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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23

the state confirm the story that sheep,
cattle and horses in that part OF the
country are threatened with annih ila-
tion by drouth. Sheep men with focks
are arriving daily at Eagle PISS seeking
ingress into Mexico. The water holes
and streams on the American side of the
Rio Grande have dried up.
At the annual meeting of the Mon
tana Wool Growers association, held at
Fort Benton, on the 10th inst, matters
of interest were intelligently discussed,
and the secretary. T.. W. Peck, submit
ted a comprehensive and very interest
ing report. Wool growing has already
become an industry of considerable
magnitude in Montana, and, compare
lively speaking, it is only in its infancy.
Experience has demonstrated that Mon
lama climate and ~pasturage are wonder
fully adapted to sheep ~husbandry and
the production of fine, heavy f1eeces of
Wool.-Bozeman Courier.
The following from the New North
West is additional evidence that Fort
been, the boss wool market of the terri
tory: Mr.. A. J. Davidson, who has
purchased the bulk of the wool in this
valley for the past several years, was il
town yesterday and reports purchases
light. Wool buyers are only offering
about Is or Is cents, and wool growers
ask Is to 20 cents. Mr.. d. states that
Montana wool is now averaging about
19 cents in Boston, with the finest clips
running to q cents, which is about four
cents lower than last year. Freight to
Chicago is $2.l5 and to Boston So. 10.
Commission men charge from l to i
cents for handling wool, and I per cent.
interest On advances. Eastern houses
have reduced their advances to 10 cents,
and some have stopped advancing alto
gether. The clip of Montana last year
was about three million pounds, and
MI. Davidson estimates this year it will
be four million.O
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23
Fine Horses Sold.

Mr.. S. e. Larabie last week sold a
fine 164-hand gelding, sired by Mann
brine Diamond, record 2::3O, to DR.. Mus
sigbrod, Warm Springs. Also to Thos.
Lynch, one bay gelding, sired by son of
Thorndale, record 2:22; also, one thor
.oughbred mare Zephyr, with colt at side
by headlight, and stinted to Regent:
also, one thoroughbred mare, Little
Cole. with colt at side by Smuggler, and
one flley, sired by Tam O'Shanter.-
New Northwest.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23
For Rent.

A good four room dwelling house. APP
ply to r. A. Luke.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23

The SWEET Herd Delivered and on the
Trail.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16

ment began. and babe him goodbye,
and that was the last Of him as gentle
man.
Baker underwent his sentence like n
stole, and upon its termination lett
England and offered his services to
Turkey. The war of 1876, with Russia,
was lust on and the Sultan was only
too glad to get such a man. DE was
made pasha and given the command OF
the cavalry, and from that day to the
present Valentine Baker has been IN the
Sultan's service. He introduced varl-
GUS reforms, and improve the Turkish
army in a way and with q rpidity tha'
has excited the admiration of Europe.
When Suleiman Pasha was defeated he
covered his retreat in a mastery man
ner, and with twenty-five hundred men
kept thirty thousand Russians in check,
Since then his advice upon Eastern sub
iects has been eagerly sought by the
British government. His recent labors
in Egypt are too we'll known to require
comment. A man who can do such
things in the face Of what would crush
most men must necessarily win
the admiration Of his fellow
beings, and especially OF
his countrymen. A reaction in popular
feeling long since set in, and now it has
eliminated in a pronounced movement
in favor of his being reinstated in the
army. Naturally there is considerable
opposition. In the main it may be said
to come from officers inferior to him In
every way, who fear his superior ability.
The Prince of Wales is working hard;
but the Queen, true to her obstinate
preiudices, so far remaines obdurate.
Letters by the hundred, pro and con,
from people of every description, many
from ladies (all of whom are on Bakers
side, fill the columns of the daily and
weekly press and if nothing comes
of it, it will at least have afforded people
something to talk about and quarrel
over. If the most sensible opinions
prevail, the man will be restored to his
rank and position. He has been pun
ished enough for, at the most, a half
hours folly, and England's army is to
weak in generals to spare such a one as
he would make. I
London, April 3, 1884. CooKA1GNE.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16
Love Making I'm Mexico.
Love making in Mexico is a despt

