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not the first decent thing to wear to
such a place."
Tut. TUT" said Battersleigh.
There speaks the coxcombry of
youth. You're able to pull out your
blue uniform, know, an b'gad! the
uniform OF an officer is full dress the
world overt"
Franklin grinned amiably. Thank
you for the suggestion about the uni
form, at least" he said. Now, IL we
can fix you UP as WE'LL"
BatteTsleigh came and stood before
him, waving long forefnger.
Listen to me, Ned" he began, AN
I'll lay down to We a few of the fun
damentnl rules of conduct and ap-
parI.
"A gintleman never lies; a gintle-
| man never uses unseemly haste; a
gintleman is always ready for love
and ready for WARRIOR, Ned, my boy,
without love and war we'd miss the
only two joys of life. Thereto, a gin.
tleman must shoot, fence, ride, dance,
and do amy of 'em like a gintleman.
But II We found yeself bit low in kit,
as Battv is this day, what would We
say, Ned, me boy. was the first salient
what is the first essential in the
dress Of gintleman. me boy?"
Linen" said Franklin, cor is n
gloves?"
Ned" said Battersleigh. solemnly
| laying a hand upon his shoulder
white, white. me boy, Is the first
color of gintleman White, to show
/ the integrity of his honor and the
claneness of his merit roll A touch
of white at neck and wrist amy gin
t1eman must show who presints him
self at a ball."
| But, now, how?"
Grasping his companion by the
arm, Battersleish stepped outside the
house, and strobe off with long steps
across the prairie. Come" he said
Franklin followed for quarter of q
mile. Then, bending his gaze in the
direction of the march, he saw afar
fiuttering like a signal of distress In
the engulfing sea about, little whip
| ping flag of white, which was upheld
by the gaunt hand of a ragged sage
bush. This, as he drew near, he dis
covered to be portion of an old floul
sack, washed clean and left bleaching
in the sun and wind.
Battersleigh made dramatic ap
proach. "There!" said he, pointinf
with triumphant dignity to the flu ter
ing rag.
yes, see," said Franklin. "bur
what do you want of this piece o.
sack?"
Sack" cried Battersleigh, ofrend
| ed. "Hsack!. say you, but ! -,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

'whitei' a strip Of THIS 1t nss mech
and at me wrist: me hat, an mo
saber and me ridin' whip-I r-ride up
to the dure. dismount. / throw me
rein to the man. inter the hall and
place me hat and gloves in order as
they should be. appear-Batter-
sleigh, a gintlemaR, appears, standin'
in the dure, the eyes of all upon him.
l bow, salutin, standiT there. alone,
short on allowance, but nate and
with me own silf-respect Batters-
leigh, bit low in kit and in allow
ance, with white at neck and wrist,
bows, and he says, Ladies and gin
tlemen, Bettersleigh is here!'"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

The others watched him eagerly as
he removed the hot tin from the oven
and set IT upon the bare table. Curly
drew his clasp knife from his pocket
and cut into the portion assigned to
him. Franklin was reserved, but Cur
ly attained enthusiasm at the second
bite.
Rifle Irish," said he, I'm not so
sure you're such a hi of military
man, but as cook you're a burnin'
success. You kin sign with our outfit
to-morrer If you want to-"
The pie, startling as it was in some
regards, did not long survive the de.
termined assault made upon 1t. Curly
wiped his knife on the leg OF his
"chaps." and his mouth on the back
of his hands.
But say, fellers," he said, II plumb
forgot what l come over here for
They'se goin' to be dance over to
town, an l come to tell you about it.
O. course you'll come
what sort of a dance can Il be
man?" said Battersleigh.
why. plumb dandy dance; reg
lar high steppin' outfit; mucha baille;
best thing ever was in this settle
ment."
'I'm curious to know where the
ladies win come FROM" said Frank
lin.
Don't you worry" rejoined Curly
''They's plenty o. women-folks."
And when does this all happen
Curly, boy?" asked Battersleigh.
why. night after to-morrer night
to the big stone hotel. They're going
to cleaa out the dinin' room for us
Three Miggers, two fiddlers, an {
'cordion-oh well have music al
right! You'll be over, of course?"
"That we will, me boy" responded
Battersisigh. Man, well be the
| first"
Now, as to a ball, Battersleigh,
well. then, so long, fellers," sale
Curly. 81 got to be movin' along ,
little. See you at the dance. sure.
said Franklin, argumentatively, whel
J they were alone. how can l go? w
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09
Wall OF THE PEssiMIsT.
Change of Belief Result of Visit to the
Dentist.
Ito be continued.

