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grandfathers not only navigated the river IN
keelboats but lay fiat behind the goods the boats
were loaded with while they were being shot at
by Indians along the banks
It is almost il not quite hard now to imag-
inc what the world meant before the age OF
steam it is TO think out what will be its mean
ing in the age of the perfected airship and aero
plane. Every contrast possible in the ST. Louis
centennial week of pageants is challenge to
look backward and forward in the attempt to
find out what hundred years already mean, as
the first success in the attempt to find what it Is
to mean shortly, for this generation and for the
grandchildren of this generation in 2009
The makers Of the centennial week program
were keenly alive to the opportunities for spec
tacular effect suggested by the most striking
events of the worlds progress. The aeronautic
events such balloon races. aeroplane and diri-
gible balloon contests, suggest the future posi-
bilities of transportation in contrast with those
of 1903. For comparison with automobiles and
aeroplanes the bateau of Lacledes day, with its
stumpy mast, its cordee and its sweeps, is an
educational feature of the water pageant, which
includes crafts of all the kinds which ply the
waters of the Mississippi The Yelled Prophets
pageant, unique and picturesque, is another fea-
ture which is full of romantic interest. The edu-
cational parade. the parade representing 1000 Of
st. Louis industries. the procession of thou
sand mayors and the other events which find q
place the program all suggest that as a great
week for st. Louis its centennial week is still
greater. as it belongs to a hundred years of his
torymaking for the continental United States.
The city of st. Louis was founded by Pierre
Leclede Lieuest in 1854 The territory west of
the Mississippi river was then in possession of
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ploringly: "Youse amt soin' to let her
leave us. air yer. Mr.. Delmar!"
Delmar started as though stung.
Leave us?" he repeated: why. no.
no. what makes you ask such ques-
ton, Tommy"
"Mebbe hadn't ought to have said
nothin' about it," returned the boy. ~
though he feared lest he might cause
trouble for his favorite. "All knows
is that her aunt came to de ONCE
early dis mornin'. before youse come
down. and showed her TELEGRAPH that
come from her uncle in Buffalo, who
wants 'em both to come there an
live"
And what did Miss Stanton say?"
inquired Delmar. excitedly.
"She kind of sighed. an said: I
s'pose it's for de bes," returned the
urchin. Seemed to me she wasn't
over glad to t'ink Of leavin'. dough.
cause de old lady SEES: I fought
youse didn't like Chicago, and 'ud be
glad to get away. an Miss Stanton
SEES: Well. usen't to like 1t. but
feels different now"
Delmar tossed the boy q quarter.
Thank you for your information.
Tommy" he said. Miss Stanton won't
leave II can help it. she's too good to
lose. Now, clear on and amuse your
self. You can have a half holiday. a.
| don't need your services this after
noon"
Tommy lost no time in availing him
self OF his freedom, and Delmar. left
alone. pondered gravely over the new
turn affairs had taken. When Irene
returned. he fancied that look of
unusual sadness fingered in the depths
OF her dark eyes. Could it be that
Tommy had guessed correctly and
that she was sorry to go away? And
could it be possible that he was even
partially the cause of her regret?
She had scarcely seated herself at
her desk. when he crossed to her side
and said. softly:
Don't mind those letters now.
irene, want to ask you something
important. Tommy tells me-" he
said, that your aunt contemplstes
taking you to Buffalo"
YES" replied the girl, rather list
lessly. MY uncle Is anxious that We
should 90 there and live with him."
And you are glad to go?"
She shook her head. but made NO
answer. Delmar, watching her fn-
tentiy. saw that her eyes were brimful
Of tears. He bent down and his arm
stole around her neck, while he whis-
pered: You must not go, Irene. I will
not let you"
His lips touched hers, and she did
not repulse him. but footstep on the
threshold of the door caused Delmar
to step back swiftly. Just as the tall.
dignified form Of his sister swept into
the room. The confusion of the lovers
was evident. and Miss Leslie smiled
maliciously as she gaxed frst at the
shy. conscious face of the girl and
then at her brother.
1T seems that l have interrupted
an interesting act of love drama
she said, with chilling emphasis.
Delmar recovered his self posses
sion quickly.
You needn't apologize, Leslie" he
said, coolly; "you could scarcely have
come at better moment Miss Stan
ton has just honored me BY promising
to become my wife,"
He bent down and kissed Irene fond
~ az he finished speaking. and Miss
Leslie bowed to the inevitable.
II congratulate you BOTH" she said.
stifny. with the resigned air Of one
who accepts defeat.
