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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28

we a couple of children that we can't
think that we We're going to Europe"
She wanted to tell him that what
she feared was his we'll known Gus
tom of raising a little row on very
slight provocation would spoil the
pleasure of the trip, but he seemed
good natured and whistled as he wait
ed for her. and so she made no crit
icism.
An Auspicious Beginning.
The car contained but few passen-
gers as it started of, and FIVE minutes
later Mr.. Bowser was saying:
"This is something like. l feel 10
degrees cooler already. We will take
this ride every hot night"
Mrs. BOwser replied that she was de-
lighted, and things went on swimming
~ for the next five minutes. Then a
young man and his girl boarded the
car, and as soon as they were seated
he put his arm around her and she
leaned her head on his shoulder.
by Jumbo, but do you see that" he
exclaimed to Mrs. Bowser.
Eyes. but it is nothing to u.s."
"Say. they ought to be talked to-"
"But if the conductor doesn't mind
no M else should. Lovers always act
that way"
"Then they ought to be sent to Jail
for six months. Think of lo~llygagging
on a street cart"
Mr.. Bowser might have said more,
but just then the a ran over a dog
and distracted his attention. When he
thought to look again three more cou-
pies had got on, and three more young
fellows had their arms around the
necks or waists of their own turtle
doves. Mrs. Bowser felt chills 60 over
her. She called Mr.. Bowser's atten-
ton to a red barn they were passing,
but in vain.
6owser Is ScandaIized.
"Now, by the horn spoon" he ex-
claimed as he half rose up.
"Please don't say anything"
"But I will. Where are the clergy
men of the city that such things can
be!'
"But no one else Is minding them"
"Then that shows what a low ebb
American morality has reached"
The conductor was beckoned to, and
when he came along Mr.. Bowser point.
ed to the lovers and asked:
do you permit such things on your
carr"
"What is it? What is wrong?" he
asked.
THAT lollygagging."
II see nothing wrong about that
Those couples are in love and showing
It rathe- o plainly than Fifth ave
nue might, but they are transgressins
no rule OF the road"
"Oh. they are not, eh? Well. aftel
my call at headquarters tomorrow vel
see about it."
The conductor passed on without re
plying. and Mrs. Bowser whispered:
III you won't say anything NOR,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
BOWSER SHOCKED
Disquieting Scenes Witnessed on
a Trolley Car.
NE CANNOT HELP PROTESTING
But Finds No Sympathy and Almost
Gets Into a Fight With a Man Who
Doesn't Object to Aovemakino In
Public Conveyances.
BY M. QUAD.

BY N. QUAD.
copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.]
HOT wave had arrived, and Mr..
Bowser came home from the
"a Office with his collar wilted
and the color fading out Of his
pink suspenders. 1t was after dinner
that he proposed something that gave
Mrs. Bowser a jar. She had been
longing all the afternoon to get out
where the breezes blew. but she re-
allied that it would be in vain to sug-
gest a trip Of any soVt to Mr.. Bowser.
She was therefore almost alarmed
when he said:
"You get ready and We'll have a ride
on a trolley running seven miles out
into the country. Green says he's
made the trip and it's fine. It'll be a
chance to cool off"
"And you'll go on a trolley carr" she
asked in surprise.
II sha'n't 60 on a wheelbarrow.
What is there strange about me going
on the carp
ut will probably be crowded."
II guess we can find a couple of
Seats
And if it isn't COOL
ut must be cooler than this"
"Sure you want to go"
"Look here, woman! What is all
this nonsense about:" he asked. "Are
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
GUNDA.
yerocious Bull Elephant In the 6rons
Zoo. New York,

y~srocious Bull Elephant In the erons
Zoo, New York.
New York has a real elephant on its
hands. What to do with Gunda, a big
bull elephant. is a question that Is
puzzling the authorities Of the Bronx
Park ZOO. Just at present Gunda is
in chains. being given a chance to
think things over and decide If he in
tends to be good. If he doesn't decide
that way, he will get a dose Of apples
and strychnine.
Gunda is young as elephants go, hail
ing from Assam in northeast India.
where he was born some sixteen or
seventeen years ago. He was captured
in 1903 and presented to the o a year
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28

Of a number of clubs and Is well liked
In social circles. Miss Force is nj OF
the handsomest and most popular of
New York and Newport society girls.
The wedding will be a quiet affair, 1t
IL announced, as both families are in
mourning, the Forces on ~
Colonel Astor's death in the Titanic
disaster, and Mr.. Harnickell for the
death Of his mother a few months ago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
A Mark Of Confidence.

