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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
The Man on the Roof.

There were two heroes on the Day.
ton floods. Their names are M. B.
Stohl and G. d. Williamson, and they
are employees of the American Tele-
graph and Telephone company.
Stohl is a wire chief at Dayton. He
reached the Dayton Office of his COM
pany late the night before the floods
came. The rush Of the waters put all
the telephone batteries and power out
of commission. Forgetting thoughts
of escape, Stohl rummaged around
until he found a lineman's test set.
With this he rugged up a sending and
receiving apparatus, and cut in upon
the wire on the roof of the four-story
building. This wire connected him
with Phoneton. a testing station eight
miles away Thus he established com.
m~unication with Williamson, whose
batteries were still working.
Then Stohl sent messages from the
nooded city, otherwise cut off from
communication with the outside world
All night he stuck TO his post. All mex
day he remained. The following nool
found him still IN the roof of a build
ing whose foundations were beinI
sapped by the waters.
There he stayed in the rain and colo
with the prospect Of death staring hir
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
No Little Girl for Him.

The ~six-year-old son Of a well-known
Indianapolis family attends a dancing
school. He is a chubby little fellow
who has not begun to stretch out yet,
and he keenly feels his shortage"
He demands that he be recognized as
q little "grownup." Several days ago
the teacher planned to instruct her
pupils in dancing 1.-The Butterfly" A
f~ive-year-old girl who is small for her
age, and just a trifie stouter than our
hero, but an adept at dancing, was
assigned as his partner. He gazed at
her in silence. Then he took hold
of her hand and, with his mouth set
firmly, walked straight over to the
teacher.
Don't you think you'd better give
me a bigger girl?" he asked.-Indian
apolis News.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

places Of safety, and on the roofs
Of buildings, only to die from xpos
IRE.
The suffering Of the survivors hud-
died together in the marooned build.
ings was awful. Food and water
could not be taken to them.
Foreigners killed their country
men and even members of their fam
lilies in their desperate efforts to OBJ
tain food, according to John Volbrecht
Of Yukawa street, in North Dayton,
who was taken from the one remain
ing abutments Of the Herman street
bridge. Volbrecht said he was at his
home with his family when the food
struck North Dayton. The house was
picked up by the current and car
ried against the Herman street bridge.
Volbrecht said he chung to the bridge
and didn't know what became Of his
family.
One woman with a ten-day. old baby
climbed over the roofs of three houses
to reach the rescuers
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Robber Prices Of Roatmen.

Boatmen in Peru. Ind. recped for
tunes by carrying flood sufferers
from the danger zone at ~exorbitant
prices, according to M. S. Scott, a
travelling salesman of New York, who
arrived from Peru with two other
travelling men.
THE condition at Peru" said Mr..
Scott, cannot be told. I was al a
hotel across the street from the court
house and last night six babies were
born to women who lay on the bare
floor of the building. When we learned
of this we had them rowed across the
street and gave them u rooms. The
boatmen charged SIS each to row three
women across the street. We paid
SIS to be hauled three miles, and
were lucky to get off that cheaply."
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Explaining the Needle.

A typesetter in a printing house be
came very adroit in explaining the
large number of misprints for which
he was responsible. Even when he
changed his work and became a wait,
err in a restaurant. says Das Echo, his
skill did not forsake him.
One day he had served a guest with
a plate of soup, and was turning
away, when he was called bach
sharply.
This is an outraged" cried the in
dignant diner. Il find a needle in my
soup! What does this mean?'
Just a misprint, sir" explained the
former typesetter. at should have
been a noodle. YOUTHS Companion
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
PASSENGERS Give Refund Money.

The flood relief fund collected in
Chicago was increased $152 by the
two hours delay of the Twentieth
Century Limited from New York. For
every hour the train is late the pas
sengers are given 81 by the company.
1t arrived in Chicago two hours be-
hind time.
j. L. Daube of Philadelphia o
ceived the idea of giving the 81 which
would be refunded by the railroad
| company to the fund. He made known
his intentions to Joseph Horowitz of
New York and Fred K. Townsend Of
Rochester, who also were passengers.
They became enthusiastic and formed
a committee t O collect the refund
slips of all the passengers on the train.
Out of eighty passengers seventy
six readily gave up their slips. Among
the foul was an Englishman just ar
rived. The flood situation was ex-
planned to him and Daube pictured the
sufferings of the victims.
Il don't believe it." declared the
Englishman. 1T is some bally Ameri
can scheme to defraud strangers
Show me your credentials. | never
heard of any food. l know all about
your schemes in this country to de
fraud travellers"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Only One of Many.

