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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-04

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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-04

: Bananas, two dozen for a quar-
: ter, or one dollar Wy the bunch.
: They will be delivered to any
: part of the city. Phone your or
: ders to Richholt, 81.
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-04
PHOENIX.

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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
Clean up Campaign

The State health authorities
have asked the people of Texas
to set aside March 10th last as
cleanup day. For those who
need to set apart a special period
during which they will need
make war on filth and refuse of
various kinds, it is hoped the of
fetal edict will prove a good
thing. Good enterprising citi-
zens, however, does not wait for
edits from state health boards,
or from city authorities either
He cleans up his premises just
as soon as spring and weather
conditions will permit, and sug-
gests a renovotion, He not only
cleans the front yards, but re-
moves the refuse from back lots.
He removes refuse from the al
.ly on the rear of his premises,
and thereby causing his proper.
ty to present a spick and span
appearance.
Unfortunately, there are citi.
zens who have so little regaro
for the physical beauty of theil
own property or of the city as
whole that they need prodine
by the authorities. For sucf
people the requests of boards o
health are timely utterances
Our advice is Let those wht
aught to clean up" get at it.
CIVIC CLUB
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
Fire Interfered with Traffic,

Early Tuesday morning the
viaduct of the Santa F'e Railway
at Amarillo over the electric car
line tracks, was burned which
necessitated transferring all pas
sengers, mail and express from
regular to stub, that wereIrun to
the place of damaged track,
causing a tieup of freight traf-
tic, and delay in the passenger
services. The fire is supposed
to have been caused by the elec.
trio wires. The viaduct was
constructed of creosoted wood.
Concrete is the proper materia.
to use.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
High School Play a Success.

Last Friday night the pupils
of the High School presented
an amateur play at the opera
house to a large audience under
the direction and training of
Miss Beatrice Lafler, a graduate
of one of the best expression
schools in Pennsylvania. The
entertainment was given in two
parts, the first of which, Bel
shazzar's DOOM" was presented
by about forty of the young peo-
pie in very pretty and effec-
tive manner. showing the dress
and customs of the times and
giving the old scriptural scenes
as recorded in the Book of Dan
iel. This ended with a beautiful
pantomime by Misses Willie
Mills, Ada Terrill and Ruth
Harder.
The second part was a repro
duction of a we'll known and
widely read piece of fiction which
has been recently dramatized
and placed upon the stage. Miss
Lafler took the part of Nance
Olden; Lilburn Thompson, that
of William Latimer, the city at
torney and Earl Vansant took
that of Tom Dorgan. Those
who have read I'm the Bishops
Carriage" thoroughly enjoyed
watching the thread and entan-
clement of the different charac,
ter's fortunes. Others who took
part were; Hudson Pritchard,
Frank Cannon, Archie Key, Bris
to Bates, Roy Moreland, Sadie
Winkleman, BERTHE Mulkey, An
ita Garrett, Bertha Shotwell,
and G.. B. Harder.
The play was entirely success
full and throughout the four
acts the young people tried tc
retain that snap and expression
that characterizes a good comedy
Miss Lafler is te be complement
ed upon her ability to train along
these lines and untiring efforts
in presenting to the people of
Canyon a first class entertain
ment.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
Brick Plant for Canyon.

The brick plant is an assured
thing. The people who are look
ing after the matter are expert
menting as to which is the best
brick machine and suitable to
use for the clay in this locality.
Samples of brick show the clay
to be unusually good and the tests
are showing up very satisfactory
1t now is a matter of the best
machine which will be desired
and the necessary machinery
will be purchased to commence
making brick at once.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22

