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lister and therefore planned to send
him to Princeton college. The
bows inclinations, however, were
not for the church. He was not
an apt student, p~referring the out
door life, and admiring more the
strange garb worn by trappers
than the clerical gown.
This taste of his was fostered by
the visits of an uncle, Wesley Fox,
who was an employee of the Amer
lean Fur company, The death OF
his father and mother left Thomas
under the guardianship of this I'M
Gle, who took the boy to Fort I'm
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thought of a plan. Pointing out a
well worn trail leading up the
mountain side, he said it was made
by the K~ootenays and Flatheads,
who came over to steal the buffalo
OF the Blackfeet. On the other
side of the range were many beav-
er streams. They would cross the
divide and try their luck there.
That night the boys picketed
their horses near the camp, and
early in the morning stole away,
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-02

ing killed by a band of Crees, who
were on a horse stealing expedi
ton in the Grow country.
At Fort Benton Thomas was in
troduced to his uncle's Indian
wife, and became a great friend OF
her nephew, Pitamakan. White
Wolf, father of Pitamakan, was
chief of the Small Robes band of
Blackfeet. These being about to
go on a beaver trapping journey
along the foot of the Rockies,
Thomas begged to be permitted to
accompany them, he have been a
year in the country, and acquainted
with the Indians.
His uncle granting his request,
the band set out on their journey,
camping the first night on the Te-
ton, and Thomas sleeping in White
Robes lodge. They followed up
the Teton to Dupuyer creek, then
known as Back-Fat creek, and from
there trailed over to the Two Med
icine, and finally came to the Cut
Bank.
There were not many beaver on
the last named stream, and Thomas
and Pitamakan were unable to Sc
the number they had counted
upon taking. Worst of all the
band were to return from there to
Benton. Then Pitamakan
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ion in 1856, steamships then run
unlng to that point.
From there the uncle and nephew
went by keel boat to Fort Benton
They had an adventurous journey.
On the way there, whenever the
boat stopped long enough for them
to hunt, Thomas received his first
lessons in woodcraft. At the
mouth of the Musselshell, while
hunting with Baptiste Rondln,
both of them narrowly escaped be-
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-10-02
Don't Forget Cuticura TaIcum

When adding to your toilet requisites
An exquisitely scented face, skin
BABY and busting powder and per
fume, rendering ohtre perfumes su-
perfluous. Your may rely on it be-
cause n of the Cuticura Trio (Soap,
Ointment and Talcum). Csc every
where.-adv.
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Continued on the Agricultural Page)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
There Is No Path to Peace Except as the Will
Of Peoples May Open It
By SAMUEL GoMPERs. in New York World.

6FIHERE is no path to peace except as the will of peoples may
open it. The way to peace is through agreement, not through
IL force. The question then is not of any ambitious general scheme
to prevent war, but simply of the constant effort, which is the
highest task of craftsmanship in relation to every possible cause of strife
to diminish among peoples the disposition to resort to force and to find
a just and reasonable basis for accord.
Ii war is outlawed, other means of redress of injuries must be
provided. Moreover, few, if any, intend to outlaw ~self-defenSe, a right
still accorded to individuals under all systems of law. To meet this
difficulty, the usual formula is limited to wars of aggression. But
justification for war, as recently demonstrated, is ready at hand for
those who desire to make war, and there is rarely a case of admitted
aggression, IT where on each side the cause is not believed to be lust
by the peoples who support the war.
There is a further difficulty that lies deeper. There is no lawgiver
for independent states. There is no legislature to impose its will by
majority vote, no executive to give effect, even to accepted rules. Great
powers agreeing among themselves may indeed hold small powers in
check. But who will hold great powers in check when great pover
disagree?
l believe that we shall be able at no distant dav TO keep within
reasonable limits some of our pressing economic rvahies by fair inter
nstona1 agreements in which the sef-interest IF rivals will submit to
mutual restrictions in the furtherance of friendly accord.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
the diagnosis and treatment of plant

