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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-23
q COUNTIES.
What a Sun River Correspondent has 20
Say on the Subject.

Editors of the River Press:
I observe that there Is considerable
discussion going OH among the news
papers of the territory, regarding the
formation Of new counties and the
chaging Of county lines. There is 40
doubt but that the subject will absorb .
good deal OF the time Of the Legislature
at its next session. The time has come
that legislation OF this kindmust be had.
Dawson county must be organized.
Custer county asks for q division. no
t1au asks that Il portion OF Meaghef
embracing the Barker mining district
ana the portion naturally tributary to it,
be annexed, and the people of Sun
River valley demand the organization
of a new county. The people Of the
Missouri valley in Meagher are dissatis-
fled with the removal OF the county seat
from Diamond City to White Sulphur
Springs, and are talking OF forming q
valley county, embracing the strip along
the Missouri river between the SUBMITS
Of the Belt range in Meagher county
and OF the Prickly Pear range in Jeffer-
son county. Soft is ap%parentthat ONE
thing will be done in the matter this
winter.
[ will not now discuss the question OF
boundaries even for a county embracing
Sun River valley, but it will necessarily
include portions OF Choteau, Lewis and
Clarke and Meagher counties.
Would it not be Wise for ,he legisla-
ture to divide the whole territory into
counties OF convenient size, giving them
names but leaying them under the po-
lltical and judicial control Of the coun-
ties out OF Whieil they are carved un-
til they reach u certain population, at
which timethe Governor might be enl-
powered to order IN election for county
officers at the general election, AID after
which declare them fully organized.
At the same election let the people fix
the place for their own county seat.
RENONT.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-23
Barker Notes.

Sam Kohlberg, w. I'll. Busegess and
Max Waterman returned yesterday
evening from Q flying tripto Barker, and
The merchants report having had a most
successful trip in a business way.
The gentlemen inform us that a sub
stantial boom il just setting in at BsaAeT.
The camp is more lively than it has beer
before this summer, and the outiosk
from every standpoint Is encouraging.
The mining and smelling company pro-
pose to put in two additional roasters
and preparations to that effect are now
going forward. 1t il expected there will
be fully three hundred men employed
this fall by the M. & s. company and
other mine owners. At present every
body in the camp seems busy and Il will
not be long until there viii be i big de-
mand Tor m.sn.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-23
Money for Q RAINY Day.

For six years my daughter was sick
from kidney and other disorders. We
had used upour savings on doctors, when
our dominic advised us 10 try Parker's
Ginger Tonic. Four bottles effected q
cure, and as a dollars worth has kept
our family we'll oyer a year, we have
been able to lay by money again for a
rainy day.''-A Poor Mans Wife.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-23
ON THE UPPER MISSOURI.
Interview with Commodore Marratta
about Affairs in the Country Be-
tween Bismarck and Fort
Benton.

Commodore D. w, Marratta, superin-
fendent OF one Of the steamboat lines
which plies between Bismarck ana Fort
Benton, on the Upper Missouri "a dis
lance Of go miles by river Was at the
Metropolitan yesterday, and gave some
interesting facts to y Pioneer Press re-
porter: He stated that the increase this
season in travel and freighting over any
previous year was quite remarkable;
that his line kept seven steamers taxed
to their utmost capacity in transporting
passengers and goods into Montana and
bringing down the products OF that re-
gion. The river had been good all the
season and there had been nc delays on
account of low water. Speaking OF the
improvements on the upper river, be-
tween Fort Peek and Fort Benton, a
distance Of 800 miles, Commodore Ma
rata became enthusiastic over the pro
gress thus far made by the government
engineers, and said that the work SO lar
had been excellently well done. In his
opinion no river Improvement now UNI
der way is OF equal Importance to that
of the upper MISSOURI. The bottom OF
the river where improvements have
been made and are contemplated is rock,
and so any Improvement made is per
manent. Thus far the work has been
done very thoroughly and very econom
icallY. The last boat down reported
that the engineer corps was now idle,
because the appropriation Tor the work
was exhausted. He believed that there
should be no intermlission in the pro-
gress Of the Improvement, and thought
that $780, 900 per year for five years
would complete q permanent three and
a half feet channel the entire distance
from Fort Peck to Fort Benton. Until
very recently it was a rare thing Tor q
steamer to 90 up TO Fort Benton on the
low river in July, but now his boats
could go right along with 100 tons Of
freight. The country tributary to the
upper Missouri, has developed SO rapid.
ly that but little idea il had, the coln
mOdore stated, of the amount ofbusiness
now carried ON There had been abouj
500 tons Of wool shipped 10y the river
route, and many tons of fur and bullion
and droves of cattle. More neopte-act
ual settlers-are going into that region
this year than in many previous seasons
and it was safe to estimate that tel
times more breaking had been done 81
far this year than ever be.ore, crops ar
ali good, and i'm localities where, only
few years ago, it was supposed that n
wheat could be grown, there will be thl
harvest IN average field Of twenty-five
bushels to the acre. Large numbers o
eastern parties why seem to have plent,
OF money are going into Montana witt
o view to stock raising Oh a large scale
The commodore was af the opinion tina
this industry would suddenly assuln
very great proportions and that it woul'
keep pace in importance with Whea
raising i'm DakCta.-P5oNeer Press.
--Hz9 - <g4ns -. aK~--
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-23
The Maginn1s Mining Country.