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VAST CHANGES OF CENTURY
What the "eoys Of f77e" Would see n
They Could Return to

Il should like to come back to the
earth hundred years from now to see
what changes science, art and politics
would bring in the interval" said Ben
jamin Franklin shortly before his death
In 1870. But what would the American
who died ON July {. 1776. think II he
should be permitted to take glance 1t
his country to-day? asks Leslie's Week
". The 13 struggling British colonies
Of his time have grown into nation Of
46 states. The 5000, 900 Americans OF
that day have expanded into 10000. 900.
That thin fringe of settlers along the
Atlantic seaboard from New Hamp.
shire to Georgia. 133 years ago, has
spread across q continent and has ad-
vanced to the Gulf of Mexico. The
country now fronts on three oceans
instead of one as in those days. and It
has dependencies in two of them.
Within the memory Of thousands Of
persons who are still actively at work
the United States had a low rank
among the nations in the volume and
the variety of its activities and in its
wealth. To-day the United States, with
an aggregate valuation of $3.50, 900. 000,-
900 for its real estate and personal
property, equals in wealth the United
Kingdom and the French republic
combined. which are our nearest rivals
in that field. While we have only I'VE
per cent. of the worlds population. We
produce 20 per cent. OF the worlds
wheat, % per cent. Of the worlds gold,
IS per cent. Of its coal. IS per cent. Of
its manufactures. So per cent Of its
silver. 10 per cent. Of its pig iron. ~
per cent Of its steel. IS per cent. Of
it, petroleum, IS per cent. Of its cop
per and 20 per cent of IT. csttcn ~
50 per cent Of it, cora
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Il stu had his companion explorer, William
Clark to stand for the spirit of the American and
French makers of destiny" who thought little
more of starting thousand miles into the I'M
known west from st. Louis than the average st.
Louisan thinks of starting for the Pacific
coast in a sleeping car.
From village of 900 inhabitants to the fourth
city in the United States. with a population of
three-quarters of a million, is a wonderful
achievement but it sinks into insignifcance when
compared with the giant strides of the past GEN.
fury in the world of science commerce, the arts
and every field of endeavor which makes for a
higher and better civilization
1t is severe strain on the imagination to at
tempt TO bridge over the gap between the mean
ing of airshp crossing the Mississippi river
at st. Louis this year and what the ancient keel
boats of 1909 meant, they landed at the foot
of Walnut street, where the town was founded in
1764 by the pioneers who had padded and cor
delied their bateaux painfully up the river from
New Orleans under Laclede as he advanced in
the bold attempt to control the fur trade of half
q continent with his handful of men.
The keelboat then no more out Of date
than the airship Is now. 1t was the best modern
boat in 1909 which could be equipped by the CAPT
tai Of st. Louis. OF New Orleans or of Philadel-
phia. Because of it Philadelphia and st. Louis
commanded the east and west movement of bust
ness as that north and south was commanded by
New Orleans and st. Louis, as soon as their first
fleets of keelboats were regularly organized. It
helped to make great history. even IL it did have
to be pulled UP stream by rope dragged by men
on the bank.
This distance in point of change In the way
things aSs done fs almost impossible for the
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mysvsle1 RiTER XZEL60HT IN 1909

steamboat in 1917, it had more than doubled its
population of 1910 in 1920. From 1000 in 1920.
two decades of steamboatng gave it 16 469 in 1870
About that time it began its great transcontinenta
work with the prairie schooner" reinforcing the
steamboat in overland transit With the trans
continental overland movement, to Oregon as well
as California, growing, in 1850 it had a. $50 people
and was beginning its work as the first pioneer of
railroads to the Pacific. After bringing the first
locomotive west OF the Mississippi in 1852, 1t moro
than doubled its population in that decade, reach
ing 1s55S7 in 1860. With the foundations of the
states now west of the river already laid along its
first trade routes in 1860. it advanced in the next
two decades to S50552 people. Chicago was pass
ing it in population then, without being able to
take from 1t its historical place the first great
city of the west" the pioneer and founder of the
west of the present Since 1880 it has doubled its
population once more, advancing from $4,000 to
over 100000. At its present rate of increase,
sponsive to that of the Mississippi valley st. Louis
is doubling business in little over 10 years. Its
bank clearings increased from 1922 600 900 in 1869
to $3074,000O 900 in 1908. Its tonnage of merchan-
disc received and forwarded was 20,162,000 tons
for the first six months of this year. Its bank
resources reported June %. 1909, at 1885 8S1 000
more than double the total of the tenth year back.
