The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-29
1MAN MONTANA TERRITORY, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 90 1879

dEMAN, MONIANA "a
II The Gates Ofthe Rocky Mountain.
Awriter In the Freemason thus truthful
and beautifully describes scenery which is ia
millar those OF our readers who have mad
the trip up the Missouri. Among the runner
Gus and wonderful natural curiosities whicl
Itie hand of Nature has strewn from til,
Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, there ar,
probably none equal in grandeur and wilt
Oeanfy to the rocky abyss through which the
mighty Missouri rolls its waters. The Gate.
of the Rocky Mountains is the name thai
Captain Lewis gave TO that deep canon
through which the waters of this mighty
river emerge from the mountain range Ia
reach the more level prairies, and, after a
course q over three thousand miles. empty
j INTO tne noble Mississippi. Nothing can be
more imposing, more grand, more romantic
4 than those perpendicular palisades of granite
rising from height Of from fifteen hundred
20 two thousand feet. Viewing these pal
isades from the river below, the traveller is all
most lea to believe they reach the bright blue
sky s9 lss.tl y ( tsi ia
On the summit Of those rocky walls the pine
grows on the very verge of the yawnino Dreei-
plce, which its branches overhang. From
the river below, the trees seem no larger than
Young willows, and to the astonisned naviga-
tor OF tins romantic canon. seem as if at any
moment they were to fall ond crush him and
his fraii skiff. For eighteen miles this rocky
wall encases the waters OF the river: the sui
hardly sends its rays to the bottom of the
river, while toward the summit the walls OF
the canon seem to sparkle in the rays of that
luininaFy as If composed of the most beauti-
ful ndprecious stones. at5t 5365 a IEH
Our eastern friends who boast of the palis-
AIDES of the Hudson, the Highlands at New
bnrgll. and the defiles Of the Catskiil Noun /
tains as stupeIdous and grand. should visit I
tte Gates Of the rocky Mountains. and then
they will find that their (so-called) stipend
Gus natural curiosities ar. nothing but pig
mics along side Of that immense mountain
range which divides the great American Con-
tinellt into two equal parts. Scenery more
grand and imposing is hardly found on this I
continent; and no mortal pencil can truly I
delineateits beauty;
MAKING PRISONERS WoRK.-The s, F.
Real Estate Circular has the following sens,-
BILE remarks on this subject: .sWhen society
[inds it necessary to punish a man by con
ining him in Jail, if it does not make him do
something to pay the expenses OF his board
while there, is it not furnishing itself also in
he tax imposed to sustain him in id eness?
That. however, is only one aspect of the case .
here are two others-one of humanity and
me Of punishment. To the men who have
my good left to them, work will be great
eHef from the rigorous monotony of incar- !.
eration, while work to the lazy will be
nucir greater punishment than confinement
)ur pockets, then, will be relieved, the best
lass OF prisoners will be grateful to us. and
he sponges, for whom confinement in idle
ess has no terror. will be punished by our
equiring them to work. y.
A fine and just remark lately made, as we -
re told. by the Crown Prince Of Prussia is u
,Orth repeating. .Some of u.s. said he, \
may not admire or love Republicanism, but 2
lis as impossible to hate Nature herselfo u
his is an admission of the normal equity Of .
'emocratic principles OF government. Ma
ons may not entirely or at all secure the u
lessings OF selfgovernment fortune may y
rny it to them as it sometimes deniesa WELL ~
,un.edi career to individuals experiments Is
ay turn out failures, but the truth of the ih =
.inciplc remains unchalenged by honest z
mixers. while suffering man continues to "
ream Of it it only as an impracticable a.
eality. u
BULwER's IDEA OF DEBT Each to his to
ste!-but charge yon, sir, that, being sf
,ggared, you would coin false moneys out tp
that crucibE called debt. 10 live on se
cans not yoairs-be brave I'M silks andIaces, tb
llant i'm steeds, splendid iii bai1queas;; all III
t yonrs-ungiven, uninherited, and unpaid +,
r-this is to be a trickster; and to fich -
ems art and labor. Which to them is wealth, :,
E. daily bread Why this, forgive ME, il !, I,
nat, when done. with a less dainty grace. 4;
ain folks call '.theJF..-B But,oer's Richel;eu. 20
A SMALL bull-pup.ai,d a N wfoundland dog as
IN S"HusSou III O aoS DSiG ii6dT lIiG LdhC- -
Nv IN. 10 depot, on the Erie Railway, ,.one in
= lately. The battle would undoubtedly sa
We ended in aetiraw had not the little dog
He'd his antagonist ongthe track and held dr
n there till train came along The little ne
g crouched down and the train went over ea' ol'
n without hurting him, while the big dog %, M
s ground to sausage meat. Affidavits can pll
produced to this assertion, from the Erie I'M
ilway agent of that station.- Exchange. ga
We don't need any affi lavit as to the fight, ins
{ the quality and dispoasl OF the sausage sai
at needs further proof. IN
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rhe ten largest library in the United Stat 8,
il the number of books in each. are as fol-
VS.: Library Of Congress, 183, 600; Boston 49,
bic LihsaFy l5S 900 Astor library New l.'
rk. 13S,00O; Harvard Library, Cambridge, -,
900; Mercantile Library; New Fork. 1o4 til ~.
!; Athenaum Library Boston. 10000; ;ts
ladclphia Library, s5,00o; New York a a,
tel Library. Albany, 7e,OO0, New York as.s, s.,
iety Library, 5000; Yale college Lii ri 4
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he editor Of the Seymour Times is the hig
,eekiest'' man I'll the State. Hear him J. I
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