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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-05-24
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GENTLEMAN
BY ZOE
ANDERSON NORRIS
Copyright, 1901, by
Zoe Anderson Norris
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Y T was the height of the season, the
Alpine glow was ON the Jungfrau,
and the town was filled to over
flowing when Kitty Ogden, alone
that is, without membranes
other than two satchels. an alpenstock,
an umbrella and a camera-arrived at
Interlaken and implored admittance at
a hotel.
Now, Kitty, who throughout Switzer-
land had been passed like a precious
parcel from pension to pension by anx-
ious and affectionate friends, was not
aware Of the fact that at public hotels
in that country 1t is different. There,
as a rule, those of the feminine gender
who voyage seule Gravel alone are set
down as either impostors or Americans
After some years of residence abroad
Kitty had unhappily lost that distinc-
tive air which sets one splendidly apart
as an American and gives her the right
to travel alone in Switzerland or other
where. Whether it was her gown-sim-
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half so nice a place.
1t is a city. You can
find everywhere cities,
but not everywhere a
place set in a nest of
fine hills like Interlak-
en-"
He looked at her
again.
Besides" he added,
"this place becomes you.
When you first came.
you were pale and thin.
Now VOl1r checks are
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fact that though, ac- piate'
cording to Kitty's ideas of prices, she
was paying more than enough for that
room of hers, The Gentleman-well, it
was difficult to say just what he was
paying for his, looking as it did straight
out on to the Alpine glow, but Kitty,
unduly sensitive, perhaps, laid it to the
fact, that she was suspected of being
whatever that was they suspected her
of being. With a slight laugh and a
shrug Of her shoulders, she passed it
by, but The Gentleman stared in
amazement. He not only stared; he
blaZed up in her defense.
"Fraulein," he cried in a voice that
startled his neighbors thereabout, "why
did you do that? Put the plate back at
once and serve this lady first"
1t was good then to see the meekness
with which the fraulein put the plate
back and filled it, The Gentleman
watching to see that the matter was
conducted exactly to suit his taste, and
not until Kitty had been helped abun-
dainty to cream and cake and to
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tiny cOnfections likewise,
wrapped in paper of It's
sue and silver that gilt
tered, did he wait on
himself.
From that moment he
who was a parsonage of
Importance constituted
himself the friend of the
friendless Kitty, who was
a parsonage of no i'm
portance at all. He
watched over her; he
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separate notices in as
many different Ian
guages to the effect that
the guests must guard
their valuables, bewar-
ing not so much of the
servan is employed.
whose characters were
guaranteed, as Of their
fellow guests, whose
characters were not
guaranteed. Though the
reading of these gave
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"Fraulein" did an
unconscionable thing.
Kitty's plate had
been laid for her
dessert; The Cen
tleman's had not;
seeing which, the
fraulein snatched her
plate and placed it
with elaborate cour-
tesy before The Gen
tleman. This may
have been due to the
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ing out the rough places, he made the
path pleasant for her in small ways
and in great.
He demanded that the fraulein serve
their first breakfast out on the veranda,
from which the early view of the Jung
frau was something calculated to take
away the breath-Kitty had hitherto
been excluded from this precious priv
ilege, accorded only to the more
wealthy of the guests-and thereafter
each morning found them duly instated
in large wicker chairs before a round
white table, worshiping, while the fes-
tive bees from out the man-high holly
hooks on the walk swarmed into their
| honey and rescued themselves with diff
ficulty, only to drown ANONYMOUSLY
later on in the dark brown depths Of
their coffee cups.
An inveterate climber, The Gentle
man made up parties for long walks up
high mountains, ordering their lunch
in manner which eXacted obedience
swift footed and prompt.
He escorted them up the bucketlke
funicular at Beatenberg and led the
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INSPECTION AT THE LINE.
Northbound Passengers Must Show
Their Vaccination Marks.

