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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1915-03-12
NOTICE.

On Tuesday OF each week, beginning
next Tuesday. ] will lie i'm Kimball for
the convenience Of my patients there and
b serve the people Of the vicinity with ~
little expence 10 them ~ possible.
w. l.. JOISON,
Surgeon Dentist
The enterprise., 1915-02-18
4 LETTER OF APPRECIATION.
Leedy, Mont, Feb. 8, 19

Leedy, Mont, Feb. 8, 1915.
Editor Enterprise:
Dear Sir would like to have
space in your paper to express my
hearty thanks to the many voters
who assisted me in my contest for
the office of clerk and recorder, as
in no other way would / be able to
do so, as I know but very few of
them. And wish to say, also, that
! will not be found sulking in my
tent, but will be ready at any and
all times to do my duty in helping
TO build up our new county of Phil
lips, and predict that she will soon
De one of the leading counties in
northeastern Montana. And to the
people OF our new county seat / ex-
tend my congratulations. To their
energy we owe the success of the
organization movement and success
ful completion. The reward is just
sy theirs. In conclusion 1 wish to
congratulate the successful candi-
dates 10 the unsuccessful, here's
hopin'. Yours very truly.
j. o. BARNARD.
The enterprise., 1915-02-18
LETTER FROM REV. KELLY.
Missoula, Mont, Feb. 6, 1916

Missoula, Mont, Feb. 6, 1915.
MY Dear Mr.. Editor:
While the enthusiasm over the
recent county election is still cur
rent, and the people or the little
city of Malta are ever on the alert
to do things that win be a benefit
to themselves and their posterity.
1 wish to write upon a subject
which, too, may lend helpful in
tluence to the community which I
! may rightfully call my little home
town in the west
begin my work with an eager
ness that should fill the mind of
each one of us who knows that he
can be OF ay help to those who are
at out him. Nor do I, in the least
degree, wish any one to think of
this article, which l hope will find
convenient space in the pages of
your paper, as being written with
an air OF pedantry or tending to
protfer advice. On the other hand,
it is offered to you and your read
ers as an impetus and incentive to
continue in all lines that will ulti-
mately bring the city of Malta into
a greater and more powerful light
OF publicity and establish it's posi-
tion once and for all time among
the cities of distinguished leader
ship.
My subject will deal with the new
proposed high school, which
learned that the city hopes to build
soon, the appropriation having al
ready been raised.
The creation of the county makes
many new and unrealiZed benefits.
Among the most prominent is that
part which the public school plays.
With the creation then of the coun-
ty OF Phillips what new functions
will the public schools discharge,
and what material benefits will the
people, as we'll as the children, reap?
l can not think of greater duty
than that which eliminates in the
greatest good that flows from con-
solidated high and rural school
which reaches the greatest number
u people. With this thought in
mind let us proceed with the disser-
tation.
Malta is, by virtue OF it's being
chosen the county seat, the logical
place for consolidated high and
elementary school. With the topo-
graphical features in it's favor, the
progress being made in the interests
OF good roads, and the thickly set
tied rural parts about the city, and
the easy access to the trains make it
in every respect the ideal spot for
such a consolidated school.
-Four elements enter into the mat
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that the roads should be in first
class condition for all who will have
occasion to travel over them.
When once a school route is es-
tabiished the friction of parents,
which in the beginning will be BIT
terly hostile to the movement. will
have subsidized. In all communities
where these routes are now in oper-
alton the parents have expressed
themselves in favor of them. and
would not return to the old system
for anything. A main thorough-
fare may be mapped out, together
with definite stopping places. where
the children may board the wagons,
and thus me idea that the wagon
shall convey the child to it's own
door may be avoided. The driver
OF the wagon has full authority Civ
en- him by the school board to pre-
serve order and decency on the wa
gou. 1t is much better for children.
from the hygenic point of view, to
be conveyed to school in properly
heated and covered wagons than to
be forced 20 walk even a short dis
tance in the cold and storm.
Granting that the plans are under
way, the discussion of the amount
OF land may be taken up. said
that from 25 to 30 acres should be
set aside for the school. The mod
ern school will include in it's cur
riculum the subject of agriculture.
Every rural school should make a
provision for the practical or ap-
piled working of this subject under
a specially qualified instructor. It
Will, therefore, be necessary to set
apart large proportion of the acre
age for the pursuits of agriculture
Then. as we'll as the mental devel-
opment, the physical should be in
cluded, too; and it is most essential
play ground should then be laid
out. 1t might take the form of a
stadium, or a splendidly equippt i
athletic field. This in itself might
include from eight to ten acres.
With a clnder track, football and
baseball section, and reserved
place for the playground apparatus.
What is left would be only enough
to place the school building on and
allow a good-sized lawn for trees
and shrubs and flowers One can
see, then, that 25 acres or more
would not go so very far in carrying
out the proper scheme for the mod
ern consolidated high and elemen-
tary schools. In fact, if these are
not at once inaugurated, provision
should be made for the future.
What type of building shall be
built? In the first place, no one
should be consulted in this matter
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county.

