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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28
PERSONAL RECOLLEcTIONS OF
A PA.
By A. Newdad.

NOW that l am writing of a young
~ lady long past her first birthday,
am overwhelmed and confused by the
variety of experiences to record The
man who has never been parent is in
clined to regard raising abe by as a
ten year job. 1t is scarcely a ten months
job. For three months a baby is some
thing to hang over. to pity and to teach
the science Of living to. For six months
more it may be regarded as n tyrant not
ame.able to reason and as uncertain in
mood as the wandering tornado. BY that
time the average baby is large enough
to spank and with that ceremony it
merses imperceptibly into little girlhood
or little boyhood-if the fond mother
will permit nature to take its course in
the latter case.
Before knew it | became the father
of beautiful little girl, who had ideas
of her own and ways of expressing them
which filled me with the same awe with
which the early scholar looked upon the
Egyptian hieroglyphics. Not that this I'M
chained me from the chariot. There were
bigger chains than ever-but before 1
knew 1t. | had stopped amusing baby
and was trying to satisfy Il little girl.
With the coming of the little girl new
troubles came. One of these was the
Black Hand. We did not regard this as
a peril, but it was a great trial. The
black hand appears as rule just before
meals and is exceedingly hard to remove,
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SOME SENSE TO THIS.

HEY are BEGINNING to use sense. at
last in building motor cars. The
latest tests indicate this. A car has re-
Gently run for 10000 miles without stop
ping the engine. How different this car
Is from the model of five years ago whose
engine could be cranked for three hours
without starting!
Another car has been driven fifty miles
by one gallon OF gasoline. third car
has been driven for two years without
having its machinery touched. Still an
other has its original tires of three years
ago. nothing having been done to them
except to stuff them with ordinary prai-
RE wind of the cheapest variety once
month oftener.
These are glorious records. They can
Well be supplemented with others still
more glorious. Let us hear before long
of a car which has run for three years
without exceeding the speed limit. Let US
have the opportunity of honoring car
which swore off smoking two years ago
and has never smoked since. There is Il
bright future ahead for the car which,
when it's gasoline is exhausted will run
home on perfumery. lemon extract. Peru
ma or few Manhattan cocktails. Great
er than all these. however. will be the
car which steps when its driver has i'm.
bibed his third drink and will remain
stopped with the steadfastness of Mis-
souri, mule until said driver has been put
to bed by his loving friends
The field for Improvement in automo-
biles has only begun.
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Good Lord! You can't mean it-that
we are to kill. II We have to in order to
win! To kill-to kill-to murder
Not murder!' the pawns voice was
strong and clear i'll its emphasis ITO
execute. if need arises. You say, the
man will fight. Very Well. Let him
fight! That he will be killed, before he
can be conquered. Then, he shall die.
You have given me your word to carry
this through. You, too, are patriot,
and are acting as you do because you
know it is for the best It is no time
for you and me to hesitate however
much we may regret necessities l tell
you. these men must not reach Wash
ington. even if life stands in the way
of prevention. If the knight cannot be
taken by other means
n UTE gently and regretfully. but firm
" ly. he picked up the offending knight
which Reilly had replaced. lifted it in
his hand. looked at 1t sorrowfully as ii
it were dead bird. storm tossed and
lost, and laid it to one side. His move
ment was significant He turned and
looked sQuarely into the judges eyes. and
for an instant they stood. the one
Napoleonis figure Of destiny, calm and
unmoved and the other a trembling old
man, whose grimness and sternness were
wavering before the conditions he might
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have to meet. They looked at. each other
for long time. the one intleXible AMI
commanding, the other dreading the is
sue, yet unfaltcring in his fealty. Ex-
boss and politician as he was. a man who
had ruthlessly forced his way past days
OF supremacy and power. Reilly had
never taken Il life. The relentless en-
envy of those who blocked him. the man
who won against all odds and fought
as best he might. by fair means or foul,
was at bay before possibility. Every
thing of his checkered years came be-
fore him in that interval while they
stood there-his hard boyhood, his strug-
gle to rise, his grasp of influence, his
battles, his defeats, his conluests, his
failures. And. now that he was old and
giving the best that was in him to re
deem his past. he was brought to face
this: the fact that he must kill man
if no other way offered.
The Pawn read the mental battle that
was being fought. He spoke again. in
low voice:
Our country! May she last. even If
yours and mine even the lives of all our
friends are laid upon her altar
The face before him hardened into a
cast of unflinching resolution The square
set head went back until it stood rigid
iy and determined. The thin lips strove
to speak, and the husky throat vas
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BY 6 60. FIT C H

