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The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22
Flax Culture.

The one thing absolutely necessary to
the successful growing Of flax is that the
land should be free from weeds OF all
kinds. l am told that some crops will
choke out weeds, but flax will not. For
this reason it is best that fax should
follow corn. potatoes or some other hoed
crop, or should be sown on summer
fallow. If it follows some other small
grain, and the ground Is in good condi-
tion and free from weeds, good crop
may sometimes be grown by ploughing
very late in the spring and giving good,
deep, and thorough cultivation.
Flax can be grown most successfully
on soil with considerable clay in il /;
but when grown on the rich vegetable
mould of our Northwestern prairies,
deep pioughing, which brings the clay
subsoil to the surface, will put the ground
in condition for Il good crop. SOW flax
in this latitude between May 20 and
June ], using broadcast seeder and
and sowing one-half of bushel per
acre. 1t is ready for harvesting about
three weeks later than spring wheat,
and handle it in the same way, bind.
ing it with twine and stacking as other
grains are stack II. Many here do not
hind, and il ran be handled very well in
lo,se gavels, but prefer binding.
With proper cultivation, have found
fax as profitable as any crop have
grown, but it will not bear neglect or
poor cultivation. One thing may be set
down as certain in the cultivation OF
flax {; that is. an average crop will never
pay. With good cultivation it is easy to
produce double an average crop, and not
difficult to run it up to three times the
average, Us flax responds most cheerfully
to superior cultivation.
have never found that flax exhausts
the soil mure than any other small
grain, but, of course, it will not do to
follow flax after FAX FROM year to year
But l ALWAYS consider it bad MANAGE
ment to SOW the same crop on the same
land twice in succession. and always
consider that deserve t;,e poor crop
that almost invariably follows.-Ccr
Rural New Yorker.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22

NEED SEA WONDERS exist in thous
DEET ands of forms, but are surpassed
- by the marvels OF invention,
Those who are in need of profitable employ
ment that can be done while living nt home
4 Co., Portland, Maine, and receive free, full
Information how either sex, Of all ages, can
wherever ,liey live. You are started free.
Capital not required. Some have made over
$50 In n single day at this work. All succeed
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22
Regarding the Railroad,

The Boulder Age thus intelligently dis.
cusses the railroad question that is inter-
esting to us all:
"A little experience on the Northern
Pacific railroad on the twelve or fifteen
miles on each side ofPlacer will convince
anyone that the sooner the branch is
built up the Bouluer from Gallarin to
Butte the sooner will the Northern Pa
ciiic be able to compete with the Mani
toba and the Union Pacific for heavy
traffic. On July 26th the local freight
train west from Bedford stalled twice be-
fore reaching the the top of the hill east
of Placer and finally the train Of sixteen
cars had to be devided and half taken in
to Placer at time. When the first half
reached Placer it met an sast. bound
freight train Of sixteen cars which had 10
undergoa similar process OH the hill west
of Placer. And this is of frequen. occur.
renee.
For the past two or three years the
Northern Pacific has had no money to
build branches and as branches IN Mon
tana were necessity. the company had
to get Helena and other Montana men
to put up the requisite money. Last
spring, however, Willard brought Sle,-
900, 600 of German capital into the North.
ern Pacific and all the Helena men have
been paid the money they invested
and the road is now out of the. clutches
of that gang which was controlling the
of the road as far as Mon.
tana is concerned solely in the intere t
of Helena. There is money also in the
treasury to build more branches and the
Of the road hereafter will be
more in the interest of the read and of
whole people of the Territory and of the
great Northwest generally. For the rea-
son the early completion of the branch
up the Boulder may De looked for, with
the continuation of tho line down the
Deer Lodge valley to Garrison,
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22
Their BUSINESS Booming.

