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RED CROSS SEALS
Novel Way Of Conducting War
en- the White Plague.
How the Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign
Is Financed and a Relief Fund
Raised by the Aid of Little
Christmas Stickers.

New York.-Wars always produce q
new supply of emergency measures
for the relief of the sick and wounded.
1t is not surprising, then, that the Civil
war, with it's hundreds of thousands
of manned and wounded soldiers,
coupled with Yankee ingenuity, should
have brought into existence the stamp
as means of raising money for the
soldiers relief funds. The scheme was
first instituted in Boston in 1862 at the
United States Sanitary fair, but so
successful was the idea that other
fairs in Brooklyn, Stamford and
Springfield, Mass, at once adopted it.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were
raised IN this way.
So popular, however, did the stamp
become, that the public became sati-
ated and soon after the war the sale
of stamps for charitable purposes fell
into disuse in this country. In Europe
the charity stamp was adopted in Por-
tugal for the first time in 1892, and has
been initiated with varying success in
almost every country on the continent,
and even In Australia and the Orient.
1t was a war that again brought the
stamp into national prominence in the
United States, but not a war of guns
and of fields of carnage. 1t was a war
of enlightenment against ignorance;
war of cleanliness on filth; a war of
health against disease-the great
American war against tuberculosis.
While the Civil war, with its slaugh,
ter and death, killed about 200, 900 gov
ernment troops in four years. and
manned perhaps twice that number,
every year that silent, subtle foe. tu-
berculosis. Stays 100000, and lays low
three to five times that number. A
war, therefore. against such an en-
emy demanded and still demands am
munition and varied resources. To
furnish these necessary supplies for
war, the Red Cross stamp was first
launched on national basis by the
American Red Cross in 1908.
The year before, in 1907, the first
sale of stamps fer charitable purposes
for more than generation had taken
Washington telegraph., 1911-03-24
AN INSECT "sKYSCRAPER'
a Tefniite 'sAnt Hill" In South Africa
Which Is by No Means
Extra Large.

Boston.-Though most abundant in
hot climates, the termites, improperly
called white ants, reach far beyond
the tropics extending into our own
hemisphere, from Chile to New Eng
land. The African species build great
pinnacled nests, 50 feet in circumfer-
ence at the base and sometimes 40
feet high. Formerly the plains of At
rica were in many places thickly stud
ded with these hills, but the advance
Of civilized man has driven them back
from the neighborhood of the foreign
settlements.
The nests are destroyed partly to
obtain the clay, which is valuable for
Washington telegraph., 1911-03-24

place in Delaware, ceatering in and
around Wilmington. A little group
OF women in that city, headed by Miss
EMILY p. Bissell, who was allied both
with the Red Cross and the Anti-Tu.
beroulosiS society, instituted the plan
OF selling Christmas stamps, the funds
TO be devoted to the local fight against
consumption. The idea had come
from Denmark. How the pennies ac.
eumulated in that first sale! And how
the dollars grew!
That experiment started the Amer
lean Red Cross to thinking, and thcv
reasoned that here was a war agail1t
q mere devastating disease than a1r
war or pssti.ence that had ever boeg
Known Why not have an emergcn ct-i
r5lief fund for use in This war in III
parts CT the United States. since t,,.,,t
enemy was everywhere? The idea c
a national stamp was therafor,+
launched in 1908, and with little or 10,
organization, over S135,00J was rai-aI
for the fight against Tuberculosis.
In 1909 a mere systematic ATTEMPT
to organize the sale was made. A per.
centage Of 20 per cent. was charged
by the American Red cross to each 10. !
cal agent selling stamps, the sales ag,
ageregating fully $250CG0. What is
even greater, this sale WIS the means
Of interesting in the war on consu11
ton thousands cf People who had
never before giyea this subject their |
attention.
Tho outlook for 1910 is extremely
bright. The sale will be organized .
before Christmas to a greater or less :
degree In almost every state In the
Union. "a Million fer Tuberculosis"
IS the slogan of the campaign. AL
ready 25,000,03O stamps have been is
sued and every indication points to the
sale cf four times that number
Tho United States postoGce arthorf
ties have requested that The stckers
be called seals" this year, and have
erdcred that they be placed on the
back Of letters and packages instead
Of On the face. These seals will pot
gerry any mail. but every kind of
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clothing, bo2Es ahd parchment by sap
and mine. IThey habitually avoid the
air and light, not because of an an
tipathy TO them, but because of their
helplessness and their necessity of a
moist atmosphere. In consequence of
this peculiarly their ravages are un-
observed till everything sinks into
ruins, When they desire TO reach
certain point a covered gallery is i'm
mediately built to that point, that they
may reach it unseen. African villages
which have been abandoned, in a year
or two have utterly disappeared and
the ground on which they stood is
found covered with vegetation. Posts
are sometimes so riddled that a Slight
kick viii dissipate them, leaving moth
ing in their stead but heap Of dust
end debris. At Tournay, Charente,
France, a whole dinner party, guests,
host table and all were let down
through the floor into the cellar with
out moments warning in conse-
ouence of the termiteB' depredations
in the flooring and beams.
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Fa)T.E'' I,.27vTe
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mail will carry them.

