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Commanders I
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BRAMWELL BOOTH, uew gen
eral of the Salvation Army, is
the eldest sou of his father,
General William Booth, its
founder. He was born in Halifax iu
1850 and has served through all grades
of the army, rising to second in com
mand, a position he held at the time of
bis father 's death. Like his father, he
has been on evangelical and inspection
tours of various parts of the world.
His part iu the development of the
Salvation Army has been a most impor
tant one. He was the organizer who
built into permanent institutions the
groups of converted sinners who were
won to a better life by his father's elo
quence and popular methods.
The new general is depicted as a man
of complete system in business admin
istration. All his work is organized
tinder secretaries immediately within
call. His vast desk is covered with as
sorted papers. Reference books are
close at hand. Ail his interviews are
by appointment. His frugal midday
meal is served on a swinging table by
the side of his desk. In spite of his
businesslike methods Bramwell Booth
is a man of great human sympathy, to
whom an appeal for help or for justice
is never made in vain. Iiis zeal is
such that in Iiis youth lie risked impris
onment for his convictions.
The new general of the Salvation
Army was married in 1882 to Captain
Florence Super. Captain Soper was the
daughter of a west of England physi
cian and wiis converted at a Wliite
chapel meeting she attended as a sight
seer. the guest of Mrs. Catherine Booth.
She served in the Salvation Army in
France and is now in charge of the
women's social work in England. This
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KISS EVA BOOTH AND BRAMWELL BOOTH.
branch of the Salvation Army work
has been a great factor not only in
fighting the spread of the social evil
but in reducing drunkenness among
Englishwomen of the lower classes.
Outlining the army's future funda
mental object, Bramwell Booth said:
"It is my great hope to make men
realize the value of citizenship and
their relation and responsibility to the
community, getting away from the
pauper idea.
"Thus the social work of the Salvn
tion Army is for the future its funda
mental object. The difficulty of un
employment both in England and
America is the most complicated prob
lem of the communities. We have
strongly urged for years the establish
ing of detention colonies for vagrants.
We see in them safety for society and
also the one hope of restoration for
many vagrants who now are hopeless
and whose habits menace society. But
God forbid we should propose more
prisons.
"The prisons also must be dominated
by the spirit of human sympathy and
religious influence. The inequalities of
the law are gravely to blame for the
wretched conditions in which the sub
merged criminal classes are found.
"How easy society finds it to lock up
■11 sorts of undesirable, afflicted peo
ple! Society has to pay, but let us
make sure the officials understand that
the country is tired of the old costly
methods and wants no new courses of
penal medicine to add to the universal
suffering, but is determined to have an
entirely new treatment of every needy
individual according to his require
ments."
Miss Eva Booth, commander of the
Salvation Army in America, was sent
to this country by her father to assume
the duties ol' ' " position after her
brother, Balliii^.oit Booth, had dira
greed with their father and broker
away from the Salvation Army to
*^3und the,rival organization knowr ns
the Volunteers of America.
Miss Booth is very popular and has
' into practice many ingenious rneth
of advertising the work of the
army. She went to London to attend
the funeral of her father.
BOWSER'S FEND.
He Acquires a Collection of An
tiques.
PICKS UP SOME TREASURES.
Then Mrs. Bowser's Incredulity
Wounds Him, and He Himself Loses
Faith In the Pedigrees of His Pur
chases—A Painful Scene.
By M. QUAD.
[Copyright, 1Ü1Ü. by Associated Literary
Press. J
MHS. BOWSER was downtown
shopping tlie other day when
Mr. Bowser drove up to the
house on an express wagon
and carried a lot of articles into the
parlor. They were on display and he
was sitting on the doorstep with the
cat when she reached home.
"Has—has anything happened?" she
asked in surprise at finding him home
three hours ahead of time.
"Nothing to worry over," he replied,
with a chuckle.
"And are you not ill?"
"Not at all."
"But I can't understand why you are
home. Are you going out this evening
to shoot wild geese?"
