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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
FULL OF HUMAN INTEREST.
Landscapes Of the Dutch Painters Of
tho Seventeenth Century.

Landscapes Of h Dutch Painters OF
tho Seventeenth Century.
The Dutch painters Of the seven
teenth century were as little concerned
with poetic feeling as with idealism.
They used their eyes and painted what
they saw, but neither their imagina-
lions o their feelings were touched.
While most modern painters interpret
how the seem has affected themselves,
the Dutch looked at it as something
entirely outside themselves.
Otherwise the Dutch landscapes pre-
sent us pictures Of a pleasant work
aday world or Of the quiet evenings
that follow after the labors Of the day
never a hint of disturbance, though
war and inc Of war were constant;
instead, the perpetual suggestion Of
prosperous peace and thrifty comfort,
for they abound with the evidences Of
busy humanity. Not only is nature
brought into touch with human life by
the little figures, so charmingly life
like, which animate the scene, but
everywhere are the results Of mans
handiwork seen in little things as well
as big-in the trinity kept fruit trees
of a laborer's garden plot no less than
in the handsome facade of a rich
burgher's town house. There is no
country in the world where the influ-
ence Of man is so infinitely imprinted
upon every foot Of ground, and as
these artists We're eager to represent
the things they saw nc landscapes r
81 full Of human interest as theirs
Charles H. Coffin in st. Nicholas.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29

The debates in congress showed that
we pay all the way from go cents to q
dollar q pound for tea valued at the
custom house at 16 cents. That's not
all. We actually pay more in this
country. where tea is admitted free,
than they do In England, where mil
lions OF revenue are raised annually
by q tax on tea.
Coming home again, is the new tariff
on steel rails going to do its duty and
cut the price from S28 a ton to S24. O8-
the difference being the amount of the
reduction and the size of the invita-.
ton to Europe to compete? An active
and Industrious tariff, is theoretically,
to something like that.
But nobody really expects it.
The more you think of it the palmer
it becomes that the tariff has q way of
its own.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
HOW TO WIN.
Determination and Unity Of Purpose
Mil Work Wonders,

OeIeVUInatIOH anu O!IIy OF Purpose
Will Work Wonders.
Once you have chosen your occupa-
ton or profession hold fast thereto.
Let nothing allure you from the main
travelled road. Having chosen. hold
like steel. Make everything feed into
the main current of your life. Even
modest talents, organized and unified.
have conquered great distinction and
worldwide success. History is full
of Illustrations Of the unifying power
of a great purpose. Witness the poor
child Hastings looking at a distant
manor house that once had belonged
to his father. The determination to
win back that estate before he died
lent power and momentum and pro-
duced Lord Hastings. Witness the in
1uence Of purpose upon that little
Scotch boy, out upon a holiday on
the banks Of the Clyde. with three
precious coppers as his entire posses.
sion. He determined to build a house
on the hilltop overlooking the river
and forty years later moved into the
castle, from which he looked down
upon twenty ocean steamers he had
built. Witness the purpose of William
the Silent, filling all the days and
nights for the hero struggling to de-
liver brave little Holland from Spain.
Witness Millions vow to write q poem
that the world would not willingly let
die and who therefore lived an epic
life. Witness Paul's resolution to do
one thing and one thing alone and
who, with that unit purpose, achieved
democracy for all subsequent peoples
and centuries. Aimlessness will make
your life like a sand heap.-Rev. New
ell Dwight Hills.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Public Sale Of Real Estate.

The chairman of the board of county commits
eioners OF Chouteau county, Montana, will offer
a. PUBLIC sale to the highest bidder for cash, at
Montana, the following described real estate,
by tax deed, to.wit:
Lot II, block 10, old TOWNSHIP of Havre, Mont. j;
lots and 8, block 124, military reservation, Fort
Benton. Date of sale, October sth. 1909, at 2
Lots So, 10 and ID, block 10, townsite of Fort
Benton, Mont: also lots 5, 6, Z and 8, block 152,
military reservation. Date of sale, October II,
Lots ., 5 and 8, Block 80, Deletraz addition; oil
OF blocks ~, 81 and 80, Delstraz addition. Date
OF sale. October Is, 1905, at 2 O'Clock p: m.
According to the official plats of said townsites
on hle in the Office of the clerk and recorder of
county, Montana.
By order Of the board Of county commission
ers. W. r. LEFT, County Clerk.
Fort Benton, Mont. Sept, 13. 1909,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
The Dead larks.

