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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-03-12
At Last.

Mrs. Silas Bennett was a philoso-
pher. On a certain dismal occasion
some Of the neighboring women were
condoling with her. With commend.
able cheerfulness she replied:
"I've raised four girls an three boys,
expectin' every time they'd be twins and
red headed like their Grandpa Bennett
an yet they amt
"An' I've worried constable over
smallpox breakin' out in my big fam.
lily. So fer faint.
Last summer durin' July an An.
gust an mebbe part of September I
was real meloncholic, fearin' I'd got an
appendix, but guess 1 amt.
AN through it all it never onct oc.
CURED to me that I'd be the one to
fall through them rotten old meetin,
house steps an break my leg In two
places, but I be-"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-03-12
Our Supply Is Limitless.

Take the thing we need most-food
We have not yet begun to scratch the
possibilities Of the food in America.
The State of Texas could supply
food, home, and luxuries to every man.
woman and child on this continent. Az
for clothing, there is material enough
in this country to clothe all its inhab-
itants in purple and fine linen. We
have not begun yet to touch the posi-.
bilities Of our clothing and dress sup
ply The same is true Of all other
necessities and luxuries.
When the whale ships in New Bed.
ford Harbor and other ports were rot.
ting in idleness, because the whale was
becoming extinct, Americans grew
alarmed lest we should dwell in dark.
ness; but the oil wells came to our res.
cue with abundant supply. And then,
when we began to doubt that this
source would last, science gave us the
electric light. The possibilities Of find.
ing heat, power and light in chemical
forces should the coal supply fail ars
simply boundless. We are still on the
outer surface of abundance, a surface
covering kingly supplies for every indi.
vidual on the globe
No matter which way we turn, sci.
ence matches our knowledge with her
marvellous reserves and nowhere is
there sign Of limit.
Write 1t in your heart that one of
the most vicious ideas that ever found
entrance to the human brain Is that
there is not enough Of everything for
everybody, and that most people on the
earth must be poor in order that t.
few may be rich.-Success MAGAZINE
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-03-12
FLo'S PHOTOGRAPHS.

Her Boy Friends Were Away
Giving Her Their Pictures.
Don't you think Kent Hampton's
last photograph is splendid one?" Flc
Davol asked, carelessly.
A swift color flashed across Rachel
Hills face. She tried to make her
voice Indifferent, but the hurt would
show a little.
II haven't seen It," she replied.
Haven't seen itY' Flo echoed. How
queer, when you are such friendsI
have 1t somewhere here"
She began hunting through the pho.
tographs crowding her desk. They
were nearly all photographs Of boys OF
young men, and Kent's was clearly In
sight, as Rachel, with fash Of con-
tempt, saw at once, although it was
several minutes before Flo apparently
discovered 1t. Then she handed it to
Rachel. Her whole elaborate, over
dressed little figure betrayed her de.
light n her pretty triumph.
1T certainly is queer that he didn't
give you one," she repeated, "but the
boys are always giving things to me.
Really, don't know what to do with
half Of theml"
AS Rachel walked home through the
September afternoon her eyes were full
Of bitterness. Why was 1t, she wonder
ed, that girls like Flo got so much more
than their share of good times and
things? She would not have cared
about the others, but Kent Hampton,
who had been her playmate ever since
she could remember, and was going
away to college in two days. Oh, Flo
could have had anything else If she
only had not spoiled that dear old
friendship.
That evening Kent came over with
his chum-who was also Rachel's
cousin-Tom Calverly. Usually the
three had the happiest Of evenings, but
this time something was plainly wrong.
The boys kept up their nonsense, but
1t did not "go" as usual. Finally Tom
remarked Of something:
"It's dead easy-as easy as one Of
Flo Davol's photographed, Kent"
Rachel grew red, then pale. II
should think you'd be ashamed!" she
cried, facing them Indignantly.
The boys stared at each other In per-
plexity.
ITO Joke over a girl when you give
her your picture" she stammered. 1T
its contemplate
Kent's lips frightened, but Tom whis-
tied softly.
look here, Ray" he asked, don't
you know, honest?"
"Know what?" Rachel inquired.
"The way she gets those pictures.
She gets them by asking-that's how.
She asks so that fellow can't refuse
unless he's a brute. I guess I have
half a dozen Of hers somewhere round.
Kent, here, is such a Sir Galahad he
burns them-says it's not fair to have
them lying round, even If the girl did
force them on you"
"Oh" Rahel cried, softly.
But up in her room that night she
looked out with happy eyes into the
dark. 1t was SO good to keep ones
friends on the old high terms-it was
so good to keep ones self-respectl-
Youths Companion.
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Horrors.

