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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-28

Every now and then one hears of q new
instance o: ingenuity on the part of the
working girls, more especially those who
belong to clubs and SO get the benefit of
contact with wise and tactful women.
Fourteen of Miss Grace Fl. Dodge's club
girls have lately gone into very
pretty enterprise. They have estab-
lished themselves on a cooperative
basis in the manufacture of dainty baby
Clothes A little money has been put into
the plan from outside. If the girls succeed
and anything is left above their wages the
profits are to be parted in three, one portion
for the stockholders, one for the girls to be
divided according to their salaries. and one
for an emergency and enlargement fund.
] do not know of a pleasanter place in
the city in which to spend half an hour
than the sunny little workroom above the
store, especially if one happens in about
four o'clock, when all the wee shocked
frocks and long robes are dropped, while
quaint blue and white cups and saucers and
the shiniest little kettle are produced, and
everybody has merry ten minutes over
afternoon tea. The girls take to their
work as gaily as if they regarded it as an
endless succession of jolly sewing bees.
They are interested in their task, interested
in one another and interested and enthusi-
astic over their novel scheme. They are
about the only really happy looking sewing
girls have ever known.
ELIZABETH DUSTIN.
Copyright.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-28

SUMMON. THE DISTRICT COURT OF
the first Judicial district of the state Of Nom
tana, in and for the county of Lewis and CLARKE.
, Eelsaa PrCd zee and Commission company,
plaintiff. 20. q. W. Douglas 4 Son. defendants
The State Of Montana sends greeting to the
above named defendant
4ou are hi rsby required to appear in an action
IN the district court of the first judicial districs
OF he state OF Montana, in and fer the county OF
Lewis ant Clarke, d to answer the complaint
day Of serviceJ after the service on you Of this
summons, it served within this county: or IL
served out Of this county bat within this district
or JUDGMENT BY default viii Be- taken aaainst YOU.
according to the prayer Of said complaint
Tho said action is brought to recover iude-
entered BY plaintiff from your f.ilnss to deliver
Tree on blard cars ut st. Joseph, Missouri and
ship to plaintiff at helena, Montana. 100 cases Of
efgs At y cents per dozen. during the month OF
which sou entered into with plaintiff between
the sist day Of February. 1855, and the Eth day
.. march ION i ~ 10 also to recover iodsnent
brokers, rendered BY Gates & snow, to You. at
your request in the sale and purchase Of 400
csses OF eggs between the slst day of February,
claim for services vas assigned to this plaintiff
~ Gates 4 SNOW, before the commencement Of
And you are hereby notified that II Won fail IN
appear and answer the ssid COMPLAIN Is above
required. the said plaintiff will take iud9ment
.gAinse you TO: the sum Of $500 and also for the
further sum OF 80. 90 making q total of S6Ss %
Given under my hand and the seal of the dis
uict court OF the first Judicial district Of the
9 ate OF Montana in and for the county of Lewis
year Of our Lord ooe thoussnd eisht hondred ~
Isssll JOHN BEAN
@H r naoarsc.: Deputy Clsst.
VI u GAxDGHxD, AteprneY for Plaintiff
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Billings.

School closed on Wednesday till Jan. s,
1881.
Otto Franc, of Wyoming, was in the city
one day this week.
Col. Babcock returned Saturday from the
east after trip of several weeks.
Judge L. w. Harwood, of Helena, was in
the city for a few days last week.
Miss Emma Yakely, principal of the
Red Lodge schools, is spending the vaca-
ton In the city.
The fair conducted last week by the la
dies of the Methodist church was quite a
success. Nearly everything was sold.
The little seven weeks old baby OF Mr..
and Mrs. Chrisler died Tuesday night of
bronchitis. The parents have the deep
sympathy of their many friends.
Misses Mary G. Mooney, principal. and
Anabel Mooney, teacher in the first primary
department OF the Billings school, will
leave for Helena Saturday to attend the
state teachers association.
j. d. Losekamp, the famous outftter,'
made glad the hearts of many Of tho chill
dren Of Billings, by presenting them with
shape of silk handkerchief.
Mira. l.. II. Fenske left Tuesday morning
for Minneapolis, where she will spend the
| holidays. Eunics Bridghanl, her little
niece, accompanied her for the purpose oil
| seeking medical advice and treatment.
Will Morse, Jim Miller and Harry Ram
soy. Billings boys, have returned from Hell
ena. where they have been attending busi
ness college. They came down to spend
the holidays aud eat Christmas turkey q
| home.
Miss Mooney. the principal. gave quite
pleasant surprise to ths pupils Throughout
the building Wednesday, before closing
school for the holidays. Santa Claus Wis
tied every room and distributed his suppl,
among the children. who went homo feeling
very happy. Judge Fraser was Santa AMI
enjoyed the fun as much as the children.
The entertainment gwen by the Congre
gational ladies at the Wallace building
last Friday evening, was we'll attended ans
was II success financially, netting the iadie,
between $50 and $50. The programm,
consisted of farce, the Labor Song. ant
later II pancake supper in which thu
audience was invited to participate. III,
performers in the farce acquitted them
selves we'll, IA well az those in the Labo
song. The proceeds went toward buyin.
presents for tho children in the Conrre
gational Sunday school.
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How They Spent Christmas.


