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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-13
THE PAPER OF THE HOME,

Lee M. Starke, New York repre-
sentative of the indianapolis News,
and n of the best known newspaper
men of the east, by special invitation
of that body a few days ago read be-
fore the American Association of
Newspaper Publishers a paper on
"Daily Newspaper Space as an In
yestment."
After briefly dwelling upon the ad-
vantages of advertising in daily news
papers rather than in magazines and
other similar publications, and point
ing out the growing trend of many
from magazines, Mr.. Starke dwelt
upon the value of the afternoon pa
per as an advertising medium, say
ing:
"Analyzing still fuarther, and going
to the logical and ultimate conclu-
sion from premises that can not be
disputed. I confidently assert that the
best daily newspaper is the after
noon paper. Authorities of high
standing and greatest success among,
the leading advertisers of the United
States agree that approximately sew
en-eighths of the supplies and furnish
ings purchased for consumption in
the home are bought by the feminine
head Of the family-and obviously in
seperable from this fact is the axiom
that the daily newspaper that goes
to and finds a welcome in the home is
manifestly the most effective medium.
The most successful advertisers
eloquently express their conviction on
this point by spending the bulk of
their appropriation in the afternoon
misrepresentation is not read alone
by the member of the family who, as
a rule, does little shopping excepting
for his own personal requirements,
nor hastily read and then thrown
aside, with only in are cases so much
as a glance over the advertisements.
The policy of these large advertisers
is explained by the fact that they find
the afternoon paper produces better
results than does the morning paper,
for it goes into the hands of those
most responsive to their announce.
ments, and who, moreover, has a keen
and constant interest in the publicity
that appeals to the home and the fam
lily.
-
ITO sum up I believe l a claim,
without successful contradiction, that
in the average community the evening
paper has the largest home circula-
ton, prints the most local news, com
mands the most responsive class of
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Robs Poor Of Outing.

London, May 11.-One OF the cruel
est consequences of the smallpox
scare is now manifesting itself. Ev-
cry summer nearly 100000 Of Lon
don's poorest slum children get a
week in the country by the exertions
of various charitable organizations.
Meantime the epidemic is dying down,
as was predicted for the summer
months, but the medical authorities
say it will break out with increased
intensity next winter.
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But then it is noiy natural that the
democrats should prefer anarchy to
law in the islands. Such a condition
would be nearer their ideal of what
constitutes a desirable state of af-
fairs than the governments we'll
meaning efforts to restore law and
order. 1t is a strange democrat, es.
pecially if he is an, editor, who does
not prefer anarchy to law and the
proper regulation of society.
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A DEMOCRATIC SUBSTITUTE
Minority Working Upon a Philippine
Island Measure.

Washington, May 11.-As a result
of conferences between
democratic senators and representa-
tives it is said a measure on the po-
litical status of the Philippine islands
will be agreed upon by the minority
in both houses and adopted in each
house as a democratic substitute for
the Philippine civil government bill.
1t is said the joint Philippine bill will
combine the main features of the dem
ocratic bills in the senate and the
house providing for ultimate indie
pendence of the islands.
The measure has not yet been
drafted, so that its details cannot be
given.
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T,LLMAh IS TOO RAW.

