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Easy Money.

Easy Money.
How the street urchin spots an "easy
mark" and gets the coin was shown
recently at Third and Chestnut streets.
An excellently dressed young man
with setter dog which he held by
strap was standing on the corner.
One Of the newsboys stood beside
the dog and when its master was not
hooking reached down and gave its tail
sharp pull. With,a yelp Of pain the
dog turned quickly and jumped for its
tormentor. but missed him by several
inches.
The fact that the dog did not bite
him was no obstacle to the boy, who
grabbed his left arm with his right
hand and began to scream furiously.
ut bit me; 1t bit me. Take me to a
hospital"
The owner of the dog became alarm
ed and ran to the boy. Here, son."
he said take this five dollar bill and
keep quiet. It'll be all right" and he
hurried away.
Easy money" said the newsboy as
he i Joined his companions. Philadel-
pAia Times.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.

\
will sell at Public Auction at my
home in Deloit. Iowa.
81 SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 20.
commencing at one o'clock p. m. the
following described property:
% cattle, IL head Of hogs. large
amount Of Farm Machinery, some
household furniture ana other articles
too numerous to mention.
I will also sell my stock farm adj
Joining the town of Deloit. This farm
is we'll adapted to the raising Of
stock, being well watered and seeded
to Timothy. Clover and Blue grass
and all fenced and cross fenced.
TERMS-As usual.
MRS. T. e. DoBsON.
W. j. McAhren. Auct.
Sears McHenry, Clerk.
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PROMPT TO ACT.
A Man Who Seemed Always to Be
Ready For Emergencies.

A Man Who Seemed Always to Be
Ready For Emergencies.
To be ready for emergencies was one
Of the gifts of DIR. Samuel Gridley
Howe. the great teacher of the blind.
writes his daughter. Mrs. Laura E.
Richards. who has edited his Letters
and Journals" She gives several In
stances in which his quick action pre-
vented serious accidents.
Once at Green Peace my father was
going to drive with my mother and my
sister Florence in closed carriage
with large window in front.
AS the driver was mounting the box
he dropped his whip and got down to
recover 1t. This startled the young
horses. and they bolted down the
driveway.
My father tried to open the big win
dow. but It stuck fast. He flashed
through the plate glass as II It had
been paper and. catching up the reins,
stopped the runaways in less time than
1t takes to tell 1t.
When Thomas came running up.
white and breathless., he found doc
tor quietly shaking the bits of glass
from his coat and hat and explaining
to my terrified mother that he event
so quick there was no time to get cut. "
Still another memory of my mothers
shows his quickness in different
way. He was walking along Washing
ton street one day when a furious dog
rushed at him and bit his hand severe
".
There was no Pasteur institute In
the forties.. Ny father instantly raised
up the skin and flesh Of the bitten part
and. holding It firmly. entered the
nearest apothecary's shop.
"Cut this piece or" he said briefly.
The apothecary exclaimed in horror.
He could not. he would not. without a
surgeons order. 1t was out Of the
question.
II am surgeon said my father.
land I command you to cut 1t or
1t was cut of. My father dressed
the wound with his other hand and
went about his business.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-11-10
STUDY OF JAPANESE. !,
Difficulties Of the Spoken and the
Writer, LANGUAGES.

