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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-11
Secretary Of Western Mon
tana Fair Delighted by
Trip in Country.
RAILROAD WlLL HELP
Blackfoot Extension of Mil
waukee Will Mean Much
,.4 to Ranchers,

Western Montana ranchers are going
to have good crops and prosperity
In 1917 unless conditions greatly
change. according to +. M. Lawrence,
secretary Of the Western Montana
fair, who has just returned from lee
turing tour Of the Flint creek and
Blaekfoot valleys. Mr.. Lawrence found
farmers everywhere planning to cul
tivate larger acreages. He. says the
Milwaukee's Blackfoot extension is 60
ing to mean much. for farmers in the
district served by it.
From Indications In the Blackfoot,
Flint Creek, Flathead and Bitter Root
valleys may say without reservation
that the coming season promises to be
the most active In an agricultural way
that these districts have ever known"
says NEsIeskreHssse q -.rhe effect of tho
high pfiEeA.aef alltafin. products. the
constbddetlhn ofsth Branch railroad
and the iatroduopan sef the beet sugar
industry ran be seen everywhere.
S,owstorm UnWelcome.,
'TkE.1aAt snow storm was indeed
very unWefcome. From Is to Is inches
of snow. fell at Hall and 1 was told
that playground was frozen to an un-
usual sdsHth. All hopes for an early
spring. Ore lost.
IN lsl8sthe wheat crop in the Black
foot vas lnot particularly large, al
though the acreage planted was larger
than Usual. Fall wheat was badly
winter killed and the spring crop was
damaged somewhat by the early frost.
Howeyef. On every side preparations
are beinH made to get in large acre
age ttisayearsas one season with an
other the yield and quality is very
good in@this district.
Grain Cuts Out Stock
Around Ovando several transfers Of
farms' have been made this winter.
Old timers are going away and new
owners are now arriving daily with
machinery and outfits that Indicate
stock raising will give way to grain
and dairy farming: another instance
the coming of the railroad. The rail-
road will be completed as far as Cot
tonWtod this season and there Is every
assurance that it will be extended on
past Ovando before another year comes
round. The immeasurable good that
this will be to this. great valley can be
readily seen from incidents noticed on
my trip. While conversing with a man
at Ovando, who had 500 sacks of po-
tatoes stored In his cellar, advised
him TO sell at the present price. He
smilinaiy replied that he gladly would
If he could, but, it was impossible to
haul them 40 miles to d railroad in this
weather and keep them from getting
frozen. s1
What Railroad Means.
passed an eight-horse team hauling "A
load of wheat to the railroad 1t was
with great difficulty that we passed by,
our horses laundering in three feet of
snow in getting off and on the trail.
That evening | was Informed that,
shortly after we had passed this team
the sled slipped off the narrow snow
trail and the iohd overturned. What a
blessing the railroad willsbe to these
people. The coming of the railroad
, was all that the great Blackfoot val
ley needed and another vast area will
be added to the fertile fields surround
ing Missoula."
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-11
BRITISH CAPTURING
MORE 81 AN EVER
Poorer Construction and Tn
trained Crews Reason.

London. Feb. fS.--tBy mail.)-Eue-
land has sunk and captured a vastly
greater number Of German submarines
since the German Submarine war went
into effect February l than at any
time preceding that decree :
1t Is known char more than one eut,~
marine supply station has been dis-p
covered and put out of business by
British naval vessels, 4,aa ssps
Evidence ID plentiful that the Brit
ish navy. engaged In the most colossal.
shark hunt ever known to the high
seas. IL making successful hunt Of It.
In other words. England Is getting
the German submarines She is get
ting them-and she is getting them;
that Is to say. she is capturing them
and she Is sinking Them.
British "Lsave Il to Jsllicos.~
How she is doing It. where and how
n,any she has got thus far. the censor
does not permit one to tell--but Eng
land knows n. and 1t is safe to be-
.lieve that Germany is beginning to
know 1t. II In no other way, Ger
many is learning It through the great
number Of the undersea crews that
fail to return.
Leave 1t to Jellicoe." said the Brit
tsh the day OF Qermany's announce
ment OF unrestricted submarine war;
fare. The, confidence in the gray and
grizzled seaman through whom Bri.
tannia is ruling the waves at this
particular period appears to have been
justified.
What proportion of the number of
German submarines mastered by the
navy may be catalogued as captures
and what proportions as sinlsings can
not be given. The personal dispo-
sition OF naval officers Just now is to
sink rather than to capture. but the
size Of the captive hauls slowed away
IN one or two British harbors makes
II difficult to believe that more than
their number has actually been sent
to the bottom.
Crows Are Less Efficient.
More than one reason Is given for
the unquestioned success of the war of
determination against the submarines.
One Is that the new "unterseebotes"
are less efficient of themselves, by
reason Of heavy construction to meet
the new program and that their crews
are less efficient because of hasty
training for the purpose.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-11
Has a Magnificent Record Of More
Than Fifty Years Of Satisfactory
Use.

