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ARLINGTON

Ladies are invited to a millinery
opening of fall and winter hats on
Thursday, October TIN at Miss Hama
mans Parlors, Manchester Center.
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LANDGRoVE

Guy Parker was home from Man
chester over Sunday.
Arson Chadwick of Saxtons River
is visiting his son VIII Chadwick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Streeter and
two children have returned to the r
home in SALISBURY.
Mr.. and Mrs Byron Hazelton aud
children, Mr. and Mrs. John Reilly Of
Londonderry and Mrs. Charles Abbott
and daughter visited at the hone of
s. II. Abbott Sunday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-07
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis. Mimi was a great
sufferer from female troubles which
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

That the exclusive application of the
term "scientifc farming" to the cult
walton of the lands of the west not
susceptible to irrigation, 10 improper,
is obvious to all who know anything
about agriculture. To be sure there
is something scientific about farming
the dry lands of the country, but it is
also true that all farming is scientific,
or rather it must be in order that
results may be obtained.
There should be nothing in the term
scientific agricultural" says the
Billings Gazette, to brighten the
average farmer or to lead him to sup
pose that the cultivation of the semi.
arid lands is work exclusively for the
graduate of agricultural schools or of
government agricultural experts. The
scientific farmer is the farmer who
''knows how" and that is all there is
to it.
The farmer who would get results,
either upon dry FARMS" the irri-
gated tract, or in the land where the
rainfall is sufficient and more than
sufficient to raise crops, must be
scientifc--that is to say, he must
know how. The dry farmer must
know how to SO till his land that the
natural precipitation may be con.
served and may be available for
furnishing moisture to growing crops:
the irrigation farmer must know just
how much water to apply to any
particular crop and justIwhen to apply
it, while the farmer in.the countries OF
heavy rainfall must know what sort OF
crops will do best under the conditions
which obtain in his locality, and how
best to drain the soill of its surplus
moisture. Each of the .tthree classes
mentioned must know the sorts OF
seeds best adapted to his land, and il
he would make farming profitable, he
must have an understanding of the
problems of markets and ~transporta-
ton.
The scientific side of dry farming,
the "know how" Ia no more compli'
Gated than Is the scientific eide of irri'
cation or any other kind of farming.
No scientific farmer could expect tc
pursue the methods of the far east il
the cultiv alton Of land in the semi. arid
regions, any more than the dry farme,
would attempt to say the precipita'
ton were he to attempt to cultiva ate
the soil In a country where the rain
fall was excessixe.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Want Duty On Hides.

WASHINGTON, March 3O.-The fate
of the lumber and hides items in the
proposed new tariff law probably will
not be decided until the conference re-
ports or the bill have been approved
by both the senate and the house.
These articles have been buffeted more
than those of any other class of i'm
ports.
Clashes have occurred over these
schedules between the representa- yes
Of the east and west, and there is a
prospect Of the differences becoming
SO sharp that the democrats from the
southern states may determine the
outcome.
The western senator's on the commit
tee have proved particularly strong
advocates OF the restoration of the
duty on hides, while Senator Lodge
is said to stand almost alone in his
campaign for free hides. Champions
of the movement to take the duty off
lumber entirely are not SO sanguine
of success as the ad c ates of free
hides, so far as their contest in the
committee is concerned.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
FOUR PcXES.
An Effective Quartet Of Great Gov.
erning Powers.

An Effective Quartet Of Great Gov.
erning Powers.
"The world is governed by three
boxes" said ar American wit of q GEN.
fury ago. "the cartridge box, the ballot
box and the bandbox."
Between the first two Of these great
governing powers no n questioned
the natural alliance, but that the sex
whose box was the bandbox should
also claim a right to use the ballot
box was in his day undreamed of. Half
a century later. during the civil war,
Horace Greeley, the famous editor,
held the old opinion.
MADAM" he said bluntly at a pub
lie meeting to the pioneer suffragist,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "the bullet
and the ballot SO together. If you
want to vote. are you ready to aght7"
Certainly, SIR" replied the quick
witted lady, to the delight Of the audi
ence. II am ready to fight just as you
have fought-with my pen."
Not all the early women suffragists
would so readily have c~ountenanced
warfare, even in jest, for a notable
number of them were Quakers or Of
Quaker ancestry, to whom force was
abhorrent. In the Society Of Friends
the rights Of men and women have
been always absolutely equal, so that,
as Lucretia Mott declared, it seemed
but natural to wish to counsel and
act with men everywhere on even
terms, as she had always done in
Nantucket.
One Quaker ph~ilanthropist, Abby
Hopper Gibbons, who had never beer
identified with the "woman's rights
women, yet acknowledged with de.
mure humor that, although she talked
little about her rights, she had "beep
in the habit of always taking them
when she could.
Once, however, she failed to take a
very important n when she was
summoned to do so. She had a. singu-
larry bold and firm handwriting, easily
mistaken for a mans, and often signed
business communications simply A. n.
Gibbons, so that she one day found
herself, as a citizen and a taxpayer,
imperatively required, in the name of
the law. to furnish reasons why she
should not serve as a juror.
II know Of none," she wrote serene
~ at the foot of this formidable docu.
ment and sent it back. But the official
who read this apparently impertinent
response must have investigated the
record Of his correspondent and found
a reason, for A. II. Gibbons, house
holder of New York, was excused from
service in that fourth box, so impor-
tant in civilized communicable jury
box.-Youth's Companion.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Woman Suffers Death Penalty.

