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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-19
Wants TO Pay
Hard Worked Tutors When
Their Salaries Are Due.

NJ L. Britain. superintendent Of the
{ Georgia public schools Is not asking
the legislature for more money this
YEAR his principal desire is to collect
s, What is due his department, so that the
poorly paid, hard worked teachers may
get their salaries when they are due. in
stead of discounting their claims or
waiting until late in the spring. He
] sent vigorous letter to the legisla
ture. embodied in his annual report,
urging that some means be found to
4 pay the teachers promptly
Il am not urging any one of the sew
eral bills now looking toward that end"
said Mr.. Britain today. Mine is an
executive office. not legislative one
and it is the legislature which must find
/ the ways and means I believe it will
do it,
! Mr. Britain. since he became state
superintendent, has worked wonders in
Iimproving the school system. especially
1 in the rural districts. He is now urging
the codifcation of the school laws,
which have become 80 tangled by
amendments and changes that they
present. complex problem to one seek
ing the law in any case.
The state superintendent bears the
distinction of having visited 115 coun-
Ties and rendered numerous decisions
upon appeals to his authority, and not
once has he been reversed.
Would Improve Buildings.
Among the improvemen in which Su-
nerin+endeut Britain is taking especial
interest is the building of attractive and
well designed school houses instead of the
stable-ike buildings and unkempt grounds
| which have served as makeshltts In SO
many towns In his foreward to a report
on "school Architecture, Mr. Britain
says:
III is almost as cheap to build an at
+ractive school house as an ugly one
! Georgia. like old Greece. is beautiful
land This beauty is a practical asset
and should not be marred by ugly build
ines Onr boys and girls should not be
trained in the midst Of slattern and shift
less surroundings
The report is supplemented by pictures
and plans for school houses ranging from
! little one-room structures for the settle
ments" 10 four-room buildings for the
towns, with plans and specifications and
| estimates of cost Mr. Britain obtained
the services of an experienced architect
in this work and the pamphlet has been
in great demand from school officials in
many states.
Through officers Of the state board Of
health he has published pamphlets on
school hygiene and the care of children.
! The complete report composes we'll
hand hook If more than 500 pages and
+, is a valuable document for all who are
interested in public schools and educa-
ton in general
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-19

know out what he's
right. This Is one
of the most sensi-
tive parts of the
human anatomy
more sensitive than
the eye. l have had
hundreds of pa
TENTS during the
eb years / have
been specializing in
diseases of men,
chronic disea sea
and nervous disors
ders, who were all
most n erv o u q
wrecks fro m a
reflex irrtt a ton
caused by the pros
tatic urethra being
affected. Had pains
in back, neck, back
- y a n \ a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-19
STRIKERS, DESPERATE
FROM IDLENESS, TRY
TO DYNAMITE TRAIN

LEXINGTON. KY, July 19.--Strib-
ers at the Roes Run Iron Companys
nlant near here attempted to blow up
. railroad train with dynamite early
today after destroying a trestle, but
we're foiled by the vigilance of the en-
qineer. Two hundred workmen are idle
At the iron mines, having struck for a
wage advance. The men are being driv-
en- to desperation by the pitiable plight
of their families.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-19
Or. WIN. NJ. BAIRD

Brown Randolph Bldg couldn't sleep.
Atlanta, Ga. g God physicians
had treated them without result because
they didn't find the cause of the trouble.
MY office hours are to Z; Sundays and
holidays 10 to /. My monographs free BY
Rail In plain. scaled wrapper.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-19
Nervous Wrecks

4 FRIEND Of mine said he believes nine
n men out of ten had moro or less ir-
ritation Of the prostate urethra. don't
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
Two Killed in Tunnel.

