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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
He Got His Ticket.

Those who know the briisqlie manner Of
Mr.. S. S. Merrill, general manager of the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad,
i'll appreciate the following story, which
is told by Father Fagin, of the St. Francis
academy. at Milwaukee:
A young theological student from the
above institution called upon Mr.. Merrill a
short time ago and requested halffare
permit to La Crosse Mr.. Merrill, not be-
ing in the best of hnmor, told the incipient
priest to 60 to HI. The student. without
saying word. went as far as the door.
then turned around and politely said:
''Mr. Merrill, if you would only go along
l would feel quite safe in going there!"
Mr.. Merrill looked up surprised, and,
without a moments reflection. told his
clerk to give the young student a half-f,re
permit.
''For how long shall irnke it good:"
asked the clerk.
make it good for a year." said Mr.. Mer-
rill. 1.-THE young man deserves il. t."-Caicaqo
Tribune,
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
A Boys COmpOsiti1h on Girls.

Girls is the only folks that has their own
way every time. Girls is of several thous-
and kinds, and sometimes one girl can be
like several thousand other girls it she
wants to do anything. Girls is alike one
way, they are all like cats. Hyou rub 'em
the right way of the hair they'll purr and
look sweet at you, but if you rub 'em the
wrong way or step on their tails. they'll
claw you. So long as you let a girl have
her own way she's nice and sweet; but
just cross her and she'll spit at you worse
nor cat. Girls is also like mules. If a
girl don't want to believe anything you
can't make her. If she knows it's so she
won't say so. Brother George says lie
doesn't like big girls. but he does like little
ones, and when saw him kissing Jennie
Jones last Sunday, and told him of what
he'd said, he said he was biting her,
cause he didn't like her. think he hurt
her, for she followed and run, and there
was big red spot all over both of her two
cheeks. This is all | know about girls, and
father says the less know about them the
better Off am.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25

Look carefully to your expenditures
No matter what comes in, it more goes
out, you will always be poor The art il
not in making money. but in keeping it
little expenses, like mice in barn, when
they are many, make great waste. Hair
by hair, heads get bald; straw by straw
the thatch goes off the cottage; and drop
by drop, the rain comes into the chamber.
A barrel is soon empty if the tap leaks
but drop minute. When you mean to
save begin with your mouth many thieves
pass down the red lane. The ale jug is a
gr It waste. In oil other things keep
within compass. Never stretch your legs
farther than the blankets will reach, or
you will soon take cold. In clothes,
choose suitable and lasting stuff, and not
tawdry ilneries. To be warm is the main
thing; never mini looks. A fool may
make money. but it takes wise man to
spend it. Remember, it is easier to build
two chimneys than to keep one going. If
you give all to back and board, there is
nothing left for the savings bank. Fare
hard and work hard when you are young.
and you win have chance to rest when
you are old.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
P0et1'Y.
The Kings AstrOloaer.
ET JOHN q. SANE.


"a Historical Incident
NJ hearts, however brave they may appear
wholly free from suprrsi,ious fear;
trteen at table; or the salt upset;
broken looking -glass-have served to fret
th anxious bodings many mind too proud
4 secret terrors TO confc IS aloud.
Ssteran soldier has been known to quail
me white phantom in nursery-;ale;
list The 'dca.h-watch' by the evening fire.
'th Tears that roaring guns could not inspire;
ongh Science sought his glakng nerve, to rule
nd caim-eyed Reason called the trember ''fool.'
nj many monarch, boa stful of his power,
nj proud 10 make his slavi III minions cover
snea'h his royal frown, has been, himself,
me h"h'Diest slave OF some imagined elf;
Besot of Supsr.t.ion's baleful night:
D"lne wicked gnome, or diabolic sprite,
paaliciou, fairy, or vindictive wrath.
IN no, seeking to avenge mans broken faith
Dr naughty scorn, sets all his plans awry.
pr blasts his harvest with an "evil eye!,'-
When Louis (the Eleven;h) ruled In France.
PHI, favori;e Astrologer, by chance.
Pr by predicting some unwelcon.e thing
Concerning s'a!e-afiairs, displeascd the king
70 much, the angry monarch (Rumor saith
t.olved to put the hated Ger to death;
p, summoning the man, with this intent.
mockingly demanded what il meant
ha h who knew the mysteries of Fate,
nd how OF Others dea.h to fix flc ds.c
honld IN so ignorant about his own
PC seer, who. guessing from his sEcering tone
"onarch's 5 purpose answered, ~ foresee
Plr majesty, when that cyentwill be;
death will happen tso my Star assures)
=" "ddys-precisciy-in ddrancc Of yours"
hat wa. the monarch's answer? The report
|syM only mis-, ii-:.t ia inc royal cour;
e Seer henccforih was safely lodged, and there
his life 's end received the kinde ,t care.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
Small Mems.

