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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02
All About 1t.

''There's one thing about the north
POLE asserted the returned explorer
emphatically.
The crowd leaned eagerly forward to
learn the result of his Investigations.
eyes, repeated the returned explor.
er, lighting his cigar with great de-
liberation.
"Er-what did we underestimate
was the man with the inquisitive nose
who spoke-"you to say it is. pro-
fessor?"
The returned explorer threw away
his match.
'sIt is the ice," he explained kindly.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02
South or East, Which ?

When a trip is contemplated it is al
ways we'll to prepare in advance in order
to avoid little inconvenience which are
often annoying. The two fast trains
leaving Minneapolis and st. Paul daily
via Wisconsin Central lines for Milwau-
kee and Chicago make close connections
with trains east and south. Being ele-
gantly equipped with sleeping cars, par
lor cars and day coaches they are fully ap-
preciated by the travelling public. Your
nearest ticket agent will give you COM
plete information and furnish you folder
of the Wisconsin Central lines.
Jas. @. Pond, General Passenger
Agent, Milwaukee, Wis
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Costly Health.

Blivens-My dear, I'm really alarmed
about Tommy s health.
Mrs. Blivens-I suppose you mean
you are alarmed about his ill health
and future doctors bills.
Blivens-I said health. and l meant
it, l was thinking of butchers bills
Boston Transcript.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02

Train up a child in the way he
should 60. but don't overtrain him, or
he will be pretty sure to go in an oppo-
site direction. Boston Transcript.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02
Next Thing to 1t.

He-Oh. by the way. the doctor ad-
vised me to eat a water cracker before
going to bed: said it would prevent my
insomnia. Are there any in the housef
She-The only thing in the house
approaching a water cracker is the ice
pick. indianapolis Journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02

The most magnificent tomb in the
world is deemed to be the palace tenn
pie of Karnak, occupying a space of
nine acres, or twice that of st. Peters
at Rome. The temple space is a poets
dream of gigantic columns. beautiful
courts and wondrous Of
sphinxes.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02
You Try 1t.

If Shiloh's Cough and Consumption
Cure, which is sold for the small price of
25 cts, SO cts. and S1.00, does not cure
take the bottle back and we will refund
your money. Sold for over fifty years
OF this guarantee. Price % cts. and SO
cts. Sold by Chapple Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02
Sick Headaches,

The curse of overworked womankind,
are quickly and surely cured by Karl's
Glover Root Tea, the great blood purifier
and tissue builder. Money refunded if
not satisfactory. Price Is cts. and SO
cts. Sold by Chapple Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02
One of the Main Requisites.

81 thought he had all the elements OF
a successful artist ff the humorous
weeklies. and yet he failed"
"Yes, he failed to make the feet and
the mouths large enough to be consider
ed real humor. Chicago Post.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02

The price of medicine in Prussia is
regulated by the state, a new price list
being published every year.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-02

Sick headache absolutely and posi-
lively cured by using Moki Tea. A
pleasant herb drink. Cures constipa-
ton and indigestion, makes you eat,
sleep; work and happy. Satisfaction
guaranteed or money back. Is cents and
SO cents, Sold by Chapple Drug Co.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25

