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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
Tricks Played on Excursionists.

The trick of the east side excursion grin
seller who salted the water on the excur-
sion barges in order to force the excur-
sionists to patronize his bar is not new
by any means. l remember one moon
light picnic l went on years ago. when it
was tried, and the barman was thrown
overheard for his smartness and given all
the saltwater in the bay to sample on his
own account. On another excursion, up
the sound this time, the ingenious specu-
lator jumped overheard to save himself
from being probably dubbed to death.
The meanest trick can recall was played
on a Sunday excursion up the Hud-
son ten years ago on a big steam
er. The bar privilege was owned by
the boat. In order to make business the
water casks were not filed at starting,
but anything, from water up to wine, was
sold over the bar. When the boat arrived
at Iona island, where there was water
ashore, two Of the crew were sent ahead
to salt the well SO that it was spoiled for
use. Several of US on this excursion
emptied our pockets of small change to
buy ice water at five cents tuinbler for
children too poorto buy it for themselves.
When we expostulated with the captain
of the boat he laughed at us and asked:
"What the blazes do you suppose we run
excursions for, hey" It may have been
a judgment on this person that he fell
victim to salt water himself afterward.
He was drowned out of sail boat up the
Trumble in New York
News.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
Tale of a Handsome Woman.

They tell pretty tale, if only it had
pretty sequel, of a handsome Chicago wo-
man whose husband had been for some
years absent on diplomatic business
abroad. One fine afternoon she received
a letter setting day some months dis
tant for his return. Now the lady,
though handsome, was stout, and she
could not endure the thought that the
man who left her young and slim should
find her obese and aged. So then, putting
all other business out of hand, She de-
voted herself with assiduity to one of the
various Turkish bath systems for putting
aside unwished for pounds. The lady
was persevering and the doctor skillful;
the arrival of the steamer found her
weighing to an ounce what she had
weighed when her youthful husband
sailed away. She got back her girlish
figure, but she could not present her
handsome face. The fine lines which
scanned it in every direction were a
heavy price to pay in exchange for the
matronly proportions which she feared
her husband would not look with favor
upon. The husband, that chance had not
occurred to her, had gained avoirdupois
also, and if she had let herself alone,
they would have made well matched,
portly pair.-Chicago Herald
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04

once saw that here was a wonder, and de-
sirable acquisition for his fancy riding. He
had no idea of the future that awaited his
protege. Temple was secured mostly for his
abilities as fancy rider. He had q makeup
ss young lady that was SO good that he
easily passed for one of the opposite sex with
many spectators. Woodside and Morgan
were to do the racing. 1t wasn't a bad trio
at that. Scarcely had the other side been
reached when the little fellow began to show
the Britons such pedaling as they had never
before seen. With scarcely any experience
to speak Of he beat all the crack riders at all
distances, and gave Howell the hardest work
any one was ever known to. He won
sixty races in succession, and while abroad
won 100 first prizes, most Of them from
scratch. From the quarter up to the mile,
Morgan considers Temple superior to Howell,
and good match from the latter distance
to ten miles He beat Howell four times in
succession, from half a mile to twenty, so
that he shows not only speed, but endurance
He is now riding a fifty-three inch wheel,
and his weight is $50 pounds.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
ELECTRICITY Instead of Hanging.

After Jan. 1, 1889, all persons con-
vlcted of murder and condemned to death
in New York will be executed by electri-
city instead of by hanging. No expert
ments have been made, and no means have
been devised to apply electricity so that
it shall be absolutely certain as an agent
OF death. 1t is known to all electricians
that a force of even 1000 volts, and an
alternating current at that, might produce
instant death in one case without suffer-
ing, and intense agony, followed by death,
in another. The various devices thus far
suggested have come from newspapers
and magazines, and each and every one Of
them are open to some objection.
DIR. j. Mount Bleyer, who was one of
the commission appointed to report on
"the best method of executing crimi-
nails" gave the matter a good deal of
study, and devised method which he be-
ieves is perfect, but which is really open
to the gravest objections DR.. Bleyer's
plan is to place the condemned person in
a sort of hut, his bare feet resting on a
metal floor which connects with one pole
OF the battery. An electrode coming
Though the roof of the hut and touching
the doomed persons head is connected
with the other pole, and so completes the
circuit. Should the condemned person
twist his head so as to break the contact
even the thousandth part of an inch the
circuit would be incomplete, and life
would be prolonged as long as he re-
mained in that position. II fear" said q
gentleman who is an accepted authority
IN medical jurisprudence, ''that unless
lie state gets to work at once and devotes
} great deal of time to experimentation,
hat the first execution by electricity will
% q most distressing bungle. New
York Press
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
AN INDIAN LOVE SONG.