Difficulties Of the Spoken and che
Written Languages. 49,
Army officers who are thinking OF
taking up ,,he stud Of Japanese should
pause before they attempt the task
and ask themselves whether they have
a peculiarly strong linguistic aptitude.
Even the japanese find their language
very difficult The. Anglo-Saxons who
growl about the difficulties Of our SPELL
ing and favor the simplitied system.
would never live IL they had to under
go what the subject Of the mikados suf-
fers in the matter Of language.
1t takes a Japanese child seven years
to learn the essential parts Of the
alphabet. There are PA signs which
serve the same purpose as initial let
ters in English dictionaries. Then
after you have tracked down in one Of
these 24l signs some part of the char
acter for which you are about to
make a search you still have veri-
table darkest Africa ahead OF you.
The pompous first personal pronoun is
avoided whenever it is possible in
speaking Japanese. II it must be
used it is introduced casually. but gen.
orally the abstract noun ''selfshness"
serves in its stead.
For example. a Japanese would not
say. II don't drink wine," but "Wine
don't drink" or, II this is not clear
enough. "Seltshness wine don't drink y
Reference to your possessions must be
deprecatory. Thus IL a man wishes to
point out his own residence he says.
'That miserable house" which. Of
course. could refer to no other than his
own.
On the other hand, THAT beautiful
house" would easily identify the house
as belonging to some one else. More
over. any one who wishes to learn
Japanese must be- prepared to learn
two languages the written and the
spoken. The one differs 80 materially
from the other that IL japanese Is
reading a book or newspaper and
wishes to do SO aloud it becomes nee
essary for him to translate the written
| words into the 1colloquial. To be able
to read any of the higher class Japa-
nese newspapers 1t is necessary to
master at least from $500 to 5000
ideographs.-Army and Navy Journal.
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Made Him Sick.

A noted golfer one afternoon played
rather badly. He turned to his caddie
after he had fooled drive and said
in his genial way:
This isn't pleasant spectacle for
you. I'm, as bad as a Scotch laird at
st. Andrews. The ST. Andrews cad
dies are all old men. and one day when
s,his laird was in especially bad form
his caddie. after nine holes of missed
shots and puts. shook his gray old
head. surrendered the laird's bag of
clubs to another caddie and said:
.'Ye'll no mind. laird: l made but
poor breakfast this mornin'. and Pm
no in condition to stand any mair
0,t,n
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The Navel Orange.

The first we know Of the navel
orange. which is very valuable not
only on account Of its fine quality and
taste: but also because of its being
seedless. is Of single tree that was
found growing OH the northern shore
Of the Mediterranean sea. This was
about the year l565. Crafts of this
tree were taken to Spain by the Moors
several hundred years ago. and from
Spain the trees were carried to South
America by the Spaniards.-S Nicho-
las.
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WEIGHING Diamonds and Gold.

The weight diamonds aud other
precious stones is expressed in carats.
grains and quarter grains. They are
pearl grains. one of which is equal tn
four-ffths of a troy grain. Four quar-
ter grains make one grain and fous
grains one carat. The tineness OF gold
is also expressed in carats. Pure gold
is twenty-four carats fine. The car.
ats. therefore. indicate the proportions.
of alloy. Most of the gold nset; "a,
jewelrs is about fourteen carats fine
having ten parts OF alloy.
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Total Assets.
LIABILITIES:

LIABILITIES:
Amount of capital stock
actually l'aid up In cash $l00, 10000
Total amount due dep s.
itors, us foil ws:
Amount sight deposits.
subject to check ~; .. s24 4 a,s q
Amount time deE0sits.... 40l 970.95
Amount deposited by banks. 2S,470.79 $7l7.142.2 Is
Indebtedness Of every
Kind. due banks, banK-
ers Or persons other
than regular depOSitOrS
Bills payable. ............. None
RedtscOunts .............. None
Due Clearing House. .;..: None
profits. as follows: !,
Surplus fund. .......:.....
Other profits on hand
(after deducting taxes ia
and expenses. l9l17Sl
Total Liabilities. ess8 2b9. IS
Amounts of all liabilities
TO the bank on part of
its directors:
.As borrowers. I. none
p z, As As endorsers. none
STATE OF IOWA 90
Crawford County 80
VEL. Cornwell President George Naeve Vice.
President. and n. e. Jones cashier. OF the Bark
going statement is full. true and correct to
the best of our knowledge. and belief that the
assets therein set forth bona fide the property,
that no part of the same has been loaned or
advanced to said bank for the purpose Of being
exhibited as portion of its assets.
L. Cornwell President.
George Naeve. Vice-Pres.
NJ. E. Jones, Cashier
Sworn to before me and subscribed
IN my presence by L CornweL
Pres. Geo. Naeve, Vice.Pres. NJ E, Jones
sEAL] cashier.
ALBERT HELsLEY
MsssaEy y Public in and for Crawford County
Chas. Tabor
9. J. Kemming
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Tho Pessimist.

