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The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
A YEAR AGO

one year ago today Montana electors
were participating in their first presi-
dental primary election. The day wit
messed no outpouring of voters to the
polls. Indeed, in respect to the num-
Der of citizens who took the trouble to
register an expression of opinion at
the ballot boxes that day the result
was disappointing. In every part of
the state only light vote was cast,
In the case Of the republicans the
vote was so light as TO be not repre-
sentative. a delegation for Cummins
was chosen, whereas it was generally
conceded that the republicans of this
state were not ardent supporters of the
Iowa statesman. Thus the Montana
delegation to the national republican
convention was committed to a candi-
date who was not, in fact, the choice
of a majority of the party in the state.
Under our primary law that could hap
pen again
The partial failure of our primary
system cannot be charged wholly to a
faulty statute. The defects in the law
can be corrected in large part but the
indifference of the people is something
that cannot SO easily be overcome If
the voters will not go to the polls at
primary elections, they cannot expect |
very satisfactory results. In this coun-
try, whether the old convention system |
or the direct primary is employed, we
get as good government as we de-
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
EDUCATION NOTES

Columbia university, instead of omit
ting its summer session because Of
the war, will make it a war session"
including subjects of military value.
Elaborate plans have been made for
cooperation with the government for
preparedness. Wireless and cable
telegraphy will be taught, and courses
for reserve officers, courses in nurs-
ing, food conservation and the like
will be opened. Camp Columbia, at
the foot Of the Berkshires, will be
given to the government for training
reserves. This extensive property,
used in normal times for the field work
of the engineering students, will ac-
commodate 15O officers.
DIR. William Macdonald for 16 years
professor of history at Brown univer-
slty, has resigned. He is at present
enjoying his sabbatical year and is In
France engaged in literary work. Prof
Macdonald is the author of textbooks
widely used, among them "Jacksonian
Democracy a volume included in
Prof Albert Bushnell Harts American
nation series. The vacancy caused by
Prof MacDonald's resignation will be
filled by Prof, st. George Leakin
Sioussat, since 1911 professor of his
tory at Vanderbilt university. one of the
best known of southern historians. DR.
Sioussat has served as a lecturer at
the summer sessions of the University
OF Michigan and at Johns Hopkins, and
Is member of many national organi-
zations for the study of history and
poiitlcal science. He Is the author of
several books on the history and po-
iltlcal development of the American
south.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
NEWSPAPER SELLER RICH,

Harrisburg, Pa.-Wagner Hoffman,
news -purveyor- ordinary to COVER
nors and other state officials, large and
small, civil and military, no longer
stands in his familiar place at the foot
of Capitol park.
Wagner has reached the age of %,
after IA years of work on the corner
of Third and Walnut streets. He
missed only four weeks in that period,
half that timo being because of illness.
Starting with 10 cents of capital
when he was years old, Wagner has
now purchased a book and stationery
store from an older brother and sold
his corner 10 Meyer Swimmer. Wag-
ner began as newsboy when Penny
packer was governor and included him,
Stuart, Tener and Brumbaugh among
his customers
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
IN GERMANY

Today's dispatches indicate that the
internal disorders in Germany are Of
more than passing Importance. 1t NAV
be that blows from within will do to
the German empire what it's enemies
without have thus far failed to ac-
complish. 1t is conceivable that the
people of the F'atherland have reached
the limit of their endurance and that
they Will no longer make willing sac
rifice for the military autocracy that
has answered them in the past as a
government. Certain II is that if the
strikes continue they must affect the
fortunes of the war. Generals at the
front cannot maintain a strong .e.
sistance to the powerful thrusts of the
French and British armies unless con.
tinuously supplied with munitions.
on the plea of military necessity,
the German troops at the front have
been fed at all costs. Now the pinch
is felt on the fighting line and when
the German soldier is not abundantly
fed 1t may be taken for granted that
the civil population at home is in dis
tress. Hungry men are not disposed
to listen to appeals TO their patriotism
and the government may be compelled
TO resort TO drastic measures to put
down the present disturbances In the
industrial centers of the empire. Rev
olutions in other lands have started
from much less cause and there is a
possibility Of the present unrest in
Germany amounting TO something
more than labor strikes.
Two years ago the British govern
ment had overcome serious labor
troubles in England. These strikes
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
THIS DATE IN HISTORY

