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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25
West Point Academy Bill.

The military academy appropria-
ton bill has been completed and re-
ported to the house military COM
mittee. 1t carries $699,15 which is
$346,59S below the estimates and
slightly above the bill of last year
The largest items outside of those
for ordinary maintenance are $4,000
for south wing to the hospital and
$4,000 for engineers barracks. The
project for a hotel is omitted
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25
Christmas Cheer.

l knows de 'possum's waitin'
Till come roun' his way,
So Use fiXin' up de oven
Fob his comfort, Christmas day,
An | reckons Mistah Rabbit
Will leave footprints in de drift
I'll hab a-plenty comm
When | hollers christmas gif."
l won't git no piano,
Ner damon studs an things,
De norf win is my Sanity Claus,
I'll welcome what he brings.
l won't be melancholy,
Fob ae clouds is boun' to If,
I'll hab a-plenty comm
When l hollers Christmas gif."
Washington Star.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25
TUESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1900.
THE YELLOW PROBLEM.

The situation in China has come to
be a good deal of a farce, while the
joke. With all of the conflicting in
terests involved, it is doubtful if the
result will be an improvement over
the laundering policy of the past.
China in the past has been impotent
and helpless because of the lack of
patriotism and cohesion among her
people. Divided into many provinces,
speaking different, though kindred
tongues, and rent by local jealouses,
they yet had common traditions, and
a common pride in Chinese institu-
tions-sentiments easily converted
into patriotism. AS the German states
them into a nation, SO the Chinese
people, aroused by the wanton seiz-
ure of their ports by foreign powers,
have begun to awaken from the leth-
argy that for centuries has wrapped
them, and with the yellow tiger once
fully aroused, who shall foretell the
end? The Boxer movement was their
first cropping effort to preserve China
for the Chinese, and is the first ex-
hibition of anything like national
spirit in China 1t failed for the time
being because the Boxers were un-
trained and unorganized. But they will
in time supply these deficiencies, and
then let the foreign powers beware.
China could no doubt furnish 25,OOO,-
900 soldiers and with such a force
sweep the combined armies of Eu-
rope into the sea. The Chinese,
however, have always been averse to
militarism, but they have conquered
by a power as mysterious as immut-
able. Conquered by the sword at the
hands of the Mongolians in the Thir-
teenth century, and again by the Man
churians few centuries later, they
yet absorbed and made Cinnamon OF
their captors. Buddhism sweeping
across China bid fair to revolutionize
Chinese life, but it, too, was absorbed
and fitted to their ancient traditions.
All that goes into the yellow nav is
assimilated, and Christianity may suf-
fer the same fate. We forbid the
Cinnamon our shores, and morally
they have the same right to exclude
us, but If we are to insist upon re-
naming in China and teaching them
the precepts of Christianity, whether
they want it or not then all right
may as well be laid aside, for it can
only be done with "a Bible in one
hand and a gun in the other" for
China must be prevented from or
ganizing or drilling her armies, and
from purchasing or manufacturing
munitions of war. Then when one
third or one-half of them have be-
come Christianized, China will be a
nation divided against itself and will
no longer be menace to western
civilization.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

Entered at the Postoffice at kallspell, Mon
tana as second class mail matter.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

fered for three of the robbers, $4,000
for one, and $4,000 for two of them.
The detectives will get some of them
are the robbers. Pinkertons never
sleep, they say.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25
TELEPHONE NUMBER IA
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

NoTE-Give old and new address when order
ing paper changed to new address.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

For your Christmas Dinner do not
forget the following: Richelieu Olives,
Batavia Plum Pudding, Batavia Plum
Sauce, Richelieu Preserves, Richelieu
Jelly.
Your after dinner Coffee should he
made from our Batavia Coffee.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

An English enthusiast has suggest
ed that corps of volunteer motor
militia be formed to demonstrate to
the war office the capabilities of the
motor vehicle as an adjunct to the sys-
tenn of home defense.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

The Christmas edition of the Butte
Inter Mountain is highly creditable
paper. 1t consists of 46 pages, fully
illustrated with halftOnes OF public
state and private buildings, beauti
fully printed. 1t also shows a great
amount of hard work in compiling. 1t
will be of great value to those seek.
ing statistics on Montanas resources
as it goes into the details of every
thing likely to be asked about from
every point in the state. Every Mon
tanan should secure copy of the
Butte Inter Mountain Christmas edi
ton.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

We take pleasure in Offering our
Export Brand of Yellow Crawford
Peaches, Lemon Cling Peaches, Sliced
Cling Peaches, Bartlett Pears, White
Cherries, Black Cherries, Sliced April
Green Gage Plums, Yellow Egg
Plums.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25
From "A Christmas Sermon"