Probably no one thing has caused
sich general revival tf trade at W. NJ.
Awards drug store as their giving away
to their customers of 30 many free trial
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Their trade is simply
enormous in this very valuable article
from the fact that it always cures and
never dirappinis. Coughs. Colds, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Croup, and all throat and
lung diseasrs quickly cured. You can
test il before buying by getting trial
bottle free, large size 81. Every bottle
warranted. x
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22
5EzSzS yt2EhbllSHE9 Q .I8LS5 5ES2SSS
THE
|WESTSHOREI |
llP0RIlhND .0Sf6oN5E

The West Shore is the only Illustrated maya
zine published on the Pacific coast, and aside
from Its excellent literary features, its object Is
to convey information, by both pen and Iencii,
OF the great resources Of this region, and the
progress of their development,
special Illustrated articles appear in each
is.ue also, several pages of notes OF the pro-
Tross being made in every section, Oregon,
Maslington. Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Utah,
california, British Columbia, and the Pacific
Northwest in general, are being Illustrated,
inc subscription price is only sa.5O. 1t is mt
oniy the cheapest Illustrated magazine in the
Uhited states, but contains articles and en-
cravings OF great interest to every resident OF
this region, which can not be found in any
other publication.
subscribers for 1893 receive large supple
ment every month. The first one II beatti-
~ ~ 9lsograph Of the a Entrance to the Coilfm-
pa laver," printed in nine colorr, and each
OF ihe others represents some feature Of our
sublime scenery. The supplements are alone
WORTH more than the price of the magnzine,
lily Y Tor 1883, and after reading, eeni ii to
your friends elsewhere You will find II both
entertaining and instructive.
L. SAMUEL, Publisher,
ln-17s Second st.. Portland, Oregon,
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22

Col. +, l.. Hackett, one of the large
owners of the Curlew mine, and one of
the hardest worked and most thoroughly
disgusted farmers of Sweathouse creek,
was in the city the early part of the
week bu, ing giant powder to destroy
the red.headed woodpeckers tthat are
eating up his apple cr,p. In speaking
of the ravages Of these pests to Ga
zette reporter, he said, III don't under.
stand why these pesky brutes should
select my orchard as the special object
of their rapacity. Such thing as a
retl-headed woodpacker had never been
seen on Sweatlinuse creek until | went
to farming and raising apples. D--d if
thing To 10 with this business. The Re
pubicans charge him with DESTROYING the
wool industry. depressing the price of
silver AMI cripplihg the lead industry Of
Montana by his free trade heresies and
1t does seem 10 mo that he has some
thing to do with the woodpecker bus:-
ness. Now am protectionist and have
been ever since I was engaged in the
lumber business in Wisconsin. The
government protects wool men, WIN.
slett, Bennet and others, aud here is
Billiard, Mckeen, Ileacock aid all these
fellows cutting lumber in the Bitter Roo
valley are protected at the rate OF two
dollars per thousand on every foot of
lumber they cut and ship to Butte.
Here, only little while ago, the legisla.
ture of Montana became very atfectionate
toward the farmers of the Gallatin val
ley, and passed a law to protect their
potatoes and rutabagas against the raw.
ayes of the gophers and ground squirrels
by offering bounty for the scalps of
these harmless rodents, and us fellows
here in the Bitter Root who were raising
potatoes and rutabagas and didn't ask
for any protection against these squirrels,
had to pay for them. Of course we
kicked up such row about being taxed
to protect these Gallatin county men and
by our own din and racket made the
doctrine of practicle protection so odious
to other people who did not have any
rutabagas to protect, that we forced the
governor to call an extra session of the
legislature for the express purpose of re-
pealing the squirrel law, and they did it,
and everybody but the Gallatin county
farmers said they did right, too, in re.
pealing this iniquitous law. Now,
have written to the chairman of the
senate finance committee. l knew that
it was no use to write to Mills, not Mills
of the Deer Lodge New Northwest, how.
ever, but that fellow from Texas, and
asked the committee, in framing a tar.
if bill, to protect home Industries, to
be sure and not overlook the apple in
dustry of the Bitter Root valley; that
it was one of the infant industries of
the country, and that it must be pro.
tected from the red. headed woodpeck.
ers or 1t would perish. or course r
don't know what the Republican senate
will do about it. 1t NAV be that wav
up .here in New England and New
York, where the most of these Repub-
lican congressman live, they don't have
any woodpeckers and tbev NAV tb;nt
am irving to pull the wool over their
eyes on tho ample business. and am
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22
CONSUMPTION.

