Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. 111 Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR. Subscription $2.00 per year, Strictly in Ad- vance. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12, 1906, at the Post Office at Helena, Montana under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY! UNION!!! EDITORIAL The editor and proprietor of paper desires to say to the many inquiries as to the condition of our health, that we feel now that we are on the road to recovery, and that while our many friends have been alarmed at the apparent loss of health and the shadow of our former self, that we feel that we have passed the climax and shall, in time be our former self. The following is a misplaced clipping which we were unable to publish at time of issue which has been referred to in these columns Oct. 29. We not with special pride that the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows comprising Montana, Utah and one or two other states at their recent annual meet conferred a high honor upon Hon. Jos. B. Bass, the talented editor of the Montana Plaindealer by electing him deputy grand master. Mr. Bass is a former Topekan and stands high throughout Kansas where he built an enviable reputation as a journalist and politician. He is the father and founder of the Kansas Lincoln Day Club, a political organization that names all the colored men who have received any political recknition of note. It was while serving as president of this club that Prof. Vernon was appointed to one of the highest positions in the gift of the President. Bass is a man of sterling worth and splendid executive ability and will do much to advance this noble order. Kansas congratulates both the Od Fellows and Mr. Bass.—Topeka Plaindealer. The two churches wied with each other in their effort to serve Turkey last Thanksgiving, the fight waxed so hot that they even went to the two big daily papers with both reading and displaying ade. Race institutions though they are, they got so busy that they passed up their own organ even to the extent of printing their tickets. While we are assured this was an oversight on the part of St. James, we are equally as well satisfied that it was a lack of leadership on the part of our Baptist people. The work in itself was of no consequence, but the principle involved is such that we cannot overlook without saying something. A certain lodge in this city has adopted the name Unity it is a good one suggestive of the relation that should obtain in the name and spirit for the entire race. State Treasurer Esseyleton is making an enviable record in that position, and he has the state finances in excellent condition. Supt. Harmon also at the head of the educational interests of the state has zealously hade an excellent record in keeping with the great educational institutions of the state. Jack Johnson evidently did not think of belonging to a downtrodden race, but kept at it until he reached the top in his profession. It shows that there is no use complaining but go ahead and do something. We still have an abiding faith that in "Union There is Strenght" POLITICALLY, WHERE IS THE NEGRO AT? We have been watching the Press throughout the country for some days to see (1) if Senator Cullum, o Illinois, would himself rise and refute the charges that he has gone on record as favoring the wholesale disfanchisement of the Negro citizens in the South. (2) As to whether President Taft would deny that he is wrongly quoted as concurring with the Senator's views, but the Associated Press has afforded us no relief. We have waited in vain for refutation from either of the distinguished representatives of the G. O. P. and take for granted that they must be accurately quoted. That being the case all we have to say is, words are inadequate to express our surprise and disappointment, especially when viewed in the light of what the Negro has suffered for those very men and the party since the day of emancipation. When we think of the oceans of blood shed by the Negro and men—we mean white men—of the North to perpetuate the principle of the Republican party, when we think of all this, and more, we are astonished beyond utterance that right now at this particular hour we are "wounded in th house of our friends," Jacereated and thrown overboard, and now into the sea just where our late lamented leader, Frederick Douglas said we would be if we ourselves desert the party now. What would Mr. Douglas say were he alive today—can any one guess? And what is this sacrifice on the alter laid, namely, listen and think as you read: "To build up a lily white Republican party," Where is the Negro at? The Freeman PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE NEGRO President Taft has just recently closed a long and most interesting tour through the South and West. He has been making addresses of more or less importance on matters of national concern; once in a while he has had something to say upon the race question. He visited Jackson, Miss., where he eulogized the late President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, but we are informed that the Negro citizens of that city failed to enthuse, and positively declined to make a spectacular affair of themselves, saying frankly that they did not like the President's Negro policy and we give them credit for their manhood and honesty. We despise a sycophant. If you don't like a thing, say so. The Freeman doesn't se very much encouragement for the race in the present attitude of the Helena, Montana, Friday. Nov. 26 1900 [Image of a man in formal attire, holding an open book]. Register U. S. Treasnry Hon. W. T. Vernon makes notable Address at Banque tendered minister Lyon. towards us as a race. He seems to be laboring under the idea that we are yet a child race, and must not thing ourselves out of the primary department. He figures that for us to lose the franchise in the South wouldn't do the race any special harm, and besides if this is accomplished, why, the gain would be enormous for the party. Eleven Southern States would be gained for the Republican party, and thus the obliteration of the Mason and Dixon line, and a sure enough reunited country, at the expense of the poor Negro. The Negro, who has always been true to the Republican party, and has helped to make it what it is, and has even helped largely in the election of the president chief executive, is now to be given what his blessed Master had offered him on the Cross—"vinegar and gall." From one cause and another the Negro has been a ball, tossed between the political parties of the country and charges and counter-charges have done but little to relieve him. But he is now "wounded in the house of his friends." Will he profit by the lesson? We shall see what we shall see.—Freeman. Register U. S. Treasnry Hon. Address at Banque te REGISTER W. T. VERNON Speaks at Lyon Banquet on Power of the Church. NEGROE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LIFE The much discussed question as to the value to be placed upon the church in the affairs of men is never a problem to fair minded men, when the question is reduced to its final analysis. That through the inspirational power of the Church, the desire for better things ramifies every portion of our racial and national life all will agree. It is to this great force that we owe the preservation; in a great measure, of the morals of the race through two and a half centuries 6 fslivery. This inquitous system which did all to brutalize and debauch, and which fattened on degeneracy, the result of its existence, would have made impossible the rebeen for the preachments of the demption and salvation of the American Negro, had it not made a mockery, and Christianity little less than a jest, there arose out of suffering's night, a star of hope—the Negro Church. And so Nat Turner, Denmark Vrezey and other of that type were but the product of these preachments and the light they saw was a reflected illumination radiating from the fires that burned on the alter of the Negro Church. The Negroes who fled to the swamps and withstood masters, overseer and bloodhound; the Negroes who followed the North star to a land of freedom, and who through the underground railway found the pathway to liberty and were all influenced to this effort through the preachment of these crude, unlettered men who had faith in God and could deliver His word with a power that only the consecrated knew. The Negro leaders in these Churches joined with the abolitionists. They stood with Garrison, Lundy, Phillips and Harrison, Beecher, Stowe. The strongest of them was that local preacher, a slave, who escaped from Maryland's East- W. T. Vernon