not practiced unless reproduc-
ton is provided for. Mr.. Graves
recognized that the long time in
vestment involved in tree plant
ing on deforested land is not,
under average conditions at the
present time, an attractive one
to the lumbermen; nor did he
urge it. If you should ask my
advise of to whether you should
by denuded lands in the south
and plant them on a large scale
as an investment, | shall advise
against it. In my judgement
the question of the financial re-
turns from private forestry
should not be looked at from
theoretical standpoint of pur-
chasing land and planting trees;
but rather from the standpoint
of the management of forests al
ready under timber. | believe.
that the average American lum-
bermen is not much more
interested in natural repro
duction than he is in planta-
tions. Nevertheless. | believe
that the question of reproduc-
ton is well worth your attention
impractical grounds, even though
you have not the interest of the
owners who are planning a herit-
age for their children and grand
children, or of the corporations
organized on such permanent
basis as to look far into the
future. Already in the best set
tied portions of our country land
we'll stocked with young growth
brings a higher price than de-
nuded land. Even the land spec
lator who has no interest in per-
manent forestry may well take
this into account. Reproduc-
ton can be secured naturally in
most cases where second cut
is contemplated. | believe that
it is emphatically worth while,
in the first place, for the sake of
the increased sale value of natur-
al forest land after the present
stand has been removed, if it is
than well stocked with young
growth. In the second place, |
believe that the permanent in
terests of the lumber business
not only justify that demand
such handling of your forest
property"
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
What We Know About Comets

Even the head of a comet is
either not solid, or if solid, that
the size is very small; so that
even the greatest comets are
very insignificant bodies, except
for the immense airy tails which
they exhibit. A comets tail is
so rare that it has not more than
one particle to a cubic mile of
space. Hence it is mnch rarer
than the vacuum of an air pump.
Accordingly, although comets
appear large as they loom up in
the sky and strike terror into
the minds of the people, yet they
are in reality mere airy ghosts
of gaseous nature and the most
harmless of celestial bodies.
Babinet, a celebrated French
mathematician, has calculated
that, on the average, one comet
will collide with the earth every
fifteen million years. And If
the collision should occur, the
harm done would be very slight
and purely local in character.
1t might damage one locality on
the earth, but the effect would
not be worse than what we fire.
auently observe in the eruption
of a volcano such as Vesuvius.
And in the case of some comets
the amount of matter in them is
so slight that they would not
reach the earth, but produce
only a meteoric shower in the
atmosphere, like those of l199
and 1888. In fact, these cele-
brated star showers were pro-
duced by the earth passing thru
the tail of the disintegrated COM
ct. The dust of these old comets
burns up in our atmosphere and
and gives us simply a beautiful
meteoric display; yet in the case
of the shower of 1888, the heavens
we're so full of shooting stars
that the negros in Virginia be.
, Ieved the end of the world had
, come-Pacific Monthly.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
viii Visit Texas Schools.

Even in the old and settled
city of Cincinnati, in a mode
Commonwealth like Ohio, the
public schools are still in politics
Whether one shall have oppOr'
tunity to serve on the Board OF
Education depends there upon
, the color of his politics, and it
it is claimed that this consider.
alton tells even the selection OF
teachers. Thus the schools are
supposed to be used as means
of teaching the young idea how
to grab, how graft, how to hate
and beat the other party AT
any rate. a special commission
which will be composed of four
city officials and four non-otficial
members of the City Club OF
Cincinnati, will be appointed in a
few days to make tour of the
more prominent Texas cities in
the interests of the public schoo-
system there The action was
taken at a meeting of the club
at which President Charles w
Dabney of the University of Gin
cinnati told the members that
there we're no better schoO
systems in the United States
than at Dallas, Galveston, Fort
Worth, Houston and Los Angels
He dwelt at length on the non
political instruction in Texas
and advocated the adoption o
that system in Cincinnati ant
the taking of the schools of Gin
cinnati out of the politics. Al
of which speaks well for Texas
and for the cities referred to eS'
pecially, 1t is to be hoped tina
the schools in Texas may be
drawn even further out of poll
tics-not out of partisan polite:
merely, but out of that sort OF
politics which moves those in the
business to spend their time
electioneering for either Offices
candidates or favors. Th
schools should be kept out o
spoils politics as well as part,
politics. Dallas News.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
Iowa Heavy Loser

