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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-15
Information for Housekeepers.
For rough hands, use lemon juice.

For rough hands, use lemon juice.
Strong lye cleans tainted pork barrels.
Tepid milk and water cleans oilcloth with
out soap.
Turpentine applied to a cut is preventive
to lockiaw.
Sprinkle sassafras bark among dried fruit
TO keep out worms.
Popcorn is good lunch for Sunday night,
with milk for drink.
A handful OF hay In pailful Of water
neutralizes the smell Of paint.
To make carpet look fresh: wipe with q
damp cloth after sweeping. ...
In sewing and winding carpet rags double
them with the right side out.
Cleaning tea or coffee cups with securing
brick makes them look as good as new.
Washing pine floor in solution Of one
pound of copperas dissolved In one gallon OF
strong lye gives oak color.
Remove Aower-pot stains from window
sills by rubbing with fine wood ashes and
rinse with clean water.
A paste of equal parts Of sifted ashes, clay,
and salt, and little water cements cracks In
stoves and ovens.
Mixtures Of two parts Of glycsr'De, enc
part ammonia, and little rose water whitsn
and soften the hands.
Cover plants with newspapers before sweep.
ing. Also put . little ammonia upon them
once week.
Corn.hasks braided make q handsome and
sefviesable mat. The braids 10 be sewed
wah . seek needle and twine.
Cabbage is made digeslible by first sliciLg
aud then putting In boiling water, with .
pinch OF snds and some salt, and boiling
jus, fifteen minutes
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-15
BERYL,S LOVE STORY.
How Two Hearts Were Made Happy by the
Errors OF u Base Ball Nine.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
"Where Is Mulcahey?"
As Lord Wyvern spoke these words he
stepped lightly from the broad veranda that
encircled Brierton Villa and stood beside his
daughter, Beryl McCloskey. ~ am not
happy, papa" said the girl, turning as the
words with which this chapter opens were
spoken, and laying shapely, dimpled hand
in the broad, pie-plate palm Of her father.
81 know full we'll that 1t is not right for me
to feel thus, because have everything that
should make my life q bright and joyous
one. With kind, loving parents, beautiful
home, health, doughnuts, and every luxury
that taste can suggest or money purchase, /
should indeed be ungrateful-nay, even
wicked-were to complain; but In spite Of
all this, in spite of the fact that try, o so
hard, to be bright and gay, there seems to be
always before me some great sorrow"-and,
bursting into storm Of sobs, Beryl laid her
hand on her fathers shoulder and wept SO
long and so bitterly that Lord Wyvern began
to wish he was sponge.
at is your liver, my darling" he said ten
derly, when the violence of the girls grief
had In some measure abated, and only the
convulsive shuddsr that passed like the dy'
ing throb Of broken pump through the lis.
some form that he held in his arms told oi
the mighty sorr ow that was racking Beryis
heart. "You are of your feed"
"No, papa" replied the girl, looking up te
him with her beautiful brown eyes from
which cleaned the soft light of holy, ten
der affection.
"You must not try to deceive me, my dar'
ling" he said. "Tell me truly. do you moi
love Reginald Mulcahey?"
The girl gave quick, convulsive move
ment, like the fawn of the forest when the
crack Of the hunters rife breaks upon the
midday silence, or man who sinks languid.
ly to rest on tack, and then, realizing tha
her secret was known, she looked at be-
father in shy, hesitating, boy-found. blythe
old-man-playing- billiards -when-he. ought-to
have e.been-sawing-w wood fashion, and let th'
rosy bushes Of maiden modesty whlcl
chased each other across her cheeks max
answer.
"But was % afraid, papa," she said, see
| ing the kindly smile that fitted across Lore
| Wyvern's face, "that you would oppose ou
love because Regy Is no. rich, and It woui'
break my heart to lose him now"
"wealth is not everything, my child" b
said, "and l win help Reginald TO acquire II
30 that by this time next week be may be II
position to place ron forever beyond tn
reach Of want"
"Will you?" exclaimed Beryl, her fac
lighting up with glad, joyous, I-have-found
tho-hair-brush smile.
"Yss, my darling" answers the father.
/. sBut how"
II will,n replies Lord Wyvern. "6ny him
pool ticket on the first club that plays agains
the White Ssockinss.n
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-15
The Nez Perces Return.
From Salt Lake Tribune, June 81.

