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only Who has been President and who is President,
but also who is going to be President
You say they tell who is going to be Presi-
dent?" said Fairbanks How do they do that
1t is lnvariable rule, :" said the guest, that
the Vice President shall become President
He waited to see the effect upon Fairbanks but
was disappointed.
That seems to be a very excellent custom" the
Vice President remarked sedately but there was
intimate friends, which showed that the hunor of
the situation appreciated although he did not
intend to acknowledge any personal interest in the
story
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step Nellie laughed to herself sarcastic triumph
ant laugh 'FJimrnny Haraghey, me boy she said
Il know what we're up till III put spoke in
yer wheel the day See if DON'T
She followed at safe distance She saw Jtmmlny
go to his cart in Larry McIntyres yard, and from
it carry away one of the bags. with some lump
in the bottom What could be in the bag puz
lied Nellie. He bent bis footsteps as Nellie had
Montana news., 1907-10-31

der, jowl to jowl, hand to hand, along
with the victims of the mine owners
wrath, to maintain and proclaim the
impregnability and soundness of the
industrial and political solution that
the socialists offer. Every force from
the most powerful to the lowest, both
without and within the labor ranks
themselves, of which the dominant ca
pitalist system can avail itself. is at
work to counteract the invulnerability
of the socialist position. We are fight.
ing even for recognition by the work.
ing class that we have the only solu
tion of their problems and difficulties
Few socialist papers can afford the ex.
pense of the representation at the
trial. We of the west must be at our
post. 1t is a great burden to bear,
but we must rally to the crisis and
carry it. 1t is a part of the fight we
enter upon when we leave the easy
path of bourgeois submission and ally
ourselves with the thorns and the
struggles of the proletariat.
All these demands and complications
coming at once entail a burden that
the socialists must rally to meet Let
none be found wanting.
Montana news., 1907-10-31

Since Fred Schwartz encounter with
Judge Bach an effort is being made to
import Pinkerton methods into the
Helena strike situation A mysterious
individual has twice appeared at the
place where he is working and advised
him that he had better keep his mouth
closed about Judge Bach, with various
sinister warnings that he was advis.
ing him as a friend, and limiting al
dark and dreadful results IL his advice
was not taken.
Schwartz refused to be overwhelmed
with contrition and gratitude but or
dered the offensive buttinsky to with
draw his unwelcome physiognomy
more forciby than appreciatively.
Such hee-haw horse play won't &c
down with the union men Of Helena
They have got to trump up some other
sort Of a game.
Montana news., 1907-10-31
USURPATIoN TO NATIONAL
FUNCTIONS.

A certain socialist at Hepburn,
Idaho, is sending letters all over the
country asking socialists to send four
Appeal cards month to some man
down in South Carolina to enable him
to work for socialism. Numbers of
socialists in Idaho are complying with
this request, and a large amount Of
socialist fuel is being poured out of
Idaho where 1t is more needed just
now than in any state in the Union,
and put into a state where conditions
are not right for anything to be ac-
eomplished for years.
Moreover this money is not going
where all this aid is so acutely needed,
to strengthen aud build up the con-
structive faculties of the organized
American movement, but is pouring
into the private Golfers of the Appeal
to Reason and is building up an Ap-
peal TO Reason movement instead of
an American socialist movement.
Some people have a mania for think.
ing it is always better further on.
This is just the reason our movement
so badly lacks effective concentration
and is so deficient in local results.
Members with more zeal than judg,
ment spread themselves all over crea.
tion and utterly neglect any active
duty in their own home movement.
The Idaho movement is in dis.
graceful state of disorganization. No
one seems to take any interest in the
state movement at all; and it looks
now as though with all this Western
Federation agitation, and the awful
example of class government before
the workers that the socialist move
ment is going to derive no benefit
from ii whatever, but that the senti-
ment created for the Federation by
socialists will be taken advantage of
by the democrats to put John Nugent
in as governor.
Socialists, this is Just where you re
at. Now what do you wantl To work
for socialism, or for any sort of a sen.
sational popular wave that misguided
radicals allow to sweep over them'
1t is the function of the national of
fee to attend to the necessary propa
ganda in the various states, and moi
that of individuals or the Appeal tC
Reason. Let us build up the social
list party where we are ourselves po
litical factors.
1t is time for the socialists in Idaho
were supporting their state organiza
tions and getting down to a good ac
tive campaign.
Montana news., 1907-10-31

