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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12
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love and commend = truo roo, ~
cause II IS the shadow of virtues NOT that it
"oetii any good to the body which If accom-
pahies' p'lt 1t is an efticaclous shadow md
IKE tllat of St. Peter, cures the disa,.os of
o'1ers. The best kind of glory. no donht
= 'h'V "llcl IS reflected from honesty. s,,cb
as was the glory of Cato and Aristides. bnt
IL was harmful to them both. and is seldom,
oeleiiclal TO any man whilst he hives. what
IL Is TO him after his death / c,nnot COW no
cause love rot philosophy merely notional
'''o cohJectural, and no man who has made
''e experiment has been so kind as to come
DICK 70 Inform us. Upon the whole matter
! account a person who has moderate mind
ioi''"e' ana lives in the conversation of two
or three agreeable friends. with LITTLE com.
Aierce IN the world besides, who is esteemed.
wen enough by his few neighbors that know
llnl' and is truly irreproaclable by anybody:
ana so, after a healthful, quiet life. before
Tie great Inconvenience of old age, goes
more silently out of it than he came in flor
would not have him so much as crv in the
eXltp; this Innocent deceiver of the world.
as Horace calls him, this muta persona. | take
70 nave been more happy in his part than
The greatest actors that fill the stage with
show and noise; nay. even than Auosst1s.
VINO asked with his last breath whether he
had not played his farce very well.-A6yu-
ham Cowley.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12
SAVE AND HAVE, OR WASTE AND WANT.

Either MAJ must he content with poverty
ak his life, or else be willing to deny HIM
self some luXuries, and save, to lay the base
OF independence for the future. But if q
man defies the future and spends all he
earns, whether his earnings be one dollar
or ten dollars every day, let him look for
lean and hungry a at some future day.
for it will surely come, no matter what lie
thinks. 10 save is absolutely the only way
to get Il solid fortune there is no other GER
tain mode. Those who shut their ewes and
ears against these plain facts will be forev-
err poor, and for their obstinate rejection of
truth. mayhap will die in rags and filth.
Let them so die and thank themselves. But.
no! They take a sort of recompense in ours
ing fortune. Great waste of breath. They
might as we'll curse the mountains andteter-
nal hills. For | can tell them fortune does
not give away real and substantial goods.
She sells them to the highest bidder, to the
hardest and wisest bidder for the boon.
Men never make so fatal a mistake as when
they consider themselves creatures of faith:
its the sheerest folly in the world. EVERY
man may make or mar his life, whichever
he may choose. Fortune is for those who
by diligence, honesty, and trugality. place
themselves in a position to grasp hold of
fortune when it appears in view. The best
evidence o~fhonesty consists in diligence and
frugality.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12
81 WISH I HAD CApITAL,"'

We do not know the author of the follow
ing, but he breaches the best practical bust
ness sermon to young men we have seen
this many a day:
II wish | had capital" we heard a great,
%strappinga young man exclailn in our office
the other day. We did want to tell him Il
piece of our mind so bad, and We'll just write
to him. You want capital, do you? And
suppose you had what you call capital, what
would you do with it? You want capital !?
Haven't you hands and feet, and muscle, and
bone, and brain-and don't you call them
capital ? What more did God give anybody ?
''Oh, but they are not money!" say you.
But they are more than money, and no one
can take them from you. Don't you know
how to use them? If youadon't, it is time
you were learning. Take leld of the first
pillow, or hoe, Or jack-plane,, or broad-aNe
that you can find, and go towork., Your
capital. will soon yield you. a large III
terest.. Ay, but there's the rub. You don't
want to work you want money or credit
that you may play the gentleman and spec
ulate, and end by playing the yagabond.
Or you want a plantation and negroes, that
you may hire an overseer to attend to them
while you run over the country and dissi-
pate; or want to marry some rich girl, who
may be foolish enough to marry you for
your good looks, that she may support you.
Shame upon you, young man.! Go to
work with the capital you have, and you'll
soon make interest enough On it and with it
to give as much money as you want, and
make you feel like a man. If you can't make
money on what capital you have, you could
not make it if yon had a million dollars in
money! If you do not know how to use
bone, and muscle, and brains, you would
not know lo8Atea~e geld, If YOU let the
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12