Hardly. There's no great mystery
about it. I happened to attend a sale
today, and I found a few tilings I de
cided to buy. As it was pretty late to
go back to the oiii< e I came along with
the express wagon."
"What sort of sale?" asked Mrs. Bow
ser as lier heart grew heavy over past
recollections.
A Forced Sale.
"It was a snle of antiques and relics.
The gentleman who had collected them
died a few weeks ago. and his widow
was forced to sell. I've been looking
out for such a sale for several years
past. Come in and take a look at the
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WALKED UP AND DOWN WITH HIS HAND?
BEHIND HIS BACK.
things. You are no judge of antiques
but you can see that I got everything
at about half its cost."
She followed him into the parlor,
and the first thing she saw was an ohl
fashioned splint bottom rocking chair.
It was big enough for two great-grand
mothers to rock iu at once and looked
as shabby and forlorn as a veranda
chair left out through five winters.
This was Martha Washington's fa
vorite chair," said Mr. Bowser as he
sat down in It and rocked to and fro.
'She was sitting in this very chair
while the general was crossing the Del
aware. I got it for $15, but it's worth
$100."
"A Matter of History."
"How do you know it is what you
say it is?" asked Mrs. Bowser.
"How do 1 know that our old cat is
digging at the carpet with her claws?
The widow said it was Martha Wash
ington's chair, and why should she lie
about it? Besides, it's a matter of his
tory. Parties will be here within a
week to offer me $250 for this chair."
"If they offer you 50 cents you'd bet
ter take it."
"What? What's that? Going to get
your back up because you didn't at
tend the sale yourself? I didn't buy the
chair for you to sit in, and I'll tell you
right here and now I want you to "keep
out of it. If I'd brought home Porn
pey's pillar you'd try to make out that
it was only a bass wood dog!"
"And what's this?" she asked as she
pointed to an old fashioned mirror with
a cherry frame and a glass full of bub
bles.
"That, may it please your ladyship, is
the glass used by Mary, queen of
Scots, for five years previous to her
death. I got it for $50, but its real
value is nearer $500. Indeed, I would
not take $400 for it this minute. Have
you any remarks to shoot off?"
"I couldn't do the subject justice!"
A Historic Cradle.
"Then let it alone. You are a wo
man to appreciate a bushel of turnips
far more than historic interest. There
are fifty museums in this country that
would honor me with a medal if 1
should turn that old glass over to
them. We shall pass on to the next,
however, before you announce that the
widow lied to me. You see before you
the cradle in which John Hancock was
rocked to sleep for the first five years
of his life. It has often been referred
to as the cradle of American liberty.
General Lafayette once offered $70(1
for this cradle, and the Bunker Hill
Society of Boston offered $1,000 only
two years ago. I to you know what It
cost me?"
Mrs. Bowser shook her head and
sighed.
"Only $75. It was a forced sale, you
see. The widow had to have the ready
cash at once, and there was no time
to bargain. Should I desire to sell it
I can make $925 as easy as turning
my hand over. Think of the historic
memories surrounding it!"
"Yes; it might do for a wood box for
the kitchen!"
"There you go!" shouted Mr. Bow
ser as he flushed up. "You've got
about as much sentiment as an old
speckled hen, and I ought to have
known what to expect of you. I sup
pose you will find fault with that blue
platter, and yet it once belonged to
Queen Elizabeth. The Royal Museum
of London once offered $(!00 for it anil
would give more today. I paid only
$25 for it. as the widow's gas bill came
in while we were talking, and she had
to have the cash on the spot."
"If you had waited till her butcher's
bill came in you might have got the
platter for a nickel!" observed Mrs.
Bowser.
The Rarest Piece. »
"More sarcasm, more flings! Woman,
you do take a positive delight in split
ting out mean things, and if I wasn't
above quarreling I'd give you your fill.
You have no interest in these things, of
course, but I'll show you the last of my
bargains. This portable writing desU
is over 3.000 years old."
