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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

civilization. If in this broad realm Of the
mountains a stop or stay in the years of our
formative condition has been noticeable, it
has been within the narrow precincts of our
Capital city. 1t will be a shame if it can
longer be said that Helena, the seat of wealth,
OF learning, of schools the best and most
literally fostered in the Territory, follows
where properly she should lead. We uncover
in the presence of the generous and just
public sense of Choteau, Of Madison, and Of
other as liberal and high-minded communities
surrounding US. If intolerance has showed
itself anywhere within Montana it has been
encouraged to do so by examples which
Helena has furnished. This people want no
more Ut it. 1t has no justification for it in
their hearts or their heads, nor in any law
which courts or communities will respect.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
A Reduction.

Owing to the unfavorable boating season,
Messrs. | G. Baker & Co. did not receive
the bulk of their goods until late in the fall.
and as a consequence they have now a very
full stock in all the lines, while other mer-
chants are finding themselves ''shoit." But
in order to make room for the spring stock
they have reduced the prices on all wooden
goods, such as shawls, blankets, underwear.
hoods, nubias, etc. This is the time to Sc
cure bargains in those goods, and the stock
to select from is large aud fresh.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
The Judith n

A letter from Vaudeville informs us that
that camp is enjoying a genuine boom
just now. A four feet vein of ore has been
struck in the Collar mine, from which So, 600
assays have been received. A night and day
shift have been put on this lead which is be
ing rapidly developed. 1t is undoubtedly a
splendid property.
Robert Graham is building a livery stable
at Vaudeville, forty by one hundred feet in
dim %ensions, and numerous other buildings
ale in course of erection.
Several new leads nave been struck in the
camp recently, and some of them present an
excellent showing. Our correspondent says
that new corners are arriving every day and
that in his opinion the camp is destined to be
the best in the mountains.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
Onr public Schools.
Herald.

Herald.
Last week we mentioned the names Of the
parties who had Withdrawn their children
from the public school because of the admls-
sion Of two octoroOn children. Since that
issue one of the parties, who was evidently
ashamed to have people know that he held
euch narroW-minded views of the rights of
man, and consequently felt angry at this
paper for telling il, has stopped his paper
and ordered the advertisement of his black
smith shop discontinued. But the RIVER
PRESS. like the school, still goes on.-RlYER
PRESS
All honor to the RIVER PRESS for its manly
fight against the scolor line" in the public
schools! All honor to the Trustees of the
Choteau County School Board! By unani-
nous voice they have said that the colored
children, as much as those of any other race,
shall have the benefit of the public schools !
They have dared to do the sensible thing.
They have dared to do the right thing. They
have dared i. that is the word-to do the
Macfu1 thing, Montana law construed by
whomsoe yer it may be to the contrary not
withstanding. No statute of this Territory
which discriminates in any particular what
soever against race or class in the privileges
of our public schools will for an instant find
justification in the enlightened communities
or courts of Montana. The day of unreason-
ing color prejudice is being crowded from
the continent by the onwsrd, never-stopping
advance ce our liberalizing thought and
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

A GARD.

We, the undersigned, TRIO Of the Ben.
ton Public School, fully realizing and appre-
ciating the efficiency of the School Board i'll
their united efforts to promote the best inter
ests of the public school, hereby tender to
them our united support in every action they
have heretofore taken as such School Board (:
Max Waterman, j. A. Kanouse,
J. Il. Green, Wm. Warner,
0. w. Kelly, Neil Mcintyre,
Daniel Dutro, Jere. Sullivan,
W. s. Stocking, j. s. Stuart,
Chas. Crawford, John Neubert.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

