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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
Mrs. Frank Lcslie.s sanctu,n.

The cosiest, most luxurious and most ar
tistic sanctum in New York is that of Mrs.
Frank Leslie, in the Judge building. at
Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street. 1t is
in the corner of the building on the third
floor, with one window looking out on the
avenue and one on the street. There are
Madras curtains at the windows and the
lambrequins are of hand-painted velvet.
The steam radiator is set in the embrasure
of the front window. A warm-tinted cover
conceals it and transforms it into stand
for growing plant. A high wainscoting
of red velvet runs around the room. Above
this the walls and ceiling are covered with
greyish Japanese silk having a delicate
tracing of vines. In the corner diaponally
opposite the entrance door there is high
Inantel surmounted BY large plate mirror.
Mrs. Leslie's desk is in the OBJ
posite front corner. The furniture
Is Of antique oak, richly carved,
and includes lounge, a center table
and several high-backed chairs. The latter
are upholstered in goods harmonizing in
hue and eNect with the carpet. Straight
across from the entrance is another door
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

THE foreign newspapers bring fuller
details of the results OF tho Berlin Labor
Conference than the cable gave. The
conference agreed that limits should be
set to the employment of minors and
women, that the hours of work in dan
gerous occupations should be shortened,
that means for minimizing danger IN
such occupations should be provided,
that restrictive regulations should be
enforced in unhealthy and dangerous
occupations, and that one days rest in
seven should be secured for all work
men except in occupations which pro-
vide necessaries which require uninter-
rupted work, or which are limited to
certain seasons, in which cases the
workers should have one Sunday in two
free. 1t will be seen that these reforms
have little bearing in the United States.
where labor has for years enjoyed
greater privileges than in Europe.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

The contract for lighting the city of
New York has been awarded to the gas
companies, the bids Of tho electric light
ing companies having been rejected be-
canse the board believed the corpora
tions had formed a combination to keep
up the price. In seeking to dodge an
electric-light combine the city has prob
ably fallen into the hands of gas trust;
had the municipality gone step further
and rejected the bid of both electric and
gas-light companies, and ordered the
use OF coal oil as a street illuminant it
would have run up against the greatest
of all combines, the Standard Oil CON-
pany. This is an age of combines.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

leading to the editorial department.. The
space between the two doors il filed by a
handsome bookcase. The elegant screen
at the entrance door is of stamped leather.
Both doors are Of Japanese paneling. From
the center OF the ceiling hangs Japanese
lantern of very elaborate make, which in
turn supports an American eagle with
spread wings. Above the mirror white
dove is poised. Conspicuous on the walls are
three portraits of the late Frank Leslie, one
bronze medallion. The pictures other
Wise are choice etchinga, engravings and
water-colors. Perfect taste and unobtru-
sive richness are the characteristics of the
fitting and adornment. There is Just a
touch Of the practical e, erywhere to antag-
onlze the impression that you are in re-
ception-room instead of business Office,
but the harmony remains undisturbed and
peculiarly pleasing to the artistic sense.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

supreme court Of Louisiana has Just
knocked similar tax on the head. The
court held that the making of a news
paper is business; that the process Of
making it employs machinery and ex-
tensive manual labor and large quaint
ties of physical raw material, which are
placed in new combinations, and the
newspaper, when made, is a new and
distinct article of commerce, sold by the
makers thereof directly to dealers and
consumers; that such business falls
within the reason and motive Of the con-
stitution, which was to encourage enter
prises furnishing employment to home
labor in the making of things which the
people use and require. and which, if not
made at home, would be brought from
abroad,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
SUNDAYS INDEPENDENT.

