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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-05-12
Members Of Farmers Union
Convene at Springfield
HIGH PRICE FOR WHEAT
eRAiNeRoWERs BRANCH OF TIL
LERs' ORGANIZATION ON REC
ORD BEFORE WoRLD--WiLL
BUILD UP SYSTEM WITH THE
CATTLE MEN.
Sessions Are Executive.

Springfield, Mo-, May 12.-The
first step towards securing closer
relations between the grain grow
ers and cattle raisers of the west
and southwest was taken here to-
day at a mass meeting of the Ma
tional Farmers union which has a
membership of 100000. Ses-
sions will be executive.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-05-12
3 KILLED and SCORE
HURT in TEX. WRECK

New Orleans May ia special to
The New Orlears Item from Denison,
Tex, says that II Is reported that in
wreck on the Missouri. Kansas e.
Texas Ry. near there. today, three
persons were killed end score or
more injured.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-05-12
Editor Badly Raatan.

Bourbon. Mo-. May 12.--As the re-
suit Of criticising ID. r.. L. Hume.
president OF the schol board, H. H
Marshall editor OF The Bourbon stan
aard. was knocked down and badly
beaten BY the doctor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
HAIR FOR FEATHERS
GEORGIA MAN HAS FREAKS IN
POULTRY YARD
Raises Seven Chickens which Bear
Hair Instead of Feathers--
Sells Three Pets to Travel
ing Snowman.

+, Gainesville. Ga. Sept 5.-Emerson E.
Mincey, Of this city. has some OF the
most unusual and unique freaks in the
way of chickens seen in this part OF the
country. The record OF three-legged
chickens, twin chickens. and hens that
begin setting in Athens and get up
with a brood in Atlanta are laid in
the shade. Ea5
p, He has bevena chickens now nearly
grown which are covered with a suit
of long coarse hair instead OF regula-
ton feathers They are not sporadic
cases, but have been bred to. wear hair
instead OF feathers. Last year one of
Mr.. Mincey's Rhode Island Reds had
hair in lieu of feathers. He kept this
hens eggs separate and watched the
resuIt-the chicks were hairy. too. He
sold three of these hairy chicks. then
nearly full grown, to a travelling show
man for IS, and ran across them at
little town north of Gainesville sew
eral months ago, while he was engaged
there with the bank for land sale.
The seven hairy wonders in the fowl
line he now has at home and many
have visited his place to have a peep
at chickens which wear hair instead
of feathers. He believes that he will
be able to breed the strain further, and
have pleanty of hair-clothed hens and
boosters.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
CLAY TALKS TO SELF
GEORGIA SENATOR CAUGHT IN ACT
MA FRIEND.
willy Statesman Then Tries to Pretend
That He Had Been Humming
FavOTite Tune, "Ben
Bolt,n

Senator Clay. of Georgia, has pro-
uounced habit. of talking to himself
when deeply absorbed in some subject.
and has been caught in the act many
times as he strOlled along Pennsyl-
vania avenue, his hat pulled over his
eyes, and his hands clasped under the
ample folds of his cottails. 1t may be
added also that he is highly sensitive on
the subject of, lonesome conversations
One day,stte Senator was jogging
along the .Apenue after the close Of tha
days. session. deep In conversation
with himself. Close behind him was
one who knew him well, and was ia
miliar with the habit about which he
had been twItted ever since he came
to Washington. The man behind heard
the Senator say with much positive
uess:
No sir. toll you you are mlstak en-.
It didn't happen that day at all. Don't
you remember
At that instant he caught sight OF
the man at his heels. so for the purpose
of conceallng the fact that the dis
cussion was lonesome. one, the Sena-
tor followed his last words, don't you
remember" with:
sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,
Sweet Alice, with hair so brown,
Who wept with delight as you gave
her a smile, =.
And trembled with fear at your frown." "
Just to show that he had all along
been humnlng the tune and not talk
ing to himself the Senator clapped his
friend on the back and said:
That's about the sweetest song that
was ever written, and L o1ten eaten
myself humming 1t unconsclously' -
New York Times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
Good Old Moonshine Days
Are Rapidly Disappearing

