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= \ » v . -- t a VOLUME XX NUMBER 21 BOULDER, JEFFERSON COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDA RECOMMENDS STATE FLAG. - ‘The Following, Recommendations , Were Made by Board of Trustees. Mrs. Laura B, Howey, librarian of the State Historical society, bas led her bi- ennial report with Governor Toole. It shows that during the past two years 3,618 volumes have been received at the libra- ry, while about 100 state newspapers are on file, together with 45 magazines and out of state papers. The remarkable growth of the museum as referred to, tep-Targe casea now being five the exhibits. rian recommends the adeption of a state flag at the coming session of the legislature, and suggests a blue field with the state seal in the center: The following recommendations are made by the board of trustees: “The furvishing or completion of the three vaults in the sub-basement; the publication of 500 volumes of the biennial report of the board of trustees, the same , to include the report of the librarian, or so much thereof as in the jadgment ot the board may be of sufficient interest to the public to justify the expense of pub- lication; the publication in 1905 of a book catalogue; the publication in 1906 of volume VI of ‘Contributions’; the em- ployment of trained assistants; the pur- chase of the bound files of the Herald; | the publication in convenient form of, state library laws; the purchase of' new | books that should be on the library shelves | but cannot be obtained by exchange. We | also approve the recommendation of the | librarian for the adoption of a state flag.” The Helena Record says: “For Saint Vitus dance, rubber heels.’ To which the Butte Miner adds: ‘‘It is just as effective tu_rubberneck for tonsilitis.” C. A. Snow & Oo., patent lawyers of Washington, D. ©., will send to anyone, free, a pocket memorandum book and diary for 1905 on receipt of - actual postage, a two cent stamp. We haye one. It is worth several times the money. We are sorry to chronicle the ill- ness of “Buck”? Hudnall at Helena. He is suffering from lung trouble and his case at this writing is very serious. Heis a prince on general principles, and to miss him entirely would be regretted by a large number of friends. We hope for his speddy recovery. Goop bye candle Jantern! A little pocket search-light has been invent- ed, costing only $2, including electric battery to be recharged every two months at a costof 30 cents. Hence- forth the girls can go home from singing school alone. Ask C. B. Rob- ertson about them. No, not the girls, the search-lights. There isa new society game out, called the “onion game,” says the Great Falls Leader. One girl bites a picce off an onion and the boys pres- ent pay 10 cents for the privilege of guessing who it is. The fellow who guesses right kisses the- other girls and the one who guesses wrong has to kiss the girl who bit the onion, It is said the game has its strong points. A You can hardly find a home without its Ayer’s Cherry Pecioral. Parents know what it does for children: breaks Cherry Pectoral up acoldin a single night, wards off bronchitis, prevents pneumonia. Physicians ad- vise parentsto keep it on hand. “The medicihe money can sisi Ses barat eae Saratoga, 00, 7.0, i ‘ j BY A. W. FERRI Copyright, 1904, by A. W. Feria ROBABLY few persons crowds which surge through the in the in a big leather chair and glues his eye \ ‘ a ~~“ ccorestht peepee okie terious wheel causes the observatory roof to part from the center and reveal a wide slice of sky studded with stars. The astronomer reclines comfortably to the small end of the big. tube. In streets of city and village on | his hand is a little thing he calls a key, New Year’s eve, armed with horns ‘and rattles with which to add to the din of stentorian voices, screech- ing whistles and jangling bells on the stroke of 12, know just how the exact moment when the old year dies and the new year is born is determined, or how, from the United States naval ob- servatory in Washington, the time sig- nal is flashed to the four quarters of the globe, announcing to white, black, brown and yellow men that it is 12 o'clock and that the birth of another year is officially registered in Uncle ‘| Sam’s bureau of vital statistics. There have always been New Year's days, and doubtless the New Year cele- brators of former days have had some way of knowing approximately when to start the festivities, but it iswell to be accurate, and but for the lynx eyed star gazers in Washington some of us might be beginning our new year at 10 p. m. or 3 a. m. ; The system by which the government looks after this important duty re quires master minds and intricate ma- chinery, though to the unthinking it may seem to méan no more than the dropping of time balls and the blowing of whistles. In the first place, the time must be taken from the sky, for the sun is the real giver of time as well as of light and heat. And here is where the tele- scope comes into play. The twenty-six