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The Paper

Philip Gilbert Hamilton, in his admirable
papers on "Inte]lectural Life" thus talks
of g the paper: Newspapers are to the
civilized world what the daily house
talk is to tine members of the family-they
keep onr daily interest in each other, they
save lis from the evils of isolation. To live
as member of the great white race that
has filled Europe and America and coloniz-
ed or conquered whatever territory it has
been pleased to occupy, to share from day
to day its thoughts, it's cares, its inspiration,
it is necessary that every man should read
his paper. Why are the French peasants
so bewiidered and ut sea? It is because
they never read a newspaper. And why
are the inhabitants of the United States,
though scattered over q territory fourteen
times tho area of France, SO much more
alive and modern, so much more interested
i'll new discoveries of all kinds and capable
of selecting and utilizing the best of them?
It is because the newspapers penetrate
every where, and even the lonely dweller on
the prairie or the forest is not intellectually
isolated from the great currents of public
life which flow through the telegraph and
prcss1
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27

As is well known, the venerable Sscretass
ry of the Navy received his nautical educa-
tion on an Indiana farm, Somebody wrote
him, the other day, inqusring what was the
regulation size for a hatchway. His an
swer Was that that would depend aitogeth-
er upon the dimensions Of thu hen and the
number Of eggs they put under her. Free
Press
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27

The price fixed upon some of tie aFsets
by the bankrupt book publishers, ]. B.
Ford & Co., are calculated to change some
what the popular estimate as to the value
of certain literary works, though in some
cases they strikingly confirm that estimate.
We have heretofor noticed the low estimate
of Beecher's 'sLife of Chrissgs" but there are
other works in the catalogue which are
quito as low. ga Good Match" Romance
and Realities" and Beeoher's Overture of
Angels are worth what the plates will
bring as old metal. Assistant Pastor Hal
liday's "Little Street Sweepors,'' and
"Arodsing Souls are inventoried as worth
nothing at all; and the works of "Eli
Perkins :" are put up in the same category,
in which estimate the general public will
heartily coincide-Free Press.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27

The warm weather of the past few days
has been very enervating and Spring like.
we find it difficult to work over sixteen or
eighteen hours day ourselves. Fridge
peri Standard,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27

If an assortment is ordered lesser guam
titles than one hundred will be furnished at
same rates. Cash must accompany order.
hostage will be prepaid. Address,
NEW NORTHWEST,
0 DEER LODGE.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27

Conservation has shown that the major
ity of men, expect great deal of women
whatever. They expect woman will al
ways be good-natured; will keep the house
in order; will let nothing be wasted; will
never find fault; will have the children al
ways look neat; will always have light
bread; mako and mend and entertain COM
pany. Really this is something like 'ex-
pecting light victuals from green pine
wood
"And now think OF it, I wonder if
there be not IN the lives of some women,
too much .green-pine;' if some husbands
don't forget the kindling' all the way
through? wonder # little 'light-wood'
now and then, in the shape Of pleasure
trip, or of books, music, pretty things in.
the home, or even a commendatory word,
would not make woman's heavy burden go
better?"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27

James Parton, whose marital troubles
penetrated both hemispheres not many
moons ago, is in hot water again. His
wife has become the mother of boy, and
as she was his step-mother before marriage.
James is almost beside himself with ankle
ty as to the relation which he sustains to
the new conner. His friends have been try
ing to persuade him that being the father
of his grand-child he must be his own son,
but he is unwilling to accept that theory
and is about to apply to the Massachusetts
Legislature for an act defining fac degree
If any-of consanguinity. He has little
hope, however, of a satisfactory response as
the Legislature pointedly refused to regard
him as married man.
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Blanks for sale.

We have in stock the following Justices
Blanks, adapted for any township or county
in Montana, and in conformity to existing
laws The following are the prices:
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There is a very remarkable movement
going on in Ireland in favor Of closing the
whisky shops on Sunday. A petition from
the city of Dublin has been sent to Parlia-
ment, mile in length, and bearing G0.000
signatures Meeting are frequently held to
protest against the exemption of large
towns from the operation of the proposed
law. A careful house-to-house canvass of
10 towns has shown that in them 100000
persons voted for the Sunday closing and
only 1881 against it. The bill is likely to
pass at this session of Parliament.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27
BRTe-A-BRAC.

