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Coins and Faces on Them,

Coins Of mos. Of the nations bear
upon them the faces of their rulers.
In the United States each coin has an
emblem of Liberty, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
The first coins struck after the for.
nation of the federal union bore the
face Of George Washington. General
Washington disapproved Of the Gus.
tom and it was dropped. 1t has never
been revived.
Portraits Of prominent Americans
appear on postage stamps, internal
evenue stamps and paper money, bu,
never on coins. And it has been the
custom to use 40 portraits of living
men even on the currency and the
stamps.
In England, a. soon as King Ed
ward succeeded Queen Victoria, the
queens face gave way 70 that of Ed.
ward on all the coins and stamps in
the British empire. The accession OF
q new ruler in most monarchies meaus
an instant change in the designs OF
the coins.
But there 10 an exception to the rule
of no portraits on American coins.
The emblem of Liberty on the one
cent coin is the goddess in an Ameri'
can Indian headdress, but the face
shows no char acteristics of the North
American aborigine.
It is the face OF a little girl, Sarah
Longacre Keen, upon whose head was
placed the ~feathered ornament of a
Sioux Indian. Her father was an en-.
graver and he placed his daughters
head on the coin.
Sarah Longacre Keen died in Phila'
delphia not long after, having served
80 years as the secretary OF her city's
branch OF the Methodist Women:
Foreign Missionary society.
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What a Man Contains.

German scientists have found tina:
the material for q man weighing 80
pounds 4 be found in the whites and
yo.Ns OF l,3Oo hens eggs. The aver.
age man reduced TO auid would yield
- cubic feet OF Illuminating gas and
hydrogen enough to fill a ba.lon cap.
able OF lifting l55 pounds. The nor
maj human body has enough iroa in
II to make seven large nails, the ia,
for u candles, carbon for a gross of
crayons ana phosphorus enough for
10000 matches. Out of the body may
be obtained besides twenty teaspoons
o. -a.t, fifty Jumps ct sugar auG forty
..ttv- Of water.
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THE HUNTLEY PROJECT.

The opening OF the Huntley project
on June 70, 1907, will be recorded as
a memorable event in the history Of
federal irrigation work in Montana.
1t is the first government irrig alton
project in Montana t o be completed,
and the lands to which it will supply
water were placed at the disposal of
settlers, by the lottery plan, on the
date above mentioned. The drawing
took place at Billings with appropri-
ate exercises in which many promi.
nont federal officials participated.
The Huntley project, which was
started only two years ago, will re-
claim 30, 900 acres divided into 633
farms, situated on the Yellowstone
river and along the junction point Of
two great continental railway systems,
the Northern Pacific aud the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy railroads. The
first steps were taken in 1905, and
works Of q most complete and per-
manent nature have been constructed
under the supervision of government
engineers, at an expense approximate.
ly OF 81, 200, 900. The irrigation sys.
tenn has been constructed so that wa.
ter can be delivered practically to
every farm on the project. The main
canal is 23t miles long, and when cir
cumstances justify the expense, it can
be extended eight miles further, so as
to reclaim more land. There are three
tunnels. aggregating 1850 feet in
length, and also culverts, waste yates,
syphons, bridges and hesdgates OF
concrete and steel construction. Like
every public work constructed by tbs
government, every detail is Of the
most solid description.
There will be 633 farm, 40 acres hav.
ing been decided upon as the mos
advantageous farm unit, although /;
great many of these parcels carry, il
addition to the 4O.acre farm, q quau
tity of pasture land, which canno, bt
irrigated at present, for which the
price will be only the cost of the pur
chase price paid to the Crow Indians
about 81 per acre, The price OF tn,
reclaimed land will be as follows. a.
fixed by the regulations of the lane
department: Four dollars for tht
price paid to the Grow Indians, aut
$50 an acre for the cost of bui.d;n-
the irrigation system.
The time for payment of these far,
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BEEF AND MUTTON PRICES.

