Milk River Valley news. [volume], March 15, 1906, Image 2

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MILK RIVER VALLEY HEWS
HARLEM, MONT.
Hews Pub. Co., F. N. Wild, Manager
“lit* that 1 . *>» V.”
but he ought Ij U.i the tiulh the tx. t
of the day.
Anyhow. It Is n luipnNc that
leads people t.» make .1 |*•«* i «•»' insanity
on behalf of 1! J. :.i .•
Apparently t’o r;;II.*-. will have
0 chance t > charge a few fat flues
against their re* ;;t;* . t u Is.
If Mrs. Aw tor Keeps on paring clown
the r in* ’.iCvl she : y s i 1•*
bear.l inurinuri:i;*. "\U : : seven,"
Paying $40,000 tvr a carnnM n !*eits
the I Mitch, whose 1 .n'd.ig tulip eutli t
ilnst paid 13,000 torins fir a single
bull •
A new substitute for tobacco is re
ported to -have bcM*n found. This will
Hot, however, lie interesting to cigar
ette smokers.
Granting, for the sake of the argu
ment. that copious indulgence in wine
will prevent appendicitis, tin* same may
be said of strychnine.
The Czar’s compliments to President
Roosevelt, and lie would res|K>etfuily
suggest that race suicide is not a mark
er t > race homic ide'.
Mr. Carnegie is going to write the
history of Ids life. 'Flic book will have*
tr large if it*- pirtrerr n eopy
of it in each of his libraries.
Bourke Cockran says no man with
$10,000,000 run In* put in jail. Sm*li
declarations as this will not in* likely
to stop the* mad rush for money.
The corrldcr carriage and the Pull
man ear. the* growing lir.geaew < f the
oceansteamer. h;.\c !ielpc*d t» melt t!»«*
lonely Icelierg of c . hi dve:n •».
One hundred t’.; anaad dollar salar
ies are very nearer at the present time*.
This may be the rest so:« why some pen
pie think there is g leg t * or a panic*.
"Can wrong Is* done on tie* plea that
it will cud in right?*' «‘.;s .lolin I>f
Kockefeller. Jr. h «aa. i: is. .Cud*
it Is possible to give names if n • -
wary.
In cpioting scripture- as an auth i ity
iigahist the giving c f parses, the* Pen:i
syivania otliclals appear to li:.\c* over
looked how often the Bible says . “And
it came to pass.”
A doctor Is said to have* permitted
consumption to get the* lietter of him
so that he might study if. As the* ex
perience killed him. there is'some curi
osity ms to what he IhPohlh to-do with
the knowledge acquired
Complaint Is made that English ships
are carrying dricsl beef t<» Porto lUro
because there are no Americ*an ships to
do it. However, the gentlemc*n who
complain arc* at llberty-to Imlld all tin*
shijes they think they could use.
Prof. Newton may argue In favor of
putting the helpless to but it will
be difficult to convince- the world that
old age, disease, and helplessness are
offenses against society. Would Prof.
Norton kill his father for any such rea
sons?
"What do you think of that moun
tain?" Maid a member of Congress with
the* recent Taft party in the* far East
to a companion, who happened to be a
Western Senator of Massachusetts
birth. "That," answered he, "is the
mountain that was In iny geography
when I was a boy." What higher com
pliment c*ould Ik* paid to an object by
a mun who lias seen most of the great
things in the world than to say that it
comes up to the expectations of the age
when the imagination is strong?
Professor <'buries Eliot Norton of
llarvurd has publicly auiiotiuccil that
lie Ik in the noble company of those
who think the death of persons in cer
tain physical and mental conditions
should !»• benevolently hastened. The
professor makes plenty of
and conditions, but one thing he lacks,
like ail others who have expressed such
views lie does not tell us who Is to
decide aud in what way and under
wliat safeguards who shall and who
shall not be made way with. Herein
lies one objection to euthanasia which
feta'ins to be insuperable.
Tosslldy Canada will not lie satisfied
«utir'd' chain of forts stretches along
her southern border from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. This In spile of the
fact tliut the United Stales has pot ;!,.
remotest Intention of invading In the
days of the late lamented "Richelieu
otherwise known as Robinson, the lion's
tall was twisted porlodirally and with
vigor, usually in the house of reprcs. n
tatives. though It is proper to observe
that the lion did not know il. lint
twisting hUH gone into desuetude of the
Innocuous variety, and Fenians no long
er entertain the hope of taking Toronto
or Quebec. Moreover, it is worthy of
remark that (lie chain would Is' no
obstruction —there would Is- plenty of
room between the forts, t'nliudu lias
belter use for the money they would
cost.
