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Montana news., 1908-04-30

The Sunday papers are full of de.
scriptions Of the petty doings and ap-
pearances Of the rich, both at home or
abroad. Their dinners, their dogs,
their hats and slippers, the color Of
their eyes and the dye of their hair,
their habits, their squabbles, their
everything are described In detail over
and over again. What does this sig.
nifyf Simply that this nation is a
nation Of apes.
WILL X. SHIER.
Montana news., 1908-04-30

Nez Perce county comrades will hold
convention, Tuesday, June 2, at oro'
fino. All members in good standing
will be entitled to seats and vote,
Montana news., 1908-04-30

Comrade Brusnahan sends in tw
subs from Haily.
Montana news., 1908-04-30

Local Moscow reinstates with S. G
Curtis, secretary.
Montana news., 1908-04-30

Leon Calhoun writes: "We are
for the Red first, last, and all the time,
You will find enclosed S1.O0 for cam
paign purposes. Thanks.
Montana news., 1908-04-30

Comrade Work reports reinstatement
Of locals at Mountain Home and Belle
vue and application for local at HALEY
and member-atlarge at Shoshoue.
Montana news., 1908-04-30
IDAHO
THos. ]. oooNRoD,

State Secretary, Emmett, Idaho.
Montana news., 1908-04-30

WILL r. SHIER.
Fair play., 1908-03-07
Where He Saw a Crowd.

Uncle Constantine, from Fishkill
Landing, was in town recently, for the
first time in 80 years, according TO the
New York Times. His relatives were
Industrious in showing him the sights,
but it was extremely difficult to get
him to express surprise at anything.
He even made disparaging comments,
now and then, upon what he saw, and
drew comparisons favorable to his
own town. One afternoon they at
tended a crowded performance at the
circus. Uncle Constantine asked his
niece, did you ever see such mum.
ber of people gathered together be-
fore?" well" said the old man slow
ly, as his eye ran critically over the
thousands that filled the garden, Il
don't know as | ever did In a bulldin',
but have to a bush-meetin!"
Fair play., 1908-03-07
OLD SURGEON
Found Coffee Caused Hands to
Tremble.

The surgeons duties require clear
Judgment and steady hand. A slip
or an unnecessary inoislon may do ir
reparable damage to the patient.
When he found that coffee drinking
caused his hands to tremble, an His.
surgeon conscientiously gave it up and
this is his story
For years I was a coffee drinker
until my nervous system was nearly
broken down, my hands tremhled so I
could hardly write, and insomnia tor
tured me at night.
Besides, how could | SAFELY per-
form operations with unsteady hands.
using knives and instruments of pre-
cision? When saw plainly the bad
effects of coffea, | decided to stop ii,
and three years ago ! prepared some
Postum, of which | had received q
sample,
THE first cupful surprised me. II
was mild, soothing, delicious. At this
time | gave some Postum TO a friend
who was in a similar condition to
mine, from the use of coffeo.
"A few days after, | met him and
he was full of praise for Postum, de-
ciaring he would never return TO cof-
fee but stick to Postum. We then or
dei~'d full supply and within a short
time my nervousness and consequent
trembling, as well as insomnia, disap-
peared, blood circulation became nor
NAL. no dizziness nor heat flashes.
MY friend became Postum en-
thusiast, his whole family using II ex-
clusiyely.
1T would be the fault OF the one
who brewed the Postum, If 1t did not
taste good when served
The best ioed may be spoiled II
not properly made. Postum should be
boiled according TO directions on tho
pkg. Then It is all right, anyone can
rely on it, II ought to become the
national drink" There's a Reason
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek. Mich. Read THE Road to
Wollyille," In pEss.
Fair play., 1908-03-07
Hoo Cholera.

