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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-11-14

sThar'e Nothln' Coin to Happen to
Her While This Bunch 10 on the
Move"
or three days getaway, and SO don't
care q tinker's dam bout these yere
marks. Once in the sand, an thar
won't be no trail anyhow It's some
kintry out thar, an it would be-. like
huntin' a needle in a haystack to try
an find them fellars after ter-nig.It.
This is my idea-we1l just 'mosey
along slow, savin' the bosses an Keep.
ing back out o. sight till dark. Them
fellars amt many hours ahead, an are
likely ter camp furst part on ther
night anyhow. They'll feel safe onct
hid in them sand-hilIs, ar. II they don't
git no sight of us, most likely they
won't even post no guard. Tnet's when
we want ter dig in the spurs. Amt
that about the right program. Ser.
geant?"
Burning with impotence as Hamlin
was, fearful that every additional mo
ment of delay might increase che girls
danger, he was, yet soldier and plains
man enough to realize the wisdom OF
the old scout. There were at least
four men in the party pursued, two OF
them Indian warriors, the tyo whites
desperate characters. Without doubt
they would put up a fierce fight, or, II
warned in time, could easily scatter
and disappear.
"Of course you r right. SAM" he
replied promptly. "Only I Am SO afraid
Of what may happen to Miss Molly"
Forget it. Thar's Authin' goin' ter
happen to her while the bunch is on
the move. If that outfit was all Injun,
or all white, maybe thar might. But
the way 1t Is they'll never agree on
nuthin'. 'cept how to git. away, II
amt likely they W meant ter kill
the Major. 'er take the girl erlong.
Them things just naturally happened,
an now they're scared stin. TIN take
q day er two for 'em to. make up their
minds what to do"
What do you imagine they will de-
eide, Sam
Wall, thet's all guesswork. But
reckon ! know what I'd do II l was In
tibet sort o fix an bein' chased fer
murder an robbery. I'd take the easy
way; make fer the nearest Injun VII.
lage. an leave the girl thar"
You mean Black Kettles camp?"
Il reckon; he's down thar on the
Canadian somewhat. You kin bet
those fellars know whar, an thet's
whut they're Amin for, unless this
we're Dupont has some hidin' out
scheme Of his own. Whar did you say
he ranched?" S.
Buffalo Creek
"Thet's the same neighborhood:
must We been in cahoots with those
red devils to have ever. run, cattle in
thar. We've got to head EN- on afore
they git down into that kintry: Ell we
won't have no scalps to 80 back home
with. Let's mosey erl0ng, boys"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-11-14

Tn going to the ONCE now to pound
my typewriter"
II cant pound NINE"
why not?"
Belongs to an athletic club"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-11-14

seen ~ much in my time a one man
cJeht to see."-Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
A Stupendous Pro iect.

\ project whose result is expected by
its originator to be the changing of the
climate of the greater part of the
northern hemisphere and the. making
of the arctic regions habitable is so
stupendous in its effects as to make
it seem visionary. Yet the man who
proposes this. Carroll l.. Riker, is one
who has been successful in large en-
cheering enterprises and gives his
past accomplishments as evidence of
his present sanity. Immense as would
he the results of his project the means
of accomplishing them, as described by
him in a recent number of Harpers
Weekly are comparatively simple-a
far less difficult and costly undertake
ing than the building of the Panama
canal.
In brief his idea is to prevent the
great icy Labrador current from COM
ing into direct conflict-as it does at
prescnt-with the Gulf stream, whose
mighty and beneticent flow is now
broken and dissipated some distance
south of Newfoundland Were it not
for the head-on collision of those two
tremendous forces the Gulf stream
would flow on to the north and east.
making the climate of the great re-
eions far toward the pole temperate
ard habitable and melting the ice
hergs FAR into the northern seas, so
that short north Atlantic routes would
he safe the year round On the other
hand, the Labrador current, passing
under the Gulf stream and to the
southwark would temper the heat of
regions to the far south.
The cause of the direct collision of
the two currents, Riker says, is the
fact that they meet in shoal water on
the great bank south of Newfound-
land. If the Labrador current. instead
Of being allowed to flow over the shall
lows extending far out from New
foundland. and thence to the south
west, We're directed toward the south
east and to deep water then the two
great ocean rivers would not destroy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
he Oldest Person,

