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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-12-11

urer, October ... 2OS.3333
H. B. Miller, salary deputy
treasurer, October ........ 10000
Fred H. Foster, salary, clerk
Of court, October ........ 1867
-. w. Dunno, salary, deputy
clerk of court, October 80. 10000
A. p. Smith, salary, county as
SCISSOR, October 1867
III. l.. Wilson, salary, county at
torney, October ... SO. 33S
Chas. "A. Taylor, salary, deputy
county attorney, October ~. 10000
Sara e. Morse, salary, county
superintendent, October -. 125.OO
G. S. Prater, salary, court stem
ographer, October ......... 89.4U
Ira L. Whitney; salary, county
clerk, October .. 208.34
A. B. Renwick, salary, deputy
county clerk, October ...... 10000
r. p. Williams, salary, deputy
county clerk, October .... $500
]. F. Bacon, salary, deputy
county clerk, October ...... $500
Arch II. Taylor, salary, deputy
sherin, September October,
November .......... ...... 225.oo
Chas. 3. Dawson, salary, dep
uty sheriff, September, Octo-
Der, November ..... 225.00
Geo. Kinnick, salary, deputy
sherin, September, October,
November ........ ........ 10000
w. N. Taylor salary, deputy
sheriff, September, October,
Novembef ......s. 225.o0
Stone Matlock, salary, jailor,
September ........... 1900. 10000
]. w. Fish salary, county
treasurer, September $1,000. 2OS.SS3s
G. IS. Prater, salary, court stem
ographer, September ....... 1910
fContinued on Seventh papa,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-12-11

swagger tan shoes for winter wear,
nov ready at Toddis.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-12-11

Despite the New York Sun, the
Panama canal work goes on salts
factorily.-Daily Missoulian.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-12-11

Frank Gordon, plumbing jail. 64.20
Beeman Stocking Co, repairs
at court house ...... 81. 100
C.. o. Powers. election stamps 100
II. N. Brayton, teachers exam
nation ....... =: ....... 1900
j.. w. Fish, assisting Co. Treas,
account assigned -. ...... 10000
The Board, upon motion, adjourned
to meet December 8, 1908, at 1000
/, O'clock q. N.
Approved: g. H. NEWMAN,
Chairman.
Attest: IRA 4. WHITNEY,
Clerk.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
Insseihle ves nv,.,~

During Hans von Rulov-s ,.. ship of the orchestra at Hanov.. tenor of fame was engaged to n,.x star role in ''Lohengrin.. and wss- the singer was rehearsing his par, Rr low was forced to 90 over the s.- bars a number of times withont - new actor beginning 10 sing. Tired !. his wasted efforts. the leader .sor-.ss the orchestra and angrfly turned . the singer.
 .'I know that tenor is proverblauv stupid" he said. but you saarn :. make an extensive use of this un,r... ten law"
 At another time. while one q. h,. grand intermezzos was being p,axas with great feeling by his musicians peculiar noise. hardly perceptjbla hv antrained ears. annoyed the leader so- some little time At first he thougb- 1t resembled the f1utter of wings bn- soon he discovered an elegant lasr flaming herself in one of the boxss elose by Bulow kept on with bis pes. lures. fixing his eyes on the offenf,ar in manner which meant reproof Tha lady. not needing this. was suddenlv surprised by the leader dropping his stick and turning toward her.
 Madam" he cried. If fan you must please at least keep time with your in. fernal nuisance,''
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
An Exception to the Rule.

.It is an invariable fact" said the professor at the club. that the senss of sight travels more rapidly than tho sense of sound You will observe. sir that when bit of ordnance is fired from a fortress or man-ef-war yon see the puff of smoke that comes coin. cidently with the explosion several moments before you hear the report thereof Thus 1t is always
 Not always" said little Todgers from the corner .I know of a case where hearing antedates seeing by really considerable lapses of time"
 II know of no such thing in the whole broad range of science" retort. ed the professor pompously. Perhaps you can enlighten us. sir"
 Well" said Rodgers. tits the case of an Englishman and a joke. In al- most every case the Englishman hears A joke about week before he sees it. and
 But the professor had gone. and they say that nowadays when he sees Tod gers he shies off like a frisky horse in the presence of a motor car.-Harper's Weekly
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
Wsterproofins Matches.

