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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-06-24

knitting, looked out at the yellow sun
shine slanting across the green grass.
Women amt got no sense" she re-
peated refectively, land it seems to
me they amt never going to learn none.
Rather than live by themselves-and
what's more independent than living
by yourself, if it is kinder lonesome
sometimes? Yes, it is kinder lonesome
sometimes, but it's a long sight better
than taking such awful chances as
some of 'em take. \ woman won't ex.
actly put her head in the fire and burn
it off, but she'll marry a man she hasn't
known more'n three weeks or a month.
She'll do that. And what can you know
of a man in that short time? How do
you know but what he's a burglar or
cutthroat or bigamist or thief? You
can't. My land, but women is foolsv'
The needles flashed again.
"Most men are full of faults, girl"
she recommended by and by, "as a dog
is of tleas, but want to tell you, Eliza
beth, that it amt always the glaring
faults that makes a woman most mis-
Jane Lawson I've got in mind now.
I'd rather be dead and buried than
married to that husband of hers.
''He amt no burglar, he amt no COM
mon thief, and maybe he amt no big
amist, but they're generally pretty cute
about keeping that dark; but he's stin-
gy and mean. According to my way
of oir
a woman's life so much as meanness
in a man, because q woman's such a
queer sort of creature she gets to be a
looking glass, rejecting the man. Jane,
living with him, has got so she's saved
and scrimped till she don't know moth
ing but saving and scrimping. For in
stance, one morning last week l went
to see her, and there she was at the
back door bargaining with the vegeta-
BILE man for corn nubbins instead of
full ears of corn. 'They comes cheaper
says she, turning to me, and she want
| ashamed either. That husband of hers
had changed her nature so she couldn't
stoop to nothing too small to please
him.
| Wish Sou NOulu nave seen ueI
when she was girl. You'd never be-
| lieve she could have shriveled so. I'd
hate to be in that woman's shoes. I'd
rather live by my lone self all the rest
of my natural life" And she knitted.
''That man." she resumed after
time, would hang on to the dollars till
the eagles flew off. He'd give a plug
ged nickel to blind beggar if he gave
any, which amt likely. Before I'd
marry a man like that I'd be an old
maid for the rest of my life, if it is
lonesome, and it is lonesome"
The needles clicked hard.
IF you could only catch the least bit
of an idea of a mans nature from the
looks of him." she complained, "it
wouldn't be so terribly risky But you
can't Deceiying! They are deceiving
as-yearling colts. Why, a man will
tell you he loves you better than any
body else in the world, then go and
tell the same thing to some other wo-
man in less than half an hour. He'll
make love to some other woman, with
wife at home and baby in the era
die. He'll come home staggering, hunt
ing for the keyhole with both hands,
and say he's just come from prayer
meeting. He'll go the Lord knows
where and stay till the Lord knows
when' then come back and tell you he's
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@ Y the WINDOW MISS SlmpKlnS
sat knitting. The young
girl stood before her.
80 II know by the way you're
standing there, Elizabeth"
said she, "a-twisting your apron strings
and a-smiling, just what you've come
to tell me. You and Ned are engaged.
You're going to get married.
81 knew it the minute l laid eyes on
you. Well, sit down in that rocking
chair over there. Draw it close and
make yourself comfortable, and excuse
me if / go right along with my work.
] want to finish this heel. l can knit
end talk at the same time.
"Now, what want to know is this:
What makes you young girls come to
me with your love secrets-me, an old
maid, going on forty and alone in the
world? What are you trying to do
make me wish was young and pretty
again, flirting and frisking and GALL
wanting around with the boys, getting
engaged and buying wedding finery to
sew on and lay away in presses to
take peeps at when noL~1y's a-looking?
y
cause if it is you amt succeeding,
can tell you that. I'm glad that I'm
single. I'd rather be Sarah Simpkins,
spinster, nearing forty or thereabout,
Independent and self supporting, look
ing to nobody for nothing, than mar
ried to the best man living. So there!
You needn't be snickering. It's the
truth"
The busy needles flashed.
"Just take look at all the women
my age that married when l was a
young girl" she went on presently.
"What's happened to 'em? Everything
under the sun that could happen short
of lightning striking 'em dead. There's
Liza Banks, for instance. See how her
husband up and died and left her with
a big family to support and nothing to
support 'em on. What with working
day in and day out she did manage to
raise them children and raise 'em we'll
Then some of 'em died and the others
married, and now there she is all by
herself in two rooms taking in sewing
for a living and lonesomer than l am
if anything, after all her hard work
and trouble.
Another is Sue Chambers. There
never was a prettier young girl raised
in these parts than Sue Chambers. She
married one of the handsomest men
here too. We all thought he was a
catch, and some of us envied Sue when
she carried him off. We didn't envy
her long. He turned out to be q drunk
ard, and now she's taking care of him
and the children, doing any sort of
work she can lay her hand to to keep
'em from starvation.
who'd ever have thought Sues hus-
band would have turned out to be a
drunkard? Nobody, and that's what
I'm trying to drill into you. You can't
tell a single, solitary thing about a
man from appearances.
Don't set there a-laughing. l know
what you're thinking-sour grapes-but
it amt. Why, child, could have had
my pick of the best, but l wouldn't
marry a mothers son of 'em, because
I could not make up my mind to take
no risks.
Risks! It's worse than shooting
craps or buying tickets in a lottery or
fishing in a fish pond at a church So
ciable-this thing of marrying man.
You can't-never tell what you're going
to get-never! You can take my word
for it. l amt been married, but I've
sort of set off and looked on at people
what has been, and that's the safest
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-06-24
COLONEL DEwEY,s
Town and Hotel in the Thunder
Mountain Country.

