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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1902-04-11
An Exasperating Person.

The most eyasponting person in
the world is the one who gives you
the feeling that you would like TO get
behind and push him.-Atehison
Globe.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1902-04-11
China Needs Help
and Justice ~ y
By LOCK- WING,
Chinese vies-csnsui Of New York.

both arc founded on ignorance and prejudice.
AMERICA SHOULD NOT FORCE FROM CHINA THAT
WHICH SHE is NOT WILLING TO ACCORD TO CHINA.
China needs your help for its progress, and believe that BY
lending the helping hand you will be doing a Christian service, help
ing my people to become better men and better women. Ignorance
and prejudice must give way in time; between the United States
and China closer relations must come, and may justice be the st~n
which shall guide this nation TO look with favor upor-
good in the development Of my country ----'-
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1902-04-11

TO be for myself and not my money.
She was a dear old proud thing who
wrote love stories for magazines, and
had refused to accept a penny from
when she was threatened with con-
sumption and had been sent away TO
Judson. a small Florida coast place, TO
live. She had taken a tiny cottage,
for which she paid no more in a year
than ! spent for nothing at all in a
week. But she had a spare room, and
wrote that she would love to keep me
for as long as ! liked TO stay. Her
name was Mrs. Perdennis and We had
got acquainted through my writing.
in care Of her editor. to tell her how
much | liked a story Of hers.
She did me good because she never
flattered. but scolded me instead for
being cynical. She said il was a
"mental dyspepsia" and while ! lived
with her ! almost believed il was.
l hadn't been in Judson for a week
when one day | came in from a walk
and exclaimed: SWELL. it's begun
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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1902-04-11

assist in forcing open the doors OF
China to the trade of the world
and insist that Americans, Euro
pcans and everyone else who
comes may have entrance. The
Boxer movement was bad, but it
Is no worse than the Chinese ex-
clusion policy OF this country;
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

cause there is an element of danger
III handling them.
This fancy has cost Mr.. Davis seven
bites already, but each time he has
wrapped his arm tightly to shut off
circulation and has sucked the poison
from the wound, feeling no ill effects.
There will be no more rattlesnake
tites inflicted by his collection of
snakes for the present, at least, as
the last of his favorites was killed
recently in an encounter with bull
snake. He himself saw the fight, but
he allowed it to proceed too far to
save the RATHER after it was in the
coils of it's antagonist.
When Mr.. Davis observed the con-
flict the RATHER was coiled ready to
strike, and both snakes were flashing
out their tongues at each other. The
bull kept well out of range, and SIM
ply circled around the rattler, seem
ing to watch for an opening. This
circular movement finally frightened
the RATHER, and it uncoiled and en-
deavored to glide away. That was
the bulls opportunity, and before the
rattler could coil again it had been
seized just back of the neck, and was
IL the coils of the bull.
I Mr.. Davis ran to the rescue of his
favorite, but before he could be of
service the bull Strengthened out it's
coils, and he could feel the bones of
the RATHER crack as they pulled out
of place.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

