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Literary Notes.

William Frederick Dixs "The Lost
Princess" will be published in England
in August.
George SyIvester er Eiereck has decided
that his next bool m Ist be a second vol
time Of poems and he has therefore set
aside for time the prose volume 10
which he has been recently devotinG
himself About a dozen poems Of con
siderable length are completed, together
with many shorter Cnes. The book viii
probably be ready IN the spring.
Fisher Unwin viii publish in a few
weeks the English edition Of James
LOclIe's The Stem OF the Crimson
Dahllas' one Of the most exciting Of
the early spring novels in this country.
II has been an excellent seller here.
Monat. yard & Co. will publish
in the early autumn an illuminating
volume on How TO Appreciate Prints. %
by Frank Weiterkampf. curator OF the
print department Of the New York pub
lie library. undoubtedly the leading
authority on the subject IN this cOun-
try They viii also publish an elabo-
rately illustrated book by Elizabeth
Luther Carey entitled Artists Past and
Present" in which the art Of Mary
Cassatt receives special attention
\ book Of great interest TO all lovers
Of the picturesque as well as all who
are familiar with san Francisco before
the FIRE Is "Old Chinatown" which is
10 appear IN the early autumn The
descriptive text IS by VIII Irwin, who
probably knew Chinatown better than
any living writer. and the illustrations
consist Of fOrty-eight plates by Arnold
Gcnthe. these being the pick OF in
Vulnerable photographs taken by him
in the course of fifteen years work.
His photographs. his dearest posses
siOns. are all that NEr- Genthe saved
from the disaster
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Mr.. and Mrs. William AIicheaIis, who
were married July Is. at LiOndale. Wal
brook. Nd. have returned 10 their hOna
on 1 street, after a water trip.
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Mr. and Mrs. AlOnzo F. Ford ana
Miss Edna Ford. Of Newport News. Va,
returned home yesterday after several
weeks visit to Mrs Ford's parents. Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Saunders, near Leesburg.
Va. and her sister. Mrs J D. YOakleys
OF 1926 North Capitol street.
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Mrs T. Ritchie Stone, Miss Lillian
Stone, and King Stone have closed their
house on Connecticut avenue, and have
gone 70 Narragansett Pier
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Mrs William Claggett, who has been
spending several weeks IN Flushing, l.
J.. has returned % her apartment in
the Marlborough.
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Miss Eleanor Terry. daughter OF Rear
Admiral Terry, who has been the guest
OF Miss Anna COckreu for the races
in New London, has returned 10 Wash
inston.
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KANSAS PHILOSOPHY.

The Lord and the agent love a cheer
ful giveT
A woman has her complexion to wor-
ry about; a man has shaving to Off
set IL.
Il often catch myself doing things
l bitterly condemn in others. .''-ParsOn
Twine.-
AS soon as a man has money Of his
own other people want 20 make loans
TO him.-Atchison Globe.
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Harold Levy has returned 10 his hons
in Baltimore. after spending a few
DAYS here with friends
The Washington times., 1908-07-25

Mrs Louis Cauisher. who Joined her
reaItives al PachOE. L L. for several
weeks. has returned to her home at the
Van COurUland-
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Back From Pittsburg.
DR.. and Mrs. Milton J. Rosenau ana
family have returned from visit 70
relatives in PittsbUrg-
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julius Pels sailed from New York on
Thursday for Europe, where he viii
spend the summer.
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Miss Berdie Steiner, OF L street. left
Thursday 10 Join her mother. Mrs Jacob
Steiner. at the Hotel PierTepOnI. Allan
tic City. for several weeks.
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Mrs. Marx Kaufman and her grand
son, Marx kaufman. have returned
from Baltimore. where they were the
guests for few days Of Mr.. and Mrs
Elliot SJrOuse.
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William Frederick Dix's The Lost
Princess" will be published in England
in August.
The Washington times., 1908-07-25

Louis Goldshmidt has been spending
the past week at Atlantic City
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
METZGER FORSAKES
HIS SINGLE STATE
WELL KNOWN MUSICIAN MAR
RlEs BRIGHT IOWA GIRL.

