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Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24
CARTER IS BUSY.

Senator Thomas Henry Carter is
back in Montana. It is safe to pre-
sumo that he is busy fixing up his
fences and placing his wires for the
election which shall be held next
year. 1t may also be safely assumed
that this work will be kept strictly
under cover. Senator Carter does not
believe in any beating Of tom toms
when he goes about his political
work. His wires are all buried. 1t
is the subterranean work which he
likes and at which he is at his best
It will be up to the people next fall
to say whether or not they want Sen
ator Carter returned to the United
States senate. If his service has been
satisfactory, if he has worked for the
best interests of a majority of the
people of Montana, if it is believed
that he will continue to be faithful
servant, he should be returned to the
senate.
But if, on the other hand. he has
betrayed the people of the state, if
he has stood for things antagonistic
to the we'll being of his constituents
he should be retired to private life.
All great politicians are adroit.
They must, perforce, possess the
knack of making the worse appear
the better way. They must be in
genious in justifying improper
actions. The true statesman is usual
ly very poor politician. He knows
not the art OF fooling the people be-
cause he never has occasion to do So
Senator Carter is politician rather
than statesman. Moreover, he is
one of the best politicians in tn,
United States. For the next fourteen
months, he will be putting into prac'
tice every artifce known to the skill
ed politician in order to make friends
and win votes for his legislative can
didates. He will depend, too, upor
the we'll known tendency of the Am
erican people to forget, after a lapse
of few months, the faithlessness o
their public servants.
Mark Sullivan, political writer TO
Golfers Weekly, puts the who'll
thing in few words when he said il
the last issue of that paper:
Senators Carter and Dixon o
Montana both voted with Aldric'
uniformly. 1t is not to be doubte
that Montana would scorn til
thought of sending Aldrich himsel
to the senate"
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24
CRITICISM FOR MINERS.
Workmen of Lewistown and Round
up Rounded Up BY Gibson.

w VI hIIlCIl VI AOw4otOw1I o1lO x\OUAA0.
up Rounded Up BY Gibson.
Discussing strikes in his district
during the year, President Gibson OF
the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, district %, today declared that
the locals at Red Lodge and Roundup,
Montana, has weakened the cause Of
union labor by violating their con-
tracts and refusing to abide by the de-
cision of their union officers, says a
dispatch from Butte. Other officers
reported the same state of affairs, and
in addition it was stated that the
operators had proven faithless in
some instances. The question of
agreements with operators was gone
into at length by President Gibson in
his report, and his statements are
somewhat sensational. His report in
part follows:
"The officers of the Montana Coal
Operators association and the dis
trict and national officers OF the U.
M. w. of A., representing district
| No. %, signed the agreement for two
| years, dating from October |, 1908,
and expiring September 80, 1910.
| 81 was very much surprised and
disappointed at the attitude of some
of the miners at Red Lodge and Bear
Creek, Montana, during our negotia-
tions with the operators. Their
actions were uncalled for, and only
showed that some of the most radical
element had control OF the situation
The miners refused to obey the In
structions sent them by your interna
tional ecretary-treasurer, w. K
Ryan, and myself. We wired thu
miners to continue at work until fur
ther notified by your committee, bu
they refused to do SO. 1t was dis
credit to them. We should feel sat
, ished in being able to hold our oil
scale of wages and conditions. Othe
districts are fighting against accept
: ing a reduction and are satisfied
r they can only retain their old scale.
"The miners at Lewistown an
Roundup, Montana, accused us of BIZ
ing traitors to the miners and sellin
> them out only wish that l coul
: sell out to all the operators of Nor
tana, if by so doing the miners
other districts of the state would b
u able to average as much per day q
IS the miners at Roundup and Lewi
n town have.
"The miners at Lewistown, MOI
tana, and on one mine at Roundu
Montana, have violated our agre'
le ment and have imposed upon yo,
of district officers. They would n,
II abide by the instructions and pow
w given to US by the delegates a
= sembled at our last national convel
t ton. The result was that there W;
lie general dissatisfaction, misrepresel
k, tation and turmoil relative to II
a agreement entered into by your di
trict officials. The mines at Levi
- town were closed down for thr
a. weeks, and at Roundup, number OF
mine, for two weeks. The miners
these points acted in a very arbitra
n. manner, and had they continued
e. do so and refused to accept t
i, agreement entered into at Helen
y Montana, by the joint committee.
as believe the operators would have 7
r. pudiated the agreement as who
10 hope we will never have a I
currence of this attitude"
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

