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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-18
Insanity and its Causes .

Want of nutritious food, stimulating
drinks, dreary monotony of toll, muscular
exhaustion, domestic distress, misery and
anxiety, account largely, not only for the
number of the poor who become insane in
adult life, who, from hereditary predispo-
sition, are born weak-minded or actually
idiotic. Among the middle classes. stress
of business, excessive competition, failures,
and also in many cases, reckless or intem-
perate living occasion the attack, while in
the upper classes intemperance still words
woe-and under this head must be COM
pr1sed dipsomaniacs, who are not confined
in asylums. While multiplicity Of subjects
of study in youth and excessive brain work
in after life to exert certain amount OF
injurious influences under word, luxurious
habits, undisciplined wills, desultory life,
produce crop of nervous disorders, ter
minating not unfrequently in insanity.
Children of feeble intellect who are deli
cately reared are apt to become imbe-
cile when brought tn contact with the cares
of adult life. A considerable number Of
insane people were never whole minded
people. There has, it will be found on in
quiry, been always something peculiar
about them, and when their past life is in
terpreted by the attack which has render
ed restraint necessary, it is seen that there
had been smouldering fire in the consti-
tuition for lifetime. though now for the
first time burst into actual conaagration.
Lastly, modern society comprises nu-
merous class of persons, well-meaning,
excitable and morbidly sensitive. some
of these are always on the borderland be-
tween sanity and insanity, and their friends
are sometimes tempted TO wish that they
were actually across the line and save them
from constant harass. When they do, it
| is easy to make allowance for them and
their vagaries, Oftentimes the line be-
tween sanity and insanity is no broader
| than hair.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-18

A CoMELY BRuNETTE.-She was come
ly squaw, and had purchased the gaudiest
pair of stockings to be found in town. Her
taste seemed to be guided by the same idea
as the butcher boy who was satisfied to
have his cart painted any color, g SO long
as it was red," and her selection fell to
that color. Striding out of the store she
monopolized the sidewalk as dressing
room, and soon had the hosiery filed with
solid flesh. Her feet were encased in a
pair of dainty No. cowhides, and, as the
fashion reporter put it, the general tout
ensemble was ravishing. The most ludi-
crous part of the performance was to
watch her crossing and recrossing the
street, invariably taking a mudhole in the
way, and when she reached it she made a
display that would have fred the heart of
st. Anthony, had he run TO brunettes. AS
it was, she entranced a sidewalk full of
loungers and furnished them with sensa-
ton. AS travesty on her civilized sister,
it was the most natural take off that ever
was seen.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-18

Hrs LAST DANcE.--An Indian at Kla-
woek, Alaska, killed woman in revenge
for fanciful insult. The crime was par
ticularly atrocious, and the men of the mur-
derers tribe decided that he must be put to
death. The execution of the sentence was
not easy, for he barred the strong door of
his Int and threatened to shoot anybody
who tried to break in. The tribe watched
the hut all night. In the morning the Grim
inal marched ont, and declared that he was
ready to die. He had dressed himself in
his most gorgeous clothes and painted his
face with many colors. He was permitted
a death dance, and was shot down as he
took the final step. ri
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-18

A NEW FABLE.-An honest farmer once
led his two turkeys into his granary and
told them to eat, drink and be merry. One
of these turkeys was wise, and one foolish.
The foolish bird at once ,indulged exces-
sively in the pleasures of the granary, un-
suspicious of the future but the wiser
fowl, in order that he might not be fatten-
ed and slaughtered, tasted continually.
mortified his flesh, and devoted himself to
gloomy reflections upon the brevity Of life.
When Thanksgiving approached, the farm
er killed both turkeys, and by placing a
stone In the interior of the prudent turkey
made him weigh more than his pIinper
brother. Moral-be happy while you may
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-18
The Value Of Swimming.

