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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21

spising me and trying to keep up the
deception. Let's begin right"
She was listening; she was no
longer longing to fly from the room;
she was curious | knew : had scored.
In any event" I continued, you
would have married for money. You've
been brought up to It. like all these
girls of your set You'd be miserable
without luxury. If you had your choice
between love without iuxmy and lux
ury without love. it'd be az easy to
foretell which you'd do as to foretell
how a starving poet would choose be-
tween a loaf of bread and volume of
poems. You may love love; but you
love life-your kind of life-betteri"
She lowered her head 1T is true,
she said. 1T is low and vile, but it is
true
Your parents need money" be-
gan
She stopped me with a gesture.
Don't blame them" she pleaded. Il
am more guilty than they
| was proud of her as she made
that confession. You have the max
ing of real woman in you" said |.
Il should have wanted you even if you
hadn't But what / now see makes
what | thought folly of mine look
more like wisdom"
81 must warn you" she said, and
now she was looking directly at me,
Il shall never love you"
Never is a long time" replied I.
I'm old enough to be cynical about
prophecy"
II shall never love you" she re-
peated. For many reasons you
wouldn't understand. For one you
will understand"
II understand the many reasons
you say are beyond me, said l. For,
dear young lady, under this coarse ex-
terror | assure you there's hidden
rather sharp outlook on human ma
ture-and-well, nerves that respond
to the faintest changes in you as do
mine can't be altogether without SEN
sitiveness. What's the other reason
the reason? That you think you love
some one else?"
Thank you for saying it for me,
she replied.
You can't imagine how pleased
was at having earned her gratitude,
even in so little a matter. Il have
thought of that said 1. 1T is of no
consequence.
But you don't understand" she
pleaded earnestly.
CO.. A. 7 ,rpIarcfapd nor
fectly," 1 assured her. And the rea-
son am not disturbed is-you are
here, you are not with him."
She lowered her head so that l had
no view of her face.
you and he do not marry" l went
on, because you are both poor?"
NO" she replied
Because he does not care for you?"
"No-not that" she said.
Because you thought he hadn't
enough for two?"
A long pause, then-very family;
''No-not that"
Then it must be because he hasn't
as much money as he'd like, and must
find a girl who'll bring him-what he
most wants"
She was silent
That is, while he loves you dearly,
he loves money more. And he's Will
ing to see you go to another man, be
the wife of another man, be-every- /
thing to another man." laughed
I'll take my chances against love OF
that sort"
you don't understand" she muir
"You don't realize-there are
many things that mean nothing to you
and that mean-oh. so much to people
brought up as we are"
Nonsense" said |. What do you |
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21

Il am that" retorted |. And good
for you-as you'll find when you get
used to me-"
| heard voices in the next room
her mothers and some mans. We
waited until it was evident we were
not to be disturbed. AS | realized
that fact and. surmised its meaning, |
looked triumphantly at her.
Il see you are nerving yourself.
said | with laugh. You are perfect
ly certain | am going to propose to
you
She famed scarlet and half-started
up.
expects it. too" I went on. laughing
even more disagreeably. Your par
ents need money-they have decided
to sell you. their only large income
producing asset. And | am willing to
buy What do you say
| was blocking her way out of the
room. She was standing. her breath
coming fast. her eyes blazing You
are-frightful.' she exclaimed In a
low voice.
Because | am frank. because l am
honest? Because | want to put things
on a sound basis? | suppose, II
came lying and pretending and let you
lie and pretend. and let your parents
and Sam lie and pretend, you would
find me-almost tolerable. Well, I'm
not that kind. When there's no spe-
cial reason one way or the other, I'm
willing to smirk and grimace and dod
der and drivel, like the rest of your
friends. those ladies and gentlemen.
But when there's business TO be trans
acted, | am business-like. Let's not
begin with your thinking you are de-
ceiying me, and so hating me and de-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21

rather not have seen there. | wished
to be blind to her defects to the stains
an5 smutches with which her sur
.-s.qndings must have sullied her. And
that friendly look seemed to me an
unmistakable hypocrisy in obedience
to her mother However. it had the
effect of bringing her nearer to my
own earthly level, of putting me at
ease with her; and for the few remain
ing minutes we talked freely, | indif-
ferent whether my manners and con-
versation were correct. AS | helped
her into their carriage. | pressed her
arm slightly, and said in voice for
her only, Until tomorrow"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21
A Very Promlslna SIGN.

