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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-29
/ DISAPPEARS.
Henry Zimmerman, Brooklyn Center,
Thinks Daughter Was Kidnapped.

Thinks Daughter Mas Kidnapped.
Minneapolis, Aug. 27.-Henry Zim-
norman, a wealthy farmer from
Brooklyn Center, Mimi, vas in the
city last night to secure the assistance
of the police in locating his 15-year-
old daughter, who, he says. was kid
mapped from her home August II.
Mr.. Zimmerman says the girl dis
appeared from her home August IL,
no member of the family having any
intimation as to her going nor any
knowledge of the direction taken. AS
soon as her absence was discovered,
the matter was communicated to the
police and an investigation revealed
the fact that two strangers had been
seen in the neighborhood Of the Zim-
norman residence and that they had
been heard to make inquiries cen
corning the Zimmerman family.
Mr.. Zimmerman is a wealthy farm
err. He has told the police that if the
girl has been kidnapped he will gladly
pay any sum to have her returned
to him.
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A sPEck OF WAR.

Inter Mountain: The struggle for
control Of the democratic state COM
mittee goes merrily on. The demo-
cratic camp is torn with dissension,
and republicans can well afford to
say: "Go 1t, husband; go it, bear!!"
The struggle seems to be between the
old-line democrats and the new o.
verts, and the prospects Of a split,
which will rebound greatly to the adj
vantage Of republicanism and good
government, are gratifying in the ex-
IRENE. The Hon. Walter Cooper of
Gallatin, who is chairman of the COM
mittee, will have much to say when
the committee shall get together, but
which side he will support is lot yet
known. AS a matter Off conscience
he would do we'll to support neither.
He ought to suggest the dissolution Of
the committee and refuse longer to
lend his aid to the party of free trade
and low wages. The Hon. Joseph K.
Tcole, though not a member of the
committee, is working hard to control
it's action, as he and his allies have
much at stake. Hes will oppose any
kind of fusion, Of course, and will
play several cards which are now
safely ensconced in his ample sleeve.
The governor is looking forward to
1904, being determined that the next
senator from Montana shall not be
from northern Montana and that the
next state convention shall give
hearty endorsement to his administra-
ton, particularly his action in de-
handing a raise in the railroad as
sessment and then ccnsenting, to a re-
duction amount to $8,000,000. Should
the state committee be called to meet
at Helena, such action would be re-
garded as a. victory for the governor
and for the anti-fusion element of
the party, fpr outside of the state cap
ital his excellency can reach fewer
strings than at home.
Republicans are taking no sides in
the row, but they are watching it
with much interest.
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OF COURSE NOT.

Drovers Journal: Feeding Russian
thistles to stock for hay is no new
thing in the northwest, and in the
absence of better material the thistle
is considered a very good feed. Sec
rotary Coburn of the Kansas Board of
Agriculture has given mucr attention
to this subject and has written sever
al good articles on it. He says that
in feeding value it corresponds well
with the native grasses, and many
consider it the equal of alfalfa. In
some parts of North Dakota cattle
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-29
GUARD THE CROSSINGS.

