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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29

once at least the old dame has been
fooled and man has the advantage
of her" Having thus delivered him
self the nan who always growls about
something ambled off looking for an
other cause of a kick"
z Almost any sort of a report may be
had these days concerning the con-
dition of livestock on the range. The
man who may want to deceive his
creditors will tell you that the losses
have been only normal" and the man
who knows a good deal about other
things than cattle and sheep may
join in with him. But the one who
owns stock and who is supposed to
know whereof he speaks will admit
that the outlook is anything but cheer
full. Even the most conservative OF
him will say that the season has been
exceptionally bad. Thus a well known
flockmaster, who returned only yes
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29

should they meet again it will have to
be somewhere outside of California.
Only a few men are to be found who
care to risk any money Oh a contest
anywhere in that state IN Wl-ch n
of the contestants is a native or even
a citizen by adoption, and place it on
the man from the outside. The fire.
quency with which shady decisions
have been rendered in the past in
events of that sort has made the
sports cautious.
OF course, it is wrong, but human
nature is a strange sort OF beast at
best. Gus Eastman is not responsible
for the continued display of the storm
signals from the city hall tower. He
merely hangs out the kind of banner
ordered from headquarters. In spite
of the fact that he is only doing his
duty as a faithful and reliable Off
cial should do, some people are begin
ming to blame him for the weather
that has made every one sick and
tired because of it's perversity. 1t
should be remembered that he serve
without other pay than the conscious
ness of acting as a public benefactor,
and those who are finding fault with
the medicine he is supposed to make
should give him a chance. l. is still a
long time before next fall and there
Is no telling what he may do before
then.
Along with the robins comes that
other bird Of migratory habits-the
hobo, and he is even more numerous
than his supposed congener. For over
a week the residence portion of the
city has been overrun with him and
his appeals for handouts" have be
come SO frequent that some of the
good housewives hesitate now before
answering a rap at their backdoor
He is not so tuneful as the other birds,
but he seems to have developed the
faculty of getting there" to its limit
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29
U IN PROCESSION.
Five Trains from East Arrive Over
Northern Pacific.

Five Trains from East Arrive Over
Northern Pacific.
Something almost like a regular pro-
~cession of trains arrived from the
east over the Northern Pacific last
evening and last night. All were
through trains that had been delayed
by the snowdrifts east of Dickinson
F., and west of Mandan. The first to
arrive was a section of No. 1, due here
last Friday forenoon at IL O'Clock.
After that others continued to trail
in until we'll along toward midnight,
the last of the stranded ones being
President Elliott and his special con
tanning a number of the company's
officials.
The trains were all designated as
sections" of Nos. 1 and 3, but to the
uninitiated they looked like ordinary
trains, except that the passengers in
the day coaches appeared to be a
little more tired and in need of intro
auctions to the bathtub. AS dining
cars yer attached to the direlicts
there was no suffering for want OF
food and aside from the annoyances
incident to the delay none of those
aboard appeared to be much the worse
for their experience.
In all five trains arrived, the first
to be reported since Friday morn
ing's belated Pacific express, about
a dozen hours behind it's schedule,
passed through.
AS is usual when "bucking snow" is
one of the incidents Of a train crews
experience there vas NO escape from
the accidents generally looked for.
! Several engines were wrecked and at
least two men were seriously injured.
One, an engineer, is said to have lost
a leg and a fireman was also badly
hurt. Because of the damage done to
the track by the wreck resumption OF
traffic was still further delayed.
Although a portiop of the storm was
felt on the Burlington, east of Sheri-
dan on the Wyoming prairie, it's force
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29