makes notable tendered minieter Lyon. have his marriage legalized. He took on a sir-name, and his children born in wedlock knew the meaning of the words, home and mother. These children he placed in schools organized and fostered by Negro Churches and Negro preachers. And with the great denominational schools—those of the Freemen's Aid and Southern Educational Society, the African Methodist Episcopal the Zion, the C. M. E., the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Episcopalian, the Catholic, and American Missionary Association School all worked to one end—the education of the Negro—these forces took this dead mass, breathed into its nostrils and breath of life—the Negro stood up and became a living soul. While working for elevation of mind and salvation of soul, the Church urges the condition of realty holdings and the development into the highest possibilities of cithizenship. The influence of the Church as a factor in racial development can never be made a second to any other force. This is as it should be, for with the coming of Christ men have been teach- ern shore rebauching clavery,— Frederick Douglas. Following in his wake, working with him, were such men as Binggeld Ward, Raile A. Payne, Henry Highland Barnet, Alexander Crummel and the mightiest spirits of that time, whose names do not wither and tion of their teachings the Negro whose deeds can never pass away Everywhere under the inspira-Gospel of Jesus Christ during those awful years. In the darkness of that hour when real religion had been ing the duty of man to man, The Church through the centuries, has been the hope of the common peo ple. It afforded opportunity for the lower classes to rise when all else failed. As the highest exponents of the ability of the Church to produce great men—men who by way of the Church can rise to prominence in affairs of State and religion, and become most morphy instruments for the furtherance of the cause they represent and the uplift of humanity, we need but behold the distinguished guests of the evening, the Hon. Ernest Lyons, Minister Plenipotentiary to Liberia, and Bishop I. B. Scott, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Church to Africa. One of the most striking and interesting things about the American Negro, and ont that has impressed itself upon my mind more and more in the course of the preparation of these articles, is the extent to which the black man has interwined his life with that of the people of the white race about him. While it is true that hardly any other race of people that has come to this country has remained in certain respects so separate and distinct a part of the populationas the Negro, it is also true that no race that has come to this country has so woven its life into the life of the people about it. No race has shared a greater extent in the work and activities of the original settlers of the country, or has been more closely related to them in interest, in sympathy, and in sentiment than the Negro race. In fact there os scarcely any enterprise of any moment that has been undertaken by a member of the white race in which the Negro has not had some part. In all the great pioneer work of clearing, forests and preparing the way for civilization the Negro as I have tried to point out, has had his part. In all the difficult and dangerous work of exploration of the country the Negro has invariably been the faithful companion and helper of the white man. Negroes seem to have accompanied nearly all the early Spanish explorers. Indeed it has even been conjected that Negroes came to America before Columbus, carried hither by trade wind and ocean currents, coming currents, coming from the west coast of Africa. At any rate one of the early historians, Peter Martyr, mentions "a region in the Darian district of South Africa where Balboa, the illustrious discovere of the Pacific Ocean, found a race of black men who were conjectured to have come from Africa and have shipwrecked on this coast." It is said that the first ships built along the Atlantic coast was constructed by the slaves of Vesquez de Allyon, who, one hundred years before the English landed there, attempted to found a Spanish settlement on the site of what was later Jamestown Virginia. There were thirty Negroes with the Spanish discovered, Balboa, and they assisted him in building the first ship that was constructer on the Pacific ocast of America. Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, had three hundred Negro slaves with him in 1522, the year in which he was chosen Capthain-General of New Spain, as Mexico was then called; and it is asserted that the town of Santhiago del Principe was founded by Negro slaves who had risen in insurection against their Spanish masters. FIVE I have referred elsewhere to the story of Esteven, "little Steve," a companion of Panfilo Narvaez in his exploration of Florida in 1527, who afterward went in search of the seven fabulous cities which were supposed to be located somewhere in the present state of Arizona, and iscovered the Zuni Indians. Negroes accompanied De Soto on his march through Alabama in 1540. One of these Negroes seemed to have liked the country for he remained and settled among the Indians not far from Tuskegee, and became in this way the first settler of Alabama. Coming down to a later date, a Negro servant accompanied William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition of the Missouri River; and gained for the United States the Oregon country. Negroes were among the first adventureres who went to look for gold in California; and when John C. Fremont, in 1848, made his desparte and disastrous attempt to find a pathway across the Rockies, he was accompanied by a Negro servant named Saunders. In the chronicles of the ill-starred Coronado expedition of 1540, which made its way from Mexico as far north as Kansas and Nebraska, it is mentioned that a Negro slave of Aernando de Alarcon was the only member who would undertake to carry a message from the Rio Grande across the country to the Zuins in New Mexico, where Alarcon hoped to find Coronado and open communication with him. THE PLAINDEALER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY? Some our people who are so fearful of contract with their own people do not realize that if they die or get sick their own people will have to bury them and even comfort them in sickness. Some of the yound dead beats do not pay up their just bills. Some of our Anslere young men just now have begun to frown down on their fellow members. So much of their business finds a leak when the star chamber meetings are in progress. Judge Hart is looking so solemn since last Tuesday. Wesley avoids the old gang that he was one with. The colored people cannot unite on just one thing at the coming election. A. J. Duncan should not be reelected as city Treasurer. The young lady who is going to Misoula denies it. A certain young man thinks he is the circus and parade. The Protection league does not get down to business. They say the new girl in town is so stunning. Crew of 36 and 82 Passengers All Saved by Their Prompt and Heroic Action—Reach Shore, Near Point Duma, Three Miles Distant, in Lifeboats and Rafts—Origin of Fire Unknown. Los Angeles, Nov. 21.—The passenger steamer St. Croix of the North Pacific Steamship company burned to the water's edge Saturday night at a point three miles off Point Duma and 18 miles north of Santa Monica and the lives of the 82 passengers aboard and those of the crew of 36 were saved by the heroic action of the officers and crew and the fact that the sea was calm at the time of the disaster. All of those on board escaped on lifeboats and rafts and were safely landed at Point Duma on a little beach. The fire started in the second cabin while dinner was being served and had made such headway before it was discovered that the greatest difficulty was experienced in launching the boats and life rafts and placing the passengers safely aboard them. Passengers Lose All. A panic among the passengers was averted by the prompt action of the officers and crew, who gave the passengers no chance to save their personal belongings. The St. Croix left San Pedro at 10 o'clock Saturday morning bound for San Francisco direct. She was proceeding in good time at the moment the fire was discovered. Its origin is unknown. A member of the crew discovered the flames issuing from the windows and gave the alarm. Much excitement ensued and a panic was imminent, when the officers commanded the passengers to go forward and remain on the main deck. Meanwhile lifeboats and life rafts were lowered and the passengers placed in them. First Officer Mills states that as the last boat containing members of the crew left the St. Croix the flames burst forth from all sides and the iron hull of the steamer became a roaring furnace. The passengers, the majority of whom were women, remained in the desolate canyon until Sunday, when relief from this city was sent them. Ten days ago an explosion took place in the boiler room of the St. Croix and Chief Engineer Day was scaled to death. The belief is that an explosion in the engine room below the second cabin caused the fire. Train Dispatcher a Holdup Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 23.