Present high prices for meats, and
particularly beef, are due to perfectly
natural conditions, 10 the belief OF
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, and
his views are shared by nearly all
who are familiar with the livestock
situation. American prosperity and
the fact that the country has 10 recent
years grown faeter than the produc-
ton of livestock are reasons for the
high prices, in the opinion OF the zee.
rotary, and he further believes that
prices will 60 still higher.
"Prices OF meats have gone up, just
as the prices of everything else have
zone up, and they will 60 higher"
says Mr.. Wilson. Last year, he says,
there we're more than q million immi.
grants, and this year there will be
several hundred Thousand new settlers
in the United States. They get work
soon " here, and, earning more
money than in their home country,
they want to live we'll, and they eat
meat. Constantly growing home con.
sumption, together width the big vol.
m of meats which is exported, keeps
the prices high, and livestock men
agree with Secretary Wilson that they
will continue to go higher as long as
consumption grows.
Despite the increased demands for
meats production of livestock has not
been much increased and the country
is constantly facing a shortage of
really good grades Of livestock. Cat.
tie and sheep particularly have been
in comparatively small supply in re.
cent years and sheep prices have
reached the highest level on record,
while in late weeks steers have sold at
the highest average prices since 1902.
These conditions have been brought
about naturally, Just as Secretary
Wilson says, and those who may be-
lieve that the prices will go much low
er in the next year Or two are pessi-
m!sts indeed.
Mr.. Wilson says it costs more to
raise livestock nowadays, and every
body will agree to this, Grains are
high in price and farm labor com.
nands higher pay than ever before.
Many farmers, the secretary says,
can make more money raising grain
or hay or other crops which can be
harvested with lab~or.saving machiu-
cry than they car raising and tatten.
ing livestock. This, he believes, tends
to hold down production of livestock,
and thus the farmers who raise cattle,
hogs and sheep are reaping good pro.
fits because there are not too many Of
them engaged in the business.
This country is growing too fast
and the production of livestock is not
great enough to warrant belief in any
thing but high prices by either Score.
tary Wilson or any one else. While
the country is prosperous livestock is
bound to continue high in price, mere
~ in sympathy with all other COM
modities. -Drovers Journal.
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Pointed Paragraphs.

What women say auses more trou.
BILE than what men think.
People who sit down to consult cal
endars are not up to date.
To the woman who carries her age
we'll life isn't much Of a burden.
Falling in love is easy, but climbing
out-well, that's different.
The less confidence other people
have ia a man the more his wife has.
A man is apt to put his thinking cap
on when his wife expresses a desire for
a new bonnet.
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Notice to Contra ctors.

Sealed proposals. will be received by the coun-
ty clerk Of Chouteau county, Montana up to the
hour of 2 o'clock p. m. July Is, 1907, for . steam
heating plant for the court house and jail, or for
court house and jail separately; also chfmneye
necessary for said plant with privilege Of thirty
be addressed to the county clerk and marked on
the outside to indicate their nature. The right
ts reserved to reject any or al bids. BY order Of
the board of county commissioners.
". r. LEFT, County Clerk.
Fort Benton, Montana, June II, 1907.
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Defense Costs a Fortune.

