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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-29
FEARS EXPRESSED THAT
WORK MAY BE RETARDED
Falling Off in the Contributions to
Association for Prevention
Of Tuberculosis.

At the December meeting of the As
ISOLATION for the Prevention of Tubercu-
losis, at 92a H street northwest, Gen.
William II. Forwood, treasurer reported
$1,941.S7 as total receipts since October
l. 1909. Including the balance hand
on that date. the total is S., $50. IS toward
a total of 1892 required. The serious
financial condition was discussed knd fears
were expressed that the work would have
to be retrenched if contributions were not
forthcoming
DR.. George NJ. koher, chairman Of the
committee on dispensaries reported the
establishment of special tuberculosis
clinics at Freedmen's and Childrens hos
pitfalls, making total of seven afhliated
d1spensar1es combating the disease. The
need of third tuberculosis nurse was
strongly urged.
Education Committees Report.
DIR. F. Fremont-S Smith, chairman of the
committee on education. reported 115 lee
given by special nurse in the colored
has been given by teachers. supervising
principals and superintendent.
Rev. John Van Schaick. jr., chairman
of the committee on special relief,
reported aid given to four patients at
sanatoria and two at home during the
past month. Three hundred dollars has
been given by Mr.. Henry Phipps to this
committee
An estimate for maintaining an outdoor
school has been sent to Congress through
the board of education. Such schools
are greatly needed to aid some of the
1.O0O.0OO school children out Of the H.
100000 who die before they reach the age
of eighteen years.
Gen. George NJ. Sternberg, with DR..
William c.. Woodward as alternate, was
chosen to repre- sent the association at the
Monday Evening Club
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-29
Constipation

should not be neglected. II leads to more
serious troubles. II shows that the important
functions OF the liver imperfectly performed
The best medicine TO take for ii is the mild,
gentle and purely vegetable cathartic, Hoods
Pills which act on the liver and bowels cure
bliousness constipation. morning and sick head.
ache break up colds. relieve uncomfortable full
oess after dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-29

Caverly's plumbing. 1881 G NV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-29
Hoods Pills

Are prepared by G. !. HOOD CO., Lowell. Mass.
Fold ~ all druggists and sent By mail. Price. 80.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-26
JIM HILL MAKES PLEA FOR A
...< BACK TO THE farm MOVEMENT
PERTINENT TOLD ABOUT BEST WAY TO PRE-
VENT UNDER PRODUCTION TOO MANY PEOPLE LIVING IN
THE CITIES AND NOT ENOUGH THE FARMS OF THE couN'


of grain above our own wants Last
year we exported 6S,O00,O00 bushels
Of wheat. We couldn't afford even
to export that much. 1t was 100000
900 bushels more than we had to
spare. AS result, before the next
crop came, wheat that had been ship
ped from Kansas City to Chicago
was shipped back to Kansas City and
resold at an increased price. It had
to be shipped back. The Missourians
needed bread. More than that,
wheat was taken out of storage in
New York and shipped to Galveston
to furnish bread for the Texans.
"This year our wheat crop is ex-
ceptionally large-something more
than 700,0O0,000 bushels. We shall
need, for bread and seed, about $780,
000, 1000 bushels. We shall probably
have lie, 100000 bushels to spare
But the pressure of foreign demand
will probably cause us to export 1885,
100000 bushels. Then we shall be
100000 bushels short. The price
of wheat and of bread will, in conse-
quence, go up. Wheat will be re-
shipped and re-sold, from the cities
to the smaller towns, and perhaps to
the agricultural communities. The
experience of last spring will be re-
peated.'
Mr.. Hill Is not an alarmist He
says what he has to say quietly. He
does not believe this country is go
ing to destruction. He only believes
that it is taking the Course that leads
to destruction. He believes that it
Is destined to avoid destruction be-
cause he believes the country will
change its course. He says the peo-
pie will compel the country to change
its course. He says the people them
selves are intelligent; that when they
see what is matter, as they soon must
that will put an end to the high cost
of living.
Right there Is the point upon
which Mr.. Hills philosophy h nges-
the high cost Of living. One need be
neither an Irishman nor a humorist
to say and to know that when peo-
pie cannot live they must die. An.
cient Persia lived when 2 per cent OF
the people owned all the land and
kept most of it's products. Rome
went down when 1900 men owned
what was then all of the known
world But the knowledge that peo-
pie must die If they cannot &c. the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-26
the prices of farm products high.
Is that not so?''
h .. What Farmers Like.

