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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

A grand square, S~reinwsy piano.
Been in use only six months. Money
paid either by in-ta!lmenls or in full.
Apply at this Office.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Cleanse Your breath with De Wits
Little Early R's,rs. For sale by w.
T.. Savage.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

His girl didn't go hack on him be-
cause D.. used ID. Witi's Little Early
Ri.ers. On sale ut S~avsg-'s drag store.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

The funeral services OF Mr.. Matilda
Palmer wi | be held nj the Methodist
church at II O'Clock, Sunday, Feb. I'd.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

J. w. KinsIey came down from Hell
mi yesterday TO try some casss before
Judge Milburn.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Billings has organized a board of
trade to look after the intere T. Of that
moribund locality.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

George singed his infantum nous
tache Thursday evening while light
ing the fire.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

\ Why go to New York" for Honey
Cake when you can get the best ever
made at the Miles City Bakery.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

imported wine. and cordials 70 fam
ily u-e. Also domestic wines of excel.
lent quality Mt AS low a figure ~ can
be afforded. =
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

When Baby was sick. we gave her Castoiia,
When she was q Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung 10 Castoria,
When she had c iilJren. she gave hem Castoria
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

G. p. der returned from a short
business trip to 81. Paul Thursday
night.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

II. Brandt, OF st. Paul, Is In the city
representing Robinson 4 Straus,
\ wholesale milllners.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01
For Use "On the Side.

The two reservoirs Ut Helena are
nearly full of water and contained, a
few days ago, $4,000 pallons.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

De Wits Little early R'sefs get
there. Sold At Sa-Hge's. .
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Hot Rolls e cry evening at the Miles
City Bakery.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Senator Redd returned from the cap
ital yesterday to make a short stay at
home.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Ask W. T.. savage what Dewitt :
Lite Early Rjsers are.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Billiard las some fine old port and
sherry for family use.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Highest price paid for Furs at Smith
4 Haynes.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

C.. III. Pearson was In the city yes
terday from Chicsgo.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

J. d. Fielding, Of New York. arrived
in the city Thursday night.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Just try the lovely Sponge Crystals
at the Miles City Bakery.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

r. W. Graham Of Sioux City, ar
rived in the city Thursday night.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

+. 8. Scoppenbah was In the city
Yesterday from Tacoma, Wash.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

c. ID. Sherlock, Of Fargo, was In the
metropolis yesterday.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

w. +. Lamb, oi st. Louis, arrived
In the city yesterday.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

Take De Wits Litlp Early Riser.
For .ale st Savagp's drug store.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01

\ Honey cakes at the New York
Bakery.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-01
LOCAL 1T M

]. b. Spencer il in the city from -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
A SUMMER MEMORY.

A dusty roadway, downward leading,
Through pastures where the cattle feeding
Wade deep in daises white and yellow,
That toss their stars in sunlight mellow.
A maid, whose lips ore red as cherries,
In tangled bushes picking berries,
From under her sun bonnet glancing
Sets Cupid's COLLINS madly dancing.
And while my footsteps slowly wander
To lower sweeps, the hill side yonder
Seems with brighter glory burning,
And woos my eyes to constant turning.
A wind gust In the reedy hollow,
Where through the swifts each other follow,
And to my new.formed wish replying,
A kerchiet In the distance flying.
Il pause beside tho lingering river,
Where tall flags in tho nipples shiver,
And hear blaokbird's merry calling,
Down from the upland pasture falling.
My pathway leads where silver beeches
Simmer along the meadow reaches,
Het, by some unseen magic holden,
My heart clings to the hillside golden.
For there in sunlight haze she fingers,
The kerchlef tluttcrs from her fingers,
And swift the upland way rotr0oing,
Loves subtle vision am chasing.
All, surely they are evil.minded
Who say that Fortunes eyes are blinded,
For brighter glance or look more speaking,
VIII never answer any seeking
And in the radiant August weather,
We two walk down tho path together,
And give no heed to all the singing,
Along the upland pasture ringing.
Thomas 8. Collier, In Springfield (Msss) RI
publican.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
A SHOPPING INCIDENT.
Experiences Of . Busy Woman Who's
Time Was Precious.