cheap statesmen of the new-fangled
stripe of dead game SPORTS save us
all! foated in here with lot of ward
heelers, ordered beers for the round
ers and ginger ale for himself and his
particular grooms, and handed me a
two-dollar bill. His eyes grew like
saucers when 1 rung up the whole two
dollars on the register.
''Don't 1 get any change, barten-
der?" he asked, and he figured it out
that owed him 35 cents.
"I don't do business that way l
says, mot at election times. If you're
SO ignorant of campaign etiquette,
your mother had better keep you at
home. You're hot proposition for
a representative, you are!"
''He looked so mad that 1 made a
break for the bung starter. o, it
gives me the chills. I'd like to have
seen that fellows finish a few years
ago.
''And the skate that is running
against him isn't any improvement,
either, although he's an alderman and
saloon keeper and ought to know
better. A poor welcome he'd have in
his own joint for any political candi-
date who'd leave less than ten bucks
on his greasy old bar. And what is
he doing on his glorious campaign?
I'll tell you his little dodge. He puts
q lot of dimes and nickels in his peck
ct before he starts out and he slaps
handful of them on the bar with
big bluff at reckless generosity and
says: Come on, old man, I'm feelin'
good to-day; give the boys a drink
and have one on me yourself, and take
the price out of that He tried it on
me, but it didn't work. 1 scooped up
the measly little pile of chicken feed,
about SLIGO, and swept it into the TILL
That's all right, Johnny I saws.
but it's poor way of doing business
during a hot campaign, SEEM that it
cuts no ice for me and puts no states
on the house. Get proper and be a
model candidate says I.
"Then he gets mad, too, and goes
away with his nose in the air.
$50 that's the kind of thing we
saloon keepers was up against this
fall campaign, and that's the kind of
stuff lot of these noble new states
men are made of. They'll give you
plenty of CUFF, but to get them to loosen
up is like trying to find the north pole.
They're goin' round to private houses
jollyin' the women and coaxin' them
to have their husbands vote for them.
and hssin' the children and maybe
givin' them a cent here and there. But
the good old times are gone and the
days of the saloon campaign are over"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

posing on the generosity of Chicago
citizens.
81 have reasons to believe that the
mans arm is not fractured in two
places as he Claims" said Detective
Theme.
"And say it is" declared Teppan.
Justice SABBATH questioned the man
closely, and while Teppan was busy
talking to his honor Attorney Epstein
managed to unite Teppan's bandages
without the prisoners knowledge.
Soon the bandages were removed and
the sling united. The arm fell ap-
rarently helpless to Teppan's side. 1t
seemed red and discolored, and ap-
parently it had been injured.
Teppan would have been discharged.
but he became excited while plead
ing his case, and, forgetting the two
fractures in his arm, he began to
pound the desk with the Helpless
hand. Then he discovered his mis-
take and declared he had nothing fur
Their to say.
The prisoner had tied the arm so
securely that the blood had stopped.
He had also used chemicals to aid
Kim in the deception. A fine of ten
dollars and costs was imposed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

had worked with the boy declare it to-
be one of the strangest cases in all
their practice affirming it to be almost
impossible for tack to remain for.
that length of time in a persons
throat.
The tack itself was brass carpet
tack about half inch long. Cecil
had swallowed it when he was four
years old. Efforts were made at the
time to remove it but without success.
Later he began to complain of irrita-
ton, and then the chronic bronchiaE
trouble developed and caused him suf-
fering for years. His parents natural-
ly are rejoiced at the outcome.
1--WE feared the boys health never.
would be good,' said Mr.. Hull. 1T
seemed that the older he grew the
more frequent and more violent be-
came the paroxysms of coughing. The
strange thing in connection with his
case is the fact that none of the ply
sicians who examined him were able
to give reason for his affection. They,
could not declare his lungs affected,
and yet he had the cough which is
considered sure symptom. When he
started to cough in the paroxysm
which brought out the tack, / began
to fear the end was coming right then,
it was so severe. The outcome is most
fortunate"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

great prowess Jack pretended to re-
gard the bird as a very ordinary chick
en- and said he could whip him with
buzzard.
A hot argument ensued resulting in
a match being arranged for between
the rooster and buzzard, which Jack
agreed to produce. Jack had trap
set, and in short time his uncommon
warrior. very large buzzard, was
brought to him.
According to the terms of the con-
test the rooster was duly equipped
with gaffs, and the two birds were
linked together by the feet with a
yard or so of stout cord intervening
to give room for action, as Jack ex-
planned.
AS the rooster braced himself for
the onslaught the buzzard regarded
him with stolid indifference, and at the
first pass lifted his wings and sailed
away, with the rooster squawking in
it's wake. George ran for gun, but
before he could get back with it the
buzzard and the rooster were high in
the air and away out of reach of his
fowling piece. The distressing cries
of the unfortunate rooster grew faint
er and fainter, until finally they were
heard no more, and the ill-mated pair
faded away I'm the ether blue. Moth
ing has since been heard of the birds,
and while Jack is telling the story
with much gusto George is mourning
the loss of his best gamecock.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21
JOE MEALEY'S RIDE.
Unique Bareback Gallop on an En-
ragged Deer.
Aair-Raising Experience of a CALI
fernia Mountaineer Who Mount
ed His Quarry Few
Minutes Too Soon.