The Northern Pacificha issued aneat
pamphlet OF thirty pages. entitled the
Maginnis Country. and the Warm Spring
Mining District OF eastern Montana. it
is a compound Of facts relating to the gee
ography OF the country, its streams, TIM
Der; towns, cost OF living, wages, cost o.
mining, together with u list Of the mines
and their history. and routes to them.
Sections OF the mining laws Of Montana
are given. The whole book is good
medicine" for anybody who hasthe go
west-young-rnano fever. a fine map o
the Maginnis mining country in the
pamphlet pictures the topography and
towns o the country. General Agent A
K. Barnes is giving out the publication
to those who are interested.-pionee3-
Press.
Ifsuch a map Of Northern Montana
included the Barker and Montana dis
t.icts; pointing out the agricultural and
stock OF the country; the ad-
vantages to immigrants Of all classes-it
might be effective Of some good and
would leave no room whatever for de-
ceptiCn. The Maginnis country is very
good as far as it goes, but it is not big
enough.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-23

A rich strike was made in the Wright
& Edwards last Friday. An additional
sricll streak, Y seven inches in width, has
shown upin the lead, giving them a large
amount Of very high grade ore in a vein
Of four feet, all pay ore. This mine now
looks better than it ever has, and in q
few weeks. when the tunnel is compile
ted to the shaft, the ore can lie taken out
easily and rapidly.
The new strike made by Frank Aid
rich and others, Il short time distance
above the Wright & Edwards, is sup
posed to be one Of the richest and best
leads in the camp. The boys have thir-
io-five tons OF good ore on the dump now,
and are pushins the work rapidly. They
have made arrangements with the smell
ter to take the ore as fast as taken out.
The water at the smelling works will
start up on the Goth.
There are twenty-siX men employed
n the Wright & Edwards, They are
running three shifts, eight hours each.
The citizens of Hughesviile have sub
scribed $500 towards building the pro-
posed new road over the trail. Benton
should do a coed part towards building
this road, as it will shorten the distance
to Barker some fl lteen miles.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
Influence Of Association.
[Sydney Smith.

lSyuney smith,
remember once seeing an advertisement
in the papers with which was much struck,
and which 1 will take the liberty of reading
! Lost, in the Temple Coffee House, and sup
posed to have been taken away by mistake
an oaken stick, which has supported it's mas
ter not only over the greatest part of Europe
but has been his companion in his journeys
over the inhospitable deserts of Africa.
Whoever will restore it to the waiter will
confer very serious obligation on the adj
vertiser; or if that be any object, shall re-
ceive a recompense very much above the
value of the article restored" Now, here is
man who buys sixpenny stick because it
is useful, and totally forgetting the trifing
causes which first made his stick of any con-
sequence, speaks of it with warmth and
affection; calls it his companion. and would
hardly have changed it, perhaps, for the gold
stick which is carried before the king But
the best and the strongest example of this,
and of the customary progress of association,
is the passion of avarice. A child only loves
a guinea because it shines; and, as it is
equally splendid, he loves a gilt button as
we'll In after life ne begins to love wealth
because it affords him the comforts of ex-
istence, and then loves it so well that he de-
nies himself the comforts of life to increase
it, The uniting idea is so totally forgotten
that it is completely sacrificed to the ideas
which it united. Two friends unite against
the person to whose introduction they are
indebted for their knowledge of each other,
exclude him from their society and ruin him
by their combination.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
Finger-Marks