APRIL 81.
lSSl-BlaclS Hawk Indian war be-
gan.
1S36-Nictory OF Gen. Sam Houston
of Texas over the Mexicans at San
Jacinto.
1844-Justiee Henry Baldwin of the
United States supreme court died at
Philadelphia
lS4G-Brig. Gen. William Wallace
Robinson, Jr., u. s. A., distinguished
officer, born in Ohio; died March %.
1917, in Washington, where he had
come all the way from Seattle, Wash.
TO offer his services to the nation in
case of war.
1s6l-The Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad taken possess
sion of by the United States as a war
measure
1s9s-The Spanish government gave
Minister Woodford his passports.
191O-Colonel Roosevelt was puas,
In Paris of President Fanieres of
France.
191O-Died. Mark Twain. famous
humorist, aged rs.
1911-The Canadian reciprocity bill
passed the house 265 to SO.
1916-Crisis in Chinese parliamen-
tary affairs, with creation of q new
cabinet by President Yuan -Shi-kai,
l9l6-John II. Surratt, last of al
legged conspirators in Lincoln's assas-
sination, died.
lSl6-Japanese ambassador protest.
ed to President Wilson against Orien-
tai exclusion clause in immigration bill,
as discriminating against the Jana
nese.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
KEEPING HIM DOWN

one Of the reasons urged by Presl-
dent Wilson for conscriptiou is that
this method will eliminate politics
from the new army. Although not
the only one that is a perfectly good
reason. Politics should have nothing
10 do with our part of the war. The
republicans in congress have given
practical demonstration of their be-
lief in this principle Time and again
they have supported the presidents
war policies when the members of
his own party were divided on the
issues, But the president himself is
open to the suspicion that he has not
lost sight Of politics in the present
emergency.
That former President Roosevelt
will be refused permission to take an
American division to France is the un-
official word that comes from Wash
| ington. President Wilson is against
| the proposition. He does not like
Roosevelt and he does not like what
he thinks would he the effect of such
an expedition. Some correspondence
has passed between Colonel Roosevelt
and Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker, and these letters all indicate a
disposition on the part of Baker to
find reasons for not letting Roosevelt
carry out his plan. 1t is understood
that various technical objections have
been urged and official approval has
been withheld.
Colonel Roosevelt Is tremendously
eager to do this job He has a strong
bent toward the military and his SEN
| timents have been enlisted on the side
of the allies Moreover he feels that
the United States Is bound by all the
obligations of patriotism to take a
fighting part in the struggle against
and England II nobody else in this
country will go to the front he will
go alone. 1t may be safely predicted
that the colonel will not submit quiet
ly to a presidential refusal There
are still the committees of congress
to whom he can appeal against an
executive order.
Even administration opinion is
divided as to the wisdom of refusing
to let Roosevelt raise a division and
take 1t to the war. Those who oppose
his going say frankly that the effect
of such an expedition might be to
make Roosevelt a war hero" The
administration is not aiding the man
ufacture of war heroes" out of other
than democratic material. This they
say, explains the demotion of Gen
Leonard Wood.
Others equally loyal to the Wilson
administration express their belief
that the president is making serious
mistake not to send Colonel Roosevelt
to France, or. at least. to let a small
detachment Of regulars go over to
raise the American flag on the west
ern front. They believe one or both
these things would arouse enthusiasm
for the war and stimulate enlistments.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
THE ANNIVERSARY IN
THE EUROPEAN WAR

APRIL 21.
ASio-Amerlcan reply to Ambassa-
DOR Won Bernstorff rejects proposed
embargo of arms to the allies, sought
by German government.
lsl6-French gain in offensive on
poth sides of the Meuse at Verdun,
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia
drives Turks from positions south o.,
Bitlis. in the Caucasus.
Germans penetrate British lines at
fpres, being later elected from can
tured positions.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
WOMEN OF THE WEEK

