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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30

headgear. In the struggle the hat was
torn from the young woman's head;
hence the shrek. Senator Vest was
sorry for the girl. but he poured oil
upon the troubled waters and brought
bushes to the maiden's cheeks when
he said CALAMITY:
"The removal Of SO pretty a hat has
exposed a far prettier head of hair.
Why, l know Of some women whose
hair would have followed the candy
too"
While Senator Vest was speaking in
the senate day Senator Allison told
this story about him, says the Kansas
City Star:
"Vest was a member Of the Con-
federate congress in the civil war.
Some of his constituents alleged that,
being an ablebodied man, it would be
just as well If he took a gun and went
out and did some fighting instead Of
loafing around Richmond making laws.
"Vest acquiesced. He got a gun and
went to war. His first engagement was
a little affair in which the Confederates
were whipped. They started to retreat,
Vest well up to the front. He met a
man from his W town in Missouri.
Say, Jim,' said Vest, when you go
back home tell those folks you have
seen me in a battle uyq y
"tAll right replied Jim, starting
away.
".And, say, JIM shouted Vest after
him, while you're about it, you might
tell them that no other human being
will eve see me in another"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
PRAISE FOR CHICAGO GIRLS.

Gown Importer Says They Have Fin
est Figures In the World.
'"The girls of Chicago have the finest
figures that are to be found in the
world"
This is the statement of A. G. Pear.
son Of New York; who yearly visits
Paris and the other capitals Of Europe
in search Of stunning gowns and mod
els who can display them to advantage.
says a Chicago dispatch to the New
York Journal.
cts all a mistake, this notion that
the women of the foreign capitals can
set off a gown better than an American
girl" said Mr.. Pearson. formerly we
went to Paris for our models. We were
under the impression that it required q
Paris model to show the best effects Of
French gowns. Now we import the
gowns and have them displayed by the
girls Of this country. It's a combine
ton that cannot be beat"
Mr.. Pearson made his discovery while
he was selecting ten models from a hun
dred applicants to pose in the Dress
makers association show, and he had
a small riot on his hands before he I'm
ished. The girls blocked the pavement
and stairway, and scores Of young men
lowered in the vicinity.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
WOMAN ON A WARsHiP.

Japanese Priests Surprise at Seeing
One ON . Russian Vessel.
A Japanese priest who was on board
the transport Sado Maru, says the
London Mail, and saw the Russian
cruisers sink the Hitachi Maru states:
I'VE observed a column of white
smoke rising from the Hitachi Maru.
which shortly afterward disappeared.
Before the transport sank a woman
appeared on the deck of n Of the
Russian warships, which l think was
the Rurik. She stood against the ships
rail and waved a handkerchief, smiling
and chatting as the Hitachi went
down. She was evidently pleased at
the destruction of the vessel for her
eountry's sake.
"We were furious with indignation at
the behavior of this woman and feared
that she would repeat 1t when the Sado
Maru went down. We all felt very an
cry and wished we could curse her to
death with our dying breath If We had
to die. We were astonished at the
sight Of a woman on a warship."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
TIRE KILLER.
Indiana Mans Device to Compel
AutOists to Observe Speed Limit.

indiana Mans Device to COmpe
AutOists to Observe Speed Limit.
For the past year automobilists from
east and west have smiled grimly IN
der their helmets as their machines
struck the asphalt pavement. nearly
two miles long, in Mishawaka, Ind,
and they have opened wide the valves
to make up there what had been lost
elsewhere in time, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Soon these drivers of horseless car
riages will come to grief, however. A
Mishawaka man has designed a steel
blade which will be laid in the asphalt.
The n edge Is keen as a razor, and
the continuance will work by lever.
One will be located west of the office Of
the chief of police and the other east.
From headquarters by means Of a ca
bic the double blades of each tire kill
err will be drawn together. Being built
like wedges, this will bring the razor
edge about two inches above the u r
face of the asphalt, and they are to be
perfectly rigid in a steel frame placed
upon concrete. No machine will be
able to cross the knife without wreck
ing both tires.
A means for gauging speed has been
arranged, and whenever an auto is ex-
ceeding the rate fixed by city ordinance
the steel blades in the asphalt will be
raised in time to work havoc with the
tires of the reckless automobilist.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Blue Light to soothe Pain.