Des Moines, Iowa. Secretary
Green of the Iowa State Horticul-
tural Department, today esti.
mated the loss in Iowa of fruit
and vegetables from recent freez
ing weather at between five and
ten millions. Early fruits,
cherries and plums in particu
lar, have been totally destroyed
Snow is falling today in many
parts of Iowa. 1t was twenty
two above in southern Iowa las
night. April Is.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22

Miss Letitia Lancaster was a
caller at the News Office Tues
day and informed the reporter
that all arrangements were com
pleted for her primary school
which opens Monday, April 25thi
at the home of Mrs. r. t. Col
Inns and that she expected
large class.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
New Time Table.

Last Sunday the Santa Fe
Railway changed the running
time of the passenger train SER
vice. Only few minutes change
of the former schedule was all
that was made.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
Wanted More Farmers Wanted.

in this locality is not merely
local nor statewide nor nation
wide but is worldwide, common
to all civilized and advancing
countries. The high price of
farm products is not merely
confined to the United States
but to all countries, is the most
positive and convincing evidence
of this worldwide want.
The cause is not recent but
goes back for more than a quar-
ter of a century. The main
cause is the application of sci
ence and inventive genius to in
dustrial pursuits, whether it be
manufacturing, transportati on
or production. Some of our old
est readers can remember when
cities were limited to navigable
streams; when by far the great
est per cent of the population
was scattered through the
country; when every little town
had it's wagon shop, blacksmith
shop, paint shop and shoe shop,
and a number if not the most of
the little towns boasted of their
carding and woolen mills; when
the farmer could have anything
he needed made in his nearest
town and when all over the coun-
try we're men who lived by day 5
work, or worked by the month,
living cheaply in their own
homes.
The application of the principle
of the division of labor, which
was the result of the inventive
genius of the people, which en-
abled the railroads to reach ont
into the countay, changed all this
and these rural factories fold
their tents like the Arabs and as
silently steal away" to the towns
that have railroad facilities and
from these to larger towns and
cities.
The power loom took the place
of the hand loom, and the man
who made the plow took the
place of the man who made a
mere fraction of a plow. The
result of all this was to force
population into cities and reduce
the percentage of rural popula-
tion. SO that the reaction that
we have now reached would have
been reached long ago in this
country had it not been for the
invention of improved farm ma
chinery sucn as the reaper,
mower, binder, thresher and the
opening up of vast empire OF
the choiSeSt land tor the prod
nets of which the application OF
steam to transportation furnish
ed a mar cU.
All of TINS tended greatly tC
build up great cities, centers OF
population because of the very
cheap feed which the opening ul
of this empire of cheap land fur
nisned to the men wholive in the
cities. And for the past twenty
years cultivated acres increased
faster than consumers OF farm
products; hence the low prices
of grain and live stock "A verl
table feast of fat things which
were furnished to dwellers IL
the cities at less than or thu
bare cost of production.
Then the low long haul whicl
everybody favored and which
built up the great centers o
population, also the wonderful
opportunities offered to farm
born and farm bred in all o
these great centers sterilizes tn
country, by reducing not merel.
the numbers but the efficienc.
of the farm workers. Soon tn
scarcity of labor made extensiv
cultivation the only cultivation
possible.
This has been going on iron
year to year with the result JUS
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22

E. P. Huddness of Stamford
was looking after business mat
tiers in Canyon Thursday.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22

Mrs. Il. G. Kearley of Guam
nah is visiting at the home of
her brother, Prof, Pope.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
the world over.

