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GROW TWO BLADL
: 'HERE ONEWW
Mr. iff ence Pleads for Scientific Study' or:the Better
ment of the Farmer and the Increase of
His Crops of All Kinds.
Editor 0i ssoulian--Again taking up
the subj~ct of the value and probable 1
outcome of our government's efforts to
teach the farmer how to make two 4
(blades of grass grow where but one c
grew before, I note that C. S. Hinman I
of Victor, as well as Farmerman, is t
skeptical of the good to hbe derived if
we could produce a general increase in
the average crop per acre of farm 1
products.
I cannot comprehend the attitude of
these two contenders, as they both x
seem intimately associated with the
Farmers' $oiiety of Equity, which I
have been 'given to understand .has for
Its purpose fhe developing of the farm
ers' efficiency in the growing of pro
duce, as well as the marketing of his
crop and purchase of his supplies.
Theoretically the production of ab
normalcrops would have an effect on
the price of a product, as regulated, by
the law of supply and demand, and a
big crop would obtain for a lesser price;
but I can assure you, my friends, that
not in our time will we enjoy that
haven of happtiness when all intellects
are equal, all endeavors are equalized,
when every man's effort will balance
and every farmer produce the same
crop, quality and quantity.
It is argued that at presfnt' big
crop does not result in the consumer
deriving the benefit of a lower-price,
but that the middleman's profits, in
buying for less and manipulating tho
game, make the consumer pay as much
as ever.
The middleman, then, Is given as one -
of the primary causes for the high cost
of living, and the cry goes forth, "kill
the middleman."
Yet, when we sift out the problem,
we find that it is not practical to ob
literate the middleman as between the
farmer and the consumer. He has a
positive sphere of usefulness. In the
business world today he is as useful
and necessary as either the producer
Or the cons'ume'.
(Ball him-what you will, your selling
agedt, -your commission merchant or
your distributer, he is absolutely neces
sary uhder present regulation of so
ciety, while all people do not grow suf
ficient food for their owni needs in their
own gardens or manufacture other
necessities in their own household.
Let us say the farmer grows suffl
cient produce to supply 1,000 families.
The farmer cannot sell his crop to the
1,000 consumers, as the consumer only
wants a bushel of potatoes or a sack of
flour when he needs it. Consequently
the 1,000 consumers buy from 100 retail
grocers. The 100 grocers cannot be
handled hy the farmer, as they require
credit, and will only buy small quanti
ties as their trade demands. So that
we have the agent or commission mer
chant who provides the only outlet for
the farmer.
If this process of distribution is un
avoidable and inevitable, who profits
most by the original -labor of the
farmer? Mly answer is, that factor
who has the most brains.
From the beginning of mankind the
rule of the survival of tihe littest main
tained.
The conmn ission tmen reo astute,
k¶4bmeme
Reliable evidence is abundant that women
are constantly being restored to health by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
The many testimonial letters that we are continually pub
lishing in the newspapers-hundreds of them-are all genu
ine, true and unsolicited expressions of heartfelt gratitude
for the freedom from suffering that has come to these
women solely through the use of Lydia E. Plnkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Money could not buy nor any kind of influence obtain
such recommendations; you may depend upon it that any
testimonial we publish is honest and true-if you have any
doubt of this write to the women whose true names and
addresses are always given, and learn for yourself.
Read this one from Mrs. Waters:
CAMDErN, N.J.-" I was sick for two years with nervous spells, and
my kidneys were affected. I had a doctor all the time and used a
galvanic battery, but nothing did me any good. I was not able to go
to bed, but spent my time on a couch or in a sleeping-chair, and soon
became almost a skeleton. Fihally my doctor went away for his
health, and my husband heard of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and got me some. In two months I got relief and-now I
am like a new woman and am at my usual weight. I recommend
your medicine to every one and so does my husband."--Mrs. TILLIe
WaTERS, 1135 Knight St., Camden, N.J.
