Phillips County News from Malta, Montana • Page 3

Tne PRjKNib4 A11ItALp jY. i clai re Wn11ce. HE rat-a-tat of the drums and the dauntless voice of the fife began to awaken the quiet streets early in the morning. Adam Roth, brought to his window by the insistent call of the fifes, raised his eyes to the cloudless blue of the spring sky and then let them shift back uneasily to his shabby room. As the sounds died away, Adam went and stood bdside the bed.

On it was laid the full uniform of a Zouave, discolored with the smoke of many battles, ragged and worn with the stress of weary marches. Near one shoulder a faded stain spoke of a wound received at Alexandria. Adam looked long on this uniform, and then, brushing away a mist before his eyes, he whispered the name "Dan!" Dan, the brad brother who had first donned them in '61, who had with unabated love and energy and pride worn them on every Memorial day since the first, had gone to the great "assembly," and only Adam was left. And Adam! There was no part for him in all these half pleasant, half I I I Ill I I c3 -I "There Goes One of Thorse Grizzly ighters, Boys." sad, reunions, these enthusiastic pawades through the great city, these glorious awakenings of memories of deeds well done in the past. That was what ate into his soul and blotted out the light in his face.

He had been a coward-coward! In those days, when the uniform before him had been a bright red, and the gun, leaning against the foot of the bed, had sparkled and shone, he had failed to answer the bugle call of his country. The sounds in the street below grew louder, and the sun streamed into the room, sending a sudden riot to Adam's heart. The veins in his temples throbbed like ceaseless threshing machines, separating all the chaff of his long life of failure and cowardice from this strange, burning prayer that sprang up within him, that he might once, only once, go forth in the uniform of the country he loved, to march behind the flag he had failed to protect, to be an American soldier! He found himself taking off his coat with shaking hands, and, almost before he realized it, he was hurrying into the uniform. He dusted the motheaten fez and put it on his head. The worn tassel fell over his ear, and he tossed it back with a new, free fling of his head.

The mantle of Dan seemed truly to have fallen upon him, bringing with it the spirit of '61. A man leading two little boys by the hand pointed him out to the children. "There goes one of those grizzly old fighters, boys. I tell you, they did great work!" The words reached Adam and sent a gleam to his eyes. With one great throb of his heart Adam stepped into the street and into line.

The man next to him in his direction, and his face whitened. Dan Roth! Surely old Dan Roth was dead! The whole post had heard of it nearly a year ago. Who, then, was this silent, mysterious figure, springing suddenly from the crowd and joining them? "Who are you?" asked the man. Adam wavered a moment before he answered. The simple query blotted out his cherished dream; perhaps it would make the continuance of his march impossible.

But finally he turned and answered: "Dan Roth's brother." Suddenly he felt the silent encour. agement of a handshake. The veteran meant to be his friend. Then the command of "Forward march!" came to them, and th4 Were off once more, this time flashing warm, triumph' ant, into Riverside drive. The long march was over.

Beside him stood the color-bearer, 6 holding aloft the tattered glory of the regiment. The words of the orator floated on the quivering air, and the cannon boomed from the gunboat in the river; but all sounds now seemed 3 to come to Adam from a great disI tance. He was aflame with the spirit I of devotion; the darkened 'lamp of I patriotism had been lighted anew in him, and in the whole world there was 3 nothing else. Presently Adam's kindling eyes fell upon a man among the crowd of specr tators, a man whose haggard face and twitching body marked him apart. Rage, wild, unreasoning rage at fate I cried out from all his features.

With some fascination Adam noticed that his eyes were fastened upon the Slag, or all that was left of it. But what i a gaze. His glance was a menace, his look burnt with the hatred of one whose hand is forever set against the I insignia of law and royalty. The ceremonies were Grawing to a close. A bugler stepped forward and played the first bar of the "Star Spangled Banner." From his higher place 3 Adam saw the man whom he had been 3 watching push his way to the edge of the crowd, directly facing the flag 3 The people were singing now.

3 The man's arm shot out. Something gleamed in the sunshine, something sang in the air above the words "in trimuph shall wave," and an old i Zouave stumbled and fell forward upon the white stones. The commander of the post stooped over the fallen man and lifted his i- head. The man was a stranger to him. He looked at a Zouave standing near, silently questioning him.