the diagnosis and treatment of plant
disease.
Doctor Croker paused before a row
of six glass cases containing his most
hopeless diseased patients.
1.-The rest Of the building is far from
complete, but we have our Isolation
ward in full operation" he said.
Plants, he explained, have as many
different and serious ailments as hui
man beings. They are different,
though, In that their charlottesville
farmer, the gardener-have practical.
ly no knowledge at all of the nature
Of their ailments.
Furthermore, the plant is unequipped
to battle disease, for n very curious
e seasan-~which JDaeetar --eeGkfA~
pounded.
1.-THE animal has q blood ~circula-
ton which admirably seconds medical
care. A doctor of humans can intro
duce a drug into the arm and know
that in a few seconds 1t will be trans
ported In the blood stream to the sick
spot. Plants have a ~rudimentary cir
culation, sluggish and full of the no
thoroughfares which block the flow of
saps."
Because plants are almost totally
unresponsiye to treatment after they
have contracted disease, the funda-
mental philosophy of plant physiology
is to ward off disease.
One single discovery In the Thomp-
son institute may be worth many
times the millions he Is spending. Sen
sational crop predictions are justified
by the past. Canada has increased the
value of It's wheat crop S15,000.000 to
S20,000,000 because Of the work of
DR.. William Sanders and his two sons
in combining the red Fife wheat with
a strain which increased its resistance
to frost. 1t is said artificial light plays
strange antics with plants. Exhaustive
tests will be made along this line. The
atmosphere Of the carbonlferous era,
in which grew ferns taller than oaks
that gave us coal. will be reproduced.
Plants will be irrigated with carbon
oxide.
The United states Department OF
Agriculture maintains the "Office of
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction"
Its scientists search the world for ma
terial. They have given American
farmers plants which yield crops worth
hundreds of millions annually. Ex-
amples are Durum wheat. S50.O00,00O:
japanese rices, S21.O0o.000; Egyptian
cotton, S2o,O00.oO0; sudan grass. S1O.-
100000.
They also search for hardy and dis
ease-resistant strains of familiar
plants.
The great peril of man is the In
sects, which are always threatening to
eat up the food of the world So In
sect is being set on insect-every In
sect pest seems to have its insect foe.
according to natures way of maintain
ing the balance.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Don't Talk About Radicalism Among Farmers;
the Farmer Is the Balance Wheel
By H. C. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.

Talk about radicalsm among farmers? If you take the most radical
farmer and the most radical candidate from the farmers that any agri-
cultural state ever elected either to their Legislature or to congress, either
the lower house or the senate, you can find a far more extreme Illustration
of radical voting in the city of Chicago It in the city of Des Moines or
In any other city of the United States than you can in that case.
Why, the farmers OF the United States founded this government.
They have defended this government in every period of national crisis.
The farmers of the United States have never started a war, but they have
always fought the war through. They furnished, in the last war, &c per
cent of the fighting men and they raised more food than they ever raised
before.
The farmer is the balance wheel of this nation and in times to come,
when you have disturbances in your great cities and when you have real
radcalsm springng out here and there, it will be the farmer who will
put his foot down and settle the matter. Don't talk about radicalsm
among farmers. The farmer is the last man to be radical in the mean-
ing in which that word is used.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