Judge Mann enacted the part of
destiny Wednesday night when at the
George Kautz home on North Twenty
sixth street, he united Miss Lizzie
Hogan of Blue Grass, Iowa to Theo-
lore o. Metzger Of Billings, in the
presence Of q half hundred guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kautz acted respect
lively as best man and matron OF
honor, and the Italian orchestra play
ed the wedding march as the happy
pair approached the altar. The house
raj prettily decorated.
Following the ceremony a splen-
diferous supper was served, at which
the bride and groom were toasted In.
brimming glasses Of sparkling cham
payne, and the guests were RECALLED
with the daintiest kind Of dishes.
When the supper "a over. the or
chestra, which had played for the
wedding and during the repast, began
the a1luring strains OF a waltz and
thereafter until an early hour yester-
day morning the guests danced ths
night away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Metzger will make
Billings their home. The groom is a
member Of the italian orchestra
which furnished the music for his
wedding celebration.
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No. We received the best OF medical
treatment, q good. sound spanking"
After speaking q little more than
two hours. District Attorney jerome
asked that q recess be taken. Jus.
tice Bowling answered that he would
not charge the jury as to the law un-
TIL tomorrow morning.
After recess, Mr.. Jerome entered
upon the details OF the story told nv
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. He said:
Whether she was drugged Or not il
not material. For my part / don't
believe It. But I am convinced from
the letters that Thaw wrote Ia Paris
that she told him the story she says
she did. Dragged or not, that she was
wronged-grossly wronged-is wholly
true. That the places in Twenty-sec-
ond and Twenty-fourth streets she has
described to you existed, is as true "a
that you are sitting here. That they
were surrounded by a miserable lot
of degenerates-some Of whom still
live in this city and whose names
have been mentioned here's the alb
solute truth. That they were main
tanned. for gross purposes 10 true. Tho
question Is not whether Stanford
White was n Of these degeneratas,
but rather whether Thaw was inscps
when he killed White"
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Midshipmen and marriages are In
teresting the navy department at pre-
sent considerably.

Midshipmen and marriages are In
.teresting the navy department at pre-
sent considerably.
8 .
Galvanism owes ita origin to Ma
dame. Galvania noticing the contrac.
tion OF the muscles Of q skinned frog,
which was accidentally touched by a
person at the moment the professor
Cher husband) was taking an electric
spark from the machine. This hint
was followed Np by experiments.
The vicar OF the parish church at
Wellingborough, England, has been
forced to announce that there will be
no more watch night services because
OF the presence there Of 90 many men
and women In a state unit for the
solemn occasion, the harm done by
them being greater than the good to
the others.
Down in Texas an enterprising wa
termelon grower has invented a ma
chine to seed the melons and now
melon seeds are selling as low as Is
cents a pound. Hundreds Of acres
Of melons are now grown In Lips
acombe county each year for the spe.
ciflc purpose Of obtaining seeds, the
melon itself not being used.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
OPPORTUNITIES FOR POOR nov,

OiNIlIeS FOR POOR BOYS.
There r two murder trials Of al
most national Importance in progress
now, one that Of Harry Thaw charged
with the murder of Stanford White.
and the other that Of Mrs. Mcdonald.
charged with the murder of a physi-
clan IN Chicago. The leading attor.
neys In both ase are self-made men.
one vas a bakers assistant in Texas
a few years ago. The other was a
|laborer in a saw mill in Seattle. One
is Martin w. Littleton, one of the
most noted orators in New York. The
other is James Hamilton Lewis, prom
inently spoken of as a prospective
candidate for governor of Illinois on
the democratic ticket. In less than
fifteen years both men have climbed
from poverty to positions of wealth
and a%nluence, assisted by nothing but
their natural abilities.
The story Of the accomplishments
Of these two men should carry the
lesson to every poor boy, that there
Is a chance for him at the top. no mat.
ter what has been his opportunities
In the past.
We frequently hear 1t said that only
the college man is successful In this
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
SALT LAKE MAN THEN SHOOTS
HIMSELF THROUGH BRAIN.
WOMAN DIES Of WOUND
.M.ddened BY Thought Of Losing
Young Wife, Edgar Bowman Com
nits Deadly Assault and Then sui
eide In Prenece Of Four People.