"He pushed in front of Peterson. sir, just as that scoundrel fired. He tried to grasp the flag, sir. I guess he a saw what the fellow aimed at." 1, "Who is he?" asked the officer. "And what is he doing here? He is not one of my men." I.

"He was Dan Roth's brother. We have all heard of him-he wa.e the boy that wouldn't join in '61. But to day-he-he-" The old man knelt down beside Adam. 't Just below the dim stain on the should der of Dan's jacket, the stain which a marked that day at Alexandria, there 'was a new, fresh one. The heart that lay beneath it was at peace.

(Coprvight, 190W, by J. 3. Lippincott Ce.) To the Devoted Dead A Memorial Day Poem EYOND a golden edge, the skies Are sapphire; drifted I argosies Bear April's showery pearls away. But leave-their rainbow tints passedOn field and wold, the flowers of May; Departing May; that in her arms These infant blossoms, to of her charms ad The dearest, gathers; and her last Farewell bestowing comes to cast aE Them on the mound of Memory. to of With martial step and roll of drums dl What spectral host is this, that comes pl Between the gates that guard the dead? Haste they to seek the willing bed? Ci Impatient is the grissled head Of daisled pillow? Bay not soi to While yet their Winter passeth slow a Here blooms perennial their Spring; fe And here the pledge of Hope they bring- ol And Love-that dieth not, bestow.

nl Where once their heart of youth was fain P4 Its rich florescence, white and red. Is Upon the field of strife to shed- Folded, the petals that remain; The morning glories of their youthThat drooped not in the midday drought- Have shut on Peace; as to a stem Stripped bare, the banners cling-of them a All, hath the beauty vanished-vain Their glory to invoke again. About the feet of these that stand Beside the headstone, hand in hand, fi Who once were foes-their children kneel II And break the close turf's emerald seal, ro let the sweet rain find the roots Xf grass and flower, and the shoots 8 Df rose and myrtle bid to grow, That, o'er the dust in love entwined, a Shall breathe upon the Summer wind 4 Sweets from the mold they bless below. let the banners come and go For old remembrance; dip them low Above the Dead that dared and died; Sod knoweth who are justified. about His Work He moveth slow; the roses fall, the roses blowHle will not hasten-tho' we flood the Earth with our impatient blood- I Nor that avail, of all we shed, ro paint one rose a deeper red.

Nor heeds the Rose, if of the clay Beneath, the tint be blue or gray; Nor Love, while human 'tis to err, Shall be Truth's hard interpreter. Plant nothing over me, that keeps Mdy heart apart from him that sleeps As faithful in his narrow bed As I in mine shall; with the Dead The Dead are reconciled-nor we Dare break their hallowed amity. Plant then the myrtle; blue and white Its flower, as Southern suns delight To deep its tint-or Northern snows To blanch its color; plant the rose Both white and red-and for the stars The periwinkle; fade the bars Of separation; stripes as red As the one blood their fathers shed, Bring ye, and bind the Peace that saves In unity, these sacred graves. The Flag! their sacred heritage, Their children's children shall engage, Their sponsors in a new baptismFor them to cherish; let that chrism On their dead brows descend, and bless The ancient bond of faithfulness With its renewal; so shall we March onward to great destiny; Nor one untoward memory stand Between us, in the Motherland. -John Harrison Mills, in The Sunday Magazine.

The Change of Years HE sentiment which surrounded Memorial day with feelings of sacred character, when it was inaugurated 41 years ago, has in a measure passed away with the lapse of time. Then the majority of the people of the United States had the graves of fathers, sons or brothers who had given their lives to the union to mark for honor and tender recollection. The memories of the great struggle for the union and freedom were enhanced by personal memories of the dead. The lapse of years has wrought an inevitable change. Even to the older part of the community who retain the memory of the civil war and its heroes the freshness of the recollection is lessened by the passage of time.

The greater part of the community is a new generation, whose knowledge of the events originally designed to be commemorated is obtained by reading or at second hand, without the force of personal memory. Naturally, therefore, the progress of time has made Memorial day an anniversary of honor for the principle of patriotism and of the memories of the dead, more than a revival of the personal feelings that hallowed the fIrst two decadge of the observanos ing a years Be in tt Diet wl Hints H. eat sami By DR. T. J.