—Following his arrest, Claude Simpson, a train dispatcher, confessed that he was one of the men who attempted to rob the Merchants' bank at West Manehester, Ohio, October 19. Simpson, who has been a train dispatcher here for two years, was on his vacation at the time of the attempted robbery and had not been suspected. With his companion, he said, he drove to the bank at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. When they ordered the employees to hand over the money Cashier I. W. Less opened fire, which was returned. The robbers escaped in their rig without obtaining any money. Valuable Magazine The Pacific Monthly of Portland, Oregon, is a beautifully illustrated monthly magazine. If you are interested in dairying, fruit raising, poultry raising, or want to know about irrigated lands, timber lands, or free government land open to homestead entry, The Pacific Monthly will give you full information. The price is $1.50 a year. If you will send twenty-five cents in stamps, three late issues will be sent you so that you may become acquainted with it. Insanity Plea Fails Denver.—Mrs. Allan F. Read was found guilty of attempted extortion by a jury in Judge Sheafer's court. A year ago Mrs. Reed attempted to force Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps to give her $100,000, threatening to blow her up with dynamite unless she complied. The jury was out 18 hours. Attorneys for Mrs. Read set up the plea of insanity. Labor Leaders Re-elected Toronto.—After unanimously re-electing President Samuel Gompers, Vice President John Mitchell, Secretary Frank Morrison and other executive officers and selecting St. Louis as the place for holding the next meeting, the 29th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor adjourned Saturday. Cat Show. Pittsburg, Pa.—Fifty thousand dollars' worth. of feline aristocracy are on exhibition here at Pittsburg's annual cat show. Many pedigreed cats belonging to Pittsburg's elite are entered for honors. Six Meet Death in a Fire. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 23.—A fire early Monday morning is believed to have caused the death of six members of a family at West Allis, a suburb. "Don't chide me for carrying a revolver. This little gun saved my life once." "How exciting. Tell me about it." "I was starving and I pawned it." YALE WON. Yale Won from Harvard in Annual Football Game, 8 to 0. Cambridge, Mass. — Yale's husky gladiators upheld the traditions of the past and justified the confidence of their supporters of the hour when, in the annual game with Harvard here Saturday, they walked away with the winning end of an 8 to 0 score. Few more desperately fought or deservedly won contests have been fought by the old-time rivals. Driving the crimson team steadily back by his long punts Captain Coy dropped two goals from the field and the aggressive forwards of the Yale team contributed two points more by blocking a Harvard punt which resulted in a safety for the crimson. While Yale seemed to win easily the game was a distinct disappointment from a Harvard standpoint, for the crimson eleven showed greater power than the blue in straight rushing, and at one time carried the ball 52 yards in four scrimmages. Yale disclosed no spectacular football, while Harvard resorted to few open plays. Yale. Position. Harvard. Kilpatrick, Logan.....L. Smith, Huston Left End bion was the the the Hobbs ..... McKay Left Tackle. Andrus ..... L. Witherington Left Guard. Cooney ..... L. Witherington Center. Goebel ..... Fisher Right Guard. Lilley, Haul, Spencer ..... Fish Right Tackle. Savage, Field, Holt ..... Brown, Rogers Right End. Howe ..... O'Flaherty, Wigglesworth Quarterback. Daly, Murphy ..... Corbett, Frothingham Left Halfback. Philbin ..... Leslie, H. Smith Right Halfback. Joy ..... Minot Fullback. Referee—W. S. Langford, Trinity. Umpire—W. H. Edwards, Princeton Field judge—E. Hall, Dartmouth. Head linesman—J. B. Pendleton, Bowdoin. Time—35-minute halves. Saturday Football Games At Cambridge—Yale 8, Harvard 0 At New York—Carlisle 8, Brown 21 At Chicago—Wisconsin 6, Chieago 6 At Minneapolis—Michigan 15, Minnesota 6. At Annapolis—Navy 45, Davidson 6. At Eaton, Pa.—Lafayette 19, Lehigh 0. At Philadelphia—Trinity 17, Haverford 0. At Cleveland—Western Reserve 17, Hiram 0. At Syracuse—Illinois 17, Syracuse 8. At Denver—Nebraska 6, Denver 5. At Wichita—Kansas State Agricultural college 71, Fairmount college 0. At Laramie, Wyo.—Colorado School of Mines 23, University of Wyoming 6. At Mount Vernon—Cornell college 6, Grinnell 0. At Lansing, Mich.—Michigan Agricultural college 20, Olivet 0. At Seattle—Broadway High 0, Lincoln High 5. At Tacoma—Tacoma High 23, Queen High (Seattle) 0. Lewiston high scored the only touch down of the game with Garfield high school, gaining the ball after a fluke punt by Garfield's fullback when it soared over the fence. The Houston school of Spokane won a well-played game from the second team of Coeur d'Alene high school 7 to 0. Waldo W. Brown and Drumheller were the Houston stars. Sporting Items Verne Merrill, a member of the high school football team, died at Janesville, Wis., Saturday from blood poisoning caused by an injury in a game some time ago. The Englewood high school of Chicago, which won the Cook county football championship, will not be allowed to send its team to Butte this year, as the school board there recently passed a resolution forbidding any athletic team to be gone from Chicago longer than three days. The opening of the first racing meeting since the passage of the anti-betting law in California was a mild and tame affair. The question of outlaw baseball in the Northwestern league is the all-absorbing question before the fans. The basket ball season is about ready to blossom out in full glory for the 1909-10 season. The Spokane boxers and wrestlers took three out of four bouts from the Seattle athletes Friday night in the club gymnasium at Spokane. Slats Davis has signed a contract to umpire in the New York State league. With the close of this week the football season of 1909 will practically be a thing of history. The Philadelphia Athletics are making a wonderful record in the west. Not only did they win a big majority of the games with the All-National team, which included men like Konetchy, Egan, Mitchell, Bliss and others, but they also cleaned up the Coast clubs. Thug Kills Ohio Labor Leader Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 22.—Frank Krug, president of the Cleveland Iron Molders' union, died Monday of a bullet wound in his head. He was waylaid and shot Saturday night. The police say they know who shot him. Boy (with his teeth chattering)— N-not unless you pay for it. ALIVE AFTER WEEK'S BURIAL IN ILLINOIS COAL MINE. Story of the Entombed Miners Most Thrilling in Long List of Mine Catastrophe—Men First Prayed Then Sang—Shared Scanty Supply of Food and Water Between Them. Cherry, Ill., Nov. 21.