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Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-09-30

Conrad banks which are among the
leading financial institutions of the
state. He is interested in the agricul-
tural development of Montana, having
extensive holdings in Cascade, Teton,
Chouteau and other counties. There is
a town in Teton county named after
him and largely to him is due the
credit for the organization of one of
the great irrigation enterprises of the
northern central part Of the state.
While he is an irrigationist by force
of circumstances, he mas shown great
interest in the development of the dry
farming possibilities of the state and
has given this substantial evidence Of
his Endorsement of The work Of the
Dry Farming Congress.
The cup Mr. Conrad has given will
be one of the handsomest trophies ev-
er awarded at an agricultural exposi-
ton. On one side of it will be engrav-
ed the great seal of the state and on
the other, the official seal of the Dry
Farm Congress- The cup VIII BE
modelled on highly artistic lines and
will be worthy in every way of being
given as a state award. Montana will
be barred from competition for this
cup.
At a meeting Of the executive COM
mittee of the Montana Board of Con
troll of the Congress this week, plans
were completed for the cooperation of
the Elks with the Board of Control in
the entertainment of the delegates and
visitors to Billings during the week of
the Congress. The Billings Lodge will
hold a fair beginning Sunday night,
October "a and continuing one week.
Elk Lodges in other cities Of the state
will be invited to send delegations to
the fair and to participate in the
street pageant which will take place
Monday night preceding the opening
Of the sessions Of the Congress. T'7is
parade will be an Illuminated pageant,
including decorated floats and unique
features.
The Elks have leased the Coliseum
and will erect stage in one end. Con-
tinuous vaudeville, with a change of
program every night will be the fea-
ture of the entertainment.
The Elks also will cooperate with
the decoration committee in beautify-
ing the city. An Illuminated welcome
arch will be erected at the depot. The
Elks will assist the reception commit
tee of the board in welcoming the
delegates to the Dry Farming Con-
gress.
While the Elks' fair is being plan
ned for the purpose Of increasing the
local lodge building fund, the dele
gates to the Congress will not be ask
ed to contribute. The Elks have enter
ed into this affair with the spirit of
hospitality foremost in their minds.
When the delegates to the Dry Farm
ing Congress register at the head
quarters, they will receive, with their
credentials, season ticket to the
Elks' fair, which will entitle them to
free admission to the Coliseum during
the week.
The Second Regiment band has
been engaged for Congress week,
will play at all sessions of the Con-
gress and at the Elks' fair every eve
ming.
Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-09-30

greet and he saved little. When he be-
came governor he was worth about
So, ooo.
When he died he owned house in
st. Paul valued At about 81, 600,
life insurance policy for SIS, 900 and
about ST, $50. The governor is also
said to have y few stocks Of doubtful
value. and an automobile.
Much Of the governors income was
spent maintaining an apartment at tue
Aberdeen hotel in St. Paul, and on
clothes for Mrs. Johnson. It was the
governor visa that his wife shoula
always be elegantly gowned, and ne
did rot limit her in her expenditures.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
Unmarried Women and Cards.

Much doubt seems to exist on the
correctness or the reverse of young
married women having visiting cards
Of their own. A girl never has a
card of her own in the best society.
To do so argues one of three things
either that she has become an old
maid or is in bushes or pro-
fession or has adopted a quite unique
indo "endence of character. To de-
fina the age when a single woman
may nave a card Of her own is a mat
ter Of some difficulty. One girl be-
while another remains mere bant-
ling even after she has reached that
milestone. Character has much to
say on the subject, and a great deal
also depends upon circumstances.
Nowadays even girls in high position
strike out in a line for themselves
They write, paint, go in for nursing
or study music almost as aprofession.
In such cases as these a girl would
have many friends apart from her par
ent's circle, and might have a card of
h own while she remains in the
later twenties. But as a general rule
this flag of freedom should never be
waved before a single woman has
reached the age of thirty-five or for
ty, especially If she has a mother
alive, on whose card her name could
appear
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29