What is your name?" asked the
registerer who received refugees at
Dayton, O., of a slender person in
mems clothing.
Norma Thurma," was the reply.
Norma came in with Ralph Myers,
his wife and little baby. Myers had
climbed a telegraph pole first. He let
down a rope to his wife, who tied it to
a meal sack which contained their
baby, three months old. Myers pulled
the rope with its precious burden up
and then let it down to aid his wife.
Holding on to two thin wires, he trav-
eled across the cable a full block to
safety.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Heroic Rescues Common.

From all parts of Dayton come sto-
ries of heroic rescues. The stolid
volunteers pay no attention to them.
All of them for three days have con
stantly offered their lives to save
others. Several of these men have
given their lives on rescue work.
Their anne are unknown. Watchers
on the banks saw them trying to
reach persons in floating houses, saw
their boats upset and the men go
down.
Late in the day a large frame house
foated down the river. Four women
were in the windows. AS they neared
the Main street bridge they waved at
the crowd on the banks and the build
ing struck the pieces. There was a
swirl in the murky waters and a lit
tie farther down stream the debris
appeared, but none Of the m
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
ALL TELL STORIES
OF HEROIC DEEDS
Survivors of the Flood Disaster
Proud of Record Made by
Brothers
NEEDS OF OTHERS PUT FIRST
No One Has Cause to Be Ashamed of
Spirit Displayed in Asonizlna
Time-Some Fearful Expert
ences Brought to Light.

Chicago.-'Women and children
first
This world,old cry, made more men,
orable when the Titanic disaster
thrilled the world. echoed over the
1ood-stricken districts Of Ohio and In
diana. Refugees who reached Chicago
told innumerabie stories of men risk
ing their lives to save the women and
children.
The unwritten law OF the sea was
observed or the inland rivers. The
entire tenor of stories told by refugees
was n of bravery, self-sacrihce and
devotion to the weak and unprotected.
Women and children first"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Good for Small Towns.

A few big shoe manufacturers are
fighting US because we have always re-
fused to give them better terms than
I'VE give to the small manufacturer.
The little fellows stand with US be-
u we treat all manufacturers
alike, no matter how many machines
they use. Hence, competition in the
shoe business and prosperous factor
4es in small towns!
Write us and we will tell you all
about it.
The United Shoe Machinery Co., Bos.
ton, Mass.-Adv.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Victims Are Cheerful.

One of the remarkable features was
the cheerful spirit with which flood
victims viewed their plight. This was
Dayton's first great flood in many
years. Much of the submerged area
had been considered safe from high
water, but as the majority of resi-
dents of these sections looked out on
all sides upon a great sweep Of muddy,
swiftly moving water, they seemed un-
disturbed.
In some of the poorer sections the
attitude of the marooned was not so
cheerful. AS a motor boat passed be-
fore the second floor of one partly
submerged house a man leaned out
and threatened to shoot unless they
took off his wife and a baby that had
just been born. The woman, almost
dying, was let down from the window
by a rope and taken to a place of
refuge.
Further on, members of a motor
boat party were startled by shots In
the second floor of a house about
which five feet of water swirled. The
boat was stopped and a man peered
from the window of the house.
why r you ~shooting?" he was
asked.
"Oh, just amusing myself shooting
at rats that come upstairs. When are
you going to take me out of here?'
he replied.
The bodies of a woman and a baby
were seen floating down Jefferson
street, one of Dayton's main thorough
fares. 1t was thought they came from
the district north of the river.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Only Doctor a DRUG Elend.

Terrible scenes were reported from
West Indianapolis. Conditions in the
flooded district were made worse by
the fact that the only physician who
was there to attend sufferers was a
victim of the morphine habit. In the
Methodist church a woman rescued
from the bottoms gave premature
birth to twins. The physician, what
with the horror of his duty and his in.
ability to obtain more Of the drug,
went insane, and after making three
unsuccessful attempts to jump from
a window, vas placed in a straight
jacket.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Bright Brass.