SONnSy'
Why do cities and counties waste
so much money ON these one-horse
affairs when by a combining a great
er work and financial saving can be-
secured? Time and experience have
taught school boards and educators
that the results of the consolidated
school districts are in every sense
OF infinitely more worth than the
many scattered schools. But not
only in that but also that the con.
solldated school must reach larger
number of pupils than the one-roon
teacher schools, simply because
there lis distinctive way provided
by the local board whereby all the
pupils may be reached namely,
through the medium OF the school
routes and conveyances. Above
THESE three reasons stands out that
last one, which is of more conse-
quence to the public at large, and
will be OF more Importance in the
future, than all others, the simple
fact that consolidated school stim.
ulates in the individual child an IN.
satiable desire to go on with his
school work. TO go higher up the
educational ladder, SO that when he
reaches the period in his lite where
he IS alone by himself in the world,
rubbing elbows with all sorts ana
conditions OF men, he will be better
prepared for the knocks and kicks:
he will have been trained to solve
great problems, to think for him.
self, and be better qualified to less
en- the friction of competition which
pervades the varied fields of en-
deavor and enterprise in his own
time. This is not an impossible con.
dltion OF affairs, but a logical rea.
sonable, and possible one Train
the child IN infancy in the best way
you would have him go; SO, too,
! train the infant county on the best
food and doctrines that posterity
| may not look back upon it with
scorn. The time is ripe, then, for
Phillips county to set a prestige that
can never be shaken, and one upoA
| wnlch all old and even unborn
counties will look for an example.
But some wlll say: "Why should
we give up the schools at Saco, Dod-
son, Zortman and Loyejoy?" In
every sense, no, and no emphatical~
ly. Does any one conscientiously
believe that it would De reasonable,
even II it were feasible, to remove
all the children from that school, or
from the other towns, lntO Malta
70 state laconically, the essence ia
this: Il ere is need Of division Of
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except an expert school architect.
lie 1t Is who has made a thorough
study of the school building prob
lem, and he it is who can give the
best advice regarding the material
and class room arrangement. He
1t Is who can De blamed for any de-
1ects; for it is his special business
to see that none shall appear.
lie will no doubt tell you that the
school should be provided with a
large and spacious room for manual
training, one conveniently arranged
TOR domestic science, with a small
and well equipped dining room
where the students may further car
ry into practice their knowledge of
the science; sufficient rooms for re-
citations and study; a gymnasium;
teachers rest room; principals Of
flee; laboratories for chemistry, ply
sizes and botany; large assembly
hall, with we'll equipped stage for
school talent and plays, and provi-
sion for stereopticon lectures, etc.
With such a building curriculum
can be offered that will, in a short
time, allow the school to be placed
upon the list of accredited high
schools OF the state. Such a build
ing may be built for $4,000 or
$780, 900.
The elimination of the one-room.
| one-teacher school may meet with
the bitterest opposition at first, but
when once the consolidated school
is discharging its functions under
efficient management there will be
little need for complaint. The ex-
pense OF maintaining the individual
school is great. All know and will
| confess that one teacher with a class
OF from thirty to forty pupils, and
| with full eight grades cannot give
| the individual instruction is infinit-
iy small or nothing at all. No one
pupil can demand more than a min
ute or two OF the teachers time, 50
the pupil is left to shift for himself
Inc average scholarship of the
school is thus brought to it's lowest
mark because of the lack of time
spent on the several scholars and
Individual pupils as a whole. But
on the other hand, the keeping Of
the property and buildings in re-
pair is an important factor. All
the money that is spent on the one
room school houses, and the separ-
ate teachers who care for these
schools, can be conveniently put
into one good commodious building
an. some OF the teachers eliminat-
ed; hence, the saving of a large
sum OF money for the town, city or
The enterprise., 1915-02-18