The pessimist stands beneath he :vs.'
Of prosperity and growls When H..
fruit falls ON his head. Success titsgt,
zine.
He is often the wisest man who is
not wise at all. Wordsworth.
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Beat Solomon a Mile.

She-That's Mr.. Osborn over there.
He married IL million, He Yon dAn't
say. Well. that beats solomon to q
,frazzle Boston Transcript.
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Good values at extremely
low price 9. 72x72 blankets
CSC each.
72x72 wool blankets at
S3, 48 per pair.
76x76 wool blankets at
"a. 4S per pair.
Stable blankets. u 4S up.
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Cali, has of, with treaEher0is hopes
led men 10 ruin. -Sophocles.
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STATEMENT
Of the Cona,,,on of Crawford,
county state Bank.

Organized under the laws of Iowa, located
at Denison. in the county of Crawfords ut
the close of business on the Bird day OF
November. IA d. 1909. made to the Auditor
OF State as required by law:
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j ASSETS
Amount of Bills, bonds
and other evidences OF
debt discounted or pur-
chased actually owned
by the bank carried
OUT ....... ........
Amount of cash on hand
described as follows:
Gold coin.
Silver coin and bullion.
Legal tender and nation-
al bank notes and SUBJ
sidiary coin. .............
Drafts and checks ion
other solvent banks and
other cash items note
dishopored, ION hand
and belonging to the
bank. .......:.. ........
Amount subject to be
drawn at sight on de-
pOsitwith solvent banks
or bankers (specifying
names and locations OF
banks):
Commercial National Blk,
Chicago. .......... 49,.
National City Bank New
YORK.. 49,. =. .........
First National Bank. Co.
BUNS, Iowa....... .....
Iowa National Bank Des
Moines. ..; .......:...;;.
Co. Bluffs Savings Bank
Ceder Rapids National Bank
Cedar Rapids. .
Expense Account. ..........
Value Of real property
owned by the bank)
Value of personal proper.
ty owned by bank)....
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
STARTLING THINGS
ARE BROUGHT OUT

Montreal Aug FL Testimony show
ing that the e4ty oC Montreal has list
millions nj dollars in contract work.
and that official Positions NJ all kinds
have hern bought and Sold for years.
has been brought out hy the investl-
cation into the clty-s civic affairs be
gun hv the provincial government.
The Investigation has covered the adj
mint>tTatioR of the police. fire and
public works departments. each of
which is controlled by committee Of
aldermen with an administrative chief.
The investigation = not vet con-
rHeted Parity rs Ct result ef the rev
elatlon of the investigation and part
L. as movement fog civic reform
generally. an election wsl be held here
September "a. on the question OF re-
ducsng the number of aldermen by
nns-baE. and ut establishing board
ef commissioners Ca administer the
vsty's affairs,
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22

Pittsburg. Aug. FLA night of wild
rioting among the striking working
men closed the week at the Pressed
Steel Car company's plant in Schocn-
Vile. \ daring attempt, partly sue
cessful, to blow up the office build
ing of the company was made. This
was the signal for serious clashes be
tween state troopers and strike SYM
pathiZers, in which a dozen or more
men We're injured.
shortly after 10 o'clock tonight 500
women and children gathered at the
company's restaurant in McKee's Rock
and were partially dispersed by mount
ed troopers. One woman stood out
of the mob and. drawing n gaspipe.
loaded with powder. threw it at the
feet of troopers horse. The bomb
failed To explode.
The crowd of women was finally
dispersed when fire hose was played
upon them.
While the angry women swarmed the
treets, a concerted attack was made
upon the company's restaurant from
the rear, and. setting upon the negro
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22

