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The Western news., 1903-08-05

ity to kindred and friends; 4-Martha,
or sisters degree, illustrating un-
deviating faith in the hour of trial;
5-Electa, or the benevolent degree,
illustrating charity and courage with
patience and submission under wrongs.
All the degrees together are called the
Rite of the Eastern Starr and are
very beautiful and impressive. Ladies
who have received these degrees have
ready and efficient means of com.
inanding the services of Free Masons
whenever and wherever they may
meet them. The moral teachings Of
the Eastern Star degree are excellent
and cannot fail to make a good i'm
preston. Masons cannot hpd surer
safeguard and protection for wives,
sisters and daughters than is furnish
ed by the American Adaptive rite or
"Order of the Eastern Star"
The present system of degree work
was arranged by Robert Morris, L. l. .
D. 1880, who afterwards became Ora nd
communicated them to his wife, and
subsequently to many thousands of
Masons and their female relatives in
all parts of the country. The degrees
were thus communicated by Robert
Morris only, as they were not printed
in this form until 1860.
The Grand Chapter Of the Order of
the Eastern Star of Montana was or
ganized and held its first meeting in
1890, since which time it has grow II
constantly and at its last session hel d
at Butte it had u chartered chapters
and three chapters U. d. with a tota l
membership on the first day of last
August of 1885. which is certainly "a
good steady growth.
Leona Chapter U. D., of which we
are members was installed August
27, 1902, a little less than a year ago,
with 1S charter members. During
this time we have initiated number
of members. After the initiation of
a new member the never-omitted re-
freshments are served, which are as
varied as our programme this evening
and social good time is the result .
The chapter has been pleasantly en-
tertained by few members in various
ways at their homes and the hall-a
few invited guests being present on
these occasions. On May 81 the En-
trenus Society was organized. A pres
were elected, This society meets
every alternate week and is en- tertain
ed at the home of some member. Re-
freshments are served at these meet
ings for which 10c is charged. The
principle object of this society is that
we think it an excellent way to keep
up an interest and a social acquaint.
ance among the members.
The most noted event in the history
of Leona Chapter was the visit mad {
US by our Grand Worthy Matron few
weeks ago. Much instruction was de-
rived from her visit and we felt botl
honored and benefited to have such
an intelligent woman with us for jus,
one evening.
Although in it's infancy what little
we have said here is hardly an esti :
mate of what Leona Chapter and En-
trenus Society has done socially, but
suffice it to say that whatever we have
undertaken has been accomplished
successfully and we are at present in a
prospecting state and hope to continu e
prospering.
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Ready for che Blew.

Mothsr-Johnny, your pop amt well,
so you better run for the doctor.
Johnny-Yes'm. 4,
"An', Johnny. stop on your way AZ
the florists an ask him how muou he'll
charge fur q pillar o. white flowers
with MY Husband in red on it,
Philadelphia Record.
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A WEAPON.

"Mah goodness. cunnel," exclaimed
the elevator man, "yo' face shoIy 10
cut up powahful bad dis mornin'."
EYES," replied the colonel, my razor
wasn't in good condition. That's how
it happened"
Better carry gun de next time yo'
gifts in an argument, cunnel.
delphia Press.
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kEENAN'S CHARGE.

oh. tell not of Leonidas and the pass he
guarded well
Where with his brave three hundred so
long ago he fell;
Why search through misty ages for Deeds
OF daring high?
The men who charged with keenan, have
taught us how to die.
Through every vein the ife-blood pulsed
with rythmic ebb and flow.
Before them stretched the happy years, IL
lumined by hopes bright glow,
Yet, with one breath life's MONDAY sun
was stricken from their sky
Think you they heard unmOved the word
which doomed them then to Gle?
Theirs not the hope even valor craves-to
win hard-fought fray;
Knowing their graves before them yawned,
they sped along the way;
No faltering hand charger checked, al
though full well they knew,
With every step their life's short span of
seconds shorter grew.
Sleep sweetly, o, We heroes! When Eng
hsh bards shah tell
How Nolan and his soldiers at Balaklava
fell.
Wen show them where you charged alone,
an army on its way,
And say: Here died their brothers-as
true, as brave as they"
-Ninette NJ Lowater, in American Trib-
une.
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CHECKS AN AID TO DRINK.
Rev. VI. VI. Parkhurst, "A Chicago
Preacher, Asks Employers
to Use Cash.