The Wise Son-Oh, paw l think
Helen's young man must be getting
along toward the point where he's
about to ask you for her.
His Father-Pshaw, | don't believe
he has the gumption to even hint that
he likes her.
The Wise Son--Well. l noticed this
snorning that one of the hammock.
hooks Is pulled out.-Judge.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21

mean by 'weg Nature las been bring
ing us up for a thousand thousand
years A few years of silly false train
ing doesn't undo her work If you and
he had cared for each other. You
wouldn' be here. apologizing for his
selfish vanity"
NO matter about him." she cried
impatiently, lifting her head haught
lily. The point is, | love him-ana
always shall | warn you"
And take you at my own riskf"
Her look answered "Yes,"
Well took her hand-"then.
we are engaged"
Her whole body grew tense, and her
hand chilled as it lay in mine. Don't
please don't" | said gently. I'm
not so bad as all that. If you will be
as generous with me as | shall be
with you, neither of us will ever re-
greet this"
There were tears on her cheeks as
slowly released her hand.
Il shall ask nothing of you that you
are not ready freely to give" said.
Impulsively she stood and put out
her hand, and the eyes she lifted to
mine were shining and friendly.
caught her in my arms and kissed her
not once but many times. And 1t
was not until the chill of her ice-like
face had cooled me that | released
her, drew back red and ashamed and
stammering apologies. But her inn
hoI
she once more, as | saw only too plain
ly, felt for me that sense of repulsion.
felt for herself that sense of self-deg-
radiation.
4 cannot marry you!" she NUT
tered.
You can-and willard must" |
cried, Infatuated by her look.
There was a long silence. | could
easily guess what was being fought
out in her mind At last she slowly
drew herself up Il can not refuse.
she said. and her eyes sparkled with
defiance that had hate in it. You
have the power to compel me. Use
it, like the brute you refuse to let me
forget that you are" She looked so
young. so beautiful, so angry-and so
tempting.
80 l shalt" | answered. Children
have to be taught what is good for
them. Call in your mother, and Wen
tell her the news"
Instead. she went into the next
room. followed. saw Mrs. Ellersly
seated at the tea-table in the corner
farthest from the library where her
daughter and / had been negotiating
Wont you give us tea, mother?"
said Anita, on her surface not trace
of the cyclone that must still have
been raging in her.
Congratulate me, Mrs. Ellersly,~
said l. your daughter has consented
to marry me-"
Instead of speaking, Mrs. Ellersly
began to cry-real tears. And for q
moment | thought there was a real
heart inside of her somewhere. But
when she spoke, that delusion van
ished.
you must forgive me, Mr.. Black
lock-" she said in her hard, smooth.
polite voice. 1T is the shock of real
izing I'm about to lose my daughter.
And | knew that her tears were from
ioy and relief-Anita had come up to
the scratch" the hideous menace OF
"genteel poverty" had been averted-
do give us tea, mamma, said
Anita. Her cold, sarcastic tone cut my
nerves and her mothers like razor
blade. looked sharply at her, and
wondered whether l was not making a
bargain vastly different from that my
passion was picturing.
(To be Continued)
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21

When putting steel or whalebone In.
waist before putting into casing. You
will find the bodice will fit to the ig-
ure much better.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21

Don't take no stock in the man
that's always whisperin'." advised
Uncle Jerry PEBBLES. IF he's afraid
TO trust his own voice there's some
thin wrong on the inAide Of 'im."
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21
ONLY That and Nothing More

Only That and Nothing More.
Bacon-Graciousi What's all that
noise?
Egbert-Oh. that comes from next
door.
What is it a conservatory of
music?"
NO; it's painless dentists Office"
-Yonkers Statesman.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21
Regulating the WhirlDind
(To be Continued.)