Salt Lake, Jan. %3o.-Rather than
permit his young wife. Edna, to Sc
cure a divorce. Edgar Bowman shot
her in the left breast tonight and then
put a bullet through his own brain.
Mrs. Bowman is dying. She was the
stepdaugnter OF John Eva OF Los An
geles. She married Bowman, q steam
filter, in that city three years ago and
they had been in Salt Lake only a
few days. Mrs. Bowman had begun
divorce proceedings. The shooting
was done in the presence Of the wife's
sister and three men, one OF whom &C.
companied Bowman to Mrs. Bowman's
room In the hope of preventing a
tragedy.
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been found guilty of violating the law.
Whenever m announcement Is made
that further prosecutions are to be
started, or some prosecution is start.
cd, one Of the railroads lays on d
large number Of employees and some
railroad ofhcial gives out a hard times
interview That vas the case when
the government started Its big suit
against the Hartman lines.
General Manager Mohler Of the
Union Pacific gave out al interview
producing figures to show that rail-
road trafic had been greatly reduced.
He told about the large number OF
men who had been laid on and said
thousands more would be thrown idle
and then he wound up his outburst
with the statement that President
Roosevelt and his reform crusade
were to blame for 1t. A meeting of
railroad managers was held in New
York and 1t was announced that fur
Their reductions OF forces would take
place on many other railroad lines.
Again the opportunity to take a slam
at the president was not let pass.
But it is not the president that is
to blame. It Is such men as Mr..
Mohler and his chiefs, Edward Har.
riman and his cohorts. They have
stabbed at the business OF the
country in order to bring about a
panicky condition which would dis
credit the national administration. To
a certain extent they have succeeded.
But their success will not last long.
Times have been too good to permit
It. They have simply been able to
produce a temporary depression, from
which the country has already started
to recover.
They have failed In their attempt
to produce a lengthy period Of depres-
sion. The scare which they caused
has begun to pass and factories and
industrial institutions which closed
temporarily al a result are again re-
Stunning operations. When the panic"
was started consumption was the
greatest in the history Of the country
and the time was Ill advised to begin
such a crusade as Mr.. Hartman and
his friends started. Despite the fact
that they are still reducing their forces
other industries are nnora.
lions. For every man laid OF by the
railroad companies in the past week,
10 have gone to work, according to
the telegraphic dispatches.
The plans Of the 1~nanciers Of the
Hartman type" r going to fail,
but the prosecutions Of law violators
will not only continue, but will be-
come more numerous.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
AMERICAN NAVY.

The reason for the cruise of the
Atlantic squadron to the Pacific is
greatly perplexing European Journals
lists. It is something which they
seem unable to fathom.
As q result the cruise has been dis
cussed in all the leading continental
papers and comparisons Of the
strength Of the American navy with
other navies have been made. These
comparisons show that the United
States navy is second in actual ton
mage Of the navies OF the world. Great
Britain Is the only one that excels.
One hundred and s~ixty-eight fight
ing vessels fy "Old Glory at their
mastheads. Great Britain has 1854
ships; France. sos; Germany. 210, and
Japan. 1914. But while the United
States has the least number Of ships
OF these five powers, she is still sec
ond in rank by her comparative
strength in ~battle-ship tonnage. Great
Britain's tonnage is 821, 800; United
.A .MrHE GN IA EINE E g& nNN 1HEs
States. 406,146; France, 1868, 461; Ger
many, ass, 461; Japan, 191,498. The
prop%ortionately larger number Of
small craft in foreign navies is the
reason for the greater number Of
their ships. France has 271 torpedo
boats and 80 submarines; England
has Il torpedo boats and 48 subma.
rines, while the United States has only
50 torpedo boats and 10 submarines.
The American navy is being great
" increased and there are under con.
struction seven battle-ships, two ar.
mored cruisers, three scout cruisers.
fve torpedo boat d%estroyers, two SUBJ
marine torpedo boats, not to mention
golfers, tugs. and smaller craft. The
cruise is succeeding In showing the
world the strength Of the United
States at sea and It has proved a sur
prise to the writer's in other nations,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
END Of THE THAw TRIAL.