then concluded to go through the para
phernalia that belonged to his estate
A shabby house in which he had an
operating room was torn up in tracing
the mechanism with which Keely
operated. A big steel sphere was found
under the basement floor, and mass of
brass tubing carefully concealed behind
plastered walls and under the flooring
told the rest OF the story. Keely's
"apergy" and polar flow" proved to
be a plain case of compressed air, SO ap-
piled that a general inspection of
keeleys machinery did not reveal the
application of this power-and the 'in-
ventor' never permitted a close inspec-
ton.
One of the experts who had a hand
in the recent unearthing Of the Keely
labratory says that, years ago. he con-
sidered that Keely was either a fool or
knave. II have now seen enough"
adds this investigator ito convince me
that he was both" The wonder is that
Keely was able to travel SO long on
fraud so clumsy and so transparent.
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Of the Spaniards themselves, 1t was a
hard matter to tell whether the le-
puted dust of the great discoverer is
really his or not But a tomb in Cuba
was the receptacle of the most genuine
Columbus anybody could find out about
and the Spaniards suddenly concluded
that they would like to get the coffin.
The government at Washington con-
sented and the removal of the Column
bus bones-the genuine article or those
of somebody else-has been accomplish
ed. Investigation of the coffin revealed
the fact that what remains of the sup
posed Columbus is in the shape of
thirty bones-which is not so bad,
nearly four hundred years after death.
The Columbus coffin after many wan
derings from one side Of the Atlantic
to the other has probably made its
last voyage. The other day, with pomp
and with circumstance and ceremony.
it was placed in the cathedral at Sc
willie. 1t was mournful occasion. One
description of the event says that 'the
people seemed to recognize that the in
terment Of the Spanish colonial empire
was symbolized by the ceremony"
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Personal Notes.

President Faure of France. who rarely
smokes in public, enjoys in private a
pipe, the gift of a Russian grand duke.
Senator John c. Spooner is known as
the young old man. of the senate. When
he recently told his friends that he was
Sc years old most Of them believed him
jesting, because he looks not a day over
40.
DR.. Joseph Wood, the new head master
of Harrow, has never sshrunk from the
use of the cane. believing it to be "a
practical and salutary method of over
coming schoolboy idleness and insurbord-
nation"
James Whtcomb Riley. the poet, says:
"a poet is the Alexander Sekirk of liter
ature, for he must lead a life alone, set
apart from the stimulating companion
ship of men of his own calling, and sneer-
ed at by the general run of humanity"
Capt. Richard P. Leary, new governor
of Guam is the Baltimorean who, during
the Samoan dispute. commanded the Adj
ans. and when German fleet of iron
clads fired upon the natives steamed his
little wooden hulk into the line of fire and
threatened to broadside the Teutons if
they used the Samoans as targets any
longer.
The descendants of Matthew Grant of
Windsor. Conn, who now number many
hundreds. have organized a society and
elected as president U. s. Grant, ir., of
San Diego, Cal. Biographers of the great
general have usually claimed him
Scotch-Irish origin. but the new society
says the family is from the south of Eng
land
Henry Clews when recently asked as
a man of affairs whether he believed in
fate. made answer: IT think we are
controlled by a higher power. Each is
born with certain impulses which lead
him in a certain groove, and thus he is
foreordained to fill his place in life and
serve his purpose in making the compon-
ent part of a great world
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Clever Little Stories.

A young lady was acting temporarily
as hostess, and her time was much &C.
cupied. One of her admirers, a nervous
and absent minded lover, perceived this
would be the case, and to facilitate
matters he determined to bring affairs
to a point, brought with him memoir
andum. II afterwards" says the OBJ
ject of his ill starred devotion, found
it on the floor, where he had dropped it
in his agitation. 1t read thus: Men
ton rise in salary. Mention loneliness.
ton prospects from Uncle Jim. Never
loved before. Propose.
In one of the back counties of south
Texas is negro doctor, who enjoys a
more or less extensive practice among
the colored poulation, which composes
a majority of the citizenship. A white
physician accosted him on the road the
other day, saying: We'll, DR.. Sam
where have you been?" Been to see
Bill JohnSing, sab. He was wrastlin
wild Nose Jones an bus blood YES
sell" Indeed, that's serious! What
did you prescribe?" "Ah, l don fix
him all right wild alum and gum arabic
Alum to draw de paints togeddah and
de gum to stick en- It may be inter
esting to add that the victim recovered
Mrs. Jones has been making strenu-
Gus efforts to have her son Billie
taught to play the piano, and a few
days ago she called up stairs: why
aren't you practicing your piece, Bill
lee?'' Il am you are not. Yor
haven't touched the piano for the las
half hour" I've been practicing al
the same. There are pauses in tht
march and l am practicing them ovel
and over until ! know them perfectly
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25
Heard of No More.