mail will carry them.
Every man, woman and child in the
United States can help in this war. It
is not war that demands much sac
rifce. Surely. anyone can give cent,
a nickel or dime for few Red Cross
seals. Each seal placed on letter or
a package helps the one who sends it.
1t helps the one who receives 1t, and
also the unknown one for whom 1t
helps to provide chance for life and
death. Every seal will become a bull
let directed at the enemy whose con,
quest is desired. and all the money Ii
used in the place where the seals are
sold
Washington telegraph., 1911-03-24

time 1t is stated that Mr.. Ridgely
verbally stipulated that the chair
should never go out of an Odd Eel
lows family.
1t is not unlike many of the chairs
used in the smaller Odd Fellows lodges
at the present day. TIE wood is old
English oak. The chair is in an ex-
cellont state Of preservation and even
the covering OF the upholstering is in
a fair condition. There is a brocaded
velvet back and arms with crimson
velvet seat. The wood itself is mas
siye and with little or no carving.
= At the house in Brockton the chair
has been seen by very many visitors,
and as the photograph shows, there
is a card at the front Of the chair
stating briefly its history. There is
tradition that the chair was brought
from England to Baltimore by Thorn
as Wildey in 1926, when Wildey Wis
tied England in order to obtain all
the information possible from the Off
GERS and members of the Manchester
Unity that might in any way be use
full to the order in this country.
If that is true, this was six years
after the order was first started by
Wildey in Baltimore. There is no
question but that it was used in Bal.
timore both by Wildey and Ridgely,
both of whom have monuments in
Baltimore commemorating their work
fer the order.
Wildey was born in London. Jan. Is
1882 He was the first noble grand OF
Washington lodge, the first grard
master of the grand lodge Of Mary
land, the first grand sire of the grand
lodge of the United States. which Of
fee he filed for eight years. and in
1885 he was made travelling agent for
the grand lodge Of the United States
and in this capacity he Travelled all |
over the country, establishing and en-.
couraging the order wherever he |
went. He died in Baltimore, Oct. IS, |
1861. at the age Of 80 years.
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building purposes, but principally to
rid the country of the insects which
are the most formidable pests of that
climate.
In founding nest the termites erect
first single pinnacle several feet
high and very small about the base,
and then ether4 near it; finally these
are CONSOLIDATED into a single dome
and the middlet pinnacles, having per
formed their ptrt as scaffolding, are
removed. Wheh it has reached its
maximum size the nest is a rounded
dome of hard. Eolld clay upon whose
outer surface tIrass and weeds grow
freely, and in i he dry season it looks
not unlike a hhBcock.
The injuries wrought by these In
seets are terrible. They invade every
vegetable fiber Except cotton and de-
strOy wood Iaa AaS. linen and wooden
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9ometlmen.