The aubtreasury building in New
York is already adorned with a fine
•tatue of Washington, who was first
inaugurated as President in federal
Hall, which stood on that site. A
bronze tablet commemorating another
eveht of historic interest has recently
been placed In the bkllding. On Oct.
27, ;7-87, in Federal Hall, the Cnlted
States sold to Manasseh Cutler and
W nthrop- Sargent, who represented
the Ohio Company of Ass dates, a
tract of lamT containing a mllli >ti an 1
a half acres on the Ohio ltlver. Tills
transaction followed the passage <».'
the famous ordinance of 1787, which
created the "Territory Northwest of
the Ohio'River," and which Daub*
Webster ranked as second in import*
mice to the Declaration of ludepeii.h
once. From that territory have l.ee.i
made the great States of Old i, Ill*
> ;■ ua. Illhiaife, Michigan and Wiscon
sin. The tablet was erected by the
"< h!o Company of Associates"- —an or
g.Hiirrdinn formed to perpetuate the
n.e --.pry of th - eighteenth century us
soi-intlon. The same society intends
also to place u similar tablet In Bos
ton. on the site of the Bunch of Grapes
Tavern, where ttfe Ohio Company was
formed, another on the campus of thu
college Jilt Marietta; Otrlrr. amt pUHsP
bly others in the capitals of each of
tin* flvo States .which were a part of
tin* old tmiroix
A large number of eminent British
physicians and physiologists have made
a public protest against the* small
amount of sleep allowed to Iwys at
English secondary and higher schools.
They declare that a minimum of nine
hours of unbroken rest in summer and
nine and a half in winter is needed
by tile average boy of from Id to Id.
whereas Investigation has shown that
in tjie majority of tin* schools the
| sleeping hours range from eight to
,' i-gni and ;l half li »urs. A great wrong.
| say these medical authorities, is in
| dieted on these hoys, who leave school
poorly equipp'd for the struggles of*
life hath in Jiody and In mind. The
trouble is due to insufficient realiza
tion of the selejutlflc fact that children
and young |K*ople require sleep not
merely for the i*ecu|K*rutfou ami main
lenanee of existing tissue, which Is, the
«*ase with adults, but also for the more
important purposes of growth and de
j•; l juuent. Principals are anxious to
jg* t results, and parents generally «s
--m::iu* that the firmer pay the neees
s-.rv at lent lon to qne>tl.nis of pliysleal
' and mental vigor as well as to sehiil-
I ar.-iii•» and moral liaidts; in <*on*o
i quoin e, a serious evil lias hee:i permit
rted to grow up, It Is interesting to
not * that t!ie practice «if the United
States is relied on by tin* protestors
to bring about the improvement de
sired. In America, they say, the
priqver amount of sleep :s insisted on.
and can* is taken to prevent disturb
mice* and noise on the part of seniors
disposed to play tricks at the expense
of the juniors. The-sleep question, as
some comments point our. is really
much broader. At college undergrad
uates are reproached-* for taking too
many hours for rest, and tin* virtue of
doing without sleep is exploited by
-thoughtless person* who forget that
there are considerable individual differ
ences of sleep requirement even among
adults. We are told that this or that,
great man Humboldt. .\ii|>olcoii.
Gladstone —managed to get along with
four or five, hours’ sleep out of the
twenty-four, and imitation or emula
tion of these exemplars is regarded as
a noble practice, if not a duty. The
Saturday Review assails such "busy
bodies’* with Justifiable ferocity and
tells them that they an* blatant mil
nances. "A sleep," it goes on to say.
"of eight or nine hours after a reason
ably hard day’s work, and a doze of an
hour or so after waking in the
morning, with, perhaps, n cup of tea
just before rising—It is tills kind of
thing that makes life pleasing and
worthy." Of course, our Tory contem
porary is referring to the "upper
classes.", but those who cannot have
the extra doze ajid the tea between
can yet take to heart the
regarding the* need and the virtue of
sufficient sleep and the folly of apolo
gizlng with a sense of shame for fall
ing short of exalted standards.
All I nal ii un t lun.
Sybyl I)i(l you notice that hand wine
man at the concert who stared at mo
nearly all the evening?
Ethyl Yen.
Sybyl I wonder who it could have
been V
Ethyl -Why. that wan Prof, l’iorce,
the celebrated mind render. He is
spending Ids vacation here.