one Under the other, lighted by arti
fetal light. He speculated on tn
evolution of swift-growing crops o
grasses and plants which should sup
ply fuel, textile materials and paper
Haldine foresees the biologist com
bining strains of lichen into a moss
like living structure which will pusl
out over the deserts of the world
binding the sand and paving the wa.
for crops.
Colonel Thompson purposes to TT.
out the discoveries that science ha
already made and to test as far a
possible the visions of the dreamers
Every possible device for making
healthier plants, faster-growing plant
and bigger HSWill be ussd-Hl
hopes that his and other laboratories
Will make 1t possible for SOC, 600
Americans to live In comfort.
Colonel Thompson, listed as a bank
er In who's Who" is a man of many
activities. He was born at Virginia
City, Mont, in 1869. and was educated
at Phillips Exeter academy and
Columbia University School of Mines.
He was a director of the Federal
Reserve bank of New York from Its
organization until December of 1919.
He Is a director of a big life insur-
ance company. He was a Republican
presidential elector In 1912 and a dele
gate to the national conventions of
1916 and 1920. He is president of the
Roosevelt Memorial association. He
was head of the American Red Cross
mission to Russia in 1917. He was
envoy of the United States to the first
centennial Of the proclamation of the
independence of Peru in 1921. He was
a member of the advisory committee to
the American delegation In the confer.
ence on the limitation of armament In
1921.
Colonel Thompson's large fortune
was made in copper. In a way, Nature
gave him his wealth. He says K Is
quite proper, therefore. that some of
his millions should be returned TO
Nature.
Something like 100000 has al
ready been expended on the institute.
At least as much more will be spent.
DIR. William Croker, head of the
Thompson institute, was formerly pro-
fessor of plant physiology at the Uni-
verslty of Chicago. He says:
"In twenty-five years the United
States population will equal the ca
pacity of its land, as now farm
worked, to produce its daily food. We
shall have 100000 souls to feed In
1850 and 100000 daily rations to
feed them with"
Thereafter, DR.. Crocker's prediction
continued. we shall enter a period of
constant famine peril. The population
will go inevitably to 200 900. 000-with
100000 chairs lacking at the nation
al dinner table.
1t will be too late then to regret the
follles that wasted and the rusts that
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
"By Jove, I Believe | Gould Make a Little Bool
Out of Those Things"
By LLOYD osBoURNE, in scribner's Magazine.

It is easy to understand what R. 1. S. wrote aferward, that the
time he spent in Hyeres as the happiest in his life. He was working
hard and well; was gaining recognition and making a fair income; had
IL TIA r. -eaIsIa2gg Mt At ~ sg2HiRe1 ~, . egTAe Silver 11er
ado Squatters" penny Whistles" (afterward renamed the "Childs Gar
den of verse; and many essays that were later to become Sc famous.
1t is worth noting perhaps that his ambition for "Prnce Otto
was inordinate; some of its chapters he rewrote al many as sever times;
of all of his books, save the "Master of Balantrae"-and later, "Weir"
it was closest to his heart.
For the "Chlds Garden" on the contrary, which will probably out
live all his work and has entered into the soul of the race, his attitude
was more of an indulgent Indifference once the poems had been col
lected. l remember his saying: "By jove, I believe I could make a
little book out of those things if I wrote a few more; they re tnhing
enough, but not without a certain charm"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

chamber; a beam of light crosses
above the pipes, against which the
smoke Is plainly visible.
The pipes are numbered, so that the
observer knows instantly where the
fire is by noting from which pipe the
smoke emerges. Below the vacuum
chamber is a system of levers which
control three-way valves; each lever
controls a valve feeding a part of the
ship corresponding to the numbering
of the pipes. BY pulling a lever steam
is forced into the part which is burn
ing, effectually q%uenching the blaze
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

OOAOtAS $500
the scientists he has associated witt
the Institute say that by 1850 the
people of the United States will have
to watch their steps lest the next gen
erations go hungry. They figure that
In twenty-five years the population Of
the country and the food capacity OF
the land-as 10Y farm-worked-wil
be equal.
In the next century these experts
visualize the extinction of the human
rae unless Impending destruction Of
plant life is averted.
This group of scientists Is not alone
In casting an anxious glance toward the
future. The scientific world In gen.
eral seems to be concerned about the
food supply of the future. For ex-
ample, DR.. Ross Aiken Gortner, head
Of the biochemistry division of the
Minnesota College of Agriculture, in a
paper before the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science
at Its recent meeting urged that
science endeavor to solve a world
wide food shortage problem that
threatened not very far In the future.
He said that it cannot be more than
a few generations before the world
will have more mouths than 1t can
feed, unless something is done.
Not content with the practical ad-
vance already made by science, the
scientists with large vision have been
looking a long way ahead into the
future. ]. B. S. Haldlne of Cambridge.
Eng, in looking ahead to 2123 sees
the world breeding a strain of nitro
gen-fixing bacteria which will serve as
q powerful and universal fertilizer.
The late Charles p. Steinmetz, the
American electrical wizard, went
farther and predicted the breeding In
laboratories of new types of nitrogen
fixing bacteria which would In them
selves be highly palatable and nutri-
tious protein and the staple food of
the human race.
The scientists of the Carnegie
Foundation go still farther. They are
working in laboratories at Tucson and
Carmel on the study of chemical
processes by which plants take carbon
from the air. They hope science will
learn now TO take food directly from
the air without the aid Of bacteria.
higher plants or animals.
Almost without exception the scien-
lists concerned about the food of the
future that the world will be
so densely populated that every inch
will be needed for agriculture and that
there will be no room for food ami
mails. Steinmetz suggested that sew
eral surfaces be given the earth. He
planned underground protein farms,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Testing Fish

