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through scientific methods our min
eral resources, but not exploit them.
And in every contract we have
drawn with non Russian financiers for
their loans we have secured 30 per
cent Of the profits from working out
these concessions.
Before accepting the responsibility
of leading the armies of White Russia
/ have stipulated with all elements
that the campaign viii not be one OF
vengeance. Blood will be shed only on
the battlefield, ana once we have over
thrown our opponents We will regard
them all as vanquished prisoners, and
not one life will be sacrificed to ter
rorize our enemies.
The White armies are OF the parti-
sans Of Russia's aristocracy or land
owning barons. I will not be a party
TO any campaign to shed rivers of
blood to redeem either their lands or
their property. Neither will / lead an
army to ensure payments to non-Rus-
sian bondholders. These and any other
domestic and international problems
will be dealt with By mixed commits
sions appointed by all interested ele-
mentg.
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the great honor laid on my shoulders
by all White Russians to lead them to
save our country, I again repeat my
pledge that neither peasant nor So
cialist, workman or mujik need fear
that our aim Is to re-establish the old
czarist methods at their expense.
Copyright. 1925, by New York Amer
lean. incorporated.
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great number Of Continental finan-
ciers, more than 1900 Of them, will, in
consideration of concessions to exploit
Russia's great resources to their and
our benefit, subscribe the necessary
amount.
More than s75,000,000 has been
pledged, $15,0O0,0OO Of which has al
ready been deposited in Continental
banks to our credit.
We have taken care that, although
financed by non-Russians for conces-
sions, in drawing up the contracts we
have fully protected the interests of
Russians of this and coming genera
tions, and the concessionaircs will work
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lore. There is the tale of the cob
bier and the pitcher of milk; the
description Of shoes of blue velvet
which took 1000 hides Of brown
COWS to sole them.
Two shoemakers stand out in re-
lief in the novels of Maxim Cork
who as lad was errand boy TO
a cobbler-one is Orloff, in "The
Orloff Couple" and the other
Perfishka, in Three of Them"
TeheIsohoy has a story entitled,
THE Shoemaker and the Devil,
and Anatole France in the Red
Lily" depicts n Florcntine shoe
maker who kept as n pet n sparrow
with false leg made Of a bit Of
match.
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name Of the Russian people, whether
under the czarist regime, the Kerensky
regime. or even the Bolshevik regime.
Our aim Is to rehabilitate our I'M
fortunate country and to save it from
utter destruction at the hands Of the
Bolsheviks.
i have never uttered a falsehood,
and today, on the eve Of my accepting
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BY GRAND DUKE
NICHOLAS
Uncle Of the Late Tsar; Commander
in Chief Of Russian Armies During
the War.

EOR eight years / have kept out OF
politics, weeping over the fate of
my unfortunate country, now in the
clutches of a handful of buccaneers.
For eight years l have secluded my
self as a Russian refugee, praying
hat someone younger than myself
would offer to lead back to Russia
more than 100000 able-bodied men,
most Of them ex-service men, from pri-
Yates to generals, now scattered all
over Europe, waiting eagerly to lay
down their lives to redeem their coun-
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Mother! Give Sick, Bilious Child
california Fig Syrup