To scramble through this random
business with hands reasonably clean,
to have played the part of man
or woman with some reasonable full
ness, to have often resisted the dia-
bolic, and at the end to be still re-
sisting it, is for the poor human sol
der to have done right well.
1t is probable that nearly all who
think of conduct at all think too much;
it is certain that we think too much
of sin. A man may have flaw,
weakness, that units him for the du-
ties of life, that spoils his temper,
betrays him into cruelty; it has to be
conquered; but it must never be suf-
fered to engross his thoughts. The
true. duties all lie upon the farther
side, and must be attended to with
whole mind SO soon as this prelim-
mary clearing of the decks has been
effected. In order that he may be
kind and honest, it may be needful
that he should become a total abstain
err: let him become so then, and the
next day let him forget the circum-
stance. Trying to be kind and hon
est will require all his thoughts;
mortified appetite is never a wise
companion. insofar as he has had to
mortify an appetite, he will still be
the worse man; and of such an one
great deal of cheerfulness will be
required in Judging life, and a great
deal of humility in judging others.
To be honest, to be lind-tO earn
little and to spend little less, to
make upon the whole a family hap
pier for his presence, to renOunce
when that shall be necessary and not
to be embittered; to keep few
friends, but these without capitula-
tion-above all, on the same grim con-
dition. to keep friends with himself
here is task for all that a man
has his fortitude and delicacy.-Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

the little incidents connected with my
first season spent in Montana said
w. w l'enson, an old pioneer, who
now res.ues in Yellowstone county
and who was in Helena yesterday on
business.
1.-The party of which | was a mem
Der had come up the Missouri and
we dsembarked and prepared for
prospecting trip inland from the riv
er. Christmas week. The weather was
extremely cold. but we had come to
the PARKWAY country to win the met
ais from the earth and we did not
propose to be foiled by cold weather.
We built as good a cabin as we were
able and in this prepared to make
ourselves comfortable while the cold
weather continued. 1t came around
Christmas night and all the boys
were just little homesick. Some of
them had left sweethearts in Illinois
and the separation gave sort of dis
satisfaction to the general situation.
Others, too, had families in the east
and these men had the greatest
cause to have longings for home. But
we all put on as brave appearances
as possible. and decided to make the
best of the situation.
when Christmas eve came there
was a general depression over the
entire camp, and the men were not
cracking the usual jokes about the
camp fire. But as it grew near 10
O'Clock, which was the acknowledged
bedtime. someone suggested that we
all hang up our stockings before re-
firing In most instances we slept
with our socks on, but that Christmas
eve every man took off his stockings
and hung them on a long pole in
front of the fire. To one who has
never been through a Christmas in
the wilderness away from home the
satisfaction that this act brought can
not be imagined And then along
about midnight the men began to
steal quietly from under their blank
cts and fill each others stockings by
turns. recollect William Matthers
put little watch charm that he took
from his chain, into my stocking, and
George Barnes contributed pair of
cuff buttons from his sack, to help
| fill Kid Freeman's stocking. But
every man when he awoke on Christ
mas morning found something in his
stocking, and despite the fact that we
were many miles from home, we
spent a merry Christmas. Montana
Record.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09
TIMELY FACTS.


denmark claims lhat there Is not single per-
son IN her DOMAIN VINO cannot read ana wrlte'
In Manitoba and Northwest territories during
the year 1890 there arrived from European coun.
tries 2O3G4 settlers, and from the United States,
9SSO.
Cbicago protossor predicts that In 7 5Oo vc,rs
Cbicogo will be inundated nv Lake Nicbirop
The city is sinking at the rate of nine inches
every 100 years
r-,u.,i;.,. a., ,,,o,;,,.t,, ~. h,o. J,i,,.ou-
~ oa,.,,,,od 49, go b,,t q 90 ILL.,. ro.
baoJ =, oor.ra-od ,r;;h t,o oorswrortion % 20
in A. I-,itnG statos
~ '"0
Ihe nre loss IN the united states ana 'ahada
during the SIX months lust closed reached tne
enormous total OF Slo"2N''ooo' against S05'OV9'5o
IN the same period last year.
1t has been estimated that the food supply of
London would not la-t out a week IT its com
munications with the country were broken, and
the inflow OF provisions stopped by any cause
On American railroads last year one passenger
was killed for every 2,ls0, ,Og3 carried and one in
jured for every l5l ,a0s carried For each passcn.
ger killed G1 O5l $50 passenger miles were accom-
plshed and $780, 200 passenger miles were ac.
complished for every passenger injured
This 10 tho v,o,, In which n Chimes. od;tor +old
aon+ri,rtor tbot his r,oruscrint was upoy,il.
,bIe. .nmstrious brother of the sun and moon,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09
NuBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

