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Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1890-09-23

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Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1890-09-23
CHURCHES.
sOCIETlES.

A. v. H.-Division 10. ! meets hrst ant -seond
uniaye Of each month.
OF H.-Meets frsl and third wedDes 70 al
iiOp. m,, At Odd Fellows Hal.
A.F&A. M.-lellOWstone Lodgt, No. q, hri
nd third Wednesdays.
z. A. M.-Ysllowsione Chapter, No. 5, second
'hundsy in each month
X. T.-DsiaascaE GamiIaudery fourth Thurs
sAys.
/. D. D. F.-Cusi.T Loige, No. l3, everr
Nc3dsy at their Esli.
/. 90. f.--.entiusl Fncsmrment, No. .. nrsi
and third Friday.
X. Of P.--l'rusajer Lodge, No. :. Thursday
venings at Old Follows Hall.
q. x. Of A.--Miles City branch. every upday al
p. m.
X of L.-First and third Tuesdays.
q. A. R.-U. s. Grant Post, No. IA, hrst and
hiri Tuesdays.
TO. @. T.--star Of the West, No. "a, every
rhuYsdsy evening.
4. v--Col. swaine Camp No. 7. Meets second
nd fouith WEDNESDAYS OF each month al Good Tenn
ap Hall
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1890-09-23

Following Ia the Official list ~ en-
tries made with Ssc'y AIlerton for the
three days racing:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

So CANDY was the first funeral pro-
cession that | witnessed on the island
that | actually mistook it for The Cuban
way of advertising circus. 1t consisted
of highly enamoled black chariot,
ornamented on top with tall, waving
black and gold plumes. The charioteer
wore long plume in his hat, a scarlet
jaclletelaboately embroidered with gold
cord and trimmed With gold lace and
double row of gilt buttons. The trap
pings of the horses were black and gilt,
and two men, wearing gorgeous uni
forms, walked on either side of the
leading horses, holding long black reins.
This was followed by line of carriages
extending the length of five blocks. In
each carriage were seated one or two
gentlemen. Some were talking, all were
undergraduates Magazine.
There died in New York City the
other day man who commanded $780,
100000 But he didn't take cent with
lim. Shrouds have no pocketsn-El>
Mira Telegram.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

ton was tested IT a similar way, but in
this case there were two flags, red and
blue, and the signal was only to be
given when the flag was shown which
had been previously agreed on. The
time taken up in considering this point
prolonged the interval, and the differ
cnce by which this exceeded the time in
the previous experiment indicated the
time consumed in this process.
(c) The time required for decision was
arrived at by having to give a different
signal for the red and blue flags re-
Spectively. Hence the person had not
only to distinguish them, but to decide
which key to press.
Several drugs were experimental on,
but wish to call special attention to
the fact that alcohol prolonged all these
Epcriods. 1t took longer both to signal,
to discriminate and to decide; in fact,
all these mental processes were slower
after taking it. This is entirely in ac-
cordance with previous observations,
and there can be no doubt whatever
that the role of alcohol is that of mar
cotic. But there is one most significant
remark which quote from DIR. Brunton.
He says: THE influence of alcohol upon
physical processes is curious; for while
it renders them much slower, the indi-
vidual under its influence believes them
to be much quicker than usual"
AS a corroboration of this narcotic
action of alcohol, 1 have made sev-
eral experiments, chiefly on myself.
These consisted in endeavoring to pass
a pointed stick through swinging ring,
counting the number of swings between
each successful endeavor and adding
these together when sixty had been ac-
complished. A certain dose of pure rec
titled spirit was then taken, and after
fifteen minutes the number of swings
required to accomplish sixty more
swings was counted. l append the re-
sult of the experiments made on my
self, because | can guarantee their bona
.fde performance and accuracy, and they
were all performed after sufficient skill
had been acquired by practice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
HOLMES AT EIGHTY.
How the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Takes Care of HIMSELF


