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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
HABIT OF SAVING

Indianapolis News: In July of last
year the individual deposits in the ma
tional banks of this country amounted
to $3,228, 600, 900. The deposits in the
savings banks in the country at the
same tome amounted to S2.597.0O0.0O
The savings banks of the world had
$8,90S $4,000 representing 5000 800
depositors. The average individual
account for the world was Sal. "a
The average indiidual account for the
United States was $48O.30.
1t should be said in a time of pros
perity that no habit is more valuable
to cultivate than the habit of saving.
Prosperitya walls a nan nothing unless
with it he has strength of character
to save in proportion. Dickens has a
character in one of his books that
every time he prospers treats himself,
s. to say; INDUCES himself with some
extra expenditure as a reward. That
is likely to be a tendency with too
many. It is an old truism about pros
perity being more difficult to stand
than adversely. No man can prosper
that does not spend less than he
makes. He cannot greatly prosper un-
less increasingly he spends less pro-
portionately than he makes. While
money-making is a positive achieve
ment as much as the creation of any
thing is, frugality is something that
need wait on no gift, but may be prac-
ticed by all.
Whether a man be rich or poor,
whether he be gifted mentally or
emotionally or be dull there is for ev-
eryone in this life the lesson of self
denial to learn, and as this life is an
exceedingly practical thing, the basis
of s%elf-denial might almost be said to
lie in material savings. Where a man
has not the ability to increase his in
come he should decrease his outgo.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
FOR FEDERAL

Philadelphia Ledger: Public con-
troll of railroads is imperative, else
these creatures of the state would be-
come greater than the state itself.
But their lines are too long and too
widely spread to be wholly under the
control of any individual common
wealth. What follows logically, Their.
is that they must be controlled either
by concurrent action on the part of
several states through which their
lines run, or by the general govern
ment, acting for the entire community.
Present indications point to the lat
ter as the more feasible Of the two
methods.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
OUTRAGE ON DECENCY,

nj announcement that certain
s~peculotOrs are scheming to make
money out of the awful tragedy enact
ed at Buffalo last fall and by pander-
ing to a morbid curiosity line their
pockets with gold derived from a
source as reprehensible as it would
be d~isgraceful has caused a storm of
Indignation to break out in all quar-
ters of the country. 1t is said that par
ties are negotiating for the purchase
of the temple of music in which Pres
ident Mckinley was assassinated, for
the purpose of removing the structure
to some other city and there preserv-
ing it as a show place.
The building being only a temporary
affair, was sold, along with the others
forming a part of the exposition, to- a
the parties who are said to be anxious
to secure it are making overtures to
the company for. its purchase, believ-
ing that the public curiosity is suf-
ficiently perverted to be relied upon
as willing to pay for the privilege of
seeing the building in which a nations
executive was foully murdered.
Whether the company will lend itself
to the scheme remains to be seen,
but the probability is that if the price
offered is high enough it will sell, hav-
ing bought the building for specula-
tive purposes, the same as the others,
and to dispose of it to the best ad-
vantage is a matter of business.
There is probably no legal way by
which the sale of the building for the
purpose stated can be prevented, but
public sentiment should express itself
in so plain and positive a ann that
the ghouls who would turn to a money
account the crime which caused an
entire nation to mourn would think
long before attempting to carry their
reprehensible plan into execution. By
letting them understand that the peo-
pie do not propose to c~ountenance so
villainous anddiabolicalan act as they
contemplate and that they will do all
in their power to prevent the reaping
of money in the manne proposed they
may be forced into yielding to popular
clamor and forego contamination of
their unholy and wicked scheme.
The thing is repulsive to the mind
and repugnant to all ideas of public
decency and propriety and no right
minded person should countenance it
to the slightest degree.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
FRIDAY, MARCH Fl, 1902.
PRESIDENT is RIGHT.

In refusing to sign the bills granting
honorable discharges to two men dis
honorably dismissed from the army
during the civil war President Roose-
welt has probably opened the gates for
further storms of abuse from his en-
emies, but it is safe to say that all
men who really served their country
during those trying and stormy days
and all who have a just regard for the
services rendered by those noble and
patriotic men will strongly support
him. The fact that Abraham Lincoln,
the most humane and charitable man
who ever filled the exalted office of
president of the United States and
commander-in-chief of the army, ap-
proved the sentences by which the two
were disgraced must of itself be ac-
cepted as the strongest proof of the
righteousness of those sentences. Well
does the president say that to now
grant honorable discharges to men Of
that kind, would be to cheaper and
render of little worth the testimonials
of gallant services rendered held by
men on whose military records there
is no stain. The men who risked their
lives and shed their blood in defense
of the country should not now be ask
ed to allow those who proved traitors
and towards to be placed On the same
honorable level with themselves. If
some of those who are now seeking to
have their military records made
clear had received their just deserts
at the time they would probably long
ago have returned to the dust whence
they came. The fact that a generous
government permitted them to live
should be accepted by them as suf-
icient condonement of the offenses
of which they were guilty and they
should be satisfied to rest content in
the forgetfulness of their shame which
the kindness of years has brought
about.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC.