rms mortal clay" we say Of man
Nhd when by some wise trick
i4e {,, SHOWS US he can plot ana plan
We say he is a brick.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Oldest Fire Chief

Lewistown, April 2O.-John c.
Bebb doubtless had the distinc-
ton of having served as head of Il
fire department in this state longer
than any other chief. He was
elected at the annual meeting Of
the Lewistown department, Just
held, having been chosen first
when the department was organ
lied in 1898 aud continuously
every year since then. The depart
ment also reelected Art Baker as
sistant chief. The department
now has 40 active members, is
equipped with up to date appara
tus and a splendid fire team
Montana Daily Record.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Grand Opening

Last Saturday night Tampkins
& Mathews the new owners of the
Palm saloon, gave a grand opening.
The patrons were served free with
the finest lunch ever, consisting of
roast pig and Turkey.
The large crowd was well pleased
with the courteous treatment eX-
tended to them. The new owners
of the Palm will conduct the busi-
ness under entirely different aus
pices and try to get the best trade
in the city by fair and honest
treatment, Platte Richardson and
Sammy O'Born are the dispensers
of liquid joy, both well known and
popular young men of the city.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Nihill Fined One Dollar

The trial of Mayor Patrick Nj
hill, of Moore, jointly charged with
A. ID. Scott, the banker, with as
sault and battery upon Attorney
Ii. ID. DeKalb of Lewistown was
begun before Justice b. l.. Foley
and a jury Thursday afternoon.
County attorney c. J. Marshall
prosecuted the case while e. G.
Russell and j. c. Huntoon appear
ed for Mr.. Nihill. Fourteen wit
nesses were examined, seven Oh
each side, and the case went tC
the jury Friday morning after. ar
gumpnt.
1t seems that on election day.
April 3, Mr.. DeKaIb was sent for
by one of the factions at Moore tC
give some advice to the judges re
garding the right of certain per
sons who were registered to vote.
Mr.. DeKalb was in the polling
place at 8 a. m. and was elected by
Mr.. Nihill, who claims that the
Lewistown attorney had no right
there.
1t was nearly 2:3O o'clock Fri
day afternoon when the jury re
turned a verdict of guilty, impos
ing a fine of 81 and and costs.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Large Deal in Realty

Last week Isaac Tompkins of
Helena, Mont, and J. o. Mathews
of Harlowton bought of Geo. Clark
the we'll known Palm saloon and
property. This is the most import
ant real estate deal made in the
city for some time. The considera-
tion was $4,000. Mr.. Tampkins
is now owner in about $4,000
worth of real estate in Harlowton,
including the Tampkins block.
The above mentioned property is
considered to be the most valuable
in the city. Both blocks are well
located in the best business Sec
tion of the town. Mr.. Tampkins
has great faith in the future of the
city and is willing to back it up
with heavy investments of money.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Much Flowing in Meagher

In the eastern part of Meagher
county very large tracts of land
are being plowed. Sixteen miles
east of Harlowton the Geer Bros.
have a Rumley oil plow working
every day. The plow has six
mouldboards and is drawing a
heavy roller and a drag. All of
the winter wheat is looking fine
and bids fair for a bumper crop.
O. M. Geer and his sons own
about 5000 acres of land in this
county and will put in a large crop
of winter wheat this fall.
At New Shawmut. and Hedges,
vile and in territory adjacent to
Harlowton there are Z steam plow
outfits and gasoline outfits work.
ing every day and blowing up the
native soil at the rate of about 400
acres per day. This speaks well
for the agricultural resources OF
old Meagher county.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Lewistown Brewery Sold