small child breaking things which full
grown man could hardly bend. If /
were the owner of a foundry, 1 would
would give each pig to a baby to play
with for few minutes Wise people
make use of this age by placing all the
ugly bric-a brac accumulated at the time
of their marriage within reach of the
child.
We have passed, successfully through
these trying periods and must draw
this memoir to close We have no long
er baby as said. am Il pa no longer.
order around. A daddy is something to
climb onto and pat and kiss and to get
things from l have just celebrated my
promotion to daddyship by buying her
highness dog. She has clamored for
it for month have bought a good
durable dog and am in hopes that he will
last through the summer
(The end)
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cleared to give way for words
I'm stop them" the judge said. "even
if have Toto
The Pawn took his hand God grant.
he said kindly. that it may not come to
that Then. briskly. as if the subject
were dismissed, he went on II shall
know within few hours over what
road they come. Probably the Y. y NJ
as the president of that road is friend
of Barnes and prominent LIBERAL
He looked at Reilly again. and then
made an attempt at gaiety. pardon me-
my loyal friend" he said. Il forgot that
you are tired and worn. Go to your
sleep for u few hours, and when you
waken, I will tell you my plans and
what l have learned in the meantime
and together we shall decide how to act
Why. listen. The birds are singing out
side and the sun is up! The day has
come. And John Reilly-loyal old John
Reilly-has had no rest: because-because
he has been working for his country
lie led the adventurer to his own
rooms and saw him begin to disrohe-
still troubled and dazed, then. with a
last keen look. he slipped away and
back to his library. The Napoleon was
gone and the kindly little recluse stood
in his place. He picked up the trouble
some knight. and held him gently in his
hand. and his eyes were moist.
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By Roy Norton
Continued from page Twelve

"Ah.' he said. as he laid the knight
down again. God is too kind for that.
He will not bring us to this dread step.
He will show us the way. In Him is
the guide to all peaceful ways. So we
shall 90 forward with unwavering steps
to what He may direct serene in the
out His hand
The birds of spring. chirping in the
park. heard soft whistle but a few
minutes later. and came futtering down
around the feet of one who scattered
crumbs in absent minded way-one whose
face was calm and undisturbed
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28
VEsTpOCKET ESSAYS.
The Sun.

n HE sun is not trust, though it is
closely allied with two combnes-the
coal trust and the ice monopoly 1t is
a large body in Il heated state situated
9eOOO.OOO.WO miles from Chicago and
considerably further away from Medicine
Hat.
The sun is so large that if the earth
We're placed on its surface a man might
hunt for it in fast automobile for one
million years without even coming in sight
of the tall buildings. 1t is SOO.OOO miles
in diameter. The moon would look like
a spitball beside it, and the Standard Oil
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doesn't consult the mirror for approval if
she is wise. She sends for the building
inspector.
The new Pennsylvania station in New
York is SO huge that when a traveller
gets to the main entrance he is farther
away from his train than he would be
in the outskirts of some western towns.
Engineers declare that it will cost $11O-
0O.OOo to complete the deep waterway.
1t we can get some magnate to buy a
waterway for his daughter instead of a
duke. how simple the job would be.
The browning feat of Colonel Roose-
velt's existence has been TO get away
from the newspapers for an entire fort
night in spite of their most earnest eff
forts to KEGS up with him.
A motor boat recently ran from Gin
cinnati to New Orleans in 60 hours run
clude several days spent in combing logs
and snags out of the propeller.
Passenger airships will be running in
Germany inside of a year. The first line
of passenger hot air ships began running
IN this country ten years ago.
The clock in the new Metropolitan town
in New York is so high up that it cannot
be seen in cloudy weather. And the
tower rises three hundred feet above the
clock. New York's skyscrapers must look
to the Martians like patch of whiskers
on the earth's face that has been over
looked by the barber.
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CHAPTER v.