The n. Y. Lifo Insurance Co. refuses to
pay the $4,000 for which was insured the
life of Wisner Murray of Goshen, N. Y,
because he put his life in jeopardy by horse
whipping Robert Berdell, who shot him.
The principle of equity is that the policy
holder was jeopardizing his life by viola
ting the law, and the policy provided that
insurance could not be recovered if the life
was lost in violation Of law. The prece-
dents are said to be in favor Of the insur-
ance company, and the fact is principally
interesting as going to warn holders of life
insurance policies to be law-abiding NOM
bers of the community.
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Two men were sitting together in a
smoking car on Danbury railway the
other morning, when one Of them observed
to the other
81 lost as likely colt as you ever saw,
last winter"
After q pause the addressed party in-
quired-
"Did it die ?''
"Dien' repeated the loser somewhat re-
sentfully, GLOW could ave lost it if it
hadn't died ?"
81 didn't know but it slipped through a
cr ack in the floor" said the other man in
an injured tone.
Both lapsed into silence after that
Dan5ary NeDs.
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Cuckney salute to AIr. & Sntlifft Z: Thus
does conscsence make towards of Us H'allf'
IN. +. Tribune.
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One of woman's inalienable writes-put-
ting ssP. S." to letter. York Com
mercidl.
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Our very hopes bclied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied;
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-04