There is rosy young scion of the Van
of his Christmas toys. This lad-his name,
l believe, is George, but it's hard to keep
track of children-is Crawford, de-
scended on his mothers side from the old
commodore, George earned 81 with great
painstaking by going quietly up and down
stairs. This money he wanted for his little
charities; not content with it, he earned
other money by saving and selling bottles
and rags and old papers, and all the
accumulations that go to junk dealers.
Imagine a little Vanderbilt Juggling his bas-
kets of such boards. But George had set
his heart on making fine Christmas gift
of shoes and stockings to barefooted news
boys. IF you give me the money! he said
tc the paternal authorities, "it won't really
be my present at all"
There was a little dog who ought to have
enjoyed Christmas, for he had most gor-
geously decorated Christmas tree, all for
his canine delectation. I his dogs name is
Chum and he chums with Bab who hung
on the green boughs all sorts of doggy de-
lights. not forgetting new whip and COL
lar,
Jennie June's grown-up children never
| get too much grown mp to hang their stock
| ings. The dignified Vida, who travels with
Manager A. NJ. Palmer's companies, got
hers stuffed with oranges, just as when she
was fodder.
Quite good number of the saleswomen
in ono of the big city stores kept holiday
| with unusual cheerfulness, for they have
discovered new way of pieciug out low
wages. Every year the bazaars are piled
higher with ribboned and .hand-painted''
novelties" This season good share of
those exhibited in one of the most impor-
| tant establishments were supplied expert
mentally by the delft fingers of the very
girls who sold them. The woman to whom
came the idea of this clever move organized
with the proprietor's consent three dozen
others to work evenings under her direction
as long ago as last spring. Nobody gets
much for such work, however. except the
few really capable women artists who paint
souvenirs for Tiffany's and one or two of
the publishers.
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Women May Earn Their Soup but
Not Eat 1t by Them
selves.
One Girl With a Lover Who is Not
Allowed to Pay Ex-
penses.
A Scion of the House of Vanderbilt Selling
Rags-Bright Gossip Of Noted
WGmsnv

Especial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT
NEW York, Dec. 26.-Its odd how differ
ent ages of social history will jostle each
other in an afternoon. The then is always
left over to knock elbows with the now.
Two years ago there came to New York a
young southern girl. She was clever with
her pen and earned 500 by newspaper writ
ing the first seven days she was in the city.
1t came to her in six crisp tives, the most
beautiful money she had ever seen. Since
that time she has gained from $50 to $65
weekly and a lover i'll the bargain. When
ever she goes out with her sweetheart there
happens thing that is distinctly fin dc
steele, some people would call it a
prophecy Of the twentieth century.
Bubbling over with innocent pride
In her own independence and
purse-flling capacity, this large eyed,
sweet-faced southern maid lays deep ana
dark schemes to be first to fill the extended
palm of the horse car conductor, first up
the stairs of the elevated railroad, first at
the bridge ticket-seller's window. When
she has out-Reneraled the man and paid
the expenses of az expedition she beams.
Against this bit Of to- day rubs up costly q
Wv ~ yOoUoAOtsys 1uIoo VI 1OuI yOuuk IN0W
York women agreed this week to eat din
ner together the better to discuss plan.
request was sent to private restaurant for
a table for half past six in the evening.
There came in reply letter: We do not ad-
init LADIES unaccompanied by gentlemen
after five o'clock in the afternoon
but we will bring as our chaperon
a. lady who moves in fashion
able society" I'm that case, there
may perhaps be little impropriety. but the
reputation of this establishment must be
maintained Back and forth few the bill
let's. The young women wers with one OK
ception. married, and without exception in
receipt by their own exertiocs of good in
comes. In the end they ate under chaperon-
age and fire of eyes, settling, not without
embarrassment, their business question.
It's strange world, my masters, in which
women earn their own soups, and entrees
and roasts, but may not eat them without
violent protest, unless the repast be sane
TONED by the august presence of man.
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THE CHICAGO
MILWAUKEE &
ST. PAUL R'Y.

