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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

The story is told that not long ago
several citizens OF Garfield county
were in consultation at Sulphur
Springs l. T., and that as they came
from hotel one of the said Well.
that load will jar hins when it gets to
Washington" For some reason. the
remark is supposed to have been made
about Judge Beauchamp.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

Some people do yor favor merely
that they may brRg about II.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

II Harry Hlostcrmeir is not a nice
man, he has US fooled
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

The toy savings bank may belonI
to the child but the contents usual!
go to pap.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

Considering the unhappiness OF the
married. we are in favor Of an Elev-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

When a man does quit smoking,
how proud he is OF it.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

Married men have TO lie, and single
men lie wi.aagiy
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-25

General Immigration Agent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
An idea In Rillbonrds.

An American or Englishman looks in
vain on the streets in Freiburg for any
Of the huge advertising billboards that
disfigure to such Il great extent his
home cities. Flashing electric signs,
that blaze over half the heaven by
night and demand in green and red and
blue letters that n use Browns pure
rye or somebody else's "little liver
pills." are also absent. In place Of
these necessities of nineteenth century
commercialism Freiburg has establish
ed a system of municipal bulletin
boards and columns. There are fifty
of these display places in the city, sit
uated where they will attract the most
attention without injuring in any way
the appearance of the street as a
whole. A person having something to
announce goes to the city hall with his
bills, pays his fee, which is 25 cents
per square foot for the first day and
10 cents for each succeeding day, with
liberal reductions for long periods, and
goes out. On his way home he will
see the poster already sticking up his
notice.-Pilgrim.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
PARKER IN HIS OWN STATE.

Omaha Bee: The Tammany op-
position to the nomination of
Judge Parker persistently declar-
ed that he could not carry the
state of New York. This was the
principal ground of it's hostility to
him and the Tammany leaders seem
ed to be quite sincere in their asser-
ton. 1t is now indicated that thew
will give the candidate their support,
but there is a considerable number
of democrats in other portions of the
state that may not do so and a more
or less serious detection is by no
means improbable.
1t is the common impression that
Judge Parker has hitherto shown ex.
ceptional strength with the people of
New York, but an examination of
election figures does not sustain this.
In 1896 Mckinley carried the Empire
state by w 268, 900 plurality. The
next year Parker was elected chief
judge Of the court of appeals by near
ly $1,000, the vote in 1897 being very
light on the republican side, due to
the fact that the republicans were.
in great measure, opposed to making
a partisan campaign for a judicial
Office. Judge Parker polled only a few
votes than Bryan received in the
preceding year, while the democratic
vote on governor in 1898 exceeded by
over $4,000 the vote for Parker in
1897. In the off yeear of 1902 Governor
Odell received Ill, 900 more votes than
Parker had when he was elected to
the judicial position he now holds.
though that contest was not at all
partisan.
1T is thus seen that Judge Parker
has not demonstrated that he is ex-
~ceptionally strong with the people of
his state, although having a peculiar
~ advantageous opportunity for doing
so.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15

Professor Ray Lancaster, the British
scientist, has brought to light a curious
trick practiced by London dealers in
osprey plumes. Some time ago the
Princess of Wales placed herself at the
head of a movement to discourage the
use of real osprey plumes in order to
save the birds from slaughter. The re
suit was an immediate decline in the
sale, since fashion could not fly in the
face of the Princess of Wales. But re.
Gently facts have come to the notice of
Professor Lancaster showing that
among certain fashionable milliners ii
has become a practice to sell genuine
plumes as limitations.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
Mississippi Pearls,

The story OF the fresh water pearl
fishing in the Mississippi and it's trib-
utaries sounds like a tale from ''The
Arabian Nights" Since 1900 more
than $3,O00,OOO worth of pearls have
been taken, it is said, from the waters
of the Mississippi valley, chiefly in the
southern section. A boy found a but
ton shaped pearl neal Muscatine, La.
1t weighed 16S grains and was a beau
ty. and he sold it to a dealer in gems
for $2,16S. The dealer sold it in New
York later for $4,000. One sky blue
pearl from Caney Fork, Tenn, brought
$1,000 in London. A pearl from the
Black river, Arkansas. which a man
who was fishing for bait found acct
dentally, brought $4,000. And so on.
Shellfish abound in the inland lakes of
the Adirondacks, and it is said that the
quest for pearls is to be begun there.
Experts expect the search will be re-
warded by Il large and valuable find.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
An Odd Fact In History.

