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Helena weekly herald., 1889-11-07
OUR MINERAL LANDS.
A Communication From Thomas G.
Merrill.

EDITROR HERALD 1T is matter OF
some surprise that statements, The falsity OF
which can be so easily shown, should be
put forth by an accredited agent of the N.
P. R. R. Co. as regards their attempt to rob
Montana of its heritage of the precious
metals. Mr.. Postlethwaite's statement that
the claim of the Northern Pacific is
simply this: That "if mine be discovered
on its land, the burden of proof that the
land is more valuable for its minerals than
for anything else rests upon the claimant
and not upon the railroad" An analysis
of this is that this company would permit
the owner of q paying mine to take just
the 20 acres that his mine was on. But
this is false.
Compare with the following argument
made by their chief attorney at Washing
ton before the Department of the Interior:
In Re Security, Cross-Fire, and Consoli
dated mining claims, Helena, Montana
entry No. 1881, vs.. Northera Pacific Rail
road Company.
The Northern Pacific Railroad company
submits the following reasons why SO
much of their selection of November 8,
1886, List No. 13, as conflicts with M. M.
1881, made October 5, 1887, for the Cross
Fire, Security and Consolidated lodes, To-
Gated in sections 16 and II, township 10
north, range A. west, should not be can
celed. Referring to letter of the Com
missioner of the General Land Office, Of
August 2, 1889.
1. When the survey of said township
was made the Surveyor General segregated
the mineral land from the agricultural, and
that in dispute was returned as agricul-
tural.
2. The grant to the Northern Pacific
Railroad company was made July 2, 1854.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-11-07
New Railroad.

DENVER, November 5.-Articles of incor-
pOration of the Rio Grande & Southern
railway were filed in the Office of the Secre-
tary of State to-day. The road begins at
Dallas, in Ouray county, and extends to
Telluride, Rica and Durango, a distance of
100 miles. 1t is capitalized for So $780, O0O
Work will be commenced at once. The
incorporatOrs are M. d. Thatcher, Fred
Watson, John L. McWiel, j. B. A. Cooper
and Otto Means
Helena weekly herald., 1889-11-07

and acceptance by the president of the
road, which act entities the COM.
pany to patent, was the equivalent
of the sale or entry of the land, and that
the subsequent discovery of mineral can
not effect the title that then passed, hence
the company's selection should not be can
celled, but the mineral entry should, and
we so ask.
w. X. MENDENHALL,
Attorney N. P. R. R.
Washington, D. c., Aug IL, 1889.
Or how is it if the above statement of
Agent Postlethwaite is true that this COM
pany are advertising and trying in every
way to prevent the owners of the Cham
pion, Banker and many other very valuable
mines of Montana from securing titles to
their properties. This is we'll planned
and persistent attempt of the N. P R. R.
Co. to acquire title to many million acres
of the best gold, silver, copper and lead
bearing mineral lands of Montana. The fact
that there are thous ands of discovered and
recorded mining properties bearing the
precious metals, as yet unpatented, on
these mineral lands of Montana, which are
already selected by the N. P. r. r. Co. for
patent, and if the patents once issue these
mines will be upjustly and irrevocably
taken from their rightful owners. This fact
shows the enormity of the attempt to take
from the citizens of Montana their proper
ty, and the imminent peril to half of
our mineral lands in belt of the Territory
one hundred miles in width and embracing
nearly all the best mining districts of Mon
: ma. THOMAS G. MERRILL.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-11-07


