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ROYAL SCHOOLMASTERS
Kings Who Turned to Teaching &c
Make q livjnu,

Kings Who Turned to Teaching to
Make q Living.
In the early part Of the life of King
Christian IN. Of Denmark there was
no prospect Of his ever becoming the
ruler Of that country. With this in
view he became a schoolmaster at the
German university Of Halle.
Being too poor to keep a servant, the
Dowager Czarina Dagmar of Russia,
one of hts daughters, used to help her
mother to do the household work and
take care Of the younger children.
During this period there were King
Frederick VII. and several others In
the direct line Of succession that stood
before Prince Christian; but, by a sue.
cession Of deaths that occurred, he be-
came the heir apparent, and after the
death of King Frederick VII. in 1868
he was proclaimed King Christian TX,
of Denmark.
Another instance of a similar nature
is that of Louis Philippe. During the
time he was exiled from France, then
being the Due de Charities, he became
a teacher of mathematics and geogra.
ply in Switzerland. About t~hirty-six o,
thirty-seven years afterward, on Aug
8, 1880, he was proclaimed King Louis
Philippe Of the French.-London An.
SwerS.
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THE STOCK MARKET.
Accuracy Of the Exchange In the
Anaiysis of Events,

Barring the cast OF manipulation.
which is one of the evils of speculation,
the stock market tells the truth. Tenn
porarily indications may be misleading.
but it Is eventually shown that its
analysis Of events Is correct. The ST.
lent panic Of March. 1907, was a pre-
mise Of the panic of November. Dur
Ing the Intervening sever months prices
dropped steadily, showing plainly that
there was a weakness in the financial
and industrial structure. The utter
~foollshness Of blaming speculation for
the downward movement is obvious.
The stock market with its daily record
Of prices said as plainly as it was pos
sible to say: Danger! Stand from un-
der!"
Something similar happened in 1893.
Bradstreet's for July %. 1893, shows
that twenty representative stocks fell
on an average 45 points, or more than
30 per cent, between January and July.
This mitigated the effect Of the panic.
One Of the most striking illustrations
Of the cold blooded accuracy Of the ex.
change Is recorded by Proudhon In
the Spectators Manual, published al
Paris in 1857, in which he shows that
In the later days Of Napoleon and the
restoration, while French patriotism
was at white heat, prices on the bourse
advanced with each victory Of the al.
lies, rejecting the belief that the defeat
Of Napoleon meant more for France
than the success.-John Paul Ryan IL
Metropolitan Magazine.
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SEA N LAND.
The way They Meet and Clash anc
Finally Asrmonize.

