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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-03
MoNTANA's STATE LANDS ARE
LIBERAL CONTRIBUTORS.
NEARLY ALL FIR LEARNING
Table Showing Various Amounts
Turned Into Educational Funds
in Seven Months.

Montana's state lands continue to
be generous contributors to it's school
funds. For the month just ended the
sum of $1S,027.98 was turned over
by the state land office for apportion.
ment among the different funds main
tanned for educational purposes, and
one other fund.
The largest part went to the credit
of the school income fund, which re-
ceived $%10,634.13. The balance of the
money was distributed as follows:
Permanent school, $3,719.4O; univer-
sity bond, 1862; school of mines,
$5O5. go; state normal school, $1,454.57;
agricultural college bond, $573.88; per-
manent agricultural college, $12O;
state reform school, $374.2O; deaf
and dumb school, $1O4.2O; state capt.
tol interest and sinkink fund, $3.50.
Record of Seven Months.
A statement has been prepared by
the land Office showing the receipts
for the first seven months Of the
present year. The statement goes
into details and makes an exhibit for
each source of income between De-
cember 1, 1902, and June 80, 1903.
According to the figures. furnished
during that period the land Office
paid into the state treasury the sum
of $155,442.71. OF this amount more
than $1O5, 900 was derived from the
sale or lease of school lands and the
sale of timber on those lands. During
the period covered by the statement
timber. to the value of $4,000 was
sold from land set aside for the sag-
ri%cultural college bond fund.
The following table shows the
sources from which the receipts were
derived:
Sale of school lands...... $32,424 81
Lease of school lands.... 71,824 SO
Sale school land timber. 1909 40
Sale university lands..... 4,74O 80
Lease university lands.... 1882 20
Sale capitol building lands 661 OF
Lease capitol building lands 2,747 90
Sale capitol building land
llIHDef.... .... 49,. >. D OU
Sale school of mines land 4,191 70
Lease school of mines land 4,474 SIS
Sale school of mines land
TIMBER. 49,. /. -. 446 90
Sale normal school lands. 1895 40
Lease normal school lands 1903 10
Sale normal school land
TIMBER. :. 49,. 80. s,eos -
Sale agricultural college
bond lands....... 80. ia 40
Lease agricultural college
bond lands. ........ 372 90
Sale agricultural college
bond land timber....... 1888 SS
Sale agricultural college
income lands. ...... 74O 60
Lease agricultural college
income lands.... $500. 1909 IS
Sale reform school lands. 1852 90
Lease reform school lands 1850 90
Sale reform school lands
timber. 49,. ...... 3,711 66
Sale deaf and dumb school
lands 49,. ...... ...... 1853 90
Lease deaf and dumb
school lands .......... s1e SO
Sale deaf and dumb school
lands timber. 49,. 80. 1o4 20
Lease soldiers home lands 100 90
Total 800. 49,. ....$155,442 II
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-03
Envy.

EYES," said the nervous man, 81 have
a habit of talking in my Sleep"
And the eminent citizen who is ex-
pected to respond to an ovation in ev-
cry town that the train goes through
murmured:
"What a valuable accomplishment"
Washington Star.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-03

Growells = Well, there's no law
against a man making a fool Of him.
self. is there?
Mrs. Growells-No, and there never
will be until are allowed to
make the laws.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-03
PAY UP.

All those receiving notice Of
their subscriptions to the pa
per expiring are requested to
make their remittances without
delay. The amount due from
the individual is small, but the
total runs into many hundred
dollars. Therefore, we request
a settlement.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-03
WOULD FETTER CUPID.
IOWA Ministers Plan Corr IN issioD to
Decide Who Shall Wed.