Mountain Country.
Colonel Dewey may not have a
great mine at Thunder Mountain. .
said Joe Busch, who has just now
come out from the modern Eldorado,
"but he has got one of the livliest lit
tie towns in the country, and in it
one of the largest hotels l have ever
seen west of the Mississippi
IF the colonel doesn't win out on
the mine he is sure to make it up
on the hotel
L came through Nampa, as the
town is known, and was astonished
at the activity and life of the little
place. 1t stands in the center of a
rich and wonderfully fertile valley on
the Oregon Short Line, at the inter-
section of the Boise branch. 1t is
also the junction of the Dewey rail-
road running north and south. North.
the railroad runs to Emmett, dis
lance of 81 miles, toward Thunder
Mountain, and south, to Murphy, at
the Owyhee mountains, through a
fine farming valley.
But to speak of this vast hotel
(the palace, as he calls it,, it cost
$250,000, and the plumbing alone cost
$46, 500. 1t took one and cne-half
tons of white lead to paint the
porches.
They are talking of building a
wagon road north from Emmett, 80
miles through Long valley, to the
mining district, and those who con-
tinue to have an abiding faith in the
Thunder Mountain region maintain
that this will be the most feasible
r ute to the mining district.
At Emmett there are a number of
fine sheep ranches, in fact, the sheep
and cattle industries of that country
assure the success of Colonel De-
wey's town, two immense irrigation
bitches supply water for a large tract
of country on all sides of Nampa.
The Phyllis, Boise and Nampa Irriga-
ton company's bitches have been
built for 10 years, but it has only
been recently that Nampa began to
show it's strength.
st is natural sheep country
around there. In the summer there
are fine fields up in the mountains,
and in the winter there is an abund-
ance of grass in the valleys. Besides
the raising of stock and grain, the
farmers derive considerable profit
from the vegetables that grow bounti.
fully down there.
''No wonder there is such a rush
for this Fort Hall land That Idaho
soil is remarkably productive and
you would hardly believe that state
so close to Montana would have such
mild winters. In several of those
Idaho valleys they raise fruit just as
good and as abundantly as they dc
in California. In places they never
even have to irrigate, and with the
natural moisture raise anything that
can be raised in the farming states Of
the east and south-Butte Inter
Mountain.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-06-24
TO BE STANDARD GAUGE.
Change of Great Falls G. Canada Rail-