A new an%aesthetic for use in dental
surgery has been discovered, a report
from Geneva says, by Professor Redard
and Professor Emery. Experiments to
learn the effects of colored lights upon
the nerves revealed that blue light is
extraordinarily soothing, says a London
dispatch to the New York Journal. A
patient was put in a dark room, and his
eyes were exposed to q sixteen candle
blue. light for three minutes. THIS
caused him to lose the sense Of pain,
and the tooth was then ~painlessly ex-
tracted without the after effects of eth
er or chlorOform.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Counting Out Rhymes.

Children the world over ''count OUT
in their games to see who shall be cit"
A favorite counting out rhyme in
Philadelphia is:
Inty. minty, cuty, corn.
Apple seeds and brier thorn;
Brier, brier, timber lock,
Three geese in a flock;
Out, out,
With a knotted dishcloth turned inside
out.
Some other we'll known rhymes are:
One-ery, two-ery, ickery am.
Bobtail, vinegar, little and tam.
Harum, Scarum,
Madgerum, marum,
Get you out, you little old man.
Eena, deena, dina, duss,
Calalaweena wilma wus;
little, tattle, what a rattle;
Out spells out.
Apala. mesala,
Mesinka, meso,
Extra, lara,
Kara, sara,
Heck, week,
V~allingseck,
Out!
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FOR H
A Crow that Can Tell the time.

A Crow That Can Tell the Time.
George Wreake of Sibley township,
near Lesueur, Mimi, has a pet crow,
Bob, which has been with him four
years and which he claims is the most
intelligent and useful bird living, says
the Minneapolis Times.
There is in the Wreake home an old
heirloom, a beautiful cuckoo clock,
brought from Switzerland in pioneer
days, n of the kind with a little
door at the top in front, out Of which
springs a little bird every sixty min
utes and calls the hour.
After the crow had been in the fam
lily about two years he began to mock
the clock cuckoo, and this finally grew
to be a passion with him, so that he
hardly ever failed to give a melodious
"caw" when the clock cuckoo was call
ing the nour.
Some six months ago the clock fell,
and the striking, or cuckoo. part was
completely broken, so the door never
opens, and the bird never comes out.
This appeared to be a great puzzle to
Bob, for he watched the clock for sew
eral days and seemed to be studying
deeply.
At last, however, he came to a con-
clusion. and greatly startled the fam
lily by taking up the duty the cuckoo
had previously performed and count
ing out the hours perfectly at the ex-
act moment with a clear call Of ''caw"
for every hour the clock ought to have
struck, one for l o'clock, five for 5
o'clock, and so on around the circle.
He has kept at his work to the pres
ent time and calls every hour when
he can see the face of the clock as
regularly and as perfectly as would an
ordinary timepiece with it's hammer
and bell.
IT a lamp be set at night where the
light falls on the face of the clock, the
crow, though he will doze between
times on his perch, will waken and
call every hour all night long.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
ne WORLD
shick,s victory ABROAD.

The members of the Yale Harvard
athletic team that recently won from
the best men of Oxford and Cambridge
have received unlimited praise, but
none should be given more credit than
w. A. Shick, Jr., of Harvard.
Shick won the 100 yard dash in Lon
don in sensational form and upheld the
expectations of his friends. r. w.
Barclay of Cambridge, Chapman Of
Oxford and Torrey Of Yale faced Shick
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Elsie's Gray Eyes.

Blanche and Elsie were making a
doll dress out of a steel gray piece Of
goods.
Il. think this will make a pretty
Dress" said Blanche. . II always did
like blue"
This isn't blue" said Elsie; "its
gray
mo, it isn't; it's blue" retorted
Blanche.
"Oh," said Elsie, a light breaking
owe her face, "of course it looks blue
to you because your eyes are blue, and
it looks gray to me because I've got
gray eyes"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30

Queer Places For Birds' Nests.
Birds have been known to nest in
letter boxes regardless Of the mail
that was unceremoniously dropped in
on them. Two wrens once chose an
old hat hanging on a nail outside a
barn where laborers were going to and
fro all day. An empty fruit basket
which had been tossed into a tree was
the home of another family of birds.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Runs Without Legs.