IOWA Ministers Plan Corn N issioD to
Decide Who Shall Wed.
Hereafter Iowa youths and maidens
who contemplate matrimony will be
compelled to ask permission of a state
marriage board if the Minister'S asso-
citation of Des Moines has its way. says
the New York World.
The preachers recently Endorsed what
they call a marriage commission made
up Of three men and three women ply
sicians. This commission is to have
power to regulate all marriages in the
state and to say who shall and who
shall not be married. The plan was
first advocated by Judge McVey of the
district court. The ministers will draft
a bill embodying this idea and submit
it to the mex legislature.
They believe that such a board would
restrict the divorce evil and suppress
criminal. degenerate and pauper mar.
ttageS.
Good Pupils.
Observart Friend Ito mother of beau
tfful girD-Your daughter seems to
have become an expert gambler since
she met young Lovely.
Mother-Why, l don't think so.
Observant Friend-Well, the night
they met I tried to instruct them at
poker, and l learn that they have been
holding hands ever since.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
The shining Bathroom.

Shining is the word one can most ap-
propriately use to describe the bath
room which is strictly up to date in ell
its appointments. Besides the marble
and porcelain that are inevitable in all
the best bathrooms, a host Of small ap-
purtenances in nickel are made as &C.
cessories to the we'll built room.
Nickel is the metal par excellence in
which to fit out this particular room in
the house beautiful. ..#
Many bathrooms have a mirror and
sometimes more than one in the orig
inal architecture of the room. If the
room, however, has not had one built
in, mirror framed with nickel is quite
the thing to purchase for it. In shapes
the mirrors come square, oblong-both
horizontal aid. vertical-and diamond
shaped. ...." ...: p.
Towel racks Of many lengths in the
nickel are shown III the stores for the
bathroom. Some of them are quite
short, and others run the length of the
room. These are particularly useful on
the wall back of the tub. Several rows
OF them mere WOulu :llOl De dIllSS.
These towel bars come also in brass
and in glass, but the preference seems
to be given to the nickel ware for these
particular furnishings. ~
Among smaller things in this ornate
metal are soap dishes, soap shells, soap
racks and soap cups. any and every
kind of thing to hold soap in. Some
are stationary and others are fastened
on the edge of the bathtub, so that they
may be moved along. as desired.
Sponge racks, both large and small,
are also in the nickel ware. Some of
these racks have small soap cup on
either side.
Nickel sets of hooks for all sorts of
handy purposes and nickel towel rings
are among the dainty bathroom APP
pointmentS in this line.
Toothbrush holders in nickel come
close and perforated. Some of these
have china t0pS set in metal holder.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
CHOICE MISCELLANY
Roman Students Franks.

They still tell the story at Villa Me-
dici, Rome, of '.nouveau" student who
when presented to NJ. Schnetz himself
boldly tapped him on the chest and, to
the joy of the "ancien' students, ex-
claimed, Il know that joke, old chap.
No use trying it on mer'
The joke is the richer since it marks
the passing of one of the best jokes at
this famous institution. For years it
had been the custom for the older stu
dents to have one of their number in a
dress coat presented with all due solem-
nifty to the new students.
Still another joke is for the older
students to capture a couple of new
corners and after conducting them to
their rooms thrust them in and lock
the door, leaving them face to face
with a donkey tied between the beds
Each year the saloon of the villa is
transformed into a gala place, and the
spectator finds himself in the midst of
country fair, an old time Roman
carnival or the holdup of family of
English tourists, in which a young
woman, who, by the way, wears lux.
uriant mustache, is borne off vim tri-
umph by a band of the blacklist BAH
dts ever painted.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Cutting Wood Lots.

We scarcely need to suggest the cut
ting of wood to the farmers this win
ter. The high prices that have pre-
vailed have made many farmer who
has wood lot decide that another
winter will not find him without good
supply of cOrdwood ready for market
if the supply Of coal is short The
question with many will be whether to
cut all clean as they go or leave the
younger trees and merely thin out the
older ones that have but little more
growth to make. We favor the latter
plan when one can cut the larger trees
without having them break the smaller
ones as they fall. When this cannot
well be done. it is better to cut clean
and then as new sprouts come up keep
them so thinned out as to give each a
chance to grow independently of the
others. In twenty years there will not
be as many trees. but there will prob
ably be more wood, and in forty years
twice as much wood, with more growth
to come in some varieties.-American
Cu!tiVct tor
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
The Best Citizen.