The greatest drawback to the hog
industry which breeders in this coun-
try have to contend with is what is
known as hog cholera" and swine
plague"
Hog cholera is highly contagious
disease and unless checked is liable
to carry off great number of hogs in
a very short time.
Mr.. A. p. Williams, of Burnetts
Creek, Ind, tells of an experience
which he had with some hogs that
had the cholera. Five years ago"
says Mr.. Williams, ~ was in the en-
ploy of Mr.. ]. D. Richardson, Lafay-
cite, Ind, as his barn foreman. Some
fine hogs that l was feeding took the
cholera, gave them Sloan's Lini-
ment and did not lose a hog. Some
were so bad they would not drink
sweet milk and | was compelled to
drench them. | have tried 1t at every
opportunity since and always find 1t
o. X"
Write for DR.. Sloan's free book on
the treatment of Horses, Cattle, Hogs,
and Poultry Address: DIR. Earl S.
Sloan, 615 Albany Street, Boston,
Mass.
Fair play., 1908-03-07

the machine | had noted that his eyes
sanity just ahead if he could but get
to it in time. His ears were deaf not
only to the howl of the terrified throng
and the curses of the teamsters who
frantically pulled their horses to the
curb, but to my warnings as well. He
swung the machine around the corner
at New street and into Wall as though
it had been the broadest boulevard in
the park. He took Wall street at a
bound | gas sure would land us
through the fence into Trinity's
churchyard. But no, Again he turned
the corner, throwing the Juggernaut
on it's outside wheels from Wall street
into Broadway as the crowds on the
sidewalk held their breath in horror
|, too, was on my feet, but crouching
as | hung to the sides. Thank God.
that usually crowded thoroughfare was
free from vehicles as far up as | could
see, on beyond the Astor house. What
could it mean! Was that divinity
which It's said protects the drunkard
ana tnG lQlOl dDOuL 10 ulu the Hldu
rush of this love-frenzied creature to
his long-lost but newly returned dear
one? | heard the frantic clang Of
gongs, and as we shot by the World
building, | saw ahead ,of US two plung
ing automobiles filled With men. Twas
from them the gong clamor sounded
AS we drew nearer | saw that these
we're the cars OF the fire chiefs answer
ing a call | thanked God again and
again as yelled into Bob's ear, For
Beulah's sake, Bob, don't pass; If you
do, we'll run into a blockade. If we
keep in the rear they'll clear our way,
and we may get to her alive" | do
not know whether he heard, but he
held the machine In the rear of the
other cars and did not try to pass
Away we went on our mad rush
through crowded Broadway At Union
Square we lost our iway-clearers. As
Cur automobile Jumped across Four
taenth street into Fourth avenue. Bob
must have opened her UP to the last
notch. for she seemed to leap through
the air. We sent two wagons crash
J hsS across the sidewalks into the build
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down the brakes, and the iron mass
ground and shook as though 1t would
rend itself to atoms, but it stopped
with it's dasher and front wheels
wedged in between car and a dray
1t had not stopped when Bob was off
and up the avenue like hound on the
end-in-sight trail, was after him
while the astonished bystanders stared
in wonder. AS we neared Bob's house
/ could see people on the stoop.
heard Bobs secretary shout, Thank
God, Mr.. Brownley, you have come
She is in the Office. i found her there,
quiet and recovered. Sho did not ask
a question. She said, Tell Mr.. Brown
ley when he comes that / should like
to see him Then she ordered me to
get the afternoon paper, | handed 1t
10 her an hour ago, ! think she be-
lieves herself in her old Office. | shut
off the floor as you instructed. | did
not dare go to her for fear she would
ask questions. | have"-but Bob was
up the stairs two and three steps at a
time
My breath was almost gone and 1t
took me minutes to get to the second
floor Ny feet touched the top stair,
when, o God! that sound, For five
long years | had been trying to get it
out of my ears, but now more cultural.
more agonized than before, it broke
ipon my tortured senses. l did not
need TO seek its direction. With a
bound was at the threshold of Beulah
Sands-Brownley's office. In that brief
time the groans had stilled. For one
instant ! closed my eyes, for the very
atmosphere of that hall moaned and
groaned death, / opened them Yes,
| knew 1t. There at the desk was the
beautiful gray-clad figure of five years
ago. There the two arms resting on
the desk. There the two beautiful
hands holding the open paper, but the
eyes, those marvellous gray-blue doors
to an immortal soul--they were closed
forever. The exquisHely beautiful
face was cold and white and peaceful.
Beulah Sands was dead. The he'll.
hounds of the System" had overtaken
its MANNED and hunted victim, 1t had
added her beautiful heart To the baga
Fair play., 1908-03-07
HELEN eoULD's LIFE ROMANCE.
Lives for Charity and Has No Heart
for Lesser Love.