Grandpa" said little May, with her
face all smiles, II saw something with
out legs running cros the kitchen
floor this morning. What do you think
1t wasy"
Grandpa looked puzzled awhile, but
could not guess. "Give up," said he.
"What was it?'
"Waterv laughingly shouted the lit
tie tot.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Likely Green Pacer.. These.

At the Charleston (Ill.) track are q
dozen green PAGERS, about all by Argot
Wilkes, which are stepping miles
around 2:20. Walter Dunn has driven
the three-year-old hlly Alfalfa, by Ar.
got Wilkes, a mile in 2:17; 81 Punk
ard, a mile in the same notch; anoth.
er green gelding in 2:1S, and several
two and three-year-olds in 2:2O to 2:25.
A. G. Martin has a two-year-old PAGER,
by Edward f. Bee, that is ''oil in the
cam and Ed Paul has a whole string
OF good ones.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
The s.cred whtte Eleph.nt.

In Siam when a sacred white ele-
plant dies it is given a funeral grander
than that accorded to princes Of the
royal blood. Buddhist priests ~of1ciate,
and thousands of devout Siamese men
and women follow the deceased animal
to the grave. Jewels representing much
wealth are buried with the elephant.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
The Telltale.

Why do you s'pose that little bird
Told every sentence that he had heard,
Even Town to the smallest word?
It happened that Emmie and Jean and I
Had a secret club that met in the sky,
Way up in the apple tree ever so high.
Not a single sou did we ever tell,
No even our mother or sweet Aun Nell,
Fol a secrets a thing to be kept very
we'll.
We told only the puppy, our dolls and the
cat;
They never would tell, we were quite sure
of that.
Now, how do you suppose that Uncle Bob
heard?
He came to the tree and gave the pass
word.
And he laughed when he said he had
heard from a bird.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Concerning

Three pitchers are doing all the work
for McGraw, and the New Yorks are
at the top. Some of the big leagues
teams work so many pitchers that they
don't pitch often enough to do their
best work.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Umpire Carpenter Dropped.

The umpire staff Of the American
league has been reduced to five men
by President johnson, Umpire Carpen-
ter being dropped. He is a good UNI
pire and should have no trouble in Sc
curing another berth at once
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
What h saxa.

NO." says Pitcher Kid Nichols, 'the
cares of being a manager do not weigh
me down. When I'm on. the field I'm
a player, not a manager, and l don't
try to be player and manager at the
same time"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
W. A.sH1cK, JR., NOTED HARVARD SPLINTER

w a. SHICh, JR., NUTED HARVARD
in this event, but were unable to take
from him a lead which he obtained
thirty yards from the start.
Shick is the greatest of American
college s%printers. now that Arthur
Duffey of Georgetown is a "free lance,''
and Archie HIM of the University Of
Michigan is his most dangerous rival.
In the race in England Shick ran the
100 yards in 8 As seconds.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
In the Southern LeaEue.

President Kavanaugh has instructed
every umpire in the southern league
that wrangling must be stopped; that
they must be firm; that discipline must
be enforced and rowdyism and umpire
batting must be dispensed with.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
The Hero stavt. II Auru.t.

The Hero, 2:10, owned by A. A. Neal,
is now in Ed Paul's stable at Charles
ton, ILL.,, and will make his first start
this month.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Obj ana Grandma.

"Gran'ma," said Bobby, s'does your
classes magdifyY"
Eyes, Bobby" answered grandma.
'Den," returned Bobby, ''don't wear
'em when you tuts my take"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Heavy a. Cork.

All the cork used in the world in q
year weighs a little over 1000 tons.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30
Dash Racing For Trotter..