cooks with ladies, poSers and cooking
spoons, about 80 women beat an en-
trance into the kitchen of the cstab-
,ishmcnt and made off with potatoes.
onions and even caught up hot soup
Strike sympathiZers began stopping
streets cars. Three men could not sat
isfactnrily explain their presence in
McKee's Rock and were bodily hurled
through a car window. When the
mob on the street attacked the men
they We're dragged to the edge of the
viaduct, so feet below which lay the
tracks of the railroad, and only cs-
capped being thrown over by the ar
rival of troopers.
Late tonight an attempt was made
to blow up the office building of the
car plant. Il hree-story frame struc-
ture. erected close to the stockade. near
the company house. Nitro glycerine
caps were thrown over the stockage
and over 20 of the basement rocks sup
porting the building were torn away
by the explosion. There is no clew as
to the identity of the men responsible
for the deed. y street car from Pitts
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
OONOGHuE CHOSEN EXECUTIVE
OF MONTANA STATE FEDER-
ALTON OF LABOR.
Numerous Candidates in Field for Of
flee Of Secretary Treasurer, but o.
N. Partelow Is Chosen Over His
Opponents-Grea Falls Selected as
Place for 1910 Meeting of Body.

Butte. Aug, 2I-Alcxandcr Fair
grtevc was defeated today for re-
election t. the office Of president Of
the Montana States Federation Of La
bur, Three candidates were voted IN
on. Alexander Fairgrieve. Mortimer NJ.
Donoghue of Butte and William
o'Brien Of Butte. on the first ballot
FairEricvc received 4 votes. Doonghu,
b and o'Rrien. II votes. For the
second ballot the name Of Candidate
o'Brten was dropped, as he had re-
ceived the lowest vote and Donoghue
was then elected by a vote of !. to
4 for the retiring president. For
vice president retiring secretary.
Howard o. Smith was elected. He re-
ccivcd 80 votes. to 40 cast for Hugh
Mcdonald Of Great Falls.
The offices OF secretary and treas
urer has now been combined and there
were 50 many candidates that 1t re-
quired four ballots to decide this cleo
ton. The candidates on the first
ballot We're: f. T.. CIeyes T.. F. Tor
rey. {. n Derry. :. w Mitchell.
+. J. Mnyle and .. NJ. partelow. on
the last ballot Clcyes and Partelow
were left in the field IS contestants
Cleves received a. votes. against "A fnr
ParteIow and the latter was declared
elected
For the five members of the executive
committee the following were placed
in nomination: Thomas II. Wilburn.
Of Bonner: Hugh Mcdonald of Great
Falls: George Baker of Butte: Tony
Sehoy of Anaconda; Fl. ". Nelson Of
Billings and +. c. Schields of Butte.
Mr. Baker attempted unsuccessfully to
have his name withdrawn. and in the
ballot he received only % votes. The
other candidates above named were
delared elected members of the ex-
ecutive board for the enusing year.
For the next meeting place Great
Falls. Butte. Missoula, Livingston and
Anaconda were placed I'm nomination.
Sergcant-a Arms Charles Armstrong
attempted to put Warm Springs i'll
nomination. but the convention re-
fused to take him seriously, The vote
stood: Great Falls, ~; Butte. :: Liy-
ingston. s: Anaconda. and Missoula.
2. Great Falls was declared. amid
much applause. 10 have been chosen as
tn" convention city for 1910,
Women suffrage was indorscd by
the convention.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
Charge of Peonaae.

