Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-03-27
NATIONAL PARK.

A BILL amendat0ry OF and supplemental to
| the net entitled IAN net to set apart 4 GER
tain tract OF land lying near the hea'lwat-
| crs Of the Yellowstone river as public
park, approved March first, eighteen hun
lred and sever ty-two."
Be it enacted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States
Of America ~ Congress assembled, That
section two of said act be amended by
striking out the words "ten years'and
inserting the wosls "twenty years"
| Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the In
terror may, iii his discretion, grant
leases for toll-rOads throughout the
park wherever roads have not been
constructed by the United States:
PrOrHeM, That he shall prescribe and
regulate the rates of toll to he charged
on sucl. roads.
Sec. 3. That any person or persons
violating any Of the rules or regula-
tions prescribed by the Secretary of
the Interior for the government of said
park shall, OH conviction thereof, be
punished by u fine of not less than
twenty dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment
not less than three months nor more
than two years, or by both fine and
imprisonment, in the discretion Of the
court; and shall also be liable to suit
for damages to the Government.
Sec. 4. That any judge or commits
si0ncr of thesupreme and t!istri It courts
of the Territory of Montana or WyO-
ming shall have authority to inquire
into and punish all oHenses under this
act, and any United States Marshal,
or his deputies, in either Of said Ter
ritOrieS, shall have power to arrest all
offenders; the park, for that purpose,
being hereby placed within the juris-
dictiOn of both Of said Territories.
Sec. ). That the sum OF one hun
tlred thousand dollars, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary, he, and
the same is hereby appropriated for
the construction of public roads with
in the limits OF said park, the survey
Of it's boundaries, and for such other
purposes as may be deemed necessary,
in the Judgment Of the Secretary ct
the Interior, to accomplish TIC ends
contemplated by this act ana that OF
March first, eighteen hundred and
seventy-twO; said appropriation to be
available for immediate use, and to be
expended under the direction Of the
Secretary Of the Intcr;cr.
COMMON SENsE.-Thcfe is a chilly,
disagreeable article, called common
sense, which is Of all things most re-
prlsive and antipathetical to all pettcd
creatures whOe life has consisted III
fiattery. 1t is the kind of talk which
sisters arc very apt to hear from
brothers, and daughters from fathers
and mothers who dO their duty, which
sets the world before them as it is,
and not as it is painted by tlatterers.
Those women who prefer the society
of gentlemen, and who have the f;lcul-
ty of bewitclmg their senses, never
are in the way Of hearing from this
cold matter-of- fact region; for them it
really does not exist. Every phase
that meets their ears is polished and
sOftened, guarded and delicately turil-
ed, till there is not a particle Of hcmc-
ly truth left in it. They pass their
time in world of illusions they dc
mand their illusions of all who ap-
proach them, as the condition Of peace
and favor. All persons, as by a sort
OF instinct. recognize the woman who
lives by flattcry, and give her the
portion of meat to which sheisentitled
in due season; and thus some poor
women are hol,elessly buried, as sui
cides used to be in Scotland, under :,
mountain Of rubbish, to which, each
passer-by adds a stone. 1t is only by
extraordinary power Of circumstances
that man can be found to invade the
sovereignty of a pretty woman with
any disagreeable tidlings, or as Junius
says, "to instruct the throne in
the language Of truth."-nrs. II. 3.
NtOsre.