A gentleman hired mason to do some
work for him, and among other things to
"thin-whiten" the wall of one of his rooms.
This thin-whitening is almost colorless un-
til dried. The gentleman was much sur
prised. on the morning after the chamber
was finished to find ON the drawer of his
desk, standing in the room, white finger
marks Opening the drawers, he found the
same on the articles in it, and also on the
pocket book. An examination revealed the
same marks on the contents of the bag. This
proved clearly that the mason, with his wet
hand, had opened the d1awer, and searched
the bag, which contained no money, and had
closed the drawer without once thinking
that any one would ever know it. The
"thin-whitening" which happened to be on
his hands did not show at first, and he pro-
bably had no idea that twelve hours drying
would reveal his wickedness. AS the work
was all done on the afternoon the drawer was
opened the man did not come again, an to
this day does not know that his acts are
known to his employer. Beware of evil
thoughts and deeds. They all leave their
finger marks, which will one day berevealed.
Sin defes the soul. It betrays those who en-
gage in it by the marks it makes on them.
These may may be almost if not invisible
at first
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
An Inquisitive Bright Child.

One of those unusually bright children
who are always getting people into difficulties
was at a prayer meeting with his mother,
when he asked aloud:
ma, say, ma, who was Dinah Moore?"
"H-u-s-h," whispered his mother cautious
ly, ''it's hymn"
mo it amt, ma," continued the hopeful,
"it's woman's name say, who's going home
to Dinah Moore ?"
Willie" said his mother in a CHASTITY
voice, YOU'RE disturbing the meeting. 1t
means going to heaven to die no more"
"Dine no more! Oh, ma, don't they eat
no more?"
His mother explained as well as she could,
and Willie sat still for half minute, his
bright eyes rowing about the church
Ma is God out Of town."
Moo, no" answered the distracted woman
family.
"Then What's Mr.. Kelly running this
meeting for ?" continued the sweet child.
The choir sung him down, but as the meet
ing closed with silent prayer his gentle voice
was distinctly heard saying
"Old Mrs. Jones' switch don't match her
hair like yours, does it, map"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
What is a MascOtte?

Both dictionaries and scholars fail to an
swer the question, which the opera with the
title constantly raises, what is mascotte
But the visitors of Monte Carlo tell us it is
fetish-a luck-bringer. All gamblers are
superstitious, and draw their inspirations
from the oldest circumstances A moscott
may be sou or sixpence with hole in it,
a button, lock of hair, anything which the
punter has associated with lucky turn
Aims to beggar-moscotte; denial of aims
-moscotte; seeing hunchback or white
horse-moscotte meeting black cat-mos-
cote. Three years ago a little hunchback
at Monaco derived large returns from stand
ing near the table and rubbing his hump at
the request of the players. He had tariff
Once, francs; a long rubbing, 10 francs
for standing half an hour behind curtain
player and not rubbing for others, 20 francs
At the end of the season, returning to Paris
on the train, he was seen to throw away his
hump. Mascotte is the opposite of jettatura,
or the evil eve
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
Covering Land with "Greenbacks.'
american Agriculturist.l

Those living on the "boundless prairies,
where the government gives farm to every
man or woman who will take it. live on it,
and work it, and where any amount of land
can be bought for very few shillings or
dollars per acre, will open their eyes pretty
wide on seeing the price paid the other day
for plot of ground in New York City, on
the corner of Fifth avenue and Fitty-fourth
street. 1t is four 'city lots" 25 by 100 feet.
or just 100 feet square, making 10000 square
feet, which is less than quarter of an acre.
Mr. w. H. Vanderbilt bought the plot to
build couple of houses on it for two mar
ried daughters, and the cash paid for this
quarter acre was 1896, 900, or at the rate of
over $1,5O0OO0 per acre. The ordinary
greerback bills, somewhat closely trimmed,
are u inches long and 3 1-15 inches wide,
having twenty-five square inches of surface
Six and half bills lack but an inch of COW
ering or carpeting square foot. A little
figuring will show that the price paid for
Mr.. Vanderbilt's plot would just about cover
it all over with one-dollar bills, laid six
deep, or cover it with five-dollar bills, and
spread one-dollar bills all over these
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
An Ivory Famine Feared.
London Engineer,