Brown eyes are said by oculists to be the
strongest.
French Canadians almost entirely use home.
grown tobacco.
Since 1891 Colorado has produced over $751;
100000 in gold.
Great Britain eats her entire wheat crop in
about thirteen weeks.
Births in France last year fell of 15,l74
from the figures Of 1897.
In 1850 Texas raised 5S,O72 bales Of cotton
Now she raises IL, 100000 bales annually.
The bread.eatng world requires more than
Q, 300, 600, 600 bushels Of wheat every twelve
months to supply its table with bread.
Paris woman's paper, La Fronde, which
boasts that all its work was done by women,
has run foul of the law, which does not permit
women to set type at night.
South Carolina is now manufacturing all the
cotton she produces. North Carolina, Georgia
and other states are also turning out a large
part Of their cotton in finished goods.
The German peasant of century ago-the pc.
riod Of the Napolconc wars-atc little except
black bread and potatoes, and in many cases he
had barely sufficient of them to sustain life.
Senior silvcla, president OF the council and
Spanish minister Of marine, intends to ask tho
people Of Spain to make a great financial sacri.
fee with view OF constructing a new navy.
Verified figures show that city OF 100, ,o0C
inhabitants could be built from the annual out
put Of stone, clay, lime and gravel found within
dozen miles of the City Hall in Philadelphia.
The German war department has something
like 100000 pigeons trained for war purposes,
and France has 25O,OoO. Russia and ltayl also
have homing pigeon outfits in their war depart
mcnts.
Saxony has a new law, making the minimum
! salary Of a school teacher $500 a year, rising
gradually through six stages to $525 and a free
residence n year. The maximum salary il
5000 a year.
There are plenty of snakes in Samoa, but they
| are all harmless. In certain districts it is
| custom of the native girls to wind live rcp,il,
| around their necks and arms ornaments fol
| their dances
In the United States there is one church fol
| every 337 people. Boston has one for ever!
| ! 900, Minneapolis one for every l,0ji Twcnt!
four million people attend church in the Unite,
| States every Sunday.
Recently the Russian Agricultural department
has discovered in Kirghiz steppe on the east
ern shore of the Caspian sea immense naphth
| springs of a quality which is said to be equa
to the best American naphtha.
Following the lead Of Liverpool, Sheffield
| Bradford, Glasgow, Manchester and other cite
of Great Britain. it is promised that an electro
street railway service will soon supersede tn
present horse tramways in Nottingham.
The output of native coal in Russia has enor
mously increased of late years. at the same tim
the import Of the foreign article has steadil
risen, and this in spite Of duties till at tn
present moment the import Of foreign coal ha
become of such urgent necessity that the dutie
have had to be temporarily reduced or remitte
| altogether.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09
A TYPOGRAPHICAL REMINIS
CENCE.

1 have paused to hear the music Of the big per-
fccting press
As it hammers and it elamors to rebuke my
dcness;
| have seen the pages leaping from the mighty
whiring scroll
And the roar and bang and rattle has made
music to my soul.
And yet (perhaps Pm growing what they call a
bit passe),
| don't feel quite contented with the methods
OF today,
As watch the step Of progress, can scarce
restrain scowl;
am longing for a foot press and printing Of
fee tow'l.
It seems Just like miracle, an iridescent dream,
When first we got a little press that ran with
real steam.
And now, while steam is useful in its honest
way, no doubt,
We have electric motors, modern built to help
it out.
We said inventive genius, though it grew each
year more ripe,
Would never be on hand with machine for set.
ting type.
I'll admit the new ways better-though I'm
half inclined TO growl,
While I'm longing for foot press and printing
Office tow'l.
Oh, where's the iovial nomad who would work
about a week
And then lay down his stick and wander off,
new fields TO seek?
Where is the printers devil? In his place we
find a crowd
OF brightfaccd chubby cherubs, fit to perch upon
a cloud.
And from the forms | miss the news that once
appeared so big,
tbo bo
Spicers pig.
It rests my dazzlcd brain 10 let my memory
take prowl
To when we had foot press and a printing
office tow'l
Washington Star,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09

came wonderfully submissive to Bryan's will
Defeated in the election. and four years cut of
Official life. hc has still retained his hold on
the masses Of his party until he is much more
powerful in Its councils than is Mckinley in
his party, even with all the enormous pat onagc
Of the republic At his command. Many OF the
brainest and strongest men Ia the Democratic
party have been working and schcmins for
months TO bring toning down OF the Demo.
cratic plattorm--to bring II back to more con.
scrvative ground. They are rich ard powerful
in their own states and have mt with much
seeming success. Bryan says word at Lin
coin. and their work is set at naught. The
Democratic hosts at Kansas City have found
out what kind of a platform he wants. ard that
kind OF platform it is. II they can find
out whom he wnnts for vicc.president, his
wishes Will be followed. II they can find out
anything else he wants, he will have it, IL It
is within their power TO give. Considering
that he has never had the opportunity to win
high renown, either in war, in congress or in
high executive position, Mr.. Bryan's power Is
the most remarkable instance of political lead.
ership our history has afforded.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09
The Visit of the Beers.