1t is an odd fact in modern history
that the tombs of the kings of Sardinia
and the cradle of their dynasty, Savoy,
are now in the hands of France. Only
Kings Victor Emmanuel II. and Hum
bert l. are buried in Italy. The rest
from the thirteenth century and mum
bering t~wenty-eight, lie in the abbey
church of Haute-C ombe, near Cham.
berry, which the peace Of Villafranca
in 1860 transferred to France, with the
rest Of the province, in return fol-
French aid against Austria. By a
strange oversight the tombs of the
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15

been nominated before informing the
convention that he favored the gold
standard he ~resorted to a political
trick, was guilty of the practices OF
the mar who was chief factor in max
ing his selection possible. 1t may be
said by those whose support him that
iii sending the message to Sheehan
he placed himself on record as prefer
ring principle to political preferment,
but this will not deceive the large
majority. The trick to which he re-
sorted was that of the man ambitious
to secure political honors. He well
knew that Hill, Belmont and the 9TH
ers who labored for him were at the
convention for the avowed purpose
OF making him it's nominee for pres
ident, and while not an open candi-
date to the extent of having proclaim.
ed himself as such, still he was as
much a candidate as Hearst or any
OF the others who were named there,
for he had at no time declined to per-
nit his name to go before the conven-
ton. Consequently it would have
been much fairer and more honorable
had he notified the convention, or
his friends in the convention of his
demand for a gold plank before his
nomination rather than afterward.
The only conclusion permissible
under the circumstances is that he
feared if he did so express himself
he would be defeated and the nominal
ton would go to some one else. He
.insulted his party and he insulted
those who in good faith supported
him. 1t will do him no good now to
say that Hill and the others who
furthered his candidacy knew his po-
sition and that they should have in
formed the convention. Honorable
that he may be in all other re-
spects, Judge Parker is today a candi-
date before the American people who
secured his nomination by trickery,
deceit and false pretense.
In his announcement of support of
the ticket bryan makes this very
plain in these words: After the
party had rejoiced over the harmony
secured by the omission of the ques-
ton (inance), and after he had Sc
cured the nomination, he injected his
views upon the subject at a time when
he could not be taken from the ticket
without great decentralization. The
nomination was secured, therefore, by
crooked and ~indefenslble methods"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
THE MILK SICK WEED.
Mysterious and Deadly Plant That
Grows In TenneMsee

GrOvvS In tennessee.
From time to time in the past five
decades Tennesseeans have been STIR
red to a profound sense Of interest in
the states mysterious Malady, milk
Sickness as it's deadly temperance
In certain sections of the state has been
followed by fatal results to human be-
lngs and to stock. No one has ever
discovered the cause Of the malady
from which death relieves the victim
after such physical agony as almost
deprives the human species Of the pow
er of speech, II dumb brutes express
their sufferings by frenzied search for
water to cool the thirst which con-
sumes them. Once by a stream they
plunge or fall into it and quickly drink
themselves to death.
The fatal sickness is known to a linn
tied extent in several sections Of the
state, but exists principally neal Spar
ia, in White county. 1t is contracted
through drinking the milk of the cows
that have eaten a certain weed known
as the milk sick weed" which looks
somewhat like clover and grows thickly
OLA NAC tCO KILL. Dul WltL COllSll-
tuteG the poison in the weed is no more
determined today than it.was when
first located by the keen w;tted, ma
ture wise mountaineers. who have been
its chief victims. 1t has been ascribed
at various times to minerals whose
poison is absorbed in the roots of the
milk sick plant, to a vapor from
some fungous growth and to the action
of the dew producing. in connection
with the life of the plant, a certain
poisonous acid. But all of these the
cries have rallied under tests applied
by practical science. On the largest in
fected section known to exist in the
limits of the state, milk Sick noun
tain" in White county. no mineral
whatever exists. Cattle which ate the
milk sick weed" after the dew had
dried died in agony just as those who
ate it when the dew was fresh and
sparkling, and the strictest search fail
ed to find any fungous growth what
ever.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
HIS &
The Peculiar Way a Lawyer IL said
to Have Won a Case.