why are you forever patting the
farmer Oh the back and picturing him
dis Il saint!'' asks city reader. We
are not patting anybody on the back,
and there are very few saints on earth.
A farmer can be just as mean as
coal baron or railroad magnate if he
wants to, though happily his meanness
would not touch so many people. We
do say that farm life gives a man and
his family the chance to develop in the
most natural and harmonious way.
The farmer who is true to his calling
and makes most Of his advantages is
the best citizen in the country. We do
not say the richest or the most infiuen-
tial in politics, but the best. Why,
there are some good folks who say that
when we demand the common rights
which belong to the farmer we are
preaching revolutionary doctrine! What
difference does it make what they call
it? The demand will go on!
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
How the Flood Came.

The aboriginal blacks of Australia
have n queer tradition about the food.
They say that at one time there was 10
water on the earth ut all except in the
body of an immense frog, where men
and women could not get it, There WAS
a great council on the subject, and it
was found out that if the frog could be
made to laugh the waters would run
out of his mouth and the drought be
ended.
So several animals were made to
dance and caper before the frog to i'll
duce him to laugh, but he did not even
smile, and so the waters remained in
his body. Then some one happened 10
think of the queer contortiOns into
which the eel could twist itself, and i.
was straightway brought before tn"
frog, and when the frog saw the wri@
Cling he laughed so loud that the whole
earth trembled, and the waters poured
out of his mouth in great flood, i'll
which many people were drowned.
The black people were saved from
drowning by the pelican. This thought
full bird made big canoe and went
with it all among the islands that ap-
peared here and there above the sur
face of the water and gathered in the
black people and saved them. 90. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
FOR THE CHILDREN
A little Minstrel.

Into railway passenger car filed
with prominent New Workers visiting
Chicago wandered some years ago a
little Italian boy with a concertina.
With a businesslike air he faced the
crowd and began singing in a clear
voice. Before he had finished the first
line he became so impressed with the
unusual character Of the people before
him and the incongruity of his shabby
little self that his voice wavered and
fell, and he turned away with his big,
brown eyes full of tears.
x Mrs. Erastus Corning of Syracuse
leaned quickly forward and motioned
the little fellow to come to her. He did
so She gave him a quarter and said,
Can you sing Italia p" The little mu-
stefan started in bravely, but stopped
with an Apologize, You must excuse
me, lady; it's too Ugh" Then of his own
accord he pulled the concertina out to
its widest extent and began ''Tar-ra-r a
Boom-de-ay." Mrs. Corning led the
laugh of applause which followed the
little fellows effort, and he proceeded
down the aisle, with encouraging re-
quests and gifts from every side, and
when he got to the end of the car was
probably happier than he had ever be-
fore been in his ragged little life.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19

The fine arts are each distinctly as
sociated with one of the senses. With
out sight there would be no enjoyment
of painting, sculpture or architecture
for us. Without hearing music would
not exist. Without taste we should
fail to appreciate cookery, which in all
civilized communities has been reck-
oned in its highest phases as fine art.
There are, therefore, two senses left
that have at present no artistic repre-
sentatives-those of smell and of touch.
During the later empire at Rome the
former was cultivated as a fine art,
and symphony of scents came to be
spoken Of i'll the same category as one
of sounds: The fashion died out when
Rome fell from its high estate, but
there is nothing more inherently alb
surd or impossible in fine art of
odors than in one of colors. Touch is
less adaptable, but the development Of
wireless telegraphy and through it of
thought transmission by minimum of
mechanical means may yet raise that
sense to the dignity of having an art
corresponding with it's utility.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
HINTS FOR FARMERS


