Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Vol. 111 Subscription, $2.00 per year strictly in advance. Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Helena, Montana, under the act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. Address all communications to The Montana Plaindearler, 17 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY! UNION! The papers who are hostile to Dr. Washington will no doubt make great capital out of the unfortunate occurrence in New York last week, but the Dr. has the confidence of the great masses of all the people and they will stand by him loyally. The word has been passed that Mexico must bring about order by the 1st of May has had a salutory effect on that republic and now with a new cabinet, things bid fair to so adjust them selves as to avoid intervention on the part of the United States. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Parks has been assigned to this Episcopal district of the A. M. E. church made vacant by the death of Bishop Abraham Grant. He is a worthy successor to the beloved bishop and no doubt the work of this vast territory will go on to success under his leadership. It is now time that the men of our race in this vicinity stop fighting one another and do something tangible towards organizations for their mutual benefit. One thing certain, Uncle Sam plays no favorites in the white slave traffic. If a white man assoys to engage in that traffic he must face the music just the same as the black man, and not saying that no one is in the business, with Uncle Sam it is if you dance you must pay the fiddler. NEGRO SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH The work being done by the South for Negro schools is indicated in the fact that of $1,000,-000,000 spent upon common schools in the 16 former slave States and the District of Columbia since 1871 at least $185,-000,000 have been spent upon common schools for Negroes. In that territory the common school enrollment increased from 2,013,684 white and 685,942 Negroes in 1870-71 to 4,692,927 whites and 1,655,781 Negroes in 1907-08. In 1860 there were in the public schools of the South 781,-199 pupils out of a total of 4,955,894 in the United States, and the income of these public schools in the South was $4,474,370 out of a total of $22,548,519 in the United States. The popularity of the academy and other --- FIVE NEW RIGHTS Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, the Race's Highest Educated Citizen, Defines the Five New Rights Which All Men, White and Black, Should Enjoy—Commented on By Robert Hunter in the Printer and Decorator Magazine. Some time ago Professor W. E. B. Dubois, of Atlanta University, spoke in New York. He spoke of the five rights which all men, white or black, should enjoy. The first was, he said, "The right to individuality, and I mean by this, the right to his own color, and his own way of thinking, and to his own prejudices, so far as these things do not interfere with other people's rights to the same thing. "Second—The right to public courtesy. This world, from now on, is going to be a world of contact of races. It is going to be utterly impossible to separate and isolate men. In the past, contact meant war, caste and slavery, but today it must not and cannot mean these, for these will cost too much to be indulged in. If, then, this to be a world of contact, each being in it has the right of public courtesy; to visit public places without insul and to travel in public conveyance unmolested and to be entertained in public hostelries. "Third—A citizen of the world should have the right of opportunity. We used to say the right of education, but this demand should be broadened to the right of opportunity; the right to be educated in his childhood and then to have the doors of economic and political development thrown open to him, according to his ability. Herein lies the answer of that great search for ability which human culture must make. Hitherto, we have said, not that we must have men of ability, but that we must be English, or that they must belong to the first families. Now the Lord, in his great wisdom, did not confine the ability to acquire wisdom to any one class of people, but distributed it to men of many races and all degrees of color, and this ability must be found and honored and put in command, regardless of prejudice. "Fourth—The citizen of the New World must have the right of peace. The protection from force and violence in the prosecution of work, and this cannot be done until a stop is put to war and lynching and peonage and wage slavery. "Fifth—He has a right to the truth. If he has a right to be protected against yphysical violence, he has a greater right to protection against moral lies. Race prejudice in this land could not stand for a day if as much effort was made to have the truth in regard to all human beings known as is now made in trying to spread lies about them." "These, then, are the five rights which all men, white and black, and of all religions have the right to demand; the right of individuality; the right to public courtesy; the right to opportunity; the right to peace, and the right to truth; and when men have these rights, the last bulwarks of prejudice must fall" Helena, Montana, Friday, March 24 1911 MRS. A. J. WALTON WRITES ON PROBLEMS WHICH CONFRONT RACE Negro rights in the north, prejudice against the Negro in the north, is just as intense as that in the south, only the north plays the hypocrite to the contrary. I wonder how long the north is going to play the hypocrite and the moral coward on this question. The north knows they lie when they say they are the Negroes friends, the northerner will come to the south with a long face and black heart and tell the Negro that up north is the only place for him and the only place where he can have equal rights as that of the white man and that there is no prejudice against him in the north, and, he is only known by his principle and not by color. But the northern states exhibit the same prejudices as that of the south. They lynch the Negro, hang him, burn him to the stakes and also have race wars in the north as in the south; they push him to the out edge of the out world. The north exhibits the same weakness as the south. The northern white man will come to the sunny south and invite the Negro to the north where he can have equal rights and when he gets to the north they try to show him that there never were any rights for him except when some northern white man wants to hold office and can only be equal for one day to cast his vote and loses his rights before the day is gone. And if anyone will say ought, they say, "Oh, well, the Negro is all right in his place." The northern white man thinks it is a disgrace to be seen talking to a Negro in public places only when he is compelled to. And yet, he will come to the south with that long face and black heart of his and pray this prayer: Almighty, is the Author and Finisher of all things, who is able to destroy and who is able to defend and say we grant Almighty Father that You deliver the etheopians out of the hands of their enemies and send them to a land where they will find equal rights as the rights of his white brother. Oh we pray thee, O Lord that the day will soon come when the etheopian can stretch forth his hand and shake hands with the caucasian and when the lion and the lamb can lie down together and the eagle can stretch forth her wings. The New York Special Bargains In Our Linen And Domestic Department. 15c Zephyr Ginghams, yd.....10c 15c Daisy Cloth, yd.....10c 30c 27-inch Natural Colored Linen, per yard .....20c 12 1-2c Union Huck Towels each .....8 1-3c 20c Fancy Corded Madras for shirt waists, yard.....15c 15c 36-inch very finest Silk- line, per yard .....10c $2.50 20-inch pure Linen Dam, ask Napkin, doz.....$1.75 20c 27-inch very fine and sheer Dimity, in stripes and checks per yard .....12 1-2c 25c white Shrunk Cotton for dresses, per yard .....15c 65c 45-inch Persian Lawns, per yard .....50c that cannot solve its own problems. When he has once learned to read the word of God and Believe in his own soul and mind the victory is won. And what we want now is good, honorable and obliging business men and women in every village and city in the north and they should receive the patronage of the race and they cannot fail to succeed. Our people make enough money to support not only retail stores, but wholesale houses as well. With the race patronage alone we would soon have rich merchants and capitalists carrying on large business enterprises in every section of the country, that would demand the respect and recognition of the world and then prejudices against the colored race would cease and every unjust law would be wiped out. I know it is said that colored men will not pay proper respect to their patrons nor will they stick to their business closely, if this is true there is no reason why it should be in the future better things are both expected and demanded. For us the dark clouds of ignorance and race ratred which hung over us at the time of liberation from bondage have been rent in twain and they are vanishing before education and intelligence. Why not? We live in the most progressive age of the world's history, here we are in the evening of the 20th century where inventions and discoveries one see every way they look. Here we have steam cars, telephones, electric cars, schools, churches, colleges, factories, etc. We have animals, poultry, the fish of the sea, farms. Then why should we not change there is no reason why we should remain longer in the dark, then let us come together and help each other in Unity there is Strength. So let us walk in the light which God gave us. Mrs. ANNIE WALTON, 15 State Street. Helena, Mont THE NEGRO IN IT You may talk about the Negro You may name his faults in finite; But you cannot turn a wheel That a Negro isn't in it. You may block his civil rights 50c 27-inch Silk Mull, in very newest shades, yard .....35c 35c very large and heavy Turk- ish Towels, each .....29c 65c 36-inch Round Thread Linen for waists, yard.....50c 6 1-4c 36-inch Bleached Cheese Cloth, yard .....5c $1.25 Honey Comb Bed Spread .....75c 30c 36-inch Fancy Curtain Madras, per yard .....11c 50c Fancy Poplins in latest shades for waists and suits, per yard .....35c 20c Fast Color Black Lawn for dresses, per yard.....12 1-2 12 1-2c 25-inch Fancy Cretons for draperies, yard.....8 1-3c You may say you are "again" it; But before you turn around, Some sharp Negro will be in it You may build your Chinese Walls— You may plan for every minute; But with all your wily schemes, Some few Negroes will be in. You may form your "Lily Whites," You may kill your bear and skin it; When the "pie" is passed around Some shrewd Negro will be it. Be it high or be it low, From cook pot to Senate; There is not a place on earth, That a Negro isn't in it. So, my friend, just stop your folly, Draw this thought way out and spin it. IN BED 35 YEARS FARMER MANAGES FARM AND ADDS TO HIS WEALTH. Indiana Man Physically Incapacitated by Being Unable to Stand on His Feet Is Successful In Business. Clay City, Ind—Joseph F. Adams, a Perry township farmer, has been very successful in business during the last 35 years, although he has not left his bed in that time. He was born in 1841 and has been in bed continuously since 1875. During all the time of his confinement in bed he has managed and directed his affairs, buying, within the time, a farm of 200 acres, now one of the most desirable and valuable in Perry township, which, he says, cannot be bought for less than $20,000. At no time has he shown any indication of mental weakness or incapacity for business. His alliment seems to be merely physical disability to remain on his feet. He is not paralyzed and when he went to bed 35 years ago he simply said he was unable to get about and work. He lives, with his son, ten miles south of Brazil, his wife having died nearly forty years ago. Prior to his decline came the loss of audible speech, since which he has carried on conversation in whispers and by means of penell and tablet, as his hearing is also perceptibly affected. Though now three-score and ten, his writing is as regular and clear cut as 50 years ago. Adams' meals are served in bed, and he has eaten regularly three times a day. Not at any time during all the 35 years has he called a physician to prescribe for him nor diagnose his case, nor taken a dose of medicine of any kind. In his youth Adams was an apt student, in his earlier manhood a successful teacher in the public schools, and in 1870 he was elected trustee of Sugar Ridge township. From the fall of 1861 he served in the Forty-third Indiana regiment until the close of the Civil war, participating in many engagements. SEEKS $50,000 FROM WIDOW St. Louis Man Sues Rich Kansas City Woman Who, He Says, Proposed With Alluring Offer. St. Louis, Mo.—Fifty thousand dollars' worth of disappointment is in possession of at least one St. Louisan, because a rich Kansas City widow who, he says, proposed marriage (and support) to him changed her mind without the slightest provocation on his part, and neither married him nor supported him. This is the substance of a petition filed at Kansas City by Martin Kapp against Minnie Bickling of 2712 Brooklyn avenue, that city. In the petition Kapp admits he was to have had certain obligation under the marriage proposal which Mrs. Bicking made him. In the first place he was to wed her, and in the second place he was to spend much of his time studying music, so he might enrich her life with melody while she puzzled over the business of the partnership. According to Kapp, Mrs. Bicking did not fall to impress upon him her ability to provide the necessaries of life. One lot on Main street, Kansas City, which he says she held alluringly before his eyes, was worth $165,000. Mrs. Bicking apparently had nothing to stand between her and Kapp. There were no children. In addition she had a love of music, which Kapp could satisfy. Kapp, although forty-five years old, had never married, and he saw no reason why he could not become the husband of the $500,000. He and the woman, he recites, were friends and affectionate companions in their youth. After Mrs. Bicking became a widow, Kapp asserts, they met in Colorado and their acquaintance was renewed. This was in October, 1909. The meeting was followed by an invitation for Kapp to visit the widow's home in Kansas City, and it was while on such a visit her offer of marriage was made, Kapp asserts. The petition mentions a letter said to have been written by Mrs. Bicking in which Kapp is referred to twice as "sweet one." It is all of this agony piled up which Kapp thinks worth one-tenth of Mrs. Bicking's alleged fortune. BOY SAVED BY DOGS' BARK Young Joplin Lad Is Taken Unconscious From Water, Where He Had Fallen. Joplin, Mo.—After slipping from a high bank into deep water in Center creek, Howard Ball, fourteen years old, was saved from drowning only as the result of the timely barking of two pet bulldogs, which attracted the attention of passers-by. The boy was alone except for the dogs. Removing his clothing, he started to climb down the bank to a place where he could enter comparatively shallow water. Slipping, he fell eight feet, striking his head on a submerged log. The blow rendered him unconscious. The dogs immediately began barking frantically and two railroad section men hearing them, investigated and saw the boy's arm projecting from the water over the top of the log. When rescued young Ball was unconscious and for several hours it was not believed he could be revived. Happiness Comes Only at Her Own Will—Best Plan Is to Let Her Alone. It would be cynical to say that happiness is like the snakes of Ireland, for each one of us, at some time or other, has had glimmes of her in the distance. But, at any rate, she is more secretive than the williest serpent, swifter than the deer, more cunning at escape than the fox, and, indeed, if we pursue her to the end, she will never be caught alive; when we hold her, at last, it is but to find her dead. But occasionally, of her own free will, she drops down upon us by chance in her light-hearted, casual way, and we have a taste of what her companionship might mean. It is the patient and the hopeless and the bravely destitute that happiness chiefly affects; as if she knew all too well where she was most needed and most appreciated. It is not the despairing she visits, but those who have learned to renounce with a certain ease of spirit and detachment. "After all," she seems to say blithely to these, when she futters in upon them, "you thought I never come, but I do; only not too often." For she is a goddess, happiness, one of the old pagan goddesses, haughty and capricious and willful, and a rare and exacting visitant. The old way of teaching children that happiness is a reward to be won finally in heaven, after an arduous service to virtue in this life, is no longer fashionable, and we see the young people of the present day out on a perfect roast chasing happiness or, as they familiarly call it, "a good time." And they never catch it. Despite of all the noise and the paraphernula and the rush and the expense and the moving from mountains to seashore, and motoring over foreign lands and bedecking and bedizenizing themselves for luncheons and dinners and games and tournaments, happiness, whom they pursue, is just as shy of them, just as far distant, as if no means had been taken to pursue her. She pauses only for her elect, occasionally, and not all those who call upon her shall find her—Harper's Weekly. Government's Freezing Works. The markets in Victoria are good, and have been greatly improved by the efforts of the government to facilitate and cheapen exports, especially to Great Britain. There are 14 freezing works where perishable produce is frozen and prepared for export. The largest store is that at Melbourne, managed entirely by the government, and which regulates the charges throughout the country. The value of produce exported through the Melbourne Cool stores averages $7,500,000 yearly, and the charges for handling, freezing and shipping are as follows, including storage days: Butter, 14 days' storage, six cents per box of 56 pounds; mutton, 21 days' storage, 30 cents per carcass; lamb, 21 days' storage, 22 cents per carcass; poultry, including killing, plucking, dressing packing and casing, 21 days' storage, 16 cents per pair; fruit, 14 days' storage, 16 cents per case. Other perishable produce is treated on the same 'liberal terms. Beer and Flowers in Germany. The Germans are a proverbially thirsty nation. This fact has just been strikingly illustrated in the farming out of the various departments of a new theater to be erected at Berlin. The rent for the refreshment department in this theater is $15,000 per annum, while that for the cloakrooms is $10,000, for the playbills, $2,500 and for the florist, $5,000. It has been ascertained that in a theater with 1,400 seats a thousand glasses of beer are sold on the average during each performance, but that the sale of sandwiches and other light refreshments is of no consequence. It is beer first and foremost that "pays the plper," and after the beer the flowers. This also is characteristic. — Montreal Standard. Apples for Halloween. This is just the time for the girl who lives in a country home to market her apples for Halloween. And she must not delay or it will be too late. Cut out in paper the initials of each guest who is to be invited to the Halloween supper. Paste the letters upon the apples that have not yet turned and will not be picked until late in the season. The name should be placed on the side of the apple that faces the sun and which will in consequence turn the reddest. Later, when Halloween arrives, the paper may be washed off and the name will appear in green upon the rosy cheek of the apple. Fight on Bird Slaughter. Asserting that 300,000,000 birds are killed yearly for the adornment of women, the French League for the Protection of Birds is greatly concerned about the vast slaughter caused by the fashion for "Chanteceler" hats. Last year a single London merchant is sold to have sold 32,000 humming birds. Oddly enough, the Society for the Protection of Animals this year presented its annual "grand prize" to M. Rostand, the author of "Chanteceler." The Impractical Person "I understand Bliggins is walking the floor because of his debts." "Great mistake," commented the impractical person. "While he was about it he should have borrowed enough to get an automobile and done his worrying in comfort." SIGHT IS RESTORED BLIND MUSICIAN REGAINS VISION AFTER STORK'S VISIT. New Jersey Man's Recovery of Eye sight Is Considered Marvelous by Physicians Who Thought His Case Hopeless. Mercerville, N. J.