Among the few survivors from the terri
BILE wreck of the Princess Alice are three
members of the same family-Mr. Thorpe,
of the old Kent Road, ayoung man II years
of age !; his sister, Miss Thorpe, who is a
year older than himself, and his brother, a
mere boy of nine. All three owe their
lives to the fact that they were able to swim.
When the terrible crash was heard and the
doomed vessel began to settle down, these
three children-for children they almost are
in years, if not in courage and presence of
mind-found themselves struggling in the
water. The boys, it would seem, were
somehow separated from their lister.
They were both picked UP by the same
boat, and were, when it helped them from
their periIous position, swimming side by
side. The sister, who was older than either,
achieved her own safety. She struck bold
ly out, and-in spite of the encumbrance of
her garments, the force of the tide, the
darkness of the night and the danger to
which she cannot but have been subjected
by the frantic efforts of those who were
struggling around her in the water to
catch and cling to any object within their
grasp-succeeded in reaching the bank. 1t
seems little short of miracle that, under
such circumstanc mere girl, not 2Oyears
of age, weighted with her heavy women's
dress, bewldered by the suddenness OF the
catastrophe, frightened-as she must have
been-by the terrible nature of the scene,
and helpless for want of her natural pro-
tectors, should have been able, single-head-
ed, to save her life. The feat is more
remarkable when we bear in mind the fact
that Miss Thorpe is rot-as. are some young
women of her age-a swimmer OF eminence.
That she can hold her own gallantly in the
water the result has sufficiently shown.
But she is merely an English girl who, like
her brothers, has been taught to swim.
She has never attempted the distance from
London Bridge to Greenwich ;she has never,
SO far as appears, competed for any prize ;
and. were it not for the fact that she owes
her life to her own skill and presence of
| mind, her ability to defy sharp current
ON cold, chill, dark night, would be no
matter of public record and yet the ex-
ploit she accomplished is, if we consider it,
almost marvellous. The tide was rushing
swiftly down the water aanst have been
cold and benumbing the night, as we know
was dark and foggy; there were round
about her all the horrors of the scene the
"last farewell" was rising from river to
sky in the water the strugglers were
graphing, in their last agony, each with
each-and yet through all these horrors
she fought her way with a calm, quiet con-
fidence which men who have stood under
fire, and confronted death in other and
aven more sudden shapes might well envy
her.-Londen Standard.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

-Spellbound-B.o-u .o-u-n-d.-Ke Con-
stit@tion.
Lost at @: The school-boy who gets
stuck after A and B.-Chirago Journal.
No other girls nose itches so much as
that of the one who wears diamond ring
Yonkers Gazette.
1t takes about 100000 to start first
class lead pencil factory, yet we never think
of it when we borrow a mans pencil.
Turner's Falls Peporter.
The cooks in Boston have struck fryer
ges.-Grophic. Their interests were
probably at steak.-Boston Post. That is
we'll UNDERSIGNED. Commercial Bulletin.
The business, in fact, being over-done and
good situations rare.-Boston Adgertiser.
The grandest, purest manhood that ever
blessed this old world, was envolved from
suffering and born in anguish, but some
how man never seems to think of that
when he spills tablespoonful of red-hot
solder in his shoe.-Burlington Haaokeye.
William Shakespeare is running for Con-
stable in town in Michigan. Yet this is
the man who said: Fling away ambition;
by that sin fell the angels. ''-N. Y. Star.
But he also said : "I charge thee, Crom-
well," and now he may officially add, with
disorderly conduct. IN. P. Mail.
Feathers will be universally worn this
winter.-FasAion Item. If the American
people are going to take to feathers univer-
sally. they will be tar-nation sight worse
stuck up than Philadelphia Bulletin.
Pitch in old boy. We shall stick to this
country, feather Or no.-Cincinnatts Satur-
day Night.
"Jasper Adair " writes "What is the
significance ifyou drop your fork and it
sticks upright in the floor?" We don't
know what the superstition is, Jasper,
but if you sit down to the table and break
cracker in your hat and then put your
soup plate on your head and walk out, it
signifies that you are dangerously liable to
get most awfully drunk.-BurIington
H0ackeYe
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-18
Beecher in Trouble Again.
San Francisco Correspondents N. 2. Times.

San Francisco Correspondence N. 2. Times.
You probably saw the story of the row in
the palace car. Some wag observing Mr..
Beecher hanging his hat, with some pains,
on peg Immediately over his berth, man
aged to detain him in the smoking room
until all had retired, slipped out and re-
moved the hat to the peg over the berth of
an antiquated lady of single proclivities.
When Mr. Beecher essayed to retire there
was shrek, and every head was popped
out TO see what the row was all about, and
there stood Mr.. Beecher, amazed, while
Mrs. Beecher, from the adjoining berth ex-
claimed, Oh. Henryp'
II such stories were told on any one but
Mr.. Beecher, they might injure him but
he can stand it, and, am told, laughs as
heartily as other people.
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Bisrnarek's Courage.

