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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Why John Henry Stuck
A Fin Into Mir. Molar.

" YO!IN HENRY" said Mr.. Sterling
worth severely to his son as he
~ led him by tie right ear into Il
room in the rear of the house. your
mother tells me that you stuck u pin
into NJ. Molar when he was here this
afternoon calling upon your sister and
that he jumped up and left the house,
declaring that he would ever call here
again"
John Henry nodded.
You seem to have the facts, papa,'
be said.
Before l thrash you within an inch
Of your life. my son." Mr.. Sterling
worth went on as he reached for his
cane, "let me say that this whipping
will hurt you considerably more than it
will hurt me-"
II know that" said John Henry. with
heroic fortitude.
Il also wish to know" Mr.. Sterling
worth said. 'befOre l begin what pos
sessed you to act in so shameful a
II and to drive away the only
beau that Ethel has had in two years.
Now, tell me-"
"Well, Mr.. Molar is a dentist, and
"GO on, sir"
II will. papa. H.
"You-you"-
II asked him il he was a painless
dentist. and lie said he was, but l
wasn't sure. and SO l thought I'd ex-
pertinent. ! don't believe he's painless
ut all, papa, for he yelled"
THAT will do, my son." interrupted
Mr.. Sterlingworth. This won't be a
painless thrashing either"
Then he went to work, and there Is
reason to believe that it wasn't.-Tit-
Bits.
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many of the ways obtaining in wealthy
society which c~ontravene such princi-
pies. The panic of 1887 made her ia
Their a poor man. and she was brought
up to practice economies such ms must
be observed In a home where it is hard
to make both ends meet. She gradu-
ated from Miss Willard's seminary in
Troy. to which in after years she made
q gift of a dormitory. She taught
school for a time before her marriage
to Mr.. Sage.
Mrs. Sage was given almost the
whole of her husbands fortune in the
latter's will. =
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Easy to Do.

Easy 10 TO-
A Chicago man who has been con.
victed of Il crime, but Is out of the
penitentiary on some sort of Il writ OF
another applied for by his friends. has
been furnishing the nation with quite
a bit of ummer gayety by trying to
break into prison. using every meal
he could think of save Il pick.
Every day we see political grafters
and men of that class apparently try
ing their best to break into the peniten-
tlary and Just missing it hy the frac-
tional part of an inch. but as a general
proposition it is not Il hard matter to
secure winter quarters in some highly
recommended ~pcnitentiary.
There are people who think that Il
nan might have higher ideals. but this
10 a free country. and every one is at
liberty to cultivate his whims, though
It must be admitted that most people
who have thoughts in that direction
really want to break in as warden.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
HOW THE HEAT Is APPLIED.

which in turn was fastened to Il strong
beam. 4 basket Of charcoal was then
placed ut the joint and a fire started.
The basket was made Of sheet iron
with holes in the bottom to induce II
draft and was supported on the pipe
by pieces of small size wrought iron
pipe. The heat of the fire softened
the metal sufficiently. says the Metal
Worker. to permit the joint to he
drawn up Icy means of a block and
fall. The chain. as is absolutely neces-
sary, was fastened to some strong OBJ
ject, in this case Il column.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

and Japan, which
has such an i'm
portant bearing up
on international re-
lations. The Wis.,
count dresses when
In Euro
pean style and has
very little III ap-
pearance of a Jap
anese. He is the
possessor of sew
eral honorary de-
grees, having re-
ceived from Cam
bridge an LII. ID,
and from Oxford a
%. G. l.. He Is
much interested In
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

terror. Two years REMlER sTOLfPIN.
later he vas transferred to the min
istry of agriculture, but here again lie
remained only two years. He then re-
tired for a time into private life and
devoted himself to the management Of
his estates in Kovno. As a country
gentleman he was a great success. He
served the Offices of marshal of the
district nobility, president of the ar
bitration board and justice Of the
peace. Such was his popularity that
when in 1899 the post Of marshal of
the provincial nobility fell vacant
through the death Of Count Suboff he
was appointed to the Office. A few
months later the government conferred
upon him the vice g~overnorship of
Grodno. whence in 1901 he was Sent to
Saratoff as governor. Although a gen
ial and cultivated gentleman and popu-
lar in the Russian civil service, NJ.
Stolypin has %reactionary tendencies,
and he is regarded with distrust by the
progressive and democratic elements
in Russia.
Mrs. Russell Sage, widow Of the
f%inancier who died recently leaving a
fortune estimated ut $50, 1000, al
ways kept a strict guard yer her hus-
bands health, and it was largely due
to her care that he reached the ripe
age of nearly ninety years. 1t vas
often said that MIR. Sage made his
gifts to charitable causes through his
wife. She has always interested her
self in good works of many kinds, and
she spent her husbands money on such
enterprises with more freedom than he
was w known to spend it himself.
She was Margaret Olivia SlOcum.
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try. He retains that
post as premier. He
was born in 1853.
and his father was
n popular general.
He had a brilliant
career at the Uni
versity of st. Pc
tersburg and after
graduating in 1SS:
obtained an ap-
point,nent in the
ministry Of the in
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Seat ON the Metal Bed,