—The gamut from deepest despair to a hysteria of hope was run here Saturday when 21 miners entombed in the St. Paul mine for a week, almost to an hour, were brought to the surface alive. The story of the sufferings of the miners and the heroism of their resourceful leaders is one of the most thrilling in all the black history of mining disasters. Dawn broke with the bearers of stretches moving from the pit mouth to the tent which served as a morgue with bodies swollen and scorched almost beyond human blamble. Forty of them had been brought up, and most of them identified, when the marvelous report shot through the prostrate community: "They've found them alive. They've found them alive!" In a moment the morgue was deserted, scarcely to be revisited, while the crowd, fairly insane with the great hope that had sprung like a miraculous flame from the ashes of despair, rushed to the pit. All thought was of the men who were alive. Each time the signal sounded from the hoist for the cage to come up from the mine the noise of the crowd subsided into murmurs of expectancy. Eager to See Survivors. “Hoist her up,” came from the depth, “Hoist her up!” repeated the engineer. Then the men and women pressed forward against the line of soldiers and ropes, determined to get as near as possible to peer into the faces of the survivors. “Everybody be quiet; please don’t cheer,” whispered the guards. The machinery of the hoisting apparatus rumbled and screeched as the cage came upward. Would there be in this load a live one who had been mourned for seven days as dead? This question flashed through a hundred minds. The passageway narrowed as each anxious looker instinctively pressed forward. “Here they come now; look sharp.” A woman here and there who could not see, held up a child and cautioned it: “Look and try if you can see papa when they pass.” The machinery stopped. The cage was up. There stood the rescuers, wearing shiny rubber coats and white caps. Between them, wrapped in military blankets, they held the rescued men, some standing, others carried in arms. Slowly the procession moved. A burst of applause started from the crowd, but a raised hand from the militiamen brought silence. It was a critical moment. Mothers and wives stretched forth their arms, murmuring: "Bill," or "Frank," or "Oh, Andy, are you there? Speak to me. I am here." Women Beg for News. The blankets drawn over the heads of the men hid their faces and prevented identification from the crowd. Not receiving a reply, the women tore toward the sleeping cars, imploring and begging anyone to give them good news. Overcome by appeals, a rescuer called out the name of the man he was escorting. "George Eddy," he shouted, "we've got George Eddy here." "Oh, George," came a woman's piercing cry from the crowd. "Is it you? Is it you? Come here, George, here; I am waiting for you." Eddy, who was a mine inspector, was too weak to reply, and would only submit to the escort, who carried him silently to the car. At the foot of the car steps the crowd was kept back and women, almost hysterical, clung to the handrails, piteously imploring those inside to let them enter. Saved His Brother A dramatic moment came when William Celland was brought up. At the news of the disaster a week ago, Robert, a brother and also a miner, came here from South Wilmington, Ill. He was informed on his arrival that all the entombed men were dead. He offered his help as a rescuer and declared he would remain here until every body was brought up. Today he was in the rescuing party. As the survivors were brought through the gallery to the hoisting shaft wrapped in blankets, Robert assisted them into the cage. In the first load that went up was some one whom Robert did not recognize. The survivors were put in the sleeping car under the care of nurses and doctors, and Robert went down the shaft for another load. He was coming out of the cage when a friend stepped up and tapped him on the shoulder. "Bob, don't you know that Will is up!" he asked. Robert turned pale and staggered. "You don't mean——"' "Yes, alive. He's up alive. Why, Bob, you brought him yourself, wrapped in blankets." Robert was so overwhelmed and overwrought that he had to be relieved from the rescue work and was himself taken into the sleeping ear. Said Goodby to Each Other "Why, we all said goodbye to each other, I and my brother were together. At first the English among us sang songs and the Italians were all the time praying, but after a while we were all too weak to move about. Nobody reached us today—we reached them. We wanted more water and we crawled over our own barrier and started. We did not know where we were and we walked about 10 feet apart, so as not to fall on each other. The last "fall-in" nearly blocked the passage and we had to worm our way through a long aperture just large enough to hold us. We were dreadfully weak. "We had breathed much poison. Then we saw the rescuers who had come down. There was no cheering. We just sat down and let them take care of us. That was all. Nobody had voice enough to cheer, and hardly enough to talk." Subacus was the only man allowed to go to his home for several hours, the doctors fearing that the men would eat too much. But the Lithuanian grew so excited at being kept from his wife and children that it was thought best to allow him to have his own way. Eddy's Letter to Wife. George Eddy, a hero among the heroes who escaped from the mine, in the darkness and despair of his prison made shift to write a few words of courage to his wife. The letter follows: "November 14—Dear Wife and Children: I write these few lines to you, and I think it will be for the last time. I have tried to get out twice, but was drove back. There seems to be no hope for us. I came down this shaft yesterday to help save the men's lives. I hope the men I got out were saved. Well, Lizzie, if I am found dead, bury me in Streator and move back. Keep Esther and Clarence and Jimmie together as much as you can. I hope they will not forget their father, so I will bid you all goodby, and God bless you all." "GEORGE EDDY." On the reverse side of this letter, written on a leaf torn from a notebook, was the following from Walter Waite: "November 14—We, the undersigned, do not blame anyone for the accident that happened to pen us in here, and believe that everybody has done all in their power to relieve us. With best wishes to all concerned. Frank Waite, John Brown, Tom White, John Lorimer, Jack Higate, Salvator Higate, Lawrence Frederick, Q. Antoniore, Frank A. Zanarinin, Leopold Demond, Bonfelo Rogtgari, George Shimits, John Shimits, William Clelland, Fred Bieraski, Frank Pereaski, John Beronas, George Eddy, Walter Waite." Find No More Alive. Twenty saved, 92 known dead and 195 missing was the record at the St. Paul mine Sunday night. Ten dead were brought to the surface Sunday and 37 more dead were located in the second level, but were not brought up on account of black damp. What had promised to be Cherry's real day of thanksgiving ended in a night of hope deferred, or despair. Sunday night no living man or boy had been added to the list of 20 rescued Saturday. All day the tolling of church bells resounded in Cherry and Spring Valley. Eighteen bodies were interred. At the mine a dozen coffined victims remained awaiting removal, while a score of caskets were piled nearby for bodies which are to come up. Services for the dead were held outside of the churches into which Coroner Malm deemed it inadvisable that the bodies be taken. Chances Grow Less. Each hour that passes now is looked upon by the watchers as making the chances of escape less. MAGNITUDE OF APPLE SHOW Choiceest of Display Will be Sent to Foreign Lands. Some one with a taste for statistics has calculated that if the apples on display at the National apple show, which closed its second exhibition in Spokane on November 20, were placed side by side they would reach over 72 1-4 miles of ground. There were 1,525,831 apples, the average diameter being three inches, a total of almost 381,458 feet. The entries consisted of 13 full cars of 630 boxes, 10 limited cars, 39 free-for-all exhibits, of which 21 were from non-irrigated orchards and 18 from irrigated tracts; 73 entries in the state and provincial groups, representing 23 states and the provinces of British Columbia and Nova Scotia; 99 ten-box, 135 five-box and 278 single box displays, also 1,323 plates of five apples each. The exhibits covered three and a half acres of floor space and were seen by representatives of every state, territory and province in America and visitors from various parts of Europe. Twenty boxes of prize-winning apples will be sent to President Taft, 10 boxes will be forwarded to the emperor of Japan and 50 boxes will be presented to King Edward and King William and members of the royal families in Europe and to the president of France. Was Great Actress Frances Ann Kemble was born November 27, 1809, in Newman street, Oxford road, London, which makes Saturday the centennial anniversary of her birth. In all the history of the stage there is no more famous family than the Kembles. He—For a week you have had the dressmakers in the house. Is anything unusual going on? She—Of course; you know that I am going to take part in the international swimming contest for women. STANDARD OIL LOSES UNCLE SAM VICTORIOUS IN FAMOUS CASE. Court Rules That Corporation Be Dissolved As It Is Illegal—Suit Was Filed in St. Louis Three Years Ago—It Was Claimed It Maintained a Trust. St. Paul, Nov. 22.