Experiences Of . Busy Woman Whose
Time Was Precious.
She was busy woman, getting
ready to 60 away for the summer, and
time was precious, but she must buy,
before she went. q pair of new corsets.
"P. D., size 90" She stepped into q
large dry goods establishment on Wash.
ington street, and went to the corset
counter. The ladies who were there to
sell corsets were all busy, but finally
one concluded to stop gossipping long
enough to ask what was wanted.
IA pair of corsets, please. P. D., size
a." humbly answered the little woman,
glad that at last her presence had be.
come known.
The saleslady languidly turned over
the stock in intervals Of her continued
gossip, and at last produced p. D.
pair.
Eyes, but that's size o."
SWELL, we haven't got any % down
here. Here, boy, 60 upstairs and get
some p. D. corsets, sizes 81, % and IS,
several of EACH"
The busy woman, after waiting for the
boy until she nearly fell of the stool
through WEAKNESS, went over to the
hustle counter, the shirt counter and
the sacque counter to while the time
away, and by and by returned to the
corset counter.
HAS the boy come back yeti"
''No, he has not"
when is he likely to return?'
lmeekly.)
when he is ready" (toploftically.)
The afternoon wore away. The boy
at last returns with four pairs of corsets
which he deposited on the counter, re-
| marking that there was not any size 81
upstairs, and the saleslady looked al
the busy woman with glance in which
triumph was strangely mingled with in
difference.
"Oh," gasped the would-be customer,
chow wish had known that halt an
hour ago need not then have wasted
Ill this time" 49,.
Slowly, oh. so slowly. the dignifled
'aleslady turned to the counter, opened
! box and disclosed "P. D., size "a"
"Why,' did the boy bring that?"
"No"
''Did you have it here all the time?'
Eyes"
"But why did you not give it to me
when you knew was in:.such hurry?''
I'VE don't serve our customers with
electricity" remarked the saleslady as,
with crushing manner and aspect and
tone she turned away. She conde-
scended, however, after awhile, to
come back and deliver the package
and thu change, after which she re-.
sumed her sadly interrupted gossip,
while the busy woman made rapid
transit out Of the store" Boston Her
aid.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
LONDON DRUG SHOPS.
They Arc Not as Attrac tive ~ Our Bright
Corner Stores.

They Are Not rs Attractive ~ Our Bright
Corner Stores.
There is a wide difference between
the London drug stores and ours. There
is no such craze for patent medicines
there as here, and there is nothing like
the American inclination for every man
to be his own doctor. An English drug
gist sells face powder, cologne, soap,
tooth-brushes, patent pills and the like,
but his main business is putting up pre-
scriptions. He has no clientele of men
who drop in for little aromatic spirits
of ammonia after night of dissipation,
or for acid phosphate after too much
smoking, or for tincture of iron and so
many grains of quinine, or glass of
Calisaya for tonic, or teaspoonful of
bicarbonate of soda to Offset too hearty
a meal. All that which so enriches our
druggists is unknown in England. The
Americans in London last summer
found this out to their cost. One of
them told me that he had this queer
experience. He asked druggist for q
draught of iron and quinine.
''Oh, we carn't give you that without
prescription, you KNOW" the man re-
piled.
The American persisted, but the drug
gist was firm.
SWELL, can't you give me an ounce Of
tincture of iron?"
eyes, sir"
And two two-grain quinine pills2"
eyes, SIR"
''Will you lend me tumbler with a
little water in it?'
Eyes, sir"
Having all these things. the Ameri-
can dropped dozen drops of iron in the
water, and took that and the pellets
down with agulp The druggist looked
on with keen interest, and then said,
very gravely:
''Do you know, Icall that very neat.
It is very neat indeed. Julian Ralph,
in Harper's Weekly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20

