davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-08
DRY LAND CROPS.

The selection Of the most profitable
crops and the best methods of cultiv a.
ton formed the principal topics of
discussion at the recent dry farming
congress at Colorado Springs. A
press bulletin from that place makes
this contribution upon the subject:
1t is all very we'll for scientists to
study and delve and dig for the
ultimate %salv alton of the farmer in the
dry land belt, but first tell him-and
do it quickly-what to grow that will
bring In money. This, in effect, was
the common.sense principle voiced q,
the Intern ationsl Dry-Farming Con.
gress by Prof. W. M. Jardine of Kan
sss.
1.-THE farmer lent concerned abou,
fertility and nitrates and incubation
and things like that" said Prot.
Jardine. "What he wants is q living
and he wants 1t now. We must help
him to get it. Show him how to dc
something now; tell him how to feed
his family, first, and then he will be
in a position to take up the study OF the
more technical problems of farm life.'
Prof. Jerdine told the farmers to
raise potatoes, as one OF the sure,
means of getting an immediate living
on the dry lands. For seed, he sale
in brief, use selected tubers, hand
picked. II not too large, plant single
tubers with only one Or two eyes. L
large, cut in halves. Two eyes ar
better that six in seed potatoes. Plan
in rows three feet apart, and two fee
apart in the rows, four inches deep
Subsoiling is fairly satisfactory
Plant Early Petoskey, irish CobbleI
and Early Ohio.
"These varieties do not give tn
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-08
THE MAN AND THE OFFICE.

Two views of the United States sen.
atorship, Numerically opposed, are
represented in the cases of Senators
Cullom of Illinois and Stephenson of
Wisconsin. The latter is now practi-
cally fighting for his 9 q before an
investig ating committee, which has
already proved that more that s100, 900
was spent in the campaign in his be-
half. 1t Is commended by the Stephen
son managers that every dollar of
this sum was spent legitimately, in
the effort to place before the voters Of
the state the claims of their candid ate.
On the other band, Shelby M. Gull
lom, after q lifetime devoted to the
service Of the people of the United
| States in general and of Illinois in
particular, declines to become an
active candid ate for reelection, TAX
ing the position that his record is
we'll known to all the people and that
If there Is not q substantial desire on
their part for him to represent them
! further in the senate he does O wish
to be nominated.
There is no thoughtful citizen who
will not prefer the Cullom attitude,
not rs a matter of false dignity or
sentimental Independence" but be-
cause it cannot be SUCCESSFULLY i'm.
pugned. There are far too few men
of the Cullom stamp in this country,
men who have the old school, the old.
time, conception OF the profound
dignity of the United States senator.
chip. In the old days no man who
was not known, not only from one end
of his own state to the other but often
from one end of the country to the
other was considered qualified to
aspire to q seat in the senate. But
today almost anybody can shy his
castor into the ring and Announce"
his candidacy for the lei ate without
being convicted of a ludicrous dis
parity between his own intellectual
dimensions and those of the Office to
which he aspires.
1t is both gratifying and refreshing
to contemplate the Cullom viewpoint,
although such an attitude may not be
good practical politics. These are
not the days when q generation OF
faithful public service is rewarded
with reelection. They are the days
when the old family physician is paid
off and quacks called in; when the
wise c%ounselors are turned away and
the political fortune ~tellers, clair
voyants and ''medicine men" are con.
suited: when the man OF lungs is
listened to and the man Of brains is
ignored; when demagogy is ''up to
date" and craftsmanship is "behind
the times" when the man who waits
for the call of the people will find that
the one who has been calling on the
people has "beat him to it," But the
Cullom view is the one that ought to
win and if it doesn't it Ia not because
it is wrong.-Kansas City Journal.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-08
Would Solve Trust Problem.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. 30.-Con-
gresham Victor L. Berger announced
tod ay that he would introduce q bill
in the next session of congress to re.
peal the Sherman antitrust act and
substitute a law providing that where
ever a pool, q combine or q trust con-
trolls more than sixty per cent of the
total output in any industry, the gov.
pay the actual value in bonds and
manage the business for the benefit OF
all the people.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-08

There is little danger from u cold or
from an attack of the grip except when
followed by pneumonia, and this never
happens when Chamber ain's Cough
Remedy is used. This remedy has won
its great reputation and extensive sale
by it's rem arkable cures of colds and
grip and can be relied upon with i'm.
plicit confidence. For sale by all
dsaters.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-08

largest yields, I admit" said the
speaker, ''but they are the earliest,
and, therefore, the most advisable be.
cause the farmer may need the money"
"Only three crops on the dry lands
are making money" Prof. Jardine
declared: "Wheat, milo and fax.
Why not add potatoes to the list and
increase the income?'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-08
PRESIDENT TAFT'S COW.

