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The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10

~ suppose the Blackfoot LAUNDERING
company had a pretty fine mill at Bon
ner,"said F.. G. Hathaway, the representa-
tive of that company, to a TRIBUNE rep
resentative yesterday, "but l am not boast
ing about it any more. l was shown to,
day the plans and specifications of the
Butte u Montana Commercial company's
mill, now in course of construction here.
and must admit that our establishment
will not be a comparison to it. The build
ing will be very large and a model in its
way. The machinery throughout is Of
the best and latest designs and | believe
it will be the most complete establish
ment of the kind in the northwestern
country. Everything is first class ant
the plans are on a scale that will admit O.
the employment of 200 MEL at thei
works here. Great Falls has been thi
year our best market for lumber, but
am afraid we will not do much bushes!
here next year."
Mr.. Hathaway has secured from thu
Butte g. Montana Commercial COMPANY
an order for half a million feet of timbe,
which will go into the company's mil
here, and which will be delivered her,
during the winter. The machinery i
already ordered and if the weather is 20
too u%nfavorable this great enterprise vii
be in full blast early next season.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10
BUY LOTS

It covers the BEAUTIFUL PLATEAU overlooking the
BLACK EAGLE FALLS. where the CHOICEST RESIDENCE
and BUSINESS LOTS may, for a limited time, be purchased for
less than HALF THE PRICE Of other property not SO we'll To-
CAT, d. Prices only $10O to $3.50 for 50 feet front, Terms easy
Send for maps and other information tos
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10
The World Enriched.

The facilities of the present day for the
production of everything that will con-
duce to the material welfare and comfort
of mankind are almost unlimited and
when Syrup of Figs was first produced
the world was enriched with the only
perfect laxative known, as it is the only
remedy which is truly pleasing and re.
freshing to the taste and prompt and
etfectual to cleanse the system gently in
the Spring time or, in fact, at any time
and the better it is known the more pop.
mir Il hncn11es
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10

New England Society.

The New England society Of Montana
met at Helena Friday EVENING" to select.pti
GERS for the ensuing year. Quite a num-
ber were present and much interest is
taken in the organization. The follow
ing officers We're elected:
President-Hiram Knowles.
First Vice-Presilent-H. N. Blake.
Second Vice-President-H. j. Haskell.
Fourth Vice President - Cornelius
Hedges.
Fifth ENTHUSIASTICALLY. M. Blckford.
Sixth Vice-President-J. W. Klnsley.
Recording Secreta y--Miss Ella l..
Knowles.
Financial Secretary and Treasurer
Miss Jennie Tom.
Trustees-J. b. Sanford, c. W. Pitt and
Mr.. Walker.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10
al IS.
The BEST PLACE TO INVEST.

The GREATEST RISE IN VALUES f1REAL ESTATE
during 1880 will be in NORTH GREAT FALLS by reason Of
the MILLIONS to be EXPENDED in that vicinity in improve
ments during the year 9a##@ n
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10

Use Lethbridge coal during the cold
weather and you will have your family
not only warm but contented. Telephone
1876 or 80.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10

Largest stock of Plush Goods and Gift
Books ever brought to northern Montana,
Mt Fullerton q kennedy's, Dunn block,
Central avenue.
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10
AN IMMENSE DAM BEING BUILT.

An Immense, Dam is now being constructed across the
Missouri River above Black Eagle Falls at NORTH GREAT
FALLS at cost Of 2 Halt Million Dollars, and will furnish power
which will create a demand for more mill frontage and the Coulter,
Rainbow and Crooked falls will be utilized, all Of which are with
in a few minutes walk of NORTH GREAT
The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-10
HE SITE OF IMMENSE FACTORIES.

TheG BOSTON r& MONTANA COMPANY have selected
NORTH GREAT FALLS as the site of their IMMENSE FAC
TORIES, which will furnish constant employment to thousands
of workmen whose CASH WAGES will circulate every month in
NORTH GREAT FALLS and vicinity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
STATE \ EWS.

