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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-12

This Is GSse ga5soiIs VIBRATOR THREsH.
ER, which has created such q revolution
In the trade and beeome 50 fally estab-
ltshed as the leading Throsher'' Of this
day and generation. More than seven
thousand purchasers and ninety thonsand
gram Faisers pronounce these machines en-
tirely unequaled for grain saving, time saw
ing, and money making.
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ALSO SeparatoTs s'nlOne'' expressly for
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AARhsnes.
Al persons intending % buy Thrsshing Ma
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Farmers who want their grain threshsd say
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vited 70 send for our nesg forty pagE uluEtra-
ted Pamphlet and Circulars tsenf fEbe5' gisT.
ing full particulars about these improves
Machines and other information valuable 10
farmers and thresheTmen. Address.
NICHOLS, SHEPARD a CO,
1s-4tooB4teW Battle Greek, Mich
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-12

His wonderful discoveries and thrilling
adventures during % years in the Willis
OF Africa, and resurrection by the daring
STANLEY. Over 600 pages, beautiful
ly illustrated, only $3.50. Write for
EXTRA terms to VALLEY PUBLISHING
Co, st. Louis, Mo.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07
DANIEL WEBSTER OUTDONE

A lawyer in Milwaukee was defend
ing a handsome young woman accused
bf stealing from a large, unoccupied
building in the nighttime, and thus
he spoke III conclusions: "Gentlemen
Of the jury, am done. When / gaze
with enraptured eyes upon the match
less beauty Of this peerless virgin, or
whose rcsplendent charms suspicion
never dared to breathe; when | be
hold her radiant in the glorious bloc m
Of lustrous loveliness which angelic
sweetness might envy but could not
eclipse; before which the star on the
brow OF the night grows pale, and the
diamonds Of Brazil are dim; and then
reflect upon the utter madness and
folly Of supposing that so much beauty
would expose itself to The terrors of an
empty building in the cold, damp dead
Of night; when innocence like hers is
hiding itslf among the snowy pillows
of repose; gentlemen of the jury. my
feelings are too 0verpowering for ex-
preston, and l throw her into your
arms for protection against this foul
charge which the outrageous malice
of disappointed scoundrel has in
vented to blast the fair name OF this
lovely maiden, whose smile shall be
rewarded Of the verdict which / know
you will give!D
The jury convicted her without leav-
ing their seats.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07
IHE FUTURE:

Charles Sumner, just Before his
death is reported to have said:
"Ah! wont live to gee it but you
will gentlemen; you will if you live t.
be as old as | am now; you will set
the streets OF our city run with blood
and the blood will bc the blood Of on,
own people, by our own people. ILL
future Of America looks very, yer,
dark to me-
Whether Mr.. Sumner said this O.
not the idea is one which must have
forced itself upon every thoughtful
mind. We are tending toward con
dition Of things which must end i'll q
grand upheaval. The tendency is t.
steadily grind down the American
working classes to the level Of til,
European; to fill our cities with men
who have votes and nothing else; t1
whom prospetoas times means only 81
living, and hard times means starva-
ton; to choke up the safcty-yalvt
which our new lands left us. It re
quircs no prophet to see What the enc
must be. The American wages slave
will not be as quiet and submissive a.
the European. Educated in the pub
lie schools ut least to read and write:
taught to consider himself as born
with equal rights to work hard for a
pittance, while other men, who possess
no more natural rights than he. roll
in wealth. II the people who SO bit
terly oppose the eight hour law, and
every other effort of working men to
improve their condition, were wise.
they would at the same time strive to
shut up our pablic schools and try te
gradually steal the ballot box from
the hands of the mudsilS OF society,"
As soon as the masses feel-as the,
will begin to feel before another gen
Grafton passcr away-and the chances
for them to escape frcE the ranks 0
l-paid laborers are infinitcsimal!A
small, an explosion Of stme kind must
come and Summers prediction be yeri
fed. 1t may, it probably will. comea
great deal sooner, when political oc
casion gives vent for the pent-up force
which social oppression has been accu
mulatlng. Is that impossible! Is l.
oa-....- far nlil -I-~~s- GO ..fsxse-r'es,
Gently enacted in Arkansas! Look al
what is now going on in South Carroll
ma! Look at the the revelations o.
corruption being made III Washington
and, what is worse, the utter despair
of reform with which they seem to bt
met! Look at New York city:
Sample of onr large cities OH larg,
scale! Republican Government has
absolutely broken down in New York
1t is no more possible there than it i.
in Mexico. With a vast mass Of voter
who care nothing for good governments
because they have nothing at stake
the question in New York is whether
this or that ring shall rule and roo
With population in which the :.'lan
ger classes" are SO numerous that !;
standing army Of policemen is requir
ed to keep the peace, what would oc
cur should tliis army be withdrawn o.
raralyzcd by some such struggle be
tween the rings as that III ARKANSAS
Sau Francisco Post.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