"It looks to be over 0.000!"
"It belonged to the queen of Persia,
and its value is at least $1.000. I got
it for $20. as the widow didn't under
stand what she was selling."
"She thought she was selling you a
pig poke, didn't she?"
"Madam, are you aware who you are
talking to?"
"I am. I'm talking to a man who
has paid out a couple of hundred dol
lars for a lot of ok! rubbish not worth
20 cents! Mr. Bowser, how could you
be so foolish? You've been worked foi
an easy mark again!"
"Stop right here! That will do!" he
exclaimed as he pointed his finger.
"The easy mark requests that you with
draw your presence to some other part
of the house, and don't you dare to set
your eyes on one of these antiques
again."
Mrs. Bowser withdrew, and Mr. Bow
ser shut the parlor door and walked
up and down with his hands behind his
back. After about five minutes of
nursing his wounded dignity a dim sus
picion crept into his brain. In a quar
ter of an hour he began to doubt il
John Hancock was ever rocked in that
cradle and at the end of half an hout
Mrs. Bowser, the cook, the cat and thi
neighbors heard smashes and crashes
loud enough to make their hail
stand up.
"What—what is it?" gasped Mrs.
Bowser as she flung open the door.
Demolishing the "Antiques."
The question was needless. Mr. Bow
ser was attacking those antiques with
fury in his soul, and she arrived just
in time to see the cradle of liberty a*id
Martha Washington's favorite chair fly
Into splinters the length of the room
When there was nothing more to smash
and he had jumped on the fragments
the easy mark turned to her and bowed
and said:
"The train for your mother's home
leaves at 10:10 tomorrow forenoon, and
you can put in a claim for alimony
with your bill."
Why do you talk that way? I sim
ply said"—
Simply said that I was a born fool!
If Pierpont Morgan had purchased
those things abroad there would have
been columns and columns in the pa
pers about it. I will go to some cheap
restaurant for my dinner and then will
help you to pack your trunk. No wo
man wants to live with an idiot"
He had feasted at a fifteen cent lunch
place and had called the proprietor a
bonehead as he went out when he
met a local dealer in old furniture. The
man had a grin on his phiz, and he
patted Mr. Bowser on the back and
asked:
"Why didn't you tell me you were
out for old stuff?"
"What d'ye mean?"
"That old furniture you bought this
afternoon."
I just happened to come across it,
you know."
"But you could have come across it
In my place, where it had been for a
year. I sold the whole bally lot for
$10, and I suppose they stuck you for
about $20. They called 'em antiques,
didn't they?"
"Y-yes."
"Antiques be hanged! They were
made two years ago at a shop not three
blocks from us. Bowser"—
But Mr. Bowser had vanished. He
had stopped into a store entrance and
was trying to kick himself with both
feet at once.
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Ashamed of It? ».
Sometimes a pretty girl will
help her mother with the dishes, >
but It's usually when nobody is
looking.—Detroit Free Press.
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Evident.
"This car," said the demonstrntor,
"Is almost human. Perhaps you'hav
noticed"—
"Yes, I have." said Binks dryly. "It
reminds me of several men I know
been smoking ever since we left the
garage, and the last hill we climbed it
puffed like a porpoise. Haven't you
something that is less human anJ
more generally satisfactory?"— Har
per's Weekly.
Hi* Sordid View of It.
"There's nothing new in this idea of
'passing prosperity around.' " observed
the argumentative boarder. "It's pass
ed around whenever*a new " in Is
elected president of the United States.
I got a postottice that way once."— Chi
cago Tribune.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Federal.
-jeiiiuorB Jo*. M. Dixon Henry L. Myers,
Kepresentative in Congress Charles N. Pray
" 8. District Judge Geo. M. Bourquin
8. District Attorney Jh . W. Freeman
S. Marshal William Lindsay
Surveyor General J. G. Locke
Collector of Customs John G. Hair
S. Land Office, Great Falls
Register, B. L. Barnes Heceiver, C. A. Wilson
. S. Land Office, Havre
Register, M. W. Hutchinson. Receiver. L. W.