Change of Great Falls g. Canada Rail-
road.
Contracts for the new work upon
the standardizing of the Great Falls
& Canada railway between Great
Falls and the boundary line were let
in Great Falls recently by Stems &
Shields, the Great Northern contrac-
tors, and Montana men took the
work, Winters, Parsons e Boomer
of Butte securing the Teton change,
being IL miles of work; Twohy Bros,
of Anaconda, secured the 'Pondera
change, IL miles; and B. G. Coughran
of Sank Center Mimi, was given the
Conrad change, four miles of heavy
work.
The distance from Great Falls to
the boundary line is 1874 miles, and
except for the changes which were
provided for today the old road bed
of the line will simply be widened up
continue under j. W. Mulligan, who
is working for Stems & Shields, and
the construction will be completed
from Great Falls to the boundary by
September Is, and trains from the
Canadian Pacific will be running into
Great Falls soon after that date. The
work thus let is across the prairie.
and there is none of it in rock, but
because of the Strengthening out it is
heavy and isaawork of far more i'm
portance than would be judged from
the distance.
On the line there will be an unusu
ally large number of bridges. The
one over the Teton will be more than
l 1000 feet, and those over the Marias
and Muddy will be but little less. The
contracts for the work on the bridges
was not let, and Mr. Stems
will take up the matter as soon as he
gets to ST. Paul and award the con
tracts, so that they can be hurried
to completion.
There will be about 500 men EN-
ployed in the construction work and
as many teams as can be gotten upon
the ground to work to advantage. Il
will be a record piece of work fol
speed, and two months and a hall
will see it finished. All of the con
tractors will at once move their out
nts, and will begin work inside oil
ten days. Across the line the work
upon the widening of the grade is pro
crossing rapidly and the ties will be
laid to the line by the oath inst, after
which the road will be ballasted III
and widened, and the work can cas-
lily be completed in 40 days. There
are but 100 men working on the Other
side of the line. and no effort is be
ing made to rush, as the work car
easily be competed before the wor.
on this side is finished.
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Mic.C
Simpkins,
Spinster
By ZOE
ANDERSON NORRIS
Copyright, 1901, by
Zoe Anderson Norris

Y the window Miss Simpkins
~ sat knitting. The young
~ girl stood before her.
II know by the way you're
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-06-24
100000 PYTHIAN KNIGHTS GOING
Great Attraction of the Coming Trip
to San Francisco.

to San Francisco.
used to be frequenters of forests and
lovers of the trees that the Druids
once Worshipped. All sorts of poems
and plays have been written about
the doings of noble knights, amid
the forest glades and bosky jell3, .
and so it is likely to be largely q
matter of inherited sentiment that
will lure thousands of Pythian
knights to the big tree groves of
California in August next. The
Knights of Pythias of the United
States and Canada are going to hold
their annual gathering in San Fran.
cisco August II to 20. There will be
business in plenty to transact, but
after its over there will be trips
all about the big state that offers
more fun for tourists to the square
mile than any other section of this
earth. Trips to the big trees of Mar.
iposa or Santa Cruz are planned and
such journeys are the impressive
events of a life time. Pictures will
be made on memory's pages that can
never be effaced. The traveller will
say with the poet sworth-After
such a visit:
lone impulse from vernat wood,
May teach you more of man,
OF moral evil and of good
Than all the sages can"
The overland railroads are already
quoting very low rates for this trip
across the continent. and it Is esti'
mated that fully 100000 people are
going on this Pythian pilgrimage.
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Notice of Dissolution.

