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Lion Hunting on a Steamship.

The Pail Mall Gazette has the following:
"Lion-hunting on board a steamship is
certainly a novelty, and yet the passengers
and crew of the Euphrates and Tigris
Steam Navigation Company's vessel City
of London, seem to have had most excit-
ing and successful lion-hunt ON the 10Th of
March last. From the account given by
correspondent Of the iii nmsf e6 ttasq tas
when at the junction of the two rivers Eu-
pirates and Tigris, where the rivers had
overhowed the embankments, three full
grown lions were seen walking along the
shore in the water about a mile ahead Of
the steamer. On nearing the beasts, one
was shot dead while trying to swim toward
the ship. The launch was manned to pick
up the carcass, and the steamer pursued
the two others who had turned round to
charge the vessel. After many shots had
been fired at them one was struck dead by
the commander, and the other was shortly
after despatched by a bullet from Snider.
The steamer then approached the bank, and
the dead lions, or rather lionesses, for such
they proved to be, were taken on board.
about ten minutes later d large ffsie Hea
was observed crouching down on a small
tract of ground, surrounded with water, and
waving his tail, perhaps as a signal Of dis
tress. On being fired at he gave tremen-
dous roar, and, with his name standing on
end, advanced to charge the ship, when a
fresh volley laid him low. He, too; was
carried on board when thoroughly dead land
his dimensions were as follows Length
from head to end of tail, feet inches;
length of body, 6 feet 7 inches; height, 3
feet 81 inches; weight, 420 pounds. The
like of this incident, it is stated, had never
occurred before in that part of Mesopota-
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How Writ Found a Wife.

A recent sketch of the loves of the great law
yer contains this touching incidentin the life
of VIM. Writ: In his younger days he was
drinks which has been the bane of SO many
distinguished in the legal profession. At
fianced to q beautiful and accomplished
young woman, he had made and broken re-
peated pledges of amendment, and she, af-
ter patiently and kindly enduring his dis
graceful habit had at length dismissed him,
deeming him incorrigible. Their next meet
ing after his dismissal was in public street
in the city Of Richmond. VIM. Writ lay
drunk and asleep, on the sidewalk, ON
hot summer day, the rays of the sun pour
ing down on his uncovered head and the
flies crawling over his swollen features.
As the young lady approached in her
walk, her attention was attracted by the
spectacle, strange to her eyes, but alas / so
common to others who knew the victim, as
to attract little remark She did not at
first recognize the sleeper, and was about
to hasten on, when she was led ON by one
of those impulses which form the turning
point in human lives to scrutinize his feat+
ures. vi What was her emotion when she
recognized in him her discarded lover I
She drew forth her handkerchief and care
fully spread it over his face, and hurried!
away. When Writ came to himself he
found the handkerchief, and in one corner,
the beloved name. With q heart almost
breaking with grief and remorse, he made
new VOW of reformation. He kept that
vow, and he married the owner Of the hand-
karchief as t3 'Stt .
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: The Latest Literary Forgery.

s.FgV
slJtFs From the san Francisco Open Letter
Fer some time past a poem entitled
3 Binley and dc - has been going the
rounds of the press, .purporting to have
been written by Bret Harte. Ofconrse the
average editor on seeing poem by Bret
Harte grabbed his shears and cut 1T out TO
reprint. 1t finally reached FrGaE Eestse's,
and was given the benefit Of aafnll page
Illustration by Matt, Morgan. The poem
appeared for the first time in the Open
Letter, and it's history is as follows:
Some weeks ago one of the editors OF the
Omen Letter made the assertion thata poem
written in the style of any well known poet,
no matter how absurd, would be copied
clear to the Atlantic seaboard. This point
was disputed, and accordingly the poem
was written in the Open Letter, office as
contribution by Bret Harte, and published
as such. The result was as expected. The
papers were sold, and we now take the
Opportunity ofinfmmingt them that, as the
Joke has gone 80 far, they might as well
know all about it. ass SIS .t ttsS. ss...
hi the first place, the complete absurdlty
of the poem ought to strike anybody. 1t
represents an engineer rushing through the
snow blockade without any stoker, and at
last freezing to death by the very side Of q
blazing fire and steam up The publication
of the literary fraud had two results
that of proving how much the aceeptatson
of matter depends upon the name iit bears !;
secondly, that the discriminating and crit
ical powers of the average American editor
are fli the lowest.
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+" High Toned oratory in the Pulpit
The Evangelist.

