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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-05

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng soft1ns tho gums reduces In
Examination. aliays PAIN cures wind colo. sc bottle
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-05
Hard to Keep Guile,

Hard to Keep Quiet.
She---I should think tragedy parts
were very hard on a woman.
He-Pantomime parts are a great
deal more irksome.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-05

The more a girl smiles the less she
means It.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-05

You might say OF o legal wedding,
Certainly knot"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-05

MES S. AINsLIE AND SONS"
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24

examination, "have got to go quick, or have
You'll have several days, several years, if
you keep quiet, now, SAID the surgeon as nc
beckoned for the stretcher.
I'm going to live"
Sure. You're badly hurt; but it's nothing
serious You'll be all right as soon as we We
fixed you up. Only, don't talk. Ready, Bob!
he said to the driver.
forward 1--WE got to find out how this hap
pened. Any charges?" He glanced at Carrie
ton you re the man who was going to make
the complaint"
Carleton shook his head. Il didn't see the
the accident" he said. There's the victim
Ask him..
Morgan smiled; but it was not pleasant
smile His eyes sought out Lessing, who shrank
from their sinister glare. Then he laughed
mo" he replied to the officers inquiry, We
no complaint to make You see, I'm going to
get well. 1t was my fault. got in the gentle
mans way. If l should ever get in his way
again, he might be the sufferer Perhaps may
He SAYS he's going abroad. So am when
get we'll" He laughed again.
"You won't do either if you don't keep
quiet" broke in the surgeon. Now, Bob, all
right"
Together they lifted the stretcher.
I'm have to get all your names, ," Fsaid the
policeman as the ambulance started away.
THERE was little stir in the crowd and a
man pushed his way through
"Pinckneyl" cried Eleanor Marshall.
"Ah, Johns!" said Major Mason, looking
from his cousin to the policeman. What's
the trouble?"
IAN accident, Major" replied the officer,
saluting. Major Mason was a power in State
politics, I'm getting the names of the wit
nesses.'
Suppose l give you the names of the gen.
tlemen and we leave the ladies out of it? Won't
that do?" The Majors glance rested benignly
on the policeman.
"That'n do for me, Major. Come back, you!
Not so fastl" ne said suddenly to Lessing A
train had entered the station, and the broker
and his wife were hurrying aboard.
Don't get excited. I've given bail to be
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24

here in the morning, shouted Lessing, his con
fidence returning as he felt the tram begin 70
move.
explain the situation to the Major.
CARLETON felt a light touch on his arm
- "Does he really mean to come back To-
morrow, do you Think" 1t was Eleanor Mar
shall.
his bail ten times over. The cars no loss. He
hasn't paid for it. He'll go abroad, as he said.
you heard what Morgan said-that he was
Carleton nodded. "To be their Nemesis, +"
he said.
Cant you stop him? 1t isn't right for him to
drag them down into the mire again, when they
are trying to begin life all over: You're re-
sponsble for what happened tonight, and you
must stop him!
III responsible" Carleton began;
but Eleanor interrupted him.
Eyes, youl Didn't you tell me about 1t
yourself? You got up this make-believe bur
g1ary with Morgan, and tried to tempt Less1ng
into it for the sake of your own vengeance
to paw him back for having batt1ed you before
to show what fine detective you arei" The
girls voice throbbed with suppressed emotion
"And then when he was almost tempted.-nO
worse. forced into this wifes love for him,
her determination to save him at all hazards,
nearly Sacr1hced him after all. FrO1nlSe me
promise me you'll try to get Morgan to see 1t as
we do This is very horrible to me. | thought
that PLAYING detective was all fun and excite
ment / never saw the depths into which it
might lead. VIII you promise-promise never
to do anything like this againa"
Carleton leaned toward the girl who pleaded
so earnestly for his enemy and took her hand
"I'n promise-on one condition.
"a condition." She looked up wonderingly
Eyes, that know you have the right to
exact promise"
The right"
Eyes. the right. a woman can require such
a promise only from the man she loves as he
loves her-as love you. Do you demand it of
me?" He bent his head to catch her answer.
Promise mel" she whispered.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24