that their work forces upon them.
They must learn to make shrewd
moves against the capitalist masters.
They must learn the magic power that
there is in numbers and masses. They
must learn the accuracy of detail work
in organization. They must learn
their powers as workers, their help
lessness as parasites. They must con.
troll every avenue of every trade, take
advantage of every social concession,
patronize themselves and their class,
boycott every stronghold of their in
dustrial enemies-and build within th
present injustice and slavery a clear,
grip and control of the social situa-
tiOn.
This alone is the problem before
the working class. Until this is ac-
complished the working class has moth.
ing TO do with dreams of common.
wealths. Such pictures are ony irri'
descent fancies at the best, phantas.
NAL delusions into which you and I
will never enter. We shall do well if
we shall enter on a well-generaled
struggle.
The joy Of combat is the chief
achievement that the toiler of to-day
can know. And any paper or person
that wastes time upon the calm glories
of a well-ordered industrial utopia is
lulling the workers to deadly slum.
ber with a siren song, and enervating
their faculties for any effective effort
towards the goal to which they aspire.
Line upl Dorel Light Do some
thingl
Organization, solidarity, is the thing
to teach.
Let our cooperative commonwealth
go with the heaven of the priests.
You will never see it.
There is work at hand for you to
do.
Montana news., 1907-10-31
THE CO. OPERATIVE COMMON.
WEALTH.

There are some socialists and sew
eral papers published in the interest
of the socialist movement, the chief
subject of whose discourse on the
doctrines of socialism consists in re-
hearsing the beauties and conveniences
of an imaginary cooperative com.
monwealth." The greater portion of
these ideas are derived no doubt from
a perusal Of Bellamy's Looking Back
ward" a pure utopian fantasy written
in 1888 by a minister who had never
even heard anything about socialism
This book set the fashion of fashion
ing a future where all was bliss from
an orderly arrangement of industrial
processes. ltr y. j, p a. 90 "a
We have come to an age when sci
ence sheds its light upon the pathway
which the human race has taken and
will take in the future. That won
drous light emanating from the tri
umph Of the human intellect ha,
pierced the chaos Of mans blind ef
forts to care for himself, and marked
the forces that dominate new so
eial alignments. The co.operativ,
feature has showed increasing siren gti
through each advancing epoch, and tn,
struggle is still towards greater co
operative efficiency.
But between the human producer Of
his comforts and his enjoyment o.
them stands a rapacious, dominant
class. That the workers may enjo,
the products Of their labor, they mus
unseat this class. They must becom,
self.initiative. They must learn or
ganization and cooperation betweei
themselves. They must come int,
control Of governments. They mus
obtain skill in administration. The,
must feel and live the brotherhoo,
Montana news., 1907-10-31

attention of government officials of
this and other nations.
Government officials at Washington,
ID. c., in the agricultural department
have given out their opinion that the
Farmers Union will control the mar
keting problem. This is the first pro-
blem to be solved by farmers, and
when the price Of the product Of farm
labor is set and controlled by the pro-
ducer the next step will be easy taken
to possess ALL that labor produces.
This is the king row to which organ
lied labor is moving and which it will
attain though a man is occasionally
sacrificed.
The Farmers Union Of Kiowa coun-
ty, Oklahoma, where write, buy their
coal-'the best McAlpster lump-di-
rectly from the mines for less than
the dealers can buy Vt. They save
$2.65 on very ton of coal. The organ
lied farmers Of Kiowa county save in
one season on coal over $4,000 and
other counties being organized do the
same. Green county saves $100,0
every season on coal. To buy coal
alone II pays to organize. But this
is only little item. The extra price
of farm products by organized selling
and the reduced price they pay by or
ganized buying make millions for
farmers Of one county The farmers
Of Green county for instance, made ex'
ira on, cotton last year by organiza'
ton over s1,50o,0o0. This is worth
striving for. 4 % lau.. .. a 60
This is the sticking plaster that
makes the farmers stick. The $2.65
saved to the farmers union on one
ton Of coal acts as a loadstone to draw
the outsider to the inside, and when
he is in, the same advantage holds
him there. This is the sticking plas
ter discovered by John ID. Rockefeller
namely, GREAT FINANCIAL AID
VANTAGE GAINED BY UNION and
CO-0PERATIoNSThe Organizer.
Montana news., 1907-10-31
DOES THE LORD GIVE THE IN
CREASE7