Anticipating lot of work, the Hon
jeanette Rankin, the first congress
woman in history has hired two secre-
| taries, whereas the ordinary NJ. C. does
with the services of one. A true fem
mist, she has naturally given the Job
with the exceptional opportunities that
1t entails, to women. Miss Florence
Leech and Miss Belle Fllgelman, like
herself Montana girls, are her secre-
taries.
Miss Caroline Clapp, society leader
ana daughter of a Kansas millionaire
mas gone to work in her fathers bank
ing house at Wichita as an office
worker. Her purpose is to earn by her
own efforts the sum of $125, which she
intends to invest in furniture for a
special room in local hospital.
The four last Belgian ministers to
Washington all had American wives.
The newly appointed minister. Baron
Emile de Cartier de AIarchienne. who
Is now widower, was married to a
ilece OF the late Gen. William +.
Draper, former ambassador to Italy.
Baron Moncheur, the Comte de Buis-
seret, and NJ. Havenlth, his predeoes-
sors, also installed as hostess at the
Belgian legation American wives.
al OF whom contributed largely
to make the Belgian envoys in
iiuehtlal in the capitals social life.
me Countess de Buisseret died after
the beginning of the war away from
her husband, who had been an attache
at Petrograd and was not permitted
by the German authorities, in possess
sion or his country, to ioin her at Brus-
sells In spite of her dying condition.
Ihe author of the famous hvnnn
Nearer My God, to Thee" was a WON.
an, Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams. who
was born in England in 1905. Mrs
ADAMS was writer of note in the
English periodicals of her time. on sub
1ects of religious nature. She ha d
also composed catechism for chill
dren, published in 1S45. 1t is not known
just at what time nor under what cir
cumstances she wrote the famous
hymn. II was first published in 1s41.
and the author, dying at A a few wears
later, never knew to what heights of
fame 1t was to rise. Since her death
the lines have been sung by untold mil
mons the world over, and translated
irom English into every language
spoken by Christian communities of
every race and color.
The new mayor of Valley Center
ram is Miss Avis Francis, who
headed the women's ticket for mavor
and councllmen which defeated the
mems ticket by large majority at the
iast election. Another feminine vic
tory at recent elections in Kansas was
that OF Mrs. Roxana Blaylock, elected
police judge at De Soto.
An interesting visitor to these shora,s,
the Princess Catherine Radziwiu OF
RUSSIA who. in spite of her birth in
one OF the Oldest and. noblest of the
lamiiies of the old autocracy. belonged
10 the revolutionary set and was af-
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
Glad to Learn Of Il.

Aprlfs changeable weather causes
colds that lead to expensive doctor
bills-bills that could be avoided IL the
cold were checked in time c. Smith
142l 18th St, Augusta. Ga, writes: II
got one 25c bottle of Foley's Honey and
Tar and my cough and cold is about
well. was. glad to learn of a great
medicine like that" FoIey's Honey
and Tar enjoys a splendid reputation
that II is often initiated OF course. no
substitute or initiation is as good as
the genuine. Newbro Drug Co.-Ady,
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
CURRENT ATTRACTIONS
AT BUTTE THEATERs

ORPHEUM
Moving pictures: Today, Miriam
Nesnltt in THE Lost Sentence"
PEOPLES
Vaudeville and movina pictures;
Today, House Peters and Myrtle
Stedman In "As Men Love-"
LIBERTY
Moving pictures; Today, "PolIy
BROADWAY
pantases vaudeville: Harlan e.
Knight in "The Chalk Line" and
five other acts.
EMPRESS
Hippodrome vaudeville; Today,
Angelo Armento and COMPANY, and
five other acts.
ANSoNIA
vaudeville and moving pictures:
Tonight, Mrs. SybiI Browns cIas.
IN excerpts from light operas.
AMERICAN
Moving pictures: Today, Dorothy
Dalton in The Dark Road
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
RIPPLING RHYMES
AMRITIONS A
By Walt Mason.


studied music for time. hoped be Fnma
said singing crime talked feathers and of tar
never make hit the spark of genius denied had
sense to Quito this point with honest pride thought I'd be
painter oo when young and full of dreams turned paint
ng quite few and people said They're surely screams aE
last never sit with Titan and the other great had the
to quit; with pride this fact here every
who bthey choose the wrong plug along their m way
month after month after This youth who should be herd
ing swine, poring Eucds rules would be great
divine who should be busy shoeng They
ze they've tackled jobs that do not fit thew toll and toll and
rise and haven't enough to quit
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
MANY GUARDSMEN
OBJECT TO DISMlSSal

Washington April 2l.-DiscAalya
from the national guard will not :
granted enlisted men solely pe'Na.'
they are married, according 70 "
structions sent out by the militia :,
reau. Where a soldier has ihdep'lI y.
ent means, which will preVen' -, ~
family becoming a charge upon =, u
government, he will not he hius'.. ~,
out. The war department mas =,
flooded since the original ofuei y,
issued with inquiries ana p'V
from national guardsmen' han! n.
whom have been discharged urdsi "a =
dependent family rule ana "s .,,.
their wishes because they were ~
ried men.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
KILLS BEAR, GETS CUBS,