The Spiritualists are to hold their annual
camp meeting in Queen City park in Bur
lington, beginning Aug and continuing
till Sept a. There nill be speakers from
various parts Of the country. A new hotel
is being erected in place of the one which
was burned last year, and special railroad
rates will be offered.
Last week Friday morning Mrs. James
Williams, living about two miles from Fair
haven, murdered two Of her children, a
girl of II and boy of seven, afterward
cutting her own throat and setting fire to
the house Another son, 10, succeeded in
saving his mother from the flames, which
she was determined to enter. Her husband
was killed at "a slate quarry about two weeks
ago She was doubtless insane.
Vermont veterans were highly honored
in the choice of officers at the late annual
meeting of the army of the Potomac at
Portland Secretary Proctor O5th Vt, }
was made president of the First corps so
cety Col Henry o. Clark l3th Vt y vice
president 3d division, and secretary First
corps society Ma Gen Lewis A. Grant,
assistant secretary of war and commander
of the old Vermont brigade, president OF
the 9th corps society vice president fol
the society of the army of the Potomac
from the 9th corps, Col Redfield Proctor.
At Burlington ON SUNDAY morning the
50th anniversary of Bishop DeGoesbriand'
ordination was observed with the celebra
ton of the pontiical High Mass. Bishop
DeGoesbriand acted as celebrant, aud al
able and appropriate sermon was delivered
by Rev. Thomas Carty of st, Joseph's col
lege.
On the first day of this month the Wood
stock railroad passed into possession of tn
bondholders under decree of foreclosure
and the corporation known for some tim
as the Woodstock Railroad company be
came a thing of the past.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18

The friendly societies which insure the
lives of children have heen found in Eng
land to be so many temptations to infanticide
and child murder So great has this evil
become that the lords at the instance OF
the bishop Of Peterborough, have been leg
islating to check it, 1t is found that where
a child is insured for sum in excess of the
amount necessary to pay funeral expenses,
that excess insurance is menace to the
chilfs life. 1t is easy by little neglect or
an unnoticed blow to bring to the parents
a sum that will pay funeral expenses and
leave enough for the rent, or buy little
clothing or pay for debauch. The bishop
quotes parents saying over diving child
owe shall have a little funeral and big
drink A penny week is enough TO Sc
cure "a couple of pounds or so at the end of
six months, and for this paltTy sum the
child's life may he sacrificed. The bishops
hill tries to remove the motive for this
worse than brutality by limiting the amount
for which the child can he insured, and
forbiddng the payment of any portion OF
the insurance money tn the parents, the
object being To limit the insurance money
TO actual cost of burial Checks are also
put upon the undertaken, the physician
| certifying to the cause of death, and the
parents, in order TO make it impossible for
| any one to profit by the death of the child
In this country the practice of insuring the
lives of young children is by no means a.
general as in England, but it exists and IL
growing. 1t ought to be forbidden by law
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18

Of Brother Ike, but being indulgent made
no complaint. Three days later Wiggs
rode up to the preachers and, seeing the
minister in the house, dismounted
Come out here a mint, Wiggs called,
"What can you possibly want with me
now :" the preacher asked, as he climbed
over the fence.
81 have come on mighty distressin' bust.
ness You know that you preached my
brothers funeral three times ~
eyes, and you cannot possibly want me
to preach it again -
"No fur from it. have Jest found out
that Ike want nothin' but my half broth.
er, an l don't propose TO do so much for a
feller that amt no more kin to me than
that So, brother, wen have to fix it,"
but how can we The funerals have
been preached
~ know that, and that's why l have
come. / want you TO go to church next
Sunday an take them sermons back.
amt havin' no half brother puffed. Thar
amt none of the halfway business bout
me. Will you take them sermons back
next Sunday /"
"Such a thing would be ridiculous, my
friend cannot comply with your wish. -
"Then I'll have to waller you"
81 tell you that am mat. .ofspeace and
gentleness."
3" I low'd that I'd have to waller YOU
'Well come on then, you trifling scoun
drel {"
The preacher took off his coat and hung
it on the fence. Wigs looked up and down
the road. The preacher rolled up his
sleeves, and turning towards his house
lifted up his hands and said "Lord, thou
knowest that when killed old Lige More
and Sam Tilotson, and Calvin Green and
Dock Vance, that | prayed that all such
cups might forever pass from me, but thou
seest that l am compelled to defend my
self"
The preacher turned about. Dust wal
rising down the lane. Wigs had taken t
his heels
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
AYnnLee Andrr.on,iIIs.