The picturesque moonshiners of the
North Georgia mountains are becoming
extinct as a type. says W.. @. Cooper
Secretary OF the Atlanta Chamber Of
Commerce.
The broad-brimmed, booted. bearded
desperate, with his rifie lying loosely
in the crook of his arm, no more guards
the little log-hut hidden in the gorge;
no longer distills his mountain dew at
midnight, and before the sun has risen
Stays the revenue officer who has been
unwise enough to stalk him In his lair.
Yes, says Mr.. Cooper, the moonshin-
er Is vanishing. Progress and civiliza-
ton are conqUerors, and the sure-foot-
ed mountaineers are lumbling one by
one over the precipice Of time into the
abyss OF things that were, to Join Capt.
Kidd and his pirate crew, to sleep with
Uncas and his Indian band. to people
the tales of old men and the dream OF
children.
Mr.. Cooper says there IL no doubt
that some Illicit distilllng Is going on
in North Georgia. just as in every sec
ton of the land, but times have chang
ed. and most of the big copper worms
through which the golden corn juice
once trickled are now lying dust.cov-
cred and forgotten in the cellar store-
room beneath the Deputy United States
MarshaPs Office.
The good old days have passed when
q Northern stranger. travelling through
the. hills on horseback. admired the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

engine, IL IN ouid be stated that he has
never had anything TO do with any
engine save his own, and that his en-
CINE seems to have entirely new fea>
lures about Ii. For instance, by a
simple change in one of the cranks ne
Is able to run the engine backwards the
same as forward. In other words. he
has worked along entirely original
lines Another feature Of his inven-
tion Is the use of the same steam twice.
and the result Is an engine entirely
different from the engines now in COM
mon use.
1t Is. a double-cyl inder arrangement
one of which Is made out of an old
bicycle pump. The boiler Is an old
cap OF an engine which his father
found and gave to him. Every other
piece In the construction was made
by the young man himself.
This boy Is Is years old and In the
seventh grade. With the training he
has had during the few months he at
tended the agricultural school he is
able to go into his own shop and not
only make an engine during his spare
moments but he can and does do all the
black smithing on his fathers planta-
ton. The claim that the schools are
not giving the kind of education and
training intended Is certainly not true
of the First district school.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

good a quantity as that of Alabama, the
value of the smaller tonnage Of Ala
bama in 1908 vas greater by over
$1,9o0.000 than that of the larger pro-
duction of West Virginia. Notwith-
standing the depression In 1905. the
average price per ton of Alabama coke
declined only one cent, from $3,05 to
1904. while that of West Virginia de-
clined from $2.36 to $500.
There were forty-five coking estab-
lishments in Alabama in 1908, an in
crease of two over 1907. The total
number of ovens increased from 9,SS9
to 10.103. OF the forty-five establish
ments ten, with a total of 1885 ovens
were idle during 1908, as compared
with six idle establishments having a
total of IT'S ovens in 1907. There were
no new ovens building at the close of
1908. The establishments in Alabama
include two by-product recovery plants
with a total of ESQ ovens, all of which
were operated during the year.
Considerable increase is noted in the
percentage of coal washed before cox
ing in 1908 as compared with 1907. In
1907 the total quantity of coal washed
was 3,924,955 short tons, or seventy
nine per cent of the total. In 1908 the
quantity of coal washed was 3,274,
tons. or eighty-four per cent of the
total. OF the coal used for coke max
ing in 1908, 2.005,45 tons was run-of-
mine and 1,S71,338 tons slack.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
Youth of Cracker State
Displays LnDentiDe Skill

Atlanta. Sept. s.-A dispatch to The
Atlanta Constitution from Statesboro.
Ga. saws:
That Charles Bland the Is year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Bland, resi-
dents OF this county living few miles
from Statesboro. Is a genius. IL evidence
ed from the fact that he has built an
engine on his fathers farm. He had
never as much as seen an engine when
he went about the task of working out
his ideas. Several years ago his father
noticed that he had natural turn for
machinery and purchased him few
tools with which he 'tinkered" about
the farm OF his father.
When the First district agriculture
al school opened young Bland was en-
tered as student. He has been a
student in the school from time to time
since the institution opened and while
taking the mechanical training In the
shops Of the school, he conceived the
idea of his steam engine. When snce
the idea had nxed itself he began as
opportunity might offer to collect ma
terials and store them until such times
as he might be able to begin work.
He soon saw that he could not pos
sibly carry out his intentions unless
he had shop Of his own, and he ap-
pealed to his father to furnish him
with tools that were absolutely neces-
sary for a good farm blacksmith shop
and the father, having observed the in
clination of the boy all the while readi-
ly assented. The tools arrived and
were properly installed In one of the
outbuildings on the place. Then the
boy began In earnest to work out his
idea, but only at odd times perhaps
Of only a few minutes a day and some
times not being able TO touch 1t for a
week. When his own shop equipment
proved inadequate he was allowed to
go to the shop at the school and work
For fear someone might think
that this boy has worked around an
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
GETS RID OF SEEDS
BUT EDITOR PLAYED MEAN TRICK
~ ON WOMEN
-- -.s~
Puts Fancy Labels of Flowers on
Packages Of Vegetable Seeds and
Distributes Them-HOuse-
Weyen Mad.