—Although he has been married five years, Peter Mayard, a musician, looked upon the face of his wife for the first time but a few days ago, and he believes that the visitation of the stork to his home resulted in the restoration of his eyesight. He claims that he is the happiest man in the world today, as he found his wife to be prettier than he pictured her in his mind. Mayard's recovery of his eyesight is considered marvelous by physicians, who believed that he would never be able to see again. When Mayard was ten years old he was struck in the right eye by a baseball and the injury resulted in total blindness. However, this did not interfere with his education, and when he reached the age of twenty-one he was considered an expert pianist. Shortly after he had attained his majority he met Miss Mary French, a beautiful girl of eighteen, who was deeply impressed with his skill as a musician. The friendship between the two gradually deepened. Dan Cupid took a hand and the two became engaged. Their marriage followed a year later. They have been extremely happy, but are now still happier. Mrs. Mayard was taken suddenly ill and her husband, although blind, started to run in order to summon a nearby physician. He thought he could reach the house without difficulty, but stumbled over an embankment and fell a distance of ten feet. He was unconscious for some time. When he was recovering he was informed that there was an addition to his family in the shape of a ten-pound baby girl. It was a few moments after receiving this information that he suddenly began to shout for joy, and he made so much noise that he aroused the neighborhood. He discovered he could see as well as when he was a boy. Mrs. Mayard was greatly surprised at the news and her husband, when she had recovered sufficiently for him to see her was amazed at her appearance. "Why, I didn't know that I had married the prettiest girl in the country!" he cried. He asserted that he thought his wife's appearance altogether different than it is. Physicians who later examined the musician pronounced his sight completely restored and attributed the restoration to the shock of the fall and the glad news in which the stork figured. HORSE THIEF IS SHOT DEAD Whip Loses In Duel With Rovolver Brother of Victim Escapes to Mountains. Hot Springs, Ark.—In a street battle between two alleged horse thieves and several sheriff's officers here George Chitwood, one of the accused, was killed by a deputy sheriff and Sheriff Jade Houpt probably was fatally wounded. Sheriff Houpt and a posse had been endeavoring to arrest George Chitwood and his brother for a week. Unexpectedly the two Chitwoods rode up to the sheriff's office and asked if they were wanted. When they were placed under arrest both dashed from the courthouse, the officers in pursuit. As they reached the street the officers opened fire, the fugitives returning the shots. One of the Chitwoods mounted his horse, but the animal was shot from under him. The horse, however, was forced to arise, and Chitwood rode through Ouachita avenue on the wounded beast, brandishing his revolver and ordering every one from the streets. He escaped to the mountains, but was finally captured and taken to prison in chains. Deputy Sid Houpt pursued George Chitwood, who had jumped into a buggy and fought off the officer with a buggy whip until Chitwood was shot in the abdomen. CARRIES HOD TO FREE SON Kansas City (Kan.) Mother, After Many Years of Effort, Rewarded by Youth's Release. Kansas City, Mo.-Hod-carying was not too hard work for Mrs. Margaret La Trasse, fifty-six years old, of Kansas City, Kan., when she was trying to earn money to aid in getting her son paroled from the Missouri penitentiary, and she received her reward. The boy was paroled by Governor Hadley. Troubles never came singly for the mother. The floods of 1903-4 nearly ruined her little home. Then her husband became ill and has been an invalid since then. Scarcely had he taken to his bed when the boy was sentenced to ten years in prison for a robbery committed near St. Joseph. The home was mortgaged to get money to defend him. Willie—as she calls her son—went to prison, and the mother came home to work and earn money to get him out. By much persuasion she obtained a job carrying a hod. Then she prevailed upon her employer to let her lath and plaster a house. Her savings she invested in a restaurant, and aided by the profits from this venture she managed to get her son's case before the governor AMERICAN IN MEXICAN COUP MAKES BIG PROFIT David E. Thompson of Lincoln, Neb., former United States Ambassador to Mexico, made a snug profit of not less than $5,000,000 out of the sale of the Pan-American railroad to the Mexican government, according to a report that is current at the general PETER H. offices of that road at Gamboa, Mexico. An interesting story is told in connection with the purchase of the Pan-American less than a year ago by Mr. Thompson. It is stated that the St. Louis owners of that road had offered the property to the Mexican government for approximately $10,000,000 gold and that the price was at that time considered too high by Jose Yves Lismantour, minister of finance, who has been the directing genius of the government ever since it entered into the policy of owning a controlling interest in the principal lines of railway of the country a few years ago. Mr. Limantour, it is said, probably thought he would be able to get the road at a lower price than the original offer, particularly in view of the fact that the Harriman interests were not at that time seeking to acquire the property. It was known that the late E. H. Harriman had hoped to make the Pan-American a part of the Southern Pacific system of Mexico, but his death upset those plans. Mr. Thompson learned that the road could be bought. He believed that it would prove a very desirable property as an independent proposition, and with associates bought the road for approximately $11,000,000 gold. Mr. Thompson then resigned his position as United States ambassador to Mexico to give his personal attention to the management of the road. He inaugurated important improvements and has brought it up to a higher standard of physical efficiency. It is said that Mr. Limantour and other high officials of the Mexican government were somewhat chagrined at the coup of Mr. Thompson. It was decided, however that the Pan-American should be acquired on behalf of the government even if it was necessary to pay a much higher price than Mr. Thompson and associates paid for it. The government secured an option on the property, the proposed purchase price being about $17,000,000 gold, it is stated. Mr. Llantour, who has been in Europe for several weeks, has succeeded in financing the proposition and the deal has been closed. The road is already being operated by the officials of the National Railways of Mexico, which is known as the government merger system. The Pan-American runs from Gamboa, a station on the National Tehuantepec railroad, to Martschal, on the Guatemala-Mexico border, a distance of 275 miles. ACTIVE AND AMBITIOUS AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS Henry Gassaway Davis is one of the grand old men of West Virginia. He was born poor near Baltimore on November 16, 1823, and was left fatherless at an early age. When he was 15 years old Mr. Davis, then an orphan, was compelled to paddle his own canoe, and he A. H. faced the necessity of earning a livelihood with grim determination and courage. He managed to earn a fairly comfortable living while receiving an education in the public schools. His first position of importance was that of superintendent of a plantation; then he became a brakeman, conductor, and agent at Pledmont, W. Va., for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company. Thereafter he branched out as a merchant and a leading collier and later became president of the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg railway. Remarkably successful in this capacity, he became president of the Pledmont & Cumberland railway. Mr. Davis entered politics in 1865 when he was elected to the house of delegates of West Virginia. He made many friends in political circles and served as state senator and also United States senator from West Virginia. Senator Davis reached the zenith of his political career when he ran on the ticket with Alton B. Parker for the vice-presidency of the United States. Mr. Davis is a man of genial and charming personality. He has risen from the ranks of the very poor to a position of prominence and distinction. His early years were years of strife and work, but he battled on with a happy and optimistic heart and won position and fame. The success of Mr. Davis is a grand example of the fruits of American opportunity. United States Senator Elkins is his son-in-law. The Substitute. Ida—it's well for Marion's happiness that she invited Jack Detmars, her rejected suitor, to be one of her wedding guests. Belle—Why? Ida—Her chosen groom failed to appear. WEDS A GIRL OF 12 POWERFUL RIVAL OF CUPID MOTHER PRESENT AND GIVES HER CONSENT. Man of 37 Is Bridegroom in Family Marriage M-up—Little Girl Assumes Responsibilities of Wifehood. Denver, Col.