which Is ScrOfu Ofthe Lungs, Is arrested
and cured by this remedy, IL taken in the
velous power over this terribly fatal disease,
when first offering this now world famed REM
ody to tho public, DR.. Pierce thought seriously
abandoned that name as too restrictive for
q medicine which, from its wonderful COM
binatlon Of tonic, or strengthening, alternative,
nutritive properties, Is unequaled, not only
rs a remedy for Consumption, but for all
Chronic Diseases of tho
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22

Tho Best Snlve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores Tettcr, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corn-, and all Skin Eruption,
and positively cures riIes. or no pay re-.
qlire'l 1t is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box. For Gale by W. NJ.
Award,
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22

Nothing will prove so beneficial to cab
bages at this season as hoeing. The
more tho ground is stirred the better.
For field crop the cultivation or horse
hoe should be used.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-08-22

Buolxlen's Arn1ca Snlye.
, 1888-06-21

But il the queens Likes" are freely
manifested, SO are her ''dislikes," as
Louis Philippe had cause TO feel in 1913.
Her majesty gave an asylum to the run
away Orleans princes, but she said openly
that the revolution which sent them into
exile was theS punishment for the ''dis-
graceful, dishonorable behavior Of the
Tuileries in the matter Of the Spanish
marriages" Another object Of her an
tipathy is Mr.. Gladstone, although he
has been half a dozen times her prime
minister and may be again. Yet her re-
pugnance Is nowhere 30 strongly mani
Tested as toward the French, not so much
perhaps as a nation as to their literature,
fashions and customs, and above all their
women and theatres, which to her mind
represent the ~abomination of indecorum
and iniquity. She used to come here
when Napoleon III was thought to be the
arbiter of Europe's destinies, but it was
always against her will, in obedience to
reasons of state. and l remember the sui
len looks which she cast at the crowd
when, seated by the side Of the Empress
Eugene, the two sovereigns passed in
review the victorious troops of the Crimea.
Victoria was as dowdy as her companion
was elegant, and the crowds compare
sons were not lattering to the imperial
guest.-Foreign Cor. New York Times.
, 1888-06-21
A Victim of Over Indulgence.

Lady Chatham's dog suffered from over
feeding, and became so violently ill that
its life was in danger. She sought ear
nestly for a doctor for her favorite, and
at length heard that the blacksmith of
the village had said he could cure it. The
smith was sent for, and undertook to cure
the pet If he could be allowed to keep it
for three weeks.
My lady pleaded that she might be per-
mitted to visit her favorite two or three
times n week, but this was steadily re-
fused, and the man was at length allowed
to depart with the patient.
For the next three weeks much amuse-
ment was afforded in the smithy by the
sight of Lady Chatham's fat poodle tied
under the bellows in such a position that
1t painted with the exertion of getting up
whenever the bellows was used. The
smiths boy also drove the creature round
the orchard three times a day, tied with a
string. This reduced the fat of the pam
pered animal, while a simple diet of bread
and milk restored the tone of its digestive
organs. At the end of three weeks the
smith returned the dog fully recruited,
and received n handsome reward.-Rev.
William Quekett's Sayings and Doings."
, 1888-06-21
Smallest Plant in tho world.

The smallest Towering plant in exist
euce is Wolfiia microscopica, a native of
India. 1t belongs to the natural order
Lemnacee, or the duck weed family. 1t
is almost microscopic m size, destitute of
proper stem, leaves and roots, but having
these organs merged in one, forming a
frond. There is, however, q prolongation
of the lower surface into a kind of rhizoid,
the purpose of which seems to be to en-
able the plant to float upright in the
water. The fronds multiply ~asexually by
sending out other fronds from a basilar
slit or concavity, and with such rapidity
does this take place that q few days often
~suffices to produce from a few individuals
enough similar ones to cover many square
rods of pond surface with the minute
green granules.
But small as these plants are, and sim
pie in their structure, they yet produce
flowers. Two flowers are produced on O
plant, each of them very simple, n con-
sisting of a single stamen and the other
of a single pistil, both of which burst
through the upper surface of the frond.
There IRE two species of this genus grow
ing in the eastern United States, one of
them, Wolffia Columbiana, about one
t~wenty-ffth of an inch in diameter, and
the other, w. Brasiliensis, somewhat
smaller in size. The American species has
been collected near Philadelphia Boston
Rudpet.
, 1888-06-21