The announcement comes from
Washington that Pauline Wayne,
the White house COW, has returned
from her Sewing around the circle
of dairy and food shows In the north
west, bringing with her all the evi.
dences of . series of unprecedented
trinmphs.
It is said that she has won enough
meda ais and blue ribbons to deck her.
self as deliberately as q Gillian gen.
eral in full uniform or q float in a
carnival parade. Wherever she went
the judges wouldn't look at any other
COW. They couldn't hang the emblems
on Pauline too quickly, says the Chi
cago Inter.O Ocean.
Even in Milwaukee, q city where the
socialistic and insurgent sentiment
might have been expected to breed all
sorts of plans for her defeat. Pauline
had no trouble whatever. Fractional
ism fell paralyzed in the presence of
Pauline. Opposition looked and was
silent.
1t is needless to say that no such
bewildering triumphs we're looked for
by those familiar with the situation
in those states. It was even feared in
some quarters that Pauline would
have q hard tine .tn~, justice in
Wisconsin and MinussUla, as we'll as
in certain other states where anything
about the White house is at present
apparently not in great favor.
And this apprehension seemed to be
largely confirmed at that time by the
rumors that sinister efforts we're being
made all through the northwest to
spread the idea that Pauline was not
only the COW of q fairly conservative
president but that she was q conserv-
alive COW personally-that che had
never given the slightest evidence of
progressive" feelings.
In addition to these handicsps, 1t
should not be forgotten that Pauline,
q the gift Of Senator Stephenson to
the president. was more or less d.
rectly connected With the senatorial
election investig alton now in progress
in Wisconsin and, though entirely in.
nocent of all connection with that af-
fair, was no doubt saddled with q GER
tain responsibility by the prejudiced
and the unthinking.
That Pauline Wayne swept aside
all the snares and nets and gins Sc,
for her by all the varieties of factions
and interested opposition, that she
has walked lightly and easily ove'
all the pitfalls digged to engulf her
and that she has won over so many
distinguished bovines on her OWE
merits-this is certainly enough to
fill the president with the deepest
pleasure.
And If it shall turn out TIA at his own
"swing around the ~circle'' was a trihe
less t%riumphal, less impressive, less
fruitful of laurels, than that of his
faithful COW Pauline Wayne, We may
be sure there will be no low envy Of
her success in the presidential bosom
President Taft ia above such pettiness
Besides, Pauline is his COW.
We judge from the dispatch tina
Pauline wears her newest honors will
becoming modesty. A few years age
q simple COW on Senator Stephenson.
farm, a little later promoted to tn,
White house stable As the successor
OF the lamented and unfortunate Ger
aldine, still later the victor in a serie'
of dramatic contests-what COW ha,
had, or can 10 future hope to have,
career like that of Pauline Wayne?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
Gave America Great Singer

But" said the father, chow can l
take her to Europe? have no money.
Can't she learn here?"
you shall take her to Europe
said Jenny Lind. You shall not feel
the need of money; 1 will see that you
are provided with it. l will organize
a subscription for your daughters
musical education and after you are
in Europe when you need money you
write to me and let me know, and l
will send you what you need
And exactly in that manner AIDE
laide Phillips had her voice thorough
ly trained, and from the time of her
American debut, in I'll Trovatore," in
1856, until her death in 1882, she was
universally recognized as Americas
greatest contralto singer.
This full story of how Adelaide
Phillips was hefriended by Jenny Lind
was told me short time before his
death, in 1892, by Max Strakosch. in
his day one of the leading operate
impresarios, who received the details
direct from Adelaide Phillips herself.
and I am safe in saying, / am sure"
added Mr.. Strakosch, for whom Miss
Phillips sang in III Trovatore," that
Jenny Lind was the first of the great
artists to discover talent in young per-
sons and was about the only one who,
in addition to giving encouragement.
also gave financial aid l am sure
that she was always gratified when
she heard Of the great triumphs Of
Adelaide Phillips"
Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights ReservedD
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
On Lafayette's Second Visit