There is another story out about the
Lutheran minister who discussed so
ridiculously about the socialists in his
church that little boy arose and said,
he lied.
1t seems that the offcious divine was
endeavoring to build himself house
and asked one of his parishioners, a
socialist by the way, for $40 towards
its completion. The parishoner replied
that he had been trying to build him
self house for two years; and it was
not done yet.
"Oh," said the Helena preacher.
"the lord will build your house"
"Then let him build yours" was
the layman's Is reply.
But when it comes to material
things the motto OF the preachers is
"Do as We say, not as we do"
They are like Mark Twain's Wizard
Merlin in his Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court their pro.
phecies are only wonderful and be.
hevable as they are far off and con.
neeted with things that no one knows
anything about.
There is just as much sense in say.
ing that the lord will build house
as there is in saying that CAPITAL
builds houses or erects manufactures
Labor builds everything. 1t puts
up every building and makes every
piece of machinery. Capital consist,
of the material products after laboi
makes them. Consequently il is nei
ther capital nor the capitalist tha
makes the world wag; it is labor, an,
labor alone. Socialists contend tina
labor should have its total product
which it creates.
Montana news., 1907-10-31

Oo1adee AWsouon-
sines the mines have shut dow. and
you are odt Of {. JOB, why not own
jobi For $1,000 in cash III sell You
. 12o acrsfsrm In the great fruit bsk
Of the Bitter Root valley, two miles
form stevensville, Mont, good public
schools. This farm is adapted TO
raising fruit, clover, alfalfa has
fiften acres Of fine sand loan
that Is good for arising MELONS,
tomatoes, peachesj there are 200 trees
on the place just coming into bearing,
apples, pears cherries, crabs. $4,000
eight room residence, fair barn. Great
bargain, We want to sell. $1,000 In
cash and $4,000 on time, anywhere
from one to Ave years, to suit the buy.
or, at seven per cent per annum. Go
to Elvy or Leslie Ettien big ditch near
Hamilton, Mont, TO see the place, al
20 address james Ettien, Depass, wyo.
Montana news., 1907-10-31
Comrade Hanford in Florida.

Comrade Ben Hanford Of Brooklyn,
N. Y, is now in Leesburg, Fla. In
letter to the editor he writes Give
my best regards to the comrades. At
ter two years Of almost constant i'll
ness I am here to spend the winter in
the south and in the country. Feel
much better already and expect to be
in the scrap next year.
Montana news., 1907-10-31

. D.
imously adopted. Work on organiza-
tion win begin there Immediately and
other points in the county are ready
to come in as soon as they can be
reached.
A new store in the Scott County
Cooperative company was organized
at New Prague, Minnesota, at a most
enthusiastic gathering. There wero
enrolled as members eighty-six well.
to-do and intelligent German farmers,
each purchasing one share Of stock at
800. Before the close Of the meeting
seventy.three Of these had made set.
Element, and $4,000 was turned over
TO Mr.. +. J. Maertz, the retiring mer.
chant, to apply on the purchase of his
stock Of goods which had been bought
upon an agreed upon invoice.-Arena.
Montana news., 1907-10-31

The Farmers Cooperative Union Of
America, with 100000 members, in.
creasing 10000 daily, has become so
great already that IL is attracting the
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short lived and that there will be
found leaders of Society with sum
cient taste and courage to protest
against an ugly mode just as they
protested against the meaningless
short waist which is already dying the
death
1t is quite certain that nine women
ont of ten look best when something
rich and dark is placed near the face,
not an entire black, or dark, hat nee.
essarily, but one with a lining of full
tone and in a becoming tint. The
very newest and most popular idea
with regard to cloche hats is the fiat
lining of black, or dark hued, satin.
AS a rule, this lining does not reach
quite to the edge of the hat, an inch
OF light straw being left plain. Black
satin or taifetas Is wonderfully e!fec-
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PUSHED THE BEAR ASIDE.
Surveyor Tells of Experience He Does
Not Care to Repeat.