Atlanta Constitution (dem.): The
people Of the United States can be
trusted to know and maintain their
rights. They make senates, houses of
representatives, presidents and de-
termine policies in their final forum.
If a president takes too much power
to himself they will strip him of it.
II a congress violates popular rights
they will supplant 1t with another that
will right the wrong. If courts become
corrupt or usurpatory, they will re-
organize them and reverse them Nv
the power that resides forever i'll
the o populi. There is no form of
treason that can flourish in the fact
of "'our fierce democratic" and no fash
ion of Imperialism that will not wither
like Jonah's gourd in the heat of the
popular zeal for true republican prin-
ciples!
The confusion incident to our new
problems, new duties and larger place
in the world sphere may alarm the
simple for a season. But those tenn
porary incidents do not stop the regu-
lar action of the invincible American
spirit that saturates and saves the ma.
tional life. We are a Saul among the
powers and tribes of this world. We
have the most president population,
the most redundant resources, the
most available wealth, the most envi-,
able opportunities that belong to any
nation of the globe. The Stars and
Stripes is the ensign to which the eyes
of the ambitious turn and to the pro-
lection of which the oppressed of the
earth are flocking.
But why should we argue all thes
great and patent facts with our young
friend? We will not do So. We will
invite him to come out of his cave of
Adullam, and breathe the air of free
dom instead Of the choke-damp of pes
simism. He is young, educated and
capable of bright and jubilant work,
as his contribution happily shows.
He only needs. to climb up into the
sunshine that glories the hilltops and
widen his horizon from the corner
posts of his personal equation to the
four quarters of this greatest republic
of all time. Then every point of the
national compass will reveal to him
the growth the glory the owe and
the higher and holier possibilities Of
this nation of which he is a part.
Only let him, and every other like
him, bravely assume and brilliantly
do his part. If anything is wrong, help
to right it. If unwisdom is in the
saddle help to substitute wisdom in
stead. Stand with the people, con-
jure by the constitution, fight with
the flag and never despair of the re-
public.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21

j. Sterling Morton, VINO has made
a tour of Mexico for the purpose of
studying the conditions obtaining in
that country, has learned enough about
the finances Of our southern neighbor
that he is out with a plain and un-
qualified statement in which he op-
poses adoption of the silver standard
by this country. He says that any
American publicist who familiarizes
himself even in the most cursory man.
ner with the finances of that country
and who will then honestly advocate
the silver standard for the United
States 'is utterly incapable of logical
thought and wholly devoid of that
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
c T OF HIS FRIENDS.

Senator Clark has good reasons for
praying for deliverance from his fool
friends, who have plunged him into
trouble because of their blind zeal and
ill advised effort to give him proof
of their devotion and profound admira-
ton. Not content with seeing him
in the enjoyment Of a realization of
his life's dream-Occupying a seat in
the highest law-making body of the
world-they would advance him still
further and in a moment of enthusiast
tic admiration of the man nominated
him for the presidency, and what is
more-they were really in earnest.
Here at home the nomination was
taken as a graceful tribute of friends,
a little far fetched, possibly, but still
well intended, and no more vas
thought of it. But back east, where
the people are more serious minded
than we of the west, where humor is
made to follow different channels and
where the ability for "joshing" has not
reached the degree of perfection that
it attains here, the mention of the
senator's name in connection with the
democratic candidacy for the presi-
dency was taken in all seriousness,
and to the disadvantage of the gen
tie man, who it is safe to say, neve-
permitted his mind to dwell upon the
subject for a moment, unless in the
way Of contemplating it as a joke of
some of his friends.
One Of those that took the matter
in all seriousness is the Indianapolis
News, a newspaper which claims to be
Independent, but which because of it's
comments may be set down as having
democratic leanings. 1t launches it's
heaviest shafts against the senator
and says numerous unkind things of
him to show his unitness for the NOM
inatiOn. 1t accuses him of having no
fixed opinions on any of the more inn
portant public questions of the times
and intimates that he is without po-
litical morality, and warns the party
against taking him up if it expects to
accomplish anything in the coming
campaign, saying that only by taking
q high moral stand on the great ques-
lions OF the day can it hope to be sue
cessful. It lampoons Mr.. Clark be-
cause he does not join his party in
bowling against the administration
TOR its course on the Philippine ques-
tton and for daring to declare that it
u too early to say that this question
NIL esershadow all others. It abuses
Tor his declaration that there
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
OUR GROWING EXPORTS.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Exports
OF American manufactures are grow
ing again. The total in January was
S34,412, 1892, as compared with $780,
654,O35 in the same month last year.
Only in iron and steel is there a fall
ing off in exports, and the home de-
mand for these articles is greater than
the supply.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21

