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The Effect of Age on he Eve.

1t is found on an average of obser-
vations, that at 10 years If age the
crystalline lens in the eye may be
rendered so convex as to give a clear
image of an object three inches away.
AT Il 1t will accommodate itself to
an object four and half inches from
the eye. Anything nearer will be
obscure, because the lens will not as
sumo o form sufficiently convex to
refract to . focus on the re:ina rays
OF light 50 divergent as any nearer
object will ra6iate. At 10 wears of
age the "near point" has reached to
distance of nine inches, and at so to
thirteen inches. At 80 years of age
the lens has so far lost its fiexibility.
and therefore its power of responding
to the muscle, that it cannot Ordinar-
lily give a clear object less than
twenty-six inches from the eve. At
Is the power Of accommodation is
wholly lost; light still passes through
the eye, and is focused on the retina,
but only when it comes in parallel
rays. Parallel rays can converge on
the retina, but divergent rays require
that extra refractive power which
the aged eye has lost by the harden
ing Of the lens. Not as a matter of
disease, then, but in the ordinary
course of years, and in every eye
alike, is the bodily sight weaned
from tho scruples of near objects
around, and permitted to turn clear
vision upon things far of. Chambers
Journal.
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The Cheapest Food Used as a
Luxury.

There Is no arguing upon taste, az
what may be found most palatable to
one person may be little relished by
another. To my own liking Avr-
shire milk is the most palatable of all
milks, but jersey cream is more
palatable to me than Ayrshire milk,
and 1 prefer q Jersey cream thinned
with milk to anything in the milk
line: One meal . day 1 make upon
crackers and cream, and myself and
family find milk one of the most sat-
isfactory of foods. When we regard
cheapness, palatability and complete
ness of nutriment, milk stands pre-
eminent among foods, and its con.
sumption could be profitably and
pleasurably increased five-fold.
While supplying q New England
village with milk some years ago-a
village of well-to-do people-my sur
prise was great to find that the aver
age consumption was just one pint
daily to . family, a quantity less
than is consumed by any one of nv
own family. But to the public milk
seems to hold the phenomenal posi-
tion Of the cheapest of foods used as a
luxury. Or. t&,vte,dnt.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

Howard Sebree, Eddy F. Ferris and Benjamin
F. White, plaintiffs. against Murdoch J. Morri
son, John Morrison, Anna Morrison, Anthony
H. Headley, Henry J. Blume, William johnson
and Ambrose Ripper, defendants:
To be sold at Sheritfs sale, on the 3Oth day o.
June, A. D. 1888, at o'clock p. m, at the from
door of the Court House. in the City of Butte
County of Silver Bow, Territory of Montana, the
following described real property, to-wit:
All the right, title and interest that the de
PENDANTS, Murdock J. Morrison, John Morrison
and Anna Morrison, had on the 10th day od
September. A. D.. 1881, or has since
quartz lode claim known as the "Great !
Am" lode claim, with two lime kilns one brick
house, one lime quarry, and the graded road
leading to said lime kilns. The said lode
claim being the same that was located May 3Oth
1881, and recorded at page $40 of book "a" OF
lodes records of Silver Bow County, Montana
Territory. Also, all of that certain other quartz
lode claim known as the ''Granite" lode claim,
together with patent lime kiln, and one
granite quarry thereon, and the road leading
thereto Both of said claims, consisting of 500
feet in length and 600 feet in width, each, and
all situated about one and one-fOurth mile
southeasterly from the point where the road
crosses the summit of the Rocky Mountains at
the Pipe Stone Pass, near the line of Silver Bow
and Jefferson Counties, Montana Territory, to-
gether with all the improvements on said prop
erty, and the rights, privileges and appurten-
tanning All of said property is situated in
Silver Bow County, Montana Territory.
Dated this 9th day of June, A. D. 1883.
GEORGE w. IRWIN, II
Sheriff ofSilver Bow County, NJ. 7.
9iune S-W 3W
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