ments. You can hold your citsn .
accountable for the loss. but we musI
look TO you, don't you see?"
II see." said Grucher. 80 you
dug this up. did your"
II occurred to me said the young
man, modestly.
You must have got up pretty ear
Grucher.
Not very" replied young Brophie
II caught freight out to Batten-
burg at 4.35, and walked over to the
bridge"
You couldn't have got much sleep
then, judging from tie time you left
my house." observed Grucher with
q smile. Wei, he continued. 81
suppose I'll have to pay up. may
not be able to get 1t back, but I'll
have to take chances on that. So
your with Gull & Fisher! Well,
think Gull G. Fisher have got a pretty
good man"
To Mrs. Grucher that evening
Grucher said: Il guess | was mistak-
en- in sizing up that young Brophie
He was in the office to-day on a nS T.
ter of business and l think he's got
considerable amount of sense and
energy about him. But why does he
want to talk such rot to Annette?
And why does he wear such foolish
clothes when he comes around
here?"
My dear" said Mrs. Grucher. IL
suppose you've forgot how silly you
appeared when you were calling on
me-"
There may be something in that.
admitted Grucher.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
SCARED BY BATTLE IN CLOUDS.
Sham Sight Of Troops, Reproduced in
Mirage, Frightened Villagers.

Heidelberg.-A terrifying pheno-
menon in the heavens recently alarm
ed the superstitious villagers of Dor2-
bach and Oberunzbach. on the from
tier of Baden and Wurtemberg In
the clouds, just before 10 O'Clock in
the forenoon, there appeared bright
red streak. on which could be plainly
seen landscape with fields, streams
and woods, among which two bodies
of troops in battle formation were ad-
vGncing toward each other, firing vol
leys. The puffs of smoke were clearly
visible.
Half an hour later the picture sud
denly disappeared, but the excitement
and fear aroused among the villagers
lasted until next morning, when the
explanation appeared in the newspa-
pers OF the district that sham fight
had been held by the garrison of Mer-
thentheim, some twenty miles dis
tant, and had caused the mirage.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
Switch Operated from Car.

The opening and closing of switch
es on street car tracks consumes a
considerable amount of time when
the motorman has to attend to the
work himself. The other alternative
is the employment Of a regular switch
tender and, of course, such an extra
hand can only be used where an un-
csua, amount OF traffic warrants the
expense. Some weeks ago these col
Wmn' contained an account of an elec-
trical device for controlling switch
as operated from the car. Now, n
Philadelphian comes forward with an
invention which he asserts accom-
plishes the same results by mechani-
cal means. In order to do this he
replaces the ordinary switch by one
which is provided with bearings up
o? which they rock readily and is
thus turned with a much smaller eX-
penditure of power. Each cars is
equipped with two levers or bars
capa lie OF being depressed so that
they enter slots provided for them
in the switch rails, which simple ac-
ton rocks the rails upon their full
ness and throws the switch open or
shut, as the case may be.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
SPRING CUSHES APPLE BRANDY
Farmer Strikes Underground Lake in
Pocket Of Rock In Missouri
Retarded as "UnusuaI."