Because OF its uniform success in
the treatment Of all manner Of blood
disorders. extending over a period Of
more than half a century. s. s. S. is
deservedly called the King of Blood
Remedies
s. s. =. Is not a cure all. and it's use
has never been advised for every i'll
that flesh is, heir to. It is strictly a
blood remedy and tonic. and 1t is abs
solutely unrivalled for the wide. range
of disoAAes that c6nsN &ndea> hui head
Of disorders OF the blood.
{ Among these disease are Rheuma.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-11
BEHIND WILSON.

Milwaukee, March 10.--Resolutions
endorsing the stand of President Will
son in unfolding American rights and
assuring him of their loyalty were
adopted at n mass meeting of 1000
Serbians, Bohemians and Slavonians
tonight.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-11

Supersedng the sports hats in the eyes of fashionable
women appears the smarty tailored hat There is re-
fined air about tailored hat that the we'll dressed woman
is quick to appreciate. Hence the quick entrance in
fashionable favor and Donohues has anticipated the de-
mands OF fashion by presenting and exclusive models
in semitalored effects many from such we-known
eastern miners as James G. Johnson, Gage Brothers,
Rosenthal Sloan Glanckopf Castle and the Fashion, in
fact every fashionable shape is among them. Unusual
flower ornaments, wings, feather stickups or ribbon
trimmings add the completing touch Of distinctions
Prices from $500 to 81 5.OO.--Second Floor.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-11
DITCH COMMISSIONER WANTED

Bids will be received at the law Of
flee of q. J. Heyfron up to 8 O'Clock,
Monday. March Il. for a ditch com
missioner for the Missoula Canal
Company, Or the season 1s17.-Adv.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-11
Crepe de Chine Underwear

Women beautiful
that arrived We
with touches of hand embroidery finished with French applique
soes that lovely and dainty chcm
finished and trimmed crbabe
needs and supply
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-11-15
Great Wealth Produced in Time of Peace
Can Be Increased in Days of War

total income of people consists Of all the currently produced
wealth for consumpv productive purposes that 49, Tor immediate
The discover what this total is has
successful the countries that have longest maintained
private income taxes.
that the income Of the United States 1913 was some
and perhaps much $6ooo
agree what items shall be included Because
falling purchase power there fairly general agree
ent that people for the fiscal year
ended June 3d. 1917 least money terms
that when the medium of exchange fucuates widely IN
value goods and Of other figures wholly
trustworthy and substantial
There paying but little attention to the
of people, Our population
has growing about per cent But we
pgng irrespective Of what the population Is
become for pedgng the people themselves ourselves we
total income rata with the popu-
aon no about that that the SURVIVORS, Shall
coasts and according
and ancient and not according
revived Of Middle Europe And we know that
though easy days peace produced perhaps forty billions
the orious days Of this war we can produce
DAYS products whether not vastly Wars
bv the workers behind on the firing lines.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-11-15
Neither Individual Nor Nation Can
Violate Law and Not Suffer Penalty
b. Rev. Arthur Francis. Secretary Of the Chicago Community I

break the law They ignore the law they
may refuse comply with the law but law Typhoid fever
not merely physical disease municipal crime 1t reveals that
those for the public health either
or wilfully careless.
Nations breaks nations The nations
have blood and for their deliberate violations
of the laws of worlds good wEnnd with her experience Of the
opium China Belgium with her Congo atrocities Russia with
hera awful Siberian exile experiences
Germany been weighed the balance and found wanting For
and brutality and indifference to thu law OF the world
good will she will all other peoples the fundamental truth
that law cannot be broken; it breaks.
illustration after illustration of reaching through
splendid effort high power who failing obey the
have been broken by Honor TRUTH integrity responsibility
for the law abder When the governing these set at naught
they instantly begin grind their s and we observe honor goe
integrity vosted place power taken and given to others
forget this spendous TRUTH that law Physca eh'a' >o
-:-:f all cannot be broken it breaks
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-11-15
View Of the Vatican.

