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THE mayor and council have acted
wisely in providing for special election
to let the people pass on the question Of
issuing bonds to take care of the float
ing and deprecated warrants. Whether
or not there have been municipal mis-
management and extravaganza is not
now the question. The city finds itself
without the necessary funds to meet ex-
listing obligations. It is issuing its
seven per cent. obligations, selling them
at big discount to realize the cash
and is thus virtually paying from twelve
to seventeen per cent. for money that il
ought to get for five. This is pawnshol
financiering and 1t is not creditable tt
our city. Our bonds should be gilt
edged securities that will sell at par il
not at premium.
The question Of going further init
debt for an extensive system OF improve
ments is not involved in the presen
proposition, which is simply that we pa.
what we already owe on the most favor
able terms to ourselves.
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only as another Falstaff, ard he lards
the lean earth as he walks along, not
now in the pathway Of glory"
The favorite sons show better in the
vice-presidential running. The editors
place in nomination nearly all the dem.
ocratic governors-Campbell, OF Ohio,
Pattison, of Pennsylvania, Russell, Of
Massachusetts, Boies, of Iowa, and Wi
mans OF Michigan; while on the republi-
can side, as running mate for Blaine,
Lincoln, Of Illinois, Gresham, Of Indiana.
Phelps, Of New Jersey, and Mckinley, of
Ohio, are suggested. No names new to
the national arena appear in this list.
The editors have had an entertaining
inning. Now let us wait and see what
the people have to say about it two
years hence.
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AS OTHERS SEE US.

Professor Bryce,smembsr of the Brit
ish house OF commons, has expressed to
an interviewer his views on the possible
future OF the relations between this
country and Canada. 1t is always IN
terestirg to have peep at ourselves as
others see us, and the result is likely to
! be instructive as we'll, when the point
Of view is that of man whose intimate
| acquaintance with and accurate judg-
ment Of American affairs have already
| been proved by his famous work, "The
American Commonwealth"
Our critic asserts that the question Of
Canada's commercial policy towards the
United States is one that must always
occupy prominent position in Cana
dian politics. He refuses to be blinded
in his views OF the future by tho fact
that, no later than eighteen months ago,
motion by the opposition in the Do
minion parliament in favor of unre-
stricted reciprocity with this country
was voted down by III to n votes.
Reading the signs of the times, he be-
lieves that it is SO distinctly for the ben
eft Of Canadian trade to have q COM
mercial arrangement with the United
States that some scheme will ultimately
be arranged. Canadians themselves
cannot blink the fact that America has
been, and, probably, must continue to
be, their best market.
We cannot help thinking that, in his
estimate of the probability of political
union in the future, Mr.. Bryce has al
lowed his patriotic feelings to lead him
astray. He refuses to believe that in
Canada the question has yet entered
the domain of practical politics. His
reason is that the spirit Of local nation
ality has grown SO fast in the Domin-
ion that the people of that portion Of
this continent feel themselves more and
more able to rely on their own resources
and seek their own development. They
enjoy, it is claimed, complete self gov
eminent with the advantages of imper-
ial protection, and they are free from
the burden of the maintenance of either
army or navy. Canada, however,. will
never Ilso W tIAo pOSSlDlo AelRHG vi ucI
destinies, unless she throw in her lot
with the Union, and all the advantages
that she at present enjoys she can have
and more in the event of voluntary ad-
: hesion to this country.
, On the question of the probability Of
war between Great Britain and the
United States, at which pessimistic po
litical prophets have limited as contln
gent on the relations OF the mother
country to Canada, Mr. Bryce's opin
ion is clear and assuring For Britain
it would be colossal disaster. The
enormous extent of the Canadian from
tier and inferiority OF numbers rende
such an idea impracticable and utterl.
without hope of success. Such war il
an uncomfortable event. It comes, h,
believes, under the category of things
that are so improbable that they ar
best left out of argument. So mot
it be. ..
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PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Baron Hirsch has retorted upon the Paris
club which black-balled him last year by
buying its house, which was held on lease
only.
Jean Girard. Belgian lad II years old,
made highly successful debut as violon-
cellist in London last week. Some critics
speak of him in terms of extravacant praise,
and all agree that he can reckon upon a
great future.
Julian Hawthorne says: 1.-THE fact re-
mains that the Harper Bros. did-on the
advice of their readers-decline the Rud-
ward Kipling stories. This shows that they
did not know diamond wher they saw it;
it also shows that the readers employed
by Harpers are the most phenomenally
stupid examples of proyerbially stupid
class. I am not sure that Harper Bros.
readers did not once reject a. book of my
own.s'
Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in
| America, or. for that matter. in the world,
! is the daughter of New Bedford whalsr in
the days when whaling was a highly lucra-
tive business. He left her $1,000, 600 and ar
aunt subsequently left her about as much
more. BY her own business ability she hal
increased her inheritances to $40, Coz, 600
She has for . long time been the principa
owner of the Louisville d. Nashville rail
road, and when occasion required ha
stepped in to show her authority in it
affairs. She is not at all gwen to the vani
ties of her SEX. Her attire is of the PLANES
character. It is related of her that sh
once brought $5.000.OOo in securities in
sachel to deposit with her bankers in Wal
street. She got into street car, set tk
sachel down eside her and rode along q
! unoonoerne dig an If she were merely goin
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PRESIDENTIAL. PREFERENCES.