They ( nine llltch.
“It strikes me." said the lady with
the family sized market basket, “that
your vegetables are rather high."
"Naturally, ma'am." replied the new
hoy. “They wen* raised on a roof gar*
den.’"’
To lie Sii re.
“I'm afraid." said the junior member
• nf the law tirm. “that we are causing
unr client unnecosiuiry trouble.”
“(Hi. that's all right." rejoined the
! senor niemlnT. “We'll charge him for
I it-”
I* ii (11 it Down I*r«» Inii ( i > .
Eighteen thousand members of a
Human t'utliollc society. called tin* lloly
Name Society, marched through Brook
lyn's streets recently. handed together
to put an end to blasphemy and pro
faulty.
lira (lon In Natural lliatory.
•The ark was made of gopher-wood;
In it were gophers two.
If you were to go for n goplior. would
A gopher go lor .veil?
- St. Nieiiohis.
\N hen people make some statements,
are they mistaken, or do they doJlber
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GREAT CHICAGO iEeTAIL ST<
THE world's greatest merchant died when .Mar
shall Field of Chicago succumbed to pneumonia
in New York after a brave battle for lift*.
There was no element of chance In the re
markable success which he achieved. Thor
oughness in organizing and extending his great busi
ness was joined to a genius for choosing men to co
operate with him and for inspiring them to accomplish
the best work of which they were capable. Thoso
whom be employed were made to realize that large re
wards were to be won in bis service and that the way
to advancement was open to any one who showed merit.
Yet his master mind was in command at all times and
In every department, even when his firm had grown to
be the greatest of its kind in the world. Its greatness
was built on enduring foundations. It discounted all its
bills as a fixed policy and sold goods solely on their
merits, the satisfaction of the customer being regarded
as a necessary part of every transaction.
It lias been said for Marshall Field many times by
observers of his career that in a day of general striving
after the dollar by every means that couid be devised
and without any particular respect for the Interdictions
of the decalogue, his dollars all came to him honestly.
His fortune was very large, but it represented the
profits of clean transactions in which nobody loßt.
There are no feverish spots In his record, no actions
that require explanation or excuse to prevent them from
THRIFT AND WEALTH. Z
French housekeeping may he de
scribed, says the author of “Homo
Life In France,” as the. glorification of
simplicity, a supreme economy of
time, outlay and worry. In France the
furnishing and fitting up of a house
is done for once and for all. English
and American households spend more
upon their homes In a twelvemonth
than French families of the same
standing spend for that purpose dur
ing tile whole of their wedded lives.
Thrift Is always and everywhere the
first consideration; Fuel is erono
liized In France to an extent to which
•V‘ii poor families in this country are
no accustomed. When a French?
w«>man pays visits or goes abroad
topping, she lets her fire go out, and
Mights It on her. return. Many wo
men fairly well-off make a woolen
Shawl and a foot-wuruier do duty for
a fire, perhaps, when It is freezing in
doors.
Money In France Is on no account
whatever to be lightly parted with;
absolute necessity Is the only excuse
for outlny. 1
Hut there Is a shining side to this
frugality. French men nml women do
not affect sumptuous stylo for the sake
of outsiders, and their unpretcutloua
ness imparts a dignity mere wealth
cannot bestow. The following Inci
dent la illustrative of French stand
ards:
The author, Miss Hethnin-Edwards,
luul been spending u few days with
WORM'S GREATEST MERCHANT DEAD.
a French friend, widow of an officer
nt Pontic. On returning to Nantes
she took a third-class ticket, to the
astonishment of her hostess.
“I always travel first-class,” she ex
claimed. after a little chat about the
matter of trains, addjing, “but I do not
travel often, and I am rich. I have
an income of two hundred pounds a
year."
Probably she never spend two-thirds
of It. In this suprome sense the vast
majority of French folk are rich, “be
yond of avarice."
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Comparatively few people in this
country do not know something of
Jumes Whitcomb lUley. lu Indiana
JAM KS WHITCOMII RIIXT.
everybody either knows or knows of
him. lie is their sweet singer. Klley
was horn at Greenfield, In the Iloosier
State, In 18M. We do not know why.
In the biographical sketch we have be
fore us, the month and day were over
CHBOHOLO3T OF FXELD.
Born on a farm near Conway, Mass., Ans.
lb, 1836.
Worked on father's form until he wts IT
year* o.d, tfheti he became a clerk In a
crose-roads store near home.