Inc spring time, that seems like \ new
''ss'frec'lon every year, is always beautiful
anu welcomed. Summer. too. has many
oeauIles Tor all. And Autumn !--ah What
words can describe it? The pictures that
'e palhteo then upon all our forests and
i'lllsides are beautiful beyond description.
ana we sometimes wish they would never
pass away to make room for others.
But we have our cloud pictures all the
year round, and they are not all confined to
sunsets either. There are sA,nrises as beou-
tlful as brief. and mornings, such as ! once
saw, When the earth had been under a gray
curtain for several days. There were still
some dull clouds, but all around the horizon
was light and beauty. Blue, purple. and,
gray, of every shade, and here and there a.
golden border, all fleecy and light and airy,
ana at last floating away and 'leavine a
calm, blue sky
Although some days are very dark. and
we see nothing but clouds, we k,1ov that be-
.vond them the sun is shining still. Let us
remember this, and that every cloud has a
silver lining. '-Eudo1u in Rural Nev Yorker.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12
CLOUD PICTURES,

The pictures of Cloudland are living,
moving pictures, and more beautiful than
any ever painted by artists. Some of Our
autumnal sunsets are %splendidly gorgeous,
some are gloriously lovely, and all are
worthy Of tar better descriptions than I can
give them. | saw one u short while ago
that will be long remembered.
The sky was beautifully blue, and in the
west were banks of purple cloud, edged
with gold or silver, and the sun just shining
over them, gliding the landscape, and MAX
ing the whole earth lovely. Oh! that l
could transfer this beautiful scene to can
vass, to be looked upon and admired long
after this and many other sunsets have fad
ed away. But no! No artist now lives, and
none ever will, that can paint anything to
compare with the pictures of the Great Ar
fist, who gives us new beauties every day.
In my estimation, there's nothing more
lovely than this world, just as we find it,
without the aid Of mans skill in the various
works of art. There are so many different
forms of natural beauty-the early morning;
the did-day. when the sun is shining over all
with warmth and light; the sunset hour;
the calm twilight; and what can surpass
the evenings we sometimes have when the
earth is Hooded with glorious moonlight?
The seasons, in their turn, are each and
all full of beauty to those who care to see it.
Winter, evena cold, bleak winter, has its
pleasures when the earth is covered with a
seft. pure mantle of white, and even the
trees are loaded with a foliage different
from their own, but none the less beautiful.
Who has not risen some morning, to find
the sun shining upona world covered With
diamonds OF frost, and glittering in the
morning sunbeams.,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12

you have be idle and waste and rms.
out' 1t would be the same thing with you if
you had gold; you would only know how
to waste.
lhen don't stand about like a great, help,
less enid, waiting for somebody to come in
and feed you. but go to work. Take tho
.rst Work can find. no matter what it
IS so that you be sure to do it as Billy did
ms ofumming-well. Yes; always do yonr
oes'.' II you manage the capital you already
naVe' you will soon have plenty more to
manage; butt if you can't or won't MANAGE
'ne capl'al GOD has given YOU, you, will
never have any more to manage.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12
The 10 ME- CIR LIE
THE. OLD MAPLE GROVE.
By rlIEo. D. g. MiLhHN' 81 -

Or. the old maple grove on my l"'ner1S ll"ht'-
ton,
oof routh's charms that love to recall, .
f'" =. euo,r was made in the days OF my child
hood,
v,s in love with Il fair maiden smallH
A"N +bcre We would meet in the springs bliss
full evenings
asto If thc sweets with q heart full of joy;
a,rnot forget in the gloom Of the present
A n4o Miss that | felt when IL pure farmer boy.
.,o old maple grove where my father is dwell
oofrhe charms that Il ever would know;
s,ects that I taste would compare with the
blessings
,.,+ :, the bright spring from each maple would
90 frees can compare with those dear ones Of child
vusuosr SO, fine and so free from alloy,
tbst which was made on my fathers planta-
vhnn I was at home and II glad farmer boy.
that old maple grove is the same as in child
qhouch time may have scared many leaves that
were fair,
,,t . change may be seen in the home Of my ia
1esr forms that we loved we can never meet
there!
rmt the charms of the maple grove ever will lingcr.
And bring the lone heart many throbbings of
joy,
While the bliss of the astwe will evermore cher
ish,
When happy at home and q glad farmer boy.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12
A LaWLY LIFE.