.terday from a visit to the eastern
part of the state, a man marked for
his optimism and cheerfulness, was
in anything but a glowing frame OF
mind over the results OF his observa-
lions. 1T is impossible to say now
what the percentage of losses Will be.
but they are bound to put a crimp
in many Of us" he said. "Fhose Who
say there have been no more than the
usual losses are either wllfully lying
or they don't know what they are talk
ing about. Everybody knows that feed
on the range has been scarce, and this
of itself was a handicap to begin
with. Then, also, every one knows
that bad storms at this time OF the
year are always productive Of much
distress and loss on the range. Storms
will kill sheep and steers, and the
last one was a bad storm. Just how
/ will come out can't be told nov 1
do not intend to make my returns to
the assessor until shearing time, be.
cause l won't be able to say how many
animals will be left when spring real
ly comes. The cattlemen to whom
I talked down that way told me they
could not even approximate their
losses until after the roundup, but they
are prepared for about anything that
may turn up. Cattle dirfted badly and
there is no S in trying at this time
to do any figuring"
If the man who was quoted in the
opening article in this medley is
right then nature will have to answer
for much this spring. The ducks and
geese are beginning to show up in
large numbers, and those who have
visited the river during the last few
days say great fiocks OF both are ia
be seen. A few vans were also among
the immigrants noticed. AS webfoot
| ed birds are much harder than the
songsters they will probably survive.
but for all that they must must feel q
trife grouchy toward the old girl that
started them northward before things
had been set Alright for their recep
ton. No dead ducks or geese have
been found by any one, but dead
robins and other birds of that nature
have been picked up IN several in
stances about the city.
While the total is not very large
still there was some money wagered
on the outcome Of the prizefight al
San Francisco last Friday night
Those who bet on the Denver man
are still of the opinion that he car
best the native son and r anxious
to be given another opportunity te
: back their favorite, but stipulate thai
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29

was spent and caused no delay to
traffic. Saturdays incoming passen-
ger train was about Is hours late. The
detention was due to the burning OF a
bridge near Crawford, Neb. Taking
advantage of the fact that the road
remained open all eastbound mail was
despatched that way.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29

We guarantee all our work and Il
not satisfactory we will make 1t 81
or return your money.
BILLINGS STEAM LAUNDRY.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29

Victory Can Do 1t. 91-S
If you want the best shoe repairing
at the lowest prices, go to Victory,
near the Salvation Army barracks.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29
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Help Wanted.
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Tie makers, by the piece.
Woman cook for ranch.
Roundup cook.
Chambermaid, $25 per month.
Man and wife for ranch.
Laundress for Meeteetse, Wyo. Free
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Body ironer.
Girls for homework. city and ranch.
For Rent.
Basement.
Rooms furnished for housekeeping,
one block from depot.
Ranch 9 town; good buildings,
water, etc.
One-half Of store or desk space in
employment Office on Montana avenue
For Sale.
One quarter section, z miles from
city, under ditch, fenced, cuts from
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One-quarter section near Billings;
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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-29

Calling cards at The Gazette ONCE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
A DULL YEAR FOR CUPID.
Illinois Drummer Says Young Men
Fight Shy of Matrimony Dur
ing Leap Year.

When the Southdown drummer re-
turned to the city the other day from
his regular run over the Illinois circuit.
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, it was
evidence that he had run across a new
one during the week. Being an I'M
usually acute observer, he rarely lets
anything go by him, and, therefore,
the leap-year doings down in the corn
belt have not gone unnOticed.
We'll, sir, it's a fact" he said in
telling of the trip, that the matri-
monial business has fallen off about so
per cent throughout the state. have
been in half a dozen county seats dur
ing the past week. and the county
clerks swear the marriage license bust
ness has dropped off in an amazing
manner. Last year at this time and In
other years, the business was brisk,
but this, as the clerks say is leap year.
and as a rule. young men prefer not
to be married during leap year. They
seem to have the idea that their friends
will believe that the young women did
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
BELIEVES IN BOLD DASHES.
Admiral Makaroff, Now in Command
of Port Arthur Fleet, Has
Ideas of His Own.