We think that the power OF money is.
on the whole, overestimated. The great
est things which were done tor the world
have not been acconolisl,ed by rich men.
or by subscription lists, but by men gen
orally Of small pecaniary means. The
greatest thinkers, discoverers. inventors,
and artists have been men Of moderate
wealth, many of them little l..ised above
the condition. Of manual laborers in point
of worldly circumstance. And it viii III
ways be 50. Riches are oftener All imnedi-
ment than stimulus of action; and in
many cases they are quite as much q mis-
fortune as blessing. The youth who in
herits wealth is apt to have life made too
easy for him, and so grows sated with it
because he has nothing lett to desire. Hay-
ing no especial object to struggle for, he
finds time too heavy oy. his hands: remains
mentally and morally a>.eep: and his posi-
ton In society is often no higher than that
OF a polypus over which the tide fioats.-
True Cysj,cn.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
Mans BetteT-Hulf.

, 1t is said tint more fashionable ladies'
Lave dyed young this year that ever be-
fore.
Ribbon watered on one side and satin
faced on the other will be much worn this
summer.
The difference between a model wrman
and a woman model is One is a bare pos
sibilty. and the other is a naked fact.
Women are proverbially severe in their
criticisms of each others attire. 1t makes
all the difference in the world whose dress
is gored.
! The married ladies OF rhirast have
formed 4 comc-home husband club: It is
about four feet long, and has brush on
the end.
a I,aportc, Ind. lady, who had ten teeth
extracted the other day, tainted twenty-five
times in the sahie evening; and cdine very
near bleeding to death.
| Kate Field remarks, in 4 note to the
Graphic, IL am not in the habit of minding:
anybody's business but my own It's high
time You were. my dear.
He was kind husband md offered to
take his wife sleigh-riding. but when ,lc
got in she went through the bottom of the
sleigh. and he lay awake half the night to
hear her opinion about it.
\ widow once said to her daughter,
''When you are my age it will be time
enough to dream of Il hlIsband.' eyes;
mamma" replied the thoughtless beauty,
for second time
MAJ screamed young Matilda Spilk-
ms. the other morning, when she got the
paper, "Ma, Silver Bill has just passed the
House." elias he, my dear:' replied Mrs.
S.. from upstairs, ''why didn't You ask
him in:'
''Kissing bees" for the benefit of Sab
bath schools, are on the wing III SOME
places. But who wants to kiss bee? Let
the Sabbath schools get up kissing girls
and they will make more money.
The bachelor mind finds harder things to
comprehend than baby talk sometimes. not
the least of which is why the hairpin fac
tories are compelled to run night and day.
while every other branch of BUSINESS is "a
quiet rs a sleeping deacon.
MADAM. did you ever lit a dog by the
tail?' ''Whv. 10. YOU cruel thing, you.''
IL didn't know, because l just saw yoh
carry your little child across the gutter
by one arm. \ dogs tail is good deaf
shoulder.
Maria is very popular name in illinois:
Wheh cat climbs back fence in a we'll
populated neshborhood and plainly calls
out. '.M-a-r-i-a-r." twenty or thirty WIN
dows are thrown up. from which hastily
protrudes as many female leads, wildly
answering, 'What:'
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
Wit and HztDz0r.