inch equatorial telescope, which is some- times used in the determination of time, was at the time of its erection in the old naval observatory in 1873 the lar- gest in the world. Since then five or six others, notably the Lick telescope, have surpassed it in size. When the telescope was removed to its new site in Georgetown ten years ago improve-— ments were made in the mounting, and | it still ranks as one of the best instru- ments in the world... With this tele- scope Professor Asaph Hall discovered the two small moons of Mars, and it | has other important discoveries to its credit. The smaller telescope, which is usual- ly employed in time determination at the observatory, is a fixed transit in- strument of brass, mounted so that it swings easily on a pivot. When it is pointed heavenward a turn of a mys- to which are attached insulated wires leading into the néxt room, where the standard and transmitting clocks are located. The glass is so aimed that when any standard star reaches the meridian it crosses a hair arranged in the telescope’s field of view. that instant the astronomer presses the key, which sends the information to the standard clock. Connected with this clock is the curious chronograph which ceaselessly draws red lines on a cylin- der of white paper by means of an electrically controlled pen, The pen makes a break in “its line, making the meridian, and the necessary correction to the big clock is easily made there- Every day just befere noon the trans- | enanarr TIME INSTRUMENT, NAVAL OB- SERVATORY, WASHINGTON. mitting clock is compared with the | standard clock, is synchronized and | then put into electrical connection with the whole system of the Western Un- _ An Are Light College Yell. At a lecture at Missouri university an arc light suddenly said “Hello!” and then talked rapidly for several mo- ments, interrupting the lecturer, says a Columbia dispatch. It was found that the sound was due to the fact that a telephone wire had crossed the electric light wire, so that the sound was trans- mitted into the arc light, the flame act- ing as a receiver and reproducing the The students have perfected a contrivance by which an arc light may be made to. produce any sound desired. At a party given the co-eds. to exhibit the inven- tion the arc light laughed, sang and voice with startling distinctness. from the county commissioners to the | eireult court Judge James B. Wilson | found for Jones owing to an error in | the wording of: the remonstrance. In ‘the hope of ultimately defeating Jones | the remonstrators appealed to the ap- | pellate court. ae ——— Edwin Hawley, Railroad King. Hdwin Hawley, whose sensational coup in wresting control of the Alton ‘railroad from BH. H. , Ye ' Harriman was the G talk of Wall strect, ZA | arrived in New , } York an unsophisti- cated country lad. finally gave the varsity yell. He was born in ee 4] Chatham, N. Y., in A College President Fighting Rum. in 1850. He has . William Lowe Bryan, president of if | been president of Indiana university, at Bloomington, is _ the Minneapolis and the principal figure in a liquor license — St. Louis railway case recently appealed to the Indiana | since 1896 and pres- appellate court from the Monroe coun- | ident of the lowa ‘ty circuit court. Hundreds of Bloom- Central railway since 1900. He is ington residents, headed by President fourth vice president of the Southern Bryan and members of the faculty, pacific railway and a director in sev- . Joined in a remonstrance against the eral dther roads. He lives, in unpreten- granting of a license to Charles L. | tious style in New York city, but bas a Jones, a Bloomington saloonkeeper. peautiful country place on Long Is- } Y, DECEMAER 29. 1904 ion Telegraph company. The clock ticks away, and at precisely 12 the offi- cer in charge closes the circuit. The final tick of the clock lis noon to thousands of waiting telegraphers, and hundreds of automatic clocks are in- stahtaneously corrected to agree with the transmitter in Washington. By this same process is sent out the signal which divides two years, only on New Year's night the final tick of the transmitter is awaited even more intently than the daily sign. Observa- tories in other countries are interested in knowing how their clocks agree with those in Washington, and news which may change the bistory of the world must wait until the time signal has been received. How quickly 'this signal files over | the land and under the sea was shown to the visiting delegates to the recen international geographical con when Secretary Morton of the navy @ midnight touched the time. button in the presence of a distinguished gath- ering. Replies came in at once in ¢ Wrench, Spanish and ail the other mod- ern languages. The City of Mexico re- ported that it received the signal thir- ty-six one-hundredths of a second after it had started from Washington. San Francisco got it within thirty-two one- hundredths of a second. The signal was sent out in two directions, over the Pacific cable from San Francisco and under