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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-11-24

to convey instruction to farmers on
so-called dry lands by means of bull.
letins and field demonstration. The
cause ts intensely unitarian and hu-
manitarian, for thousands of settlers,
from Montana to Texas, and Nebras.
ka to Washington, are struggling
with this problem upon homestead
lands where the rainfall, under the
old methods, is insufficient to insure
unfailing crops.
In years of heavy precipitation they
do we'll, for the soil is fertile; but Q
dry season sets them back, and q
series OF dry seasons becomes q ca
lamity. Once these settlers have the
science and practice of Intelligent dry
farming their conditions change from
great hazard and poverty to the pros
perity and attending blessings that
60 with the certain harvest of profita.
BILE crops.-Spokesman Review.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-11-24
Big Floods In Kansas.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 16. - Many
rivers and smaller streams in eastern
Kansas are higher than yer before at
this reason of the year because of the
torrents of rain during the last few
days. Several small towns are flood.
ed and the residents sought shelter on
the highlands last nighet. The weather
was cold and raw, causing much suf.
fering.
TOPEKA, November 16.-F0llowing
heavy rains all along Its course, the
Kaw river has risen more than IA fee,
here in the last "a hours. The bridge
at Manhattan went out today. One
and one-half miles of Union Pacific
railway tracks between Topeka and
Manhattan have been washed out. A
large section of the town OF Frankfort
was inunda ted by the Big Blue river,
many residents escaping from houses
In boats.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-11-24
Mobiles In Mean Attire,

Where did etiquette require mobiles to
appear before their sovereigns meanly
clad? This singular custom character
lied court ceremonial in ancient Mexico
under the Aztec dominion. When the
native lords and grandees had occasion
to seek the presence Of Montezuma
they were under the obligation. as To-
ribio de B~enevente. who accompanied
the Conquistador Cortes, testifies. of
assuming a voluminous mantle Of poor
material (una manta grosera y pobre).
with which they covered and concealed
their ordinary robes. in token Of SUBJ
lection and humiliation. These were
manufactured out of the leaves of the
aloe tree by the m classes.
Etiquette required the strict observ-
ance of this custom by all those who
came into the emperor's presence, with
the exception Of persons of the royal
blood. Any n seeking audience of
the emperor had to don these common
clothes on his arrival at the palace.
Barefooted and wretchedly clad, he
was led before the sovereign and with
downcast eyes made his request, with
every outward sign of abject subserv.
fence,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-11-24
Antiquity of Nicknames.

The origin of the word as we'll as
the exact date Of appearance Of the
custom Of "nicknaming" is unknown.
Such names are as old at least as the
most venerable chronicles. for upon
diving into ancient history we have no
trouble at all in proving that Plato
was called the attic Bee" and Socra-
ties "Old Flat Nose" There isn't the
least doubt but that many Of our sur
names come from nicknames applied
to our ancestors, such, for instance. as
"Dollarhide." "Oxenrider," Bright"
"Lightfoot," "Walkingshaw," "Red-
head" "Longman." "Longfellow," etc.
julius Caesar was popularity styled
"Baldhead." and even the third Ram
eses is said to have been known by an
Egyptian word which signifies "limpy."
No one has been able to escape the
blighting or benign influence Of the
nickname. Kings, queens, philosophers,
divines. statesmen, as we'll as many
other eminent persons, have been made
to prosper Or suffer by having some
appropriate or ridiculous sobriquet be-
slowed upon them.
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Champtontna the Worm,

Oes0ssDOssSU0 SsuO VvObtUs
An incident that occurred some years
ago during a session Of the British
parliament furnished an amusing Il.
lustration Of the power Of satire to
bring about results that sober argu.
ment often fails to accomplish.
There had been introduced a bill de.
signed TO prevent cruelty to wild ami.
mails in captivity. It was opposed on
the ground that, If passed, it would
endanger certain kinds Of legitimate
sport.
When the Earl Of Kimberley arose
he gravely admitted the force Of this
argument.
"There can be no doubt" said he
that the bill would put an end to fish.
ing with worms as bait. 1t is a bill to
prevent cruelty to wild animals in
captivity. The schedule states that
the word animal shall be held to in
clude reptile. A worm may be held to
be a reptile. A worm impaled on a
hook must certainly be held to be in
captivity; therefore the angler who
uses a live worm for bait would be
guilty of cruelty to an animal in cap
tivity."
The laugh that followed at the ex'
pense of those against the bill robbed
the opposition of whatever force it haG
and carried the measure to a sue
cessful issue.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
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Sun Cooking.