Sho Maintains Private Chapel Costing
Seventy Thousand Dollars.
Never has there been such universal
ohurch-going in Now York as during
the present season. saw lady in
black step out of handsome mourning
carriage in front of St. Thomas church,
last Wednesday afternoon, and some
one told me that it was Mrs. Moses
Taylor, who, with Mrs. w. II. Wander.
bilt, shares the honor of being the rich
est widow in America She is NOM
Der of the Presbyterian church, but is
subject to no bigotries and finds pleas
ure in occasional attendance upon SER
vices in Episcopal churches. Church
going is one of her favorite pursuits at
all times, and down at Long Branch she
has private chapel and chaplain
of her own, who ministers to
her spiritual needs during her
summer sojourn. This chapel cost
her $4,000, is attended by quite
large congregation Of the local Pres
byterians and is the center through
which she distributes her many beauti-
full and lavish charities. 1t was great
surprise to her, upon her husband
death, to find herself so rich woman,
for he never talked to her about his
business, and though she knew he was
wealthy man, she had formed no cal.
culation as to the amount he was worth;
no one, indeed, not even his executors,
had credited old Taylor with more than
r,oi11}nro ot IN
the surprise of the latter was great on
the appointed day, when they and the
widow went to open the doors of the
particularly-solid vault which the old
man had built into the wall of his office.
The innermost compartment was large
enough to hold certificates of stock and
and the like securities without folding.
There was a great stack of these papers
lying neatly on top of each other, un-
wrinkled and increased. They repre-
scented Taylor's investments in railroads,
banks and insurance companies, deeds
of real estate and every sort Of sound
financial venture. The widow did not
comprehend the full meaning of this
great pile of documents, but the execu-
PA000S<S
significance, and set about making an
inventory. jotting down figures on the
back of card, and announcing in awed
tones to the widow, when this pleasing
task was done, that she was the sole
possessor of fortune amounting to
$40, 900, 600. She bore it with that meek
and gentle resignation of which even
the worst of us would be capable under
similar circumstances, and many un-
tortunates have since had reason to be
grateful that this great sum fell into
such discreet and charitable hands.
Mrs. Vanderbilt is also q faithful
church-goer, having pews in several diff
ferent churches, one of her favorite
places of worship being old Trinity
Brooklyn Eagle. ii,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
BOLD PETE MCCARTNEY,
One OF tho Most SuOcnasful Crooks In the
History Of Crime.

One OF tho Most suooaasful CROOKS In the
History Of Crime. vt
1.-THE cleverest thief that ever I had
any thing to do with while connected
with the Secret-Service Department. OF
the United States Treasury Depart
ment" said Major Thomas E. Lonergan,
twas Pete Mccartney, He was born
and raised in Southern Illinois, and
could not boast any education. Yet he
was In every sense . picturesque figure
In criminal annals. He was the only
man ever met who educated himself
so as to be able to do any thing con-
nected with counterfeiting. He could
engrave q plato, make his own inks and
paper and print the complete note.
Mccartney had been arrested
many times prior Ito my ar.
rest Of him, and had always managed to
escape. 4 captured him at Venice, H.,
on bloody Island, the famous old duel
Ing ground of that section OF the coun-
try, which was little north OF East st.
Louis. This was in the fall OF 1871. l
took Mccartney to Springfield and
turned him over to United States Mar
shall Routt, who was afterward Governor
OF Colorado. Mccartney was. charged
with counterfeiting United States
money, and committed to Jail in default
OF $4,000 bail. Negotiations were on
'terVd into by the Treasury Department
that Mccartney should turn up certain
plates for counterfeiting notes, and that
in seturn his bail should be reduced to
$25, 900. The agreement was carried out
on both sides. Mccartney gave up the
plates and $50. 600 in counterfeit money.
lie had to 60 to Decatur, ILL.,, where he
had buried it, to dig it up.
During the time that this notorious
coanterfeiter was out on bail he was ar
rested in St. Louis and was seriously
shot in the fracas that followed the at
tempt to arrest him. While in Jail on
crutches he broke out and left, taking
W: tn him four other counterfeiters who
wore confined at the same time. A few
weeks subsequently he was again arrest
ed in Texas. A big reward had been
offered for his capture. The sheriff who
secured him telegraphed for the United
S>soSS SAAASA"Ao w SOIO SSAS1 VohC pOoSCS-
sion OF him. To make his escape i'm
possible this sheriff and his posse
camped out all night with Mccartney,
but he got away before morning
He was again arrested shortly after
this by another Texas sheriff.
To secure him effectSally this time
this official manacled McCartney's arms
and legs ana started for AssSin. When
tho train reached Austin Mccartney
had made his escape. During the war
he was arrested on some charge in In
diana and taken to Washington heavily
ircned, hand and foot He escaped
from custody by throwing himself out
of the car window as the Pennsylvania
train was passing Horseshoe Bend.
This is the most dangerous point on the
whole road. He dislocated his shoulder,
but suffered no other injury. Finally
he was captured in Indiana, convicted
and sent to tho penitentiary at Michi-
gan City. He is an old man now, but
in his best days was one of the most
slippery fellows that ever heard Of
Chicago Evening Post ii -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
OF INTEREST TO SHIPPERS.