Springfield. Mo.--What chance has
Statewide prohibition in Missouri
when applejack, pure, undiluted apple
brandy, mellow with age, bubbles up
from the ground like n spring? When
drilling we'll on his farm, seven
miles north of here Joel Hazelwand
struck flow at eighty feet of una.
dulterated apple brandy of unusually
fine quality. A dozen bucketfus of
the liquor have bubbled up through
the hole to-day, and there seems to
be no diminishing in quantity.
Because of the Federal statutes
Hazelwand is unable to sell his strike,
but neighbors with jugs have been iu-
vited to help themselves, and dozens
have accepted the invitation.
Biologists here are unable to give
any definite account of the pheno.
menon, though they give credence to
;he theory of Uncle Billy" Woodman,
the Oldest inhabitant. Uncle Billy"
says there was an orchard on the
sight of Hazelwand's farm before the
civil war, and in the year of $50 there
was an eNCepuOHdlly Oouhliiui NiOp'
Before the harvest all the men in
the country had gone to war and there
was nobody left to gather the crop.
When the apples became ripe ter
rife windstorm blew them from the
trees and practically destroyed the
orchard. The heavy rain that follow
cd the wind washed the fruit into the
creek, from where they were drawn
into some subterranean stream.
The apples, somewhere in their un-
derground journey were caught in
stream of boiling water and cooked.
This formed the apple brandy. which
filtered into pocket of rock and re
manned there to mellow with age until
tapped by Hazelwand's well.
The geology of this section of Mis-
souri, is such that the gathering of the
brandy in q pocket of rock is entirely
practicable, as the whue country is
underlaid with n stratum of Burling-
ton limestone. This limestone is
easily eroded by water, and subterra-
mean lakes are not infrequently found
although such lake of apple brandy
is regarded as unusual.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
The Fisherman's Paradise.

The fisherman's paradise in the
United States is found at Miami, Fla.
There are other tarpon grounds than
Biscayne Bay, hut anglers who have
found their way to the southernmost
point of Florida year after year with
fiattering regularity, and some of
whom have landed from five to ten
huge $50 or 200 Founders in one day
contend that no such angling sport
can be found elsewhere in the world.
nor so many fish as in the waters
which lap the shores of the various
keys which dot the bay and the Gulf
Stream. There are over 500 kinds
of fish between Miami and Key West,
and $50 of them are known as game
fish. One of the destinations Of the
gamy tarpon is that he is mysterious.
He comes In schools whence no one
seems to know. He Is sighted some
times as early as January. but. al
though he jumps and mockingly
lashes his six feet or 80 OF shining,
silvery body in the eyes OF the eager
sportsman he refuses to notice the
most tempting bait. In February he
begins to take the hook. and In this
month anglers begin to arrive on the
scene and to engage their boats and
guides for the season.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29

The twilight is merely the top OF
the atmosphere tinged with the rays
of the horizon-ridden sun. Small as
the air-particles are in their isolated
state, they cluster around the earth
in such overwhelming abundance and
crowd one another in such densely
serried ranks that they shine through
tEeir Depths under the far-re ching
rays as an impenetrable solid surface
might do. Illuminated by the direct
beams of the rising or setting sun,
nd seen from the regions below, this
upper gives us the phenomenon of
twilight
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
John NIiltOn's Cottage.

One of The best preserved historic
country houses in all England is John
Milton's cottage at Chalfront, st.
Giles, to which the blind and ageing
poet fed when the great plague
swooped down on London. That
was in July, 1865, and Milton had
Just finished Paradise Lost" and re-
ceived a FIVE pound note for it, with
l promise of three more five-pound
notes If the poem sold for editions OF
1900 copies each. The cottage
stands at the top of the village, and
It is in practically the same condition
as when Milton left it. Here the
poet received his distinguished guests
during the latter part of his life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
. Home of the Corncob Pipe.

Franklin county. Mo-. is the
birthplace Of the Missouri meer-
schaum," as those persons who de-
sire to give it a more aristocratic
name, have christened the corncob
pipe. OF corncob pipes during the
year 1907, the country exported 22,-
6OS,4SS. Besides these she sent out
$4,000 pipe stems. 29,S0S clean
ers," and 1OS,9O2 wooden pipes. in
value, more than half as much as
was realized from live stock or her
grain expectations. Gasconade coun-
ty shipped cob pipes to the number
of 1,S56,640, valued at S26,S9O. and
showing total shipment for the
two counties of 24,465,125 such
pipes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
com STOLEN ny MINERS.
4 iNcru,.- Of Theft Practiccd Every
whcrc--plundcrlno In Siberia.