Hog killing time is naturally hailed
with pleasure by families who live In
the country far remote from market,
says Eleanor B. Parker in Texas Stock
man and Farmer. The one regret is
that it lasts such, a short time, and I
want to tell some of the readers of
this paper how they keep bones and
fresh meat for some time without the
least injury. Secure from your drug
gist box of pure pulverized borax
Sprinkle little salt on the pieces Of
meat and cover we'll with the borax
1T will not injure the taste of the meat
and is said by the best authority to be
perfectly harmless when used in this
way. 1t is also excellent to preserve
hams and shoulders and keep them
free from flies. 1t is used for this pur-
pose in the packing houses of large cit
les. Leave the hams and shoulders in
salt as long as desired Take them
out, wash and dry carefully, covering
the flesh side with the bOraX. Be care
full to put it in every crevice where a
fly might locate. Some immerse the
joints in strong pepper tea before using
the bCraN. This is scarcely necessary,
but will do no harm. Meat treated in
this way may be left hanging in the
smOkehouSe all summer without sack
ing
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Indian Servant Girls.

A new solution of the servant girl
problem is being discussed in the large
cities of the west. Indian girls from
special training schools are being en-
ployed as servant girls. 1t is said that
the Indian girls who have been proper
ly trained are found to be perfect EN-
bodiments of satisfactory domestic
service. Five thousand or more Indian
girls have been engaged from the vari-
GUS Indian schools Of the southwest to
act as domestics in the homes of
wealthy people in Kansas City, Chica-
60. ST. Louis and Denver. Most of
these girls are from the Chicago and
Haskell Indian schools. The Indian
girls are physically strong. They are.
as rule, faithful, polite and unobtru-
sive.-Buffalo Enquirer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Root TuhercIes on Lesumes.

E. Laurent of the French Academy
Of Science experimental with fertili-
zers on various legumes, such as peas,
hairy vetch and common vetch. He
found that the plat treated with nj
trogenous fertilizer tended to form few
er root tubercles, while the plat treated
with potassic fertilizer made them
nbundantly. After awhile the plants
grown continuously with heterogeneous
fertilizer only failed entirely to make
root tubercles in that soil, but when
planted in other soil made them again
On the plats treated with potash there
was no diminution Of the tubercles. 1t
seems evident that these legumes not
only do not need the nitrogen, but the
application of nitrogen binders their
getting it from the air.-Practical Farm
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
NEW SHORT STORIES
APromenade with a Tiger.

Among those remembered by the
king In his distribution Of coronation
donors was Sir Edward Bradford, chief
commissioner of police for the city of
London, who was made a baronet.
Sir Edward has held his present posi-
ton for ten years and has at all times
displayed an unfailing tact and a
broad capacity for dealing with the
complicated situations which are so
frequently presented for his considera-
ton. Tbe chief commissioner has but
one arm. He lost the other in hunt
ing accident when he was a good deal
younger than he is now He was shoot
ing in India and came to close quar-
tiers with tiger. He fired at the ami
NAL, but the bullet only inflicted a
slight wound The tiger sprang upon
him and fastened it's teeth in his left
arm just above the elbow. Sir Ed
ward had presence of mind sufficient
to realize that it would be fatal to
struggle and in spite of the great. pain
actually walked a few steps beside his
captor in the direction OF the animals
lair. He was fortunately prevented
from continuing this most unusual
promenade by companion, who shot
the tiger, but the bitten arm was so
badly mangled that it had to be ampu-
tated at the shoulder One of the nota-
bic sights at the diamond jubilee of the
late Queen Victoria was Sir Edwards
management Of his huge black horse
III front of st. Paul's at the conclusion
Of the special service. The animal was
somewhat FESTIVE. says the Brooklyn
Eagle, but the manned commissioner
controlled him while he mounted by
holding the bride reins between his
teeth. In this fashion he is said habit
TALLY to have handled his horse during
his long experience as pig sticker in
India.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
The Changing Fashion In Novels.

Literary fashions are almost as
changeable as fashions in dress, and
Wilkie Collins is today out Of fashion.
True, many of his novels have ac-
quired the fame of the sixpenny edition.
But his is not a name to conjure with,
and if reference is ever made to him
it is as the producer of sensational nov
els of type which long ago lost its
freshness. Mr.. Hardy holds that mod
ern writers have no story to tell. Will
kie Collins had, and knew how to tell
it. He, like the Ancient Mariner, holds
the reader with his glittering eye from
first to last. So potent Is his power
that even in those stories that are not
his best one is compelled to read on.
His methods are not the methods of to-
day. But the admission is not a con-
demnation. and many a modern novel
list who sneers at his technique might,
if he would, learn a much needed les
son from Wilkie Collins. - London
Speaker.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
A Story of MIR, Blaine,s Youth.