largest city in the State. Now not only do
these unwholesome conditions transfer their
menace by means of milk. butter, cheese, and
vegetables, but the city man who takes week
end in the country. or the real estate. book, or
lightning rod agent who goes out among the
farms on business may return with lively
community of germs in his system, conveyed
from the lips of some moss covered bucket
that hangs in a misplaced we'll
Did you ever stop to think that the milk YOU
drink may be peddled from a farm whose well
occupies the middle of a marshv field, where
the cattle lie and linger in the hot summer
weather, the site of which, being only twenty
rods from barn and house, and on a lower
level, receives Seepage of surface filth Or it
may be that the water supply IS an iron ciStern
IN a cellar without proper cover to protect the
water from dust and dirt. Or perhaps it is a
drilled well with a surface reservoir shielded
only by loose boards which allow the ground
washlngs from rains to trickle down into the
water. Even driven we'll with casing is not
safe If bad water is used for printing or the well
IS too nelghbOrly to a polluted stream
All these types described are actual ones, as
referred to in the report of recent investiga-
ton made by experts in one State. This State
IS probably less notorious example of evil con-
dlt1onS than its sisters, and was selected as the
field for investigation only because it embodied
a VIDE range OF economic and agricultural con-
dtlons. Out of seventy-eight water supplies
examined, htty-nlne were found to be more or
less seriously polluted, and twentv-one of the
farms showed record of typhoid fever
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
By R. A. Sanborn

Is the Old Oaken Bucket car By R. A
l. rier of disease? asks science,
turning the cold white ray of
analysis upon the roSe-pink of sentiment. The
original of the venerable property that occu-
pies the right center of the stage in every rural
drama is under suspicion. Its dayS num-
bered, and only twenty-three of them are left
for it to dominate over the barnyard. Not that
the dear old pail will ever die There is no
death for that which poetry has immortalized.
HencefOrth, however, the messy bucket will
dwell only in that realm imagined by Plato,
where the ideal is the real. whose shadows are
the real things Of this world of fact.
lust so long the majority of our popula-
ton lived in the country, guided the plOw,
trimmed the golden wheat locks, and p1ucked
the robust onion, science never interfered with
the purlieus of the farmer. He might build his
picturesque wellsweep in the lowest spot in the
barnyard, plant vines to Chamber over it that
kept the woodwork in state of moist decay,
leave open the top that the homeless dust
and filth might settle in, hang the solid oak
bucket from the long slender ishpole, and as a
consequence of this artistic arrangement might
enjoy the slow feverS of spring and the speedier
ones of the summer when the water was low
and the germ life made a city Slum of the dear
old well. No one said him nav or raised voice
to teach him the principles of proper sanitation.
The growth of cities, the organization of pop
ulatiOn, and the rise of the noble army of sci
enCe in defense against the willy and invading
germ changed the old order. Science stands
at the gate of the city, armed with authority
and the weapons of analysis, haltS the ap-
preaching turnip and milk-can, and calls for
the COunterSign, Purity" 1t asks embarraSS-
ing questions such as, Where were YOU born'
Was your late home cleanly? Did they treat
you we'll? What was the color of your bath
and did it have any odor? Did you come out
of dry sweet smelling barn?"
And should the turnip hang sulky head
and should the of milk refuse to answer
ION advice of counsel" back they go to the
place of birth,-traitors, cOncealing on their
person millions of the treacherouS germ enemy,
which under cover waitedliBe the forty thieves in
the jars of oil for an opportunity to rob and kill
Dependence of Cities
THE right of science to question the sanitary
conditions under whichfarm produce is pre-
pared for market is based upon the dependence
of our cities on the supply of garden truck
and dairy products that come from OUTLYING
farms. As a matter of fact if the cities them
selves could raise their own vegetables and
make their own butter, the harnlessness of
these articles could be more safely relied upon :
for sanitary cOnvenienCeS and rules prevail
more completely within urban limits than in
the rural environs. Too many farms are no
more progressive than they were in the davs of
our sturdy but unenlghtened grandfathers.
For example, Washington, d. c., with fill
tered water of unassailable purity, is peppered
with scattered cases of typhoid that can be
traced only to rural sources. Some rural dis
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
Sciences Death Warrant