1t is not unlikely that ivory will soon be-
come so scarce that its use in the shape of
pianoforte keys, knife handles, and fans will
be reserved for the aff1uent The rapid ad-
vances in the value Of ivory are causing
some uneasiLess in the market At the last
quarterly sale, which closed on the 28th ult,
there were only eighty -one tons offered-in-
Guiding ten tons withdrawn from previous
auctions-as against 122 tons offered in
April, 1881. The falling off was mainly
owing to the continued scarcity of cape
only two tons-and the limited supply of
west coast African-eleven TONS From Zan-
zibar and Bombay there were thirty-three
tons, twenty-four tons from Alexandria, and
nine tons from Malta. All descriptions, ex-
cept for billiard-ball purposes, have gone up
from e3 to ga per hundred weight, and the
ivory cutters have resolved for the second
time this year to raise their prices The
stores in the docks this year amount to 1873
tons, compared wieh 213 tons for the cor
period of last year. Mr.. w.
Wostenholm, Sheffield, has just had invoiced
to him no fewer than 522 tusks, which, he
says, will all be cleared out in fortnight.
These tusks represent 275 elephants, and if
one ivory cutter alone can get through with
so many in SO short a time there is some fear
of the elephant being relegated to the lost
species of animals
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
New York S1n1


Are you ever called upon by women tC
give them something to improve their com
plexlons? :" asked reporter of city physi-
clan.
quite often, as matter of course Women
are always looking for something to intensi-
ty their beauty They are not to blame fol
1t !; the first inquiry most men make about a
woman is whether or not she is pretty"
DO you prescribe arsenic for that pur-
pose?"
Not as beautiier In the treatment OF
certain true skin diseases, Fowler's solution
is often used, and rightly managed is valu-
able remedy. But arsenic is oftner pre-
scribed for malaria, neuralgia and dyspepsia" "
Yes, arsencic does, though not always, pro-
puce the effect ascribed to it. Its beautifying
powers, however, if such they be, are much
exaggerated. 1t is possible but not probable
that physician would give arsenic to a
woman who wished for it, as some thing
with which to heighten her charms at the
expense OF her health. No respectable prac-
! titioner would do it, There are any number
of old women and quacks to attend to that
sort of thing, and the number who use ar
senic in this way is considerable | have
prescribed sulphur in such cases half dozen
times, but never afterward heard of my fair
patients. Stop! One Of them did return
She said my medicine was not strong enough
Arsenic was good she had been told, and
she not only asked me for it, but was indig-
nant when ! declined to write a prescrip-
ton
THE reasons for not giving arsenic in such
cases should be obvious enough. The patient
almost always adopts the principle of the
more arsenic the more beauty It is not by
the way, habit confined to women. I know
of two cases in which arsenic was used by
young men for the same purpose | have
had several cases of women who had serious
ly injured themselves with arsenic, all of
them within or 8 years. Twenty years ago
they were rare. The symptoms in most
cases are very severe. The trouble begins
with nausea and abdominal pains, then the
eyes redden, and the upper lids become
thickened, having taken on dropscal char
acter which soon extends over the whole
body. Frequently the arsenic produces
severe skin eruptions. The nervous system
in time becomes seriously involved and
wasting Of the flesh, falling out of the hair,
and sometimes paralysis, follow. Young
women should be careful how they meddle
with Fowler's solution"
A druggist said that calls for arsenic were
not infIequent, and came quite as often from
middle-aged as from young women. Il never
sell it to them," he added, without pre-
scription. l know, however, that it is sold
for a beautifer, and | have reasons to believe
that it is bought of the wholesale druggists,
put up in bottles, and disposed of by ped
dlers of nostrums who, no doubt, get high !
prices for it,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
Removal of Grease Spots.

Whenever oil of turpentine. benzole OF
ether is used to remove grease spots on cloth
the application should be made on the re.
verse side of the cloth, by moistening it with
the solvent in circle surrounding the spot
so as to approch it gradually, having blotting
paper in contact with the spot of grease, to
absorb the fat Immediately; otherwise the
solvent will have the effect of spreading the
grease over larger surface instead of driving
it out of the CLOTH In the application of a
hot iron to one side and blotting paper to the
other, the heat will drive the grease out of
the cloth into the paper because the fat has a
tendency to move from the hotter parts to-
wards the cooler.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
A Fire Battery.