Even a fretful, feverish. bilious or
constipated child loves the pleasant
taste Of California Fig Syrup" This
gentle, harmless laxative never fails
to sweeten the stomach and open the
bowels. A teaspoonful today may
prevent q sick child tomorrow. 1t
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what we were doing. / told him we
were counting his money.
Whereupon he took me down town
and bought me saddle, telling mo Is
he presented to to remember that ]
received it for telling the truth. ]
do not know Of any similar amount Of
money that ever made 80 great an
impression upon my youthful mind
and heart.
As an illustration Of the teaching
which I received at home, I cite two
other instances. Before entering
school at the age Of ten, my mother so
impressed upon me her opinion of
swearing-a matter In which my faith
er also set me a valuable example
that when / entered school / felt q
distinct aversion to swearing.
would find myself Withdrawing from
the crowd when the boys began TO
swear, and to this day have not over
come an aversion which felt In those
early days.
EXPERIENCE WITH GAMBLING.
The other subject impressed on me
was that 1t was wrong to gamble. Ny
father hated gambling and taught me
to hate it. With him, it did not mat
ter whether the amount wagered was
large or small or whether the person
won or lost-gambling was gambling.
Some time before / was Is I had IN
experience that almost riyalled the
gift Of the saddle in the impression 1t
made. My father had bought me a
Accent knife which l wagered against
a 10-ccnt knife on proposition where
/ felt that 1 could not lose.
that i could not lose. The boys had
given me a number of cards, each
containing a series Of numbers. These
numbers were SO arranged that the
sum of the first numbers on each card
equalled the number asked for.
After had used the cards until
I felt confident of their accuracy,
undertook to tell the age of boys
mother IL he would pick out the
cards on which the age appeared. The
wager was my knife against his, and
/ lost. Upon examination, I found
it was the only number that could
not be determined by adding together
the first numbers on the cards con-
tanning this number.
A CHEAP BARGAIN.
Knowing my fathers views on
gambling, 1 was so terrified at the
thought of his learning what / had
done that i resolved never to gamble
again, no matter how certain I might
be to win. The loss of a forty-cent
knife has saved me a great deal of
money, if can judge what my ex-
perience would have been from the
of friends who have bet
on elections where 1, like they. thought
the result was certain.
The fall after 1 was fifteen I en-
tered Whipple Academy, the prepare
tory department of Illinois College at
Ill. My father had in
tended that ] should obtain my edu-
cation at William Jewell College, a
Baptist institution, at Liberty, Mo.
But / was SO young that he decided
to send me to Jacksonville, where l
could make my home with a distant
relative, DIR. Hiram Kennard Jones.
DR.. Jones was a physician of prom
inence and a man Of. great learning.
He was a student of Plato, and for
some years was Platonic philosopher
ut the Concord Emenonian school.
Ills home was the intellectual CEN
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Ely favorite sport in boyhood days
AVA was hunting rabbits. Also father
used TO take me squirrel hunting, ar J
| was all interest from the time we
began to prepare for the hunt, mould
ing bullets the night before for a
muzzle loading rifle, to the time when
we came back with one or possibly
two squirrels as a reward for an aft
ernoon's tramp.
Although / envied my fathers skill
as . marksman, / attempted TO rival
him with the rifle. / began with a
shotgun, first with a single barrel
and then with a double barrel. These
were given to me as soon as my par
cnts thought it was safe for me to
use them, possibly a little earlier
than it was entirely safe, for l re-
member three narrow escapes from
death by gunshot.
THRICE NEAR DEATH
One day i was cleaning the gun in
the hallway and it went off, blowing
hole through the Dashboard, but
was not in front Of it. 1t scared me,
and was careful, but not as care
full, fear. as should have been. \
little later i was putting a double
barreled shotgun through a rail fence
end foolishly had the. barrel pointed
toward me. The hammer struck a
rail and discharged the cap. But for
tunately, the gun did not go off.
could not have escaped death il
fire of the cap had reached the pow
der. Why it did not, ] do not know.
for that was its only failure 10 fire
during the hunt.
At another time Henry Webster, my
nearest neighbor, went with me out to
Tonti. the nearest station on the IL
linois Central. to meet my father, who
was returning from holding court in
lis circuit. We got out at pond
near the road TO shoot some snipc.
1 suppose we must have forgotten to
let down the hammer. At any rate,
the gun that was between us went
off and blew a hole through the back
curtain.
song is BROKEN UP.
At the time we were singing 20,
You Must Be a Lover of the Lord,
or You Can't Go to Heaven When
You Die
Our musical program was suspend
cd by the discharge of the gun, and
Ne rode the rest of the way exchang-
ing congratulations upon our escape
and wondering how the gun could have
been discharged.
Before was old enough to use
a gun, used to hunt rabbits with a
stick, tracking them in the snow and
killing them in the little sheltered
spots so familiar to hunters. / had
two dogs, Carlo and Dixie, the latter
a mixed breed with rat terrier pre-
dominating. Carlo was a dog of me-
dunn size. If any one pure strain
could be multiplied by the many
strains mixed in him, he would have
been a very costly brute. But as
prices ere not determined in this way,
he would have brought at auction as
little as he cost me, which was moth
ing.
The dogs hunted together and / fol-
lowed. scrambling over fences, helping
pick up the trail when there wa
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tempted to have the White Russians,
scattered throughout Europe and Rus
STA, accept the fact that the peasants
must be left in full possession Of lands
that they are willing to cultivate and
that they should be assured that the
White armies marching into Russia b
overthrow the Bolshevik regime will sec
that the land is apportioned among
them.
Once the peasant is assured Of our
good faith, the BOlsheYik power, which
is built on the fear of the peasants
that the White Russians will dispos-
sess them Of their land, will disap-
pear, and they will welcome the
sayiorS.
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WILL PAY DEBTS.