Few more thrilling experiences can
be imagined than that recently under
gone by a young California mountain
Ger named Joseph Mealey.
Some young fellows from Oakland,
he says in the Philadelphia Press,
"were up here looking for big game
They had the latest and best KINDS
of shooting material, new style rifles
and pistols, and the like, but there
wasn't shotgun in the party.
They were poor hunters and were
so scared of shooting one another that
they persisted in hunting in bunch
] finally got disguised with them ano
on the second morning after their ar
rival set out alone to bag a deer.
was up at daylight and set out over
the mountains.
Il didn't see sign of deer, although
I trudged all over one side of the slope
The sun was up pretty high when i
set my rifle against a big bowlder aud
jumped on to a rock to sit down a
moment and smoke.
''While 1 was gazing aaZily
aUOuG me L utdT1 Tic III
1hud, and 1 knew deer was
jumping down the mountain.
slid off the bowlder quick
grabbed the rifle, and laid low. Again
1 heard the thud of the deer's jump
and, looking over the rock saw "a big
buck trotting slowly across the small
opening down the mountain.
'The deer was north of me and
breeze came from that direction, so
hurried straight down the mountain
While / was sneakirg along / looked
over a clump of brush, and there, out
in plain view, stood the buck. He was
a big one 1 tell you, and with his great
antlers hanged if he didn't look big as
an elk to me.
Il should judge he was about zoe
yards from me. Hewas standing there
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

of the two mems deaths. But the
editor of the Sherbourne Post sus-
pected something more. He made in
quiries which convinced him as to the
identity of Hall and Plant, but he was
unable to prove his case. However,
he did not lose sight of the body, which
on Friday evening was taken to the
station attended by large number
of sorrowing villagers, and was placed
in the guards van. The coffin plate
was seen to be inscribed Edmund
Hall. Died September 9, 1902, aged
60 years"
The Bristol undertaken entered the
van with the coffin, but at the juno
ton where the van was detached
and coupled to another train this
man changed to an ordinary car
rage and when the train had arrived
at Bristol the coffin plate was seen to
be inscribed:
Edmund Carter Plant, C. B., Colonel
Bristol Engineers, died September 8,
1902, aged Co."
On Saturday the streets of Bristol
were thronged with thousands of peo-
pie anxious to see the funeral, which
was the finest military spectacle the
populace had seen since the late Queen
Victoria visited the place in 1897
Eight colonies acted as pallbearers.
Thus this distinguished resident of
Bristol was laid in the cemetery of the
town beside his wife, who died in 1900,
and to whom he was married in 1865.
Plants career, from his boyhood,
with the exception of the 10 years he
lived at Oborne as Hall, is well known.
He had lived at Bristol since 1861. Ac-
cording to Who's Who, he was lieu
tenant colonel and colonel command
ing of the Second Gloster volunteers.
r. E. (the Bristol engineers). He
passed through all the grades from
sapper to colonel commanding.
Not until his death was the identity
of their father revealed to their chill
dren at Oborne. "Mrs. HalIo knew.
and but for the clumsy work of his
legal advisers when they notified the
newspapers of the colonel's death. the
secret would never have been revealed.
The mention of Templecombe gave
the clew, however, and resulted in the
exposure. The colonel's absence at
Bristol or Oborne, ION business"
never aroused the slightest suspicion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21
HUNNEWELL's MONUMENT.

their cooking and toasted their toes
would be more appropriate for the
purpose than an ordinary monument.
So he had the old fireplace taken from
the farmhouse, with it's hanging
crane, andirons and other belongings,
and set up in the graveyard in a
framework of bricks taken from the
cid chimney-bricks that were
brought from England in the early
part of the seventeenth century.
Thus the fireplace stands, con-
spicuous object among the white
stones that surround it. The OPEN
ing is filled in with a metal tablet,
upon which is inscribed the record
of the Hunnewell family for eight
generations, or from 1854 to 1901
Eat years.
In the space around the family rec
ord appear pictures of fowls, cows,
hogs and other live stock owned by
the various generations of the Hun
newells, which won prizes at fairs.
Seven hens, two hogs, four cows and
six oxen appear in single pictures,
while others are in a group. There is,
in addition, large picture, repre-
senting farm scene in winter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21
The wild Man of Borneo