mad. In his book, ''The Frontiers Of
Baluchistan." G. p. Tate writes: "The
shepherds give a strange reason for
the epidemic Of rabies. According to
them, it was caused by the wild beasts
eating dead larks. In some years,
they said, the larks develop extraordi-
nary vitality and pour forth such a
flood Of songs as they rise on the wing
that they become suffocated and fall
to the ground dead. A wild animal
which eats one of those dead birds in
variably develops rabies. This is a
widespread superstition and seems not
unfamiliar to the natives Of India who
were with me-"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Her Home,

Some years ago, when a part of the
japanese imperial palace was burned
at Tokyo, the empress was forced to
fee to n Of the old daimio houses
near by. 1t was not at all comforta-
BILE, and, as the story goes, her majes-
ty, approaching that her subjects
would be much concerned at her living
in such a mean place, sat down and
wrote them a little poem in which she
denied that she had changed her resi-
dence. The poem, which was in the
best japanese language, stated that
her majesty's home had always been
in the hearts Of the people and that
neither the flames nor the cold could
ever drive her from that dear abode.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Must Admit JapS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-All the
Japanese laborers, who. while return.
ing from the canneries in Canada,
where they had been working during
the summer, were held up by the
United States immigration office, have
been ordered readmitted into this
country. The department of commerce
and labor in deciding in favor of the
Japanese holds that the laborers went
to Canada for temporary purposes
only, and had no intention of aban.
doning their domicile in this country,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
A Butchers Common,

william, earl Of Warren. in the
time Of King John, while standing
upon the castle walls saw two bulls
fighting in the castle meadow till all
the butcher dogs pursued one Of the
maddened bulls quite through the
town. The sight pleased the earl SO
much that he gave the castle mead
ows. where the duel Of the bulls be-
gan, for a common to the butchers of
the town, after the first grass was
moved, on condition that they should
find a mad bull the day six weeks be-
fore Christmas day for the c~ontinu-
ance Of that sport forever.-London
Standard.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Vegetation Pumps Water.

Every living plant in the field ia
a water pump, or at least is continu.
ally actively pumping the soil dry of
water, says an anonymous writer.
These plant pumps do not work on
exactly the same principle as the com.
NOR suction or lifting pump, but they
do the work just the same. Their
power of working is through capillary
action, the same power that draws oil
up through the lamp wick and that
makes the towel absorb water. Every
grass plant, every wild flower and all
trees are steadily at work during the
summer and more or less at other sea.
sons pumping up the water-day and
night-from the ground in which they
grow.
Some of the water is used by the
plants themselves for their growing
needs, yet much of it is allowed to
pour out of q thousand little spouts
from each plant, which instead of fall.
ing back upon the soil to be reab-
sorbed is transformed into q very
thin water vapor and floats away in
the air to be precipitated at some
other time and in some other place.
All OF this pumping is invisible to our
gross vision, but the amount of vapor
lifted by wild and cultivated plants
over the area of a single county of q
single state in one day amounts to
thousands of tons of liquid.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Odd Fellows Increase Membership

~ w So0C s"OJIISSU oIJIps
SEATTLE, Sept. 20.-The sovereign
grand lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of the United States
and Canada, after being welcomed to
the state and city at q public meeting
at the Moore theater today, adjourned
to the Odd Fellows temple and began
its sessions to which only members
having the grand lodge degree were
admitted.
The annual report of Acting Grand
Sire w. L. Kuykenda showed the
members of the order throughout the
world at the close of 1908 to have been
1883, 376.
The total revenue for the year was
SIG, 379,937. The expenditure for relief
was So, 500, S25.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
TARIFF

