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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
FOREIGN FACTS.

On payment of $500 a young man is
excused from military service in Spain.
In 1861 there were in London $1,000
tailors. in 1871 $4,000, in 1881 10000, in
1891 $1,000 and in 1901 SO,O74.
England gets about $5,O0O,00O worth
of new gold from Africa every month
and $7,OOO,OOO worth out of Australia.
According to the st. Petersburg
Times, the demand for agricultural ma
chimes in the Siberian country beyond
Lake Baikal is to be very large.
The largest photograph ever made is
now on exhibition in Berlin. 1t is
twelve yards long and a yard and a
half wide. all in one piece. and repre-
sents the gulf of Naples.
Posters inviting recruits in Ireland
for the One Hundred and First and
One Hundred and Second royal militia
concluded with the words, God save
the king" printed in Irish as follows;
eco slanaghadh dia au righ."
The largest Bible class in Great Brit
ain is held in All Saints church, Shelf.
field. The class consists of $3.50 men
with an average attendance of 1000
The men are not from the ~churchgoing
class. AS many as seventy saloon keep
ers attend the class regularly.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
MODES OF THE MOMENT.

A heart shaped muff is pretty in fur
or material.
Shirrings over the hips are the fea-
ture of the newest skirts.
A capuchin hood is seen on many of
the newest evening wraps.
Among the new cravats is a knot of
colored ribbon without any ends at all.
Colored laces accompany every sort
Of gown. but they must match to per
lection.
Gold spangles, braid and passemente-
RE contribute to the adornment of some
handsome evening gowns.
The newest linen collars are fash
toned so as to be worn without a bow
or tie, a V shaped piece in front being
substituted. The fastening is at the
back.
Flounced skirts are in evidence, and
as a rule most of the 1ounces descend
in the front and are carried upward to-
ward the waist at the back.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
CHOICE MISCELLANY
Irish Royal Castle.

There is some talk that Kylemore
castle, In Galway, will be selected as
the royal residence in Ireland. The
king drove through a portion OF the
grounds during his recent visit to the
Emerald Isle and expressed admiration
for the beauty Of the place and its
surroundings.
Kylemore castle is the biggest Of all
the great Irish homes, having been
built about twenty years ago by Mitch
ell Henry, a wealthy Yorkshire manu-
facturer, who sat for an Irish constit-
uency as a Liberal.
A vast fortune was sunk in the build
ing Of Kylemore. Some idea of its ex-
tent may be gathered from the fact
that there are 200 bedrooms in the
house.
The grounds cover thousands Of acres
! and are within a mile or two Of the
! coast. The castle has remained ,lnten-
anted and neglected for many years,
and the man who built it hardly e
joyed it. He had made in the grounds
two large lakes, and in one of these the
only daughter of the louise was acci-
dentally drowned while gathering wa
ter lilies. .Ga.
From that day Mr.. Henry refused to
occupy it. No suitable tenant was
found for the property, although it has
been to let for the last decade. About
six months ago the trustees put the
estate up for sale, but the property was
only $150,OOO. a'
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
JOKE ON A COUNTESS.
Ranch "Boss" Confused Lady Con
stance Mckenzie With a Mare.

Ranch Boss" Confused Lady Com
stance Mckenzie With a Mare.
Confusion in interpreting a telegram
led to a ludicrous mistake in connection
with the visit of Countess Constance
Mckenzie. of Scotland to Alice and
Corpus Christi for her wild hog hunt,
says a Houston (Tex.) dispatch.
A telegram came announcing the ar.
rival of Lady Constance Mckenzie. 1t
was addressed to the Santa Gertrude
ranch, and the "boss," who is not up
on the titles of nobility, concluded that
Lady Constance was a fine blooded
that r. j. Kelberg was sending
to the ranch. He telephoned to j. B.
Ragland, the livery stable mar at
Alice.
Ragland prepared a special stall at
the stable and notified s. p. Anderson,
agent for the San Antonio and Aran-
sas Pass railway. 1t was only by acct
dent that Ragland discovered on arriv-
Ing at the depot that Lady Constance
was a woman.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
WARNING TO sPooNERs.
CIRCULATION In Public Leads to Arrest
In Wisconsin,. -4