n"NIE mWnH TETWT
They tell a good story at the expense
of w. B. Rodgers. the only lawyer ut
the Allegheny county bar-or in the
United States, for that matter-who
holds the distinction of having been
city attorney of the three cities Of one
county at various times. He was coun-
sci some time 6 for a man charged
with a serious ~offense. and on the day
of the trial the defendant was in 4 con
dition that would certainly not have
improved his chances of acquittal. At
torney Rodgers WAS worried. but he is
a general in addition to being a politi-
cal diplomat. He locked his client in a
room in a downtown hotel and then
studied out the knotty problem before
him.
One of the most prominent oil opera
tors of Pittsburg and one of his most
intimate friends happened into his Of
flee shortly before ne was ready to try
the case. 1t was only a social call for a
quiet chat, and Mr.. Rodgers requested
that his friend go into the courtroom
with him. The Oil operator sat beside
Mr.. Rodgers at the counsel table, and
during the progress of the case he took
little note of what was going IN. He
was not interested. Several times wit
nesses pointed in his direction, as did
Mr.. Rodgers, but the oil operator
thought nothing of it. Mr.. Rodgers
tried to be Indifferent. None of the
witnesses appeared to know the opera
tor-at least they said that they did not
and the prosecutor also stated that
he did not know the man seated beside
AIr. Rodgers. The jury naturally
thought the man was Mr.. Rodgers eli
ent, and when the right bower of Bige-
low at the conclusion Of the testimony
got up and said. "That is my case; this
is not the man, not many minutes
were wasted in bringing in a verdict OF
acquittal.
The oil operator accompanied Mr..
Rodgers out of court, and it was not
until they We're a safe distance away
from the seat of justice that Mr.. Rodg-
ers confided to his friend that he had
posed as the defendant in the case.
The operator was mad all through
when he first heard of it, but the ridic-
u%lousness of the situation appealed to
him, and he took it as a huge joke and
as a sample of the diplomacy of n
who could pull a brand out of the
burning. 1t is doubtful whether the
brilliant city attorney would acknowl-
edge the story, but his friends say it is
rue.-Pittsburg Gazette.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
Remarkable Operation.

A remarkable operation was recently
performed at the st. Antoine hospital,
Paris, by the extraction of a large nail
from a mans lung. After six prelimi.
nary experiments the foreign body was
located and seer through the '.broncho-
scope" The first attempt at extraction
failed, but the second was completely
successful, the nail being dislodged
from an inner ramification of the right
lung and removed up the windpipe by
means of a magnet, the operation last
Ing only five minutes.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
SECURED BY DECEIT.

After all has been said that may be
said concerning the honesty and can
dor Of Judge Parker in refusing to
become a candidate under a possible
misrepresentation on the part of those
whose support he was to expect as
regards his position on the financial
question, the fact remains that he has
greatly lessened the esteem in which
he was held by many within his W
party. IN waiting until after he had
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15

1t is lawful to go without a vest. It
is permissible when off city pavem.ents
to carry your coat on your arm, just
to show that you have one. You may
carry your hat in your handsome
reason. But you must wear your col
lar, no matter how hot and uncom-
Portable it makes you. No wonder the
collar is an emblem Of slavery.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15

Don't overlook the big game be-
eWeen the Elks and Forsyth Sunday
afternoon; it will be the fastest con.
test of the season.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
Refused to Pay Another,s.

The Tailor-And you refuse to settle
this bill? Why. you are not the same
man you used to he.
Harduppe-Not the same man? Well,
then, how do you expect me to pay?-
Philadelphia Record.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15

All orders for weddings and funer-
ais promptly filled at Miss P~anton's.
Bell phone 62f. Montana ave-. 3O19.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-15
DEMOCRATS WHO DISSENT.