A dispatch from New York Gays
that the Is per cent. duty on foreign
hides having been removed, thus plac-
ing that commodity on the free list,
the expected has not happened.
The expected was, of course, that
the price would fall Is per cent. with
q dull thud. Instead. what do we
see? Nothing less than foreign hides
advancing 10 per cent. instead of do.
mestic hides falling Is. And the ad.
vance may not be ended yet.
That is always the way with q tariff,
says the Chicago 1nter.O Ocean. After
you have made every arrangement to
have it work just as you want to, you
can never be sure what is going to
happen. 1t may act reasonably or il
may not. All depends on how it Il
feeling.
Before hides were put on the free
list most anybody could have told
you what would happen when the tariff
was removed. Ia not the tariff q ia,
which the consumer pays? Does MOI
the removal of the tax cheaper thu
product 80 much, or Whereabouts? L
really is 90 simple!
The trouble is you can't make the
tariff understand these little things
Take tea, for example. Tea has beer
on the free list for years. That ough,
to mean that we get tea somewhere
close to the foreign price-good tes
and cheap tea. Do we? We do not.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Notice to Creditors.

Estate of Frank NJ. Lepper, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned,
administrator of the estate Of Frank NJ. Lepper,
deceased. to the creditors Of, and all persons
having. claims against the said deceased, to OK.
hibit them with the necessary vouchers within
four months after the first publication Of this
notice. to the said administrator at the law Of
fcee OF w. 5. Townef, In the city of Fort Benton,
In the county of Chouteau.
L. X. DEVLIN,
Administrator of the estate Of Frank N. Lepper,
deceased.
Dated September 9, 1909.
First publication Sept, 10. 1909.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
ADVERTISING MONTANA,

Va -
settlers in various parts of Montana
Is undoubtedly due to the publicity
campaign that has been conducted by
the railroads and local organizations
throughout the state. Montana is be.
ing advertised to an extent that was
never before attempted, and the work
is bringing results.
An example of the way in which the
resources of the Treasure state are
being presented to the public, appears
In a recent issue of the Chicago Tri.
bune, in connection with an article re.
ferring to the Land Exposition in that
city. Part of the article is to this
effect:
Montana is in size the third largest
state in the union. The states Of New
York. Pennsylvania, Indiana, Mary
land and Connecticut would together
just about fill the area of Montana.
The population of this vast region is
less than 500, 00O-about three people
to every square mile. Yet this so
sparsely settled country produced in
1907 from its gold mines and farms
more than $50, DOC, 900.
The big ranch is destined to give
place to the small farm. Instead of
100 men raising 1000 head of cattle
each, Montana wants 1000 men rails
ing 100 each. Montana needs farmers
to raise wheat, barley, oats and alfal-
ia which the fertile soil of its upper
bench lands produces in great abun-
dance and of excellent quality. Mon.
tana needs farmers to raise the vege.
tables, butter, cheese, eggs and poul-
try which it is now obliged to get
from outside its borders. Montana
needs farmers for the thousands of
acres of rich irrigated lands in the
valleys. To the man with capital or
the man with just means enough to
make a start Montana is a land of
promise and opportunity.
General farming in semi arid re.
SAObSS "AVu AoAuIdil VI L. " IL AuCuto
and without irrigation, can be done
successfully. The normal precipita-
ton of Montana is 1874 inches, and
scientific methods of farming are re-
quired in preventing loss of moisture,
in treating the ground and in handling
the crops. BY careful guilty alton
remarkab results are obtained. One
experiment farm reports a yield of
2l.1 bushels of spring wheat per acre,
1873 of barley and SSH of Turkey Red
fall wheat, potatoes 160 bushels, and
sugar beets st tons to the acre. Album.
dant sunshine-there are 272 bright
days a year-and a fertile alluvial
soil are the Montana farmers great.
est assets. Montana has over 20, 0OO,.
600 acres of bench lands suitable for
dry farming.
Over 1000, 600 acres are now under
irrigation and it has been estimated
that something like 5000, 900 more
may be irrigated. The results are
extraordinary-S3 bushels of wheat
and 100 bushels of oats to the acre are
reported from one farm which made q
total of S4,375 from l60 acres of aver
age land. Where fruit culture is
pursued. the results are still more
striking.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Fine Crops,

do you raise anything worth while
in your garden?" said the visitor from
the city.
II should say So" answered Mr..
Crosslots. "It's the best place for fish,
ing worms in the entire village."-
Washington Star.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
GOVERNOR JOHNSON DEAD,
Minnesota Executive Mourned Bv
Fellow Citizens.