\ charge of peonage was formally
made late today against Frank n. Hoff-
stot. president of the Pressed Steel
Car company. and Samuel Cohn. head
of the service bureau at the Schoen-
willie plant. In an affidavit sworn to
by Albert Vamos, before United States
Commissioner William T. Lindsay. the
specific charge is made that Hoffstnt
and Cohn arrested, held and returned
the complainant to a condition of peon-
age" Namos alleges that he was
brought here in complete ignorance of
the state of affairs at Schoenville. He
AYERS that when he made an attempt
to escape from the plant. first asking
permission from Cohn to leave, he was
then beaten and injured so severely
that he had to go to hospital.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
k|DNAPERS CAUGHT
BY THE OFFICERS

Kansas City. Aug. 2l-Marlan
Bleakley. who was kidnapped at To-
peka today vas recovered by officers
here tonight who arrested three of
the alleged kIdnapers with the child
in custody. The fugutives were taken
from passenger train upon its ar
rival here.
The child was taken to police head
quarters and will he returned tn her
hom" as S""n as possible Mrs. Edite
barclay and John Gentry We're ar
rested at the burlington railroad.
bridge in this city late tonight. The
IMAM. woman ami child were paasen-
gers on Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy train which they had board
rd At Atrhis"n. Kan. The train Was
stopped at the bridge in accordance
With telcgraphic orders sent from
Atchisun.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
FORESTRY PROBLEM
IS DEBATED
FURTHER
FORMER SENATOR PATTERSON'S
RESOLUTION FINALLY PASSED
BY CONVENTION.

Denver Aug. 21.-Further desultory
debating in the forestry reserve con-
troVersy marked the last hours Of the
TransmississIppi Commercial congress,
and. with the adoption of a resolution
prepared by Thomas Patterson, former
United States senator from Colorado,
the sine die adjournment took place
One of the last actions was the adup-
ton of resolution calling upon con-
gress to repeal the 10 cents per pound
tax upon oleOmargarine. There was
some objection voiced by the dairy
interests, but this faded away when
the OleOmargarlne representatives, Of
fered no objection to the retention of
the olcOmargarine stamp on all imita-
tton butter
The Patterson resolution calls upon
congress for action defining the bound
aries of the forest reserves in such n
manner as 10 exclude mineral and agri-
cultural lands. Frank Gowdy OF Den
YER considered that the resolution in
fcrred an attack on Clifford Pinchot,
head of the forestry bureau, and on
posed the resolution. II was not until
a resolution commencing the forestry
bureau was adopted that the Patter-
son resolution was accepted and peace
WAS declared. While the resolution
passed in a partial report of the reso-
lutions committee yesterday. it received
the further consideration today upon
the complete report, which was finally,
adopted.
The next convention, the short ses-
sion, will be held in san Antonio,
Texas. in November. 1910.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
ELEVEN PASSENGERS
SEVERELY INJURED

Polar Bluff. Mo. Aug. 21.-Eleyen
persons occupying Pullman car at
tached To the Iron Mountain train No.
;. were injured when the train was.
wrecked near Clearwater today. The
Pullman rolled down 30-foot EN-
bankment. =
The tender jumped the track. but
the baggage car. mail car. express.
smoker. day coach and chair cars re-
mained on the track. The Pullman
went off the rails and after being
dragged several hundred feet. broke
loose from the diner and turned over.
No one was fatally injured.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
.PERFECTS A MODEL
OF NEW AEROPLANE

Auburn, Cal. Aug. 2l.-I.yman Gil
more nfCoifaX. Placer county, after eX-
pcrimenting for years with aeroplanes.
has completed a working model. which
has made successful flights from the
summit of the Cape Horn mountains.
The machines most important feat
ures are a gyToscope that Is used t.
keep it level at all times. and sails
by which Gilmore claims it can be
operated in much the same manner
as &hlp al sea. \ large machine
will he built at once and Gilmore
will then make flights in il.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
SOUTH SIDE CAR MEN
REJECT WAGE OFFER