Rear Admiral Makaroff. who has
taken command of the crippled Port
Arthur fleet, succeeding Stark, has
ideas that run counter to those gener-
ally accepted by naval experts and
strategists. One of his pet aversions
is armOr. The admiral is ever out
spoken in his criticism of the heavy
battleship, which he always contended
placed too many eggs in single basket
and shows his Partially for a fleet com
posed of large number of swift, I'M
armored cruisers armed with heavy
guns and attended by an unlimited
number of torpedo boats
He was born in Kamschatka, where
as a mere boy, he was picked up by
Russian naval officer, whose fancy was
caught by the brightness and ambition
of the lad. Taken to St Petersburg by
his protector, he embraced eagerly a
chance of entering the imperial nsvy
But he did this at the very bottom. be
ginning as a cabin boy and working
his way steadily upward.
His career was so rapid, in spite Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
BELLS CURIOUS HISTORY.
State of Illinois Is Presented with an
Interesting Relic of the
Civil War.

A bell with remarkable history is
to be presented to the state of Illinois
by St Joseph's church, a congregation
Of TazewelI county. The bell will be
fitting companion in point of histori-
cal interest to the famous wooden leg
Of Gen. Santa Ana, captured during the
Mexican war, and which now is the OBJ
ject Of such curious interest in COM
pany with other relics, in Memorial
hall, Springfield
The prospective companion to the
leg is bell cast in Valladollid, Spain.
and captured a few days before the
leg and by the same Illinois soldiers
They packed the bell in a hogshead of
straw and directed it to Pekin, where it
arrived several months later At that
time Pekin had no railroads and its
traffic with the outside world was by
steamboat. The bell fell into the hands
Of the captain Of the Prairie State. lie
needed a bell and mounted il upon his
boat, where it sounded for several
years. Then one day the Prairie State
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
PAUL DWIGHT MOODY
HAS JUST MADE BOW TO PUBLIC
AS BIBLE INSTRUCTOR.
Youngest Son of Late Evangelist
Speaks Well Before Large Audi
ences-In Love with His
Mothers Companion.

Paul Dwight Moody, "a years old, the
youngest son of the late Dwight Ly-
man Moody, the evangelist, made his
bow a day or two ago, for the first
time, so far as the public is concerned
as an instructor in the Bible.
Mr.. Moody was graduated from Yale
in 1901, and since then has taken a two
years course at a Scotch theological
school, having branches at Edinburg
and Glasgow, Scotland spending one
year at each
According to the Boston Globe. he
came home last June, and from that
time until September he was engaged
in editorial work on the Mortified
Echoes, paper covering the Moody
conferences and having a circulation
of about 1000 In September he be-
came one OF the faculty of the Mt. Her
mon school for boys. teaching English
and especially the study of the Bible
This work takes him from East
Mortified to Mt. Hermon four days a
week and four hours each day. not
including the time spent in travelling
the six miles back and forth between
the two schools.
He likes teaching in fact. just now
he says that he is ready to spend his
life at 1t. There is a special reason
for this. When Mr. Moody came back
from Scotland last June he found a
very charming young woman. Miss
May Hull. acting as companion to his
mother. Miss Hull was graduated from
the Moody seminary for girls in 1900,
and then she was for two years at the
Pratt institute at Brooklyn. Mrs. D.
L. Moody wanted a companion. She
did not specially remember Miss Hull
in her Mortified days, but she was
found eligible, and went to East North
field. The not uncommon result fol-
lowed that the young people fell in
love, and their engagement has recent
ly been announced.
Mr.. Moody was asked the other day
if the date Of the marriage had been
fixed, and he replied very frankly that
it had not, but he wished it was fixed
Notwithstanding that he is only just
out Of the theological school. Mr..
Moody thinks that he has first and last
already made 80 addresses in public.
He is inclined to think that one of the
most notable was at Denver. He does
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07