The copartnership composed of G.
doing business under the the firm
name and style of Powell and Poirie-,
at Kalispell, Montana, have this day
dissolved co-partnership. Gilbert Poi
rier having purchased the entire in
terest. of G. w. Powell in the con-
Germ, G. w. Powell retiring from the
firm. The business will be conducted
in the future by Gilbert Poirier. who
will pay all firm debts and collect alE
outstanding accounts.
Dated this 18th day of June. A. D.,
1902.
G. w. POWELL,
GILBERT PORTER.
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ticular business-business that had to
be attended to, that couldn't wait.
"There amt no trusting of 'em. The
truth amt in 'em, and that's the Cos
pei truth sure's I'm setting by this
window knitting"
She raised her head and looked up at
the girl.
"But what's the use preaching to
you, Elizabeth" she argued. ''You are
like all the rest. You've got your head
set to marry, and marry you will.
You've got to go through the mill if
you're ground to powder. But l will
say, from all appearances, you've made
a good choice, and I'd calculate you
are likely to be happy if there was any
dependence to be put in appearances,
which there amt. If you will put that
little yellow head of yours into the
fire, all I've got to say is l hope it
won't be singed. 1 hope you'll be hap
by, girl. I've watched you grow up
from little tot in aprons, and I'd hate
to see you unhappy. Maybe Ned'll be
good to you. Maybe he won't let you
WIN Jun AALllS 1AhSCAo Oh Wig lOl
him. But, then, if he does you'll be
just as happy that way or think you
are and that amounts to pretty much
the same thing. There are plenty Of
women like that. They keep their love
so warm-and how they do it is more
than 1 can see, with the cold blasts for
ever blowing-that they make believe
they are happy to the very last.
'There was Kate Saunders. Money
couldn't have made me marry the man
she married, he was that overbearing
and purse proud, but you should have
seen her on her deathbed
Don't go away she begged him. 4
want to see you till Iscan't see nothing
no more.'"
Crooking her forefnger she meas
ured the heel of the stocking, which
was now almost finished
women is FOOLS" she reiterated SEN
cautiously.
Elizabeth arose
II must CO." said she.
'Must you? Where is that little sun
bonnet of yours, then?' She got up to
look for it. "Here, let me tie it on for
you. Are you sure you can't stay
awhile longer? Then come back real
soon, Elizabeth, and tell me about your
wedding finery. Are you going to stand
under wedding bell? I'd like to hear
about that even if there amt no earth
ly chance of my ever standing under
one myself. But what am l talking
about? l had my chances with the
rest, and l wouldn't take 'em. Look
at all these years I've had to live alone
because wouldn't take EN-" And she
sighed as she followed the girl to the
door.
Here" she said, ''let me brush that
speck of dust off your skirt before you
go into the street That's a pretty
skirt of yours, Elizabeth. l like to see
young things like you wear bright col
ors. They are so becoming Now, for
me, starting down hill and beginning
to whiten for the grave, anything will
do-gray, drab, black, solemn, somber
shades that suit my somber life, for
ever setting here all by myself knit
ting. Is that your wedding ring? Take
it off and let me see it. It's a beautiful
ring.
''The Bible says, 1T is not meet for
man to live alone Then what about
woman? It's thousand times worse,
because woman, made out of rib, is
naturally sort of helpless and depend
ent, and, there's no use talking, they
amt altogether happy, none of 'em, I'M
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Taken Up.

Came to my ranch, two miles east
of Kalispell, three horses. One white
horse, branded on leg and shoulder
ME-, on June 5.
One bay and white faced horse,
about years old, no brand, on
May %.
One bay mare, no brand, 2 or 3
years old, on June 5.
t. ASANO.
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way, if / know anything about it. And
amt been looking on all these years
for nothing. I've learned a thing or
two, and one of 'em is that when it
comes to this here question of men
most women gets rattle Drained and
daffy. If you could see the way Sue
Chambers chirps around, happy as a
lark the minute that good for nothing
husband of hers sobers up bit, a-hon-
eying of him and treating him just
like he was baby, trying to get him
TO sign the pledge and quit for good,
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G. w. POWELL,
GILBERT PORTER.

For Sale-Forty acres fruit land,
one and one half miles from city. In
quire of E. E. Kelly. Kalispell
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For Rent-Furnished front room,
No. Sc Fifth avenue west.
The colored American., 1902-01-18
DIREcToR-eERERAL WASHINGTON

