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E. P. THORNE, Ed. and Prop'r.
FORE8T CITY, 80UTH DAKOTA
escape of a student who fell down
the Lutschlne gorge in the Alps, but
was caught on a rock and remained
suspended for two days and nights re
calls to the London Chronicle another
Grindewald escape of which Leslie
Stephen tells. Returning from the
chalet above the Elsmeer, one of
Stephen's guides, Michel, reached the
edge of a cliff where a wooden rail
guarded the path. Unfortunately the
rail left off prematurely, and Michel
had ben drinking. So he stepped over
and fell on hard rock nearly 100 feet
below. He lay there all night and next
morning got up and walked home sober
and whole. Stephens submits two
morals for choice: "Don't get drunk
when you have to walk along the edge
of an Alpln.e cliff," and "Get drunk if
you are likely to fall over an Alpine
cliff."
According to some authorities, Bris
tol, England, has a special claim to
fame as the city where turtle soup was
Invented by a seventeenth ccntury
mayor, who was also a ship owner. The
captain of one of his ships brought
home a live turtle, thinking that the
owner would like to have it in his fish
pond. This happened Just as the
mayor was about to give a civic ban
quet and deeming that his guests might
appreciate a new dish, he ordered the
turtle to be stewed. The aldermen
were so delighted with the novelty th.at
they re-elected their host to the mu
nicipal chair nine times running.
The work that is being done in this
country in the direction of the abolition
of grade crossings is shown by that
of one corporation, the Pennsylvania
company. It has In 11 years abolished
1,052 grade crossings, at a total cost,
according to the Englncrlng N.ews, of
$66,641,294, or an average of more than
$63,000 for each crossing removed. But
that road lias still' 12,027 grade cross
ings to remove, which would cost $600,
000,000, if only $50,000 were allowed for
each. As it has spent on this work an
average of about $6,000,000 a year, it
would take a century at the present
rate to eliminate the rest.
In spite of better construction, more
accurate charts and th,e continued im
provements of lighthouse service, the
aea still takes an enormous annual toll
in property and lives. The marine dis
asters of 1913 amounted in money value
to $35,000,000 in British insured ships
and cargoes that were totally lost. On
,the Great Lakes alone the storm of last
'November rolled up a loss of $4,700,000.
The above figures do not include dam
age to ships and cargoes that were not
total losses, for these, tlys damage
amounted to over $30,000,000.
Lady Mount Stephen, whose hus
band Is likely to succeed Lord Strath
icona as high commissioner for Canada
In London, is probably Queen Mary's
oldest and most Intimate friend. Be
fore her marriage In 1897 to the Cana
dian millionaire peer, she was Miss
Olan Tufnell, and was lady in waiting
and the favorite companion of the late
duchess of Teck. She had been the
friend and confidante of the queen
from her girlhood, as well as a great
favorite with all the members of the
Teck family.
A recent Interesting development in
the corset trade of India, in which the
United States has the most important
share, Is that native women of high'
caBte—known as purdah women, be
cause they keep their faces covered
with purdahs, or thick veils, and live
a life of seclusion from the opposite se*
—are beginning to wear corsets like
their European sisters, and are now
furnishing a new class of customers
for such articles.
In 1838—only 76 years ago—the Sirius,
a two-masted steamer with wooden
paddle wheels and one funnel* of 412
tons burden, left the Thames for an ad
venturous voyage—the first vessel to
cross the Atlantic under .steams .The
London Chronlcfe prints an interesting
Interview with Rev. Vincent P. Ran
som, a Wiltshire clergymajii who is
believed to. be the only survivor of- the
trip, which was made In 19 days from
London to New York. ..h*
The first nitrogen filled tungsten
lamps to be used for ornamental
street lighting are now In operation in
'Seattle, and have attracted much at
tention by reason of their great Bnl
llancy and pure white color. The new
{nitrogen fllled tungsten lamps are the
/first to be made commercially avail
able, and will replace the. old type of
tungsten lamps now In sorviceon the
principal streets of Seattle.—Electrical
World.