Love making in Mexico is a desperate
p~assion--it is no trifling bit of senti-
ment. The Mexican is an animal OF
rude instincts in this matter. La fact
Mexicans-I mean the ruling class, the
men with white bloodin their veins do
not trust each other. As arule not one
of them will trust any other a moment
alone either with his wife or daughter.
Before marriage the girl is kept I'M
der constant vigilance, not permitted
to speak to her lover till he has courted
her for months from his perch on horse
back, or to be In his presence alone I'M
til after marriage. At marriage the
father hands over the keys to
his daughters husband and the
imprisonment is even more rigorous.
For q married woman to receive any
man alone in her parlor, even once, is
enough to enrage her husband and conf
promise her reputation. For the Mex
lean and Spaniard assume that men
and women are always vicious if they
have an opportunity. / know
of a lady at the Hotel Anglais here who
stays IN her room constantly-as con-
stantly as il the door were locked.
Her meals are sent to her and she does
not cross the threshold of her room
from one week &c another, excepting TO
mass on Sunday. If q Spaniard should
call upon her and succeed in getting in
to her room, even to inquire about her
husband, it might seriously damage her
good name.
In sonme cities Of the Republic q
curious habit prevails of compliment
ing unknewn ladies ON the street. OF
coursethe lady is accompanied by IA
Their, brother, or duenna' and it is CON
sidered by all parties quite proper for
the passing admirer to say: AHow pref.
ty she is What a dainty ilandi' on
What fine eyesF or what q lovely
foot!~ Then the object of admiration
turns and says to the stranger with her
sweetest smile; Mile gracias, Senorn
CA tLSsrssand thanksi) / know gentle
men VINO have tried this with distin.
guished success. I have never per
formed the feat myself, for I am nat
urally nervous. Correspondence New
York Graphic.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16
what so-caIlea society"Demanas

In Friendship" Ouida puts her
finger npon the exact line which divides
social life from all other kinds of life.
For indeed man is both a social and an
unsocial animal; there are times when
he Graves companionship, and times
when he wishes tie be alone. To regu-
late this ebb and flow, and to give con
tinuity to the social instinct-this. and
this only, is the function of society. In
very truth, society is little more than a
huge club. As Guide says: "There
are many things to be got by society,
and yet, after allit asks very little. So
ciety only asks you to wipe she outside
of your up and platter inside you may
keep any kind of nastiness that o
like, only wash the outside; do wash
|the outside, says Society; and
it would be a churl or an
ass, indeed, who would refuse so reason
able a request Now, there Is much
truth here bitterly expressed. Society
is not directly governed by the laws Of
either God or man, but governed by its
own laws. lis q man a scoundrel? If
so, can you and are you willing to prove
it, not merely to the satisfaction Of your
own friends, but in an open and notori-
GUS way, so that Society may know it,
| and be authorized to make the necessary
moral distinctions? Society is not Inn
moral rather Is it Immoral. And so it
happens that a woman may be the mis-
tress Of your best friend, and vet, il she
be only suspected, if she pays all her
party calls, she viii remain in society,
not because society loves sin, but be-
cause sometimes it is utterly unable to
| exclude it.-Argonant.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16

~ria& Slii55 brave VINO sink to rest
BY all their country wishes hlest,
They sleen not in their --eS:r:catsss,
Such things being here not deemed essentials. "
"Here lies one Box within another;
The one Of wood
Was very good;
We cannot say 80 much for tother."
'tJohn Macpherson
Was q remarkable person;
He stood six feet two
Without his shoe,
And he was slew
AT Waterloo"
Here lies the body OF Mary Sexton,
Who pleased many q man, butnever vexed one
Not ike the woman who lies under the next
stone"
Here lies John Hill, q man Of skill,
His age was five times ten,
He ne'er did good, nor ever would,
Had he lived rs long again"
Here lies DR.. Trollope,
Who made these stones roll up;
He took q dose of jalOp,
And God took his soul up"
'Poor Martha Smell, she's gone away,
She would If she could, but she could not stay
She'd two bad legs and y baddish cough,
But her legs it was that carried her off,"
Here liesL,
Killed by a sky
Rocket in my eye &. #
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16