Such figures illustrate much more than local
progress. They are mid-continental before they
become local, in the sense that the people of the
whole area between the Allegheny and Rocky
mountains exerting new energies and util-
izing new forces of growth unforeseen even as
late as 10 years ago. As the percentages of this
growth are of course greatest west of the Missis-
sipp river, ST. Louis has almost made itself over"
in Is years in growing up to the new growth Of
the country. Since it began work for the worlds
fair, celebrating the Louisiana purchase, it has
learned to look back itself in the last decade of
the nineteenth century as "old ST. Louis" In
looking back to the older ST. Louis Of 1909 It can
boast that as frontier outpost it led the progress
OF the continental United States. In looking for
ward, in its centennial year, it can see that the
greatest results of the history has made are only
the beginnings of greater results which belong to
the immediate future of the continental United
States, whose progress makes the frontier town Of
1909 the midcontinental city of 1909
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Miss Leslie Delmar, presiding over
the breakfast table. regarded her
brother with an air Of inquisitive
shrewdness- He returned the stare
with smile in which there lurked q
faint tinge of annoyance. but said
nothing. Miss Delmar frowned.
You can't deny that you have
something on your mind that is trou-
bling you, john" she finally remarked
I know you too well to be deceived"
This time Delmar did not smile.
"As a general. thing. lawyer with
a fairly good practice finds plenty of
cause for serious thought" he re-
turned. shortly. Il wish you would
not worry yourself drawing differences
as to the state of my mind"
You're not thinking about legal
matters" responded his sister, prompt
iy. in no wise abashed by the tartness
of the retort THE truth of the
matter Is that you are head over heels
in love with that Stanton girl. and
have been for the past three months
You have paid her more attention than
Is becoming to any professional man
with a mere stenographer. It's the
most absurd thing l ever heard of.
Why, the girl isn't very pretty,
hasn't got cent of money outside
of the salary you pay her. and good
ness knows what her family is
like"
Delmar colored but made no reply.
In his heart he was conscious that
his sister spoke the truth. yet this
sudden exposure of his secret startled
and annoyed him. Irene Stanton had
been in his employ for about year.
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scores OF other western cities and in actual thou
sands OF other Incorporated towns which, il they
are not already great. are not unduly modest in
their expectations of becoming So The invi-
tation to thousand mayors of American cities
20 participate in the festivities shows that St
Louis fully appreciates its position as the pioneer
city Of the great west
AS there were less than 200 houses including
outhouses and barns, in the St Louis which incor-
porated In 1909 1t could not have had much over
300 people The town was already the chief seat
OF the western fur trade with its trading stations
pushed to the headwaters of the Arkansas and far
towards the sources of the Missouri and the yell
iowstone. Doing business wholly by barter with
almost no money In hand, in sight or in circula
ton. with resources represented almost wholly by
the spirit of its 900 people, with the ak and rifle
ana Diacksmiths sedge its implements with
the one-horse cart. the keelboat and canoe as its
transportation facilities. the little town. when it
incorporated, already looked on its work as that
OF opening up the United States of the future to
the Rocky mountains and beyond them to the Pa
cihc In 1903 it had lost Meriweather Lewis. but
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She was just 10 when his eyes FIRST
rested upon her delicate. flower-like
beauty and the impression she made
upon him had grown stronger with
each succeeding day. He had made
no open confession of his love for the
girl. indeed there were times when
he fought against it.
He had reached his thirty-fifth year
without experiencing the effects of Q
really strong affection for one of the
opposite sex. and the fascination this
young girl exercised over him seemed
strange and anaccountable. One
thing was certain. Now that his sis
ter's sharp eyes had penetrated his
secret, there would be no rest for him
until decision was reached one way
or the other. That she did not APP
prove of his choice made NO Differ
ence. Miss Leslie Delmar had reigned
as mistress OF her bachelor brothers
house 50 long that she had almost
come to look upon her position as per-
manent. but this was case in which
he had quietly resolved to brook no in
reference.
During his journey to the office he
wondered restlessly how he should
lead up to the point which interested
him. the winning Of the girl with
whom he felt his future happiness
rested. Never had legal problem, no
matter how tangled, presented such
difficulties to his mind as the unrav-
cling of this dubious love knot. And
when he came face to face with the
subject of his thoughts the difficulty
seemed greater than ever. She had
never looked prettier than on that par
ticular morning and the accents of her
sweet, low voice found responsive
echo in his heart.