BUTTE, Sept. 30.-Two men were
killed in Great Northern tunnel No.
7, four miles south of Basin, yester.
day morning when the tunnel wall fell
on the caboose of the construction
train carrying thirteen, men Instant
ly killing Gus Pruto, an Italian, and
so seriously injuring August Infelise,
an Italian, that he died on q special
train between Basin and Butte. E: Fl.
Brooke, of Butte, was seriously in.
iured aud three Italian iaborers bad.
ly bruised, while scarcely q laborer
in the car escaped without bruises.
Engineer Bob McKinnon, who pulled
the train out of the danger zone,
where 250 tons of rock fell, saved
others from death. The caboose was
crushed. The morning train from
Butte was scheduled to pass through the
tunnel just q few minutes before the
cavein occurred. 1t vas 20 minutes
late and the construction train took
the regular trains time and caught
the fall. The jar of the train is the
cause assigned for the accident.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
PINEAPPLE PLANTS.
They Do Not Die After Fruiting, but
R%eproduce Themselves.

Pineapples do not grow on trees. I'M
agine a plant four feet in extreme
height from the ground to the tip Of
leaves, a single stalk at the surface,
but dividing at once into swordlike
blades or leaves, fifteen in number,
from the center of which appears a
stiff, upright stem, at the top of which
is the fruit. This stem is short, and
the crown of the fruit when fully
grown is a foot or more below the
points Of the leaves.
At the end of a year and a half from
planting each plant produces a single
fruit, even as a cabbage plant produces
a single head. But the pineapple does
not die after fruiting once. Down on
the stem below the fruit and among
the long, narrow leaves a sucker ap-
pears. If allowed to remain this will
soon become the head Of the plant, and
within another year it will yield an
other fruit. This process may go on
for a term of years. In the meantime,
| however, other suckers will make their
appearance.
These are broken off, and when stuck
into the ground they put out roots and
become other plants. Thus a single
pineapple plant may produce a dozen
or more others while it Is yielding
fruit from year to year.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
Tons and Miles Of Rain.
New York Sun

new 1OEk SUu.
It Is somewhat startling to learn
that 43.9 cubic miles of rain fell In
Missouri during the year of 1896.
This is slightly more impressive than
the statement that the rainfall was
about 40 inches.
In the same year 1904 cubic miles
OF water is computed to have fallen
over the whole area OF the United
States, and the average annual rain
fall is somewhat greater than this,
viz, 1908 cubic miles, weighing 6,0OO,-
600. 900, 900 tons.
The customary way of expressing
rainfall In inches or fractions of az
inch or depth is decidedly less i'm
pressive than this talk of miles and
tons. 1t is George A. Lindsay, wri'
ting in the "Transa actions of the
Academy OF Science at St. LOUIS
that has given US these figures con
corning the aggregate volume and
weight of our rainfall.
| As 90 illustr alton of the fact tina
most of the water that falls as rail-
never reaches the sea through tn
medium of drainage, but is evaporat
ed from the land, Mr.. Lindsay show
that the discharge of the Mississippi
river at St.. Louis is but little create
than the1volume of rainfall over tn
state of Missouri alone, despite tn
enormous area drained by the rive
| above that point.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02

men who are ''out'' and want to get
"in?" II you cant answer those
questions, suppose you ask q few OF
the people you meet.
Ask the farmer. He will tell you
that the crops this year are worth
80, OOO, 600, 600. That lie at least $780,
O00, 900 more than any farm yield 10
any other year and in any other land.
Ask the iron and steel makers.
They will answer that more tons OF
coal, coke and iron are being convert
ed into 6nished steel than In any pre-
vious yesr in this or any other coun'
try.
Ask the railroad president. He
will tell you chat traffic is almost al
the record breaking point for all time.
Ask the car and locomotive build
ers. They will answer that they are
employing three times o. many labor
ers as they were . year ago.
Ask the shipbuilders. They will
answer by pointing out the number OF
vessels on the ways-a sail for every
berth, come of them to foreign owners.
Ask the laborer himself. He Will
answer thatshis average wage 10 now
greater than ever before and that bis
hours of work; are shorter.
Ask the banker. He will point TO
c~learances that mount higher and
higher week by week, q sure barometer
for the swelling tide in all kinds OF
business.
Ask any one except the professional
a~gitator, and the answer inevitably
must be: The country is richer and
bigger and happier and healthier than
it has ever been before.
So, then. what's the matter with the
United States under Taft, anyhow?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
The Intruder.