Change of Belief Result Of Visit to the
Dentist.
'Bah!" snorted my friend the Optim.
list, what's love but the .imbecfle de.
sire Of some lunatic to spend 81 on q
girl Tor every dollar he spends on
himself? Don't talk to me of such
iaiocy!
And, friendship. too" he growled.
Whats 1t but a man scheming to
have some place where he can borrow
money without paying interest on the
Ian? This talk about friendship
gives me severe shock.
And truth and itegrity," he went ON.
growing more excited. There's loads
and loads of truth and integrity scats
tered around. amt there? Read the
papers, look at our courts, observe the
legislatures, glance at congress, de-
business with any man, and figure up
how much truth and integrity you've
hunted into.
And honor" continued the Opti.
mist, sneering until his nose looked
like section OF copper sheathing.
Honor? What is it? Where1l you
find 1t? Have you ever seen a speci.
men of 1t in man, woman or child? Go
talk metaphysics to an ass, but don't
talk about honor to me-"
had always found the Optimist's
cheerful outlook upon things in gem
eral 80 hopeful and rosy that was
| aghast at these morbid sentiments,
SO looked imploringly at his wife for
some explanation.
oh, you mustn't mind John to-
night" she responded. THE dentist
put wedge between two of his teeth
to-day Philadelphia Ledger
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

TOUR or nve times the population O.
San Domingo.
San Domingo's Population.
The population of San Domingo is
glibly estimated. both at home and
abroad, at 100000. Half that number
would be nearer the fact. You may
travel fifty miles day through largo
portions of the interior and hardly SEQ
not constitute a race Now and then
the product of the amazing mixture OF
blood is a man of unique nobility OF
physique or girl of interchangeable
beauty.
The chief asset of the country, from
an international point of view, is the
Bay of SANTANA. which is one of the
most magnificent harbors in the world
| and which is so situated as to be OF
enormous strategic advantage. This
bay may be regarded as the key of the
Caribbean sea, and especially consid
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09
CHAPTER XIII.
The First Ball at EIlisvilIe.