To walk right up to a monster bear
and try to shove it out of the way and
then escape without so much as a
scratch is an experience of lifetime.
Harry | Engelbright found it so few
days ago in Diamond canyon, above
Washington, says a Nevada City cor
respondent of the Sacramento Bee.
The young man, son of Congressman
Engelbright, has just returned from
the upper country, where he has been
doing some surveying, and relates his
thrilling experience. 1t was coming
on dusk, at the close of the days work.
In the brush-lined trail he saw pro-
lEuGins what he thought were the
mind quarters Of some stray bovine.
lie walked up and gave the brute a
suoFe. 1t came to its launches with
snort that made his hair rise and
caused him to beat a hasty retreat.
Inc big brute looked around and then
Shuiled off into the woods. 1t was
either asleep or else so busy eating
ants from an old log that it failed to
near the young surveyor, whose foot.
steps were deadened by the thick car
pet OF pine needles Later it was
learned that the same bear. a monster
cinnamon, had killed a dog earlier in
the day, The dog ventured too close
and with one blow of its paw the big
beast sent it hurtling yards away,
dead as a doornail.
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Back to the Old Home
BY ELIZABETH ROBBINS
Copyright, by Joseph b BowlesJ

Miles Torrcy had not written when
BE- was coming home, for he dearly
loved surprise, and so there was
nothing for it but to walk the two
miles from the railroad station.
When he reached certain rise In
the swamp road he paused to take
au observation. There, over across
on the Bridge" road was the old
Torrey homestead, looking exactly as
Il bad always looked. Farther on were
the Gilsons roofs, then the Withcrells
chimueys, and away beyond the I'M
painted corner Of something that must
b. The little new chapel his mother
had written about On the nearer side
was the iIarwood place and nearer
yet. the Caswels' barn. which. from.
this point, he remembered, shut of the
view OF the house,
Miles continued on his way with
feeling OF lively satisfaction in find,
Ing so few changes after five years
absence, so when he had turned the
corner and come to where the Cas-
wells house ought 10 he, and there be
held only It's blackened t.mbcrs lying
on the ground he was good deal
shocked.
When and how did IL happen
he asked his mother after he had en-
joycd TO tho full her establishment al
seeing him. and each had inquired aft
e. the others health
1T was three months ago, in Sep
tember. just after that last letter |
sent" Mrs. Torrey told him. DR..
Burrell came along one day and said
old Jed Washburn had been sick. all
alone there in his out the way, tum-
hlc.down place, and they packed up
some things and started right of to
do what they could for him"
Aunt Mary and Uncle Nathan, all
over exclaimed Miles
They think the chimney must have
been burning out and somehow set
FIRE TO the woodwork inside. Mrs Tor
rcy went on AT any ratio nobody
paw the smoke In time TO save any.
thing. and everything was fiat when
they camo back
Too bad. too bad" said Miles Il
ssp0sc they went To 1--we with the
suNsHn
Yes. though couldn't ind ont from
Their letter which one thry ro with.
Neither Mary nor Nathan were very
much for writing
Perhaps thcyu build again
aoh. they can't They we're too
good hearted over to save much. and
thrrr was no insurance.
II isn't likely that I'd. nor Glib can
help them any. Miles reflected
"Thcy re two as good fellows as ever
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JUST THE SAME AS CURRENCY.
Third Son Felt He Had Nothing to
Reproach Himself with.