—The government has won its suit against the Standard Oil company. The United States circuit court has ordered the corporation to be dissolved as being illegal. After a recital of the facts brought out in the trial the court says: Constitutes Illegal Combination "Held: The transaction constituted a combination and conspiracy in restraint of and to monopolize commerce among the states and with foreign nations in violation of sections 1 and 2 of the anti-trust act of July 2, 1890, and the government is entitled to an injunction against the further continuance and operation thereof." The decree enjoins the seven individual defendants, the Standard Oil company, and its subsidiary corporations, from continuing or carrying into effect the illegal combination they have formed, and from entering into any like combination or conspiracy the effect of which will be to restrain interstate commerce in petroleum or its products, or prolong the unlawful monopoly of such commerce obtained by the defendants as stated in the decree and they are forbidden from engaging or continuing in interstate commerce until they discontinue their illegal combination. History of Case. This case was heard in the United States circuit court at St. Louis in April last by Circuit Judges Sanborn, Vandeventer of Cheyenne. Hock of Leavenworth and Adams of St. Louis. Judge Sanborn, the presiding judge, wrote the opinion and the decree, in which all the judges concurred, and sent them to Judge Adams at St. Louis, who filed them and entered the decree in that city this morning. The case was argued by Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul and Charles B. Morrison of Chicago for the United States, and John D. Milburn of Buffalo, David T. Watson of Pittsburg, Moritz Rosenthal of Chieago and John G. Johason of Philadelphia, on behalf of the defendants. The suit was brought to enjoin John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, H. H. Rogers, John D. Archibold, Oliver H. Payne, Charles M. Pratt, the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, and about 70 other corporations from maintaining a combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade, to monopolize interstate and international commerce, and the decree grants the injunction sought by the government. Vast Interests Involved. The case is one of the most notable in the history of the national government on account of the important industrial and legal questions, and the vast financial interests it involves. The evidence filled 21 volumes and occupied more than 10,000 printed pages, and the arguments of counsel more than 300 printed pages. The nature of the case and the character of the decision appear from the power to fix the rates of transportation, the purchase and selling price of petroleum and its products which all of these corporations should pay and receive in the conduct of their business in commerce among the states and with foreign nations. "Since that exchange of stock the seven individual defendants have been and are stockholders and officers of the Standard company of New Jersey, which exercised and, is still using that power, and by its use it has prevented and is still preventing competition in commerce among the states and with foreign nations among the corporations." Oil Trust Case in Brief. The Standard Oil company was organized in 1870. In 1872 it began purchasing other refineries. Alleged by government first rebates paid in 1872. In 1879 a secret trust agreement was made according to the government. In 1882 the Standard Oil trust was formed, the stock of the company being turned over to the trustees to manage the business, the trustees managed about 40 companies. In 1892 the trust was dissolved by the order of the supreme court of Ohio. At the time it is alleged to have held 118 companies. Government alleges the trust secretly continued until 1899. In 1899 Standard Oil company of New Jersey reorganized as a holding company. Dissolution suit filed November 18, 1906, in St. Louis. Franklin Ferris appointed special examiner to take testimony June 25, 1907. Finished hearings February, 1909. Case argued before judges of the Eighth United States circuit court of appeals April, 1909. Decision rendered in favor of the government November 20, 1909, all judges concurring. Sicily lost 60,000 inhabitants by earthquake in 1693. Americans Recently Executed in Nicaragua by Order of Zelaya Stillwater, Minn. — That Leonard Grace and Leroy Cannon, the Americans who were put to death in Nicaragua by order of President Zelaya, were executed after fair trial by courtial was the information received by State Senator George H. Sullivan of Stillwater in a cablegram from James M. Hall, a former Stillwater man now mining in Nicaragua. Mr. Hall's cablegram says Grace and Cannon were caught with a dynamite machine in their possession, and contested they intended to blow up a government transport containing 500 men. Louis W. Grace, who with Leroy Cannon, was executed in Nicaragua by orders of the president, Zelaya, was a Texan. At one time he lived in Galveston, where his cousin, J. T. Grace, is president of the Galveston National bank. Grace has been in Nicaragua 19 years as mine owner, and was planning a trip home in December. He was president of several mining companies and worth $250,000. In a letter he declared he was compelled to pay exorbitant tribute. Killed in Auto Accident Cuthbert, Ga., Nov. 22.-Three persons are dead and two probably fatally injured as a result of an automobile accident here late Sun. night. The injured: Miss Helen Mattox aged 18, Coleman, Ga.; Miss Mary Mattox, aged 16, Coleman, Ga. The accident occurred as the party was returning from Cuthbert to Coleman. COMING THEATER ATTRACTIONS AT SPOKANE THE AUDITORIUM, H. C. Hayward Post St. north of Riverside Ave. Mgr. High-Class Productions— Nov. 25, 26, 27—Ezra Kendall. Dec. 10-11—'The Alaskan.' Dec. 12, 13 and 14—'The Third Degree.' Dec. 15-16—'The Traveling Salesman.' Dec. 17-18—Wm. H. Crane. THE SPOKANE, Chas. W. York, Mgr. Post St. north of Riverside Ave. Mgr. Every Night—Popular Prices. Week of Nov. 25, 26, 27—The Girl at Nov. 21—"The Girl at the Helm." Ospheum George A. Muller, Resident Manager, Phone Main 311, Matinee Every Day, 2.30. This week's attractions: Edwin Barry, Fay, 2 Coleys & Fay, Brahun's Ladies' quartette, Potter Hartwell tion! Jock McKay, Carletta, the tossing Austins, moving pictures. Have seats reserved by mail, sending a deposit to manager and stating about where you desire names, naming attraction and data. Ezra Kendall Those who are looking for a couple of hours of delightful recreation and know Ezra Kendall's capabilities as a fun-maker will not overlook the fact that this monarch of merriment comes to the Auditorium Thursday of this week in a grand revival of his greatest success, "The Vinegar Buyer." It is the work of Herbert Hall Winslow and was written in accordance with Liebler and Company's directions to include a hero of the Jap Miller type, "Jap Miller" of James Whitcomb Riley's famous poem of the same name, which has been read and laughed over in nearly every household in the land. Trotter—When young Biffkins left college a few years ago he declared he was going to forge his way to the front. Did he make good? Homer—As a forger, yes. He's now occupying a front row cell in the penitentiary. "Your boy was just a little-er- wild when he was at college, wasn't he?" "Oh, yes, he generally was a little wild at first. Couldn't get 'em over the plate, you know. But he always stead- ed down before the game was over." A. Happy Compromise "What a beautiful little bany he is!" exclaimed the neighbor who had called. "He isn't six months old yet, either," said the proud young mother, "and he weighs over twenty pounds." "What have you named him?" "Well," hesitated the mother, "Henry and I differed a little about that He wanted to give him one name, and I wanted to give him another; but we finally compromised and agreed to call him John Wesley." "I soe; you named him after the great founder of Meth—" "No, indeed," quickly interrupted the mother. "That name, as I said, is a compromise." "But how?" But now. "The 'John' is for John Calvin, and the 'Wesley' is for John Wesley." Its Constituent. To be exact is the pride of science, yet how difficult it is to be exact is proved over and over again. The Cleveland Leader tells a story of a classroom dialogue which goes to show the hopelessness of stating anything precisely in English. inquired the chemistry table "Chloride of sodium, and er—and—" "Well, what else?" "Fish!" The hardened cynic delights in sib- ting upon soft people Whether it is of the nose, throat, stomach, bowels, or more delicate organs, catarrh is always debilitating and should have attention. The discharge from the mucous membrane is because this is kept in a state of inflammation by an impure condition of the blood. Therefore, to cure, take the best blood purifier, Hood's Sarsaparilla In usual liquid form or chocolated tablets as Sarsatabs. 