1t was in 1966-then Count Bismarck
was returning from the palace where he
had been to see the king. While passing
through the large street of Berlin called
Inter den Linden, and quite near the place
where Hoedel and N1biling have since at
tempted the life of the Emperor William,
he suddenly heard shot fred close behind
him. He turned sharply around and saw
young man, who, with smoking
revolver, was aiming at him. He strobe at
once up to the man and s;ezed the arm that
held the revolver, while with the other he
grasped the throat of the would be muir
derer, who, however, had had time to pass
the weapon to his left hand, and now fired
three shots in quick succession. Bismarck
felt himself hurt in his shoulder and in one
of his ribs, but he held his furious assail
ant fast till some soldiers came up and took
no Id of him. Then Bismarck walked home
at brisk pace and leached his own home
long before anybody there could know
what had happened. The Countess had
some friends with her when her husband
entered the drawing room. He greeted all
in a friendly manner, and begged to be
excused for few minutes, as he had sohie
urgent busin ess to attend to, He then
walked into the next room where his desk
stood, and wrote to inform the King of the
accident. Having attended to this duty he
returned to the drawing room, and made
one of his little standing jokes, ignoring
his own unpuuctuality, and saying to his
wife, " Well, are we to have no dinner TO-
day? You always keep me waiting"
He sat down and partook heartily of the
dishes set before him, and it was only when
dinner was over he walked up to the
Countess, kissed her on the forehead,
wished her in the old German way, "Geze-
gnete, Mahlaeite," (May your meal be bless
ed), and then added, /" You see am quite
WE'LL" She looked up at him. "Well,"
he continued, "you must not be anxious,
my child. Somebody has fired at me but
it is nothing as you e.'-Bzackuoods
Magazine.
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P O z r r z
THE CURSE OF EMPTY HANDS.

THE CURSE OF EMPTY HANDS.
At dawn the call was heard,
And busy reapers stirred
Along the highway leading to the wheat.
''Wilt reap with US p they said.
smiled and shsok my head.
Disturb me not" said l. my dreams ar
sweet"
l sat with folded hands,
And saw across the lands
The waiting harvest shining on the hill;
heard the reapers sing
Their song of harvesting,
And thought to so, but dreamed and waitet
still.
The day at last was done,
And homeward, one by one,
The reapers went, well laden as they passed;
Theirs was no mispent day,
No long hours dreamed away
In sloth, that turns to sting the soul at last.
reaper fingered near.
"Whatr' cried he, "IIle here7
Where are the shcaYes your hands have bound
to-day?"
"Alas!' made reply,
81 let the day pass by
Until too late to work. dreamed the hours
away"
'oh, foolish one!' he said,
And sadly shook his head
1.-THE dreaming soul Is in the way of death.
The harvest soon is DER.
Rouse up and dream no more!
act, for the summer fadeth like breath.
"What if the Master came
Tonight. and called your name,
Asking how many sheaves your hands had
made?
If at the Lords commands
You showed but empty hands,
Condemned, your dreaming soul would stand
dismayed."
Filled with strange terror then,
Lest chance come not again,
/ sought the wheat fields while the others
slept.
"Perhaps ere break of day
The Lord will come this way"
A voice kept saying, till, with fear, wept.
Through all the long, still night,
Among the wheat fields white,
/ reaped and bound the sheaves of yellow
grain.
dared not pause to rest,
Such fear possessed my breast,
So for my dreams paid the price in pain.
But when the morning broke
And rested reapers woke,
My heart leaped up as sunrise kissed the
lands,
For came he soon or late
The Lord of the estate
Would find me bearing not the curse Of empty
hands.
-Eben E. ReGford in CtrietiGn Union.
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Blanks for Sale.

If an. assortment is ordered lesser guam
titles than one hundred will be furnished at
same rates. Cash must accompany order.
Postage will be prepaid. Address,
NEW NORTHWEST,
DEER LODGE.
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A. Boston girl spoke of Lord Beacon
fields new honor as the order Of tho elias
tic.''
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A young fellow in San. Francisco sudden
ly snatched kiss from a lady friend, and
excused himself by saying that it was
temporary insanity that now and then came
upon him. When he arose to take his
leave the pitying damsel said to him: "If
You feel any more such fits coming on, you
had better come right here, where your in
trinity is known, and we will take care. of
vou -
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-06-20
The st. Bernard Dog,