Sailors have a very simple. and
what is said to be a very effective
way of determining the edible or non
edible qualities of any new varieties
Of fish they may hapron to run across.
In the water in which the fish is
boiled is placed a bright silver coin.
II the coin retains It's natural color
during the boiling process, the fish
is good to eat But II 1t turns dark.
kha food Il rejected.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

met and the Glasgow mar ventured
to hope that his recommendation had
been productive of good results.
quite the contrary" replied the
manager.
well, WE'LL" l thought he was
the very man you were looking for"
$50 he Isl" was the sad response.
"What do you mean?" said his
friend. 81 thought he would suit you
He was so full Of CO."
He was" replied the other. He
has gone with 1000 pounds sterling
OF my money"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Use Cupids and Arrows

Irvine the chandeliers with green
and a Cupids and arrows In ar
tistic fashion among the trands ior
your ST. Valentine party. OVER the
windows and doors combine the green
with Cupids and arrows In the same
manner. Intersperse these decora-
tions with plenty Of bright red hearts,
and flowers II you wish. and you VIII
find innumerable opportunities for de-
iiRhtfiI decoration. Scarlet ribbons
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Foundation Principles Upon Which Christianity
Transformed Pagan State


The divine origin of civil authority and the divine origin of in
dlvidual liberty are the two foundation principles upon which Christianity
transformed, and is always and everywhere tending to transform, the
pagan into the Christian state.
Man is born to live in society. This dictate of common sense from
the wise pagan, Aristotle, is the foundation of the divine origin of civil
authority. Men are Is gregarious as birds IT bees.
Instructive, natural needs Of rational living drive IS to social lving.
There is no tolerable social living without order there is no order with
out law; there is no law without organization having authority to make
and power to enforce law.
That organization is the state. Hence the state is founded upon the
radical needs of human nature, and God, who made us social beings, of
necessity wills social living, and the state an indispensable condition of
social living, and wills the authority of the state.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Full of Go"

A Glasgow man who had a friend
who was the manager of a large
business house In London sem a let
ter to the latter asking him If he
could give a job to a certain young
man he knew.
The Londoner read the letter and
after interviewing the young man gave
him a clerkship in his firms count
ing house.
Some time later the two friends
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Locates Fires on Ships

An ingenious device for detecting
and locating fires on ships at sea is
embodied In the Rich smoke detector,
an English invention.
Pipes, communicating with all parts
of the vessel, are led into a glass
fnclosed chamber In which a vacuum
pump is constantly at work, thus draw
ing air from every part reached by the
pipes. Should a fire start at any
point, the smoke is drawn into the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
In a Summary of the Middleman Proposition
We Are Up Against This