II the newspaper editors of the coun-
try correctly interpret public opinion,
and the situation undergoes no change,
Cleveland and Blaine will be the unans
imous choice of their respective parties
for the presidential race in 1892. The
Chicago Times has been feeling the
editorial pulse in all the states and
presents in tabular form the result of
its diagnosis. The conductors Of 22l.
newspapers OF both parties, from Maine
to oregon, have given their views.
Cleveland, in the opinion OF 105 jour
nalists, will be the democratic candidate
while twelve prefer Hill or expect to see
him the nominee. Fifty-two journals
believe Blaine to be the republican man
OF destiny and twelve still cling to Ben
]amln Harrison as possibility. There
are few scattering votes here and
there for favorite sons, but these are
merely complimentary mention. The
Times notes as curious fact in its con.
census that many of the prominent
names before republican conventions in
the past have disappeared from the
lists John Sherman is out of sight
Depew is not in it; Gresham is mere
whisper here and there; Mckinley mer
are few and far between; the persisten
Alger has but solitary claquer; In
gals is not mentioned; Allison is only
half-hearted suggestion; Foraker is
faded reminlscence. No new names ar
on the roll Of possibilities. There wa
ono that promised to loom to larg
proportions, but it was an optical illu
sion. The Times says of it: "Viewed q
ayegetable product, Reed was musL
Ieom. Viewed as an animal, he was
squab biggest at its birth. Regarde
y = pyrotechnic, be was rocket, an
~ stick has come down. He suryiv,
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SUNDAYS INDEPENDENT,

mammoth holiday number OF twenty
four pages, or 16S columns. Our enter
prisinp business men have made such I'M
usual demands upon our advertising
space that we have been compelled, in Or
der to give our readers the feast of good
things that we had provided for them,
to enlarge this number to three times
the proportions OF to-day's INDEPEN-
DENT. And mighty interesting paper
it will be, tool We are too modest to say
that it will be the best paper ever is
sued IN Montana, but we submit it to
the largest circle of newspaper readers
in the state with great confidence in
their verdict II will be number Of
which every reader will want to send
several copies abroad, for it will contain
special articles Of rare value, giving in
formation not elsewhere obtainable
about our city and state. We give only
partial table of contents:
A STORY OF Two YEARS:
A rapid review Of Helena's progress.
LIFE IN HELENA:
A graphic pen picture OF social
conditions in the new metropolis.
AN INDUSTRIAL C7ATER:
A glance at manufactures and trade
in our city.
MONTANA HUsBANDRY:
Our agricultural possibilities, by W.
Fl. Sutherlin.
MONTANA FOR HEALTH:
An exceedingly valuable paper on cul
climate.
Our MINES AND THEIR PRoDucT.
In addition to these special features
there will be some unusually strong lit
erary payers in this number. Perhap:
the most widely read will be severa
columns of slashing criticism from Gal
Hamilton's Forthcoming book. "a Wash.
ington Bible Glass; which is sure to
provoke comment and controversy. A
seasonable article on Rare Christmat
Dinners" giving the menus of some oi
New York's choice feasts on that day
will be found of interest, as also will tht
papers on John Bulls Christmas" ane
"Christmas in the Navy" The ladie.
will enjoy the bright New York fashion
letter on the "yellow craze" and every
body will read with pleasure that orig
inal story, "My Second Self,' by Hel
ena author. There are two other cleve
stories, miss Liddy's Chance" an
sJulia," both suited to the Christina
season. Then, of course; there will b
the foreign letters from London an
Berlin and Wakeman's pleasant sketc
of the Shetland Islands, and current pr
litical gossip from Washington, an
bright sketches of Helena life, and MOI
tana news of every sort, and societ
events and a whole budget of goe
things that cannot be enumerated.
Owing to the large edition OF SUI
days INDEPENDENT we must again r
mind advertisers to hand in their COZ
not later than noon to-day.
Newsdealers should also send in the
orders at once.
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HELENA. MONT, DEC. 10, 1890.