The Evangelist ....5
The habit of shouting so loud as to offend
the eur is perhaps equally objectionable,
to the other is sufficiently artificial to COM
prehend the evils of both. But there is
another and growing fashion SO vicious, SO
offensive to good taste, SO destructive to.
spiritual emotions, and SO repellant to
serious contemplations, that public speaker
has need only to hear himself as others hear
him to feel conscience -smitten for disturbing
public worship. It is the abrupt transition
from low to high-not mere halooing-tliat
expression is quite too tame, but an instan-
taneous, startling yell, which would drown
the sound of a savage war-whoop. Let no
one think this is caricature Of what is
sometimes witnessed in public speakers. 1t
would be difficult to select language forcible
enough to make the description hyperbol-
ical. If there be any who, not having
witnessed an instance of this miscalled
oratory, are unable to recognize this photo
graph, let him imagine himself seated in a
house of worship in devout frame of mind,
listening, with absorbed attention to an
instructive discourse, in harmony with his
serious contemplations, delivered in q tone
of voice adapted to the sentiment and to
the awakened feelings of the congregation,
when, instantly, as with an electric shock,
the speaker utters a YELL that falls painfully
on the dullest-ear. The rupture OF a water
spout would not more surely discharge its
contents than .sach an explosion would
empty the mind of all serious thoughts.
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A New Code of War Rules.
Outline Of the Treaty to be Agreed Upon
by the Approaching Diplomatic Con-
ference at Brussels.

The London Times. of June 10, publishes
| q despatch from Berlin, which gives the
| probable action of the Congress which will
assemble at Brussels next month to con-
slider the subject of international rights in
time of war. The Times correspondent
| says the Congress will codify the recognized
usages of international law in so faras they
affect the actual conduct of war. A new
code is to be enacted IN the form of an in
ternational treaty which promises to be-
come the first law common in the whole
civilized world. The draft of treaty
which is to be submitted to the Congress
has been prepared. 1t contains twenty
seven clauses, which state in detail the
rights and obligations of belligerents from
mutual claims of belligerent States down to
the relations of those States to private indi-
yiduals. They also specify what classes of
arms shall be legitlmately used in war, and
make regulations for the treatment of pris-
oners.
The English Branch of the Universal
Alliance" recently issued circulars bearing
on the above, of which the following is the
substance: A deputation of the branch
was received ON Thursday, May 81, at
Buckingham Palace, for the purpose of
rendering their acknowledgements to the
Emperor of Russia for the manner in which
he has expressed his sympathy with the OBJ
jects of the alliance. By his order the I'm
perial Cabinet at ST. Petersburg has pre-
pared the draft of a project consonant with
that of the Universal Alliance, to be sub
mitted to the various Cabinets, and intend
ed to determine the rules to be observed in
time of war, especially in reference to the
treatment of prisoners. He has also, in ac-
cord with the Universal Alliance, fixed on
BRUSSELS for the meeting of the diplomatic
conference for the above purpose, which
will commence its sittings ON the 9th of
July next, and he has further signifed his
wish that the Government of the United
States, and of other distant countries to
which the early date fixed for the confer
ence may prevent a formal diplomatic inyi-
tation being addressed, should appoint del
gates to represent them on the occasion.
From this conference will emanate code
of International Jaw embracing the whole
outline of facts relative to state of war.
This code will constitute q second great
step in advance-the first having been taken
by the Geneva convention in favor of the
wounded in war-by fixing the rules which,
adopted by general consent of all the civil
lied powers, may serve to mitigate, as far
as possible, the calamities incident to gen.
eral conflicts by exactly defining the rights
and duties of governments and armies in
time of war. The society, which has al
ready been working for three years to secure
this desirable end, will, by the express
desire of Of the Czar, have it's place and
take its part in the conference on an equali-
ty with the representatives of the govern
ments. .s - .i. .s.a.. i
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A Serious Matter.