"Please do not pay your employees
with bank checks" is the latest cry
of Chicago's reform element. In a
folder neatly printed Rev. NJ. NJ. Park
hurst has appealed to every manufac-
turing firm in Chicago not to aid the
saloOnkeepers by issuing checks in
stead of money to their workers on
pay day.
I'VE find" says the folder, "that the
custom of paying your employees in
checks is a serious cause of drunken
ness. Large numbers of saloonkeepers
by cashing these checks get your en-
ployes into their places and put them
under obligation to patronize their
bars. Many men get trusted for drinks
until pay day because they agree to
bring in their checks and after paying
up the score they begin to drink and
spend all their money, going home
empty-handed to abuse their families
Hundreds of minors take their first
glass when the saloonkeepers cash
their checks. Can you arrange some
way to pay your employees in cash and
help US keep them out of saloons?"
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A physician tells the following: 1
remember one day in making my hos
pital rounds a patient, just arrived,
presented me an amputated forearm.
and in doing so, could scarcely re-
frain from broad laugh; the litter
was constantly on his face.
What is the matter? This does
not strike me as a subject of laugh
ter?"
1T is not, doctor; but excuse me.
I lost my arm in so funny way that
l still laugh when 1 look at it. Our
first sergeant wanted shaving badly,
and got me to attend to it, as | am
corporal We went together in front
of his tent. l had lathered him, took
him by the nose, and was applying
the razor, when a cannon ball came
and that was the last l saw of either
his head or my arm. Excuse me, doe.
tor, for laughing as l do, but I'll be
especially blasted if ever | saw such
a bully thing."-American Tribune.
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A PLAIN TALK.
Some Terse Comments on Danger In
to Which the Man who Drinks
Constantly Runs.

Not every man who gets drunk COM
mits murder. But every man who gets
drunk commits suicide-to a degree
The drink shortens his life and weak
ems his powers, mental and physical.
And every man who gets drunk is
apt to commit murder or any other
crime that when sober seems to him
heinous and impossible.
Any man who puts his manhood
aside and puts the devil in charge OF
himself is taking mighty big chances
He is trifling with his own life and
the lives of others perhaps near and
dear to him.
A word misunderstood by the befud.
died brain, an insult or a grievance
born in the disordered passions or in
the degraded imagination, weapon
at hand-and the thing is done.
1t is not the man who does it; it is
the demon in the drink.
The man who deliberately puts that
demon in control of himself never
knows what it will do with him-Des
Moines Daily News.
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ITEMS.

In the province of Ontario, Canada,
a vigorous campaign bearing on the
liquor traffic is now well under way
Entire prohibition of the traffic is not
aimed at, but the purpose is to abolish
the barroom, and with it the treating
custom.
The managers of the public school
system in Belgium some years ago
adopted very practical way of help
ing the temperance movement in that
country by setting apart a certain day
each year, known as pledge day" in
the schools, when the parents are re-
quested to attend, and each scholar
who has reached - years of age is in
vited to take pledge of total alb
stinence from intoxicants for eight
years.
An interesting case of commissions
due to the excessive use of tea as a
beverage was recently treated in a
New York hospital. The patient, a
woman aged 46 years, began when very
young using several cups of tea at each
meal and for the last few years has
taken on an average 20 cups day.
Signs of kidney failure and uremic
symptoms came on, ending in convul-
sions and finally coma. The patient
had never used alcohol.-Journal of
Inebriety
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NOT A MAN MOVED.

