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iL brExtrardinarAtation- cia SAs Most BZA t mEATEit T1I4 WEST Theatrical Tain fro HOn "The most beautiful play of all ages."-Chieago Daily News. "The mnost ,remarknlble pilay in the English Ian'guage."-I'Iurper'R Magazine. N SA Y "iThe greatest play of tue generation."-New York Evening Post. "A work for the world to see and ponder upon."-Chicago ke(ord-l herald. V TR$ 1RAMATIC SENSATION Of' THIS SEASON AND TH LAST 1MR MILLER'S ALL-STAR CAST O3 ASSOOATE PLAYERS THE SERVANT IN THE HOUSE B~~~I CiAft ES RtANK REN1 EDY e M1st 'Celebrated Play on the American Stage Presented .by the Strongest Compaany of the Season & THE CAST INCLUDES CHA1 LES DALTON, GEORGE W. WILSON, WILFEED ROGER, LIZZuIE HUDSON COLLIER; MILTON SILLS, GLADYS WYNNE AND BEN FIELD ' "A. work of 'art that is simple enough and true enough to touch the heart of the world."-Chicago Tribune "A sensation."-New York Ti mes. "A great play: -Canadian Magazine. "A' masterpieee."-New York Sun Seats on Sale Tuesday 9 8. m. Price S, $1.00, $1.50, $2.0e NOTE.-Train leaves Hamilton 6 p. m; return after performance and lunch. Seats can be reserved by letter If accompanied by check or postoffice order. &MEF IRRIGATION CONGRESS Missoula and the Bitter Root are plannig to send a delegation of 150 delegates to the annual meeting of the National Irrigation congress, which will be held in Spokane in Au gust. This mhe ting, promises to bo the best the congress has ever held. Spokane is making elaborate prepara tions for the sessiop and the atten dance will be large from all parts of the country, especially from the east, which has not been very well repre sented in the previous sessions of this body. The present plan of the western Montana delegation is to take a band and root for the home section. "No where in the world is agricul ture intelligent as in the irrigated regions; nowhere is it so productive, and nowhere else have the problems of poverty, isolation and failure been so effectually attacked." Harvey W; Scott, dean of journal ism in the Pacific slope, who has been idehtified'with most of the uplift move ments in the northwest since territorial days, says this in a leading editorial in The Portland Oregonian, comment ing upon the importance to the na tion of the National Irrigation con gress in Spokane, under the presidency of George Eames Barstow of ilarstow, Texas, adding: Important. "If the people were interested in events in proportion to their impor tance the irrigation congress next August would plunge the whole coun try Into wild excitement. One imagines, however, that our national equanimity will not be greatly per turbed by it. "Although the subject to be dis cussed relates yItally, to human hap plness, although the way we finally answertthe questions which the emin ent speakers at the congress will ,raise may de4t1p whether 500 years from now the United States shall be a flourishing empire or a desert soli tude, nevertheless it will not be easy to arouse more than a perfunctionary public Interest, "'2 grett nqipes of the orators, the pord' dbf tVlc testiity, the display of governpaental science will all be need ed to hold the languid ear of the in 1iffelent farmier, whom nothlnk 'short oft on earthquake will compel to think or study. Irrigation would rain gol4 into hiM tubs if he would set them alit, but- he won't until he is ,harried and bounded Into doing it. "But the farmer is no worse than PRESIDENT BARSTOW. other men. Few of us take more than a feeble and spasmodic interest in the things that concern ,ts must deep ly. Consider how speedily an audience vanishes whenever a speaker touches on education, a subject whose import is even weightier than irrigation. It is only by fits and starts that we can he induced to think of the salvation of our iminortal souls. Some sporadic 'Billy' Sunday can turn out atteition to these precautious entities once in a while, but how tong does it stay fixed? Salome dancing a frivilous horn-pipe makes us forget time and eternity. "If man were a truly rational he ing the minute he learned that irri gation would double the produce of his farm, even in such a favored reg ion as the Willamette valley, he would rush to build dams and dig ditches, but he doesn't. He waits until some body has pushed and prodded him. "Think how long it has taken some of the rural brethren to begin spray ing their apple trees. They know that a few doses of lead arsenate would save their fruit fromt ruin and line their pockets with dollars, but not a drop did they spray until a paternal government stepped in and gave them no cholpe. As a race we are just as lazy and short-sighted as we dare be, and mqst of us would far prefer to swing a heavy sledge haimlmer 1t houis rather than think10 mtinutes. A Valuable Meeting. "Such congresses as the one which will meet in Spokane next August are more valuable for reiterating old truths than for revealihg iiewh ones. Iteration Is all that saves the world from a relapse into barbaric iiqualor Hearing the truth about Irrigation or anything else once only does us nut the slightest good. We most hear It a tituusand times and in every pos eible key. "The Massachusetts Savings bank insurance scheme was based on tile supposition that when life insurance was made cheap and easy every per son who needed it would step Up and buy It. No madder dream was ever dreamed. The project has been open many months, but only two banks are offering Insurance, and there is no body to buy. To persuade us to In sure our lives and save our wives and children from destitution we need a brazen-tongued agent to ring an alarm in our ears. "Mankind is like the starving pauper who was on his way to the grave yard to be burled alive for his In dolence. The merciful judge offerer to suspend sentence if anybody would feed the condemned. A kindly father offered a meal of corn. 