A certain boat coming up the Mis-
sissippi one day during a flood lost
her way and bumped up against a
frame house. She hadn't more than
touched it before an old darky ram
med his head up through a hole in the
roof, where the chimney once came
out, and yelled at the captain on the
roof: "Whar's you gwine wild dat boat
Can't you see nothin'? Fust thing you
knows you gwine to turn dis house
ober, spill de old woman an de chil'en
out in de flood an drown 'em. What
you dom out here in de country wild
your boat, anyhow? Go on back yam.
der froo de co'nfelds an get back
into de ribber whar you b'longs. Amt
got no business sewn miles out in the
country foolin' roun' peoples houses
nohOw!" And the boat backed out
life.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
Buying Foreign Sunshine.
National Magazine.

National Magazine.
The United States is paying $780,
600, 900 or more every year for foreign
sunshine, this amount being paid out
for foreign grown sugar, which is
only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
and comes from the wind, rain and
sunshine which sweep over the fields.
There is no reason why this sugar
should not be grown within the United
States. In that case the $10O, 00O, 200
that nov g~oes:abroad every year to
pay for sugar would be distributed q,
home among American farmers and
workmen and transportation com.
panies. More important still 1t would
lead to q great improvement in sgri'
cultural conditions and IN immense
increase in farm yields, so that in thit
way II would benefit every citizen o.
the country.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
Banner Causes Street Fight.

GREAT FALLS, Sept. PA. team.
sters' strike which has been on for q
couple of months resulted in q street
FIGHT today ia which prominent citi-
zens figured and almost resulted in q
riot. The teameters are now being
paid % q day and want 1850.
One of their weapons Of warfare is
to discriminate against stores employ
ing dray firms employing non-union
men and at a meeting last evening the
local labor assembly decided to have
q 10 an with an ''un fair" banner pa
rade 10 front of the store of Strain
Brothers. Herbert Strain, the head
of the 6rm IL i'll and his brother, DR..
Strain Q prominent ply stefan, went
after the bannerman, telling him he
must leave.
The man refused and the fight start
ed, accounts dissRreeing as to the
sggressor. George Esselstein, alder.
man, went to the assistance of the
doctor and he was followed by W. j.
Strain, q brother, Russell Strain, a
SOD OF Herbert's. The union man was
not without friends and soon the street
was blocked so that street ears had to
stop. Several faces were cut up and
several arrests made.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
The!Montana Wheat Crop.

GREAT FALLS, Sept. 2S.-That the
state OF Montana will this year harvest
q wheat crop of more than 10000, 600
bushels Is the expressed belief OF w.
H. Pierce, sales manager of the Royal
Milling company and in charge of the
Rocky Mountain elevator company,
with it's more than 20 elevators and
three score of buying points scattered
throughout the states wheat belt.
To be exact, Mr.. Pierce makes the
estimate that the state wheat yield this
year will be approximately 16, S75 900
bushels, and he also gives out some
figures OF interest in regard to the
yield of Cascade, Teton, Fergus,
Chouteau and Mesgher counties, which
show that those counties are to enjoy
a very healthy prosperity because o.
the new capital brought into thei,
trade 81 q result OF their wheat crop
His figures for the counties mentioned
and for the state follow:
Wheat crop for entire state, 1855,
600.
Wheat crop for Cascade county
s75 900.
Wheat crop for Teton county, l,
200, 900.
Wheat crop for Chouteau county
5 ,O00.
Wheat crop for Fergus county, 4,
5O0, 900.
Wheat crop for Meagher county
625 zoo.
The total wheat crop OF these av
counties is estimated to be about eigh
million bushels.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
Tho LARGEST Described Snake,

Spoke in his narrative Of the Jour-
ney to the source Of the Nile describes
the largest snake that has ever been
eel by man. II s%huddered," he says,
las I looked upon the effects Of his
tremendous dying strength. For yards
around where he lay grass, bushes and
saplings-in fact, everything except
full grown trees-were cut clean of,
as If they had been trimmed with an
immense scythe. The monster when
measured was %1fty-one feet two and
one-half inches in extreme length
while around the thickest portions OF
its body the girth was nearly thret
feet"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2, 1912.