At one point on the crooked and devious
pathed old Missouri river, whose course, it
is generally conceded, the Almighty has not
yet determined upon, an event has taken
place that has been expected every June for
twenty years. 1t is the breaking through
of the Missouri into the Big Sioux river
channel, about half or three-quarters of
mile above Sioux City. The ridge which
separated the two channels has been very
narrow for years, and until recently it has
not been washed away. But the late heavy
rains have done the work, and Sioux City
and the small town of Covington, opposite
in Nebraska, are in imminent danger OF
being carried Off The cause of this is the
combined current striking into the Nebras-
ka side and diverting to the Iowa side,
striking the leeves of the two places. The
soil is laid upon quick-sand, and the under
mining is carrying with it tons upon tons
of soil to mingle in the always turbid waters
of the Big Muddy. The former strength
ening of the Sioux City leeve OF rip-rapping
of the Nebraska shore. proves of no avail,
and the carrying away of one Of the towns,
sooner or later, probably Covington, is GER
tain. If Sioux City escapes as easily as
that, it is certain to be great loser, as the
channel will have shifted from two to four
miles into Nebraska, leaving dry river bed
to face the city limits, in place of the form
er water course. Chicago Journal.
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The Business of Journalism.

In commenting upon the failure of Mr.. J.
Y. Scammon, of Chicago, as newspaper
manager, Mccullough, of the st. Louis Globe,
one of the most successful journalists of the
West, tells plain truth in the following
words:
to be an inviting field for experiment to
those who have a large amount of money
and q large amount Of egotism. A man
who, having edited newspaper until he
was, forty should suddenly announce him
self as lawyer, would be regarded as a
fool by the legal profession; and yet, we of
ten hear of lawyers of forty making sudden
pretensions to journalism. There is an
idea that the business of editing requires
no apprenticeship; that editors come forth
from law offices and colleges fully armed
for the profession, like Pallas from the
brow of Jove. 1t is a mistake; there is not
in America to-day a single journalist of
national reputation who has not devoted
more time and more hard work to his pro-
fession than, with equal fitness and appli-
cation, would have made him a great law
yer or good doctor. And yet ninety out
of every hundred men you meet on the
streets will hesitate about carrying a hod
or making pair Of shoes, whereas there
will probably not be one in the hundred who
cannot, according to his own judgment, edit
any paper in the country better than it is
edited, no matter in what manner or by
whom A as s-.s. .ul. r-. s.s98 s.,. @5s esq
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mo. 317.l
Application for Patent

- L. S. LAND OFFICE, HELENA, M. TIT
June S, 1874.
Notice is hereby published that HENRY NJ. HUB
BARD and JOHN C. MOORE, each OF whose post
office address is Backfoot City, Deer Lodge county
Montana Territory have this day filed application for
patent under the mining laws of Congress, for their
placer mining claim, situated Prairie guch Car
penter's Bar mining district, Deer Lodge county,
r. which claim is recorded in the office of the dis
trct recorder of said mining district and described in
the official plat and field notes on file in this office as
follows: Beginning at a trap rock 16xl2x9 inches
from which the corner to townships 10 and IL north
ranges and s w bears 81 deg Is min w 2lSS
chains distant, and running thence 10 deg DO min
% chains, thence deg 81 min ~ 5O CHAINS 1
thence 81 deg K 1850 chains thence 5 25 deg w ~
50 chains thence S II deg 24S5 chains, thence ) 5
deg 45 min 1880 chains, thence \ s. deg ~ min
II 80 chains. thence 3 deg i3 min 40 chains to
the place of bcginning containing ftyfve and six
teen one hundredths-55 1G100-acres; designated as
lot No 40 townships ~ aud II north range W prin-
cipal base and meridian, Montana Territory. upon
which notice of said application was posted the od
dav of June, 1874 EFg Etzl Ess5S !
The adjoining claimants to these. premises are
Whittier Il Pounds on the North, and Montgomery
& Co on the South, and Pounds and Green on the
east. placer claims. : ,,x,,,i
5S-60d W. e CHILL. Jtesstet'
BENJAM1M F. MARSH U. s Dep Mini Surveyor.
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LEGAL AD REFRESHMENTS
ALIAS SUMMONS.