MOTE 1t is suggested that classes be
formed at once to learn this Catechism les
we may become 80 select and heightened as
TO make Montana the laughing-stock of the
rest of the United States. Persons afraid OF
getting too near the Africans might meet to
reclte at the school house after school
hours.
Does God especially love the proud ?
Ans.-God resisteth the proud and givith
grace to the humble Peter V 5.
How was it in ancient times ? Did they
think with the poet, Burns, that a man
was a man for a that p
Ans.-The rich and the poor meet togeth-
er the Lord is the maker Of them ALL
Prov. K I 2.
Does God think that white folks are neces-
sarily any better than others ?
Ans.-There is no respect of persons with
God.-Romans IL. II. God hath made of
one blood all nations.-Acts XVII. &c.
Was Jesus SO genteel that he associated
only with the upper-ten
Ans.-He ate with publicans and sinners.
The common people heard him gladly
Mark XII. 37-Marz II. 16.
When Jesus was on earth how did he treat
the despised classes ?
Ans.-He defended them and took their
part every time. Luke VII, 36 xy1v., l.
10.
What does Jesus think about despising
little ones !?
Ans.-Take heed that We despise not one
OF these little ones, for l say unto you that
in heaven their angels do always behold the
face of my father in heaven. Matt. XVIII,
10.
Have heightened people anything to be
proud of?
Ans.-For who makeIh he to differ from
another ? And what hath thou that thou
didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive
it, why dost thou glory as If thou hadst not
received it ?-Cor. ", 8.
Was the apostle Paul afraid Of the bugbear
of equality ? And did he organize separate
churches and separate communion tables for
freedmen and slaves
Ans.-For ye are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus. There is neither
Jew or G. eek ; there is neither bond or free;
there is neither male nor female for We are
all one in Christ Jesus Gal. III 26-2o.
Name q. verse very appropriate to this war
on the colored children.
Ans.-RehOld how great a fire a little mat.
ter kindleth
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

whether you wear bangs or ~frizzes. and any
other details that you may see fit to throw in.
His sense Ct propriety is too delicate to
permit him to ask concerning your ages.
That is sacred ground which he does not ask
or desire to invade. However, if you send
your photos we will use them to the best pos
sible advantage and advise you as to results
Consider us, Lille and Nettie, your mos
obedient servant, subject to any and all or
ders.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
SchOO1masams.

The following epistle was received a few
days ago by MIR. Louis Holman, who turned
it over to us for an answer
KANSAS Cry. Mo-, Jan. II, 1882.
Mr.. LOUIS Heitman
DEAR SIR We have been Informed that
you are in want Of teachers in Montana.
We fatter ourselves that we are competent
OF teaching both the higher and lower
branches in the school room, and also giving
instructions on the piano.
If e can secure positions in your place.
please inform us what salary we can obtain,
and what would be our living expenses.
If desired we can give the best of refer
ences from here and also from the east.
Yours respectfully,
q Lillian 8. SMALL.
NETTIE AYERS.
p. {. Please address Miss Nettie Ayers.
745 Cherry Street, Kansas City. Missouri.
Girls, this is not The most propitious time
to apply for a position as teacher, and we be-
lieve in Benton the supply of willow WELD
ers is even greater than the demand. How
it will be at the beginning of the next school
year we cant say. But don't let that hinder
you from coming TO Benton. 1t is the frail-
est sort of an obstacle. If you have good
looks, Lille and Netlie, in addition to your
other undoubted qualifications, and time has
plowed no burrows en your alabaster brows,
q summers excursion up this way will insure
your fortunes. This is the land of merchant
princes, cattle kings, bonanza chiefs and
shepherd knights-most of whom are by rea-
son Of necessity living life of single bles-
sedness ~, and who would jump ct an OPP
portunity to share their fortunes with deserv-
ing females. Indeed, we have been instruct
ed, girls, by q jolly, whole-souled cattle
king, who has undisputed sway in the Big
Sag, to ask the color of your hair and eyes,
the particular tint Of your complexion,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
THE RIVER PRESS.