CIRCULATION In Public Leads to Arrest
In Wisconsin. -
Carroll college trustees have an
nounced that any pupil caught kissing
a girl on the school steps will be ex-
PEELED, says a Milwaukee dispatch. The
evil at Carroll is said to be even great
er than at GAINESVILLE. where the kissing
matches were so noisy and so prolong-
ed that they kept people awake until
the small hours of the morning.
At Carroll the '%'spoonies" are not
satisfied with kissing each other after
dark, but insist on stolen oscillations in
the dark corners of the halls by day as
we'll.
"The loving game is too strong" was
the way the college %janitor expressed
it, land has got to STOP"
The janitor's complaint to the facul-
ty was supported. and he was ordered
to report every case where a smack
was heard. The trouble at GAINESVILLE
was due to the complaints of people
living near the school that they were
unable to sleep because of it. Hereaft-
er the police will arrest for disorderly
conduct all kissing students.
The city council of Ashland also has
passed an ordinance making public
kissing a misdemeanor. I'm.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

A collection of all books written by
Indian authors will be exhibited in the
Hoosier State building.
A great granite obelisk will grace n
Of the principal entrances to the Texas
exhibit in the Mines and Metallurgy
building.
One Of the features Of Minnesota's
educational exhibit will .beaa display of
photographs of vegetable and flower
gardens at grade schools where the
work is done entirely by pupils.
Many of the picturesque features of
the late Boer war will be shown. The
Beers in South Africa and their late
enemies, the English residents. have
formed a syndicate for this purpose.
Professor Carl E. Meyers of Frank
fort, Ky. who has had charge of many
balloon experiments for the war de-
partment, has been requested to take
charge of and supervise the depart
ment of airship exhibits.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
SHORT SHINES.

Man ,attan Island has an average of
1872 people to the acre. while London
has 60.
There are 100000 books in the homes
Of colored people. and they W and
publish $50 newspapers and magazines.
There is a child Of Alaskan birth
whose name is Leon Edward Seattle
No. 3 Yukon Woodpile Bartlett. Its IA
Their recently murdered it's mother.
A statue of Colonel Josias r. King Of
st. Paul, who was, it is believed. the
first volunteer in the civil war, is to
surmount the monument to be erected
In Summit park. st. Paul.
A Thomaston (Me.) man has a seven
dollar bill. 1t was issued in 177S and is
quite a curiosity in these later days.
though they turned them off pretty
freely during the Revolution.
Cape Cod oysters are gradually find
ing their way into the Connecticut mar
ket. where for years the home product
has had little or no competition. A New
London firm has planted 1000 acres of
oyster ground on Cape Cod.
The steel mast Of the English racing
/ yacht Shamrock I'LL, which was pre-
sented to Cape May by Captain Charles
Barr, sailer Of the Reliance, who bougE.
the Shamrock. has arrived there 9
will be placed in a public square
New Cape May.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
New Use For Telephones.

To apply for a position when you are
out of work by telephone is n of the
latest manifestations of the universal
convenience of long distance talking,
says the Boston Transcript. No need
now to advise the impecunious young
man to borrow $25-of somebody else
for a new suit, hat and gloves in order
that he may give out the impression Of
not being poor. The man at the phone
will listen only to the quality of his
utterance and will not be affected by
the color of the tie the youth has on.
The net saving therefore Of getting a
job over the wire, %supposing that the
young man has to call up fifty different
business men, is $40, a tidy little sum
toward staving off the assignment Of
wages man. Great Is modern economy!
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
II, the

There is something in the autumn sets my
gypsy blood astir,
When the partridge and the plover's
sprightly wings are all awhir;
With the purple and the scarlet and the
yellow of the leaves,
While the fertile fields are freighted With
the pumpkins and the sheaves.
When. within the witching woodlands.
turtle doves are sadly calling.
And the leaves of red and russell from the
trees are sadly falling,
Touched with fervent farewell kisses by
the autumn,s am'rous mouth.
And the swallows have departed to the
summer of the south!
When the grass has left the meadow and
the green has left the hill,
And the only feathered songster is the
p~laintive whippoorwill;
When the apples in the orchard and the
sumac's leaves are red.
And the quails are loudly piping In the
stubble where they fed!
Oh, the brilliant autumn season, the most
brilliant of the year, /.
When the gorgeous groves are cleaning
ere the leaves begin to scar;
When the maple boughs are crimson and
the hick'ry's a are gold.
And the days are sultry summer and the
nights are wintry cold.
When the river is blue as steel and the
sky is clear as glass.
And the mist is on the mountain and the
hoarfrost on the grass;
When the harvest is all garnered and the
farmers work Is done,
And the hillsides are resounding with the
pointer and the gun!
David ]. Evans In Washington Post
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
PLucKY LADS AMBITION.
Sets Himself Rules OF Life and Starts
Out to Earn an Education.