His winter home the bear forsakes,
The red deer swims the shining lakes,
Up foaming falls the salmon leaps,
The wild sheep halts on dizzy sleeps,
The swans are northward flying.
With laughing voice the rivers run,
Their billows flashing in the sun;
II is the moon of sprouting grass,
a thousand warm sweet breezes pass,
Through lofty pine tops signing.
With bounding steps the antelope
Springs lightly down the mountain slope;
To verdant plains the bison HES,
Ihe eagle mounts the morning skies,
And all the birds are mating.
With life and joy all things are bright,
Come forth, my lovel my souls delight,
Thy wigwam's fosls throw wide apart,
kor thee, oh dear and tender heart,
Thy lover true is waiting.
e. NJ. Allen in American Magazine.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
Method of Appra:sing Manuscript.

This story is told of certain Boston
publisher, and it is reproduced as showing
a unique way of appraising literary work:
A gentleman who does much with his pen
in the way of rather lurid kind of story
writing had frequently disposed of manu-
script TO the publisher in question One
day he entered the Office of the latter with
story to sell, and handed him the parcel
of manuscript. "Well, how much for
this?" vas asked the author, while the
questioner kept posing the manuscript
on his open palm. Fifty dollars" was
the reply. Fifty dollarsf' repeated the
publisher, the rising infection in his voice
denoting surprise; "why, it's not nearly
SO heavy "a the one gave you forty for
not long since. Boston Budget.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
THE WITNESSES.

pay by day in the opening meadow,
Ihe cowslips swing their bells of gold;
ana the young leaves throng like merry children,
Inc forest windows grim and old.
Day oy day, with blow that strengthens,
me sun god smites the springing corn;
poubly cool are the dews of evening,
Doubly sweet is the breath of morn
Day by day in the lower pastures
~ Heavier mists at twilight fall,
-1e sheaves stand thick on the short white
stubble,
1ne peaches glow on the orchard wall.
'Sy ny day, over hill and valley,
~. tse snowfakes wing their passage slow,
NTtu NV whlte ghosts of the forest children
Oeau In the tangled brakes below.
Alfred Wood.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
A VOICE IN A DREAM.

1t was only voice In a dream,
But it spake to me sweet and low.
Twas voice that used to know
When it cheered my way
In the golden day
OF summer long ago.
II was only voice in a dream;
Twas not strange that l gave start
When its deep tones entered my heart,
That in loneness sighed
AS its pulse replied:
"Oh, so long to be apartr'
/. was only a voice in dream;
But it carried a joy to me.
interpret, and l can see
A glorified day
And not far away,
When my love comes home from sea.
Come again, dear voice, in dream,
In my sleep, my lone heart to cheeri
There is nothing so sweet to hear.
Give me joy each night
Till wake to light
And to find my loved one nearl
George Birdseye in Detroit Free Press
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
rores,s and the Rainfall.

President Willis, of the Agricultural
college of Michigan, while he disputes the
exercise of a direct influence of forests in
promoting moisture, saying that all the
trees in the world will not put 1t where
it Is not, believes that the moisture on the
continent is advancing toward the west,
and that the planting OF forests and IN,
creased cultivation will cause the rainfall
to advance further west every year:
Seven hundred thousand acres OF forest
have already been planted in Nebraska;
the cottonwood and the willow first, ana
then the soft maple and the hard WOODS.
Public Opinion.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
RESIGNATION.

Thou wouldst not have my sheaves, =
With dew and twilight on their gold;
Thou wouldst not have my song,
From this valley dim and cold, ~.
Where my stars like wandring dreams ,,
Fade in silences; z
My song mo world won strain)
Pledged from the mysteries e -
OF the night land, love and pain 30.
Woke not the worlds wild Joy, >.
But stole TO thee soft and low,
Trembling like sweet child tears,
Half of laughter's ecstacies.
Ny sheaves are lying still =
In the path where none pass
Save ghosts that whispering go,
In the silent shiv'ring grass,
Afraid Of hopes lost signs,
Afraid Of those sad, sad eyes,
Love closed sometime,
Lest death them seeing might fear to como
And claim the song, and her,
And bind with stars the sheaves
In the musky rosy ewes
Ay, if by my lonely bier
Thy solitude comes near,
An thou hearst some sweeter word
Than wind or flower or bird-just say
Her spirit passd-'twas winged song
And lost in highland go thy way.
Lillian Rozell Messenger in Home Journal
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04

Illinois, and in an
even race t h e
youngster won by
q foot, and aston
ished Morgan by
his superb riding.
Morgan rode a
racer and the boy a
roadster. In a n
other race, Morgan
c one 2 de d t b g
youn2ster forty
yards in a handi-
cap,and was beaten
by the clever spurt
of the little fellow.
The orofocSioDol or
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
PROCTOR KNOTT.
The Winner of the Futurity and His
Record.