Julian Hawthorne IN the May Century
The witches always had a special in
terest or fascination for my father, as
might be inferred from the character
and tone of the illusions to them in his
published writings. But it is perhaps not
generally known that he wrote q mum
Der Of tales having witches for their
subject matter that were said by the one
ok TWO persons who saw them TO be
more powerful as conceptions Of weird
and fantastic horror than anything is
the printed volumes of short stories.
But these tales never emerged from tho
manuscript state and were finally
burned by their author, because as my.
mother told me be had explained to
her, he felt that they were not true.
That is, I suppose, they embodied no
moral truth they were mere imagina-
tive narratives, founded on history and
tradition, and had not the spiritual ball
ance and proportion Of what Hawthorne
would deem q work Of art.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16

Faith in the inexhaustible credulity
of the masses has been the foundation.
of many q charlatan's fortune. At the
time of the South Sea Bubble, when
new projects of the most wild prepos-.
ferrous character found promoters with
ease. an astute and audacious adyenturer
advertised for subscriptions TO an enter
prise the nature OF which was to be con-
cealed for q certain time, and he actually
made several thousands of pounds out
lit, the people paying for shares with
ind eagerness. With this adventurer
deserves to be ranked the ingenious but
~unprircipled American citizen who has
Just been arrested for doing an ex-
tensive business in advertising all
manner of enticing things to be
sent on the receipt of post
g stamps. Cases of this kind have
occurred before, but the impostCrs usu-
ally send something. however fraudu-
lent in return for the stamps. This
genius, however, had made no provis-
ion whatever in that way. He simply
appropriated the stamps, and refrained
from answering the letters and though
SC. reckless a swindle would seem GER
tain to como to grief in a short time, he
appears to have kept up and made o n
siderable profits by it, for several
months. He also advertised largely
through the newspapers, never paying
them, but giving them references to
aliases of his own, and himself answer
ing all letters inquiring about his char
acter. The defect in his plan was that
it was certain sooner or later to become
the subject of investigation, and the
moment the truth was inquired into the
truth came out.
The number of swindlers who have
waxed fat on similar but more carefully
devised schemes is no doubt very con-
siderable. The rogues who engineer
them rely upon the desire of most peo-
pie to get much for little. They know
that the greed of gain often obscures
the Judgment and that though all cool
headed business men suspect offers of
the kind, remembering the duke of
Wellington's maxim that good interest
means bad security" yet there are al
ways plenty to spring at any bate, if it
is only gaudy and glittering enough,
The so-called "sawdust" sharpers,
who pretend to sell counter
felt money, and send the vic
tim q box of sawdust, act upon a shrewd
knowledge or the baser elements in hui
man nature. They select for their dupes
persons who are willing to be knayes
themselves, and whose own knavery
shuts their mouths when they find out
the swindle. Probably no professional
sharpers would enter upon SO very bold
a game as the young MAJ of the postage
stamps played, for as they mean to
make their living by their wits they dare
not thus openly advertise their dishon-
esty. But the fact that such q trick
should have been so successful, and that
it should have been carried on so long a
time without detection, shows that the
crop of gulls continues to be as large as
ever, and whatever else fails there is no
prospect of shortage" in that line of
production.-New York Tribune.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16
BAKER PASHA.
History Of the AFFAIR that Blasted His E.ifs
Efforts for Els Pardon.