SYMPTOMS OF WORMS

NHE Countenance is pale and
l. leaden-colored, with occasional
fl5hcs, or a Circumscribcd spot on
one or both cheeks the eyes become
dull; the pupilsdilate an azure semi
circle runs along the lower eye-lid [:
the nose IS iryitAtel, swells, and some:
times bleeds; swelling OF the upper
lip; occasional headache, with hum
ming or throbbiHg OF the ears; an
unuaI4l secretion OF saliva; Shiny or
iurred tongue; breath very foul. par
tIcularly IN the morning; appetite
variable, sometimes voraciouS. with 4
gHaWIng sensation of the stomach, at
others. entirely gone feeting pains
an the stomach occasional nausea
a1iyomlt,nL; violent pains through
or the abdomen: bowels irregular,
r. times costiye; stools Shiny; not
uni.eluen,ly tinged with blood /:
b..'y swollen and hard; urine tur-
BIDS reputation occasionally diff
cn.., and accompanied by hiccough !;
coH5hsCmetimei dry and convulsive:
uneasy and disturbed sleep, with
grinding of the teeth; temper varia.
he, but generally irritable, &c.
Whenever N'e sboye symptoms
ot !Dgni 10 exist.
DR.. {. McL,NE 5 VERMIFUGF
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N MIN cases of private chronic, and uiihafy on.
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Ladies wanting the most delicate attention. call
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That is TO say (assuning, without
planation, for our present pur-
pose, that the S93l %, under the
arrangement for reduction of inter-
est during the first three years. is
equivalent TO $1,000, for every
II 900 Of old and undisputed debt
turned in and replaced by a new
81 900 bond, the bondhoiders, or
their representatives, shall make
an absolute gift, to the State, OF
=, SOS 63, of disputed Indebtedness.
This, we say, is the gist OF the en-
tire offer. The estimate of the
amount of undisputod debt, AS
given in the proposition Of MessrS.
Adams and Redtield, differs mat
rally, as will be seen below, from
that of the Board. THE RATF,
however, TIE PROPORTION in
which the disputed bonds are to be
donated to the State, with each ex-
change of new for old undisputed
bonds, Is FINED: and this, omit
ting matters Of detail, constitutes
the whole practieal proposition sub
mitted. That such is the under
standing on both sides, is shown by
the following extract from the puo-
lished letter Of the Governor IT,
Major Adams, in reply to the lat
ter's request for the publication OF
the original proposition, above
printed.
Ilbether the amount be 1927 ,S27,
os stated IN yoar proposition, or 49,
000,000, or less, makes no pfaGicn
dUere,ce 10 Tie state Uaderi the pro-
posed plan of settlement; IF THE SUM
BE 5000, 600, or less, then only
pro rata AMOUNT OF THE 81 900 ,OOC
WOULD BIZ ISSUED, AS SET OUT IN
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i
Holved, with a view OF procuring
uniform action by these interested,
with view to ciecting Il consolid-
alton AID settlement of all Just
dc1,7 on 4 basis which will be salts
factory to the people and within
their ability To pay Acts ls7l-5
,. 279.
The Board of Finance accordingly
adNeTizai fora meeting of the bond.
hctdcrs. After that, letters were re-
ceivcd at intervals from many indi-
Nidual holders Of bonds, some OF
whom were apparently unacquaint-
ed with the language in which the
bonds are printed, showing that the
bonds were widely disseminated
throughout great part of the civ
ilized world. AS the holders of the
bonds We're thus scattered, having
no necessary connection or acquaint-
ance with each other, there was no
concert of action between them; and
thus the plan devised by the Legis-
lature, however well intended, met
with no success. The result was re-
ported by the Board of Finance to
the Legislature at its last session.
At that session Of that body II
great part of the time was spent
in discussing again the problem of
the public debt. y proposition was
submitted for its settlement, and
several propositions We're made for
the distinct Reputation OF portions
of the debt. All of these We're voted
down. If fany logical inference may
be derived from human action, we
may Justly conclude that the propo-
sitiOn for a settlement was rejected,
not because no settlement of any
kind was desired, but because the
specific settlement proposed was
not deemed eligible; and that the
propositions to repudiate were voted
down because it was hoped that in
some general settlement all the
outstanding bonds might be gotten
in without any additional outlay,
and that thus the State might escape
the odium of reputation, which il
sometimes recklessly incurred, but
which is never disregarded except
by those who have themselves in.
cured it. If the action of the Leg.
islature in rejecting the proposed
settlement, and in rejecting the pro.
posals to repudiate, did not mean
this, then it must be granted that
its action vas wholly unaccountahle
The Legislature might have pre-.
seribed some plan of settlement. OF
| il might have abolished the Board
of Finance, if it had been so dis.
posed. 1t did neither. ltcontinued
the Board OF Finance with its former
powers. Nodetinite action was taken
by the Legislature, us a body, to ac,
celcrate the movements of the
Board; but it was stated by many
members of that body, as Il matter
Of great urgency, that something
definite in character should be ae-
complished by the Board before
another meeting of the General As
sembIy. There is no reason to Sup
pose that the Legislature intended
| to make of the Board of Finance q
mere clrcumlocution office, always
pretending to be settling the public
debt, but always studiously avoid
ing any such settlement. We have
supposed, all the way through these
transactions, that language and
conduct were used for the purpose
Of expressing ideas, and not for the
purpose of concealing them. We
think that we might safely &c
further, and saY,that when the Leg.
The Van Buren press., 1877-10-30
People OF ARKANSAS.

LITTLE Rock, October s, 1877.
To the People of the State of Arkansas:
When the Constitutional ConVen-
ton met in 1874 there was very
large outstanding debt claimed to
he due from the State, evidenced by
a great number of bonds and treas
ury warrants, a very troublesome
and embarrassing inheritance from
the unwise legislation of the earli-
est and latest periods of the history
OF the State Government. The au-
thority of the convention that
formed the constitution of 1871 was
denied. 1t was vigorously asserted
that il was revolutionary in its
character, and one strong argument
urged as a reason why the move
ment for a new constitution should
find no sympathy was, that if it
. We're once established, the State
would repudiate all her debts, and
would thus dishonor her name and
defraud her creditors. The conNen-
tion met this objection by inserting
in the constitution this provision:
"The General Assembly shall,
from time to time, provide for the
payment of all just and legal debts
of the State.' Article XVI, See
ton ,.
Finding this provision in an in
strnment which requires that, per-
petually, every official who is induc-
ted into Office shall take an oath to
support it, every consideration for
bids that we should suppose that it
was intended to cover any secret
meaning, or to have any other sig
niiicance than that which the Ian
guage plainly imports.
The command of the constitution
being imperative, and the legisla.
ture being moved by thesame spirit
which actuated the econvention--the
desire to haze some settlement OF
the long pending and ever increas-
ing trouble Of the public debt, an
act was passed, soon after adoption
of the constitution, organizing a
State Board Of Finance, to which
was committed "the general charge
and control of all the financial in
terests Of the State" Acts 1915,
Pr.
The Legislature at the same ses-
sion passed a joint resolution,
which, after a preamble, concluded
as follows
"But having confidence in the
present government of the State,
feeling faith in our resources, and
knowing it to be the wish of the
people to do all in their power to
discharge their liabilities, il is
"Resolred bg the Senate, the No0se
Of Representatives. coRcuriHg mere
in, That the State Board of Finance
be, and is hereby, authorized and
directed to correspond with the
holders of the outstanding bonds OF
the State, or, at their discretion, at
such time and place, and upon such
notice, as they may elect, to call a
convention of the bondholders OF
the State to meet them for the pur-
The Van Buren press., 1877-10-30

