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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-28
THE REFORM CLUB.
A Movement to Establish Read
ing, Smoking and Coffee
Rooms.

The temperance reform movement
grows apace. Although unan.
nounced except by a short item in
Yesterday mornings MINER, the
Baptist Chapel was crowded at the
reform club meeting last night, not
only the al but every inch OF
standing room being occupied. Still
ring addresses were made by Mr..
Hogan and others. and upon the
pledge book being opened, about q
score of new signers came forward
and affixed their autographs to the
simple pledge, which is written in a
scrawling hand at the top Of the page
in a we'll worn and dilapidated look
ing, paper covered account book. The
book has also served as a scrap book,
and the first pages are adorned with
pugilistic cuts and clippings from
numerous journals, which tell of Ben
Hogan's life and works. The pledge
reads: by the help of Almighty
Gcd I pledge myself to abstain
from the use Of intoxicants
land from gambling) for the period
set opposite my name" The periods
generally signed for are three and six
months, though there are many
pledges for a year and for life. 3
The plan OF the Reform Club,
which is recruited from the signers,
is to form a permanent association of
men and women in full sympathy
with the movement, who will con-
tinue the good work, hold up each
others hands and provide ,ueans Of
recreation, rooms where refreshments
can be obtained at a nominal cost and
in other ways furnish a substitute for
the drinking saloon and gaming table
to which the reformed man has been
accustomed to resort for excitement,
recreation, or stimulant. In the east
many of the clubs are provided with
billiard rooms, bowling alleys, chess
rooms. etc., for the recreation
of their members. 1t is
proposed in Butte to secure the
building on West Broadway former
ly occupied by Fred Taylor's store,
which will be fitted up and comfort
ably furnished for a reading room,
which will also answer for an assem-
bly, room. and will be connected
with Il coffee a1ld lunch room and a
smoking room The reading room
will be furnished with a library of
works and the leading
.urnals of the country. In the
lunch room the best coffee, cigars
aud light lunches will be sold at a
small profit, the profits going to the
club fund and aiding in its mainte-
nance.
The plan has proven very success
full in the east and there is no doubt
out the establishment of such Il re-
sort in Butte will aid many of the
men in forming new habits
md associations away from their old
1aunts and tippling comrades.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-28
From the Daily Of Tuesday.
DEER LODGE,
Narrow Escape Of a U. & N
Train In q Terrific Snow
Storm.
O. M. Hartman, of Butte, Seri.
ouely Injured,
Special Correspondence of the MINER
DEER LODGE, MONT,
NoVemher % 1893

DEER LODGE, MONT,
November %, 1883.
Last Saturday afternoon Deer
Lodge was visited by one Of the most
terrific wind and snow storms that
has beeu witnessed for years. The
freight train coming north between
Race Track and Warm Springs came
near meeting with a fearful catastro-
phe. 1t was coming down grade at
a rapid rate and the whirling snow SO
blinded the engineer that he could
see no distance beyond him. AT the
place mentioned the engine had run
within a hundred yards of Is or 20
head Of cattle huddled together on
the track. There was no chance to
stop the train, hence the engineer
whistled down brakes and reversed
the engine. At this moment he told
the fireman, G. M. Hartman, to jump
of, which the latter did, falling in
sucha position as to break his left
leg between the knee and ankle.
The engineer jumped off also, but
aside from q few bruises came out all
right. The brakeman ran ahead and
took charge of the engine. Three of
the cattle were killed, but the train
was not ditched.
MI. Hartman is the son of Eli
Hartman of your city. He says he
will never leave train again until
he sees it leave the track. He was
conveyed to the Sisters Hospital at
this place. JOE BUSH.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-28
SANDS &
A Business Motto That is
Threadbare Because
It is True.
What it is That S~hipwrecks
Many a Business
Venture.
Two Things About Carpets.

Business in our carpet and house.
furnishing department is very active
at this particular time, and it is the
very best indication that can exist
that there's nothing wrong with its
machinery. If business doesn't run
smoothly and with a satisfactory We
locity in a department, We know at
once that there's something wrong,
and we as quickly endeavor to re-
move the impeachment. If prices are
toe high or styles not desirable, we
find it out very quickly, and you
sometimes furnish the information.