Billings Gazette: Already the
stream of wheat from the farms oi
eastern Montana is beginning to roll
into market and the season is only
opening. When the click of the har-
vester is no longer heard, and the
thresher has completed its work
eastern Montana will send such q
food of golden grain to market a:
will prove that it is indeed the para
disc of the farmer.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

Billings Gazette: A young lad at
Niagara Falls beat the record OF
Captain Webb. the noted English
swimmer, by going out into the
whirlpool 100 yards further than did
the Englishman. AS the boy never
came back, it is to be hoped that no
one else will attempt to beat the new
worlds record which he established.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

The senate committee on irrigation
visited Helena Thursday and it is to
be presumed that Senator Carter lead
them 10 all of the principal irrigation
projecte in the city including the Mon
tana and Lambs Clubs.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

Harry Thaw is in the insane asylum.
Evelyn Thaw is hunting for divorce,
Mrs. Thaw, senior, is financially
busted, the Dutchess of Yarmouth has
abandoned the royal rake who mar
ried her for her money and a long
suffering populace heartily welcome
the final curtain on this continuous
Thaw production.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

An Associated Press dispatch
gravely announces that Harry Thaw
ate supper at the Matteawan asylum.
From the tone Of Judge Mills re-
marks, it would seem that Harry
stands an excellent chance of taking
breakfast and dinner at the same
hotel.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24
Want Big Money.

Little Rock, Ark. Aug. 19.-Prose-
cutor Jeffrey of the third judicial
court today filed suit in the Jackson
county circuit court at Newport, Ark.
against 65 insurance companies doing
business in Arkansas asking penalties
amounting to SOS, 100000 for alleged
violation of the Arkansas antitrust
law.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24
THE MARLROROuGHS.

Anaconda Standard: The Duke Of
Marlborough needs the money. There
is q rumor ahoat to the effect that
the titled Englishman is disposed to
speak to his wife occasionally. Two
years ago the duke would not listen
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

With Ballinger and Pinchot pass
ing left handed compliments back
and forth all the way from Washing
ton to Spokane and back via Denver,
President Taft is likely to experience
trouble in staging his Happy family"
production.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

We are agents for the Remington
typewriter and Remtico typewriter
supplies. Democrat Supply Depart
ment.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

According to dispatches from Camp
Perry, Private Phare. of Lewistown,
is doing better than fair at the ma
tional militia shoot.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24

Toilet fixtures anG toilet paper at
the Democrat Supply Department.
Fergus County Democrat., 1909-08-24
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
Notice to Subscribers.

Notice to Subscribers.
In ordering paper changed to new
address, mention old address also, to
Insure prompt delivery. Subscribers
failing to receive their papers will
please notify this office.
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Bible Study. December Fl.