his high chair this time with sense
of relief.
He kept praiseworthy silence for
some time, but finally
Mamma" he burst out-and the fat
finger irresistibly lifted Itself
which one of 'em is Mr.. Small an
which Is Mr.. LAWSON"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27

The world is getting sober gradual
~, slowly, but surely, no matter what
is said to the contrary. A man above
hfty-fve does not need statistics to
make him know that this is true of
our own people. Prior to the civil war
teetotalers were scarce as hens teeth.
Now n half of the voters are teeto-
talers, and the other half take a snort
only when it is extremely convenient.
The drinking in America is confined
almost entirely to the towns. Another
thing, more beer in proportion to whis-
ky is consumed than formerly, and
beer contains only about one-eighth or
one-seventh al much alcohol as whis-
ky. In Great Britain, Notwithstanding
increase of population, the drink bill
has fallen off 3 100000 in six years,
and a pound sterling just about
equals SIS.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27
"Who Paws the Eine7"

l have frequently alluded in these
letters to the fine editorials which ap-
pear in the country papers of Missouri.
BY country papers," of course, are
meant those not published in the great
cities. Recently under the above cap
ton there was an editorial in the
Times, published at Louisiana, Pike
county, Mo-, which clearly illustrates
the utter futility Of trying to break up
the trusts by imposing fines upon them.
1t is worthy of the profoundest study
OF the voters of the land. Here is the
Times editorial verbatim:
We have a question which is a sort of
companion question to the old one, Who
pays the tariff? The question which we
want to ask and then answer Is, Who
pays the fine?
Recently the Standard OH was
fined in the federal court in Chicago on
a charge of rebating. If 1t is fined a sim
liar amount on each count in the indict-
ment. the total fine will moun to about
3o,0o0,0OO BY the way, it insists tina each
repatlng contract was not a separate Of
tense and seeks to avoid more h the
one fine.
But If it should lose on this contention
DAS Ia = 40 AA4Ad4ly SUCK IOT
$50, o ,oOO. we imagine it will issue about
$780, oo, o0-allowing 100 per cent. for water
OF debenture fine bonds. and John b. will
sell them and pay the fine, pocketing the
difference. Then he will increase the
price of OIL about 2 cents per gallon, the
extra 2 cents to go into a sinking fund
to be used to retire the bonds at ma
turity.
The Standard Oil company has such a
complete monopoly of the petroleum bust
ness that without doubt the users of oil
WIN AVE to pay all fines, just as they
have to all gifts to Chicago university.
n matter Of ining a corporation like
the Standard Oil company is somewhat
like f1ning a drunken husband for not
supporting his family. The patient, much
abused wife complains that he got drunk
Saturday night and blew in his weeks
wages and beat her. T%hereupon the mag
fstrate fines the brute $50, and the wife
goes home and sells enough furniture to
pay 1t.
Filming the Standard OIL company does
not hurt it. and we cannot hang it. What
will we do with it?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27
Senator John II. sankhead.


The successor to General John Z.
Morgan is a competent witness to tes-
tify as to whether there is any such
thing as luck. Colonel Bankhead
served with distinction in the house
for twenty years and was defeated for
denomination by Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson Of Merrimac fame.
About that time the Democratic state
committee of Alabama did the unheard
Of thing Of advising supplementary al
ternate senator's to be nominated at
the primary last year, which a%lternates
should succeed Senators Morgan and
Pettus in the event of death or resigna-
ton. Bankhead entered the race and
led the poll. So he will be senator for
nearly six years, if he lives, and prob
ably for life. His old yokefellows in
the house are all glad that he played
in such good luck, for he was popular
IN both sides of the chamber and is
an able, clean, upright and courageous
man. He made a tiptop representative,
and he will make the same brand of
senator. OF course there are persons
who scout the idea Of luck, but there
are two statesmen in Alabama who
know better, Colonel Bankhead and
Captain Hobson. If Hobson had let
Bankhead alone, he could in all human
probability have gone to the senate
himself. Now he e the venerable
Morgan succeeded by Colonel Bank
head, who has many years Of life In
him, and he ees Ex-Governor johnson,
who also has many years Of life in
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27
Dangerous.