Having taken considerable interest
Tor many years in centenarianism, it
mas occurred to ME that ii would be
interesting if it could be decided who
Is entitled to receive the verdict for
length of days, within, say the last
five hundred years which is about the
period thai covered anything like au-
thcntic records.
The papers recently reported the
death of Jones Ca}vario IN Mexico at
the reputed age of fS5 years. and the
Weekly Scotsman states his age is
only exceled by one man since tho
days of the patriarchs, Peter Tortin or
Iorten, of Hungary. who is reputed
to have died at about the same age
although in the Sun some years ago
Peter Czartan notorious glutton.
doubtless the same individual, is only
credited with a century and half.
The Scotsman goes on to say that the
Oldest man before Tortin was Henry
Jenkins, of Yorkshire 069), whose
predecessor in the distinction was
Thomas Parr, of shropshire 152
take exception 10 this--as to Parr-as
some years ago the Sun, in an inter-
esting editorial, honored me by men
tloning Thomas Cam t20) and Will
liam Edwards G6S), and no one can
successfully dispute their authenticity.
Again, the Deutsche Nolksblatt re-
Gently announced the death of Marie
Polanioff, peasant woman of Tor
novo. at 1SS. And then Betsy Trant-
ham is said to have died in Tennessee
in 1884 at 15i.
MY own belief is that unless regis
tiers or tombstones are tempered with
and the chances are less with the
latter many of these extraordinary
persons lived the ages assigned to
them Cams case stands on parish
register, and in the absence of proof
to the contrary l claim that he is the
modern Methuselah. Edwards age APP
pears on his tomb as does Jenkins
and there may be and doubtless are IN
addition register entries to back them
up.
| should like to know your opinion
and that of your readers as to how
Cams years, based on the Roman cal
endar, really compared with those of
Methuseah of the Bible $3.50, as the
latter's great length of days appears
to be so much in excess of the age of
man declared by God in Genesis Q20),
and later by the Psalmist, 1880.
1t may be interesting to state that
among other American 'ancients," be-
sides Betsy Trantham, Solomon Nabit,
of South Carolina, is said to have died
in 1920 at 143, and Henry Francesca of
Whitehall, n. Y, "oashed in" at ia
Letter to New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24

eacii other. but would flow on, each In
| its own way, doing a great and COM
Elementary work for many millions Of
n1ankind AHsthat would be necessary
| to accomplish this. Riker says, would
| be to construct a jetty extending out
| from the southeast corner of New
foundland. and the greater part of the
work would be performed by the Lab
radof current itself after the process is
artifcialiy started by the deposit of
riprap using the stone which is found
in great abundance nearby. After the
first deposits of rip-rap had been made
the current would fill up the inters-
tees with sand and then a second lay
ser of backbone Of stone could be laid
and thus the work of man and nature
alternately would raise the barrier to
sufficient hight
RilIer proposessa jetty to extend two
hundred miles, but says that the com
pletion of thirty miles would have So
pronounced an effect as to demonstrate
tie value. The total cost of the whole
jetty he estimates as s190000.0 900. 1t
would require about two years to make
the needed surveys and prepare the
plans and about three years more to
construct the entire plant for carrying
out the work. Within three seasons
thereafter enough of the work could
be completed to demonstrate the effic-
iency of the undertaking. Thirty miles
of the jetty, Riker says, could be built
for the interest on the cost of the
Panama canal TO date.
oddly enough, this man who pro-
poses to melt the SHOWS and ice of the
far north owes much to his reputation
to being a pioneer in refrigeration. He
in 1874, built the first refrigerating
warehouse in the world, he says, at 81
Dey street, New York-the beginning
of the cold storage system of today
and in 1874 he sailed on the Celtic with
the first shipment of American meat,
fruit and poultry to Eurore-the be-
ginning of the trans Atlantic business
of today. The same year, he says, he
designed the first practical ice and
cold air machine in this country with
a capacity of twenty tons a day. He
has had much experience in matters
pertaining 10 the ocean. The steam
ships st. Paul and Otranto, when on
the beach, We're placed in his hands for
removal. The subjects of ocean depos-
its and ocean currents have long en-
and built the largest and most power
full pumping dredge ever produced.
with an average delivery of 1900 cubic
yards of solid material an hour.-Indi
apapolis News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
The Thistle Travels Far.