—Jennie Trammel, twelve years old, was married at the courthouse to James M. Taylor, 25 years her senior. Through this marriage Taylor becomes the husband of his brother's stepdaughter, and the brother-in-law of his wife's mother, as well as the husband of his own piece-by-marriage. The appearance of the girl, who is small for her age, in the office of the county clerk, dressed as she was in white with a bridal veil about her head, caused a sensation. Miss Stephens, the marriage license clerk, was astounded when she was asked to issue the license. The child's mother, Mrs. Taylor, appeared for her daughter and gave her consent to the nuptials. In reply to a question of Miss Stephens, Mrs. Taylor said that the man and girl were not related, though he bears the same name as herself. Taylor did not make any statement regarding the reason for marrying so young a person. After the license was issued the party went to Magistrate De Lappe's court and sought the justice. He was not in and they left, promising to return later. When they reached the first floor they learned that Magistrate Morris was in his office, and proceeded there. The ceremony followed. The marriage of this young girl, it seems, is simply the latest development in a peculiar series of family entanglements. Jennie Trammel, which is the real name of the bride, is the daughter of Mary Trammel, who, being left a widow when the girl was quite young, married Jesse Taylor. Jesse Taylor is a brother of the James M. Taylor who became the bridegroom. James Taylor got to know the little Trammel girl after her mother married Jesse Taylor. "I thought-the girl was at least fifteen or sixteen," said Magistrate Morris after the wedding. "If I had known she was but a child of twelve years of age I would very likely have refused to marry the couple. Still, the license was regular, the mother of the girl was present consenting to the marriage and there was really no reason why I should refuse to perform the ceremony. The objection might have been raised in the clerk's office to the issuance of the license." PAYS FOR MACHINE SWEARING Hungarian Judge Recognizes Swearer's Voice and Holds That the Charge Will Stand. Budapest—An amusing case was tried at Arad, in Hungary, in which a M. Schwartz, a gramophone dealer, was sued for slander uttered by his instruments. It was explained that M. Schwartz' slumbers had been disturbed by the singing of girls in a dressmaker's workshop which was opposite his bedroom. He protested to the manageress, but in vain. One morning the girls were horrified to hear the most violent abuse and the strongest oaths of which the Hungarian language is capable trumpeted at them from the mouth of a gramophone placed in M. Schwartz' window on the other side of the court. Neighbors, of course, heard ft. too, and the girls brought an action for damages. M. Schwartz declared in court that he had been testing some new records he had bought, as there was a demand for "swearing" records to amuse parties. The judge, however, ordered the record in question to be played in court, and as M. Schwartz' voice was recognizable, he was ordered to pay five dollars' damages. CAT TRAVELS HOBO FASHION Maltese Makes the Long Journey from Cincinnati to New Castle, ind., in Safety. Newcastle, Ind.—A maltese cat of the ordinary variety safely made the trip, hobo fashion, from Cincinnati to this city, a distance of one hundred miles, on the trucks of the Pennsylvania's fast Cincinnati-Chicago train, known as the "Red Hummer." When the train reached this city the conductor went to the rear and looked underneath the Pullman car. Then he motioned to bystanders and showed them the pussy snugly curled up on the trucks under the car. The cat was there when the train left Cincinnati and was evidently well pleased with its ride. The trainmen were solicitous that the cat get through to Chicago, looking on her company as an omen of good luck. Pussy was still on the trucks when the train left this city. Lays Seven Eggs a Day. Scranton. Pa.—Seven—count them—seven eggs from a solitary hen in a single da. With eggs selling for 40 cents a dozen, can you beat it? This is the unrivaled feat of a fowl belonging to David Lewis of this city. And it is a mongrel hen at that, not one of the $1,000 fancy Orpingtons. It is a cross between a Rhode Island red and a Buff Cochin, and was bought by Mr. Lewis for 75 cents. The Shadchen Is Professional Matchmaker of the Yiddish Colonies in the Big Cities. Cupid, the winged little archer who makes the world whirl merrily round, does not reign supreme down in the Yiddish colonies of our great cities. He has a strong and bitter rival in the person of the shadchen, or professional matchmaker. The shadchen is usually tall and scrawny, with stooping shoulders, a protruding neck and a short, thin beard. He invariably wears a Prince Albert coat, which is greenish from long usage. He is not tidy or engaging, but his methods are more practical than those of Aphrodite's son. His philosophy is simple and exoteric: Why deal with fickle children who know not their own minds, when one can rather do business with their parents? If only they agree upon the match, the ever-bedded children will do their bidding. Instead of a quiver of love-polished arrows, the shadchen carries about him a memorandum book, in which he jots down with a pencil stub the necessary data and remarks concerning possible "customers." The shadchen is a remnant of Jewish life in the past centuries. In those days children were married very young. Because of their youth and inexperience, the parents would arrange the match and the children invariably obeyed their parents' will. In this country, where early marriages are not in vogue, the Jewish young folk follow the dictates of their affections and despise the professional marriage broker. Were it not for the constant influx of immigrants from Russia, Roumania and Galicia, where early marriages still prevail to some extent, the shadchen would have disappeared long ago and would have remained a recollection of a bygone age, like the professional knight or the feudal self. King Manuel and the Goatherd. During a recent motor car excursion in the neighborhood of Busaco, where he is taking the waters, King Manuel met a youthful goatherd tending his flock. His majesty chatted with the boy, questioning him about his native village. The goatherd answered, quite unaware of the identity of the questioner. The king asked if he knew how to read, and the boy replied "No," but said, "At night when I go to bed my mother tells me to say two Ave Marlas, one for the soul of my father and the other for the soul of our king, who was killed in Lisbon." His majesty, greatly moved, tore a page from his notebook and wrote some words on it. "Give your mother this paper," he said, "and tell her to take it to the priest and ask him to read it to her." The boy did so, and the priest read the following words: "May happiness fall on those who thus bring up their children.—Manuel Rex." To add to the poor woman's astonishment and delight, the priest handed to her a sum of money sent to him for her by 'he king.' Ju-Jitsu No Use. A cricket club formed a gymnasium for the use of its members during the winter months, and an instructor was engaged to teach ju-fitsu. Recently one of the cricketers turned up with a bandaged head, and said some youth had inflicted the injury. "What!" exclaimed the ju-fitsu instructor. "You mean to say you let a youth knock you about like that? Why didn't you try ju-fitsu?" "I couldn't." "Nonsense! There's no conceivable situation to which ju-jitsu cannot be successfully applied. Show me where he crammed you." "I'm sorry to say he didn't grip me anywhere. He dropped a brick on my head from a third-floor window." —London Tit-Bits. World's Healthiest Spot. There is a terrestrial paradise not far from Madrid where death and disease are unknown. It is the village of Cobena, where figuratively the sword has been beaten into the ploughshare. The local chemist gave up the sale of drugs in despair two years ago, and now he is a purveyor of sweet-meats and confectionery. Half the cemetery has been turned into a pleasure garden—there has not been a single death for eight years—and the undertaker has fled from a spot where death refuses to give him a living. The doctor who has lived for years in the village on his capital, hoping against hope, has now decided to emigrate. Judged by His Company. "Yes, sir," said old DeScadds, "judge a man by the company he keeps." "Thank you," rejoined young Would-be "Thank me!" exclaimed the old man. "Why should you thank me?" "Exouse me," said the young man, "but I thought you had in mind the fact that I have been keeping company with your daughter for nearly a year."—Boston Sunday Post. Speaking of Lives. Miles—It is said that a cat has nine fives. Giles—That's nothing. Time has more lives than a cat. Miles—How do you figure that? Giles—Why, time can stand an indefinite amount of killing THE ISLAND OF JOY By TEMPLE BAILEY (Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press.) It was one moonlight night that Marcia and her lover first saw the island of Joy looming up against the silver sky. "I am going to take you there some day." Arthur murmured, "when we are married." Marcia's face grew wistful. "Sometimes I think that day is never coming," she said. Arthur drew her closer. "Everything has been against us, sweetheart; first, lack of money, and now, when everything is ready, my mother's illness, which takes me away from you tomorrow." "But you will come back?" she long to him. "Of course, you silly little girl," the tenderness of his voice took all sting from his words. "Somehow—" she hesitated, then went on. "I feel as if we were never going to reach that Island of Joy, dear—" "Nonsense, I shall be back in a month, and then—we will sail away on the sea of romance to our happy haven." She tried to smile, but she could not shake off her depression. "Write often, often," she insisted, as he told her good-by. "Every day, of course," he said. "I shall never be too busy to scribble a line to you." She let him go, and for many days the letters came, full of hope and of his love for her. The first was written the day his steamer sailed, and the last came from Paris, where his mother was in the hospital. In the days of silence which followed Marcia tried to still her fore-beddings, "His mother is so ill," or his letters missed a ship," were her excuses. But when a week had passed she began to be afraid. She wrote demanding an answer, but none came, and at, last, torn by E. M. TAYS Rowed Across the