the prices of farm products high.
Is that not so?''
., What Farmers Like.
It seemed so. But why could not
1.-THE process go on forever, provided
the 80 should continue to raise
enough to keep everybody alive?
Farmers like high prices for farm
products. Automobiles run pretty
well over country roads, and, while
the workers in the cities sometimes
have to sleep in the parks, they do
not seem to object.
"But this cannot go on forever"
replied Mr.. Hill. 1.-THE way things
gre going, the time will soon come
when we shall not raise enough in
this country to support our own peo-
pie. Last year our exports Of food
stuffs amounted to $43S, 900 900; our
i'm oorts to $?2J, 00O,0O0. So, actual
ly, we exported only 100000, 900
worth. That's pretty small mar
gin of production over requirement.
Compared with what we used to do,
it seems almost insignificant. Yet
people do not realize the seriousness
of the situation thai confronts US,
because they are misled by the big
figures that represent the value Of
our crops.
Measured by bushels or dollars,
our crops are large. Measured by the
mouths that must be fed, they are
shrinking in size, instead Of growing.
And that is the only way to measure
crops-by the mouths that the crops
must feed"
The relative decrease in the size of
the crops as compared with the de-
mands of consumers is attributed by
Mr.. Hill to neglect of the soil, which
has decreased it's productivity, AMI
preference for city as compared with
rural life. He said that good farms
in the Mohawk Valley that sold for
$3.50 an acre forty years ago could
now be bought for $50 an acre.
Twenty thousand farms in New York
were for sale. Abandoned farm
houses, in all stages of decay, were
common sights along the county
roads. Schuyler county, New York
had 1915 more population in 1850
than 1t had in 1895; Yates county
992 more, Tioga county 1000 more
Iowa's wheat crop for the five-yean
period that ended in 1887 was %,
6S2,560 bushels, for the five-year per
iod that ended in 1908 it was $685.
| 900 bushels.
Mr.. Hill said that England wen
, through this same experience more
than 100 years ago.. Her wheat yielo
got down about where ours is-thir
teen or fourteen bushels an acre
England turned he tide that was
running against her and put hel
+ wheat yield up t. thirty-two bushels
an acre, where it now is. 1t was 6
| terrific task-took half century tt
| it.
Ii 9eroT'i y,k shrdl cmfwy srdluadac
| Mr.. Hill says that education car
solve our problem of food supply
The great body of young men mus
be taught, he says, that to leave the
country and go to the city to live i!
to cut in two their chances of max
ing a success in life. That done, thu
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-26

means Of life does not add much to
the knowledge OF what 1t IS THAT
makes The cost o, fliving SO high. q
What the Trusts Do ~
Some people say that the trusts
makes the cost of living SO high.
trusts say that the cost Of wing
Is not high. Mr.. Hill was asked
he said.
lie answered IVY discussing the
price of corn and beef. 49,.
'Twenty.fve wears ago." he said,
corn was sold at IS cents bushel
The price of corn is now 65 cents q
buGhel. It stands to reas on that
when corn is as high as 1t /; now,
a farmer will rot raise IS many cat
lie, to which he must feed corn, as
he would if corn were only Is cents
bushel. The result is that fewer
cattle are raised, and the price of
beef is higher. I mention corn and
beef because they serve, as well as
any other commodities, to illustrate
why the cost of living is high"
That was plain enough, as far as it
went. What was still not plain was
why the price Of corn should be SO
high. > -.
1.-THE price of corn is high" con-
tinued Mr.. Hill, because we are con-
stantly decreasing the percen tage of
those who raise corn while we are
constantly increasing the PERCENTAGE
of those who use corn and it's pro-
ducts. In 1890, there were SO men
engaged in raising foodstuffs on the
farms to every 4 in the cities who
them. At the time of the civil war,
the number of men engaged in wrest
ing foodstuffs from the soil had de-
creased to a., and the number who
did not raise the foodstuffs they
must have had increased to 16 In
1870 there were only AZ producers
while the non-producing consumers
had increased to So. In 1880, the
producers had diminished to a while
the others had increased to IS. In
1890 only 81 producers were left tc
feed 63 in the cities, and in 1900 there
were only a fraction more than 81
on the farms to produce food moi
only for themselves but for every g.
in the cities. I doubt if the census
Of 1910 will show that there are
more than 80 persons engaged ii
agricultural pursuits to every 70 who
live in the cities.
There you have the ingredients
that go to make up high prices fol
the necessities of life. Every 10 per
sons who live in the cities are de
pendent upon 80 farmers for the raw
materials that are necessary to ex
istence. The only way that the Il
in the cities can get the money with
which to pay the farmers is to manu-
facture the raw products Of the farm
into finished forms, to perform pro
fessional service, or to assist in thu
task Of distributing the products O.
factories and farms. The competi
ton among the 70 to perform the ser
vices that are required by the 80 will
keep the wages of the 70 low, whil'
the great demand created by the Z
for the products. Of the 80 will keel
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-26