"Quick sales and
SMALL PROFITS
Is a threadbare business motto. but il
is nevertheless true; If it were untrue
1t wouldn't probably he threadbare.
But how many business men there
are who claim to carry out in prac-
tice the truth Of such principles as
that quoted, who, in reality, do not,
and who make such pretensions sole
~ for the purpose of a deception
which is meant to be self-advantage-
GUS. Such deception il not included
within the popular meaning of dis
honesty, but on the contrary, Is often
dignifed as 'business shrewdness,"
and this is perhaps the reason it is so
often employed by men in their eft.
forts to drive trade. But deception
in any of its multitudinous forms is
really the great stumbling block that
retards the healthy and perma-
nent growth Of any business and
has wrecked many a business venture
that otherwise would have proved a
success. 1t is true that a business
management may not be free from
deception and yet attain proportions
of some magnitude and q mediocrity
of success, but 1t would not follow
that better results does not accrue
from a management that recognizes
honesty as the best policy. In the
conduct of our business we remove
every temptation to deceive. FOR we
agree to refund the purchase money
If you think you have been deceived
Intentionally or otherwise.
But to return to
CARPETS
for we have depressed. There are at
least two reasons why we are SO busy
in our carpet department. First, We
are told our patterns are choicer and
prettier than you'll find elsewhere,
and secondly, that u prices are
lower. What more could We say
about carpets that would interest
buyers? VIZ will be pleased to show
you the stock.
Very respectfully,
SANDS Il BOYCE.
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Death OF Sam Wilson.

AAoAAey NSWS.MIVeT. Oue Oh the
old time Montana boys was laid
away in his last resting place at
Bellevue yesterday afternoon. He
was followed to the grave by a large
concourse of mourners, men from
Bullion and all over Wood River,
who had known Sam for many
years. The last ceremonies were
conducted by the Odd Fellows and
Masans of Bellevue. a member of
which Orders he always was when
opportunity offered. Sam was well
and favorably known in Bullion.
where he had been in business for a
time prior to his death. He was a
sufferer, and died from the effects of
that lin this country strange diseas 90
consumption.
John Brophy was before the police
court yesterday, charged with using
profane and abusive language. The
evidence showing that he had called
into question the responsibility of the
complaining witnesses maternal an
cestor, he was found guilty and as
sessed i've and costs, in default of
which he languishes in the city bas-
tile.
In Justice Nichols court yesterday
Frank Stebbins, night operator at the
depot, was tried on a charge Of the
larceny of some eggs from a u. & n.
Car. There being no evidence to
sustain the charge, the jury found a
verdict Of not guilty and he was
honorably discharged.
Pilgrim Talk.
A Wisconsin paper publishes the
following, which is a fair sample Of
the reports of Montana given by the
average tenderfoot, upon his return
to his native heath: IL have Just
come from Montana" said a passen-
ger in the next seat, land you ought
to see the boom up there; corner lots
$1,000 apiece, where six weeks ago
there was a bare prairie. Why. on
my way out the conductor on the
train showed me where a new town
was to he started; the workmen were
just then putting in a switch track.
Well, in two weeks I came back;
there was a station there, three
looms, four stores, a lumber yard, a
hotel and two or three dwellings,"
"Do they have any newspapers up
there" newspapers? Well, I
struck one place they call a town.
There was just three buildings in the
town and in one of them, a little
thing about sxlO feet, a newspaper
was printed. The editor, proprietor,
foreman, compositor, pressman,
devil, aud reporter was a young man
named Raymond, l think, who had
been a compositor on the Chicago
Tribune for two or three years. He
told me he was Justice of the peace
had his board paid up and money in
bis pocket, and had never felt 80 good
in his life BEFORE"
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Canadian Postage.

There seems to be a general misap'
prehension as to the application OF
the recent postal reduction to Cana.
dian postage. The following depart.
ment circular sets the matter at rest
and makes the two cent stamp suffi-
Gent postage on letters mailed to
points in Canada
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
OFFICE OF FOREIGN MAILS,
WASHINGTON, Aug. Fl, 1883.