Shining Water. deep anxiety, she resolved to send a nablegram. On her way to the office she met Annette Rhodes. Annette was straight from Paris—dainty, chic, laughing. "I saw Arthur," she told Marcia. "His mother is better, and he is going to take her and Mignon up into the mountains." "Mignon?" Something seemed to clutch at Marcia's heart as she asked the question. "The little French girl who helped nurse his mother. She is a darling, and Arthur completely lost his head——" Annette was not cruel. She knew nothing of the engagement between Marcia and Arthur, and she did not dream that she had pierced the tender heart of her friend. Marcia went on her way with out-ward calmness, but inwardly she was shrinking with pain. Arthur untrue—would the heavens fall? She had had such faith in him, such implicit belief that there had never been and never would be any other girl in his life. But the French women were such charmers, and his loyalty might not have stood the test. She turned back from the telegraph office and walked home by the beach road. In the hot sun of the noonday the island of Joy seemed far away, enveloped by a golden mist; it seemed to swim in air like a mirage. Suddenly the impulse seized her to go there—an old legend said that lovers who touched foot on its shores would find happiness. Would anything restore to her the radiance of her trust in her lover? When she reached the wharf she untied her boat and rowed across the shining water, her oars flashing in the sunlight. It was a long pull, but she did not feel tired. It seemed that only violent physical exercise could still the beating of her heart. The island had once been inhabited by a pair of lovers who had chosen to leave the world that they might be alone in their happiness. Old age had found them still content. The ancient house with its wide porches, its shaded rooms, its rose garden, was cared for by a deaf old man, who grinned vacuously when Marcia handed him a tip as he tied her boat and then left her to her own devices. The island seemed made for love. There was no sound but the soft cooing of doves, the sigh of the wind in the trees, the kiss of the waves as they touched the sands. In the air the fragrance of many flowers, the bees drowned above the blossoms, the butterflies hung heavily as they drew sweetness from hidden depths. Marcia, standing on the threshold of the big house, felt her heart stilled. Surely somewhere, somehow, there would be found a reason for Arthur's silence. Within the house she found further strength. Everywhere were evidences of man's devotion to the woman he loved. Here in this far-away place there had been no need for reserves, and on the walls were framed the first love letters of the happy pair. There were other letters, too, collected unto a little volume with a cover of faded silk. Marcia, buried deep in the rose-colored cushions of an old couch, read these letters eagerly. The man, it seemed, had been called away for a time to far countries. It was his only separation from his wife, and his letters struck constantly one note of admonition. "No matter, beloved, what trials may come, what silences, remember that I love you. Should a year separate us without a message, believe in me, trust in me. In this world there may be misadventures, which tend to rouse jealousy and suspicion, but between those who love there should be no shadow. My faith in you is supreme; let yours match it, that I may always be Your Lover." Thrilled by the wonderful document, Marcia stood up, her face radiant. "It is a message from you, dearest," she murmured. "I will wait and trust." She made her way across the water in serene content, and was met at the pier by Annette, who was all in plink, straight and slim, like an unsheathed bud. In her hand she held a letter. "I forgot to give it to you," she said. "Arthur made me promise that I would deliver it directly into your hand; but you slipped away so quickly this morning that I did not have time to tell you." The letter explained everything. The little nurse had been the cause of all the trouble. Arthur had received no letters from Marcia and his own letters had been posted by the Frenchwoman. When no word came from his sweetheart he had taxed Mignon, and her confession had revealed her suppression of the correspondence. "She gave as her reason that she loves me. I am telling you this because there must never be a shadow of deception between us, dearest. I know your faith in me, and I want it always to be justified. Mother is better, and I am coming to you—and we will spend our honeymoon on the Island of Joy." Marcia went out into the purple twilight and sped down to the shore. In the west, beyond the amethystine shadows of the bay, the island seemed but a deeper shadow. Like a star shone the beacon which the deaf old caretaker lighted to warn sailors in their ships. But to Marcia, as she stretched out her arms to it, it was a star of hope. HAD HAD ENOUGH OF THAT Johnny's Good Reason for Not Desiring to Be "Humored" in That Way Again. "Dr. Mihran K. Kassabian, the Philadelphia martyr to the X-rays," said a Philadelphia physician, "took a deep interest in child training and the psychology of children. Apropos of spoiling—of humoring—the young, I heard him, at a medical society meeting, tell a story. "In Montgomery county a patient of Doctor Kassabian's, a widow, lived on a small farm. The widow had to go to town one day, and as she set off she said to her daughters, two girls of eleven and twelve: "Be kind to little Johnny and humor him while I'm away." "Yes, mother, we'll humor him," the girls replied. "Johnny, being the youngest, was a spoiled urchin, and his mother had only been gone an hour or so when he decided that he wanted to be let down the well in the bucket. "Oh, no, Johnny!" said his sisters. "Yes!" he said, and he kicked violously at his sisters, climbed into the bucket and jangled the chain. "Lower me down. Lower me down!" he roared. "The sisters, remembering that he was to be humored, tied him securely in the wet bucket, and then they lowered him into the well. Of course, when the bucket struck the water and Johnny in the darkness was soused in an icy bath, his terror was extreme, and he bawled to be drawn up, and emerged in a very frightened and teary state. "It happened the next week that the mother had to go to town again. Again she said, as she bade good-by to Jobnax, and his sisters: Johnny 'Now, remember, you must humor the Wild, while I'm away.' the child winked at me. "But Johnny recalled his experience of the week before, and he burst into tears and cried: "No! I won't be humored! I won't be humored!" Manglaughter Contemplated. Manslaughter Case "You can't always judge by appearances," observed the moralizer. "Now take the life of your neighbor—" take the ice, "I intend to," interrupted the suburbanite, "the very next morning he runs his lawn woman at 5 a. m." SAW INTO FUTURE SAMUEL TILDEN'S PREDICTION THAT HAS COME TRUE. In 1877 the Statesman Declared That a Crop of 3,000,000,000 to 4,000,000,000 Bushels of Corn Would Be Year's Harvest. About a week after the return from Europe of Samuel J. Tilden, in September, 1877, he delivered an address from the steps of his house at Gramercy Park, the Philadelphia Ledger says. An impromptu, spontaneous gathering of many of those who had voted for him for president the year before was the occasion. Governor Tilden did not refer to politics. His theme was the opportunity of the United States for increasing its foreign markets. He had discovered in Europe, he said, that it would be possible to make a great market for Indian corn, provided the American farmers would only cultivate that market. He excepted Ireland, stating that in Ireland it would be impossible for many years, probably, to overcome the prejudice against American corn, because the people of Ireland attribute the scourge of cholera in 1848 to the use of cornmeal sent from the United States to relieve those who were suffering from famine. Governor Tilden said that he would live to see the day when the American farmers would be found to have raised as many as 2,000,000,000 bushels of corn, but he thought that American farming should be so developed in the course of a generation that from 3,000,000,000 to 4,000,000,000 bushels of corn would be harvested in a single year. Some of those who heard Governor Tilden's impromptu speech were disappointed, because they hoped that he would make politics his theme, alluding to the disappointment of his party that it had been unable to seat in the White House the president the party was convinced it had elected. Others thought that the governor was talking wildly, not having given due consideration to what he was saying. But if it should prove to be the fact that the American farmers this year have harvested 3,000,000,000 bushels of Indian corn, then the prediction made by Governor Tilden that this would be done in a generation's time will have been almost exactly fulfilled. In the offices of some of the railway companies, particularly those in the vicinity of Forty-second street, much gratification is expressed over the probability of the corn harvest. So far as the railroads are concerned, that will go far to make good any falling off in the harvest of wheat. Preparations are now well under way for securing and placing at convenient points all the cars that may be needed for the transportation of the harvests, particularly in corn. Some of the railway officers are confident that no matter how large the demand for transportation may be, it will be well met by the railway managers, so that there will be no congestion of traffic. When Words Failed Robert Burton, an antique dealer, appeared at Mariborough street police court to prosecute Frederick William Hopner, a watchmaker, on a charge of stealing an organette, some spoons, carvers, pictures and ornaments. The evidence showed that the prosecutor gave the prisoner shelter after knowing him for 20 years, when he was destitute. The articles were missed, and on Hopner being spoken to about them he went away. Mr. Burton then wrote him a letter, in which he said: "You are a black villain, worse than Doctor Crippen; a mean; cringing, hypocritical, black villain; a mealy mouthed hypocrite. I cannot find words to express my opinion of you." Magistrate Mead remarked: "You have done very well," and those in court laughed. They also smiled when the reply of the prisoner to that letter was read. It contained the sentence: "I fainted when I read it." The articles were pledged.