the world over.
Therefore it seems clear that
high prices must prevail on farm
products until there is notable
trend back to the land.
Newspapers, commissions and
commissioners. grand juries and
public and private Investigators
are trying to learn why living
expenses are so high, all recon-
mending how they may be re-
duced and attempting to fix the
blame for present high level of
prices. Every man or women
who has a grocery bill to pay
knows that prices are higher
now than ever before in their
experience, and all are interested
in knowing why. The investiga-
tors are trying to find out.
Some or several may determine
who or what it is that causes
such inroads into salary checks
out of which must be provided
the necessities of life, but it is
improbable that any decision
reached will be satisfactory to
every one.
1t is not likely that the cost of
living will be noticably reduced
until there is a material increase
in the production or decrease
in the consumption. Secretary
of the National Department of
Agriculture, has said he sees no
prospects of the cost of living
going down. The law of supply
and demand should determine
the price of foodstutfs, but it is
a fact that some artificial means
is playing an important part in
their increase.
Some attribute the high prices
to the tariff, trusts, cold storage
house, whole sale dealers, de-
| mands of foreign nations and
some other factors which may
enter into the cost of living, and
one or all of these two may be
changed to a greater or less ex-
tent with having some purly
artificial influence on what the
consumers pay. Supply and de-
mand would create one price,
these artificial creations ap-
parently fix another and largely
increase the cost.
These high prices, it must be
seen by any man who will study
crop reports, are not due, speak
, ing generally, to a shortage OF
crops; for the worlds crops OF
grain last year was more than
an average. The same is true
of the year before, and the yeal
, before that The only shortage
that has existed, has been
shortage of hogs and cattle, but
no such shortage as would de
mand the prices now prevailing
for either one.
, The influences are not local,
F nor state wide nor nation-w wide
but world wide. These same pro
, blems of the drift to and over
growth of the cities, and the
, over development of the manu-
, featuring industries,
| They confront Great Britain
, as they confront America anC
: Germany as well as Great Bri
tain. Such world wide move
, ments do not grow out of causes
, but world wide.
e The farmers of the middl
west and south west are furnish
h ing world all the stuff that the,
h can with the amount of avialabl
f labor and intelligence at thei
| command. Now the output o
n these farms can be increased 2
f per cent to 100 per cent eventu
e ally; but only when there ar
v more men who actually till tn
v soil and learn how to til it NOR
e extensively and with the highes
e degree of intelligence.
4 This increase of actual tlller
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-22
Problem Of Private Forestry Discussed.

New Orleans, La, April l9-
In addressing the National Lum-
ber Manufacturers Association
today Henry S. Graves, Chief of
the Forest Service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, dis
cussed the problem of private
forestry and proposed a plan for
a general test by southern lum-
ermen of the practicability of
forestry on their own holdings.
THE more l study into this
subject of private forestry" said
Mr.. Graves, the more | am con-
vinced that what is needed is
not immediate legislation but an
immediate beginning of the pra-
cJical operation of forestry, and
| am convinced that the results
of such a beginning will be con
elusive evidence that American
lumbermen are fully capable of
meeting the conservation pro.
blem both from the standpoint
of the permanent requirements
of the lumber trade and from
that of the continued prosperity
of the public at large
Forester Graves held that for
most large owners to introduce
forestry Immediately over their
entire holdings would not be
practical from a business stand
point, because this would involve
making a considerable invest
ment in the dark. 1t could not
be told now either what forestry
would cost them or what it would
bring them. Further, a prelim-
mary workings out of the ex-
act methods of cutting and fire
protection needed should be OBJ
tanned. Therefore Mr.. Graves
proposed Cd That those lumber
men who are interested in this
manner make an immediate test
of the practice of forestry on
their holdings; ~ that this be
regarded as a beginning with a
view of ascertaining the possible
lity of forestry, rather than an
attempt to establish an organized
system of forestry over his en-
tire holdings; (3) that to ac,
complish this object they as.
sociate themselves together
either through their trade as
sociations, or by a new associa-
tion, in order that through co
operation and partnership the
expenses of forestry may be re
duced to a minium; (D that
each owner set aside from l,00C
to 10000 acres as a practlca
demonstration ground; 90 that
/, there be employed by the as
SociatiOn a forester to direct the
technical work, his salary aut
5 expenses to be properly pr, 10,
r among all the mem berS; 10 TIA
!. each owner employ such loc,
Y guards or rangers as are neceS
: sary to carry out the fire regula
/. tions restrictions of cuttings
/ etc.
). Mr.. Graves warned the lum
: herman that if they did no
n themselves move in the matte
they were likely to find the pub
i lie taking action to prevent tn
d improverishmet of states thr
r forest destruction. There i
a no question:" he said, that ther
e is a strong tendency towar
h State Legislation looking to som
If kind of restriction on privat
5, lands. Bills have actually bee
% introduced in state Legislature
having in view legal restriction
as to how the timber should b
cut. The American people whe
aroused to the need of a give
reform are impatient to have
% accomplished at once. My ow
,o program would be for the pr
- hs
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-15

