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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-02-13

Appropriations for reclamation
work on the Indian reservations
in Montana, and particularly on
the Flathead reservation, have
absorbed the attention of the
Montana delegation for some
days. The commissioner of In
dian affairs made a recommend
alton to congress that the
amounts heretofore appropri-
ated be materially reduced in
the pending Indian bill. He rec
commended for the Flathead only
S10O, 600, whereas last year an
appropriation Of 1925, 600 was
made by congress. The Montana
men were very much opposed to
this reduction, and Congressman
Evans Immediately arranged a
conference between the delege-
cations, the secretary of the in
terror, the commissioner of In
dian affairs, and the director of
the reclamation service. This
conference was held last Friday,
and after an extended discussion
of the situation the commissioner
of Indian affairs said that his
recommendations would be ma
terialIy increased. Consequently
the delegation is hopeful of get
ting reasonable and substantial
appropriations for the contlnu-
alton of the work.
In speaking of the matter,
Congressman Evans said:
I am confident Commissioner
Sells will recommend a quarter
of a million dollars for Flathead.
If the department does not rec
ommend at least that much a
fight will be made in both the
house and the senate to raise the
appropriation, | think our con-
ference will bear fruit, as | am
sure both the secretary of the
interior and the commissioner of
Indian affairs have more light on
the situation than they had prior
to our meeting.
commissioner Sells thinks
the funds for this reclamation
work should come from some
other source than the sale of the
lands and timber. If the pro-
gram should be changed it would
take legislation by congress to do
so. and it would necessarily in
terrupt the continuity of the
work, and that | am not willing
should be done, The govern
ment has spent approximately a
million and a half on that reser-
walton, and should make suffi-
cient appropriations to carry the
work on expeditiously and eco
nomically. If the plan is to be
changed it must be done in such
a way and at such a time as not
to interrupt that work, and |
think we have convinced the Of
fcials of that fact. So | have no
fear but what a reasonable ap-
preparation will be made for the
ensuing year.
''Personally, | am not satisfied
with the administration of affairs
on the Flethead, and | think the
commissioner of Indian affairs
and the Otner members OF the
Montana delegation agree with
me on that score. We all feel
that some plan must be worked
out in the immediate future that
will rebound to the benefit Of
both the Indian and the white
man in the administration Of the
Indians land. The Flathead
tribe Of Indians is very we'll to
do in their tribal funds and re-
sources, and yet | recall that
while on the reservation last Win
ter saw number Of Indians
who told me they were land
poor, that they had good allot-
ments and yet did not have a
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The Great IInlnued


 It fs not clearly written in history that the most brilliant man in It's pages. with grace on his brow. the front of .Jove and the eye of Mara, ever won the love of any woman, Grand. gloomy and pe- ouiiar. he sat upon the throne q sceptered hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality"
 Yet the fault may not have been 90 much in the man us In his star, which forever lurlted him from home-felt pleasures and gentle scenes. Fortuna shed upon him tho glory of victory and power. md showered upon him scepterr ana crowns. but sho withheld a blessing common 10 men, great and small. worthy and unworthy-the pure, unselfish love of two good women. mother and n wife. "" Ietizia Eonaparte. with "the head of q man on the shoulders of n woman.n WI the stern and noble mother bird of m ehgle but her virtuous and dutifuI breast was no fountain of affection. Nor did the eagle. after .mewlnE his mighty Nouth In monasteries and barracks rec ceiNc any response to tho wild throb- pings in his bosom when he swoonaa down upon Josephino's dovo cote.
 Thereupon he bade his heart to dis mss us diatracting Illusions. and thence forth he omitted from his rcheme of universal cOnquest the hernienhara ne womankind Men were intovicafed h,, N. h,. glance and died by tho thousands to win his smile. But, fin the midst of prostrate world, womanhood stood ersct ana unconquered. and it ia doubtful IF any woman lost eitber her head or ba,. heart as the great uniotol marched on to his destiny. ''' Copyright lsis-14. by Jarnes MorrY inc" oi 'osepn@
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Hot Weather Drinks