DENVER, June 25.-Some interesting
figures are being shown up in the re-
ports at the Denver meeting of the
Western Federation OF Miners.
The Western Federation of Miners
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by the center that the full beauty of its
decorative border might be seen to advan-
| tage.
The piece of exquisite lace upon the lower
shelf is also a handkerchief. 1t was de-
signed by his daughter, the Princesse
Mathide and sent to the second Mrs. Je-
rome Bonaparte of Baltimore by her
father-in law, the King of Westphala. 1t
was carried by this lady at the marriage of
her son. the present Attorney General, to
Miss Ellen Claiming Day.
a lock of white hair of Nine Bonaparte
is here, beside it a cameo ferronniere which
she habtually wore on a velvet band across
her hair. A Partisan rouge pit and silver
lip salve box, marked y. B. are among
the other belongings of her toilet. t.
A sharming little gold pin whicl. be-
longed to this lady is set with pearls sur
rounding a lock of hair. The history of
! this memento is securely sealed in the one
word "L'Armour' engraved upon the gold
back There are various sets of earrings
| gold and jeweled. once worn by Nine.
Jerome Bonaparte, with a gold chain, an
| antique gold and enameled watch and an
| elaborate chatelaine in blue enamel and
| gold.
| Preserved in the cabinet is a letter head
| of the stationery Prince jerome uSeu I'D
| corresponding with his American tiancee.
! 1t is engraved u. Bonaparte, Lieut.. de
| Vaisseau, Commandant de Corvette L.
| Andre de la Republique Franchise
y dainty almanac bearing the signature,
| Madame Jerome Bonaparte, is another
| personal souvenir. 1t is beautifully bound
| in green MORE silk with delicately exc
| cuted floral decoration in gilt. 1t is en-
| titled "Almanach dedie aux Demoiselles a
| Paris" 1t contains the sentiments usually
| found in such books, but within its leaves
are some particularly. interesting hand
! painted souvenir cards. One bears the sig
| nature of Nine. de Genlis, and the date
IS Juin 1916" Another comes from the
! Marquse de Villette, who, it will be re-
| called was an especial friend of Voltaire.
1t is inscribed "a Nine. Patterson, Paris
| 1917
| Two fine silhouettes of Nine. Bona
| parte, done in 1910, when she was fifty
| five years old, are distinctly interesting.
| One of Isabey's tiny miniatures represents
| Napoleon's brother Louis King of Hol-
| land. 1t bears the Frenchs artists sig
| nature, and is shaped for as a scarf
| pin. Another infinitesimal portrait is Of
! Napoleon and takes the form of locket
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ter, Elise. and of Napoleon Came:ata
Napoleonne's
Beyond this case of miniatures hangs an
Oil painting of the late Col. Bonaparte
dressed in the uniform of officer of the
French army in which he served. The
portrait hanging next shows him IL cadet
at West Point. On small table beneath
the portrait of Col. Bonaparte is a photo
graphic copy of the reclining statue of
Napoeons sister, Pauline. the Prncesse
Borghese. The original of this is in the
tie bust Of Napoleon resting on the nearby
pedestal is unsigned. but the unknown
sculptor has made a feeling representation
of the first consul.
The beautiful empire cabinet standing be-
side this is crowded with interesting me-
mentoa. Draping the background of the
three shelves are some fine embroideries.
That on the top is a beautiful scarf, deli
catey wrought in many colors, which was
a part of the wardrobe of Nine Jerome
Bonaparte. Against the back of the sec
ond shelf is a large square linen handker-
chief. its hem embroidered in an elaborate
floral design carried out in brilliant silks.
This was sent to his wife by Prince Jerome.
When the old lady gave it to. her grand
daughter-in-la law, she instructed her that it
must always be carried in the hand, and
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US Corps of Silver Greyhounds About to Be
Abolished by the British Government.

scure. The early messengers were picked
men belonging to that institution who
started their careers Knights Caligate
of Arms, so-called because they wore
'startuppes," sort of boot-stocking to
the middle of the leg. After seven years
service they became knight-riders who
gave their name to an extant street with
in sight of the College of Arms after seven
years more they became pursuivants who
were stationed at specific places, whence
the names of their offices were taken, and
lastly they were promoted to heralds.
The relative Importance of the dispatches
intrusted to their care corresponded with
their rank Pursuivants were chiefly en-
ployed in carrying messages to and from
the governors and the sovereign, and in
the reign of Henry VII the number was
increased, owing to the great correspond
ence upon the continent Heralds had the
distinction of conveying personal or public
messages from king to king and prince to
prince, those intrusted with the intelligence
Of royal births being specially rewarded.
Later the service was transferred from
officers Of arms to persons appointed by the
secretary Of state called posts, and In
course of time a master of the posts was
appointed, and the first Of these on record
was Sir Brian luke. who held that office in
1915. The practice of allowing private per-
sons to avail themselves Of the kings posts
for transmitting their correspondence be-
gan at an early period. and afterward grew
into a regular custom. Its employment
was first recognized in a proclamation is
sued in 1891. Once a postal system had
been established-and 1t may be said to
have been first systematized by an edict of
James / In 1919, though the post Office as
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him to make out his accounts in the SIM
plest form.
Besides the silver greyhound hung pen
dant from a tiny royal crown, the mes
senger is provided with various creden-
tails, one Of them being parchment bear
ing the words. We request and require
that all demands of the bearer be acceded
to with the least possible delay" which is
signed by the foreign minister. There is
also a uniform, but this is now rarely worn
in travelling, being donned by the messenger
only when he receives or delivers his dis
patches. The uniform comprises a dark
blue cloth double-breasted frock coat,
blue single-breasted waistcoat buttoned up
to the throat with edging of gold lace;
trousers of Oxford mixture, with a scar
let cord down the side seams; gilt buttons
embossed with the royal cipher, encircled
by crown and garter and having a grey
hound pendant, and blue cloth cap, with
leather peak, band of black braid and
royal cipher and crown in front. Accord
ing to the regulations this uniform, and
more especially the badge, must always be
worn by messengers when travelling, but
the badge must not be worn at any other
time. In practice, however, the glorified
postmanlike kit is obsolescent.
The messenger when travelling has prac-
is his motto. He rides by himself in q
first-class compartment when journeying by
rail and has private cabin at sea. His
wallet. which. If its contents were to be
known, might make war inevitable, dis
grace an ambassador or rob a princess of
her fair name, he carries on his person;
other letters of less importance are con-
signed to dispatch box. In the ordinary
sense these letters are not private letters
at all, for they relate to public affairs.
Yet they are private property and not
state papers, being the outcome of the sys-
tenn by virtue Of which public, CORE
spondence may be called for BY parlia-
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X Men Who Travel on the Kings Errands