ALLEN, amp Health Culture and Pood Ai Specialist. nfrst (Author of "Eating for a Purpose." etc.) stoll tainm alon or 1 E. N. am subject with to rheumatism, what diet would you the advise? prop all meats, white bread char and potatoes, unless baked. Eatfruitsor fish, toast for breakfast, make whole wheat agul or rye bread and nuts your staple fot the dinner, and have baked potatoes or the prunes in the evening.

Eat a whole fron meal of uncooked green vegetables oc- bun casionally, especially in spring. The alik more uncooked food you eat the bet- deli ter. Take half a lemon with a pint to inve a quart of hot water on rising, and a few apples and a tablespoonful of heal olive, or peanut oil morning and eve- disc ning. Avoid sudden changes of tem- coui perature and exposure to drafts and bad cold dampness. Take temperate Turk- kno ish towel bath every morning.

Exer- ablt cise regularly in open air. Drink die- cool tilled water freely. Use the electric abo vibrator. latih W. B.

Hurried have foot a boy 12 years old of nervous tempera- bee ment, four pounds under normal sec, weight; he is very excitable and has cull trouble in school on this account. He ing eats fast and prefers mush and other cos foods that he can eat hurriedly. What nut is the best way to prevent the firm es, able tablishment of this condition. but improve his general health, abl first investigate judiciously, to assure (Co yourself that you have a knowledge of all the causes of the boy's failure to de- NA velop properly. Children should have as large percentage of food as pos- Vet sible in dry form.

Furnish no liquid at meal time and especially no tea or coffee. In this case, let the staple of the breakfast be, instead of mush, I toast, with a little syrup or honey or one of the cereal preparations, which col compels normal chewing, with a ag( poached or whipped egg. For dinner lot' whole wheat bread, not fresh, with brc baked potatoes or Saratoga chips and rut for supper prunes boiled only a little ly or baked potatoes or corn bread; a full meal of uncooked vegetables only or yo fresh fruit only, occasionally. For the sta following nieal give corn bread with at peanut butter, making up the shortage nee in proteid and fat. Give a spoonful of 1or peanut or olive oil morning and eve- eff ning, and preferably not more than da two articles of food at once.

p1i Children should not be allowed to ke acquire the improper habit of eating wE rapidly. We are a nervous people and mf therefore, dyspeptic, largely as a re- br sult of eating too much, because we an eat too fast; and we eat too much ant op too fast because we are nervous. Food bu and thought are reciprocal. th Mrs. M.

advise ap- BE ples in the morning, but a single apple a causes me great distress, bloating and ku headache, some times for two or three of hours after eating. Should I eat ap- wl ples when they cause me so much in distress? or can no doubt remember tb when, as a child, say about ten years at old, you could eat several apples with- of out any unpleasant effects. If you were to eat nothing for four or five is days (or until your liver returned to normal condition) you could eat apples tC as well as ever. The apple contains malic acid, be sides fruit sugar, and small percent- hi ages of nearly all the elements of nutrition. The distress is due to an abnormal condition of the stomach and a liver, upon which the apple acts di- it rectly.

No drug is more specific. Now in the child and normal person the liver and stomach are acting naturally, fl and apples cause no distress. If you were to eat an apple the first day after having eaten nothing, or on the second day of a fast the distress would be extreme. The liver during the fast is making an effort to regain its nor. mal state, by using for house cleaning the vitality ordinarily spent in diges- tion, the cells in that organ not being over busy with their usual work of de- stroying the poisons which would othierwise destroy the entire organism.

Now malic acid is, like other acids, such as carbolic, a disinfectant or poison killer, a germicide, and as more work is going on in the house cleaning operation in the liver, the apple causes an extraordinary throwuing off of gas, causing this pressure in I the stomach and as the abnormal activities of the liver when burdE ted with poisonous waste from the allmentary canal are reflected through the sympathetic nervous system, over the eyebrows, you have this familiar headache, but after four or five days eating nothing, or only other fruit, say grapes, which would be very good in this case, the effects of the apples would be much less oppressive and in time you would not notice it at all, as in the case of a child whose liver is not yet somewhat debilitated as yours 1 must be. It seems plain that the effect of the apple is in the direction of the purifying process carried on by nature. Fruit acids are the natural blood purifiers, especially desirable in spring, but beneficial at all seasons. in the morne lag nature is most active, and is throwing off poisons, just as she is in childhood, causing many children's diseases which are means of eliminatL ing hereditary effects of wrong feedIng and of overfeeding in the first few FE years of life. Begin by eating a very little apple in the morning, and increase the fal amount gradually until by and by it will cause you no distress to eat two or three of them.