ing on Stone river, came suddenly on
pany was marching at the time in two
ranks in the middle of the white road,
while other companies and battalionS
were in order of battle on either side
of the road. As the advance. we were
pressing forward, not anticipating any
serious resistance, when we saw on a
rise in front of us, and beyond our
skirmishers and videttes, the flash of
brass field, guns, going into position.
"A minute later three cannon balls
struck in quick succession on the road
not three feet to the left of the CEN
ter of our company as it halted in two
rank formation, extending back along
the pike. Everyone was taken by sur
prise by the suddennessiandt the vicious
ness of the attack, but not a man
moved. The man nearest the spot
where the shot struck the hard, macad-
amized road, and whose face and
and clothes were covered with the
dust and gravel thrown up, looked
neither to the right nor the left, but,
Strengthening his figure, stood at at
tention, facing squarely to the front.
The next shot might strike him, and
it might come in an instant, but in
stinctively he faced the danger, what
ever it was.
The colonel, not 20 feet away, no.
ticed the bearing of the men with a
CLEAN of pride in his eyes, and then
said, in a matter-of-course way:
They have your range, men. Move
off the road before they fire again.
The men moved deliberately to the
line of fence on the roadside, and a
minute later three more cannon balls
were planted just where the company
had stood, and again my stolid man
faced to the front, and said, unex-
citedly: There they go. They have
skedaddled.' Four days later saw this
same man in the panic hour of days
battle and in the midst of the terror
and confusion he stood, stolidly facing
the front, and other men fleeing from
crumbling lines, aligned themselves
upon him.
80 it happened that he became the
center of new line, of desperate fight
ers looking for something to rally
upon, for something to cling to in the
storm of battle, for somebody who
would stand against the pursuing en-
envy. He stood and they stood, and
later it became habit with all of them
when confronted by danger to face as
he faced that day, and to confidently
wait developments. The boy who faced
the smoke on the day of our small ex-
plosion was the youngest son of my
stolid soldier friend, and my theory is
that he did as he did because it was in
his blood to do it, and that the instinct
of facing to the front in time of danger
will go down to his sons and grand
sons.
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A GALLANT DEEDS RETURN.
An Act of Splendid Courage Amply
Rewarded and the Lifelong
Friendship 1t Made.

In the movement of Stoneman's
cavalry in the fall campaign of 1862,
the advance was led by Lieut.. Paine
of the First Maine cavalry.
Being separated by a considerable
distance from the main body, Paine'S
o command unexpectedly encountered
a vastly superior force of the south
,ern troops, and his whole party were
taken prisoners.
They were hurried off as rapidly
as possible, to get them out of the
way of the advancing union forces.
and i'll crossing a deep and rapid
stream, Capt. Henry, commanding
ehe confederate guards, was swept
off his horse, and being unable to
lcan Tribune.
His own men were so bewildered
that they did not make a move to save
him, But Lieut.. Paine showed that
misfortune had neither deprived him
OF courage nor of presence of mind.
Quick as a flash, he threw off his coat.
plunged into the current, and, Selling
eHC uIONhlhS man, ne SWAIN Win MIN
to the shore, and thus literally cap
tured his captor.
Paine was sent to Richmond with
the rest of the prisoners, and the facts
being made known to Gen. Fitz-
Hugh Lee, he wrote a statement of
them to Gen. Winder, then provost
marshal at the confederate capital
Winder ordered the instant release of
Lieut.. Payne, without even parole,
promise or condition. The ieuten-
ants sword was even returned to
him, and guard of honor, with flag
Of truce, gave him safe conduct to the
lines of his friends.
Men capable of such splendid conduct
should never have had cause to fight
each other; but the strangest part of
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ties. The Winchester ladies idolized
him, and when he died they offered the
city of New York a bust of him to set
up in Central park; and there it is,
bigger than life and assuredly not the
queerest in New York's collection of
worthless thus honored.
With the passing of Ridley, Mat
thews, McCreery, Rouss and few
others, New York knows no more the
merchant whose face was familiar to
his customers. You used to see the
old-fashioned merchant, even when
he numbered his employees by the
thousand, patroling his aisles, his face
set in professional smile like an I'M
dertaker's. 1t was purely habit born
in the old days when he had his three
assistants and personally greeted
every conner. The great merchant of
to-day is merely an investor. He may,
like the Straus Brothers, have person
al knowledge of manufacturing and
selling, or like Greenhut, the whisky
trust magnate, a heavy investor in
New York department shops, he may
merely represent money. In either
case he hires experts to run his de-
partments; he has time for pleasure
seeking; he goes to theaters, plays
golf, has fast horses and does not
walk his own floor.
o o o
The Death of Abram S. HEWITT.
In many ways the late Abram S.
Hewitt was a remarkable man. His
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Temperance in Prussia.