Perhaps some of your readers would be interested 10 know that 1 have found simple inexpensive way to waterproof matches Into some melted paratiin. care being taken that 1t was as cool as possible. I dipped a few or dinary parlor matches. After with drawing them and allowing them to cool it was found that they scratched almost as easily as before being coated with the wax Several were held un- der water for six or seven hours. and all of them lighted as easily as be- fore immersion When the match is scratched the paraffin is first rubbed of and the match lights in the usual way. Matches treated as above would be very useful on camping or canoeing trips. as they do not absorb moisture. Since more rubbing is required to light them than the ordinary match 1t would be practically impossible to set them on fire by accidental dropping Scientific American.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
Tom. Dick and Harry.

Some folks have hard time to ind odd enough names for their children. said man in an uptown club tue other evening. They will search through ali kinds of books on the suh- ject. consult all their friends and rela- tiyes and finally burden the youngsier with something never heard of before.
 T know one man, however-he is banker and lives on West End avenue who. while he did not spend much time in search of names. adopted a scheme which is very novel It took five years to carry out the scheme, now complete. The first boy he named Tom. the second Dick and the third Harry. This particular trio is about as much talked about in the neighbos- hood as the noted Tom. Dick and Har- ry of whom nearly every one has heard."-New York Times.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
Dignity Of the English Waiter.

The English hotel waiter belongs ID d race which Is slowly but surely pe- coming extinct and carries aoont nia' the melancholy aura of the dooned' Every head waiter at British nm nas in him at least the making of duke butler No glimpse of avariee mars the perfection of his monumental man ner and if at the last be eondescends to accept your vail it is with sonnethins of the air of a discrowned king.-Lon' don Sketch.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
ln Xaini

"In vain. in vain.' cried the young man distracfedly. His hair fell ID long wisps about his brows, and his coun- tenance was deathly white.
 The crowd pressed close.
 Tn vain. fin vain" be cried again. with wringing of hands and gushing of teeth.
 "What?" cried the crowd What is in vainy'
 ''The letter 'vr" cried the young man as he escaped.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
wh.r, Women Ar. Wanted.

What strikes you about Auckland = the dearth of women. It is said io v the same all over New Zealand ine'. are far more men than women. an. lots of men have to % without wv New Zealand Herald
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
Net ssnsuins.

Majestic Person-Do you know ny lad. that every British boy nas chance of becoming prime minister = England? Youngster (thoughffun!- We'll. I'll cell my chance for . snhiihs. Tit Bits.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
Chocolates and Candy

Fancy Box Chocolates. 25c. 5oc, 90c, Sl.o0 and $1. 50 box Filled with the we'll known Sparrow Chocolates.
 All price Chocolates. 19, 29 and 40 cents pound.
 20 Kinds of Candy at 10 cents. . pound.
 For good, pure, wholesome candy, we can suit you in quality and price.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11
Fancy China for Gift Purposes

Nothing is appropriate for gift then piece of ported Our hne complete including everything desirable from the staple Of things made the dantest rifle from the other line little spend for gift buy what looks item Chnaa Chocolate Set Berry Salad Dsh Cake Plate Bon Dish Hair Receiver hundred other China showing.
Putnam patriot., 1908-12-11

The finest line of Box Papers We have ever shown, direct from the factory at Vicksburg, Michigan.
 Big values at 1Oc, 15c, 19c, 25c, ,37c, soc 62c, 75c, $100, $150 box, and up.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-08-01
Good NeWS
Many EIkfon Readers Have
Heard II And Profifed Thereby

Good new, travel, fast" and thC
thousand, of bad back sufferer, III
Elk'"n IRE glad To- learn that prompt
rclirl 3, within their reach Many q
lame. weak ard aching hnck Is bad II,
w.~s thank, to- Doan, Kidney Pills
IN U>aud, of thankful people are tell
RVS ;fr good new, " their experience
with the old Quaker Remedy Here
81 an cNaWul, n, nth reading.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-08-01