Fellow Citizens.
ROCHESTER, Mimi, Sept. 21.-Sym.
pity more than statewide goes out
today to a small group in a little
Minnesota town, which moarns for
Gov. John A. Johnson, who died this
morning in st. Mary's hospital.
The last thing Governor johnson did
before lapsing into Inconsistencies
one and a half hours before his death,
was to take his wife's hand and weak
ly whisper, swell, Nora, 1 made q
good fight, but l guess I've got to CO."
Then. as the last beam of intelli-
gence began to flicker, he pressed her
hand gently to his cheek IN q parting
caress.
Governor John A. johnson was the
first native Minnesotan to be chosen
governor OF the state and OF that dis.
tinction he vas prouder than of any
other effort of his career. He felt
more pride in that than in the fact
that he had educated and prepared
himself for that career, while trying
t o support a widowed mother.
Governor Johnson was born near
St. Peter, MIMI, 4S years ago. His
parents were natives of Sweden. His
father, Gustave johnson, and his
mother, Caroline Hanson, both OF
peasant stock.
Governor Johnson, when ID years
OF age. worked in a grocery store and
q drug store and in the meantime
formed the reading habit, managing
to obtain q good education.
Finally an opportunity was opened
to become editor and part owner of
the St. Peter Herald. His first ven.
ture in politics resulted in defeat for
state senator in 1894, just after he
married Miss Elenore M. Preston, a
teacher. In 1898 he was again nomi-
mated by the democrats for the senate
and elected. He has three times been
elected governor of Minnesota, was q
candidate for the ocr attic nomina-
ton for the presidency of the United
States in 1908, and was looked upon
by many as the probable democratic
standard bearer in 1912.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29

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 It's own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on 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, 1909-09-29

The WEEKLY RIVER PRESS is a good
newspaper to send away to your friends
in the east. 1t will save you the trou.
bic of writing letters
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
CotswoId Bucks for Sale,

Cotswold bucks, either yearlings or three-yesr-
bucks are from selected Oregon ewes and pure
bred Cotswold bucks from the prize winning
band of Allen Bros, Utah.
LONG BROS, Great Falls, Mont.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29
Plain Talk.

II think she's double faced"
ooh. don't say that! One face like
hers is bad enough!"-Comic Cuts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-09-29

Fine Book and Job Printing a spe.
cla!ty at the RIVER PRESS Office
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-04-20
Bids Him a Long Farewell.

Now that he has gone from the
sphere of potent mischief we shall
rejoice to be relieved of further
obligation in the premises. If he
will be content with the shades of
private life and leave to those on
whom the people have developed
the power, the task and response
bility of running the government,
we shall take pleasure in letting
him severely alone excepto on those
occasions when some ghost of his
misdeeds must needs be laid, or
when there is a call to point
moral or adorn tale by recalling
one of his many miscarriages of
justice and policy. That he will
abstain from ofcious meddling
with affairs which have passed in
to far abler and more prudent
hands we scarcely dare hope. For
his past record betokens vanity
and itch for leadership as insati-
ate as those which have neutraliz-
ed the useful qualities of Mr..
Bryan. We wish him we'll now
that he is no longer a source of
immediate menace to the peace
and prosperity of the country.
May Mr.. Roosevelt live long and
prosper, is our sincere and cordial
wish. That never again may the
destines of this land and the l1ber-
ties of this elope fall into his olut.
ches, is our earnest prayer.-Vir-
ginian Pilot.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-04-20
WANT HIM PARDONNED.
Gov. Kitchen Being Appealed to for Re-
lease Of Bank DefauIter.