all sere astonished at the action. It
was expected he would return in a
few moments, but he did not, and the
feast was ended without his presence.
'Of course, there was searching for
him, and it was recalled that he had
asked where Alexander B. johnson
lived. A few gentlemen thereupon
went to Mr. Johnson's house. There
they found Lafayette in earnest con-
versation with Mrs. Johnson Seeing
his late hosts, he seemed suddenly to
recall the fact that he had abruptly
left the feast, and he said to them:
I met John Adams when | was
here for the war. In 1879, when
went back to France for short pc
riod, I met his son, John Quincy Ad-
ans, who had accompanied his father
on his diplomatic mission to France.
Recently, when | was in Washington
as the guest of President John Quincy
Adams, l told him that l was going
TO visit Utica. He asked me, If
made that visit, not to fail to call up
on his cousin, who, he said, was the
wife Of Alexander B. Johnson. He
explained the relationship to me by
saying that Mrs. Johnson was the
daughter of his uncle, Charles Adams,
and was therefore his own cousin. She
had married Mr.. Johnson and gone to
Utica to live. He told ne that |
would have a most entertaining hour
or two if l called upon her, for she
had many interesting "reminiscences,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
Great Frenchman Left Banquet a
Utica to Call on a Cousin of
President Adams and For
got His Hosts.

One OF the towns that Lafayette
visited when ne was in this country
IN 1824-5 was Utica, n. 7. | was in
fay fifth year at that time, and l can
Jlst remember the visit. But l know
that while he was in Utica Lafayette
cid one thing that caused no end of
comment for years there. I presume
that 1t was utterly unlike any other
incident Of Lafayette's triumphaI tour
OF the country fifty years after the
signing OF the Declaration of hide
pendence. My father told me about it.
and he knew whereof he spoke from
personal knowledge; for as a prom
msht citizen of Utica, and one who
was deeply interested financially in
Erie canal shipping, then Just begin
nlng, he was one of those who well
coined Lafayette to Utica"
so said to me the late Commodore
alfred Van Santvoord of New York
city, who, at the time of his death in
1911, was the owner of the largest
heet OF river steamers in America and
worth ten million dollars.
A-e1 dS cue arrived IN Utica over the
newly opened Erie canal" continued
the commodore; his was one of the
first trips made on that canal. The
citizens Of the town had arranged a
great feast in honor Of the distin-
guished guest, and to it Lafayette
was conducted ass soon as the formal
welcoming was over. Lafayette was
In high spirits; from his place at the
table he greeted the goodly number Of
survivors Of the Revolutionary war
who We're present-among then was
Rev. Daniel WaIso, who was one Of
the last, if not the last Survivor of
that war-and promised to shake
hands with them all after the feast
was over.
Suddenly, in the midst Of the feast,
Lafayette felt il pocket, pulled cut
a memorandum, and then, turning to
one Of the hosts, who sat next to him,
asked if Alexander B. Johnson was
present. He was told that Mr.. Johit-
son was not in the banquet hall and
then he asked where Mr.. Johnson
lived. Having received that informa-
ton, Lafayette turned to the presid-
ing officer and said that it would be
necessary for him to retire for a time
from the feast. Then he abruptly left
the table. Some thought ne was i'll;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
How Jenny Lind, the Swedish Night
tngale, Provided for the Musical
Education of Adelaide Phillips,
Daughter of Poor Man.