Lee W. Foster, Albert Kleinschmidt anG
Stephen A. Estes, partners, doing business under
the firm name and style Of Lee W. Foster & Co.
plaintiffs, against James Barry and Eliza Barry
defendants.
To be sold at Sheriff's sale, on the 3Oth day Of
June, A. D. 1888, at o'clock p. m, at the from
door of the Court House, in the City of Butte
County of Silver Bow, Territory of Montana, the
following described real property, to-wit:
and Kingsbury addition to the town site Of
Butte according to the survey and plot of said
addition, said lot fronting north 25 feet on
WoOlman street and extending back south along
the line of the alley in said block one hundred
feet, together with the dwelling house and all
situate and being on said lot, said
premises being in Summit Valley Mining Dis
trict, Silver Bow County, Montana Territory.
Dated this 9th day of June, A. D. 1883.
GEORGE w. IRWIN, H.,
Sheriff of Silver Bow County, NJ. T.
9june s-W 3w
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definite sensations as affecting Ger.
tain joints of individual digits. This
is readily understood when we re.
member that the brain is the only
part of the body that feels, all sensa-
tions and impulses being conveyed
to it from different parts by nerve
fibers Feelings of pain, heat, cold,
touch and the functions of the special
. nses are telegraphed to it, and
when the connecting nerve is divided
it may he some time before it learns
to localize truly the seat of the sensa-
ton it appreciates. When we knock
our funny zones" we experience q
thrill IN the little finger and inner
border Of the right hand, the fact be-
ing that we have stimulated the
bundle of telegraph wires-known as
the ulnar nerve-which transmit
from that finger and part
of the next, in the middle of its
course, as it winds round the joint of
the elbow.-An English Surgeon.
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ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the Justices Court, Township and County
of Silver Bow, Territory of Montana, before F.
4. Nichols, Justice Of the Peace.
Catherine Needinho:en, plaintiff, VS.. George
W. Powell, defendant.
The people Of the Territory of Montana send
greeting to George W. Powell, defendant
office in the Township Of Silver Bow, County OF
Silver Bow, and Territory of Montana, within
ten days after the service Of this summons, ex-
elusive of the day of service, and answer the ac-
count on file in an action to recover of you the
sum of eight and S0-100 dollars alleged to be due
and owing from you to plaintiff, for goods, wares
and merchandise sold and delivered to you at
your INSTANCE and request.
And you are hereby notified, that if you fail
to appear and answer said complaint as above
required, the said Plaintiff will take judgment
II default against you, for the sum of Eight and
oO-1OO Dollars and cost Of suit.
Given under my hand this 22d day of May,
1888. E. A. NICHOLS,
23may s-W 5w Justice Of the Peace.
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The Kidney Horror.

To the practiced eyeit is as plainly
discernible as the marks of small pox.
When you see man whose ears and
the sides of his face next to the hair
are unnaturally pale, with pale lines
about the nose, that man is we'll ad-
vanced with Bright's disease, a
disease that has become terrible
scourge. It is a new disease, SO far as
we know. Richard Bright, an Eng
lish physician, discovered this disease
and it bears his name. He discov-
cred that the dropsical illusions and
other symphonic, present in the dis
ease. were dependent upon a peculiar
degeneration of the substance of the
kidney. The discovery, I believe,
was made in 1853, but it is only with
in the last five or ten years that the
disease has began to attract general
attention. 1t has become now such
dreaded horror that it is worthy of
the closest attention. Itseems strnage
that such an important function Of
body rs the kidneys should have
been SO long neglected by the medi-
cal men. The question is, what have
the doctors been doing? They know
NIL about the heart, the stomach, the
lungs, the throat and all the other
organs except the kidneys-the most
important of them all. Disease in
these organs are killing thousands of
people every year in our land. and
the doctors are powerless. Ought they
not to he stirred up little?
Nobody appears to know what pro-
duces the fatal Bright's disease. We
know it is more prevalent in this
country than any other. An Eng
lishman will tell you that it comes
from drinking iced water in large
quantities. A Frenchman will tell
you that it co'ues from strong drink.
[ am sure that L. cannot give the
cause, but it seems to me that, if it
comes from strong drink, the disease
would have been discovered q great
many years ago, when there was more
whisky drunk in proportion to the
people than there is now. One point
is that every one of US knows persons
20 and 80 years of age who have
drunk steadily and heavily for forty,
fifty or sixty years. Where is the
kidney in them? Ihave known men
die of kidney disease, who have never
tasted drop of liquor. But the fact
must be admitted by all that more
than so per cent. of those within our
who have died from
Bright's disease were heavy drinking
men. Therefore it behOoves US to re-
verso our engines and slow down.
II. j. RanssdeN in the Philadelphia
freS8.
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Gath on Russell S. ge.