Rossland. B. c., May 20.-Persons
from Washington entering this sec
ton of British Columbia at present
are subjected to rigid inspection by
the quarantine officers at the inter
national boundary line. DR.. A. c.
Sinclair, dominion quarantine direc-
tor for the Rossland district, is in
charge of the work, with inspectors
running on the Spokane Falls 6.
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for French, for Italian, for Egyptian,
and one Spaniard who talked with her
between two stations had dubbed her
so persistently "senorita' that she had
fallen to picturing herself indolently
reclining upon a much bepillowed couch
lavishly embroidered in old, raised gold,
with black mantilla and a gorgeous,
slowly waving fan, but never once had
she been taken for American.
Found lacking In the American
stamp, she was therefore an impostor.
Women are not so destitute of that
intuitive faculty which leads them to
know what people think as the world
at large is led to suppose, and Kitty,
before she had passed the night at In
terlaken, was quite as much alive to
the fact that she was suspected of be-
ing an impostor-a petty thief, perhaps,
or a downright burglar with a deadly
midnight lantern concealed in the
depths of her valise-as she was to the
fact that she was not.
1t seemed that she was not the only
one suspected. Confronting her, nailed
upon the walls of her room, were three
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The Candy Factory on First ave
nue. east has opened up an ice cream
parlor and will dispense at this sea
son soda water, ice cream, soda, etc
We handle this branch as very i'm
portant business and not as a side
line.
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occupied a room looking
out on the Jungfrau.
while her window gave
upon some obscure green
mountain whose name
was hardly worth men,
tioning.
He drank fine wines
at dinner-white wines
and red. The servants
bowed down before him,
and the proprietor upon
the event of his starting
for tho ascent 0f Soma
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pie enough IN all con-
science, but Parisian-or
her hat, her manner Of
dressing her hair or her
shoes that had done
away with it she found
it impossible to say, but
1t was gone. She felt a
certain sense of desola-
ton at it's loss which
was destined to be in
creased. On her jour-
new she had been taken
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gigantic hill the summit Of which look
ed down on clouds handed him his
alpenstock, which when not in use
hung from a shining hook in the hall
When he had spoken those few well
come words in her native tongue, he
bent benevolent blue eye on Kitty
and observed her awhile
You look pale" he said. 81 think
humph-that it's because you don't
drink the wine. Why-humph-don
you drink the wineY'
The question was more pointed than
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visit to the Montgomery Hunt Brick Yard this will find
mGd nod using engine to drive the
which process greatly improves the brick Good hard burned
selling foundation well and stern brick well building
they purchased the
he time. - - 49,
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her some little comfort,
1t failed to cure entirely her individual
hurt. which was of such nature that.
what with the supercilious chances of
the tall and thin haired mistress, the
inattention of the head waitress,
Dutch girl who assumed an air of pro-
prietorship equal if not superior to that
of the proprietor himself. to say moth.
ing of the neglect of the maid who
cleaned up her room somewhere about
the middle of the afternoon, notwith-
standing the overfilled condition of the
hotels and her innate consciousness
that under the existing circumstances
she should have considered herself for
tunate in having found any sort of
place to lay her head. she was covertly
looking about her for another location
when The Gentleman came. took seat
next her at table and spoke to her in
English-English tainted somewhat by
rich Germanic accent, but English.
He was old. The Gentleman, he was
gray, and experimenting the German
accent was a strange and peculiar halt
that was occasionally distressing. But
from the first Kitty called him by his
title of Gentleman. this knight of hers
who had come bravely to her assist
ance. gallant as any knight of old to
the rescue of his lady, armed. equip
ped, booted erd spurred.
Being a gentleman of wealth, he was
person of authority in the hotel He
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UIIIHS HIT Utdu, SIG
looked back, but she could not see him.
The way between was mist, all mist.
Gratitude is a flower of love-" she
finished, talking into the mist, that
has been known at times to burst into
full bloom. l am not so sure but that
I'm half in love with him as it isl
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Special to the women of Kalispell.
Do not forget that we carry the best
line of fine kid gloves in the city. All
sizes and colors. F. w. Merigold.
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Wnlcn enVelOpeQ now
not only the mountains.
but the hollyhocks and
The Gentleman, about
whose white head it
shone, Kitty thought,
with something like the
glow of a halo.
at is just as WE'LL"
she said to herself, that
he is old and gray and I
am going, or l should
have ended by falling in
love with him."
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For Sale-One IL and one foot
Aeromotor wind mill. Also drug
stock Flowering shrubs and nursery
stock. d. J. Plume.
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Searcn or flowers for her toherroom
which grew out of reach of the COM
mon herd. He pulled them up by the
roots, these fne, rare flowers, that she
might have the pleasure of replanting
and watching them grow, and sent the
now humble fraulein with them to her
room.
Not being possessed of square inch
of soil in the whole round world in
which to replant them, Kitty wrapped
them carefully in bit of paper and
put them away with her best clothes
in her big valise Whenever she shook
crumbs of rich black soil out of her
best silk waists she thought of The
Gentleman.
This was how it happened then that
from parsonage OF no Importance at
all Kitty slowly and by degrees be-
came parsonage of much Importance
in that hotel at Interlaken. People I'M
accustomed to talk English lisped few
words of it at her-through courteous
listening she developed an ability to
understand-German girls, got up in
every color of the rainbow, crossing the
salon. begged her to play. sat silent
during the performance thing all
Germans do-then burst into rapturous
and ringing applause at the finishing
chords Those who were going away
sought her out and babe her adieu with
seeming regret. and. what was more
marvellous still. those who were Just ar
irving Insisted that they be introduced.
And as tassels on the cap of the climax.
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way back nome over
eleven miles of noun
tain road which fortu-
nately descended, and
when Kitty. unaccus-
toned to eleven mile
walks on the spur of the
moment, without the
glimpse of a warning
was laid up on the fol-
lowing day, with every
bone aching. he ascend
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Go to the Flathead Abstract com.
pany at 20 Second street east for alb.
stracts of title. Incorporated capital
$1,000.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08