In THE DISTRICT CoURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL
+ DISTRICT OF THE TERRITORY OF MONTANA IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF DEER LODGE.
j. SIDNEY OSBORNE aud WIN. Nick. DENNEE, rOs-
born y Denneei plaintiffs, VS. JAMES Rich ARpsoN Jr
defendant ...-#... .fe..s-..H s.t
The people of the Territory of Montana send greet
ing to James Richardson, Jr, defendant. - ill.,
You hereby required to appear in an action
brought against you by the above-named plaintiffs in
the District Court of the Second Judicial District of
the Territory Of Montana. in and the County of
Deer Lodge and to the complaint filed therein
within ten day excusive of the day of scrce after
the service on you OF this summons ii served within
this county or if SERVED out of this County, but in
this district, within twenty days otherwise within
tofty days; or judgment by default will be taken
against You, according to thepryer of said complaint
The said action is brought to recover of defendant
the sum of tS26S 3 two hundred and sixty eight dol
lars and thirty i've CENTS with legal interest thereon
from the 18th day OF August 1S13-whch said amount
is alleged to be dueand owing to plaintiffs from de-
tendant on account for goods and merchandise
sold and delivered to defendant at Deer Lodge City,
Deer Lodge County, M. T., said 2yth day of August
1873, and for costs OF suit.
And You hereby notified that if you fail to appear
and answer said complaint above required the said
plaintiff will take Judgment against You for the said
sum of $26S35 with interest thereon above claimed
and for costs of suit.
Given under my han d and the seal of the Dis
trict Court of the Second Judicial District of
the Territory of Montana, in and for the county
sEALJ of Deer Lodge, this 18th day of june in the
year of our.Lord one thousand eight hundred and
scventY-four.
O.. B. O'BANNON, Clerk
MAYHEM Il MCMURTRY, Attorneys for Plaintiffs.
[25S4t.l
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! AN old French shoemaker who beasted
that nothing could frighten him. was put
to the test by two young men. One oftlIena
pretended to be dead, and the other, going
to the shoemaker, induced him to ''sit up I
with the supposed corpse. The shoemaker
was in a hurry with some work he had
promised to have completed the next morn
ing. So he took his tools and leather and
began working beside the corpse. About
twelve clock at night acup of black coffee
was brought him to keep him awake. He
drank the coffee and resumed work.
About one o'clock, the coffee having exhi-
.larated him, forgetting that he was in the
presence of death, he commenced to sing a
lively tune keeping time with his hammer.
Suddenly the corpse arose, and exclaimed
in hollow voice: "When man is in the
presence of death he should not sing p,
the shoemaker started, then suddenly dealt
the corpse blow on the head, exclaiming
at the same time: When man is dead he
should not speak" 1t was the last time
they tried to scare the shoemaker.
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Wet Boots.

us A friend writes from Europe: Is What
an amount OF discomfort wet boots entail,
to be- sure; and how well We all recall the
fretful efforts we have now and then made
to. draw on "a pair of !. hard baked. ones
which were put by the fire overnight to dry
Damp and adhesive within, they are with
out stiff and sunyielding as horn. Once on,
they are a sort of modern stocks,l dessruct-
i've of all comfort and entirely demoralizing
to the temper. The following device will
rob the cold, wet barn yard Of slushy vim
ter Spring eveninguf half its promise of
discomfort for sthe, next morning. When
the boots are taken of, fill them quite full
with dry oats. This grain has a great.
fondness for damp and win rapidly absorb
the last vestige of il from the wet leather.
AS it takes up the moisture it swells and
fills the boot with. a tightly fitting last,
keeping its form good, and drying the
leather without hardening it. In the morn
ing, shake out the oats and hang them up
in a bag near the fire to dry, ready for the
next wet night, draw on the boots, and go
happily about the day S work. This simple
recipe, tender-footed reader, will save you
much discomfort, and viii make you a ten
der-hearted reader as you sit in your soft
foot-gear looking over your paper as you
wait for breakfast to be made ready. @
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A Childs Plaything 1000 Years Old.
Bayard Tayl,rs account of the Museum at Boolal

:
Bayard Tayl1r's- account of the Museum at Boolak
Egypt, in N. z: Tribune. +
Of even greater interest are the house
hold articles, implements of trade, food, &c.
which, like the spoils of Pompeii, restored
for us the domestic life of the people. Here,
for instance, are stools, cane-bottom chairs
and work-boxes, 1000 years old, yet no
no more dilapidated than if they came out
Of a garret of the last century; nets, knives.
needles and toilet ornaments; glass bottles
and drinking cups, as clear as :ifjust blown;
earthenware, glazed in blue and yellow
patterns, the very counterpart of Majolica;
seeds, eggs and bread; straw baskets and a
orushes and colors, boards for games of
draughts-in short, a collection almost as
varied and complete as the ashes of Vesu-
vius preserves forus of the Graco-R Roman life
of the year of 10 of our era. But these
Egyptian relics date from 1000 to 1900
years before our era began. il
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A TALE OF cRoaUET.
III A. ]. TAYLOR.