TN Cleveland. square-set man with
iron gray hair and stern face. inquired
at the Pullman ticket window for berths
on the limited to New York that even
ing, and he proved singularly obdur-
ate customer. First. he wanted to be re-
assured that the train for New York al
ways left on time: and next, he wanted
to be equally sure that the car in which
he wanted berth should be the last one
on the train. because he was afraid of
head end collisions. That the customer
meant business was proved when he an
nounced that he would take all the state
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wAGLETs OF THIS BUSY WORLD.

Nowadays when woman completes the
task of dressing for a reception she
doesn't consult the mirror for approval if
she is wise. She sends for the building
Inspector
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- oAO0y1
Behind the erstwhile willow tree
The village catcher squats.
A Cross and hostile man is he
With fingers tied in knots,
Festooned about two mammoth palms
As big as corner lots
His neck is short and thick and red;
His face is black with tan
He tears his muzzle from his head
And kicks when e'er he can,
And shakes his fist at all the world,
For he fears not any man.
The merchant kings with eager grins
Come flocking by the score
To see him rake the wide ones in
And wave his arms and roar,
And hear his pungent chaff which flies
Like sparks from the furnace door.
He goes on Sunday to the park
And sits among the boys
Upon the bench with visage dark
And loud, internal noise
And when the umpire lodges rocks
1t makes his heart rejoice.
b1olliHg, rejoicing, numbering
On through the game he goes,
Each inning sees some reason new
To rise upon his toes
And put it DER the other crew
By means each player knows.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend
For the lesson thou hast taught
Turn loose your tongue to JOIN the strife
When battles must be fought
Hot air will do as much in life
AS muscle, nerve or thought
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Sheepmen Offer Reward.

CHEYENNE, April 1O.-The Nationa al
Woolgrowers' association has offered
reward of $500 for inform alton lead
ing to the arrest and conviction of the
person or persons, who, it is claimed
placed the associa alton in false posi-
tion as favoring the reduction of the
tariff on wool. It is claimed that un.
known parties issued circular from
the Wells street station, Chicago, en-.
titled:
"Thirteen good reasons for lower.
ing the tariff on WOOL"
The circular also bore the statement:
"For additional copies address
George S. Walker, secretary of the
National Woolgrowers' association. "
The secretary denies all knowledge
of the circulars, and declars that the
woolgrowers have made strong fight
to uphold the tariff on wool. He
characterizes the statements made
therein as libelous and as misrepre.
sentation of facts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
important Land Decisions.

WASHINGTON, April Elm a de-
cision by the general land Office today
it was held that in order to enable the
heirs of homestead entryman to
submit communication proof of his entry,
they must show both residence on and
guilty alton of the land for ii months
by the entryman or the heirs, or by
both. The same rule, it was held,
applies in q case where communication
proof is submitted by the widow of the
entryman.
Heretofore it has only been neces.
sary for an entryman or an heir to
show the residence on or guilty alton
of the lands for IA months. In an
other decision it was held that when
an entryman sells his improvements
On the land and relinquishes his entry
he is not entitled to make a second
homestead entry.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Former Secretary Is Dead.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-Ethan AL
len Hitchcock. secretary of the interior
under Presidents Mckinley and
Roosevelt, died here this morning
aged "a. Mr.. Hitchcock had been i'll
for some weeks.
His passing marked the closing of a
career whose pre-eminent feature was
an administr of the interior de.
partment that stirred the western land
problems as never before.
Brought here from St. Peters burg,
where he had served as ambass ador
under President Mckinley, Mr.. Hitch.
cock was almost Immediately plunged
into a vortex of complications grow.
ing out OF vast frauds and charges of
fraud and counter.charges growing
out OF the requirement of public lands
in the western states. MIR. Hitchcock
directed the most sweeping investiga-
tions, arousing the enmity of power
full political interests. His work is re.
called today as one of the most un.
swerving and relentless inquisitions
in the annals of government prosecu.
tiOns
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
A New Divorce Mecca.