from which the chaff of persecution and
abridgment of personalities has been win
moved by the zephyrs of fliberty-will speak
his name with grateful lips through all the
coming ages.
Had this love for the mysterious been
left out of our nature, this land of freedom
had been unknown; the inspiration OF lib
erty had never been felt; the patriotism
which renders this country invincible in
war; and noble and just in peace, respected
abroad and revered at home, had been an
unknown quantity.
The roar of the mighty cataract of the
Great Falls of the Missouri river, whose
reverberations almost reach our ears from
this place, its ponderOus force soon to be
harnessed for the use of man, would only
reach the ears of wild men and savage
beasts This little city, bright and beauti-
full as an artists dream, soon to be the seat
of industry where happy homes will mul-
tiply, where free schools, free churches and
free press shall join hand in hand, with
an elbow touch that makes the whole
world akin, in the grand march toward the
very pinnacle of earthly happiness, had
not been possibility Great is mystery
Most Worshipful Sir: No words of mine
can add to the glory or detract from the
fame of the mystery of ancient craft Ma
sonry. Earth's most celebrated orators
and most grave and reverend philosophers
have sounded its praises, enriched its liter
ature and widened the circle of its influ-
ence, since Apollo first tuned his Tyre.
NY brethren: The cement of my weak
philosophy can add nothing to the Temple
xyho lott tnI6
bedrock of Eternal Truth, before Miriam,
the exalted, sounded the loud timbrel
DER Egypt's dark sea-" the ark of whose
covenant was guarded by the angels of the
Most High; ages before Nebuchadnezzar
swung the gardens of Semiramis in the
air, or herded with the beasts on Chaldean
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md roared as he turned his head side
wise and downward, and strove to
catch his antagonists neck with his
teeth. He failed in his attempt, but at
the same moment he caught the lions
body just below the shoulders in a
clutch of his terrible claws, which
seemed literally to fatten the animal
between them.
THE lion relaxed his hold of the
bears neck, threw back his head, and
sought to writhe loose from the bear.
1t would have gone hard with him, had
not the female lion by a desperate
spring fastened herself so strongly upon
the back of the bears neck that he was
forced to drop the male and turn to
her.
"Over and over they rolled about
the elk carcass. They clawed, bit and
tore at each other with deep, muffled
snarls and growls. Sometimes the bear
was on top of lion, and again both
lions were on top of him.
The grizzly would gather one of
them suddenly in his huge forearms,
bear it down upon the ground in the
effort to crush and bite the life out of
it, then feeling the teeth of the other,
which would invariably seize upon the
back of his neck, the infuriated mon
ster would loose his hold, and whirl
upon that one.
''Soon. in one of these whirls, he
caught the smaller lion. and gave her
such a terrible bite before the males
attack-which was from behind as
usual-could induce him to release her
that she lost sand completely, and
skunk limping away, evidently badly
hurt.
"The male lion Immediately took the
defensive, lodged about the grizzly,
and leaped easily out of reach OF his
furious charges. I saw that bruin had
the best of the fight and was likely to
maintain his advantage; and as l was
far more anxious to secure the tre-
mendous beast than was to get the
lions, l opened fire upon him him with
my Winchester, and gave him ball be-
hind the shoulder as he turned broad
side in one of his rushes at the lion.
Luckily the first shot killed him.
The lion, more frightened at the re.
port of the gun than he had been at the
bear, bounded across the creek, and
though fired two shots at him before
he got out of sight l missed him. The
male got off scot-free, as do not think
the bear had given him more than
few scratches, but l followed the fe-
male, and overlook her in a crippled
some half a mile up the
canon; single bullet killed her. -
Youths Companion.
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The Life of Railway Men.


The life of railway men does not
seem to be a healthy, nor yet an en-
joyable one, if any reliance is to be
placed on the observations of medical
men who have given some attention to
the subject According to M. Duchesne,
railway men improve in health during
the first four years but at the end Of
ten years they are tired out, in fifteen
they are actual sufferers, and few can
remain in the service after twenty.
These general conclusions have been
supplemented by DR.. Lichtenbag,
Buda Pesth, who found from examine
ton that out of $50 railway employees
81, or more than third, suffered from
ear disease. Engine drivers are espec-
tally liable to rheumatism and pneu-
monia, and after some years service a
certain proportion of them become dull
of sight and hearing. Others suffer
from mild form of spinal concussion,
muscular feebleness. and continuous
pains in the limbs. They are also apt
to develop d peculiar mental state-R
sort of cerebral irritation-with exces-
sive nervousness and morbid sensation
OF fear, london LANCET.
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PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