'Is it shelled*?' inquired the pauper, with languid in terest. No, it was not. 'Drive on then,' said the pauper. We need such gatherings as the national irri- I gallon congresses to shell our corn for us. Habit of Thinking. "Civilization originated in countries where men were forced to Irrigate the land or perish. In Babylonia and Egypt were laid tht foundations of every science and all the arts. The reason is plain enough. Irrigation drives man to think and plan on the one hand and to co-operate with his neighbors on the other. The habit of thinking about one subject leads him to exercise his brain on others, and presently hediscovers the great truth that ideas are upon the whole bene ficial to him rather than haneful. "Co-operation is the only way out of most rural difficulties, and it is easier in irrigated regions than else where for divers reasons. One is thaii irrigation depends front the beginnig on co-operation. But also the farms are necessarily small, people live near together, contiguity develops confi dence, the plane of public intelligence rises, the communal consciousness sets to work and presently the whole neigh borhood studies, buys, sells and thrives as one man." Eastern Sentimlent. R. InSinger, chairman of the Spo kane board of control of the National Irrigation congress, has received a let ter from United States Senator Jon athan P. DonlniV, ig5wa, chairman of the committee on agriculture and forestry, saying that he will be pres ent at the 17th session in Spokane the second week in August, if he finds he can go so far west the com ing summer, adding: "I am sure that it would be a pleas ant as well as a profitable experience for me to join in the deliberations of the congress." Senator Dolliver is planning an ex tended trip throughout the Pacific northwest and it is expected he will be accompanied by Mrs. Dolliver. They will visit poltits on the Pacific coast and then return to $Spbkane for a stay of several days With friends. The IHawkeye club of Spokane, will also have a reunion during the visit of Senator and Mrs. Dolliver, who have been invited as special guests. "Senator Dolliver is deeply interest ed in the problem pertaining to ag riculture and forestry, also questions of deep wtiterways, drainage, glood roads and home-building," said Mr. Insinger, "and as these matters will be discussed by experts in their lines, including statesmen, scientists, rail road presidents and financieis, we believe that the state of Iowa and the nation as a wholo will benefit as the result of the senator's visht. "We expect to have with us during the congress President Taft and sev eral members of his cabinet, and we look for from 4,500 to 5,000 accredited delegates from various parts of the world." South Carolina, Governor Martin F. Ansel announ ces in a letter to R. Insinger, chah' man of the board of control of the national congress, that ho has appoint ed the following commnilttee to con fer with the organization on how to make the 17th sessions in Spokane the recond week in August of the great est benefit to South Carolina: E. J. Wilson, commissioner of ag riculture, commnerce and industries, Co lumbia; F. H. Hyatt, president of the Good Roads association, Columbia; D. F. Moore; Brunson; J. A. Harvey, Pineopolis, and Samuel G. Stoney, Charleston. Governor Ansel addes in his letter that the members of his special com mission are interested ijt drainage. which is one of the objects of the congress, in addition to which the speakers and delegates will also dis cuss problems of irrigation, forestry, good roads and home-building. It may be of interest to the people of South Carolina, who were the first to start a movement to have the con gress of 1910 in a southern city, pre ferahly one in South Carolina, that Pueblo, Col., will send a special train with delegates to calture the 18th congress for that city. There are also repiorts that efforts will be made to have the congress in an eastern city next year. Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, di rector of the agricultural college of Cornell university, who was head of, President Roosevelt's farm life com mission last fall, is heartily in favor of taking the congress to a city east I of the Rocky mountains in 1910. Nebraska. W. J. Furse, private secretary of Governor Shallenberger, announces in a letter to Mr. Insinger, that the fol lowing delegates have been appointed to represent the state of Nebraska at the session in Spokane: D. Clem Deaver, Henry T. Clark and E. A. Cudhby, Omaho; W. S. Lorlan, McCook; Grant L. Shumway. Scotts' Bluffs: A. M: Morrisey, Valentine; Charles Coffee, Chadron; James B. McDonald and J. G. Bealer, North Platte; Adna Dobson, Lincoln; C. A. Edwards, Kearney; H. 0. Smith, Lex ington; Page T. Francis, Crawford; M. B. Smith, Bridgeport and W. A. Sharpnacck, Alma. "The delegates, from Nebraska' will come among friends on their arrival in Spokane," said' Mr. Insinger. "Many of them are well known to our peo ple through trade and other relations, and they will meet some of their for mer acquaintances who are now rest dents of the Inland Empire and other parts of the northwest. "It may be a bit of news for the Nebraskans to know that we shall have United States Senator Jonathan P: Dolliver of Iowa with us at one or more session of the congress, also that Mayor A. L. Fiugard of Pueblo, Col., is arranging to bring a party occupying a special train to Spokane to capture the 1910 congress for his city. Wrilltam1 A. Paine Thomas 8. Dee IHerbert i. Foster Leonard 1). Draper ESTABLISHED'1880. Paine, Webber & Company BANKERS and BROKERS, Boston, Mass. Members New York and Poston Stock Exchanges, Chi cago Board of Trade BRANC1t OFFICE 47 East Broadway, Butte, Montana Private Wires to All Exchanges H. B. BYRNE, Manager ADVERTISE IN THE DAILY MISSOULIAN