At in he entered employment of a firm at
lMitsdeld, .Muss., where he remained four
year*.
In 1868, when he was 23, he came to (’hl
cugo, then a city oi 50.000 inhabitants. Ob
tained a poult lon with Cooley, Farwell JL Co.
Promotion followed qulcaiy, until, In 1800,
he was taken Into partnership. Levi Z.
l/olter, >tho had been a fellow clerk, had
hi ho been advanced to a partnership.
In ISGO the tirm was reorganized and be
came-known an Field, Palmer X letter. Tho
Palmer in the tlrm was Potter I‘aimer.
In IStJS Potter Palmer withdrew from the
llrm, which tlieu became known as Field &
loiter.
In 1881 Mr. Loiter retired. Since that
time bußlnesH liuk been conducted um Mar
shall Field & Co. Firm is now said to have
u trade amounting annually to £76,000,000.
After lie hud been taken Into partnership
In fheotirm oi Cooley, Farwcll Ac Co., he
.married MU* Nannie Scott, of Iroaton, O.
Two children were born of union, Mar
shall Field, Jr., who was accidentally
last November, and Ethel, who married Ar
thur Tree, son of Tree, and later
esiKMiHed Captain Beattie, a British army oi
-
Mrs. Nannie Scott Field died In France In
1800.
Win mentioned in connection with nemo:
crattc nomination for the Vico., Presidency
In 1004.
September 6, 1005, married Mrs. Arthur
Caton. In IjindoD.
Paid taxes on $40,000,000 worth of prop
erty In Chicago.
Ills benefactions among other things con
sisted of
(ilft of large tract of land to the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Donation of another tract to the Horae
for the Incurables..
Public library costing SIOO,OOO at Con
wav, Mali*.
Fudowiucnt of Field Museum in Jackson
Park.
RE OF MARSHALL FIELD & CO.
reflecting upon his honorable name. The largest Indi
vidual taxpayer in the United Stutes. not because he
was the wealthiest man, blit because he did not conceal
Ids wealth, he was an Inspiration to good citizenship.
The creator of the greatest of American museums, as
well as one of the chief contributors to the University
of Chicago and other institutions, he was truly public
spirited and was so recognized.
That high offices sought this silent, retiring man is
well known. Positions on national tickets wore urged
upon him by managers of political conventions. Ills
counsel on financial and other questions was valued by
lending statesmen. His influence in the business affairs
of the country was very great. The enviable reputation
which Chicago has for strength and conservatism In
finance and In the conduct of vast enterprises is in no
small degree a reflex of the counsels and example of
Marshall Field.
Here, then, was a great man who won no success
by speculation, no huge fortune by tlie exploiting of
monopolies. He gave value for what he got. lie sold
honest goods ut an honest profit. He bought real estate
and improved it in the best possible way in order that
It bight give him a fair return. Knowing how to draw
good profits from Ids possessions, he had no hesitation
in paying his proper share 'toward the support of the
government. To business men of to-day his example is
no less inspiring than is that of the good and faithful
servant In the parable.—Chicago News.
looked, hut they were. However, that
is not material. In round numbers he
Is 5,i years of age*. lie received a pub
lic school education, after which lie
became a sign painter. After he had
deemed himself un artist along this line
Itlley liecanie a strolling player and
comi>osed songs and remodeled plays
for the company of which lie was a
member. Still later lie became an edi
torial writer on an Indianapolis news
paper. In 187.‘1 Indiana newspaper
editors began to receive poems from
his |kmi. lie wrote in the Indiana dia
lect, and soon became famous 11s "The
Iloosier Poet.” lie dues not, however,
confine himself to the Iloosier dialect,
but has written much in literary Eng
lish. His public readings from his o\vn
hooks have become quite popular. There
Is a quaint, fascinating charm about
Ills poems, and ho is one of the most
familiarly known literntours of the
Pnlted States. Riley is a bachelor, nev
er having married “That Old Sweet
heart of Mine.” Toledo l}lade.
Which lie IVa.u't.
"Say,” Hit id. Heeler, "don't enll me
tile Imihh of tlie ward.’ Thnt’H too coin
moil. Make it ‘ruler’ or something like
that."
"Oh ! I couldn't call you that,” re
plied the reiKirler.
"Why not? I'm a sort of a ruler,
ain't I ’t"
"Well, yes; but there’s another sort
of ruler that's ulways straight"—Phil
adelphia Press.