RENO, New, April 8.-Reno prom.
tses to become the mecca for society
men and women seeking release from
galliag marital bonds. For several
months past there has been q steady
influx Of mismated husbands and wives
and every day is adding one or more
new arrivals to the colony. Among
those already here are number OF
persons prominent in society in New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and 9th.
er eastern cities.
Sioux Falls, S. D., recently was de.
prived of the divorce industry by the
people of the state, who voted tha
they had suffered enough from un.
pleasant notoriety. For q few days
restless members of the very fashion.
able society were in quand ary. but
their legal advisers notified them tn at
Nevada's laws were the easiest ever
framed. Promptly Reno became the
mecca of those having soul.m ates, af-
fioities or chronic cases of "incom.
patibility of temperament
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
keerl Must Serve Sentence.

HELENA, April 10.-The etate has
won in the supreme court OF the I'm.
tied States in the appeal of J James S.
Keerl against the Judgment of the
Cascade county court, finding him
guilty of manslaughter. He sought to
have the judgment set aside on
alleged errors of the district court in
this county in discharging jury be-
fore which Keerl was tried. Keerl is
now serving l0.year sentence in the
penitentiary for the killing of Thomas
Crystal of this city.
Keerl was a prominent and we'll
connected civil engineer of this city.
His first trial resulted in conviction
of murder in the second degree, but q
new trial was granted by the supreme
court. The second trial resulted in a
hung jury, and on the third trial at
Great Falls he was convicted of man.
slaughter and sentenced to the pen
for 10 years.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
How Packers Get Rebates.

WASHINGTON, April IL. - The
practice of overvaluing dressed beef
transported, and of using such over.
valuation as basis for claims
against railroads when the beef is in.
jured in transit, must be stopped at
once, according to decision reached
by Attorney General Wickersham as
the result of an investigation made
because of complaints against one
of the large beef packing concerns OF
Chicago. The complaints say the
company has placed fictitious value
on beef claimed to have been injured
or destroyed in transit.
The attorney general says the calcu.
lated cost price of the beef in question
Is too large, as no allowance is made
for the large profits from the sales of
the hides and other valuable by-pro.
Ducts
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Roosevelt Pleased With Work,

ROME. April S.--Just before his de.
parture for Mombasa, Theodore
Roosevelt wrote the following mess age
to the American people:
"Before leaving Messina desire to
say that l am sure the American peo.
pie do not realize the splendid work
being done at Messina and Reggie
with the lumber sent from the United
States. l have visited the American
camp and seen 250 houses already
completed and arrangements have
been perfected for the rapid construc-
tion of 1880 more. The whole work
has been organized and perfected by
Lieutenant Comm ander Belknap with
the assistance of Lieutenant Bucha
an, Ensigns Wilcox and Spofford,
Dr.. Donaldson, Paymaster Rogers,
forty enlisted men of our navy and a
number of American carpenters.
81 consider that the American peo.
pie are deeply indebted to each and
every one of these men. l cannot ex-
aggerate the pleasure it gave me to
see the officers and enlisted men of our
navy adapting themselves to strange
and unexpected circumstances and per.
forming with ability and thorough
good will this most difficult task.
Our nation can we'll be proud of them"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Range War In Wyoming.