Horrors.
Does your wife ever tell You shs
has nothing to wearY
Worse than that"
what could be worse than thatY
She tells me she hasn't enough
clothes in which to do a Salome dances
Houston Post.
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was seven-thirty, and the distance was
two miles to the plantation house. At
eight, or soon afterward, he would be
there-eight on the morning of Ascension
Day; at nine, in tho launch again, speed
Ing out to the smile Of the bridel
Twenty times a minute she required to
him as he walked. There was no waning
nor wearing-savs q wearing brighter,
perhaps-of the images she had put in
his mind. The night had brought him
palaces and gardens and treasure houses !;
everywhere he turned, new riches broke
upon him. That her face had lain be-
tween his hands; that his hands had
brought that face to his own; that her
whispers, kisses, condolences, her prayers
and passions and coming years, all found
their center and origin in himself, like
bright doves that had 4 cote within his
heart-thess thoughts lifted the poor man
to such heights Of praise and blessedness
that he seemed to shatter the dome Of hu-
man limitations, and emerge crown and
shoulders into the illimitable ether.
The road up the morne stretched blind
ing white before him. Painting and spent
not little, he strobe upward through
the vicious pressure of heat, holding his
helmet free from his head, that the air
might circulate under the rim. At length,
upon the crest of the morne, he perceived
the gables Of the plantation house, above
the palms and mangoes, gold-brown In the
dazzling haze.
Pelee roared. Sullen and dreadful out
Of the silence voiced the monster, reused
to his labor afresh. The American began
to run, glancing back at the darkening
north. The crisis was not
passed in favor Of peace. The holiday
was darkened. The Madame would fill
with refugees now, and the road to Fort
de France turn black with fight. These
were his thoughts as he ran.
The lights of the day burned out one
by one. The crust of the earth stretched
to cracking tension. The air was beet
ling with strange conclusions. In the
clutch of realization, he turned one shin
ing look toward the sea. Decorations &C
cumulated into the crash of q thousand
navies.
On the porch of the plantation house,
twenty yards away, stood the mother Of
Lara, her eyes fascinated, lost in the
north. At the steps he fell, caught her
skirt, her waist, in his hands. Across the
lawn, through the roaring black, he bors
her. brushing her fingers and her fallen
hair from his face. He reached the curb.
ing OF the old well with his burden, crawl.
ed over, and grasped the rusty chain. L.
candescent tongues Tapped the cistern's
raised coping, and running streams of red
dust filtered down.
1t was eight in the morning Of Ascen-
sion Day. La Montague Peles was Civ
ing birth to Death.
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CHAPTER XIV.

The launch gained the inner harbor,
and tho white ships at anchor were seen
vague phantoms in the vapor-French
steamers, Italian barques, and the small
q West Indian craft-all with their work
to do and their way to win. Constable
heard one officer shout to another, in
1uirins If Saint Pierre was in the usual
place, or had switched sites with Hades.
The day was clearing rapidly, however,
and before the launch reached shore the
haze was 20 lifted that Pelee could be
seen, floating a pennant Of black out to
sea. In the city a large frame ware
house was ablaze. The tinder-dry struc-
ture was being destroyed with almost ex-
plosive speed.
"Wait for me here" Constable said to
Ghe sailor, as the launch scraped the
Sugar Landing.
A blistering heat rushed down from the
expiring building to the edge of the land.
Crowds watched the destruction. Many
Of the people were In holiday attire. This
was the Day Of Ascension, and Saint
Pierre would shortly pray and praise at
the cathedral. Even now the bells were
calling, and there was low laughter from
- BEouP OA md1oeuSs vas IL NOT g0OQ to
live, since the sun shone again and the
mountain did not answer the sainted
bells? It was true that Pelee poured
forth black streamer with lightning in
tts folds; true that the people trod upon
the hot gray dust of the volcanoes waste |;
that the heat was such a. no man had
ever felt before and many sat In misery
upon the ground: true, indeed that voices
Of hysteria came from the novels, and the
breath Of uncovered death from the BY
Ways-but the gala spirit was not dead.
The bells were calling; the mountain
was still bright dresses were abroad
for the torrid children of France must
laugh.
Constable fen In with the procession
an the way to the cathedral. Reaching
xhsrs. he climbed to huge b;oSst of stone
In the square, and hurled broadcast the
germ Of flight. Many had seen him be-
fore, when his face was haggard. He
was smiling now. There was color in his
skin, fire In his eyes, a ring In his voice.
Gear was not In him.
A carriage was not proeurable, 20 he
walked toward the Morns IOranga. II
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CHAPTER XIV,