Sun cooking-roasting and boiling by
sunlight instead of by coal or gas-has
been going on for 800 years. There are
sun stoves that roast a sirloin or boil
a soup to perfection. They r only
used. however, by scientists. A sun
stove consists mainly Of a mirror-a
spherical mirror-on a joint. There is
also a reflector. The place for pot or
plate is so situated that the mirrors
rays can be focused on it accurately.
A German. Baron Tcherhausen. was
the first sun cook. He began in 1851 to
boil water. and in 1858 he had very
good success in boiling eggs. Sir John
Herschel and Button are other famous
names associated with sun cooking.
In California various sun cooks have
boiled a gallon of water in twenty
minutes. roasted meat in two hours
and poached eggs in fifteen minutes,
quite as good time as the ordinary fire
makes.
An odd thing about meat roasted by
sun rays is that it has an unpleasant
taste. This is avoided by the insertion
of a plate of yellow glass between the
meat and mirror. In all solar stoves
the sheet Of yellow glass aggression.
don Tit-Bits.
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H %HUNCHBACK.
Romance Of the Duke de Riehelieu and
Mile. do Rochechouart.

Romance Of the Duke de RieheIieu and
Mile. do Rochechouart.
The Duke de Richelieu married when
seventeen years Of age Mile. de Roche
chouart, a little girl of twelve. AS was
the custom in the eighteenth century.
the young bridegroom set out on his
travels after the ceremony. and the
! child wife remained with his relations
In Paris. Three years passed. and the
duke (then Count de Chinon). who had
received many charming letters and a
charming miniature from his wife dur
ing his absence, determined to return
home.
On his arrival he was met on the
grand staircase of the Hotel de Richie
lieu by his family. and. to his horror,
instead of the pretty girl of fifteen
that he expected to see. the count saw
a little hunchback who was none other
than his wife. The unhappy young
man, who was horror stricken. left
Paris that night and for fifteen years
remained away.
The poor little wife possessed a beau
tiful and generous disposition, and, so
far from being embittered by her hus-
bands behavior, she did her best to
prevent any family discussions arising
through it and went to live on her
estate Of C~ourteilles. near Paris. 1t is
said that she was deeply in love with
the duke, and in time the accounts of
her unselfshness and devotion to his
family so touched her husband that
he went to visit her.
The first visit led to many, and this
strange couple became firm friends,
and just before he died the duke con-
templated residing permanently at
Courteilles with his wife, from whom
he had fed in disgust many years be-
fore.-Chicago News.
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Remember.

/ remember. l remember the house
where ! was born; the voice Of dad
that beloved forth to rouse me every
morn; the picnic that I always had
when winter breezes blew to clear the
sidewalk Of the snow, the chores I had
to do. I remember, l remember, the
old time days in school, the lickings
that l always got for breaking some
darned rule; the moonlight nights I
used to 60 out in the old bob sleigh
and hug and kiss the pretty girls be.
meath the robes and hay. I remember,
I remember, oh, no, I'll not forget; I'd
like to wander back again to those old
days, you bet!-Los Angeles Express.
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Millions For Forest Reserves.

WASHINGTON, November 16.-Four
hundred thousand dollars, in the iudg.
ment OF Secretary Wilson of the de.
partment of agriculture, will be neces.
9 airy to administer properly the 25,-
600, 600 acres OF public lands added to
the national forests by President
Roosevelt during the last six weeks OF
his administr alton.
The bulk of these lands is in Alas
ka. approximately 1914, 500, 900 acres
of public lands are now included in
the national forests, and to care for
them properly costs a great deal OF
money, the appropriation for the cur.
rent fiscal year for that purpose am
ounting to 81, 624 900.
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He Invented Threshing Machine.