Pierson.
State
Governor Edwin L. Norrie
Lieutenant Governor w . R. Allen
Secretary of State T. M. Swindlehurst
State Treasurer E. K JCsselstyn
State Auditor C. M. McCoy
Attorney General Albert J Galen
Supt. Public Instruction W. E. Harmon
Chief Justice Sup. Court Theo. Brantly
Associate Justice Henry C. Smith
" " W. L. Hollow»)
Clerk Supreme Court John T. Athey
Railroad Commissioner B. T. Stanton
" Dan Boyle
" E.A. Morley
County.
State Senator Thos. M. Everett
Representative A. H. Reser
" H. F. Schwartz
District Judge John W. Tattan
" Frank N. Utter
Sheriff George Bickle
Treasurer William R. Leet
Clerk of District Court Chas. H. Boyle
Clerk and Recorder J. Lee Sedgwick
County Auditor E. Frank Savrc
Assessor Philip Buckley
County Attorney B. L. Powers
Supt. of Schools Daisy I. Blackstons
Coroner W. F. Wilford
Public Administrator W. O. Dexter
County Surveyor A. W. MerrWeld
County Commissioners, 2 yrs G. L. Overfield
" " 4 yrs H. J. Wackerlin
"• •' 6 yrs Jno. V. Carroll
City of Fort Benton.
Mayor Chas. H. Green
City Treasurer F. A. Flanagan
Police Magistrate William Kinder
City Clerk John F. Murphy
Marshal M. Maloney
Board of Aldermen :
Jos. S. Brown Jere Sullivan, Jr.
A. J. Schmidt S. F. Allen
W. K. Harber Charles Lepley
BBNTON LODGE, Ne. 5».
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Wednesdaj
evening at Odd Fellows'hall. Visiting membert
*re cordially Invited to attend.
ARNOLD WESTFALL, N. G.
Frank Hasley , Kec. Sec.
Encampment No. 15 meets the second and
fourth Monday of each month.
HENRY HAGEN, C P.
G«o. Ulrich , Scribe.
A BENTON LODGE NO. 2b, A. P. ANL
»Jt-JL. M.—Regnlar communications of th*
, UTabove named 1 odge are held at 7:80 p. m.
» w % 0 n the first and third Mondays of each
month. Members o f sis ter Lodgesand sojourning
brethren areeordlally invited to ittend.
JAKE RITTER, W. M.
J. N. Chmnutt , Sec'v.
}RS. PORTER & HOUTZ,
Physicians and Surgeons
}R. JAMES F. nURPHY,
Physician and Surgeon
Office over Benton State Bank
Office Hours—2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Fort Benton. - Hon
Office : Cor. Bond and Main St.
Office hours', 2 to 5 p. m.
}R. C. B. HAMILTON
DENTIST
Offices in Cummings Block, Bond St.,
Fort Benton. Mont.
ERE SULLIVAN,
U. S. Commissioner and Notary
Public.
L%nd Filings und Proofs.
HEN - MONTANA
ÇHAS. H. BOYLE,
United States Commissioner.
FORT BBNTON, MONT.
.an dfitisg» and proof». Abstract of land filing
and proof* kept.
SoldUra' Land Scrip for caleandlocated.
p. e. stranahan c. r. stranahan
gTRANAHAN & STRANAHAN
Att* r n «y s-at- La w
FORT BBNTON,
MONTANA.
4. J. schmidt s. c. schmidt
SCHHIDT & SCHrtlDT
Attorneys -at-Law
PORT BENTON, MONTANA
Office in Grand Union Hotel
PL S. ricGINLEY,
Attorney-at-Law
FORT BENTON, • - - MONTANA
Office in the Cumminçe block.