AAAAAS
Dangerous.
1t is always hazardous to play with
fire, and yet that is precisely what two
sets of marplots are doing at the pres
ent monochrome. set in America, the
other in Japan. Perhaps America and
Japan are the two cockiest nations on
the globe. We have never been beat
en- IN var. Neither has Japan-that is,
the new Japan. What happened to her
in the olden times VIZ do not know,
and 1t does not matter. She beat Chi
ma. She beat Russia. She has no
doubt she can wallop us. On the other
hand, the average American thinks that
we can lick all 'the nations Of the
earth and the rest Of mankind" as
General Zachary Taylor remarked in
his first and only annual message to
congress. Unfortunately one result Of
the Spanish war was to make us and
Japan close neighbors. It's always
neighbors that quarrel. Now, with this
condition Of affairs, which every sensi-
BILE man in both countries wishes were
otherwise, there is a pack of idiots in
each country e%xaggerating every diff
ference and doing everything possible
to precipttate q war betwixt Japan and
us. No doubt it would have begun
last spring had Japan been able to bor-
row the money, which luckily she was
not.
We shall adopt a wise, sane, patriot
ic policy toward japan and hold to it
firmly and ~unwaveringly. She should
be made to understand politely, but
unequivocally, that we propose to run
u OWL affairs in our own way with
out any dictation from her or from any
other source; that, among other things,
we do not intend that Japs shall be
naturalized under any circumstances
whatever, no matter what comes Of it,
peace or war, and that when we get
ready we will pass a Japanese exclu-
sion bill as a companion piece to the
Chinese exclusion bill. These things
ought to be clearly stated and reli-
giously adhered to.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27
John Tyler Moraan.

John Tyler Morgan, for more than
thirty years a senator of the United
States, has gone to his reward, leaving
a name pure and unsullied as a legacy
to his countrymen. He was an ON
nivorous reader, and his memory was
like a tar bucket, for everything that
touched it stuck. Though he was
eighty-three, his mental powers re-
manned undiminished to the end. In
this connection it is an interesting fact
that Colonel Thomas Hart Benton Of
Missouri was the first thirty year SEN
ator, and If he had been willing to con-
ciliate anybody he would have died in
the senate after thirty-seven years.
service. 1t is also interesting to know
that Missouri is the only state that
ever had two thirty year senators,
General Francis Marion Cockrell, now
interstate commerce commissioner, be-.
ing the other.
He would have remained in the senate
till the day Of his death had the land
slide Of 1904 not given the Republicans
the Missouri legislature. 1t is no ex-
aggeration to say that Senator Nor
gan was the best informed nan in pub
lie life. How he could learn so much
l could never ascertain. Somebody
asked him once how long he could
speak on a certain subject. "Oh," he
replied, "if 1 had time to prepare, 1
could speak three hours; otherwise 1
could speak Indefinitely" Any one
conversant with his output Of words as
to an isthmian canal can understand
his remark.
He is the only man 1 ever heard Of
who resigned a brigadier %generalship
to accept a colonelcy. He performed
that remarkable caper because the
field officers Of his old regiment were
all killed or disabled simultaneously.
and his love for the men composing it
caused his act Of self abnegation. He
was afterward appointed brigadier a
second time and accepted on condition
that his old regiment should constitute
part of his brigade.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27

him, Is alternate for General Pettus
should that splendid old man shuttle
off this mortal coil. So sometimes it is
we'll to act upon the old Latin motto,
"Festina lente" (hasten slowly. Bank
head should pick out q nice site down
in Alabama and erect a monument of
gratitude to Hobson, for Hobson made
him senator. This is a strange world,
my masters, and truth is stranger than
fiction sometimes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27

