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Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24
HOW MONTANA
IS SETTLING UP

Billings. Mont, May 22.-More
than 1000 filings OH land in the Bill
lings district have been made since
July |, 1908, according to the records
of the United States land office in this
city. This means that approximate
ly POO, 900 acres of land have passed
from the ownership OF Uncle Sam to
that of the homemaker. for although
some Of the tracts were under l6O
acres in size, many filings were made
on 32O acre tracts, so that the aver
age, according to the officials, was
fully 100 acres. AS Il result of these
entries the population of the district,
which includes Yellowstone, Carbon,
and parts of Musselshell and Rose
bud counties, was increased 1880,
basing the estimate OH ratio of two
and one half persons to each tract
taken. The officials also say that
prospective hOmeseekers are excep-
tionally numerous this spring and
that ut the late at which lands are
being appropriated the number of
available agricultural tracts will he
comparatively small by the end of
this year.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24
Content to Abide by Party Decision

Livingston, May 17.-.]udge f. X.
Cheadle of Lewistown, who led the
fight Of the progressives here yester-
day in the delegate convention, issu-
ed the following statement today:
"The convention is 4 thing Of the
past and the progressive republicans
are content to abide by the result.
We were outnumbered to an extent
that made it impossible for us to gain
control, even if all the contested dele
cations had been displaced and the
contestants seated in their places.
This being the fact, we have no dis
position to cavil at the result. We
made rs good fight for our views as
we could, considering our numerical
strength. think the state commit
tee rule for the selection of delegates
to state conventions should more ex-
plicitly designate the methods to be
followed. The rule now states that
such delegates must be chosen III each
county ut a primary or convention.
"The practice has grown up of al
lowing delegates to be selected by the
county central committee, and this
plan may be satisfactory when there
is practical unanimity Of opinion and
choice in county, but otherwise it
leads to such contests as were pre-
sented to this convention for decl-
sion.
"We do not complain Of the general
result Of these dec sions, although the
methods do not meet with out approx
al. If we had been given everything
we asked in the matter OF contested
delegations, we should still have
lacked a large number Of the votes
necessary to control, consequently
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24

To the editor of the North American.
In every nation and in every tribe,
since first the strongest cave dweller
grabbed the best cavern, the strong
man, the INSCRIPTIONS man and the
trickster have banded themselves to-
gether to exploit the rest of the peo-
pie. They are always with us. under
different names. In Russia they are
the grating grand dukes; in Spain,
the grandees; i'll early England, they
were robber barons. and in the Unit.
ed States, today, we call them trust
magnates, coal barons, political bos-
ses, etc. Once they become fixture
in any nation, that nations fate is
written.
The once mighty Spain is now sunk
to the bottom-grandee and retainer
have gone down together-one from
too much luxury, the other from too
much poverty. The idea is well said
by Goldsmith:
"Ill fares the land to Fastening ills
aprey,
Where wealth accumulate and men
decay"
There is an eternal struggle be-
tween the exploiters and the exploit
ed. It is the same old fight, the
great conflict in all the ages, between
aristocrat and plebian, between con
servative and liberal, between in
trenched privilege and the working
masses, between reactionary and pro-
gressive. In this fight, privilege
has always won, and the ruin of the
nation has always followed. The
ruler is always with and Of special
privilege, or ruled by it.
In all recorded history, only one
man at head of great nation has
recognized the Importance to the peo-
pie of fighting the crooked methods
and special privileges of the grand
dukes and had the courage to make
the fight. That man was Theodore
Roosevelt. Nicholas OF Russia dare
not try it. Diaz, the benevolent die
totor of Mexico, levied no tax on the
enormous pastures of the land barons.
King John Of England may have had
. glimmer of the thought when mag
ma charta was forced from hlm by the
barons.
Even Lincoln r eeognized only a
!. small -pllass- Of Observation-Disclosures
the now powerful aggregation Of
grand dukes in our industrial life had
only then begun TO grow. From then
down to Mckinley's last administra-
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24
HARD FOR
THREE YEAR BILL