There wouldn't have been any milk
in the cocoanut If some dairymen had
had the construction OF it. Texas
Siftings.
Mr.. Frills-"What were you whom
married youP Nobody" Mrs. Frills
enely)-"Well, that's good point;
you're nobody's fool. Puck.
"A good many men who are talking
very bitterly about the difficulty of get
ting into church have never tried it.
IN. Y. World.
-Artist-'I am thinking seriously
of presenting one of my paintings to
some public institution. Which one
would you suggestP" Candid friend
''The asylum for the blind. -
Pawn me honah, me deah boy"
''Don't," interrupted his friend, 81
beg of you, don't; you couldn't raise
enough on it to buy cord for your
eye-glass." And the conversation was
not resumed. Michigan Farmer.
To cut up a victim to find out what
is She matter with him after he has been
doctored year is dead give-away on
the part of the doctor, who should
know what is needed when he gives the
medicine.-N. o. Pioayune.
In the street car. First lady
(seated) = Madam, please remove
your umbrella from my lap. I'm not
an umbrella stand" Second lady
(standing)-''O. indeed! Well, now
! take good look at you. see my
mistake"
-''Do you like the Greek PoetsP''
asked Miss Theodosia Thuddington, Of
Brown, who is not in the least liter
ary." Eyes; better than any Of the
modern poets" "For what reasonPn
principally because they are all dead. /"
Merchant Traveller.
-Cadley-''The great point Of a jest
is that it should be spontaneous. It
should be as quick as flash, you know.
Now, I never think joke over before
/ utter it." Bagley-"No; if you did.
you wouldn't say it all, would youp''
Cadley-"Certainly not. America.
Mrs. Spitfre (handing her hus-
SStNA q PAOSOS LdPnJs AUW QU YOU
like my pictures, JohnP" "Who is itp''
why, it's meP Who do you suppose
it is?" Il wouldn't have known 1t.
never saw you look that way BEFORE
What wayP" Pleasant. &c Chicago
Herald.
"A timely caution = Husband
Don't worry, my dear, if I get home
a trifle late occasionally, now that I've
Joined the Athletic Club. fused to be
a great athlete when / was boy, you
know, and it seems like renewing nv
youth to go through with the old ex-
ercises again" Wife-"No, John,
won't, but when you get home at two
a. m., as you did this morning, please
dont't renew your youth by standing
on your head in the front porch, nor
climbing through the transom, because
it's apt to excite remark, you know
that's all, dear. "-Epoch.
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THE BEDS OF ROYALTY.

Fancies of IIIustriOus PersOnages About
Their Sleeping Apartments.
Clarence House is one of the most
comfortable houses in London, and is
famous for its good beds, for the only
daughter of Alexander II, of Russia
is, like many Muscovite ladies, very
particular about her beds, and will
tolerate in her house none but the very
best Even when mere child, and
long before her marriage, she was so
particular about this very important
item in domestic comfort that. to in
sure the sheets being tightly stretched
over the mattress, she used to have
them sewn down, for even the slightest
crease or wrinkle would entirely de-
stroy the repose of this imperial spoilt
child for the night.
Her Royal Highness used to be
greatly chaffed about this weakness by
members of our royal family when first
she came to this country, but the
Queen, who is also very particular
about her beds, stuck up for her, and
although now the sheets are no longer
sewn down to the mattress, they are
composed of the most exquisitely fine
linen that can be procured, and
stretched like tight rope over the
most perfect mattresses that can be
manufactured in Paris, in which capital
the making of mattresses has been
brought up to the level of fine art.
A curious and amusing chapter might
indeed be written about the beds of
personages. The ex-Empress
Eugenie is quite as particular about
her beds as the Duchess of Edinburgh
or our Gracious Sovereign, and quite
agrees with the irst-named lady as
to the fineness of the linen and the
tightness of the drawing of the sheets.
but Her Imperial Majesty has an odd
fancy to have her bed so low as to give
a visitor to the Imperial bedchamber
the impression that the widow of
Caesar is almost sleeping on the floor.
1t IS indeed hardly elevated more than
a foot from the floor, as all who have
visited in old days the private apart
ments at St. Cloud, Compiegne and the
Tuileries will remember. Another
curious bed isthat of Sarah Bernhardt.
1t is nearly fifteen feet broad, and
when the great comedienne is indis-
posed and receives her intimate friends
on her couch she looks like
little golden-haired bird lost in a great
sea of white satin.-Modern Societr
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The cause Of Fweddr,s soIicitude

''Cholly, I'm in doosid bad pickle,
bah Jover'
Whats the mattah. FweddyP''
Il lost my valise on the wailwoad
twain yestahday, Cholly."
THAT wasn't much of a loss, was te''
''Gwacious! It wasn't the value of
1t, Cholly. But it had my lunch in it
"a bottle of beeah and some nawsty
wed hewwings. And the valise has
my name on it. If any body should
find it and adve'tise the contents.
Cholly. bah Jove, / think / should
dieE' Chicago Tribune,
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VOLUME 28.
WHAT IS HE WORTHY