The Winner of the Futurity and His
Record.
Proctor Knott was foaled at Belle Meade,
Tenn, lis dam, Tallapoosa, having been
nominated for the Futurity by the owners Of
Belle Meade, w. G. Harding & Co., and was
sold a yearling by Col. s. D. Bruce, April 80,
1887, to Sam Bryant for $3.50, who at once
claimed the name of Proctor Knott, saying
that as Luke Blackburn was good governor
Of Kentucky and his namesake good horse,
he would try and see if the coincidence
would follow, Proctor Knott having been a
popular governor Of the state from 1888 to
1887. In breeding Proctor Knott land it is
now to be more than ever regretted that he
is a gelding) is thoroughly a representative Of
Belle Meade, his sire and dams sire still be-
ing in service at the farm.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
Inventing an Aristocracy,

Says an Englishman: "You Americans
have been trying to build up social sys.
tenn without an aristocracy; but you will
never succeed as long as there is a woman
in the great republic. If there were no
such thing as an aristocracy in the world,
women would invent one. New York
Tribune.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04

One Of the English regiments isexperi.
menting with machine called center.
cycle, which has four small wheels foot
I'm diameter and one large one in the
center. 1t is said that the invention
makes climbing hill as easy for cycler
rs rolling off log.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
a Lost Opportunity.

A St. Louis man says that he once had
q chance to buy the patent for the Mich.
olson pavement for $1,000. year after
he declined the offer the holder of the
patent collected 800, 1000 in royalties from
the city of st. Louis Chicago Herald
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04

L. me hard working farm horse should be
sIs., slS wei, given plenty of pure water and
SSesh Ss bedding, while his sleep should not
% disturbed by flies.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
A FAMOUS BICYCLIST.

Ra.ph Tempe and How He First Came
Out.
Ralph Temple, the bicyclist, was first
brought out by Morgan of the American
team. Morgan first met Temnle in northern
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04
A Warm Proceeding.

Brown-What's the matter. Dunley?
You look hot about something.
Dumley tangrilyeHotl Ishould say so
was around at the Eagle just now, and
that fool Featherly dropped chunk of
ice down my back Enough to make any
man hnti-New Yc.k Sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-10-04

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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27
Local Option Inoperatixe.

MACON, No., Dec. 20.-In the circuit
court here yesterday, in the case of the
State against Fred March, charging hlm
with selling beer in Macon. in violation OF
the Wood Local Option law. the Defend
ants attorneys, Colonel Williams, CAPITA n
Guihrie and Judge Hess. filed q demurrer
to the States evidence, on the ground that
the records of the City Council, at their
meeting when the returns were canvas ed
Of the adoption of the law over one year
ago, were irregular. Judge Andrew Eli
son sustained the demurrer aud ID structed
the jury to acquit the defendant. the
Council records were entirely Irregular
and did not show the facts as they tosk
place. The defendants attorneys sav tha
State can not take an appeal in the case
and unless the Council records can IA
amended. which is not probable, the Local
option law in Macon, which took effect in
) January last, will be inoperative.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27
Aeouf RA,LRoADs.