Chicago, Aug, 2l.-FolloWing the lead
OF the north and west side street car
mems union. the members of the south
side organizations tonight voted to re-
ject the wage scale agreement reached
recently by their officers in confer
ence with the street railway officials.
This throws the whole question open
again and the 10000 union men are in
more defiant mood than ever. Will
liam d. Mahon. the international pres
ident of the unions, is expected to
seek a reopening of negotiations with
the company officials Monday morn
ing
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
WANTS TO CONSTRUCT
A BIG AERIAL
BATTlESHIP

Washington. Aug. 2l.-ACtiug
Secretary Winthrop of the navy to-
day informed Il New York corrc-
spondent, who offered to build an
aerial battlcship for the govern
mcnt. that congress had not made
provision for such purpose. The
offer came from Henry T. Jones,
New York city. He agreed to fur
nish an airship of the Zeppelin
type. $50 feet long. capable of car
rying 20 persons and enough am
munition- several tons-to destroy
fleet of warships. The writer also
promised To furnish a bond of $50
900 guaranteeing fulfillment of con-
tract
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
RAILROAD is SOLD.

ST. Paul. Aug. 21.-The Chicago
Great Western railroad was sold today
by Special Master Albert ". Moore
representing the United STAGES court
and the receiver. to Il syndicate
formed by ]. p. Morgan for $1,000,
900 The proceedings We're perfume
tory transfer of the road by the re-
ceiver In the new company headed by
Samuel FentOn as president.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
SEVERE SENTENCES
IMPOSED BY
COURT

Honolulu, Aug. 21.-Tcn months
Imprisonment and. a filc OF 5000
each was the sentence imposed to-
day by Judge ]. T. Debolt on Presi-
dent Maxine of the Japanese Higher
Wage association. Editor Soga of
the Nippon Jill. the Japanese news
paper supporting the strike of the
Japanese plantation laborers. and
Negnra and Tashoka, assistant ed
itors on that paper. The limit un-
der the law is II years imprison-
ment and S400 fine.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
WALTER WELLmAN MEETS WITH
DEFEAT IN EFFORT TO SAIL
OVER NORTH POLE.
HIS BALLOON EXPLODES FAIRGRIEVE IS DEFEATED
Rope to Which Food Was Attached
Breaks Away and Gas Bag Scars
High Above CIouds-Aviators Bring
Car Down Again Then Gust of Wind
Carries It Over Ice Until II Bursts.

Camp Wellman, Spitzbcrgeu. Aug.
-. Via IIammcrfrst. Aug. 2I-Waltcr
Wcllmaus second attempt to- sail over
the north pole in a balloon has re-
suited in a failure, The giant dirigiblc
balloon. America. in which MIR. Well
man and his party of three set out,
proceeded bout 81 miles from the start
ing point. MIR. Wellman and his party
succeeded in making a safe landing
and returned to this point on board the
steamer Fran, which also towcd i'm
the disabled balloon.
After a long preparation and wait
ing for favorable weather. the oppor-
tunity came today. and Mr.. Wellman
decided To make the start. 1t was 10
o'clock in the morning when the great
airship was brought out of its shed
and the daring explorers took their
places in the car. When the anchors
were cast loose. the airship ascended
beautifully. the engines We're set ein
motion and everything seemed to work
to perfection. The big craft was ma
neuvered for some time and answered
the helm perfectly. Then its head was
turned northward and it set out at
speed of - miles an hour.
Suddenly. after having covered some
% miles. and when everything seemed
to be going splendidy, the leather
guide rope. to which was attached "A
thousand pounds of provisions and
stores, broke away. The accident oc-
CURED just as the airship was near
ing the pack ice off North Spitzbergen.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-08-22
GIFT is ACCEPTED.

Minneapolis. Aug et-Thomas Shev-
lin. the millionaire iumberman. today
gave $50 o0a t. the University of Min
nesota and the board ~ regents. IN
session to-day, accepted it,