tf32
FOR SALE CHEAP: One span Of
mares, one span of geidings, 4-years
old, 3-year-old gelding, three 2
year olds. For a bargain see r. W..
Fowler.
A'oR SALE:-A good grade Durham
Dull three years old. lie is III ex-
eeptionally good animal and will be
sold right. j. II. Atwood.
One span of mares for sale, a number
Of young poland china brood sows.
also a young short horn bull. ln-
auire of MI Huston. tf3b
For long or short time farm loan
see Lyman Barnes 52tf
We have for sale cheap one organ
and one sewing machine. Both as
good as new. Call at our warehouse
and see them. Malta Mercantile Co.
The enterprise., 1915-02-18

The discovery of gold on an IL
ilnois farm failed to create even
"a ripple. The public eye is firmly
u.ued to wheat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-23

Fruits-Native apples. 75@$1.
Bananas, 4kc lib. Jap orang es,
box, Use. Oranges, $1.7502.25
per box. Lemons, $3@3.5O.
Grape fruit, $3.50 box. Cali grape
fruit, $3.50 box. Persimmons
10c lib. Pomegranates, 81 box.
Spanish Malaga grapes, $3.50 key.
Pineapples, $3.50 doz.
Vegetables-Green onions, zoe
doz.: Oregon yellow, cwt., S1.75
az. Head lettuce. Cali, 1925 DR..
crate; leaf lettuce. 75c. Yaki-
man turni2s, $1.25: rutabagas.
Slips sack; carrots, $1.25. Pota-
toes, Melted Gem, $20@21 ton.
White River. $1,000 I on Cab
bage, h., &c. Oregon cauliflow-
err, $2.25 crate. Spinach, pound.
sc. Chill peppers, s1.35 box. WaI
bcaD5. Sc. Pumpkins, 1kc. Ore.
gon cider 25 30c. Celery, $14 or.
Sprouts, SC Id. Florida tomatoes.
IS crate. Rhubarb, 10c lib. Sweet
Potatoes, 2Ac Id. Parsley, soc
doz. bu.
Brussels sprouts. Sc lib; egg
plant, 10 lib. Cal. Hubbard
squash, 21zc lb.
Hops, 1914 crop, @12hc;
1913 crop. nominai.
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ak as long as he can find