In a summary Of the middeman proposition, we ar up against
this, it seems to me, on the whole proposition: Just SO long is we have
small manufacturers who cannot market directly, who cannot market
directly economically; just so long as we have large manufacturers who
haven't the funds with which to market directly or who are handling a
narrow line of commodities so that it is not economical to market d.
rectly; just so long as you have small retailers who cannot afford to get
in touch with the hundreds of possible concerns or sources of supply from
whom they could buy; or just so long as it is difficult for manufacturers
to get IN touch with these small retailers; and, finally, just so long as
we have consumers who have got more to do with their time than getting
in touch with it, writing to or reading the advertisements of hundreds
of manufacturers from whom they might buy just SO long we are going
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

before it reaches dangerous proper
tions.
When ships are heavily loaded 1t is
often difficult to get at a fire, and fire.
quently the flames get under full head
way before they are discovered. With
the use the Rich deteetor a blaze
can be put out literally before 1t
starts.-Kansas City Star.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

may add the finishing touch to the
decorative scheme. With these ideas
carried out in ways that best bring out
their attractiyeness, Cupid viii find a
~hewildering and delightful reception
awaiting him.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
heIpl HeIpl

Dentist-And what is your businessf
Patient-0h. I'm a comic artist on
a newspaper.
Dentist-Then I'll try to live M to
my profession as you fellows draw
me.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

L. Fl. Bailey, Horticulturist-We remember the Russets, the RAM
BIO, the Early Harvest, the Jersey Sweet, the Pound Sweet, the Pearmain,
the Strawberry, the Sheepnose, the Seek-No-Further and many others
Where are they gomez They have fallen before the progress Of CONNER
cialism and stsndardsation-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

Nine. Georgete lie Blanc-American men have more honesty. They
will not stoop to cheat Life to them is a great game that they must play
according to the rules. Consequently-they are more serious, more con-
slant. As lovers, maybe they still can learn something from the Euro
peans. But as husbands-no. They can never be exceled.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Science Busy With
Problem of Future
Food Productions
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

~. w LILLIAN d.
THOMPSON has already
spent several of his
millions and will spend
several more on the
Institute OF
Plant Research near his
home in Yonkers, n. Y,
with the purpose that
man shall not perish
from the face of the
earth from lack of food.
Colonel Thompson and
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06
Be Thankful.

Be Thankful.
Don't forget that yon ought to be
thankful for a great many things you
haven't got.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

ate the plunt life of 1923. At that mo-
ment Mother Earth will make a sum
mary solution of the dificulty-not by
taxing her insulted r%ations, but by the
simple device Of killing off 60,000,0OO
humans.
But it is not too late now. Twenty
five years of the labors which have
started in the incomplete first structure
of the Thompson institute will, II
properly encouraged. humor Mother
Nature into another extension of her
sufferance of human kind.
The scientists grouped by Doctor
Crocker under the Thompson research
administration are doing marvels In
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-10-16

Several attempts have been made to
establish permanent Boy Scout or
ganization in Nezperce, but the results
have not been altogether satisfactory.
Yesterday group of citizens met with
a committee from Lewiston, composed
of Sam Skillern, Harlan Hoyt, Chas.
f. Bennett and Howard Burger, and
g. H. Obertauffer, regional executive
from Spokane, and accepted plan
presented by them which gives fair
assurance of permanent Scout troop
here.
The plan as explained by MIR. Ober-
tauffer, whose jurisdiction covers
Montana, Washington, Oregon and
idaho, provides for the establishment
of district scout group to include sev-f
eral communities under the leadership
of paid executive whose duty IL will
be to visit each community at given
periods and give instruction and such
assistance as conditions require. Each
community will have one or more
troops under local scoutmaeters. lhe
Lewiston district will have that city
as the central point and some six or
eight neighbor communities will be in
cluded in the jurisdiction. 1t will re-
quire budget of about $4,000 to car
ry on the work. OF this Lewiston
agreed to raise $2500 and agreements
from this and other points have been
secured for the balance. Nezperce's
share win be about $3.50. A commit
tee composed of Messers. g. @. Pen
nell, Rev. J. A. Hoffman, J. p. Sor-
enson and Arthur Heston agreed TO
solicit the local fund, and York Her
rem and w. p. Conger were appointed
to take the work Of local scoutmasters.
The matter of membership and other
details will follow as soon as arrange
ments can be completed