"I'm her best friend"
"Are you sure of it,"
absolutely. She trusts me more
than she would her W people"
"How do you known"
every time she goes away for her
summer vacation she gets me to take
care Of her little Fido. She says she
never worries, about him when he's
with me."-Detroit Free Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
MISS KATHERINE FORCE.

Sister Of Mrs. John Jacob Aston, Who
ls to Marry a Broker.
Miss Katherine Force, sister of Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, Is to be married in
the fall to Henri G. Harnickell, a New
York broker. Mr.. Harnickell comes Of
an old Baltimore family, is a member
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28

about it you needn't give me any more
pin money for Il month";"
"Ill write to the papers about it,"
Eyes, you can
"And I'll write to 4 dozen clergymen
and ask them why the devil they spend
their time abusing theaters and motion
picture shows when such scenes as
these are passed lei Aunt Jemimy.
but there's two more couples getting
Nboard!"
"Rut never mindo
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
Don't FORGET This.

Don't Forget This.
Don't forget that after you are
dead people will remember you,
not for the clothes you wore,
but for the things you did
Chicago Record Herald.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
Started Early.

Started Early.
Small Girl-Why doesn't baby talk,
father?
Father-He can't talk vet, dear.
Young babies never do.
Small girl-Oh, yes, they do. Job
did. Nurse read to me out Of the Bible
how Job cursed the day he was born.
Penny Pictorial.
Her Reason.
Mistress--W Well, I'm sorry you want
to leave me, Mary. But what's yeur
reason?
mary keeps silently
Notwithstanding privatef
Mary (suddenly)-No, mum; please.
mum. he's a lance corporal.-Illustrat-
ed Bits.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-28
MINER CATTLE co.
N. E. M11NER, Pres. and Manager, Fort Benton,
Montana.

Nain brands %
shown In the &C
comparing cuts.
Also own al
cattle bearing No
siAgls "s@uGs
brand, AID al
Iebra1deA cattle
bearing only
cross p.
Alse wi brand
81 right hip called
square g."
; :'' IL; !; II
Range from Bear
'aW AolAtatAs esss.
ard - 1ort NWk
the MA an1
usso11t rivers. Ass
nth Of the MIS-
Dari river betWe0
efook AAA D
REX, DAeakta rang
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-02

The bird shows lack of proper food
ard exercise quickly, and unless given
chance to regain his health quickly
droops and dies. Filth viii kill birds
quicker than starvation. The pleas
ant loves the open field, the dusty
road, the clear air. the insect-laden
vegetable. the communicated soil.
It's roosting place is invariably in the
open field with nothing above it's head
but the blue sky. Even during the
most severe storms or during extreme
winter weather the pheasant prefers
the freedom of the open field. For
game purposes the birds must be rear
ed in the open confinement seeming to
duh their sensbilities and make them
careless about their own safety.
The young birds develop rapidly
from balls of fluff into shapely brown
pheasants, very shy and strong of
wing, at two months After this age
the plumage of the cock rapidly takes
on its sorgeousness and the hen as
aumes the air tof shYness characters
tic OF her all through life. The hens
are wonderfully prolific layers and II
properly fed produce a large number
of eggs during the summer season.
They do not prove good mothers in
captivity and il is necessary to resort
TO the bantam hen for incubation pur-
poses.
The Chinese pheasant is one of the
most obserVant birds in existence. He
soon learns to4re~ognize persons and
animals. and when once accustomed to
conditions, quickly objects to any
change. He will refuse to acknewl-
edge acquaintance with his best friend
should a change in clothing be made
or any difference in appearance be no
ted by him. He will worry about his
pen, showing unmistakable disgust
when the slightest change is made in
any of the things to which he has be-
come accustomed.
The care of the pheasant is but the
study of the wild. free life of the bird
in the open air. Its food must be dry,
even in the earliest days of its youth,
and it must be given the best possible
substitute for the insect life, upon
which Nature intended 1t should feed.
Plenty of pure water, running fresh
and free in Il brook if possible must
be provided. With simple food, with
plenty of pure water, with open-air
space in which to get needed exercise
with shelter such as it would find in
the open field or in underbrush, the
pheasant is healthy, happy and proli-
Angeles Times
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NV aeveloned it's possibilities.