DENVER, Nov. 16.-John r. Mofit,
an inventor of intern ational reputa-
ton, died at his home here yesterday
aged "a years. One of his principal
inventions is the modern threshing
machine, which he invented in 1851,
and which still bears many of the de-
vices originated by him when ne was
a youth. Mr.. Motif was born on a
farm near Canton, Ohio.
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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 exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
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WILL o o DRY N

Congressman Frank w. Mondell of
Wyoming, president of the board OF
governors Of the dry farming con
gress, presented some interesting
statistics ia his address in Spokane.
In round numbers, he said, there are
about 500, 600, 900 acres of arid and
semi, arid lands west of the 9th meri.
dian that are not adapted to irriga.
ton.
From 100, 000, 900 to $50, 0OO. 600 acres
of this land, said the speaker, can be
made pro6tably productive under
scien tifc cultivation. If 100, OOO, OOO
acres of these semi.arid lands could
be made to grow a wheat crop averag.
ing only l24 bushels to the acre il
would NEAR q yield of 1850, 600, DOC
bushels, enough to supply bread and
seed for twice the present population
of the United States. If $50, OOO, OOC
acres were seeded to wheat the yield
would be three times our present crop;
and If, with a great future growth o.
population, many of our people should
take to the eating of rye bread, as II
Europe, $4,000, 900 acres additional,
too dry for wheat, could be cropped
probably to rye.
From these statistics it is e tina
the objects of the dry farming con
gress are of big Importance to tn
American nation, for 1t is evident tina
our present wheat yield is ever no,
gu Substantially needed for home con
sumption, and since the population O
the United States will double within
the next thirty or forty years 1t is ar
parent that the day Ia Fastening upo
US when We must grow more wheat o
cease to be q se~lf.feeding people an
look to other lands for bread.
The objects of the dry farming col
gress ire intensely practical an
laudsbly patriotic. They are,
brief, to develop the science OF pr
ducing profitable crops from a raj,
fall that was insufficient under oil
methods of guilty alton. This scient
has ceased to be q theory. 1t has b
come an inspiring. demonstrate
reality.
The mission of the congress Is ais
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MUST OBEY THE COURTS.
Labor Leaders Must Serve Jail Sen.
tence For CONTEMPT.

.o@~' eSoNSTS "u3t serve Jail Sen.
tence For Contempt.
TORONTO, Nov. l6.-J just as the
conviction OF the American Fedora.
ton OF Labor was about to adjourn
for the day q telegram was received
from Washington announcing thai
the stay asked by the attorneys for
Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison had
been denied by the court of appeals
OF the District of Columbia.
A telegram signed by the three de.
fend ante, was sent to their counsel in
Washington asking when it would be
necessary for them to put in an ap.
pearance to avoid FORGETTING their
bonds which amount to s12, 900; and
stating that they would like to rem ain
In Toronto until the close of the con.
vention Saturday night.
New YORK, Nov. 16.-The strike of
two million members of the American
Federation of Labor, should the Unit
ed States supreme court decide the
contempt cases against Messrs. Com.
pers, Mitchell and Morrison, pro-
posed by the central federation of
Philadelphia, is lot approved by the
local labor leaders. The presidents
and other officers of the largest unions
in this city declare that the plan would
violate all pending agreements with
employers, which would be fatal to
the labor organic atoms and therefore
the calling of such q strike would be
the hardest blow the Americ an FEEDER
alton could give itself.
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~1RANSPLANTED A o N
Showing What an Enthusiast Will Do
to Have q Garden.