lSpeCldl washington Letter.
~ H!O is not the only state both
cred by a surplus of Demo
~ cratic possibilities. There are
others, among them imperial
Missouri. Notwithstanding the fact
that at the state convention q year ago
the Missouri Democrats led off with a
rousing. tumultuous, enthusiastic and
far resounding Endorsement Of William
Jennings Bryan, certain Of Governor
Joseph Wingate Folks close and con-
fdential friends have been carefully
incubating a boom for him and were
making some progress when, 10, Mayor
Rol]a Wells Of st. Louis, travelling
eastward, tries to puncture the Folk
boom by starting a boom for ex-mayor,
ex-governor and e~x-secretary Of the
interior, David Rowland Francis, de-
claring that the Francis candidacy
would be %ecstatically received by all
Missouri Democrats, which, if con-
strued literally, would include Governor
Folk himself, Notwithstanding the fact
that both Governor Folk and ex-Gov-
n Francis were prominent figures
In launching the Bryan boom at the
state convention aforementioned. In
the meantime Ex-Governor Dockery,
r%usticating and Eliminating upon his
Sabine farm up in Davies county, who
has been credited with presidential as
pirations, winks his eye SO tight that
1t will need a surgical operation to
open it, and Senator Stone, away off in
Japan, who some ten years ago was
sometimes mentioned for the presi-
dency, gives a hoarse boot. If W. j. B.
and all the other outsiders would only
get out Of the way, we M~issourians
could pull off a notable presidential
Donnybrook.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27
Consolidated Republics.

IT b puny wars nov in progress
among the Central American states
end in their consolidation into one
confederated republic, as it is prophe-
sled will be the case, then these wars
will have accomplished great good for
all concerned. Many persons have
hoped that President Diaz would an
mex them to Mexico vi ct arms, which
is the best thing that could happen to
them, but he doesn't seem disposed
to do SO, probably for the reason that
he desires his old age to be free from
worry. He has done a great work for
his W people-a work which entities
him to rank with the worlds few real
ly great men. That is certain to be
the verdict of history, for Disraeli once
said that the contemporary opinion Of
foreign nations is identical with the
final verdict Of history. These little
Central American republics, which are
forever quarreling with each other and
frequently at war, have been blessed
with immense physical resources which
"a lever be developed sc long as the
present status continue. 1t is a use
less expense for each to keep up a
diplomatic establishment, army and
navy. AS it is, each Is so feeble as to
amount to nothing commercially or
any other way. United they would be
a respectable nation, at least in popu-
lation and territory, and peace for half
a century would make them rich be-
yond the dreams Of avarice. It's a
pity that General Walker, "the gray
eyed man of destiny" as he was call
ed, one of the most famous Of flibus-
ters-it's a pity that he was not sue
cessful in holding Nicaragua. He
would have made a great state of it
and would no doubt have annexed the
rest.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-27

Governor huahes.


Many persons no doubt think that
Governor Hughes Of New York has
committed political harakiri by Veto
ing a two cent passenger rate bill in
the face of an almost universal de-
mand for it, but If such persons will
study about the old saying that history
frequently repeats itself they may ba
able to dig up some facts which will
tend to their enlightenment. 1t may
then dawn upon them that there ia
method in the governors madness. He
also may be bordering the proposition
that history frequently repeats itself.
He may, for instance, fish up out Of his
memory that a certain governor Of
New York, Grover Cleveland by name,
vetoed a two cent fare bill which on
cerned the street car lines in New York
city and that all the prophets were
unanimously of the opinion that G. G.
was done for. But he wasn't, a fact
which the latest Of his gubernatorial
successors may also be familiar with.
On the contrary, Hon. G.. @. went
straightway to the place for which
Governor Hughes longs. The chances
are that the plutocrats will now make
Governor Hughes their candidate.
Vice President Fairbanks, Senator
Knox, Uncle Joe, Senator Foraker and
others are preferable with them to
Secretary Taft, but none Of them has
done anything which will please them
SO much as the Hughes veto. If they
espouse his cause openly, it would do
him harm, but there are more ways of
killing a dog than by choking him with
melted butter. So in this case, by help
ing Hughes and his crowd under cover
and by giving them all the money they
want or need and at the same time hav-
ing him aud his yell at the top OF their
voices for the people, they can do
much to promote his presidential as
pirations. The net result Of the
Hughes veto ID that the other candf
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