Points of similarity in the lives of
NJ ,ses and the Christ.
1. Both were born of poor parents
under cruel and oppressive ruler.
2. Both were bitterly prosecuted in
their infancy and doomed to death.
3. Both were wonderfully preserved
by providential interposition.
4. Both spent long years Of their
lives as a humble laborer.
5. Both were revealed to Israel by
mighty signs and wonders.
6. Both tasted forty days.
z. Both refused what the world
would call splendid offers.
8. Both were faithful; one as a SER
want, the other as a son.
9. Both delivered the people from
s0IrItnsi First. temporal; second
TO- Both controlled the forces Of ma
ture.
II. Both were founders; one of q
state, the other of a kingdom.
II. Both talked face to face with God.
10. Both were TRANSPORTED
IA. Both fed the people with miracul-
Gus food.
Is. Both predicted the future of
Israel
IS Both brought water out Of the
rock.
II. Both were mediators of a new
covenant.
18 Both were meek.
IL BOIn were nateQ.
90 Both lived and died for others.
q. Both were buried and appeared
alive afterwards.
%. Both accomplished their greatest
work after death
%. Both gave laws to the people,
"a. Both were agents-Moses of tenn
poral redemption. Christ author of
eternal redemption.
%. Both had the attestation of God.
26. Both had long years Of training
Egypt-Wilderness-
q. Both were solemnly called to Of
fice-Herob-Bapt isn
%. Both had abundant gifts of the
spirit. and power; mighty in word and
deed.
/ 2s Both wrought deliverance. Israel:
Mankind.
80. Both were disowned and rejected
" the people.
81. Both were unrecognized in their
Irvine mission.
80. Both were blasphemed in their
holy sentiment.
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lain in the Swiss army. He wrote the
story to anuse his children, and after his
death ha f,I his son revised and published it.
ERobnson. Oder de. schinbruchige
Elm Lehrreiches Bueh ho f Ssne kinder am1 nnd
Kinderfreunde zu Stadt und Land" When
it came to be, translated into French it
was enlarged by Baroness de MontolielI
the new portions being later retained by
the German publishers. The English
ard one made by Mrs. PAUL in 1sss.
Not the Nazareth and Jerusalem of the
tourist; but the Nazareth and Jerusalem
Of its own people along the highways. and
will be presented in 'erramping In Paies,
tine in the January. Century, the first
sketches. He set out plus energy, and
brains. minus money. on trip around the
vest of worthwhile Observation-Disclosures
fences whose telling should set fire to ev-
cry readers wanderlust
Again the big feature in the Outing
Magazine for January is Harry Whitney's
Hunting in the Arctic" This issue is
also a special automobile number contain
home to the owner of a car; "Automob iies
for Average Incomes, Equipping Your
Cup Race and two " Ver rne tffndeTbflit
f Ttor1ss Waiter Made Made Hsts Car Pay
the hackneyed A1l-American Team and
gives US an Honor List of 1900 Football"
There are many indications that the
historical novel Is returning to puf,lic
Judges of the serial stories in New YORK
finds that the readers of the several fic-s
ton magazines, for which he selects
torical background. Then again. those
publishers who have issued hfstoricai
novels this al1f11r1p
mand on the part of the book-purchasi,1e-
public. Such stories as Maud Wilder
Veronica PIayfair," William Ijndsasc,s.s,
twelfth century novel, ''The Severed Hfsn >
tle." Robert Bars story of France in fba
tanning deserved popularity and snotha.
pected next spring. ca
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SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.


The happiness of your life depends
upon the quality of your thoughts
Marcus Aurelius.
No great deed is done by falterers
who ask for certainty.-George Eliot.
X X X
Then welcome each rebuff
That turns earth's smoothness rough,
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand
but go;
Be our joy three times pain.
Strive and hold cheap the strain,
Learn, nor account the pang; dare.
never grudge the throe.
Browning.
God will fairly flood your life with
all the power he can trust you to use
wholly for him.-S. D. Gordon.
X X
Some hae meat that Gamma eat,
And some would eat that want it;
But we haze meat, and we can eat,
Sac let the Lord be thanked.
Burns.
He that knows most, grieves most
for wasted time.-Dante.
x =
The history of the nations is not a
record of the clash and conflict of
forces. but of the stately steppings of
a holy God working out his most wise
purposes.-Anon.
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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings of
All Denominations.

All DENOMINATIONS,
We have the largest success in life
when we remember that God is in
all things.-Rev. A. T. Horn, Meth
odist, Chicago.
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE.
We should look on the bright side.
When our hearts drop lit is because
We weigh our troubles, but do not put
our blessings into the balance. We
magnify crosses and overlook Joys
that are not to be numbered.-Rev.
Iunius B. Remensynder, Lutheran,
New York
DEATH NOT A TRAGEDY.
There Is no fact more beneficent
than death. The tragic fact is not
that people die. but that SO many
deaths are premature. To eliminate
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80. Both were scorned in their Office
of liberty.
"a. Both were b1otted out in memory
by an ungrateful generation.
3d. Both We're ever faithful Moses
was servant. Christ was the Lord.
Next meeting Tuesday, January 4.
MRS. c. F. -MENNINGER.
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BOOK NOTES.