Heavy artillery is the latest economical
addition to railway rolling stock" All the
Erie wrecking- trains are supplied with can
non to lombard the tanks on burning oil
trains to save them from burning. This plan
saved much valuable property at Delaware
bridge, where seven tanks exploded before
the cannon could be procured, but nineteen
were saved after the oil had been drawn from
two by shooting slugs into them. The ex-
pedient is practically the same as the appli-
cation of gunpowder blasts in conaagrations.
The wisdom of partial destruction for gen.
eral safety is too obvious to need explana-
ton
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
Grain Measures.

To measure grain in bulk, multiply the
width of the pile by its length, and that
product by the hight, then divide by 2,15O
and the result will give the contents in
bushels. If it is desired to ascertain the
number of heaped bushels in a pile of ears
of corn, ascertain the number of cubic
inches, and divide by 2s1s. If, having any
number of bushels, it is required to find the
corresponding number of cubic feet, increase
the number of bushels one-fourth itself, the
result will be the number of cubic feet In
order to ascertain the number of bushels
which bin of given size will hold
find the contents of the bin in cubic feet,
diminish the contents by one-ffth and the
result will be the contents in bushels.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-07-20
The Old Sergeant.

"o>AA - Peso
hour, and the weary nurse dozed and nod
ded-struggled to keep awake-noddet
again-and finally slept in her chair.
Then the old clock began calling: "Tick
tack! tick tack y
The sleeping man moved uneasily, and th'
thin, bony hand was raised as if in pro
test.
"Tick tack tick! tackn' called the clocl
in louder tones.
The sick man opened his eyes and stared
about him in surprise. His hair was thi1
and gray, his face wasted and pale, an(
death had stole silently in as he slept an(
placed its seal on his brow
You were soldier !" said the clock.
Aye! that | was !" said the man, as ht
gathered sudden strength and half rose up
Company G, fall in! Right dress Front
Attention to roll-call Adams, Artman
| Airport, Amsden-"
"They do not answer" said the clock, as
the sergeant paused.
mo; they lie buried in the trenches al
Manassas !" solemnly answered the old
man. Barnard, Baxter, Bloom, Buchanan
Burton"
II do not hear their voices" said the
clock.
Il had forgotten--they died at Fair Oaks =
said the sergeant. Garter, Claxton, Cole
man ="
"And what of them 2"
ave laid them side by side at Malvern
Hill. Davis, Denton, Dougherty, Dan
forth"
absent without leave" said the clock
absent forever!" answered the sargeant
"The green fields at Sharpsburg drank their
life blood. Enright, Eberman, Eckliff, Erick-
son"
'On guard" said the clock.
"Then the dead guard the dead p whispered
the soldier. Il saw them lying stark and
stiff on the field at Spottsylvania. Fenton,
Fairfax, Forbes"
Dead !" said the clock.
'Dead?" answered the sergeant. Graham,
Gosport Gorman-"
Where ?" queried the clock.
"In the thickets of the sombre Wilder
ness Hubert, Hill, Hanford, Hanover,
Harker-"
"And those, too?"
aye; they answered no more to roll-call
after Gettysburg"
"Your lines are but the shadows of the
dead !" said the clock. "The dead and buried
can make no answer. Under the trees at
Charlottesville the sod at Freder-
icksburg-in the meadows around Winches-
ter-no roll-call can awaken themn'
''Ingalls, Irving, Ishman" called the SER
geant.
Dead at Kernestown answered the
clock
James, Justin, Jordan"
''They sleep at Petersburg!"
hampton, Ladue, Larkin, Leyering,
Lumly-"
Call no more Only when the angel
calls the roll of the unnumbered dead at the
last great day will the dust answer You
alone are leftw
The sergeant fell back On his pillow and
the shadows marched by the right flank into
the darkness of midnight. The nurse started
up with a shiver, looked at the clock and
then walked softly to the bedside and whis-
pered:
Sergeant Grim, it is time" !"
ut is past timem whispered the clock
Sergeant Grim, awakew
1T was the last roll-call," said the clock,
and he has answered to his name at the
gates of eternity