When the launch entered the denser
cloud and faded from her sight, Miss
Stansbury retired to the cabin. Over all
her thoughts Of the unhallowed parting
from her mother the night before, and the
clean, valorous act Of her lover now, hung
the defined terror lest Pelee should inter-
vene. She heard Macready's step at the
door; the calm voice of an officer on the
bridge; the morning bells.
The pale winding sheet was unwrappcd
from the beauty Of morning. Through a
portfolio she saw the rose and gold on
the far, dim hills. Her eyes smarted from
WEAKNESS, but her mind, like an auto.
matte thing, swept around the great cir
cle-from the ship to the city, to the
house beyond the morne and back again.
She saw him In the launch, In the midst
Of native groups on the shore, In the
plantation house, begging her mother to
listen, importuning Uncle Joey to take
her to Fort de France, returning through
the streets with people following-the
crowded launch. and then the joy of emp
ty arms filed. But sometimes Pelee
would burst into the deepening channel of
thoughts, effacing the whole, and leaving
her, a shrieking, dishevelled creature, in
tho midst of a chaos which would not an
swer. She went ON deck. Laird, the first
officer, invited her to ascend the bridge
He was scrutinzing through the glass
blotch Of smoke on the city front. what
do you make of 1t, Miss Stansbury?" he
asked.
The lenses brought to her nucleus of
red in the black bank. The rest of Saint
Pierre was q gray doll settlement, set in
the shelter of little gray hills. She
could see the riven and castelated crest
Of Pelee. weaving his black ribbon. 1t
was all small, silent and unearthly.
THAT'S a fire on the Shore" she said.
Exactly" said Laird
Shortly afterward the trumpetings of
the monster began. The harbor grew
yellowish-black. The shore crawled deep
er into the shroud, and was lost alto
gethsr. The water took on a foul look,
a. II the bed of the sea were churned with
some beastly passion. The anchor chain
drew taut mysteriously strained, and
banged q tattoo against the steel-bound
eye. Blue Peter, dropping at the fore
mast, livened suddenly into a spasm of
n,
quiveriny columns Of smoke from the fun
nels were famed down upon the deck,
adding SCOT to the white smear from the
volcano. Lara felt Macready pulling at
her arm.
Eye mustn't 60 below, miss. Ys know
me ordhers."
She rebelled with sudden vshemence,
declaring that shs would smother down
there
"You can do no good here, sure. Don't
make 1t crool fur met"
MAKE haste below, miss-squall COM
ingi" commanded Laird. Gentleness and
jollity were gone from the large red face.
She suffered herself to be drawn down
the ladder, crushed by the officers words,
and the iron fingers Of fear closing about
h.r heart. A hot, fetid breath charged
the air. The water danced, alive with the
yeast Of worlds. The disordered sky In
toned violence. Pelee had set the foun-
dations to trembling.
Lara drifted into the open polar region,
Despair. These man were all his friends.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-04
rH1c,AGo FNEWs. LETTER.