"~HE TREASURER of the
committee of arrangements
Il for the reception of the
Boer envoys on the occasion
of their recent visit TO Washington,
who was also custodian of the fund for
the widows and orphans Of Beers who
died in defense of their liberty, col
lected at the national capital by means
Of a monster mass meeting at which
an admission fee was charged, has
made his report. 1t is certainly an in
teresting document.
Altogether the collections amounted
to 81, 1,134.3S. OF this sum 81 100 went for
the entertainment Of the three envoys.
They were in Washington eleven days.
Their hotel bill for that period, includ-
ing kilograms, extra meals, cigars,
newspapers and other minor details,
was $5G5.60 Their wine alone cost 81 10
and 1t was paid for out OF the public
fund. Among other items OF expend-
lture we note one Of S127 for hack hire;
one OF $SI for fireworks; an item of
$4S which includes the expenses. of the
reception committee, aside from car
fare, in going to New York to greet the
ENJOYS and in bringing them back 10
the capital; band hire, SS7; decorations
ss5; flags, S.; badges, $3.50; advertis-
ing and printing, $50. and dinners foI
the envoys on their way 70 New York,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09

TITH A VIEW to helping
\N the Democratic SPELL
binders to prepare the
ammunition for their fall
campaign, we propose to present on
this page, from time to time, statis-
tical facts collected from authoritive
sources and illustrating how great has
been the suffering of the country un-
der the gold standard. Here goes for
exhibit number one:
The annual report of the statisti-
clan of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission on the railways Of the United
States for the fiscal year ended June
30,lSe9, shows that at the close of the
year n railways We're in the hands
of receivers, a decrease of % COM
parAd with the previous year. Sixteen
roads were placed in charge of re-
ceivers during the year and 80 were
removed. The total number of rail-
way corporations included in the re-
port was 2O49. Their total trackage
was 252,a64 miles, of which lS9,295 were
single track. The increase in single
track was 2,S9S miles, which was great
er than for any year since 1898
Twenty locomotives and 1874 cars were
used for each 100 miles OF line, over
which 52.S7S passengers were carried
and, 1,474,765 passenger miles accom-
plished by each passenger locomotive;
46SaS tons of freight were carried and
5,96e.193 tons miles accomplished by
eacn freight locomotive, All these
itenSe show an increase compared with
the corresponding item for the previous
fiscal year. OF the total equipment OF
the roads, aggregatins 1,412,6l9 loco
motives and cars. s0S,674 were fitted
with train brakes, an increase OF 1866.
8l2, and 1,1S7719 with automatic coup.
lers, IAN increase of 22s,l45. The roads
employed 92s,924 persons, and during
the year they were paid in wages and
salaries S522, ,967s96. an increase of ST.,
459, GS5 over the fiscal year 1895. The
amount Of railway capital outstanding
on June 80, 1899, was Sll ,O33 95e,S ,S9S, OF
a capitalization of S6O.656 per mile OF
line, 't0.6l per cent. of which paid divi'
aends, The number OF passengers car
\ ried during the year was 62S,176,5OS, al
4 lDerease OF 2?,lOs,s27. and 59,763, IS;
Cons OF freight were transported, al
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-09

'NHERE Is encouragement in
the report that on July TIE
Il foreigners in Pekln were stin
alive and that their success
In defending themselves had operated
TO discourage their assailants. Prestige
counts far more than force with men
addicted to superstition: and If the
Chinese shall gain the impression that
the foreigners are invulnerable they
may spare when they might easily
crush.
But the discouraglng feature is that
certainly weeks and possibly months
must elapse before the powers can er-
feet an entrance into Pekin. After un-
necessary delay permission has at last
been accorded to Japan to go ahead
with the sending of an army corps into
China. 1t is understood that the prep
arations for the dispatch of this force
have been so far advanced in antlci-
patton of the allies consent that within
two weeks the troops will have been
embarked. But even should this pre-
diction of swift movement be fulfilled,
tiC JOuIHtS 10 Idhu is Dut a small
part of the invasion. First comes the
landing of 10000 troops, which is no
small matter; then arises the prob
lens # disposition on land, of estab-
fishing and keeping open lines of COM
munication, OF securing information as
TO the enemy's situation and lastly the
actual march of such a force through
a territory devoid of all modern con-
Yeniences.
Can the besieged force in Pekin hold
out six weeks? On this point we have
no information. All is conjecture. One
hopeful sign is that the ministers resi-
dent at Pekin foresaw the coming of
the storm and probably prepared for
it. 1t is regarded as likely that their
reserve store of provisions is sufficient
10 withstand a long siege. The greater
danger is that they may at any
moment be overpowered by superior
numbers. On this score the public can
only wait and hope.