Samuel chose Saul almost at first
sight. But he did not choose from
Jcsse's sons in that way. Jesse prob
ably had his own ideas about the rela-
| tive worth OF his SIX boys. Seven
passed before Samuel, you say? Prob
ably seven was the whole number, in
GLIDING David The father never
thought of David.
The only thing To put great en-
phasis on in this lesson is verse z.
Do not fail 10 impress how God knows
us all through and through.
Men may not Judge men correctly at
all God always does.
David had been a good keeper of
sheep. God said the man who keeps
sheep well will keep men well.
David was so true TO his task OF
sheer -herding that al the risk OF his
life he tackled bear and mountain
lion. He would not flee until he had
done all He would not flee anyway.
Devotion To- duty counts in this world.
Devotion to duty counts more with
God than with man What he has done
in the fields, he will also do in the
court as king was Gods thought.
Find man with a right heart il you
can Tie up 10 him
\ right heart will not make a wrong
body.
David became a double man as soon
as he was anointed. He was man
with right heart 10 begin with Then
Gods spirit came upon him. Such
MN is two men.
A king boy is different from a boy
king. Jesse's youngest son was king
boy. In the field with the sheep he
had learned that fidelity to a trust at
risk OF life is better than life itself
The difference between the human
and the divine is partly a difference OF
sight.
Even an old prophet could be de-
cciyed by appearances. Eliab was a
large man. The influence OF Saul was
still on Samuel when he looked at
Eliab.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-08-01
= Cecils Wing 3
Fifty Years Ago
ELKTON. JULY a., 1883
THE MARKETS

THE MARKETS
Red wheat, $Iiai-2; white do. s. IS;
corn. ~; oats, -.
MARRIED
Thompson-lIogg Vt Charlcstown,
ON the 9TH inst, by Rev J. NJ. l1inson.
Mr. Lewis II. Thompson to Miss Caro-
line O. Hogg, both OF this county,
Mnnrc--I'hackcry. On the Goth inst
by Rev JOS T. Brown. Mr. John
Moore To- Miss Mary +. Thackery.
both 81 this county
DIED
Fulton. On Monday, goth inst, Mr..
George \ Fulton. aged y years
Nbrahams In Port Deposit. on
Wednesday last. John h Abrahams.
eldest son 81 Joseph W Abrahams.
Esq, aged y years He was a young
man 81 education aud fine promise, and
greatly esteemed III the community in
which he lived
Luton On Thursday last. William
George. son uf Ehcnezcr Luton. aged
~ months
Mr. George \ Fulton. who died in
the Fourth district IN Monday last,
wa, a highly esteemed citizen Of his
ncighbnrhoud and was once a member
oi the Board ui County Commission
cr, from that district
THE HARVEST ENDED
The uat crop Is gathered and the
harvest j., ended. The extreme dry
mess 81 the season was very favorable
t. saving hay and grain. and the crops
were never pu, up in better order The
summing up pi the result 'S-a good
crop Of hay. wheat and oats. taking
the county through. ligh, crop
COMMITTEE on THE CODE.
The committee pi lawyers. (of which
] ! Mctulluugh Esq. II this town.
!, chairman appointed by the last
Legislature tu examine the report II
the tudilicr, ut the laws ii this State.
meet, IN Baltimore IN the 9Th 81 .Nu-
gust nest. q, which time It j, stated the
greater portion ~ the new code will
hc ready for n, Inspection
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-08-01
LEARN TELEGRApHY

Graduates ~ this school are in grea,
demand by the big railroads. Now
have advance calls for over 1000 op.
orators. We teach and place you in
an easy, good paying position 10 10
- weeks
Atlantic Telegraph Institute
Laurel, Del.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1908-08-01
Sabbath School

NOTES BY X. 5. HOLMES.
Lesson V. August ?. 1908
DAVID AMOUNTED AT BETHLE-
HEM
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08
THE CAT COMES BACK.
TKis Date in City History