Russell Sage, they say, leads "the
Street now. He is 81 years old
something between Brother iona.
than and Pantaloon. Wherever he
is, there is circus. Repe ntless, re-
sentless, but not relentless he hardly
has An enemy, never indu!ses in that
luxury, always calls you my son, /"
and scratches your midri!f. He is
everybody's paw-paw, parentally
hands. my. son." he says, "sho,
sho! L must get in my stray bets.
My son, I've got a million and a
quarter of them puts and calls out
now: Sho! it'll never do, my SOM"
BY this time he has lovingly fasten-
ed on to your spare-rib or arm-pit, or
crazy-bene, and when he says "Sho"
you feel like chicken chueked up
to be counted and led on meal. Some
put Sage's wealth at $50, ,OO2, 900, some
at bait as much more. He IS the orig
inal-the vast insurer of sreculators.
He will sell you a put, n call, or a
"straddle''-the latter an insurance
both ways, and at a double commits
osOA ssAo uO AS 60lN1 ucttT udVc
"squatted" or repudiated these puts
and calls, and seldom or never to
have paid them beyond the moment
marked for their presentment. my
son." he says. lit is twelve minutes
past ! that trades off," He is re-
garded as the most phenomenal
leader the Street has ever had
natural, almost womanly, " ith mind
averse to violence or sinister things,
and feeling also prevails that he
has classical education, which he
does not claim for himself. He was
in Congress thirty years ago, was the
Treasurer of Trov city and county
many years, and possessed popularity
then as now. In Congress he want
ed the Government to buy Mount
Vernon-a shameful oversight that
they did not.
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Notice to CO.OWner.

To David Byers: You are hereby notined
that the undersigned, your co.owners, nave
IN accordance with the provisions OF sectio;,
States. performed labor and made imrrOs e.
ments to The value of s2e0 for the two yea RS
ending Dece uber 81, 1882. upon the Key
West quartz lode m ming claim, situated IN
Summit Valley Mini'g District, Silver
how County. Montana Territ ry. And you
are hereby notified that If you fail TO con
tribute or cause TO De contributed your pro-
portion, sGs67. with interest and costs:
tiaie Of this notice, all your right, title, in
tercst and claim in and to the above de-
SC, lbed quartz lode claim will become The
property of the undersigned, your co, own
fnres. GEORGE H. HARM,
II. r. WILLIS.
Butte, M. T., March 21, 1883. 2lsw9Od*
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Edwin Booths Disappointments.

A more unfortunate man in his
domestic relations. than Edwin
Booth never lived. Early in life he
had a love affair with lovely girl,
who is now q lovely middle-aged
woman in the Union Square Com
pany. In a sort Of lovers quarrel
the two parted, and Edwin went tn
Boston, met Mary Devlin, a charm
ing actress, and in fit of pique mar
ried her. Mademoiselle mourned in
sackcloth and ashes for many
months, got away down South and
married. Mrs. Booth No. l died.
The gentleman mademoiselle married
went insane, committed suicide, and
the two were free again, but never
met or knew Of each others condi-
ton until Edwin was involved IN the
McVicker combination. His second
wife died, and when he stood alone
in the world with his loved daughter,
he went abroad, and the day they
landed in Paris the evening journals
announced that Monsieur Booth,
whose brother assassinated Monsieur
lie President, has come to town."
The fame OF the best Hamlet" the
world ever knew, of the representa-
tive American actor, paled its in
effectual fires before the notoriety of
the misguided lad, John Wilkes.
Booth is morbidiy sensitive about
this brother. 1 suppose it. is rank
treason to say SO, but John Wilkes
Booth was one of the brightest,
bravest, and most erratic spirits that
ever lived. He knew no fear. He
was Influenced by his affections. He
was the mouthpiece, the willing
hand of any party that won his
heart, and the only error l know Of
Edwin's committing was when he
stood back and left his brothers.
body unclaimed in the hands of the
enemy, for had I been the sister Of
that foolish young fellow 1 would
have clung to his pulseless breast
and rash hands till I was dragged
away by rope around my devoted
neck. Now, through his daughters
sorrow, Edwin gets another drop in
his cup of bitterness. He leaves for
June 9th, and 1 suppose
will begin q starring tour in the fall,
for there's more money and full as
much fame in Yankeeland for Yam
kee actors as in Europe.-C0rr. Chi
caQO Herald.
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49,
Southern Life.