odd fetish services, though more Chris
tan peoples, of more simple and abun-
dant faith, are not to be found.
Vampires, diabolical ghosts, witches,
"vilen," and vengeful spirits are held
in great respect throughout this coun-
try, and the folklore is rich in their
doings and in the common mortaIs
philosophy Of self-preservation in a
world filled with such discouraging
things. The "alp," or nightmare, is
bitter old maid, recognizable by her
garb, who sits on the back or breast of
the sleeper and torments him, mayhap
fatally. She cannot, for some reason
or other, sit upon the sleepers side.
and the true Dalmation never thinks
of sleeping in any other way than on
his side.
The vampire pursues its peculiar
Dalmatian orgies in the guise Of
man or woman, lntely dead and Of
faulty existence, and is said to be
merely human skin filed with blood
and covered with sfroud. Witches
are bad-weather creatures; their evil
is unfettered only with the storm and
mist. To kill them, one throws three
grains Of corn and q wax candle at the
lightning before the thunder sounds.
Thus, they are best killed while the
storm is yet great way off. "Viien"
are maids with horses hoofs. Mostly
these "vilen," or wood creatures, are
good and tolerant of human happiness,
but they have fatal tendency for
/, stealing handsome, newborn children.
The newly arrived baby, therefore, In
| n Dalmatian t'istrict freluented BY
"yilcn' is closely watched until bap-
:isr, when the atductors are power
ieES. Esa3
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-11-15
DOWN THE DALMATIAN COAST
Strange Superstitions Of the Mixed
People That Live Along the
Adriatic.

A much mixed, backward, and
strangely superstitious people are
those who dwell along the eastern
shores of the Adriatic sea, according
to n bulletin of the National Geo
graphic society. Greek colonies and
Roman municipal; Byzantian officials
and sick Franks abandoned on the
rocks of lara by Crusaders Italians
exiled during the centuries OF strife
among. their petty states or brought
thither by trade ventures; the flood OF
Slavonian and, later, Of Ottoman, IN
yasion; all these are the elements OF
the people living along Austria-Hun-
gary's seacoast. Franks, Byzantlans,
Croats, Bosniaks, Turks, Hungarians,
Genocse, Neapolitans, Germans, and,
of first importance, Venetians have
ruled various parts Of this coast at
different times. The heavy ground
tone of this shore people is Slavonlan,
but there is besides tumble OF almost
every other racial element
From Trieste downward, the Slavon-
'ans predominant. Latin writer's noted
that the Slovenian tribes knew no form
If nionarclril government, but that all
.nnttrf, Of the tribe were dealt with
" q co!nmoE national council. knd
::ay the individual Dalmatian and
trian is che Of sturdiest independence.
'fieSe Slavon.ans worshincti Il rod OF
hunfer. sacred k.r~cs, nyr1i'hs, aEd
emil, sDec:nl-pcwcred beirgs Of ri
..-sc1rs:crs and they still Go macy
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-11-15