Takes Care of Himself.
Oliver Wendell Holmes thinks that he
owes his good health and the retention
of his mental vigor in his eighty-first
year to the extreme care no has long
taken of himself Never robust, he was
still wiry in his earlier and maturer
life, but since he reached seventy his
hygicnic vigilance is unceasing. The
rooms that he daily occupies are
equipped with barometers, thermom-.
eters, aeromcters- every kind of instru-
ment, in short, to prevent his mourning
the slightest risk of taking Geld. He
knows that pneumonia is the most for
midable foe of old age, and he is deter
mined to keep it at 4 distance, if posi-
BILE. He never gets up until ha knows
the exact temperature, during winter,
or takes his bath without having the
water accurately tested. He lives by
rule, and the rule is inhc4ible His
time is scrupulously divideG-so much
allotted to reading, so much to writing,
so much to exercise, so much to recrea-
ton. His meals are studieg of prudence
and digestion. He understands the
specific qualities OF ordinary foods and
never departs from the severest discre-
ton in eating. One might think that it
would be a serious infection to keep up
existence by such precise, unvarying
methods. But the little doctor enjoys
them, having settled firmly into these
habits years ago. Philosophic as he is
about death, hehas an eager curiosity to
see how long he can live by following
the laws he has vigorously prescribed
for himself, lie has long had vigorous
theories on the subject of health and
longevity, and he relishes experiment.
ing upon himself. He thinks sometimes
that he may attain one hundred, which
he would dearly like, it he could retain,
as he has retained thus far, the full
possession of all his faculties.-Commer-
cial Advertiser
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
SOME BIG BRIDGES.
Engineering FeatS That the Ancients
Would Have Thought Impossible.


The inventors of phrases have much
exercised their ingenuity of late in
coming a proper title for the present
age. and to the list of labels already
made there may surely be added that of
the Age of Big Bridges. The Brooklyn
bridge led the way, then came that
across the Firth of Forth, next the pro-
ject to join the shores of the English
channel, and now congress has been
asked to grant Il company of engineers
and capitalists the right to span the
Hudson from New York to New Jersey.
1t is claimed that this will be the big
gest bridge in the world, the engineer
ing standard being the length of span
and not the length of the whole struct-
ure. Thus, while the English channel
is twenty miles wide at the point to be
bridged, the longest span of the contem-
plated great link between England and
France is to be hut 100 feet, while the
span of the North river bridge is to be
1850 feet. A better idea of the bold
ness of this enormous leap may be gath
cred from the fact, in comparison, that
the river span Of the Brooklyn bridge
is 1,495 feet, while that at Niagara is
but 1,26S feet. The height of this giant
span from the river is to be $50 feet, or
fifteen feet higher than the Brooklyn.
This will leave the river practically I'M
INSTRUCTED.
The dispatch does not say so in so
many words, but there is very fair in
ternal evidence that the bridge is to be
of the suspension order of construction
the most graceful form of all bridges.
1t is to be built of steel and steel wire,
materials now SO much cheaper than
they were at the time the brooklyn
bridge was built that the probability is
that the air passage over the North river
will be completed at no greater if not at
a less cost (SS, 600, O00) than was that over
the East river One important factor in
this probability is the fact that the New
York-New Jersey bridge is to be open
for traffic in seven years from the date
of franchise, while fifteen years elapsed
before the New Brooklyn bridge
was completed
The enterprise is undoubtedly good
commercial one, as the success of the
Brooklyn bridge has proved; and PEI
haps by the time the Jersey bridg
is in good running order the spirit
of boldness may have made its way S,
far West that we may begin to seriously
discuss to feasibility OF similar con
nection between San Francisco and Oak
land, San Francisco Chronicle,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
BREVITIES.
journal.