The Edinburgh court of session has
been called on to administer the will
of George Altken, a Musselburg farm
er, who died leaving an estate of $70,
000. A provision of the will Is that at
least" $35,000 is to be expended on a
massive bronze equestrian statute rep
resenting Farmer Altken as champion
at the Riding Musselburgh marches.'
A sum of tlOO is to be expended an
'^nuallyontheupkeep.
They- have calle# their -home Indian
lodge, •:r^.v
admlnlstratlon burieau df the
army has for soma time been
lhtwiOffmi Pimmi OF FEEDING
WOflLB GROWS MORE
COMPLEX EVERY YEAR
focal
rlce
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^Because of the fact that their home Is
IfrH, situated Where the Seminole Indians
used49 worship, Mr. and Mrs. .Fred Stat« should be able to support a
»t- Yates, of Rochester, Fla., have col- copulation of somethimr between 000.
lected, In their, travels 27 wooden In
dians once used to advertise clear
w- FH are plantar to Place theta
double row on either side of the
path between tb« house and the lake.
In enoouragiiig the
ofbetter horses and cattle in
prefectures. Kagoehlma
I* Mpecdally noted for the.
...w. $»?: fc®** rataod there
Aft*11, Owns are fnaiit
island# 4n the Bay of
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Fewer Producers and More Con
sumers—Agriculture in Ameri*
ca Is in Its Infan
cy Onfy.
By J. O. P. Bland, in the Chicago Tribune.
At the international congress of re
frigeration, which was held lasf Sep
tember In Chicago, one point was per
sistently emphasized by all the dele
gates—namely: that the world's visible
meat supplies from all sources was un
equal to the growing demand.
After exhaustive discussion of the
whole subject by experts, opinion was
unanimous that the steadily increasing
of meat cannot be ascribed to
or temporary causes it is simply
and solely due to the increasing burden
of population on this planet and to the
fact that a steadily diminishing propor
tion of that population, in civilized
countries, is engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
The numbers and activities of food
producers, In fact, have been steadily
going down, under pressure of our con
gested Industrialism, while the numbers
and needs of food consumers have
gone steadily up.
James J. Hill, a far-seeing observer
of world economies, foretold three
years ago with extraordinary lucidity
the inevitable, urgent problem with
which civilization is confronted by rea
son of a constantly Increasing artisan
population and the decreased produc
tivity of many lands from which re
serves of food have hitherto been
drawn.
Civilization and the Stomach.
"Civilization (as he Justly observed
in his remarkable book, "Highways of
Progress") is mostly the story of the
triumph of the human stomach in its
struggle for food sufficient for the work
of physical and mental evolution." In
other words, the peaceful progress of
the world depends on the permanent
adequacy of its food supplies, and
these depend upon a sound and suffi
cient agricultural foundation.
Mr. Hill foresaw—as others have
foreseen—that the United States' rapid
transformation from an agricultural to
an Industrial nation must result in a
universal increase in food prices that
It would bring the present generation
face to face with the stern fact that
the old world can no longer look to the
new for constant supplies of meat and
grain.
A hundred years ago only 5 per cent
of the American people lived In towns.
In 1870'half the working population of
the country was engaged in agriculture.
Today the proportion Is less than a
third, and still the movement goes on,
in America as in western Europe, from
the land to the cities.
Think what this means. It means
that the conditions which have made
Great Britain dependent upon foreign
countries for the food supply of its
crowded cities are In process of re
producing themselves in the United
States that, as the proportion of food
producers dwindles and the hosts of
artisan food consumers increase, the
price of life's necessities inevitably
rises—and therefore it is that today we
find the United States Joining the ranks
of the food buying nations.
Better Methods of Production.
Meanwhile the number of the food
selling countries and their capacity to
supply the world's wants are visibly
atld rapidly declining. The solution of
the problem vhlch confronts the world
today (and more especially the Anglo
Saxon world, which has failed to re
cognize the all importance of agricul
ture as tho sure foundations of the
state), lies, as the Chicago congress of
refrigeration wisely concluded, in In
stituting and organizing better methods
of production.
