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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-10
CLOSING STOCK LIST.

Sales High. Low. Close
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-10
Futures opened steady and closed barely steady: American middlinE q O.
NEW YORK COTTON FUTUREs.

New York. Dec. 9.-Cotton futures on the New York Cotton Exchange today opened ar, d nla .-Ia 1lar.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-10
! F. Johnstone & Co. Cotton Merchants and Exporters
 Cotton Bought in Alabama and Mississippi Branch Offices: Troy and Dothan Ala and Jackson Miss
THE WEATHER

windI Rain State of weaths Time Temp. lpr. .hr.l In. 4 and direction loothsl of wind
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
Little Economies,

81 once made up my mind" said a
London man, that would become the
possessor Of a good gold watch. 1
saved up the money for it in this way:
When l felt like eating a shilling
luncheon, as often did, l kept it down
to tenpence. put the twopence saved
toward my watch fund. You will hard
ly believe me, but with little economies
like this l had in less than six months
saved enough money to buy my gold
watch"
But" said a listener, "where is your
gold watch? You are wearing a poor
little gun metal thing"
WELL" was the reply, when I found
how easily l could get along without
shilling luncheons l concluded l could
get along with a ten shilling watch In
stead of a ten pound one. So that the
watch fund grew until 1t purchased for
me my own house."-London Mail
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
summer FrfIls in Storage.

AS everybody knows" said the
householder to New York Sun writer,
people send their winter furs to stor-
age warehouses and to dealers for safe
keeping through the summer. This Is
an ancient practice. But later this
summer storage Of winterworn articles
came to include many other things be-
sides furs; people took to sending in
winter garments Of all sorts, wOolen
cloaks nnd overcoats and suits of
woolen clothes, and in time there came
to be included rugs and carpets, and
now there are stored In summer fine
furniture and tapestries and innumera-
BILE mounted heads Of fur-bearing ami
mails
"Yet while l had had occasion to
know something Of all this, had sup
posed that this form of storage was
summer business only, whereas now I
discover that 1t Is carried ON through
out the winter as well.
eve found our summer clothes In the
way and we needed the room they occu-
pied. Why couldn't we store them, we
thought, and really that seemed to us
a bright idea, and we went down to
the place where for years we had turn
ed In our winter clothes In the spring
for storage through the summer and
asked them about 1t and they said,
why, certainly, they took summer goods
for winter storage and they'd send for
ours right away.
$50 we shan't be bothered with look
ing after those thin clothes any more
through the winter and we shall have
the space they occupied for other
things. And incidentally we discovered
that a business that once was confined
to summer alone Is now kept going the
year around. New York Sun.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
SALT RIVER Is NO FABLE.
Stream of That Name Flows Into the
Ohio South of Louisville.

Stream of That Name Flows Into the
Ohio South Of Louisville.
Salt River, sacred to defeated can
didates, Is a real stream. While not
navigable, it Is used every winter as
an ice harbor by the towboats which
go out of Pittsburg for the south.
Salt River empties into the Ohio
about twenty-five miles south Of Louis
vile. 1t Is a small stream which flows
from the Kentucky hills to the great
water and is as tortuous, as crooked
and as unpleasant to navigate as the
mind can imagine. Yet 1t Is navigated
for a short distance from its mouth
by steamers Of light draft. Flatboats
and RATS are foated down upon it's
bosom. Before the Civil War it was
an important stream In the matter OF
bringing Kentucky whisky down In the
fiatboats to a point where they could
be unloaded to a river steamer. Re
fractory slaves were generally assign
ed to the task Of bringing these boats
down, as the work was arduous.
Salt River became a bugaboo among
the negroes and 1t was from the I'M
pleasant character Of the work on this
river that "a trip up Salt River came
to be used in politics to express the
destination of defeated candidate.
The name Is supposed to have come
from the salt springs which flow into
1t at It's source.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
CHAPTER XIV.