You say the maa rs worth million"
And think you've answered me;
care not IL he own billion,
IT'S the man want to seel
And now I'll ask a question or two
This man-Yhat Is he worthi
Is 1t cash that came from the Lord knows who
And broad, square miles of earthS
Dare yeu assert, in broad daylight,
That this is the worth Of mann
Et takes indeed sordid wight
With favor this to scan.
The treasures OF the brain and heart,
rhe mind and body's health,
And what turns men to the better part
These constitute true wealth
If your friend has only what you said,
he is worth just nothing at ALL
Let his acres Of earth cover him, dead.
And buy him funeral pail
Detroit Free Press
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"Linotypes" are Photographic
prints mounted on linen. Washes of
color are applied to the back of the
prints, so that they can be used as col
ored trauspareneies with excellent eff
feet.
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UNIQUE TOILET ARTICLES.
a Collection OF Such as Are Used By the
Bellies of Japan.

A Collection of Such as Are used By the
Bellies OF Japan.
There has been set up la q large
case at the National Museum collec-
tion just brought from Japan by Prof.
Romeyn Hitchcock which illustrates
the everyday life Of Japanese house,
hold. In one part of the case is a
Japanese lady's toilet stand. It looks
as if it were made for doll, but Prof.
Hitchcock said it was a toilet stand
such as is actually in use in the boudoir
{ every Japanese belle. There is a
little round metallic mirror on top,
and the Japanese lady kneels OF squats
on the floor before this. The stand Is
provided with dainty little drawers for
pins, wooden combs and the many lit
tie knick-knaeks of the toilet. There
are perfumery bottles and jars for
powder. A saucer is filled with red
dye used for heightening the color Of
the lips.
In another vessel is the pigment
with which married women blacken
their teeth, a practice which is going
out OF vogue. This pigment is applied
to the teeth with a feather brush.
There are coils of brightly colored pa
per strings and stick of pomatum--
the strings TO tie up the hair and the
pomatum to rub on it. The hair Is
pomatumed till it is glossy and stiff.
The Japanese belle does not do her
hair up every day. It is long and
laborious operation, and when once
performed she resorts to all kinds OF
expedients to make the dressing last.
At night she sleeps not on soft pill
low that would muss her hair, but
rests her head on a block OF wood that
fits into the nape of the neck.-Wash-
ington Star.
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Going to Be His BrOther-in-Law.

Going to Be His 5rother-in-Law.
"Hullo, Blaekr'
''HuIlo, Whiter'
You're going to be q brOther-in-
law Of mine, hear"
"a brother-in-lawP"
Yes
.'How can that beP I'm not going
to enter into your family as far as /
know"
You are going to marry Miss
Brown, amt youg' 81 am"
well, she's my sister"
"Your sisterP''
Yes. she promised to % sister to
me always, as much as three months
sSo. Boston Courier.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
THE INNOCENT LAMB.
One Who Has Studied Him Describes His
Peculiar Ways.

One Who Has Studied Him Describes His
Peculiar Ways.
Montana Wool Grower.I
About the first error the lamb makes in life
is to mistake the shepherd or his dog for its
mother, and many are the maneuvers that must
be gone through with to make the new arrival
follow the right party. His next error is likely
to be an attempt to walk on air when he comes
to place where he should go down hill His
ten minutes experience in life has made him
believe that all the earth is level plain and in
broad daylight he steps off the top of hill lust
as serenely as a man steps of the top landing of
the stairs in total darkness when he is certain
that the stairs are yet 20 feet away The result
is a great surprise to man and lamb in each in
stance.
The lamp picks himself up, and continues
down the hill; he soon comes to the conclusion
thar everything is down hill in this life and not
the hill, he still tries to continue downward
anu as a result runs his nose into the ground
and looks surprised again. He now comes to a
place to get up hill and goes up just as our
man starts to go upstairs in total darkness
when thinks the stairs are still 20 feet away
There is only one thing that is 500 times as
funny and provoking by turns as lamb and
that Is 500 lambs together when they are about
a month old. The shepherd sits down and
watches the 500 lambs all in bunch by them
selves, playing, running and frolickIng, and he
laughs. When he has tried, and tried in vain
to get the same 500 across a bridge or into
corral he sits down again, but he does not
laugh this time
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Copyrighted, 1889.
HOW A BEAR CAUGHT TROUT.
Two CafskiI Hunters Failed to Capture
the Ri.a,r,uon