100 doses $1. EXCURSION TO THE ORIENT Will Leave Seattle December 22nd on the Minnesota. The Seattle Commercial club is organizing an excursion to the orient for business men, their families and connections, to leave Seattle by the S. Minnesota on December 22nd, and return about March 5th, 1910. The Minnesota will touch at Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Manila and Hongkong. First class round trip will be $250. Space for exhibit on board will be provided. Stops will be made of from one to three days at all ports, and seventeen days at Manila. Applications for full particulars and reservations should be made to J. M. Shawhan, chairman of the publicity committee. Bargains For You. Bargains For You. Good Homesteads, Gilt-edged Investments, Spokane Real Estate. EAGEL REALTY CO., 16 Curtis Blk., Spokane, Wash. Jimmy giggled when the teacher read the story of the Roman who swam across the Tiber three times before breakfast. "You do not doubt a trained swimmer could do that, do you, James!" "No, sir," answered Jimmy; "but I wondered why he didn't make it four and get back to the side his clothes were on." "Airships are just in their infancy." "Yes, they're mighty hard to raise." PACK Windows and doors. We bundle our windows and doors with great care. We spare no expense in packing the products of or mill. Buy mouldings, doors and sash from us lowest prices in the West. Send for catalogue. O. B. WILLIAMS CO., SEATTLE TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKERS wear well and they keep you dry while you are wearing them $3.00 EVERYWHERE GUARANTEED WATERPROOF CATALOG FREE A.J.TOWER CO. BOSTON U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO. LIMITED. TORONTO, CAN. Raises the dough and complies with all pure food laws CRESCENT CRESCENT MFG. CO. Makers of MAPLEINE (better than Maple). BAKING POWDER Best for Children PISO'S CURE THE BEST MEDICINE FOR OUGHS AND OLDS Gives instant relief when little throats are irritated and sore. Contains no opiates and is as pleasant to take as it is effective. WHEN writing to advertisers please mention this paper. SMITHY SONG. O merry anvils sounding All day till set of sun! It is by steady pounding That noblest tasks are done, By sturdy blows and swinging, That keeps the world a-ringing, Ching, ching, ching, ching, Ching, ching, ching, ching. —George Horton THE ELEVENTH HOUR "I am not at home to anyone, Jenks." "Yes, sir. Shall I take tea into the library, sir?" "No," was the curt answer. The door of the library was closed with a decisive hand and locked. He crossed over to the fireplace and stood for a few minutes leaning on the mantelpiece, with his haggard eyes staring down into the recess of the glowing coal. Then he seated himself at the writing table, and for the next ten minutes there was no sound but the tearing of papers. He wrote two letters, both equally brief, and addressed one to his wife and the other to his lawyers and placed them before him, without a pause, he opened a little drawer and brought out a small revolver. He did pause then, and mov A man and a girl stand in front of a door. The man is facing the girl, who is standing slightly to his left. They are both wearing dresses. The man has a hat, and the girl has a tiara. There are plants behind them. "NOT CROSS WITH ME" ling his head took a slow survey of the room. The hand pointed to five minutes to 5. A grim smile flitted over his face. A grim smile fitted over his face. "I will wait until 5," he said aloud. Four minutes to the hour. Three minutes. Two. Eternity swung in sight—the portals of death were open when someone knocked with a boldness that demanded entrance. "What do you want? Who is it?" "It's me, father—Doll," said a clear, childish voice. "Go away, Doll," he said thickly. "Go to Miss Carter, Doll—I'm—busy." "But Miss Carter's gone to a wedding and she won't be home till 7, and it's dreadfully lonely." "I can't see you now." "Not when it's my birthday?" indignantly. In spite of everything he could not withstand her. He must let her in for a minute and then send her away. He slipped the revolver into his drawer again and opened the door. "Oh, daddy, how cold you are; and yet"—peeping past him—"you have got a lovely fire. Darling, are you cross, or not well?" "A bit of both, perhaps, Doll." "Not cross with me?" "No, Doll, no." "You were lonely like me, weren't sure? And you wanted me—really?" "Are you very busy, darling?" "Yes." She gave a deep sigh. "It was dreadfully lonely upstairs," she began apologetically; "I don't care two pins about Miss Carter being away, but it's—my birthday, and—and"tragically"—you never wished me any happy returns." "I am a brute, Doll," he said unsteadily. He took her little round chin in his fingers and looked down into her honest eyes—replicas of her lovely mother's, but with a depth, a soul in them that had never shone in the sparkling orbs of the fashionable beauty. Now as Doll's eyes met his he finched before them, for their pure glance seemed to reach the recess of his guilty soul. "Ten to-day, are you? Getting quite --- an old lady," with a forced smile. "Good angels guard you, sweetheart, for many years—happy years." "Father, let me have tea with you— it would be a perfectly glorious birthday party. Say yes, do." "Very well," he said quietly. "Have your own way, Doll." She gave a little ecstatic scream and flew into the hall like a radiant white bird, too important to ring. "Jenks, Jenks! I am going to have tea with father! Bring it to the library directly, please, and the cake!" She was back again, all movement and vivacity. The man from the chair where he had thrown himself could not take his haggard eyes from her—she seemed the very embodiment of life. And after the tea was over he could not get rid of her without absolute sternness. "Do you remember last birthday, darling? I was 9, and mummy gave a ball. She promised me one this birthday, but she had to go to the Lautouches, you know. Mummy is away a great lot," she said with a little regretful sigh. "And you are very disappointed to be done out of your party, old woman?" "Not very," said Doll stoutly. "Next year mummy is sure to be at home, she says so. And she sent me this. Isn't she a darling, sweet mummy?" She opened a little gold locket attached to a slender chain round her neck and showed him the charming smiling face of her mother. He took it in his hand and looked at it long and intently. To-morrow those gay blue eyes would be clouded—that haughtily poised head abased with his dishonor. Well, he thought bitterly, she had had her hand in it. They had never run well together—she had gone her own way and he his. Once things might have been different—was it his fault or hers? He closed the locket with a little snap and let it fall again on Doll's breast. "And this is her letter—look darling. I'll read it to you: 'So sorry, my sweet Doll, to be away on your birthday—but this is an old engagement, you know, and Lady Latouche would not let me off. Next birthday—indeed, when I return—we must make up for it. I am sending you something to console you. I hope my Doll is a good little girl and does what Miss Carter tells her. Take good care of father.'" "And I am, aren't I?" Doll broke off to say. "Yes, Doll, yes, old woman. You—you would miss me a bit if—supposing that I was lost, now? "Do men ever get lost?" "Often, Doll." "Then I would die," said Doll, tragically. "Nonsense! Mothers always count for more, don't they?" he perverted. "Do they—always?" she whispered. "Mostly, Doll." "But sometimes you—they could love the fathers just a wee quarter of an inch more, couldn't they?" He considered the question, while she watched him anxiously. "They might sometimes, Doll." "It wouldn't be wicked?" "No, of course not." She gave a deep sigh of relief. He put his arms round the little warm body, and pressed her close to him. And as he held her there a sudden love of life—a remembrance of all the best and highest of the life he had so basely ill-used—came back and stirred his pulses with gladness and pain. He closed his eyes dizzily, and leaned against Doll's shoulder. How near had been Death—and Doll had come between them! He reviewed the mad acts of the last few days—the maddest acts of his spoiled life. He had dishonored the name that generations of good-living men had transmitted to him. That very afternoon—was it only this afternoon or centuries ago?