The announcement that the Imper-
ial Tobacco concern Of England has
offered large concessions to it's Gus
toners for refraining to sell for a num-
Der of years the product of the Amer
lean manufacturers must be taken as
meaning that the E%nglishmen are
viewing with ALARM" even though
they may not point with PRIDE
There is evidently something more
than smoke in the threatened inva-
sion Of European markets by the as.
tute and rustling Yankee.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
DEMAND FOR PURE FOOD,

Chicago Inter-Ocean: The cry Of
the Great West is for pure food, not
only because it is right that all food
should be pure, but because the Great
West raises the stuff out of which
the best pure food is made.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
H RIGHT r

New York World: 1t is simple JUS
lice to the attorney general to say
that his opening of the governments
case for the dissolution of the North
ern Securities company is character
lied by remarkable originality, ag-
gressiveness and ability.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
Quaint CONFIDENT.

Baltimore American: 1t may be a
mere coincidence, but just as the Con-
gress of Mothers has finished attract
ing attention in INT part Of the world,
General Ma appears prominently at
the Antipodes,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21

good Judgment which every American
%publicist should have" 1t is now in
order for Colonel Bryan to make his
long promised trip across the south
ern border and give us his views as
opposed to those of Mr.. Morton.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
GREAT ALLY IN A PINCH.

Springfield Republican: Those
American mules have again proved an
uncertain reliance for the British in
time Of stress. 1t is a question
whether their stampede was not as
effective as the Boer onslaught in put
ting General Methuen's men under.
We should doubtless be proud of them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21
BLAWsTED MEAN TRICK.

Washington Post: The conduct of
the Beers is particularly exasperating
and reprehensible when we reflect
that General Kitchener had reported
the capture of their last cannon.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21

The fact that the senate committee
on privileges and elections has begun
consideration of the house resolution
favoring the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people
should not be taken too seriously by
the friends of the proposition. It does
not by any means go to show that
much will come of the matter. The
announcement that the committee in
tends to hold weekly meetings for the
purpose of permitting the members to
give their views on the question and
to continue consideration of the sub
ject is notice that the committee in
tends to respect senatorial traditions
and move with all possible majesty of
ease. The expression of views is like
ly to prove a tedious and lengthy pro-
Tess and before it shall have been COM
pleted the term may expire and then
may come an honorable interment.
Mr.. Hepburn Of Iowa seems to, be
one of the men who are of the opinion
that if some of the ducks Of the inter
ior are finding the depths of their
ancestral pools becoming too shallow
for, their regular aquatic exercises they
should apply to their owners for re-
lief. His onslaught on the river and
hArbor bill has become a regular feat
ure of every session of congress, but
for all that this should not be accept
ed as evidence of it's wrongfulness.
He may not prevail this time, any
more than he has in the past but he is
keeping his record straight.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21

MI. Allison Of Iowa would probably
strenuously resent any %imputation on
against the subsidy bill and thus in
the opinion of his party colleagues
manifest a desire to help the opposi-
ton. ".
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-21

The irrigationists. would be much
obliged to Messrs. Hanna, Payne, ct
al, for the recipe, as they are anxious
to do a little work in the way of ecur-
ing a slice of the government funds,
and will promise eve bigger returns
on the investment than will follow the
measure just passed by the senate.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-06

Wednesday evening at T:45 O'Clock. 4
cordial invitation is extended to all
Metropolitan Church. Fourth and B
Streets southeast. Rev G. \. Luccock.
y. D.. Sunday school. $3.50 a. n. !;
preaching, Il a. m, by the pastor: Senior
Christian Endeavor, P. m; subject Of
morning sermon, The Father, the Son.
and Men"
North Church. n Street, between
Ninth and Tenth Streets northwest
Preaching at II a n by the pastor, Rev.
c. 4. RamsdelI D. D., midweek service,
Thursday, 8 p. m
Gunton-TempIe Memorial Church,
Fourteenth and r Streets northwest,
Rev. asa 5. Fiske. D. D.. pastor-9;3O a
m. Sabbath school. II a m, sermon by
the Rev. Everard " Snow, Of Boston,
Mass; solo, Mrs. Charles Muir; no even
ing service, 7 p. m, Christian Endeavor
meeting in chapel Strangers welcome
10 all services.
West Street Church. P Street. between
fhirty-first and ThiTty-second streets.
Rev. ". c. Alexander. D. D. pastor
Preaching at II a. n. by the pastor. fol
lowed by communion Of the Lords Sup
per, no evening service; Sunday school
al $50 a. m: Christian Endeavor. Z p.
m; midweek evening service Thursday.
7.45 O'Clock, with lecture. Strangers
cordially invited to all the services.
GurIey Memorial Church, Florida Ave
nue.. between Sixth and Seventh Streets
northwest. Rev. J. Russell Verbrycke.
pastor-Morning service, II O'Clock, the
pastor will preach; 7. P. S. c. E. ser
vice O'Clock. All are cordially in
vited TO these services.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-06
Thoughts On the Tonic