That love which the Bible calls
Helen Gould's life. No single thread
of romance seems to fire with color
the web of her days, woven in all the
soft pastel shades of sympathy and
sacrifice.
One summer night she sat with
friend amid the purple bloom of her
wistaria-covered piazza at Lyndhurst.
The setting sun landscape bathed in
the soft afterglow of the half light
that helps the heart to expression. The
small white hand shaded her brow a
little as she looked out among the
trees.
mo" she was saying, what you
imagined was never so. did not love
him when l sent him away. Long ago
l made up my mind never to think Of
any man like that"
Almost it seemed as IL the slender
fingers pressed against her temple
were trembling now, but it might have
been only the play of the shadows.
Il am neither brilliant nor pretty
anu, sue duOCub ~ ulaA olaii
marry me for my money"
A duke and a count and a bishops
son are among those whom rumor has
had it would have wooed if she would
have listened, but there is no record
that they stirred the calm measure Of
her heart beat.
Then there came rich manufac.
turer and philanthropist, and the
world waited a-tiptoe. This" they
whispered, IFS Helen Gould's ro-
nance"
But 1t was not. The man, 1t Is true,
had said: She is my ideal woman"
But hundreds of soldiers and sailors
and railroad men the country over
have cried; Mine. too" and America
has come to believe that Helen Gould
has given her heart as completely as
her fortune to the good that she can
do.-Broadway Magazine.
Fair play., 1908-03-07
Naqel Selection Unanimous.

Scarcely had the vote been an
nounced when Homer B. Mann of the
Fifth district the only district which
had voted soidy for Niedringhaus.
was on his feet with motion to make
the selection of Nagel unanimous.
when we can't beat 'em, we 'jine'
EN-" he said
The nomination of candidates for
delegates at large was next taken up.
Isaac Kimball of the Fifth district
nominated Hadley. wherever he has
been placed by the republican party,
he has succeeded" Kimball said "He
is more like Roosevelt and Taft than
any many among us. He stands for
the square deal and has been a cloud
by day and pillar of fire by night to
the republicans of Missouri"
Homer Mann, also of the Fifth dis
trict, placed Senator Warner in nomi.
nation as the second member of the
big four" He apologlzed for the fact
that Kansas City was monopolizing
the center of the stage. THE reason
is he said. because we have pro-
duced the two biggest republicans in
the state" He moved to suspend the
rules and to make the selection of the
two nominees by acclamation. This
was done amid great enthusiasm.
Warner, who had during this time
| relinquished the gayel to Secretary
Lake, appeared on the platform con-
Quoting Hadley by the arm, and intro
duced him to the convention as "the
man who will next occupy the execu-
tive mansion at Jefferson City"
Il hope" said Hadley in beginning
his speech, that Senator Warner is
as good prophet as he is a states.
man. 1t will be my duty and my pleas.
ure to vote at the convention for VIII
liam II. Taft. | am opposed to taxi
ing any backward step or even to
marking time on the policies OF Roose-
welt. We may differ as to men, but we
can not condemn those who differ with
us as rascals. What the republican
party needs Is recruits, not victims.
Let us march forward and achieve the
full redemption Of Missouri"
The convention adjourned at 7:15
o'clock Thursday night after being In
! session about seven hours
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Ing mob an the outside was roaring
like a million hungry lions In an Ar
bestan run at slaughter time.
CHAPTER Y.