Statisticians compile tables Of the
worlds production OF gold yearly,
but all admit that II Is impossible to
give accurate figures because not a
little of the metal is stolen and
never figures In the returns of pro-
duction. In country like China
where the industry of gold mining
is poorly organized and controlled,
this source of error in the returns
OF output is very important.
Prof. de Launay, in his recent
book on gold says that the gold in
dustry in no country escapes the
evil of thievery. Gold stealing goes
on everywhere, but the extent of the
evil varies according to the country
and the efficiency of the supervision
over miners.
Gold from its nature is easy to
steal and to sell. In the Transvaal
ii is estimated that from to 10 per
cent of all the gold extracted from
the ores of the Witwatergrand are
stolen
The goid thief is able to steal on
larger scale in such a country as
Siberia, where the miners are more
isolated and corruption IS more COM
mon. There the thieves even VEN
ture to tamper sometimes with work
superintendents who for share of
the pickings will give favorable op-
portunities for stealing According
to DR.. Levats statements in his book
on gold mining in eastern Siberia.
the quality of gold stolen from ST.
berian mines is not less than 20 per
cent of the entire output.
In 1896 1000 adventurers drove
the mining companies and their en-
ployes from the gold district of the
Zeya River and washed out a large
emount of gold before they finally
fed on the approach of a regiment
of Cossacks. Not a particle of the
gold they mined has been included
in the figures of production.
1t was found also in 1890 that
gold mining along the border be-
tween French Guiana and Brazil,
where the placers were remarkably
rich had been carried on for
several years without any supervis-
ion whatever and not an ounce of the
gold was included in the statistics.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
The Groundhog Story.

February 2, or Candlemas Day.
was favorite holiday, marked by
public gayety and ceremonies in Eu-
rope during the Middle Ages. 1t
is still marked there by the closing of
banks and offices. but not otherwise,
outside of the reading of Church
services. In the Chruch Calendar it
is known as the Feast of Publication
of the Virgin, and was first insti-
tuted by Pope Sergius about the year
6S4 A. ID. The popular name of the
day Is derived from the early custom
of lighting up the churches with
candles and carrying these in process
on on this festival.
AS to the weather superstition
that gives to Canilemas the name of
grounding day." that is world
vide fable. In Gerna any it Is the
badger that breaks his winter nap
On this day to essay the thankless
task of weather prophecy; in France
and Switzerland 1t Is the marmot; !;
in England the hedgehog The
Housekeeper.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
Philippine Pineapples.

1t Is stated in Manila that with
preferential tariff on the importation
into the United States of Philippine
products there is but little doubt
that the pineapple canning industry
in the Philippines could be made
one OF the most tproductive that could
be introduced. At the present time
some of the finest pineapples ever
grown are being cultivated in Bataan
and Bulacan, end even in the red
clay soil of Benguet there are grow.
Ing plenty of plants producing this
luscious fruit which Is in so much de-
mand in the United 3tates.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29

Simply green--unripe-the most
natural designation in the world. 1t
was ORIGINALLY nautical phrase,
n.eaning the inferior sailors. or
boys" as they were called, the crew
being divided into able seamen. or
binary seamen and green" hands,
or boys. The term had no reference
to age, but referred merely to the
skill or knowledge of the particular
party.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
No Snow, No Pay, for zeb's sleiah.

Winsted, Conn.-Zeb Holley, OF
Brushy Hill, near Woodbury., has
bought new sleigh on the instalment
plan. Every time it SHOWS he is 10
make a payment on it. There have
been two snowfalls since he bought
the sleigh, costing 500, and as he pays
only 81 for snow storm he figures
he will be able to draw at least seven
months interest on the other fellows
money.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
Monkeys Apt Pupils at College.