From the Mothers Magazine.
 Iced chocoate-Use the following syrup: Four one-half pint of boiling "u'er over three tablespoonfuls of cocoa stirring until dissolved. Add one plnt or srannlated sugar and boil for three minutes. Then cool. add one tablespoon- ful of vanilla. and bottle. Pour two tablespoonfuls of this syrup into a tunn- bier with some cracked ice. stir in thrsa taDiespoonfuls of whipped cream, dash or iniik and drop in spoonful of vanilla ice cream.
 'oiIee a Ia Marion Crawford Make al strong infusion of good coffee. Do not allow 1t to stand on the ground or if will be bitter. Add sugar and chill. Phi one tablespoonful of chocolate syrup in a tumhler stir in the eommee and fold in a spoonful of whipped cream.
 Midsummer Dream-Crush ripe peaches and very soft pears to a pulp To two cupfus of this add one-half cupful of pineapple juice and the same of plum juice. Swoeten and add ice water. Lay small bunch of plums with their foliage on the plate
 Piazza Party Punch--The juice of one pineapple, six lemons, three oranges. six large crushed peaches. one pint of pre- served strawberries, the same Of pre- served cherries, one. bottle of grape juice. Sweeten and add one cupful of chopped ice. one gallon of water and cupful of crushed mint leaves
 Jam Punch-Put a tablespoonful of strawberry jam in a glass. add the juica Of half lemon and stir until dissolved. Add little sugar and i'll the tumbler with crushed ice and water.
 Grape.e Nectar-M the Juice of two lemons, one orange. one pint of grape juice, one cupful of sugar and one pint and half of water. Serve with a small float of whipped cream bearing bit of orange on the surface. .-
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court each year. Tho son, however. proved himself clever diplomat in his apologies, when the Emperor said in a sreved tone, 'I fear your mother does not like me-"
 Sire the young count replied my mother has not yet advanced beyond the stage of admiration
 Napoleon recognized the queenship of women, but he wished them to be like his fellow sovereigns of the male species, satellites revolving around his own plan etary body. He always stood ready to be their protector if only they would be his allies
 His fatherly care over the "weaker sex knew almost no bounds He re- quired every subprefect in France to make list of the daughters of the most notable families within his Jurisdiction and an estimate of the probable inherit ance of each girl. At that time he con templated sort of card index system, under which he would betroth to his poor but deserving civil and military officers all the heiresses in the country having yearly incomes of $10000 or more Ever eager to lend a helping hand to Cupid, he married one of Josephine s maids to Constant his valet. and giving the Duke of Gaeta, his minister of finance, two years in which to marry, he thoughtfully added, "If you wish l will arrange 1t for you.''
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Dictator of Fashions

Tn his ambition to dazzle the world with their brilliance and beauty, he surrounded Ills throne with women, but they were to be merely studiously arranged tableau, ana he succeeded in making his court the most splendid and the most stupid in Europe.
 Ihc fashions and customs of women not only Interested him personally but po- iitically as we'll for he saw their possible usefulness to him in his trade war with England. His court was commanded to give up the use of imported tea and sugar and all manner of British fabrics. Tt is a contest of life and death between France and England,'' he said, "and every French teapot and sugar basin and work basket must be employed as weap- ons in the war Calling fashion to his side as an ally, he promoted the return to the silks of Lyons in the styles of the Empire for men as well as women and laid ban on the simpler and soberer republican garb that had come into favor at the revolution. He led Parisian dress makers away from their preference for goods made of cotton which had to come by the blockaded sea, to linens and lawn woven of flax and the merino sheep of Spain no longer yielding their fleece. to the woolen manufacturers of England, gave the mills of the continent a mo- nopols of the finest wool in the world.
 Not by the Emperors direction but in his honor the fashion makers brought out Oriental ideas that recalled his cam paigr in the east. But one momentous departure was made without any appar- ept relation to him That was the intro duction of corsets in the winter of 1S09
 Napoeons weakness for the sex really was enthusiastically betrayed in his inor- dinate interest in the dress and toilet of women. which he criticized as if he were Inspecting his soldiers uniforms "qo and put on some rouge, madam, you look like corpse" How red your elbows aref Good God! They told me you were pretty." That is a fine mantle of yours: I must have seen 1t 20 timesp-these are among the reported calculations at which the women of the court circle trem- bled as his imperial majesty made his rounds.
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The Bar Sinister