The wife of the section boss sat In
conscious dignity, as became leader
of society. Below her in order of
station came Nora, the head waiter,
and the red-headed waiter girl, and
the littlest waiter girl, and the wife Of
the new grocery man. These sat
silent and unhappy at one part Of the
long row of chairs that lined the side
of the hall. Opposite to them, equally
silent and equally unhappy, sat lit
tie row of men.
It was the beginning of the ball.
These were the first arrivals. At
the head of the hall, far off, sat three
musicians, negroes alleged to play
violins and an accordion, and by that
merit raised to bad eminence.
After vast hiatus the door at the
main entrance was pulled cautiously
open, a little at time. Evidently
some one was looking in. At length
the door opened and two figures en-
tered affrightedly, those of Hank Pc.
terson, a neighboring rancher. ana
his wife. Hank, having forthwith de-
coyed to the row OF men sitting silent
against the WALL he duly reached that
udTUOT Sduh QOWAy WlpiuS hlo
face and passing his hand across his
| mouth uncertainty.
The door opened again and yet
| again. Two or three engineers, rod
man, a leveler and an axeman came in,
near behind them more cattlemen.
| From among the guests of the hotel
| several came, and presently the clerk
Of the hotel himself The line of men
| grew steadily, but the body upon the
opposite side of the room remained
constant, immobile, and unchanged.
| Say, Curly" whispered Del Hick-
man hoarsely to his neighbor. "ef
somethin' don't turn loose right soon
I'm due to die right here. I'm thirsti-
| erin If this here floor was the Staked
| Plains"
Same here" sad Curly in mutt
tered undertone. But l reckon we're
here till the round-up's made. When
she do set loose, you watch me rope
that littlest waiter girl. She taken
| my eye, fer Shore"
| Sam, the driver, was sitting rapt.
| staring mutely across the great gulf
| fixed between him and Nora, the head
| waiter. AS she sat, the light glinting
upon her glasses, her chin well up
held. her whole attitude austere and
commanding, Sam felt his courage
sink lower and lower, until he be.
came abject and abased. Fascinated
wnone the less, he gazed, until Curly
poked him sharply and remarked:
Which 'un you goin' to make .
break fer, Sam?"
IL d-d-don't know" said Sam.
startled and disturbed.
Reckon you'd like to mingle some
with Nory, hey?"
"W-w-w-well-" began Sam, de-
fensively.
But she don't see 1t that way.
Not In a hundred. Why, she'll be
dancin' with Cap Franklin, or Batty.
er some folks that's more in her line.
you see. Why in hi don't you pick
out somebody more in yer own bunch.
lfke?" Curly was meaning to be only
judicial, but he was cruel Sam col.
lapsed and sat speechless. He hgG
long felt that hts ambition was pre-
sumption.
Ito be continued.)
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erlng the prospect OF the Panama ca
nal, its possession by any great power
would mean the mastery of Central
American waters.
The Horrors of War.
A republic" in theory, San Domin-
go is military despotism so far as it
is under any government at all. So
ciety here is, in fact, feudal. Every
valley harbors a chief, with a ragged
band of followers, owing allegiance to
a provincial chief, who, in turn, sup
ports one or another presidential can
didate or becomes one himself.
1t is a mistake to suppose that Do
minican revolutions are opera-bouffe
affairs. AS rule, the slaughter is
great. Except that the leaders are
much given to promulgating constitu-
lions and appointing cabinets, cam
paigns on the island are much like
raids of wild Indians, Zulus or Kaffirs
upon other tribes. They are poor shots
and fire as often from the hip as from
the shoulder, but they are fierce and
terrible fighters, filed in battle with
the blood lust of savages, and from
time to time captains of no little mill
tary genius rise among them.
War in the island has horrors of its
own. Every Dominican can pound with
his terrible cocoa macaque and hack
with his matchete, whose wounds heal
slowly. Rifles are universally distrib-
uted and machine guns are plenty.
But, though they possess all the dead
ly engines of modern warfare, the
blacks know nothing of the appliances
for relieving the sufferings and saving
the lives of the wounded. There are no
surgeons, no medicines. Fallen with a
broken leg or faint with loss of blood,
the soldier is left to succumb to hun
ger or thirst, or more likely to be de-
voured by the wild hogs that infest the
forests.
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Sure to BE connoisseur.

He was no advocate of race suicide.
being, indeed, the father of seven
daughters, but none the less his face
lightened with a great joy when they
told him that a sutton was in the par.
lor talking to the girls.
What is his business?" he asked.
rubbing his hands nervously.
"A wine merchant" the mother an.
swered.
"A wine merchant? Heaven be
praised" the father cried. He will be
sure to prefer one of the older grades "
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