| Speaker and Augustus G. Payne o.
New York. "a lifelong friend. At Mrs.
Reeds request there were no ceremon-
les of any kind and at Portland thes
will be of a simple character.
During the day there was stream OF
syn,pathetic callers at the Arlington
hotel. where the body of MIR. Reed lay
awaiting removal to the railroad sta-
| ton. They included President and Mrs.
| Roosevelt members of the cabinet ana
| of the Senate and of the House OF Rep
resentatiyes and of the diplomatic
corpjs. Many persons in private NE
also called. Neither Mrs. Reed nor her
daughter saw any of the visitors, VINO
simply left cards.
1t was not generally known that the
body of the deceased would be taken
| from the city, today, and President
Roosevelt had invited Mrs. Reed ana
her daughter to be his guests at the
White House pending its removal
which under the circumstances, they
were compelled to decline.
The body was enclosed in caske'
with heavy oxydized extension handles
and on the top was solid silver plate,
| on WHICH ndu Ueeu CHSloNto viz ~,
lowing simple inscriptions: Thonias
! Bracket Reed, Oct. is, 1SS9-Dec. T.,
| 1902"
The casket remained at the hotel un-
til about o'clock in the afternoon,
when it was brought down stairs and
lifted into the hearse, the undertaker's
assistants and the employees of the ho-
| tel acting as body bearers. Then. with
out ceremony or display of any kind, 1t
was remoN ed to the railroad station.
| On the casket rested two floral offer-
| ings, one of them from the widow and
the other, enclosed in a long pasteboard
| box, from Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs Reeds offering was a large
wreath of viOlets, American beauty
roses and orchids. sprinkled with lilies
| of the valley. while in the box which
came from the White House were an
| assortment of white and pink roses,
| with maidenhair ferns loosely thrown
together for use on the caSket when in
| terment is made.
Soon after the body left the hotel,
Mrs. Reed and her daughter. Mr..
Payne. Mr.. Allen and Mr.. Kinds were
driven to the special train.
Among those at the railroad station
when The train departed were Senator
| and Mrs. Lodge, Justice Mckenna of
the supreme court, Gen. Draper of
| Massachusetts. and Representatives
Hit and Littlefield.
Mr.. Littlefeld expects to go to Port
| land to attend the funeral and Repre-
sentative Burleigh, who is in Maine.
will attend.
The arrangements for the obsequies
at Portland has been left in the hands
of Hon. Jos. w. Symonds and John G.
Small, an old neghbor of Mr.. Reed. AS
far as tentatively arranged here, the
funeral will take place some time
Tuesday afternoon, from the First
Parish Unitarian church. of which the
Rev. John Carroll Perkins is pastor
Internent will be ct Evergreen ceme-
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08
THE SAD JOURNEY.
Remains Leave Capital for Portland
Funeral on Tuesday.