AUBURN, N. Y, March 29.-Hoping
that she might save her husband from
the fate that befell her, Mrs. Mary
Farmer, convicte of killing Mrs. Sarah
Brennan last April, in Brownville,
left q confession made public after
her execution by electrocution in
Auburn prison, early today. In this
she declared her husband. James
Farmer. now under sentence of death,
was not guilty of the crime, and moth.
ing Of 1t was known by him until II
had been committed.
The crime for which Mrs. Farmer
was executed, and for which her hus'
band. James D. Farmer, is also under
sentence of death, was the murder OF
Mrs. Sarah Brennan, q neighbor, Ia
the village of Brownville, Jefferson
county, about four miles from the city
of Watertown, on Thursday, April %,
1908. The body of Mrs. Brennan was
found on the following Monday in q
trunk owned by Mrs. Farmer and ir
her possession.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Davis Estate In Litigation.

BOSTON, March 30.-Although An
drew j.. Davis, q millionaire mine
owner of Butte, has been dead for
more than twenty years, the litigation
over his estate, which has been in the
courts of Montana and Mass achusetts,
is not yet finished. In the United
States circuit court yesterday J. A.
Coram, a mining promoter Of this
city, brought suit against the Davis
heirs, asking for first lien on the es-
tate in Massachusetts, which consists
of S24O, 900 in cash and $l75, 900 in
bonds of the Butte & Boston CON-
pany.
The original Davis estate amounted
to So, 1000 900. In the early suits a
bogus will appeared, on which the
numerous heirs secured the necessary
funds to fight Mr.. Coram. Before the
heirs had won their case they dis.
agreed and further litig alton resulted
in a compromise. Then the widow OF
Col. Robert G.. Ingersoll brought suit
for legal services rendered by her
husband, who was counsel for the es'
tate. The supreme court of the United
States awarded her 800, 600 and in.
terest.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Feeble Opposition To Tariff Bill.
Anaconda Standard

Anaconda Standard.
When it comes to putting up q fight
against the Payne tariff bill-so far
as democratic opposition is concerned
the best Champ Clark and his Is.
sociates q do is to go through the
In this case the democracy,
as an opposing, organized force, is
worse than q minority; it is, itself, so
di vided that it can make no effective
opposition. 1t developes that there
are q good deal more than q score OF
democratic house members who, under
all circumstances, would not be willing
to defeat the Payne bill, even If they
were able to do it and come squarely
out for tariff Legislation along Mr..
Bryan's Denver platform lines. The
speech of Mr.. Clark was sent to the
country in summary only, 80 that q
fair estimate of its merits cannot We,
be made. But, in any event, the sum
mary is suggestive OF nothing better
than an amiable effort to say some
thing against the bill, but not toe
much. The only real obstacles the
measure will run against are those
which republicans in the senate viii
lay across its path.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
THE BEY'S GUEST.
He Was Ready For the Emergency and
CONQUERED the African.