IN accordance with the conclusions of these
Investigators, science will read the death
warrant to the wellsweep and the iron-bound
bucket; not that the picturesque features Of
old fashioned country life are in themselves so
wicked, but because of the evil company that
IS generally found associated with them Of
all water sources examined, the dug we'll with
open top and hanks unprotected from surface
waShrngs betrayed the most alarming dancers
ClSterns and bored, drilled, and even driven
wells may all be bad where there is only iono-
rance and indifference to care for the externa1s
In every case where an individual water s11nD11-
was convicted of breeding deadly germs the
brand OF guilt was placed upon the brow of the
one responsible for the keeping of the DIace
The sohcitude of citv authorities co5cern;r,,
the water supplies of farms will exert an eCIIIca9
ting influence which in time will reclaim, No.
remote sections from the crime of COMMITTING
suicide with the waters of unsanitarv wells
Let health officers compel dairy farmers
among other things, to case their wells tightly
provide them with secure coverings and r.
place them on ground higher than the loCatioTS
OF OF barns and yards and the neighbors of those
farmers will learn better methods bv the nroc-
eSs OF natural dissemination and will come r. an
ply these methods as means of self protection
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24

tricts of Maryland show a percen-
tage Of typhoid cases two or three
times that in Baltimore, the
New-York tribune., 1909-10-24

here in the morning. shouted Lessing his con
fdence returning as he felt the tram begin 70
move.
''See you are" warned Johns, and turned to
explain the situation to the Major.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Big Deal In Ranch PROPERTY,

BILLINGS, July 26.-What ia said
to be the largest cash transaction ever
made in the state for farm lands was
concluded yesterday, when the pur.
chase price for the Sudduth ranch in
the Broadview district, north of the
city, ives paid owe to T. II. Ray OF
Wilmington and Edward Corliss OF
Joliet, Ill.
The transa action involves the trans.
fer OF 5000 acres OF land, which in.
cludes the Broadview home ranch OF
Dr.. Sudduth, the experimental farm,
in fact, all of the holdings of DR..
Sudduth except his ranch lying along
the Musselshell river. The purchase
price is not given out.
According to Mr.. Ray the land will
now be colonized and sold off in small
tracts to actual settlers, and for the
purpose of accomplishing this DR..
Sudduth and George A. Waterman
will ally themselves with the purchas,
ers in exploiting and selling the land,
1t is figured that most of the land vii,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
The Hens Health.

DR.. Salmon of the bureau of animal
industry lays down this rule for tell
ing the health of the bird by it's drop.
pings: The condition of the droppings
furnishes q good indication OF the
hens health. They seuld be of stuff.
cient consistency to hold their shape,
but should not be too solid. In color
they should be dark, tapering of into
grayish white. If the droppings are
soft or pasty and Of q yellowish or
brownish color, it indicates too much
carbohydrates or q lack of meat. IT,
on the other hand, the droppings are
watery and dark, with red splashes Of
in them, it indicates too much
meat. A greenish, watery diarrhoea
usually indicates unsanitsry condi.
tons, either in the surroundings, the
feed or the water.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Caught BY Decoy Letter.