After Gen. o. o. Howard captured the
Nez Perces Indians some years ago in Idaho,
Oregon and Montana, they were sent to the
Indian Territory, and have been there the
past five years. Disease carried of the most
Of them, and the remnant, thirty In number,
have gone back to their reservation to live.
James Reuben, one Of their tribe, who has
been educated, and Is an intelligent Indian,
bad charge Of the party - they passed
through Salt Lake last Sunday over the Dem
yer q Rio Grande. They went to Kelton on
the Central Pacific, from which point they 60
70 their old reservation BY teams.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-15
"BITTERS, PLEASE"
How Many Persons Take a Nip Under the
Guise of Medicine"

Guise of "Medicine."
II Is an undisguised fact that many people
indulge In alcoholic stimulants under the
guise Of medicine, and that many patent
medicine enterprises make their projectors
rich under the pretense of selling
o remedy for disease, which is little o. 10th
ing more than favored alcohol diluted. The
following tables are from the Temperance
Advocate. They are from the report of the
assayer of the State of Rhode Island:
Christopher Holden, Sheriff.
DEAR SIR-I herewith submit to you my
report on the various bitters sold in this
market, giving, as you desired, their per.
centage OF alcohol, and forming them into
three classes.
Glass First-Those apparently manufac-
tured for beverage.
Glass Second-Those occupying a middle
place between q medicine and beverage
These are not as palatable as No. /, though
they may be drunk as beverage, and, like
No. /, are intoxicating.
Glass Third-Those whose medicina
properties or bitter taste render them unf
for 3 beverage.
FIRST CLASS.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-15
Apache Fugitivss.

TOMBSTONE, Arizona, June 3.-A party OF
ssvsn hostiles was seen yesterday near John.
sons ranch, fifty miles east Of Tombstone
and forty north of the Sonora line. They
were going toward the San Carlos reserva.
tion, having evidently been driven from the
Sierra Madres. The hostiles fired on the
herders, but the latter escaped unhurt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
A Conscientious Conductor.

elbow did Ibecome Superintendent"
answered the railroad official. s'Why,
it was this way: I was conductor of the
morning passenger express, and n
day as we were coming down by the
junction we struck misplaced switch
and ran into u freight train that was
standing on the siding. As we were
running about thirty-five miles an hour,
of course it piled things up a good deal.
Our engine was smashed all to pieces,
the smoker telescoped the baggage
car, and the forward passenger coach
a up on the heap and rolled over. l
was standing on the platform at the
time the thing happened, and luckily
was slung off about thirty feet beside
the track. When 1 picked myself up
everything was confusion, the air was
filled with clouds of escaping steam, and
about fifty passengers were somewhere
in the wreck. OF course, it was what
you might call an emergency but
there's no such word as that in the
company's dictionary. had my orders,
and knew what to do. The roof of the
smoking-car lay near me, and 1 heard a
man crying out from underneath it.
After about ten minutes work I got the
stuff all cleared away and reached him.
He was very weak and grooming. .Oh,
heavens!' he said, this timber presses
on me so l can't move. Both my legs
are broken below the knee Think
you'll be here till the next train?' I
asked. ooh, yes he moaned. Then
you'll need a stop-over check, SIR I
said, and | made out a p~asteboard and
gave it to him. Young man. he said,
I observe that you have neglected to
fill in the day of the month, but, under
the circumstances, your omission is ex-
cusable. I am q director of the COM
pany, and, if | survive, your attention
to duty shall be rewarded The old
gentleman pulled through, and is now
Vice-President. That's how I'm Super
intcndent, and" he continued,
musingly, as he fingered his lantern
w~atch-charm, 81 believe in the old say
ing that the company has rights which
the public is bound to respect and rules
which they must conform to."-Life.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
Pleasure Of Being Clicked to Death.