A story is told of Mr.. Blaine's early
boyhood which illustrates his aptitude
tor diplomacy even at an early period
{ his career:
Having access to the river and a fire.
auent witness of the boats that passed,
he desired to have boat of his own.
He damned the stream that flowed
down the Indian hill and launched
upon it tiny bark of his own con-
struction. But the neighboring boys
repeatedly tore down his dam and
spoiled his navigation. He applied to
a stalwart ferryman for aid and Of
fered to bring home his cows for the
entire week if he would build him a
dam out of stone so large that the
mischievous boys could not move
them. The ferryman accepted the of
fer, and little Jimmie soon had the sat
isfaction of complete triumph over his
enemies, for the rocks which the strong
ferryman piled in resisted all the eff
forts of the boys for their removal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Drinking Water.

Ice water ought never to be taken
with ones meals and as little as posi-
be between meals. One never knows
what is being taken into the stomach
in water filled with Clipped ice. 1t is
safer to fill bottles with water and al.
low them to stand beside ice to chill
until required.
Tests have been made which show
that one gill of ice water. which means
an average tumblerful, poured hastily
down the throat reduces the tempera-
ture of the stomach from 100 degrees to
20 degrees, and it takes more than half
an hour to recover the heat it has lost.
Cold water slowly slipped will not be
followed by such result, cooling the
system pleasantly in hot weather with
out chilling the glands of the stomach
so that digestion cannot take place.
Detroit Free Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Take Care of Your Tools.

Implements not in use need shelter as
much as horses or cows or people. The
ancient custom Of putting the wagon
under tree prevails on some farms to-
day; also the ancient custom of leaving
the plows against the field fence and
storing the cultivator on the north side
of the barn OF stable is still practiced
to some extent Is it any wonder that
such careless wastefulness entails COM
parative poverty and superlative dissat-
isfaction with the things OF. this world.
political social and economical? Re-
member that in consequence of these
practices you have to buy twice as
many implements in a given time as
would be necessary if they were prop
erly cared for. and. besides, the work
with these would be better and more
easily done.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Dancing With the Bride.

The festivities attending the wedding
of Miss Josephine Malegker and Frank
Kubee. which took place the other
morning at the Polish monastery in
Green Bay, Wis, were concluded the
next morning at 1 o'clock. Following
the usual custom, plates were spun by
the male guests for a chance to dance
with the bride. AS result 101 plates
were broken, and 1925 was paid out
for the honor of dancing with the
bride, who danced two hours and ten
minutes by the watch.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Daughter of the Railway.

A Russian railroad has adopted a
little girl The engineer of fast ex-
press saw something on the tracks as
the train was nearing st. Petersburg.
He stopped his engine, and the fire
man found that it was a basket, in
which was girl baby. The baby was
taken into st. Petersburg, and it was
SO pretty and cute that the general
manager decided it should become the
ward of the railroad. which is now
paying the expenses of it's nursing.
Every day scores of railway men call
on little Nikola Jewskaja and assist In
amusing her.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
Rules For Finding n Job.

When you step into the presence of q
prospective employer:
Have your shoes polished.
See that your hair Is combed.
Do not get fiustered and say Yes.
ma'am," to him.
2 Do not act as if you were going to
be shot at sunrise.
Laugh heartily at his jokes, but do
not slap him on the back.
s Do not make suggestions to him on
how to run his business.
See that your breath is peaceful and
not in a quarrelsome mood.
Do not begin operations by informing
him of the state Of the weather.
See that your necktie is not twisted
around to the side of your neck.
Do not try to impress him that you
are so smart that it makes your head
ache.
Do not try to work off any Of your
own jokes on him. Some men don't
know the difference between a good
joke and funeral oration.-American
Bow