—his lawyers had begged him to pull in, to retrench. They had asked him to go abroad until they could settle his submerged affairs. They had sworn that if he would promise them to give up his mad gambling they would be able yet in time to save an honored name—an honored house. And what had his answer been? He had flung away from them with a laugh. "Let my name and place go. My whole existence has been a mistake. I shall go to the death my own way." And then in the place of Death and dishonor had come—Doll. He was sive thank God! Thank God! "Doll, darling, wise old woman, did you ever turn over a new leaf?" "Lots," said Doll promptly. "Well, I've turned over one, all the leaves in my book are stained but this one, but I am going to keep this clean. And, Doll, to-morrow you and I are going in search of the very loveliest birthday present that we can find in the whole of London. But I have given you one to-night, dear." "What?" asked Doll eagerly and puzzled. He stooped down and kissed her, and she hugged him gleefully, for she thought his kiss was the gift, but he knew it was his life.—London Opinion. The Witching Kind. "Pa, what are the witching waves?" "Those that the women wear, my son, after their hair has been marcelled."—Cleveland Leader. A woman looks prettier getting a baby to sleep than she does on a public platform. 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If wishes were works how soon would the whole world be redeemed. Folks who starch their necks usually let it run down into their hearts. The people who close their eyes in meeting usually make up for it with their mouths. It's hard work trying to raise heavenly fruits in a heart where the sun never enters. Save where there has been much hard grinding, the gold is never on the surface of life. When Christ is in your home you will not need a placard on the wall to advertise the fact. The character goods we feel like advertising are often the ones for which we need to apologize. MILKING AN INDIAN COW. A striking feature of the morning routine of an Indian compound, writes Mary Anable Chamberlafn in the Atlantic Monthly, is the method of extracting milk from the domestic cow. This animal is, as is well known, sacred in India, and the attitude of the Hindu toward her is one of extreme tenderness and consideration; a caste man is always her keeper. Although ever so sacred, the cow makes no pretense to holiness in her conduct. As her keeper moves forward she pulls back, straining every fiber of the by no means invincible cord. He is a tallish man for a Hindu, erect in carriage, and in spite of the limitations of his costume, not undignified in bearing. She is a handsome beast, tall, stately, rawboned, impressive, apt to be white, sure to be humped. A glance shows you that you are about to be treated for once to that unwanted spectacle of a male subdued by a female. The man's—and a caste man's, at that—demeanor is humble. The cow is defiant. He cosets her, coaxes her, indicates tactfully which way he would have her go. She shakes her head, tosses it coonfully, indicates unmistakably that she will go where she pleases. She makes a break for the bungalow, dragging the man after her by the rope, spies the memahlb "inspecting," is offended that she should wear skirts instead of a tying-cloth, and charges, head down, in her direction, with a resultant of screams and confusion that brings every servant in the compound to the rescue. Then they all surround the cow, and with pushings and pullings and a full chorus of soothing sounds, bring her at last to the back veranda, where she is to be milked. Here again the caste man's frame of mind is one of humble submission. He gives her time to collect herself and to forget the mem-sahib's skirts, and approaches her in a spirit of entire friendliness, of which he assures her by the dulcet tones of his voice. She finally consents to impart her milk, a thin, colorless liquid, which, in the most liberal estimate, does not exceed a pint or two. Mrs. Jenkins—Norah, did you see that bag of confetti I bought for Freddie yesterday? The Cook—Oi did; but, shure, Oi didn't know it wor only for Freddie. There's half of it left, though. There's half of it at Mrs. Jenkins (excitedly)—Half of it? What became of the rest? The Cook—Oi cooked it, av coarse; and' ye all had it 'er yer breakfast this marinar'—Judge DEER HEADS Animals, Birds and Fur Rugs Mounted WITHERS BR05., Taxidermists. 814 Sprague Ave., - Spokane, Wash. Friend—What was the title of your poem? Poet—"Oh, Give Me Back My Dreams!" Friend—And what did the editor write to you? Poet—"Take 'em!" "That man says he will create some real excitement if he gets into congress." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, "he is one of those peculiar patriots who want to climb on board the ship of state simply for the pleasure of rocking the boat." Steve Long is noted for attending to his own business and saying very little about it. One morning an inquisitive neighbor met him returning from the woods with his gun over his shoulder. "Hello, Steve. Where ye been! A-shootin'!" 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Many Englishmen profess to be astonished at the working of the old age pension system which went into effect last January. The surprise is coupled with disappointment, for the system seems likely to become exceedingly expensive. The government's estimates have turned out to be far from accurate. It was supposed that not more than 570,000 persons in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales would apply for pensions and that the cost would be $32,500,000 for the first year. But in the first nine months the cost was more than $30,000,000, and 112,768 more persons had commenced to draw pensions than were expected. "What ye been a-shootin'?" A SNAP No sense in running from one doctor to another. Select the best one, then stand by him. Do not delay, but consult him in time when you are sick. Ask his opinion of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs and colds. Then use it or not, just as he says. 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The bottle must be well shaken each time." This simple remedy is one of the most effective known. The restorative action will be felt after the first few doses. Editor—Did you interview the leader of the suffragettes? Reporter—I tried to, but she wouldn't talk. Editor—Wouldn't talk? Good heavens, man, was she dead!—Puck. THE HOME OF THE HERITAGE CENTER Trade with the Helena Packing and Provision Co. Miss Belle Griffin will leave shortly and will reside near St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Hattie Anderson has returned to the city after a visit to Great Falls and Havre. Mrs. Nicholson of 210 S Ewing has returned to the city from a visit with friends in Spokane. A letter from Wm. Mason who is in Los Angeles, Ca., sends regards to all friends, and that he is highly pleased with that section though he expects to return to Spokane and enter into business. The grand coal rally is now on at St. James, and will culminate on next Sunday. Rev. Guy says send in your donation for coal. The St. James A. M. E. church realized quite a neat sum from their big Thanksgiving dinner. The Busy Bee will meet at Mrs Saulsbury's. The big Spelling Bee takes place at St. James literary, Wednesday evening. Mr. G. Burney was a visitor in our city this week. H. J. Baker since the arrival of a Miss Baker has been hard to see. Mrs. E. G. Cole has removed to her magnificent new home on the east side. Look out for the Plaindearel collector who will be around in a day or so. Miss Tressa York and Alma Bass are reported as making excellent progress at Western University. Mrs. A. J. Walton who has been ill at St. John's hospital is reported as convalescent. The Bright Star club will give a grand concert at St. James A. M. E. church on Dec. 8th it will be a hummer. The mock congress will be the next big event at St. James literary, the same will start after the holidays. Uncle Remus (Gus Mason) is battling against bi godds from a pet boil. Dame Rumo has it that a Missoula man is soon coming to Helena for a bride. THE COST OF LIVING Is the excuse for many who do not save. Men wil sometimes not admit they are living better than their incomes warrant. One man says, "I am as good as my wealthier neighbor and I am going to live as well.' That may be true, and pride is a good thing, but the "wealthier neighbor" didn't feel that way before he "got on his feet." He had to SAVE Any man can if he WILL. It takes patience, that's all. We allow 4 per cent interest on Savings Accounts. Union Bank & Trust HELENA, MONTANA. Harry Saulsburg was surprised last Saturday evening by Mrs Saulsbury bringing in on him a bunch of friends and a big birthday dinner at their apartments on Broadway. The occasion was Harry's 25th birthday, a delightful time was had and all present departed at a late hour wishing him to have even more than the allotted thre score and ten. Miss Riley and Mrs. Thompson who have resided here all