Marinette. Wis.-Attacked by large
mother bear, Willie Matson, II years
old, son of Mrs Matte Matson of Am
berg, shot and killed her and took cap
tive four little cubs. He met the bear
while on his way home from his faith
ers camp at Amberg. The bear rushed
him, standing upright. Then Matson
killed her on the first shot. The four
little cubs, tagging behind the mother
We're brought to Amberg.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
DIVORCED IN is MINUTES.

st. Louis, Mo.-F'ifteen minutes after
he had filed a divorce petition in Belle
Vile, August Agne walked out of court
a single man.
He told Circuit Judge Crow that his
wife, Estella, left him In 1912, two
months after their marriage, declaring
that "Belleville was too small a town"
for her. Since then she has lived in
St Louis.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
SToNELEss CHERRY.

Peabody, KAMA stoneless cherry
has been produced by George McMann
of this place. Mr.. McMann is a prac-
teal horticuiturist and spends much
time in his orchard, which Is one of the
finest in this part of the state. He has
already developed a number of odd va
rieties of fruit. Mr.. McMann says that
the stoneless cherry can be grown
commercially and will become common
in a few years.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
Copyright, 1916, Cincinnati Enquirer

We are all philosophers when We
step on the other fellows toe. Bu
it is different when he steps on ours
What makes a girl so cheerful ovel
hopping UP and down like monkey
for five hours when she is asked tc
dance is because she gets so cross 4
she is asked TO stand still in front OF
a sink for five minutes and wash
dishes.
One thing that you learn in the
School of Experience is that the quick
est way to find out that man isn't
to be trusted is to trust him.
Time may be money. But most OF
us would rather make up for lost time
than lost money.
| A wealthy girl should have no trou-
bic In getting a man TO marry her for
love. Her money makes her more
lovable, doesn't it?
A woman may keep some secrets.
But when she gets into an ultra -decol-
lete gown, she is making a clean
breast of it.
The most hopeless looking object in
the world is a man who is sitting
in his underwear in a Press En-
While You-Wait shop while an opera
tor is ironing his pants
No man is hopelessly henpecked un-
I'll his wife forces him to act as u
dummy on which she fits her dresses
1t is policy to beware of the man
who Is always warning you to beware
of other men.
man may be smart enough to
profit by his other mistakes. But he
is seldom smart enough TO profit by
his matrimonial mistakes
Any man who has tried it can tell
you that the biggest liar ever born
was the fellow who said that an easy
way to get sleep is to count imaginary
sheep as they go through a hole in
a fence.
When nature gives a man a long
mead she ought to also give him a big
heart to balance things.
Away down in his heart the man
who robs Peter to pay Paul has
scheme to rob Paul
When a girl of 16 loses her taste
for pickles 1t is high time to send for
a doctor.
You can't judge by appearances
Many an old gossip who hasn't any
'front.' teeth is a bacllbiter
The average man believes that if he
had the cash he could easily buy a
$4,000 house for $500.
1t makes a woman heartsore every
time she has to cut up a piece OF old
lace.
Most of us believe that any man
who has more than we have has more
than. his share.
y thin girl can always make up for
1t. But a Corn Fed has TO stay put.
Things to Worry About.
mans heart beats 2.575,44O, 600
times in 70 years.
Our Daily Special.
Most OF The Pointers You Get Are
Names is Names.
Fairy Coon liH.as
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
NEST IN CHANDELIER.

New Albany, lnd-A pair of pigeons
started a home in q large chandelier
in the council chamber OF the city hall
and the nest was discovered recently
by the janitor. The female was sitting
on two eggs in the nest. The pigeons
were not disturbed. They entered
through window left open for venti-
lation.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
To HAVE NAVY FULLY
RECRUITED By hAI |

WASHINGTON, April 2l-Navy r.
cruiting showed net gain Of ,S5- hlsn
or an average daily gain for the Ws'A
ending yesterday Of 1924 Win us
addition the total combined stTeasn
was about 75,357. Secretary DANES
said there was no doubt that 'le a..
thorization would be reached by MAY =
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
ODD EVENTS IN
TODAY'S NEWS
BAR GEESE FROM TOWN.