Cans & Klein are the only first. class cloth
lers in Benton. Give them a call.
Building hardware of every kind just
opened at Wackerlins.
Winter goods of every description, such as
overcoats, a~rctics, snow excluders, snoW
monitors, etc. for sale at a sacrifice at |. G..
Baker & Co.
A new lot of children and misses shoes
just received at Welzel's.
A large stock of blankets, quilts and In
dian blankets at Hirshberg & Nathan's.
w. s. Wetzel has Just received a lot of
clothing from the States, and is now pre-
pared to sat every body in both California
and States clothing, and that the very low
est prices.
Rubber boots, gum boots, Arctics, snow
excluders, overshoes and everything which
will prevent chillblains, at /. e. Baker &
| Co.'S.
Messrs. Fl. j. Wackerlin s. Co. have just
finished stock taking and now are engaged
in opening an immense invoice of goods re-
ceived only =. few weeks ago. delayed on &C.
count of the unfavorable boating season.
These goods consist of almost everything in
the line of hardware. If they came too late
for last seasons trade they viii certainly be
in good play for the early spring trade.
Among others will be found a most complete
line of building hardware and miners tools,
the largest stock of these goods ever brought
to Benton. The delay in the delivery OF the
goods has another pleasing aspect. Since
their purchase there has been a general ad-
vance in the prices of Hardware and the
goods could not be bought now for anything
like the low prices paid for these. This will
| enable Messrs. WackerIin & 60. to offer
goods to the public at lower figures than any
other dealers. The purchasing'public should
bear the fact in mind.
White, fancy and colored shirts of all
styles and prices at Hirshberg & Nathan's.
Business and dust suits at Cans & Klein's
ut prices that defy competition.
Measures taken for suits at Cans &Klein's.
Fit guaranteed, and LOCO samples to select
from.
The best hats and caps in town at Cans
& Klein's.
/. G. Baker. & Co. received the principal
part of their stock of overcoats in January
and as \ result have now a complete invoice
Of those garments while other dealers are
''out." Not wishing to keep these goods
through the summer they are selling them at
less than cost. In fact they will not lose a
sale on an overcoat If they must give it
away. If you want 4 real bargain buy IN
overcoat at /. g. Baker 8 Co.'S.
Quadruple plated casters at Wetzels, some
thing very nice and not too expensive. Look
at them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
Meeting Of Trustees.

There will be q meeting of the School
Trustees of District No. / at the School
house on Saturday evening at y O'Clock
sharp. All persons interested in school mat
tiers are invited to be present.
By order of the Board,
J. f. MURPHY. Clerk.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
Don't Fail

To see the display OF ladies and childrens
shoes, slippers and hosiery at Murphy, Neel
g Co.'s.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

Yesterday, as I sat writing
To a friend about the fighting,
Telling how some purse-proud parties
Are trying to shut the school-house door,
Suddenly there came a butting,
And a woolly head was stuck in
Stuck in at my private door.
"'Tis sCme Oakley. Darn his pic ture!'
Only this. and nothing more.
was tired of darkey capers.
And bent close above my papers,
Hoping thus the black intruder
Would 70 wander from my door:
But l hoped and wished most vainly,
For he knocked and butted plainly,
Showing that he really thought he
Had a right upon the floor;
Maybe this and something more.
"Come in" said /, in v~exation,
For I hated like the nation
Thus to have the fellow humping,
"Co,ae in, dsrkey, I implore.
What the dick ems is the matter,
That you make this awful CHATTER,
Make this horrid din and batter
Thus against my private door?
Do you want to be a slave,
And serve your master as before 2"
Quoth the niger, ''Never more"
I'm the spirit Of a fellow
Who was murdered at Fort Pillow,
Murdered when l begged for mercy,
Pinned by bayonets to the floor;
And I've come to AJAX, in reason,
n this now a proper season
To have these fellows rob my children
And drive them from the school-house door ?
Bnt that's not all, there's something more.
1--WE have fought as do the bravest
For your lives, your homes, your safety;
Bones of colored men lie bleaching
Along the Mississippi shore.
Black and white are boand together,
Mutual suffering forms the tether,
Now, [ ask you, will you let then,
Keep US out the school-house door?
Answer this, if nothing more.
Ask your soldiers, who extended
Help and succor, as they wended
Dubious paths mid SOU hern forests
Faint and weary, sick and sore
Who it was that always waved them
Onward, praying God to save them,
And return them az He took them
To their homes and friends once more?
Ask them that, if nothing more.
ask them, now the war is ended,
And the Flag has been defend ed
By two hundred thousand colored
Men who formed the Antique Corps,
If they'll push US from our places
To make room for other faces;
Will they drive US out, or those who
Brought such horrors 20 their door?
Ask them that, there's nothing more,o
Thus the darkey spake, and started,
Ana the walls before him parted,
But he waved his land and said, with
Look ] meier had seen Lefore: /.
'Good.by white man. As a nation,
God has given US salvation;
And up there the humbleet private,
Sir in all the colored corps,
I II your equal, evet more.
ITCH DIEM"
snton, January 10. 1881.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
TRADE TOPICS.