YER one excluded nook of the
turbulent Levant still brOOds
the Tibetan calm which has
enveloped it for more than a
thousand years. It is the pronontory
of Athos, the easternmost of the three
peninsulas extending into the Aegean
sea from the coast of Macedonia like
the gnarled fingers of an aged priest
whose hand is raised in benediction.
There, only 40 miles from Saloniki,
the allied war base, dwells monastic
community Of some 1000 souls under
q republican form of government
which has outlasted the Saracens, the
Byzantines, and bids fair to survive
the Sublime Porte. Mount Athos, the
glistening pyramid of marble in which
the 4O-mile peninsula terminates. Is
visible at sunset from the Plains of
Troy across the sea and shirnmers
into view from the slopes of Mount
Olympus. ~
While airplanes were circling above
the ruins of Helen's city and the re-
mote founder of the superintendent
Queen Elizabeth, told of shells that
.spanned the peninsula of Gallipoli, the
monks behind their marble barrier in
toned the chants that were old when
Columbus embarked on his great adj
venture and paced in brocaded and
'cloth-of-gold vestments which were
grooved by sandaled feet when the
Byzantine empire flourished.
The law of ages seems to forbid
wars trespass on these sacred pre-
.cincts, and the monastic statutes deny
admittance to any female creature, be
it woman, hen or cow, says writer
in the New York Tribune. The I'M
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written law generally has been OBJ
served, perhaps by geographical acct
dent or perhaps because of the adapt
able, conciliatory nature Of the kindly
folk who claim the Sacred Mount for
their own.
But despite the strict regulations of
the Most Blessed Assembly Of the
Holy Mount and the shock of horror
which assails the most humble Of the
brethren at sight Of the gentler sex,
women have penetrated where war
has feared to tread.
Founded in Third Century,.
Although the remote history OF the
colony melts into misty legend, it Is
generally believed that the first relig-
ious settlements on the peninsula were
made by refugees from the persecu-
tons of the Iconoclasts early in the
eighth century. The legends Of the
monks attribute them to the age Of
Constantine, in the third and fourth
centuries. Reference to the existence
of the cluster of religious brother
hoods is made in historical documents
of the ninth century.
The claims Of the monastery Of
Laura, founded about the middle Of
the tenth century by st. Athanasius.
appear to be well founded and to make
it, for historical purposes, the most
ancient Of the monasteries. There is
reason to believe that VatOpethf Is
of about equal antiquity. According
to the monastic accounts Of Vatope-
this founding, it is the most venerable
of all the twenty, having been estab-
lished by Theodosius In recognition
of the providential rescue Of his son
from drowning on the coast near by.
The most recent of the monasteries,
Stavronikitu, was founded in 1915.
There are twenty Of them. They
are situated on the wooded and noun
famous slopes of peninsula which is
forty miles in length and from four
to seven miles in width. The total
population Of the peninsula is about
1900. Three thousand Of the inhab-
ltants are monks and the rest are lay
brothers.
Besides the twenty mo1asteries
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there are villages or settlements, i'll.
habited mostly by artisans employed
within the abbeys. Only precipitous,
winding mule paths afford means Of
communication. AS many races are
represented in the population as might
be expected in that cosmopolitan Sec
ton of the Levant. The monks them
selves are, for the most part, Greeks,
but the monastery of Rossikon lis a
stronghold Of the Russians, and in
others are Serbs and Bulgars. Rou-
manians are also fairly numerous.
Own All Goods In Common.
All these dwell in harmony despite
the schisms which the great war has
made in the outside world. AS monks
they are divided into two schools,
both of which adhere to the canon of
St.. Basil. One division has the lido
rhythmic form OF government, which
allows considerable latitude to the in
dividual, although all goods are owned
in common. MOnasteries of this order
are governed by two or three wardens,
who are elected annually by the eld-
ers. In the cenobite monasteries
church regulations are much more
rigid, and the hegumen, elected for
life, has absolute control over the
property and inmates.
Hoarded behind massive locks in
the turreted abbeys are thousands of
beautiful Illuminated parchments OF
great antiquity. This treasure, though
impressive, is mere remnant of what
once existed. Some of the documents
have been taken to Paris, some to
Moscow, some fell into the hands Of
early collectors. some were fired in
cartridges at the Greeks during the
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ONE Is situated in an admirable
position from the viewpoint of
anti-aerial defense. Not only