—Pall Mall Gazette. Only One Tle at a Time. A gilded youth in Helena, Mont one evening ran against Senator Tom Carter of that state, in a hotel lobby, and stopped to talk to him. The youth wore a necktie that had imprisoned in its meshes all the hues of a rainbow, not to mention the splendid fridescence of the dawn. Carter leaned forward and touched the ornate piece of apparel. "My friend," he said, "that's a very pretty tie, a very pretty tie, indeed." His slow, delibrate tone encouraged the young man, who repiled: "Oh, I've got lots of those, senator." "Are they as pretty as that one?" "Oh, yes, sir." "And you have a lots of them?" "Yes." "Well, my friend," said the senator, who is worth millions, "I never had but one tie at a time in my life. I wear this black string tie, and, when it wears out, I go get another."—Popular Magazine. Her Birthmark. "I hear," said the count, "that you are going to marry an American girl who has a birthmark." "Yes," replied the marquis, "the report is true." "I hope she is not badly disfigured." "Not a bit, my dear fellow. For your enlightenment I will make a drawing of her birthmark. It is like this.$" NATURE'S WEATHER PROPHETS Signs of Flowers and Animals That We Followed Closely by Our Grandparents. Men have made some very wonderful instruments which foretell what the weather will be, but old Mother Nature has given us messengers which tell about the weather if we watch the signs which they show. The little daisies were watched by our grandparents, who believed that spring had not come until 12 daisies were blooming on a foot of ground. The chickeds' starry flowers tell when heavy winds or rains are coming by closing their tiny blossoms. The dandelions have the same habit. Likely the golden flowers do not want to uncover their curly heads unless they can look up to the sun. If you watch dandelions you will see that they do not open on the mornings of the days when rain falls. Marigolds are such particular little blossoms that they will not even show a ray of their splendor if a storm is approaching or thunder is heard in the distance. The morning glories may wake early to beauty the garden, but when they suddenly wrap their silky scarfs about their faces you may be sure that rain is in the air. Some trees, such as the locust, close their leaves when a storm is coming. If you have a garden you might look to see what prophets are near to warn you of changes in the weather. Our grandmothers said that even peaceful old tabby knew when to expect either rain or snow. When the cat sat with her back to the fire our grandparents had to use for their overshoes ked to have use for their overshoes and umbrellas. BILL NYE ON FOX HUNTING He Considered It a Most Thrilling Pastime for Sons of the American Nobility. "Fox-hunting is one of the most thrilling pastimes of which I know," said Bill Nye, "and for young men whose parents have amassed large sums of money in the intellectual pursuit of hides and tallow, the meet, the chase, the scamper, the full cry, the cover, the stellated fracture, the yelp of the pack, the yip, the yell of triumph, the confusion, the whoop, the holla, the haloos, the hurrah, the abrasion, the snort of the hunter, the concussion, the sward, the open, the earthstopper, the strangulated hernia, the glad cry of the hound as he lays at his master's feet the strawberry mark of the rustic, all, all are exhilarating to the sons of the American nobility. Fox-hunting combines the danger and the wild tumultuous joy of the skating rink, the toboggan slide, the mush-and-milk sociable and the straw ride. For the young American nobleman whose ducal father made his money by inventing a fluent pill, or who gained his great wealth through relieving humanity by means of a lung-pad, a liver pad, a kidney-pad or a foot-pad, fox-hunting is first rate." Miracle of a Bath Sponge. Henry Savage Landor, at one time a captive of the Lamas in Tibet, tells the following adventure: "The Lamas had got hold of my bath sponge, which was dry and pressed to great thinness by a heavy weight which had rested upon it. Throwing it from them, it fell in a little pool of water. I addressed the sponge in English and with any words that came into my head, pretending to utter incantations. "The attention of the Lamas and soldiers was quickly drawn to this unusual behavior on my part. They could not conceal their terror when, as I spoke louder and louder to the sponge, it gradually swelled to its normal size. The Tibetans, who at first could hardly believe their eyes, became panic-streken. There was a general stampede." Had Become Matter of Habit. Had become matter of habit. When Elisha decided to take unto himself a sixth helpmeet, he repaired to the house of a Baptist minister, a venerable man who had officiated at several of Biggs' previous weddings, to make arrangements to be married there the next day. The minister reflected a moment. "Elisha," sald he, "I shall, of course, be glad to marry you again. This will be the third or fourth time, will it not? If you don't mind telling me, why is it that you never have a minister of your own race tie the knot for you?" Elisha seemed hurt for a moment, but finally a broad smile illuminated his features. "Well, sah," he explained, "I hakinder got de habit ob gettin' a white man to do my marryin', an' I reckon I allus do it." Smoke. Don't imagine next time you see in weather promising storm that a "heavy" stratum of air is forcing the smoke of your chimney to the ground. Instead the condition is the opposite and the atmosphere is too light to allow the smoke to rise. To prove this fact in this vacation season fill your mouth full of tobacco smoke and dive 20 feet of water, releasing the smoke. The smoke appears from the water almost instantly. You may say it comes up in your bubbles, but this does no more than to prove the theory. Your chimney smoke won't rise, because there isn't enough in the air stratum to raise it. A Dreamer. Hicks—Bjohnson is a sanguine man, isn't he? Wicks—Yes. He was saying the other day that the sweet-girl graduate might have something new in her valedictory next year. DRINKS IN HISTORY IMPORTANT PARTS PLAYED BY GOBLETS OF LIQUOR. Sir Philip Sidney and the Dying Soldier—Tragic Part of Cup of Wine in Murder of Edward the Martyr. The proposal of the Dutch to erect at Zutphen a statue to Sir Philip Sidney recalls to a London writer the world-famed episode of the dying soldier, with which his death is inseparably connected. It occurred when that Paladin, on September 22, 1586 received his death wound before the walls of Zutphen. Parched with thirst, he called for a drink. He was putting the bottle to his mouth his eyes fell upon a desperately wounded soldier, who, as he was being carried past, threw him long glances, "which Sir Philip perceived, took the bottle from his lips before he drank, and delivered to the poor man with these words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'" In the murder of Edward the Martyr, in 1979, a cup of wine played a tragic part. Wearied with his hunting the young monarch was persuaded to seek refreshment at Corfe castle in Dorsetshire, the abode of his step mother, the widowed Queen Elfrida Upon his entrance she greeted him with a kiss, and then, as he resisted her invitation to dismount, brought from the castle a goblet of wine. Ever as the king raised his gobble: one of her retainers drew his dagger and, with fatal effect, plunged it into his neck. During the naval engagement at Sar Juan the Jesus, which was under the command of Sir John Hawkins, was attacked by almost overwhelming odds. Both by word and deed did the admiral encourage his men, and once when their spirits seemed to flag, he bade his page fetch him a cup of beer. This was brought to him in a silver goblet, out of which he drank to his crew, "willing the gunners stand by their ordinance like men." Scarce had he finished the draught and held the cup aside when it was struck by a ball from one of the Spaniards' ships and carried away. Every June the quaint old town of Rothenburg celebrates by a costume festival, which goes by the name of "Melster-Drank," the mighty feat of a former town councillor who, in 1631, saved the town from destruction. In that year Rothenburg fell before the arms of the savage Tilly, who at the head of his forces entered the vanquished town, where at the town hall he gave orders for the execution of the civic magistrates. Before, how ever, the doomed' men were led forth to the scaffold, the Burgmaster' daughter presented herself, bearing an immense flagon of wine, out of which the conqueror drank and passed it round to his officers. All quenched their thirst, and yet the flagon was only but half empty. Seeing this the fair Hebe remarked that one of the councillors present was able to empty the stoup at a draught. "If such be the case," cried Tilly, turning to the condemned magistrates, "I will pardon you all for the drinker's sake. Fill the flagon to the brim." This was done, and then one of the city's magistrates, stepping forward, seized the vessel, raised it to his lips and neither drew breath nor set it down until he had quaffed its contents to the last drop. Then only did he reverse the flagon in proof that the feat had been accomplished. Tilly kept his word, and every year, in commemoration of their deliverance, do the citizens of Rothenburg enact over again this famous event in their town's history. Oblivion Is Right on the Job Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee has experienced woe in a library. Writes he: "I fell to thinking the other day when I had slipped into the Forbes Library, that all the documents that we produce nowadays are being saved as they never have been saved before. I fell to thinking for a second, as I stood there just where the echo is by the door, of what it all meant. I thought of a Springfield Republican 4,000 years old. I was oppressed. For mer ages may not have been clever, but they did manage in one way and another to have fair and reasonable conveniences for forgetting. And I thought of my own innocent woolly-lamb works, of the people ten years away, perchance, who would be struggling with them, and it came to me mercifully that oblivion would be attended to, that it could be depended upon sometime." So it came, and Mr. Lee may cheer up. Not all the wood pulp is consumed as breakfast food. Most of it goes to make paper. Owing to its extreme lack of durability, it may be said to promise oblivion by the carload, ex pressure paid. Don't write for posterity. Wood pulp paper won't last. imitate Charles Lamb, who said, "Hump the age. I'll write for an antiquity."