talk as long as he can find a
listener. In the afternoon, while
the cook was below asleep and !
was peeling the everlasting pota-
toes, Louis dropped into the galley
for q yarn" His excuse for be-
ing aboard was that he was drunk
when he signed. He assured me
again and again that 1t was the
last thing in the world he would
dream OF doing in sober mo-
ment. 1t seems that he has been
seal-hunting regularly each sea
son for a dozen years, and is ac-
counted one of the two or three
very best boat-steerers in both
fleets.
"Ah, my boy" he shook his
head ominously at me, tbs the
worst schooner We could Nv select
ed, nor were We drunk at the time
as was j. 'Tis sealin' is the sail
or's paradise-on other ships than
this. The mate was the first, but
mark me words, there'll be more
dead men before the trip is done
with. Hist now, between you an
meself and the stanchion there,
this Wolf Larsen is regular
devil, an the Ghost'll be a hell
ship like she's always ben since
he had hold Nv her. Don't ]
know? Don't l know? Don't l
remember him in Hakodate two
years gone, when he had a row an
shot four iv his men? Wasn't /
a-layin' on the Emma L., not
three hundred yards away? An
there was a man the same year he
killed with blow Nv his fist. Yes,
sir, killed i'm dead-oh. His head
must iv smashed like an eggshell.
An wasn't there the Governor of
Kura Island, an the Chief Nv Po-
lice, Japanese gentlemen, sir, an
didn't they come aboard the Ghost
as his guests, abringin' their
wives along-wee an pretty little
bits of things like you see 'em
painted on fans. An as he was
a-gettin under way, didn't the
fond husbands get left astern-like
in their sampan, as il might be by
accident? An wasn't 1t a week
later that the poor little ladies
was put ashore on the other side
of the island. with nothin' before
'em but to walk home acrost the
mountains on their weeny-teeny
little straw sandals which
wouldn't hang together a mile?
Don't l know? IT'S the beast he
is, this Wolf Larsen-the great
big beast mentioned Nv in Revela-
ton; an no good end will he ever
come to. But I've said nothin' to
We, mind we. I've whispered never
a word; for old fat Louis'll live
the voyage out II the last mothers
son of yez go to the fishes"
wolf Larsen!" he snorted a
moment later. Listen to the
word, will We! Wolf--'tis what
he is. He's not black-hearted
like some men. IT'S no heart he
has at all. Wolf, just wolf, It's
what he is. Dye wonder he's
we'll named?"
but IL he is so we'll known for
what he is,v queried, how is 1t
that he can get men to ship with
him ~
'sAn' how Is 1t ye can get men
to do anything on Gods earth an
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CHICAGO, Feb. when
gigantis traction corporations, Sc
cure In the possession OF cast iron
franchises, abuse their privileges
by furnishing inadequate service,
then 1t is time for the municipal
ity to step in and compete with
them. And 1t can compete with
them-and make money"
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sea?" Louis demanded with Celtic
fire. How dye find me aboard
IL 'twasn't that was drunk as
pig when l put me name down?
There's them that can't sail with
better men. like the hunters, and
them that don't know, like the
poor devils Of wind-iammers for
ard there. But they'll come to 1t,
they'll come to IL, an be sorry the
day they was born. ! could weep
for the poor creatures, did | but
forget poor old fat Louis and the
troubles before him. But tits not
whisper I've dropped. mind We,
not whisper"
CONTINUED Tomorrow
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on calm sea without a breath of
wind. Occasional light airs were
felt, however, and Wolf Larsen
patrolled the poop constantly, his
eyes ever searching the sea to the
north-eastward, from which direc-
ton the great trade-wind must
blow.
The men were all on deck and
busy preparing their various boats
for the seasons hunting. There
are seven boats aboard, the cap
tain's dingey, and the six which
| the hunters will use. Three, a
hunter, boat-puller, and boat
steerer, compose a boats crew.
On board the schooner the boat
pullers and steerers are the crew.
The hunters, too, are supposed to
be in command of the watches,
subject, always, to the orders of
Wolf Larsen.
All this, and more, I have
learned. The Ghost is considered
the fastest schooner in both the
San Francisco and Victoria fleets.
In fact, she was once private
yacht, and was built for speed.
Her lines and fittings-though
know nothing about such things
speak for themselves. Johnson
was telling me about her in a
short chat | had with him during
yesterdays second dog-watch. He
spoke enthusiastically, with the
love for fine craft such as some
men feel for horses. He is greatly
Disguised with the outlook, and |
am given to understand that Wolf
Larsen hears a very unsavory
reputation among the sealing cap
tains. II was the Ghost herself
that lured Johnson into signing
for the voyage, but he is already
beginning to repent.
AS he told me, the Ghost Is an
eighty-tOn schooner of a remark
ably fine model. Her beam, or
width, is twenty-three feet, and
her length little over ninety
feet. A lead keel of fabulous but
unknown weight makes her very
stable, while she carries an i'm
mense spread of canvas. From
the deck to the truck of the main
topmast is something over a hun
dred feet, while the foremost with
its topmast is eight or ten feet
shorter. l am giving these de-
tails so that the size of this little
floating world which holds TWEEN
ty-two men may be appreciated.
1t is a very little world, a mote, a
speck, and marvel that men
should dare to venture the sea on
a continuance SO small and fragile.
Wolf Larsen has, also, a reputa-
ton for reckless carrying on of
sail. l overheard Henderson and
another of the hunters. Standish,
a Californian, talking about 1t.
Two years ago he dismasted the
Ghost in gale on Boring Sea,
whereupon the present masts were
put in, which are stronger and
heavier In every way. He is said
to have remarked, when he put
them in, that he preferred turn
ing her over to losing the sticks.
Every man aboard. with the
exception of Johansen, who is
rather overcome by his promo
tion seems to have an excuse for
having sailed on the Ghost. Half
the men forward are deep water
sailors, and their excuse is that
they did not know anything about
her or her captain. And those
who do know, whisper that the
hunters, while excellent shots,
we're so notorious for their quar-
relsome and rascally proclivities
that they could not sign on any
decent schooner.
l have made the acquaintance
of another one of the crew---Louis
he Is called, rotund and joyial-
faced Nova Scotia Irishman, and
"a vary sociable fellow, prone TO-
II
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and solve the traction problem
that subway-less Chicago is con-
tinually compelled to bear.
He Is very much a jitney bus
fan where municipal ownership
of the vehicles is concerned; and
just as pronounced In his opposi-
ton to the privately owner cars.
He's ont to create better public
service conditions and will accept
no half measures.
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MONEY FoR ROADS