IN reply to request for information
as to the risks taken by shippers In
consigning grain to Minneapolis and
Duluth, Woodward & Co., q reliable COM
mission firm, Of the former city, under
recent date wrote as follows:
The laws Of Minnesota are very fay-s
orable to consignors. Summed up,
your commission man is your employee
for the transaction Of certain business.
he must account to you for your grain
or money the same as any other clerk
or agent. 1t is felony for him not to do
so. Will say, in this connection that
nineteen-twentieths of the losses made
through commission men in the last
Ave years here or at Duluth, have been
on grain or merchandise purchased, not
consigned. When house becomes
weak or unsafe, its first thought is for
consignment liabilities, and it's first
effort, to change it's responsibility as
agent to the ordinary one of vendee to
vendor.
The Chamber of Commerce here and
the Board of Trade, Duluth, are also
very strict with their members. Proof
Of intentional false return Of price or
weight, the addition of a charge not
paid, however small, would surely sus-
pend, and possibly expel the offender as
we'll as ruin his business forever after.
The Inspection and weighing here
and at Duluth is done by sworn State
Officers, under heavy bonds. Any ship
per can get certificate Of weight or
grade of any or all the cars he has
shipped, even years after, through his
commission man, or by sending to the
State Weighmaster, or State Inspector
where the grain was sent. In Mime
apolis almost all grain is sent by SAM
pie as we'll as grade. In Duluth sales
are usually made by grade only.
Shippers should remember their COM
mission man represents them and that
he always tries to make sales on such
terms as will net them the most. The
cost of delivering is fully considered in
negotiating sales and a larger price is
obtained when sold otherwise than ION
track" sufficient to cover the additional
expense. Sellers, in order to avail
themselves of the fullest competition
between buyers of all classes, have to
meet the various requirements Of. the
latter in the matter of delivering, the
expense being fully covered by the ex-
ira price agreed upon for the property
according to the terms of delivery.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
MEERSCHAUM IN CHUNKS.

1t Comes from Turkev and Is Principally
Used for Pipes.
The meerschaum comes from Turkey
in boxes. A box holds about fifty
20 lnds, and is worth from $40 to $500,
according to the size and quality of the
pieces 1t looks like plaster Of paris
smoothed of and rounded. The amber
looks like beeswax or large pieces of
rosin. 1t comes in pieces, and is worth
from 50 to $50 pound. Meerschaum to
make IS pipe costs about 81. so. The
amber tips, raw, cost about one-1 Harter
or one-half as much.
When an order comes for pipe the
proprietor goes through the stock of
meerschaum to get piece out Of which
the pipe can be cut with as little loss
as possible. Four-flfths of the meer-
schaum is wasted, though the chips are
often saved and made into imitation
meerschaum pipes.
The meerschaum is first cut on cir
cular saw into a piece a little larger
than the pipe. If the cutting shows
ho;es or cracks the piece is cast aside.
Then it is soaked in water for fifteen
minutes and cut the rough shape with
a knife. Then ahole is drilled through
it and it is turned with half-motion.
After the turning the stem is inserted.
1t is smoothed off when dry, boiled in
wax and polished; then it is ready tp be
sold.
The amber is worked with chisel
and turning wheel. The chisel is sharp
and razor-like. A clumsy operh tor
would cut his fingers off with it. An
old operator takes the piece of amber in
his hand and rounds it with the chlsel,
the fore6nger of the left hand sery Ting
as guide for the chisel to play. When
it is rounded it is held against the face
of roughened wheel until it is tut med
to approximately the required size
Then it is put in the same turning
wheel and hole is bored through it.
This is for the more common and
cheaper amber STEMS the kind that are
put in brierwood pipes, which sell for
so and rs cents. It does not take more
than quarter or half hour to finish
one of these stems. A stem for more
costly pipe will take day. The short
est time in which good meerschl hum
pipe can be made is three days. That
is for plain pipe. If the pipe is to be
carved that time has to be added.
Workmen have spent months on carv-
ing one pipe.
The dust and chips from the a1h Der
and meerschaum are saved. The amber
dust is melted and made into amberne.
The meerschaum dust is chopped upland
worked into paste, from which imita-
ton meerschaum pipes are made. It is
common idea that real meerschaum
can be told from imitation meerschaum
by the fact that real meerschanm floats
on water, but imitation meerschaum
floats also. Imitation meerschaum can
be made which will color better than
real meerschaum does, though it does
not last so long and the color lis likely
to come in streaks. It is hard for q
man who is not in the business to toll
q real from an imitation meerschaum.
Phe best quality of meerschaum FREE
'quently has air-holes and cracks in it. T.
zE..-E $500
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
PITH AND POINT.