the handicap under which he started.
that even at the present time he is
one of the youngest among the men of
authority in the navy. He distin-
guished himself several times during
the Turko-Russian war.
At the end of the war he took com
mand of Russia's Mediterranean squad
ron. At succeeding periods he com
manded the Black Sea fleet and the
oriental squadron. He was called home
in 1896 to become commander in chief
of the Baltic fleet. which is the main
branch of the cars navy. Before re-
turning to Russia he made an extend
ed trip through this country, visiting
all the navy yards and gathering much
valuable knowledge, which he since
then has put to good use at Kronstadt.
1t was in 1898 that the idea occurred
to him to build an ice breaker more
powerful than any heretofore con-
structed and thus to obviate the great
est shortening of Kronstadt as
naval base.
Encouraged by his success in the
Baltic Admiral Makaroff planned in
1901 to make his way to the pole on
board the Ermak. The expedition was
fitted out at Newcastle the car having
appropriated $750,000 for the expert
ment The Ermak started in the early
part of the summer, but did not reach
as far north as Nansen's Fran had
done In August Admiral Makaron re
turned home admitting that no boat
constructed by man could force a way
through the polar pack.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07

got into a race with another rive'
steamer and blew up near the Pekin
landing A dozen people were killed
and the bell blown off into the river.
1t rested there a couple Of years until
it was found by youngsters in SWIM
ming.
The next heard of the bell it was
over little frame Methodist church.
After the lapse of several years the
congregation built new and larger
church and the bell was sold to the ST.
Joseph's parish, which was erecting
its first church. Now the latter parish
is erecting a fine new church and the
bell will 90 to the state
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
Lighthouse in a Desert.

There is at least one lighthouse in
the world that is not placed on any mar
iner's chart 1t is away out on the
Arizona desert and marks the spot
where a well supplies pure fresh water
to travellers. 1t is the only place where
water may be had for As miles to the
eastward and for at least 80 miles in any
other direction. The house" consists
of tall cottonwood pole, to the top Of
which a lantern is hoisted every night
The light can be seen for miles across
the plain in every direction,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
What a Yarn!

This cold weather story comes from
Mapleton, Me-, to the Lewiston Journal:
Some of the old pioneers say that they
used to have some very cold weather
here when they first came. They tell of
taking a block of ice and making a
trough to water the cattle in, which
would last until May; also of the tea
kettle boiling over en- red hot stove
ard the water rolling On to the floor like
shot, frozen solid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07


ton in NE BibIg)
not enjoy speaking in public. He has
somehow or other public speaking goes
against the grain.
In spite of this apparent dislike, he
viii be heard probably more and more
by the public. There are calls already
for him in variety of places as an
instructor OF the Bible - His theoIogi-
cal school training was specially for
this work. He likes teaching the boys
and they like him.
Paul Dwight Moody is very much
like his father in certain respects. He
is perhaps half a head taller. but he
has not yet the breadth and weight
physically Of the father The great
Moody frame is there however Then,
again, the son is growing a beard,
which will increase the resemblance
The voice is largely the same There
is no imitation, but there is an inner
tied tone, look, gesture, manner and
general delivery.
The listener who was familiar with
the platform utterances of the father
might close his eyes and well think
that he was hearing the voice Of
Dwight L. Moody SO far as voice is
concerned, and he might open his eyes
and think that Dwight l.. Moody was
speaking with his youth renewed
There would be one radical differ
ence, however. PROFESSIONALLY the
young man is vastly more tolerant of
so-caled liberal thought than was the
father The young man is cOnserva-
tive and still liberal. The father. even
in the last year of his life. would in
stantly have repudiated many of the
ideas which the young man boldly ad-
vances and maintains.
In other words, the son began where
the father left off. He says very frank
ly there are things in the Scotch phase
of theology that are too strong for
him Perhaps he does not say this in
Just so many words.
He speaks very largely without ref
erence to his notes and ~ times with
great rapidity. This is a defect just
now, because it is difficult for the av-
erage person to key his mental pro-
cesses to such a strenuous pace.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
WANTS TO BE A SENATOR.
Congressman Burkett, of Nebraska, Is
Planning to Succeed Charles
H. Dietrich.