= The Sast Mail Short Line from a.
Paul and Minneapolis via Lie Crosse and
Milwaukee, to Chicago and all points in
the Eastern States and Canada. Ii n
the only limo under one management be.
tween st. Paul and Chicago, and is the
Finest Equipped Railway in the North
west. 1t is the only Inns running Pull
man Drawing room Sleeping cars with
dining cars in the world, via the famons
River Bank Route" along the shores az
Lake Pep;n and the beautiful Mississipn
.lver to Milwaukee and Chicago. IN
trains connect with those OF the North
srn lines in the Grand Union DEPOT az
st. Paul. No change of cars Of any Glass
between st. Paul and Chicago. For
through tickets, time tables, and full in.
formation. apply to any coupon tclke,
s2ont IN the northwest
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ing, the occasion being in honor of Mr..
him many happy return, and hoped he may
live to enjoy many more in this delightful
climate of Montana. To say the hostess
did her part gracefully need only be men
toned, as all know who have had the pleas
ure of partaking of her hospitality.
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In few we'll chosen words, tells what she
knows of a celebrated article.
June ito Mr.. W. NJ. W;sdom-Dear
Sir:. have tried your famous "kobertine.'
It 10 excellent, and / shall be pleased To
recommend it to all my lady friends. Be-
lieve me, yours truly, RHEA.
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A NNUAL MEETING-THE ANNUAL MEET
Bank Of Helena for the election Of directors
will be held in the parlors of the First Ma
tional bank, ON Tuesday, January Is. lS9L
E.W. KNIGHT, Cashier.
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Notice to Clcrryrusn.

I91 NOtSce 10 CIcrYy mon.
All those desiring half fare permits over
the Union Pacific railway for the year 1891
are hereby notified to call at this ofice and
I'LL o7t applications. A. E. VEAxIz.
f. & p. Agent,
No. % N. Main Street.
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Grace Greenwood's Quiet Days.

NENCc NES0u WVuuS nul6l 1bAyS.
Mrs. Lippincott, two volumes of whose
stories for children were republisheG for
the holidays, is doing just at present very
little writing. She has had long illness,
and during the quiet days that follow con-
valescence busies herself with needle rather
than With pen. Her childrsn's stories have
been. she thinks, the most popular of her
books, and have gone through three or four
editions in England, pirated. for the most
part, for the stealing to which the interna-
tional copyright will now put 4 stop was
not all accomplished on this side Of the
water.
Grace Greenwood is one of the many lit
erary women who are expert drcssmakers
Hcr mother as long 10 she lived could
never be made to believe that anybody
could 1T her except her daughter.
She enjoys thoroughly the rest
full slip of the needle through the
long seam, SO much SO that she
says she has wasted on it many hours
that might have been more proftably en-
ployed. She ia now \ serene-faced woman
with hair beautifully sprinkled with gray,
old fashioned bands. Her eyes and her
smile are full of wise and shrewd good hu-
NOR, nnd she is capable of saying more
things in five minutes that are worth listen
ing to than one in ten thousand younger
women. She never loses her faith in tho
worlds progress and especially in the fu-
ture that opens before women. She goes
out comparatively little. almost never of an
evening. When she was absent last Satur-
day night until II, she found her whole
household preparing to 60 IN search Of her.
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Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is recovering her
health rapidly. Pretty stories that sound
like fairy tales are told of the courtship of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carnegie. II seems that,
though one would have Thought him OF an
age and fortune to act for himself, Mr.. Car
neRie's old Scotch mother was strongly OPP
posed to his making any marriage, and his
meetings with the quiet girl who won his
fancy were arranged at country houses and
about ls clandestinely as if the two had
been signing l7-year-olds. Up almost to
the date of the wedding the secret was kept
inyiolate in few faithful bosoms, AMI
when it finally came to light it surprised
the family circle with its halo OF old-fash-
toned love and romanticism.
Mrs. Mclaughlin. the wife of the demo-
cratic boss in BROOKLYN, has the credit of
knowing in quiet way almost az much
about practical politics AZ any woman in
the country. People who want her hus-
bands favor seek hers in the beginning.
Those whom she Endorses sometimes re-
ceive one of her engraved cards With the
corner torn OF in conformity with polite
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Editor Mccormick, Man Widely and
Tayor2biy known Throughout the
Pacific Coast, Gives His