1T was near noon of the 20th of May,
1864, that our train came to a stop, in
clearing of the pine forest. We had been
all expectation for an hour or more, strain
ing eager eyes to catch some glimpse of our
stopping place. 1t was here before u.s.
Looking from our position upon the rail
road towards the southeast, at the extreme
end of the clearing, some three or four
hundred yards away, a cloud of smoke was
curling upward from a rectangular, sub
stantial-looking pen. Upon inquiry we
were told, That's where you Yanks will
put up
1--WE had little time for thought before
round -shoudered, clustering little man up
on a white horse rode the length of the
train, and with many a curse and oath or
dered us all out. During our exit from
the close, cramped quarters we had occu
pied so long a fresh guard came, in the
widest confusion and unmilitary order,
from the direction Of the smoke and
after much clustering and cursing were
formed into two lines, giving room for US
to pass between, four deep. After some
more swearing the officer on the white
horse placed himself at the head of the
column and ordered US to march. This
was WirZ, our prison keeper and unhap
| PLY our first introduction to him was not
our last Upon reaching the inclosure we
halted while a part of our number were
| formed into a detachment, and the re
mainder were ordered to be placed upon
the rolls of the older detachments already
in the pen.
Il have hesitated thus far to pronounce
the word AndersOnville. We knew moth
ing, or had heard nothing of the place, SO
we had not a moments notice of the life
we were about to enter upon. These many
years after the word 'Andersonville' excites
the same curiosity that it did before we en-
tered upon the months of suffering that
cannot be told This, then, was Ander-
sonville; or, as it was called by the guard
Camp Sumpter.' We entered it by a
swinging door or gate large, heavily
ironed and guarded.
"As we passed within the doors were
closed behind and heavily barred-closed
upon me for five long months, and upon
one half our number for life Our hearts
sickened as we first looked upon the misery
before our eyes The attempt to picture
our mental depression as we took in, with
one quick, swift glance, the condition OF
those who had entered before us would be
futile.
I'VE joined inside the inclosure thirteen
thousand of our comrades in arms, but
they were not to be recognized. They
seemed a different race of the human fam
lily, and vastly more squalid than any
ever had seen or heard of -emaciatec
forms, half human and half spectral, blaci
with filth and smoke, and swarming with
vermin. As we were driven like sheeI
into the stockade they crowded about us
making inquiries faster than they could b.
answered. The Century for Juiy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18

Rev. Alfred j. Hough, pastor of Trinity
Methodist church at Montpelier read an
original poem on Boston common last Fri
day afternoon, the occasion being the cele-
bration of the Tooth anniversary of the
first sermon preached by the Methodist
Jesse Lee, under the 'old elm" on Boston
common. Following were his opening lines,
likening the Hub" to the ancient Athens
We are In Athens. So it seems to us.
This Is Mars Hill-the Areopagus.
Yonder, as fur as human eye can see,
Stretches in glory the .Egean SEA;
The skies above us wear a Grecian hue,
Soft tender. deep and delcatelY blue,
The market is the saint-its noisy ring
is thrunged with seekers after some new thing
The towers, the toers with the spade and pen
What arr they but Athenian, towers and men.
II would not seem rude surprise to meet
The noble Socrates on any street,
Or Phidias, busy as In days Of old,
Rearing "A new Athena clad with gold
The scene is Attic earth, sky, sea and sun
And what is Bunker Hin but Marathon
This is certainly felicitous, and we shouldn'
he surprised TO hear that Mr. Hough haC
been called To first class Boston pulpit
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes in
"Over the Teacup" in the July Atlantic;
cone of my prescriptions for longevity
may startle you somewhat. 1t is this Be
come the subject of mortal disease. Let
half dozen doctors thump you, and knead
you, and test you in every possible way,
and render their verdict that you have an
internal complaint; they don't know ex
actly what it is, but it will certainly kill
you by and by. Then bid farewell to the
world and shut yourself up for an invalid.
If you are threescore years old when you
begin this mode of life, you may very prob
ably last twenty years, and there you are
an octogenarian. In the mean time,
your friends outside have been dropping
off. one after another, until you find your
self almost alone, nursing your mortal
complaint as if it were your baby, hug
ging it and kept alive by tiff to exist is
to live. Who has not seen cases like this
a man or a woman shutting himself or her
self up, visited by a doctor or a succession
of doctors Il remember that once, in my
earlier experience, | was the 9th physi-
clan who had been consulted), always tax
ing medicine until everybody was remind
ed of that impatient speech of a relative of
one of these invalid vampires who live on
the blood of tired out attendants, Il do wish
she would get well-Or sOmethihgF' Per-
sons who are shut up in that way, confined
| to their chambers, sometimes to their beds,
have a very small amount of vital expend-
iture, and wear out very little of their liv-
ing substance. They are like lamps with
half their wicks picked down, and will con.
tinue to burn when other lamps have used
up all their oil An insurance office might
make money by taking no risks except on
lives of persons suffering from mortal dis
| ease "
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
The Zone Method in RniIroadiug

