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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-14
COlumbuts, O., has gone back to kero-
sene for the lighting of her streets.

Columbus, u, mas gone back TO ker0-
sene for the lighting of her streets.
A New York dispatch says the trunk
line roads have agreed to continue for
five years the present west-bound freight
pool. and do all they can to keep the
east-bound pool and stop the cutting Of
east-bound passenger rates.
On examination at New York the for
mer Interpreter of Justice Pickney's
court says he used to bring 80 cents
worth OF liquor three or four times day
to the justice when on the bench. and
paid heavy monthly assessments to Fise
clerk to keep his position.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-14

Sportsmen should remember that after
Tomorrow. 10Th. inst, II will be unlaw-
full to kill
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-14
A NOTED DIVINE SAYS
Louisville, KY, Aug. Sd, 1878.

DR. Turr, Dear Sir.-For ten year have been
martyr to Dyspepsia, C Constipation and Piles. The
hest rhysicians failed to relleve me from this living
death your pills were recommended; the first
dose gave me such relief that l continued TO take
them am now now a well man; have good di-
oestion. regular stools piles gone and have gaiu-
ed forty hounds nesh. Tut Pills are worth their
Weight in gold. HEV. II, u. SIN fsoN.
old by sI Druggists. licts. Office IS Murrr
NY. 29iune6mMcay
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-12-14

Eight million six hundred thousand
acres of public lands were taken up last
year, an increase of 8,800,000 acres over
she previous year.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05

Gransimother'sW Way.
BY JOSEPHINE POLLARD.
"a change of work is rs good as play"
Nv aged grandmother used to say;
And she was no idler in her day.
While I, as indolent as Turk,
,Tis true, wa. rather inclined to shirk
Whatever happened to lock like work.
For grandmother didn't want us to run,
Would stop Us in the midst of our fun,
And give q scoldins to every one.
And when by her knee sat to sew,
(Neyer martyr like me. know,
For at sight of needle the tears would flow.
Oh, many time has her thimble brought
Nv senses back, with each wandering thought
To pick out the stitches SO poorly wrought.
tried her patience, as children will.
Who have horror of sitting still,
And of frolic and fun can't get their ill.
Nv grandmother loved to work, Pm told;
And used to think that she loved to scold,
And was always cross, and was always old.
But was foolish, and couldn't see
What help grandmother was to me
In teaching me lessons of industry.
And now, when over my tasks bend,
The garments have to make and mend,
can but think Of my childhood s friend,
Who taught me the useful things she knew,
To match and darn, and embroider, too,
And never to slight what had to do.
But grandmother had no fun in her day,
I'm sure, 50 I'm not prepared to say
That "a change of work Is IS good rs play. ="
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05
HOW TO MAKE A FARMER.


Robert Mansfield. of Wellesley. Massa-
chusetts. contributes the following article
on the above subject. to the Germantown
TslesrapA, which we reproduce tor the
benefit of or readers:
As the preacher says, we will first treat
it negatively. Uon't take boy that has
stood at the shoebench from fourteen years
of age to eighteen, because he has had ex-
perience in SUCH days as he hal no work,
and these parts of days toward night when
the time was worse than unoecupied,
learning things that are ayerse to cultivat-
ing land. Don't take merchants son
who has well learned his fathers trade,
and shows partial fondness for it, for,
like some chemicals. more than two ingre-
dients must be used to make n perfect
compound. Do not take ministers or a
doctors son, anless you get him soon af-
ter he is weaned, for there has not heen
much inducemeat to lead him to seek such
employment. much more to engage in it il
living caa be obtained otherwise. Tho
In all these cases there may be exceptions,
they arc rare and unsafe to depend upon.
The doctors son will find the solitude
of the country opposed to the excited feel-
Ing he has acquired. The sailor boy will
care much more for climbing to birds
nests and practising gymnastic feats than
he will to watch the termination OF tiny
seeds, and ten to one he will be of with
the first circus company that comes to
town. The boy that has spent few terms
at an agricultural college. being a,,sh with
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05
Behold! They are BloSsed.