The money that passes current in bal
rooms-"Ladies change"
To keep warm on cold day womel
double the Cape, and men double tn
Horn.
why should spider be good base bal
player! Bscause he is a good tly-catchei
The mule is musical animal. His voic
has remarkable volume, and his hind leg
are full of shoe fly.
lie who eats mince-pie in a restaurant at
fords beautiful and touching evidence O
cllild-like faith in his fellow-man.
Law is like sieve; you may see thro
it, but you must be considerably reduced
before you can get through it.
A tailor, in skating. fell through the ice
ne was atterward heard to declare that he
would never again leave his ..hot goose
for a ''cold duck
Josh Billings says: "The mewl is q
larger burd than goose or turkey. l,
has two legs to walk with, and two more
to kick with, and wears its wings on the
side of its head.''
A dispatch from the famine region in
China says: Children daily sold for
food" This is one of the cases where
1.-THE child is fodder to the man,
The old maxim, ''Be chaste. and you'll
be happy is contradicted point blank by
a Black Ellis man, who was re.s.ltly
chased ten miles by party of redskins.
What's the difference between typo
who sets type without rolling up his
sleeves and Il base ball player? One muss-
es his cuffs and the other cusses his mutis.
a witness in Il Western court was asked
if the party to the suit was not truthful
man. No." he answered, she'd sooner
lie at sixty days than tell the truth tor
cash."
The Egyptian mummies who settled
themselves in their little beds three thous-
md years ago, with packages of wheat in
heir hands, must have had wonderful faith
n ''tlis wheat by and by
a New York journalist has composed
IN Editors Waltz" An editors waltz
$ as'lally danced to the tune of ''Morc
jopy." and the music is generally fur
lished by the devil.
A subscriber asks lis: "What is good
or warts on horses @ We don't know.
ie ncycr Owned hut. one pair of I.o-seAr---
hey were never nd a clothes-horse and
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
Keep Busy.

Man is designed for an active being, and
his spirit. ever restless, if not employed
upon worthy and diGniiied objects, will
often rather engage in mean and low
pursuits, than suffer the tedious and list
less feelings connected with indolence
and knowledge is no less necessary in
strengthening the mind than in presev-
ing the purity of the affections and the
heart
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
Advice 10 . Lover.
tBostOn Post.1

Ardent lover: We do not think yon
should remit your attentions to the girl
simply because her father kicked You out.
Go to the old man and say frankly that If
lie repeats the action you shall regard it as
an insult. 1t was sr-ely rather unladylke
for the young lady to hop upon chair
and shout, ''Go it, dad give him histcr!
he's been loafing around here long en-
ough." But probably It was merely an
EXCESS Of feeling. An oyster stew and
two spoons viii mako it all right
again.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
Mark the Prediction,


JIOUnCII DTUIIS INOHpHrtf.J
A correspondent Writes us in a private
note: MARK the prediction. The jetty
system will eventually utilize the old Mis-
souri, river as high up as the Yellowstone"
The writer is man who generally knows
what he is talking about, and whose repu-
tation rs q prophet is very dear to him.
We await confidently the iulfllmcnt OF the
prophecy.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25

Silk handkerehieis are no longer in style
except Tor little folks,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
CONJUGAL INFELICITY.

DIR. AND MRS. RIDGEwAY's COUNTER SUITS
FOR DIvoRcE--THE LADYs STORY.
The case OF Rdgeway VS.. Ridgeway, suit for de
vorce in the New Jersey Court OF Chaucery was re-
opened for the taking OF new testimony In Newark
yesterday before a Master in Chancery. The suit ia
brought by DR.. Thomas Z. Rdgeway, wealthy
medical practitioner formerly OF Philadelphia, but
recently OF Red Bank, N. j., to OBTAIN release
mis- wife, wn0m he alleges to have been gully Of
adultery at various times, in various places, with
various Mrs. Ridgeway first began proceedings
IN the direction, alleging that the Doctor was
false, but her suit unsuccessful ana now, as she
AYERS, the Doctor is trying to turn the tables on her.
LOFTY LINEAGE.
The defendant Is a woman OF about thirty.nvc
forty years OF age. According to hOr story she ID
dine with duchcsses, hunt with noblcmen and
promenade with princes she says when in in. her
Court in Bombay Ho was an elderly man,
1871 the Judge died and left her a snug fortune.
While ON the Continent, IN France, she mot DR..
Riiseway and aitor brief courtshp, married HIM.
resided for time In Philadelphia. subsequently
they removed to Red Bank, N. J.
JEALOUS HER SISTER,
Living with them WAS sister OF Mrs Ridgeway, q
beautiful girl. 1t OF her Mrs. Ridgeway implanted,
hence her suit for divorce The sister went TO Eug
land and as Mrs Ridgcway says left behind an ALL
davit coDtessng how she mad been led astray, and
begging her wronged sisters pardon
The has been IA long time in the hands OF the
lawyers, the testimony already taken hng Two large
printed books. That taken yesterday was with view
way ID aege to have been 100 atimae- determine
whelher II was ono Alexander Martin, or john MCGEE.
IL Is charged that with one oil these Mrs. RIdgeway
used 10 visit house IN rwenty-thrd street, New
York.
The case will como before the Vice Chancellor to-
Ridgeway
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
POLITICAL AND GENERAL.