to Have q Garden.
Many a country laborer will do much
for the sake of a garden, but few per-
haps would be willing to 60 to such
pains in the pursuit Of their hobby as
did an enthusiastic navy with whom
Dean Hole once came in contact.
This man, having obtained the posi-
ton of g%atekeeper on a railway, found
himself the possessor Of a barren gray
ell pit as an apology for a garden. The
dean, who knew the spot well, visited
it some twelve months after the man
had taken possession, and the sight
which met his eyes astonished him.
"Was it a mirage I saw upon the
sandy desert? There were vegetables,
fruit, bushes and fruit trees, all in
vigorous health. There were flowers
and the queen flower in her glory"
"'Why.' l exclaimed, what have
you done to the gravel pitY
"'Lor' bless YER he replied, grin
ming, 4 hadn't been here a fortnight
afore l swopped it for a pond.'"
A further inquiry elected the fact
that this most ardent garden lover
had, after an agreement with a neigh
boring farmer. removed with pick and
barrow his sandy stratum to the depth
Of about three feet and wheeled it to
the margin Of an old pond. which had
been gradually filed up with leaves
and silt. The rich. productive mold
from the pond he had taken home to
his garden, replacing it with gravel
and leveling as per contract.-West-
minister Gazette.
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Rebuked the Bishop.

The bishop Of Petersburg, England,
IL a great motorist and is also a
stanch teetotaler, and thereby hangs
a tale. On one occasion, while out in
his car, the chauffeur ran short Of
petrol and applied at a public house
for some more. The publican came
out, and, seeing the bishop in his
episcopal dress in the car, said: Eyes,
I've got plenty Of petrol. but I don't
sell II to the likes Of them what never
buys my beer"
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Foolish Boys Stole Locomotive

SEATTLE, Nov. 15.-Forty boys q,
Birmingham, north OF this city. stole
q mogul locomotive that had been
sidetracked by q construction crew
last night, and q the engine several
miles. They then reversed the engine
and started for Birmingham. throw
ing the throttle wide open. The boys
we're unable to stop the engine and
jumped off. All OF them were injured,
FIVE seriously. The engine, which At
taiued q speed of more than q mile
minute, crashed into q freight trair
in the Birmingham yards and wae
wrecked.
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Just q RuSe.

"Wul you take something to drink"
with pleasure"
The photograph was taken, and the
sitter said, but what about that little
Invitation"
"Oh, sir, that is just a trade ruse Of
mine to give a natural and interested
expression to the face."-London An.
OWers.
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RESPECT FOR THE COURTS.

~
pealing for sympathy under false pre-
lenses. In his controversy with th'
courts of the District of Columbia b,
is not in any wav q representative O
freedom of speech and of the press
The courts have not interfered with
his freedom to speak or to print hit
opinions upon any subject whatever
comments the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. What he and his associates
Mitchell and Morrison, we're ordered
to desist from was an unlawful con
spiracy against the business and
property of q manufacturing concern
that had incurred their d%ispleasure,
The publication in their journal was
but an incident of the boycott. The
court never inter. cred with their die.
QUESTION of the controversy. It forbade
the continuance of the boycott. They
refused to regard the order of the
court and announced their def q In
their journal 90 we'll as by word of
mouth. 1t was in this way that the
publication became q part Of their
''contempt of court"
Mr.. Gompers now insists that it is q
righteous thing to defy the authority
of the court when it forbids you to do
what you think you have q right to
do. Is any sort of civilized society
possible in such conditions? He and
his associates had started in to ruin
a man whom they disliked and who
appealed to the court for protection.
This was right. The court patiently
heard the case and gave the persecut.
ed stove maker the protection to which
he was entitled, just as it would have
protected him against physical vic.
lence to his person or property.
Gompers is at liberty to think, If he
will, that the court was wrong, but he
is not the authorized tribunal to re.
verse its judgment. To this, until re.
versed, he must submit. If he refuses,
the court must have the power to en-.
force it's judgment and command
obedience, else the whole theory of
government by law falls to pieces.
People like Gompers get entirely
toe much encouragement, from many
who ought to know better, in this dis
position to put the law beneath their
own conception of their ''rights."
The wisdom or policy of Justice
Wright's opinion need not be dis.
cussed here. 1t has sufficient %iustif-
cation in this persistent contumacy.
And Gompers' defiance is only a
cheap kind of heroism after all. he
never has been restrained of his lib.
erty for one moment. He has taken
appeal after appeal, and now goes of
to Canada to talk misleading non.
sense about his %martyrdom and hurl
defiance at the United States. If his
thought Is to make the DEGREES of the
Federation of Labor, of which be is
the head, the supreme law of the land,
honest and Industrious workingmen
and all good citizens must with all
earnestness discountenance him and
his ambitions. Especially must those
who understand the meaning of liberty
reject such championship.
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INCREASING FOOD SUPPLY.