Apples are for you particularly adapted on account of this 1 natural stimulation of the liver, and ait general purifying qualities. ha H. L. Mixing one to eat acid fruits and proteids at the vet same meal, pork and apples for ex- bej ample? stl digest in an hour, pork pri in four or flee hqurs. The two (pods are eat first mixed by the movement of the re1 stomach.

Now the apples must be re- 1 tained longer than if they were there po alone, and thus spoil the meal, more thi or less; or, the pork must pass out is with the apples (it the apple is much at the larger portion) hours too soon for I1 proper digestion. Of course the first re) change in proteid food (meat, nuts, gii fish, beans, cereal gluten, etc.) is coagulation by the hydrochloric acid of th the gastric juice, in the stomach; but the natural process differs somewhat re from the action of fruit acids on al- WI bumen. No two acids act exactly br alike, and digestion is an extremely kii delicate process. We know that an ch invalid's digestion would be upset by apples and beans together, and the healthy person would waste vitality in disposing of such a mixture. Of course some mixtures are especially bad, as everyone of weak digestion knows, but some are less objectionable.

The time of milk, eggs (uncooked) and toast in the stomach is labout the same and their chemical relations are harmonious, though no two foods digest exactly alike and it has been shown that the character of the i secretions is determined by the yea culiarities of each food. The breaking up of the coarse casein curds of ai cow's milk by toast is beneficial. All nuts, all fruits, all cereals, most veget- I ables, are harmonious in their classes, but meat and milk, fruit and vegetables, meats and fruits are particularly inharmonious. (Copyright, 1909, by Joseph B. Bowins.) NAG HAD PLENTY OF SPEED.

Cu Veteran Trainer's Story of "Cripple" That Made a Show of the Rest of His Field. be A group of horsemen were talking lit "shop" in the lobby of the Raleigh. The he conversation turned to events of long in ago, and Theodore F. Coles of Cher- in lottesville, trainer of thorough- it breds, whose first experience with the at runner dates back to the days shortly following the war, told this one: b2 "There was a horse called Toana- at you remember him, probably, for he 3tb started in races at Gloucester. He was th a fast horse, and could beat pretty si nearly anybody's animal for six futr longs.

Long-continued racing had 1s8 effect on the horse, and in his latter a days his legs gave way. Repeated ap- plications of the firing iron helped to Pc 0 keep him going, but his legs always were under suspicion and required the most careful attention. One day they 3- brought him down from Guttenberg and entered him in a race. The horse t' opened in the betting at long odds, Ii but was backed off the slates before I the bugle called 'em to the post. Joe p- Bergen, who afterward was killed in a race, had the mount.

Joe didn't a know anything about the underpinning is of his mount until he got to the post, ti p- when he saw Starter Pettingill look. I ing down at Toana's front legs. On one of them he wore a bandage, 3r through which the iodine had soaked, ra and out of the top of the bandage oozed vaseline. said Pettingill, 'that horse is ready to break down. When I drop to the flag pull him up; I don't want you to get es "Joe suggested that Toana was car- rying a lot of money, but Pettingill 0 was obdurate, and when he sent the it- horses away Bergen did as he was told of and pulled up.

He let Toana gallop in after the field for a quarter of a mile, Id and then, finding that Toana was goif- ing easily and apparently sound, he I gave the horse his head, and Toana I he didn't do a thing but overtake that I ly, field from the head of the stretch, and i Du go on and win. Poor Joe met his ay death riding just such a dicky-legged he Post. LAt Moonshiners Were Children. or. A party of revenue officers who re.

ng turned from the notorious York settlees- ment in the "dark corner" of South ng Carolina, reported they had found le- three children, none more than ten th- years old, making brandy with a still m. they had constructed themselves. This is one of the most out-of-theor way sections in the country, and as when the officers made the raid they 1se found little apparent effort to hide he the stills. The children evidently had W' seen the work going on all their lives in and had been brought up to look on ac' it as an honorable means of making Led a livelihood. ill.

