Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-07-04


. she departed with he: husband for a foreign
country. Where they have gone to i. I'm.
known. .s5
Ensterf Phllantlar0py.
i While Eastern churches are petitioning
i Heaven in behalf Of the prosecuted Modocs,
and Eastern journals are characterzing the
people of Oregon IS barbarous outlaws be-
cause they desire the Indians punished for
/ the innocent amusement OF scalping our
friends ard ncighbors, strange scenes are
/ being enacted III their own midst A cor
respondent writing from Providenc Rhode
islaud, and speaking of tile recent strike of
the starved and oyer-worked mill operatives
IN that city says: "While the leaders OF the
strike. most Of the men in it. in fact, are not
much hurt by working clever hours day,
it Is killing the. wcmen and children. Out on
the DyersilIe road was a meeting Of the Oh
neyville strikers Perhaps there were fifteen
! hundred people there, and at lesst three
Ifourths Of them we're women and children.
The women locked worn and i,aggard and
/ wild-eyed, and Lot one in twenty of them
seemed TO possess hysicaland mental health.
There were boys Of all ages there, but they
appeared to stand their toll pretty well and
TO be as lively with animal spirits as most
boys in their social scale. But the saddest
sight of all WAS the little iris. Some of
them, apparently, were not more than ten
years old, and their eyes were sunken, their
cheeks colorlcss and hollow, their shoulders
and arms sllr',fkcn, and had they been more
neatly dressed one might hare thought
lie Institution. Hardy orc Of them looked
rs though she Ind five years OF life left in
/ her II tire strike should result i'll nothing
more tlr,il TO give these pale. wan children a
lew days III the open air, it viii have done
good
Where are the hypoelitical Ii. .erty y-shrekers
OF New England who are ever ready to weep
over the wrongs of the poor negro and In
dian, and whose hands are always thrust
deep into their pockets to aid the undes ery-
! ing! Under the shadow Of the very tenn
/ Piles in which they pretend to worship just
aud mercifnl God are little girls Of their own
race ard blood, .,their eyes sunken, their
/ cheeks colorless and hollow. their shoulders
aud arms shrunken," while their mothers,
worn haggard and wild-eyed," hover in de-
spair over their famisbing brood. Are not
these mothers and children worthy objects
OF christian sympathy and aid? Are they
not at least entitled to simple justice? Alas
not in the cold blooded wor shippers cf mann
mon among whom their lots are cast. New
i England supports Grant, however, and like
ancient Rome, sits upon its seven hills and
from its throne OF greed and .avarice rules
the nation. We wish the starved and wasted
forms of those Providence starvellngs could
be marched in mourniul procession through
out the length and breadth Of the land that
/ the laborin. masses of the people might see
TO what they must all come 1T last unless
there is a swift, radical and thorough reform,
in every department. OF the government
State Rights Democrut.
/
/ AN UNPLEASANT PRoPHET.-A decidedly
| sensational story comes from Vienna. Fran
els Joseph is said to have been warned snc-
cessively by second sighted old peasant of
Transylyania that Maximilian would be shot.
and that the campaign of 1866 would prove
| very disastr. us to Austria. The aged seer
j appeared third time quite recently to tell
his sovereign that III another vision he had
witnessed a Prince of the Imperial house
/ opening the Austrian Parliament as Regent
for tile Empire. This official had also ingra-
tiated himself with the people by promising
/ to rule them in truly liberal spirit. The
/ Prince, the dreamer added, was married be-
/ low his rank, and had been in Vienna for
/ sometime past without the Emperor's know
ledge. This scared Francis Joseph. for he
/ recollected that the PEASANTS former. .predie-
/ tions had been fulfilled. 1t appeared on. .tnr-
! ther investigation that the Archduke Henry,
d cousin of the Emperor, and the husband .ol
an actress, was secretly in the metropolis
i His Imperial relative at once hunted him up
and had fight with his predicted rival. Civ
4 ing him bloody nose among other marks o.
4 sovereign displeaspre.
4 This is said to lie the origin Of the Cant
8 tell lie'' story. .Georgey. boy" said the
grandfather to the future father Of his coun.
4 try. Benny FIanklin's father is soap boiler
8 and lie is going to grow up and call down the
4 fire from heaven. Yours is not, YET You arg
8 not wholly uninstructed, my son. in the sci
i ence OF chemistry. Tell me, then, since
i have leached these cherry-vood ashes FOL
more than week. is the liquid ready fol
1 soap greaseg' The hero Of Monmouth
! Trenton. and such, let up for space upon
i stick he was whiting to reply, with all the
Ilingcnuoasness of childish ignorance, /. Faith
er, cannot tell lye. Alter that he passee
! into history.