Under and by virtue of the provi.
sions of the existing postal arrange
ments between the United States and
the Dominion of Canada. in pursu-
ance of which the full prepayment of
the domestic postage rates of either
country upon letters addressed to the
other secures their delivery in the
country of destination free of
charge, the reduced rate o. the United
States postage on first-class matter q
cents per one half OUNCE to 60 into
effect October LIST next, will apply,
also, on and after that date, to ordi-
nary letters sent in the mails from
this country to Canada.
JOSEPH II. BLACKFAN,
Superintendent of Foreign Mails.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-11-29

by making coats at thirty-one cents
apiece, when told that she was to have a
turkey given her, exclaimed with fearful
eyes, "Oh, not a turkey That would
cost too much certainly should not
expect that"
She was greatly discouraged, being in
arrears for rent and for her stove, for
which she was paying 10y installments,
and also in debt for her sewing machine.
To meet all these payments and find
bread for herself and children by making
coats at thirty-onc cents apiece was
simply impossible.
only the morning before her little boy,
nine years Old, had said, "Why is it, nh,
that many wicked people have every
thing they want, and you, who are al
ways good, sometimes don't have enough
to eat or any money 2" Then after a
pause he added, n suppose it's because
the Lord wants to try your faith. Don't
you remember the other day, when We
had eaten tile last bit and you lidn't
know how we Should get any mole, He
sent Miss c. to rs with something,
and He may send 70 us again"
What greater privilege could 4 disciple
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ETY. Of Boston, in addition TO its regular
work The others are the Christmas Let
ter and Card Mission, the Easter Gard
Mission and the Fresh Air Fund each
one Of which, if separately described,
would furnish incidents quite as pathetic
as any herein narrated. Only those who
come in personal contact with the indie
fatigable laborers Of the Society, and
know how they are perplexed with the
problem of trying to make hundreds of
dollars Dc the work Of thousands, have
any conception Of the vastness Of the field,
covering, as it does, all parts Of the city,
or Of its depth of need. Neither can
Christian people expect to give this year
and be absolved from obligation to do so
the next. The claim upon our helpful-
ness is a constant one for so long as the
gospel stands our Saviour's words will be
true, "Ye have the poor always with
you" The Congregationalst.
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arithmetic Entering one Of these homes,
where materials for the coming feast
we're scattered about \ happy little
girl skipped toward Mr. Wadron, hold
ing a turkey in her arms as if it had
been a baby, and exclaimed, "This is
on turkey
Her feelings in view Of the bounty
spread before her were hot unlike those
Of a poor orphan child who saw the
ocean for the first time On being asked
what she thought Oft, she replied,
Is glad coined, because | never sor
Enough Of anything at wunst before.
Two more years have rolled away
since then, showing steady increase in a
form of benevoence which requires only
to be more widely known in order to
secure gifts commensurate with its need.
The number of families helped in 1881
was 652, while last year it fell but eight
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by the missionaries as they event about
doing good" in their service of love,
One poor little fellow, out walking With
his mother, hravely met men and boys
hurryng by with baskets laden with good
things. without uttering word Of com
plant But, passing a market where
there was an unusually tempting display
of fowl and vegetables and luscious look
ing fruit, lie asked, wistfully, "Mother,
can't we have some 2"
"No, my boy" was the sal reply,
''father has no money we must do with
out"
The missionary chanced to be present
when the dinner, previously ordered by
her for this family, arrived. It was re-
ceived with tears Of JOY and gratitude.