It looks now as if the Nebraska re-
publican state convention would en-
dorse Congressman Elmer J. Burkett.
of Lincoln. Neb, as the successor of
United States Senator Charles II. Diet
rich. whose reelection has been made
impossible by his recent Indictment in
connection with a Nebraska post Office
lease. Although he was eXonerated at
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07

the counting, and their conceit compels
them to fight SHY of marimony during
the year.
IF you think this leap year business
doesn't have the effect of bringing
about a slump in matrimony, just go
find that leap year is the poorest of ali
years for Mr. Cupid and his sneaking
tricls -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07

the trial, yet public sentiment is
against the senator When D. E.
Thompson, United States minister to
Brazil, a few days ago declined to en-
ter the senatorial race Mr.. Burkett
was left without single formidable
opponent for the place.
Twelve years ago Mr.. Burkett was a
schoolteacher in the little town Of
Leigh. Neb. He is now "a years old
and has been a member of the legis-
lature and for three terms has been in
congress. He graduated from Tabor
college, at Tabor, Ia, in 1890, and was
admitted to the bar in 1895.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
The Population of Korea.

Korea is about the size of the state
of Nebraska, but it is thick1y populated.
having 10,52S000 people, as compared
with the 100000 of Nebraska
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
By ANDREW CARNEGIE.

1t is not to the Millions or bv the millions that
the greatest advances Won 1t is to the individual
that we owe the Divine impulse.
The distribution OF wealth is the greatest problem
OF the age. | care not how great an inydualsl
man may be- he must realize that the problem must
first find solution. No man has better reason than
myself to know how great the inequalities in the
distribution OF wealth.
The world will make no progress except under
that law of Christ that man NAV rean as he so1Ns
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
A Great Object Lesson

AS a COnquerOr OF obstacles the rail
way is a great object lesson, says Four
Track News. The youth of the country
should learn from the railway the les
son of enterprise and pluck If, in its
prescribed course, a railway encounters
a deep ravine it bridges it; ii spans
seemingly impossible barriers with a
trestIe or bridge and goes on its way
If it finds a mountain in its path it does
not say: Il can never get over this"
It bores a tunnel through it and comes
out on the other side If it finds cases
where trestles and tunnels do not serve
its purpose it executes a loop. or inaugu-
rates a cog road, by which IT climbs
the heights as If to defy every obstacle
If, in our everyday course, we surmount
all obstacles with as great determina-
tion as the railroad leaps across can
yons. or bores through mountains, the
word success would be more in evidence,
and the word failure, that is now so over
worked, would have much needed rest
Poor Woman
She-I never hear a word of gossip at
my club.
He-What an affiiction!
She Addiction?
He Yes; never knew you were deaf
IN. y Ttmes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
Janan ThicklY Populated.

ii the whole of the United States was
as thickly populated as is Japan. the
population of this country would be
1000 900 900 human beings,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-04-07
BY JUDGE WHEELER,
OF the Connecticut Circuit Court.

AXlSTING conditions in the employment of labor rem
"a der ridiculous the reasoning that empoye con-
w tracts with reference to the peril of the business And
<A1% public interests would be best by holding
wsss the employer with his higher intelligence and surer
ESMM$AE means OF information and his power of selecting and
&sxNffsTSSS<Ex4 dlsCharging sutorlnacS responsible
In period of ten years probably men have
been injured disabled and killed this country from
employees than disabled injured and killed in the The
need of having effective legislative remedy for this injustice
tnung and increasing that douby
that those who the gevous sufferers do
strength accomplish which appeal justice
and humanity of disinterested persons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-02
II You Wear. Glasses

There no place the to have needs supplied
than at our Optical Department Mrs Stanton conceded
be an optcian the highest rank Her palor supplied with
every modern for accurately diagnosing and
defective eyes Bring her ocuss prescription
and your repair work Satisfaction guaranteed ST
Second Tloor-New Part.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-02

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