DEMOCRATS WHO DISSENT.
Having now had ample opportunity
and time to become thoroughly ia
miliar with the workings of both, the
sensible men OF the country may
be depended upon to exercise sound
judgment in choosing between the
declarations of the two great political
parties as regards their position on
the tariff question. Following it's old
time policy, the democratic party one
more places itself on a platform
roundly d%enouncing protection as a
robbery and pledges itself, if success
full, to a repeal OF the existing laws
as they relate to foreign imports that
come into competition with the Amer
ican producer.
While the body of men protesting to
speak for the masses of the party
have thus defined the position it as
sumes, they will speedily learn that
leaders though they may be, they
should not be too sure OF the blind
obedience of their supposed followers.
Warning OF this is given already by
writer's and speakers in the party.
The Brooklyn Eagle, which supports
Judge Parker, has this to say concern
ing the st. Louis tariff plank:
1T is undoubtedly a proposition
from which the voters may withhold
the seal of their endorsement. They
do not regard protection as robbery.
The rank and file of the republicans
and many more democrats than can
be counted regard the schedules with
all their infirmities as a shield. Prices
paid for labor in Europe are such as
are suggestive of pauperism here. The
difference is a sort of credit balance
in favor of the American artisan. 1t is
a balance he is more than disposed to
keep on the right size of the ledger.
10 ask him to vote it out of existence
is to invite him to become his own
worst enemy"
This is strong language, particularly
SO coming from a democratic newspa-
per of the standing and influence OF
the Brooklyn Eagle. 1t shows that
reason a be stronger than political
prejudice and obstinacy. It is an adj
mission that the republican party is
right when it insists that a protect.
ing wall SHAH be reared about the
American laborer to shield him from
the ruinous competition with the un.
derpaid labor of foreign lands. The
testimony of years is all against the
party that would overturn existing
conditions and force the toilers OF
this nation onto as low a plane as
those of European nations. where Ia
Dor is rewarded with a mere %pittance.
with a share of the profits of it's pro-
duction SO small as to make existence
possible only at the expense of the
greatest sacrifices and d%eprivations.
Twice the voters of the nation have
permitted themselves to be deluded
and deceived by democratic promises
and declarations and twice have drank
of the dregs. The years of prosperity
and industrial growth that have fol-
lowed since the last democratic ad.
ministration occupied the White house
furnish evidence which even the more
honest of that party do not attempt to
refute. Well may the Eagle say that
uncountable democrats are ready to
take stand with the republicans and
deny that protection is robbery"
SECURED BY DECEIT.
After all has been said that may be
said concerning the honesty and can
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-30
A WELCOME ORDEE
Auecdote Illustrating Admiral Fhts-
ips Kindness of Eears.


The late Admiral John w. Phliip
WAS exceedingly kind to his men, AS
one would expect man OF bis sincere
Christian character to be. Inc New
York Sun says that when the Texas
was lying in Hampton Roads Juse pe-
fore the war with Spain, there was
souadron order against 'shore leave.
This order bore heavily on one Oh the
machinists, who lived at Phoebus bis
house. where his wife and ch,iureh
were. was visible from the ship, just
behind Old Point Comfort.
One morning Admiral Philips, then
CAPTAIN. saw the man looking wistfully
over the rail. Philip knew that the
man lived in Phoebus. 1t was the Gus
tom among the ships of the squadron
then to send q boat ashore every AFTER
noon at one o'clock with the mail or
derby and the stewards TO purchase
supplies. The captain stepped up TO
the machinist and said:
II want you to go ashore for me
this afternoon in the one O'Clock boat.
The man turned as the captain spoke
to him and saluted.
AYE, aye, sir" he replied.
Captain Philip went on looking about
the ship, and the incident passed out
of his mind. At one o'clock he was
sitting In his cabin, when messenger
came down from the watch on deci
and said:
"Machinist West has reported at thu
gangway sir, and says he has instluc
lions from you to go ashore on duty
but doesn't know what the duty is"
Send Machinist West down here,
ordered the captain.
A moment later the machinist stoo
in the doorway of the cabin with hi
cap in his hand The captain locke
up at him, and sang out in the gruf
tone known in the service as the ''pa
rade rasp:"
West, do you know where the vi
lage Of Phoebus ISL"
Eyes, SIR" replied the astonishe
machinist.
"Well, 1 want you to ashore in th1
boat and go over to Phoebus, and
want you to stay there until tomorrow
morning at eight o'clock, and keep
sharp lookout to see If you make OF
the general recall ON the Texas"
AYE, aye, SIR" And ashore til
machinist went, and had a night {
his home and got back to the ship b
the first boat in the morning, and du
ing the fight that followed served a
the better because of his captains kim
ness
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-30
BIRD LIVES ON WARM DIET.
Papabote That Eats the Spanish Fly
Is a Table Delicacy.