The fate Of Harry ThaW, the slayer
OF Stanford White will be again
placed In the hands Of the jury today.
There is reason for c-ongratulation
that the second trial is ended, and 1t
Is to be hoped that the jury will reach
q decisive verdict. It would be too
bad, indeed, Il the jury should again
disagree and the public would once
more have to hear the nauseating de-
tails brought out in the testimony.
The newspapers have not printed as
much about this trial as about the
former one, and the general public is
indebted to press OF the nation for
suppressing many OF the indecent
details. In fact, it seems as il it
would be an excellent thing If some
law was enacted prohibiting the pub
fishing of such testimony as that
given by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on be.
half OF her husband. 1t is so immoral
that the average person should blush
when he reads 1t.
Despite this fact, however. the
Thaw trial has had its mission. It
has been the means Of disclosing how
ZONE Of the degenerate scions Of some
Of the wealthiest families in the ma
ton live. It has probably been the
means Of plotting out some OF the in
famous resorts such as those to which
Stanford White took Evelyn Nesbit.
The sad feature Of the murder and
trial il that 1t has placed a blot on
the anne Of one Of the greatest art
lists Of modern times. Stanford White
was undoubtedly a genius. He was a
creator In every sense Of the word.
For generations to come Americans
can point with pride to his works. He
has left the marks of his genius in
the world Of architecture. He de.
signed the pedestals for most Of the
noted statues Of st. Gaudens, the
Washington arch, the Madison Square
garden, and some other famous build
ings. Sad, indeed, was the ending Of
such q brilliant life. Yet the evidence
at the trial Of Harry Thaw has showed
that a man may be a great genius,
brilliant and famous, yet withal a
brute.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
ISN'T II STRANGER

One Of the things it is hard for the
layman to understand is why so many
states will conduct schools in law,
medicine, engineering and pedagogy
at great expense, give students hard
and thorough courses, compelling
them to go through severe tests be.
fore graduating, tests which should
insure their ability to practice their
profession, and yet compel them to
supplement their course in such an in.
%stitution with a state examination be.
fore being permitted to follow their
profession. Montana has no schools
OF medicine and law, and, OF course,
such a charge as far as the law and
medicine are concerned, Is not ap-
plicable here, but in Colorado and
other states 1t applies.
Montana has a state university
which provides a most thorough
course of instruction in every branch
that a teacher should be required to
know, and yet a graduate Of the state
university or Of any Of the other
higher educational institutions is COM
PEELED to take a state examination be-
fore being permitted to teach in the
public schools. The following excerpt
from the Missoula Herald explains the
situation most tersely:
isn't is strange that an adjoining
state to Montana, through its state SUI
perfntendent Of public instruction,
should recognize the diploma Of a
graduate from the University OF Mon
tana. that being sufficient to receive a
certificate to teach in that state, when
our own state superintendent, through
a fool piece Of state legislation, makes
1t necessary for a University of Mon
tana graduate to take an examination
from a set Of questions prepared by
the state superintendent before such
graduate a teach in the statey"
Surely that foolish piece Of state
n should be repealed. Then,
enlarges her educational
20 include courses in law,
&C., a certificate from such
ould be sufficient to permit
r OF the same to follow his
IN without going through an
nal examination.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
PACIFIC MISSIONARY cohFEREh

San Francisco. Jan. 5o.-Prominent
religious workers of the Pacific coast
assembled today In San Francisco for
an interdenominational missionary
conference. The meetings will con
tinue to next Sunday. exclusive, and
promise to be the most important and
enthusiastic Of the kind ever held on
the coast. The program covers tie
work Of both home and foreign mis-
sions and all forms Of missionary
thought and activity.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

The Chicago Inter-Ocean prints an
interesting story, similar to one re-
Gently printed In a New York paper,
telling Of the thrilling ride Of a Gus
ter county, Montana, school superin'
tendent through forests and q coun.
try covered with snow to visit her
schools. The ride is supposed to have
been made this month. It is amusing,
when one considers the weather SO
far this winter. But when the story
says that Custer county has no rail.
roads that makes US laugh, long and
hearty.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

will lock to Montana in unprecedentr
ed numbers. Watch the Judith basin
and Moore grow.-Inland Empire.
The Taft boosters now have 1t that
Mr.. Hughes Is the candidate Of the
Standard Oil. It'll be q long time be
fore the Taft boosters convince the
public that MI. Hughes Ia the cand1-
date Of the insurance companies.-
Butte Inter Mountain.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
First Publication January 81, 1909
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