Sets Himself Rules OF Life and Starts
Out to Earn an Education.
Sixteen-year-old Harold BENDER Par
ker Of Lowell. Mass, arrived ut Pough-
keepsie recently after wandering from
academy to academy seeking u chance
to work for his board and an oppor-
tunity to study. says the New York
World. In his dress suit case he car
ried u small card. which he produced
as his guide in life. On the card was
pasted u set of rules. clipped from q
newspaper and said to have been past
ed by Baron Rothschild in his bank.
They read as follows:
Shun liquor.
Dare to go forward.
Never be discouraged.
Be polite to everybody.
Employ your time we'll.
Never tell business lies.
Pay your debts promptly.
Be prompt in everything.
Bear all troubles patiently.
Dc not reckon upon chance.
Make no useless acquaintance.
Be brave in the struggle of life.
Maintain your integrity aS a sacred
thing.
Never appear to be something more
than you are.
Take time to consider; then decide posi-
lively.
Carefully examine into every detail Of
o business.
my mother is a poor widow the
lad said. land after l had reached the
second grade in the grammar school
she found she would need my help.
There was nothing for me to do but
| go to work in one of the Lowell mills.
1 started out to look for a job. and on
my way l thought of the rules l found.
I said to myself: If l go to work in a
mill in Lowell. that will be the last of
me. l must get an education before
can hope to be anybody or any big
service to my mother l turned back
and went near the mill.
"a friend of my mother told her that
I might get a chance at Newton school
at Newton. N. ]. l went there and
worked six weeks. but found that
could not earn money enough to pay
for such clothes as the professor told
me l must have. I bought a football
rig, and that used up my money. for
had earned only $50. l packed up and
left Newton and went to Nyack. There
was no room for me in the prepare
tory school there. The proprietor is
the same man who owned the Newton
school when Mr.. Holly, who now pub
fishes the Harvard Catalogue. was
there and worked his way through
school.
81 went from Nyack to Tarrytown
and the principal Of the preparatory
school there told me he had no place
for me. but would write to my mother
At Peekskill the principal told me the
same thing. Then l came to POUCH
keepsie, hoping to get a chance in Riv
erview Military academy. l am Obliged
to sleep in the police station now, bu'
I am not discouraged"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
RAT CHASING A NEW SPORT
surpasses Fox Hunting In Popularity
In a Pennsylvania Village.

Surpasses Fox Hunting In Popularity
In a Pennsylvania VILLAGE.
Rat chasing is the new sport to which
men, young and old, living near Ber-
mudian, Adams county, Pa, have re-
Gently become devoted, says a Gettys-
burg dispatch. AS a rural sport the
innovation is fast understanding fox
hunting in the village.
Interest in this game was aroused
several weeks ago when a Bermudian
resident liberated six rats from a trap,
and the dogs of the village engaged in
q rat killing contest. Rules regulating
the sport were then drafted, and now it
has become a regular Saturday after
noon pastime, and wagers are made on
the result.
During the week traps are set in rat
infested buildings, and when the time
arrives for the weekly roundup as
many as fifty rats are usually in cap
tivity. The owners of dogs then as
semble at the clubhouse. Each dog
is held by it's owner or trainer. One
rat is then liberated from a trap, gets
a start Of several yards, and at a sig
nal the dogs are released and the chase
is on. The owner Of the dog catching
the most rats receives a cash prize
which is collected from the owners OF
the dogs. There is also lively betting
on the side.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
An Ingenious Frenchman.