James J. Hill believes this nation
is on the down grade that leads to
disaster. He says every nation that
has taken the. path we are pursuing
and kept to it has ended in the scrap
heap. He says every nation that mas
ended in the scrap heap-save only
those the lives Of which went out IN
physical revolution-trod the path
we are treading.
The fatal path in each instance,
led along the precipice that is called
High Cost of Living"
He points to ancient Greece, to
Rome, to Spain. He calls, as a wit
ness, Prof. Ferrero, who, in his book,
1.-THE Greatness and the Decline or
Rome" said, after noting the agr1-
cultural depression in Italy, the ruin
of her peasantry, and the distress
that quickly came to all classes:
ut was all due simply to the In
creased cost of living.
Mr.. Hill believes the hand that has
palsied so many nations has been
laid heavily upon this nation. He be-
lieves that the people generally have
no conception of what is the matter.
He believes that even the bankers
in Wall Street do not know what Is
the matter.
81 was talking with a Wall Street
banker day or two ago." said Mr.
Hill. "He was complaining because
the balance of trade is no longer In
our favor. He asked me why the
western farmers did not market their
crops instead of holding them for
still higher prices. why, in a little
while he said, the farmers will
have two years crops en- their hands
and we shall have nothing with which
to turn the trade balance toward us.
II said to that banker: DO you
not Snow thai the farmers have al
ready marketed their crops? They
have. In fact, they marketed item
a little earlier than usual this year:
They have nothing more to sell now"
Ceasing to Export.
"And SO they have marketed their
crops. The trouble is that, almost
without realizing It, we are ceasing
to become an export nation. Our ex-
port trade is practically all gone now.
We still think that we feed the
world; but we don't. If we keep on
as we are going, the time will soon
come when the rest of the world
will feed some of us. We used to
raise, each year, 225.00O 900 bushels
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-26
Eaos AZ Livestock.

An IOWA man Is undertaking to I'm
Fort eggs from England under the
classification OF livestock" The Gus
tom officials do not see It that way.
although 1t 10 well known that many
Of the eggs shipped from Iowa to CHI
earo reach the consumers az hvc
poultry.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-26

The rush is, on at the Butter Stu
eio for Christmas photographs. Come
early as possible. +. H. II
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-26

You can trace most complaints
about dull business to dull ad
Eyertising. .55s.. x 555g M
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
SOUTHWESTERN LIFE
Insurance Co. of Dallas,
Texas, Pays Claim.

The Southwestern Life insur-
ance company proved that they
do just as they promise.
Mr.. r. l.. Moore of Dreyer who
held policy No. 7712 in the South
western Life insurance company
died on April 90. The death
proofs were sent in on the 18th
and on the Both the check for full
amount of policy was received by
their local agency here.
This is a Texas company and
should have the patronage of all
good Texas citizens. Insure in
the Southwestern Life and keep
Texas money at home.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
Boundary Line School.

April 90 Here I come again,
after laboring hard all day.
1t looks as if we are never to
get any more rain, but we truly
hope it will come soon.
Misses Lille and Emma Back
haus spent Sunday and Monday
with Mr.. and Mrs. William Hues.
mann,
Leonard Dufner of Halletsville
visited in this community Mon
day last
Charley McElroy of Mont was
a pleasant visitor in this line
Sunday evening.
Miss Mary Kavanagh spent
Thursday evening with the
Misses Cauthern
Several from here attended the
ball at Breslau last Saturday
night All report having q good
time.
Emil and Frank Noval1s were
seen in this section last week
hauling wood.
Miss Ruby Dufner of Hallets-
vile is quite ill with pneumonia,
Hope to report her well in my
next.
Misses Annie and Guidy eau
thern and brother, A. K, visited
at Halletsville Saturday and Sun
day.
AS news is scarce as her
teeth " will bring this to a con
clusion. BLUE.EYED BEAUTY.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
Yoakum Letter.