Blessed is the man who shall subscribe
for his home paper, and pay therefor. His
feet shall not stand on slippery places; he
shall not be prosecuted by his enemies, nor
shall his children De caught begging.
Blessed is he that wallleth to the house
OF the printer, yea. even goeth into the
sanctum and payeth for twelve months
subscription in adyaace. Selah.
lie shall learn wisdom day by day and
be exalted among .his fellows.
He shall talk knowingly upon all sub.
jects, and his neighbors shall be astonished
at the muchness of his learning.
He shall not contract bad debts nor lose
good bargains.
He sIal, not pay an additional per cent
on his taxes. for his eyes shall behold the
notice of the collector, and will take warn.
ing thereby.
Verify. he shall bring his product to the
market when the prics are exceedingly
good. and withhold them when the prices
descend.
He shall not lay hold of retl-hot pokers
for his knowledge Of metallurgy will teach
him that re,l-hot iron burns.
His children shall not yex him, nor his
wife get the Grecian bend.
He shall live to a good old age, and
when his dying hour is at hand. he need
not fear the 'sdevil."
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05

BOHEMIAN, MONTANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1873

game OF his old hunting grounds. But
alas how changed! Ii lie were now to
return to the Yellowstone lie would find
its surroundings sadly altered. He would
find, where he had formerly chased the
buffaIo, hundred. OF wood-choppers, ranch
men, farmers, busy towns and thriving
villages.
Below Tongue river the settlements are
comparatively scarce, consisting chiefly of
wood-choppers. The steamers plying the
river must have fuel, and pay good price
for it. The recent opening Of navigation
in that river. caused many chopper. to 10
cate and place wood on the banks. They
snbsist chiefly on wild game, ard spend
their money as soon as it is made.
At several places ranches have been es-
tablished in addition to the wood-yards, as
at Burns, Morgan's and Smiths, below
Glendive. This place, situated on mar
row prairie On the north, was one of the
earliest settlements. 1t consists OF eight
or ten log cabins, used as quarters for the
tronps stationed there in winter. There
are few shacks and some soldiers at Fer
ry Point, seventy miles above Glendive,
where the mail ronte crosses the river. A
large flatboat and two yaWls are kept here,
and agriculture is being experimental up
on.
AS we approach Tongue river signs of
civilization increase. Many shacks and
large enclosed tracts, dotted with stock.
are seen. Ranches, farms and people in
crease in number, until, turning a bend in
the river, we come in sight of Mile. City,
the chief settlement on the Yellowstone.
1t is on the south bank, go miles above
the mouth. 1t is representative frontier
town of about seventy-tive rude buildings
but is well laid out. There were about 800
people there, many of them, seemingly.
idle, although business men were prosper
ing. Saloons and gambling dens are the
most abundant, while trading stores are
next in number. Miles City is at present
a supply point for miners, ranchmen and
soldiers from Fort keogh, five miles dis
tant. Part OF the town has lately been
moved to the east bank of Tongue river,
about three miles further west.
Fort Ksogh is situated in valley on
the south band, about one mile in width,
and of the hestsoil. 1t is two miles above
the mouth of Tongue river and is the pref
tiest and most substantial of all the West
ern forts. 1t consists of forty or fifty
large. nicely painted, two-story buildings.
These are arranged il the form of a square.
adm used as officers quarters and store
houses. Within the square are the mems
quarters. A large number of troops are
stationed here under General Miles, con-
flt:aslAl fftaAllE seoVtipG ths country The ssalasgs
near the river, and will no doubt be well
repaid. General Miles has taken great
pains to improve and beantify this wilder
ness. having laid ont walks, planted shade
trees, and made several splendid drives.
The settlers on the Yellowstone are petit
tioning for his retention at Fort Keogh.
CONCLUDED ON 2ND PAGE.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05
Whole No., 367.