THE boys who have found the mys-
teries of mathematics terrible tough
subject to grapple with will envy a
Missouri rustic who grasps by intuition
all the rules of arithmetic. In de-
scription of this marvellous man, given
by correspondent of the st. Louis Re-
publican, it is stated that he cannot
read or write letter or figure, and
never had days education. He can
not explain the method by which. he
solves the most intricate mathematical
problems, except that he. has a numer-
alton table which is "avay on beyond
the books" The correspondent who
interviewed h;m gave him some very
difficult questions, snch as might have
puzzled most learned arithmcticians,
and he gave the correct answers al
most in a moment. When a problem
that has never been answered was pre-
sented to him, he said at once, "It
can't be told.' This queer genius is
rude and illiterate; he travels around
the country fixing up the accounts of
tax collectors, farmers and dealers.
A wholesale firm in Kansas City sent
tor him to adjust their books, and he
did in one day an amount Of work that
ten clerks could not have doue. He
refuses to take school education that
has been offered him. saying that if
he could read and write he would
know no more than any other man.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

SMALL Boy ON A UOG.-The follow.
is composition Of a school boy OH u
hog: "A hog is a big pig, but Il big
pig is not big hog. There are three
kinds Of hogs---wliite hogs, black hogs
and twolesgcd hogs. The mcanest
and contraricst of all hogs is the two
legged hog. Ii you want to drive Il
hog anywhere, you must drive him the
contrary way. Hogs are like women
in that respect; you can drive 'cm bet
ter by coaxing. In other ways hogs
amt like women, except, as daddy
says, they are never satisfied, and al
ways gruating. A hog has ten legs !;
two four legs, that's eight, and two
hind legs, that's ten. Folks call them
hams. Daddy likes hams best; he
says he's had the cold shoulder so OF.
ten he's tired of it,"
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

THAT HATCnET SToRY.-Thc af.
fecting story of the hatchet excrts
considerable influence upon the youth
of Pennsylvania. 1t was only recently
that tho little boy dug big hole i'll
his fathers garden, and the parent, Of
course, wished to know who did it.
Now was the test; he hesitated, look
ing at the hole and then at his father,
a smile overspread his face, and ho
yelled at the top OF his voice, as he
disappeared from the garden gate,
"It wasn't George Washington" The
boys father did not act in the same
manner az did the parent OF. g. W.,
however, for yells and threats Of iA-
fantile vengeance were heard in that
locality for sometime afterwards.-La
Crosse Sun.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT. - Ac-
cortling to the Chicago Journal, a lead
ing Republican paper, the people OF
Ill;nnis are tired at nnliticianS and the
mlsr,tle which is sequence of their
domination. The Journal ai,nts that
Republicans and Democrats haze suf-
ie,cd about equally from desertions to
the Independent party in Illinois. 1t
says further that counties in the nor
thern part of the State which have
usually gone Republican by najorities
ranging us high as three thousand, are
now expected to elect independent
candidates, and the Democratic coun-
ties in the southern part Of the State
are likely to show an equal change,
judging from present appearances.
One by one the States are falling into
the "independent" line. Revolutions
never go backward. From present
appearances there will be a grand
cleaning out of the corrupt scEemers
in the Fall and succeeding elections
all over the country. Ii one set of
officials will not advocate reform,
others must be tried.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

CHARACTER Is CAPITAL.-What
you can effect depends OH what you
are. You put your whole self into all
that you can do. If that be small,
and lean, and mean, your entire life
work is paltry, your words have no
force, Your influence has no weight.
If that self be true and high, pure
and kind, vigorous and forceful, your
strokes are blows, Your notes staccatos,
your work massive, your influence CO.
gent-you can. do what you will
Whateyer your position, you are pow
er, you are felt as a kingly spirit, you
are as one having authority. Too D,any
think of character chiefly in its rela-
ton to the life beyond the grave.
certainly would not have less thought
OF it with reference to that unknown
future, OH the margin Of which some
of us undoubtedly are ut this moment
standing. But l do wish that more
consideration were bestowed upon its
earthly uses. I would have young
men, as they start in life, regard char
acter as capital, much surer to yield
full returns than any other capital,
unaffected by panic and failures, fruit
ful when all other investments lie dor
mant, having n certain promise in the
present life, as in that which is to
p. Peabody.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07
BOZEIAN MONTANA TERRITORY, FRIDAY. AUGUST 1874
THE EFFECTS OF i FINALE.