OLYMPIA. Feb. 23.---The Joint
house and senate roads commit
tee has voted $4,000 to be
spent on roads tributary to Taco
ma. All this money will be
spent on farm roads, not hard
surfaced.
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BY JACK LONDON.
CONTINUED From Yesterday


II read Immortality in youi
eyes," l answered, dropping thu
sir, an experiment.. for
thought the intimacy of the con
versation warranted 1t.
He took no notice. BY that
| take it, you see something thai
Is alive, but that necessarily doe.
not have to live forever"
II read more than that" l con
tinued boldly.
Then you read consciousness
You read the consciousness oil
life that 1t is alive; but still nc
further away, no endlessness oil
life."
How clearly he thought, and
how well he expressed what he
thought! From regarding me
curiosity, he turned his head
and glanced out over the leaden
sea to windward. A bleakness
came into his eyes, and the lines
of his mouth grew severe and
harsh. He was evidently In a
pessimistic mood.
Then to what end?" he de-
manded abruptly, turning back to
me. "If / am immortal-why?"
halted. How could / ex-
plain my idealism to this man ?
How could ! put into speech a
something felt, something like
the strains of music heard in
sleep, something that con-
vinced yet transcribed utterance?
What do you believe, them"
l countered.
II believe that life is a mess, -
he answered promptly. 1T is
like yeast, a ferment, thing
that moves and may move for a
minute, and hour, a year, or a
hundred years, but that in the
end will cease to move. The big
eat the little that they may con-
tinue to move. the strong eat the
weak that they may retain their
strength. The lucky eat the most
and move the longest, that is all.
What do you make of those
things?"
He swept his arm in an impa-
tient gesture toward a number
of the sailors who were working
on some kind of rope stuff amid
ships.
They move; so does the jelly
fish move. They move in order
to eat in order that they may
keep moving. There you have it.
They live for their belly's sake,
and the belly is for their sake.
It's circle; you get nowhere.
Neither do they. In the end they
come to a standstill. They move
no more. They are dead"
They have Dreams" I inter-
rupted, radiant, flashing
dreams"
"of grub" he concluded SEN
tentiously.
"Grub. OF larger appetite
and more luck in satisfying it."
His voice sounded harsh. There
was no levity in it. For look
you, they dream of making lucky
voyages which will bring them
more money, of becoming the
mates of ships, of finding for
tunes--in short, of being in a
better position for preying on
their fellows, of having all night
In. good grub, and somebody else
to do the dirty work. You and
are Just like them. There is no
difference, except that we have
eaten more and better. l am eat
ing them now, and you, too. But
in the past you have eaten more
than l have. You have slept In
soft beds, and worn fine clothes,
and eaten good meals. Who made
those beds? and those clothes /?
and those meals? Not you. You
never made anything in your own
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+ That is the conviction OF Alder
man Eugene Block, chairman of
the committee on local transpor-
tation of the Chicago city coun-
Acil. father Of the movement to es-
tablish a system of city-owned
"jitney busses."
Block has just proposed that
the city set aside 100000 to es-
tablish the NUCLEUS of a city-wide
series of five-cent auto buses