While pretending tt be Mortified at
the alleged atrocities of the Ameri-
can soldiers in the Philippines, Till
mar still defiantly weaves into his in
temperate and abusive speeches his
old boasts of shotgun dominacy in
the south. He glories in the fact that
the men of his party in the southern
states lynch, burn and torture negroes
and says they will continue doing so
as long as they please, and defies the
government or any n else to inter-
fere. All the time he is making these
boasts and delivering his challenges
he is posing as a friend of a people in.
far off islands whom he the
administration of misgoverning and
mistreating. The spectacle of an
avowed oppressor and adherent of a
policy of oppression in his own and
neighboring states making a plea for
what he is pleased to designate great
err liberty for the Filipinos is one we'll
calculated to cause sane persons to
ask themselves if it were not almost
time to make some changes in the
law by which men of the Tillman sort
could be kept from occupying seats
that they disgrace. Pretending to be
shocked and outraged by the applica-
ton of the water cure" Tillman ex-
ultantly shouts in the same breath
that the sand cure" is a proper in
stitution, when used by democrats Of
the south, adding, when we get
ready to put a nigger's face in the
sand We put his body there too"
No wonder that his colleagues in
the senate occasionally forget them
selves and permit words to escape
their lips indicative of the contempt
they feel for the man and the abhor-
renee in which they hold him. M
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1t will be to your advantage to as
certain the rates from Chicago to New
York, New England and all eastern
points applying rel the Nickel Plate
road and its eastern connections.
Three daily trains. on which there is
no excess fare. One feature of serv-
ice on. that road is meals in dining
cars, ON American club plan. Pay
for what you get, but in no event
more than from 35c to 81. Folders,
rates and all information cheerfully
furnished by applying to John Y.
Callahan. General Agent, ii Adams
street, Chicago. Ill. Depot, Fifth ave-
nue. and Harrison street. d-sw
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OPPOSITION CONTINUES.

While. the hsw leasing bill now be-
fore congress seems to be regarded
with more favor than were the ones
it displaces, it cannot be said to
have stilled all opposition. The more
the matter is discussed the stronger
seems to grow the sentiment against
leasing in any form. Many of the
western newspapers, papers publish
ed in states which would be the ones
affected by a leasing law Of any kind,
advocate the principle of letting we'll
enough alone and permitting the
ranges to be free to everybody. They
admit that because of their very ma
ture large tracts of lands in the arid
states will never be susceptible Of
cultivation because of the impossi-
bility of %irrigating them, but advise
against any law which at this time
could be construed as defining the
boundaries of those areas. Until ir-
rigation and settlement shall have
determined just what lands are i'm
possible OF reclamation those papers
believe the leasing of the public do
main should not be considered. Many
acres of land that in the past have
been believed worthless for every
thing except grazing have been re-
claimed and are now among the most
productive of those in the states in
which they are situated. Hence it is
but reasonable to suppose that the
same thing may transpire in regard to
other lands now considered worthless.
By the adoption of the reservoir sys-
tenn of irrigation vast tracts that can
not be reached with water from
streams will be made productive of
more than bunch grass and while re-
garded now as valuable only for graz
ing purposes will in time be added to
the cultivated areas and become i'm
portant contributors to the nations
agricultural output.
The advocates of the leasing propo-
while they have overcome some
of the opposition they encountered at
the outset, may as well reckon on
further opposition, for the more the
question is discussed and considered
the stronger seemingly grows the be-
lief that to lease the public domain
in the n proposed is too radical
a departure from the governments
homestead policy of the past and that
the acquisition of free homes by those
wanting them under the homestead
law would be so hedged and compass
sed by difficulties that the real intent
and purpose of the law would be next
to impossible of accomplishment
They fear that with a leasing system
in vogue the homestead law would be
practically a dead institution and the
would be in possession of the
land that the homeseeker may now
have by complying with very liberal
and just conditions.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-13

The silence maintained by the
democratic newspapers of the state in
reference to the sudden and inexpli-
cable change of attitude assumed by
Goxernor Toole in the matter of the
railroad merger is as dense as it is
significant. Although several of the
republican papers of the state have
asked for an expression of opinion,
neither the Miner nor the Independent
has seen fit to make answer. Per-
haps they are too busy walloping the
trusts in other states and have no
time to spare from their very agree
able task of assailing the national
administration to pay heed to such a
tri1e as the n at home concerning
which they might have a little to say,
if for no other purpose than to let
the people know that they are aware
of what is transpiring within the
shadow of their own Offices. Then, too,
Governor Toole is a democrat, and
that makes all the difference in the
world, you know. a.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-13
SETTLING DOCTORS BILLS.