Belgium, France, Germany and
Japan, among modern nations, have
learned betimes the lesson which the
Anglo-Saxon must now take to heart,
namely, that the true wealth of a na
tion lies hi its soil and that agriculture
requires to be more carefully fostered
and scientifically Organized than any
other national industry because upon it
all others depend.
retraining countries with surplus food
to sell will be compelled to protect
theli* own people against the increasing
competition of foreign buyers. When
that day comes necessity, stern moth
er of inventjpn, will compel the people
of the United States—not to speak of
Great Britain—to a more Intelligent
uso of the resources of the land.
Scientifically educated nations, like
Belgium and Germany, have conclu
sively. proved that with proper treat
ment the son should be fible to support
In comfort at least 490 persons to the
square, mile. A figure represents the
result of scientific, not Intensive, cul
ture. Japan, with highly specialised
Intensive culttire, maintains 45,000,000
of people on some 22,000 square miles of
cultivated soil.
What United States Should Do.
Accepting this ratio, and applying It
to the total aera of farm lands In the
United States, It follows that by the
adoption of. similar methods the United
population of something' between 600,
000,000 and
700,000,000.
Yet,
with
population of. 100,000,00, the nation Is
now beginning'to buy wheat from Can
ada and meat from "Australia and the
Argentina.
What,
Herein we. find the fundamental. ex
planation of the American housewife's
bitter cry against the increasing cost
of necessities and of the popular agita
tion against fbod trusts herein ilea the
root causa, of recent tariff reform leg
islation and fit* politicians' increasing
audety for trade outlets Jn /the fu
ture herein, too, lies the cauae of la-
a
does this mean?
Mmply that the United States, putting
Industrialism before agriculture, like
England, must buy food, which must
eventually be paid for by the sale of
her manufactured Drodutts in foreign
markets. .. s.~
..... ,Ja the productivity of
brUjg forcibly mind the pro-
wWch^Lord
yaars
Macatalay saw
ago. "Tb* time wilt
*o wrote to correspondent In
mmm
Distress everywhere makes the fatten
er mutinous and discontented and In
clines him to listen with eagernesB to
agitators who tell him that it Is a
monstrous Iniquity that one man
should have $1,000,000 and another can
not get a full meal.
"The Lost Chord."
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Adelaide Anne Proctor, the author of
"The Lost Chord," was the gifted
daughter of the famous and accom
plished Bryan Waller Proctor (Barry
Cornwall), of London. She was born
in 1825, and at an early age was a
poet of unusual
merit.
In 1851, Miss Proctor joined the
Catholic church, and devoted herself
to charitable labors, working with such
ardor that her health failed, and In 1864
she died.
The Filipino's Reply. a'
From the Century Magazine.
Opponents of Philippine independence
never tire of citing the reply made
years ago by a prominent Filipino
when the congressional party which ac
companied Secretary of War Taft to
the Islands was holding hearings at
Manila. Asked wliv he thought the
Filipinos were ready for self-govern
ment this native witness said: "Be
cause we have a governing class who
know how to rule and a class who know
how to obey." Gargantuan laughter
shook the sides of our American offi
cials. Here was the secret of Filipino
aspirations. A "governing class" ha!
ha! Shades of democracy! Could one
find greater evidence of Filipino incom
petence? Yet the phrase, while inept,
did not convey such an entirely novel
fact. Have we no governing class—no
class which holds office permanently
and unfalteringly? Have we no groups
of men whose intelligence and ability
win for them by common consent, the
power to share our laws and politics?
Had he possessed less sense of de
corum the Filipino witness might have
added that if his country was to be
ruled by a "governing class" they
might at least be native rulers, and not
imported aliens.
GEM3 OF THOUGHT.
Make It a point to do something I
every day that you don't want to
do. This is the golden rule for ac
quiring the habit of doing your
duty without pain.—Mark Twain.
Seek not to pour the world Into thy
little mould,
Each as its nature Is, Its being must
unfold
Thou art but a string In life's vast
sounding board,
And other strings as sweet will not
with thine accord.
—W. W. Story.
HERE'S THE LATEST
STYLE—IN PERSIA
MI88 JANE SALISBURY.