—Boston Transcript. The Reproof It was in the midst of the football season, and the students of Professor Blank's class, well aware that the lesson had been neglected, were prepared for reproof, but not for just the way in which it came. At the end of the hour he slammed down his book on the desk and exclaimed: "Well, that's the worst recitation I ever listened to! Why, I've actually done nine-tenths of it myself!" Must Have Been, for He Found Nothing Good in Opera Performance in Paris. "Americans have to have a lot of nerve when they're abroad," said the man who had just returned from his first foreign trip. "I fell in with an American at the Grand hotel in Paris who was on his way to the opera, and, as I was of the same mind, we started together. "Although it was a fearfully hot night we found the opera house packed—the French, you know, are great on opera." "Who were the singers?" asked a listener. "Oh, I don't know—it was a third-rate performance." "Well, we tried hard to get seats and couldn't—not a bibling to be bad. that he is not a thing to be sad. "Walt," said my American friend; 'Till be back in a few minutes—I think I can get some tickets,' and he returned very soon, waving two tickets aloft which, as it turned out, were complimentary. To obtain complimentary tickets on a night like that was a master stroke. The French would have called it— "Coup d'etat!" suggested some one. 'Tour de force?' said another, but no one was quite certain, so he continued: "He had represented himself to be a director of the Metropolitan Opera company." "Did he live in New York?" Inquired another listener. "No—Boston—but he was very musical—at least, I think he must have been, for while I sat enjoying the performance immensely he was exclaiming from time to time, 'Rotten! Hear that tenor! That soprano's awful.'"—Boston Herald. SOLUTION OF LABOR PROBLEM Plan Suggested Requires Establishment of National Unit of Value for Work. It should be beyond the power of either party (that is, labor and capital) to fixe the wages for any specified class of work. As before suggested, it is a matter to be determined impersonally and automatically, and this only can be done by the establishment of a national unit of value for labor, upon which all wages shall be computed with the same universality of application as now inheres in the established tables of weights and measures. Necessarily, such a unit of value for labor must be not only a fixed entity in relation to rates of wages, but must at the same time be susceptible of accommodation to economic changes, so that the money value of wages shall keep pace with fluctuations in the cost of living. It follows, therefore, that the unit upon which the federally established table of wages shall be built must be chosen with respect to some commodity that is so universally used and of so far reaching an influence that its market price indexes and measures the cost of living in all walks of life.—North American Review. How to Avoid Cholera. A cheerful disposition is held by some doctors to be the best protection against cholera. When this disease first visited Paris, in 1832, a notice was issued advising the inhabitants "to avoid, as far as possible, all occasion of melancholy and all painful emotions, and to seek plenty of distractions and amusements. Those with a bright and happy temperament are not likely to be stricken down." This advice was largely followed, and even when cholera was claiming over a thousand weekly victims, the theaters and cafes were thronged. The epidemic was in some quarters treated as a huge joke, and plays and songs were written round it. Rochefort, the father of the brilliant journalist of today, wrote a play "Le Cholera Morbus," which proved a big success, and another production on the same lines, "Paris-malade," also had a long run.—London Chronicle. First to Find Gold In America. North America has counted as a gold-producing continent only since the late 40's. But it might well have done so for nearly 200 years. According to the London Chronicle in the voyage round the world which began in 1719 the privateer Capt. Shelvocel, found in certain California valleys a 'rich black mold which, as you turn it fresh up to the sun, appears as if intermingled with gold dust. Though we were a little prejudiced," he adds, "against the thought that it could be possible that this metal should be so promiscuously and universally mingled with common earth, yet we endeavored to cleanse and wash the earth from some of it, and the more we did the more it appeared like gold. In order to be further satisfied I brought away some of it, which we lost in our confusion in China." Earliest Spectacles. The ancient Guild of Spectacle Makers, which is incensed at a recent London County Council leaflet, is numerically one of the strongest of the city companies. Its charter dates from the year 1629 and, though the exact date of its origin is lost, there is ample evidence that the calling of spectacle maker was extensively followed at a very early date. An old book of 1663 mentions the spectacle makers among other trades, and the biography of Carlo Zeno, an illustrious Venetian, who died in 1418, mentions that even at the age of eighty-four he needed no artificial aids to his sight. So presumably spectacles were common in Italy some five centuries ago. Trade with the Helena Packing and Provision Co. Will Baker, the fly piano player, is reported to be in durance vile over in Great Falls under a felony charge. Henry Davis (Bear) with an education would no doubt be a poet he can rhyme on any subject and as fast as he can talk he is a seventh-day wonder in that line. J. H. Waggoner has opened up a cleaning and pressing establishment at 105 Broadway and is worthy of the patronage of all the people. Give him a call. Mrs. J. H. Waggoner and children arrived last week from Missoula. She will assist her husband in the clothes cleaning business. Mrs. Fred Anderson received word from her husband who is in England, for herself and his sister, Miss Griffin to hold themselves in readiness to come over there. Miss Vera Simmons is now holding down the position as cashier at the Temple Cafe in Lewistown of which Wm. R. Holland, formerly of this City is proprietor. Harry Jacobs returned from Butte last Saturday. Alderman Scwartz has made an enviable record as one of our city lawmakers from the first aud will receive a hearty support for reelection. The Giant Quartette passed thru the city Saturday enroute to Missoula, they will return and fill a weeks engagement at the Family theatre next week. Miss Tressa York who has been very ill with the typhoid pneumonia is much improved. Mrs. E. G. Cole who has been very sick is also reported as much improved. D. N. Harris who left a few weeks ago is reported as now living in Cheyenne, Wyoming and will return not. Lucien Foreman, formerly of this city later of Lewistown, erstwhile owner of the Temple cafe is reported as a resident now of Chicago. M. O. J. Arnett who underwent a successful operation at St. John's hospital, some days ago is able to be up and around the streets. The 25th regiment now stationed in New York will sail for the Philippine islands from San Francisco on June 5th. Isaiah 30th Cham namely: Thine a word behind t is the way, walk we turn to the when ye turn to So let us cont provements as we standing all the may await us appointments, de enemies lets go. You cannot k How long will you be as prosperous as you are now you do I you do know How much you can lay aside each month at the present time. Think of this as a friendly warning and not an advertisement and begin to save today. You will need it. We allow 4 per cent on Savings Accounts. Union Bank&Trust Co. HELENA, MONTANA. Thos. Brown and Geo. Lewis members of the 25th Regiment located at Spokane were in the city last week having brought over a military prisoner to the regiment stationed here. Be sure and attend the St. James literary Wednesday evening. Mrs. M. E. Simmons is now conducting a rooming house at 19 Jackson street. Dr. C. M ler has again been called on by the republicans of the fourih ward to make the race for alderman, he has served the people faithfully and wei in the past and will receive a heaety support from the entire ward. Mrs. Anna Walton is a new arrival in the city, she comes from Texas. F. N. Webb is all smile and not around with the boys so much, the occasion is the arrival of Mrs. Webb from Anaconda Word reaches us that L. V. Graye, formerly of this city is making good in San Francisco and is conducting a paying business such as he conducted here at the time he left. Next week City politics will be the absorbing topic, it will not, however, attract the usual interest as there are only aldermen to elect. The Young Peoples Institute will convene in this city early in May at St. James church. Rev. Greenlee, formerly of this city, is now pastoring a charge at Chetope, Kans. Mrs. Will Howard wil return from the east where she is now on a visit, on Easter Sunday. We heard many complimentary remarks on the letter which we recently published from Jesse Brooks, who is attending Westwatching and hoping for his concern University, and they are all tinued success. Perseverance means, in short, to "Follow up." Hence, Patience and Perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties. The stone is hard the drop is small, but a hole is made by a constant fall. Again: Perseverance signifies to continue in a given cause, in spite of discouragements in order to obtain our ned. Therefore always watch and pray and not faint, on the way, recorded in Isaiah 30th Chap. 21st verse; namely: Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying. This is the way, walk ye in it, when we turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left. So let us continue making improvements as we go, notwithstanding all the hard trials that may await us. In spite of disappointments, defiance of our enemies lets go. know Trust Co. CNTANA. 