Aa a general thing, those who re
fresh their souls every morning by
memorizing a bit of poetry, are late
to vyork and lose their Jobs, aud caa
afterward take u whole day to It
A of special hardness, patent
«l lu Germany by F. SI mister, results
from subjecting the molten nielnl to
«i blast of nitrogen.
With a tensile strength oflen ex
cewllng three hundred thousand
pounds per mpiure ltleh, sltvnl piano
wire seems to be the siroiigi-st mnte
rlitl known, nnd it posseses the nddl
tlonnl valuable property of a very high
elastic limit.
A peculiar process for Kcpnruting
non-imtgnetlc particles like gold from
sand has been patented by 1.. T.
Weiss. The metallic particles in mass
are electroplated with Iron, by a spe
cial apparatus, anil can then be separ
ated by any magnetic method. *
Glass water-pipes, which have ;i
covering of asphalt to prevent frac
ture,-are In use in some parts of (icr-
Iflniry. They give thorough protec'tloti
against moisture in the ground,
against the action .of acids nnd alka
lies. and they cannot be penetrated by
gases.
Hr. Max Iteithoffer. a professor in
the Technical High School of Vienna,
In conjunction with llerr Karl Mora
weiz. the government Inspector of
'locks, has completed a system for
synchronizing clocks by means of
wireless telegraphy, and pyaailsslon
has lifcu secured for regulating tho
public docks by this agency.
The use of milk of lime for iiuiclo
ly and effectively extinguishing tires
In coal mines is recommended by In
spect,,r Wolfgang i- qtinner, a Ger
man. The suggestion is not neV,'but
has been newly tested with satisfac
tory results. The emulsion —which
can he us il with hand or power
pumps—runs Into and 1:11s tho crevices
of the coal or mineral.
A tfew type of mitrailleuse Is being
constructed at the government arms
factory of St. Htlenne. France. Tills
weapon is far more powerful than the
existing type, its tiring capacity being
three hundred shots per second, with
a maximum range of .1,400 yards. The
tests with the weapon have proved
highly satisfactory, except for a nat
ural tendency to become heated
through continued discharge, hut this
defect is I,ring remedied.
Tile Gaulois of i'.uis lias been in
vestigating that grave question. "Why
do men wear mustaches’/"’ About one
hundred men answere 1 the om-stlon.
Six replied that it was ton much trou
ble to shave, one declared that it was
to hide ids teeth, another that Ills
long nose without it gave hint a bad
appearance, and three that It avoided
•■colds. Three others maintained Hint
It improved the air they breathed, and
seven were of the opinion flint a mus
tache was necessary to health. Seven
teen men were content to state that
1 1 icy did it to pie. iso tl mm selves, while
only two said it was to please their
wives. About sixty gave the reason
that women did not like clean-shaven
men.
F. Hoflcin. a German naturalist, baa
recently seen in t’cyiou a specie* of
ant. tile occuphyllu smaragdlua, itt the
act of “sewing” two leaves together
for the purpose (if forming a nest.
Tills observation confirms the report
of the Kuglish naturalist, liidley,
made lu ISIHI. Dotleiu saw a row of
llte insects pulling the edges of the
leaves together; then others trimmed
and lifted the edges, nnd litm Ily n
seam was made by fastening the
cslgcs with a ,silky thread, yielded by
larvae of the same species which the
workers carried in their mnmlihlea.
lie made a drawing Illustrating the
method of working. According to
Ridley, the sewing ants pass the
thread-giving larvae like shuttle#
through holes in the edges of the
leaves.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. WHO
WON VICTORY IN ENGLAND.
f —
Joseph Chamberlain, who won :i no
table victory l'or the tariff-^unionist
cause nt Birmingham, England, and
who will In* one of the f«»w members of
tin* Balfour government rctunnsl to
'Parliament, has been a member of the
latter Itody nineo l*vßT». Ho has lieen
tlirloe Mayor of Birmingham and serv
ed as Secretary of the Colonies. Presi
dent of tlu* Iroenl Government’ Boa rd.
and President of the Board of the Or
ganizers of the Unionist party. Mr.
('lmmlH-rlalu's wife Is Mary, daughter
of \V. s’. Kiidleott, Secretary of War
lu President Clevelnud'a first
lie Ims been Chancellor of the Univers
ity of Birmingham and also served av
I sin 1 Rector of Glasgow University.
Tell an old-fashioned man lie eata
too mueli and lie will sny: "Well ,1
don't want to owe my stomveh anys
thing \rben I die.”