He Was Ready For the Emergency and
Conquered the African.
A show Of force is often the best
kind Of diplomacy. A writer in the
Paris Temps tells a story Of the French
admiral Dupetit-Thouars. who had
been intrusted with the mission Of
exacting reparation from an African
hey who had insulted a French consul.
As Dupetit-Thouars' demands were
supported by the forcible argument Of
loaded cannon, the hey acknowledged
that he had been too hasty and prof
fered profuse apologies. He ever in
vited the admiral to his table and had
a sumptuous repast prepared for his
guest.
The consul warned the admiral to be
on his guard.
1.-THE hey is II inclined to be malicious"
said he, land when he strokes his
beard and smiles you may be sure that
he is connecting some mischief"
Eve shall see," was Dupetit- Thouars'
reply.
He reached the bey's palace in good
SAA4Cs AOOV compartments anu O0Au-
tations were exchanged. All at once
the admiral's foot met some soft,
hairy substance lying on the carpet un-
der the table. He bent down and saw
a huge lion showing his formidable
teeth. The hey smiled and stroked his
beard.
Dupetit- Thouars did not vince, but
called his dragoman.
my pistols" was all he said.
The servant saluted, retired and
brought back a pair of pistols on a
silver tray. The admiral took them
and placed them on the table before
him. But the hey, still smiling, contin-
ued to stroke his patriarchal beard.
"Tell the commander" he said to
the dragoman, "that If those pistols are
for the purpose Of blowing out my
lions brains they are quite insufficient
and perfectly useless"
Then, like a skilled fencer counter
ing his opponents thrust, after the
bey's ironical advice had been trans
lated Dupetit-T houars replied:
'"Tell his highness that my pistols are
not there to kill his lion, but to blow
his own brains out at the first move
ment of this Objectionable carpet"
Gravely, but a little pale, the man
interpreted.
The smile died away on the bey's
lips, and he no longer stroked his
beard.
"My lion," said he, lis too well train
ed ever to scratch one Of my guests,
but since he is not wanted he shall be
sent away"
At a word from the hey the lion
slowly and heavily left the room, like
an Obedient dog.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

IN that the forests formerly acted as
storage reservoirs, or giant sponges,
which held the water back and kept
the sire from sudden rises during
heavy rains and from becoming very
low when it'rained not at all. This
damage car be remedied by construct
ing artificial reservoirs.
Water wheels of the very latest pat.
tern are now made in all sizes from
the little fellow which fastens on the
house tap to drive the sewing machine
to the giant turbine capable OF turn
ing Niagara's thousands of horse
power into electricity for Buffalo,
Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse,
and Toronto. The water wheel is con.
nected so as to drive an electrical
generator which changes the energy
into electricity so it al be transmit
ted any reasonable distance to be
used for power, light and heat.
OF course one hears q great deal
about the water power developments
at Niagara and along such rivers as
the Hudson, Susquehanns, the Kern
and Feather rivers in California;
the Wenatchie, Columbia, Catawba,
Yukon and other large streams where
thous snds and thousands of horse
power are available but the smaller
cities and villages are Harvesting the
small streams for light and power
and even the farmer IL slipping an
electric bride on the meadow trout
stream and bringing the six to ten
horse power to his house and barn to
do the work about the farm and to
give him the comforts of the city in
his rural home.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
THE COBRA STONE.
A Cey'on Story About the Reptile and
Its Shining Lure.

S''''S .S'S
Every n knows that Ceylon is ia
nous for the amount Of queer and rare
precious stones found in the sands of
its dried up river beds. Among these
is one called 'chlorophane,' a rare "A
riety of fluOr spar, which shines ut
night with phosphorescent light. There
has long been a tradition among the
natives that a certain species of cobra
makes use of this stone to attract in
sects in the darkness. Indeed, the
name given it is "naja-kaller." or CO.
bra stone. A scientist resolved to test
this wonderful story during a stay In
the island, so offered any cody 5 ru-
pees to point out a stone carrying CO.
bra. In about a week an old Tamil
came in and offered to show him one.
He followed this guide, and, sure
enough, there, under an immense tama-
rind tree, he saw a little point Of steady
greenish light and could family distin-
guish behind a cobra coiled and slowly
waving it's head from side to side. 1t
would have been desperately dangerous
to approach the reptile, and the cody
begged him not to do So. saying that
next night he would himself get the
stone. He did so, and in rather clever
fashion. Before dark he climbed into
the tree, carrying Il large bag Of ashes.
After nightfall the cobra turned up, as
usual, and deposited its treasure, which
1t carried in its mouth, before it.
Thereupon the cody emptied his bag
Of ashes over the shining object, and
the frightened reptile after a wild but
fruitless search crept back into the
jungle. The cody descended, searched
the ashes, found the stone and re-
ceived his promised reward.-London
telegraph.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
DEVELOPING WATER POWER.