CHEYENNE, April 8.-Another ch ap.
ter OF the bloody range war between
cattlemen and sheepmen, for control
of the range for grazing, was written
in the Big Horn county late on the
night of April 2. According to infor.
nation just received here, Is masked
horsemen raided the camp of Allemand
& Emge and murdered in cold blood
Joe Allen rand and Joe Emge. wealthy
and prominent sheepmen, and Joe
Lazier. herder.
Allemand and Emge had located
their camp at the mouth of Spring
creek, fifty miles southeast of Basin,
where they were guarding $500 sheep.
The raiders came upon the wagon on
the south side of the creek in which
two herders Were sleeping. These men
were escorted to the road and told to
leave the country and not to look back
under threat OF death.
"A volley fred into the wagon on the
opposite SIDE Of the stream resulted in
the death Of Emge and Lazier. Evil
IDENTIFY Allen and was aroused by the
appro ach of the raiders, as his body
was found fully twenty feet from the
wagon, where he had been cut down
by rifle ball. The wagon had been
soaked in oil and fired, the bodies
being crem ated.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Want Protective Duties.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 6.-The
Wyoming Stock Growers associ alton
representing practically all the cattle
growers of the state, this afternoon
adopted resolution protesting
against the removal of the duties on
hides. The resolution asserts that, in
view of the high tariff on man.
ufactured leather goods, the placing
of hides on the free list is an unjust
discrimination against the cattle grow.
ing business. The resolution further
protests against any reduction of the
tariff on hides.
WASHINGTON, April 6, - Protest
against the free Importation of Can
adian coal as provided for in the
Payne tariff bill, was made at a meet.
ing today of the representatives of
every coal district in West Virginia,
and OF a representative of the state of
Washington. Eighty-five per cent OF
West Virginia's business is said to
be its coal mines.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
PASSES TARIFF BILL.
Payne Measure Now Under Con-
sideration In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Aprii 0.-TheP Payne
tariff bill reached the senate from the
house two minutes past noon today
and was immed ately referred to the
committee on finance. The bill was
passed by the house of Representatives
last night amid great excitement, by a
vote of 2l7 to 1872. One repu blican,
Austin, of Tennessee, voted against
the measure and four democrats, all
from Louisiana, voted for it. An at
tempt by Champ Clark. minority
leader, to recommil 'he bill with in.
structions finally failed.
The day was filled with excitemc Mt
| frOF1@yhe moment the ses.iun began, at
noon. until ad tournament. The mem.
bers were keyed up to The highest ,ch
and a practically full mem hership re.
NAMED on duty throughout. IT, final
vote demon strated the capacity O. ,uu
republican organization TO get TO-
gether.
The general public was greatly in
terested in the proceedings, and the
galleries we're packed. Both the dip
Iomatic and executive atious
likewise were fully occupied, Mrs.
Taft being among those present.
When the bill actually was passed
the republicans cheered Justify. some
dancing up and down the aisles and
patting their fellow mem bers n the
back.
The bill was introduced March II,
reported to the house ways and means
committee on the following day, and
was under general debate for 16 days.
Last Monday the rules committee re-
ported special order which closed
the general discussion and provided
for the consideration of the bill under
the fve-minute rule.
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Beaverhead people sent to Washing.
ton some vigorous protests against
the order.
HELENA, April 10.-There was filed
In the United States land Office
here late this afternoon application
for right Of way for q double electric
power line from Great Falls to Butte,
q distance of 126 miles. 1t will be
utilized In conveying electricity from
the new dam at Great Falls to the
mining center. The application was
made by the Great Falls Townsite
company.
DILLON, April. 10. Norman Holden,
the biggest dry land farmer in Beaver.
head county, is planning to break sev.
eral hundred acres of virgin coil on
the bench east OF Dillon this spring
and yesterday received . 30-horse
power steam engine and gang Of 16 IA.
inch plows to use in the operation.
With the outgst he will be able to
break 60 acres in ten hours.
HELENA, April ION. E. Knowles,
state veterinarian, returned today from
Miles City. where he had conference
with railroad officials and the Cham
Der OF Commerce of that city respect
ing live stock shipments into Montana.
A satisfactory settlement was reached,
the state order requiring the mallein
tset for horses and tuberculin test for
cattle shipments remaining effective,
and certi6cations of federal inspectors
or authorized veterinarians will be
| accented,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Church People Surprised.

WASHINGTON, April. 10. - Some
body put a 81, 900 bill in the collection
plate of the Roscoe M. E. church near
here Sunday night. The church au-
thorities are willing to keep, it, but
think the donator made a mistake, and
are willing to give it back II he can
identify it. The yearly collections of
the church do not reach more than
$4,000 and so the officers of the
church advertised today that they
would return the bill if the owner
really wants it.