History Of the AFFAIR that Blasted His Life
Efforts for His Pardon.
London Letter to San Francisco Argonant
The most engrossing topic of CONVEX
sation in all circles at presentseems I'M
questionably to be the proposed rein
statement In the army of Colonel Val
entine Baker-or Baker Pasha, as he is
best known nowadays-and the incidents
of the event which caused his social
downfall are called back to mind and
discussed with an interest as keen as
though they took place Yesterday.
In order to understand the matter
properly, it will be necessary to go back
TO the year 1875, in the summer of which
year Valentine Baker was the heuten.
ant-colonel of the Tenth Hussars, b
of the, if not the, SWEETEST light-cayalry
regiments in the service. He had been
in the service since before the Crimean
war, and had served throughout that
campaign as lieutenant in the Twelfth
Lancers. After hat he saw service In
India and China, and became noted not
alone in those dashing qualities and
good looks which are supposed by the
readers of "Ouida" to distinguish all
typical "plungers"-as light-cavalry
Officers are called-but for a thorough
knowledge of his profession, particularly
that branch which embraces l~ightcavalry
tactics. Indeed, when he became com-
handing officer of the famous Tenth,
he was looked upon as the finest light
cavalry officer in the service, and his
career as a successful general In the
next European war that should break
out and involve England was accepted
as a foregone conclusion In the minds
oahis admirers.
Although a married man, with nearly
grown children, and though streaks of
white were growing painfully marked
an his dropping mustache, he retained
with the fair sex those fascinating
graces of speech and manner which had
ever made him the charming companion
he was, alike in drawing-room, boudoir,
club smokingsroom, or at regimental
mess-table. Brilliant, handsome, gift
ed, clover, brave, and able. he was a fa-
vorite among men and a pet among wo-
men. He was a great friend of the
Prince of Wales--or rather, more prop
erly speaking, the Prince of Wales was
a great friend Of his. The prince was
the colonel of the Tenth Hussars Can
honorary position which gives pay and
Uniform without requiring any duty in
return1! and his being SO. of course.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16

EU4AAiS1fDA 1n1nE4 TAnC 1AiAc brAAS AuG
modest sum of six thousand pounds he
was expelled from his clubs, and dis
graced in every way. The Queen, to
show her special resentment, sent for
Miss Dickinson to come and see her at
Buckingham Palace, and commiserated
| with her. In fact, she tried to make a
heroine Of her. But she coundn't make
that 20. If people were down upon
Baker, they had q lingering, admiration
for him that made them dislike the cause
OF his do@nfaII And besides, there
were people who knew Miss Dickinson
pretty well, and though Colonel
Baker, neither at the trial nor
in n public manner, ever
said a word to iniure her, it somehow
got whispered about that she had given
more encouragement 70 his advances
than we're m keeping with modesty, and
that the anklegraspipg episode had been
arather natural result Of a request from
her to bp!tson her boot. So, altogether,
though she succeeded in running valen-
tine Baker, she pretty e~ffectually ruined
herself into the bargain. There is one
thing thas / have heard, and = give Il
for what il IL worth Its has been said
that Colonel Baker got into q YAtile,
similar scrape in India once. The
prince Of Wales stood his friend through
the hole trouble, but when it was oyel
no could do no more. He went *
Bakers cell before bis term Of confino'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-05
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. -Yesterla,

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. Yester,lay al.
ternoon, about t! O'clock, Mr.. w. Wood,
while standing in front of the Jail, heard q
scream come from within The building aud
Immediately entering the Jail he ascertain
ed that W. S. Palmer, one of the prisoners
had attempted TO take his own life Palmer
had borrowed knife from j. c. Johnson,
another prisoner to pick splinter las he
said) from his hand, and going back iu,o
his cell where W. d. Palmer, his nephew,
was, he babe his nephew good bye and
made cut at his own throat with the
knife. W. D. Palmer caught his uncle's arm
and prevented any injury being done,
except slight cut on the hand
Yesterday morning Palmer was in calm state
of mind, He was as our readers are informed.
sent on to the grand jury on the charge of shoot,
ing Martin Yancey, one night last week, near
Dundee, and is from Rockingham, N. C.-Danual:
Rsgistsr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-05
LETTER FROM RICHMOND.