spending money. will be more likely TO
come ont a second or thir,l-ratc lawyer
than farmer. Boys that have swept Of
fees in the cities or gone on errands will
ingly exchange for the drudgery. as they
would call it, of the stable. and the every
day travels over the farm. The boy that
sells newspapers and blacks boots would
not be the boy to put on the farm and
contine to the home circle. These may be
sufficient 70 illustrate tic negative side of
the question. and open the affirmative,
namely. what boys, and where shall we
find them?
Going into the country, if scores OF
miles away from the great cities, none tho
worse. You will find farmers doing profit
able business. as Wei rs a pleasant one.
The boys-and girls, too-rising With the
sun. find an abundance sf chores rs the
small matters are called, to be attends. 10
before the hour arrives to commence the
days work under the fancy E,rnin, rule.
Then the routine of regular work on i
farm gives a healthy variety 10 crown the
labors of the day. The proprietor of n
farm is supposed to labor himself on it.
The boys at times feel that they are kept
rather close, but with privileges given
them. such as cultvating a portion of
land for themselves, or growing an animal
now and then, they will become more in
love with farming. though for the time
being they are scarcely sensible Of 1t.
will add the thought just here: Let the
farmers table be well supplied with books
and papers; papers that discuss matters
which are the most profitable.
In these days boys le.ve the paternal
home too soon. From seventeen to twen-
ty-one are the years most suited for the
development OF a true agricultural charac-
ter The father wishes 10 give his boys
their time to earn money for themselves.
This is right. but let him retain his legal
hold upon them. at the same time giving
tn m the privilege of earning tor them
selves the same amount they reasonably
are supposed to save. if for themselves. 1t
is fact that boys begin to feel homcsick
on a farm when the buds of business fac
ulties begin to open. This is in the first
years of their teens. Now if homesck
person stays at the exact spot where it
commences until he gets over il, he will
never be troubled again in like manner. If
you look for good and contented farmer
it will be be who has attained his majority
on the farm under the eye OF parent or
guardian. Sons ana daughters, if you
wish to be useful in yoar calling. TO be
contented, honor your parents by prcterr-
ing their company and supervision before
any other.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05

A man was once walking along one
road and a woman along another. The
roads finally united, and the man and wo-
man, reaching the junction at the same
time, walked on from there together. The
man WAS carrying large iron kettle on
his back; in one hand he held by the legs
q live chicken and in the other cane, aud
he was leading goat. just as they We're
coming to deep, dark ravine, the woman
said to The man:
Il am afraid to go through that ravine
with you; it's lonely place. and you
might oyerpower me and kiss me by
force"
''If you are afraid of that" said the
man, ''you shouldn't have walked with ME
a. all how can possibly overpower you
and kiss you by force when l have this
great iron kettle on my back, a cane in
one hand and a live chicken in the other,
and am leading this goat? l might as
well be tied hand and foot?'
YES" replied the woman; ''but if you
should atck your cane into the ground
and tie the goat to it, and then turn the
kettle bottom side up and put the chicken
into it, thea you might wickcdly kiss me
me in spite Of my resistance"
''success to thy ingenuity, o woman ~
exclaimed the rejoicing man to himself
IL should never have thought Of that ex-
pedient."
And when they came to the ravine he
stuck his cane in the ground and tied the
goat to it. gave the chicken to the woman.
saying: ''Hold it while cut some grass
for the goat" and then lowering the ket-
tie from his shoulders, imprisoned the
chicken under it, and wickedly kissed the
woman, as she was afraid he would.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05
what We Like(@

To hear a man try to borrow his neigh
boris paper.
And the neighbor to have courage
enough to reply: II would as soon loan
kyou my tooth brush.''
To have party imagine that he can do
M much business without advertising as
he can with it.
TO look at the blank astonishment that
settles down on that mans iace when, after
irving it month, he finds that it cannot
be done.
To see q man refuse to take his local
paper, and all the time sponge on his
neighbor for the use Of his.
70 hear man complain when we ask
him to subscribe for his home paper, that
he takes more papers now than he can
read. and then 90 around and borrow his
neighbor's, or loaf about him until he gets
the news from it.
TO see a man run down his home paper
AZ not worth taking, and every now and
then beg the editor for favor in the edi-
torial line.
To see man refuse to advertise in a
home paper, and then try and get q share
~ trade that the paper is mainly instru-
mental in bringing to his door.
To see man who is able to pay for his
local PAPER, always manage to be around
In time to read it at the expense ofa friend
not worth the tenth part of what he him.
self is. It looks 90 economical, thrifty and
L
progressive, you know.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05
Dccipherin. the Ciphers.