Tuesday Jan. 8 1907 The Advertiser announced that R. Tyler Goodwin had withdrawn his candidacy for Speaker of the House, leaving the field to w. L. Martin.
 The Louisville and Nashville Rail Road Company announced it would handle without charge troops coming
 The Gay-Teague Realty Company an- nounced 1t would build a teff-story hotel corner Bibb and Comerce Streets at a cost of S2b0,G00.
 The Council temporarily terminated discussion of the Jin Crow law by or derinE Q reservation of certain seats on street cars for white persons.
 The Baseball Association decided on the new grounGs on Capital Heights.
 M c. Stokes asked the appointment of a. receiver for the AlabapIa Central Railway.
 Cotton was quoted at 15-1s for middiing.
 Thursday January 8, 1908, The Ad- vertiser printed an account of the speech of James T. Andrew, candidate
 Thomas c. Dawson was appointed warden of the convlcts at Flat Top by President J. M Carmichael of the State Board of Convict Inspectors.
 The committee from a German So- ciety called on Governor Jelks for aid in persuading the Legislature to establish bureau of immigration.
 The employees of Montgomery The atre dined as guests of Sam and Arthur Hirscher, managers of the house.
 Cotton was quoted at 1-4 for 1nid- ding.
 Twenty-Five years ago today was Monday and The Advertiser printed no paper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08

tbe pension theory to bring up the case of Thomas Jefferson. - there is little analogy betwee,F case and that Of ex-Presidentt ! dis age. Jef- ferson was grcs lan and a great statesman, but a, 1T nnancier or bus mess man: a. hen, too. we must conside difference then and now il z. " ns Ills salary was but half al as that now paid. The countr, poor and times were hard. There se few openings for even a man of his talents and Requirements to earn money, or even living sal- ary, at any kind of mental work that he was best fitted for. Such man now could command almost his own price for anything he might write, but 1t could not be done in his day.
 Nor is this all. Thomas Jefferson was. as we have said. poor business man. He was man who could spend money, but when 1t came to making and saving it he was not the man. He was virginian. with all the Virgin ian's lavish ideas of hospitality and good living. and if his salary had been double or quadruple what Presidents then received he would have let 1t all slip through his hands. That his lat- ter days were the reverse of pros- porous was due to the times, the con- ditions and to his own lack of fore thought and business sense. A gov- ernment pension to him---if he would have accepted it--wouid have been a needed and deserved recompense for ms services.
 There can be no comparsion between Jefferson and the Presidents of our day to sustain an argument for pen sioning them when, their term of offlce ends. Saying nothing of the larger salary. the conditions are entirely dif- ferent. The field of honorable and lucrative employment is open to all who are competent to enter it. A man with talent for writing and a repu- tation to back it, whether that repu. tation is literary, DO .tical or official, can find purchaser for his work at good prices. To sum up the whole matter. Mir. Cleveiand's proposition or suggestion doesn't strike us favorabiy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08
THr WHY OF m.

The Leavenworth Post is disposed to be sarcastic at the expense of prohibi- tiohists down in this neck of woods. Referring to the argument made down here that prohibition offers the only method of preventing drunkenness and crime among the coiored population of the South 1t says: "The North spilled blood for the negro. and now the South is spiiiing good liquor to save the
 black manr'
 Well. now, the idea is not so absurd as The Post seems to think, for the argument which 1t Is inclined to treat lightly was successfully used to elect mon to the Legislature in Alabama who would vote for prohibition for the entire State. In some of the counties and many smaller sections of Alabama the negroes form a large majority of tho population. When secure from the influence of strong drink they are measurabiy peaceful and well behaved. taking them as q whole. but not so when filled with mean whiskey--and they mostly drink the meanest because 1t is cheapest. Some of it is as full of the evil one as the pulque of Mex leo or the vodka of Russia. and when a negro of naturally vile disposition gets on a load of the stuff he is no longer a human being but a ferocious beast. He is a dangerous character in any community, and particularly 8 community where white people are in very large minority.
 To separate the mean negro from the mean whiskey was the acute prob lem presented to the people in many parts of Alabama. Without some form of prohibition this was impossible. He had the same right to buy it that oth- CTS had. It was kept in most of the towns and villages, and if not 1t was not a difficult matter to send to some larger town and have his jug filled. Therefore--or largely therefore-we are to try prohibition in Alabama. Men in the endangered districts were will ing to give up their own privileges for the common good and common safety, and men living where no such dam ger existed voted for prohibition for the common good of their less fortu- nate fellow citizens. If the law shall prove successful in abating or sup pressing the evils which always result from a combination of mean whisk ey and mean negro the spilling of good liquor by the whites will not be. in vain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08
A RenuhIIcan Child.