| fully developed its possibilities.
| The Chinese pheasant in America Is
| the result of enterprise and care of
a few men in Oregon, who have been
| firmly convinced of the utility of the
/ bird and of the need of propagating
game. More than a century ago efforts
were made to introduce the English
pheasant and the partridge into eastern
! states, particularly along the Atlantic
coast Early in the last century efforts
| were made to propagate the birds in the
Jersey field, but dismal failure followed.
1t was but few years until the birds
were eXtermnated.
Robert Oliver imported 100 English
pheasants for his Maryland farm about
so years ago, and after repeated expert
ments gave mp the task as hopeless.
This seems to have been the last effort
to introduce tic birds to the country
along the Atlantic coast.
So rapidly did the pheasant propagate
in Oregon that an open season was pro-
vided for by law in 1892, it being held
that the birds were of sufficient number
in most parts of the state to enable them
TO withstand the onslaughts of sports
men. However, it was shown that more
than $4,000 birds were slaughtered the
, first day of the open season. Ii was 500
found necessary to protect the birds dur
ing the entire year until the state should
become thoroughly stocked.
Strange as it may seem, the Oregon
bird has become acclmated and has
propagated rapidly as far east as Mas
sachusetts. where the English bird could
not be raised successfully Shipments of
l. 4,
Ohio, New York. New Jersey and other
Atlantic coast states while the central
states have called for hundreds of pairs,
and have good results to show for the
efforts made to restock the hunting
grounds. All of the states but nine
recognize the pheasant as a game bird
and protect it during all or a large part
of the year.
Pheasant hunting is easily the clean
est bird shooting in the world The
sportsman who shoots for the love of
true sport can find nothing like it any
where. Wounded birds have wonderful
vitality and do not readily suecumb to
the loss of a leg or wing. and they will
take the most desperate chances for
safety. Fleet of foot with powerful
thighs, the pheasant in its native haunts
passes quickly through the grass and
weeds. leaving behind no trace of mo-
ton to betray its presence The pleas
ant lies closer to the ground and is more
difficult to flush than any other game
bird. The alertness of the bird, its sue
cessful efforts to avoid detection and to-
remain in safety, yet not iax sseclusion,
make the sport of hunting ideal
The pheasant lives in the open air
and subsists practically on insect life.
For this reason his domestication was
not easy. and his rearing in captivity
was one of the problems which re-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-02
Mountain Granua.

The Grange hall was filed Wednesday
night, Dec. q, when the members o
Mountain Grange, North Buckfield, pro
duced the drama eye Village Skule O.
Long Ago
The parts were taken admirably. The
cast of characters was as follows:
Ye Skule Committee. Deacon JOSIAH
Partridge, Paul Bennett; Hezekial
Shocks, Fred Head; Zebedee Won Pelt
Winfield Cutting. Ye Visitors: Mrs. HUI
millty Partridge, ye deacon's wife, Kate
Buck; Mrs Endurance Peterkins, AIDE.
laide Mason: Mrs, Hannah Parsons. Flor.
ence Head; Mistress Charity Hornwel
spinster, Jennie Head; Mrs. Doolittle
Myrtle Tucker. Ye Pupils: Males: Abra-
ham Whitestone, Norman Bessey; Jonah
Partridge, Harry Buck; Josiah Baritone
Charles stevens: Ebenezer Doolittle. Har.
old stevens; Peter Paul Peterkins, Harry
Thicker; Bud Hornwell, Herbert Spauld-
ing; Obadiah Bangs. Linwood Morse
Melehizedek Littlejohn, Lawrence morse
Patrick Won Pelt, Nelson Tucker. Fe-
males: Temperance Whtestone. Gertrude
Bonncy; Judith Doolittle Doris Buck.
Deliverance Doolittle Blanche Buck,
salvation Doolittle, Lucy Stevens; Belin-
da Bassett, Dorothy Buck, Prudence Pc
terkins, Ethel Pearson; Dorcas skinner
Margaret Sturtevant; Deborah Tubbs
Gertrude Warren; Penelope HornwelI
Belle Smith,
The drama was followed by an anti
quarian supper and sociable.
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be the One by whom they would be
really helped up to place where they
could keep the Divine Law perfectly
and be used of God in blessing all the
earth.--Jeremiah XXI, 81.
Thus the Israelites had the precious
promise respecting the coming of the
Messiah-and not only so, but intima-
tons that there would be special trials
and difficulties on those living at that
time. (Malachi iii, 1-3.) Naturally
every mother amongst the Israelites
longed for the birth of son, hoping
that she might be honored as the par
ent of the Seed of the woman, who
would bruise the Serpents head-the
great One of Abraham's seed through
whom, by some unknown arrangement
OF process, a great blessing would come
upon the sons of Levi, upon Israel and
through these upon all the nations OF
the earth.
These promises led up to and Gull
minated in the birth of John the Bap-
tst, the Incidents of which constitute
the study Of today. He was not TO be
Messiah, but His herald He was moi
born of a miraculous conception of tn.
Holy Spirit and without human father
but He was announced by specia
messenger of God. as our lesson most
beautifully tells
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-02
East Somerset Pomona.