Last week John Hogl. the owner
of the Lewistown brewery, sold his
interests to Gus HOdel. the consid-
Grafton being a very large sum.
This property is one of the best
breweries in eastern Montana and
it's products are very much in de
mand, so much, in fact, that the
employees are working night and
day and then the demand cannot
be supplied.
Johnny Hogl, as he is known by
his friends, started this plant years
ago on a very small scale, and by
turning out good product has
built up a business that is sur
passed by no other firm in this sec
tion of the state.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Big Tracts Being Plowed

More land is being broken and
put under cultivation this spring
than ever before in the vicinity of
Harlowton. A. G. Graves is put
ting in on his land east of town SO
acres of oats and so acres of flax.
This fall he will put in $50 acres
of turkey red wheat. On his BigElk
ranch he is blowing up tract
of $50 acres and will put it into
oats. On the Shawmut ranch he
is sowing 1000 acres. Half of the
land will he cropped with oats and
the other half will be sowed with
flax. He will also put in $50 acres
of alfalfa.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
S. P. Stoner Fined

Having pleaded guilty to a
charge of attempting to prevent
Harry M. Allen and Mary Role
from bidding on government lands
offered for sale at a public auction
at Lewistown July q, 1909, S. p.
Stoner, indicted by the last grand
jury, was fined one hundred and
fifty dollars by Judge Frank s.
Dietrich in the federal court to
day. The fine was Immediately
paid.
1t was charged that Stoner, de
string to purchase all of the lands
offered for sale at the auction, OF
fered Allen and Miss Role fifty
cents an acre for the lands if they
would refrain from bidding.
The defendant was Represented
by the law firm of Gum and Hall
j-Lewistown Daily News.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Water Right for Absentees

Washington, April Ex-senator
J ones of Washington today intro
duced a bill to amend the national
reclamation act in such way that
nonresident owners of land under
government irrigation projects may
obtain water rights without being
required to reside upon their land
if they will make oath that they
will maintain residence upon the
land for at least one year before
they receive a patent. AS the law
now stands, no water right can be
issued to a land owner unless he
lives on or near his land, and in
con sequence many residents OF
cities owning lands under govern
ment projects cannot get water
This bill will relieve many lane
owners who are unable to get watel
though they hold absolute title t.
the land.-Anaconda Standard.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Home Talent Musicale

On Tuesday evening, April 25,
the Harlowton orchestra. assisted
by soloists and entertainers of
home talent, will render a program
in the Wilson memorial church of
this city.
HarlowtoI has musical talent of
rare ability. Tickets are selling
rapidly. The proceeds go toward
the completion of the church. The
program is being put forward un.
der the auspices of the Ladies Aid
of the M. r. church.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
For a Deputy Sheriff

At meeting os the Improve
ment association Monday night, a
resolution was passed unanimously
in favor of a deputy sheriff for
Martinsdale.
The rapidly increasing popula-
tiOn and diversified transients
makes such an officer necessary
for the protection of property, but
it is expected that his presence
alone will have the desired effect
without recourse to sterner meas
ures.- Independent.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21

a state of transition, the old order
Of things is passing away; we are
ceasing to be primarily a stock
growing people, but are superced-
ing stock raising with agriculture.
TO do this we must have more
people and new people. How
many of the largest stock ranches
in this county have gone out of
business in the past two years?
And the land is being sold in small
tracts to farmers. We are des-
tined to be one of the largest grain
producing counties in the state.
Is a tax-burdened community in
viting to new settlers? What is
the first queation an Eastern
farmer asks before casting his lot
with us? How high are your
taxes? Do we want to raise a bar
rier against their very entrance
into this county? Or will VIC say
to them, stay here? We are out of
debt. In behalf of the hundreds
that have homesteaded in this
county iu the last two years, we
would say, give them a chance.
Build roads, that they may get the
products of their labor to the
markets instead of placing a yoke
around their necks that their chill
dren will have to remove.
In conclusion, we would say to
the townsite boosters of White
Sulphur Springs: You gave nation
wide advertisement to a palatial
hetel and health resort postponed
for two years.. You builded
railroad (the service on which
would make the world famous slow
train of Arkansaw leave the track
and take to the wOOds). Your last
effort Ca new court house) is in
the nature of whistling in grave
yard to keep up courage. Take
our advice, go back to first nature,
forget the boom on paper) of last
year. Do not raise up another
"bogey man" for in your last ef-
fort the sane and sober electors
of this county will bury you under
an avalanche of public disapproval
on May oath, the like of which the
oldest inhabitant remembereth
of
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
New Plow Outfit Arrived