While Napoleon was on the German campaign in the winter of 1896. his first son was borne him in Paris by Inleonore -Eleonore Rsvel-a1d through 10 years of a worthless, rascally life. the Count de Leon carried the certificate of his paternal origin stamped on his face, which he proudly boasted as his 'glori- ous resembanee" The Emperor ap- pointed his secretary. the Baron de Mene- val, to be one of the child g guardians, and made liberal provisions for the boy before his final remembrance of him in his will.
 The other son. who was born in lsi0, became. as Count Walewslsa, distin- guished statesman of the second em- pire. serving under Napoleon III as am bs ssador to London. Minister of foreign affairs, minister of state and as president of the corps legislatif until his death in 1868 The counts mother, the only we'll defined figure among all those pathetic shades in the pack ground of Napoleon, was the beiutiful 22-year-old wife of an old Polish noble when, in the enthusiastic emotion that swept her unhappy Poland at Its liberation from Prussia, she smiled upon the liberator of her people at War saw In the winter of 1S06-07 To this day the Poles cherish her memory. as one who gave her love for her country. Even Ter aged husband and his family appear to have been content to see the beauti- ful patriot gain the confidence of the master of their nations destiny NJ. Walewshas sisters were her chaperones when she took up her residence in Paris, where in the deepest seclusion, in the utmost self-effacement, she lived only for the Emperor or for Poland,
 If the captor of the capitals of Flu rope ever really captured heart, it bsat h the faithful modest breast of
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the term love 1900 times in the course of his matehless story of the human race Yet that magic little word has no place in the biography of Napoleon. In the most crowded life that ever was lived. one chapter was left blank.
 Net that the great captain was d miscgynist. IL is really amazing to contemplate the time and attention be- slowed upon womankind by this bus ieSt man the world ever saw It is hardly necessary to hark back to the wild and absorbing ardor of his love- making days, when he simply had to love someone, if not the girlish De- sfree Clary then maybe Mme Per mon. who protested she was old enough to be his mother, or possibly the an- ofent actress Montasier who, the ly- ing Barras says. was old enough to be his grandmother, and finally that "ed- erly coquette," the widow Beauharnais. Nor does memory heed to be re- freshed with repetitions now of those flaming messages to Josephine from that first Italian campaign, when the Little Corporars pulse beat higher for love than for glory. The flames sub sided, it is true, but not because the fire bucnt out; it was only smothered. When the bitter cynic, Marmont, tells us that never did a purer, truer or more exclusive love Till a mans heart or the heart of so extraordinary a man We cannot ask for a more cred ible witness.
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lous care that his wife should not meet the shadows. and Constant, in his faith ful narrative of lighting his tp-toeins master along the silent corridors of the sleeping palace, of leading him across a darlSened courtyard through an oper window. and of being left outdoors or guard with Prince Murat all night is moved to righteous admiration of sov- ereign who so carefully concealed his frailties from the public, lest they be initiated, and from his wife, less they Rrieve her. With all the Emperor's pre- cautions, however, tho Empress was on his trail, stealing through dark railways and up back stairs but turning interror from the Mameluke lying at her hus- bands door, or again appealing to some enc to discover where a transient rival was living.
 In the passing fancies of her errant spouse Josephine really had no rival. Although tho Emperor's protection en- dtred through time, his favor was Tickle, but seemingly no less 20 than tho smiles of the sultanas themselves. The ficlue- ness of one of them wae brutnlly noti- fled to him by Fouche. who could be bold or shy as ho pleased.
 Napoleon had been berating the min ister of police for not keeping better informed about what was going on in Paris. when Fouche retorted Yes, things uO go on WHICH bln KNOW nOtntn8 about, but now I know all about them. For example, short man, wearing q blue cloak and a three-cornered hat cones out of the Tuileries by the side gate over the kitchens every second day between and 9 in the evining, and gets into a public hack with a taller man, but dressed in the same way''-Duroc- and drives straight to the singer Gras- sinl's. No. 2S Rue de la Vletoire. The smaller man Is deceived however by the singer whose real favorite is a fid- dler named Rode, who lives at the Hotel de pEmpirs Rue du Mont Blanc.
 To escape the green eyes of his cruel torturer. there was nothing for the Elm peror to do but to turn his back and walk off whistling an Italian air. After all between him and Mime. Grassini or any of the rest there was no love lost on either side, probably not even in his relations with the mothers of his two sons.
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Napoleon and the Walts

Napoleon never planned more closely the operations of his army in the field than he planned the amusement of his court He gave great theatrical performances but people were afraid to applaud T pity you. Talleyrand said to a courier: you have to amuse the unamusable."
 Young girls yawned and fell asleep in the heavy atmosphere of the Tuiieries M pa1led upon even tho Emperor him
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A St. Helena Regret