PORTLAND, Ore, March o6.-Having tried
tho celebrated Oregon Kidney Tea, We
cheerfully bear witness to its beneficial
agency in affections Of tho urinary organs.
1t is simple. safe and sure: it is easily taken
and restores healthy vitality to the organs
it is intended to OPERATE on with assured
success S. j. McCoRMlck,
Editor Catholic Sentinel.
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Illinois Central r. r.

respectfully presents it's claims for tbs
new and every wsy desirable SIOUX
CITY ROUTE.
For folders and further particulars
call upon local ticket agents, or address
the undersigned at Manchester, Iowa
J. +. MERRY,
Asst, Cen Pass. Act
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New Sioux City Route
EAST.

Passengers for the East from HeleHs
and other Western points will find the
NEW ROUTE via SIOUX CITY and
the ILLINOIS CENTRAL r. r. not
only desirable as to time and equipment
but one of the most attractive, passing
through Sioux City, the only Corn Pal
ace City Of the world; Dubuque, the
handsome Key City of Iowa; Rockford,
Illinois, q new manufacturing city, that
has become "world within ITSELF" and
Chicago, whose growth and enterprise
is the wonder OF the world. With ele-
ace Sleeping Cars on every train be.
tween Sioux City and Chicago, and with
close connection with the UNION PA.
CIFIC trains at Sioux City, the
-.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-09-11
IMPORTANT RESULTS OFTHE STRIKE
lNVESTIGATION

The investigation into the causes OF
the recent troubles between the New
York Central and some of its employees
which was begun yesterday by the
State Board of Medi alton and Arbitra-
ton is deprived of the "contempora-
neous human'interestn that it would have
were a strike still continuing. All that
the board can do, having heard all the
testimony, is TO report the facts elected
to the Legislature.
The hearing this morning was brief,
the witnesses, with one exception, sus-
tanning Vice President Webb's testi-
mony, and the investigation came to a
sudden close. The board will take testi-
mony in Albany and perhaps in other
places, but the "bottom facts are dis
closed, and no subsequent testimony can
affect the final and inevitable conclusion
of the board, as to which few intelligent
men can have any doubt
That was settled yesterday by the testi-
mony of Vice-P President Webb as 10 the
causelessness and ineyitable futility of
the late strike. His frank, straight
forward. clear-cut and comprehensive
statements were, for the most part, reit-
erations of what he has often said for
publication. lie has been as consistent as
courageous, and consistency has been
easy for n man conscious of telling the
truth and not afGrid TO tell IL whenever
the occasion has come for him TO speak
The New York Central has had no
difficulty or quarrel or antagonism with
its employees. IL has discharged IS out
of 22,C00 employees, only II of the IS
being members Of labor organizations,
and not one of the II was discharged be
cause of such membership, but for in
competence, drunkenness or other suf-
ficient causes. These are the facts and
ON them Mr.. Webb stands firmly and
insists that there was no cause for arbi-
tration the strike having been ordered
because the Central would not permit an
outside and irresponsible organization.
secret and oath bound at that, to inter.
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A VISIT TO THE swEDEs