Washington. Dec. THE remains Of
Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed, formerly
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, who died, early this morning. left
here. this afternoon. FOR Portland. Me.
his former home. where the interment
will take place. Tuesday afternoon. The
body was placed aboard a. special train
leaving Washington at $50 o'clock and
running as the second section of the
Federal Express. scheduled to arrive at
Portland tomorrow. Accompanying
the body were Mrs. Reed the widow,
Miss Catherine Reed, the former
Speakers daughter. Hon. Amos l.. AL
len, Mr.. Reeds successor in the House
of Representatives, Asher c. Kinds,
Mr.. Reeds parliamentary clerk while
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

covered from the wreck, one OF theni'
besides the engineer. has been idenu-
fed
Fireman Harry Campbell was hurled
through the window of the cab and was
picked up in an adjoining field practl-
cally unhurt
The bodies of the unidentified dead
are now at Truro in charge of the CorG-
ner. Postal Clerks J. =. Pippcll ana "A.
s. Belyea of st. John, N. b., were
among the injured. The wrecked tram
was a Canadian Pacific train in charge
of an Intercolonial crew. The cana :
dian Pacific's lines terminate at st.
John, N. B.. and the Intercolonial Rail
road takes charge there and hauls the
train daily to Halifax and back. AT st.
John a Canadian Pacific Railroad crew
takes charge again and run the tram
through to Montreal.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08
FIVE WERE KILLED.
Worst Railroad Wreck in the History
Of the IntercoIoniaI.

Halifax. N. S. Dec. THE worst
| train wreck in the history of the Inter-
| colonial and Canadian Government
| Railway, happened at noon; Saturday,
at Belmont station, 20 miles from Hall
fax. when the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road express for Montreal rolled down
an embankment. killing five people out
right. injuring a score of others. one
| of whom has since died. and completely
wrecking the locomotive, the postal,
passenger coaches.
1t was not until this evening that
full details of the disaster were re-
ceived. a heavy snow and hail storm
having demoralzed the telegraph lines.
The Inflated train was in charge of
Conductor Miligan and Engineer Tri-
der, and left Halifax at S.45 for Mon
| treal. connecting at McAdam junction
with the Maine Central for Bangor and
Boston. A number of the passengers
were destined for American points.
The accident occurred at / O'Clock,
being caused by the pilot becoming
loose and falling in front of the engine
making the locomotive leap the rails
The train ploughed ahead for so feet
and then turned over and rolled down
an embankment.
The engine was completely wrecked
and the cars Immediately following
were telescoped by those in the rear
Engine Driver Trider was killed in
stantly. having stood at his post to the
last. Besides Trider, four passengers
We're killed and one fatally injured
The colonist car ran under the baggage
car and the top was cut off the full
length down to the windows. The bag
gagemaster. postal clerk and express
agents were among the injured. besides
a brakeman and a number of passen-
gers. The engineer was the only MEM
ber of the train crew who lost his life.
Among the passengers injured were
three men from Sydney, c. B.. for Bos-
ton. Everybody in the second-class car
was either killed or injured. To add to
the suffering of the injured, the morn
ing was bitterly cold and it was hours
before help arrived on the scene to dig
the unfortunates out of the wreckage.
Two special trains. with doctors and
railway officials. reached Belmont. this
afternoon. Engine Driver Samuel
Trider, who lost his life, was the oldest
engineer on the road, having taken the
hrst through train over the Intercolon-
ial from Truro to Amherst 80 years ago.
he had been injured several times in
wrecks on the road.
SIX bodies have thus far been re-
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