And this one from Mrs. Haddock:
' UTICA, OKLA.--"I was weak and nervous, not able to do my work
and scarcely able to be on my feet. I had backache, headache, palpi
tation of the heart, trouble with my bowels, and inflammation. Since
taking the Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I am better
than I have been for twenty years. I think it is a wonderful medi
cine and I have recommended it to others."-Mrs. M.aY ANN HAD
DOCK, Utica, Oklahoma.
Now answer this question if you can. Why should a
woman continue to suffer without first giving Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial? You know that
it has saved many others-why should it fail in your case?
;For 80 .Ayrsr rydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable
]mnpOund has been the standard remedytor fe
mAle ls ~ No one sik with womean's almpents
doel jualeetohersel i she does not try thi ta
maoltg medilei made firm roots and herba, it
sow o utfu womentoheaIlth.
t MEDIClit U0.
N I~ 1A LYNN, ASS for adviei .
read answered
by a woman and in trice.
clever business etratigists; they ar'
the brainiest of the retail merchants
graduated to wholesalers, then to spe
cialists. ' Their supremacy 'today has
only come about by observation, educa
tion and development of business sa
gacity and acumen.
If the farmer would get a Just share
of the profits he must fit brains against
brains to get the consumers' money.
The consumers' end Qf the game does
not concern the farmer; he, the con
sumer, must take care of himself.
My friends will admit that this is
not an age of altruism, that the mil
lennium has not yet been reached, so
that, as in the past, in all forms of
business and lines of endeavors, the
most aggressive, progressive, enter
prising and up-to-the-minute members
are the shining lights and leaders; in
other words, to be successful nowadays
you must get out of the rut; no busi
ness will stand still, it will either pro
gress or retrogress.
The United States government has
been spending large sums of money for
many years, trying to teach the farmer
ways and means of improving his own
conditions, not only as to how to culti
vate his land, but how to make his life
worth living, and endeavoring to incul
cate into his oftime adamantine
cranium, common sense business meth
ods.
Farmerman and C. S. Hinman, as
well as all other farmers in Montana,
hdve at their disposal the farmers' in
stitute, hor'ticultural society meetings,
county fairs, agricultural bulletins and
many other means of enlightenment of
which they can avail themselves or
heedlessly neglect, just as they see fit,
but I venture to say that during our
time the wide-awake farmer who fol
lows the progressive, scientific sys
tems in his methods will far out-shine
the pessimist as a successful man.
"There is a tide in the time of all
men when opportunity knocks at our
door. If we fail to grasp it then that
tide recedes forever more."
Let us do for ourselves, for we are
here today and gone tomorrow. Your,
concern, my friends, is not the ultimate
outcome in the far future. "We must
abide by the present, connive and
scheme to' profit now under tile pre
vailing conditions.
It is well to conserve our natural re
sources, but the greatest gift that we
can Iequeath to our posterity is an in
telligence to do for themselves, for they
will have new and different problems
from those that confront us today.
Is it not well then that we should
avail ourselves of knowledge how to
succeed and prosper when it is so
easily obltained?
We are told to co-operate, that in
unity there is strength. This is wise
and good, if tihrotlgh it we find a means
of matching out* brains with that of
the commission men, to reach the gold
of the consumer; but this phase cov
ers only one side of the farmers' prob
lemn.
\Vithout the goods we cannot sell
them; if we don't raise a. crop we have
no use for the society of equity or any
other selling force, and I cannot see the
point of the intelligent farmer's con
ten.ion when he spreads the propa
ganda that he is injuring his own
prospects if he raises two blades of
grass where but one grew before.
To go further into the practical side
of the question klkhh'ti ent
fasrmer should know, let ui .'wht all
this money spent in the atelulttYraJ
i6tijtient of our go erliment has
done for the "willing to learn" farmer.
lHas it not taught him how to plant,
when to plant and what to plant on
barren soils by supplying whatever the
Sil .needed in the way of vegetable or
4beitotaL fertilizer or legqume microbes?
laa "it not taught him hOW to stop the
ravages of disease, insect pest and
what not; how to cull out his flocks,
'inmprove his herd, grade his dairy, and
a thousand and one ways of making
two dollars where but one was obtained
before?