Finally Aarmonize.
In THE Wonderful Adventures OF
Nils" Translated from the Swedish of
Selma Lagerlof by Velma Swanston
Howard. is the following pretty de-
scription Of how sea and land meet:
You sec that sea and land can meet
in many different ways. In many
places tbs land comes down toward
the sea with Hat. tufted meadows, and
the sea meets the land with flying
sand. which piles up in mounds and
drifts. 1t appears as though they both
disliked each other so much that they
only wished to show the poorest they
possessed. But it can also happen
that when the land comes toward the
sea 1t raises a wall of hills In front of
It, as though the sea were something
dangerous. When the land does this,
the sea comes up to it with fiery wrath
and beats and roars and lashes against
the rocks and looks as If it would tear
the land hill to pieces.
But in Blekinge 1t is altogether differ
ent when sea and land meet. There
the land breaks itself up into points
and islands and islets, and the sea di-
! vides itself into fords and bays and
sounds, and it is perhaps this which
makes it look as If they must meet in
happiness and harmony.
Think now first and foremost Of the
sea! Far out it lies desolate and emp
y and big and has nothing else to do
but to roll its gray pillows. When 1t
comes toward the land It happens
across the first obstacle. This It imme-
diately overpowers, tears away every
thing green and makes It as gray as
itself. Then it meets still another
obstacle. With this it does the same
thing. And still another-yes, the
same thing happens to this also. It Is
stripped and plundered as II It had
fallen into robbers hands. Then the
obstacles come nearer and nearer to-
gether, and then the sea must under
stand that the land sends toward It
her littlest children in order to move 1t
to pity. 1t also becomes more friendly
the farther In it comes, rolls its waves
less high. moderates its storms, lets
the green things stay in cracks and
crevices, separates itself into small
sounds and inlets and becomes Mt last
so harmless in the land that little
boats dare venture out upon It. It GER
tainly cannot recognize itself. so mild
and friendly has it grown.
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being OF any great Importance just
then, but when my uncle asked to be
shown to his room the landlord said
something to him In French. The
words M. d'Orleans. rexecutioner,'
used, but not until we reached
our room did my uncle tell me that the
little man who had left the hotel was
Louis Antoine Stanislaus Deibler, the
executioner Of Orleans, called NJ. dor
leans from the district where he off,
ciated, just as he was in later years
called NJ. de Paris. Deibler had come
in on the night train to preside at the
Laparde execution In the morning and
wanted rooms at the Brown Mouse,
but the landlord refused to entertain
him because of his sanguinary Office.
Il had very little sleep that night,
and when I did catch a few cat maps
my slumbers were troubled by dreams
Of red headsmen hacking of victims
heads With hatchets and knives. But
in the morning I was keen enough for
the tragedy that was to be enacted
that day in the square and hurried
through my breakfast and begged my
uncle to hurry, too. fearing to miss the
awful scene.
"We got to the square at 8 O'Clock
and found the place damned with men,
women and children. The windows OF
all the houses overlooking the square
We're also frames for dozens Of the
morbidly inclined. and it seemed that
all Agen was out to see Laparde die.
1.-The bell in the little turret over the
prison began to toll, and o the iron
doors yawned. and forth from the dark
depths Of the fortress-like building
came a slow moving. solemn process
sion. First came a squad of gen.
darmes, then several ~jailers, and fol.
lowing them the trembling prisoner,
his young face deathly pale, his hair
closely cropped. so as not to interfere
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AT HIS SIDE WALKED THE PRIEST, WHO HELD A CRUC1F1x
CONSTANTLY BEFORE THE PRISONERS GLAZING EYES.

with the knife, and beads of perspira-
ton standing or his brow. At his side
walked the priest, who held a. cruciix
, glaring eyes and murmured prayers in
Latin. The rest Of the procession was
made up of gendarmes. When the pro-
, cession was close to the scaffold the
same little man We had seen the night
before In the hotel detached himself
from a group of officials ut a corner OF
the square within the military line
and. walking to the guillotine, quickly
assembled the platform and awaited his
victim. Deibler was dressed in SOM
Der black, as We had seer him first A
stovepipe hat sat on his head.
"Laparde was conducted up the steps
Of the scaffold, and from where !
stood, peering between the gendarmes,
l could see that the young mans legs
were shaking and that he was trem-
bling all over as q person with a at of
ague. His legs bent at the knees, and
but for the exe%cutioner's hold he would
have fallen to the floor. He vas
dazed through terror. A thick froth
dripped from the corners of his mouth.
Deibler dragged the culprt acros the
platform, lifted him as though he were
q child and threw him on the table
Laparde struggled feebly, but the ex,
e%cutioner. with his hand inserted at
his collar, jerked him forward until his
neck rested in the groove under the
knife. Then, quick as a fash, Deibler
released his hold, loosened the spring
and the curved knife. with a pecu!ia,
burning noise, descended like a fash
The criminals head dropped forward
half turned. spouting blood from a
CHASTITY opening, and sank into the bas.
ket, while the trunk. squirming and
tossing and eieetin: blood from til
severed neck in two big streams. was
thrown by the mechanism of the r,-'
form into a big box of sawdust wait
to receive it at the side Of the tat!t
That was the end Of 1t, and III pevt
forget that sight"
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Isolated Tracy--Pubiic Land Sale

UNITED STATES land OFFICE,
GREAT FAILS, Mont, May %, 1908.
Notice is hereby given hat. Is directed by the
commissioner of the general land office. under
tna provisions of the act of congress approved
lie sale to the highest bidder, AT 10 o'clock q m,
on the Sd day of July next, at this Office the fol.
lowing tract of land; Lot q, section 81, township
Is north, range II east, Montana meridian.
Any persons claiming adversely the above de
ecribed lands are advised TO file their claims Of
objections on or before the time designated fol
sale. j. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
c. A. WILSON, Receiver.
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The First "Coin Sweater"