There are two phases of southern
life which are but little appreciated
at the north; its domestic,ty and ita
humor. Tie conventional planter
of the ante-bellum era was careless,
boasting, staggering tyrant; his wife
and daughters equally careless In
regard to home life, its comforts and
economies, as he of the administra-
tion of his boundless acress. Both
ideas were almost equally incorrect.
The southern planter, as q rule, was
q careful administrator of his estate:
not in the same snug and tidy man
ner of which the nGuthern farmer
bOasts--he did not work and fuss and
worry over all the details of farm
management as much as his compeer
of the North, nor was his sense of fit
ness outraged by lack of complete
ness and order which would have
driven the farmer of the middle
states into an insane asylum. There
was sort of iaxity about his meth
ods which was hard for the northern
man to distinguish from slothfulness.
Yet he watched with care the devel-
Opment of the crops, the progress of
his work, aud was no doubt better
of labor than could generally
be found upon the northern farm.
With ignorant labor and crude ma
chinery he achieved great results.
It is especially with regard
to the domestic life Of
the Southern States, however,
that false fdeas prevailed at the
North. The planters family has al
ways been credited with the hospi-
tality of a lavish, careless kind, but .
very small proportion of the people |
IF the north has ever supposed that |
The planters wife was very generally |
\ Martha of the most anxious and
,roubled variety. The difference of
method betwixt the northern and |
he southern housekeeper has been
10 great that the former has very |
,ften inclined to elevate dainty
nose in scorn of any professed ac-
luirements of the latter. So too the
lurly-burly of our northern life; its
harp competition and the constant
influx of the outside world have
'een such as to predispose us to
the charming domes-
icity of the southern home. It is
Iot often as strictly ordered or
with that anxiety with
egard to detail that characteriZes the
orthern household, yet there is
arely to be found a mere faithful
urveyor of comforts than the mis-
ress of a southern plantation. The
cry isolation of plantation life, the
arity of strangers visits, and the
ire with which even the most dis
mt family ties are remembered and
cknowIedged in that section, all
md to make the domestic life of the
etter class of the south charming
nd delightful.
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Marx Twain.

Mark Twain, the renowned arch.
eol0gist, poet and astronomer, IS a
lineal descendent of the celebrated
Twain who were made one flesh. He
was born on Plymouth Rock, April
l, 172S, on a remarkable cold morn
ing, and the administrative of the
camphor and red flannel department
afterwards stated that he was the
most remarkable baby she had ever
seen. At the early age of Z, Mark
for so be was cruelty christened-was
already addicted to science, and his
discovery, made one year later, that
a spring cl0thes-pin artistically ap.
piled to the continuation of a cat
would create in that somnolent ami
NAL desire for vigorous foreign
travel, is still used by the aboriglnes
of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
When he was 10 Mark went through
college. He entered the front door,
turpentined the rector's favorite cat,
and graduated the same evening
over the fence. He then started for
California, Milwaukee and other re.
mote confines of the earth, and be-
gan those remarkable series of truth
full anecdotes for which he is now so
justly famed. AS an arch@ologist,
however, he has won most renown,
and his collection of Pompeiian.
Sanscrit. Egyptian and early Greek
jokes, now in possession of Osgood &
Co., of Boston, is considered the
most complete in the world. Some
envious critics claimed that most of
these were painfully carved by Mark
and the balance composed of
and unrelsted parts,
but there seems to be no reasonable
doubt that they are all genuine
antiques.
Personally, Mr.. Twain is a remark
ably we'll preserved man. He is
short, florid and very corpulent,
laughs incessaDtly, and is a rapid 4!
and brilliant speaker. His essay on
Draw Poker in American Politics''
8 considered to be mastery treatise
IN political economy, while his poem
entitled 1.-THE Frog Down by Weight
# Shot" will hold it's place as one of
he most pathetic in the language.
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Order IN Show Cause.