Galveston Civijian -" Honesty Is the bcst policy
for State for cItizen."
The Springfield Republican looks upon ''Bristowlsm"
as OF s'encouraging political slgnihcance."
The Richmond State regrets that Hendricks was
not chosen to the Senate by Indiana instead OF voor.
hoes.
Mr. W. IL N. Smith, who was recently appointed
by the Governor OF North Carolina Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court OF that State is accounted q very
able jursi.
The Houston (Texas) Telegram says that the chief
feature OF the coming gubernaorial race in Texas
that almost every couoy has candidate ready to DO
trottcd out into the field.
New Orleans Times-sMr. lilden held tho four aces !;
Mr.. Hayes had four kings and n big club Prudence
beng predominant feature OF Mr. Tilden's character
MI Hayes took the stakes"
Philadelphia Times;-"It is the command OF the
country that this adm pistraon shall move on or
confess itself what the people and history WILL IN
that event. justly pronounce ita stupendous failure
II not imposing fraud"
Hartford Comm Tnnss:-''Now, II Congress will at
tcnd 10 the ordinary business Of Legislation, do moth
ing TO impair the credit OF the government and permit
gold and grecnbacks to run their course shall
specie aud confidence will be orod "
comparison Of returns Of elections In 1915 and In
1878 in Georgetown, s. G. shows that while the ro-
publican vote there has diminished less than one-haf
tho democratic vote has diminished nearly twotbirds
local newspaper declares that TINS showing is alarm
ing tor the democracy.
Boston TrapeAer:-'srhe New York newspapers
jealous of Boston TALENT will have their little 1pg at
our great men. Dorsey, Tor example. The HERALD
yesterday wanted to know who Dorsey is That is
the wickcdest KIND OF criticism. Dorsey, according
TO tho directory, Is Francis Dorsey, j. n (which Is
not Postmaster Ia Nasty, but Justice OF the Peace
disciple Of tho thing called Bristowsm Clerk OF the
civil Service Reform Club, OF unknown membership
or character, and-wcII, that's enough. Some mon
are to greatness, some achieve and some have
II thrust upon them In either event why should The
NEW York HERALD desire to oellte tho great minds
oil Boston aad the Commonwealth OF Massachu-
sets I"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
JERSEY CITY LIQUOR DEALERS.

The war on the LIQUOR dealers Jersey City by the
Society for tho Prevention of Crime has been discon-
tinued, partly from lack Of funds and partly from
dread OF being involved the tate oil George Lang
worthy, has not yet pad the damages awarded in
the Circuit Court to Mr.. james Roche, whose place
OF business branded by Langworthy as dis
orderly house. Another reason for the collapse
Of the Society Tor tho Prevention Of Crime
that some oil ts supporters found that the Sunday
Law recoiied on themselves, anu they narrowly es-
capped Indictment ut tho recent session OF the Grand
Jury. Testimony submitted from the reports OF
poce officers that secular work was performed IN
some OF the factories on Sundays. Mayor Siedler,
who one OF the promoters ol the movement for
the endorsement OF the Sunday law, was aimed at IN
many OF the police reports, and the liquor
dealers, taking advantage OF the law, insisted
that It should be applied impart!aly, so 10
all claesos OF business and the running OF
ger freight trains horse cars Ii the law be thus
enforced that secular business be transacted
Sunday tho Liquor Dealers Association Is pledged 10
keep liquor saloons owned by members closed Sum
days so stnbbornly Was the light waged recently
that tho Grand Jury throw out the complaints both
sides.
Tho cases OF the liquor dealers who appealed from
tho judgment oil the Police Court are in the
Supreme Court, and decision Is anxiously awaited.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
MARGARET ROSTERS CEMETERY.