Republican National Ticket.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
A H NATTER.

"Whst's the matter with the United
States under Taft's administr alton,
anyhow" That is the question put
by the Abilene Kan. Reflector. And
Il is . very pertinent inquiry. There
ore loud and vehement wailings about
~''evils" and ''wrongs" and "slavery,'
and the people are being told that
conditions are so bad that nothing
less than . complete reversal Of pres.
ent policies. . practical revolution IL
our system Of government can cure
chem. But 10 that true? Or is Il
mere hysessis, the vain imaginiugs o
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
POOLING H VOTERS.

The market is being glutted with q
big crop of political oratory. The
spellbinders are invading nearly every
town and village in Montana and in
ficting themselves upon the voters.
The latter are given q more OF less
truthful and impressive review of past
and present conditions, and are solicit.
edto accept advice as to how they shall
mark their ballots on election day.
Some OF this political oratory is in
structive and worthy of careful con-
sheraton, but the other kind may be
classed as buncombe that should be
dismissed as Ipartisan hot air. An
example of this latter brand Of poll
tical discussion appears In newspaper
reports of q speech recently delivered
In western Montana by Hon. Sam v.
Stewart, democratic candidate for
governor, In which the speaker is
quoted as saying:
at is already bruited about that II q
direct primary laweis enacted by the
people at the coming election, and the
next. legislature is republican, amend
ments will be made 80 as to mascula ate
it and ruin its usefulness even before
the people:haye an opportunity to try
it out. II elected governor of this
state, l pledge that no amendments or
repeal of that:law tor any other one
enacted by the people will be made by
the legislature, until the people them
selves have had q chance to try. thei,
own handiwork, unless the same b.
psssed overimy veto."
In making ethese remarks, 1t wal
evidently Mr. S,ewsrt's intention to
fool the voters. 1t was . clumsy at
tempt to misrepresent the political
opposition. Mr.. Stewart limited at ar
alleged republican conspiracy to pre-,
vent the effective operation Of q direc
primary law,9 but not q particle O
proof was offered in support of tina
alton.
Mi. Stewart pretends that he ha
heard rumors to the effect indicated
Where did he obtain his information
and from whom?.Did the story origi
nate from republican or Democrat
sources, or will Mr.. Stewart modestl
confess that he thought it out him
self?
During the marketing of campaig
oratory there will probably be offere
other allegations equally as absur
as the one made against his politics
opponents by Mr.. Stewart. The pul
pose will be to fool the voters, b,
Intelligent. scitizens will not readil
accept partisan Ichsrges that lac
positive proof to support them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
Looking Ahead.

It was the first night Of a new play.
II say" remarked the author to the
manager, "that scene shifter over there
IL a most peculiar looking fellow"
"Yes; he's an Eskimo" said the
manager. =
IAN Eskimo! What on earth made
you take him ONT"
"Oh, I thought it would be a COM
fort to see one happy face If the play
turns out to be q frostv"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
OFFICIAL PAPER OF cnoUrEAU COUNTY

Az letters and communication containing ma
~ 6stended for publication in this paper should
y Sddreesed to "The River Press," and the name
q tAs criter mast BE- giren to insure attention.
Local Advertisement WW be Inserted in these
Sosssns at re: rate !of ten cents psr line from
1roasismt saa flee cents per line from regular ad-
VGVt2osrs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-09
(The World Today.)