Mr.. Page has been visiting the public
institutions and investigating the condi-
ton of affairs in the State, in order that
he may speak intelligently and recon-
mend iudiciously in his message to the
next Legislature The course is char
acteristic of the man. He has been
visiting the Swedish cOlonists, and was
present Sunday, August "a, at the re-
ligious services of the Western Colony.
Editor Crane of the Ludlow Tribune
was present, and publishes an interesting
report of the visit. We make the follow
ing extract:
"Mr Page and Major Valentine were
already on the spot, and a little group
of cleanly people, fairly well-dressed,
and with bright and intelligent faces,
had already gathered for their morning
worship and to greet their distinguished
visitors. Five families of Swedes have
settled in this immediate neighborhood,
and without undue crowding there is
room for at least forty families on
farms abandoned by their owners and
supplied with fair buildings. The colony
numbers, counting women and children,
some thirty-five persons. None of them,
with the exception of the interpreter,
Mr.. Carl Ericsson. an intelligent young
men of about twenty-five or thirty years
of age, can talk English beyond common
greeting. He has been in Nebraska
nearly three years, and has mastered
enough of the language to act as an
Aaron for both parties with fair facility.
After brief interviews with the pastor,
Mr.. FOrsberg, whose main support is
gained by his work in the lumber mill,
exhausted his knowledge of English in
the polite invitation: Coon cen and
tax a sect" Into a little bare room,
furnished only by four or five wooden
chairs and a small stand, we entered.
On the stand lay a Swedish Bible, a
hymn-book and the Life of Christ.
The Swedes, with the exception of the
interpreter and another young man,
seated themselves in the kitchen adjoin-
ing, and the service began by a familiar
hymn-tune sang heartily with male voices
predominating, but the words were not so
familiar Following this came a brief
prayer by the pastor the Scripture
reading and an extempOre sermon. The
sermon was probably interesting, but we
failed TO catch its main points. Doubt
less this was owing 10 the language in
which it was delivered, but il is not in
frequent that we experience the same
difficulty when sermons are preached in
English. 1t is sure that the people
were quiet, rcverential and attentive.
We venture 10 assert that il would be
impossible to draw together in Vermont
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SOME SOUND SENSE.

Editor Of the H'dtchmda:-Being my
self Vermonter who will never cease
to take a deep interest in all that per-
tains to the welfare and prosperity of
her people, it is refreshing to be able
to obtain and read a lively progressive
Vermont journal that so ably takes the
lead in upholding and sustaining the
efforts of those chosen to act in the
interest of the State, who, by honest
effort seem to be faithfully endoavoring
to repeople those green hills and vii
lagos with intelligent, honest, industrious
immigrants. That work has been well
commenced and should not be allowed
to stop in its beginning. The remark
made some one that Vermont
drives away her live, young men and re-
tains those of semi-vitality' appears to
have some truth in its application. To
be sure you have all the GROWERS left,
and they don't appear to be good for
much but to sit around and throw cold
water on every important measure cal
culated to advance the interests of the
State; but You also have a large per
tttll. VI NlAlt dNdhts thlUtSls tutlHtblC
people who are keeping abreast of the
progressive ideas of the age.
There is plenty of hope for old Yer
mont What though the State is now
at standstill? There will soon be a
reaction. The climate of the State is
healthful. The beauty of its scenery is
unexcelled by any in America. The soil
is as productive as any in New England.
and you are near the best markets. Let
the State appropriate and expend not
paltry s., 200, but 500, 900 in establishing
emigration bureaus in Norway, Den
mark and Scotland, as well as Sweden,
and advertise literally in the States and
Canadas, and that you will get boom
that will amount to something. A wide
acquaintance with the farmers of the
West and extensive travel leads me to
believe that the agricultural regions in
the Western States are about as thickly
settled as they can be at present.
Many counties are beginning to show a
decline. The Western Kansas boom has
already buIsted. Hundreds of settlers
| there, owing to continued failure of
crops, are about to abandon and forfeit
their claims to loan companies, and the
condition of those settlers is pitiable in
deed. In parts of Nebraska and Dakota
the same condition of affairs exists.
There is an immense decrease in the
value of real estate, and capitalists are
going from there to Missouri and else
where to loan their money.
Then let the people of Vermont be of
good cheer, Vermont still has Ed
munds and the Green Mountains. They
loom up pretty big and are not easily
ignored, and all true Vermonters ought
10 feel proud of them.
Yours truly
DANIEL PERRY.
Maysyille, Mo-, August is, 1890.