The young lady oft. the other end iof
the divan will tell you that the broad
hip affect In her gown comes from
Persia. You have often been Inclined
to doubt 4t,'but now conies a Persian
play itf which the real Perslan costumes
are worn, and they do have the hips.
It seems a bit odd, but when Omar
Khajryam, he who sang of the red rose,
the red wine ana red lips, now. on the
stage for the first time—Omar, not the
whom hemade so famouai$hi«
she fo clothed in rath avenue
The reason is that Richard Walton
TuUy to get real settings of FarstaT for
"Omar, the Tentmaker," had the co*
,tames tuad» by the tailors to the late
ahah. The costumers are sons of Baron
Halrapet Khan Shahboodaghlan, leader
ofthe
fashions in Persia, wbo.inms
eetabllahtnent iii the' city of Unftia lkaa
ewated the costly garments wora hy
I
Her principal
compositions were chiefly religious
hymns, breathing a simple and com
plete resignation to the Divine will,
and imporlng not gifts and benefac
tions, but grace to accept and endure
whatever her lot might be.
In 1839 she published a volume en
titled "Legends and Lyrics," but her
chief claim to enduring fame rests up
on her lyric, "The Lost Chord," which
under especially unusua.' conditions,
wcas set to music by Sir Arthur
Sullivan, the great English composer,
Sullivan had for some time attempted
to compose an air which should re
flect and intensify the sentiment of
Miss Proctor's composition, but with
out much success. While attending a
brother during a fatal illness he read
from a little volume the words of the
poem and out of the depths of his
weariness and sorrow, composed the
melody which has soothed and com
forted so many aching hearts.
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ADVERTISING IN 1776.
"The war office calls upon all
persons who know
where
flint
stones can be securcd to notify
congress."
Was there aught of prophecy In this
brief appeal printed four days after
the signing of the declaration of inde
pendence?
A copy of the Pennsylvania Packet
contains the advertisement. The news
paper bears date of July 8, 1776, and
In the same column explains that the
flints are to be used for rifles. And
without the old flintlock there would
have been no American independence—
at least not for many more years after
the Boston tea party. If indeed, the
colonials unarmed, could have mustered
up courage to dump the lead lined
boxes Into the bay.
Further perusal of the old newspaper
shows Jamaica rum and sugar were of
fered for sale by the hogshead a re
ward of $6 was offered for the return
of a horse that had strayed away from
the range, and a woman who had lost
two cows rushed into print with the
statement that the individual who
would lead the bovines home again
would be remunerated to the extent of
54.
Sheriff's sales occupy a column and
a half and the Packet's publisher takes
space to announce "advertisements are
thankfully received,"--adding that "un
less subscribers pay their back dues
at 10 cents a copy it would be impossi
ble to continue publication after an
other month."
When Seward Spoke.
In Harper's Magazine are printed the
letters of a northern woman who wras
In Washington at the outbreak of th^
war. The picture she gives of thq
scenes in the Senate are most vidld
and particularly Interesting is an im
pression of Seward as an orator:
"Mr. Seward drew a crowded house
today. We went at 9 o'clock in ordei
to jget seats, and found difficulty In
obtaining them even at an early hour.
We spend so much time in the Senate
that-many of the ladies take their sew
ing or crocheting, and all of us who are
not absolutely spiritual -provide our
selves with a lunch. The gallery of the
Senate is the fashionable place of re
union, and before the Senate meets we
indulge in conversation, sometimes very
spirited, though generally the opposing
factions treat each othter with great"
reserve—a very necessary precaution.
Mr. Seward spoke for nearly four hours,
and I was sorry when he took his seat,
yet for the life of me do not know what
he said, what he did not say, or what
he meant to gay: either his speech was"
above vulgar comprehension or he is
the Talleyrand of America, as I find
no one knows any more than I do, and
yet every one says it was a masterly
effort. He chained the attention of a
promiscuous audience of all classes and
of every shade of opinion for four
hours he offered no compromises he
offered no prejudices he expressed
opinions, but did not commit himself.