Last week Thursday the
Goethe Park verein gave a social
dance, which was well attended.
Music was furnished by the Shi-'
ner string band.
In the baseball game here be-
tween the Halletsville high school
and the Yoakurn high school, the
Yoakum team had an easy walk
over, the score being II to z.
Last Saturday was school
trustee election for the Yoakum
independent district.
S. A. Carnes & Son shipped
another carload of eggs to New
York last week.
Say, Mr.. Editor, can't you
send us a good rain? It's badly
needed here.
AS news is very scarce. must
ring Off JAC,iSs..S :,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
Big Hill News.

Hello, central giveme The Ga
zette Office. l am always ready
to hear something from the dear
old Gazette.
Died last Thursday, April %,
at the home of G. Dornak, his
wife, Mrs. A. Dornak. She was
so years old, and left five chill
dren. The interment took place
last Thursday evening 10 the
Gonzales Catholic cemetery.
The following persons from Shi-
ner attended the funeral; Florian
Barosh and wife, A. Jacks and
wife, Steve Jacks. Joe Vinklarek
and daughter, Mrs. Sefcik, John
Baker and wife.
Florian Barosh had his birth
day today. He is 40 years old
and we wish him to live forty
| nine years more. a nne dlnner
and lunch was served. All had
a pleasant time.
Say, Blue Robin, are you going
May 5? | am going, sure.
Johnnie Vrazel and Jim Mauric
visited friends at Big Hill Sum
day.
Frank Barosh Jr,, and wife
visited Jim Kral's family last
Sunday.
| Miss Christena Rarosh was on
the sick list the past week and
! we wish her a speedy recovery.
Emil Barosh and his sister,
Tenia, were in nilworth the past
| Sunday.
Well, it is time to ring off, SO ]
will close my letter, with best
wishes to all the readers.
ROSE MARY.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
Boys Will Be Boys

and are always getting scratches,
cuts, sprains, bruises, bumps, burns
or scalds. Don't neglect such things
they may result serious if you do.
Apply Billiards. Snow Liniment ac-
cording to directions right away and
it will relieve the pain and heal the
trouble. Price Csc, SOC and 81. Sold
by Schlottman Drug Co,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
Posting Notice.

All persons, kith or kin not ex-
cepted, are positively forbidden
to hunt or fish or otherwise tres
pass in my pasture on the Quad.
alupe river. Anyone violating
this order will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
L. Nj. KoKEENoT,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
Take Notice.

All accounts due the vrana
Livery Company must be paid
to the Farmers State bank.
A, L. VRANA.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-06
CITY BAKERY
'CHAs. SCHNEIDER, Prop

The Bread that keeps the Family
healthy is q treasure no one can
afford to be without. 1t is made
right here. Give it trial is all
we ask.
BEER SALOON in Connection.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

Dicksie's face. which had lighted, be
came a spectacle Of confusion after she
heard the name. McCloud, conscious
of the awkwardness OF his position and
the disorder Of his garb, said the worst
thing at once; L fear / am inadver-
tently overhearing your conversation. ="
He looked at Dicksie as he spoke,
chiefly because he could not help it.
and this made matters hopeless.
She flushed more deeply. Il cannot
conceive why our conversation should
invite a listener"
Her words did not, Of course. help
to steady him. I tried to get away, "
he stammered, when 1 realized was
a part of it"
I'm any event." she exclaimed, hastf-
ly, IF you are Mr.. McCloud 1 think it
objectionable to do anything like THAR
I am McCloud. though 1 should rath-
er be anybody else; and I am sorry that
l was unable to help hearing what was
said; ="
Marion, will you be kind enough to
give me my glOves?'' said D;cksie.
holding out her hand.
Marion, having tried once or twice to
intervene, stood between the firing lines
in helpless amazement. Her exelama-
tons were lost; the two before her gave
no heed to ordinary Intervention.
McClOud flushed at being cut off, but
he bowed "Of course" he said. IF
you viii listen to no explanat ton 1 can
only withdraw"
He went back. dinnerless, to work
all night; but the switchbacks were
doing capitally. and all night long
trains were rolling through Medicine
Bend from the west I'm an endless
string. In the morning the yard was
nearly cleared of westbound tonnage
Moreover, the mail in the morning
brought compensation. A letter came
from Glover telling him not to worry
himself TO death over the tie-up. and
one came from Bucks telling him TO
make ready for the building of the
Crawling Stone line
McCloud told Rooney Lee that if any
body asked for him to report him dead.
and, going TO bed, slept twenty-four
hours.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30
CHAPTER vii.
The Misunderstanding.