Careful examination has been made
of the heads of Canada thistledowns
in orGer to determine their effective
ness as parachutes carrying the seeds
of the plant to great distances through
the air. The results of this examina
ton are quite remarkable.
Calculation shows that a thistle
down starting from an elevation of 20
feet in still air would require two
thirds OF a minute to reach the ground.
With wind blowing 20 miles an
hour it would be carried on the av-
erage about a fifth of a mile. The to-
tai surface exposed to the air in an
average thistledown is, on account of
the great number of hairlets, a little
more than one- third of square foot.
Another well known and very beau
tiful example of natures parachutes
is furnished by the light silllen threads
with the aid of which the little gossa-
mer spider makes long aerial voyages.
Scientific American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
TOO MUCH ON SHOW.
Action of English Fireman's Wife
Duplicated in This Country.

Before a justice, in q small English
town of the south coast, there appear
ed, not long ago, a wife who accused
her husband of assault and battery.
The man admitted that he had seized
her and thrown her down, perhaps
roughly. yet not without making sure
she would fall upon a soft place. But
he had done so, he declared in defense
of his person and his honor. He was a
fireman, and she had tried to keep him
from going properly appareled and
equipped to fire.
The fire company of his village, he
EXPLAINED, was composed chiefly of
volunteers, whose uniforms We're kept
IN their homes and kept in repair by
their wives. a task that no wife per-
formed moro faithfully, than, his own:
IN fact she was too careful of 1t.
When night alarm was given for a
fire iii the quarter between the. glue
factory and the wharyes, and he jump
ed up to dress, she had positively re-
fused to allow him to put it on, de-
claring that smoke and cinders were
bad enough, but when it came to salt
and glue and fishs- scales as well, it
was beyond all reason; his oldest
trousers and a pea jacket were plenty
gCod enough, lie nad demonstrated
and she had vituperated
But l didn't lay finger on her
your honor not till she 'eaved kittle
at ne ed when l grabbed for me
toots," he protested, land then it
some to me twas no less than a public
July 20 chuck 'er on 'er bed where she
couldn't hinterfere: and what | sees
to be my july. l ups and does. So
chucked err"
Were dueking still the accepted pun
ishment for vixenish wives, she might
have been awarded poetic justice at
the nozzle of a hose. AS it was, the
case ended, amid general laughter, IN
the discharge of the aggrieved hus
band, and a reprimand to the too
careful wife
In ottr own country, and in a COM
mun:ty by no means rustic, little
incident but few days ago proved
that 1t is not only the better halves of
firemen who car. be too ffnicky. Tho
fire Wagon, responding TO still alarm
for chimney fire was met by the son
OF the house, who eagerly Snatched
an extinguisher, while the firemen
we're unreelng the hose. But the
eagle eye of the chief was upon him.
Here. here" he cried. authorita-
lively. Don't meddIe with that ex-
tinguisher, young man. Why, its only
just been polished. youths Compan-
ion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
MADISON.
Good Friday Observed in
Cong'l., Baptist Churches,
Ice Jam in Sandy River Dyna-
miied 10 Prevent Flood.
Local and Personal Jottings Gar.
nered From All Over Town.

Good Friday was generally observed
by the Madison churches. In the aft
Crnoon services We're held at both the
congregational and Free Baptist
churches, and the usual services at st.
Sebastian Catholic church.
Mrs. j. II. Haley and daughter of
Brewer arrived in Madison, Saturday,
and are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Vose at their residence on
Nichols street.
Lawrence j. Briggs returned, Thurs
day, from a trip to Winthrop and
Kent's Hill. He was accompanied by
his sister, Miss Marion Briggs, who
is student at the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary.
Messrs. James Nj. Spence and NJ. NJ.
Spear returned. Saturday forenoon.
where they attended the semiannual
meeting of the Maine state Board Of
Trade as delegates from the MADISON
hoard.
Word was received over the tele-
phone, Saturday morning, that the ite
had broken up in Sandy River in the
vicinity of the municipal electric light
station. A jam was formed just be-
low the station hacking the water up
into the wheel pit SO that it was nee
essary to use dynamite, Saturday aft
ernoOn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
- -
a Fable for Advertisers.