The new Prussian minister for
works and railways, Gen. Budde, has
instructed the chief officials of the
Prussian state railways to take every
opportunity of inserting in all con-
tracts for buildings clauses calculated
to diminish the consumption of spirits
by the workmen. The contractors will
be required to see that an adequate
supply of temperance drinks, espe-
cially pure water, coffee and tea, are
available, and are to do their best to
check the sale of spirits. Cor.
respondent of London Standard.
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CAPTURED HIS CAPTOR.

this remarkable story is yet to be told
A few months after this Lieut.. Paine
was in Washington, where he learned
that the officer whose life he had so
gailantly saved had been taken pris-
oner by the union forces and was then
confined in the Old Capitol prison.
Paine visited his friendly foeat once,
and supplied all his wants, except his
want of liberty. The gallant Maine
casalryman visited Gen. Martindale,
then in command of Washington, and,
telling his story, interested him at
once in the prisoner. The conse-
quence was that Capt. Henry was pa
rolled and allowed to return to the
south.
These gallant young soldiers fought
on opposite sides till the war was end
ed, when they sought each other out
and since then their relationship has
been that of brothers between whom
mo sign of strife has ever passed.
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AS a matter of fact, what really
sets the limit is the size of Mrs. As
tors house. 1t looks like a city hall.
A driveway curves up in front and
beneath permanent awning guests
are deposited by their carriages.
John Jacob Astor's house, next door,
is similar in design; the great J
room behind extends the width
both houses. By throwing them tx
gether, Mrs. Aston can comfortable
entertain the whole number
vited guests. She must, indee,
it her invitations. Except for il
few stay away. The ballroom S
also as picture gallery, and is
of the most beautiful in the w
Society is much bigger than
private house. Many are include..
the Astor list who are but little
known on other occasions. There in
really no list, no limit. There arJ
probably some 1000 people in the
city who would be recognized as ''in
society" Obviously there must be
ciques and subdivisions. OF the Van.
derbilts, for instance, only two
couples appear on the list of Mrs. AS
tors guests.
OWEN LANGDON.
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FACING TO THE FRONT.
Men Who Had Learned the Lesson
of War and stood Their Ground
Under Fire.

eve had an explosion near our school
building the other day." said the pro-
fessor, according to the Chicago Inter
Ocean, land | was greatly interested
in the bearing of children under the
unusual excitement. Of group of
boys nearest the scene of trouble all
scurried away except two. One of
these faced, in dazed, mechanical way,
toward the smoke, brought his heels
together and stood in the position of a
soldier, straight and stolid, awaiting
developments. The other boy threw
himself fiat on the ground, and with
head slightly raised, watched excited
ly the turmoil about the scene of the
explosion.
Il knew both boys well, and their
fathers before them. Going out from
Nashville along the Murfreesboro
pike on the Goth of December, 1862, our
brigade, part of Rosecrans' army, mov-
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Women Who Drink.