had sprung up the ladder before Dan
had gathered his scattered wits to re-
member that it was there. 1t was worth
much to watch that honest fellow as he
gripped my hand in his two great paws.
asked him il Roderick and Mary were
aboard.
They're down below, as I'm alive, and
the hands is ashore, but they'll come
aboard for this. Shall tell 'em as you've
called in passing like? 1 can hardly see
out of my eyes for looking at you, sir"
Poor old Dan did not quite know what
he was doing. l left him in the midst of
his strange talk and walked softly down
the companion way to the door Of the sa-
loon, and l opened 1t and stood, | doubt
not, before them as one come from the
dead. Mary, whose childish face looked
very drawn, was sitting before a book,
open upon the table, her head resting up
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
USE FOR OLD CARPETS,
Firemen on Ocean Steamships Need
| Them to Handle Slicebars,

Firemen on Ocean Steamships Need
Them to Handle SIicebars.
The sailors bethel in Boston has
found new outlet for Its activity, says
the New York Tribune. 1t Is collecting
old carpets to supply the firemen on
the ocean steamships with holders. The
heat In which these men work is 80
great that man who had not grad
ually got accustomed to it would find
1t actually insupportable. One Of the
hottest things around boiler room is
the slicebar, with which the firemen
from time to time poke the fire to pre-
vent the coal from caking into Jumps.
These bars frequently become red
hot and unless the fireman protects his
hands serious burns result. Expert
ments have been tried with holders
Of various materials, but old pieces Of
carpet have 30 far proved to be the
only thing which will surely protect
the hands Of the men. With pieces Of
carpet the bars can be handled with
out danger An idea Of the high tenn
perature Of these bars may be obtained
from the fact that single days use
will burn up even the thickest piece Of
carpet.
A representative from the bethel has
been securing Boston auction rooms in
search Of old carpets which have serv-
ed out their usefulness as floor cover
ings and could be cut up into strips
for the firemen's use. He found sew
eral rolls that could be bought for a
small sum each. These he purchased
and divided into three or four lots,
sending one lot to each of the several
institutions doing work among the sail
ors. There they are being cut into
strips and distributed as fast as they
are called for by the firemen.
The bethel has solved in this way
one OF the perplexlng problems beset-
ting the fireman. Hitherto he has Of
ten been unable to get the carpet He
had not the time to go after it, he
could not afford to buy 1t and he did
not know where to look to find 1t.
When he burns his hands and cannot
work he is laid Off. The collecting and
distribution Of old carpets to the fire.
men is a real and practical help to
them.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
STANDING GUARD IN AFRICA.

However dull campaigning in Africa
may be, no one could reasonably COM
plain Of guard duty bv night on that
score. In his book, campaigning on
the Upper Nile,' Lieutenant Vandeleur
quotes few entries from the records
OF a post commander. The entries, 1t
Is true. present great uniformity but
they are Of themselves sufficiently ex-
citing.
April 10th. Lion visited camp dur.
ing night and carried OF woman.
April goth. Lion came again and
took another woman.
April 21st. Lion carried OF Bunyoro
man. Seen by patrols and fired at. He
visited cattle-house, and was wounded
by guard.
April 22d. Section went out to lock
for lion and found him near river Bad
ly wounded, but very fierce. Was kill
ed and brought into camp.
April Oath. Another lion tprobably
lioness) visited camp last night, and
carried off Nublan child. Was seen by
April 25th. Lioness came again, and
went to cattle e-house, where guard FREQ
at and wounded her One Of the shots
struck house at considerable distance,
and entered thigh Of Nubia1 woman,
where 1t still remains. Woman appar-
emily little the worse.
Forster told me that he found that
the tracks Of the lions passed one night
two yards from the door of my house
As the door was made only Of grass
and could easily have been pushed
down, l congratulated myself on not
having been at home.
Lions had never been heard OF here
before, and it was an extraordinary
circumstance that they should have
come here through the dense grass and
underground. Precisely the same thing
happened at Kitanwa In July, when a
lion visited the place three nights rum
ming, taking a child the first night, a
woman the next, and child on the
third night, when l happened to be
camping there on my return from Lake
Albert.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
CHAPTER XIII.