Simeon Ford, the humorist, said in
praise of newspaper advertising at a
banquet in New York:
There is 4 fable that all adVertis-
crs should have by heart. 1t runs like
this:
"As a shopkeeper dozed, his head on
the dusty counter of his shop, the
gray cobwebs across his door were
rent apart and goose entered.
THE shopkeeper rose with glad
smile; he thought he had customer;
but when he saw the goose he NUT
tered an oath.
"sWhat do YOU want here" he said
This is no place for geese
Isn't it. said the goose. 'Quack
ouackr And it regarded the shop
keeper derisively. then went on:
1--we come. my dear sir, because
saw your advertisement on the fence
that incloses our barnyard. | knew
that you must be a goose-or else a
dcnkey-because otherwise YOU would
place Your advertisement in a news
paper where it world be read by hu-
man beings, and not upon an isolated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
ENGLISH AND THEIR READING.
Views of Librarians and Publishers.
influence of Clnematograph.

According to the report Of the pub
lie libraries committee and talks with
the librarians of public libraries, the
English people are becoming more Sc
rious as 4 race, but according to book
sellers are becoming more frivolous.
Here is a contrast which enables the
inquirer to take his choice The Ii
brarian Of the Libraries in a popnious
district says:
y am convinced that people are get
ting more serious. simply because I'M
der stress Of competition they simply
have no time for fiction reading ana
must Gtilizc every possible agency Tor
Improvement in their @age=earning
capacity Ia order TO satisfy the de-
mand o. the public for knowledge in
special branches of science and art 1t
has been found necessary at ali pub
lie libraries To arrange special c.lta-
logues showing all the books available
on those subjects. The present issue
of fiction is about 80 per cent. OF the
whole. Ten years ago, when total IS
sues were smaller by $4,000, fiction
represented Is per cent. The pugIlc
taste, according To the statistics of the
last ten years is gradually changing
from light literature and fiction to
politics and social science, geography.
travel. history and biography. The
public Libraries are no longer places In
which 10 spend spare time. Even the
newspaper reading room is nov usel
for study aud popular culture, which
is a strong indication that the people
are taking more serious view OF
life"
Another Librarian says that mGS.c
has largely taken the place Of tictien.
He says the demand for musical
looks at many of the London libra
res is so great that larger supplies
have had to be provided and special
catalogues prepared.
Publishers who take diametrical-
Is opposite view, say there IS more
fiction reading than ever. One We'll
known publisher says: This is owing
to the fact that the book market has
never been so inundated as now with
sixpenny, and even thrce-penny, nov
els and cheap reprints. There is more
fiction reading now than ten years
ago. because people no longer buy the
more expensive novels Besides, they
have net the time to read 100000
words. and want cheap sort Of
newspaper like book. to read rapidly
and carry in the pocket. These are
books which the libraries do not sup
ply, and h--ein is the reason why tic-
ton reading there shows a decrease.
tine cinematograpli has also inter
fered with the reading of fiction. Ten
years ago there was not Il picture pal
ace in England; now there are a thou
sand, so people, instead of spending
their time reading fiction, go to pic
ture show This craze for cheap
amusemcnts and cheap fiction is
proof that we are not growing more
serious"
A musical authority SAYS that with
the cheap facilities offered of learn
ing music the English are getting
worse than the Germans, and that al
most every other man and woman in
the country is becoming musician.
Fifty years ago, he points out, a piano
was luxury worth almost its weight
IN gold. Now any one can get one for
half Il crown down New York Trib-
me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
HIGH TREASON IN BERLIN.
Birth Rate Declining in the kaiser's
Capital.