the Atlantic, through the Med- iterranean, Suez and India. The mes- sages met at Adelaide, Australia. | he New Year In Wall Street. The last day of the old year on the Stock Exchange, in Wall street, that fateful place where fortunes are made and lost from minute to minute and where money is supposed to be the , only thought, is the gayest day of all “the 865, and the brokers celebrate it with an abandon in which everything but fun is forgotten. Tin horns, flutes, toy trumpets and drums shrill and rat- tle, while from the galleries, crowded’ with women, confetti and ‘paper stream- ers are thrown on the heads of the hj- , larious bulls and bears, aff even the ' well fleeced lambs gambol in glee. Silk | hats become footballs, and scrimmages | turn the floor of the exchange into a great gridiron. A tug of war is one of the features of the day, with toys as prizes, and the oldest financiers struggle valiantly for victory. The ex- citement ends with a grand cakewalk and promenade, headed by a band playing “Auld Lang Syne.” = Silent Japanese Women. Japan has its communities of silent female recluses. There is a convent at a place called Yunakawa, about sev- en miles from Hakodate. A matron of some fifty years presides, and her instructions are implicitly obeyed. The ‘women are all young, ranging from six- teen to twenty-seven, and some of them dre described as very beautiful. ‘The building stands in a farm of some 250 acres, but the women do not en- gage in any agricultural work. They spend most of their time indoors, and they observe a strict rule of silence. Lest on a Foul. “Have you a taste for music?” asked Miss Chilbeen of Boston. , “I don’t know,” replied the million- aire mine owner’s daughter from Lead- pipe Guich. “I never tasted any, but I like to hear it played.” That ended it, for Miss Chilbeen was down and out for twenty minutes, though she afterward claimed that she lost on a foul.—Cincinnati Commercial Lecturer With a Record, wedish Good Templar, ALL HOME a dem The New Twin-screw Steamer “Minnsota” The ‘‘Minnesota,’’ whieh sails from Seattle on Saturday, January 21, her initial trip in the trans-Pa- cific trade with the Orient, typifies the highest achievements in Ameri- can shipbuilding. She is the hea- viest cargo-carrying vessel in the world, and her passenger aecommo- dations are unequaled on the Pacifie and take first rank with the great Atlantic liners. Broad decks and large cabins, superior service and every convenience known to mod- ern shipbuilding, ensure the ‘full enjoythent of a Pacific voyage. 2,000 people, including 250 cabin passengers, 68 intermediate and 1,500. troops, or Asiatic steerage passengers, may be accemmodated on this os vessel, which is 680 feet in length; 73 feet 6 inches beam, and 56 feet in depth. from keel to are deck amidships, the total depth from the upper naviga- ting bridge to the keel being 88 feet 4 inches. All first-cabin pas- sengers are berthed amidships, the intermediate are on the main deck forward, and the steerage are berth- ed on the same deck aft. Nine decks serve to meet the require- ments of passengers, crew and car- go. The ship has 82 water-tight comparcments and is fitted with bilge keels to insure steadiness from the metion of the sea. The public rooms, cabing and hallways are all mechanically ventilated with filtered hot and cold air. The ap- pointments of this vessel through- out are such as to fully provide for the comfort; ty and health of passengers under all conditions. The Great Northern Steamship company, with its direct railroad connestion in the t northern railways of the United States of America, has an unrivaled hical position, which fact, ta- en in connection with the: splen- didly equipped and palatially ap- pointed steamers, should decide the route of trans-Pacific travelers. The track followed by the company’s vessels is the shortest to the Orient. As will be seen by reference to the track chart, the distance from Puget Sourid to Yokohama being 4,260 miles. Revolution Imminent. A sure sign of approaching revolt and serious trouble in your system is nervous- ness, sleeplessness, or stomach upsets. Electric Bitters will quickly dismémber the troublesome causes. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver and clarif the blood, Run down systems benefit particularly and all the usual attendin, aches vanish under ite searchin cal thorough effectiveness. Electric Bitters is only 50c, and that is returned if it don’t give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by Boulder drugstore. j THE FIRST SAILING Saturday, Jamary 21 of the Magnificent New Twin: Screw. Steamer, “WINNESOTA” Sailing from Seattle, Wash., for Japan, China and. the Philippines. Built expressly for the Asiatic trade, by the Great Northern Steamship Com., The Largest and Finest Equipped Steam - ship ever built in the United States, For rates and full particulars call on or address, F. I, WHITNEY, Gen. Pase’r & Ticket Agent, St. Paul, Minn, or to the Local Agent of the Great Northern Railway. a t 2 ae Se ei