CHAPTER X.
The instant after tho gong sounded
Bob Brownley was alone on the floor
at the foot of the presidents desk.
His form was swaylng like a reed on
the edge of the cyclones path.
jumped to his side His brother, who
bad during Bob's harangue been vain
ly endeavoring to beat his way
through the crowd, was there first
For Gods sake, Bob, hear me. Word
came from your house half an hour
ago OF the miracle: Beulah has awak.
ened to her past. Her mind is clear;
the nurses are frantic for you to come
to her"
He got no furtner. With mad bel
low and bound, like q tortured bull
that sees the arena walls go down, Bob
rushed out through the nearest door,
which, thanked God, was a side one
leading to the street where the crowd
was thinnest. He cast a Wild look
around. His eyes lighted on an empty
automobile whose chauffeur had de-
serted to the crowd. 1t was the work
of second to crank 1t; of another to
Jump into the front seat. Quick as
had been his movement | was behind
him In the rear seat. With a bound
the great machine leaped through the
crowd
"In the name OF Christ, Bob, be care
full" l yelled as he hurled the iron
monster through the throng, scatter
ing it to the right and left as the
mower scatters the sheaves In the
wheat fields. Some were crushed be
meath it's wheels. Bob Brownley heard
not their screams, heard not the
curses Of those who escaped He was
on his feet. his body crouchsd low
over the steering wheel, which he
grasped in his vice-like hands. His
hatless head was thrust far out, as
though it strove to get to Beulaf
Sands ahead of his body His teett
were set, and as l had jumped inte
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Easily Explained.

Her name was Marjorie and she was
the sweetest child in the world, with
al! a chlld's wonderful thirst for the
most out-of.the-way information. She
had asked her mother to explain to
her what wireless telegraphy was
Marjorie had often heard her father
talking of wireless telegraphy, and she
wanted to know all about it. So her
mother tried to make 1t clear and ex-
planned how there were two long sticks
standing high up in the air very long
way from each other, and how mes
sage was sent from the one stick
and "Oh. | know" broke In Mar
jorie, then God hears and tells tAs
other people"
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"a Cries a rags arose above the

fnGA Cries a. rags arose aD0ve too
din OF the machine, and seem I'd 70 fol-
low In our wake. Bob was dead to all
we passed. His entire being seemed
set on what was ahead. | knew he
was an expert In the handling of the
automobile, for since his misfortune,
automobiling with Beulah Sands had
been his favorlte pastime, but who
could expect to carry that plunging,
swaying car TO Forty-second street!
Bob seemed to be performing the won
drous task. We shot from curb to
curb and around and In front of vehi'
cles and foot passengers as though
the drivers eyes and hands were in
spired.
Across the square at last and on up
Fourth avenue to Twenty-sixth street.
Then a dizzying whirl into Madison.
Was he going to keep to 1t until he got
to FortysecoRd street and try to make
Fifth avenue along that congested
| block with its crush of Grand Central
passengers and lines upon lines OF
hacks and teams? No. His head must
be clear. Again he threw the great
machine around the corner and into
Fortieth street. For part of the
block our wheels rode the sidewalk
aud | awaited the crash. 1t did not
come. Surely the new world Bob was
speeding to must be kind one, else
why should Hag Fate, who had been
at the steering wheel Of his life-car
during the last five Vars, carry him
safely through what looked dozen
sure deaths? Without Stacking speed
a lot we swung around the corner Of
Fortieth into Fifth avenue The road
was clear to Forty-second; there a
dense jam of cars, teams and carriages
blocked the crossing. Bob must have
seen the solid wall for | heard his
low muttered curse. Nothing else to
indicate that we were blocked with his
goal in sight. He never touched the
speed controller, but took the two
blocks as though shot from catapult
The two? No, one, and three-Quarters
of the next, for when within score OF
yards of the black wall he jammed
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sentatves from Missouri in Congress.
The efficient and clean record Of our
Republican state officials meets with our
highest commendaton and approval, and
without dctractirg in the least from the
record Of any Of tt'se state officials we
desire TO EXPRESS our rqtisffction with the
record of Attorney General Herbert 5.
Hadlcy, in the brilliant and successful
fight he has waged against the unlawful
cuCroaChmeut upon the RIGHTS Of the peO-
ole OF Missouri, and rccnyuiZinC his ster-
ling worth we hereby indorso him as the
Republican nominee for governor and
pledge him our support to bring about MS
nomination and election
In placing the nomination Of a ma.
tonal committeeman as the fourth
order of business, the committee re
port said: Fourth, the naming of
national committeeman, for whom the
delegates at large are hereby instruct.
ed to vote and district delegates are
respectfully requested to vote
c. A. Newton of the Sixteenth dis
trlct then placed Charles Nagel in
nomination for national committee
man.
Thomas H. Marks of the Fift, dis
trict nominated Thomas X. Niedring
haus.
The vote for national committeeman
by districts resulted as follows:
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CONVENTION SELECTIONS.
For National Committeeman.
Charles Nagcl. of st. Louis.