The mother pressed the hand of her ben
etactor to her lips, while the boy, catch
ing a glimpse Of a turkey, shouted in
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-11-29
Best Feed for Hens,

Considerable difference should be made
i'll the feed of poultry according to their
breed The brahmas, cochins, and their
crosses are quiet lazy sorts, and, con
seQuently, fatten more easily than such
as are fond Of rowing around at cOnsid
cradle distance from the house, such as
Leghorns, lIamburgs, game, etc. Little
corn or Indian meal should be fed to The
former, except il the coolest weather,
and then we only make it about half
their rationS In spring and autumn we
give them all they are inclined to eat
during the day, pudding made OF cHe-
thra Indian meal and two thirds wheat
bran, with q spinhling ot whole oats,
late IN the afternoon, on tht ground III
the yard, OF near the house, tDI them to
scratch and pick up Just before going to
rOost. In summer we make the pudding
Only uIle-toul ia Indian meal, ana three
tourtls wheat bran. ln this about haIt a
gill Of pure s)rOrg brine is mixed to each
gallon \ little brine is very healthy in
the FOOD of poultry, but il must not be
taken NOM thc Hraj barrel \ table
spoonful OF Sulphur Is excellent to mix,
once a week, In The pudding, as this
ketps ice bun ct the HrHs, and in addition
is healthy for tIeM. So is the same
quantity Of wood dabes, or a gill Of tine
cnalcual dust The hens ought to have
.g4@4plot To- INN Oil. Ii tuis cannot I've
had, zinc them SOME bDirI Vegetables or
raN rlepu-r leaves Ia summer. grass
can lc cut ter them ana puJ IN tu,Ir
yad Lettuce and spinach arn excellent
WLyu llo ojAtr green tecd j. to b' h#d,
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born the resolve that, if his life were
spared, he would make an effort to sup
ply a large number of poor and worthy
families iii the metropolis With such good
things On the next Thanksgiving Day, as
would flood their lives with sunshine for,
at least one day in the year.
To purpose with man like Rev. d.
W. Waldron, the efficient city missionary
of Boston, is to execute. He communicate
ed his idea to his associates, ever ready
to respond to his suggestions with zeal
and alacrty and the thought was soon
shaped into systematic plans for obtain
ing the necessary funds. AD appeal was
sent out to a few we'll known individuals,
who had always honored every draft
made upon their benevolence, and to a
large number of Sunday schools through
out Massachusetts The latter We're in
vited to take up a penny collection ''to
help the poor Of Boston to a Thanks
giving dinner"
of the 442 schools thus solicited to
give, l37 responded with contributions
amounting to S3O5.60. This money, to-
gether with generous gifts from indivd-
uals, furnished supplies of turkeys, tea,
sugar, flour, potatoes rice, bread, crack
ers and apples to more than 400 families,
containing l,S00 persons. Some of the
letters accompanying the gifts of money
were so rich in expressions OF Christian
love and sympathy that double blessing
of food for the body and cheer for the
soul was carried into many an humble
home. For great pains were taken to
seek out the hidden class Of worthy poor,
who shrink from letting their need be
known 50 long as they can keep soul and
body together by honest toll. The clam
orous crowd who claim aims as their
right, and push to the front for all they
can get, were passed by in the distribut-
ion Of favors. The gratitude expressed
in some cases was very touching.
One poor widow, who earned living
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| short OF 700. Was there not an added
relish, think you, around some family
boards, at the thought Of 3, I58 neglected
/ persons shaling the blessing Of a harvest
prepared alike for the Just and the
unjust? The source Of many Of the gifts
is interesting Once it was the offering
of a woman whose widowed mother went
| home to heaven the year before. Out Of her
scanty means she gave two dollars to glad
| den the heart ''Of somebody's widowed
MOTHER aud the money was given to one
with large family Of children, who had re-
Gently buried her oldest son, the support
and stay Of her life. Again, God stirred up
| the hearts Of ten little girls in Brighton,
Mass, the oldest only fifteen, the young
est four, to help along the cause They
| planned an entertainment in neighbours
carriage house, charged two cents adlnis
! sion, sold 1.-TWO and five cent Ice creams, 7"
and realized 3!.lO "Ail the incest pco-
pie came, \ said the youthful writer Of the
letter, "and the affair was an entire sue
cess"
On the afternoon Of a cheerless Noyem-
Der day, in the year 1882, there might
have been seen, in the woods near Dor
chester, an aged mother and her imhecile
daughter with their aprons full Of broken
bits pf wood They were picking up fuel
to carry to their home, an old tumble
| down house, with a broken Stove and
rickety chairs for furniture, and yet not
wholly devoid Of comfort. For the city
missionary had been there, and on the