/ e 8
And, Alphonse, do you think you
can love me little when I am old?''
Eyes, very. boston Times.
Mover get mad when the other fell
low does. Wait until he cools of, and
then you will have the field to youself.
Texas Siftings.
-1nterviewer-"You began life as .
clerk, did you not9" Merchant-''No,
sir; l began life as king. I was the
drst baby.-Terre Haute Express.
-Jenks-"Winks married a woman
OF intellect, didn't he?" Blinks-'l
don't know. Why?" Jenks-'I notice
he never has any buttons on his
clothes. IN. Y. Weekly.
-''By the way, how is Higgins?
heard he was at death g door," II don't
know about that, but tho last time /
saw him he was on the step pulling the
doctors bell."-Philadelphia Times.
Farmer Wayback-"All my pigs
broke out last night and the constable
put them in the pound" Farmer Wise
Take care OF the pens and the
pounds will take care of themselves"
Puck.
I'm the Sanctum-"What do you mean
by saying that the author of this story
is young man Of twenty? He is sixty
four years of age" ''You forget. He
was twenty when the story was accept
ed.-N. Y. Sun.
--Spacer-"Oh, we'll, I don't care
whether you accept my jokes or not
can. soil them elsewhere" Ed
itor-'I dare say you can. What has
been done once can he done again, and
all those jokes have been sold before. -
Epoch.
She had sent of a telegram and was
waiting for an answer. Suddenly the
peculiar halting click OF the receiving
machine sounded in the Office, and she
said to her companions: 'That's from
George, know. can tell his stutter "
Philadelphia Times.
magazine Editor-'Great Lucifer!
man, we can't accept such poem as
that" Poet-"Why? think it one of
the best things I have ever done. "
Magazine Editor-''Bah,it's too simple.
Why, our readers would understand what
1t means the first time they read it,
"A Williamsport girl, who, in the
matter OF beauty and effectionate exu-
berance, was not to say fresh as first
love and rosy as the dawn" was asked
why she did not get married, and this
is what she said in reply: II have con-
siderable money of my own, l have q
parrot that can swear and a monkey
that chews tobacco, so that l have no
need of husband. oil City Blizzard
Sweet Girl Graduate-"rm so glad
you liked my essay on The Philoso-
phical and Religious Thought of the
Ancient Etruscans.' Do you know I'm
going to send it to journal in the city
of Washington for publication" Friend
IL certainly would do so, as the essay
shows you to be soundly and thor
oughly-educated American woman"
Sweet Girl Graduate-"By the way,
what state is Washington in?-Amer-
lea.
-"Brethren and sisters" and the pa
tient old pastor buttoned his thread
bare coat closer about his spare form, II
notice that members of this congrega-
ton are shivering from the cold. l
should have replaced the broken pane
of glass in this window behind me
weeks ago with rags if they could have
been spared from the family wardrobe.
The collection for foreign missions will
now be taken up.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20

Mr.. AND Mrs. STANLEY have a solid
silver dinner service consisting of SO
table-forks, "a tablespoons, "a dessert
spoons, "a dessert forks, "a teaspoons,
soup ladle, 2 gravy-spoons, sauce
ladies', IS dessert-knives, IS DESSERT
forks, 10 ice spoons, helping spoons,
pair grape-scissors, pair sugar tongs,
dessert-dishes, epergne, entree-
dishes, . candelabra, 2 chased beakers
and . sauceboats. These desirable arti-
cles are presented by the Emin Pasha
Relief Committee to "Henry N. Stanley
on his wedding day, July -, 1890, in
commemoration Of duty nobly done and
. great enterprise splendidly achieved
in Darkest Africa"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20

Chorus Of Coquettes-"Let US each
be up and doing with 2 fate for any
heart. "-WashinRton Post.