In the Probate Court in and for Silver Bow
County. Montana Territory, in the matter OF the
estate of Charles p. johnson. Thomas Q. Porter
the administrator Of the estate OF Charles r
herein prayng for an order of sale of all The real
estate of said decedent for the purposes therein
set forth. It is therefore ordered by the Judge
Of said Court that all persons interested IN tna
estate of said deceased, appear before the said
Probate Court. ON Thursday, the 2lst day o.
June, % isss, at o'clock in the afternoon Of said
day at the court room of said Probate Court, al
the City Of Butte in the County Of silver so% W
granted to the said Administrator to sell SO
much of the real estate of the said deceased as
shall be necessary.
Probate Judge and Ex- Ofico Clerk.
Dated this 22d day of May, A. D.. 1888.
J3m8y S-W 4W
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The Boulder Hot Springs are now
open to the public; distance from
Boulder City two miles. Patients
coming to Boulder City transported
to and from the springs free. These
springs have been known to the pub
lie for years. The medicinal proper
ties of the waters, both for drinking
and bathing, are unequalled. Hot,
cold and plunge baths at all hours.
First-class accommodations for ladi IS
and families. A good physician per-
manently located at the springs.
WILLIAM T. SWEET,
6-2-s-W-tf Proprietor.
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Rich COIorod Men.
Washington Corr. Roston Traveler.1

Washington Corr RostOn Traveller.
WASHINGTON, May 3O.-C. s. Bur
ritt, of this city, furnishes some in.
teresting information about the
wealthy colored men of the country.
He says: 1.-THE richest man of color
in America is probably Mr.. Aristlde
Marie. of New Orleans. He was .
large slave-0wner before the war, and
his Income from the rents of his
property in New Orleans is not less
than 5O,0OO a year. Besides this he
has large personal estate, consisting
Of frst-class securities. Mr.. Marie is
q man of fine accomplishments a
graduate of one of the best institu-
tions of France, and lives abroad
about the half Of each year. Mr.. B.
F. Joubert, of Louisiana, ia another
colored gentleman of handsome for
tune, also a former slave-owner,
though he, as well as Mr.. Marie, has
always been free. He is SO nearly
white that one would scarcely take
him to be colored, while Mr.. Marie is
q very decided brown. The Dumas's,
pere ct fits, of New Orleans are very
rich. Gov. Pinchbeck is also very
we'll off, with perhaps quarter of a
million. There are half q dozen
others who are worth from one hum
dred thousand to two hundred thou
sand dollars each. In New York l
know of at least dozen colored men
who have from 100000 to $500, 900
each. There are two who are ply
sicians whose profess ional incomes
are twenty-five thousand dollars a
year. Mr.. Roselie, a barber in
Williamsburg, N. Y, recently died
leaving nearly half a million dollars.
Henry Thomas, for years head watt |
er at the Grand Union Hotel at Sara |
toga and the Metropolitan Hotel in
New York, is worth $l5O.OOO. DR..
Mcdonald, of New York, is worth |
500, 900, and Mrs. Gloster, of Brook |
lyn, is the wealthiest of tht IN all, her |
fortune being estimated at 81 ,OOO, 900.
John Tenycke is worth half a
million. The wealthiest cOlOred
planter in America died . year or
two ago. His name was Ben Mont
gomery. He began life as the body
servant of Gen. Joe Davis, a brother
of Jefferson Davis. Ben Mont
owned 'the Hurricanes" es-
tate. formerly the properly of Joe
and Jefferson Davis, in Claiborne
county, Mississippi. In 1863 he
bought it of these gentlemen, giving
them $500, 600 for it, without the
slaves of course. There are three
great cotton plantations in this estate
Palmyra, Brlaraelds, and another
the name of which I cannot now re.
call. His crop used to be 500 bales
of cotton a year, besides corn and
other products. Ben Nontgomery's
credit was as high as that of any
planter in Mississippi, and he had
he good will and respect Of all his
1eighbors. Ex-senator Bruce, at
present the Register of the Treasury,
Q also q very successful planter in
and owns two very large
md valuable plantations in Coah oma ,
md Bolivar counties. Ike is worth
It least 100000. and does not owe
ent to any One.n