A professional 'Wild Man of Bor-
neo," named Calvin Bird, a negro.
went to hospital at Syracuse, N. Y.
to have his horns removed. Under
his scalp silver plate had been in
geniously inserted, in which stood
two standards. Into these standards.
when he was on exhibition, Bird had
screwed two goats horns, and thou
sands of people have paid to see his
horns and hear him bark.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21
LED A. DOUBLE LIFE.
Col. Plants Sudden Death Reveals
Strange Doings.
Known as edmund Hall" i'm Quiet
English Village Where He
Reared q Family - Two
Plates ON His Coffin.

A London cable to the New York
Sun saws that from the west of Eng
land there comes a strange story-oI
the double life lived by man without
suspicion for more than 10 years, his
neighbors, and even his own son, pc
ing ignorant of it till his sudden death
revealed the truth.
Nineteen years ago there came to
live in a house called the Old Grange,
in the small Dorsetshire village OF
Oborne, Edmund Hall, an accountant
by profession. He lived at Oborne
with his wife and family for 10 years,
during which period they gained the
respect of, the whole neighborhood.
Mr. Hall was great bee fancier. On
Monday, September 1, he drove with
his little son to neighboring farm in
the village of Templecombe, where he
took some hives of bees. Afterward
he went to a farmhouse, and while
taking tea with the wife of the farm
er he suddenly fell dead of heart dis
ease. No suspicious were aroused,
although some surprise was ex-
pressed at the news that MT HAN
would be buried on the following Sat
urday at Bristol, instead of in Oborne
churchyard, where a son, 17h years
of age, who died in 1901, and SON
16 days old, who died in 1902, lie
buried
On Wednesday the Bristol newspa-
pers announced the sudden death OF
heart. disease on the previous Monday
at small village near Templecombe
of one of the most distinguished, best
known and respected inhabitants OF
Bristol, Col. Edmund Carter Plant, {.
B., who would be buried on Saturday
in Bristol with full military honors.
Some residents of Sherbourne, where
Hall was well known, on seeing this,
noticed the strange condolences OF
the date and the manner and cause
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21
CAUSED A SENSATION.
Little Girl, in Sound Sleep, Walks the
Street Of Cincinnati, Late in
the Evening.

The sight of a nine-year-old girl
in trailing nightgown walking on
Seventh street toward Vine, at Gin
cinnati, the other evening caused sew
eral people in the vicinity of Wag-
ner's drug store to think that they
had seen ghost-for ghost-like the
little one looked as she moved along,
her eyes wide open, but with va
can't stare in them.
Pedestrians passed her by, some OF
them stopping to turn around and
cast glance of curiosity at the
strange little visitor. The weather
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21
PLAYS WITH SNAKES.
Pleasure and Delight I'm Hand
ling Reptile Pets.

Probably the smallest snake
charmer, in this country, at least,
is Brother" Latham, the two-year-
old son of Albert Latham, of Denver.
Where the, baby gets his inclination
and his bravery is not known, but he
gets his opportunities because his I'M
Gle, Harry Davis, is a well-known
snake fancier.
The baby enjoys nothing more than
to play with some of the harmless
snakes which his uncle will allow him
to handle. The uncle's favorite rep
tile is the rattiesnake-probably be-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