To get back to blades of grass, is not
a large crop of hay better in quality
than a scant crop? Is not the quality
of grain superior with a heavy stand
and big yield than a light crop pro
du!ee? Does not quality count in any
market? How do you figure time,
labor and energy with relation to the
cost of a big crop and a small crop?
There is no end to this line of argu
ment, so I will stop here. Give Ine Ihe
big crop, you take the little one.
F. M. ILAWRENCE.
Missoula, February 13, 1914.
CAPTAIN STOOD PAT
ONRULES
COMMANDER OF MONROE SAYS
HE MIGHT HAVE AVOIDED COL
LISION BY BREAKING LAWS.
Philadelphia, Feb. 13.-Captain Ed
ward E. Johnson, commander of the
steamship Monroe, testified today in
the trial of Captain OsmYn Berry of
the steamship Nantucket, that if he
(Johnson) had violated the interna
tional rules of the high seas, he prob
ably could have avoided the collision
of the two ships and the consequent
loss of 41 lives. This was brought
out in his cross-examination by coun
sel for Captain Berry, who is charged
with negligence.
The international rules provide that
in case of fog a steam vessel hearing
the fog signal of a vessel, the position
of which is not ascertained, shall, so
far as circumstances permit, stop her
engines and then navigate with cau
tion until danger is past.
Captain Johnson testified that when
he heard the Nantucket's fog whistle
off the MOnroe's starboard bow, he
stopped his engines and that a minute
later, when he saw the loom of the
Nantucket's light he went ahead full
speed aport.
"If I had put my helm hard a-star
board and gone ahead full speed wnen
I heard the fog whistle I probably
would have cleared the Nantucket.
That is the only possible thing, I tnmk,
I could have done to avoid the collis
ion, but I should have been violating
the laws."
LABORITES ACCUSED
OF REBELLION
PREMIER BOTHA CHARGES AN AT
TEMPT TO INCITE REVOLU
TION IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Capetown, Union of South Africa,
i$eb. 13.--General Louis Botha, premier
of the Union of South Africa, declared
in parliament today that the govern
ment was faced with a revolution dur
ing the recent general strike. He was
speaking in the debate on the bill to
indemnify the government for its acts
in declaring martial law and sup
pressing the movement with the aid
of the military.
"Had it not been for the action of
the government," he said, "the coun
try would have been plunged into a
reign of arson and murder. Euro
pean agitators were at the time ex
horting the natives to rise in support
of the strike and the men who were
at the head of the movement sat on
the labor benches in this parliament."
RONAN
Ronan, Feb. 13.-(Special.)-C. H.
Dexter of Poison was a guest
Mrs. T. J. Ferrelr of Missoula is in
Ronan visiting her daughter, Mrs. A.
M. Sterling, for a few weeks.
Mike Nuce hauled eight big loads of
hogs to Ravalli Sunday, about 95
in all. He is selling off all of his
hogs and expects to leave for Helena
about the first of April.
The Mountain States Telegraph anct
Telephone line was down since last
Wednesday, at the time of the big
storm, and was straightened up late
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Baurdonan
were in Ronan Monday enroute to St.
Ignatius on business.
T. J. Allison of Spokane stopped at
the Sterling Monday.
Mrs. M. Dallmo left Tuesday for
Spokane and Otis Orchard, Wash.,
where she will visit for some time and
from there she will join Mr. Dallmo
and go to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where
Mr. Dallmo has bought ,land and they
will make their future home. Their
many friends wish them success in
their new home.
UNDER ADVISEMENT.
Denver, Feb. 13.-The supreme court
took under advisement today a peti
tion for leave to file an application
for an original writ of habeas corpus
for "Mother" Mary Jones, now held
prisoner by the state national guard
at Trinidad as an alleged Inciter of
riot-and disot.der. The petitioner was
Ioraee N.' Hawkins, counsel fi)t the
United MifoWorketa of America.