Last Friday morning a new Case
engine and eight 16-inch mould
board plows were unloaded at this
place for Webber Bros. of Bercail.
The Webber brothers expect to
break large acreage in addition
to that already in crop-275 acres.
They have secured contracts to
plow all the land they can handle
this season.-Hedges Herald.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21

AMEs ALoYslUs OGoRMAN the senator from New York the
q OF
whose begins with 90"
in a
politics Of
position which
When
Leslie Nine children have been them Six
something a
higher Catholic
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Railway Officials in Harlowton

E. III. Barrett, Assistant General
Superintendent of the c. NJ. & p.
S. R. r., with headquarters at
Butte, and p. G.. Hart, General Su-
perintendent. of Seattle, came into
Harlowton Saturday to meet Pres
ident H. r. Wells of the Puget
Sound division. They were in.
specting the road preparatory to
putting on the fast coast train ser
vice which will be put ON about
May %.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Seventy New Woodmen

Dewistown, April 20.-Twenty
members were initiated into the
Woodmen of the World last night,
this being by far the largest class
ever put through local lodge.
The work was followed by a ban
quet.-AnacOnda Standard.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
Taxpayers, Attention!

On the proposition to bond
Meagher county for 100000 to
build a new court house vote NO.
Election May oath.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21
OUR EXPERT.
MENTAL FARM
Practical and Educated Native Non
tana Farmer Is 0verseer.

The HarlowtOn Demonstration
Farm, located two miles south of
town, is very important factor to
the future development of the
surrounding country. The farm is
under the direction of the Mon
tana State Agricultural station at
Bozeman, and this year is man
aged by native MOntanan. Mr..
b. d. Baker, who is a practical as
well as educated farmer. Mr..
Baker has taken agricultural train
ing in the Universities of Michi-
gan and Minnesota. Last year he
was manager of the Great Falls.
Montana, experiment station and
met with great success and took
10 prizes at the State fair at Hell
ena.
The farm consists of 40 acres of
land, 20 of which is in growing
crops and the other 20 lying fal
lowed. The system of dry farming
is to break, disc and harrow land
the year previous to cropping and
having a good seed bed before the
seed is sown.
Last year, about August Is, .
acres of Turkey Red wheat was
sOwn, four pecks to the acre. which
is the proper time to SOW fall
grains The wheat is now up and
in fine shape.
Mr.. Baker will SOW this spring:
Flax. acre, with 2 pecks of seed
Oats, 1 5
There will be several different
varieties of both wheat and oats
sown this spring.
Peas, / acre. with 9 pecks of
seed; potatoes, 1 acre, with bu. of
seed.
All of the above crops will be in
onc-acre plots with road way on
both ends of the plots, so that all
visitors can get a thorough view of
the growing crops. All grains,
peas and corn will be narrowed
until they are about inches high.
This has tendency to hold the
moisture, by keeping the ground
from palling and cracking; not al
lowing the sub-earth to be eX-
posed to the sunlight and air,
which causes the moisture to be
evaporated. This farm has very
desirable surface soil; however, in
spots it is very rocky, of a sand
stone character and there is some
limestone, which is especially val
I liable for wheat raising.
This particular part of land is
considered by the old-timers of
Montana as land only fit to Craze
a bunch of sheep or cattle on and
of no value whatever for farming,
but | feel certain that with very
little moisture we will have a sur
prjsjng yield this fall.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-04-21

Jos. Anderson made business
trip to Lewistown the first of the
week.