the lead. but the big one soon overlook and dis- tanced him. Never have there been such profoundly interested political audiences. The gatherings were more like an old-fashioned camp meeting when religious interest was at it's height. Newspapers did not circulate as they do today. Telephones were un- known, and when the public was aroused to a lofty pitch of interest in any event or movement the people were drawn personally to the source of in- terest.
 2 It may be said that Lincoln forced the series of contests upon his op- ponent. First. he followed Judge Douglas and spoke on subsequent nights upon the same ground. but his challenge to a joint debate found such favor with the public that Douglas yielded, perhaps none too willingly, and then the great question was debated from the same platforms.
 These contests were not mere inter- esting exhibitions of forensic power
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
Au Indian Picnic.
The Housekeeper.

A most delightful pastime for a summer evening is an Indian picnic
 Send out your invitations written on thin pieces of birch bark. which en- close in envelopes as the usual cards
 and request your guests to appear cos tuned as Indians; chiefs. braves and squaws The fancy dress for this oc- caslon may be as elaborate as desired
 Young girls may be represented in true Indian fashion. with straight hair hanging loosely down the back and blanket falling gracefully from the shoulders, whilst with the use of gaudy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05

pairs. He must dig trenches wherever the owner sees ft He must supply all the straw and hay the owner re- quires and send to his kitchen eggs and butter and vegetables in season. He must allow all or any of the owners Iaborers to cook their food in his kitchen whenever such laborers are employed nearby. And lastly if the ow- ner finds the work i'll done he may hire outside laborers and send them kn- 10 the fields. for which the ''half-shares man" must pay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05

According to a recent British patent specification. a self-glazfng ireproof clay is composed of mixture of dried and powdered common clay, finely ground sand and rock salt, in or about the proportions of siKty-stx pounds of clay, forty-six pounds Of sand and nine ounces of powdered rock salt, Wagar Is added to the bixture in order that 1t may be nodded into crucio as or Ta- torts or used as a lining for furnaces.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05

and briiliancy, but. were epochal in their results. They drove Into virtual eclipse one of these great figures in public life and other they made Pres ident. They hastened to the explosive point those slumbering forces that had so long been menacing the republic and helpd to precipitate the greatest internal convulsion in t5e worlds his tory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
FIreproof Paint for Wood

Mix twenty-five parts of ground heavy-spar, one part dry Eino white, twenty parts of water and twenty five parts of silicate. of soda or water glass (give three coats).
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
WORKING or FRENCH FARMMs.

Casino Matinee To-Day P. Df. BIusi. cal Comedy, Pousse Cafe 10 4 20 C.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
eeIf-cInaInW rlreproof CIny.

Casino Matinee To-Day { P. M. Muma- cal Comedy, Pousse Cafe 10 q 70 ..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
STORY OF THE STEEL RAIL.

Casino Matinee To-Day { F. M. Must. cal Comedy, Pousse Cafe 70 q % C.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
. DEMOCRACY AND HARD TIMES

1t mistake spreading the fallacy
other is ALSO The the
financial Depression did
under republican rule should the theory that either republic
democracy alone stand continued prosperity Panc
and independent Of political they have happened
under both administrations They happen republics onarch
politics. danger blaming political party
something of which it is guilty The republican party
sponsbe for the 0 Industrial dprsons absolutely
independent political that we'll authenticated fact
and be proven from United States History.
Panics spite of political they not rooted in
politics. they the of things. There is seeming
truth that the democratic stands for hard times but there
for such Which is this The democratic party is the
radical American politics. the Of OF remedial
Of the republican
democratic much heard
puts practice the ideas about which the
off during the lean History
this there to the demo-
the history OF the party
usually the minority times OF prosperity
think there need of REFORM or I'M
we'll they But times OF stress and
think something IS
looking the big popular for redress they
minority which hard times receives great additions to
it's numbers often enuft force it into power.
mistake of the of panics to associate any
with them their orignaors is wrong to lnst
hard times
be elected should be- mind don't THINK ne
undermined,
taken disaster
suggestion widespread and aacous potent for evil
about the results it forecasts Inc
presidential elected
he will have the gappe wt just
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
AS to Strike Injunctions.

Judge Mcl.emore Of Norfolk, u
Va, has decided in a strike case
that no injunction should lie I'M
til violence against the plaintiffs
or their property is attenpted5b y3.
the defendants, and that neiil-.
.bers Of the engineers union were.
within their rights in trying by
argument or other fair means to
have employees of the plaintiffs
quit their employment. ~
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
other political faith. Who seek same


FOR REPREsENTATIvE
republicans cood and true
representative legislature Gen H Engleabys
man of sanc
porter 81 Tie party Is which ia belongs
or this community il the past. Mr. claims
Legislature he probably
this 000 $0
M Enrlesby has always
az heart and we'll seeks. The oer
ability and worth capable i elected
fulfllinp the duties credit themselves and
Is Tie conmunity these gentlemen will
away who viii
him, far lies ia his
his trust will weigh the who are seek
his support will those
who thinks will be the people and their interests
Some peoples mental be built with view
the reception Hence the o the boss
$1,000
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
MARTIN RUNS FOR LEGISLATURE

IN this issue Of the News John w Martini OF this
ty makes nominee for the on
he democratic ticket Mr. Martin states he is
willing to his record Of his past q
Watertown citizen OF WaertoWn knows MT De
Of the community and who has always worked with that n
view both as also office holder II s
say who is sowe known BY all ana
who bears beyond eproach Mr. Martin is elected next
TO the office he confident he will fulfil his pledge
the ability and that the responsibilities Of the high o
he safe his hands above parties will
in Mr. Martin fitted for the post he which state
we make without cczing those OF
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
LABOR AND THE COURTS

hard Labor? When Of dis
between labor do the always find
capta Labor surely has Just
Then the always
right Unless in blaming the courts blaming the wrong
lie the laws We make the
people lahorng
ought to be changed IN England
treated by the courts
here but thru parliament giving the aborng
the rights which entitled Is man and labor " THIS
should altered That is why labor going into with the
the socialist party
will be But prophesy that the labor
the socialist will be large that there will BE- big rush
legislation the OF
That always labor into politics On is own
many other countries It will happen here
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
HARD TIMES

Speaking present industrial depression following the
which, feel it in this state s
causing widespread and Industrial cnters
possible politics the conditions
country the the following
If Taft is elected we shall have hard times from which
shall gradually .a. aE s.S @S8s
If Bryan is elected shall have hard times from which
we shall gradually recover - S5sES
And don't know under which recovery will come quick
er ,'Te
And until better Of managing national
than other nation has vet
ved have OF good and bad
times whoever is president. #S%
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
IHE sATuRoAY

conditions face just the tremendous industrial
problems solve. would have were he elected
be good politics but it's bad morals spread
on should elected there will probably follow
panic all business suffer not based real but
merely imaginary imaginary
ent method Of things good to those who
hold the deusion. asEsss nm
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
Wanted Him Protected.

Wanted Him Protected.
5 ssAA hat are you going 70 name
sur DO ss 81
& think we will call him
ter. s
Don't do that. Name him
Paul.
hat is the difference ?
"A whole lot have always
noticed that p eter is the unfortli-
nate one wllo!is externally robbed
TO pay Paul \
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-30
Mems Plush Lined Goats 70
Mems Sheep Lined Goats

We sell the Gordon & Ferguson line Of sheep lined
coats and rs and everybody knows that this IS the best
line Of fur goods on the market today There is no cues
ton about the quality Of these coats Full sheep lined
coats corduroy duck high collar the warest coat
for the working man to wear