being warm, the little one did not
suffer from cold, and so she kept her
way from IL East Seventh street until
& lady, seeing more in the weird face
than other casual passers-by, rushed
across the sidewalk and swooped the
child up into her arms.
1t was Mrs. Kilsch, of McMicken
avenue, that caught the child, and
before the astonished people could
understand what was being done, was
kissing her, comforting her and tell
ing her not to be scared.
Mrs. Kilsch had detected that the
child was walking the streets in her
sleep, and had been fast asleep when
she saw her. With the instincts of
a mother she knew what terrors
might seize the little one when
awakened in such singular surround
ings as street full of people, all
open-eyed with wonderment, and fore
stalled the reaction by grabbing her
and folding her to her bosom.
The child was little Alma Rockwell,
daughter of Lieut.. Ed. Rockwell, of
the Fifth district station. For sew
eral nights she had been visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Egan, at IL East Eleventh
street, and one evening her aunt went
out after the little one had been put
to bed. Mrs. Egan had locked the
door inside with a snap-lock, and the
child had forced the lock back and
walked through the door into the
hallway on the second floor in her
nightclothes, and while still fast
asleep had come down the stairs and
was near the drug store before in
terceDted
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Chicago Barkeeper Thinks They
Will Not Return Again.
Says Candidates Nowadays Won't
Thaw Out-CalIs Them Lot Of
Cheap Guys and Chicken
Feed Stat esmen.

ELECTIONS are getting quieter and
quieter all the time, especially as far
as the saloon business is concerned"
said q West side bartender to Chi
cago Tribune reporter, land the
past election was about the quietest
1 ever saw A dollar of campaign
money on a saloon bar now is nearly
as scarce as white blackbird
mo, there's nothin' edoin'. It's not
like the old election times at all. Then
candidate for alderman or any other
political job had to be good fellow
and a spender. His way to boost him
self was to go round and paint things
red and make them whoop. When you
saw him and his gang coming down
the street it looked like there was a
riot or revolution. In every saloon
there was a congregation of red-eyed
buns waiting to get the glad hand and
their beer from him and from the
other fellow. The crowd would line
up at the bar and shout for him and
tell him he was the whole thing. Then
he would make his little spiel and jolly
lHcm up anu OIuCl ollhho, oAN eAAN
same again, and good cigar for all
hands, and throw down five or ten
dollar bill, or maybe. a $50 bill. And
expect any change? Not on your tin
type. And no decent bartender. would
ever dream of giving him any. Bet
your life he wouldn't.
But my, how different now! The
old candidates were princes compared
with some of these Fellows. A cheap
er lot of guys never came over the
pike, and how they have the gall to
look for votes is what gets me. Most
of them seem to be members of the
w. C. T. U. Soda water and brown pop
is their limit, and they seem to expect
to get it for nothing.
"Why. the other day candidate
for something or other, one of these
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-21

tossing his head as though some sort
of fly was bothering him, and 1 de-
cided to give it to him through the
heart. I wasn't well acquainted with
the rifle, but l aimed careful and let
him have it.
hunting knife out of my belt to bleed
him. Before this 1 stood looking down
at him for few seconds, for he was
by far the biggest deer 1 ever saw-a
six pronger.
81 had my foot on his hind quarters.
Then l straddles him, holding his ant
lers to keep his head steady, and with
my left hand started to cut his neck.
mo sooner did the knife prick his
skin before that buck was on his feet.
1 was too scared to notice how it was
done, but 1 know that his forelegs
went out first and he was UP quick
is fash.
Il already had grip on his antlers
with my right hand, and as 1 dropped
my knife grabbed them with my left.
was too paralyzed to think even, but
can tell you that he and were off
like the wind-with me hanging on for
dear life.
"Over rocks, across dry bitches, and
over the patches of buck brush that
animal went as if he had never been
hurt, and although L stayed with the
widest bronchos Montana could pro-
duce, l never had such trouble as that.
People have asked me many times
If trotting and leaping were the only
gaits of deer. That particular buck
deer seemed to have 'em all. No spurs
were needed for that animal l tell
You.
about this time the animal slowed
TO trot, and he gave a bleat much
as would calf, then staggered and
fell.
Il threw myself off his back before
he commenced to reel, but 1 saw
blood gushing out of his nose and
-month as he dropped. He was game,
for he tried to get his feet again-then
dropped over, dead.
The distance from where the deer
started after First dropped him to
where he dropped me was close ON to
a half mile