A correspondent writes to the PAIL
Mall Gaze!te: THE question Of hang
ing OF decapitation is n which has
reasoning advocates on both sides, as
has the third alternative of no capital
punishment whatever; but human in
genuity is far from being exhausted on
this topic, and there are other alterna-
tives beside the garrote, of which moth
ing need be said as more barborous than
hanging. But unless we hold the NOR
tai terror of a rough death as q part Of
any scheme of punishment, l can offer
from personal experience a suggestion
to the avoidance of the most repulsive
part of the English legal method. While
a student l was II evening investigat-
ing the question of respiration, and to
Obtain more definite data took q scarf,
bound it about my throat, and held it
there, drawn with my full force. My
room mate on the other side of the study
table did not notice what I was doing,
and went on with his talking, which
died away by degrees into a murmur
and was lost. My own senses seemed
normally acute, but gradually and with
out any distress sight and sound failed
me, and a dreamy and not unpleasant
state of incipient insensibility, not I'M
like that produced by ch%loroform, set
in, and passed into a painless and COM
plete oblivion-a total i%nsensibility to
all surrounding impressions or physical
sensations. | was conscious of no chok-
ing or effort at breathing; and, indeed,
that function seemed to be quite super
1uous. liked the sensation, and hung
on to the scarf with uususpicious vigor
as long as consciousness remained, after
which my hands relaxed their hold, the
scarf fell, and slowly breath and circu-
lation resumed their offices. l might.
I suppose, have died and known moth
ing more of the matter, and why should
not the poor scamp who must be
choked to death be allowed to 60 by the
easy way 1 travelled out of sight of life
and without a pang?"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
A Talk with the Bows.

II don't know what to do" said one
just stepping from the threshold of bow
mood: my ability is not great. If 1
enter college there must be long years
OF preparation. The fitting school, the
college, the professional school each de-
mand their weary years.
"lf engage in mercantile business,
I must commence at the bottom round.
l must sweep the store and run errands
and 40 up bundles. l must slowly rise
II at all. How do I know 1 shall rise. I
have no capital and my business
capacity is not wonderful.
III engage in manufacturing, there.
100, l must begin low if 1 would rise
nigh; must go into the lowest room
OF the mill. l must learn all of the
dlsagreeable details of the business. It
VIII ake me years to learn, and after
all | may fail.
IL l am to be a farmer I must have
long years of disagreeable plodding. l
must pick uD stones and drive cows and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
PITH AND POINT.