No attempt vas made to minimize
the truth that the blow to the division
was a staggering one. The loss of
Smoky creek bridge put almost 1000
miles OF the mountain division out OF
business. Perishable freight and time
freight were diverted to other lines.
Passengers were transferred; lunches
were served to them in tie deep val
ley, and they were supple, by an in
genuous advertising department with
pictures of the historic bridge as IL
had long stood and their addresses
were taken with the promise of a pic
turs OF the ruins. The engineering de-
partment and the operating depart
ment united in a tremendous effort TO
bring about a resumption OF traffic.
GiOver's men. pulled of construction.
were sent forward In trainloads. Dane
ing's linemen strung arc lights alons
the creek until the canyon twinkled
at night like a mountain village, and
men IN three shifts worked elbow to
elbow increasingly TO run the switch
backs down 10 the creek bed. There
by cribbing across the bottom, they got
a temporary line
McCloud spent his days at the creek
and his nights at Medicine Bend with
his assistant and his CHIEF dispatcher,
advising, counseling, studying out trou-
hic LCEDAAHs anu HNta4N ltlE Wherever ne
could the weakened lines Of his operat-
ing forces He was getting his first
taste of the trials Of the hardest worked
and poorest paid man in the operating
department Of a railroad-the division
superintendent.
= TO these were added personal an
neysnces. A traiaload of Duck Bar
steers. shipped by Lance DunninE from
the Crawling Stone ranch. had been
caught west OF the bridge the very
night of the fire. They had been loaded
at Upton and shipped to catch a good
market, and under extravagant prom
tses from the livestock agent Of
quick run to Chicago. When Lance
Dunning learned that his cattle had
been caught west OF the break and
would have to be unloaded, he swore
up horse in hot haste and started for
Medicine Bend. McC1oud, who had not
closed his eyes for sixty hours, had
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

with interest. Come over here, come
along. I want you TO meet a good
friend. Here, Harvey, shake hands
with Bill Dancing. Bill, this is old Har-
vey Du Sang, meanest man In the
mountains to his enemies and the whit
est to his friends-eh, Harvey"
Harvey seemed uncommunicative
Studying his hand, he asked in a sour
way whether It was a jackpot, and upon
being told that It was, pushed forward
some chips and looked stupidity up
though Harvey was by no means stu
pid. Proud to know you, SIR" said
Bill, bending frankly as he put out biz
hand. Proud to know any friend o.
Murray SinclaiT's. What might be your
business"
Again Du Sang appeared abstracted
He looked up at the giant llneman.
who, in spite of his own size and
strength, could have crushed him BE-
tween his fingers, and hitched his chair
a little, but got no further toward an
answer and paid no attention whatever
to Bills extended hand.
Cow business. Bill" interposed Sin
clair. Where? Why, up near the
park, Bill, up near the park. Bill IS an
old friend Of mine, Harvey. SHAKE
hands with George Seagrue, BIZ, and
you know Henry Karg-and old Stormy
Gorman-vell. I guess you know him,
too" exclaimed Sinclair. introducing
the other players. Look here a min
ute, Harvey"
Harvey, much against his inclination,
was drawn from the table and retired
with Sinclair and Dancing to an empty
corner, where Dancing told his story
again. At the conclusion Of It Harvey
rather snOTted. Sinclair asked ques-
tons. Was anybody else there when
you saw McClOud. BilI?"
One man." answered Bill, impress
sively.
"WhO?"
"A stranger to me"
"A stranger? What did ne look Ike?
Slender man and kind of odd talk
ing, with a sandy mustaChe."
Hear his name?"
He told me his name. but ifs
skipped me, I declare. He's kind Or
dark-cOmplected like"
Stranger, eh?" unused Du Sang, his
eyes were wandering over the room.
Slender man." repeated Bill. "but