ment. They contain matter which, if pub
lished in a blue book. would render the
official and social position of an ambasSa-
dor intolerable they form the real
source of information, often gathered from
social gossip, which one government pos
sesses to the doings and intentions Of
another.
The archives in Downing street devoted
to the foreign messenger service would
doubtless-as they already have in the
Observation-Disclosures novelists with the
most thrilling themes. OF course, Capt.
Wynters book passed through a most dis
eliminating censorship. Undoubtedly the
most celebrated mishap that has befallen
a kings messenger on his travels is the
mysterious disappearance of Benjamin
Bathurst, when returning from Vienna with
important dispatches in 1909 On Novem-
Der 25 he arrived at the German village of
Perleberg and halted at the post office for
refreshments and fresh horses
He stood outside the inn watching his
portmanteau being placed on the carriage,
stepped around to the heads of the horses
and was never seen again. Every effort
was made by the civil and military authori-
ties to trace Bathurst. Bloodhounds were
employed to track the lost man, every well
was explored and rivers dragged, every
suspicious house was examined from attic
to cellar woods were searchedsand gardens
turned up; but all to no purpose. Neither
Bathurst's body nor any of the dispatches
he was carrying on his person were ever
found And so rests the Bathurst disap-
pearance an unsolved mystery to this day.
The passing Of the kings greyhounds Is
merely a sign of the times. Safe and easy
transit facilities, the cable and telegraph
wires have reduced the Importance of their
function In the same ratio almost that the
importance of foreign ENJOYS has been re-
duced The dispatches formerly carried by
messengers to and from the British en-
bassy IN those foreign capitals which are
accessible by sea have for some time past
been intrpsted to the commanders OF his
majesty's warships whenever possible or
to the captains Of flrst-class liners. TIL
the other day the staff numbered but eight
messengers, two being in receipt Of sal
airy of R400 a year and six ESQ year.
The messengers receive in addition a fairly
liberal allowance per travelling day, and.
Of course, their actual disbursements on
journeys are refunded them. :.
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old, This was her favorite portrait, and
wherever she went it accompanied her
The glowing flesh tints are exquisite
and beautifully contrasted by the deep
hazel eyes, the wealth of dark brown
halr, and charmingly set off by the gown
of yellow satin. A dress of this color
was always in her wardrobe. as she con-
sidered it her most becoming shade
When she showed this portrait to her
young granddaughter-in law the wife
of the Attorney General, she gave her
Its history, and also told her that when
she was sitting for it she gave instruc-
ton to the artist to make only a bust
picture. No, madame" he answered.
you must let me make it this way
Most people are my pain bis you are
my pain blanc"
The handsome portrait on the opposite
easel is that of Madame Bonaparte's SON
the late Col. Jerome Bonaparte of Wash
lngton, the brother Of the Attorney Cen
eral. On the wall on either side of the
Napoleon bust hang oval portraits of
Emperor Louis Napoleon and his wife,
the Empress Eugene.
On the east wall is a second portrait in
oil OF Madame Jerome Bonanarte This
was painted in Paris in 1915, by kjnson
Athehaeum, building connected with the
Maryland Historical Association
Beneath it a case of miniatures takes All
tentlon The place of honor at the ton is
occupied by Napoleon, and the likeness is
excellent On his left is his brother Jouie
King of Holland the father of Louis Ma
poleon TIE third emperor On Napoleon's
right is that of his eldest sister. Princess
Elise, who married Prince Bacciochi. Di-
rectly beneath Napoleon hangs "a miniature
OF his mother. 1t is inscribed Her I'M
perial Highness. Madame Mere. Rome