Somehow her Inconsistencies OF
the emotion she excited in him made
her seem all the more unapproach-
able. Like many another man before
him. John Delmar realized that the
time was close at hand when he must
decide his fate by single question,
and the thought daunted him. All
through that forenoon he transacted
business like man in a dream. His
eyes strayed continually to the slim,
neatly clad figure of the girl bending
over her machine. 1t was almost
relief when IL o'clock arrived and
Irene went to luncheon, leaving him
to his own reflections and the contem-
plation of Tommy, the ONCE boy.
The youth in question was an especial
pet of Irene's. and an irresistible i'm
pulse, which Delmar felt to be ex-
ceedingly foolish, impelled his en-
ployer to ask him an entirely un-
necessary question.
You like Mss Stanton, don't yeu,
Tommy" he dueried.
Bet yer lffe," responded the boy.
quickly. she was awful good to ~
then me mudder was sick" He
pauscd a. though summoning up cour-
sss to make = request. and added. i'm
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GRAFT FOWL BONE ON JAW.

An unusual surgical operation was performed at
St Joseph's hospital, in Omaha, recently por-
ton Of the jawbone of Lucretia Norris was re-
moved and piece Of chicken bone inserted In the
place Of diseased section
The girl Is SIX years old. and was born with
malformed jaw. 1t was to remedy this that bons
from freshly killed chicken was inserted.
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The FlLlXlzYc az
HLlLlZy 6Y LHcLEDE.
6y SPEcxTL 1Eey7ys 5loH ERor
me HeinTnG 6YEL- ST000feo

A<4A-4os 81 E-@~
fact in st. Louis 1t
is only a matter of
the third generation
between keelboat
and aeroplane- In
1907 the first air
ship on record as
crossing the Missis-
sippi river crossed
it at st. Louis dur
ing the information
al contests of that
year. 1t is something
to remember now as
part of the record to
which belongs the his
tory of the first loco
motive crossing the
Mississippi at st. Louis
in 1852 to complete
the work of the st.
Louis argonauts of
1S49, crossing to the
Pacific In their "prai-
rie schooners."
If we suppose aero
planes and airships
circling In the air
above the st. Louis
keelboat landing of a
hundred years ago we
may imagine, II we
can, how they appear
to the men whose
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France. Laclede landed at the foot of what IL
now Market street. organized the village and
resided there for IA years. He named the new
site St. Louis in honor of Louis XIV. the reigning
sovereign of France The territory was trans
ferred by France 70 Spain by secret treaty in
1852 but it was not announced in the new village
until October 1864. In 1909 Spain retroceded the
sovereignty to France and April go 1903.
France sold all the territory west of the Missis
sippi river, known as the Louisiana purchase, to
the United States for sl5,O0000O. Napoleon re-
marking: This accession of territory strengthens
forever the power of the United States"
With less than a thousand inhabitants when
the whole country had not quite seven and a
quarter million in 1909. st. Louis emerged from
the of the keelboat and pirogue to pioneer the
steamboat on western rivers Loading its first
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half
transportation between
the Mississippi
the neadwaers of the Ohio
me Ohio the
states both o. tina stream
Every state
business establishing
interested with ST Louis
rounding the first
made the explain in
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HE MIGHTY activities and marvellous progress the
world has seen in the past 100 years strikngly
illustrated in the centennial celebration of the
poration of st. Louis. Picturesque pageants with
everything in the way of the spectacular which is
most likely to stir the imagination of the spectator
into approaching the work of the past through
trasts with the present feature the weeks program
The greater part of the history OF early St Louis
is really more fit for the unwritten American epic
poem than it is for prose. Its work as frontier
town in the first half of the nineteenth century made
It the midcontinental city United States
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-29

level of call money and the perSistency
with which it holds at 21z per cent.
The call market for year or more
has carried d far greater portion of
the stock exchange loans than ever
before on account Of its easy and plen-
tIfui condition. The engagement of ad-
dttiOnaI quantities uf gold for export
has not yet become potent factor.
Commercial paper IL moving quietly.
and the greater demands now coming
upon the money market In tn. form
of gold shipments and speculative b"r-
ruwin,. together with Withdrawals for
! agricultural purposes, are gradually
exercising some influence upon dis
count rates.
The withdrawal from tiR market o.
15.5z0nS3 pounds of copper ia one
month. especially a month which iS
usually quiet. and at Il period when
business conditions are conceded To he
a considerable distance from the high
tide Of prosperity. caused the metal
trade t. sit up and open It's eyes.
Manufacturers have bought ahead
more than for some time, but only for
such requirements actually i"r'st"n.
The last upward movement Of the
metal failed to stampede the c"nSum-
ers into the market, nor is there any
Indication that the hand to-mouth pol
lev which has prevailed for the better
part nf the last two years Will Dr. III
verged from in the near future.
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