What a brave privilege is it TO be free from
Il all contentious. from all envying or being
eavied from receiving and from paying all
kinds of ceremonies. 1t is, in my mind, a
yery delightful pastilne for two good and
Eay1eeable friends to travel up and down to-
seher. in places where they are by nobody
Elk own. nor know anybody. 1t was the case
of .Eneas aud his Achates, when they walk
imisbly about the streets and tields.of Car
= thage. Venus herself
"a veil of the thickcn'd air around them cast,
That none might know, or see them MS they
pass'd."
y The common story Of Demost}lenes' con-
iession. that he had taken great pleasure in
hearing a tinker-woman say, as he passed,
This is that Demostlenes." is wonderfully
ridiculous from so solid an orator. myself
have often met with that temptation to van
ity If it were any, but am so far from find
lt any pleasure that it only makes me run
faster from the place, until | get, as it were,
out OF sight-shot. Deimocritus relates, and
in such 4 manner as if he gloried in the good
Fortune and commodity of it, that when he
came to Athens nobody there did so much
as take notice of him and Epicurus lived
mere very well, that is, lay hid many years
pm Ills garden, so famous since that time,
with his friend Metrodorus, after whose
aeath, making, i'll Il of his letters, a kind
zommelnoration of the happiness they two
lad enjoyed together, he.adds at last, that
ne thought it no disparagement to those
great t%elieities OF their life that, in the midst
o. the most talked-of and talking country in
te world, they had lived so long,. not only
"l[hout fame, but almost without being
EAearu Of; anG, yet, within a few years after
"aras' there We're no two names of men
,n0'e Known or more generally celebrated.
! we engage into a large acquaintance and
Various 1amiliarities, we set open our gates
70 The Invaders of most of our time. we
sApose our life to a quotidian ague of frigid
"upettaences,, which would make a wise
nan tfemble to think of. Now. as for being
ADo"h much by sight and pointediat, | cam
:" = comprehend the honor that lies.in that;
a.soeVer 1t may be, every mountebank
nS s more than the best DOCTOR, and the
hau.eillel.]ustice of a CITY,. Every creature
WIS., ~ ooth OF nature and art, if it be in any
, ss extraordinary. 1t was as often said,
ins Is that B%ucephalus," or ssThis is that
a'us,' when they were led prancing
aaa 'osh The street, as, ..This is that Alex
trr,n or This is that Domitian,' and
hoo. ''of me latter, | take Incitatus to have
m.ata 'nuch more honorable beast than his
than \ ana moro deserving the, consulship
s'aA he the empire,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12
GOLDEN EAVE S.
"When all is dark and sad around,
And in thy heart no light is found,
No more will brightness DER thee spread;
When joy is gone and hope is dead!,

When joy is gone and hope is dead!''
Never speak evil OF fanny one.
Keep yourself innocent, if you would
be happy.
keep your own secrets, if you have
any.
-Faithfulness and fidelity are the highest
things.-Contucius
Ills a mercy to have that taken from u.s.
which takes us from G~od.-John Tanning.
If we waited until it was perfectly con-
v%enient, half the good actions of life would
never be accomplished:-Alice p. Haven.
He who says. education, says govern
ment; to teach isto reign the..human brain
is a sort Of terrible wax thai takes the stamp
of good or evil according to whether an
ideal touches it Or Il claw SEXES it.-Tcto1
Hugo.
-Hopeist the ruddymorning of joy, rec
is its golden tinge but the latter
is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky
shades oftvilight and the bright blue day
whichsthe former promises, breaks indeed,
but in another world land with another sun.
Richter.
AS the rays are from the sun and yet are
not the SUM-, even so our love and pity,
though they are not God, but. merely II
poor,~weak image and reflection of Him,
yet from Him alone.they come. If there is
mercy in our hearts, it comes from the
foundation of mercy if there is the light
of love in us, it is a ray from the full sun.e64
love- cenates Kiscsicuy,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-04-12