1872 Beside this is a miniature of her
son, Prince Jerome, and it bears a lock of
her hair. A second miniature of Prince
Jerome, and an excellent likeness is enam-
eled upon copper. This is rare as a work
of art and the most valuable miniature in
the collection
Three miniatures of the children of
Jerome, King of Westphala, by his sec
ond marriage with Queen Catherine of
Wurttemberg, are interesting. They are the
elder son, Jerome; the second, Napoleon,
known generally as "Plon-Plon,'' and the
one daughter, Princess Mathilde. Two
other child miniatures are of Napoleonne
Bacciochi, the daughter of Napoleons sis
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at present constituted was not founded
until 186O-the dispatches Of the crown and
officers of state reverted to the case of
special posts, who were appointed by the
secretary of state and in course of time
became christened kings or queens mes
sengers. Later on the staff was split up
into foreign and home service messengers.
The service as it exists today is the work
of George Canning, who became foreign
secretary in 1922. He put stop to the
abuses that had grown up in the corps ow
ing to the immense amount of CORE
spoHdence between st. James and Cont
mental courts, occasioned by the ever
changing politics of Napoleon.
Lord Stewart once discovered that
favorite messenger had for a long time
taken all his dispatches to Metternch be-
fore going to England. Under the present
system messengers for foreign service were
appointed by the secretary of state for
foreign affairs, the candidate being sub
ject to the following qualifications and ex-
animation: He must be British subject,
preferably an army officer, between the
ages of twenty-five and thirty-fve, pos
sessed of sound bodily health, able to ride
and competent to perform journeys on
horseback. That he has such knowledge
of either French, German or Italian as will
enable him to make himself understood
in regard to such matters as concern his
duties on the road, those duties being to
convey the dispatches intrusted to him
safely and expeditiously by whatever
means he may have occasion to travel.
That he have such knowledge Of the
first four rules of arithmetic as will enable
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vvYYITH the retirement OF Capt. Philip
W. Wynter from King Edwards serv-
w ice and the death of Arthur Her
bert, who went down in the wreck
of the Berlin on February Il, off
the Hook of Holland, a famous British
royal institution, more familiar possibly in
fiction than in history, has begun to pass
out of existence, says the New York Times.
These and no future vacancies on the staff
of the kings foreign service messengers
are to be filled-such is the official an
nouncement of the British foreign office.
Americans are possibly more familiar
with the names of Wynter and Herbert
than they are with those of other men,
beers of the corps, past or present, outside
the pages of romantic novels. Capt. Wynn
ter visited this country last August and
was identified by the little silver greyhound
which every messenger in the kings serv-
ice wears attached to his person and is
the open sesame" to all official portals.
Capt Wynter had been in the service of
British royalty for thirty-five years. His
"On the Queens Errands' relates many
of his adventures in the service but init
mates that the most interesting are left
untold. The Hon. Arthur Herbert was
the grandson of the third Earl of Fowls,
and when his ship was wrecked he was
on secret mission to the courts Of Copen-
hagen, St. Petersburg, Berlin and Teheran.
A messenger is never supposed to part
with the leather wallet containing his dis
patches, and is expected freely to give his
life in it's defense. When Herberts body
was received no wallet was found. Three
days later it was washed ashore. 1t Is be-
Eeved that the messenger, seeing death at
hand, had cast it from him in the hope that
1t might be picked up and forwarded to its
destination.