Upon the occasion OF a dinner party
al the AstoT House in New York city
Daniel Webster was asked, what y IS
the most solemn thought that had ever
occupied his mind.
After moments study he replied
1T is that OF my personal responsj
bility to God"
Such a thought ought 10 awaken in
tense interest IN every rational being
Every life has its own record The deeds
Of our lives are 50 many finger points
telling Us of eternity and a jUdgmens
The telegraph operator plays on his
instrument herr and il makes q recor
II California OF in Maine Every hou-
We are playing or the instrument that
is writing out our life's record We
press the button al the door and some
where IL he house the bell rings We
are pressing the button every day that
l. rigging out our record in the skies
There i no end 80 the SKY
And the stars are everywhere,
And time Is eternity,
And here l. oveT-there.
And the common deeds Of the common dav
are ringing bells in the faT-away.''
Everyone must face his own record
fOT we must all appear before the
judgment seat Of Christ" Each one s.
personally responsible. Every secret
thing viii be revealed al His coming
And We should be ready.
/. Because There Is no Uncertainty as
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-06
Presbyterian.

AssembIy's Church. corner Fifth and !
Streets northwest. Rev. George p. VIII
son. D. D.. pastor-Preachtng al Il a m
by Rev. y t. Miller. D. D, prayer
meeting Thursday evening at 7.45.
Washington Heights Church. KaIo-
rama Avenue and Columbia Road. Rev.
z. Lawrence Hunt, pastoral 9:45 d m,
Sunday school, s p. m, Rev. B. f. Bit
finger. D. D: prayer meeting Thursday
6 D. n Strangers welcome always. An
evening breeze on the height Of the
heights
Takoma Park Church-The pastor.
Rev John Van Ness will preach at II
a. m on Kindness" Sabbath school at
9.45 a. m; Christian Endeavor meeting,
Z D. m, prayer meeting and open exer-
cises in the new primary room Thurs
day at S p. m Farewell sermon next
Sabbath, September IL All cordially iu-
vited.
First Church. Four-and- Street.
between c and D Streets northwest. Rev.
Donald c. Macleod. D. D.. pastoral II
a m. sacrament of Lords Supper ad-
ministered- no evening service: Sunday
school $50 a. m; Y p s. {. E.. o.
m; midWeek service Thursday, 1880 p.
m Strangers are welcomed TO all ser
vices. Seats free.
The Church OF the Covenant. Connec-
ticut Avenue. y, and Eighteenth Streets.
Rev Teunis s. HamliR, D. D., pastor
Mr.. Albert Parker Fitch, will oficiate
tomorrow al Il a M; c z. meeting at
7 p NJ; Thursday evening. midweek ser
vice s to 8:45 o'clock
Bethany Chapel corner Thirteenth and
r. Streets Sabbath school 3
p m. Christian Endeavor meeting. : p.
m: gospel meeting. s p. n. The even
ing meeting will take the form Of a spe-
ciaI song and praise service led by
chorus choir. Midweek prayer meeting
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THE LESSON TEXT.
lAmerican standard - Yersi0R)

american standard Revised NersioR.)
Luke xii.31-4O.-S1. Yet seek ye his
kingdom. and these things shall be add
ed unto you.
81 Fear not. little flock; for it is your
Fathers good pleasure to give you the
kingdom.
80. Sell that which ye have and give
aims. make for yourself purses which
wax not old, a treasure in the heavens
that faileth not. where no thief dTaweth
near, neither moth destroyeth-
81 For where your treasure is, there
viii your heart be also
S5. Let your loins be girded about, and
your lamps burning
IS. And be yourselves like unto IleD
looking for their lord. when he shall re
turn from the marriage feast; that,
when he cometh and knocketh. they
may straightway open unto him
81. Blessed arc those servants whom
the lord whom he cometh shall md
watching: verify / say unto you that he
shall grid himself and make them St
down to meat, and shall come and serve
them
IS. And if he shall come N the second
watch, and If in the third. and find them
so, blessed are those servants
80 But know this. that L the master
Of the house had known in what hour
the thief was coming he would have
watched and not have left mis- house 10
be broken through
20. Be ye-aIso ready: for IN AZ hour
that ye think not the Son CT Man COM
eth