TOTAL abstinence has the power of
prolonging more lives than all the doc
tors of England, of saving more money
than all the savings banks IN the
United Kingdom, and of preventing
more crime than all the police of the
metropolis. -Wilberforce.
THE New York Legislature has de-
feated bill to allow the sale of liquor
at balls until after three o'clock in the
morning. Laws ought to be passed
stopping the sale of liquor at balls al
together. Such sales are demoralizing
to the last degree and turn balls into
orgies in too many cases.-Chicago
journal.
GERMANY's own papers and statistics
refute the claim that little drunkenness
exists in that beer-loving country. Wit
ness the following current item from
the German press: ''Germany0annually
spends 100000 600 marks for its army,
but not much less for its alcoholic
drinks, which cost 4O6, 900, 900 marks.
Statistics show that the Incorporate
class furnishes thirty per cent. of all
the insane, fifty per cent. of all the poor,
and seventy per cent. of all the crimi-
nails. w. c. Il. U. Bulletin
This interesting story is told of Hor-
ace Greeley: He was presiding at din
ner given by tho press, in 1868, at Del
monico's in honor of Charles Dickens,
and "while Dickens partook freely of
the wines, Greedy did not turn his
glasses down, but thrust them out of
his way, with a single exception, and in
that placed beautiful red rose that had
been furnished for his boutonniere, and
during the dinner lifted his glass to his
nose as often as others raised glasses to
their mouths, and the fragrance of tho
rose was all the stimulart he needed"
1t was characteristic incident, and the
lesson of it is impressive even yet.
A RESIDENT of Ballston, N. Y, named
Mcdonald died two years ago and
left to his son $4,000 in money and
a prosperous business. The son
took to drink, the wife did like
wise, and family quarrels followed
The son was frequently arrested and
finally his property was rapidly
wasted, and vas recently sold to satisfy
accumulated claims against him. Next
the mother deserted her children and
abandoned herself to drink; the family
is broken up, the father and mother
have become Migrants and their chill
dren are homeless. Thus does strong
drink do its merciless work of devasta,
ton and ruin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
HERE'S A LADDlE.

Here's laddie, bright and fair.
And his heart is free from care;
Win he ever. do you think,
Learn to smoke, and chew. and drink?
Make furnace of HIS throat,
Anda chimney of his nose"
In his pocket not II groat
Elbows out and ragged toes?
Here's laddic, full of glec
And his step is light and free;
Win he ever, do you think.
Mad with thirst, and crazed with drink
Stagger wildly down the street;
WallOw in the mirc and SleCt;
Hug the lamp-pOSt, and declare
Snakes are Writhing in his hair!
Not an i'll this laddie knows
And his breath is like the rose;
Will he ever, do you think,
Poisoned by the cursed drink,
Fever burning in his veins,
Soul and body racked with pains,
Sink into drunkard's grave,
Few to pity-none to save?
No; this laddie, honor bright.
SwearS to love the true and RI ght,
Keep his body pure and sweet,
For an angels dwelling meet;
Never, never will he sup
Horrors from the drunkard's cup;
Never in the flowing bowl
Will he drown his angel-soul.
Julia NJ. Thayer, in Temperance Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

Notwithstanding, your husband is
getting to be a terrible swearer. He
was not like this years ago.
Daughter know it, mamma; but you
know Charles keeps books in bird
store now.
Mother-Well, what's that got to do
with it?
Daughter-A great deal. There are
always seven or eight parrots in stock.
Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

The progressive increase in these fig
urcs with larger doses is a good indica-
ton of the action of the alcohol, and
roughly indicates the comparative
amount of injury done. The influence
of one drachm is dccisively indicated,
and | found two drachms quite enough
to produce transient giddiness. There
were considerable variations in the
number at the various sittings, but they
are due to many causes, such as time of
day, amount of light, condition of brain
and body, etc; but this difference does
not affect the relative result with and
without alcohol. Each experiment was
done on different day. Several func-
tions of the brain and spinal cord are
hereby tested, such as:
l. The steadiness of the hand and CO.
ordination of the muscles.
2. The sharpness of the sight.
8. The accuracy of tho Judgment.
4. The rapidity of thought perception
and decision).
5. The rapidity of muscular action.
6. The power of self-control.
1t may be taken as proved that alco-
hol Injuries the capacity of self-control,
or temperance, which can not be as
great or complete with alcohol as with
out it. The largest quantity taken,
half an ounce, is about the amount con-
tanned in half pint of beer, a small
glass of wine, or two tablespoonful of
brandy and water, and hence these are
clearly capable of doing considerable
harm to the nervous system.-J. j.
Ridge, NJ. D., in Medical Temperance
II
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
All They Could Stand.