SALT LAKE CITY, July 26.-Little
~suspecting that he was about to be
drawn into the tolls of the law through
the medium of a decoy, Louis Har-
chart, alias Hartman, called at the
city %postofice here yesterday to claim
a registered letter and, incidentally,
walked into the arms of two detectives
who were waiting to apprehend him.
Harchart, who is wanted in Butte for
alleged forgery, as we'll as to answer
charges of horse stealing, assumed
the name of Smith while in this city
and found employment with a fruit
concern. 1t is charged that an at.
tempt to work the combin alton of the
company's safe was made Saturday
night and suspicion was directed upon
Harchart.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Taft Will Visit State Fair.

HELENA, July 26.-News was re.
ceived in Helena tod ay that President
Taft will not only visit Butte on his
western trip, but will visit Helena and
the state fair also. The announce
ment came in the shape of a telegram
from Senator Carter to T. A. NARROW
of this city, the telegram reading:
1.-THE president will arrive in Butte
shortly before 7 o'clock on the norm
ing of September % or 20, allowing
five hours in Butte. I have requested
that he permit US to run his car from
Butte to Garrison, via Helena, so that
he a reach the state fair. CONNER
cial clubs and prominent citizens gen.
orally should unite in urging the
president to accept the invitation by
communica atoms directed to him. On
my arrival there will be prepared to
give Information as to character and
extent of ceremonies and in meantime
will make all needful arrangements
for transfer of car from Butte to
GarrisOn,n
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Notice to Taxpayers.

In accordance with the provisions of Section
7547, Revised Codes of Montana, notice is hereby
given that the assessment book Of Chouteau
assessor and delivered to the county clerk, and is
now in his Office open to inspection by all persons
interested. The board of county commissioners
Monday in July (July 10, 19O9,) at the court house
in Fort Benton, to examine the assessment of
property in the county, and will continue in ses-
sion tor that purpose from time to time until the
later than the second Monday in August august
9, 1909. Any person having grievances or COM
plants in regard to their assessments as shown
by, the assessment book compiled by the assessor,
will present them to the board of equalization
during the period herein mentioned for that pur-
pose, viz, from the 18th day of July to the 9th
barred from making corrections in their assess
ments.
Attention is called to the following sections of
the Revised Codes Of Montana in relation to the
duties of the board of equalization:
Section 2574. No reduction must be made in
the valuation OF property unless the party affect
ed thereby, or his agent, makes and files with the
board a written application therefor, verified by
his oath, showing the facts upon which it is
claimed such reduction should be made.
pl Seri,1h s 90 makes Sef ong 1 redn S1ara s span1is the fer' ap2 p
must examine on oath the person or the agent
making the application, touching the value of the
property OF such person. No reduction must be
made unless such person or the agent making the
application attends and answers all questions
pertinent to the inquiry.
Section 2576. Upon the hearing of the applica.
t!on the board may subpoena such witnesses,
hear and take such evidence in relation to the
subject pending as in its discretion it may deem
Section s577,. During the session of the board
the assessor and any deputy whose testimony is
needed must be present and may make any state
ment or introduce and examine witnesses OF
". r. LEFT, County Clerk.
Fort Benton, Mont, July Is, 1909.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

from the matchmaking shops to the
giant steel mills, are driven by cleo.
tricity. Motor applications are in.
creasing every day and it is estim ated
that within the next fifty years every
industry under the sun, and nearly
all the work now done by hand, will
be electrified.
A few years ago every picture of a
large factory had to show dense
clouds of steam issuing from great
smokestacks and In the foreground
had to be a large number of heavily
loaded drays hauled by straining
horses. All this is archaic now. The
factory OF today shows no black
smoke, for such smoke is the height
of extravaganza and q common null
sance. The hundreds of teams about
the factory Yards have been supplsnt.
ed by the electric trucks and the cleo.
trio railways which can haul more in
one hour than the teams did in all
day, and cost nothing for new horses
or feed.
The city of the future may not be
horseless but the great business OF the
warehouses, merchants, manufacturers
and wholesalers will be transacted on
electric trucks and most of the pleas.
ure vehicles will be driven by electric.
ity; the work will be done by electric.
ity; we will be kept arm in winter
and cool in summer by electricity and
nearly everything in this life of work
or pleasure will be owing in q meas.
ure to electricity.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Balloon Meets Snowstorm,