The East Somerset Pomona Grange
viii convene with st. Adams Grange OF
Wednesday and Thursday. Jan. and &
with the following program:
Wednesday, 1870 ~ M-Opening exer.
clses: reports of secretary and treas
urer; election of officers; address of well
come, Mrs. l.. j. Merrick; response, IL
J.. Goodrich; memorial exercises in mem
DRY of the deceased members; address,
State Master c. s Stetson discussion.
What No. Lines of Work should the
Pomona Undertake the Coming Year?'
opened by 2. W. Libby; 80 r. NJ, con-
ferring the Fifth degree, followed by the
joint installation of Pomona officers and
those of the St Adams Grange with State
Master Stetson as Installing officer.
Thursday. 10 A. M.-Song Mrs c. II.
Webb: reading, Gladys Libby; address,
Prof. Laura Comstock of Orono; paper
Mrs. Jennie Tracy; discussion, Ought
Maine to Adopt the Reeall?" opened by
Fred Lucas; song. Mrs. Parkman; ques-
ton boXI instrumental music, Mrs. Mabel
Bigelow; reader, Sabra Tracy
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pHEAsANTs IN AMERICA.
New Enterprise Developing of Re-
stocking Western Hunting Grounds.

"a. H. Harris in the Los Angeles
Times.)
A farmer was cutting hay in the
Willamette valley in Oregon num-
Der Of years ago when the sickle OF
his machine narrowly missed severing
the head of Chinese pheasant from
the boey us 1t fluttered from its nest.
The incident was the real beginning
of tna> pheasant industry in Ameri-
ca, the inception of the most prom
iSlng game bird plans that have been
inatured in the country.
IN 1880 o. l.. Denny was United
States consul at Shanghai, China.
Yhe pheasant, which Inhabited the
mountainous country back IF the
city, was called To his attention and
lie determined TO send a few of the
biras 10 his native country for the
purposes of propagation. Gathering -
few strong specimens, Mr. Denny
made shipment to America OF the first
Chinese pheasants, from which the
hundreds OF thousands of birds that
iahahit hunting grounds OF the COIN
try Strung. 1t MAS from the last or
these BIRDS. perhaps. that the eggs
We're taken by the farmer when he
discovered that his mower had ami
hilated the nest of a mother pheasant.
Realizing that he had destroyed
the family of his pheasant friends the
farmer gathered the eggs and hasten
ed them to the nearest town, where
lived Gene Simpson, bookkeeper
who had given a great deal of care
to a small yard of fancy poultry.
simpson received the eggs with de-
light and Immediately put them under
a bantam hen that had, by accident.
not been broken up in her disposition
To set. The little hen aid her best
with the pheasant eggs and very
soon had a little flock of the tiniest
little bare birds that one might wish
to see. THAT autumn Mr.. Simpson
had II healthy pheasants, and he was
trying to learn their habits and needs
as best he could.
From the tragedy of the moving
machine has grown an industry in
Oregon and other western states that
promises to restoclS the hunting
grounds and make sport with a Shot
gun all that it could be wished for
rlore than II has ever been to the man
who lives in town. For no less than
n dozen states have bought birds for
the purposes of stocking preserves.
ard a single shipment of 800 pairs was
made a few months ago to the state
of Idaho, where an effort is being
Inale on large scale to rehabilitatc
the hunting grounds, which careless
ana heartless shooting has devas-
tated. Mr.. Simpsons farm" has
! grown into. the. largest enterprise of
the sort in America, and it has not
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-02
Merrymeetina GRANGE.