Washington.-Tha a monkey can
learn something new every day, al
though the only people with whom it
comes in contact are college profess
sors, is said to have been demonstrate
ed by the Department of Psychology
in George Washington University. Ex-
perlments have been conducted upon
twenty monkeys, and interesting data
are being arranged for publication.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
A Thought.

am coming to believe that there
Is work for everybody somewhere. 1t
may not be the work we want, and
it may not be the place in which we
desire to stay. but it will supply
creature comforts, and that Is a great
deal, says Home Chat. Most of us
have to do unpleasant things from
time to time, but it is quite possible
- do them cheerfully.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29

II was awfully worried about
Johnny when he had that last sick
SPELL" said Mrs. Lapsling. "and when
the doctor told me he was going to
get we'll went fairly deleterious
with Joy"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29
The Highest Quality of Babies.

Washington. Mrs. Belva A. Loct.
wood says that when Prof. Max G.
schlapp told the Colony Club, of New
York, that woman suffrage would lead
to race suicide, he must have had
wheels in his head.
Suffrage means no babes?" she
said. "On the contrary, 1t means ths
highest quality OF babies"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-29

Great age does not stale the imsgi-
native qualities Of the distinguished
Russian philosopher and writer. His
latest book on the subject Of the re-
generation of the Cars empire Is con,
sidered the most powerful appeal hs
has ever made in favor Of an op-
pressed people.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-21
Monte Attell
Knocks Out
Neil in 18TH

San Francisco, June 20.-Monte At
tell, brother of Abe Attell, the feather
weight champion, knocked out FRANKIE
Neil in the 18th round Of schedule
25-round fight, billed as for the BAN
tamweight championship. at Jim Cor
froths Mission Street Arena Saturday.
1t was Attell all the way, and from the
second to the deciding round. he pun
meled Neil almost at will, peppering him
with jabs to the head and face and
crashing in heavy smasheS to the ribs
and kidneys. Neil was red with blood
from Attelrs bitter slashes at the end of
the second round, and he hung the red
badge of courage throughout the re-
naming rounds
The loss of blood gradually weakened
Neil, and it was through exhaustion and
the effects of the constant hammering
rather than from one punch, that Neil
was put to the boards for the doleful
decimal. The knockout was only post
ponement from the preceding round, in
which the gong saved Neil.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-21
THE BIGGEST FERRYBOAT.
1t Runs Across Lake Ontario and
Carries Thirty Cars a Trip.

New Workers are prone to thing that
about every kind of craft that floats
may be seen in the waters thereabout
They may be right as regards the pre-
tentious carriers of passengers and
freight. but when it comes to the hum
BILE fcrryboat they are mistaken.
The municipal ferryboats which ply
to Staten Island and South Brooklyn
are probably the finest of their kind
but among the boats which carry whole
railroad trains those in this harbor take
a low rate. The Maryland and the Ex-
press of the New Haven Railroad look
mighty powerful as they pass under the
Brooklyn bridge transporting the Fed
eral or the Colonial express between
Jersey City and Mott Haven, but they
are surpassed by railroad ferries in
other parts of the country.
The biggest ferryboat for railroad
trains is now in operation on Lake On
tario, between Charlotte, n. ", the port
of Rochester and Cobourg, Ontario. 62
miles away. Boats of the ordinary fer
ry type could not make the passage of
Lake Ontario safely except in fair wea-
Their.
The boat which makes the trip, the
ontario No. l, looks mort like an ocean
steamship than a ferry boat. 1t is 81
feet long. 1t differs from the ordinary
steamship in appearance only at the
stern, which looks as if a huge bite
had been taken out of it.
If you view this boat from the stern.
the purpose of it's building is apparent.
The entire space of the main deck is a
runway for cars. There are four
tracks on which trains are run from
the yards by means of an adjustable
apron. 1t carries 80 loaded cars There
is also room on the upper deck for 1000
passengers.
The Ontario No. 1 is used chiefly to
transport carloads of coal from the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Rail-
way to the Grand Trunk Railway. A
saving of nearly 100 miles Of traffic on
the NiagaraTorontO lines is relieved.
The trip of 81 miles is made in about
four hours. 1t is the only boat oper-
ating in the great lakes continuously
throughout the year 1t started run
ming in November 1907 and hasn't miss
ed a trip yet.