Washington. May 20. "There will
be no adjournment Of the session Of
congress if can prevent until the
three-year homestead bill is finally
passed." was Senator Borah's an
swer today to leading senators who
were endeavoring to work an agree
ment to adjourn by June Is. Borah
is disgusted with the failure of the
conference committee to report All
agreement. lie fears that if there
should be All agreement to adjourn by
Juhe Is opponents Of the three-year
bill might hold the bill in conference
until that date, and thus virtually
kill it. He will not submit to such
tactics.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24
JUDITH GAP MONTANA FRIDAY. MAY "a, 1912.
Major Gillette on R00seveh's Mission

tion they waxed fat. The amiable
Mckinley saw nothing of their men,
ace TO government by the people.
The grand dukes were his friends.
Mark Hanna, his manager, was one
Of them. The political system of
magnates and bosses was so perfect
that the people were tied hand and
foot, albeit half asleep to the danger.
With Platt, Odell, Cox, Barnes, Lor-
inner, Penrose,~ McNichol, Hanna,
Ruef and horde df. others backed by
the malefactors of. great wealth (un-
limited), what show had Mr.. Com
mon People to break into the govern
ment?
Then came the Spanish war;. MAX
ing a hero of Roosevelt. lie broke
through the Gordon Of political bos-
ses and was elected governor of New
York. The bosses doubtless helped
elect him. They hadn't yet found
out just what he was. Perhaps, he
hadn't found himself yet A man is
not born with full appreciation of
all the bearings of his political sur
roundings. Anyhow, t e bosses
didn't want him as a governor very
long and shelved him in the vice pres
idency. The accident Of a maniac's
bullet brought him off the shelf, and
for the first time III the history Of the
human race, man with the right in
stincts for human welfare, coupled
with the brains and courage to fight
for it and win, was found at the head
Of Il great nation.
But loyal to political fairness and,
possibly in part becaus BE he had not
fully found himself yet, he avowedly
endeavored to finish Mckinley's term
following Mckinleys's policies. But
"nature will out" and the bosses
came to hate him. Then, as now,
the most powerful argument they
could urge against his policies was
that he urged them merely to curry
favor with the populace to get an
other term, but, with political sagac-
ity that even his enemies say is phen-
omenal, he "spiked that gun" by
announcing that he would not run
again. He had served part of a Nc
Kinley term. In his coming Roose-
welt term, he would not advocate
government policies for anything but
their merit, not for II re-electfan.
By that time he had found himself
and saw that his great life opportun-
ity was the restoration of self-gov-
ernment to the people, from whom it
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24

labels, kept in use by machine bosses
to confuse the voters. The struggle
is between reactionarv and progress
slye. Special privilege would nomin-
ate reactionary to lead each party.
Special privilege has the newspapers,
the money, the retained attorneys in
congress and elsewhere. Among
other things, the high price Of living.
whatever it's cause, during the last
year or so, wrought the voters up to a
demand for change of administra-
ton. A few weeks back everything
looked democratic. Taft WAS sure Of
nomination and OF defeat. The inter-
ests didd't care. They were all sud
denly democrats. They wanted Har-
mon or Underwood either just as
good as Taft for their purposes. But
just the moment Roosevelt '.shied his
hat into the ring" did you notice the
rush to help Taft? How sentiment
in his favor blazed from the daily pa
pers! Not one public act had he done,
meantime, to deserve the change. It
was all due to RoOsevelt's 8 nat. Not
that the interests loved Taft more.
They loved Roosevelt less. They
don't want progressive. But the
people are awake. They realize what
the loss Of self-government means.
Will they get it back? Watch them.
-CAssIus E. GILLETTE.
Philadelphia. April 20.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24
School District No. q.

Report from April II to May 10,
1912.
Enrolment 81.
Average membership 20.
Percent of attendance 81.
Average daily attendance Il.
Number of days absent 81.
Cases of Hardness 3.
Number neither absent nor tardy 4.
Total days attendance 1856.
Total days belonging 41O.
Pupils neither absent nor tardy-
Thomas Kent, Bernard Kent, Ber-
nice Heron, Elsie NJ. Dewey.
Anna Y. Dunn. teacher.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-24
THE WORLDS GREATEST WHEAT RRIzE SIS, 600