F. MILLER,
Attorney-at-Law
Offices over Benton State Bank
FORT BENTON,, • - - MONTANA
L V. BEAULIEU,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Havre, - Montana
Office in Skylstead Building
LLOYD a. SMITH,
Surreyor and Civil Engineer.
Priceareasonable, and good work guaranteed
Keieryoir Work a Specialty.
CHINOOK,
MONTANA.
LEQAL BLANKS
Per
Water Rights, for recording
Water Rights, for posting
Chattel Mortgages
Real Estate Mortgages
Satisfaction of Mortgage
Warranty Deeds
Quit Claim Deeds
Bins of Sale
Qu axùz location for recording ...
«• •« posting
Affidavit of representation ......
Assignment of brand..
Butchers' record blanks
Promissory Notes, per book of 100
Receipt Books, with stub
RIVER PRESS Fort B«nton
YOUR EYES
ARE BETTER
THAN MY
TALK...
ghat's why I want you
to come in and see for
yourself a sample of my
suits, riy suits are built
to last. Examine them
and see every detail—the
îems, collars, lining,
triming, etc.—and you
will see quality and hand
work everywhere
SEPARATE
TAILORED
SKIRTS
MEN'S---WOMEN'S
=SUITS=
CRANE'S
School Supplies
Office Supplies
Post Cards
Tobaccos, Candies and
Novelties
Subscriptions for al
Magazines and Papers
Post Office Store
"■ ^P AINTING
FINISHING
PAPER HANGING
DROP A POSTAL TO
S. KNOWLES
FORT BENTON, MON
Wa recommend the
Montana
Employment A r fncy
Both male and female help employed.
J. r^SOWAN, Prop.
Iii ~ end St. South
GhEAT FALLS Mont
Telephone 438 P. O. Box (té
Bear Greek Coal
JOHN NIUIR. Agent
Burn Gait
LUriP
and NUT
n Stoves and Ranges.
NELSON LUriP
and EGG
-or Furnaces and Steam.
H. LaBARRE , Local Agent.
Leave Orders at Benton Stables.
Best on the Market
(indling Wood for Sale
Phone.
41 red
You Can Own a Home
Cheaper in Fort Benton
Than in any other town in Northern
Montana. It's the best place to live
in twelve months in the year in the
United States. Fine schools, fine
churches, good people, fine climate.
Surrounding country rich. Ask about
those cheap town lots. Terms easy.
C. WILL MORRISON
FORT BENTON, MONT.
JAMES NOLAN,
Licensed Embalmer
"< Undertaker.
Main Street. •: Fort Benton
The Imported Belgian Stallion
JUPITER DE SOM
Will stand for the season at
George Elliott's livery stable
For terms, inquire of—
GEO. ELLIOTT, Fort Benton
HIRAM F. SMITH.
Cattle brandon >o
right ribs.
Horses same ti > 4
on right Bhonldc«
Vent for catUr ». <1
horses, same hrr, 4
on right hip.
P. O. addren»
Whitlash, Moni
Note—Address is given wrong in brand book I
H. T. Hmith, Highwood.
MILNER CATTLE CO.
M . E. Milner , Pres. and Manager, Fort Benton,
Montana.
Main brandi ai
shown in th« ac
oompanying cute.
Also own aU
cattle bearing t< e
•Ingle " squnr« "
,brand, and all
rebranded cattle
bearing oui»
cross P.
Also own br».o i
«n right biv
"square
Ranjre from Bear
Paw mountains ea • •
wj%i o to Fort Fée. {
between the Milk n i
Missouri rivers. AU j
south of th« Vi»«
souri river, between
Arrow creek and bai
Shonkln Iianire.
public land and mining
cases.
If you are interested in any contest
or any matter before the Interior De
partment, write to Clark & Wright,
registered land lawyers, 902 F Street
N. W. (opposite Gen'l Land Office),
Washington, D. C. Free information
about contests and where to obtain
scrip, locatable upon . public lands,
without residence or cultivation.
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