ST. LOUIS, July 26.-A midsummer
snowstorm two miles above the earth
caused John j. Berry aud two other
men who assembled here last night in
the balloon University City to fail in
an attempt to capture the Lahm cup,
to land today near Savanna, III. They
travelled 242 miles.
AT q time when we were trying
to get out of the snowstorm," said
Berry, 1--WE rose to $4,000 feet. A,
times the basket swung around like a
top. Sleet cut our faces and we had
to keep brushing snow off the edge Of
the basket to prevent its weight from
retarding our flight"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY.

All the we'll known scientists and
business men of today agree that the
city of the future will be a electrical
city. With a very few exceptions all
the manifold requirements for speed
and economy will be met by electric
ity.
Even the food products consumed in
the electric city Of the future will be
the results of electricity applied to
agriculture. The country will have
an abundance of electrical power for
light, power and heat on the farms.
The farming communities will flourish
under the stimulus of an electrified
topsoil, and an increased absorption
of nitrogen, procured direct from the
atmosphere by electricity. These pro.
cesses are already successful as ex-
periments on o small scale.
In the business of transportation,
the electrically propelled aeroplane
will doubtlessly develop to supremacy
for high-speed mail, and perhaps pas
senger service. The electric gyroscope
will furnish stability for this device
and also for monorail. high.speed
trains electrically driven. The loco.
motive a. we now know it will be oh.
solete. but the electric locomotive will
have come into it's own for general
passenger and freight service.
Wireless telegraphy has already
ceased to be q toy and the city Of the
future will not be covered with q net
work of wires as at present. Wireless
telegraphs will communicate with al
parts of the world and wireless tele'
phones will be used for both local and
long distance service. Even the trans
mission OF the power currents will b.
effected through wireless, or the At
mospheric electrical waves. The stor
age batteries of the future will b.
light and compact and very easily ap
piled to vehicles and boats.
In the new electrical city man vii,
do the thinking and electrical driver
machinery will do the work. Tim
was, and that only q few years ago
when nearly all the work in the world
from sweeping the floor to pounding
out h%orseshoes and nails, was done
by hand. Today the application o
electricity in the workaday world
passes all comprehension. The pow
erful motors have adapted themselve:
to all kinds OF work in the shop, Office
or home, and the largest factories,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
FINISHING TARIFF BILL,
Conference Committee Hopes tt
Agree On All Schedules.

Conference Committee Hopes To
Agree On All Schedules.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-Hides will
be put on the free list If boots and
shoes and other manufactures of
leather are reduced below the house
rates. Unless the advocates of free
hides are able to carry out their bar
gain, the whole Is to be called off.
The decision to this effect was reached
by the tariff conferees today.
Senator Aldrich has informed sena.
tors from northwestern states that he
will not consent to free hides unless
there is q material cut in the rates on
boots and shoes and other leather
goods. In no other way, be said, can
he get the necessary votes in the sen.
ate. Senators from cattle raising
states have insisted that the only way
consumers can get any benefits from
the removal of the protection on hides
will be by corresponding reductions
In the duties on boots and shoes and
harness. The Rhode Island senator's
views coincide with this statement.
II anything should occur to upset
the plan to give the c~onferees jurts.
diction to lower rates, the conference
committee is holding what is regarded
as q trump card in reserve. This
provides for q conference report put.
ting hides on the free list and reduc.
Ing the rates on shoes and other lea
ther manufactures.
The report, 1t Is said, then would be
presented to President Taft with the
statement that the conferees had not
been able to muster sufficient votes to
assure its adoption and would devolve
upon the president to procure the
necessary support for the program.
In the event of failure the conferees
would submit a report placing a small
duty on hides and the house rates on
leather.