It was like a skillful fencer who shows
great adroitness and dexterity in the
use of his weapons, and does not hurt
his opponent, only because he. has taken
the precaution to use blunted foils. It
may be a sleight of hand to which poli
ticians are accustomed, but to me it is
wonderful and argues great reserved
strength. Why does he not exert It to
save the country? The north grows
more and more unyielding every day
the south more and more deliant. Is
there no Curtius to close the gulf?"
Being on Good Terms With Yourself
From the Toledo Times.
Happiness can never come from the
outside to the Inside unless happiness
already exists in the inside. We be
come happy because there are certain
elements within us that respond im
mediately to the things that make up
happiness.
To be thoroughly happy you must be
on good terms with yourself.
Also It means that you have fath
omed the mystery of happiness in
every growing thing about you. A man
that is not on good terms with the
trees and flowers and birds and houses
and the scores of other gifts of nature
can never be upon good terms with
himself. For nature, though silent in
its expression, speaks truths more
wondrous than the expressed truths of
men.
To be thoroughly happy you must be
on good terms with everything about
you.
Did you ever look up into the sky
and ask yourself whether or not you
were on good terms with the stars,
with the planets—with the clouds and
the' marvelous sun that so greatly af
fect your disposition, as these "things
do affect the dispositions of every one?
To .be thoroughly happy you must
make' the wonderful truths and ex
pressions of nature your mental com
panions.
It is impossible for you to be upon
good terras with ail people unless you
fall in alignment with their sympa
thies and their viewpoints. It is im
possible for you to bring out the best
that is within you unless you use as
a basic standing a perfect equality of
terms.
Where Is There a Place-for a Loafer?
From the Duluth Herald.
The Boston Globe has this heading
lng over a long editorial: "Farm no
Place for the Loafer." The editorial
goes on to prove the statement made
in this heading. But It needs ho proof.
It Is axiomatic. The farm Is a place
where industry and intelligence and
persistent application -yield big divi
dends, and where lasiness and Ignor
ance fail.
But where is there a place for the
loafer?
Not In school—because there, as else
where, energy and application win the
victor's laurels.
Not in the office—for there the hus
tler wins/promotion and the loafer gets
kicked out because he Is In the Way.
Not in the shop^-for there the steady
faithful thinking worker gets the best
wages and the foremanshlps and super-'
Intondencies.
Not iii the store—for there those who
study the goods and the builness and
strive ttv pjease patrons win the honors
and the rewardsf
Not in the law, or in medicine, or in
the ministry, or in the school faeultvr
or on the newspaper—for there, as else
where, the loafer soon finds his level,
which is the nearest exit.
Then where is there a place for the
'loafer?^'
The grave, perhaps there Isn't much
going on there but recting—maybe
thafs the -toafcr'a yroper ptaee.
PANAMA ZONE Will
BE H4VEM FOO GAME
Goethals, as Governor, Will En*
force Law to Prevent Pro
miscuous Shooting.
Panama. Special: The coming of H.
El. Anthony and George Shiras as rep
resntatives of the American Museum
of Natural History in New York to
hunt game in the Panama jungle with
camera and gun brings to notice Colo
nel Goethals' ambition to make the
canaly zone a large and safe haven for
beast and fowl as well as a gateway
for commerce. While the bars will bo
let down for the present party and
probably for all who, like Colonel
Roosevelt, may come as "faunal na
turalists," Colonel Goethals wilj carry
out strictly as the "zone's first civil gov
ernor what he has Insisted upon dur
ing his engineering work—that the
can"' zone shall be a game preserve.
So strict have his orders been fol
lowed during the past few years that
seldom has a gun been heard on the
isthmus except in certain brief open
seasons and despite the noise and
powder smoke of the canal blasting,
wild fowl and isthmian game of all
kinds have greatly increased, knowing
well that they are practically safe from
molestation. It Is probable that the
museum men will find as good if not
better specimens than would have been
posible before the canal diggers be
gan work here.
Gatun lake, which covers an area
now of more than 120 square mtles, is
thd paradise for feathered game of all
kinds. They are coming to the lake
in great numbers and each season sees
the feathered tribes increase. Most of
these birds are attracted by the fish
with which the lake is filfed.