Sundays INDEPENDENT will be an
other great number, of which an extra
ordinary edition will be printed. Specia
features of striking interest will be
Montana Argonauts, true and
thrilling story of the famous Vel
lowstone expedition; The Gem City
and its Surroundings, descrip-
ton of the famed Gallatin valley;
The Fate of Louis Capdau, story of
early Louisiana days; The Last of the
Overland, recollections of stage times in
Helena; Sicilian Journeyings, letter of
travel; A New York Fashion Letter;
Men who have been Mayor; Jennie at
the Ball, sketch Of metropolitan life;
Hygiene versus Hospitality, clever So
cial study; A Boys and Girls Corner;
Horses and Horsemen; History Building
in Montana; Society in Helena; The
Last Chance Lounger; sketches, stories,
good things in verse, ETC., etc.
It will be the largest and best news
paper ever published IN Montana, and
it's circulation will be larger than that
of all the other newspapers in Montana
combined.
Advertisers will please bear in mind
the necessity of handing in their favors
as early as possible to secure classical
tion
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

The senate and house committees
have at last agreed upon silver bill
providing for the purchase of 4,5oo,OOO
ounces of silver every month. The GER
tificates issued therefor may be re,
deemed in "lawful money" which means
that the secretary of the treasury may
redeem them IN any money he chooses
It man sells silver bullion he will ge,
silver certificates, and if he presents his
certificates for redemption he will ge,
silver dollars. The bill is involved in its
terms, and needs careful analysis t.
discover its full meaning. 1t apparentl,
still leaves vast powers in the head O
the treasury department, and it lis MOI
free coinage by long shot.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
Wool Raising in the United States.

The first sheep introduced in the United
States were taken to jamestown, Virginia,
in 1909. Great efforts were made to en-
courage the wooden industry, and some
years later law was passed which COM
PEELED every family to spin three pounds of
wool, cotton or fax per week during thirty
weeks of the year. About the same time
the first weaver settled in the country and
received grant of thirty acres of valuable
land. In 1862 Virginia prohibited the ex
portation of wool and offered five pounds of
tobacco as premium for every yard of
breed of the sheep at the time in America
was, however, inferior, and it was not un-
til the commencement of the present
century that the Spanish govern
ment consented to sell a flock of
fine merino sheep at an exorbitant price for
even in 1910 there were only about 5000
sheep of good breed in the country, but
from them sprang the large flocks which are
now found in the United States. The first
cloth mill worthy of the name was erected
in 1888 by several of the inhabitants of
Hartford, Connecticut, and its annual pro-
duction amounted to 5000 yards. It is
stated that the proprietors of this estab-
lishment presented Washington with suit
made of their cloth in 1871. Other works
soon arose, and in 1910 there were five mills
fine wooden tissues, and 10 which
coarser descriptions. their
production being 10000 yards,
and a considerable quantity was also pro-
duced on hand looms.
The war in 1912 gave great impulse to
the American wooden trade, but when peace
was concluded British tissues were imported
in enormous quantities and completely
crushed the industries of the states. Con-
gress then found it necessary to protect the
American manufacturers, and imposed in
1916 an import duty of 25 per cent ad va
loren ON wooden tissues, and in 1924 it ap-
piled duty of Is per cent on raw wool cost
ing less than 10 cents per pound, and of 20
per cent on wool costing more than 80 cents
per pound.-Draper's Record.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

MURAT HALsTEAD's removal to New
York, where he becomes the controlling
spirit OF the Brooklyn Standard Union,
increases the blunder capacity of the re-
publican press Of that state and to that
extent increases the probability of
democratic victory in the next presi-
Dental election.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

DON'T, just because the British finance
minister has proved that the prosperity
of the empire is gagged by the amount
Of liquor drinking, imagine that individ-
ually you will prosper the moro as you
add to the number Of times you crook
your elbow. 1t doesn't work with indi-
viduals as with empires.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