morrow the members Of this neglected
family are to have an humble Share in
the festival peculiarly dear to every New
| Engander. Gathering her grandchildren
around the board, the old lady's heart
ovcrhows with thankfulness, and she
proposes that they sing "Iiome, Sweet
Home" How the magic Of i kind deed
has transformed the place and glorihed
| it into little heaven below
Another twelvemonth has passed and
again We stand upon the threshold of
| Thanksgiving Day; we are eXhorted by
| the Chief Magistrate Of the United States,
to express our ''devout gratitude to God
that He hath dealt 50 bountltully with
this nation, and pray that His grace and
favor abide with it forever In what
form shall we give expression to our feel
| ings Shall ii oe in a mere lip service
confessing that choice blessings have
crowned our own pathway, and in 4 sell
fish enjoyment Of good things upon our
own tables without any recollection Of the
orphaned and destitute il our midst 1t
was d source Of satisfaction to JOB, in his
adversely, that in days Of plenty he bad
''dellvcred the poor that cried, and the
iutherless, and him that had nome u help
him. that he ''caused the widow heart
to sing for ioy"; that he was "eyes to
the hlind,' and eject to the lame, Z and
that ''the blessing Of him that WAS ready
to perish came upon" bin. This treas
ure Of JOB was safe from touch Of moth
Or rust or roboer, and II i our privilege,
if we viii, to make the same sure invest
ment, yielding returns of sixty ana an
hundred fold
The Thanksgiving Dinner Charity is
one Of four special forms Of benevoence
undertaken by the City Missionary Soci-
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Cape Cod Canal.
WHAT HAS EEEN DONE THUS FAR.

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE THUS FAR
Concerning the Cape Cod ship canal,
the Boston Advertisers correspondent
says: In no ease has any effort been
made to reach the depth OF the contem
plated canal. The marsh turf cnt into
cakes by a hundred shovels, is being
ranged day by day in pyramid shaped
embankmcnt Of some thousand feet in
length hy the edge Of the canal The
work now in progress confines itself TO
removing grassy marsh turf for the great
er convenience Of subsequent dredging.
The force employed has numbered 4Jl !;
it cannot now exceed $50. On the, Goth
day of October last scoW dredging mach
ines were on the ground. Only one eN-
cavator and two lighters in a more or
less sound condition, remain. That
money is being lavishly spent can hardly
be the case. Nor can it be said that ali
moneys have been expended wisely
But that considerable outlay has been
made for Il canal, and still continues to
be made, glance at the works in Sous
set harbor is sufficient to establish.
Proverbial sayings are the outgrowth of OBJ
servalion and experience; likewise is the rem
edy known AS JADWIN'S TAR SYRUP. 1t
has been used for thirty years, and those who
have tried it are loud in their praise of its mer-
it. Sold by all druggists.
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Perhaps the most extensive and varied
systematic experiments III cattle feeding
ever conducted at one place has lust been
entered upon at the Ontario Agricultural
College. As many as fifty one head of
yearlings and -year-0ld steers, with
cows and heiters, have been stabbed for
the following purposes In addition to re-
peating the important tests with corn,
peas, oats, and barley, Thorleys food,
and enslaged green-oat fodder in the
production OF beef, it is also designed
again to try the effects Of ensilage upon
the quantity and quality Of milk and but
ter, and, in addition to these interesting
inquiries, the steaming of food versus the
same in an uncoOked condition will be
thoroughly handled this winter. Not on
~ so, but the three great beef breeds of
the world have been put in contest of
weight production, in such an unpreju-
diced form that must commend itself to
every one In the arrangement of this
series, Prof Brown has enlisted the per
sonal interest Of the one hundred stud
ents now enrolled. The preparation Of
the food the weighing Of every diet, the
weighing of the water drunk, the groom
| ing, condition of health, registration OF
stable and animal temperature. exercise,
| and the other items of such an extensive
undertaking are in the hands of eight
| students as superintendents. Each week
a bulletin will be issued to every stu
dent, showing the daily and periodical
| progress or other results of each animal
or set of animals, the food consumed, and
other necessary information. The ami
mails are in groups Of three, and there be-
ing seventeen separate experiments, the
stable Numbers fifty The silo this
year has been improved upon, and its
daily temperature recorded in two ways
that are already giving surprising results
Should success be obtained in the pre-
servation of the green oat fodder, port
able silor holding one ton of the oat fod-
der, and cut of permanent pasture is
also on the card for winter use-in whal
| manner has not vet haan agreed uDOn