"Coin sweating" which so often fig
ures in the Old Bailey calendar, is a
very, very old crime. More than six
centuries before Christ there was a
coin sweater. one Alexander Of Byzan-
tium. He IA chief officer Of the pub.
lie treasury, and he amassed an i'm.
mense and sudden fortune by "clip,
ping" the money in so skillful a man
ner that his frauds could only be dis
covered by Weighing. The Byzantines
gave him the nickname Of '@The File
from his making such dextrous use Of
that tool, whence probably comes the
modern term Of "fle" applied tt
thieves pickpockets and cunning hard
headed scoundrels .-Pearson's Weekly.
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ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.
A Display CT Courtesy "ln Memory Of
Old Virginia"


All the seats were taken in the al
which entered one morning in early
April. An old colored mar sat next the
door. It is not often in these days that
I see that type of black man. l used to
see that kind On the old Virginia plan
tatlon. where be was "Cng Lige" or
Ting Sambo" to all the household.
His days We're devoted to useful toll
and his evenings to his banjo and the
old plantation melodies that no one
can ever sing again Al musically as
they were sung then.
"Take this seat, mistis," he said. ris-
ing promptly. "Mistis" sounded very
honey" and pleasant to me. 1t had
been SO long since l was insists" to
anybody.
THANK you, uncle" said l. "Keep
your seat. I would just as lief stand"
"Scuse me, please, mistis. but faint
fttcn fer you ter stan: you mus set"
he admonished respectfully.
took the seat, thanking him for his
courtesy. Soon a departing passenger
left a vacancy.
There Is q seat for yOu." l said to
the old man.
Between the ladies, ma'am? He
hesitated.
"Yes," I said.
He bowed apologetically to right and
left and took the vacant place. Just
before leaving the car I slipped a sill
yer piece into his hand, saying. "Un-
Gle, get you q nice luncheon with this
I'm memory Of old Virginia"
THANK you, my mistis," he said,
opening his hand to look at the little
gift and then closing It. I left the cal
with a SUMMER feeling in my heart be-
cause of the chance meeting. but with
no thought that l should ever again
hear of my old virginian.
That afternoon I received q bunch OF
arbutus which had been left for me by
an old colored man-"fer the tall lady
with a long blue coat an white hair
In memory of ole Virginia an dem old
time days."-Lippincott's Magazine.
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Puzziine Differences In Weiahts.

Which is heavier. a pound Of feathers
or a pound of lead: They weigh the
same.
Which is heavier, a pound of feathers
or a pound of silver? The pound of
feathers is heavier, because feathers
are weighed by avoirdupois weight,
which has 1000 grains to the pound,
while the precious metals are weighed
by troy weight, which has only 5.76O
grains to the pound.
Which Is heavier, an ounce of feath-
ers or an ounce Of silver? An ounce of
silver. because in the troy ounce there
are $50 grains, while in the avoirdu-
pois ounce there are only 437k grains.
The a~voirdupois pound Of 1000 grains
Is divided into sixteen ounces, while
the lighter troy pound of 5,760 grains is
divided into twelve heavier ounces.
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Beheaded For Terrible Deed.
AwfuI Crime Of an Unnatural Son Of Wealthy Merchant Of France
Who Murdered His Father, Mother and Grandmother and
Later Was Executed In the Public Square.

'The most vivid impression of my
younger days Is a deeply tragic one,
and it will live in my brain the very
last hour. l see the picture now
great throng Of people crowding and
surging back and form: like the waves
on a storm swept beach around a
CHASTITY skeleton in wood set in the
center Of a plaza o. public square;
strong tines Of soldiers hedge the wood
en- thing in, keeping the mob from 1t,
and peering between the blue and
scarlet uniforms I see men struggling
on the platform, part Of the strange
structure; one Of the men Is finally
forced to a tablelike arrangement, his
neck fitting in a groove between two
uprights; then there Is the quick fash
Of a knife in the morning sunlight, a
gasp from the crowd and a short man
in q long black coat Is holding up a
bleeding head for the inspection Of the
citizens"
Melton Chadwick, a petty officer Of
the big Leyland liner, the Irishman,
was talking to the writer and some
Ir1en0S on q quiet evening not long ago
on the vessels stern deck, and Chad
wick al he made his dramatic starter
leaned on the taffral and gazed at the
moonlit river as though taking inspira-
ton from the rolling, sw1rling food.
want me to tell you the story?" and
the Englishman moved from the rail
and seated himself on a canvas stool.
We'll, it all happened long ago, but I
remember every detail Of it as though
it had occurred yesterday. It was my
first execution, the decapitation Of the
murderer Laparde, and the execution
itself and the bloody deeds leading up
to it makes one Of the darkest pages
Of French criminal history.
II was in Agen, France, with my
uncle, who bought silks for a London
house. and at the time of which l am
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isolated rract--Public Land Sale