While Jenny Lind, "the Swedish
nightingale was making her tour of
this country, which began in 1850 and
ended in 1852, young Boston girl,
then in her upper teens, was playing
soubrette parts in q theater in Bos-
ton and also in theater in PhiladeI-
phia. In those parts she revealed
that she had voice of promise, and
one day one who knew something of
the voice and had been particularly
impressed with the child's singing
went to her father and said:
Mr.. Phillips, your daughter Addie
has a beautiful voice, but she doesn't
know how to use it. Why don't you
get her a teacher"
Now, Adelaide Phillips father was
a poor man. He had all he could do
while still d mere child, had gone
upon the stage that she might add to
the meagre family income This the
father knew only too well, but-happy
thought-he would take her to Jenny
Lind, who was then in Boston, and
perhaps she could tell him how his
child's voice could be cultivated, if it
really were worth cultivating.
But when Addie Phillips was told
by her father that he was going to
take her to Jenny Lind, she at first
refused to go; despite her stage expe-
rience she was very shy. At last, how
ever, she was persuaded to accom-
pany her father to the great singers
hotel, and there Jenny Lind received
her with such kindness, such perfect
simplicity and such gentleness of
manner that the girls fear and timid-
ity vanished instantly.
Nov, you viii sing to me-" said
Jenny Lind. when Addie was at her
ease. 81 want to hear your voice"
And the girl sang to her.
Nov, you sing that song again"
said Jennie Lind, when the girl had
finished
And Addie Phillips sang the song
again.
Then Jenny Lind handed her the
sheets of a song. Come again in a
few days" she said Learn this
song that I have given you, if you can.
and then come and sing it to me-"
So a few days later Addie Phillips
sang again for Jenny Lind, and wnen
she had finished the worlds greatest
singer said to her father:
"The child has a beautiful voice:
she will make one Of the greatest con
traItos the world has ever known.
You should take her to Europe so that
she may study for two or three years
with teachers whom I will tell you
Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
FRUIT MEN TO MEET JAN. g
State Society VIII Hold Annual Three
Day Convention and Ex-
hibit at Madison

Madison.-The annual convention
and fruit exhibit of the State Horti-
cultural society viii be held in the
assembly chamber of the state capt
tOl Jan. 8, 10 and II.
The feature of the opening day
will be an address by W. H. Han
chett, Sparta, on THE New Era in
Wisconsin Horticulture y Some Of
the other topics are, "The Home
Orchard Varieties, Culture for the
First Five Years and Care at Ma
turity;" Rational Care of Street and
Shade Trees" by Alfred Sem, city
forester Of Milwaukee; "Our Home
Grounds, William Mclean, park
superintendent, Madison.
Professors Moore, Sanders and
Jones of the agricultural college, R.
J. Coe and William Toole, Baraboo,
are some Wisconsin men who will
take part. Speakers from out of the
state are P. A. Rogers of Gazette,
Ark, cooperative Marketing of
Fruit, and Prof. w. Paddock, Ohio
university, who viii tell of "Horti-
cultural Methods in the East"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
62ND SESSION Of
CONGRESS BEGINS
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS GATHER
AT WASHINGTON PREPARED
FOR LONG, HARD SIEGE.
MAY NOT ADJOURN TILL FALL
Session to Be Battle Between Demo-
Gratis and Regular and lnsurgent
Republicans for Election Suprem-
acy-Many Tariff Bills Up.

Washington, D. C.-The first reg
ular session Of the sixty-second con
gress convened at noon on Monday,
Dec. 4. Practically every member
was in his seat and the galleries, as
usual, were crowded. Legislative
machinery is in readiness for a long
session, Speaker Clark and other
leaders having predicted that adj
journment may not come until after
the national conventions of the two
big political parties have been held
This has not happened since 1883.
Upon the attitude of the insur-
gent republicans will depend the ex-
ecutive accomplishments of the SEN
ate. They hold the balance Of pow
er as between the regular republicans
and democrats, and without their ac-
1uiescence nothing can be done by
either of the regular parties. Some
OF the regular republicans, who hope
to formulate tariff legislation along
republican lines, claim that the pro
gressiyes are committed to the sup
port of the tariff board. Insurgent
senator's, however, say they expect to
draw their own conclusions from the
boards figures when submitted.
Little in the way of actual legis-
latlon is likely until after the holt
day recess. The urgent deficiency
appropriation bill will be rushed
through to meet emergency needs of
the government, and consideration
OF the other big supply measures will
begin. Both political parties will
seek such advantage as might ac-
crue from an economy program.
There will be a big river and harbor
appropriation bill-popularly known
along with the public building bill
as the .pork barrel,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
NJ + r S
Milwaukee. Dec. 2. 1911