The following story is told of Alex
ander Dumas, att tine when he was
writing serial novel for a Paris daily
Journal:
One day the MARCHES dc P-call-
ed on him.
dumas said he, "have you com
posed the end Of the story now being
published in the-?n
"Of course
"Docs the heroine die at the end!'
"Of conrse-dies Of consumption.
After such symptoms as l have de-
scribed, how could she live?'
'.You must make her live. You
must change the catastrople.'
II can not"
ayes, you must; for Oh Your hero
ines life depends my daughters
"Your daughter's!7
s.Ies; she has all the various SynD-
toms Of consumption which You have
described, and watches inournfully for
every number of your novel, reading
her own fate in that of your heroine.
Now, if you can make your heroine
live, my daughter, whose imagination
has been deeply impressed, will live
too"
"Come, a life to save is tempta-
tiOn-D
!'NOt to be resisted.7
Dumas changed his chapter. His
heroine recovered and WAS haDUy.
About five years afterward Dumas
met the Marques at q party.
.'Ah, Dumas!7 he exclaimed, "let
me introduce you to my daughter j;
She owes her life to you. There She
50
s.That fine, handsome woman, who
looks like Joan Il Arc.'
''Yes. She is married, and has four
Children
sAEd my novel has four editions,'
said Dumas; $50 we are quits
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

A Cow ADOPTS SEVEN PIGs.-Mr.
y. Mccormick, of Sonora, has little
COW which will dress about 800 pounds,
but her motherly instinct is largely
developed as the following will show /:
Last week Mr.. Mccormick had Occ:a-
sion to wean . pig from its mother,
and it was about this time that it was
noticed it nursed the COW, and they
both seemed to take up with each 9th
er in the most affcctionate manner,
the little fellow standing on his hind
legs to get at his regular meals
Shortly after, litter Of six pigs was
weaned, and they too fell in for their
rations, making seven that never miss
. meal, although they .connot all eat
at the first table. This is recorded as
being one Of the many singular things
in nature.-0oxord Independent.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

M1ssIssIPPt's MEANDERINGs.-A
boatman on the Mississippi River tells
the following: "A poor chap was 60
ing down the river in dug out, and
had been informed of a certain locality
called Rich's Bend, which was eigll-
teen miles around and in one place
about one mile across. He was adj
viscd to land at the narrow point and
drag over his craft, but he passed the
spet going down without observing
it and, padding on eighteen miles. lie
struck it on the other side. Landing
at once, lie dragged his boat across
and went gliding along down with a
light heart till he came along within a
few PAGES of the spot where he dragged
across before. Thinking it was a new
cutoff, he went shore and tugged
his boat over again. When he got
back to the river a second time, he
sauntered around little to stretch
himself, and soon discovered an old
newspaper, out of which he had taken
his breakfast that morning. 1t was
now about shutdown, and he had pad
died about thirty six miles without
any flattering prdgress; he scuttled
his dag-out with hatchet, built a
camp, and waited till next day for a
steamboat
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07
PRINTING.
WHAT is REQUIRED TO ISSUE 15C,Oo0
PAPERS.