had been gradually tilched by the
grand dukes agents, the political
bosses. So the people with him, he
was II skilful politician, and lie was
"up against it," He was surrounded,
in congress and out of it, by the hir-
ed agents Of special privilege. lie
made Il four years fight and gave
government by the people a strong
start toward reality. The people and
his party were solidly with him.
Then he selected man for his sue
eessor to carry OH the work. 1t look
ed as if special privilege were at last
under control. The prize Of real
self-government, made possible to the
people by the accident that m;tdr'
Roosevelt president, seemed to be
theirs ''for keeps Roosevelt select
ed Taft and turned the precious prize
over to his keeping. Taft went to
sleep and the bosses stole it. In
three years the interests and their
hirelings have climbed back into the
saddle. No untried man can get
them out. Our country is so big
that popular opinions of public men
must be formed by hearsay. and the
daily papers are nearly all owned or
controlled by the interests. But
Roosevelt has been tried, and the
people know him and trust him. He
is the plain mans hope in this, the
greatest crisis in the .great conflict"
He alone can win back the prize. In
such crisis what boots it that the
grand dukes or their hired retainers
are shOcke ed at the recall OF state judi
cial opinions or the horrors of third
term, or the pittling personalities rs
to what man has the best fright to
the nomination.
1t is not question of the trivial
rights OF man. 1t is a crisis in the
history of government by the people.
The hirelings have got to be shock
ed at something. In all the ages that
the great conflict has been ceaselessly
waged, special interest has always
been able to employ renegades. Bril-
liant lawyers will always take retain
ers from the moneyed barons, and
earn them. WattersOns can always
be found to call names, and editorial
writers have prostituted their pens
for pelf since the first stone tablet
was carved. The eNplo tiers have the
pelf to deliver. Mr.. Common People
has none tor such purposes.
1t is doubtful if as many as doz-
Ell prominent daily papers in the
/! United States own themselves. Ad-
vertisements and bank credits die
tate their policies. They have lost
! much of their influence. a few years
ago Adolph Sutro was overwhelming
| ly elected mayor Of San Francisco,
although every daily and weekly in
town was almost venemously against
him. The magazines are trusted and
believed in and really influence pub
lie opinion. AS fast as they are
bought up by interests, new ones will
rise to take their places. Not SO with
daily papers. New ones can't get in
to the news trust, the Associated
Press. Magazines don't depend OF
news. and can own themselves.
Roosevelt and Wilson belong to thu
same party, the progressives; Taft
Harmon and Underwood belong II
another, the reactionaries. There i!
criss-crossing of labels, but in th'
great conflict Of exploiters against eN
plotted, republican and democra
have now no meaning. They are oil
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
Power Of Vegetable Growth.

A tar macadam pavement stretch
ing from the school Of gunnery at
Shoeburyness (Eng.) to the sea is at
present in a state of violent if silent
eruption. About a fortnight ago the
surface became covered with what
may be called "blisters," raised lit.
tie above the common level, which
attracted much wondering attention.
From each of these, in a few days,
a series of cracks appeared, extend.
ing themselves in rays from a center.
Finally came up a broad, soft shoot,
looking extremely we'll pleased with
itself and its work, which proved to
be so old and well known friend as
the thistle. At this moment there are
hundreds Of thpse bold intruders show.
ing defiantly through the pavement,
arording a most interesting illustra.
ton OF the power of vegetable growth.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
Mother,s Chair.

Mothers chair had rocked the whole
family. 1t made a creaking noise as II
moved, but there was music in it's
sound. 1t was Just high enough to al
low US children to put our heads into
her lap. That was the bank where we
deposited all our hurts and worries. Oh,
what chair that was. 1t was
a very wakeful chair! In the sick day
OF children other chairs could not keep
awake-it kept easily awake. That
chair knew all the old lullabies, and
all those wordless songs which moth
ers sing to their children. Songs In
which all pity and compassion and
sympathetic influences are combined.
That old chair has stopped rocking
for a good many years II may be set
up In the loft or garnet, but It holds
a uueenly power yeti. Dewitt Tai
mage.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
WASHING cretonne.