A gentleman said to a large crowd
that was pouring out of a public hall:
whats going on inside?"
-.sA humorous lecture" was tho reply.
sis it over already, it's only nine
o'clock?"
'No," shouted the crowd, cts only
about half ver,"-Epoch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
A DEAD FAILURE.
No Hope for Smithers-He's To-
bacco's Slave Once More.
[ WAS so soon to be

1 w Ao 50 SOOu W W
done for,
What was 1 begun FORT
The following is
the brief, sad history
of a pair of New
York good resolu-
tions. They started
out bright and early
in the initial mo-
ments of the pres
ent year with every
prospect of a long,
useful and honor
able career. Bat
Fate, aided and
abetted by the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

single Whit. H @
looks worn and ca
d q V er Gus. His
usually good tenn
per h as forsaken
him. But h 9 is
still steadfast in
h i s resolve. On
the fourth day
Byron Smithers u.
Calhoun's younger
brother) was taken
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
Not just What He Expected.

Guest Ito waiter)-What do you mean
oy bringing me such small piece OF
meat9 Have you nothing larger?
Waiter-0h, yes; III go and get your
bt0.-N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

His Honos-What made you steal this
gentleman's door-mat?
Prisoner-Sure, yer honor, it said
Welcome" on it in letters as long as
your ar-r-rm.-Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
Circumstantial Evidence.

"Mr. Slowpop has proposed, to you
my dear"
GLOW do you know, papa?"
81 met him as was coming in"
"Did he look happy"
"No; but his trousers were terribly
bagged at the knees. Time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

houn did. He sacri-
feed his good re-
solve. He began to
smoke again - but
this time for the re-
lief of suffering hui
mainly. Bryon's ear
ache was cured, and
J. Calhoun says he
will not swear off
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

H1'17-' III" III Win severe at
tack of earache. Now, every one knows
that tobacco smoke blown into the ear is
a sovereign remedy for the earache.
So what did J. Calhoun do? There was
no one else in the house who ever
touched the weed.
One sacrifice very frequently brings
about another. This is what j. Cs.Is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

Mrs. Gofrequent (rnaking calD-I
quite envy you your little boy, Mrs.
Flyabout. He looked so manly sitting
beside you yesterday when you were out
driu;po
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

have not the heart
to refer to it except
with pictures. l
will not even d.
vulge the name Of
the subject, but let
him hide himself
,1ndnr tho mannrnl
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

- - - -
a final offering he
also throws to the
flames his store of
Lone Jack" and
and Perique MKT
ure. If he h ad
kept any of these
things, argued Mr..
Smithers, he could
not have resisted
the temptation to
re ne W relations
wi t h King Nico-
tine. When the sc,
she declared that 4.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

THE SAME OLD JAG. title of Terrible
Example.-Charles Lederer, in Chicago
Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

brimming eyes ne cast five beautifully.
colored pipes into the hot flames of the
kitchen stove.
He adds to this sacrifice the cigars
IT, r.L.ll i
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

weakness of human flesh, ordained
otherwise. J. Calhoun Smithers was
hard, an inveterate smoker. He smoked
as many as twelve cigars a day and as
many more pipes at night. He smoked
everlastingly.
People told him that it affected his
health and he believed them. Decem-
Der 81 he resolved to begin the new year
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

Mrs. Flyabout with a sigh)-Yes, I
had to take Johnny yesterday. Dear
little Fido was sick.-Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
in his box. And as

want returned home
some one had been
gs in the kitchen
rec days have passed
has not Srnnl-nd n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29
? frequently brings
is is what j. Car
BUT NOT IN VAIN.

VIII HOU SWtar OH
again until the year '91.
The other case is so very sad that |
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

Der mouth-pioce of TIE SACRIFICE.
his favorite mcerschaum or still more
fragrant Havana. 1t was u symposium
of the pleasures of nicotine.
The clocks of the city strike twelve
AL the steam whistles apparently in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-29

as a recruit in the
army of non-smok-
ers. Firmly he made
up his mind that he
would abjure t h @
weed forever after
Is 50. Yet he re-
solved that he would
extract all possible
enjoyment from the
last few hours of his
indulgence in h is
pipe and cigar. Not
for one instant on
New Years Eve were
his lips notsurround-
ing either the am
bpp Dnoufh-piCca of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-04