Butter-Extra creamery, 33c;
prints, SIC; frsts, 30 SIC: seconds,
27Q zee; process, 24Q Csc; dairy
fancy, &c.
Cheese-American. full cream,
1415c; Young AAericas, 14@14hc;
longhorns, 1434c: Swiss. 49, q 15c.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh, as
to quality, ESQ soc; recandled. ex-
tras, % q 35c; seconds. 13 q 15c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, SIC; roost-
ers, &c; springers, sc.
Potatoes, Wisconsin, sacked, on
track, 500 SOC.
Hay-No. I timothy, 21.00; clio
yer, 1900; No. l prairie, 1926
Wheat-No. 1 northern. los O
Ito; No 2 northern, los q 1.o8;
No. 1 durum, 103 01.06; No. 1 vel
vet, 1.04 01.O8.
Corn-No yellow. csc, new.
Oats-No. white, 48c; standard.
4812c
Wisconsin, 125: No. 2,
1926; medium, 1.25.
Cattle-Butchers steers, AIS @
$50; heifers, 5000 5.25; cows,
$50 q SIS; feeders, $50 q 4.50;
calves, 7.25 08.5O.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 6.05
q 6.45; fair to best. light, $50 q
$50; pigs, 1000 see
Sheep-Lambs, 4.UQ04.75; ewes
2.2502.75.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
STATE VETERINARIAN QUITS
Dr.. A. H. Hartwig Resigns as a Re-
suit of Clash With Sanitary Board
Over TuberCuiin Test Law.

Madison.-Dr A H Hartwig of
Watertown has resigned as state vet
erinarian, following a hearing before
the governor, on charges preferred
against him by the live stock sani-
tary board. The substance of the
charges was that DR.. Hartwig re-
fused to follow the orders of the
board and that he certified as free
from bovine tuberculosis certain cat
lie which later were alleged to have
been found diseased. Dr. Hartwig
rendered his resignation in writing,
and the governor Immediately &C
cepted it. In his resignation DR..
Hartwig said:
My work is so seriously handi-
capped by what appears to be an
irreconcilable conflict on the state
live stock sanitary board that no
progressive accomplishment in live
stock sanitation is possible
DR.. Hartwig was appointed to the
Office nine months ago succeeding DR..
D. B. Clark of GAINESVILLE. The sal
airy of the Office is $4,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-07
First Civil War Novels Fate

become soldiers. The other two were
| Theodore Winthrop and Fitz James
| O'Brien; this mans name was John
". De Forest. His home in New
| Haven was under the shadow of Yale
college and within stones throw of
the home of Theodore B. Woolsey.
then president of Yale
Among Major De Forests friends
was George H. Watrous, a prominent
lawyer of New Haven. who afterwards
became president of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railway sys-
tenn. To him Major De Forest confid-
ed his purpose to write a novel the
leading features of which were to be
incidents of the war.
But" said Mr.. Watrous, don't you
think it is too soon to do that? It
seems to me that perhaps ten years
should elapse before any one attempts
10 write novel based upon the war"
But, replied Major De Forest. "the
incidents, especially of battles In
which took part, are all very fresh in
my mind" He further intimated that
- NAA nv nilIS q WGt uONGi SOI1S-
body else would, and Mr.. Watrous was
persuaded that Major De Forest was
ambitious to be first in the field with
novel based on the war. So no more
was said with the idea of persuading
Major De Forest from his set purpose.
and somewhat more than a year later
came the announcement that a novel
n tQ+ Is,I
participant in it, the well-known man
OF letters, Major John William De For
est, and that it would shortly be pub
lished.
Inc book was published in 1867, and
by the book critics it was well nigh
universally conceded to contain battle
descriptions that were unsurpassed in
literature, an opinion in which Mark
Twain and others afterward concurred-
Especially was the description of the
land and water fight at Port Hudson
praised. But it was also well-nigh uni
versally held that the book would
prove a pecuniary failure THE name
OF the book will certainly kill it," was
the remark commonly made, and the
statement proved to be justified Major
De Forest had given the novel the title
of Miss RavenePs Conversion From
Secession to Loyalty" The critics all
agreed that it was a singularly unfor-
tunate title for a war story published
two years after the close of the war.
No southern girl had been converted
from secession to loyalty within that
time.
1T was splendid novel," Mark
Twain once said to me of this book.
now long since out of print THE de
scriptiYe battle writing that it con
tanned still remains unsurpassed. It
would probably have been a great.
popular success had it been given a.
title that gTipped. It was failure
because of its name"
Major De Forest, who died several
years ago at an advanced age, wrote
several other novels after the pubHca-
ton of Miss RavenePs Conversion. %
But his later works were more or less.
perfunctory, and his friends were al
ways Of the opinion that this was the
direct result of the comparative fail
ure of his Civil war novel, which was
a grievous disappointment to him, as
he had looked to it to give him per
manent fame in the world of litera-
ture.
Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards All
Rights Reserved.J