Governor Kitchen to-day gave q
hearing to advocates and oppo-
nents of pardon for Thomas w.
Dewey, who is serving six years.
sentence in the penitentiary for
defalcation as cashier of the Mer-
chants Bank of Newbern which
wrecked that institution. A little
over three years of the sentence
have been served and the plea for
the pardon at this time would
come as a worthy act of mercy to.
ward a repentant man whose Of
tense was not at all one of inten-
tional or deliberate crime and the
stricken family Of the prisoner,
including his aged mother, who Is
now SO-odd years old, and his de.
voted wife and little children.
There are fled with the Governor
letters from the trial Judge, the
solicitor, members of the jury and
hundreds Of citizens from differ.
ent parts of the State urging that
the pardon be granted. The prin-
cipal spokesman for the applicants
for the pardon to-day was ex-Judge
W. S. OBJ. Robinson, of Goldsbo-
70. Charles U. Harris, of Raleigh,
also appeared as counsel for Mr..
Dewey. With them were Hon. B.
E. Aycock, Hon. J. Y. Joyner and
G. S. Wooten, of LAGRANGE. Op-
posing the pardon were L. II. Cut
Ter, J. B. Blades and M. Marks,
who were active in the manage
OF the bank that Dewey's defalca.
tions wrecked. They oppose ex-
ective clemency on the ground
that not only the proper punish
ment of the prisoner. but the ef-
feet of the sentence as a deterrent
to others in positions of the trust
requires that the pardon he not
granted. The Governor took the
case under consideration and will
probably not take action for some
weeks yet. This is the second eff
fort to secure a pardon. the for.
mer application having been to
Governor Glenn. He issued 4
formal statement declining to ex.
tend executive clemency just a
a short time before he tetired from
office. - Raleigh correspondence
Charlotte Observer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-04-20
Words 10 Freeze the Soul.

"Your son has Consumption.
His case is hopeless. These ap-
palling words were spoken to Geo.
E. Blevens, leading merchant of
Springfield, N. c., by two expert
doctors-one lung specialist.
Then was shown the wonderful
power of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry. "After three weeks use,"
writes Mr.. Blevens, ''he was az
we'll as ever. I would not take all
the money in the world for what
it did for my boy" Infallible
for Coughs and Colds, it's the
safest, surest cure of desperate
Lung diseases on earth. Soc. and
81 90. All druggists. Guarantee
satisfaction. Trial bottle free.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-04-20
Trinity College Catalogue

The Catalogue of Trinity Col
lege for the year 1909 has just
come from the press and is now
ready for distribution. The typo.
graphical work is of a high order
and the volume of 175 pages pres.
ents a most attractive appearance.
Trinity offers three groups of stud
ents leading to the Bachelor of
Arts degree. Excellent opportun-
ity is offered to those who wish to
study Electrical, Mechanical OF
Civil Engineering. The recently
established Department of Educa.
ton offers a number of coarses de.
signed for those who expect to be.
come teachers. A statement of
the three years course of study
leading to the Bachlor of Laws
degree is given.
The catalogue shows addition tc
the Library during the year end.
ing February l., 1909, of 1885
bound volumes and 1920 pam
phlets.
The total attendance in Trinity
College and Trinity Park School
for the current year 400, with the
total number of teachers and off.
GERS So.
This catalogue may be secured
by addressing D. W. NEwsoM,
Registrar of Trinity College, Dur
ham, N. G.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-04-20
Swept Over Niagara.

This terrible calamity often
happens because a careless boat
man ignores the rivers warnings
growing ripples and faster current
Mature g warnings are kind. That
dull pain or ache in the back
warns you the kidneys need atten-
tion If you would escape fatal
maladies-Dropsy, Diabetes or
Brlght's disease. Take Electric
Bltters at once and see Backache
fly and all your best feelings re.
turn. "After long suffering from
weak kidneys and lame back, one
81 90 bottle wholly cured me, -
writes J. R. Blankenship, of Belk,
Tenn. Only 800 at all druggists.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-04-20
A Quaint Oath.

What is regarded as the quain-
test oath still in use is that taken
by the high court judges in the
Isle of Man, the terms of which
are as follows: "By this book
and the contents thereof, and by
the wonderful works that God
hath miraculously wrought in the
heaven above and the earth be-
meath in six days and six nights,
l do swear that I will, without re-
spect of favor or friendship, loss
or gain, consanguinity or affinity,
envy or malice execute the laws
of this isle justly between party
and party as indlfferently as the
herring backbone doth lie in the
midst of the fish. So he]p p me God
and the contents of this book. -
Chicago Journal.