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 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 - 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 FACTORY PRICES The highest grade bicycles it is possible to make at on small or at on small is $25 middlingen's profits by buying direct of us and we have the manufacturer's guide at any behind your bicycle. The bicycle or a pair of tires from any anyone receive our catalogue from any factory prices and remarkable special offer to rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost BICYCLE DEALERS, you will buy bicycles under your own name plate at ur prices. Orders filled the day received. BRENDON HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usual hand on hikes on hand in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices reasonable and descriptive bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES. single wheels, imported roller derailleurs, pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. COASTER-BRAKES, single wheels, imported roller wheels, equipment of all kinds at half the usual price $ 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE SELF-HEALING TIRES The regular retail price of these tires is $5.50 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $4.00 (each with order #65). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the alaskan, Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is likely and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes poison and which closes up small punctures without allowing the seascape to absorb hundreds of letters *fr* in a satisfactory manner, making that the seascape up once twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting quilies being given a hardy rubber coating and a tough tread. The regular price of these tires is $5, so per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price of $10. shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on have examined and found them strictly as represented. sent (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you enclose this achitty and We will also send one envelope for our high tises and return at OUR expense if for any reason they are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. hence this remarkable tire offer. buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of eothorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the University of Kentucky and Sundry Catalogue which tires at about half the usual prices. instal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful to learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. RO, KANSAS NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR AND THE WEST Oal, College, Normal. Sub-Normal State Normal Best Industrial School the West Advantages per person. Our orders shipped same day etter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not need a cent to examine and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent on each per pair if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will not nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are factory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If they are damaged, that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have when you are 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. approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined it. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making FULL SERVICE WITH ORDER) and enclose this a nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires of firefit about hot satisfactory on examination. We are perfect reliable bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find the wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have. Know that, you will be well ordered at once, hence this remission. We want you to send us a trial order at about $10. IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind of the special introductory price quoted a above, or write for our describes and quotes all maps and kinds of fires that DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone we are making. It only costs a postal to learn every thing. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY Western Uni QUINDARO, KY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL UNIVERSITY KANSAS AND THE DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, and State Normal Loading and Best Industry of the West Courses a cent until you have examined and found a count of 5 per cent (thereby making the THE ORDER and enclose this advertisement pamphy. You are to be required by the expen- sion. We are perfectly reliable and must air of these tires, you will find that they and look finer than any tire you have ever well pleased that when you want a bicycle trial order at once, hence this remarkable don't buy any kind at any price TIPS Hedgethorpe Puncture-Proof the office quarrel or write for our big Tire makes and kinds of lifes a brief job but write us a postal today. DO NOT use or a pair of tires from anyone until you only costs a postal to learn everything. We CYCLE COMPANY, Eastern Univer- INDARO, KANAS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE KANSAS AND THE WEST ENTS: Theological, College, Normal and State Normal and Best Industry of the West JF YOU NEED TIRES Buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which will be sent to you at the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal day. DO NOT TELL YOU BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful YOU WANT making. It costs you $100. THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal. Sub-Normal and State Normal 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. Shelton French Acting President Phones West 142 PATEN Prize Offers from Leading Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Why some inventors fail." Send rough search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as the U.S. Patent Office. GREELEY & M. Alton French, A Acting President rench, A. M., President West 1423; Residence, Bell We PATENTS Offers from Leading Manu- rents. "Hints to inventors." "Invent inventors fail." Send rough sket- t Office records. Our Mr. Greele Designer of Patents, and as such ha Office. EELEY & M.C.INT ENTS Leading Manufacturers to inventors." "Inventions needed." Send rough sketch or model for its. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly ents, and as such had full charge of & M.C.INTIRE PATENTS Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed." "Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge of the U.S. Patent Office. GREELEY & McINTIRE PATENT ATTORNEYS WASHINGTON, D. C. --- --- double ou SECOND usually have Phones MIDDLE HORN RECORD 1915 LOS 1915 LOS Splendid Location, Healthfu. Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION For Terms, Prices and Inducements Offered write to Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. It may also other make- SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. G The Mallory WE SELL THEM MART, SCHAF FINE C GANS & K ESTABL HEL PHCKING AND PR whol OYSTERS, FISH POUITR SCHAFFNER NE CLOTH NS & KLEIN ABL HED HELENA G AND PROVISION GO wholesal FISH POUITRY FRUITBUTT FINE CLOTHES GANS&KLEIN CO ESTABL HED188 OYSTERS, FISH POUITRY FRUITBUTTER & C. J. Bausch, TIN, COPPER and SHEET IRON WORK Stove and Furnace work a Specialty. 315 N. JACKSON ST. Helena, Mont. Strangers visiting the Capital City will be given a hearty welcome at all times at the Manhattan Club, 17 South Main Street Helena Mont. L. P. DRIVER'S CAFE Buffet in Connection Everything Neat and First Class When in Anaconda give us a Trial L. P. DRIVER, - Proprietor FURNISHED ROOMS RENT Inquire 221 Breckenridge St. Mrs. M. A. Colej Eugene Bourquin Dealer in Sawed and Split Wood and COAL. Yard, 437 W. Main St. Residence 370 Water St. 'Phone 632-F. Helena, Mont. CENTRAL BEER HALL Henry Rossmau Prop. Phone 186 11S. S Main St. Helena Mon Fear neither the difficulties of foreign languages nor the difference of manners, nor the powers of secular government. Consult not the course of rivers nor the FAER MANC CLOTHES KLEIN CO HED186 LENA PROVISION COMPANY esale RY FRUITBUTTER & EG LODGE DIRECTORY Helena, Montana Golden City Lodge, No. 3455 O. of O. F., meets the list and Tuesday evenings of each month their hall, foot of Broadway. J. D. Hart N.G. N. Ford, P. S. G. M. LEE, E. S Unity Lodge, No. 101, A. F. M., meets the 2nd and fourth wnesday evening of each month in Hall in Galen block. E. L. CLARK, W. K. H. SAULSBURY, S. Mount Helena Comman meets 4th Monday evening each month at Unity Hall Hall of Broadway. E. L. CLARK, E. C. J. B. BASS, Recorder. Meridian Chapter meets 2nd Monday evening of the month at Unity Hall. H. SAULSBURG, H. L. A. Palmer, Sec. Pride of Montana, No. 4, K of meets the 1st and 3rd Monday even- ings at Unity Hall foot of Broadse SPENCER SMITH, C. E. L. CLARK, K. R. S Besheba Chapter, Eastern S meets 1st and 3rd Thursday even- of each month at Unity Hall, foot Broadway. Mrs. R. J. ALEXANDER, & Mrs. C. C. MATTHEWS, & Naomi Chapter. Household R meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month, at Unity Hall, foog Broadway. Mrs. Cora Johnson M.N. Mrs. C. Howard W. R. St. James A. M. E. church, o Fifth and Hoback: services Sund 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Friday o class. Sunday School class. S day 1 p. m. Rev. B. R. GUY, Second Baptist church, 417 N. M. St., services Sunday 11 a. m. and m. Sunday School 2 p. m. Rev. JAMES, Pastor. Rev. JONES, Pastor.