CHICAGO NEWS LETTER C
sas CHICAGO. Aug. 4.-The ghost OF
! the national building and loan assoc
Citations which went TO smash during
the nineties nas been conjured by
Charles Z. Piper. OF Chicago, presl-
dent OF the National Fraternal Con-
/ grezs for the warning OF fraternal In
sgnrance orders which still refuse to
sreadjust their rates to meet the re-
8qnirements which will be put upon
them by death. In 1893 there were
$40 Of the national building and loan
associations with assets OF $4,000
!5GG: ytnese had. snrunk to 35 such or
fEanizatlons January !. 1908. with es-
limited assets Sof $14.5oo.00o. The
gstronbie was that the assessments
were too small to meet the contract
promises given. To foresHll any
such disaster since its convention last
S.year he efforts OF the Fraternal Con-
iEraEs have been to bring the. rates
charged for fraternal insurance In ev-
! cry case up to n point OF adequacy.
/ The congress adopted n firm stand on
this matter last year and that action
WEE n turn for the better, although the
1 Modern Woodmen OF America with
81 500. 900. 900 OF insurance withdrew.
with nearly eight billions of insnr-
Ennce Mt stake. frnternnl orders that
represent about five billions OF this
have subscribed to the movement for
read jllstment of rates and will set out
q TO urge Mt the Boston meeting August
s1G sstnte legislation to safeguard fra
5ternnls by mandatory requirements or
adequate rates. "An ounce of pre-
Vention is better than pound of
Cure" is the policy OF the Congress nj
though some cheap rate. orders still re-
fuse TO see the Handwriting on the
wall. y yRegulative laws were the means
of driving wildcat building and loan
associations oMt Of business and Great
ing Statc and local institutions on an
enduring basis. their total assets as
! result or soundness being nearly n
billion dollars. In the ur-heaval OF
1899 the crimes committed by the ma
tlonal building and loan associations
were exposed. and an appalling per
cent OF them were found to have
mnde more promises than were pos
tsibler of fulfillment with the seciir-
ties and dependable resources in their
vaults. In the crash the savings of
tens OF thousands OF people were lost.
yet the results were less tragic than
that foreseen by the National Frater-
nal Congress IL below cost rates for
insurance be. continued. by the frater-
nal bodies which have not yet read
4iusted their charges for life insurance
certificates. The experince OF all the
sound organizations has been compiled
sby: the Congress in mortality table
f,Whicl accurately shows the averages
OF human life and the increasing per
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u 1asl Ri lgf OF etc

Secretary Knox mas found d new
way to lay the everlasting ghost Of
trouble in Central America which has
haunted the State Department ever
since there was a Central America The
method. which Is now being worked
out. is to all appearances n mere flnan-
cial proposition. but the ultimate OBJ
ject is diplomatic one. Ga,
There are really two objects. One
is to tie string to Central America
the other to save the dignity of the
United States before Great Britain de-
cides to step In and tie string to 1t.
We claim nm undisputed jurisdiction
In this business of tying Strings on the
LatIn-American republics In the west
ern Hemisphere.
The proposition is to have the Amer
lean bankers refund the public debt OF
| Honduras. At present. the bonds OF
the country are selling about ninety
five per cent below par and the bonds
| would be cheap as wall paper If they
were not too small to paste on con.
veniently Most OF the bonds are lreld
by English investors and Great Britain
has been prevented only by regard for
the Monroe Doctrine from jumping In
| and making Honduras pay.
1t would be good thing for Amer
lean bankers II the American govern
ment, through the State Department,
stands back OF them and secs that
Honduras keeps up her payments.
Tint happens to be the what Sncretn-
ry Knox Is looking fora good and
valid excuse for jumping into Hondu'
ras and making 1t walk the straight
and narrow path OF free and en!isht
ened government. BY getting ut Hon.
duras he can get Mt the other repub-
lies and make their disrepntnble presi-
dents toe the line also. Honduras
happens to be the backyard OF Central
America, In which Cabrera Of Gnute'
maln, and Zclnyn. of Nicaragua. are al.
ways having their rllctions. That Is
one reason why the republics Mt their
last conference signed a solemn treaty
to preserve the neutrality OF Hondu-
rus.
This treaty cost n lot OF money for
printing and incidentals. but 1t has not
proven OF any nppreciable value except
as n souvenir. With n hold ON Hon
Iuras. duty to preserve the interest
of the Americans who put up their
money for the refunding scheme. 1t Is
safe to say that II Zelaya Or Cabrera
or anyone else In Central America so
much rs makes faces over the back
fence OF Honduras. Secretary Knox
will be down upon him with n whole
fleet OF warships.
Nicaragua has been acting up with
lmpunIty ever since Knox became Sec
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Semi-centennill contrast OF the corn
crops OF 1909 and OF 1859 has been
made by Chicago statisticlans. the
nresent UNPARALLELED yield OF three bill
lion bushels with farm vnule or 81
11O. 900. 900 being the mark to which
the crop has grown from the S3l.45l''
707 bushels that were the product In
1S5g The commissioner OF AEricul.
ture" In his first published report. Is
sued in 1862. cites the 1856 crop OF
"Indian corn rs an increase OF over
40. per cent. over the previous year.
Drill nlanting. the horse hoe. and I'M
proved shelters have greatly reduced
the amount OF manual labor" he sail.
sand the increased facilities Tor trans
portation to market have enhanced It's
yal1le." The estimated 1909 crop VIII
amount 10 eighty per cent Of the val
ues OF imports and exports of the en-
fire world. Yet this magnificent wealth
of grain and gold Is threatened by ar
mics of brown rates. one OF the not
vet mitigntel import pests ol lhe hA-
ton. These rodents. according TO a
bulletin OF the Department OF Agricnl-
ture, immigratcd in n flood tide from
abroad and have wnged continued
warfare on the farmers crops. Care
fully complied tables show that a sin
gle pair of these common brown mts.
IL allowed to breed nninterruptedly
for nine generations, a period OF less
than three years. will produce 2O.l5j'-
100 brown rats. Tile loss caused by
one rat mt tine lowest figure and even
allowing that MALT Its food Is waste.
is % ucr cent per year. The national
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Chicago rms Letter