Kansas City Journal
Talk turned on Government gar
den seeds among several Topeka news
paper men the other day. and 1t was
told that the seed sent out by Con-
gressmen is old stun bought by the
Government from seed houses. Many
people have an idea that the Govern
ment raises the seed on Its experimental
s6sd anE ssof you fsiiows ever near
the story sof how Fred KanderGFlft
years ago played a trick on Congress
man Phillips2" asked one Of the num-
Der.
The rest pleaded their youth.
We'll, Van was running the Atchf-
son Champion, 1 think" was the mar
ration. AT any rate Phillips was
Congressman of that district. The
Congressman. you know, supply all OF
their constituency that they have ad-
dresses of, and then send sack full
of the seed left over to some of the
country editors, with instructions to
give out the seed to their subscribers.
with the compliments of the Congress
man. Van got big sack of garden
seeds from phillips and nae asking
him to act as a distributing agency.
Van didn't break his neck to do it..
He pondered over the matter for about
an hour and then hurried down town
Soon he came back with flower cata-
logue. He seated himself before the
sack Of garden seeds, opened the pack
ages and put their contents into the
blank envelopes. On the latter he
wrote fearful and wonderful Latin
names and all sorts of fancy English
like Star Beaming Verbena. Dew
Dew Daisy 'Glittering Morning Glory
Flaming Phlox,' and so on lad infini-
tum.)
'Iu short, he was fling the blank
envelopes with pumpkin, radish, onion,
lettuce, beet and other garden seeds,
and labelling them some fancy named
choice and rare flower. After that job
was done, and 1t was a long one. Van
inserted this little piece in his paper:
Congressman Phillips sent sack full
of choice flower seeds to this ONCE
for free distribution. Every house
wife in Atchison County who loves the
choice flowers is invited to call and
we shall be glad to give her one free
PACKAGE
Well. they came In droves and
punches and Van soon had the distri-
button made. The women planted the
seeds. boed and watered them carefully
and In due time they sprang forth and
leaved and blossomed. You can i'm
agine the excitement in Atchison when
the Inhabitants discovered that they
were raising pumpkins and squashes
when they had expected daisies and
verbenas. The garden truck literally
ruined the flower gardens of Atchison
that season. Phillips was never for
given. no matter how hard he tried to
! explain. I'm willing to bet that he
! never forgaVe Van, either"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

As true little heroine a. was ever
produced by hard conditions of real
life, or the sympathetic pen OF drama
list. is today living in Atlanta. says
The Atlanta Constitution.
She is practically the head of fam
lily Of seven Her mother 10 wasted
away with tuberculosis. Her baby Sis
ter also has the dread disease. Two
young brothers have recently had the
whooping cough. They and the other
sisters show traces of tuberculosis The
father is a carpenter In cotton mill
and makes $50 month. On this the
family of seven life.
But the father is not at work. Sat
urday night several weeks ago. while
hurrying home with some eggs and
milk for his sick wife, he stumbled
into one Of the bitches In his home
street-city improvements have not
yet reached that far-and fell, break
ing his arm. The doctor thinks he will
be able to work in two or three weeks
more. In the meantime the family in
come Is stopped.
Mamma, the Lord didn't intend for
me to have no good luck, and I have
almost give up hopin'." he told his wife.
The broken arm came month after he
had gone to work in the cotton factory
following his recovery from a broken
rib, sustained by falling from mouse
on which. he was working.
Money Is rather scarce sometimes"
said Mrs. r. w. Nail. in speaking une-
motionally Of the condition of the fam
lily.
To the little green cottage nothing
but the barest necessities of life ever
find their way. When the family In
come was not able to meet the ex-
penses of milk and eggs and the nour-
ishing food that the mother needed to
get back her strength. appeal was made
to the Anti-Tuberculosis Society.
AS the East Lake and Decatur car
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
DAM ON RIO GRANDE
IMMENSE IRRIGATION PROJECT
PLACED ON FOOT.
Expected To COST About e22, 600, 600
Completion Will Have Tremendous
Effect ON Mexican Land
Yaluem