The DECENT people and the decent news
with the test oath law which once dis
graced the statute book of that territory,
and were glad when the act was repealed.
The Mormons are among the very best
citizens of our southern neighbor, and are
SO recognized by those among whom they
live. They have also done their full share
towards the development of the resources
OF the territory, and their work is appre-
ciated. The governor and little clique of
Republican politicians are endeavoring to
induce Congress to re-enact the test oath
for the purpose of depriving Mormons of
the right to vote, thus turning the terri
tory over to the Republicans; but the
scheme gains little favor, and if the great
majority of the Arizona people shall be al
lowed a say in the matter, no such law will
go into the books. The Phoenix Gazette
expresses the popular sentiment when it
says: "Any religious test oath is and al
ways will be odious to a free people, hence
the anti-Mormon legislation now beng
urged for Arizona has no backing where
dwell free men and women. The spirit of
Americanism requires that punishment
shall not be inflicted for any uncommitted
wrong, and rejects the doctrine that any
man may be rightly punished by human
law for his thoughts. However, when
men violate the law and commit crime it
may follow that the loss of citizenship
will result therefromn
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-04
1.-THE IDAHO OUTRAGED

Captain JOHN GOODMAN, gentleman who
is familiar with politics and peoples in
Idaho, where he spends few months every
year, had a letter in the New York Com
mercidl- Advertiser the other day, expressing
the true inwardness of the scheme for tax
ing our northern neighbor into the union
as a free and sovereign state. The charac-
ter of the article will be understood after
reading the following editorial taken from
the Advertiser:
No one can read Captain CoDMAN's letter in
yesterdays Commercial without being made viz
idly aware of the infamy of the political engin-
eering by which Idaho is being prematurely
granted statehood The Senate and House com.
mittees have reported in favor of its admission
to the union and the rest is soon to follow
Nothing can be palmer than that this action is
due not at all to the needs of that territory but
altogether to the needs of the Republican party.
1t is among the first fruits of the REED auto
cracy. The population of the territory consists
of 25,0o0 Mormon agriculturists, industrious,
frugal, thrifty, and perhaps eighty odd thou
sand rowing shepherds and cowboys and equally
migratory miners neither of whom are in any
sense permanently settled in the country-both
moments notice and hurry off to pastures new.
The only really settled portion of the popula-
ton is the Mormon contingent. And the Nor
mons are disfranchised. DISTINGUISHED, too, not
because of any criminal conduct on their part
but because at one time their religious leaders
preached polygamy The presiding officer OF
the Idaho Mormons has issued orders to his
clergy not to preach that,doctrine any longer
nor has new case of polygamy been reported
among the people. But, be that as it may, these
$1,000 Mormops are DISTINGUISHED. And, such
being the case, there is no propriety in counting
them in the census. But since they, the only
permanent portion of the population, cannot
take rank as citizens, the admission of Idaho a.
this time adds but another to the list of Republi
can usurpations. The Mormons are not goot
enough citizens to be entitled to the protection
Of the government-but they are good enough
citizens to swell the Republican majority in the
national legislature. To such devices is the G
o. P. reduced!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-04

OVER THREE million dollars a month in
vested in Salt Lake reality There Is some
thing in these figures which should induce
some very serious thinking ON the part OF
bankers and financiers. AS a matter of
fact all the money is not paid down
for the land that is bought; perhaps not
more than thirty per cent. of the cost is
paid when the sale is made and the deed
placed on record; the balance stands as
mortgage on the land, for three, six, nine
or twelve months, drawing interest
There is probably sufficient money in the
town to pay thirty per cent of the pur-
chase price, but there is not enough to pay
fifty per cent. The banks are loaned out
to their limit; they neither viii nor can do
more. In little while the notes will fall
due and people begin to foreclose
their mortgages; then where will the money
come from! The property will be worth
the amount for which it Is held, but if the
cash to cancel the mortgage is not here, and
it certainly is not, howis the owner to paya
More money must be brought into Salt
Lake, or there will come trouble. The real
estate dealers, the property owners and the
bankers should do something to prepare for
what is coming when the 20 per cent. due
on land sold will have to be paid.