MEETING AN AcQUA1NTANCE.-A Scotch.
paper tells this incident, which speaks we'll
for the clearness of the mirror ::
At the sale Of household furniture belong
ing to the late Mr.Stein, of kilbogie, amongst
other intending purchasers was the wife
OF one OF his ploughmcn. When she arriv-
ed, the sale was going on in the drawing
room, on entering which she advanced
amongst the crowd till she came opposite
a large mirror, in which she beheld herself
reflected from head to foot. TO the intense
amusement of the spectators, she held out,
her hand to her second self, with the ex-
clamation, "Oh, is this you? How are We
the day? I.think bhave seen your face be-
fore in Culross, but / Gamma mind your name. !,
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d DECEIT

Inc habit OF employing this treacherous
agency in business or social pursuits has ey-
er proven disastrous in its results. AL
though it not unfrequently obtains the end
Tor Which it was employed, the injury to
cohsclencessis fatal. 1t has, however. entered
largely into all our business and social trans
actions. We are obliged to guard against
1t even among the respectable and influen-
ual classes. 1t has eaten deep into the very
core OF Americanism. Yet we are often its
helpless victims.
Many young man can look back and see
1t as the obstacle which has caused' the, sadi
wreck of his business or reputation. Many
a girl can attibute the loss of golden oppor--
tunities or her ruin, to this Unsuitable tooth
OF destruction. The wife who looks back
III sorrow upon the wooing Of her husband
suffers only torture and misery in his associ-
atlon with the mniden who WOE his love and
hand by an artful application of gentleness-
and purity, and cunning, bewitching, exter-.
lor qualities. Alas we cover at tile blood
shed of murder and war, and stand aghast
at crime; but have we Il greater sin than
deceit-the combination of falsehood. dis.
honesty, and SANDER?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-23
The Mississippi Butchery.

The entire country is very justly ex-
cited over the horrible butcherv of the
Chisolm family in Mississippi. A
more cold blooded and frendish out
rage has never perpetrated in the an
nails Of crime, and it only finds a paral-
lei among the Sioux and Apache Indi
ans for its atrocity and heathenishness
Judge Chisolm lies at the point of
death at his home riddled by bullets
shot at him when attempting to escape
from Jail suppcsipg it to be a fire
His little son aged Is years was killed
by the cold blooded monsters while
with childish affection he was defend
ing his parent. Judge Chisolm' 5
daughter, l6 yea RS old, clinging to her
father in an endeavor to stay the ter
rible assault, fell wounded in six pla-
ces and died Of gangrene a few days
afterwards, the fendishness of the
murderers preventing the proper med
ical attention to be given the heroic
girl. Chisolm is native of Mississip-
pi, and has acted with the Republican
party. Last fall he was the Republi-
can candidate for Congressman in his
district. Political animosities were
the cause of this barbarous transaction
and it shows terribly demoralized
condition of society. Missionaries are
evidently as much needed in Missis-
sippi as in any heather land in the
world. In the light Of this dark and
savage affair few evidences can be seen
of reconciliation and fraternal feeling
of the people of Mississippi. Thus far
the authorities of the state indicate no
disposition to arrest aud punish the
murderers Of the Chisolm family,
showing that the state government is
inadequate to protect its citizens in the
inalienable right Of life and liberty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-23

WITH its enormous tax levy of the
present year, it would seem that the
Board Of Street Commissioners might
escape any violation of the following
provision of the city charter:
The Common Council shall not, in the
appropriations made in any one year, ex-
coed the revenues Of that same year, nor
shall they issue any orders, certificates,
bonds or other evidences of debt not au-
thorized by law, or in any other manner
create floating debt against said city, be-
yond the annual revenue thereof.
If the Board shall do this and man.
age to keep the disbursements of the
city within the amount Of its revenues
it will have achieved distinction by &C.
complishing what no other Democratic
Board has done in the past ten OF
fifteen years. The only administration
within our recollection which has not
acted in defiance of the Jaw above
quoted and left behind it a floating
debt was the Republican Board Of
1875. which, when it retired from of.
fee, left clean balance sheet. 1t
paid off the unliquidated indebtedness
of the preceding Democratic Board
CSC, 1850, paid the current running
expenses of the city for the year and
left handsome balance in cash in the
treasury besides. And all this was
done on tax levy several thousands of
dollars less than usual, and nothing
like so large as that at command of the
present Board. The Republican
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-23