ii tlitt new DUtiHS SItif be Issued
IN denominations vi $Juu or $l, 900,
at the option Of the holders of the
surrendered bontls, and similar pro-
Visions shall he made for securing,
the payment OF the interest on the
new bonds, rs il made by law for Sc
curing the payment of the interest
on the now outstanding Lough-
borough Bonds. We are TO pay all
expenses. in the matter, except that
OF printing The bonds.
This proposal is made for the ap-
pfoval of the Board of Finance, and
subject TO the approval OF the Leg
lstatufe. Respectfully submitted.
John ID. ADAMS,
"For self and j. T., Rcdfeld.
ITO the Board of Finance. CITY of
Little Rock
sThe substance of the offer includes
an absolute gift of ALL BONDS
OF DISPUTED JUSTICE or VA
hfDGTY-ncW bonds to be issued.
at a rate equivalent, doihH for aOl-
htt, to the amount of the MldiSDLfed
debt, upon the old undisputed bonds,
together with the disputed debt
doHafcd, being actually turned into
the Treasury. In other words, UPON
PAYMENT OF WHAT WE CONFEss
TO BE DUE, oIR CREDITORS VILE
MAKE THE STATE A PRESENT or
rHEREMAINRFR, be that remainder.
either in part or in whole, legal or
illegal, Just or unjust, binding or
void. All claim against the State on
account OF 1t, present or future, is To
he Withdrawn, and the evidences of
It, now outstanding, are to be placed
IN the Treasury to be burned. For
this surrender the State will nay
nothing. The issue of the new
bonds viii not begin until half the
entire amount OF the old debt, both
undisputed and disputed, shall have
been paid in. Co.,.
TIE gi& Of. He proposition lies in
he dgree5neW 10 @Or'ealef 10 the
Matt, JO,' ete5B 81 900 of Hetp bonds.
Q6d 6e8etS as below set forth:
undispnted-
of undisputed debt (equiva-
lent, under the operation OF
~ the proposed plan, as will
: presently appear, 10 little
|oNof Si,oool ..s,...''.,..,.., .,.ts..,.S p3l s5
Disputed
OF Holord bonds, for amount
dispnled.....-,,. ...,....... .....a... 39l %
Yhl the kmlread Aid Bohds..,.. ,7S9 -
p1 the iscNce Bonds.,..,.,.,....... 6s7 -
Total ,",.,,..,.s. ..s,..........,..4..s3,S 800 Js
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jessie Croh, and an intenre des
n.nl OH raa,a,s a,..l -.-a.. III ! -,
The Van Buren press., 1877-10-30

-.......,, utt nrw
minister has come. | hope you'n like
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SUPPLEMENT

"Sirniar bonds issued lor
funding debt, Under act
passed in 1868, hy which
old bonds issued to
State aud Real Estate
Banks were funded inurv
u per cent bonds, leaving
out tho new hpnas given
for The lIollofd honds.~o. 2.S44,5l0 90
"fhe Regl Estate Bank u,'-
tuallv received, ON the hy-
potheeated'I IIolisfd bonds
sl2i 1856, which, with inter
est, now amounts to........ 81 ,9s2 GS
"MalSing, in all, Hu undis-
putpl debit of N pr s3- as
The Van Buren press., 1877-10-30

van buren, Aug. 1871.