The Dakota Indians count their years
by winters and say a man is so many
SHOWS old, or that so many snow seasons
have passed since an occurrence. They
nave no divisions of time into weeks, and
their months are absolutely lunar, only
twelve, however. being designated, which
receive their names upon the recurrence
of some physical phenomenon. The Da-
kotas have a system of winter counts,
which were formerly executed in colors
on the hides of animals, but the present
recorders make use of paper, books, pens,
pencils and paints obtained from the
whites. The figures used are extremely
interesting. To represent the w%hooping
cough, for instance, a bead is sketched
and the cough illustrated by ines issuing
from the mouth. On n occasion food
was very scarce, and they lived on acorns.
They told the story with sketch of a
crude oak tree and little dots below it
representing the acorns.-Magazine of
American History.
, 1888-06-21
Patrons of the london .ra1lyman.n

The 'tallyman" plays no inconsiderable
part in the disasters of the poor, especially
in the little household where the wife is
vain or thriftless. The tallyman or travel
ing draper Is, as most of my readers are
probably aware, a superior kind of hawker
or an inferior kind of commercial traveller
whichever you like. In purchasing and
selling 1t was at one time customary for
traders to have two sticks and to mark
with a notch on each the number of goods
delivered. These tallies from the French
word taller, to cut were the means by
which accounts were kept. The tally
shop is a shop at which goods are sold
to customers on account, the account
being kept In corresponding books. One is
called the tally" and is kept by the buyer;
the other side is the counter tally"
and is kept by the seller. Sometimes a
card is given to the customer instead of n
book. The tallyman calls with his goods,
his finery and his household stuffs, and
displays his tempting wares to the eyes
of the housewife.
Unfortunately, many poor mems wives
cont want much pressing. They see the
inery; there is only a small sum to be
paid down, and it will be SO easy to pay
the rest by a small installment every
week. Many n good, honest workman
dates the day of his downfall to the tai
lyman's first stroke of business with his
wife. The tallyman will be paid, and to
pay him the wife will sometimes pawn
her children's things and descend to
lodges which are the beginning of bad
times. The great desire of most of the
tallyman's lady customers is to keep the
fact that they are in debt from the hus-
bands knowledge, and a threat to tell the
husband or to apply to him for the money
is a very powerful weapon in the tally
mans armory.-George R. Sims in Phila-
delphia Times.
, 1888-06-21
wlth . Dreamy. Emer.onian Air.

"Mr. Cahokia," said the young lady
from Boston, softly, as she drew her
skirts carefully away from the sides of the
boat and gazed with a dreamy, Elmer
sonian air at the stalwart youth who was
handling the oars, have you never felt
that aching void, hat irrepressible long
ing, that imperious inward cry hat will
not be silenced when the soul realizes its
own isolation and knows that somewhere
in the trackless depths of space its
kindred sou is flying on restless wing,
mnyhap at a remote distance, peradven-
ture almost within its grasp2"
"Why-of coure, Miss Howjames," re-
piled the st. Louis young man, rather
vaguely, as he changed the course of the
boat to relieve his eyes from the suns
dazzling glare reflected from the specta-
cles in front of him and noted with some
uneasiness that he was several hundred
yards from shore and n mile from any
other boat, II have sometimes felt, as you
say, that sort of-er-goneness-er-fn
the early spring, you know-nothing but
ham and eggs. you know. at the res
tau
ooh, Mr.. Cahokiai" broke forth the
young lady, impulsively, II am sure you
have often wished, with the poet, for
some little isle with wings, and that you
and your souls mate within its fairy
powers were waited off to seas unknown,
where not a pulse should beat but ours,
and we might live, love-but what am l
sayingl"
81 think" said Mr.. Cahokia, looking
desparingly up and down the stream and
wiping his brow n~ervously with his hand
kerchief, you were saying something
about islands and seas. When it comes
TO geography, Miss Howjames, I don't
know beans"-
you don't know what, Mr.. Cshokia?"
Beans"
do you dislike beans, sirP"
Cant go EN- at all. Miss Howjames."
"Mr. Cahokia," said the Boston
lady, with chilling haughtiness, II think
we will go ashore, if you please. Chi.
cago Tribune.
, 1888-06-21