A great time and labor saver, in
keeping brass, copper and other met.
ais bright and shining, either indoors
Or outdoors. in any kind Of weather,
Is to clean and in the usual way,
and give them a coat of negative var.
nish, to be obtained at a store. Many
ornaments which lack luster are also
improved by one application.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Profound Criticism,

Kin Hubbard, the Indiana humorist
one of them, that is to say-once
was assigned to cover a performance
of Uncle Toms Cabin" Hubbard
had his brain-child, ABE Martin"
report the play. This was the critique:
"'Uncle Toms Goblin played down t
Melodeon hall las night. TIL dogs
was good, but they had poor support
-Everybody's Magazine.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Annreciation Comma.

You'll never realize your husbands
true value until he has gone" coun-
seled Mrs. Goodman. Il know it," re-
piled Mrs. Nagg. His life is in
sured."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

in the face every moment. He sobbed
a strong mans sob as he told his tale
of death and desolation; of floating
wreckage bearing men, women and
children doomed to death; Of dead
bodies borne upon the crest Of the wa
ters; of piteous sights, in themselves
enough to unnerve the bravest of men
But he stuck to his post.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Cause of Pink Eve.

Albinos have pink eyes because in
their case the cornea is absolutely
free of all pigment as we'll as the iris,
and as all is absolutely transparent
the blood vessels make their color
shine through.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
The DEAREST
BABY
Mrs. Wilkes Fondest Hopes
Realized-Health, Hap
piness and Baby.

Plattsburg, Miss Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has proved
very beneficial to me, for now l am well
and have a sweet, healthy baby, and
our home is happy.
al was an invalid from nervous pros
tration, indigestion and female troubles.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Go Insane slax Families

There were stories of insanity caus-
ed by the flood at Dayton. A father
had killed his four children and
his wife and then leaped into the
food.
Children had been born in boats
that were carrying their mothers to
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

When you analyze the ideal husband
you will find that he hasn't the nerve
to be anything else.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
louical Sequence.

"A sneak thief stole my parlor car
pet"
What did you do"
81 called a policeman and he beat
it."
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

A boy isn't necessarily good for
nothing because his parents refuse
to pay him for being good.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and
lnvigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar.
coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not
grippe. Adv.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces ipfamma
tion. allays pain,curas wind collie .25c a bottle. Adv
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

But it isn't every high flyer who
reaches the top.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

corrects constipation. Munyon's paw-Paw
Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerve3. They invigorate instead of weaken;
they enrich the blood instead of impover-
ishing it. they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
it Price IS cents All Druggists
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

DR.. J. II. RINDLAU5 (speclalIst),
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Fargo, NJ. D.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

Many a young man would get a
hard bump if thrown on his own re-
sources.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
The Result.

English Friend-That gown o
have on is ripping!
American Duchess-Then | am I'M
done!
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04
Constipation

Munyon's W Paw
Pills are unlike all 9TH
err laxatives or cathar-
tics. They coax the
liver into activity by
gentle methods, they
do not scour; they do
not grippe; they do not
weaken: but they do
start all the secretions
of the liver and stom-
ach in a way that soon
puts these organs in a
healthy condition and
Arizona republican., 1913-08-08
THE GLACIERS OF ALASKA

Alaska's glaciers were probab bly, first known as the result of Captain Cooks and Admiral VanCouVer's cX
 plorations in TITS and 1794, some of the maps of the early voyageTs show ing that certain of the bays or fiords were ended by vertical walls of ice, from which blocks fell into the sea. In more recent years dis
 cussions of these huge glaciers have been given in the reports of Dall, Gil- bert, Tarr. Brooks, Grant, Menden- hall, Martin and others. of the United States Geological Survey. and in the publications of such organizations as the National Geographic Society and the Hartman Alaska expedition.
 Many valuable data and important measurements of glaciers in the United States, Alaska and elsewhere have been brought together from time to time and it is probably the gen. eral impression that since the vast ice sheet which covered the northern part of North America began it's retreat the glaciers of the continent have been continually shrinking. It IS therefore interesting to note from the illustrations and descriptions in Bulletin 526 that some of these Alas kan glaciers are progressing and growing larger rather than retro
Arizona republican., 1913-08-08
BRUTALITY TO ANIMALS.
Cruelties Of Trapping, and Who Is
 Responsible fer Them.