Philadelphia Record: There will
be no professional wrangling and
jangling over the Buffalo doctors bill
in the Mckinley case. They will get
$4,000 out of an appropriation by
congress of $4,000 for the obsequies,
and are satisfied Herewith. So ends
what promised at one time to develop
into a squeeze of the government,
with history repeating itself.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-13

Having admitted that there are
only two things of which she is afraid
Lawyers and lightning-Hetty
Green's petition to the New YORK po-
lice authorities for permission to car
ry a revolver must be accepted as
evidence of the lady's faith in the
power of a sixshotter to protect her
against danger from nature of more
than one kind.
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Chicago Tribune: 1t would puzzle
a democratic orator to explain what
he meant by the "time-honored princi-
pies of the democratic party but it
is a phrase that always brings ap-
plause from a democratic audience.
The audience doesn't know what the
phrase means, either, but, thinks the
orator ooes.
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: And now it develops that the great
and good Tom Johnson, mayor of
Cleveland, has granted himself a
franchise for a street railway line. 1t
is true that the proposed system in
tends to charge lower fares than the
old companies, but the ultimate OBJ
ject is to make money for the pro-
Jectors. The best of it is that John
son when accused openly in court of
having done this disgraceful thing
did not deny the charge, although he
is said to have blushed violently.
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AGITATEs SMALL MINDS.

New York Tribune: Senator Lodge
truly says there are some who can
forgive our army anything except sue
cess. But success is just the thing
the American people expect Of the
army and they have never yet been
disappointed.
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POWER OF MONEY.

Chicago Chronicle: Senator Money
has succeeded in having the prosecu-
ton dismiss the case against him in
which he was charged with stabbing
a Washington street car conductor.
Money, it thus appears, is powerful
in more senses than one.
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WORLD MISSES THEM.

Chicago Record-Herald: Frank r.
Stockton, Sol Smith Russell, j. Ster-
ling Morton, Amos J. Cummings, Pot
ter Palmer, Archbishop Corrigan, Bret
Harte and Admiral Sampson consti-
tute a list that the world cannot lose
without painfully missing.
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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1902.

Hill, German and the others may
do all the recognizing they choose.
but Colonel Bryan wants it distinct
ly understood that he is not included
in the reorganization and will pass
it UP when it comes his way.
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IT WILL, INDEED.

Washington Star: II President
Roosevelt subdues the trusts and
Senator Hanna adjusts the differ
ences between labor and capital 1t
will indeed be a great administra-
ton.
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strong to impress upon her mind that
she erred grievously when she per-
mitted her common to desert
her and gave way to a silly and GRIM
inal infatuation for a murderer.
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TO E BY.

Minneapolis Journal: When the
inhabitants of the Danish West In
dies get around to vote on the Ques-
ton Of annexation to the United
States, the pro-Americans will need
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Chicago News: Jim" Hills bluff
about political disaster for a presi-
den who fights harmful trusts is like
ly to be called good and sharp by the
voters,
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Colonel Bryan has stopped work on
his new house long enough to give it
out cold that he is opposed to Lamont
or any other reorganizer whom the
democratic party may take a notion
to nominate for president. He says
1T is sheer nonsense and absolutely
impracticable for the party to consid-
er Lamont in the light of a candidate,
as nothing could be said in his favor
and the speakers would have to de-
pend upon their Imagination instead
OF reason for arguments in the former
secretary's behalf. Better select a
man absolutely unknown than any
~reorganizer, says the colonel, and
says it in such a n that it may
be accepted as an intimation from
him that no reorganizer need look to
him or his Commoner for support.
Bryan is not alone in his opposition
to Lamont. The Helena Independent
by it's silence also permits a large and
vigorous hint to be dropped, notwith-
standing that it's proprietor is one
of the original Lamont men.
OF course, the temptation to do a
little moralizing is pretty strong and
also tolerably hard to resist, but it
seams that the editors who are max
ing the conviction of Mrs. Scoffel the
occasion for lengthy editorial
screeds on the weakness of human
nature in general and the feminine
part OF human nature in particular are
wasting both time and effort. Moth
Ing that they a do or might say
would In the least cause her to realize
her mistake more fully than she does.
The fact that she has begun a SEN
tence Of two years in prison. is an
outcast Of society. has been disowned
and abandoned by her husband and
has brought shame and disgrace upon
and Ill connected with her
must be considered ii sufficiently
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Bills payable, including certificates
of deposit for money borrowed. -.