When Superintendent Horn of the
Northern Pacific appears before the
city council to reinforce by oral argu-
ment his written protest against the
order requiring .4s company to open
Twenty-ffth street it might not be
amiss en- the part Of the mayor or
some member of the council to call
his attention to another matter not
altogether disconnected with cross
ings and n of considerable import
anc to the people of the city. At the
two crossings of the company's
tracks which it has left at the dis
posal of the people of the city it main
tains watchmen during the day time.
Whether because Of instructions from
the company or whether in obedience
to the rules of their unions is not
known, but the fact remains that the
very time when it would seem their
services are needed the most, in the
early evening, they have deserted
their lofty points of vantage and
those who have occasion to cross
from one side of the town to the 9TH
er do SO at the peril of their lives and
limbs.
No longer ago than last Saturday
night it was by the merest margin of
good fortune that at least two horri-
BILE accidents were averted at one of
the crossings. In n case a mother
and little child narrowly escaped from
being run owe by a string of cars
that were being shifted onto a side
track and in the other two ladies had
even closer escapes from being ground
to pieces beneath another lot of cars.
This occurred early in the evening,
but after darkness had set in. In
neither instance was a Waterman at
the crossing and in neither instance
had any precaution been taken what
even to insure the safety of the
throngs who were passing from one
side of the city to the other. No
lamps were displayed warning the
people or danger n as In 10Th cases
the engines were at the further end
of the cars the bell could not be heard
q or the headlight seen.
The Gazette does not wish to be
considered as being captious or over
prone to fault finding, but it consid-
ers this to be a matter of sufficient
Importance to merit the attention of
the city government. It is not neces-
sary, nor does any N ask that
watchmen be kept at the crossings
all night, but it does seem as though
the railroad company should be re-
quired to keep them there until af-
ter a reasonable hour in the evening
and until the great bulk of traffic has
ceased for the day.
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domestic prices Of protected goods.
But the strongest impetus was given.
by President Mckinley in the little
speeches he made or his western tour,
eliminating in his Buffalo address
where he said the period of exclu.
siveness is past. When a man with
his record gets where he can e that
what helped now hurts, it is time
that even .Serano Payne and Nelson
Aldrich got their eyes open. Even
the Hartford Courant, right in the
thick of protectionism, talks about the
~''hogishness' of the protected. The
New York Tribune has got around to
where it ear admit that reduction by
the way Of reciprocity is unavoidable.
The ferment that stirred up the in
surgency Of Minnesota's representa-
tives was this new movement, al
though the simple fellows thought it
was only the fermenting Of sugar beet
juice.
There was a time when the demo-
Gratis might have pre-empted the
ground, which they abandoned in SO;
run away from in a panic of fear caus-
ed by republican vociferations that
the panic of '93 was due-to their go
ing to do something to the tariff. Poor
fellows; scuttled because they were
SO ignorant that they didn't knew
but what the republican scare crow
solid fact; taking refuge in free
silver and protesting against any
thing being done to lessen tariff tax
alton until the money question was
settled as they would have it. Now
republicans who know a hawk from a
handsaw are moving, not so much as
a matter Of policy as of right, to oc-
cupy and make their party occupy,
the abandoned field and democrats
actually have the audacity to protest
that it is their own camp ground. But
they are too late, wen il they had not
had their chance and made a sorry
mess of it.
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DR.. ANDREWS "DoN'Ts.'

Anaconda Standard: In a lecture
before the summer schoof of the Uni
versity of Chicago last Wednesday,
DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews, president
of the University of Nebraska, gave
certain advice for the guidance OF
parents in rearing children that seems
to have %astounded a portion of the
Chicago press and provoked it into
comparing Andrews with such sensa-
tional university performers as Chi
Cages own Starr and Triggs. The
particular passage of President An
drews' remarks which has caused all
the excitement is this:
Don't teach your children to fear
God. Don't teach them the doctrine
of eternal damnation. Don't middle
their brains with the theory of origi-
nal sin. Don't scare them with the
devil. Don't worry them about bap.
tism. Don't discuss with them wheth-
er they are to be justified by faith
alone or by faith and works. Don't
puzzle them with the doctrine of pre-
destination and free will. Above all,
don't teach them that they have any
better chances of heaven than the
little Baptist children or the little
Methods children or the little Pres
byterian children-whichever the
case may be-across the way
To Chicago reporters who don't at
tend church and don't know the trend
of modern religious teaching, some
of Andrews "don'ts" sound strange
enough; and indeed to the Puritan
settlers of New England his whole
bunch of "don'ts" would have seem.
ed such ~blasphemy that the doctor
would have been hustled to the near
est stake and burned alive. But, with
the exception OF the second don't
the n concerning eternal damnation
there are very few Sunday schools
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DENYING H NATION.