lcentage of members taken by death as
their years advance.
Money losses to the State as the re-
suit OF the spread OF drug addictions,
particularly cocaine the American
curse OF today. and the increase, OF
crime, criminals. the insane, and de-
relicts are the subjects OF the inquiry
taken up by the Currier Commission
state boards of charities or control IN
every State having been appealed to
for the facts. The effort Is to ascer-
tain the numbers OF patients In State
institutions who are there as result
OF ,lrug addIctlons and to determine
what drug in different localities is
making the greatest inroads. The fig
nre of 100000 cocaine victims In the
United States Is very conservative ac-
corlling to the earliest returns. Hglt
here in Chicago in the Desplaines
street district. under the supervision
OF Inspector Edward Mccain. now I'M
der suspension. under the very eyes OF
the police stations and mission nous
es the "dope" fiends number ut least
eight thousand. Charles w. Collins
and John Day. OF the commission. as
sert In n Chicago magazine Everyday
Life" "In the dope district oil Chi
cugo may be picked up from the gut
ters In bucketsfml always empty bot
Ties of 'catarrl' or headache patent
medicines in whose formula cocaine
has played large part. a ehhfch
stands in the heart OF that district
where dope and prostitution go hand
I'm hund-the Cathedral st. Peter and
Paul. Drusge d wrecks OF men float
ldeIiriously under its windows and
within n stones throw are cottages
where women place themselves on
sale, cheap. The dean of thht chine-
rlrnl, the Rev. Walter Sumner, told us
with n vial of this 'cntarrh cure III
his fingers-I have picked up these
bottles by the score off the lawn of
the clergy-house. We would clean
them up in the morning but the next
night brought new crop They were
tossed there nonchalantly by the pnpu-
latfon OF the region, floating merrill?
to ruin after exhausting the contents.
Geological gardens to replace the
crampcd quarters for the LOO growl-
ing. saMeakinE. Watering, painting.
sqnnwking. suuenking and roaring Lin
coin Park exhibits to which half MIL
lion men, women and children throhs
every week of the year seem likely to
be the Chicago solution of the wave
of protest against Gagged live animals IN
favor OF stuffed ones. The display OF
elephants. giraffes and boa constric-
tors realistically displayed In mimic
jungies browsing rs in their. native
lair: will be left to the Field Museum.
A zoo OF live ones that will Quito the
Bronx OF New York, and Rock Creek
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park or Washington, Is prDpcsel % re-
place The ia acres now set aside for
the entire exhibit Philadel phia long,
1ead on snakes and sahrians shall be
eraced. declare the park commission
ers Now Chicago ranks with cinein-
natl and Washington In its geological
show; surpassed by Philadelphia's rep
tile collection and of course eclipsed
by the splendid aggregation In the
Bronx. But the zoo in Lincoln Park
being free and the Philadelphia gar
dens OF so acres not SO. the Quaker
city has only half million visitors
during a whole year. The decision In
wolves business problem in park
management: the boat and stand con-
cessions in Lincoln Park are $4,000
n year and payroll and feed bills do
not exceed $4,000 annually. From Lin
coin Parks mead OF 81 bison. intcrna-
tionally famous .tnree were shipped
last week to Oklahoma. The oldest
lloncss In the zoo Is Blind Nellie who
has been In the park 10 years aud Is
the mother of "a and the grandmother
of 81 whelps. Cy De VrJ. keeper or
animals, has refused extravagnnt pric-
es for Nellie. declaring that her ser
vices in propagatinE lions for the
mark have earned her home In her
old age.
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