The New York Herald claims that a
recent Sunday edition consisted of one
hundred and fifty thousand copies.
Each number consisted of twenty
pages, that is, one hundred and fifty
columns, of which seventy eight were
advertisements and fOrty-two reading
matter. The Herald says:
"A detail which will be perfectly
new to non professionals, is that to
produce one hundred and fifty tllous-
and copies, it is necessary to take nine
hundred thousand impressions. TO
accomplish this in the short time al
lowed, five rotary Hoe presses of eight
and ten cylinders each, and two Bull
lock perfccting presses, were kept roll
ing of at the rate Of one thousand
minute. TO drive these huge presses,
two large engines of eighty horse
powc. were kept in motion b. burning
six tens Of coal in the furnaces. To
form thesteNotype plates or cylinders,
eight tons OF type metal were used to
east the one hundred and forty eight
plates, weighing, when finished and
dressed, thirty eight pounds cacil.
The ink Oh single copy wouhl not be
noticed by the average observer, but
it required seven hundred and twenty
five pounds to rollers prepared to leave
imprint Of their kisses on the 1S,OOO,-
600 virgin pages that were to glow at
daylight with the news. And these
rollers were composed OF five hundred
pounds of glue, mingled with one
thousandpounds of honey. Then the
virgin pagcs-the paper on which all
this is printed. There are eighty five
men and boys about the presses, hand
ling. Sheet by sheet, it passes through
the press, until seventeen tons, or tliir-
ty-four thousand pounds, arc printed
on both sides. Ii you were to pile
these sheets one upon another, they
would make monument one hundred
and twenty feet high.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07
THE new post Office bill provides as

THE new post Office bill provides as
follows:
/. Prepayment Of newspaper postage
after January 1st, 1876.
2. Free delivery Of all newspapers
to subscribers only, within the county
in which they are printed and pub
lished, from July l, 1876.
3. Fixes the srlery of all postmasters
of the fourth class, all under $1,000 at
a commission.
4. Fixes the salary Of LIST, I'd, and I'd
class postoffices OH a new basis.
5. Makes q uniformity Of all matter
other than letters and newspapers.
This class is limited to four pounds, at
one cent for each two ounces.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

TIE GEORGIA CONVICT SYSTEM
Georgia convicts have built the great
or portion of the railroads constructed
in the State during the past three or
four years. 1t is said that no more
ESCAPE under the hiring out system
than used to get over the walls Of the
fenitentiary. Besides the rroft to
the State the shame of working in
public acts as q wholesome restraint
upon crime.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

The COurier-Journal says: "The
rascally writer Of Currency in the
Detroit Free Press declares that tray.
elcrs DER the dusty highways OF Ohio
:.e refreshed by the sight Of bare
legged young women sitting on the
gate-posts with their laps. full Of sour
Cherries If the young women are
pretty, and keep the dust well washed
from their legs-that is to say, from
their feet and ankles-Ohio must be a
rather pleasant State to travel through
unless the gate-posts are few and far
between.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

fawss ana Places for Holding Courts ID
tho Territory of Montana.

eUPRENE COURT.
~ Virgins City, first Monday in "a usry an" 'eo-
cad Monday IN August.
UxlrEp STATES DISTRICT COURTS.
H.. n;.,,,r,-At virginia city. Arst Monday in
April, and secsrd Monday III September
>..,x pj,fricf-At Deer Lodge, second Monday IN
April, hrst Monday in September. ana Hrst Mon
day in December.
iAr Disfric,-At Helena, first Monday IN Marcn'
srst Monday in June, and fourth MONDAY ~ ~
vember.
TERRITORIAL COURTS
biysf Disivicf-Tn Madison County. at virginia ~!
1rst Montay in April, second Monday IN sep
tember.
In Gallstin County. at Bozeman, "a Mohd"y y
March and fourth Monday in October.
I. Jererson County, at Kadersburg, third non
day II February, lrs: Monday in Octb er
hseemI D,fricf-Ieer Lodge County. at Deer i1oNge
t:ity. Eflond Monday in April, first Monday Id
Sertember and hrst Monday In December.
~ Mi.souls County, at Missouis, fourth Monday
il June and second Monday IN November.
In Reaycr Head County, Bannack, first Monday ID
June. and second Monday in October.
1Atrx Di,fricf-Tn Lewis and Clark County. q nei-
$50 nrst Monday in March, lrst MONDAY :"
Juoe and Nrst Monday il November
In Meaxhcr County, fourth Monday In May ana
third Monday IN October.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

The Troy Times says: Recently,
at q fair on Iona Hill, large and
frosted cake was offered to the person
who should guess nearest to the cor
rect weight ct ten cents guess. The
pastor urged q young lawyer to invest
a dime. The practitioner replied :
.Ill play you 3 game Of enchre to see
who gets the cake, but ! don't under
stand the other g2mc.n
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07
WEALTH OF FIHNERS.