AS was to be expected, defeat has
come to the few honest democrats in
Alabama who believe that the consti-
%tutional declaration of the equality
of all men and that the guarantee of
equal rights to all regardless of color
is something more than a mere space
filler and exposition of a principle
that has no application in the case
of the negro. They advocated some
thing that was repugnant to the ma
jority of their party and the mon
strous wrong which they had the
temerity to declare should be righted
has been confirmed and is now a part
OF the organic law of their state. 49,
Alabama is one of the southern
states which has set itself up in oppo-
sition to the national government,
and although it is supposed that the
question of states rights was for all
time and effectually settled by the
civil war the opposite must be &C
knowledged to be the fact when it
comes to the matter of exercising the
commonwealth below the Mason and
Dixon line. They have defed the con-
stitution OF the United States and say
the negro shall not vote, no matter
what the law of the nation may have
to say on that subject. Alabama re-
Gently adopted a new constitution by
eliminated so far as citizenship goes.
Former Governor Johnson vas one
of the men who declared this to be
fundamentally wrong and in direct
ccntravention of the national law.
He was not without a following and
his faction of the party demanded a
radical revision of the new constitu-
ton. Opposed to him was Governor
jelks, noted for his bitterness as a
niger hater. Both sought the dem
ocratic nomination for gov
ernor and under the new
primary election law of the state
they went before the people for their
support. OF course, Jelks was sue
cessful, which means that he will
succeed himself, for no republicans
are ever elected in Alabama, and the
state will continue in it's opposition
to the United States, defying the law
and asking those who do not believe
as it does what they are going to do
about it.
Sometime there will be a republican
majority in congress which will have
the courage to demand compliance
with the constitutional provision re
garding the basis of representation ir
the lower house and then there is
bound to be a change So long az
states permitted to have repre-
sentation based upon a fictitious vot
ing population, SO long will be out
RACES like that perpetrated in Ala
bama, South Carolina and some O
the other souther states continue. 1
they are made to comply with thu
laws the same as the states of The
north then they will cease their dis
examinations and the black mar will
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Friday, August 80, 1902.
and sheep have been sustained on it
during an entire winter without any
other feed.
AN ECCENTRIC RULE.

Baltimore American: Secretary
Shaw is eccentric in some things.
One OF his new rules is that letters to
his department shall be answered
promptly. Heretofore answers to let
ters written to government bureaus
have afforded considerable entertain
ment to the heir of the writer's.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-29
ALLIED WITH CORPORATIONS.
Charge Made by National Secretary
Against Democratic Reoraanizers.

Charge Made by National Secretary
Against Democratic Reorsanizers.
Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 27.-Charles
A. Walsh, secretary OF the democratic
national committee, is sending out
mimeograph letters from st. Louis
to all the prominent Iowa democrats,
in an effort to prevent the coming
state convention from ignoring the
Kansas City platform, Copies Of the
letter we're received here yesterday,
but this delegation will vote solidly
against reafirmation. ~.
Mr.. Walsh Is doubtless today the
foremost representative, in a personal
way, of William Jennings Bryan in
Iowa. He declares in his letter that
the reorganizers who would repudiate
the Kansas City platform want to do
it, not in-order to rid the party OF
free silver, but in order to get control
of the organization! ~
Conceding, fer himself, that the sill.
yer question is good as settled, for
the present at least, and admitting.
that most silver men take this same
view Of it, Mr.. Walsh yet insists that
the control of the party must not be
turned over to the other element.
They DESIRE" he says, ito put the
democratic party OF Iowa where 1t
stood when the railroad corporations
Of Iowa and the wealthy influences
we're controlling our party during the
years prior to 1896. The great, trou-
BILE with many Of these gentlemen is
that while they are with us on all 9th
er questions except silver, they are in
reality on the side of corporate pow
er and wealth on every question, and
they are as little to be trusted in any
honest effort to curb the trusts, or
lessen the political power of wealth,
as they were to- be trusted on the
money question"
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Women and Children Killed.