Total... -. ....... ST. 1O,sss s5
STATE OF MONTANA,
COUNTY OF YELLOWSTONE, }ss'
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named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief. M. A.. ARNOLD, {
Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th
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only to point to Porto Rico. which,
after four years of American rule, is
~far-and-away the most prosperous and
happy island in the West Indies.
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Capital stock paid in.
Surplus fund.
Undivided profits, less expenses an
National Bank notes outstanding.
DnetO other Nationalbanks 5.305 B8
Due to State Banks and
Bankers lO.O36 81
Individual deposits sub
ject to check .......... $4,000 on
Demand certificates of de
post. .................. 1850 SO
Time certificates of deposit458, sos 20
Certified checks. ......... 1850 IS
Cashiers checks outstand- I
ing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 29,429 10
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Loans and Discounts .,............. $685., 1886 Os
Overdrafts. secured and unsecured. 8,O36 o.
U. 8. Bonds to secure circulation .... 81 500 90
Premiums on U. s. Bonds. ......... 5000 90
Stocks, securities. tc.......... 1892 81
clearinghouse, furniture and fixtures 66,3O2 OF
Due from National Banks
mot reserve agents. ...... 1882 Al
Due from State Banks and WV
Bankers. 4,42s 50 :
Due from approved reserve
agents l27,715 10
Checks and other cash items 9,596 81
Banks ........"...... Ito %
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents ......... $50 90
LAWFUL MONEY RESERVE IN
BANK, VIZ:
Specie. .$18,O8 8 so
Legal tender notes. ....... 8.O08 90
l75,zS s.
Redemption fund with U.
s. Treasurer Is per cent of
circulation) ........ 1875 90
Due from U 8. Treasurer
other than 5 per cent re-
demption fund ....... 1000 90
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CLIFF LINDSEY, N. b,
Physician and Surgeon.
Special attention given to Surgery
and Diseases Of Women. Ofice-Front
Room over w. B. TenEyck's Harness
establishment on Montana avenue.
Telephone 100. Residence 210 N.
T~hirty-frst street. Telephone No. z.
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CARDS..

Block.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-08
POLICE PLATOONs AGAIN.

Colonel Partridge talks sensibly about the po
lice platoons. He says that if he had believed
for moment that the three platoons system
was in the interest of the general public he
would never have abolished It. He puts the
matter further in these convincing words: "The
two platoons system which is now in force has
"been in operation In this city for forty years
cor more, with the exception of short intervals
"aggregating less than one year. The hours Of
work of the patrolmen of this city are less, and
"the salary privileges granted them are greater.
than those of any other Of the largest cities of
tain information"
This is a matter OF Importance to the taXpay-
ers of New-York, who now pay more than a
round dozen of millions Of dollars every year
for the support of the Police Department. TAX
ing all things into account, our patrolmen are
treated far more literally than our school teach
ers. AS Colonel Partridge declares the salaries
and the privileges of the wearers of the uni
forms are extremely generous. Their oppor-
tunities for retirement on pensions and the plan
of pensions for the widows and children of
patrolmen who die in the service are arranged
on liberal scale. II the three platoons scheme
should be adopted by the legislature, the al
ready heavy burden upon the taxpayers of
New-York would be largely increased and
would soon become intolerable. 1t would there
fore be a grievous wrong to the public to main
tain the three platoons
New-York tribune., 1902-03-08
GTREFTCAR PENSIONS