New York Evening Post.
 Not since the days of reconstruction has any State come in for such a scold- ing as Nevada is receiving at present Everybody knew that Nevada was lit- tie. Not onlyFwere all the States ana all the territories ahead of Nevada in population, but eighty eight cities as we'll But that a Western mining camp community, the last refuge of picturesque and chivalrous Bret Harte civilization, should lose it's nerve at the first sign of trouble and bawl for help from Uncle Sam is little LOO much. All the eight-eight cities there are only fifty-seven if we take Governor Sparks figures on Nevada's population and assume that all the cities stopped growing in 19O0-are telling now what their local police would have done in similar crisis. Why should any one be expected to have patience with Nevada? What kind of a State is 1t that starts, in 1S7U ahead of Colorado, Washington, Mon- tana, Idaho, Arizona, Wyoming; and both the Dakotas put together ana then in twenty years lets all these overtake her, with Alaska, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory besides, and loses 10000 of her own population between 1880 and 1900? Nevada would stand not the slightest chance of obtaining Statehood today, and we have already seen 1t gravely suggested that it is time to invent a way of expelling from the Union this cry baby State that rests in the crook of California's elbow
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08
TUESDAY, JANUARY ', 1908.

Men who follow the sea gain clear idea of geography. but the average iandsman is rarely able tc form corr rect impression of distance and direc- lion. unless he sets himself about 1t seriously. The Manchester tN. H-) Union says: 'Tt is quite safe to say that few people had clear concep- ton of distance eastward which the batsleship fleet would sail in going around the continent of South Ameri- ca. As a matter of fact, the eastern
 most part of Brazil is more than forty degrees farther east than Hampton Roads. No part of Newfoundland is so far east, and the meridian which touches Cape St. Roque, on the coast of South America. passes through the middle of Greenland. Following the fleet on its course to the Pacific will help some of us to brush up an ac- quaintance with the atlas. anyway"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08
PLAIN ENGLISH.

The Norfolk Landmark calls atten- tion to some remarks recently made by MT. H.. III. Miles, chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers. who seems to have a way of calling things by their right names. While Mir. Miles believes in a tarir for rev. enue. and is not opposed to a rate which will cover any increased cost of production in this country. he has this to say of the DinglGy law:
 Great bankers agree that the half billion dollars of graft added wilfulIy to tarim schedules and taken from pockets of the consumers by the few ultra-protected interests is a great stratnRupon our financial system The few who get this graft use 1t in specu- lation, in the control of vast fnarl- princely cities and lavish display. On the whole. they use 1t wisely, but things will be thousand times bet ter when these hundreds of millions of dollars are left in the pockets of the consumers to be used by them in the lesser and necessary expenditures of life. The total graft of the Ding ley tariff in the ten years of it's exist ence has amounted to not less than five billion dollars, or one-han the total value of all the railroads in the United 0tates, less their bonded in- debtedness. It is a drain upon the many that only marvellous prosperity has enabled them to endure.
 This is speaking plainly and no less truthfully. To use the traifr to enable few fortunate ones to amass vast riches at the expense of the consumers is graft and nothing else. Worse than that, 1t is graft authorized and kept going by the government itself which enacted and maintains the Dingley sys- tenn. But Mir. Miles did not add, as he might truthfully have done, that from this graft, judiciously expended. come the funds to keep the Republicans in power. That is why there is such manifest reluctance on the part of the leaders of the party to interfere with it just before a national election. To stop the graft would stop the contri- buttons. and then how could they hope to elect another Republican Presidentf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-08
Our Infant IndustrIen.

Richmond Times -D1SpaLcn. .
 One of our exchanges notes the raet that British newspapers report that already the process of dumping American manufactures in that coun- try, as a result of the business depres- sion here, has begun. A single London firm is represented to have bought $1O0,0OO worth of American auto mobiles at such figures that they can be sold at forty to fifty per. cent, under usual prices. The house has an option on another $1,000.000 worth. ana expects to make big thing out or them.
 These statements call for investiga- tion by Congress, and we hope that some Democratic member will offer g resolution to that effect How IS II that protected industries in the United States are able to sell their wares abroad at less than foreign priceg And if they can do so IyAy Is a tariff tax necessary to protect them against foreign competition and the ''pauper labor of Europe"
 The Democratic convention of 1892 was not very far out of the way when it denounced the Republican tariff as both a robbery and q fraud,