NL III
Did you know that Wetzel has a full line
OF trunks for sale cheap? If you have any
use for such an article you bad better inves-
tigate the matter.
T. c. Power & Bro. have just received a
nice line OF velvet carpets.
For fine underwear go to Cans & Klein's.
Overcoats of every kind that have just
been received at /. g. Baker s. Co.'S. will be
disposed of at a sacrifice. 1t will pay you to
buy one for next winter at the prices asked.
The finest stock of boots and shoes in the
city at w. s. Wetzers.
A full assortment of gentlemen Isle thread
underwear, silk handkerchief, and hosiery at
Hirshberg & Nathan's.
7. G. Power & Bro. are showing q most
elegant line of carpets, curtains, la~mbrequins,
etc.
Go TO Wetzel's for boots or shoes of any
kind from the finest kid to the coarsest bro
gan. They can fit you out and give you q
bargain.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
NEW SCRIPTURE CATEGHIsn.

Adapted to the latitude Of Benton, Hell
ena and White sulphur Spring.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

Quadruple plated casters at Wetzel's, some
thing very nice and not too expensive. Look
at them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25
THE A VISION,

A PARODY FOR THE TIMES.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

T. G. Power & Bro. have just received
nice line of velvet carpets.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-25

Measures taken for suits at Cans &Klein's
Fit guaranteed, and 1000 samples to select
from.
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THE DAILY RECORD UNION.
EBERHART I'M BART,
A. D. 1445-1496.

In Urach's arcient ducal hall
There hangs portrait on the wall,
OF Swabia's Duke, the loved, the feared,
The hero OF the flowing beard
The beard renowned in Swabian song
As having been half mile long
CHEAT Eberhart I'm Bart,
Pride Of the Swabian heart.
He was the Duke whose pious spouse
Big Barbara OF his faithful VOWS,
BY heaven and earth was marveled at
For growing so in grace and rat,
That when she went to church tC pray
II took some twenty men, they say,
Or twelve, or thereabout,
10 lift her in and out.
He was the Duke who killed the boar
Which other hunters feared before,
Tit in a wild and lonely place,
Unsrmed, he met him face to face,
And smote him as with SImsou's fist.
Or wrenched his jaw with such twist
That he the monster slew
III either tale be true.)
".
He was the Duke who gave renown
To Tubingen's tIme-honored town,
Wherein he fixed the classic scat
Where Swabia's students daily meet,
And where, in meeting, ere they part,
In memory still OF Eberhart,
Each day OF all the year,
They swig their SwaDian beer.
he was the Duke who, wnen denied
Chief place at council board, replied,
- Ny lords, this petty, poor debate
PsstpOnes the business Of the state;
II you viii do some useful thing
To serve the country and the kilS,
am content, by Jove,
To sit behind the stove -
He was the Duke who made the boas.
That he, without his armed host,
without his sword, without his helm,
Could ride alone through all his realm,
and, If he CHANGED To lack bed,
Could safely couch his weary head
Aud sweetly take his nap
Ga any PEASANTS lap.
lie was the Duke who laid his sword
Upon the Tomb Of Christ the Lord,
And vowed vow as Christian knight
To battle for the truth and right,
- NAp AliE ~ Eth a. AlllHl LilE etIOlE,
To rid his realm of all its wrong,
And VINO, in letters far,
Wrote on his shield, I" dare"
VIII
He was the Duke whose narrow land
So broadened underneath his hand
That as his cOrOnet passed down
10 grew aud frightened to a crown;
Nor has there reigned in Swabia since
a King so royal as the Prince
VINO, with SO small a state,
Made 1t So proud and great.
~
He was the Duke whose oaken chair
With curious carvings, quaint and rare,
(Which pilgrims travel many mile
10 gaze at in the old church aisle,
Stands empty, and will 50 rem in;
For Kings no longer rule but reign;
What Prince to-day is fit
In such a chair to sit?
a Ii hail the future age that brings
IN end 70 lords and Dukes and kings
And welcome be the casting down
Or sword, Of scepter, and Of crown;
Yet till the coming OF the day
When these from earth shall pass away,
II Princes there must be,
Let them be such as he
-Irheo lore Tito
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Small Farm of 90 Acres, near Penryu.
with 500 fruit trees, of all varieties 1000 grape
vines 500 blackberry and l. 90 raspberry bushes
all in good bear condition. Price, $500.