In the Algerian Sahara there are nu-
merous s-ubterranean lakes in which a
number of small fish and mollusks live
and multiply. Moreover tho artesian
wells of the Sahara ofteh throw out fish
that are sometimes two inches in length.
The governor of the GASES of Thebes
and Garbes. in Egypt. in 1S49 as
serted that he took from an artesian well
440 feet deep, near his residence, fish In
sufficient quantity to supply his table
Boston Budget.
, 1888-06-21

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is My put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute ure for old
sores, burns, wounds. chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. Will positively cure all
kinds OF piles Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
w. n. Hunt at 25 cents per box-by mail
30 cents.
, 1888-06-21

NO. 81. A. NO. 15S.-PROPOSALS
IN for army supplies. Headquarters
Department of the Platte, office of chief
cominissary of subsistence, Omaha, Neb.,
May "a, ISS8.-Sealed proposals, in
t~riplicate, subject to the usual conditions,
will be received at this Office until u
o'clock m., central standard time, and at
the office of the commissary of subsistence
at Cheyenne Depot, Wyo., and at the of
fees of the acting commissaries of subsist-
ence at Forts Sidney, Neb.. Douglas,
Utah, Niobrara, Neb., Robinson, Neb.,
and Mckinney. Wyo., until IL o'clock a.
M, mountain standard time, on Saturday,
the 23d day of June, 1883. at which
time and places they will be opened in the
presence of bidders, for the furnishing
and delivery of -four for issue as a COM
ponent of the ration. The right is re-
served to reject any or all bids. Blank
proposals, and specifications showing in
detail the quantities required and giving
full information as to condition of con
tracts. will be furnished on application to
any of the above mentioned offices. j.
w. BARRIGER, Maj. and G. S.,
U. S. A, Chief G. s.
, 1888-06-21
rnat Tired Feeling

Aflicts nearly every one in the spring.
The system having become accustomed to
the bracing air of winter, is weakened by
the warm days of the changing season
and readily yields to attacks of disease.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is Just the medicine
needed. 1t tones and builds up every
part of the body, and also expels all
impurities from the blood, Try it this
season.
, 1888-06-21

1t is just as true as that the sun has not
failed 20 rise daily in all these many cen
turtles that every hours sleep before mid
night is as beneficial as a beautifier as
three hours rest in the arms of Morpheus
In the wee sma' hours.-Chicago Herald.
, 1888-06-21
PROPOSALS FOR RECONSTRUCTION

and completion of buildings at Fort ID.
A. Russell, Wyo. Depot Quartermastcr's
office, Cheyenne, Depot, Wyo., May "a,
1888. Sealed proposals, in triplicate, sub
ject to the usual conditions, will be received
at this Office until II M, Friday, June %,
1888, at which time and place they will
be opened in the presence of bidders, for
furnishing material and labor for compile
ton and construction of buildings at Fort
ID, A. Russell. Wyo., viz:
Construction of one set of captains
quarters.
Compilations of three sets of captains
quarters.
Completion of one building for barracks.
Completion of remodeling quarter
masters s%torehouse into barracks.
The government reserves the right to
reject any or all proposals. Preference
given to articles of domestic production
and manufacture, condition OF price and
quality being equal, and such preference
given to articles of American production
and manufacture produced on the Pacific
coast to the extent of the consumption
required by the service there. Speciica-
tons can be seen, circulars containing in
structions to bidders, and blank forms of
proposals can be obtained on application
at this office. Envelopes containing pro-
posals should be plainly marked "Propos-
ais for construction and completion of
buildings at Fort ID A. Russell, Wyo.,"
and addressed to the undersigned,
CHARLES E. HUMPHREY, Captain and
Assistant Quartermaster, U. s. A.
, 1888-06-21

I le largest stock of fine brandies, old
whiskies, choice Gqueurs and superfine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1888-06-21

The Burmese girls give rings, made of
the stiff hair that grows in a tuft ut the
end of the elephants tail, to their ''young
men,"
, 1888-06-21

AcNev's Blood Blood f Ramsd Is the an. Gnly
feed. 1t is a positive cure for Ulcers, Erup-
tions or SyphiIitic Poisoning. 1t purifes the
whole system. and parishes all Rheumatic
End Heuralgie pains. We guarantee it.
nr. w. N. Hunt.