This, which is a variety closely allied
to the Newfoundland breed, has been
trained by the benevolent monks of the
convent near the top of the mountain of
Great st. Bernard, to hunt out and extri-
cate such unfortunate travellers as may
have been buried under the snowdrifts
or avalanches while attempting the
neighboring dangerous pass between
Switzerland and Savoy. One of these
noble animals was decorated with a
medal in consequence of his having saved
at different times the lives of twenty-five
persons, who must otherwise have per-
ished. In the museum of Berne is still
preserved the stuffed skin of Barry, F"
another of these dogs. together with the
bottle and collar which he bore in his
lifetime; for the monks, with provident
care to afford every chance of escape to
the unfortunate travellers, fasten flask
of spirits about the neck of the dog be-
fere he starts on his search. ssBarry"
having discovered boy, whose mother
had been destroyed by an avalanche, un-
hurt and asleep in the hollow Of O
glacier, and almost stiff with cold, de-
livered to him the bottle suspended from
his neck; and when the boy had refresh
ed himself he found means to persuade
and prevail upon him to mount on his
back, and thus carried the little fellow
to the gates of the convent. This dog
Lad been the means of rescuing from
death upward of forty persons before he
was superannuated, when he was sent
to pass the remainder of his days on q
pension in more genial climate.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-06-20
Out of the Jurisdiction.

A good story is told of a Vermont ex.
Judge and ex-member of Congress. The
latter held court in Essex county when
a long-standing case in which an es-
pecially sharp lawyer had been engaged
was heard. The judge ruled the law
points against the lawyer in question,
and he lost the case. After tea the
counsellor, who was staying at the same
inn in Guildhall with the Judge, ap.
preached the latter and invited him to
take drive, and the Judge accepted. A
few minutes behind good trotter took
them over the line into New Hampshire,
when the attorney turned to his COM
panion and said, "Judge, I presume,
now we are in New Hampshire, we are
peers ?" The court assented. "Well, F"
rejoined the lawyer, "You blank old
fool, how came you to decide that case
against me ?" and expending a part of
his temper upon the innocent animal
that drew the carriage, he sped away
from the line of Vermont, increasing his
vituperation with the distance from the
judges jurisdiction. Finally, exhausted,
he turned his horse and drove back to
Guildhall. As the horses hoofs sounded
on the bridge, which brought the riders
again in Green Mountain State, the now
serene lawyer gracefully raised his hat
and said, "Judge, we have had a yery
pleasant ride together. 1 am greatly
obliged for your company. and hope at
some future occasion to have the honor
OF drive with you again.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-06-20
Are You Gaining2

If you are gaming a little every day
be content. Are your expenses less
than your income, SO that, though it be
little, you are yet constantly accumu-
lating and growing richer ever day. Be
content, for as concerns money you are
doing well. Are you gaining knowledge
every day? Though it be little by lit
tie, the aggregate of the accumulation,
where no day is permitted to pass with
out adding something to the stock, will
be surprising to yourself. Solomon did
not become the wisest man in the world
in minute. Little by ittle-never
emitting to learn something, even for a
single day-always reading, always
studying little between the time of
rising up in the morning and lying
down at night; this is the way to accu-
mulate full storehouse of knowledge,
Finally, are you daily gaining in charac-
ter? Be not discouraged, because it be
little. The best men fall far short of
what they would wish to be. 1t is some
thing, it is much, if you keep good reso-
lutions better to-day than you did yes
terday, better this year than you did
last year. Strive to be perfect, but do
not become down-hearted so long as you
are approaching nearer and nearer to
the high standard at which you aim.
Little by little fortunes are accumu-
lated; little by little knowledge is gain
ed; little by little character and reputa-
tion are achieved.
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What Birds Accomplish.

The swallow, swift, and nighthawk
are the guardians of the. atmosphere,
They check une increase of insects that
otherwise would overload it. Wood
peckers, creepers, and chicadees are the
guardians of the trunks of trees. War.
blers and fycatchers protect the foliage
Blackbirds, crows, thrushes, and larks
protect the surface of the soil. Snipe
and woodcock protect the soil under the
surface. Each tribe has its respective
duties to perform in the economy of
Nature, and it is an undoubted fact that
If birds were all swept off the face of the
earth man could not live upon it; vege-
tation would wither and die; insects
would become SO numerous that no liv-
ing being could Withstand their attacks.
The Wholesale destruction occasioned by
grasshoppers which have devastated the
West is to great extent, perhaps, caused
by the thinning out of the birds, such
as grouse, prairie hens, etc., which feed
upon them. The great and inestimable
service done to the farmer, gardener,
and florist by the birds is only becoming
known by sad experience. Spare the
birds and save the fruit; the little corn
and fruit taken by them is more than
compensated by the quantities of nox-
ious insects they destroy. The long
prosecuted crow has been found, by ac-
tual experience, to do more good by
the vast quantities of grubs and in
sects he devours than the harm he does
in the grains of corns he pulls up. He
after all is rather friend than an ene-
my to the farmer