Bran water is excellent for wash.
Ing cretonne, and this is the way to
make it: Take one cupful of bran,
put 1t into a saucepan and cover it
with one quart of cold water, then
bring 1t slowly to the boil 1t should
be left to simmer for half an hour,
and then be strained through a piece
Of muslin. after which add another
quart of water to make it lukewarm
and also little melted soap. Less
soap is necessary than for ordinary
water. as bran water has cleansing
properties. 1t has also stiffening
power, and thus no starch is required
to stiffen the majority of fabrics for
which bran water is used.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
QUEER THINGS ABOUT PAIN
Patient May Feel II in Limb That Has
Been Amputated, or In
Wrong Place.

Pain sometimes behaves in a curl.
Gus fashion. There was a soldier in
London, after the Boer war, who com.
planned of excruciating neuralgia pains
in his right foot. This very much
amused his friends, for he had lost his
right leg.
The explanation was that the pain
happened to be in the trunks of those
nerves, which had sent branches to
the foot.
Sometimes a patient comes to a
doctor complaining of pain in the
knee, and he is greatly surprised when
the doctor tells him that the site of
the affection is not the knee, but the
hip. We are all familiar with the
pain under the shoulder blade which
comes from an afflicted liver.
The stomach, too, can produce pain
in many parts of the body. A disor-
dered stomach will give US pain as
far away as the head, and, when one
gets cramp in his toe, it is often due
to acidity of the stomach. Swallow q
pinch of soda and the cramp will dis
appear.
An aching tooth will produce neural
gic pains in the face, and, very often
violent pain at the back of the head
is due to the faraway kidneys, which
themselves may suffer no pain at the
time.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
cantaIoupe eavarIan Cream.

Cover one-half box of gelatine with
one-half cup Of cold water and lei
stand for one-half hour; dissolve over
hot water. Whip one pint of cream to
a stiff froth, turn into a basin, add
cne-half cup of pulverized sugar. a
pinch of salt. teaspoon vanilla. one
tablespoon sherry and the gelatine.
Stir from the bottom toward the top
until 1t begins to foam a little, add
X cup chopped candied fruit and
continue stirring until the cream
forms. Turn into mold previously
wet with cold water and stand away
to harden. Serve with lady fingers
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
Worth Weight In Gold.

Abingdon, Va. Mrs. Jennie Nc
Call. of this place. says. Il had been
troubled with female complaints for
over ten years. could not walk or
stand on my feet. and bad been al
most confined to the house for a
long time. began to take Cardui,
the woman's tonic. and now can
walk anywhere want to go. Car
dui is worth its weight in gold /"
This is high estimate on plain,
herb medicine, yet there are thous-
auds Of women who would gladly
pay this price for a remedy to re-
lieve their suffering. Cardui has
helped others. Why not you? Try
il. Your druggist sells it in 81 bot
ties.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
SHOULD Be SIMMERED
BOILING CHICKEN IS A CASTRO.
NoMIc ERROR.
Fowl Always Should Be Rubbed With
Lemon Before cooI<lno-Mlstake
to Salt the Water to
Start With.

Our most scientific cooks say that
the way to boil an egg Is not to boil
it. Paradoxically, we may say the
same thing about a chicken, for the
way to boil a chicken is not to boil It.
but to simmer 1t.
In nine cases out of ten in cooking,
the lesser fire does the better work,
and this Is especially true in the boil
ing of all meats. They must be boiled
very, very slowly, which is the same
thing as saying they must be sim
mered.
4 Any ancient bird can be simmered
until the meat will part from the
bones, but any young chicken can be
boiled as tough as the proverblal old
hen--the meat clinging to the bones
and seeming to be all bone and ten
don.
The best way to start the prepared
chicken is to pour boiling water over
1t, let 1t boil up for a few brief min
utes-flve is usually about all it will
stand-then lessen the fire. Skim and
keep covered while cooking.
Do not salt the water to start with,
as our old-fashioned recipes told us to
do. Put the salt in when the chicken
is half done. A good cook with the
knack can do almost anything in this
way, and spoil neither the broth nor
the bouilli, but there are others who
must follow rules to the letter.
To insure greater tenderness, some
cooks rub their boiling chicken with
lemon before putting 1t on to cook.
Others put a tablespoon or two of
vinegar into the water. Neither of
these things do any harm, and either
may lessen any rank quality present.
But they are not absolutely necessary
to the securing of tender product.
Notice that it is the pot for boiling
rather than the stewpan. There is
just as much difference In the boiling
of things in a thick iron pot, which
holds the heat and distributes even
gas heat, as between the thin bot
toned frying pan and one thick bot.
toned. For very quick cooking the
thin-bottomed frying pan is out of the
question, as we know, because meat
will burn so quickly in 1t.
We have greater number Of uses
for cold chicken In summer than In
winter, and, by the way, 1t is general
ly better to let our chicken cool in
the liquor in which 1t was cooked and
stay in 1t until we are ready to use
1t.
II there is one thing more than an
other concerning which tastes differ,
1t is in the making of this salad. The
amount of celery used varies from
one-third as much as chicken to one
and half times as much celery as
meat. Equal parts of chicken, celery
and cabbage are sometimes used. and
the dressings are legion, from the
expensive mayonnaise to the inexpen-
sive boiled dressings. The salad may
also be garnished to suit the taste.
Some of the older garnishes were
boiled beets and hard boiled eggs.
which Japanese cook will turn into
roses. tulips and some quite uniden-
tifiable blossoms, plus checker worE
and various parquetry.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13