Two Cafskill Hunters Failed to Capture
the Fisherman.
AS the Ulster and Delaware Railroad loco.
motive goes putting and snorting in its stiff
climb over the horseshoe curve just above the
village of Pine Hill. N. Y, one of the last cot
tages seen by the handkerchief-waving city
folks is Bonnie View. famous little trout
stream gurgles along within a few feet of the
house and numerous speckled beauties disport
within its lmpid depths.
Just back of Bonnie House a sort of dam
has been erected. in which were placed q week
or ten days ago over a hundred good sized
trout. In visiting the dam the following morn
ing it was discovered that a raid had been
made on the fish, and that the despoiler had
not only made way with over a score of the
largest trout, but that he had discarded a
dozen or more smaller ones and left them high
and dry in the bushes near by. Further search
developed the fact that the trespasser was a
four-footed rather than a two-footed desperate.
as the tracks of a large species of animal were
discovered in the soft ground near the edge of
the dam.
Two hunters secreted themselves behind a
pile of wood the next evening to watch for the
thief or thieves, but they waited in vain The
next night they watched again, and this time
their perseverance was rewarded. At about 10
O'Clock good-sized bear came shutting out of
the woods and without a break made direct
for the dam. 1t put in its big paw and scooped
but it did not wait for more. They became SO
excited at the sight of Catskill Mountain bear
that both fired prematurely at the brute. 1t
Immediately turned tail and ran for the dense
9underbrush on the side of the mountain
near by.
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ALL THE CLOCKS ALIKE.
A Strange Fact About the Jewellers Signs
in the City Of 81. Louis.

A Strange Fact About the jewelers. Signs
in the City Of 81. Louis.
st. Louis RepubIic.I
The Man About Town was walking down
Broadway the other day in company with q
young lady and when opposite leading jewelry
establishment. she said, Ibid you ever notice
any striking similarity between jewelers. signs
like that large clock over there?"
The Man About Town acknowledged that he
hadn't.
"Well," she said, 'notice now when we pass
and you will see that the hands indicate
that it's Is minutes after o'clock"
He noticed and saw that such was fact. The
young lady informed him that all the clocks
used as signs indicated the same time of day
and that the reason of it was that some 20 odd
years ago these signs were all made by one
manufacturer in New York. He desired TO
have the faces of them all alike and decided to
chronicle in this manner the time Of some i'm
portant occurrence. About this time President
Lincoln was shot and he died the following
morning at 8:l8. The manufacturer adopted
this time and afterward stencilled his clock
signs in that manner. 1t seems that this custom
has been followed, for everyone we noticed on
the remainder of our stroll down town, was the
same as the first one noticed. This seemed SO
striking that we dropped in at jewelry store
and asked the gentleman In charge, who con-
firmed the young ladys explanation. We
doubt if one person in 5000 has ever noticed
this popularity.
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A STRANGE METAMORPH0SIs.
Young Girl Who Has Fits During which
She Becomes a Cat.

n Aoun8 w uo nus Ehts DHFtu8 " ulC8
She Becomes a Cat.
London Globe.l
Students of Ovid have often perplexed them
selves in an endeavor to find out what could
possibly be the origin of the stories he has told
SO well. What could possibly have suggested
to him or to those who furnished material for
his tales the miraculous change of 10 or of
Daphne? The case which is exciting so much
attention at the Salpetriere just now may per-
haps suggest solution. A pretty girl of Is,
fair-haired, blue-eyed and pleasant-featured, is
at intervals transformed into a ca:; that is to
say, she has a periodic fit of insanity which
takes that form. One who has seen her says:
suddenly, as you look at her, her whole phys
iognomy changes. She becomes hard, her eyes
are convulsed in their sockets grimace de-
forms her features, and her mouth is drawn
up, and she drops to the earth as if on four
paws. She tries every opening to escape, and
with incredible agility she darts under chairs
and tables; if one tries to stop her she repro
duces exactly the pffft, pffft of the cat in
anger"
At other times, in less irritated mood, she
will play like kitten with ball of paper, or
come to the onlooker to be caressed and
spoken to. If alarmed, she arches her back
utes, after which she RECEIVERS her senses. No
recollection remains of her metamorphosis,
and she is commonly distressed to find her
hands all scratched and her dress soiled. Prof.
Charcot, who considers the case unique, is
nevertheless sanguine of being able to effect
cure. and it will be most interesting to watch
the result of his treatment