Merrymeeting Grange of Bowdoin.
ham held its regular meeting Friday
evening, Dec %. with good attendance
and Friday evening, Jan. 3, Will install
its new officers for the year. The pro-
gram provided by the lecturer Dec. q
was: Music, Brother Berry; recitation
Mildred Given; question, "Why Do moi
Farmers of This Vicinity Raise More
Meat for Their Own Eating? Bros
Dinsmore and Cary; what Five Dollars
Did 7. Borjesson; music, quartet Re
solved, THAT Marriage is a Failure, u
affirmative, the Brothers: negative, The
Sisters; Discomfort" recitation, Ina
Douglass; stories, Bros. Ferguson, G
Lancaster and Newton
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-02
Somerset Panama.

The annual meeting of Somerset Pomo.
ma Grange will be held at Sl1owhegar
with Skowhegan Grange. Tuesday and
Wednesday, Ian. and TO- Grange will
be opened on Tuesday at 10 A. NJ. After
the order of business. the address of well
come will be given by Albert Il. Jewett
master of Skowheean Grange: response
by c. r. Oliver. AT the evening SEES
sion the Fifth degree win be conferred
and the officers installed Wednesday
Grange will be opened at 10 \. NJ, song
by the choirt Worthy State Master Stet.
son will be present at this meeting
Skowhegan, Kennebee Valley. Somerset
East Madison, Athens, Canaan, Victor
and Cornvlle Oranges will furnish the
rest of the program
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-02
Westport Granue.

The recently organized Grange in West
port held meeting, Friday evening, Dec
% The election of officers resulted al
follows: a. J. Knight, master; Byron
Knight, overseer: Mrs. Inez Cove, lee
turer; Roscoe Beaton, steward; Marshal
Clubhouse, assistant steward. Guy {
Judkins, chaplain: Thomas p Knight
treasurer; Mabel p. Head, secretary
Aschael Cove: gatekeeper. Mrs. Alber
tine Knight Ceres; Ruth White Pc
mona; Annie Tarbox, Flora; Mrs Eliza
beth Clubhouse, lady assistant steward.
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UNI
York. Brown,

a very pretty wedding took place, Jan
!, at high noon at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. j. II. Brown, when their daughter
Josephine M, and Maurice a. York OF
Wilton, We're united in marriage, The
double ring service was used. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. James A.
Anisley, pastor of the Methodist church.
The bride was dressed in blue silk
trimmed with white satin and was at
tended by her sister, Mrs. Bert Bryant.
The groom was dressed in the conven-
tional black. A wedding dinner was
served at the conclusion of the cere-
mony. The young couple We're the recip-
tents Of costly and numerous wedding
gifts. They went away, Tuesday. on the
noon train to Wilton, where they will
make their home Their many friends
wish them a happy future.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-02

When you want reliable medicine for
a cough or cold take Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy. 1t can always be de-
pended upon and is pleasant and safe to
take. For sale by all dealers.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05

chiefly laid in the big out -of-doors where big men do big things and where a man is gauged not by his millions but by his manhood.
 The hero of the play is Captain James Wyngate of one of His Majes- ties regiments who to save his cad of a brother shoulders the stigma of er11bezz lenlent and fees to America. The second act finds Wyngate in a Wyoming COW town, Jim Carston. Carston becomes -isquaw mana derisive appellation applied in the West to white men who marry In- dian women-through gratitude. His life is saved by Naturich, a beautiful daughter of the Utes and Carston braving the world takes her for his wife.
 From the other side comes the news that Carston has inherited an Fla rl- dom He refuses to leave his Indian wife but sends their boy across the water to take the inheritance. Ma turich in despair at the loss of the child whon she idolizes shoots herself While her body has the final curtain the audience leaves satisfied that the Nero who has won their hearts has lived up to his heroic opportunities.
 There are many interesting charac- ters in 1.-The Squaw Man. including Tabywana the Indian chief, Big Rill,'' Bud Hardy, the sheriff, and score of cowboys.