built his own home there, named it af-
ter his father, and desired his bones to
rest there-as indeed they undoubted-
the cathedral, whose time-stained
walls are still one of the chief glories
of the Western Hemisphere.
Natural Wealth Enormous.
The natural wealth of the island is
inestimably great. There are fortunes
for thousands in coffee, cacao, cotton,
tobacco, rubber, sugar, fruit, spices,
mahogany, dyewoods, gold, silver. cop
per, asphaltum sulphur salt, phos-
pilates and guano. All these springs
of wealth lie untouched. Time was
when this island poured riches into
the laps of Spain and France; today 1t
lies in abject poverty, swept by the
fire and sword of intermittent civil
war.
San Domingo and Hayti.
The island is divided between two
localized nations-the republics" of
San Domingo and Hayti.
odh ooAulu6O oCCuplC5 unuCu tu0
larger and richer portion of the island.
Its people are whittier than the Hayti-
ans They speak Spanish, the Ian.
guage of Hayti being French. The
Haytian negro is simply an African
savage, his country a beautiful but
completely degenerate land, aban.
doned to misery and barbarism; ser.
pent worship and cannibalism are
hut or an inhabitant The popula.
ton of the capital city is given as 90,
900. 1t would be hard work to find H..
900 people there.
; The bulk Of these 100000 or 400, 00C
people live contentedly in the most
primitive fashion in palm-thatched
huts little different from those of cen
trail Africa. The country people cul
tivate few yams and plantains. have
a few pigs and chickens. The more
ambitious have little plantations OF
cacao or tobacco.
The entire population is barefooted
and half of 1t naked. Naturally, the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09
Commerce Of United kinodoM

~0HIHS'Ce 0I Ontteu KIngdoM
The United Kingdom has increases
It's export trade about IN per cent
since 1872. It's population hes In
creased 80 per cent in the same time.
It exported to the United States and
Germany s5so,oO0,OOo worth Of goods
In 1872, and only 1856 ,eoo,oos h 1909.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

A British Judge has decided that a
waitress does her full duty il she
passiyely resists attempts to kiss her,
and that she cannot be discharged for
not resisting actively. An extension
of the passive resistance movement
may confidently be predicted.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

One of the best experiences in this
life is living within ones income. 1t
may require a little sacrifice some.
times, but sacrifice is good.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

A Connecticut minister is authority
for the statement that a half dozen
good apples eaten each day will great
ly assist an inebriate to conquer his
appetite for liquor. OF course, they
must not be taken in the form of
applejack.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

A biologist prescribes a pound of
candy or dose of cooking soda for
that tired feeling" The young Amer
lean will know which prescription to
take.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

The Russian revolutionists are not
satisfied to take counsel; they want to
take councillors every time they can
get shot at them.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

A Richmond, Va, man died, leav-
ing two widows and a fiancee. Well,
that's an improvement on the Hoch
method, anyway.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

A Boston hen was sold last week for
$3.50. She must have come over in
the Mayfiower.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

Uncle Russell Sage will have to pay
taxes this year on personal property
assessment of 100000. Are the New
York authorities trying to drive the
poor old man out of the city?
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

The big revival now in progress in
Philadelphia is expected to cost $50,
900, but it isn't expected that there
will be $4,000 converts.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

The New York physician who
starved himself to death in an at
tempt to show the power of mind
over matter would seem to have given
misd rather rough jolt.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

1t is not true that the motto of M
Anatole lie Braz, this years French
lecturer at Harvard, is ERIN go
bragh.'
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

life sentence in New York is
SAL to Average about ten years. This
is unfair TO New York, even consider
ing all thct tends to shorten life there
aad make it disagreeable while it
lasts.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

Mark Twain made a speech in
which he spoke with much humor of
the millionaire tax-dodgers of Gotham.
There was even more truth In the
speech than humor.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

The shah of Persia has granted q
parliament" and will no doubt run IL
entirely to his own satisfaction.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

Bob Fitzsimmons has purchased a
'Hural home but we have reasonable
doubts whether his Julia will be con-
tent to shoe chickens off the porch
and perform the other duties of a ru-
ralist's wife.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

The new king of Denmark is in his
63rd year, and may be considered
thoroughly safe and sane.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

By the verdict of Brooklyn jury,
dash left out of telegraphic mes
sage will cost the telegraph company
$4,000. Under the circumstances
the manager might be excused a dash
with big, big D before it.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