When one takes Il dive in to agr!-
cultural statistics by way Of ascertain
NJ the grievances Of Changers. he is
struck with the fact that there must
Iasscs who a,. eysj, Nbfsc StT Of 5 othSr 4Iaii
the Changers themselves. Mr.. S. T..
Ruggles exhibits taste for this sort
# inquiry, and 1T the Social Science
Congress he gave Tie results OF his in
yestigation in some astonishing figures.
lie stated that the people Of ten States
ying north Of tic Chic river owned,
IL 1850, farm property valued at s9i :
100000. The population of these
states had doubled i'll the past ten
years. III 1870, the value OF this farm
property was -, ,0Oe ,0e0. The
,a!uc Of the farm products was not
,iven in 1850 and 1860, but in 1870 it
vas shown in these State, to be ao7S,-
100000. The farmer was not a sert.
lie had no tyranical landlord TO op
press him. 1t was shown that S.5 OF
every /, 600 farmers i'll that section
owned farms. In twenty years they
had accumulated s., 5,OOO, ,oO9, 900 worth
If property. The of 1870 show
I'll that there were 100000 farmers.
This would give an average amount
Of So,4O0 each. 1t is also shown that
they had paid their Il, lp less than ten
per cent Of their income. They had
paid So, 100000 for help. ;, 1t was
likewise shown that each and all OF
these povcrty-stricken farmers above
the age of ten years were in receipt OF
an income of $50. In the light Of
this great. progress, what will be the
result in the year 1000? In 1850,
there were raised 3OO,O00,0 coo bushels
of grain in the States; in 1860, 5OO,-
600, 900 bushels; in 1870, SIG, OOO, 600
bushels, or p 600, 900 ton Of grain
The figures are stupendous.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

!. Any one who takes paper regularly from ~, ne
Pssiomce-whet,or directed 10 his name or anou'-
sr's-or whether he has subscribed or no.-is re-
sPensible for the payment.
2 If Z person orders his paper discontinued, he
Aust pay al arrcarag~s, or he publisher may con
tinue TO send il unit, payment j. made. and collect
tne whole amount, whether the paper IS taken from
the sflice or NOT.
l. The courts have decided that refusing to tSke
the ne wspapers or periodic is from thr PosinMce, !,
er removing AMI leaving them uncalei Tor, 10
tpyi,Hs farid evidence Of intentional fraud
REGULATING LEA PUBLICATIONS.
ACT amsssd an Act cntu!e'. '.Ar Act to
prov ide for and regulate the rates of charges Tor
ne publication OF legal docuncnts,' approved
Janus-y 9th, ls'!.
ss .nae,ei by me Legislature Assembly cr me Ter
,ifory Of Montana:
SECTION l. Publishers Of newspapers in this Ter
ritorv shall be entitled to the following fees Tor
Sublicati.n il Of all legal Advertisements: 70 the
1rst inesrtion OF each folio Of ON hundred words,
three dollars; for "a Ii subsequent ins,r,ion, two
dollars.
ssc s. she printer of suc, legal advertisements
sbA be ept,' led 70 payment VI his full fees LefOre
bsisG required TO furnish . certificate Of the publ'-
catiea.
Approved, December ., 1871.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

A Patterson man who had placed
several lightning rods OH his house
was delighted, during recent storm,
at seeing it struck in two places, while
the house Of his neighbor, who was too
mean to pay for q lightning rod, was
not struck atalE
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

WHY are the ladies the biggest
thieves in existencei Because they
steel petticoats, bone their stays, crib
eheir babies. and hook their dresses.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

AN old gander was recently killed
in Virginia At the age Of ninety, by
drfnkine lyE out of . trough.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

Lssal notices IS cents per line for the first nser-
tiSa sd 10 cents for each additional insertion.
~ rrassieat advertisements must be paid for
IL = ssce, and al Job Printing when ths work
10 delivered.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-07

The situation in Minnesota is mel
ancholy in the extreme. The grass
hopper has repeated his visit of last
year, and falling upon the Southern
portion of Minnesota with the appetite
.fhis Egyptian ancestry has laid waste
a section of country 81: ~ allies wide,
and extending from the southern bor-
der toward the. Northern Pacific Road.
The devouring locust will presently
have swept over the entire length of
the State, leaving nothing but star
vation behind him. One week ago
there were tour thousand starving peO-
pie in the track Of the almost omniv-
orous., grasshopper. Legislation on
the part of the State was requested
some days ago, and SlOo,O0O were
asked for. Now broader appeal is
made to the whole country for assist
ance.