About midnight a thunderstorm got up
from the south, and the sea- rising some
what with it, wetted us to the skin.
The lightning, terribly vivid and incesss-
ant, lighted up the whole sea again and
again. showing each the others face, the
face of a worn and fatigue stricken man.
And the rail, and the sea beat on until
we shivered, covering and were numbed
Yet Black held to silence, moaning at rare
intervals as he moaned when the great
ship sank 1t was not until the sun rose
over the long swell that we slept for an
hour or more and after the sleep we were
both calmer. The captain was very quiet,
and he gazed at me often with the ex-
preston | had seen on his face when he
saved from his men.
Boy" he said, look well at the sun,
lest you never look at 1t again"
II am looking" l rplied; "it is life to
me-"
If" he continued, very thoughtful
"you, who have years with you, should
live when l go under, you'll take this belt
I'm wearing off me it'll help you ashore.
If it happen that l live with you, it'll
help both of u.s."
Were in the track Of steamers" said
I; there's no reason to look at it that
way yet"
That's your way, and the right one"
he answered but I'm not a man like
that, and my hearts gone with my ship !;
we shall never see her like again."
The captain pulled himself together
with a great effort, and sat aft, sculling
with the short oar in a mechanical and
altogether absent way.
Black continued to brood, and when the
sun fell low in the west, and the whole
heavens were as mountains mad peaks Of
crimson fire, l knew by his mutterings
that the frenzy of madness was upon him.
He raved with fierce threats and awful
cries at the American be had buried. or
made Desperate appeals to some appari-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
The Power of Prayer.

Prayer, not only In the morning
watch, but prayer sent voiceless from
the heart from hour to hour, then life
Is wakeful, hallowed, calm. 1t becomes
beautiful with that beauty Of God,
which eye hath not seen. And day be-
ing hallowcd thus. do not omit to
make holy the night. Take by the
power Of prayer, through the wild land
of dreams, the sanctlfying presence Of
One who loves u.s. Prayer, con-
tinually lived in, makes the presence
Of holy and loving God the air which
life breathes, and by which 1t lives, 30
that. as it mingles consciously with the
work of the day, it becomes also part
Of every dream. To US, then, 1t will be
no strange thing to enter heaven, for
we have been living In the things OF
heaven.-Stopford A. Brooke.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
The Soulful Boston Messenrer.

A short time ago a gentleman in Bos-
ton sent a small boy In his neigabor-
hood to deliver a note to young lady
who lived few blocks away. He gave
the boy a quarter to make him hurry.
After a short time the messenger c.me
back and, handing the money. said:
Miss X says she will be glad to see
you tonight, but she didn't want the
quarter. Library.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
Our Own Company.

No company depends 80 much upon
what we bring to 1t as our own. soh-
tude blesses when we bless and curses
when we curse. If we are noble, IT
gives us back our llfes integrity, iri-
descent with the divine glory; II we
have been pure, Its quiet breezes chos-
ten our purity and whisper peace. II
we have been mean, 1t searches out our
meanness and strips us naked. The
night shineth as the day, and In vain
we try to hide ourselves. There Is In
the silence a forecast of wrath to come.
-Rev. w. Charter Piggott.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
Do Good.

Do good, and leave behind you
monument Of virtue that the storms OF
time can never destroy. Write your
lame in kindness, love and mercy on
the hearts Of thousands you come In
contact with year by year; you will
never be forgotten. Your name, your
deeds will be as legible On the hearts
you leave behind as the stars ON the
brow Of evening. Good deeds will
shine as the stars Of heaven.-Dr. Chal-
mers
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
New Idea for Play.

Manager-I've got a new idea for a
melodrama that ought to make a hit.
Playwrite-What Is 1t?
Manageable idea is to Introduce a
cyclone in the first act that will kill
all the actors
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
Willing tO Obliue.

Wiggins-I'd like to borrow your
lawn mower, old man. The doctor says
l need a little exercise.
Higgins-All right Come over and
I'll let you have 1t long enough to NOW
my lawn.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
Twas Ever Thus.

Interviewer-Andd do you always wait
for inspiration before beginning a
poem?
Great Poet-Oh, no. Sometimes
need the money.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
The Life of Love.

We lose what on ourselves we SPEND
We have, as treasure without end,
Whatever, Lord, to Thee we lend,
Who givest all.
Whatever, Lord, we lend to Thee,
Repaid a thousandfold will be,
Then gladly will we give to Thee,
Who givest all
To Thee, from Whom we all derive;
Our life, our gifts, our power to give
o may we ever with Thee live,
Who givest all.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
Our Standing Before God.