A thrifty Partisan has hit upon a
new system of safety deposit. A visit
was made to the police station in the
Faubourg Montmartre by NJ. Samuel
". who came to claim a parcel of
jewels which he had lost a month pre-
viously valued at 100000 francs. The
commissary consulted his register. NJ.
VS. jewels had been found and taken
to the station by NJ. Leon ID. 1T is
very curious" said an employee.
''These jewels were lost on the same
date last year and brought here by
M. Leon D. and claimed a month after
ward by NJ. Samuel "" ut is very
curious. too curious" said the commits
sary. Explain this strange coinci-
dence.' After a slight hesitation NJ.
Samuel V. explained that being afraid
of burglars willie away for a months
holiday he thought it would be difficult
to find a more secur place to put them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
MADE RICH IN A NIGHT.
Sold All His Lots Before u silver
U aa @ ubble Vanished.

Noting the death of Samuel r.
Mitchell at the home of his son In
Oklahoma, the Wellington Mail tells
of one of those periodic excitements
over alleged mining discoveries so ia
miliar to Kansas. In 1856 Mitchell
owned q farm in Sumner county. In
digging on a creek bank he thought he
discovered silver ore. The rest of the
story is told by the Mail as follows:
"Mr. Mitchell honestly believed that
he had a genuine silver mine. So did
hundreds of others. Samples of the
ore were sent to different assayers, and
invariably certificates were returned
to the effect that it was rich silver ore:
The excitement in Caldwell was in
tense, with hundreds of spectators
crowding the hotels. boarding houses
and private residences. Frantic eff
forts were made by different parties to
secure street car rights to the Mitchell
farm. Offers Of fabulous prices in cash
for the farm were rejected by Mitchell.
Eat that time a Wellingtonian, still
q resident of the city, owned o
than 200 Caldwell lots. He sent to
Leadville, Colo, for a practical assayer.
an old schoolmate. He arrived in We'll
lington fully equipped to make assays
in the field. The editor of the Mail
accompanied him across the country
in a carriage to the Mitchell farm.
When we arrived there we found at
least 200 people, mostly strangers, surg
ing back and forth ove the mine.
"Without being noticed we secured
samples of the ore and drove to the
woods on the Chikaskia, where the ore
was carefully assayed. 1t showed only
the merest trace of silver. Without
intimating his intention. the assayer
drove back to the mine, sought out MI.
Mitchell alone, declared himself an as
sayer, produced his apparatus and pro-
ceeted to make an assay with all the
crowd around him. The result was as
pretty a bead of silver the size of a
pea as you. ever saw. The assayer had
dropped some rich Colorado ore into
the crucible. Mitchell was a millionaire
that night, and the Wellingtonian sold
all his Caldwell lots before the silver
bubble vanished into Thin air"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Growing Railroad Ties.

The Pennsylvania Railroad compa-
ny has made a new departure. The
increasing scarcity Of timber suitable
for railway ties and the failure of SUBJ
stitutes for wood in the roadbed have
led the Pennsylvania into a forestry
experiment. One hundred acres of land
have been planted with 10000 young
locusts. The locust is a rapid grower.
and, moreover, the timber is durable
under the exposed conditions of ties.
The company intends to plant 1000
acres of ground in locusts to provide
for future construction and renewal
Of Its roadbed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
CANNON AS SPEAKER.
HIS stand For the Dignity If the
House Against the Senate.

HIS stand For the Dignity If
House Against the senate.
Not since Thomas B. Reeds first up.
pearance as speaker has the house of
representatives had in that office Il
man OF such vigorous individuality as
MI. Joseph G. Cannon. says the New
York Posts special Washington CORE
spondent. His personality is so dis
tinctly his own, except SO far as it be-
longs to an earlier western type now
little seen in Washington, that it has
been widely pictured in current publ
cations and apparently affords mate
rial for constant comment. Other
speakers of the house have regularly
used somewhat stilted phrases in their
requests for order, such as "Cease con-
%yersation'' and Retire to the cloak
ROOM" when they have really meant in
the vernacular keep quiet" Mr.. Can
non is restoring the idiom as fast as
possible. When he gets awakened in
making a ruling to the house, he drops
the gaveI from his left hand, reverting
to an appraised forefinger with which
to lay down the law, after q manner
long familiar to the house. Every time
he drops the gavel the house applauds,
for it's members know that he is about
to say something too vigorous for the
conventional weapon of his office.
When some Chicago callers were re-
Gently trying to get him to speak at a
dinner in the near future, he answered
that he could not speak. They replied
that it took Mr.. Kinds, the clerk at the
| speakers table, and several other coach
ers busy to keep him from making a
! speech half of the time in the house.
There was a modicum of truth in this
retort.
MI. Cannon, unlike his predecessors
does not bow profoundly to the secre,
tary of the senate when that function
airy comes into the house to make an
! nouncement of the senate's action. The
story is told that when the new speak
er's coaches informed him that he mus
make a great bow he answered that he
did not bow to the United States sen
ate, and he would not bow to any of its
secretaries.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Criminals. Eyes.