Interview with whitelaw Roid in Mdisnapoli,
Journal.
GLOW did you hit on the keys:''
''Merely by experiment and guesswork.
The first key was discovered simultaneous
ly by two men working separately
''Then you had copies taken Of the orig
inaI?'
30, yes; we aept the original under lock
and key. and had them carefully copied
and printed in slips. Then we all tried
hand. When the boys went off for theil
vacation they took proofs OF the eiphers
and worked on th.m."
''And some got ene key and some an
other?"
''Yes; we studied the cipher system and
bought all sorts Of dictionaries. and the
circle Of investigation widened, and at last
those in the van treed the game"
''Have you seen any Of tile parties inn
plicated?' l asked.
''No. think not, recently. met Iii
den, by the way, in August, up at Sara
tora, and told him that we had all the
cipher dispatches that went between his
house and Florida, and asked him, laugh,
ing.y, for the key. told him we couldn't
make head nor tail of them, and wanted
him to help us. He smiled and blnshed
innocent as baby. and passed on; but the
next morning he came around and told
,le, seriously, that he knew nothing about
any such dispatches"
'.Do you know of any cipher dispatches
incriminating Republicans"
mo. don't believe there are any. There
are Republican cipher dispatches. but
Chandler, who sent or received them, off
cred to translate them for Potter's ccm-
rlittee, and the offer was declined. l be-
lieve every one is creditable to Republi-
cans"
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05
FIR. EDisos's srAsCYnerMoNE.
How the ''TaHkeye'' Man Assisted
In an Important. but VnfOrtu-
nate Experiment.
from the Burlington Hawkeye.

From the Burlington Hawkeye.
We remember meeting MIR. Edison, some
years ago. when he was most deeply ab-
sorbed in his experiments relating to the
conducitibility of sound through various
mediums. and had long and interesting
conversation with him upon that subject.
We conversed upon the well-known fact
that the same medium of transmission has
different properties at different times. We
both cited instances in which man 43
years old, though using his utmost strength
of lungs and voice. could not shout loud
enough. st 6:30 in the morning. to awaken
boy 8 years old just on the other side Of
18th and plaster partition, while at II
o'clock that night the same boy would
hear low whistle on the sidewalk, through
three doors and two flights of stairs. and
would spring instantly out OF sound
sleep in response to it. 1t was a belief OF
Mr.. Edison's at that time, that sound could
be made to travel as rapidly AS feeling, and
to test the matter he had invented deli
cate machine called the spanctrophone.
which he was just about trying when We
met him. We were greatly interested in
the machine, and readily agreed to assist
in the experiment. BY the aid or Mr.
Edison and street-car nickel, We enticed
into the laboratory a boy about years
old. After many times reassrring him
and promising him solemn'y that he would
not be hurt. we got the machine attached
to him, and the great inventor laid the boy
across his knees in the most approved, old
fashioned Solomonic method. On disc
Of the machine delicate indices were to
record, one the exact time OF the sound OF
the spank, the other the exact second the
boy hOwled. The boy was a little sus-
picioEs at this point of the experiment, and
with his head partly turned, was glaring
fearfully at the inventor. Mr.. Edison
raised his hand. A piercing howl rent the
air, followed by j sharp conclusion like
the swapping ofa musket cap. and when
we examined TIE dial plate of the machine.
infallble science proudly demonstrated
that the boy howled sixty-eight seconds
before he was slapped. The boy went
down stairs in three strides, with en- injured
look upon his fearful face. Mr.. Edison
threw the machine out of the window after
the urchn. and we felt that it was no time
to intrude upon the sorrows of great
soul, wr;t!iing under a humiliating sense
of failure. We have never met MIR. Edison
since, but we have always thought he did
not know MUCK about hoys-~ or he -Wanid
them woult, be for scientific experiment.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05
Poetry.