The recent action of the federal
authorities in Withdrawing from entry
large areas of public lands adjacent
to rivers in various parts of Montana,
indicates an appreciation of the i'm.
portance Of water power to the indus.
trial welfare of the community. The
withdrawal of these lands is under.
stood to be for the purpose of reserv.
ing available sites for water power
plants that will probably be needed
for the public benefit at an early date.
The development of water power enter.
prises is discussed in a recent issue OF
the Electrical News, which says /,
is becoming so important in this
country that the General Electric com.
pany and other large concerns main.
tain q large staff of engineers whose
duties are to examine prospective
water power developments for enter
prising men who plan to harness tht
rivers and streams.
The building of dams In rivers ant
streams ia q very simple matter nov
compared to what it vas q few year
ago. All the new dams are made O
concrete. Rough board forms ar
constructed where the dam is needle,
and the concrete Is simply mixed an,
dumped into the moulds and above,
to harden. These dams do not cos
anywhere near as much as stone ma
sorry and can be erected in a com
paratively short time. 1t is argue'
that the destruction of the forests ha
impaired the water power of the coun
try. This is true to q certain extent
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Scotland's Patron Saint.

Why was st. Andrew chosen as the
patron saint Of Scotland? This ques-
ton has been asked many times, but
the archdeacon Of whom Dean Hole
tells may be considered to have discov-
cred the most satisfactory solution of
the problem. Gentlemen" said he (he
was speaking at a st. Andrews day
banquet at the time), II have given
this difficult subject my thoughtful
consideration, and l have come to the
conclusion that st. Andrew was chosen
to be the patron saint Of Scotland be-
cause he discovered the lad who had
the loaves and 1shes."-Dundee Ad
vertiSer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
RECEIVERS COAL LANDS.
Government Wins Suit Against Land
Grabbing Corporation.

Government Wins Suit Against Land
Grabbing Corporation.
SALT LAKE CITY, March 29.-A
notable victory was won by the United
States government in the district court
today, when the Utah Fuel company
paid into court 5000, 900, and pleaded
guilty to the charge of obtaining coal
land by fraud.
The company, a subsidiary corpora
ton OF the Rio Grande railroad, to-
gether with several of its officers and
employees, was indicted by a federal
grand jury in April, 1907, for obtain.
ing the title to lao acres of coal
land in Sewer county Utah, through
dummy entrymen.
The validity of the Indictment was
attacked, as was the constitution ality
OF the law under which it was brought.
The charges under the Indictment
were ultimately sustained by the
supreme court of the United States,
and the defend ants we're on the verge
OF trial by jury when the surrender
took place.
The plea of guilty was entered today
by j. F. Vale, general counsel for
the fuel company. The court assessed
q fine for 1892, 900 in favor of the gov.
eminent for coal taken from the
ground. The land reverts to the
public domain, and the company loses
the S14, 400 fee originally paid, as we'll
as the sums paid to the dummy entry
men by whom 1t was taken up.
The indictments against the in
dividual defendant were dismissed as
were five suits in equity involving
many thousands Of acres taken up by
dummies as agricultural land and
afterwards turned over to the fuel
company.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exch ange, drawing
direct On all principal American and
European cities, and issues Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid or time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

HELENA, March 30.-After being
out a short time the jury in the case
OF Peter Larson of Plains, charged
with selling a glass Of beer to Henry
Matt, a Flathead Indian, returned a
verdict finding the defendant guilty.
His attorney, H. c. Schultz, moved
for q new trial.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Lively cheese.

"How did you find the Stilton I sent
your"
"Find It? We didn't find It! As
soon as ever my wife's back was
turned It jumped from the pantry
shelf, ran down the garden, out Of
the gate and was last seen chasing a
frightened dog down the road."-Lon.
don Scraps.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
Hard to Choose.

"Whom would you rather entertain"
asks the philosopher Of folly, "a per-
fectly stupid bore or a clever fellow
who has just been abroad for the first
time ?"-Exchange.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
The Forecast.

Husband-Well, what did the phre-
nologist say about Willie's head?
Wife-Nothing. He simply sighed and
handed me my money back. Husband
Just as I expected. He's going to be
a poet.-Exchange.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
prints All the News"

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considers it worthy of recommendation
to friends, the favor will be very high.
~ appreciated by its publishers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

A man that hath not virtue in him
self ever envieth virtue in others.-Ba-
con.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

The acts Of this life are the destiny
Of the next.-Eostern Proverh
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07

Local Securities a Specially.
Interest Allowed on Time Deposits
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