San Antonio, Tex Sept. 5.-An irriga-
ton project OF large proportions, cal
culated to water over 100000 acres
Valley, will probably find realization.
American and Mexican land owners are
behind the undertaking and a large
part of the money necessary will be
furnished by the Pimental financial in
situations. 4. i j..
Josey Limantour, minister of finance
OF Mexico, and his brother, Jukiob LII
mantour, who owns big body OF
land in the territory affected, VIII AID
in financing the enterprisise, and SO
will the TerraZas syndicate. in which
Gov. Enrique Creel, of Chihuahua, Is
interested. Gen Geronimo Trevino, OF
Monterey, owner of about 100000
acres of fine land along the banks of
the river, Is one of the promoters The
America interests are composed
mostly of colonization companies and a
few individual owners.
The dams, locks. canals, and bitches
needed will cost about $22,OO0,OOO, ana
many months will be necessary for
their construction. 1t is intended to
dam the Rio Grande at four different
notnts where the nature of its bed is
espectally favorable. The biggest dam
will be near LaJitas, where the river
runs in a canyon nearly a thousand
feet deep, Adopting this method will
mean that large quantities OF water
can be stored up at minimum risk
and expense and very little tillable
land will be wasted in the storage of
the water
The effect this irrigation project will
have on land values wRen 1t Is COM
Melted will be tremendous. Similar
lands below Zapata sold for 81 to So
an acre before they could be irrigated,
while today from $50 to $75 is asked
and paid. The present value of the
land to be put under irrigation ranges
from 81 to So OLE the Mexican side OF
the river and on che American side IS
to S. an acre Is paid.
The company formed to launch this
enterprise will have capital stock of
$50. 600, 600 and will be able to draw
S4S GOO. 900 gold from the Mexican trea-
sury. A law passed several years ago
Droyides for a subsidy of So an acre
for any meritorious irrigation pro-
ject.
Before work can be commenced a
treaty between the United states ana
the Mexican republic will have TO fix
the status of the undertaking from the
noint of view of international law. The
preliminary data and surveys for this
are now being obtained and no diff
culties are anticipated. 1t is known
that both governments favor the re-
clamation of the Rio Grande Valley,
and that for this reason no obstacles
will be placed In the way of the Zapata
project.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
What 1t wishes to See.

Hartford Conn Times.
We wish to see the Democratic Far-
Nv committed squarely against all use
Of the taxing power except the raising
Of revenue 1t is impossible to frame
any revenue tariff law that VIII nor
give ample Incidental protection to ev-
cry industry subject to rulnous ioI
eign competition. The most oo1ectloh-
able use of the taxing power that has
ever been made by Congress was the
passage of the oleomargarine law-an
effort to destroy one industry tor sne
ness of that proceeding as principle
of Of american government and you elm elm,
mate the Democratic idea entirely s1ah |.
That law opens the way for s sins ,n
scheme as Mr.. Taft's corporation IN
come tax, the admitted chief oo1eet
of which is not to produce revenue;
but to lay the basis for system OF
every state chartered, commercial OF
trade corporation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
Nex York,s water supply.

The new aqueduct for New York Will
cost SlB2. 900, 900. 1t will be the great
est work of its kind In the world. Tne
daily will receive an addition OF 500 =
000'Soo' which will lay under tribute
about 500 square miles Of mountain and
meadow, or tract nearly half as large
as the land and water surface or tnc
state OF Rhode Island. There is no rea'
son why this should not gather water
OF the purest quality, and 1t VIII be
carried through the aqueduct ninety
two miles, with many moye miles OF
connecting conduits within the city
limits For thirteen and half miles
Of this distance the water VIII now
through twenty-three tunnels and for
much OF the distance it will be a sub
terranean river. The nine famous
aquedncts OF oId rome en- nad an ag tStsi
Capacity of only 100000 gallons
daily or about a sixth OF that expected
to flow from the new source
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
Alabama, One of Greatest
Coke Producing States