The shores and floating islands on
the lake abound in blue- and white
heron, the latter being the bird from
which Is obtained the beautiful aigret
now barred from the United States by
the new tariff act. Then there are bluo
and white cranes, cormorants, pelicans
and several species of the rail family.
An odd feature is the recent arrival of
a number of wild duck. They are be
ginning to come in ever increasing
numbers.
Out of the jungle there are many
deer and the number is on the increase
in spite of the fact that they still are
being hunted. They are not yet on
the taboo list. Tapir, or forest cattle
as the natives call them, also are
numerous and arc becoming quite
tame. It has been noted within the last
few weeks that the wild cat is also on
the increase. Then there are reported
to be many alligators in G&tun lake
and the Chagres and other smaller
rivers.
With the depopulation of the zone,
which Is well under way, there will be
even less hunting and fishing than
there is now. Wild fowl and game will
be undisturbed and probably will make
of the isthmus a permanent home and
haven.
EDUCATION AND GOOD' 'M
ROADS.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.
One of the speakers at a good roads
convention in Port Worth recently de
dclared that there are 70,000 unedu
cated children in Texas "who have
never entered a school house."
In addition to the 70,000 who never
have attended school the speaker said
there are "200,000 absentees from many
sessions." Bad roads unquestionably
are responsible for much absenteeism
in the rural schools. It may be an
open question whether the fact that
70,000 Texas children do not attend
school at all is attributable to bad
roads. There are many children who
do not like to go to school, and thero
are other who do not go because of
poverty or other adverse conditions.
Such_as these would not likely be In
fluenced by the roads.
Irregularity of attendance is a dif
ferent matter from absolute nonattend
ance, and it is a great obstacle to the
educational advancement of the pupil.
Here the road question seriously af
fects the country schools. Many of the
pupils travel for considerable distances
in order to reach school. There is no
doubt that the condition of the roads
frequently cuts down attendance and
thus militates agaifist the progress of
the schools. Those schools that are lo
cated on good roads will have a larger
and a more regular and more prompt
attendance than those wlilch can be
reached only by traveling a muddy road
or "cutting across the fields."
Education and good roads are Inter
dependent. No rural school, however
well equipped and supported, can be
as useful on a bad road as on a good
road. It is a mistake to build good
school houses without taking Into ac
count the condition of the highwaya
The consolidation' of schools can be
brought about successfully only In lo
calities where the roads are good.
Tha Delayed Calamity,
Hashfmura Togo, the Japanese school
boy, writing to the editor of Life to in
quire why the predicted hard times have
not come, says:
notate, by reading of considerable
newspaper, that manufacturers, trusts,
college presidents, railroads.- white slav
ers and other- protected industries are
talking very downfallen about what will
elapse. That Oscar-Underwood-row-Wil
son emaciated tariff, they say so, must
be blamed for every -calamity which will
unexpectedly pounce down before who
knows what. w«"
vous avenue—a
some more
Woolen -Mills are expecting to shut down
before dividends are crushed below 183%.
Already tt suits of clothes is selling at re
duced prtce of 18| and seldom can we tell
what debautch of bargains will follow.
_"WHat have became of our grand New
England stock?" require Boston Trance
Crypt turning completely white. "What
»«««. WJIW8 woo
Tall street—that very ner-
enue—are getting ready to enjoy
ore paralysls because New. English
Mills are expecting to shut
Editor, I notice this similar com
preaslonof aeul everywhere, in national
SjJ'SL!? cashlers ls dusting their mourn
so be ready far funeral wheA
away, Tet I ask 7*
•I
know. will that hears* arrtve up/
down
J0* Mlnute Men and other
gatrtotlam if descendants of our fearless
Am.*
Fathers must now be forced to
lose their puritan privilege of charging for
*T,jW°d 1 times what they are worth?
5m«L "Si Institutions, employing
millions of Italians and Pollnh Immigrants
a week, now cease to be protected by
government? JNtotjring- so .un-American
bare happened sMcerHon. Geo. glued
stamps on Parcels Post." ...
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