HE grand jury?-They have cared
for that, too, in Helena. The
charges Of bribery were brought
before the two houses in Helena at the
time when the first vote on the senator
ship was in order. These charges were
explicit They were sworn statements,
in the form of testimony taken by a
committee which the legislature ap-
pointed
The case was in concise FORM the wit
nesses were within reach 1t is fair to
say that, so far as the pending sena-
torial election is concerned, the work in
the grand jury room could have been
thoroughly attended to in two brief SEES
sions. Days passed, and the days have
heightened into weeks. The effort in
Helena has been to hold back the re-
port in the case of Welcome, until Clark
has had all the chance in the world to
complete his purchase, and, then-good
naturally let Welcome slide.
Clarks bribing operations at Helena
move with such recklessness as to war
rant the belief that he has passed the
point where he is afraid of the grand
jury. He is getting, day after day, the
votes of men who asked that the court
summon grand jury. The charges
were then deemed by these members to
be so serious as to warrant a judicial
inquiry.
Have these members who asked that
the grand jury be summoned shown
disposition to await the findings of the
jury? They have not. Manifestly, their
fear has been that Clark would buy
enough without them, leaving them
without a share in the all-prevading
Doodle; they were afraid they would be
too late to sell out.
So, one after another, these members
have enlisted under the black banner
of bribery-the very men who requested
the court to call a grand jury which
hasn't reported but which Helena has
held up and halted.
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1.-THE men who have set them
selves UP as the leading business
men of the city of Helena. who
would be supposed to give advice
along the line of honor and in
tegrity, have gone so far as to say
that the republican contingent IN
this house should throw honor to
the winds, trample under their feet
their personal integrity, be traitors
to their party in order that one man
might climb to the United States
senate by reason Of their treason
and political dishonor." From the
speech of Hon. William Lindsay be-
fore the joint session at Helena,
yesterday
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The Scale of Prices.

r. S currently talked in Butte and
I as reported in this city, the price
for votes for senator has in
creased materially, and Mr. Clark will
have to pay high indeed for the last
few votes, in his effort to complete the
purchase. The first price was IS 900,
but soon it climbed to $4,000, where
it stayed until few days ago. Lately
the price went up to $4,000, and that
figure has been paid. AS the time
approaches when Clark badly needs a
few more, the price is getting higher
than ever. 1t is seriously told in Butte
that one man, who was approached
Monday night, placed his figure at
100000 and said he must have the cash.
The answer was that the price was
preposterous and that it was certain
that the remaining votes could be OBJ
tanned for $4,000 each, although it
might be found necessary to pay $780,
600 for the last vote or two.
All Helena is praying that Clark will
not get penurious at this stage of the
campaign. The boosters there are
hoping that he will recoIlect that he
has been in private life the past six
years simply because he got penurious
on the last day of the former senate
rial fight and went to jewing down.
Certainly, if the senatorship is worth
what Mr.. Clark has already paid for
it, then it is worth a great deal more.
he Is paying pretty well, but he
can afford to pay better; and, surely,
those who disgrace themselves and the
state by voting for Clark under the
| existing circumstances ought to be well
paid for it.
A degree of restlessness is apparent
on the part of those who sold early
in the game. There are some who sold
their votes for $1,000 and $4,000 who
are regretting exceedingly that they
did not delay their bargain until now
when prices are much higher, Some
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of these men are already backing up
and demanding that they be bribed
over again. They cannot see why they
should not receive as much, or even
more, than those who were bribed
lately, for they have the ignominy of
voting for Clark all the way through,
while the recruits have only had the
ignominy Of voting for him few days.
Several of the legislators have been
so foolish as to sell their votes under
restrictions, the money not to be paid
until after the senator is elected. They
are taking desperate chances on getting
nothing at all. and should insist that
they get cash, and that in advance.
Clark has no end Of money.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25
A Carnival of Bribery.