As the commander Of the White
armies, pledge to all Russian and
non-Russian claimants upon my coun-
try an equitable settlement. Russia
will pay all her honorable debts and
respect all engagements made in the
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doesn't cramp or overaet.
Ask your druggist for genuine
California Fig Syrup" which has
directions for babies and children OF
all ages printed on bottle. Mother
You must say california" or yon
may get an imitation fig syrup
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Politician Reveals Details of His First Religious Vision
His Conversion to the Christian Faith and His Early
Church Experience; Bible His Favorite Book

collection of epigrams, and it was the
reading of Proverbs that gave ma
the first appreciation of the value Of
epigrams.
The moulding of public opinion is
one Of the greatest of the arts, and
the essence of moulding public opinion
lies in the ability to say much in a
few words. No uninspired writer has
left so much wisdom contained in so
small a compass.
One of the proverbs Of Solomon
which I early learned and often quot
ed was:
'The prudent man forseeth the evil
and hideth himself"
This cannot be improved upon so
far as the sentiment is concerned or
the beauty of expression, but found
that audiences, especially students, did
not seem to grasp it. As the object
Of speaking is to impress truth, l
finally took the liberty Of presenting
this truth in way most familiar to
the student.
WISE VS.. FOOLISH
The paraphrase ran like this: "The
prudent man gets the idea into his
head; the foolish man gets it in the
neck" The students instantly caught
the idea, and I felt that impressing
the idea did more good than the slang
did harm.
Ny religious training was not neg
lected at any period of my life. We
had family pdayers-one of the sweet
est recollections of my boyhood days
and entered Sunday School early.
My father being a Baptist and my
mother being Methodist, i went to
both Sunday schools.
The only advantage that know of
that can come from parents belonging
to different churches is that the San
day school opportunities are doubled.
1 would not offer this as sufficient
reason for encouraging a difference in
church membership one the part of
parents, but where there is a differ
ence the Sunday school may be an off
setting advantage.
BRYAN is CONVERTED
At the age of fourteen I reached
one Of the turning points of my life.
I attended a revival that was being
conducted in a Presbyterian church,
and was converted. Having been
brought up in Christian home, con-
version did not mean a change in my
habits Of life or habits Of thought. I
do not know of virtue that came into
my life as a result Of my joining the
church, because all of the virtues had
been taught me by my parents.
Truthfulness had been so earnestly
enjoined that in more than one case
1 received my parents condemnation
for not disappearing the situation
when truthfulness might bring criti-
cism, il not punishment.
REWARD OF VIRTUE.
/ remember one day we children
were playing in the sitting room md
noticing fathers pocketbook upon the
bureau, it occurred to someone 10
bureau, it occurred to some one to
count the money. So we locked the
door and proceeded to inform our
selves upon the amount in the pocket
book. When we were just finishing
we heard his footballs in the hall. We
hurriedly crowded the money into the
pocketbook and opened the door, but
not soon enough to avoid suspicion.
When be found me alone he asked me
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DOESN'T WANT THRONE.