Rabbit Ran So Fast the Chauffeur
Had to Speed to Keep Him
In Sight.

The scene was on the road to Point
Place. Nominations we're furnished
by the moon and stars. Besides the
rabbit and the auto there we're one
man and two girls, also a chauffeur
The big automobile was speeding
along the highway, sending its white
light ahead, when suddenly right
across the path Of the rays from the
head lamps shot a young rabbit. The
chauffeur slackened speed, hating to
hurt the little creature, and then the
rabbit hoped back into the center of
the road again, gave one look into the
binding glare of the lamps and start
ed the race.
Straight down the center of the
smooth, white highway he shot on
ahead of the car, and the chauffeur
speeded up bit just to see how fast
the race was going to be, but he could
not catch the rabbit, not by ten feet.
That little critters feet went so fast
there did not seem to be any there.
and Just a speck where the long ears
bobbed with the motion of his little
body and brown blur of hair.
And still he ran, on and on, keeping
his distance ahead of the big machine
as If the light had hypnotized him and
he could not stop, while behind in the
car big, lazy pursuers laughed and
watched and begged the chauffeur not
to run him down. There was no such
chance.
The rabbit was too quick. When he
was tired of the sport he hoped to
one side of the road as the car went
by. tipped up his tiny head and
winked out of one pink eye as he
looked at the speeder and its occu-
pants with quizzical curve of his lit
tie mouth-Toledo Blade.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
He Won't Limp Now.

No more limping for Tom Moore
of Cochran. Ga. II had a bad sore
on my instep that nothing seemed to
help till l used Bucklen's Arnica
Salve," he writes. ''but this wonder
full healer soon cured me-" Heals
old. running sores. ulcers. boils,
burns. cuts. bruises. eczema or piles.
Try il. Only 26c at All Druggists.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
Entire whea. pouohnuts.

One cup sugar, 21s tablespoons but
ter, 2 eggs. cup milk. 4 teaspoons
baking powder. u teaspoon cinnamon,
Y teaspoon nutmeg. ~ teaspoons
salt, entire wheat -four enough to
roll. Cream butter. add sugar, eggs
beaten until light and milk; then add
3 cups of entire wheat -four sifted with
the baking powder, spices and salt.
II necessary add more -four to stiffen
the mixture to roll. Roll u inch
thick. cut with doughnut cutter and
fry in deep fat
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13
Clumsy FIattsrer.

He was a fatterer, but clumsy
one. Noting that the girl Of his heart
possessed beautiful teeth that shone
like ivory, he ventured TO pass COM
pliment
Dearest" he whispered. leaning
over the music rack. your teeth are
like plano keys"
Freezing him with an icy glare, she
turned on her heel. "Sir, how dare
you insult mef"
Insult your"
yes, insinuate that my teeth are
as large as piano keys" And without
another word she left the parlor. leav-
ing him crsstfallen and bewildered.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-13

Put in a glass Jar one-half box OF
gelatine. one tablespoon Of granulated
gum arabic, two cloves, three table
spoons sugar. two tablespoons lemon
Juice, one cup OF port wine. Stand In
q kettle OF cold water, heat until all Il
dissolved; strain into shallow dish.
chill and cut N One-haif inch square,