1t is about definitely settled that
Booker 7. Washington will be selected
as Director General of the Negro ex
hlbit at tre Louisiana Purchase Ex'
position to be held IN St Louis in 1903,
Everybody, black and white agree
that Mr.. Washington is the fittest man
for such a significant and important an
assignment. No other name is men
toned In this connection. The Negro
people. for once, are a unit in their ad.
vocacy of Mr., Washington, and he is
regarded as the only man of cur race
who cou.d bring forth display that
will properly place our achievements
within the range of the entire worlds
vision, The st. Louis fair will be the
most stupendous underta king of its
kind that history has ever known, The
necessity Of sober judgment and clear
headed action is recognized at all hands
and such commanding personal reputa-
ton as Mr.. Washington possesses is
essential to the success that would be
ours The call for Booker 7. Washing
ton is spontaneous and unanimous.
The Lolored American standing as
the spokesman of 100000 Negroes,
urges that the appointment of Mr..
Washington be- made at the earliest
practicable moment. There is much to
be done and start cannot be made too
quickly,
In no other way uld the authori-
ties more effectively please the friends
of Negroes advancement than by nam
Ing Mr., Washington at once as director
general of the Afro American depart
ment at St, Louis.
The colored American., 1902-01-18
As TO Mr.. R. ". THOMPSON.

We regret exceedingly that Direct
or Merriam, OF the Census Office could
not see his way tc continue Mr.. 4.
W. Thompson at least until the Bu'
reau could be made permanent, thus
conferring upon him eligibility for
transfer to another department where
his services could be used TO advantage
In a letter dep1oring the reduction
making his retirement necessary, Oh
rector Merriam pays high cOmph
ment to Mr.. ThompsOn's faithful SER
vice, remarks the agreeable relations
that have existed throughout the two
years of his incumbency, and concludes
with the wish that he may succeed In
Whatever direction he may in future
bend his energies. The Colored Amer
ican knows Mr.. Thompson and ad'
mires his intellectual ability and hust'
ling qualities and opines that he wall
not be long ''out of job" When
willingness to work is combined with
genuine capacity, those who require
diligence and painstaking effort do
themselves an injustice in permitting
such a well-equipped factor IS Mr..
Thompson to remain idle. Mr.. Thomp'
son will "land" soon and happily.
That is our guess and sincere hoFe.
The colored American., 1902-01-18
1t is not oleooys the honest man
a0,tO yell "stop thief"
NAVAL OFFICER AT NEW ORLEANS,

The berth OF naval officer at the
port of New Orleans is vacant by reas'
on by the death of MIR. John Webre.
The deceased has served with credit 10
himself, to the race and TO the glory
of the nation. The discussion must
now come as to his successor.
The logic of the situation points to
the selection of 8 Negro to this import
ant post. Under every republican adj
ministration the honor has fallen to
the colored contingent and no good
reason can be urged why the very just
custom should be departed from No
class of voters in the country have
been more loyal to republican princi.
pies than the strong men of the Pelican
state, None have sacrificed more for
the perpetuation of the policies of Lin
coin, Grant, Morton, Harrison, Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt than these hardy
veterans of sound finance and national
prosperity. A departure from time
honored traditions in this crisis would
be encouragement to those who have
cheerfully borne the burdens in the
hours of trial and In the morning of
gloom and doubt.
The Colored American is confident
that President Roosevelt will see the
wisdom of settling the matter at once
and thus relieve the natural anxiety
felt by the Negro leaders Of Louisiana.
We urge that competent cOlored
man be given the New Orleans naval
station at tae earliest possible momsRt
The colored American., 1902-01-18

Editor w. E. King of the Dallas
Express is an amusing little cuss. He
must have been brought up In Missis
sippi where alligatOrs were plenty and
where manners and decency were un'
known. He is never 30 happy as when
chewing the rag with Editor Cooper.
When the American News Company
took charge of the circulation of The
Colored American announcements of
the fact we're sent to a number of sup
posed friendly newspapers, among them
the Dallas Express Editor Kings
rapacity is we'll known in Texas and it
was at its best when he sent his bill to
us. Before it could be attended to Mr..
King began TO vituperate through his
editorial page, and has kept it up until
this time. He complains of not getting
his share of work from the colored
eople in Dallas and we can hardly
blame them for net giving work to a
man who publishes his private business
in a newspaper. If Mr.. King comes to
Washington we shall give him the
same royal time we gave him in Phil
adelphia at the last National Repub'
lican Convent IN. Mr.. King should
keep cool. People who live in glasg
houses should not throw stones. A
history of how Mr.. King became own.
er and publisher of the Express would
make mighty interesting reading.