During my reign l was wrong in. not conversing more frequently with the ladies. I ought to have seen them every day. They have an independence of spirit not found among men.
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great 1evee was cheduled for Sunday morning, which obliged all those from Paris to travel most of the night, mere ly to stand in silence against the wall of a corridor at Fontainebleau while the Emperor passed as in review of the guard, perhaps without word or n look. after which the long return journey to the city began.
 Spite of his treless efforts to give his court a good time, the Emperor grieved ''Is it not strangel I brought all theHe people out to Fontainebeau: I wished them to be amused and I arranged every sort of pleasure Yet here they are, wit h long faces, all looking bored and tired"
 Talleyrand explained with the candor which the Emperor permitted him in tho privacy of tho cabinet. Sire. that ia bo- cause pleasure cannot bo summoned at the tap of drum. Your majesty always seems to say to us, Come, ladies' and gentlemen, forward marchr :"
 One night at Fontalnbeau. as tho lm- perial party was coming from q produo- ton of the Marriage of Figaro" tho wife of Marshal Lannes. tho Dutcheas of Montebelo, sighed: 'ro think that onoc l let myself be trampled and arnothered to see that play. and now find noth- ing amusing in it' Napoleon replied, That Is because then you wore in the pit. and now you are in hoxr'
 Royal Morals
 Dreary as the court of the empire must have been, 1t had the then rare merit of apparent cleanliness at least It Is true that Napoleon, when he assumed the crown assumed at the same time the ancient prerogative of monarchs to be moral law unto himself It is true he proclaimed. I stand apart from other men; accept no ones conditions,' New ertheiess, he continued to pay virtue the tribute of not only adopting the now In- credibly low standards which genera ily prevailed among royalty in time whon the palaces of Europe were houses of shame. and when there was not yet n democratic public opinion to restrain princes and princesses and compel them to seem as decent as common people.
 It was the obscene age when that obese debauche, George " of England. then Prince of Wales, typified monarchial morals and reisned as the first gentle man of Europe" The Hohenzollerns were as abandoned lot as any about throne when Louise married into the family and united her homely virtues with those of Frederick William to lift the court of Berlin out of the mire The Bourbon King of Spain praised. before the world his wifes favorite. Codoy, for having heleed him for 20 years to bear the burden of his crown, while the Czar Alexander was altogether worthy Of his grandmother who brought him up, the naughty Catherine
 If Napoleon did not surpass the morals of his felow-sovereigns he was not gull ty of their brazen affronts to the moral sensibilities of his subjects, but furtively tread the primrose path at double quick. He broke no lance, like Henry IT.. for Diane de Poiters; in the empire. France saw no Louise de valliere, no Montespan no Maintenon successvely playing the political boss with a Louis XIV, saw no Pompadour wasting the substance of the people in riotous living with a Louis xV.. nor a DuBarry throwing state pa pers in the fire and mocking the inter- ests of nation.
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1INE DE Sz4eL R4NISHED RYM M4o1ZA1N

this fair. bue-eyed daughter of tho snows, He had hardly more than land- cd at St. Helena. however. when her complaisant husband dying and ceaslng to lag superfluous on tho stage Mime. Walewska mntried General Ornnno, a cousin or tho exile. who wlnced at tho news of the quick transfer of her ea- resses, oven though they remained in tho family.
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Passing Fahcies

The little Mime. Lieutenant, "Queen of the East" the soubrette Bourgoin. who tried to pass over the Czar; the Italian opera singer Grassini, whose faded smile the Duke of Wellington won as a prize of victory at Waterloo; the actress. George; the nameless Mime. XXX; the court reader, Eleonore, and even the Countess Walewski form only shadowy procession across the pages of Napoleon s history, however much their fittings in the flesh may have troubled Josephine when her husband scowled and slapped his breast. T have right to answer all your opinions with the eternal IT.
 Bold as that sounds. hA took ecrupur
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The Dreaded Feminine

An amusing dread and jealousy of the influence and independence of the sex are betrayed in a hundred of Napoleon s sayings He really placed women on a level with the English. the Austrians and the Russians as peril to his mas tery. seeming to look upon woman as a competing sovereignty seated upon a rival throne and disputing with him for the dictatorship of the earth "A ,nin- fster of state,' he declared, "should never allow woman to approach his < cabinet He would establish a ouaran- tine against this insidious enemy and make the empire exclusively masculine.
 Such segregation of the sexes as he proposed is nowhere more absurdly inn possible than in France, where the great ladies of the salons sharing in the dis cussions, the intrigues and the ambitions of philosophers and statesmen. only re- fleet the fashions of the women of the peasantry, who have an equal part with the men in the counsels of the eottaSal
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The failure of the conqueror of Europe to capture a woman's heart, she failure of the most brilliant man in the world to turn woman's head is Mir. Morgsa's topic today.
 The story of how the great strate- gist was baffled by the female of the species, his relations with women and his attitude toward the sex is part of the comedy of history, but it is not without it's pathos.
 As the prelude to the Emperor's divorce, the story today is no less in- structive than amusing.