Chauncey NJ. Depew has been looking into
the method adopted in Hungary of running
RAILWAYS on what is known as the zone plan,
and finds that this has in it great deal
that is commendable. The zone plan con
sists in dividing the country from all rail
road centres into a number of zones, IA in
all. each about ten miles in diameter. The
fare in any one zone, or from one zone to
another, is IA fixed amount, independent of
the distance Travelled, and, after reaching
the fourteenth zone, or l40 miles from the
point of departure, the fare is uniform
that is it costs no more to travel 44O miles
in Hungary than it costs to travel l40. The
result of this experiment has been highly
satisfactory, greatly increasing travel, and
at the same time enormously reducing the
prices of transportation. If applied in this
country, it would so bring down the rate;
of fare for long distances as to make it pos
sihe for all of our people to take long jour
neys, because the expense would be SC
small. This, even Mr., Depew is inclined tt
believe, is an advantageous system but
apparently, it is one which can only be ap
piled in those countries where the govern
ment owns the railroads. or, at least as il
| Hungary, owns the greater part of them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
THE VERMONT HISTORICAL GAZET
TEER



have ls.en reading very severe criticism in a
Vermont paper Of Miss Abbe Maria Hemenway.
editor Of the Vermont Historical Galett,-tr who
recently died in Chicago. 1t is decidedly ungal-
lant aud unfair to speak thus Of woman who
has laburrd so long and unS.lfshy for the bs-ne-
fit of the people Of the state especially after size
has passed away and cannot defend herself /
have known Miss lI-menway for many years and
have witnessed with great interest her labors.
her sacrifices, her indomitable energy IN bring
ing out the great work To which she consecrated
her life and have felt great admiration for her
In her heroic struggles and triumphs. Few per
sons could have accomplished what she did and
few, If any. would have dared Ia make the at
TEMPT She deserves not condemnation, but only
praise. The work which she had nearly cOmplet-
esl before she died is a monument to her business
talent. her untring energy and perseverance. We
know that she had not the greatest literary abili-
ty and taste. but her work was made up chiefly
Of contributions from some OF the best writer's ot
the state, and these display genuine literary cul-
tur. and taste. She fully appreciated their work
and gratefully acknowledged il, and her work as
editor is highly to be commented. The Gazet-
teer contains a rich mine Of facts which have
thus been picked up and preserved and will be
valuable 10 future historians. II Is unjust 10 the
memory of 50 unseltish woman to disparage
her work because II Is not perfect, and stgmatlZe
her because she possessed not the highest ability
aud her treasury was not always uverfiOwing
with gold ''She has done what she could, and
We arr grateful for what she has done under diff
ticulties that would have appalled, ordinary men
and women, too. The history Of Windham coun
Is is nearly finished Most Of the towns ar
complete and several Of them published II needs
some one to take hold Of il and finish H. VIII
not some one do II This is due to some Of thoss
faithful men who have spent time anu money IN
making researches a. d writing them out and t.
the great mass Of the community who would
read with great interest what the volume pre-
sents The administrator Of Miss Hemenway
estate is Edward W Cullen Esq, Room $50 Op
era House, liz Clark street, Chicago, Ill, to whom
all letters OF inquiry should be addressed. Let
the Gazetteer be completed and published by al
means that its rich garnered facts may be giveI
forth TO the world JOHN 5. LEE.
A native Of Vermont and professor in st. Law
university
Canton y Y, July 3, i@D.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
HAWLEY
g..