The question of population Is being
discussed in Germany almost as keen
Iv rs i'm France. Tor the latest stats
tics from Berlin show that the birth
rate of the capital is steadily falling
Tic number of children born fer every
1000 women Of an age to have children
is now only "a. as compared with 200
forty years ago. and, if il We're not for
immigration. the population of Der
lin would decrease at an alarming rate,
for there are 20 per cent less children
horn there thar is necessary to main
tain the population.
At the same time, it is not desirable
that the country population should be
attracted to Berlin or other large
cities where the number Cf recruits
who are rejected for military service
is very large. The standard Of fitness
in the German Empire as whole is
only 50 per cent, bat in the big cities
it falls to IS or 80 per cent. That is to
say. that less than ore man in three
in Berlin reaches the physical stand
ard considered necessary for service IN
the army. In towns of half a million,
the percentage is A. per cent. and in
towns of 500 400 TO 2o0,o00 the figure is
nearly so per cent. IT. the country dis
tricts it is 60 per cent, and over.
In view of these figures. il can we'll
be understood why German social re-
formers are questioning the value OF
the big tenement dwellings,, and are
turning to the ideal of the garden sub
-Nestminster Gazette.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
Colby College.

The following men have received the
highest marks in the first semester
werk in rhetoric and are entitled to
take part in the annual sophomore
prize declamation Harold 5. Camp
bell, Ashland; Paul F. Christopher
Springfield, Mass; Leonard w Grant,
Hartford. Conn; Leslie f. Mufch'
Hampden Highlands; r. NJ. heldeh'
Westbrook; and Robert II. Wlilaihs,
Houlton There are two prizes otlered'
$40 and So. The Defamation Will take
place some time in May.
All the &C" men of the college met,
Saturday afternoon, and organized the
Colby &C. Club with the following OH
GERS. President, Harold w Nuttlng
IA, Waterville; vice president faui
Fraser H. Dorchester, Mass secre-
tary. Robert Bowen IA NaterVlile.
The purpose of the club is TO en-
courage Young men to come to Colby.
The executive committee: Elmer X.
Bowker '13. Bryants Pond; FRANK L.
Dillingham; II, Atlantic city aoliiaS
j. Crossman 10, Needham, Mass, I,
Charles G.. Reed 10, Masardls' ana
Paul Fraser 10, Dorchester, MASS.
Organization committee: Chairman
William Prendergast Is, Dorchester,
Mass; Lester A. Keys 13, Dryden;
and Melvin p. Roberts 10, Caribou.
Nathan Garrick 10, student IN the
University of Boston Medical school,
left for Boston. Saturday. after visit
ing at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house,
a few days.
Ernest d. Jaclman 10, principal of
the Stonington High school, is visiting
friaa1s n, fha aitV
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
Mrs. Arthur Briard.

Mrs. Arthur Briard died at her home,
Head of the Falls. at y. NJ, sunday,
after an illness of one year. with con-
sumption. Four children survive. Her
husband died some time ago. Mrs. Bri-
ard was 80 years of age. The deceased
was possessed of many kindly Guaii-
ties, and the sympathy of friends and
neighbors is extended to the chiareh
who are thus bereft Of their best
friend The funeral services will be
held. at A. M, Wednesday, at ST.
francis dc Sales church.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-24
Easter Services, on Sunday,
In the Waterville Churches.

Although Easter Sunday was a bit
chilly in Watervillc, il was a fairly
pleasant day for the last half of
March, and many expressed their
pleasure at the excellence of the
weather. on account of the earliness
of the date, not as many Easter bon
nets and raimcnt were to be seen as
on past casters when the day came
III the middle of April, but there were
"A few and they helped brighten up
the appearance of the people met on
the street and in the churches.
In the various churches, Easter pro-
grams, significant of the beauty of the
day in the Christian calendar, were
carried out to perfection. In the
Catholic churches, st. Francis de
Sales, and the Sacred Heart, the
pastors Rev. Narcisse Charland and
Rev. John f. Kealey, gave Easter ser
mons at the high masses, and the joy
Gus Easter liturgy of the church was
carried out to good effect.
At the Unitarian church, the mem
bcrs of st. Omcr Commandery knights
Templar, attended the morning ser
vices in a body. Rev. Sidney $.
Booth. the pastor. preached a sermon
appropriate To the occasion The I'M
mortality of a Great Purpose" Na
One of tire largest congregations III
years was present at the services of
St. Marks Episcopal church, at which
the pastor. Rev. George Bruce Nichol-
son. spoke. Children's Vespers and