A little bedroom convenience which
there is probably some good excuse for
is the addition Of Il folding seat to the
brass bedstead. The seat is attached
to the side rail of the bed and has III
adjustable leg, which falls naturally
into the position Of support when the
seat is drawn up for use. When not Of
use and dropped the seat is practically
hidden.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

TLEFlEI.D. "It WAS m in
Buffalo in the 1896 campaign" said the
Maine man. "A local lawyer and l
had been assigned to a big meeting.
The local man was introduced first and
proceeded to draw from his inside
pocket a manuscript from which he
started to read. At the end Of an hour
Of the worst rot I ever heard my am
bilious friend closed in what he
thought was a blaze Of glory.
":Three cheers for the speaker for
nnishingr some one yelled.
'Cheers were given, and then l was
introduced. It was a tough PROPOSE
ton, but I jolied along with the crowd
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
AFTER JOHN D.

Sheriff Graves and His Attempt tn
Serve Warrant On OIL MnEnate.
Sheriff T.. l.. Groves Of Toledo, who
dispatched n deputy to meet John u.
Rockefeller on his arrival in New York
from Europe and place the multimil-
~liOnaire under arrest. took his action
after II conference with Prosecutor
William \. David of Hancock county,
q. Mr.. Rockefeller Is charged with
aAeAAv covs,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

and she was born
in Syracuse. Her
rents e of
Puritan stock, and
her father was
sixth in direct line
from Miles Stand
ish. Mrs. Sage has
always chung to
what in these times
often called
'~'puritanical" ideas
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
MISS LlBERTY'S NEW DRESS

Varntsh md Other improvements
For the BarthOldi statue.
Miss Liberty is to have a new dress.
A coat of verdigris has been formed
on the graceful folds Of her gown and
on her features by the salt air. From
an artistic standpoint there is no OBJ
lection to these soft green tints, but IL
the chemical action is allowed to con-
time the bronze plates of the immense
statue will be seriously weakened.
Therefore workmen will remove the
verdigr!s and apply a coat Of varnish.
Other improvements viii! be made.
When the French people raised $3.50
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Poor Taker.

THAT man need never he troubled
with insomnia"
why not?"
Because if he ever feels it coming
on all he will need to do will be to set
himself rambling on that threadbare
favorite topic of his"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Lucky.

First Fish-A fisherman caught me
awhile ago and landed me In the bot
tom Of a boat. It was like being In
Jail.
Second Fish-How did you manage
to escape2
First Fish-The boat began to leak
and some one bailed me out.-Detroit
Free Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

OVERLOOKED One Part Of Il.
The rector's little daughter did not
appear to be wholly satisfied.
why, DEAR" said her mother, don't
you remember you prayed the other
night for a brown collie dog? Well.
here it u.s."
"Yes," pouted the little girl, 'but l
prayed for a brass collar and chain
too."-Chicago Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

FreemaSOnrV, IN which order he holds
q high post, and is n knight of the
Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian
order. He has written II book in Eng
lieh and has also translated several
works from English into japanese for
the benefit Of his countrymen.
Though now SO eminent and accom-
plished, 1t is but a comparatively few
years since the viscount was living in
q cage, subsisting on picked radish
and Chinese rice. At times he was
even cheated out Of these rations.
After his education Is a youth in Eng
land be participated in the rebellion
Of his clan, the Satsuma. against the
mikado. When the insurrection was
crushed the captured rebels We're con-
fined In prisons which were mere
cages, with no protection against heat
In summe and the bitter cold Of
northern Japan in winter. Fortunately
the present minister of foreign affairs
had such Il good knowledge of English
that the mikado preserved his life in
order that he might be Of use to his
country. and he has amply repaid his
sovereign for this merciful action.
Congressman Charles L. L~ittletield
Of Maine, whose political scalp Is
sought Ivy President Samuel Gonpers
Of the American Federation Of Labor,
is u member Of the judiciary committee
Of the house of representatives. The
anti-iniuuctiOn bill favored hy Mr.,
GomperS and the wage who
belong to his organization met with its
death in this committee ut the last SEES
sion of congress, and the head of the
federation holds Mr.. Littlctield chiefly
responsible for its fate. 1t is OH this
ground that war is being waged
against the Maine statesman in his dis
trict by the forces Of organized labor.
Mr.. Littlefield succeeded the late Mel
o Dingley IN congress and was
talked of for the speakership mt the
time David b. Henderson resigned the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

post. lie is noted
as one Of the best
orators Of the house
and has long been
popular as a cam
paign speaker. He
once told Of an ex-
perlence he had in
spellbinding in New
York state
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
THREE CENT rOM."
C1evelnnd's Unique Mayor and His
AnticGrEor3tiOn Ideas.