Bloemfontein, Orange River Colony,
Aug. pa shunting engine crashed
into a train conveying refugees to
johannesburg yesterday. The front
cars were wrecked and a number of
women and children were killed.
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WASTE OF GOOD MONEY.

Washington> Post: Between Cana
dian justice and Cuban leniency, the
man who steals makes a serious mis-
take in spending the money with
American lawyers.
Frostburg mining journal., 1902-05-24
Intelligent Robins,

The following incident seems too re-
markablc to he true. and yet it is vouch
ed for by a writer whose word should
not be doubted: Two robins We're try
ing to teach their little one to fly. 1t
attempted to cover too great distance
and fell to the ground. My little boy
caught it. and | told him to put it on
the roof Of our side porch.
Then he and | watched to see what
the old birds would do. They huttcrcd
about the yard for awhile and then
flew off. We waited for them to re-
turn. but they did not, and had just
made up my mind that they had de-
serted the young one when l saw them
coming, accompanied by third one.
They flew directly to the roof of the
porch, and | saw that one of them had
a piece of twine in its bill.
And what do you suppose they did
next? IL had not seen It, | never
would have believed 1t. Two of them
caught hold of the twine, one at each
end. and the little one caught the mid
die of it in his bill. Then they flew off
the porch. the third robin flying under
the little one and supporting it on his
back.-Minneapolis Journal.
Frostburg mining journal., 1902-05-24
Origin of Old Glory.

In the "reminiscences of Lord Ronald
Cover is found story of the origin OF
the stars and stripes.
The 'star spanglcd banner of the
American republic has its origin from
an old brass on the floor of Brington
church, in Northamptonshre The
brass covers the tomb of one Robert
Washington and is dated 1922. On it
appears the Washington coat of arms.
consisting of three stars. with bars or
stripes beneath them. On the first day
of the new year, 1I16, the thirteen
united colonies raised standard at
Washington's headquarters.
This introduced the stripes OF the
present, but retained the crosses of st.
George and st. Andrew on Il blue
ground In the corner In HI the cross
es were replaced by stars, as the Dec
laration of Independence rendered the
retention of the English element unncc-
eSSary and incOnvenient. In thus adopt
ing the arms of his ancestors as his
own distinctive badge Washington no
doubt intcHced the flag merely as 4
private signal for his own personal fol
lowing. but it was at once adopted as
national emblem. Probably there is
not another case in the worlds history
in which the private arms of an OBJ
scure family have attained such world
wide eminence and repute.
Frostburg mining journal., 1902-05-24

painting. A glance at him brought back
her courage. His bearing was any
thing but victorious.
Her tone matched his own as she
said II cannot 20 home alone. We
need not have any further conversa-
ton however, and won't trouble you
again.
Voight WINGED visibly at her words.
There were signs of yielding as he re-
piled, "You know that l am always
glad to do things for you"
Miss Manners laughed bitterly. "And
yet you were going to leave me alone
just now. 1t wasn't a kind, wasn't Il
gcntlcmanly, thing to do
His anger famed up again. Il could
not endure your mockcry. 1t simply
showed that | had been mistaken all
along; that you did not care for me;
had been only playing with me-"
Her voice was low and vibrant as
she retortcd: THAT is why | WAS rest
less tonight, why | have been restless
for many days. was trying to make
up my mind whether | really loved
YOU You have helped me to solve the
question. can give you the answer
now. 1t Is NO"
lie WAS too stunned to speak, and 81
they hurried on in silence. An angr,'
spot OF color burned in the girls cheeks.
but the darkness hid this as we'll as
the CLINT of tears in her eyes and the
pallor of the mans face.
Suddenly he caught her to him al
must rudcly. She struggled. but he
lifted her bodily and then set her
down, trembling. Even as her cry of
Indignation rang out there was Il blaze
of white light, whir Of wheels. and
the automobile was out of sight.
VOightS voice trcmbcd as he whis-
percd, THAT is the White Ghost, but
it might have been the White Death
for both Of us"
He held her in his arms, though she
struggled. She was yet too indignant
and too startled to realize her narrow
escape.
After moment: What was it to
you if had been killed? What right
have You to intcrferc?
There was traitOrous tremble in
her voice that gave him courage.
"The right of loving you. Had the
last ten minutes made life seem so
worthless for you tOO!'
He tried to see her face, but she had
hidden it on his shoulder. He bent his
head till his lips almost touched her
hair. Cant you find it in your heart
to change YOUR answer"
Her face WAS still hidden, and only
reply.
Frostburg mining journal., 1902-05-24