Stories from Old Chronicles is a
book to go into state reading circles.
1t is peculiarly fitted for such work.
The rtading circles in Kansas would
find it a mine of mental wealth.
If we believe in popular education at
All, We must believe in preparing for
the people and putting in their hands
knowledge and books reserved for CEN
turtles for the scholar. In history and in
literature people can gain perspective
our race and language and true appre-
citation of lhen-onlv through the time
honored records and the early chroni-
cies. and also the earlier writer's of
, our later-day English. These older
books are for the most part not to be
lad. They are comparatively few in
number, clumsy in size. and often print
ed in the Gothic Observation-Disclosures
les from Old Chronicles. Holinshed,
Berriers. F'roissart. Joinville, Asser and
many others Of earlier centuries who
wrote down life as they saw it or
heard it told, and brought most valuable
evidence of the evolution of our race,
our people would suffer distinct loss
Sturgls & Walton company publish
Stories from Old Chronicles. chosen
and edHed by Miss Kate Stephens, now
/, Of New York city, formerly Of the fac
, ulty of the University of Kansas. These
renderings from the Rlack-Letter
Observation-Disclosures from which the
! literary genius of the race has helped
itself-should prove in a high degree
entertaining to all with a relish for
the quaint, the graphic, the picturesque,
in word to all with love Of the color
and romance of the legendary and his
toric past. They should afford pecu-
liar pleasure to those who have the
least curiosity regarding the sources
of much that is best in poetry, fiction,
and the drama.
1.-THE only history worth reading"
says Ruslxin, sis of what was done and
said, heard out of the mouths of men
many of the records in this book. Egin
hard, for example. the secretary of
Charlemagne, and old Archbishop Tur-
pin tell OF Charlemagne; a priestly
dweller at his court tells of Alfred the
Great, and the Lord Of Joinville tells
Of ST. Louis of France.
In these chronicles the reader may
note the earliest appearance in legend
or history of many of those memorable
personages who have struck the i'm
agination Of the world. and who, for
their shining virtues or black crimes,
have been immortaiized in great works
of the imagination and may live for
ever in the mind of the race. Here ap-
pear the Duncans. and Macbeths, the
Lears and daughters of Lear, the Eng
lish kings, and other personages who
were to play in Shakespeare's works
part more potent than they played in
history itself. Here the reader will see
through the mists Of the past Boadicea.
King Arthur of the Table Round, Rol-
and and peerless peer. Robin Hood of
Old England, and Lion-hearted Richard,
and he will meet in them many anoth-
er hero who in song or story has be-
come dear to the popular heart. Be-
cause of their vigor, their sincerity,
their naivete. their grasp of the tell
ing word and the revealing human
trait, these old chroniclers are often
more moving and delightful than many
a book of TODAY.
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Edward Fenfield has thrillingly por-