For quarter of century. from 1880
to 1905. Alabama and West Virginia
were close rivals for second place in
the rank of coke-producing States, and
during the last five years of that period
each State held the place alternately
Since 1905, however, West Virginia has
outranked Alabama and in 1907 pro-
duced over a million tons, or about
third more coke than her rival. 1t
would appear, therefore that West
Virginia Is permanently established as
second among the producing
States. In 1908 West Virginia produce
ed nearly 275.0oo tons more than Ala
bama.
Alabama's production Of coke de-
creased from 3.034,501 tons in 1906 to
S.o21,7s4 tons in 1907. an dto 2,362,6
tons in 1908. The value, however in
creased from $s.477,S99 in 1905 to
&s,216,1s4 in 1907, but fell of to S7.169,-
col in 1908. The decrease in 1908, as
compared with 1907. was s6s,12s short
tons. or 21.si per cent in quantity
and s2.04e.2s3. or 22.2 per cent In
value.
The coke manufacturers Of Alabama
possess an advantage over those Of
West Virginia in having a home mar
ket for their product. This is illus
trated particularly by the Difference In
value between Alabama's production
and that of West Virginia. While
West Virginia coke Is certainly Of as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
MEN AND MINIATURES .
Ugly Modern Clothes Make Mere Man
an Inartistic Subject.

an InartlSl1c buDJects
New York Times.
Perhaps woman suffragists don't
need to be cheered up bit, but IL they
do they may find Il note of gladness In
the fact that here is another class of
persons besides themselves who have
no use for a man. They are miniature
Cant you paint a man in minia-
ture?" said the visitor. who had been
looking at dozens of dainty feminine
ikene sses which reposed in a cabinet
uncontaminated by association with a
I've can" said the artist, land we do
occasionally, but we don't want to-.
Men don't look well in miniatures. They
are too harsh, too coarse. II mtnia-
ture is going to be a real work OF art
it must have for it's subject something
dainty. fluffy, or lacy There Is moth :
ing very duffy or lacy about mans
stiff linen collar, his unsightly lapels.
his straight, short hair. In the days
when men wore satin coats and pow
dered curls, miniature painters might
have been able to work them up into a
pleasing picture. but you don't meet
many men nowadays who wear satin
coats and powdered curls. OF course,
II a man dressed in the ugly modern
costume wishes to be painted in min
iature no artist is going to refuse the
commission, but she certainly will not
approve of his taste"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
CHURCH DOORS
Closed Against Marriage of Prominent
Divorced Man.

Philadelphia Special to N. Y. Times.
Prof. Ward Pierson Of the Uniyersi-
ty of Pennsylvania and Miss Hattie
Armstrong Of SwarthuIore have been
forced to change plans for their mar
rage because the Elders OF the FIRST
Presbyterian Church OF Swarthmore
have withdrawn permission to use that
church since the Elders learned that
Prof. Pierson is a divorced man.
The couple are still anxious to be
married, and Miss Armstrong Is tndig-
nant at the action of the Elders in nrst
giving permission and then, after the
Invitations had been sent out, with
drawing 1t at the last moment. It is
possible they Will now be married by
civil ceremony.
Prof. Pierson was divorced by Mary
e. Plerson In the courts of Hamilton.
o.. last July, after they mad been sep
arated two years. Mrs Plerson brought
patibility OF temperament She OBJ
tained $2.700 alimony
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

Girl of TUelDe Head of
Stricken Fla naily of Seven

, daily fash by the little home, Is willow
street, the prosperous looking men and
fashionably dressed women looking out
of the windows see an emaciated pre-
maturely old woman lying on a cot on
the veranda taking the open-air treat
ment.
A little girl now twelve. in a blue
Bingham. Is sweeping the yard, bring
ing her mother nourishment, or busy
ing about the household duties. That's
Lera.
Lera can name all the books In the
Bible without hating. She was one of
the leaders In her class when she went
to school. but she will probably not be-
able TO go any more, for there Is no
too Tar to the next nearest school.
Then she has work to do at home. At
two the little girl had whooping cough.
from which she did not fully recover
until she was six. Then she had scarlet
fever. Never strong. her eyes are bad
and pain her when she studies hard.
Lcra was the one who had to go
cines. Lera cleaned up the house and
waited on her mother. and carried
around the little baby who would wall
piteously whenever It was put down.
Sometimes the ueighbors would come
In and help. but most OF the time Lera
did 1t all
The child has been to school almost
as much as other children of her age,
whose parents are more fortunate in
this worlds goods. She Is alert. and
bright, and sunny. She smiles, but
why only Him who can touch with I'm
failing hand the mainsprings of human
happiness can tell.
Asked If she would not like to go to
a hospital. where she could have prop
err treatment, ana grow well and strong
enough to again take her place In her
household, the poor woman said she
wished there wuz some sich place"