In the Epistle, to Philemon, which
gives us the story Of the running away
of Onesimus, his conversion under the
influence of Paul, and his return to
Philemon, his master, Paul uses this
significant expression, "If thou count
me, therefore, partner, receive him as
myself. IL he hath wronged thee or
oweth the aught, put that on my ac-
count" and 1t gives to me an illustra-
ton of what l am privileged to enjoy
as a follower of Jesus Christ. My stand
Ing before God is the same as that of
His Son, and all who have been born
again may claim the same blessing be-
cause our standing is the same, our
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
A mfctfOn.

Stars shine brightest in the darkest
night; torches are the better for beat
ing; spices smell sweetest when pound
ed young trees root the faster for
shaking; vines are the better for bleed
ing; gold looks the brighter for scour-
ing; glow-worms glisten best in the
dark; Juniper smells sweetest in the
fire; pomander becomes most fragrant
for chasing; the palm tree proves the
better for pressing; camomlle, the more
you tread it, the more you spread 1t.
Such is the condition OF all Gods chill
dren; they are the most triumphant
when most tempted. most glorious
when most afflicted, most in the favor
of God when least in mans; as their
conflicts, so their conquests; as their
tribulations, so their triumphs.
Heavy affections are the best bene-
factors to heavenly affections. And
where Affections hang heaviest, corrup-
tions hang loosest. and grace that is
hid In Nature, as sweet water In rose
leaves, is then most fragrant when the
fire of afIliction Is put under to distIl
IL out.-Spencer.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28

Wise is the man who doesn't expect
to get square deal where the horses
60 round.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
Gods Power.

Men are apt to ascrlbe the limita-
tlon Of Gods manifestations In the
worlds affairs to His lack Of power.
TO His lack Of interest. The material
lstic scientifi view Is that Natures
laws are inexorable; that they are not
subject to modification or alteration.
and that therefore prayer Is futile. Too
hasty acceptance Of this view often
paralyses or sterillzes the prayers even
Of the devout In heart. The limita-
tions Of Gods Intervention are put
down to mans limitation of faith. We
expect nothing and get nothing. We
expect a little, and God stays His
hand, but not without reminding US
that absolute fullness Of blessing is at
the command Of those who believe that
God is willing and able to show His
power to the uttermost 1t Is form
Of natural law In the spiritual world
that those who trust Nature fully and
commit abundant seed to the earth
reap more abundant harvests than
those who fear the apparent waste. 1t
Is a notable fact that the testimony Of
people with abundant faith is that God
fulfills every promise to the uttermost
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28

fellowship Is in Christ. ana wherever
the name of Jesus Is spoken there Is Il
band Of union.-J. w. Chapman, d. D.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
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Gods MessenKer.

y was visiting" said Arnot, among
my people In the wynds and closes Of
Edinburgh. stood away back and
looked up at the high houses to see
whether Betty Gordon, an aged saint Of
God, was at home. l knew that she
was at home by this sign, that her little
flower pots were out upon her window
sill, that the blind was up. l knew
Betty was in, for when she went away
she carefully took in the flower pots
and pulled down the blinds.
II knew that she was poor and
needy, but she trusted God, and l was
so glad that somebody had given me
some money that morning to give to
the poor. l put aside Betty's rent for
month in my pocket and went into
the close, and climbed up the winding
stairs to Betty's door. At first l knock
ed softly, but there was no answer.
Then l pulled the bell, but there was
no answer Then l knocked louder,
but there was no answer. At last l
said, Betty forgot to pull down the
blinds, and she has gone out, leaving
her flower pots there. What a pity
Then 1 went down the stairs.
"The next morning l went back and
Knocked at the door. After little
waiting Betty came and opened it.
"'Oh,' she said, is it you, Mr.. Ar
not? I am so glad to see you. Come
In There were tears In her eyes and
look Of care.
II said, Betty, woman, what are you
crying for ,
"'Oh,' she said, Mr.. Arnot, l am so
afraid, l am so afraid Of the landlord.
He came yesterday and l had not the
rent, and l dinna open the door, and
now am afraid Of his coming, for he
Is hard man.
betty, what time did he come yes
terday?
He came between eleven and
twelve O'clock she said. 1T was twen-
ty-fve minutes to twelve
"'Well,' said, 1T was ma the land
lord; 1t was I, and brought you, Bet
ty, this money to pay your rent
"She looked at me and said. oh. was
1t you? Did you bring me that money
to pay my rent, and I kept the door
shut against you, and l would not let
you In? And heard your ringing, and
l said, That Is the landlord; l wish
he would go away" And 1t was my
ain meen sister. 1t was my ain Lord
who had sent We as His messenger, and
/ would ma let We in"
That Is Just like some sinners. When
Jesus Is knocking at their hearts they
treat Him as If He We're a hard land
lord, and will not let Him In.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-24
NOTHING FOR HIM.