Edward FenfieId has thrillingly por-
trayed an accidental encounter be-
tween the two kings of the air, an
eagle and an aeroplane, in which the
ancient ruler is clearly discounted at
the audacity of his man-made rival. 1t
is wildly done, in Penfield's careful
manner, and starts a seasonable
train. of thought over the
endeaver. AS such, 1t is splendid
" typical of The Popular Magazine,
for which ii forms the cover of the
December month-end issue. .4-
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The rest Of this week we will give a
nice cup and saucer free with each $500
purchase of china or art ware. Topeka
Spice Mills, 109 East Eighth.
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! any other classical or historical associa
| tions. The lesson of the Acts for today
is that every life lived for God, in lavish
| self-spending. may seem to be lost. but
| 1t really shares the very immortality OF
God.
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See J. THOMAS LUMBER co. for
lumber and DEWEY PORTLAND CE.
MENT Guaranteed the best manu-.
featured.
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Church of ST. Simon the Cyrenian
(EpiscopaD, Western avenue and
Seventh street, the Rev. H. B. Brown.
priest. 1880 a. M celebration of the
Holy Eucharist. IL a. m. choral mathis
with sermon. Subject, Pauline Ex-
hortations for Advent" 4:30 D. m.
choral evensong with sermon. Subject,
"Who Art Thou?"
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to box the ears Of Rhoda's pretty,
wilful sister, The other characters
are finely drawn. There is familiar
mention of places and happenings in
Kansas. There are glimpses of men
of national renown who made history
in those days. For all this and much
more "Rhoda of the Underground"
will find its way to the best homes
and hearts of a great number of
readers
"Rhoda of the Underground" by
Florence Finch Kelly. Published by
Sturgis and Walton company. New
York.
Women writer's make The Delineator for
winter magazines. Mrs. Philip N Moore.
president Of the General Federation of
women of the Gnited States expect to ac-
complish during 1910. Marie Rappold. the
grand opera star. who achieved fame ne
Mabel Potter. Daggett gets down to bed
ROOM in which she gives intimate pic
lures of the leaders in the new wornen's
Nine Teresa Garreno the
ton Of Edward MacbowelI's "Barcarolle."
The. clever little. writer, Minnie J. Rey-
and in leone Dry puts down some rather
startling facts. The. January number is
RpSRs sto h in ID So
wflfrid," is the best of the series that he
has written especially for The Delineator.
Grace MacGowan Cookies serial, 1.-The
Power and the Glory" becomes intense.
Owen Oliver contributes a dainty, .Iovable
story called 1.-THE Understudy. Perceval
Gibbon is up to his high standard in 1.-THE
Sense of Climax" Jay Cady has "Sylves-
ter Abend.''
How the Swiss Family Robinson"
came to be written, and what its history
has been, is told in a note preceding Mr..
Howell's Introduction to the new edition
of the story, illustrated by Louis Rhead,
which the Harpers have issued in time
for holiday demand In this edition the
appears as the author. 1t appears that
the story was written in the latter years
of the eighteenth century, not by Profess
sor Johann Rudolf Wyss of Zurich as
books of reference generally state, but by
his father, David Wyss of Berne. chap
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Christmas Gifts and Givers.
Terse Comments for December 10
Our Christmas Gifts Matt 2:
LII.
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Every now and then a worth while
novel appears and is as a star of lum-
inous distinction against the Milky
Way of multitudinous publications.
When such book appears it finds
it's place among the finest forces that
make for human progress. A worthy
literature is one of the best assets of
nation.
A formerly of Kansas woman, Flor
ence Finch Kelly has Just published a
novel of the worth while sort. I re-
fer to this author as Kansas woman
because the years of her girlhood and
Of her student life at the State Uni
versity- fixed her ideals and stamped
her indelibly with the Kansas imprint
which means that investigation, de-
velopment and aspiration strike the
dominant note of character. Flor
ence Finch Kelly's after years of trav-
ell, of culture and of literary work
have but enriched and expanded q
mentality already ennobled by the
dominant spirit of one of the greatest
states in our republic.
"Rhoda OF the Underground is a
story of that time of all times in our
national life when quickened sense
of justice and accumulated con-
science were moving with more or less
of individual consciousness toward
such utterance an such action as
would put CT end to chattel slavery.
Earlier years-years nearer to that
uIc5ulul COLlllCi OStWcSn OIOLACi0
north and brothers south could not
have produced writer who could tell
a story of those times with such
warmth of living personality and at
the same time such fine poise and bal
ance of Judgment The story Of
when the scheme of aiding runaway
slaves to escape by way of the I'm
foreground Railway was in full force.
So far as I know there has been no
other story written around that most
dramatic and thrilling Of all phases
of action that preceded tho armed
struggle.
The pages of "Rhoda of the Under
ground" TEEN with arguments cur
rent in those days. but they are given
no faint of prejudiced author The
philosophying in the story never
stales into preachment; it is carried
from hearts throbbing with passion
ate pity for the enslaved, and with
equal fervor from their opponents de-
vout in resistance to that which they
believe subversive of individual
liberty.
The construction of the story is so
deity done that you find yourself
reading the history of the stormy
times without a thought that it Is his
toric. So finely and wildly are the
cndFdCLcTS uIdWL, 81 NAldliZSo al tic
events, so swift is the action that you
feel rather that you are witnessing
the great world drama which was set
on the American stage just prior to
the tragedy of the Civil war. And
with all "Rhoda Of the Underground"
is primarily love story sweet
enough to quicken the heart throbs
of readers old or young.
Dear "Rhoda" is not a sweet saint
or a wise prig. she is just a lovely,
typical American girl who lived in an
epoch of national exaltation and rose
to the occasion. I can think of no
portrayal more inspiring to young
womanhood than Rhoda. How alive
and. real she is, how you learn to love
her, how you are buffeted about by
the troublous incidents that beset
her.
How you admire and reverence
Rhoda's father and how you do long
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Contrasts and ConQuests.
The International Sunday School Les
son for December 10 is a Review.
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Quinton Heights chapel, Arthur D.
Phelps, minister. Preaching at IL and
1880. Morning subject. Life Lessons
evening, What is Your Life?''