FMontanans abroad will always find TIE
DAILT INDEPENDENT on file at their favorite
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan, New
York: Grand Pacific, Chicago; West, Minneapo-
liz: Baldwin and Palace, San Francisco; St
Nicholas and McDermott, Butte; Leland. Hotsl,
bprinetield. III.
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one for your boy, to teach him how to take
care of watch. They are always useful:
when you 60 camping or cunning, for in
stance. See us about them. No trouble to
show you.
The J. STE1sMETz JEwELRY Co.
vfd Main street, foot of Broadway.
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Notice.

Notice.
The attention of all dealers in wood is
called to city ordinance No. sc, requiring
every dealer in wood to furnish every pur-
chaser of wood certificate from the in
spector showing the amount of wood deliv-
cred.
The inspector will be at his office, No. 81
Lower Main street, durnsg the hours be-
tween s and II a. M. and 9 and p. m.
Z. ID. BEARy,
Inspector of Weights and Measures.
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DECEMBER, 1890.

We want this last month Of 1890 to
be the month OF all months in the his
tory of our business year. We want
YOU to be ore OF thousands who are
going to make it SO. Why?
BECAUSE: We have gathered the most
elegant assortment of Holiday Goods
ever assembled in any one store Of the
kind in Montana.
BECAUSE: They are strictly fine goods
IN every sense of the term. Our buyer
selected them in New York from only
the best of makers, SO that your buying
OF us insures you the quality. No shod-
dy. no inferior articles.
BEcAUsE:s We pride ourselves upon
our methods Of dealing with you. We
will not knowingly misrepresent any
thing We will not sell 1O-kt. for i-kt;
we will not sell a fawed diamond for a
perfect one. We allow no misrepresen.
tations behind our counters and pie ge
you that, quality considered, our prices
are the lowest. Come and sec US.
Call and Inspect Stock.
Watch Our Windows.
NOVELTIES : DAILY.
J. Steinmetz Jewelry COMFY.
Leading Jewellers. Helena, Mont.
n. B.-The finest Watch Repairing IN the
Engraving to order-origina! and artistic.
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For Hosiery, Yarns. Underwear and
Gloves try the KnittinG Factory, 2l3 South
Main street.
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The Watch Headquarters,

The Harmless gun, shoots soft rubber balls
only 81 rs AT the Bee Hive.
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sleds and sleighs in every variety. from
ents up. atThe Bee Hive.
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Magic lsnter ms at all prices at I he Zee Hiv Q
Our prices are reduced on everything; come
and &C ince yourselves Especiaiy prices on
holiday goods. {. b. JacqUemin i 20.
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Well to Remem Der This.

Well to Remember This.
People buying holiday presents should
remember that everything bought ut
w. Weinstein & Co.
can be returned and exchanged after
Christmas. if desired, just as we'll as before:
and if the money returned is preferred that
will be paid Just as freely.
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Weinsteirs

Speckled Daintie cigars Will be sold until
Christmas for 50 box.
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-L'EPAVE-
Des Cy,sthiN,
PAR
Jules Verne ct Andre Laurie
GSuite.I