W.
History is a perpetual rebegin-
ming" said a French writer. Even
though the forms in which history
manifests itself are ever diverse, the
forces that move it are always the
same, n they are everywhere active.
in great Or in little, disclosed or con-
cealed. Therefore. it is not strange
Roman empire should repeat itself
among us in the modern world.
The snowy wealth and the clamor-
Gus triumphs of modern civilization do
not conceal: on the contrary, they re-
veal, to him who studies in philoso-
phic spirit the fall of the Roman en-
pire, this "rebeginning of history" In
truth, there are between the two civ
citations and the two epochs enor-
nous differences. But among these
differences there are some sinlilarities;
and among these sin1ilarities the most
important is the malady that unmade
the great body of the empire, and that
slowly, subtly, insidiously, begins to
infest the world of today-the excess
of urbanism.
The malady of which the Roman
empire died was exactly this excess of
urbanism. Neither the barbarians
from without nor Christianity from
within could have got the upper hand
over its ponderous power had not the
colossus been first weakened in this
internal trouble. But how insidious
the slowness with which the disease
had entered the veins of the great
empire n eaten into the vital or
gans. diffused through all the great
body. by wealth, by peace, by art, by
literature. by culture, by religion, by
all the good things that men most
earnestly desire and most highly prize.
Nevertheless, beginning from the
third century of the Roman empire,
the excuses of urbanism, the cause of
the splendor and apparent wealth of
the preceding century, began to on
vert themselves into a d%issolvent force
that appropriated into chaos the
brilliant world which that fiery force
had once produced. Little by little
the cost of urban life, the cities and
their growing Injuries. over balanced
the producing power Of the country.
From that moment the latter began to
be depopulated and sterilized by the
former.
From one end to the other of Eu-
rope and America this is the universal
lament of men and women who must
live In cities. Rents, bread, milk,
meat, vegetables, eggs clothes. very
thing cost more. Perhaps zone older
than 30 or 40 years recall having seen
a sort of tabled period, a mythical age
of gold, when things cost almost moth
ing compared with present prices.
Governments are beseized with re-
the case, but they do not know how.
In another respect. also, the story
of the decay of the Roman empire
admonishes modern men. 1t admon-
ishes them not to mistake the sightll-
ness Of external manifestations of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-09
M.ADERn MAKES GOOD:

.Althouah the Madero government
N.s Il littlr slow IN getting started,
when il did Get under way IT made
short work of ChHsin. tn" rebel army,
tiol"u's supporters claim mat th"lr
defeat has been due more Ia Ameri-
ca prevention Of their getting amnnli-
r.tiun than superior proves on the
part Of the government troops, but
sine, hat was one Of the rules If
the game they cannot complain. In
General lIuerta, Madero seems no
have found a commander with ski!
and rc|rtinacity not given TO rushing
matters. hut moving onward upon
weil-laid plans calmly and irresistihlN.
DELAYED nv tn. rchelS destroying
bridges and tracks. which presum-
ably he could not prevent with III"
force At his disposal and because of
tho toroeraphN of the country, he
has riskod nothins in hasty move
msnts. hu, has j"en content To wait
urtil ro could resume his march in
porf., t order.
The ,hanionmen1 of chihuahua
roll ''ro5," 80 the N Important city
he hold WA i~rtuaiiE marks the end
If the lev"', IN thai province. which
ha. heen iho h~eldduarters of the
rovolutionary movement. h re-
treat TO JuaroZ is merely preliminary
TO a further flight in the hope of
reaching the mountainous regions of
the state of sonora. which Huerta has
already made ARRANGEMENTS TO pre-
vent if possible. If the rebels reach
Sonora they may he able to continue
operations indefinitely. hut it will he
as scattered bands of bandit and n"
longer as an ORGANIZED army OF V
luton.
Having thus disposed of 0roZco, the
goVernment should next turn atten-
ton to Zapata, in the south, a less
Formidable task. The best proof of
the stability of Madero's administra =
tion Was perhaps the refusa! to en-
terrain orozco's plea Of amnesty.
Temporizing with r"Nolt in Mexico is
perilous. The governments insist
encc upon unconditional surrender
was the only course if the country
was to have any assurance of con
tinucd peace. II. as now Gems prob
able. tho reh"llion has been practic-
ally put down. Madaro will have a
chance to- show what ability his adj
ministration may possess in practical
has had no chance heretofore owing
to the disturbed condition of the
country.