A Russian savant lays claim to a dis
covery for detecting criminals. Accord
ing to NJ. Karloff, the scientist in ques-
ton, you can tell a criminal by the col
or of his eyes. Murderers and thieves
have maroon or reddish brown eyes,
tramps light blue, and so forth. M.
Karlof has classified eyes into fami-
lies and has drawn up rules which he
declares to be infallible. Honest folk
have dark gray or blue eyes.-London
Globe.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Novel work For Submarines.

The schools of porpoise off the coast
of Brittany are Playing havoc with the
fish. Recently certain cruisers OF the
French navy were sent out to practice
on the .'sea pigs with their secondary
batteries. The experiment was a fail
ure. Now it is proposed to use the sub
marine as the only weapon with which
war can be waged successfully against
the pest. Bombs will be shot from the
tubes into the fish and blow them to
pieces.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
German. the Greatest Readers.

According to recent statistics, Ger.
many heads the list as a reading ma
ton, Russia falling to zero. With re-
gard to newspapers. the following facts
are ever more significant: In the Unit
ed States of America q 100000 of in
habitants are catered for by $4,000
journals, while Russia. with its popula-
ton Of 100, 0,000, has only SOO-i. e..
thirty-seven times less. This paucity
is easily accounted for by the censor>
ship. In Germany the actual number
Of professional writers is estimated at
$4,000, 400 of whom are poets. 1t
would therefore appear that Deutsch-
land is not only the ''readingest" but
the 'writingest" country in the world.
kansas City Journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
London. .How old I. Amir.

London has a variation of How old
IL Ann?" 1t is "How old were Robin
and Richard" And the problem is
thus metrically set out, says the New
York American:
Said Robin to Richard, ''If ever I come
To the age you are now, brother mine,
Dur ages. united. will mount to a sum
OF years making ninety and nine"
Said Richard: That's certain. and If it
be fair
For us to look forward so far
I then h be double the age that you
= when was the age that you are"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
Sympathetic BriRands.

Modern banditti retain in Epirus all
the %audacity, with some of the pie
turesqueness, of the old time brigand.
A somewhat striking instance is re-
corded from the town of KonitZa. A
bridegroom. with his family and man
friends. was proceeding with %violins,
flies and other musical instruments, ac-
cording to the custom of the country, to
bring the bride. when. half way, they
found themselves beset on all sides by
seventeen armed brigands, who, at the
guns muzzle, compelled the surrender
of every farthing in money and every
article of jewelry they possessed-even
to the nuptial ring. The coup being
quite successful and the booty large. as
the family was well to do and there
were many handsome wedding gifts
and personal jewels, the brigands en-
tered into the spirit of the occasion, re-
turning the. nuptial ring and coins
equivalent to 20 pence per head in or
der that the bridegroom's friends might
not cut a too humiliating figure at the
nuptial merrymakings. Then, with
many good wishes. for the future happi-
ness of the bridal pair, the robbers de-
parted.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-15
shop1ifters who .sExchange" Loot

shoplifters who exchange" Loot.
Every large department store in New
York city has to make an annual al
lowance for stealing. A big store in
Brooklyn sets aside $4,000 at the be-
ginning of every year for that purpose.
Stealing by employees makes the small
est part of the losses. Shoppers with
lifting" proclivities are the chief Of
tenders, though truckmen get away
with many dollars worth Of merchan-
disc in the curse of a year.
One of the most impertinent features
of this stealing is the fact that the
goods are almost always brought back
to the store from which they are taken
and exchanged for other articles or
cash. The old rule of requiring the
check given with the purchase to be
brought when an exchange is made
does not defeat the plans of the thieves.
as it is a rule that was long ago found
to be ill advised, making enemies of
regular patrons who had lost their
checks.-New York Press.