C1eVelnnd'N Unique Mayor and HIS
Anticeruoration Ideas.
Mayor Tom l.. johnson of Cleveland.
who recently put himself in danger Of
being sent to Jail for contempt OF
court, is always doing out of the or
binary things. He is a fighter and be-
lieves that in combating greedy corpo-
rations quiet and %parlorlike methods
will not always answer He has been
working for years to get three cent
fares on street cars for Cleveland and
Is sometimes known as Three Cent
Tom" It was in pursuance of this
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

In installing an eight inch main pipe
to lead from a boiler and swing by
two easy bends to a higher level it
was found necessary to bend the pipe a
trifie more than had been expected, in
boiling through the flanges.
The pipe was anchored securely and
fastened overhead with a hanger.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
CMd Reason.

He stood on the bridge at midnight.
The water below looked grand,
But that wasn't why ne didn't move
on
I: was all he could do to stand.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

ut is sometimes hard to tell whether
q thing is right or wrong"
"Oh. l always determine that by
how much I want it,"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

A woman expects everybody to think
that her husband is all right In spite OF
what she says against him.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Liked Il,

THAT woman actually talked her
self to DEATH"
"She must have died happy"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

W. g A" Of Railway Con.
ductors. Commissioner Clark was born
In Lima, N. T.. in 1856 and removed to
:he west in 1871, serving as brakeman
on various roads and in 1884 becoming
q conductor on the Denver and Rio
Grande. He was elected grand senior
conductor of the Order of Railway
Conductors in 1883 and in 1890 was
chosen grand chief conductor. He is
married and has several children, and
his home IL at Cedar Rapids, la. In
his work at the head Of the order with
which he has been SO long connected
he has acquired ar acquaintance with
the cost Of operation of railways and
the extent Of their income which Is
considered to qualify him especially
m membership on the commission
Ahich is to administer the new railway
rate law. President Roosevelt showed
his appreciation of his abilities four
years ago when he made him a men,
Der Of the arbitration commission
which adjusted the anthracite coal
strike.
Viscount Tadasu Hayashi, Japan's
minister Of foreign affairs, who prom
lses the opening of southern Manchu-
ria about the LIST Of September, Is a
very interesting character, and he had
q most strenuous career as a young
man. He was until recently Japan's
ambassador ut the court of st. James,
and his greatest achievement is the
treaty of alliance between England
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
.-> >-~s
People In the
Public Eye


n E. CLARK Of
Iowa. VIII
was appoint
ed by presiden;
Roosevelt Il member
of the enlarged in
~terstate
commission, is con.
sidered a represent.
alive Of organized
labor in that body
inasmuch rs he has
been for some years
at the head of Il
leading labor organ.
iZHfiOn the Order
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

We are all honest citizens until some
one finds US out.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

1t is much easier to forget a favor
received than an injury given.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

It isn't always best to make light Of
Il when you are in the dark.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

THE BARrHOLDI STATUE Oh LIBERTY.
600 for Rartholdi to build the statue OF
Liberty. to he presented to this coun-
Try. little did they dream that the
United States would neglect the mag
nitcent gift. But while congress ap-
propriated large sums for. the erection
Of fine federal buildings in small
towns it would not vote the compare
lively small amount necessary tn keep
the statue properly lighted and its sur
roundings on Bedloc's island in Ven
a decent state Of repair. Now $6:.S,0
will be expended in improvements. ill.,
GLIDING an electric elevator for Wis
itors, and the torch will he increased
from five lights to ten.
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for some fifteen minutes and then
launched into what l thought was my
best line of talk. l finished Ill right.
and the chairman said l had made a
hit. In driving to the hotel after the
meeting the local speaker said to me:
"~Mr. Lit.lefield, if l only had your
voice, with what l have to say I would
be a WONDER"
NJ. Peter Arkadgevitch Stolypin, who
became premier OF Russia in success
sion to NJ. Goremykin when the pres
ent crisis was precipitated by the dis
solution of the douma. held the interior
portfolio under the Goremykin minis
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

If the past would only stay past il
wouldn't matter so much.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Hurnor enc Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Selfshness is not particularly beauti-
full, but it IS exceedingly useful.
You can always entertain the multi
tude by making a fool of yourself.
You can't tell much about the size OF
q man by the sound of his voice.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

While virtue is it's own reward it
can't help going to the postofice oc-
casionally to see if some one else
hasn't sent it an extra one.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
WARRANT