uIo ECC0uV tOuE VI SU0V0 BLU county
fairs in the northwest he kept telling
the farmers that they were not raising
enough wheat and that there was
bound to be q big shortage In this
country unless they planted q larger
acreage.
The founder of the empire of the
northwest" as Mr.. Hill is often
called, has the reputation of an opti-
mist rather than q pessimist, Gays the
Chicago Inter Ocean. When he dis.
cusses an important subject he al.
ways has figures to fortify his state.
me nts. His entreaty to the farmers
to plant more wheat was based on the
fact that the total acreage of the Unit.
ed States this year is only 46. 262, 600
acres, q decrease of 1895, 900 acres
from the acreage of 1908. The total
yield of wheat this year is estimated
at ia, 920, 900 bushels, while the yield
last year was 663, 602, 90, bushels.
Even more important to the Ameri-
can farmer than increasing his acre.
age of wheat is increasing the number
of bushels of wheat he derives from
40 acre. The smaller the yield per
acre the greater is the cost per bushel
of raising it. The avera ye yield per
acre in 1908 vas q fraction less than
IA bushels, while the average this
year was a fraction less than l6 BUSH
els to the acre.
The average increase this year over
that of 1908 is gratifying, but how far
it is from being what it might be is
forcibly demonstrated by the results
OF the experiments at the agricultural
college of Kansas to secure better
seed wheat for that state.
During the last eve or eight years
there has been tested at the three ex.
pertinent stations of that college sew
eral hundred varieties of wheat Sc
cured from all parts of the world.
Few of them, it is found, are superior
in yield and quality of grain to the
hard winter wheat known as Turkey
red,' which was imported from Eu.
rope about 25 years ago.
This year the average yield per
acre of "Turkey red" wheat at the
experiment station at Mcpherson,
Kan, was 1904 bushels, or more than
three times the general average of all
wheat grown in the United States this
year. Such a result is indeed credi.
table to the ~"scientifc farmers at
whom the average agriculturist was
inclined to scott not 80 very many
years ago. True, the average yield
everywhere showed an increase this
year over that of last, but at the Nc.
Pherson station the average yield OF
"Turkey red" wheat for the last five
years has been A 81 bushels to the
acre.
In Kansas and most other wheat
growing states the hard wheat is bet
ter adapted to the upland and the
soft wheat to the bottom land and
more fertile soil. The yield of sof,
wheat per acre is much less at the
Kansas experiment stations than OF
hard wheat. The soft and semi.hard
wheat grown at them this year av'
eraged from 2O.5 t o 1871 bushels pei
acre.
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Making Herself at Hon

Making Herself at Home.
Last summer ive-year-old Lola's aunt
came to spend a week with them.
Nov. aunty," said Lola, you must
make yourself at home"
"How can I do that dearT" queried
her aunt.
"Why," answered Lola, you can
pitch in and help mamma work."-Chi-
cago News.
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On the Toboaoan,

"Many a man." said Uncle Eben,
"ihinks he's havin' a tremendous big
time as a sport when he is merely
goin' through de initiation of de Down
and Out club."-Washington Star.
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The finisher.

Lawyer-What is your occupation?
Witness-I'm a piano finisher. Law
yer-Be a little more definite. Do you
polish them OF move them?-Boston
Transcript.
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Notice to the Public.

All those who are indebted to Wallace E.
Chase are requested to settle their accounts as
soon as possible. Goods will hereafter be sold
for cash only, at reduced prices.
H. j. WACKERLIN, Trustee.
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The Gossin,

Nell She's an awful gossip. She
tells everything she hears. Belle-Oh,
she tells more than that.-Philadelphia
Record.
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Do not make unjust gains. They are
equal to n loss.-Hesiod,
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A good heart overcomes evil fortune.
Quixote.
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