Dash racing will be given a thorough
trial at the Empire City IN. " and
Brighton Beach IN. Y tracks this year,
as the management makes the an
nouncement that all races with the ex-
ception Of the early closing events and
the John III. Schultz Experimental
stake will be confined to dashes. This
tendency on the part of those interested
in tracks where the t~rotters are forced
into competition with the rune for
the patronage of the public has been
toward shortening the races.
The two in three system has found a
permanent place in the programme of
most all the big meetings, and the dash
races have been tried in a limited way
at Memphis.
Last year the Empire City manage
ment found that the shortened races
whereby all horses We're sent to the
barn that did not stand for money at
the end Of two heats was popular with
the public, so that this year it was de-
termined to taken an even more radical
step. The purses are liberal enough to
insure good oatries, and there is no rea-
son why the idea Of applying the dash
system to trotting and pacing races
should not be thoroughly tested.
The New Boston American President
President John 1. Taylor of the
Boston American league team, who
has been travelling with his cham
pions over the entire curcuit in
order to get well acquainted with his
associates in the league, is the young
est major league club owner in the
country, but one Of the %stanchest
friends of the great national pastime.
Being an ardent admirer of baseball,
Mr.. Taylor gets as much pleasure and
satisfaction out of the ownership of a
crack club as others would out of a
steam yacht, yet his purchase of the
Boston team was a strictly business
venture, and the affairs Of the club are
conducted along business lines only.
He is a combination Of thoroughbred
sportsman and clean business man, and
withal n Of the stanchest supporters
Of the American league.
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DO YOU
KNOW
The Gazette
Job Department

Turns out a better class of
work than any other printing
establishment in the Yellow.
stone valley.
We are prepared to do any
class of printing on short
notlce.
We employ only frst-class
workmen, and consequently
can guarantee
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-30

had to ford a stream, as no bridge had
then been built, and was getting along
finely, when suddenly. his horse stepped
OF a ledge into deep water and had to
swim for 1t. Mr.. Vest did not lose his
seat, but in the excitement Of the mo-
ment he did lose his teeth.
As he was then only q short distance
from the other bank he urged his horse
pm and Don landed. But what to do
without his teeth? It was a case Of
no teeth no speech. So he tied his
horse to a tree, removed his clothing
and dived to the bottom Of that almost
ice cold stream until he found his teeth.
He had to dive six times, but he got
them at last-and won his case.
A large throng had assembled one
Fourth OF July to listen to an Grafton
by Senator Vest, says the Louisville
Courier-Journal. Applause hearty and
frequent encouraged the senator. While
the multitude was breathlessly waiting
for the conclusion Of a beautiful ex-
position of the governments grandeur
In ennobling the individual a loud
shrek was heard.
A father had been holding a baby
boy on his shoulder. To quiet the rest
less lad he had given him a stick Of
candy. Playfully the boy had thrust
his candy into the chiffon on a girls
hat. He was now endeavoring to dis
entangle the sweetmeat from the fuzzy
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

States is seeking a market in Japan is
between the United States and the
United Kingdom, the class of goods i'm
ported into Japan from China being
chiefly noncompetitive so far as relates
to the United States, while in the case
of India the sole competitive article is
cotton, of which Japan takes freely
from India in years of large supplies in
that country, owing to the fact that
prices of Indian cotton are lower than
those of cotton from the United States.
This is especially true Of the year
1903, when prices in the United States
were extremely high and resulted in a
reduction of about so million pounds in
the expectation of American cotton to
Japan and a reduction of nearly mil
lion dollars in the value Of raw cotton
exported to that country from the Unit
ed States. But for this incident it is
probable that the United States would,
at the end of 1903, have considerably ex-
ceeded the United Kingdom in the Jap
ranese statement of imports by coun-
tries.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

The Duke D'Abbruzzi who is coming
here in an Italian man-of-war on his
way to the Orient to watch the war,
visited Honolulu some years ago in the
Christoforo Colombo. Since then he has
made the ascent of Mt. st. Elias and
has conducted an Arctic expedition. His
elder brother, the Count of Turin, who
is heir presumptive to the Italian
throne was thrown from his horse the
other day, and the injuries to one of his
legs are of such a character that it is
likely he viii be famed for life. If any
more serious complications were to de-
clare themselves, Prince Luigi might
become the heir presumptive.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

China is beginning to feel uneasy,
and the loss Of Russian prestige is
bringing the governmental trend of
thought towards Japan. Ii Hung
Chang foretold that this would be so,
though at that time he was receiving
heavy brides from Russia TO help her
In her Monaghan policy. China could
make a powerful diversion in favor OF
Japan II she We're 10 cross the border
and demand her rights IN MauchurIa,
Kuropatkin would INA his scheme Of
campaign knocked into q Rocked hat.
As q h the fear Of Chinese action keeps
him on tfuterh0Ol,s.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26
THE FISHERIES.