The quest Of Don Quixote Dolph, OF
Oregon, for the newspaper men who
published reports of secret sessions OF
the senate has ended IN ignominious
failure, as everybody predicted in the
beginning. The newspaper men still
live, and their reports of executive SEES
SONS appear promptly on time. The
gleeful and ghoulish correspondent of
the New York Times, who was one OF
the chief offenders, thus contemptuous.
ly speaks Of the great man:
Two or three weeks ago the smellers quit
examining witnesses, and Chief Smeller
Dolph began to wrestle with the big pile of
testimony which contained no information.
Finally he drew up report which his fell
low smellers agreed to. and to-day the last
act of the farce opened with the delivery of
this report to the senate. It was done, of
course, in secret session, and all the extra
ordinary precautions recently taken to pre-
vent any inkling of the proceedings from
reaching the public were put into play. No
orders were given, however, to close up the
pipes which supply air to the ventilators on
the door of the chamber. The chief smeller
did not find 1t easy to get in his report, for
he had to demand roll call before his mo-
ton for secret sitting prevailed.
The report recited at considerable length
the refusal of the newspaper men to tell
their private business to the committee, and
concluded with a series of resolutions di-
recting the sergeant at arms to arrest each
one of the recalcitrant witnesses and bring
them before the bar of the senate, to be
dealt with for contempt of that body. 1t
took the senate four hours to dispose of the
report. Most of the time was spent by
Chief Smeller Dolph and Special Smellers
Harris and Wilson, of Iowa, in appealing to
the senate to adopt the resolutions. Their
pleadinRs were in vain, for after they had
talked the matter over the report was laid
on the table by a vote of 85 to %. Most of
the negative votes were cast by democratic
senator's. This ended the long farce, and
ex-Chief Smeller Dolph notified the ser
geant-at-arms that the five witnesses who
had been held under subpoena for fifty-one
days were discharged.
Dolph has quit hunting newspaper
men, but il he thinks the correspondents
are not going to have more fun with
Dolph he is nightly mistaken.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

A LOT on Fifth avenue, New York,
has been sold for one hundred and
fifteen dollars square foot. The anti
improvers of this town will probably
now tighten their grip and maintain
more rigidly their purpose of neither
selling nor buying.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

ALL over the country men are quitting
work by the tens, by the hundreds, and
even by the thousands, as the express
sion goes, for the eight-hour work day.
1t is the anomaly of demand for less
work or no work at all.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
HELENA, MONT, APRIL "a, 1890.

DAILY INDEPENDENT on file at their favorite ho-
tells: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan. New York;
Grand Pacific, Chicago; West Minneapolis;
Baldwin and Palace. San Francisco; st. Nicholas
and McDermott Butte.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

Fires were discovered in the yard of the
Tonawanda IN. " Lumber company
quarter of the town. Both we're subdued
after hard fight. Considerable excite
ment was caused by the discovery that the
wires of the fire alarm system had been
cut in several places. The general opinion
is that there was deliberate plot to burn
the town,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
An Important Purchase.

Prof. Young, principal of the high
school, of this city, purchased one of the
celebrated Decker Brothers grand upright
pianos yesterday. The professor considers
them the finest pianos made.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24

OuR esteemed city government which
imposes petty license tax on newspa-
j BeEs may b pleased To learn that the
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
We Have For Sale,

Two lots on Helena ave. near
corner OF Main ST., so by 115 #. to
jackson st. $4,000.
A good Groom house and lot on
Eleventh ave-, lot so by 1O4 it. to
alley. Only $4,000. $500 down,
balance monthly payments to suit
purchaser. House now rents for
$25 per month.
400 #. on Broadway by 100 #.
deep. Only $4,000.
400 #. Broadwater add, corner
Lincoln and Peosta SITS. $1,000.
A choice lot on Fifth ave-, so by
100 #. Only $500.
A good lot on Breckenridge st. AS
by 100 #. Only 81, 800.
Two lots on Sixth ave. AZ by 100.
Only ST. 200 each.
Good lot on Chauser st. so by 113
#. to alley. Only 81, 400.
Lot corner Chauser and Bridge
SITS. AZ by tt3 to alley. Only 81 200.
Three lots on Missoula ave. each
so by 40 #. to alley. Only $500
each.
Three lots in Flower Garden add.
Only $3.50 each.
Also a large list Of houses and
lots in all parts of the city.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-24
Myrtle Lodge No. 8, X. of p,

Clothing, clothing. clothing, at less than
cost at the l. X. l.. Baxaar.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23
TUESDAY, Jan., 9th, 1891.