HERALD reporter paid u visit yesterday afternoon
TO No. Al West Twenty-Iourth street, the house ia
which Margaret Roster had been employed, and
where she had turned the back yard into cemetery
for nor child. The lady OF tho house opened the door
aud very kindly volunteered any Information in
her power. The reporter was first shown tho
graveyard and the spot where the stubborn
had been buried. 1t is small, square yard, with a
partially tagged walk, about fifteen ach.s wide on
tie three sides remote from the house The cnlld
had been buried the centre OF the walk,
Tho far SIDE OF the yard, and, judging
from the appearance OF tho ground yesterday
afternoon, the police could not have Had much
trouble IN taxing II from ITS unhallowed grave. The
yard looked very bare aud unntcr sting and there
we're no traces ofuny urther explorations having been
made search oil the other infants that were reported
have been buried there. Alter giving the reporter
view oil the premises, the lady made the foliowiLg
II have only been in this house about ,hrce weeks,
ana whcnl took possession l ounI Margaret Roster,
VINO had been EN- loycd by tho las tenant AS she
hal place 10 so to allowed ner TO remain unt'i
l engaged my own help she was IN tho habit Of
bong visited IN the evenings by her husband, and used
TO something ,or him from our dinner, as she
toid me, he was out OF work. She told me on ono
occasion that she gave MIN some money In order 70
enable INN TO get work the horse cars was very
much astonshed last night when the detective told
me That Margaret had buried BABY In inc back yard,
u could not Imagine now she would have gwen
birth 10 child without my knowing IT, Last Monday
week, when We were AZ breakfast, sho complained
oil feeling SICK and told her would look after the
work and ent her to.bed In the afternoon she saw
a doctor for few moments. and she was up again IN
the evening. According 10 her own statements the
cid was born on sunday u week ago, HE day
previous to the Monday about which l have just
spoken. On that Sunday however she did
ali WORK aud carried coal up TO
The second story. | certainly had not tho
slightest idea that anything OF the kind had occurred
In my house, ana was very mucn aston shed wnen
the officer informed mo oil tho facts. | am a raid
Margaret Roster is addicted to drinking; she ex-
bibitcd Inclination that way while was In my
service"
Inthe Jefferson Market Court yesterday Margare,
Roster held in sou bail for violation OF SAM
tnry code.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
GLASS BALL SHOOTING.

The alta Calyornta of the l4tn lust gives the fol-
lowing account Of rife shooting at glass balls by Dr..
W. II. Carver, oil Oakland, who made wonderful per-
formance AZ Shell Mound PARK Oh the 18Th and won
match oil $500. The wager was TO break with rife
shot 225 balls out OF 800 thrown inio the air ny
hand. the weather was not very favorable and there
were not above two hundred spectators on The
grounds TO witness the event At two O'Clock the
aud hnshed ut hall past three. Out
OF tho fret hundred shots Dr. Carver MT 60 balls, OF
the second huudrcd g hit so balls, and OF the third
hundred ne mt 80 valIs. making total OF 2S balls out
OF 800 the Doctor Winning bv Is balls The highest
plumber OF balls broken consccutvcly %. Alter
the match The Doctor gave an exhibition Ol his sk by
firing at ball ten yards distant taxing sight with
looking glass, aud lie broke the ball every me. DR..
Carver, said, Fast TO have trial with
Bogaruus IN about months time.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
AMERICAN RACkETS

The new American racket court, built by Nathaniel
Hicks tho catcher oil tho Mutual Base Ball Club in
Hudson street, Hoboken, was largely attended yester
day afternoon by the lovers Of the game OF rackels
There were ronghout the afternoon two closely
tested matches, played by some Of the leading cracks
OF Hoboken
The first match brought out N Hicks and d. Dris-
coll as partners against o. Manning, of Philadelphia
aud j. Geycr The latter came oil victorious by de-
feating their opponents in three straight games.
SCORE.
Manning and Cover. II II 2l-63
Hicks ana DTlsCOll.. ~ ~ it-Vt
Then followed IL single handed match between two
very good amateurs, alderman Gross and j. Washing
ton. The gentlemen played the best two IN three
games. Washington defeated ross. but only alter
close contest. The following is the
SCORE.
OTUeS IL - 4o-ot
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
SHAME AND ENCOURAGEMENT.

1t was discovered yesterday morning at the Newark
City silk Mills that It's salesman, Gavin w. Nelson,
mad cmbczzled $500 Last nignt he was met In tie
street by Mr.. Francis w. Holbrook, oil the mills
remarked, 'Wcll, you've been dong wrongY"
''Yea,' repned Nelson, "and suppose IT'S all OUT.
I'm going now to blow my brains out"
Mr. Hobrook saw that ne was IN earnest and walked
with him 10 his lodgings Bank street Nelson tod
him that his trouble was caused by woman Although
a married man. with children he had become intimate
with another woman ana his wlio mad abandoned him.
Ho appropriated the c0mpany's money hoping 10 DO
able 10 eturn H. Alter while he was easily per-
suaded 70 to tho station house, where Mr. Holbrook
made complaint against him. upon which hc is held.
He Is believed TO have come from Buffalo, where his
wife resides,