~. VIZ ECL
Department of the Interior, Land
Office at Billings, Montana, Jan. Is,
1908.-Notice is hereby given that
William A. Clark of Hardin, Montana.
has filed notice Of his intention to
make final communication proof in sup
port OF his claim, viz: Homestead
Entry No. 277 made Oct. 20, 1906, for
the lot 4. section 80, township 2 north,
range 33 E., MI sen, sen sEA,
section Is, township 2 north, range SO
E., NJ. p. NJ, and that said proof will
be made before Register and Receiver
u. s. Land Once, at Billings, Mon
tana. on March 10, 1908.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence ND
on, and cultivation Of, the land, viz:
George Crouch Of Custer, Montana;
Alexander Simpson Of Hardin, Mon
tana; James II. Crichton OF Hardia,
Montana; Martin Burns OF Custer.
Montana.
E.sB, EssnLsrYN.
Register.
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FORCING HARD TIMES.

It - becoming more and more ap-
parent that certain ananciers are try
Ing TO force hard times upon the ma
tlon % punishment for the law-en-
forcing crusade. which has so disas-
fronely Affected some OF them. This
y ohown n the attitude OF the Harri-
Man railroads and several other lead,
~ transportation lines. which have
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

John D. Rockefeller. Jr., urges
young men to never loan money I'm.
less they take a note for it and re.
quire interest. He asserts that the
command Of Christ to go and give all
4 has to the poor should not be
taken literally. No one can accuse
the heir to the Rockefeller millions Of
not practicing what he breaches.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

That $2s, ooo, 900 fine pronounced by
Judge Lands will look mighty small
beside the fine which can be pro-
nounced If the Standard Oil company
is convicted Of rebating in cases
which are soon to be tried in Chi
cago. The maximum fine which can
be assessed is $42,4S0,000.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

The Pittsburg Dispatch declares
that IF. Augustus Heinze threatens to
go back to Butte. Mont, and stay
there. II Butte does not within q
reasonable time file a protest the rest
of the country will see no reason why
the threat should not be carried out"
Butte has not protested, but 1t is Ger
tain she has extended him no invita-.
ton. @
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

Caleb Powers probably is delighted
to hear the news from frankfort.
Every vote taken from Governor Beck
ham must be as music to his ears.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

The new reciprocity treaty with
France will certainly greatly benefit
the common people-the tarin on
champagne and sparkling wines is
reduced.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

The feet has completed the first lap
Of its journey to the Pacific. The ru-
mors OF %anarchisttc plots must now
reach Washington from the other side
Of the continent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

It is probably not generally known
but since the election of George P.
Wetmore as senator from Rhode
Island the United States senate has a
membership Of 80. the largest in the
history of the nation.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

Money is reported to go begging at
/ to 1h per cent interest in New York.
That is good news for the west. Prob
ably some of the railroads can get a
little Of it to build much needed ex-
tensions.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

Before long the former Gladys Van
derbilt will probably display as much
enthusiasm over becoming countless
as she did over becoming countess.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

Governor johnson seems to want 1t
understood that he is on. the Bryan
band wagon. However. he is probably
sitting much the same as the man who
climbs aboard the water wagon on
January /.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

John w. Gates says that the United
States a grow old simply by wearing
its old clothes. It is to be noticed that
Immediately after making the state.
ment John w. moved to Texas. He
probably wants to wear his old clothes
in a strange country.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

If, as some Of our democratic ex-
changes assert, Mr.. Bryan is looking
for a residence in Washington, he will
probably be as successful as the man
who hunts a residence in Billings
there are none empty.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

The second snow of the season
came on January ~ in the Yellow.
stone valley in the winter of 1907
1908. How is that FOR climate?
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

ne united mine workers turned
an socialist resolutions in their
invention yesterday. If the metal
ferrous miners had done likewise in
their conventions, there would have
been less labor troubles in the west
during the past few years. Socialism
and Americansim don't mix very we'll.