Ce copleux repas termine presqne
sans mot dire on passa dams lie
parloir, waste sale boisee, a six
fenetres, don't les embrasures fer
mees par de loui DIS rideaux de drap
auraient sufti a nn architecte pari
sien pour Y etablir un appartement
complet. LIE docteur s'insta'la an
coin du feu dams un grand fauteuil
de cuir; Kajsa Sc nit a ses pieds
sur un tabouret, tandis qu'Erk,
intimide ct NAL False, s'approchait
dune fen6tre ct await bonnie enyie
de Sc refugier dams les profondeurs
obscures de ce rebuilt. Mais lie
docteur ne lui en- laissa pas lie
temps.
"Eh bien, garcon, viens done te
chauffer, cria-t.ll de sa voix sonore,
ct dis-nous an peu ce que tn penses
de Stockholm ?
Les rues sont bien noires, bien
etroites, ct les maisonS bien hautes,
dit Erik.
-Oui, un peu plus hautes qua
/ Noroe, repondit lie docteuren RANT.
Files emp6chent de voir les
6toiles, reprit lie jeune garcon.
-Cest que nous sommes lei
!, dams lie quarter noble, repliqua
Kajsa, piquee de ces critiques. Il
ny qua passer les points pour
trouver des rues plus larges.
-Je les al vues en- venant de la
gare, mais la plus belle est moins
large que la ford de Noroe! ripost;,
Erik.
| All ah J.. dit le docteur, est
ce que nous avons deja lie NAL du
payss
| Non, repondit resolument Erik
lie vous suis trop oblige, cher
docteur, pour regretter un instant
d6tre venu. Mais vous me deman
dez ce que je pense de Stockholm
lie vous lie dis.
! -NoroG doit 6tre un affreus
petit trou reprit Kajsa.
| -Ce ne sont que des cabanes ds
ipaysans, nest ce pas, "onkel -
i -Des cabanes de paysans OF
Iton pere ct ton grand-pere son
; n6s CONNIE moi, mon entant.
repondit gravement le docteur.
/ Kajsa rougit ct Sc tut.
Gee ne sont que des maisons d.
bois, reprit Erik, mais elies e'
valent bien d'autres !! :. ..Souvent, !
soir. taDdis que lc pere raccom
mode ses filets ct que la mere ill
a son rOuet, nous nous asSeyon
tous trois sur un petit banc, Ott
Wanda ct moi, avec notre gran
chien Klaas q nos pieds, ct nou
! repetons en- chGur les viellle
Il "sagas." en- regardant les Ombre
uui louent sur lie plafond. L
onaud le vent souff1e dehors ct gu
3 tous les p6cheurs sont rentres,
fait bon Sc Sentlr chaudemei
enfe.m6 chez nous! On y est aus'
bien Que dams nue belle chambr
CONNIE ici...
:, -Ce nest pas la plus bel
chambre, dit kajsa avec orguei
Je ponrrais vous montrer lie gran
:. salon. vous verriez alors
-Mais il a taDt de !ivres ici !. :
n replioua Erik. Y en- a-til dava
4 ,age au salon -.
" Bon, dies livres ..Qni par
,e de celia I ii s'agit des fanteulis
velours. des rideaux de deutell
de la grande pendule franeais
des tapis d'Orient!'
Erik paraissait peu sedult p
cette enumeration ct jetait
regard d'envie vers nne gran'
/, bibliotheque de ch6ne, qui occupa
tout un cote du parloir.
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'sTu peux examiner ces liyres de