Lessons
Third Floor Sohn Building
Tuesday and Friday Nights.


cd She'll gang DOT o. the house,
be said. twenty times for once she'll
come In"
conntrymaD went to a menagerie
70 examine the wild beasts. Severnl
gentlemen expressed the opinion tbnt
the ornng outang was n lower order of
tho human species. Hodge did not
Ike This idea and. striding ND to the
gentleman. expressed his contempt for
it In these words: Pooh. He's no
more OF the human species than I be-"
Mamma. Is that spoiled child7 r.
asked little boy OH seeing a negro
Daby for the first time
A shop exhibits card warning ey.
erybody against INSCRIPTIONS persons
who infringe our title TO deceive the
public" The shopman does not quite.
say what ho means any more thnD
the proprietor OF mn eating house near
the dock. on the door OF which may be
read the following announcement con.
veying fearful Intelligence 20 the gal.
liant tars who frequent this port:
Sailors vitnls cooked here."-Philn.
delphia North American.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-15
DANCING, NUMBER
IN VOGELSs MINsrRELs

One Of the many features TO be pre-.
sented by John w. Vogers Big city
Minstrels, which will appear at the
Elks Opera House on October n is a
beautiful and up-to-date dancing num-
Der, entitled The Great Event" The
idea was conceived by Manager Vogel
and arranged by Barney Fagin. the
worlds master producer Of intricate
dances and terpsichorean movements.
The scene is laid at the famous
Sheepshcad Bay race course, and the
prancing thoroughbreds are at he
post awaiting the signal for the start.
they get the word They're Off" hoof
beats are heard in the distance aud
Immediately after the finish the Jock.
eys appear neatly attired in the fegu
lation cOiors, representing the worlds
famous owners and stake winners.
William Rowe, the famous and
world-renowned solo clog dancer. mas
been engaged 20 rehearse and pro
duce the act in the absence OF Mr..
Fagin, whose foreign engagemer.
prevent his doing so.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-15
Definition Of True Humor.

The sense OF bumor is the ''snyIne
sense principally because II saves us
from ourselves. The person who can.
not laugh at himself now and then is
TO be- pitied. Moreover, the person
who cnnnot take good naturedly the
occasional banterlng Of others is I'm
the Same class OF disagreed A
well directed shaft OF raillery will
often lind the vulnerable point in our
armor OF self complacency and show
us where our self satisfaction IN all
wrong. True humor. however, must
spring as much from the heart as from
the bend. Its essence must be truth
and friendliness. not contempt. There
never was a good joke yet that told n
lie or besmlrched n reputation. Hurnor
which carries with II a sting TO wound
the sensitiveness or delicacy of one
VINO does not deserve to suffer is not
true humor.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-15

twelfth season for. this play is siboH
conclusive proof that good, clean
wholesome theatrical productions a.e
always welcomed and generously pa
ronized By the theatre-going publis.
The comedy IS 80 closely intcrwoven
with bits Of Dathos and such sensa.
tional Incidents as would actually q.
cur In the lives OF such people a.
exist in The Missouri Girl that tie
entirety Is a revelation in s'moFcity
and interest in. play building.