BY A. ]. TAYLOR ..
played it over; scarcely knew
A rover from mallct. ,-r
She showed me what ! had to do
How well do l recall it.
That lesson fraught with SO much bliss
Id almost said ''much sorrow
For pleasures of q day like this
Ofttilnes are griefs tomorrow.
played again, and yet again, ..--
Until l grew so skillful
That could beat by teacher :--then
She suddenly grew willful-- .5. ..-r
Pouted and sulked, would not be beat.
croqueted her unfairly;
She knesc did, and stamped her feet -
oh. 1 enjoyed it rarely
At last the game was quite played out
She hit the-what dye call it p
mean the stick, and won sans doute,
And laid down my mallet.
And there, upon The smooth -mown grass,
made stroke, a bold one
Asked her through one more hoop to pass,
That hoop 10 be a gold one N..
And she consented hooped we were
To roue through life together;
And croquet on, as partners dear,
Through fine or stormy weather.
We've had our ups and downs, of course
Missed hoops, been wired, bullled;
But then things really might be worse
We simDlv strive to keen our course
Direct--content-u
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3 Did It ever occur to the public, asks a
Chicago paper, that women are getting en-
tirely too healthy? It's amazing what a
little lecturing and ridicule, and consequent
exercise and sensible clothing have accom-
plished. The danger now is that the women
win become SO entirely robust, and live to
such astonishing ages, that they will grad
ually drive puny men out of existence. Go
through any Of the streets of Chicago and
look at the faces and figures of the two
sexes. Observe the sharp, thin visages, the
spindling limbs, and the dyspeptic coun-
tenaDces of three-fourths of the men. They
seem to have yearning desire to lean up
against something and think, and would,
were they not driven by the demands of
business to drag themselves on, HE women
on the contrary are the pictures of good
health and contentment. They hare not
yet thought to scold and canton their hus-
bands and sweethearts against a niinous
style of living but the danger of = dearth
of men win soon excite the fair sex to bold
WORDS upoI the subject.
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POETRY.
STRUGGLE.

Great strength is bought with pain. From -ptlt the
strife, z..s.. il s
From out the storms that sweep the human soul
Those hidden tempests of the inner life
Come fort h the lofty calm of sef-control.
Peace after war Although the heart may be
Trampled and plowed like torn battle field,
Rich are the fruits that follow victory,
And batte-grounds the fullest harvest yield.
Strong grows his who breasts downward stream,
r And stems with steady stroke the mighty tide
OF his own passions. Sore the wrench may seem,
Yet only he is strong whose strength is tried.
T % toll is hard To lay aside the
To softly rise and fail with passions swell
Is easier far; but when the dream is o'er
The bitterness of waking none can tell
To float at ease, by sleepy zephyrs famed,
Is but to grow more feeble day by day,
While slips lifes little hour out sand by sand,
And strength and hope together waste away.
He only wins who sets his thews of steel
With tighter tension for the prick of pain
Who wearies. yet stands fast whose patient zeal
Welcomes the present loss for future gain.
Toll before case; the cross before the crown.
Who coyets rest he first must earn the boon 5
He who at night in peace would lay him down,
Must bear his load amid the heat of noon. -.s
. .5 - Ellen p. Athertoa.
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i How TO FIND Our ABOUT IT.-We made
the statement that advertisements are very
generally read. If anyone of practical
turn of mind desires to test the accuracy of
such statement, and at the same time
learn the effect of advertising ON business,
let him advertise in TVS lines in the most
obscure part of some newspaper that he
wants to buy a. dog. If he does not want
the visitations this win bring him, let him
insert a line in the midst of batch of ether
advertisements that ho will no longer pay
his wife's bills and then go about among
his acquaintances and observe if there is
anything peculiar iii their manner that
would seem Ia indicate that they had read
the notice. 7s IA sssiaa sss