Every maj has three characters
that which he exhibits, that which he
has, and that which he thinks he has.
Too much sturdy is said to affect the
mind; and we know a number of cases
where it would affect it very favorably,
too.-Burlsngtou Free Press.
-"Got on your husbands cravat,
haven't you?" asked u ncighbor of Mrs.
Bilkins. eyes," replied Mrs. B. sadly,
tits the only tie there is between US
-"Know anything about life in the
West!s' said MI. Stone. 81 should say
l do. I was tarred and feathered twice
in Missouri, and rode on q rail in Kan
sas."-Boston Post.
1t is said that "Satan is ever watch
ing to find us unemployed" The gen
tleman referred to never watches news
paper men. 1t would be a waste of
valuable time.-lroy Times.
The English alphabet is tolerably
virtuous. Twenty of the letters have
never been in prison.-N Y. Ncws.
Yes, but look what a lot of them are
now in neutrality-suspicious. Her.
aid.
An anti-vaccinationist has proved
beyond ~peradventure that a man who
has not been vaccinated may escap
contagion, although surrounded by
smallpox. He lost his wife and three
children, but he escaped. He commit
ted suicide Express.
Why said Mr.. Brynesmonkey,
'should [ go to hear a dog that can
crow like a rooster?: If | wish to hear
the sound of a ROSTERS Growing, I'll 90
and hear q rooster, whose growing must
necessarily be better than anything a
dog can do."-Boston Post.
Made to sticz-the postage stamp.
A burning shame-cigarette smoking.
stage-struck-the man hit by an omni-
bus. The baker, poor man, always
kneads bread. Stabbed to the heart
oysters on the half shell. "Going
through the country-the Mississippi
River.-M. Y. Commercial.
-"I never can enjoy poetry when
I'm cooking" said an old lady who
dropped in on us recently. .But when
I step out to feed the hogs and hist my
self on the face, and throw my soul in
to a few lines of 'Cap'n jerks, it does
seem as if this airth was made to live on
after all."-OM city Derrick.
Says a writer on table etiquette:
IF you are of a party to dinner or
lunch, wait by your chair until all seat
themselves" This is undoubtedly good
advice; but if each one should wait un-
til all had seated themselves, wouldn't
%l,@~1 L.. e H. -LA.
cold before all were seated?-M. 7.
Graphic.
-"Oh, will he bite?" exclaimed one
of Middletown's sweetest girls with a
look of alarm, when she saw one of the
dancing bears on the street the other
day. mo- said her escort, she can
not bite-he is muzzled; but he can
hug" "Oh," she said, with a distract
ing smile, II don't mind hat."-Buf
falo Express.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Fifty thousand people are employed
In rice culture in Louisiana. Before the
war but little rice was grown there.
Tallahassee and Gainesville, Fla,
will each have an ice factory, equipped
by Northern capital, and making ten
tons daily each.-CAicago Herald.
A new India-rubber plant has been
discovered in Southern India. originally
+ native of the Cochin-China forests,
where its juice is used in medicine.
A New York photographer has
nchived the remarkable feat of taking q
picture in the neutrality-suspicious.
andth part of a second-or next to no
time at all.-N Y. San.
One of the chief features of interest
at a recent county exhibition in England
was IN iron watch, which had been
turned out by q Kidderminster firm for
the purpose of showing the e%xtraordina-
ry malleability of their metal. The
watch is said to be perfect.
"A rural inventor claims that no
can make paper out of grass. He says
that grass paper is stronger, softer,
more transparent than linen stock, and
considerably cheaper. According to
his figures, one acre of grass will pro-
duce 3,711 pounds of paper.-Erchange.
The railroad bridge over the Mis-
souri, River at Blair, Neb., which cost
$1,000, 900, was tested with six locomo-
tives. the maximum DETECTION being
two inches. The permanent iron struc-
ture is 1920 feet long and fifty feet
above high water, with trestle-work APP
proaches of nearly two miles at either
end.-Chtcago Journal. tss~s
Two enterprising Germans, per-
haps of the family of Baron Munchau-
sen. have made to the municipality of
Buenos Ayres a proposition that is
worthy of the attention of civil engl-
ncers. They propose to build for that
city a stationary umbrella of such pro-
portions as will forever render it unnec-
essary for the people down there to come
in out of the rain. This tritle is to cost
SIS, 750, 200.
t. Among the most recent inventions
in gunnery is a Calling gun which can
throw a battery of 104 cartridges with
effect either upward or downward at
any angle. Not only can a fort or in
trenchment within $500 yards be thus
rendered untenable, but scaling parties
should they ever be introduced into
warfare again, would have a new ter
ror. The new gun is a base-loading
machine, worked by a spiral, and is now
in the Colt Armory, Hartford.-Hart-
ford Post.
The exceedingly delicate photo
graphs (colorcd) on glass, which have
come lately into fashion, are produced
by fixing a paper photograph upon a
cushion-shaped glass with transparent
cement, and when it is dry rubbing
away two-thirds Of the photograph with
sand-paper. The thin film left is then
rendered transparent by soaking in
melted paratfine wax, after which
transparent colors are applied, which
appear softened down when looked at
from the front. The background and
heavier portions of the picture are then
painted in body color upon the face Of
another cushion-shaped piece of glass,
which is afterward fixed behind the first
one.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
Mecca's Shrine in Danger.