The streetcar driver and conductor Of the old
time stood IN the lower ranks of miscellaneous
unskilled labor. Their employers could place
little dependence upon them, and they could
place little dependence On themselves and their
future, for they were migratory, undisciplined
and without prospects of betterment With the
Introduction Of electricity some Improvement in
the nature Of the employment took place, and
some companies of enlightened management
gave to their service a stability of tenure and
encouraged the men to organize and provide for
mutual aid in time Of sickness. Now the Met
ropolitan Street Railway Company has taken a
further step in advance in establishing a pen
sion system which, together with the mems
own insurance system, will guard faithful en-
ployes from want while in service or IN old age
This is the first attempt in this country to pen
sion street railway employees, give dignity to
their work and attach them for q lifetime TO
that service, and 1t deserves the highest com
mendation.
tt is to be noted that the retirement pension
will be paid by the company without any con-
fributions from the employees. They maintain,
at their own expense, reading rooms, help one
another IN sickness and pay benefits in case Of
DEATH so through their years Of active work their
own manhood and independence are allowed to
play their full part in the development Of char
acter. After long period Of service, therefore,
a reward for faithfulness cannot be regarded
as in any sense pauperiZing 1t is merely the
final incentive TO proficiency and permanent en-
gagement, which is equally advantageous to
the men and 10 the company. One Of the TRACE
dies of life for the people who work for small
wages, with little chance 10 save, is the pros
pect of old age and inability TO earn the daily
bread. This prospect tends to discourage long
terms of service, for Of what use is 1t TO resist
impulse 10 change when steadiness long con
tinued means merely being turned adrift in old
age? Streetcar lines have been peculiarly a
field for strikes, often without rhyme or reason.
The men, having little at stake, were an easy
prey 10 agitators When they have a substan-
fial interest in cooperation with their employer
and find themselves working under conditions
which develop self-respect the general standard
of efficiency is sure 10 be raised AS the men
and the company profit so VIII the community
New-York tribune., 1902-03-08
..sCIENCg" TREATMENT FOR CUBA.

With noteworthy, If not astonishing, dishon-
esty, some of the advocates OF the beet sugar
interest are still urging that no concession for
the relief of Cuba is necessary because the
Brussels Sugar Conference has removed the OBJ
stacles to Cuban prosperity and opened up to its
planters a European market which is an ade-
Quate substitute for the market they ask from
us. 1t is urged, therefore, that there is no need
for the United States to go to the rescue
fire engine going to house does not In
deed squirt water upon it If on arrival it finds
the fire is out, and If the Brussels conference
had really put out the fires Of Cuban want we
might not be called upon to make any conces-
sions which were not dictated by our own selfish
desires to extend our export trade. But when
a fire engine goes to a burning house, and on
arrival finds that another engine is coming In
another direction and will arrive in a year and
half, it does not turn about and go home
without throwing water on the flames and
leave the task of relief to later arrival That
is just the situation in Cuba. Such relief as
the Brussels conference may possibly result In
will not be given for year and half Beet
sugar will continue to feed on bounttes till Sep
teIber 1, 1903. Before that time the present
crop and the next one will have been harvested
and manufactured and third crop started, IL
there are strength and heart left for planting,
harvesting and manufacturing at that time.
Meanwhile Cuba would be left unaided.
Opponents Of aid, who cyncally and brutally
declare that they do not If Cuba does
suffer, can at least claim the merit of honest
selfshness. Those who deny the fact that
Cuba does suffer may be sincere in the belief.
But those who pretend that its sufferings have
been relieved by a dose of medicine which is
not to be administered for year and a half
challenge classification as mental Scientists or
charlatans