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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
4
A lapsed scene of a master stopping at a dusty wayside well to drink. The well sweep creaks as water splashes back, revealing a pale tired gaze in a farmerly face and a mood of weariness that hides the master’s identity.
Ernest guards the stockade gates alone as a rustler raid nears. A scout on the mountain signals danger while cowboys muster, cattle stampede fears rise, and the valley braces for a bold defense against the Baker gang.
In a dramatic stunt the hero Ernest battles Balter and his gang to free cattle and thwart a raid. After a fierce stampede, ranchers capture many attackers and later honor Ernest by sending him East to school, where he rises to own the saved ranch.
A passenger from the exposition grounds drew a pipe in a Washington streetcar, despite rules against smoking. The conductor confronted him, insistently repeating that smoking is not allowed, while the man claimed he was not smoking and compared his pipe to shoes on his feet. The incident amused a carload of passengers.
A Phillips man on a back towns drive encounters a woodchuck near the road. The dog bursts in with joy but the woodchuck stares with a warning eye, causing the dog to retreat while the woodchuck calmly tails the scene and the chase ends with the dog fleeing.
The Countess Tolstoi, renowned and beautiful, acts as private secretary to her husband the novelist while shunning social life. She preserves typewritten copies of his works banned in Russia and sends them to friends. Nine children comprise a multilingual, musical household, with the eldest daughter emulating early Christian austerity in dress.
Rev Silas Swallow recalls a visit to Kingston where his nephew, a student at Wyowing Seminary, protests a custom of pouring tea into the saucer. The uncle explains softly that cooling tea quickens the brew, mocking modern seminaries for lacking science.
The Louisville Herald notes the era's three great public figures as President Roosevelt King Edward and the Kaiser While praising General Lew Wallace for his careful drafting process to create a flawless manuscript the Youth's Companion says Ben Hur was worth the effort in that laborious method
Col lier's Weekly notes the difficulty of moral consistency through Thomas Hardy as a dog narrator contends that chasing sheep leads to disaster and death. The piece ends with Hardy remarking that carrying principles to their logical conclusion ends in tragedy. It cites Mother Nature’s two hands heredity and environment and the balance of law and risk in shaping great souls.
A Buffalo Commercial note recounts a busy physician handling a case with speed. A young woman, flustered in the ante-room, was taken to an inner office and had her stomach pumped. She later revealed she had described her sister's symptoms, not her own, after the procedure began.
Experts report gas could be manufactured for twenty six cents per thousand feet. Delivering gas at sixty three cents in the first year with annual reductions would wipe out the loan in twenty years, and after that gas could be supplied for thirty three cents per thousand feet, enabling profits for maintenance and city growth.
The New York Tribune cites a English case where a gentleman failed to show a tramway inspector his ticket after wind blew it away. He argued the loss was an act of God and excused nonpurchase, but the court rejected the defense and increased the fine for rank blasphemy.
Collier's Weekly reports a treaty between union bricklayers and employing builders in New York City setting regular pay at seventy cents an hour for an eight hour day. Overtime doubles the rate to $1.40 per hour.
A Chicago Breeders' Gazette excerpt urges farmers to take a short break from work to regain perspective. It argues sensation is impermanent and country life offers rest, renewal, and a renewed love of home. A one week camp with family and simple leisure is proposed as a remedy.
In a harsh anecdote from Andrew T. D. White biography, Horace Greeley snarls at Rev. Pease who asks for aid to save souls in Five Points. Greeley’s outburst mocks the missionary and implies many men deserve damnation more than saved, revealing a harsh side of his humanitarian creed.
A Massachusetts native in a Lipuaireatt tale travels to Rome and witnesses a shrine taper believed centuries old. After a minute he blows out the taper with a single spark, then proclaims in triumph that the taper is indeed extinguished, leaving the guide speechless.
Governor N Z Bachellor urges a state wide plan for well ballasted gravel roads from Nashua to Fabyans and Portsmouth. Charles J Glidden backs better highways to bring summer residents and business to Granite State, with 600 miles of improved roads possible at $100,000 yearly for six years.
A Buffalo meeting on good roads heard Deputy State Engineer Von Hoesen report 456 miles built since 1898 under the Higbie Armstrong act and a target of 701 miles by January 1906 with 976 miles underway. William Pierpont White called for $50 million in bonds with 50 percent state, 35 percent counties, 15 percent towns to fund mileage improvements. Also noted: an Oregon sawlog output of 21,483 feet and 4,515 bankruptcies in Hugland and Wales last year.
A curious article explains how toads hide beneath objects and underground soil, appearing buried within coal blocks after millions of years. It describes their flat backs fitting surfaces, backward burrowing, and infrequent emergence for food as miners uncover hidden toads in sealed cavities.
A collection of maxims urging sacrifice, humility, and holiness. It argues scolding a child harms later character, conscience grows from selflessness, and true faith is shown by deeds not hypocrisy. It cautions against self interest and worldly pride eroding spiritual sight.
Maeterlinck reviews Shakespeare in Harper's Weekly commenting that King Lear is the richest, most intense dramatic poem. He argues that after surveying world literatures, this tragedy stands as the archetypal human stage work and, in his view, would be named by poets as the synthetic pinnacle of dramatic poetry.
The article urges picking roses freely with long stems and leaving one or two outward growing eyes for safety. When not all roses can be harvested, daily removal of faded blooms is advised to promote autumnal displays in hybrid perpetual varieties.
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