.v..s.,,.ac.t Of tho Report Of the
KansAs Board sf lxsIiro.d Comm
TorrxA. Kan. Dec. s.-The second M
-. a,,,.,H NJ the ST 9Th annual report OF tho
state Board OF Railroad Commissioners
has lust been issued. 1t describes the con-
d,tion of the Missouri, Kansas q texas
road. gives the history of the recent str1ke
on the Santa Fe and makes severci recon-
mendat ons.
lease1 TO the Missouri Pacific Dscen1er 4,
1889, for ninety-nine years. me
terms of the lease required
the surplus OF the earnings over
and above operating expenses and taxess
TO be turned over to the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Company. Tho lease was Ter
minated last October by tbs appointments
of . receiver. The system, including main
limo and branches, embraces I,6l2 miles,
254 of which are in Kansas, the rest being
in Missouri, the Indian Territory and
Texas. Regarding the causes or the
insolvency Of the road. the Com
missioners say: ssThese viii be found
chiefly in its freight trafdc reports.
Tia freight rates have declined more rap
;dfv than the Tariff has increased During
the past four years. with the exception or
the year ended June 80, 1887. the gross
earnings have greatly dimin ished not
withstanding its traffic has slightly in
creased. The total tariff earnings for 1854
were quite sufficient to meet the operating
expenses, taxes and interest obligations
of the company. The to al freight tonnage
that wear was 9, 149, 464: in 1888 it amounted
to 2,2T9 37I-an incrs ase Of per cent.
The rate per ton per mile in 1884 was
I.Sl cents In 1888 the rate was .o4 cents
"a reduction O % rer cent This reduc-
ton affected the earnings TO tbs ex emit OF
1862, 1877 81. II the tariff rate OF 1854 had
been charged upon the tonnage Of 1883
the receipts would have been increased by
$923, 9s1 10, and the property would have
been preserved in q solvent cond ton In
stead, the excess of expense and charges
over earnings amount "a to 81, 464 $40 GS-"
Under the head of Recommendations"
the board refers to the di >crepancy be.
tween the railroad tariffs which puts the
business originating in Kansas at a disad-
vantage compared with like business Or
iginating outside the SAFE, and recon-
mends that power be conferred upon the
Board to require the adoption OF joint
tariffs VIII n yer the same are necessary
to equaIize the conditions of business.
January 1 a change will be male on
the line of the 8 anita Fe south OF La Junta,
the $40 miles between La Junta and Wal
lace, including branches, beng then known
as the New Mexico division, superintend-
ed by Charles Dyer, and that PARTON OF
the road between Wallace and Ell Paso
and Silver City being known as the Rio
| Grande division, with III. A. Mn ige as
superinteI dent. This division will COM
| prise 430 mics.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27
THE BLIZZARD IN QUEBEC.

Considerable suffering and Loss of Life
The Storm Or Nova Scotia.
MONTREAL, Dec 20-Full reports from
the blizzard which beg IN Sunday and
only ceased yesterday, are coming il. The
mos serious consequences were rep ut d
from Lower Quebec and the back vsilag es
out of he line Of railway travel. The en-
tire summer has been very bad for farm-rS
and the crops were SO meager that much
distress was felt 1t only nee led such q
torm as that of the past few d.ys 10
cause the most widespread distress.
In the small villa yes Lack of QUEBEC and
bsIow that city many families suffer-
ing thus cary in the winter for the actual
necessaries of life The farmers are kill
ing Off the live stock, and those who
have no sio to Kill sent a piteous APPEAL
to Card nal Taschereau and Premier Mer-
cier or relief.
Three men, johnson, Dickey ard Cakes,
started across Lake Ontario from tho
American side for lroquois Sunday in q
sma boat. Tues ay afternoon the boat
was found bottom up In the ice. he
b. dies have not been recovered.
Ernest Wright and Macdonald tried to
cross the ice at McDonaId's Point, Tues
day. They were caught in the drifts and
frozen to death.
The the storm along Nova Scotia and
Cape Breton coast was unpreced ented.
The ship Golden Rule, from Glasgow for
Marin chi ran ashore on the island of St
Pierre Mique on off The southern coast OF
Newfound. and on Monday night and was
totally wrecked. Her crew, except the
stew arf. who was drown d, managed to
escape to the shore, where they were found
yesterday morning exhausted and bally
frozen.
The schooner, n. Wright, bound through
the straits of Canso. WIS cut in two by the
ice. Her mas er floated ashore on an ice
foe. The crew were re >cued wit diff
Guilty. Several of the men were more OK
less frost bitten.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27
Immigration Inquiry.

sional Immigration Investigation Conn
Mite began its SESSION here to-day.
Robert c. Ell lott, chief of the Bureau of
Charities. said that insane, decrepit and
ignorant people applied for relief VITO
should never have been admitted
into the country. He cited twenty
five cases, some of them crimi-
nal, of people who had come from foreign
countri. contrary to the provisions OF the
w. Tuey included murderers, thieves
and workhouse inmates. Examiner Hof-
man, of the department of charity, said
that INNING ants had applied /, the bureau
of charity for relief the day after arriving
at Cast e Garden.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27

YORK Dec 2l--The reports that
had been current for some tjme :,
gard to the reduction Of the Rock I-,a,<,
dividend proved correct to-day, when =
was ie earned that oniv one per c-nt w,...ld
De paid to the stockholders for the Dr.
ent quarter The stock had been CON "a
ered one OF the safest invessment 3 II
les oeai' In on the New York Stock ~.
change. but its earning canar;t- 80 TX, tx
seriously impaired by the para o -.
extensions Of rival lines The 80 uo
PAID per cent and over for -
previous TO the present yenr and - 80,
Palo scrip dividend Of IoO per cent -
'ase dividend paid was IL Der cent 60. -, -
quarter Of Septenber co -o1 soo