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BLUEJACKE1S LANDED
TO GUARD FOREIGNERS
Washington, Feb. 13.--Thirty-five
American bluejackets were landed
from the cruiser San F'rancisco at
Cape Haitien. Haitt, today to protect
foreigners and their property. Cap
tain Harrison reported to the navy
department that he expected the crisis
there tomorrow and was ready to land
more men.
Commander Harrison said he had re
ceived information of the approach of
the Hattien federal forces by hoth
land and sea in Provisional President
Zamor's effort to crush the power of
General Theodore, who has set up a
separate government at Cupe Ilaltten.
Officials here have confidence that
there is ample forte on the ean Fran
cisco to protecte uch American inter
elts as are centered in the threatened
I seaport.
It is ekp.ted hBere that if the
fighting is catried into the limits of
C'apel Ilalten proper, the Am.lriati
iomtnltndtlter will illHist ilturn thie te
tablihmllelnlt of i Ilou tral ZOnll in[o
whiich AInieriicans and othler tire f)igtir
and non-i'iiieiiiiathanta tnay retire forl
tsafety.
ANOTHER PLANET FOUND.
\W£nche:;ter, Mass., lFe',. 13. T- he
Rev. Joecl II. Metcalf., an almateut'r is
IItr'+lo nom r, who haslil diso.(l red .'v\eral
elrometl arnrrnoulnced today that his oh
ser.lvations hadl ;tddedl another a ster.oid
to the klnownl plaihnet of the soltar sys
tern. If the ti00 bodier existing be
tween the orbits of .Mltar and ,Jlplitelr,
Mr. MetealIf has diseov'ercd 40). The
laitct astelroid has allt estilnatetd di
arleter of 50f0 miles.
LwGrippe Leaves Its Victims Prostrate.
Some victims of la grippe never fully
recover the health of the lungs, and
persistent corlghing is weakening. The
quick action of Foley'r Honey and Tar
makes it valuable in severe la grippe
cougha. F. G. Prevo, Bedford, Ind.,
writes: "Ia grippe left me with a se
vere cough that Foley's Honey and Tar
cured, and I am back to my normal
weight." Missoula Drug Co,-A Iv.
TRUSTS TRY TO SAVE
THEIR PRECIOUS SKIN
Wa\\'lshini.n, Feb. 1l. Two sults
in.t the ihermtnti anti -tri.|t law
begun within the last year mavy he
totiled lw t of ci. rt by Attforney len
ral t11rl:eYnldsh. It hleenmen known
tulia ) that re lp tlre entativ .es of both the
AmeIlritt .li mt nitnriniv anli the Corn
rl'rnirls Reftinio company have tp
litred i the' departmetni of justlce
aill (IuIIn nlElotiati.nts which may
l.ld to agr eements without further
Igail ipr'c edingits.
Backache-Rheumatism Vanish Away.
Men and women having backache.
rheumatisimn stiff and swollen joints
are honestly glad to know that Foley
Kidney Pills are suclcessful everywhere
Iin driving out these ills. That Is be
cause Foley Kidney Pills are a true
medicine and quickly effective in all
dikeaaes that result from weak, ittac
tive kidneys and urinary irregularities.
Missoula Drug Co.*-Adv.
STANDARD OIL GETS
CHINESE CONCESSION
New York, Feb. 13.-Dispatches
from Peking yesterday that the Stand
ard O(il company had entered into an
agreement with the Chinese govern
ment for the development of oil fields
in certain prov ces were confirmed
today by W. E. Bemis, vice president
of the Standard Oil company of New
York. Mr'. ,emis said the proposed
Chitnes-American company to be or
ganized for the development work
would be, a partnership between the
Standard Oil company of New York
0and the Chinese government, in Whiceh
[ the government would hold a minority
interest.
I Preliminary arrangements for thi
agreement, he said, included a laa 4pt
a $15,000,000 to the Chinese, qVernft.ait
butt that feature was 4r)e4 ig " ea,
final plans. The company.1' i* t
ment in China now amlonwtt t
$2,000,000, he add ed.