For National Committeeman.
Charles Nagcl, of st. Louis.
For Delegates at Large.
senator William Warner Kansas City.
Herbert :. lIadlry, Kansas city,
John II. Boutwell,. Sedalia.
John II. Holmes, Joplin.
AIternates at Large.
CAN Negroes
Nelson Crews Kansas city.
j. r. a Grassland st. Joseph.
c, X. Robinson. St. I.ouis.
IL. @. Phillips. Scdain,
Pres dental Electoro.
At Largc-Thomas 4. Marks. Kansas
City. and Henry W Klel, ST Louis.
First District--John $ Ncwlan, Lewis
County.
second District Marion L. G. Eubanks.
Third DISTRICT. X. Mccain, Clay
County.
Fourth District-w c. Fleming, An
drew County.
Firth DisUlct-Cyrus Crai Jackson
County.
Sixth pistrict--Jamcs F. Rhodes. Cedar
Seventh Dstrlct--~, r. Bigbce. Greene
County.
Eighth Distrlct-sam Keller. Cole
County
Ninth District--Robert w. Payne, CAL
laway County.
Tenth District-George W. Letterman,
st. Louis County.
Eleventh District. Laurence Mauran,
St Louis.
Louis.
Thirteenth Dis. rict-John II. Chtwood,
Fredericktown. Mo.
Fourteenth District-M. e. Morrow.
Howell County.
Fifteenth District---J. L. Elf, McDon-
aid County
Sixteenth District--W. l. Dffenderfer
Laclede County.
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Wonderful Phraseoicuy.

A party of American tourists who
were comfortably established in a ho-
tel in Germany discovered new con-
tribution TO English as she is spoke"
only this time they found it in the
written word. The building had been
recently wired for electricity and uR-
der the bulbs in each room directions
were posted in French, German and
English. The French was irreproach-
able, the German nearly So The Eng
lish read as follows: "To open and
shut the tightening electrical on. is re-
quested to turn to the right hand. On
going to bed it must be closed Other
wise the tightening must be paid"
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EXPLOSION in Mexican Mine.

Sabinas, Coauhila, Mexico-An ex-
ploslon of fire damp occurred
early Thursday morning in No. shaft
of the Rosita mine at Musquiz, and for
time it was feared that many miners
had lost their lives. Relief parties,
however, were Immediately organized
and all of the men brought to the sur
face before the subsequnt fire had
gained headway A number of men
are working in an effort to extinguish
the Axe.
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Agree on Reduction of Wages.