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria GAZETTE
RICHMOND, Va, February 4.-There was
rumor at the Capitol to-day that the COM
mittee appointed by the Legislature to make
an investigation into the affairs at the pen
itentiary had in making the investigation
discovered something which will, when en-
bodied in report strike the Legislature
with the force of a big bombshell. For
several years past the Mahoneites have
claimed upon the strength OF the reports
ofthe Superintendent of the penitentiary,
who was elected by the Malone Legislature
and turned out a few weeks since by the
present General Assembly, that the institu.
ton instead Of being burden upon the
State was help, and that large sums of
money had been realized for the Common
wealth.
The Mahoneites referred to the statement
Of the Superintendent with great satisiac-
ton. They pointed to superintendent Will
liams' reports with pride and pleasure, aud
told The people to look and see what great
thing the managers of the penitentiary had
accomplished. The committee will make
their report at an early day, and the i'm
preston seems TO be that it will be Of a
startling character and that the Mahoneite
boasts relative to the good management oil
the institution will be crushed by the COM
mittec's report.
The Committee for Courts of Justice have
been engaged the greater portion of TO day
in hearing argument in the case of Judge
Newman, of Hanover, whom the people are
so anxious to have removed from the office
of county judge.
Major e. S. Stringfellow opened the ar
gument this morning in behalf of the petit
TONERS, and was followed this afternoon by
Judge George L. Christian and Col. John B.
Young in behalf of Newman. Major String.
fellow closed the argument to night, and
the committee will be able to make their
report at a very early day. There was only
one Mahoueite member Of the committee
present at the meeting this afternoon
While the committee was in session and the
argument was being delivered Judge New.
man was present and quietly listened to the
portrayal of his judicial weakness at the
hands of Major Stringfellow and the lauda-
tory outbursts from Col. Young and Judge
Christian. Indeed Judge Newman has been
regular attendant upon the sessions of the
committee and has heard some strong testi
mony against himself 1t is said here TO-
night that the evidence heard in this case is
such that the committee will report in favor
Of removing him.
General Fitz. Lee has been here for some
time giving his advice and assistance in the
construction Of MALTA law. 1t is under.
stood that the new bill to be submitted for
adoption will provide for special militia
tax. 1t is scarcely probable, however, that
such measure will get through. Anything
sounding like new tax, however small
will never get through the Legislature.
STRONGROW
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-05
A GIRL OF MANY MILLIONS.

The Miss Leslie Ayers marriage to Com
mander Pearson, to-day, will be disma
blow to the numerous fortune seekers wht
have persisted in annoying this estimabls
young lady as ouly fortune hunters can.
beauty bel fatal gift to its possessor, a large
fortune belonging to young girl, and thai
girl fatherless, has also it's disadvantages
and Miss Aver has experienced enough in the
way of disagreeable and undesired notore
ty through the fact of her inherited millions
to more than satisfy the most sensational O.
young women. 1t was bad enough to have
Bourbon Prince actually threatening tc
forever still his throbbing royal heart unes:
this daughter of a country ll-compoundeI
should smile upon his suit and consent to
the exchange of coronet for 100000 OF
100000 bottles of pectoral.
1t remained for lesser light to make him
self Extensively notorious and not little
ridiculous by an unsuccessful attempt, or a
successful pretence, of committing suicide at
Miss Ayers house several months since.
Count Bettini might have spared himself
his pain and trouble, and might also have
spared the parlor carpetand chairs sacrificed
10 the dramatic requirements ofthe occasion,
ranged tour deforce) it only resulted in the
hot. blooded Italians discontinue and his
dismissal from the home of his dark-eyed
inamorata.
The young lady in question is by no
means beauty, but has pleasing mariners,
and if she dressed little less showily in the
street, would be more attractive.
Lowell, Mass, is the native town of the
bride, and a paper Of that place thus out
lines the bridegrooms history Commander
Pearson is the son of the late Edward p
Pearson, of Reading, Pa, and the grandson
Of the Hon. Frederick Smith, late justice Of
Pennsylvania. Heis described as being tall,
handsome and commanding, and we'll liked
in the navy, to which he was appointed from
Pennsylvania nearly twenty-five years ago.
The wedding is to take place at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Aver, in New York, at 4:3O
p. III. The ceremony, which will be private,
only relatives and intimate friends being
present, will be performed by Bishop Potter
and the bride will be given away by her
brother, Mr.. F. F. Aver. There will be no
bridesmaids. A reception will be held from
5 to o'clock, to which large number of
invitations have been issued, after which
the bride and groom will depart on their
wedding tour The bridal dress is described
as being of heavy white satin, made with a
full court train, the front being of rare point
lace caught up with lilies of the valley. The
neck is cut low and the sleeves short. The
veil is of web like point lace of rare value
and is to be fastened with natural orange
blossoms and diamonds. She will wear
white satin slippers embroidered in pearls
and pearl and diamond jewels. Her bou-
Duets will be composed of white roses and
lilies