In view of the fact hat the French
Government is actually considering the
expediency Of jointly occupying the
Holy City of Mecca with other civilized
powers, in the hope of so controlling
The yearly pilgrimages thither as to pre-
vent the engendering and spread of
cholera epidemics, it will be interesting
Ito note q few curious facts connected
with this pilgrimage which afford evil
dencc of how closely the custom is con-
nected with the very basis of Moslem
faith.
This pilgrimage belongs to the class
vf Ferd or divine ordinances obligatory
upon every Mohammedan once during
life. None of either sex are exempted,
unless by reason of extraordinary pow
erty; even a blind man is bound if he
has means to hire a guide to take him
to Kaaba. No woman is exempted I'M
less she can not find a man to accom-
panv her; but thisl difficulty car always
be obviated with the aid of money.
Nevertheless the expenses of the pill
grimage are considerablc-cspecially
Tor Mohammedans living in India, Cen
trail Asia OF other remote countries for
each one must take with him not only
sufficient means of charity, but more-
over he must before his departure leave
his family sufficient means for support
during an absence which sometimes,
even in these days of steamers and rail
roads, lasts a year. And so heinous it
is considered to neglect this pilgrimage
that the Moslem doctors at one time
discussed the advisability of putting all
to death who refrained from performing
it.
On the other hand, the Prophet has
promised the following Heavenly graces
70 all who piously make the journey:
Whosoever entereth Mecca shall de-
part therefrom pure as o newborn
child.
One prayer at Mecca is worth 100000
prayers uttered elsewhere.
One day of fast at Mecca shall be
held worth at least 100000 days else
where.
One almsgiving at Mecca to the
amount of but one dirhem shall be re-
corded in Heaven as equal to an aims
OF 100, 600 dirhems.
And each single good action there
performed shall be held equal to 100, 900
good deeds wrought elsewhere.
He that shall endure the heat of
Mecca, hell shall be removed from him
to the distance of 200 years journey,
and Heaven brought nearer TO him by
200 years journey.
The Lord looks down once every
night upon the worll; the first city that
He sees is Mecca, the first people He
beholds are those who are praying
therein.
All who perform the Thawaf (the
Three \ isits) shall be delivcredfrom the
pains of hell.
Furthermore, it is believed that all
who die in the neighborhood Of Mecca,
or even of Medina, shall dwell in Para
disc, and that at the day of Judgment
the cemeteries of the Pilgrims will be
lifted up to Heaven. The Prophet him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The last stone Of the palace Of the
Tuileries has been removed.
The underground railway system,
which will soon encircle London, is be-
Ing built at a cost of $500 900 per
mile.
A figure of Marwood, the hangman,
has been placed on exhibition in the
Tussaud Temple, London, and proves
the one attraction to visitors.
George Augusta Sala says that he
wants to keep the English language as
English as possible. and he, therefore,
objects to the further introduction of
foreign words.
An English vicar has taken to the
lecture field in order to reconcile science
and religion by arguing that pre-,
Adamite remains are nothing more nor
less than fossil angels.
-"Come and see me on an import
ant family matter" was the message
sent by a lady of Berlin to all her rela-
tives. They came in troops, and, upon
arriving at the house, found her hang
ing by the neck, dead.
The London Telegraph thinks the
time is not far distant when every
night-farer will carry his own ray of
electricity about him, enclosed within
the compass of a machine not larger
than the watch now ticking in his
pocket.
1t is estimated that during the last
forty years 2,250,O00 houses have been
erected in Great Britain, and they are
worth double the amount of the
national debt. The rate of building
now is about $4,000 per year. Forty
years ago the rate was 10000 per year.
Isabella became Queen of Spain on
September 20, 1888. She fled from that
throne and took refuge in France on
September 90, 1868. And her son,
King Alfonso, was hooted at by a mob
in Paris on September 20, 1883. There's
encouragement for people who believe
in omens and fatal days.
Mr.. John Tennial, the cartoon az
fist of the London Punch, is sixty-three
years old. With the exception of a
week o. two some years ago, his draw
ings have appeared regularly since
1851. Slim, upright, and military
looking, with regular features and a
gray mustache, he is quiet and studious
and has an old-fashioned English con
tempt, says the London Truth, for the
willy foreigner.
Large fortunes are rare in Switzer-
land, and the salaries Of public func-
tionaries are very modest. The Presi-
dent of the confedation receives for his
services only $4,000 year; few Judges
receive more than 81, 25O, and there is
probably nc bank manager in the coun-
try with q salary of more than twice
that amount. A mar with an income
of 50, 500 is considered very well off in
deed, and to have $4,000 a year is
'passing rich.'
English papers are pointing sadly
to the low mental statuses of a heather
people who can be made to believe any
sort Of lies about them. A war docu-
mcnt is being circulated on the Chinese
frontier, which begins by asserting that
Europeans do notbelong to the human
race. They are the offspring of
monkeys crossed with geese" The
English are described as GA little tribe
cooped up in q corner of the sea, in a
country as big as ones hand. Their
King may be indifferently male or
female. The subjects are half men,
half animals"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-14
Our Young Folks.
HER MAJESTY.

She wears n royal. golden crown,
Our little. laughing, shy-faced queen:
The clust'ring curls Der eyes OF brown
Are bright as summer starliyht'S sheen.
She sways a scepter DOR VS. all.
And we obey each proud commando
For we are held in slavery's thral
By that imperial, dimpled hand.
Her robes of state are pure rs snow,
In every heart she finds Y throne.
In all the land she has no foe;
The name of rebel is unknown.
Her loyal subjects. low and high,
Full many q costly tribute bring:
The gtories OF her kingdom. !.
Her humble ~poet-laureate, sing.
Around my neck her soft arms Irvine,
Ny 0 is smothered in her curls;
Her sweet, fresh lips are pressed to mine
Oh. Baby-little queen of girls!
| Golden DdNs.