William Knoepfel. of st. Louis, mas
invented and hopes 10 patent secret
blowing method for the cure OF bald
ness. "A genuine cure for badness, y
said Mr.. Knoepfel the other day.
should make a man very rich. Why,
men grow rich on fake cures 1t Is
amazing, 1t really is, what fakes some
of these cures are. Yet there's money
in them" Mr.. Knoepfel gave a loud,
scornful laugh. in their crookedness
they remind me" he said. "ef the
third son of the old eccentric. Per
haps you have heard the story? Well.
an old eccentric died and left his for
tune equally to his three sons, But
the will contained a strange proyiso.
Each heir was to place 500 In the
coffin Immediately before the inter-
ment. A few days after the interment
the three young men met and discuss
ed the queer proviso and its execu-
ton Well said the oldest son, my
conscience is clear put my hundred
in the coffin in clean, new notes My
conscience is clear, too said the sec
ond son. l put in my hundred in gold
I, too, have nothing to reproach my
self with said the third son. I had
no cash at the time, though; so
wrote out a check for $500 in poor
dear fathers name, placed it in the
coffin and took in change the 5000 in
currency that founL there.
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ever were with the country, and
wouldn't come back for anything"
Maybe so. she assented, doubtful
~. But you viii be seeing them pretty
soon, and can find out all about IT.
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tive I'm an ivory straw s,oche or one of
Tuscan, rich hottlogrecn satin is
used In the same way, and also dark
Lancret blue nutbrown and dark VIC.
let, the latter color being quite a
rage OF the moment For example
take an ivory straw cloche which
boasts a wide rather high crown, and
large dropping hrim, the front Of
the latter being shorter than the back
The lining was of black satin and on
the small bandeau under the brim there
were choux Of black tulle There was a
fun crown Of ivory point d'Esprit and
several enormous bows of the same
across the front and right side. these
bows being invisibly wired and edged
on either side with bands of iuch-wide
white satin ribbon At the left side
there was a cluster Of splendid roses
- darkest crimson and salmon pink.
with several branches Of brown foil
age,
And now inst another word about
The new circular wells OF which we
spoke In a former letter The new
blue spotted uct--,he blue which Il.
exactly like co.naower. blue busted
over With ivory povder-is delight.
fuily fatterjrE 90 clear complexion.
when he veil Is edged an round with
au iuchw'de band OF ribbon velvet
These wells ouEht 90 be quite long
3t least three yards-and OF the finest
and HEhtr-t net Thay ara r.frn,9
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hNet, but They We're never money.
makers would have stopped 70
SEQ them as ! came through The city,.
II hadn't been tn such a hurry to
set home lui !m going aEain soon.
TO talk with am architect
An architect Mrs rorrcys face
flushed She had always wanted =
new house.-uue in which the south
side was not almost wholly taken up
with entries and Aia'r"AAs aud closets
house WY" " ''.".'N'" N"' pay
wlndowF and oSsh.N Z 0I.l'e cnosrrN
ntoTy Was her "..h g. 'oHr .'0"'
Or was Mics '''"'."~ \ @'..'''E mar
Nv.
J vs. h''"'' w. .." . ..'
oa' '.''''' """ ' nave
you. .'''' ...
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norance or for mercenary reasons ~
opposing the sale OF all housenolu
remedies, tchy is It not eqadHy Hece'-
sary for patients to know the conp'-
sition of the remedy prescrioed og
nbusician, Does any sane person De-
lieve that the opium in physician
prescription Is less potent or less Ike
~ % create a drug habit than the OPP
um in a proprietary medicine? AS
matter of fact, more opium -addicts
and cocain- tends hare been ma"e
through the criminal cdreleSSneSS OF
ignorant physicians than by any oFhe'
means.
UDouestionably, there are a number
of proprietary remedies on the marheV
the sales of which should be prompt
cd and no doubt they will be When
the requirements of the Food ana
Drugs Act are rigidly enforced; many
are frauds, pure and simple. and some
are decidedly harmful or the aver
age proprietary remedy, however, IL
NAV truthfully be said that it is dis
tinctly better than the average physi-
clans prescription; for not only Is lts
composition less secret, but 1t Is pre-
pared for the proprietor by reputable
manufacturing pharmacists in magnlh'
Gently equipped laboratories and I'M
der the supervision and advice OF able
chemists, competent physicians ana
skillful pharmacists 1t should not be
considered strange, therefore, that SO
many physicians prefer to prescribe
these ready-prepared proprietary rem
edies rather than trust those OF their
own deyising.
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Painfully Exact

\ New England man tells Of ,ros
porous Connecticut farmer. painfully
exact in money matters, who nerried
: woo" q Greenwich possessing in
leF own r'-ht the sum Of $40 OoO
Shortly afe The wedding a friend ,,o.
me farmer 70 whom he offered con.
CALCULATIONS 1t the same time obsery.
.1- rs good thing for vou
Malachi. 3 marriage thar means $40,
Y y. Not quite that Bin"
$40 .aa farmer not quite Sat
Wy ez. aimed the friend. MAJ.
s...a there was every cen. an ,ra 1ao
n Z to- yog." II hal II ray u I'LL
marriage license. " said Nalaor