The canary is always regarded as Il
small eater, just as the pig is notorious
for its gluttOny. People with small ap-
pctitcs are often twitted for not eating
more than enough to feed canary.
and this led a man who was tiny eat
er to watch the yellow bird and report.
He found that Il canary that weighed
241 grains ate just thirty-two times its
own weight in a month; that is it ate
rather more than its own weight on an
average every day. Anyone who watch
es the little bird will notice that it is al
ways eating. Now, says the investiga-
tor. Il pig doesn't eat its own weight ev-
cry day, glutton as it is. Hence he
thinks that the canary deserves to be
classed as a little pig,.-London An
SWerS.
Frostburg mining journal., 1902-05-24
CHELSEA'S NOTED GUNS.
All London Used to visit Mrs. Hands
on Coed Eri:.ay.

However rCii. iOCS OhSCrvancCS may
cross buns on Good Friday is not likely
to die out. Still enthusiasm in this
particular has considerably declined
since the days when Mrs. Hands kept
the Chelsea Bun House ut the corner
of Jews row, now PimlicO road. SO
many people were in the habit of flock
ing there on Good Friday in order to
eat hot cross buns that on one occasion
10000 persons assembled there, and
ESQ was taken in the day for buns
alone. After this the inhabitants Of
Chelsea protested against the noise and
disturbance this caused. and Mrs.
Hands. fearing to be restrained by the
law, issued in 1893 a quaint proclama-
tion. stating how, "dCsirous, therefore,
of tcstifying her regard and obedience
to those laws by which she Is happil"
protected, she is determined, though
much to her loss, not to sell cross buns
on that day to any person whatever
but , hclsea buns as usual"
This Mrs Hands was something OF
character in her own way. The royal
family and many of the aristocracy
used to visit her in the morning, and
Queen Charlotte even presented her
with q silver half gallon mug contain
ing ; guincns. The house remained in
the possession of her family for some
time. as Sir Richard Phillips, writing
few years before its destruction. men
tionS After admitting that for upward
Of thirty years he had never passed the
house without filling his pockets, he
goes on to say. "rhcSe buns have af.
fordCd a competency and even wealth
to four generations of the same family.
and it is singular that their delicate
flavor, liGhtncss and richness have new
er been successfully initiated" When
Ranelagh was closed, the Bun House
declined in popularity, though as late
as 1899 $4,000 buns were sold on Good
Friday alonc.-London Chronicle.
Frostburg mining journal., 1902-05-24
They Were Discreet.

In the course of an interview Carli-
nal Manning. n short time before his
death. referred to his boyhood days as
follows: "Well. if you want me to talk
nonsense | will say that it Is long
way back TO remember. for am eighty
three. but spent my childhood at Tot
tcridge. a boy ut COOmbc Bank. Chris
tophcr Wadsworth. late bishop of Lin
coin. and Charles Wadsworth. bishop
Of ST. Andrews. were my playfellows.
] frankly admit | was very mischie
vOus.
THE two Wadsworths and | con
ceived the wicked intention of rObbing
the winery. The door was always kept
locked. and there was nothing for il but
to enter through the roof. There was n
dinner party that day, but there were
no grapes This is probably the only
case Oh record where three future bisl-
ops were guilty of larceny. Were we
punished? No. we were discreet. We
gave ourselves up and We're forgiven