Ny program is not to claim the
throne for myself, nor for any Of Rus
sia's pretenders. am not in favor Of
GROWING Grand Duke Cyril, Dowager
Empress Marie FeodorOvna, nor any
one Of the numerous other pretenders
to the throne Of my late nephew.
First, rid my country Of the regime
Of the buccaneers, and then, through
universal plebiscite, leave il to Russia
to sec whether they want tar under
n democratic constitution, or a repub-
IL.
In addition to the 100000 White
Russians, we can muster in Europe
and gather in the Polish or Rumanisn
frontiers, we can depend on an equal
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ter Of the city, and I became acquaitt-
cd a. q boy with the leading in-
tellectual lights of Jacksonville and
with distinguished visitors who came
to see him personally or to attend
sessions of the local Philosophical So
ciety, the Academia whose meetings
were held at his house.
I regard this change in the plans
for my schooling as one of the pieces
Of good fortune that fell to my lot.
My life was largely influenced by as
ISOLATION with DR.. Jones and his good
wife, Cousin Lizzie who was one Of
the most even-tempered and lovabls
persons / have ever met.
The doctor was a man Of deep con.
victions and expressed himself strong
ly on many questions which were dis
cussed at the table and around the
fireside. An attachment grew up be.
tween NJ which continued until his
death.
FINDS SECOND MOTHER.
Mrs. Jones was q mother to me in
those days and helped me in every
possible way. She was q woman Of
education, of refined tastes and shar-
ed In all the intellectual activities Of
her husband. Through her became
acquainted with the best families in
the city. She stands out In my menu
DRY as an important factor in the
formation Of character. 1 cherish her
name with grateful appreciation.
l took the classical course, not as a
matter of choice, but because father
and mother decided that I should.
When / left home father took from
his library two of the largest books,
a Greek lexicon and Latin lexicon,
and told me that / was to use the
former for six years in the study OF
Greek and the latter for five years
in the study of Latin.
/ did not then know of their inn
portance, but have since been very
glad that there were others wiser than
myself to decide such questions for me.
AS TO LANGUAGES.
/ have come to place q high esti-
mate on the study of the dead lam
guages, because of the training they
give one in the choice Of words, and
because of the acquaintance that they
give the student with the Derivation
Of words. / liked Latin better than
because 1t Is easier.
| became so attached to the Latin
that l planned to read some Latin
zach year as a recreation. But ! soon
became so occupied with the work
that was necessary that the senti-
mental was crowded out.
Mathematics was my favorite study
until I took IN political economy.
During the senior year Of my pre-
paratory work I took freshman math-
ematics and was marked 100 in
1 was a contestant for the
freshman prize in mathematics with
Sam Montgomery, a boy who was
taking the scientific course. do not
know which had the higher marks,
because learned before the prize was
awarded that the competition was
open only to those who were in the
college freshman class, and / was still
n the preparatory school. This cx-
,luded me.
lin the next chapter OF his Memoirs
Mr.. Bryan tells Of his college days
md his carly efforts and studies OF
'ratory, which led directly to his
in politics and world az
'airs.)
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Baltimore.

i began very young to manifest an
interest in, speaking and received all
the encouragement that child could
from both father and mother. As the
profession which 1 liked leads up to
forensic efforts, it must also be taken
into consideration that no child could
have had nenvironment more favor
able to q public career, or stronger in
centives to follow this particular line
of work.
GOES TO HIGH SCHOOL
The first public school / attended
was in what we called "The Old Col
lege," building once used for a girls
seminary. Mrs. Lamb was the teach
er, a woman somewhat advanced in
years at that time, but an enthusiast
on education, and a strict disciplinar-
ian.
I next attended school in a different
part Of the town, and soon entered
high school, from which I went to
whipple academy, a preparatory de-
partment of Illinois College, Jackson
vile.
/ was regular in attendance at
school, and studious, having behind
me the coercive power of parents who
were determined that / should have
an education. 1 do not recall that
/ ever failed in an examination,
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Nicholas Eight Seson Comes Commander of Force
Which Hopes to Restore Modified Monarchy
in Cars Palace


number of White Russians in Russia
who VIII throw their fortunes with us
If we can strike the first blow in such
a telling manner that it will convince
them that the White armies are pow
erful and well organized.
FUNDS AMPLE.
To organized such an army at a
strategic point and deliver the first
telling blow in as short a time as pos
sible will necessitate well-organized.
efficiently conducted, well munitioned
army. That is only possible il we
have at our disposal unlimited funds.
That problem has been well consid-
cred, and now We are assured that a
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Commoner, as Youngster, Had Three
Narrow Escapes From Being
Shot.
By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Edited and Corrected BY Mary Baird 4