= T is true that the people of Cascade
county are mortified as well as most
justly enraged over yesterday
transaction in Helena. What difference
does that make to Clark? He brides
the men whom he can bring within the
spell of his gold, leaving them to settle
with their consciences and their constit-
uents.
With such members of the legislature
\ it is not now question of the morality
OF a bride, but the amount of 1.-THE
trick is to work the play so stiff that,
by standing out long enough, the re-
cipient of the bride may make sure of
getting the top price, which has now
ceased to be any sum less than twenty
thousand dollars. Crazed with the game
he has been playing, Clark will pay
that and thousands more than that for
any man who, in the present pinch, will
help him to consummate the most in
famous and the highest priced opera
ton in bribery every undertaken in the
United States.
You may well believe that the Stand
ards dispatch of this morning does not
paint the picture too wildly Clark
bribery money holds in Helena a carni-
val that passes description Corrup-
ton infests the city like a veritable
plague. The capital city of Montana
is simply a hell In words which will
vet make the people of Helena hang their
heads in shame, Representative Lind
say set forth the situation yesterday.
The Clark's can't buy Lindsay; but
Helena business men and examplars of
high social standing in that city can
neither coax him or browbeat him into
the casting of vote that would dis
honor him.
Mr.. Lindsay is simply one Of sew
eral members upon whom these Helena,
people, whom Clark's money has dazed,
have set themselves with the fury of a
pack of enraged hounds. Mr.. Lindsay
is republican. The effort in Helena
has been to convince him and his repub-
lican associates that their clever scheme
is to sell out to Clark anyhow, and thus
crown the dastardly work of corruption
by adding to bribery the vote Of political
traitors. Yesterday, this sturdy man
from Dawson county, defantly spurning
Clark's gold, which he could get in any
total he chose to name, made the pre-
diction that, with him, his republican
associates will stand true.
1t may be. These republicans are
good men if they do it. The opportunity
is right before them to sell honor, good
name, conscience, peace of mind-all
for w. A. Clark's gold
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IF we are to judge by the words
or claims and counter claims that
have been banded from mouth to
mouth in the hotel corridors and
also upon the streets, the fifteen
members of the republican party in
this body have been looked upon as
so many pieces of clay, to be fash
Toned into shape and voted by the
will of some political broker
From the speech of Hon. William
Lindsay before the joint session at
Helena, yesterday.
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Foraker Makes a Hit.

HNE of the good things of the year
~ is Senator Foraker's hit at Mark
Hanna. We all remember what
scurrying there was a few DAYS ago
when, in his Philippine speech. Mr..
Foraker asserted that President Nc
Kin1ey is not for the annexation of the
islands Congress was surprised, the
press didn't know what to make of It,
the imperialists were speechless. After
time, the sentiment gained ground
that, after all, Foraker was speaking
for himself and not for the president.
But Senator Foraker was taken with
the utmost seriousness in London-the
English press simply knew that the
senator and the president are from the
same state and the remark of the sena-
tor was discussed as a positive ex-
preston of white house opinion.
Learning about this, Foraker said: 81
was not speaking for the administra-
ton, and the chill that went up and
| down the backs of our friends in Lon
don was due perhaps to a misappre-
hension as to which of the Ohio sena-
tors was speaking"
Mr.. Foraker is an Ohio republican.
But there are two republican parties
in Ohio. The one that has elected
Foraker to office has opposed McKin-
| ley; the one that elects Mckinley is
arrayed against Foraker, and he is a
| good deal farther from the president
than some men are whose constituents
are as far from Ohio, almost as Lon
| don is from Washington.
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1t Was Coarse Work.