A writer in a medical Journal ut
society woman in the matter of al
coholic indulgence. Among the
Weather and higher classes, he
maintains, the habit has become al
most universal, and this pernicious
example has rapidly extended
through the various social substrata,
for it is human nature to initiate the
actions of those who are better ia
vored, and bad example, like bad
news, travels fast. The eXhausting
effects of the demands of society
upon it's devotees creates a desire
for stimulant. Once taste, it be-
comes a difficult matter for women
to refuse, should she desire, when
offered to her in new and tempting
form, until soon an alcoholic stimu-
liant is essential to her neurotic con-
stitution, and the daily potion be-
comes a fixed habit. A spirit of
recklessness in young women to imi-
tate in secret this vice of the male
sex is not infrequently a cause for
the beginning of alcoholic indul-
gence, and for the continuance OF
which opportunities are easily OBJ
tainable. So prevalent, indeed, has it
become that there are but few young
women of the better classes in the
cities who are not familiar with the
taste and effects of alcoholic stimu.
lants, and too frequently the so
called attacks of nervous prostratior
among women are but the effects O.
alcoholic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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"The free lunch," it is sometimes
said, sis the redeeming feature of the
saloon" Hear what Mrs. Chauncey
Depew says about it: 'The free lunch
is largely responsible for the enslave-
ment of young men to drink. AS sure
as a man eats a free lunch, just so sure
will his be- drinking man, unless he
IS possessed of rare self-control. A
man takes drink and bite. The bite
makes him thirsty and the drink
makes him hungry, and many man
who would leave saloon after hav-
ing imbibed one drink, will stick all
day as long as the free lunch is there.
1t isn't the drink that keeps him, but
the ingenious makeup of the free
lunch, and that's why l sayit's blotch
on civilization and should be wiped
out"
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man in his blindness.
Mr. Rouss was about the last of the
old-time merchants of strongly
marked individuality. He came to the
city after the war from Winchester,
Va, without a dollar. He worked "a
hours a day three days a week and Is
or 16 on the others. He piled up a
fortune, but paid the penalty in shat
tered nerves and ruined eyesight.
For years he kept an offer standing
of $1,OO0,000 to any one who would
restore his sight; he was the ready
prey of quacks and swindlers, who fed
only to disappoint his hope of seeing.
Some time before his death he with
drew the offer, but truth never catches
up. To the very last he was pursued
by people who wanted 'look in" at
that million.
Rouss ran his business himself. He
had a theory that STEADY" man
could sell no more goods than any 9th
er kind. For years he paid nearly all
his employees every day. Perhaps the
majority-certainly all in places of
responsibility-were sober and relia-
bic, but there was a considerable pro-
portion of 'Soaters," who took their
pay at night and came back when it
was gone. If they were ready to work
and if there was room for them no
questions were asked. Customers
were never surprised to see new faces
on the floor.
Now that was not such bad bust
ness. The unsteady men whom most
merchants wouldn't have around were
cheap; when in condition they were
not bad statesmen. The old man went
by results. He sold cheap goods eX-
clusively; was perhaps the principal
outftter in the city of the curbstone
peddlers of shoestrings and collar
buttons.
o O O
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his stock in trade.
Anyone who omit
ted it in writing to
him need not ask
a favor. In bust
ness he was a hard
man, but he had
his soft side. That
soft side was his
n a tive t o w n.
Nothing was too
good for Winches-
ter. He gave the
town fire engines,
school houses and
contributed libeF-
ally to local chart
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cision upon the
right of certain
New Workers to
inclusion in $50
ciety." The full
list of inv i t e d
guests has been
published in near;
ly every paper in,
the city. I h e VI
were $50 in num-.
Der, thus raisiDl
the limit f T or
the 400 set by
Ward McAllister
~
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An Irish Town,

Out of a population of 10000 in Wa
Terbury, Conn, from 1900 to 80, 900 are
Irish or of Irish descent. They pre-
dominate in municipal affairs, and
their societies are the strongest in
the city. 10 is one of the few cities
in the country where Gaelic is taught
IN night schools.-N. Y. Sun.
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4UU III e IN ID e S. " ~ hoCheIeHeT, oT'
The object is partly to provide
amusements of a clean nature for
young men, partly to furnish rooms
at reasonable rates for those whose
parents do not live in the city. Gy
nasium, baths, restavrant-of cou
These things will help make it, a.
of private Y. NJ. C. A. building. ~
The class itself varies greatly in
membership, usually running about
$50 in attendance at each meeting.
1t is by no means composed wholly
of young men. Sometimes Mr. Rock
efeller has embarrassing expert
ences. Reporters come to take
shorthand notes of his addresses as
class leader; artists sketch him;
East side boys are sent by the news
papers to tell in their engaging slang
what they think of him-the last who
went stayed as a permanent member. |
Not seldom there sits in a corner
a big, gray-headed man of military
aspect, who smiles cynically at the
proceedings and seems inwardly
amused at the young mans advice
to scorn wealth except as a means
of doing good. The big man is a
former oil refner of Marietta, O.,
who was ruined by the competition
of the Standard Oil trust and who
haunts New York hotels, enjoying
life after his fashion.
Mr.. Rockefeller is a slender fellow.
af c+ot
steal strength, about 25 years old.
He uses excellent language and is not
easily embarrassed.
o O o
Mrs. Astor's Ball Settles Some Thinsa,
Mrs. Astor's annual ball is looked
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