position from the viewpoint OF
~ anti-aerial defense. Not only
is it in the usual sense forti'
fed city, but it lies in a wide plain sur.
rounded by hills at successive levels
that render minute and long distance
observation singularly easy.
The theory Of hidden and possible
important airplane base somewhere by
the Tyrrhenean sea- that could send its
aircraft to Rome along the fiat shores
or the Maremma marshes, has now
proved to be highly improbable, writes
Magda Sindici in the Chicago News.
The latter would be the best side on
which to attack, only it has the great
disadvantage as scheme, of not be-
ing-so far-feasible. Seashore and
Maremma marshes would have to be
approached, failing this western base,
by crossing the higher Apennines. 1t
is, perhaps, difficult to place anti-air-
craft batteries along these peaks suf1i'
cient in number to protect the whole
mountain chain; but spur after spur
of the Apennines runs ut right angles
to the main range from this spinal col
umn of Italy to the sea; and these
spurs are protected at every strategic
point, that is, wherever the mountain
GUS district mergcs into a plain.
Munition Works in Umbria.
All over the dreamy province of Um'
bria, so called because Of the "shade'
once cast over the land by the thick
woods that covered it, batteries are
concealed. This province seems to
have gathered to itself all the gentle
ness Of Italy, as If the spirit Of Its IN
cient agricultural inhabitants, older
than the Etruscans, had managed to
survive the impact Of fierce medieval
war. Umbria holds the town of TERM
with it's unresting steel and munition
works-a great goal for bomb throw
ers and many times attacked. The
little river Nera comes tumbling along
close by it, between high, cool banks
so hasty and vivid that its waters lash
themselves into perpetual foam; and
just above the Nera, the gray CLEAN OF
guns adds a contrasting touch to the
peasants in blue overalls and the red
tasseled white cattle for which the
district is famous.
Close under an old rambling con-
vent watched by ageless Expresses
which strike warm brown note In q
surrounding scale of hard grays, an
other battery turks Calvi, perched at
the top of the last hill before the
Apennines dwindlc away into the val
ley Of the Tiber, must not be left un'
defended. know an old peasant there
who perhaps still trudges along the
same road every dawn and nightfall
with his Ak and his spade, who asked
me, not so long ago, if it were true
that there now existed some mad folk
among other Ubiquitous children Of this
wicked century, who were trying to
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unreevd morals religion of humanity has shown to
realized before what liberty and justice what humanity
and compassion, what morality and right really
abouthe why's and wherefor of tho 1t is
here and the drawn clearly that child could see 1t for
the people determine whether they have the manhood to
maintain the liberty that their fathers gained for them through sacrifice
the manhood to maintain the justice which have prded ourselves
manhood defend those institutions of liberty and justice which
children whether shall submit and aban-
don them all.
and distinct between the maintenance OF the
American republic free and independent American to the rich
poor alike American opportunity for the boy and the
that will leave children to be subjected to the
that ravshed Belgium and Serbia whether falsehod and
assness and cynical contempt for morals and codbooded disregard
humanity utter absence and compassion and denial OF
shall be the portion Of Children whether the liberty
shall be handed down them by the manhood OF
fathers and the love of our chdrens fathers
1t the eleventh hour that we came
vineyard The great opportunity Of the American people was
slipping before they could the opportunity to make themselves
fathers and Of Maker the opportunity to de-
give death that country
e liberty live; that its justice endure that its oppor-
tun those who toll and endure continue We have grsp
opportunity sacrifice and suffering through which shall
find souls again.
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war of independence, some have been
mutilated by chance visitors and some,
according to authentic reports, were
torn into strips by their very guard
ians to be twisted onto fish hooks and
used as bait.
Many Beautiful Relics Preserved.
Less perishable and equally beauti-
full relics still remain, most Of them
In an extraordinary state of preserva-
ton. The buildings themselves, some
of which cover as much as four acres,
are wonderful examples of Byzantine
architecture. There are choice speci-
mems of ancient and cunning mosaic
work. There are mural decorations
attributed to Byzantine artists so an
cient that their work has outlived
their fame and their very names are
legendary.
The Phiate or Font of Laura in
front of the monastery church with
the marble panels was built In 1000.
The brick work was probably done in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
In the Monastery of Xiripotamo,
which, according to monastic tradi-
ton, was established by the Empress
Pulcheria Sin the fifth century, but
more probably was founded 900 years
later, is q communion cup. carved
from solid Jade, which bears an in
scription Of the traditional founder
and is believed by many to be true
relic Of that earlier time.
Vatopethi contains many venerated
and quaint treasures, some of them Of
great beauty. In the church is q
throne inlaid with ivory and nearby
q chased silver jeon of Andronicus II.
Palaeologus. An ancient case Of solid
gold in which are receptacles for the
blood of saints contains a fragment OF
the True Cross which Is set In gold
and studded with large stones Of pale
hue.
Most valued and most valuable from
a material point Of view Is the girdle
Of the Virgin Mary. which now, FOR
safe keeping, is In three parts, each
Of them kept in separate vault OF
the abbey.