Any way. you look it it. trapping animals as universally practised with the steel jump-trap is brutal and brutalizing business. Every hu mane person and animal lover ought to work for the aboishng by law of this instrument of torture, the most cruel ever invented by man in causing suffering among wild animals.
 The vast majority of all animals trapped for their fur are caught by the leg. These suffer until they die from pain and exhaustion, or are shot or clubbed to deatl. by the trapper Must not the fur trade and those who wear ornamental furs ask themselves if this is playing the game of life fair?
 Between the trapper with his tor turing trap and the wearer of furs where is the line of responsibility to be drawn? The bulk of furs caught goes to Vanity Fair" and it's use is not an absolute necessity. Much of it is worn for personal adOrnment and, whether seen or not, the blood stain of these wretched victims of the trap is on the hands of all who traffic in their skins or wear them.
 Fifteen per cent of trapped animals chew or twist off their legs and get away. I have photographed the bit ten-Off feet of wild animals in traps. gripped as in a wise, the frozen tendons sticking out, showing how they gnaWed themselves free. Then think of what it must mean of sub sequent pain to hobble off into the woods on three legs, perhaps through two three feet of snow, or even a thin crust that breaks at every step. the thermometer 20 degrees below zero. Many a mother animal while her wounded leg is healing has to get a living for herself and young. Often it is weeks, perhaps. two or three. before traps are visited and the animals released. The 24-hour law. wherever it exists, is farce It is a physical impossioility for any one to visit a line of fifty to one hundred traps in the stipulated time,
Arizona republican., 1913-08-08

and it is for no trapDer's interest to have human scent around with too great frequency.
 In my opinion the things that will lessen the sufferings of these Crea lures are, enforcement by law of the use of humane traps; restriction to methods that catch animals alive, q closer season for trapping; protec- tion of females; elimination of boy trappers who mostly catch worthless belts, out Of season; a radical ad vance in the cost of trapping l censes; the number of traps to be so limited by law to each individual trapper that he may be able and required to visit each once during the hours of daylight; rigorous SUI pervision of traps and trapping by game wardens. inspectors and agents of humane societies; and the en- couragement of substitutes for furs.
 Probably no agency is more com petent to bring about these reforms than the American Humane Educa- tion Society of Boston. Mass. whose constituency is everywhere and whose propaganda is carried far and wide. Gifts of money are need cd to enable the society to prosecute a thoroughgoing, pictorial publicity campaign to mould public opinion and so to secure the desired laws.
 Nothing can be so important in ending the cruelties of trapping and other bitter wrongs inflicted upon animals as humane education. Give money enough to push this work of humane education out into every state, town, hamlet of the land and more than by any other means will that time ne hastened.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-08

According to one of the editors of the Standard dicuonary-a new cdi- ton of which will appear in the fall there are now about 450.oo0 words that can be recognized as English, hch is quite an advance over those known to Dr. Johnson. We now know that pr. Johnson for all his erudition, overlooked good many words that might have been included in the monument of his labors, so that it is misleading to assume that the English tongue has added some thing like 900 words since his Ceath. So wonderful and impressive a thing is scholarship that the men who are now working on the great Oxford dictionary will be able to give us, when they complete their labors much more accurate notion as to how many English words there were when Johnson wrote.
 But looking at these great modern dictionaries conveys sharp reproof
Arizona republican., 1913-08-08
GROWTH OF ENGLISH SPEECH

The poverty and incxpressivcness of our ordinary speech strikes us anew whenever a revised dictionary with it's added verbal wealth makes it's appearance Notwithstanding the amazing growth of the English tongue
 scholars say there are added to it something like 5000 words a year there is no apparent gain in the richness and force of our daily talk. so that it is hard to see wherein we are better off than our ancestors. Few of us. for example, express ourselves with more skill than Shakespeare or even than Milton in spite of our in comparable advantages. The truth Is We forget about as many words as we learn and language doesn't grow like a snowfall. We can't even be cer- tain that only the best words will stick most successfully to the gen eral tongue
Arizona republican., 1913-08-08

grcsing. many huge forests being up- turned and dcvasted by the irrcsist- able advance of the ice. Tn other glaciers the retreat within period of ten years has been more than q mile The great magnitude of some Of these glaciers is seen in the des- scriptions which indicate the height of the tidal ice cliffs that form the termini of the glaciers as being from 300 to foo feet, Slowly moving down the mountain valleys. some of them steeply pitched and others respective ly flat. these stupendous ice fields in clude billions of tons of ice. Many young Americans find here mem orials of their alma mater, for along the Colleg" F'iord are Yale Glacier. Harvard Glacier. Smith Glacier. Rryn Mawr Glacier and Nassar and We'll CSley.