Copyright 1895 by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Copyright Canada Britain rights reserved
Reproduction prohibited
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jubilant in defeat as in victorp. Many
times when i almost froze doing the
chores, / would warm myself by a
chase after a rabbit until all hard
ships of work were forgotten.
TRIES FOR FOWL.
As grew older ] extended my
hunting TO quail, prairie chickens and
ducks. The quail, however, was never
much endangered by my hunting. 1t
seemed too small for my gun, and
l was frequently mortified by having
a hunting companion give me the
first shot and then kill the bird after
/ had missed it..
With prairie chickens ! had better
success. Probably they furnished
larger target, but even here ! was
only a second rate hunter. One time,
/ think it was in 1897, went hunt
ing in Idaho with the father of the
famous Chicago lawyer, A. s. Trude.
| think he was then about so. He
had lost one eye, which to a hunter
is quite disadvantage. When we
came in from the most successful
chicken hunt ever had we counted
up 80 fowls. and he was generous
enough to insist that had killed ten
of them-half as many rs he. 1
used to wonder what the relative sue
cess would have been if he had had
two eyes.
ROD NOT SPARED.
Ny father was in the habit Of i'm
pressing his views on me by apt
illustrations or humor. / recall that
/ expressed n desire TO take lessons
on the piano. He checked my am
billions in this direction with the brief
but firm suggestion that the girls in
the family could take lessons on the
piano, but that the boys would learn
to make music with the hand-saw. l
have inherited only half of his views
on this subject.
Ny parents believed in the old
ndse Spare the rod and spoil the
Child and as they loved me too well
to risk my being spoiled, they pun
ished me. As look back upon these
punishments, I find myself more
tolerant in passing judgment upon
them than was at the time, although
i recall instances where recognized
the punishment as just, and some in
stances where l felt that / deserved
more than / received.
GRATEFUL FOR RULE.
They were quite strict with me, and
sometimes considered the boys more
fortunate who were given more liberty,
but on reflection i am not prepared
to say that i would have done better
under different system. Other kinds
Of discipline may be better for other
children-that, parents must decide for
themselves. am not only satisfied,
but grateful for the punishment re-
ceiyed.
At the age Of 10 / was sent to
school. Before that time my mother
taught me at home. Webster's sepll-
ng book and MeGuffey's reader, then
a geography, whose author cannot
recall, formed the basis Of my educa-
hon and furnished the themes for my
earliest destinations.
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I'm the next chapter Of his Memoirs
MFR. Bryan tells Of his college days
and his early efforts and studies OF
oratory, which led directly to his
achievements in politics and world az
fairs.)
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Bryan Memoirs Goes Back Boyhood Days His
Bryan and Wilson in u. S. Seruice

| Woodrow
| Wilson
| after his
| election
| to the
| presi-
| dency
| and Mr..
| Bryan
| after
the
latter
had been
named
secretary
of state
in return
for his
work in
nominating
Wilson
at
Baltimore.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-08-12

John H. Scanland, Judge Jacob
Didawick, W. H. Babcock, Alpheus
Badgley, George D. Thomas. Alex.
PrOffitt, White Calfee M. V. Huff
man, Thornton Street, Charles P.
Blakeley, John England, W. H. Tracy,
Thomas Street, John Newell, James
Latta, Wexford Morgan, john Emer-
son, E. A. Rouse, M. J. Hartcorn,
and E~beneezer Morse.
Two Of those in the fourth group of
p are still living, George Moss on a
ranch west Of Bozeman, and Gcmer
Reese in California. The list in
cludes:
Hugh Leonard, Thomas Dunn, A.. F.
Nichols, John J.. Thomas, Sanford
Ruffner, T. L. Luce, James Smart. V.
E. Cline, w. F. Sloan, A. L. Corbly.
T. J. Gown, C. w. Haskins, Conner
Reese, Nose Decker, Joe Davis, VIII
liam Decker, Jarvis Aiken, Neil Mel
ton, George Mess, George C. Howard
and Henry Grouse.