After a night spent in a summer board
ing-house run by a farmer on Long Is
land last summer came down to break
fast in the morning to find everybody at
the table kicking. One complained of the
bed, another Of the croaking Of frogs, a
third of the smallness of the pillows and
a fourth of insects. Then they turned on
the breakfast and found fault with every
dish and the cooking and the service,
and believe was the only one out of
the 20 who didn't have anything to say.
After left the table l went out on tho
verandn, and there 1 met a man whom l
thought had finished before me.
"They seem to be finding considerable
fault in there" he said as he pointed to-
ward the dlnng-room.
Eyes, indeed"
Everybody saying something, take
IT."
"Yes."
about the beds and the vlctuals and
the nolses?"
Eyes, but I hope you are not going to
set In with them"
"Me? oh, haven't a word to say.
am the man who is running the place,
you knowl" JOE KERR.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-24
HE WILL BE OUT OF 1T.

'Sir, is there anything specially new in
the paper you have thereT' was asked
of the man who was reading his morning
paper on the street car by the man on
his right.
why no-nothlng very exciting" was
the reply.
Anything more about the trouble be-
tween Japan and Californian
II haven't come across anything"
"Sir, can you tell me how long 1t
would take Japan to declare war on us?"
II think they would give us 30 days"
"And how long to cross the Pacific
with a feet?"
Say 30 more"
"And how long to reduce San Fran
cisco to a heap of ruinsT'
Not over five more"
"That is 60 days. SIR said the In
quirer, land they are more than enough
In 10 days l can be In Frisco. In 10
more 1 can find a purchaser for a sand
lot l own there. Ten to get back and
buy me a place among the mountains
of Pennsylvania, where the Japs can
shoot at me and be hanged to 'em, and
l thank you. sir, and l am all right,
sir and if there is a war the rest OF
you can do the fighting and won't
be in it, sir" JOE KERR.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-24
&WITH the FONNYH1
SOME VERY COLD FACTS.

"You people here In the East must
have read Of our sufferlngs In the West
in December and January" said the man
from Dakota as he shlvered again, "but
! don't suppose the papers published the
situation half as bad as It was"
Shortage Of coal, wasn't itT was
asked.
Exactly. bought the last ton for sale
In my village and paid $40 for It. By the
middle Of November I was burning my
fences BY the first of December most OF
my barn had gone. Before January was
half through | was burning my woodshed
and furniture for fuel. We were crowded
into two rooms, but the weather held
right along Mt over 40 below. My chill
dren had their heels frost bitten while
they stood In front Of the stove"
ut must have been pretty tough"
"Tough2 Why, my dear man, no people
in America were ever called upon to en-
dure what we did for 75 days. Every
COW, horse, sheep, calf, hog and dog in
our county froze to death, and though
we used their carcasses for fuel we still
continued to suffer"
But the weather finally broke and the
coal famine was relievedT'
Eyes, but the last FIVE days will ever
remain imprinted on my memory We had
burned the last Of the furniture and be-
gun tearing off the doors. We had word
that a coal train would reach us within
the week, but how to get over that week
was the question. My wife is a woman
Weighing 200 pounds while l am thin
and long and without an ounce Of grease
about me, rs you see. On one of those
last days we sat and looked at each
other for long time. There were seven
freezing children beside ourselves. Those
200 pounds would keep the stove going
until the coal came and six Of our lives
would be saved"
Heavens, but you don't mean that