Board of 1875 set an example in its
economical conduct Of affairs, which it
would be we'll for the Democratic
Union League Board of this year to
emulate if it desires the grateful re
membrance of tax payers. Whether it
will do this or not remains to be seen
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-23

THERE is but one way in which the
barnacles which infest the Sherih's Of
fee in this county can ever be dispos-
sessed, and that is by the election of a
Republican Sheriff. We make the
suggestion for the benefit of those
Democrats who undertook to accomplish
this last year through pledge from
their candidate to that effect. New
toms promise was broken as easily as it
was made, and so it ever will be with
candidates similarly situated, who are
at the mercy of the ring and forced to
do its bidding. Newton made gal
liant fight in convention and triumphed
over his enemies 10 the ring, but he
fell by the wayside, being unable to
resist their Establishments and threats,
and was finally forced to capitulate.
Whether or not the ring shall continue
in the supremacy depends entire y
upon what course anti-ring Democrats
pursue hereafter. That they were de-
ceived this time was Newton's fault !;
if they are caught in that way again
it will be their own. We will see
whether they know enough to learn
wisdom from the past.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-23

The Democrat says comparisons
ere odious." 1t came to that conclu-
sien after reading our comparison of
the Irofigacy of the Democratic Board
efl877 with me economy of the Re-
usblican Board Of 1875.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-23

Something of commotion has been
produced in the Democratic ranks b7
the publication last week in the Re-
PUBLICAN of card signed by Earl
Newton. What explanation Mr.. New
ton will make of the matter to which
the card relates-if, indeed, he can
make any at all-remains to be seen.
As Republicans it is becoming in US
to look complaceutly on and view dis
iuterestedly the hostile demonstrations
on either side. 1t was no secret
during the canvass last fall that bitter
opposition existed among Democrats to
Mr.. Newton's nomination and election,
and that suddenly his political SKY be-
came clear through the instrumentality
of pledges which it was understood he
had made to certain parties opposing
him. We think it was not generally
known that he made any promise in
writing upon the subject; at least if so
we beard nothing of it. But the ap-
pearance Of the card spoken of gives
full explanation now as to how the re-,
bellious wings of the party were
brought into line. 1t was brilliant
maneuver, eminently characteristic of
Democratic politician, and is entitled
to favorable mention for its success, If
nothing more. 1t was by promising
to appoint Joseph Giles Deputy Sheriff
chat the latter and his friends were
induced to finally give in their adhe-
sion, and it was by the circulation pri-
vately of the card addressed to Messrs.
Brook and Rohr, stating that he would
not appoint Giles, that the wing op-
posed to the latter was Modified, and
secured to the support of this badly
frightened candidate. So apprehensive
OF defeat was he through the indiAer-
enee of Giles and his followers on the
enc hand, and on the other the ex-
pressed determination of those opposed
to Giles to knife Newton unless he
made such pledges as they demanded,
that it was not a difficult matter to
make him promise any and every thing
demanded by any and every body.
That Newton should have done this
and paved his way to success over
broken pledges and plighted faith does
not surprise US. But We confess to
establishment that men of the political
sagacity supposed to be possessed by
those to whom and for whose benefit
Newton's card was written, should
have been so easily duped. They had
sEery reason to know-as We knew and
stated at the time in the REPUBLICAN
that Newton had made terms with
Giles, and that his election would be
a continuation Of the old "riDg" dy-
nasty, precisely as they have found it.
they were fools to suppose that Giles
could be so easily disposed of, and de-
serve to be laughed at for their folly
IN believing anything Newton said,
although his per6dy towards them can
not be defended except upon the prin-
eiple that sail is fair In politics. And
this probably is what Newton will tell
them at the same time that he exult-
mgly asks "what are they going to do
about it"