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS, Mont, May %, 1905.
Notice is hereby given that, as directed by the
commissioner of the general land office, under
the provisions of the act Of congress- approved
June q, 1905, ga Stats, 5l7,2 we will one, at
IN. on the Sd day Of } uly next. ut this Office, the
following tract Of land: SWA SEN section 20.
township q north, range : east, Montana meri'
dian.
Any persons claiming adversely the above de-
ecribed lands are advised to file their claims OF
objections on or before the time designated fol-
sale. J.. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
{. A. WILSON, Receiver.
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now speaking I was only fifteen years
old. l remember distinctly we reached
the thriving city on the evening Of
May 1S-the year was 1S79-and stop
ped at the Brown House, which was
considered the best hotel in town aud
the one most affected by English1er.
1.-THE town was all excitement, and
everybody was talking about the exc
cution that was to take place on the
morrow. Laparde-I think his first
name was Anatole, but I'm not sure of
this-a youth of nineteen, was to be
guillotined for the murder Of his
father. mother and grandmother, and
the neck cutting was to take place in
the public square In front Of the pr1s-
on, several blocks from the hotel. My
uncle understood French thoroughly,
and be told me Of the matter, and I
was more than pleased when he said
that he was going to the square in the
morning to witness the legal butchery
and offered to take me along.
I'm the little restaurant where we
took our supper there was a very
obliging waiter who told Is the story
Of the Lapardes. The Lapardes We're
we'll to do bourgeois and were highly
thought of In the community. The
father kept a wine store IN n Of the
principal streets and lived with his
wife, his mother and his son or the
floors above his place Of business.
when we went back into the main
o. Of the Brown Mouse after hear
ing the walters story we saw the pro-
prietor Of the hotel talking rather ear
nestly to a small man who wore a long
black coat and a tall hat.
The proprietor was moving his
hands with the palms extended, as
thought, d~eprecatingly, and, his head
every moment or so expressed the neg
alive sign. At last the little man turn
ed, picked up a carpetsack which was
on the floor at his feet and. with a
shrug of his shoulders, walked out into
tie street and disappeared in the night.
The incident didn't impress US as
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Isolated Tract--Pubiic Land Sale.
United STATES LAND OFFICE,

tNlTED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS. Mont, May %, 1905.
commissioner Of the general land Office, under
the provisions of the Act of congress approved
lie sale to the highest bidder, at 10 O'Clock q. l..
on the Sd day of July next, at this office, the fol.
lowing tract of land: Els NEA, NEA SWA sec.
ton !, township - north. range 9 east, Montana
| meridian.
Any persons claiming adversely the above de-
scribed lands are advised TO file their claims or
objections on or before the time designated for
sale. j NJ BtRLINGAME, Register.
{. A. WILSON, Receiver.
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Isolated Trac.. Public Land Sale.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS, Mont, May q. 1905.
Notice is hereby given that, as directed by the
commissioner Of the general lsnd Office, under
the provisions of the act Of congress approved
lie eale to the highest bidder, ct 10 O'Clock .. m. !,
on the Sd day of July next, at this office, the fol.
lowing tract of land: MEX NWk, NWA NEA
section II, township q north, range Beast, Mon.
tana meridian.
Any persons claiming adversely the above de.
scribed lands are advised to file their claime or
objections on or before the time designated for
sale. j. NJ. BURLlNGAME, Register.
c. A. WILSON, Receiver.
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A Distinction Without a Difference.