plalra." dit le dOcteur.
Erik ne Sc fit pas repeter Ia
permission. Ii choisit un volume
ct, s'installant dams un coin bien
ecIaire, fut bient6t absorbe dams sa
lecture. A peine s'apercut-il de
Pentree successive de denx vieuy
messieurs, commensanx fdeles dn
docteur SchwaryencrOna, qui We
naient presque tons les sOlrs falre
lenr partie de whist.
LIE premier s'appelait lie profes.
seur Hochssedt. C'etait un grand
vieillard aux manieres froides ct
majestneuses, qui exprima tres
academiquement an docteur lie
plaisir quill await a le voir de
retour. A peine etait-il installe
dams lie tauteuil qu'un long usage
await fini par faire appeler ''le
fauteuil du professeur,' quand IN
coup de sonnette ferme ct decide
Sc fit eptendre.
''Voici Bredejord !" dirent stimuli
tapement les deux amis.
La porte s'ouvrit bient6t devant
un petit homme mince ct guIlleret,
qni entra CONNIE un comp de vent,
serra les denx mains du docteur,
nit un baiser an front de Kajsa,
echangea avec lie professeur an
salut affectueux ct promena autour
du parloir un regard brilliant CONNIE
celui dune souris.
C'etait NJ. ravocat Bredejord'
une des illustrations du barreau de
Stockholm.
"Tiens. -.qni avons-nous la ? dit
il toat coup en- avisant Erik. I'm
jeune pecheur de morue,-ou
plutot un mousse de Bergen g..
Et qui lit Gibbon en- anglais T..
reprit-il, apres avoir dun coup
d'eil verifi6 quel etait lie livre 81
absorbant dams Iequel etait plonge
le petit paysan. EFT celia vous
interesse, mon gavcon demanda
TIL.
| -Oui, Monsieur, c'est un ou
vrage que Je desirais lire depuis
longtemps, lie premier volume de la
Decadence de rempire romain, repon
dit naivement Erik.
-Malepeste! s'ecria NJ. ravocat.
il parait que les mousses de Berger
aiment les lectures serieuSes -.
Mais 6tes-vous ben de Bergen
reprit-il presque aussit6t.
-Je suls de Noroe, qui men es
pas loin, repondit Erik.
All! Alton generalemen
, les yeux ct les cheveux aussi brun:
que ,ons, q Noroeg
a Non, Monsieur. Mon frere
ma snur, ct tous les autres son
q blonds, a peu ptes CONNIE made
, moise.le, repiit Erik. Mais lis II
i, s'habillent pas CONNIE ellie, aiouta-t
! il EN- souriant. Aussi ne lui res
| Semhlaut iis Ouarp
: Non, je men doute, dit \!
$ Bredejord. Mademoiselle kajs
+ est un produit de la clvilisatior
q La bas, c'est Ia belle nature, ''qu
il MA pour parure que Sd simplicite.
t Et que venez-v vous faire a Stock
Il holm, mon garcon, 81 je he suis pa
e trop curienx z
Monsieur lie docteur la bont
e de me METRE au college, dit Erik
! All. all :" fit Nj. ravocat e
4 tapant sa tabatiere du bout de Sc
!doigts.
i Et son regard fin semblait inter
!. roger lie docteur sur ce problem
.Vivant. Mais il Wit a un sign
10 pres9ue imperceptible quill faila
i. aiourner cette enqnete, Ell change
aussit0t de conversation.
& Ga parla done de la cour, de
e, vile. de ce qni s'eiait passe dan
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a ce jeu, ct rhabitude moins inno-
cente de se montrer impitoyable
pour les erreurs qui echappaient a
ses partners. IL ne manquait pas
d'exnlter bruyamment quand ces
erreurs le faisaient gagner, ct de
maugreer quand elles le faisaient
petdre il Sc donnait encore, apres
rhaGue ''rubber," lie plaiSir d'expli
qner au delinquant par on il await
peche, qnelle carte il auralt d1
jouer apes telle levee, quelle
'rentr6en il aurait dn Sc menager
apres tele autre. Cest un travers
asstz frequent parmi les joueurs de
whist, mails qui men est pas Plus
aimabIe, qnand il degenere en-
mamie ct s'exerce tous les soirs sur
les m6mes victimes.
Heureusementp pour lui, le doctenr
dNdio dudiic ucuA dtuIS tul lC
desarmaient toujonrs, lie profes
seur par son fegme inalt6rable, ct
l'avocat par la serenite de son
scepticisme.
.sVous avez raison, disait grave
ment le premier, en- reponse aux
reproches les plus acel bes.
Mon cher Schwaryencrona.
vous savez bien que vous perdez
vos peines me sermonner disait
en- RANT NJ. Bredejord. Toute ma
vie je commettrai au whist les
fautes les plus grossle:es, ct le pis,
c'est cue je ne men repens pas !"
Que taire avec des pechenrs
aus>i endurcis! LIE docteur sc
voyait oblig6 de rengainer sas
critigues; mais c'etait pour les
renonveler un quart d'henre pias
tard, car il etait incorrigible.
lie hasard voulait precisement
ce soir.la, quill perdit a tout coup
Aussi sa manvaise humeur Sc fit
ellie jour par les observations lie:
plus dures pour lie prOfesseur
pour PayocaJ ct meme pour II
''mort,' quand ce personnag'
imaginaire n'avalt pas le nombr'
Fatouts que lie docteur Sc croyai
en- droit de trouver chez lni.
Mais le professeur alignait i'm
perturbablemeut ses tiches, G
ravocat ne repondait que par de
faceties aux reproches les pln
amers.
"Pourquo1 voulez-vous que ]
change de methode, puisque j
gagne en- jouant NAL, tandis on
vous perdez en- jouant a mervellle ?
disait-il au docteur.
On arriva ainsi a dix heure,
Kaisa fit le the daus TN magnif
, que "samovar" de cuivre, ct
{ servit avec beancoup de bonn
gtaee: puis ellie s'eclipsa discrett
2 ment. Bient6t dame Greta VIII
: appeler Erik pour lie condnire
= rappartement Qui lai 6tait destint
-une iolie petite chambre blanch
: ct proprette au deuxieme etage d
D la maison, ct les trois amis 5
+. trouverent seulS.
1 "Nous direz vous enfin quel e.
" ce ieune p6cheur de Noroe qui |
: Gibbon dams lie teXte original
S demanda alors M. Bredejord, e
sucrant sd deuxieme tasse de th
On bien ce sujet dot il 6tre soigne'
!. sement reserve ct lnterdit a not
II indiscretiOn !!
lie sujet ma rien de mys'elieu.
et ie yOus dirai volontierS l'histoi
: d'Erik, 81 vous 6tes capable de
e garder ponr vous, repoudit J
e Schwaryencrona avec un reste
IL resentment.
a All! je savais bien qn'il deva
avoir une historic! seer
. Pavocat, ell s'installant commod