summer and who have so very acceptable helped out in everything left last Tuesday for their homes in the southland. Harry Jacobs who is working in Bozeman, was over on a visit. Mrs. Nannie Mitchell gave a luncheon last week. The Thanksgiving stunts now being over all are looking well to the Xmas times. CHIGAGO NEWS Mr. William Delacy is one of our promen and most efficient Police Officers of the Police Department in Chicago. Mr. Delacey is one among the prominent coloed men of Chicago and is taking an active interest in the number of enterprises for the advancement and bettering the conditions of the colored people in Chicago. Officere Delacy is now stat. ioned at the Harrison Street Police Station in Chicago. Rev. A. J. Carey Pastor at the Institutional A. M. E. Church, in this City, preached powerful amb eloquent sermon to a large congregation on last Sunday Eveing. There is no doubt but what Rev. Carey will make the Instl. A. M. E. Church, the leading and the most promen department, known as a "Day Nusery" to give Rev. Carey their unaniomus and hearty support. Mrs. Albert Fletcher left the City Oct 9th for Omaha, having been called away on account for the illness for Mrs. Hattie Thomas a former resident of Chicago. Evans Tyree, Manager of Columbia Tennessee Jubilee Singers, left this week with his company on their Seasons work. They visit all the promenct cities in the East and West returning to the city for their vacation probably May 1. 1909. The True Reformers are planning for a great Night at Bethel on the 29th. Grand Master W. L. Taylar of Richmond Virgina will be present and deliver an deliver an address. AVE Trust Co. DNTANA. SAVE 一 It can be relied upon in all cases of Nervous Exhaustion, brought on by over-work or great mental effort. It assists the Nerve Cells to generate nerve force. Its soothing influence upon the nerves brings restful sleep-nature's rest period so essential to the tired, worn-out mind and body. For Headache, Neuralgia, or any pain or distress, you will find almost instant relief by taking Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They are sold by all druggists, and you may try either of these remedies on the positive guarantee that if the first bottle or package does not benefit, your druggist will return your money. We They are sold by all drug may try either of these re positive guarantee that it tle or package does not druggist will return you repay the druggist the fu so it is to his interest to re upon to do so. · Miles Medical Co., REAL THE MOntana Plain by all druggists, and you of these remedies on the guantee that if the first bot- ne does not benefit, your return your money. We baggist the full retail price, interest to refund if called Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. DEAD THE Plaindealer! A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district Ranger' bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are full particulars and a special offer at once. QUARED until you receive and approve your bicycle. Wash in the U.S. without a cent deposit in advance, freepay freight, and FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and it back to us at a cost of $10. We furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $10 profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacture guar- cycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory details offered at a certain price. When you receive our catalogue and ASTONSHED study our super models at the wonderful outdoor use. We promise and you will not be out one more. We are satisfied with $10 profit above factory cost ers, you can sell our bicycles under a plate at day received. We. Good. regularly handle second hand bicycles, but in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. Imported roles, chains and pedals, parts, repairs and ords at half the usual retail price. PUNCTURE-PROOF $80 TIRES A SAMPLE PAIR INTRODUCE, ONLY repay the druggist the full retail price so it is to his interest to refund if called upon to do so. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. READ THE MOntana Plaindealer! FACTORY PRICES • our first grade bicycles it is possible to make at $55, middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's goods at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our factory prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell our superb models at the wonderfully than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. HOWEVER, LERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders from SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out prompt at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES, equipment of all kinds at half the price. COASTER-BRAKES, single wheels, imported roller chains, equipment of all kinds at half the usual retails $ 5.0 HEDGETHORN PUNCTUR SELF-HEALING TIRES A SALE TO INT 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF SELF-HEALING TIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY REDGE THORN RECORD MUSKET DRAG SELF-REM. 20 TIME 00 TIME 00 porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the heat to escape. We have hundreds of leathers from satis-fying the needs of the market, and we can up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given to the tire by the manufacturer. The tread. The regular price of these tires is $5 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the hotel will pay 4.50 per pair. All orders shipped same day etter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You will be examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent for etter less 65 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a not satisfactory on examination. We are the most reliable and that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have chosen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and approved. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at our exertion not satisfactory on examination but write us a postal card and in bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that the wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever known that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable special introductory price quoted above; or write us a postal card. DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone until you offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. J. L.*MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, Western University QUINDARO, KANSAS AND THE WEST DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, North and State Normal Leading and Best Industry of the West Courses shipped same day, etter is received. We ship C. O. D. on have examined, and found them strictly as represented, our cent (thereby making the price $4.65 per pair if you and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one be returned at our expense if for any reason they are perfect to sale and money sent to us is as safe as in a sales, you will find that they will ride, run faster, on any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We at what you want a bicycle you will give us your order, hence this remarkable tire offer. We buy any Kind at any price you send for a pair of Godthorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at: or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which tires at about the usual prices. Postal today. DO NOT THINK OR BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful tool to learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. UNIVERSITY RO, KANSAS NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR AND THE WEST Logical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal State Normal West Industrial School the West IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of car tires and a pair of wheels and a trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the price and description. Western University QUINDARO, KANSAS THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Normal Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION For Terms, Prices and Inducements Offered write to Shelton French, A. M., Acting President Phones: West 1423; Residence, I. O. Westr --- double or SECOND usually have they tires $5.90 per pair, but to introduce sell your sample pair ($4.80(cash)withorder $4.55). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. Easy to handle, durable and lively and easy riding, very durable and lineable a special quality of rubber, which never become Courses Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal, including Piano, Organ and Harmony), Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. 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