The still used by the children conggh sisted of a wooden bucket for a "cap," rer a pair of kegs for "doublers" and a iar bored poplar limb for a "worm," iys through which brandy was trickling into a beer bottle. in lee Saving Br'er Possum. in "But Uncle Rufus," said the north. as ern visitor in the land of cotton and is yam, "if you colored folks knew that ars baked possum was far superior to broiled chicken it is a wonder you the didn't tell about it?" Ify- Uncle Rufus removed his pipe and 'uit laughed. 3rs, "No, indeed, boss," he chuckled.

but "Dat's de very reason we didn't tell irn- about et. Marse Taft found et out is quick enuf. Ef de white folks had In known all along dat baked possum 'n's was es good es broiled chicken der sat- wouldn't be a possum in de whole sed- Dixie by dis time, sah." FEW CARESSES III HER LIFE Infinite Pathos in Remark Made Op Little Philadelphia Child of the Slums. Dr. Herman L.

During, superinten4. ent of the Philadelphia City mission, has for many years devoted his life to the poor. Dr. During is the inventor of the pretzel test for street beggars. When a street beggar pleads starvation, you buy him a big German pretzel at the nearest stand.

If he eats the pretzel, he is honest; iK he refuses it, he is a fraud. Dr. During In his work among the poor has learned many odd, quaint things that he relates superbly, for he is a born story-teller. In an address at Bala, apropos of the hard, rough lives of the children of the poor, he related a dialogue between two little girls in Rum alley. "Maggie, wuz ye ever kissed? said the first tot.

wunat in me life wot I kin rem, said the second. 'When I wuz in de Honnyman hospital wid a broken arm one o' de lady nusses kissed me, an' I blushed like a ONE AGREEMENT. Mr. Henpeck-It's no use. We can't agree on a single subject.

1 Mrs. Henpeck-You're wrong, dear. I always agree with you on the weather. SKIN TROUBLES CURED. Two Little Girls Had Eczema Very Badly-In One Case Child's Hair Came Out and Left Bare Patches.

Cuticura Met with Great Success. "I have two little girls who have been troubled very badly with eczema. One of them had it on her lower Lg limbs. I did everything that I could te hear of for her, but it did not give in until warm weather, when it seemr- ingly subsided. The next winter when h- it became cold the eczema started 1e again and also in her head where it would take the hair out and leave bare patches.

At the same time her arms were sore the whole length of 1e them. I took her to a physician, but is the child grew worse all the time. Her sister's arms were also affected. began using Cuticura Remedies, and by the time the second lot was used their or skin was soft and smooth. Mrs.

Charles P' Baker, Albion, Sept. 21, '08." to Potter Drug Chem. Sole Boston. ya he What Kind of an "Office." sy Once upon a time a child who was rg asked on an examination paper to deo fine a mountain range, replied: "A is, large-sized cook stove." The same re method of reasoning seems to go with oe older growth. A recent examination in paper at the Sheffield Scientific school it at Yale contained the question, "What ng is the office of the gastric juice?" And at, the answer on one paper read: "The )k Magazine.

Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reset the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or consti. tutional disease, and In order to cure It you must take Internal remedies. Halal's Catarrh Cure Is taken In. ternally.

and acts directly upon the blued and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medl oine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians In this country for years and Is a regulac prescriptlo. It Is composed of the best tonics known. combined with the best blood purif ors, acting directly on the mucous surfaces.

The perfect combination of the two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful re. sults In curing catarrh. Send for testimooialas. free. F.

J. CHENEY Toledo, Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constIpation. The Grind That Dulls. If a scissors grinder kept his blade on the whetstone unceasingly the scissors would soon be useless.

The grind that dulls women is not daily household duties. The housewife who is knowing keeps herselt sharpened with frequent change and recreation. Important to Mothere. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always bought Nearly all of the world's supply of asbestos comes from Canada.

WE SELL AWNINGS, TENTS. ETC. American Tent Awning Minneapolis Corns are proof that nature is capable of small, mean things. WE lILY CREAM, BUTTER, EGGS. Samcls Minneapolis, Minn.

Go to sleep without supper, but rise without debt. I 75 "ouara.