~ N good authority, wind was all
there was behind the claims
which were set up by Kelly,
the motor man. For more than %
years he was at intervals before the
public as the discoverer of a force that
was going to work marvels in the in
dustrial and mechanical world. He
found plenty of victims-men who put
money into his hands under the delusion
that their investment in Keely-motor
stock was certain to make them million
aires Keely never accomplished any
thing practicable was always going
to: he was just on the point of making
a final and astonishing demonstration.
keely died few days ago; it was
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25
Stewart Gets 1t.

TT seems to be written in the book of
Fate-or, at least, in the political
annals of Nevada-that William
Morris Stewart shall die in the sena-
torial harness. Elected Yesterday for
a term that will expire in March, 1905.
Senator Stewart will be seventy-seven
years old before his successor, in the
regular order of events, will be named
The senator's career in public life
has been long and interesting. ma
tive of Western New York he was
student at Yale when the impulse to
strike out for California took possess
sion of him-he was in San Francisco
in 1850, and after studying law, he held
several offices, going to Virginia City,
Nevada, in 1860. After figuring in and
out of Nevada politics. he was elected
to the United States senate in 1864 He
served two terms. Resuming the law,
he practiced in Nevada and California
until 1887, when he was again elected
to the senate as the successor of James
G. Fair. He has served continuously
in the senate since then.
1t transpires that the name of Mr..
Newlands was not before the joint SEES
sion at Carson City when the final bal
lot was taken. Mr.. Newlands has had
several terms in the house of represen-
tatives. His ambition has been to reach
the senate and doubtless that ambition
may be gratified some day. but Nevada
is evidently disposed to stay with the
veteran Stewart yet little longer. Mr..
Newlands, who is fifty years old and
who has means can afford to be
patient.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.

''The republicans will be held to
. strict accountability by their con-
stituents for their actions in this
body, and whatever may be the YER
dict in the end, if they have allowed
themselves to be swerved a hairs
breadth from their line of duty as
they are passing through the fiery
ordeals of this contest, they will be
branded as dishonored and will be
political outcasts as well as. social
outcasts in the future From the
speech of Hon. William Lindsay
of Dawson, before the joint session
at Helena, yesterday.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25

I'VE have as republicans come
here to represent our constituents
and If we would heed the advice
that is given by the so-called ninety
per cent of the republicans in this
vicinity, we would not only bring
upon our families the shadow of
dishonor, but We would leave a
legacy of shame to our children
From the speech of Hon. William
Lindsay before the 'oint session at
Helena, yesterday.
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Current Comment.
The Whole Works.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Perhaps the presidents alleged plan of
putting the Philippine problem in the
hands Of a commission of five. Dewey be-
ing one, may be good but 1t will be hard
to persuade the majority of the Ameri
can people that it would not be better to
cut the commission down to one, and that
one Dewey-with power to act.
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At Seville.

yHEN our war with Spain was
" on, there was turning to the
records in order to get ac-
curate information, if that was posi-
BILE, in regard to the bones of Columbus
The gist of the testimony was to the
effect that. owing to the indifference
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As Told by a Rival.

From the Detroit Free Press.
They were gliding over the smooth ice
at the island and she spoke of his friend,
who is also his rival.
II understand that he has a. great rep-
ertoire in fancy skating"
Joe skates in but two ways"
what are they?'
Standing up and sitting down."
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Not Denxins 1t.

From the Detroit Tribune.
Governor Roosevelt seems to be deter
mined to make it Known that he engi-
neered that round robin protest
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Beats the French.

From the Washington Times.
If there is anything in the history of
the French army more shocking than the
Alger- Eagan-Miles imbrolgio it has es-
capped the worlds attention.
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HOW Would That BE.

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
If every pore of body flows falsehood,
what would happen with General Miles
IL he were stationed in the tropics where
perspiration is constant condition?
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Accustomed to Mud.

From the Detroit Journal
There is this to be sa.. in extenuation
of Commissary General Eagan, that his
last engagement was in the California
lava beds.
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Aleer's Danger,

From the Chicago Chronicle
The Hon. Russell A. Alger's present
peril appears to be that Eagan may turn
states evidence.