The Territory up against again Now the fisheries Two
here have decided against vested rights fisheries
of final appeal the Supreme Court of the United States de-
cded that the landowners vested rights This brings the
Territory up against very high wall The Organic Act says
Sec. o. That all laws Of the Republic of Hawaii which confer
elusive fishing rights upon any person persons hereby repealed
and all fisheries the the Territory of Hawaii nclud
ed any fish pond artificial Enclosure shall be all
the United States subject however rights vested
right shall be valid after three years from the taking effect of this Act
unless Established as hereinafter provided
The law therefore makes the fisheries of Hawaii free all citizens
of the United States repeats all laws of Hawaii comforting exclusive
fishing rights upon any person persons Having provided for
fishing allows however, for vested rights After showing how the
claiming vested rights proceed then shows what the
neygeneral should do order make the fishing
That such fishing right established the aoeygen of the
Territory OF Hawaii proceed such be provided
by law for the condemnation property for public condemn
such private right OF fishing the the citizens of the United
fully asceaned shall be paid any money the treasury the
Territory of Hawaii otherwise appropriated.
There saving word this latter paragraph however, which
may the Territory much money. 1t says the encouragement
may proceed the encouragement "sha proceed If allows
the encouragement ignore the the Territory
and condemnation proceedings. How this hitch
with the section 9 that all fisheries of
the Territory of Hawaii shall be free all citizens of the
United States clear What the government of the Territory
know is whether the condemnation of fishing rights which
considered vested mandatory
dato go along have been doing If mandatory
shall have put large money which possession
Of the pockets wealthy individuals and still Weather corpora
tons
other lightning flash from the blue When the settled here
there doubt Federal supreme would
hold and the had passed of consideration 1t will
have careful consideration question involving prob
ably millions OF taxpayers money.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

Kuropatkin is reported to have de-
Tended the passage across the Yalu,
Does the Russian General know as
much about the Yalu as the Japanese
One would take it to be unlikely that
the Japanese would attack a force with
guns in position, merely to lose their
troops. The japanese won't enter Man
churia by any road which General Ku-
ropatkin may be ready to defend In
fact the chances are that the japanese
have entered ManChuria covered by
their fleet, and that Port Arthur is iso-
lated from the Russian main body.
The Russian traps are too patent.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

A report from Porto Rico recently
made shows that there is much dis
tress among the laboring population Of
that island. There have even been
some deaths from starvation. Among
the proposed improvements is putting
tariff on coffee, so as to protect Porto
Rico from the Brazilian coffee. We
should be delighted to hear of this
being put through as it would protect
Hawaii coffee as well, and that would
make our industry quite profitable.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

The Vladivostok squadron has got TO
sea and has been winning victories. It
has sunk Japanese trading steamer
OF 900 tons. No doubt St. Petersburg
was Illuminated last night In honor of
this mighty feat, In consequence the
Car Is so much encouraged that he
has determined 20 carry ON the war
ana dictate his 'Wn terms of peace.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

The land lighting seems about to
commence, the military attaches, who
are the guests of the government have
been instructed 90 go 10 the front This
means that AN thr dispositions have
been made ana mat the armies may
bn eNporled iu Join Issues ut uuN mo.
Wrni
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

There la COINS 40 Boz uo fuolug with
regard 90 iha eEoluHIon laws Both our
senate apo our House of nnprrsrutl-
dives have shade ihai rleaE mo luoa
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-04-26

ton now is, what is the Chinese Gov
eminent going to do about it? 1t con-
siders that it has a strong card to play.