ONCE. Courier Building, Main Street
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-12-05

A Maiden's s'psalEl Of Life.''
Tell me not in idle jingle
Marriage is an empty dream;''
For the girl is dead that's single,
And things arc not what they seem.
Life Is real, life is earnest,
Single blesscdness fib;
''Man thou art, to man returnest,"
Has been spoken of the rib.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act that each to. morrow
Finds us nearer marriage day.
Life is long, and youth is fleeing,
And our hearts though light and gay.
Still like pleasant dreams are beating
Wedding marches all the way.
In the worlds broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle
Be heroine-a wife
Trust no future, howe er pleasant;
Let the dead past bury its dead.
Act, act to The living present,
Heart within and hope ahead.
Lives of married folks remind us
We can live our lives as well,
..Ir.s ~ i,.ssrrns, IeaNc vsniis1 It's,
Such examples rs shall ''tell.'
Such examples that another,
Wasting time in idle sport,
A forlorn, unmarried brother,
Seeing, shall take heart and court.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With heart on triumph set;
Still contriying, still pursuing,
And each one husband get.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-30
MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

The sensitiveness of the microphone is
is said to have been brought into con-
troll by Mr.. A. Hadden. By Attaching
a thin piece of elastic to the middle of
the pointed graphite he makes the mi
crophone receive sounds of any given
intensity.
The Lancet warns parents and Others
against boxing children's ears. A blow
on the ear has not only ruptured the
drum, but caused inflammation of the in
ternal cavity of the ear, which, years af-
ter. terminated in abcess of the brain.
According to recent observations by
Prois. Cohn and Magnus, of Breslau,
color blindness is much less common
among girls in Germany than among
boys Of2,S1S young girls examined,
there was only one who had this defect,
while of the boys 27 per centum were
affected. In France NJ. Favre considers
that 5000, 600 persons are affected, of
whom nine-tenths are males.
Rev. S. J. Whitmore, in paper on the
ethuology OF the Islands of the Pacific,
regards the Melanesians as the original
peopIe. This black race had, he says,
afiiiations, more or less remote, with the
blacks found in the southern hemis-
pbere; and they formerly extended fur
ther scross the Pacific than they do now
The brown Malayo Polynesian race, he
hnds, had doubtless entered Polynesia
from the west. A third people, differing
from the Others, are the Micronesians,
who proceeded from the PHILIPPINES or
some other part OF the Indian Archipela-
90, and became mixed with Melanesian
and Malayo Polynesian blood.
A Connecticut inventor has devised a
safety lamp for railroad cars. a kero-
ne lamp is placed outside the car at
one end, throwing its light by reflector
into tube foot and half in diameter,
which runs alongside of the ventilating
deck. At intervals the tube is "tapped
for light, a system of refectors distribute
ing the light through the interior of the
car. An attachment Is provided which
extinguishes the light the instant the
lamp is off its balance, 30 that in the
event of an accident no fear of FIRE need
be apprehended. The tube conducts the
light so admirably that fine print can be
read at distance of forty feet from the
lamn
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. /.

The longest daily mail and stage line
in the United States. !, 800 miles, from Fort
WOth, in Texas. TO Fort Yuma, on the Colo
rado river, has been formally iDaugurated
with procession of Concord stages drawn
by 200 horses.
Asto.ian: Sundry cases Of salmon from
Alaska came'dow by the California and pass
ed through here as Columbia river salmon to
san. Francisco; from there they viii 90 as
California salmon TO Europe, where tn y
will be re-labeled as Scotch salmon from
Dundee.-C Astorian.
The returns of emigration from Liver
pool, which have just been issued by the
authorities, may be interesting as showing
the number of Irish emigrants who took
their departure during the last SIX months ::
80, III persons sailed from the Mersey, of
whom ,263 were Irish. In the correspond
ing period of 1877 the number of irish
emigrants was 2 600, so that this year there
was an increase of l,G63.
Ever since work was stopped on the
Washington monument, score of years
ago, stout rope has hung down the shaft
inside from the derrick at the top, and re-
Gently it became a question how to reach
the top and make a good connection for
hoisting up the necessary tackle. After
testing the old and weather-worn rope a
rigger volunteered to climb up. carrying a
new one. Up he went, and reaching the top
in safety, waved his hat and cut the old rope
down. The surprise of those on the ground
can abe imagined when the old rope, on
striking the ground, fell into a thousand
pieces. 1t was found 10 be completely rot.
ted through, and crumbled to small pieces
on being handled. The wonder is that il
sustained its own weight, much less that of
the venturesome rigger and his load OF rope