Cincinnati woman has 1000 ca.
naries When we move to Cincin.
natl we shall be careful not to rent the
next fiat.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

Richard Mansfield advises univers-
ity boys to select some great man, as
a model, and it should not be inferred
that he meant Beau Brummel.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

A trade note says 'heavy shoes
move slowly" 1t sounds almost like
. truism.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

The United States has 579 mountain
peaks over 10000 feet high, and yet
the country doesn't look so very
peaked at that.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

They are going to build a twenty
four story skyscraper IN Pittsburg.
The top of it ought almost to rise
above the SCOT.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

1t seems that after paying $1,000 a
volume for "Fads and Fancies," New
York's smart set still has money
enough left to- pay $1,000 a pair for
"medicated boots"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

Now that man in West Coventry
Conn, has caught a neighbor in
trap set for chicken thieves, will the
offender be punished by being sent to
Coventry?
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

1t wouldn't be SO embarrassing to
tell folks what you think of them il
they wouldn't return the compliment
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

Admiral Togo is coming over here
in April with two armored cruisers
Oil up your banzais!
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

When woman says she hates to
have her husband out of her sight he
is either very good husband or a
very bad one
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

OF the 6,817 new books published in
England last year, probably seventeen
were well worth reading.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-09

four or five times the population o.
San Domingo.
The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1906-10-27
Sudden Death.

Early Thursday morning in the
Montezuma hotel lobby, Charles o.
Conner, q man about 40 years of age,
dropped dead.
Judge Gildea was at once notified
and he. Immediately summoned a
coronor's jury, which viewed the re-
mains and examined into the cause of
the deceased's passing.
Among the dead mans personal
effects was found letter from a ply
sycian which stated that the bearer,
Charles O'Connor, was in a very
serious condition, and that the writer
could do nothing for him, and advised
a change of location.
The jury found that heart failure
was the cause of death. Absolutely
nothing was learned of his antecedence,
the wherea bouts of his family and
friends being unknown to persons
here. When death overlook OCon-
nor, he was in the act of taking a
dose of medicine from a large bottle
labeled New Heart"
Deceased was buried yesterday from
Marsh's undertaking rooms, interment
being liz the Nogales cemetery.
The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1906-10-27

Attend the Second Annual Terri
torial Fair to be held at Phoenix
November ~, I3, Ia. Is. Is and IL,
1906. Reduced rates on all railroads.
G. c. Rountree of Minas Prietas,
Sonora, is a business visitor in the
city today, having arrived this morn
ing. Mr.. Rountree is one of the
directors of Dvallma Mining Company
owning one of the best silver mines in
the state of Sonora.
Hon. Charles w. Bolen, pro-
a weeks visit here on business con-
nected with the Richfield Mining
Company, ir which he is largely
interested. has returdned east, greatly
pleased with the Richfield properties,
and the manner in which tnev are
being managed. A number of No
gales people are interested in the
Rich6eld Mining Company, the main
Office of which is at this place. At
recent annual stockholders meeting,
the old board of directors were unan-
imously reelected. At the meeting
ninety per cent of the outstanding
stock of the company was present
either In person or by proxy.
MIR. Robert Martin, one of the lucky
owners of the Rey de Orc mines
IN the Magdalena district, Sonora, has
this week been a business visitor in
Nogales. Bob has u host OF friends
here who always extend him the glad
hand of welcome. The splendid gold
property which has for some time been
bonded by Chicago capitalists. who are
meeting all payments as they come
due. is showing up in fine shape. and
it is only matter of very short time
when Rey de Gro will take its place
among the big producers of our sister
state. Sonora. Recently Mr. Martin
presented THE BORDER VIDETTTE with
a number of samples from the mine
which assay 81. so per pound. Messrs.
Bond an Rand. Bob's partners, are
at the Rey, where for number of
years the gentlemen have made their
home.