ME STATE OF OHIO.
v"''... z..~ =. Ne. a~ As. Il .~sss.a:s1t IA
Oee.~.
% A~A~-A &o~AA o
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

When pleasure is profitable it soon
becomes a business.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05

1t is a very easy thing to love your
neighbor when he has it in his power
to appoint you to a good Office.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-09-05
Matter Of Desire.

to stand.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-01-19

"There seems to be mistaken i'm
preston abroad" remarked a doctor
the other day in speaking Of the case
Of man who had his tongue cut out in
an effort to cure case of cancer of
that member, that when a man is
unfortunate enough to lose his tongue
thenceforth all power of speech is
denied him. This is not so. While it is
true that not many men survive this
operation for any great length of time.
it is equally true that they can speak
so long as they live and with only
comparatively slight impeachment in
their utterances. If you will hold
pencil crossways between your teeth
and speak while it remains in that po-
sition you can get just the effect it
has on human speech when the tongue
is entirely removed"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-01-19
MRS. CHADWICK
NOW IN PRISON
Woman Begins Serving Long Sen
tence-Identified as Madame
DeVere.

Columbus, O., Jan. 13.-Mrs. Cassie
L. Chadwick, the bank wrecker and
wizard of finance, arrived at the pen
itentiary from Cleveland at II a. M,
to begin sentence Of ten years for
conspiracy to wreck the Citizens Ma
tional bank at Oberlin, O. There
were no friends at the station in Cleve-
land to bid her farewell,
An eX-woman clerk in the secre-
tary's office of the penitentiary identi-
fed Mrs. Chadwick some time after
she arrived at the prison, as Madame
Devere. This woman, who will not
allow her name to be used was brought
to the prison and after taking good
look at Mrs. Chadwick, unhesitatingly
pronounced her the same woman who
had served a term in the penitentiary
from Lucas county beginning in 1901,
for forgery under the name Of Madame
Devere. Mrs. Chadwick, after the
Identification. neither admitted or de-
MED that she was Madame Devere
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-01-19
WIND STORM rs FATAL
Blows Much Damage TO Buildings in
Indiana, Besides Bringing Death
in Its Wake

indianapolis, Jan. 1G. = Dispatches
from over the state tell of several ia
talities, many injuries and serious dam
age to buildings Of all kinds as the re-
suit of a severe wind, rain and sleet
storm, accompanied by lightning.
AT Circleyille a wall Of a brick
school house was blown in upon about
twenty pupils who were buried be-
meath the debris. Delpha Johnson,
aged u, was killed and about a dozen
injured.
At Evansville Mrs. Mary Beere was
seriously burned by an overturned
stove when her house was blown
away. At Terre Haute laborer was
blown from the roof of a factory and
killed. Near Bedford Isaac Ritter,
driving across a bridge, was in some
manner thrown from his buggy into
the creek and killed
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-01-19
Sea Or Desert?

If it be true, as conjectured by the
latest explorers, that Lake Chad is rap
idly drying up, the process will proba-
bly, be regarded by the biologists as
simply continuation of one which has
been going on for ages in northern AT
RIGA. The whole of the Sahara was
certainly once either an arm of the
sea or vast lake, and Lake Chad is
probably only the final remnant of that
huge sheet of water. The Sahara sea
must always have been very shallow
a fact which made it's evaporation
easy, and Lake Chad is reported to be
little more than a mOrass over the
greater portion Of it's area.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-01-19

The following story furnishes an ex-
ample of the manner in which Thack-
cray did not hesitate to treat what he
considered vanity in others. After long
pleading his family induced the famous
novelist to sit for his portrait, and
Lawrence, the painter, gladly under
took the task. Soon after the picture
was completed Thackeray CHANGED to
be dining at his club when a pompous
officer of the guards stopped beside the
table and said:
'Haw, Thackeray, old boy, l hear
Lawrence has been painting yer por-
trait"'
$50 he has," was the reply.
'Full length?'
mo; full length portraits are for sol
diers, that we may see their spurs, but
the other end of the man is the princi-
pal thing with authors said Thack-
cray
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-01-19
Two of His Habits.

1.-TWO things the average man does at
every opportunity from mere force Of
habit" said the observing woman.
Zone is to set his watch every time he
passes a standard timepiece, and the
other-it isn't very delicate, but it's
fact-to expectorate every time be
passes public cuspidor. You watch
man inadvertently pass timepiece.
He always catches himself in time,
goes back. compares his watch, and
ten minutes later you'll see him absent
~ doing the same thing farther down
the street. To prove the other fact you
need only stand five minutes within
sight Of cuspidor in one of the big
railway stations and watch man after
man absentmindedly expectorate in
passing, merely in response to the sug-
gestion Of the cuspidor.
'sThese two masculine habits about
equalize a woman's inveterate habit of
glancing at every mirror she passes."-
Philadelphia Bulletin.