Louisville, Ky.-After an all-day
conference between the officials
OF the Louisville & Nashville
railroad and general committee of
adjustment headed by j. d. Keene,
general chairman of the Order Of Rail-
way Conductors, itwas announced last
night that the Louisville g. Nashville
conductors agreed to reduction in
wages. The reduction con sists of re-
turn to the wages in effect prior to
March !. 1907. and viii take effect
March !, 1908.
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Fashionable Church Golno,

The witty Bishop Sanford Olmstead.
of Colorado, at a dinner in Denver
said apropos of Sabbath breaking: Il
was talking to an eastern clergyman
the other day about his church attend.
ance, I suppose, | said. that In your
district rain affects the attendance
considerably? Indeed, yes, he sale
\ hardly have vacant seat whe,. II
10 too wet for golf or inotprins"
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Sunday School Lessons for the World.

A power greater than that or kings
seems to have been welded by the
little group of thoughtful men who
gathered at the Fenway residence of
W. N. Hartshorn to select the les
sons for the Sunday schools Of the
world, says the Boston Herald. Every
year they gather to make this choice,
and when a decision has been reached
the lessons are handed out to the
printers and by them literally scat
tered over the planet. The word thus
goes forth not in one but in scores
of languages. Europe and Africa, east
and west, north and south get these
helps to religious study in the vernac-
ular, There is a supply for Hawaii,
Japan and the islands of the sea, For
India alone 40 dialects have to be pro-
vided for. Some 0O,000,000 Sunday
school leaflets are thus distributed
every year.
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and grew too weak TO work. Though
constantly using medicine | despaired
of being cured until | began taking
Doan's Kidney Pills. Then relief came
quickly, and in short time l was
completely cured. am now in ex-
cellent health"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
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sns barrels sad hossneads stored away


IN ita big "busin safe
deposit vaults. My eyes In sick pity
sought the form of my old schoolmats.
my college chum, my partner. my
friend. the man | loved. He was on
his knees. His agonized face was
turned to his wife. His clasped hands
had been raised in an awful, heart
crushing prayer as bis Maker touched
the bell. Bob Brownley's great brown
eyes were closed, his clasped hands
had dropped against his wife's head.
and In dropping had unloosed tho
glorious golden-brown waves until in
fond abandon they had coiled around
his arms and brow as though she for
whom he had sacrificed all was shield
ing his beloved head from the chills
and dark mists Of the black river that
laps the brink Of The eternal rest. The
System" had skewered Robert Brown,
ley's heart, too. staggered to his
side. AS | touched his now fasticing
brow my eyes fell upon the great black
headlines spread across the top of the
paper that Beulah Sands had been
reading when the all-kind God had cut
her bonds:
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Mrs. Goodsole-My boy. 1t makes
me sick at heart to see you smoking.
Kid-Dat's funny. 1t seems to ketch
me right in the stummick.
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/ had a bad fall and
it affected my kid
neys. Severe pains
in my back and hips
became constant, and
sharp twinges fol-
lowed any exertiOn.
The Kidney secre-
tions were badly dis
cnlnrpd L LOST npeh
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FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH.

And beneath in one column:
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA.
The Richest Man In the State, Thomas
Reinhart, MuIti-milionaire, while
Temporarily Insane from the Loss
of His Wife and Daughter, md Of
His Enormous Fortune, Whic. Was
Shattered in To-day's Awful Panic,
Cut His Throat. His deatl was
instantaneous.
In another column:
Robert srownIey Creates the Mast
Awful Panic In History and Spreads
Wreck and Ruin Throughout tho
Civilized World.
THE END.
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HER GOOD FORTUNE.
After Years Spent in Vain Effort.

Mrs. Mary f. II. Rouse, of Cam
bridge, ~ Y, says: Five years ago
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Crews Defends Warner.

Nelson Crews of Kansas City. the
cOlored orator, who goes as one of the
RAiternates at large to the National Con
vention, made an address before the
convention, in which he defended SEN
ator Warner from attacks by members
of his race through circulars scattered
aabout the convention hall