PROPOSALS. FOR THE CONSTRUC-
i TION OF TWO BRICK DOUBLE
HOUSES. ON THE GROUNDS OF
THE NAVAL ACADEMY, ANNAPO-
LIS, MD.-BUREAU OF NAVIGA-
TION, NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington,
d. G /, December 4, 1S90.-Sealed Propos-
ais are hereby invited and viii be re-
ceived at the Bureau of Navigation,
Navy Department until 70 o'clock noon,
on Monday, the Goth day of December,
1890, at which time and place they will
be opened in the presence of attending
bidders, for the construction, by con-
tract, of two brick double houses to be
erected on the grounds of the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Md, upon sites
selected by the Superintendent of the
Academy. Plans and specifications can
be seen, and the loan of limited num-
Der of copies obtained, at the Bureau of
Navigation, Navy Department, at the
Office of O. Won inertia, architect, 1405
F street, n, W., Washington, ID. c., or
at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Nd
Each bid must be accompanied by a GER
tilted check, payable to the order Of the
Secretary of the Navy, for the sum Of
$4,000, as a guarantee that the bidder,
II his bid be accepted, will, within ten
days from the receipt Of notice of the
acceptance of his offer, enter into forss
NAL contract for the faithful perform
ance of the work and give satisfactory
bond for such performance in a penal
sum equal TO fifteen per cent. of the
amount of his bid. Said houses must be
completed by September /, 1891, and
payments under the contract for their
construction will be made in six equal
installmeDts as the work progresses,
upon bills duly certified, from which
ten per cent will be reserved to be paid
on the final completion and acceptance
of the work. Proposals must be made
in duplicate, in accordance with forms
which will be furnished on application
to the Bureau of Navigation, enclosed in
sealed envelopes, marked Proposals for
Houses for e. s. Naval Academy and
addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of
Navigation, Navy Department, Wash
ington, ID. @. The right is reserved to
reject any or all bids. f. NJ RAMSAY,
Chief of Bureau of Navigation.
dec 10. is. 10, %, &C.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23

A novel swindel was attempted
upon the U. s. Senators at Wash
ington yesterday. William Duya!l,
Of Baltimore, conceiving an idea to
raise Christmas purse, wrote to
each Senator, enclosing baptismal
certificate, that he had named his
first-born after the distinguished
senator, aud also enclosing mum.
Der Of tickets for an entertainment
for the fathers benefit, who had
only a week before broken his leg
aud was unable to work, and there
~ appealing to the Senator's sym
pathies as well as to his pride. Ths
same certificate and tickets were
sent to some 40 Senators-all Of
whom he had honored with the
name Of his frst-born.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23
At the Opera House-Grand HoI-
iday Attraction

At the Opera House-Grand Hol-
iday Attraction.
Manager Brock has secured the IA
nous Webber Uncle Toms Cabin Co.
that is now playing at Holiday Street
Theatre, Baltimore, to give grand
Christmas Matinee and at night. The Bal
timore Herald of yesterday says:-"As
often as Uncle Toms Cabin has been
produced it still has great interest
for the theatre-going public, and as
presented last night at the Holiday
Street Theatre 1t was an excellent per-
Torrance. The realism of the piece was
made very forcible by the introduc-
ton of live alligators. bloodhounds and
ether accessories. In the fifth act q
wierd picture of Voudoo rites attracted
considerable attention. The company
presenting the piece was above the aver
age and included Harry Weber as Law
yer Marks The Eva of the occasion
was little Bonny Murray years of age
whose acting was remarkable for one SO
young Topsey was personated by little
Carrie Webber, who is entitled to much
credit The scenery was all new and
the mechanical effects above the ordi-
nary"
Pricea 25, 30 and so cents. No extr a
charge for reserved seats.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23
TUESDAY =. Dec. %. 1890.
Christmas sermon