june o.
Just home from New York
market and ready to show
many new things.
Made a job purchase of 81
pieces white embroidered,
hem-stitch bordered, 45-inch
Flouncings, which are now in
active demand for white
dresses. -Four and one-half
yards make a dress pattern.
Prices on this special lot will
run from So cents to $I.35 a
yard. Regular price of same
would have been from 75c
to $I.75 a yard.
Two new lots of Ribbon
added to our previous IS cent
lots.
New lot Fans at attractive
prices.
New lot Antique Tides and
Pillow Shams.
New Tennis suitings.
| found a few pieces Of fine
grade black and white even
checked Satines in just the
sized block which is now in
demand, and is scarce in the
market. They are very silky
in appearance, and will be cut
up at IS cents yard.
| am now ready to make
clearing-out prices on every
garment in my cloak room, tc
close the season. My previ-
Gus customers know that this
means a chance to secure q
real bargain.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
Clara-"I have such a horror of growing
old."' Maud (sweetly)-"I should think you

Clara-'I have such horror of growing
old" Maud (sweetly)-"I should think you
would have got over it by this time"
Drdke'S Mdgdzine
Lawyer-"Do you swear positively that
You know more than half this jury Z" Wit
ness-"Yes, sir and now that have taken
good look at 'em I'll swear that know more
than all of 'em put together. '-Ihr Ldw
Beware of the dog should be painted
in large letters, so that he who reads may
run. Mih0dukee Journal
A fellow thinking to appear smart en-
tered notion store on Sixth Avenue the
other day and said to one of the salesladies,
Ever have any call for husbands here z
"Oh, yes, occasionally. Are you looking
for a market ?" Eyes, said Smarty. "Al
right. Step right up on the ten-cent count
er, "-IerdS SWiHgs.
Enjoy life while you can, for you'll be q
long time dead, is our advice to a man il
the position of the czaT of Russia, who nC
longer eats boiled eggs now that he has dis
covered that the egg-meat can be poisoned
by pricking through the shell.-Sundal
Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
The Merit System Thoroughly Amer
icRu.

The Merit System Thoroughly Amer
icnu.
The cheap variety of demagogue takes
great delight. in calling the merit system
"Chinese," apparently because one of its
adjuncts is the competitive examination,
while in China there has long existed clum-
sy and overgrown system of such examina-
tions As well might he inveigh against
our alphabet because the Chinese have long
had cumbersome alphabet of their own,
or against the use of gunpowder because it
was first used in China, or decline to carry
a Winchester rifle because jingals have long
been known in the East. Again, he rails
at the system as English and as tending
to produce an office holding aristocracy."
OF course he does not believe these argu-
ments he can't, and retain his sanity.
While England was purely aristocratic
community the spoils system fiourished
there far more rankly than ever it did here
and it is only since England has begun to
take giant strides towards democracy that
she has introduced the merit system, which
the founders of our own republic regarded
as the only one worthy of free and high
minded nation. A system which opens the
public service to all men, of whatever rank
| in life, who prove themselves most worthy
to enter it, and which retains them in office
only so long as they serve the public with
honesty, efficiency and courtesy, is in its
very essence democratic whereas, on the
contrary the spoils system-which still oh
tans in most European kingdoms, and
reaches its fullest development under the
despotic government of Russia--is essen
TALLY undemocratic, in that it treats the
public service not as the property of the
whole people, to be administered solely in
their interest, but as a bribery chest for
the benefit of few powerful individuals,
or groups of individuals, who use it purely
in the spirit of personal or political favorit-
| ism Theodore Roosevelt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
FARM FOR SALE.

INCUR aud onehalf miles from bratt99oro I;li,.
situated IN the town of Vernon Being o5iiseg U
- Mr., ali NV out door work done have eonclnded
- :" ftsr nv home for sale. There are ABOUT
ares suitably divided into moving, uiiagsi pas
tnre and woodland with good convenient 9uiiG,,iss,
@ antitv of nice hay and will winter sever
'.a,ss and horse For full particulars enquire o.
p y Fames at Brattlehoro Creamery a. ,, ho"e
Hnsdale, or of the slnseIiue, u's,.'1t,, ut '''
"ou'' MRS. PERslS EAMES, GuilioFd' W.