Tiffon, O.-The city board of health
recently issued orders to ban geese
from the city confines. The boards
objection to geese is that they are in
considerate for the neighbors who
want to sleep.
The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21
NOTICE TO SUBSCR|BER'

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The Butte daily post., 1917-04-21

illiated with the radical movement to
bring ON constitutional monarchy in
her country. Her father was General
Count Adam Rzewski, a high govern
ment official, and Queen Marie of
France, wife of Louis XIV, was a niece
of her paternal grandfather. The
princess, who speaks English fluently,
come here to lecture for the benefit of
russian prisoners of war, and her sub
ject will be THE Royal Russian Family
as / Know IT.
The annual conference of the Wom-
ans National Farm and Garden as
sociation will be held in Washington
April 25-27, and will be one of the most
interesting feminine gatherings of the
spring In the national capital Sew
eral high government officials and their
wives will be interested in the confer
ence. Mrs. David Houston, wife of the
secretary of agriculture is the honor
ary chairman Of the convention. at
which Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the
secretary of state. and Mrs. Newton d.
BAKER, wife of the secretary of war.
VIII take turns in presiding with the
national chairman, Mrs. Francis King
Carl Vrooman assistant secretary of
agriculture. will deliver the address of
welcome. In the long list of speakers.
one of the most interesting announced
Is Miss Ethel Bagg, who will tell of
the work of the women's agriculture,
and horticultural association in Eng
land during the war.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-12
PLANT MORE FOOD CROPS.

The continued advance in the price of wheat,
owing to a foreign demand, causes inquiry into
the present food supply of the world. An exert
says there are at present SO million bushels of
wheat against 241 million bushels a year ago ard
that we have only 40 million bushels to spare foy
export before the new crop comes in. All esti-
mates seem to show that the quantity will be
exhausted before the next harvest.
Corn also, has advanced in the recent months
and the price is very high. Farm reserves are
reported to be two-thirds of what they were last
year, when there were Z million bushels ahead.
Last year saw a shortage of wheat all over the
world, the reduction having been twenty-five per
cent. The cereal supply from Argentina has
failed, affecting one Of Europe's sources of supply.
Two-thirds was all that the potato crop could pro-
duce when compared to the average yield. Prices
are soaring beyond precedent.
As the time of planting approaches Missis-
sippi farmers should carefully note the price
figures, last years shortage and the persistent
demand from foreign countries and increase tEe;r
acreage as much as possible. The increased ex-
penses which the farmer must pay will make
it difficult to hire as many workmen as are needed
to cultivate anything like a great crop, but there
is reason to expect high prices for foodstuffs in
the year to follow. Plant more food crops.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-12
TRUSTEES SALE.

Under, and for the purpose of pay
ing the indebtedness secured by, the
deed Of trust from Katie Stephen and
James Stephens to R. v. Pollard, as
trustee for the benefit Of B. T. Will
hanson, dated January Srd, 1918, and
recorded in book II, at page 4S, of
the Records Of Mortgages and Deeds
Of Trust on Lands Of Lefore Coun-
ty, Mississippi, I, s. L. Gwin, as trus-
tee substituted instead of the said
R. v. Pollard, by appointment re-
corded in book II, at page 1888, at said
records, will sell, at public auction, to
the highest and best bidder, for cash,
in front Of the South door of the
courthouse Of Lefore County, Missis-
sippi, in the City Of Green
wood, Mississippi within legal
hours, on Saturday, March
18th, 1917, the property conveyed by
said deed of trust, lying and being Sit
uate in the said City of Greenwood
in Leflore County, Mississippi, to-wit:
The West half Nv. 1.2) Of lot nine
(9) and the West half Nv. LAY Of lot
twelve (l2), In block thirty five 1857,
IN the Henry Addition to the CITY Of
Greenwood, and also a strip Of land
twenty five (25) feet wide off Of the
West end Of lots numbered thirteen
(18) and sixteen (l6), in the McShane
Addition to the City Of Greenwood.
lying adjacent to and South Of the
East half 1E. 1.2) of block thirty
five 1857, in said Henry Addition, as
BY the may Of said McShane
Addition recorded in book 2, at page
Of the Records Of Maps Of LeAore
County, Mississippi.
Witness my signature this the 2srd
day Of February, 1917.
3. L. GWIN,
Substituted Trustee.
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