One would scarcely suppose that
bird that fattened itself on an insect
which will blister your flesh almost as
quickly as the burning head CT par
lor match would be much of a table
luxury, but there is such a bird. 1t is
called the papabote, and 1t belongs to
the plover family. 1t Is about the
size of the woodcock, with a sober
gray plumage and a short, hard bill
The coming of the Spanish fly upon
the foliage in the localities it frequents
Is sudden and mysterious. No one
knows whence it comes or whittier 1t
goes. 1t disappears as mysteriously as
1t comes. 1t Is most destructive in
sect, coming in countless myriads, and
eats ravenous,y OF growing things But
the Iapabote comes with it, stays until
the fly disappears, and consumes mil
lions of the pest. The bird grows so
fat on this corrosive insect that they
become literally balls covered with
feathers. When they fall before the
gun Of the hunter they burst open like
ovcrripe fruit.
The papabote is the shyest of birds.
and can be approached within gunshot
in only one way, for unlike all known
game birds, 1t viii not crouch to the
dog. 1t is heavy of wing, keen of
sight and hearing, and rises long be-
fore the hunter is in range, resembling
in this respect your common meadow
lark. 1t can be shot in no really
sportsmanlike way, and only by using
horse and wagon. The bird will
permit a horse to walk quite close t.
it. and the hunters take advantage o.
this and in open buggies and spring
wagons ride about among the feed
ing grounds, and drop the birds a
they rise on every side in easy range.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-30

partly from conviction. He knew who
this young woman was now, and dareu
to combat her aggressive action.
"She never had any falling out with
Him." Evangeline said reverently.
but now that you know who l am
and why am here, you will leave her
to me. 1 am her nearest relative, but
more than that l am trained nurse
and thoroughly familiar with fever
case. Where is the doctor-she surely
has medical carer"
HE has given her up" said one Of
the retreating women. with a SLY salts
faction.
"Given her up! How dared he7 And
why do you speak Of such possibility
before herr"
"Oh, she doesn't sense anything
that is said now" complained one Of
the cronies, taking a reluctant depart
ure.
The preacher took himself off with
the others, but he gained a reluctant
consent to call the next day to learn
how the sick woman was doing. He
did not really expect to find her alive.
and his slow, well-regulated faculties
received healthy shock when Vangie,
ideal in her nurses gown and white
cap and apron. informed him that she
had moved the sick woman from the
south room to the north room. from
which the stuffy carpet and obstruct-
ing furniture had been removed
II have telegraphed for Ice and a
modern doctor. and she is drinking
cool spring water. and is better al
/ ready. Have you never heard of Aunt
Maggie's goodness and charity to all
who need help and consolation-how
she brought up a poor orphan child.
| gave her a home and the love OF a
mother. teaching her the value of
right living and unselfshness? l was
that child. And 1 am not going to let
her dle-not yet"
"And may l not see her again?"
"Oh, yes. You may come and
preach the gospel of cheerfulness to
her when think her strong enough
and Evangeline gave her would-be
Gabriel a wicked little smile, that the
man-not the Observation-Disclosures
perfectly. 1t certainly is wonderful
how that rascally god Cupid delivers
his darts regardless of time and place
Chicago Record Herald.