A Distinction Without q Difference.
Five-year-old Deborah had been In
vited to take luncheon at q restaurant
with Miss X.
do you like cocoa I" she was asked.
When the answer was eyes," the
beverage was duly brought but re-
manned untasted.
At last Miss X. said, why don't you
drink your cocoa, Deborah. when you
said you wanted it,"
Il didn't say I wanted it." replied
the child politely. II only said that ]
liked it"-Woman's Home Companion
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Notice Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tract
Public Land Sale.
UNITED SrAr1s LAND OFFICE.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FALLS, Mont, May II, 1905.
Notice ts hereby given that, &c, directed by the
Commissioners Of the General Land Office, under
the provisions of the Act of Congress approved
June q, 1905, (s4 State, 51s,) we will o6er at
public sale, to the highest bidder, at 10 O'Clock
Q. m. on the 2ad day of June next, at this Office,
the following tract Of land: VIZ NEh and EX
NWk section p. township u north, range II
east, NJ. NJ.
Any persons claiming adversely the above de.
ecribed lands are advised to file their claims, OF
objections, on or before the time designated for
sale.
j.. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
G. A. WILSON, Receiver.
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UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
ERHAr CArys Nont Nav S

UNITED SrATBs LAND OFFICE,
GREAr FALLS, Mont, May Is, 1908.
Notice 10 hereby given that
LEON TSCHETTER,
Of Fort Benton, Montana, who, on January IS,
1909, made homestead entry No. l3,Ols, for the
Eh SWh, SWA .SWk section 90; sen sen
section %, township Is north, range 6 east, Mon
make nnal ~ive.yesr proof to establish claim to
the land above described, before Chae. H. Boyle,
U. $. commissioner at his Office In Fort Benton,
Montana, on the I'd day OF July, 1908.
Claimant names as witnesses: Jasper Maze,
Hilaire LaBarre, George Wackerlin and Powell
L.. Smith, all of Fort Benton, Montana.
j. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
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Clothing In China.

In winter throughout the cold latd-
tudes Of China the Chinese Of all
classes wea fur, wool Dr. hair lined
garments. Even the cody laborers
have their sheep or goat skins, and
people of the middle and official
classes have many sets Of garments
lined with the richest furs. In China
houses are rarely heated to the winter
temperatures Of European or Amer1.
car interiors. and in consequence full
lined clothes are worn indoors as well
as Out.
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Notice Of Observation-Disclosures Tract
Public Land Sale.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
GREAT FAILS. Mont. May II, 1905.
Notice is hereby given THAT as directed by the
commissioner of the General Land Office, under
the provisions Of the Act Of Congress approved
June =, 1906, ga stats. $50 we will offer al
public sale, 70 the highest bidder, at 10 O'Clock
=. m: on the ed day Of June, uext, at this office.
the following tract Of land: SWA NEA section
q, and tine SWA MEN section IS, township p
north, ran e 5 east, NJ. NJ.
Any persons claiming adversely the above de-
scribed lande sre advised to Gle their elaine, OF
objections, on o. before the time designated
for sale.
j. NJ. BURLINGAME, Register.
c. A. WILSON. Receiver.
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Notice Of Observation-Disclosures Trsot
Public LAND Sale.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Great Falls, Mont, May IA, 1905.
Notice IL hereby given that, % directed by the
COMMISSIONS Of the General Land Office, under
the provisions Of the Act Of Congress approved
June q. 1905. "a stats. ol7,) we will o6er at
q. m. on the ed day of June, next, at this office,
the following tract of land: Lot 2. section Is,
township q north, range . east, NJ. NJ.
ecribed lands are advised to file their claims, OF
objections, on or before the time designated fol
sale.
j. NJ. BURL1NGAME, Register.
C, A, WILSON Receiver.
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Naturally.

Towne-Sleep well?
Stubbs-Like q ~top-never lose a
wink.
Great Scott! What do you take"
An alarm clock to my room and
then set the alarm for half an hour
after I go to bed. AS soon as 1t rings
I naturally roll over and 60 to sleep"-
PicE-N1e-Cp.
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He Got It.

IF Groucher ever comes around your
place borrowing anything" said Wise,
"don't let him have it."
you've spoken too late" said Hus-
kie. "He vas around yesterday"
You're easy. What was he borrow
ing?"
Trouble. He's in the hospital to-
day."-Philadelphia Press.
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RESPONSIBLE For 1t All.

Hewitt never should have had any
trouble with my wife if it hadn't been
for that man. Jewett-How did he
make trouble? Hewitt-He married US.
New York Press.
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Aelnino Him Out,

Borrows-I say, old man, I wish you
would help me out today.
Husyman-Haven't time to do it my
self, but I'll call the porter. John,
open the door and help the gentleman
out,-Chicago News.
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One trouble with some people is that
q very small effort enables them to
keep their self respect.-Chicago Rec.
ord Herald.