Marion Harland speaks the mind
OF large number of her fellow suf-
ferers when she writes Of holiday
blackmail. Your landlady's laugh
ter embroiders a pair of slippers,
which she gives you without soles,
thereby entailing q real expense
with her gift. Then she expects
you to make her in return a present
worth several dollars. 1t ia black
mail downright. Old Mrs. Snifkin,
80 years old, sends her grandnlece
q hideous patchwork crazy quilt,
''pieced with her own hands" In
return the niece must send hand
some present in money worth half a
dozen times as much as the ugly
old quilt. That ia what the crazy
article was made for. This too is
blackmaiI, nothing more.
Every body who has succeeded by
hard struggle in making his own
way in the world is beset each year
by from Eve to fifty people, not enc
of whom ever did him any good,
not one Of whom has even common
good will to him aside from what
they can pick off his bones, yet all
expect valuable gift, and denounce
him as stingy curmudgeon unless
il is forthcoming.
Brethren, let US rebel. Let us
declare our independence this
Christmas OF 1890, and thereafter
stand to it. Christmas is the time
of oil days in the year for express
ing voluntary good will. Gifts are
only the expression of love and good
will that the giyer bestows on the
receiver out Of his Astounding sf-
fiction. Have we any affection for
the waiter who is paid for attend
ing TO our wants in q restaurant, or
for the dependent sixteenth cousin
who was always too lazy or shiftlesS
to work for his or her own living !?
The very poetry and favor of gift
are taken out OF it when it becomes
a forced present to such as these.
The idea Of q gift is thus degraded
and ruined.
Therefore, this Christmas of the
census year 1890 let us turn over q
new leaf. Let us register mighty
oath that for once we will bestow no
gift but love gift; and then let us
keep the VOW. Give freely of such
things as you can afford to your
dearest and best. Give also in oat
and out charity to helpless children
of poverty, those who have none to
bestow gifts of love.
But Christmas blackmail, no !
not one cent ! So shall we all be
happy; so shall those who don't de-
serve any Christmas gift gowithout
az they should, so shall we better
afford to give the real heart gifts to
our dear ones.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23
A series of Winter Tours TO Florida
via Pennsylvania Railroad.

Last year many people fed from the
intolerable humidity Of the Northern eli
mate to that OF the south. where unifor-
nifty OF temperature and bright sunlight
together put a new phase on life.
This winter the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. IN pursuance Of policy inau-
gurated several years ago, and with many
additional Incidental improvements, has
arranged a series Of five tours, 20 be run
from New York to Jacksonville, as fol-
lows: January 2Oth. February Sd and 18th
Tourists viii travel in Pullman Palace
Cars in charge Of Tourist Agent and
Chaperon. 4 limit must necessarily be
made in order TO allow each passenger =
double birth, and this limit has been
made one hundred aud fifty.
The und-trip rate. including Pull
man accommodations and meals en- rsufs
in dining car attached TO the train, is
$4,000 from New York. $500 from
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
Tickets viii be sold from all principal
stations on the Pennsylvania Railroad
system to connecting point with the
special For detailed information apph-
cation should be made to ticket offices.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23
Holiday Excursions Tickets on the
Pennsylvania Railroad.

In pursuance of the usual custom the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company an
nouces that Christmas and New Year ex.
cursion tickets will be sold between all
principal stations on its system at two
cents per mile. except between Philadel-
phia and New York and certain other
stations on the United Railroads of New
Jersey Division, where the regular excur-
sion rate and limit will prevail. The
tickets will be sold December Gath, 1890
to January LIST, 1891, valid for return pas.
sage until January 9Th 1891, inclusive.
Buy your Christmas Presents at ], w
Hodges Il Cos, City Drug Store
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23

Had Mrs. II. A. Gardner, OF Vistu
Ind. lived two thousand years ago she
would have been thought to be possess
ed BIZ evil spirits. She was subject to
nervous prostration. headaches, DISH
ness. baekache, palpitation and forty to
ffgu spasns a day. Though having Keen
treated BY eight physicians for years
without success; she was permanently
cured by one bottle Of DR. Miles Rest0r-
alive Nervine. A trial bottle of this
new and wonderful medicine and finely
illustrated treats frs at the City Drug
store
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23

In the United States Senate,
yesterday, : bin was passed suthor-
izing tie construction of a public
huilding 1t Norfolk, Va. Mr.. Hig-
gins, Of Delaware, spoke in favor Of
the election bill, and Mr.. Voorhees,,
Of Indiana, against it, after which
Mr. Hoar called for vote for an
evening session, which resulted,
yeas 20, nays 5, (no quorum,) and
the Senate adjourned.