Ex-Mayor Charles A. Milliken of
this city has recently shown his in
| terest in the Maine Central Institute
at Pittsfield in most substantial
fashion. He is a graduate Of the
school and a member Of its board OF
trustees. He and j. c. Connor oil
Pittsfield, the owners Of the Connor
block in that own, valued at $l0WV.
have presented it to the school. Tne
wife of Mr.. Milliken was one OF the.
earliest instructors in the schoo! its
first preceptress, in fact, and she anu
her husband have always felt warm
interest i'll its welfare. Mr.. Connor
has been trustee Of the institute since
it's inception. much Of the time mem-
ber of the executive board, and had
previously given the institution. In its
hours of need from $4,000 to $4,000, ana
has always been one of its most con-
slant and liberal patrons Some time
ago Rev. j. ]. Hull of Lewiston, VINO
is now acting as financial agent
agreed to raise $4,000 toward per-
manent fund for the school. II in-
dividuaIs would pledge an addttiQnai
sum of $4,000, making fund OF ~
COO in all. Mr.. Connor. Mr.. Mt'iHe"
and three other gentlemen who live ~
the western part of the State, nav
subscribed $4,000 each. The gift OF tnsS
real estate is the beginning Of tne
realization of handsome sum for the
school i'm the near future. The new
property of the institute will be put
into thorough repair and will douD.,
less become a source OF considerap'e
revenue to the school.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08
MARK TWAlN'S TRIBUTE.
"The Country Has Not Bred a NobIer
Man."

New York, Dec. 1.-The bulletin an
nouncing the death of Mr. Reed was COM
municated to Samuel l.. Clemens MARX
Twain at his home at Riverdale on Hud.
son. Mr.. Clemens has known the dead
statesman for many years and was his
close friend and admirer. Mr.. Reed was
one of the guests at the dinner given a
week ago in honor of the 9th birthday of
the author.
Mr. Clemens was much overcome at the
news.
I'VE had all hoped and thought that
Mr. Reed would recover" he said. 1.-The
country has not bred a nObler man. His
death is an incalculable loss to the ma
tion."
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

The PittsburS police department has
notified Marshal Breen that they are
looking for Harry. alias Aaron, Singer.
"A Roumanian Jew, who shot and killed
a lady and wounded another in that
city, Dec. l. Singer is it., in. in
height; weighs 40 pounds; has
square, smooth, full red face, with
sharp pointed nose and high cheek
bones: noticeably small blue eyes:
light sandy hair, thin and somewhat
bald in front; carries head to the right
and little to the forward and has down
cast: probably has fresh cut on hand
or wrist.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

Some much needed repairs are being
made at. the First Baptist church.
Winthrop street. New steel ceilings
are being placed in the vestibules and
the same are receiving new carpets
throughout. In the vestry two new
lavatories have been made besides
other minor improvements. In the
cellar brick wall is to be laid around
the furnace so as to prevent the escape
of heat as much as possible. Later
there will be other repairs made.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

Cards Of Thanks, obituary notice.
resolutions Of respect, ETC., win =
charged at the rate OF ten cents -,
line. No charges 'ess than seventy.
five cents.
All advertising announcements o. On.
tertainments. whore object ID tbs
raising OF money, will be charged Z
the rate Of fifteen cents a line.
Advertising notices, news form, viii h
excluded from our local columns, ex.
cept such as refer to advertisers Or.
cupying space in our advertisins
columns. and will be run under :
separate head on one OF the local
pages.
Subscribers who fail to receive tha
Journal promptly will confer q favor
bS notifying the ofIlce Immediately.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

Miss Stafford calls attention 70 ~"
line of Columbia yarns and fancy ~
ticles. also to the new "Teneriffe lace
and Christmas specialties, ana 10 W W
new line Of towels, table linen ~"
handkerchiefs. which she IL now on1 ~
ing at her place Of business, NO
Winthrop Court, Augusta, Me. -.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

The first hearing in bankruptcy was
given at the office of the referee. Fri
day, in the case Of Arthur w. HeaId
of Augusta. There were no assets
and no trustee was appointed No
further meetings will be held.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08
Ex-Speaker Reeds Funeral.

Portland. Me-, Dec. THE funeral of
former Speaker Reed will occur at the
First Parish church in this city, at p.
NJ, Tuesday. Rev. John Carroll Perkins
the pastor of the church, will preach the
funeral sermon.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

civil service examination for the
positions of assistant chemist in the
supervising architects office; Gus
todian. marine biological station. fish
commission. Beufort, n. c., will be
held at Augusta, Jam 6. Blanks and
information will be furnished by the
commission at Washington or by the
secretary of the local board OF ex-
aminers.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-12-08

The new Siberian squirrel jacket to
be seen in the north window of the H.
q. Barker Co. is in the extreme of
fashion and garment that is beautiful
to look at. This rich and elegant
jacket will remain on exhibition but a
sold