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The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

Regarding the warrant referred to by
Alderman johnson, Mr.. Ringwald said
today that he simply acted under instruc-
tons from the city council. The matter
was Il cash transaction. 1t was under
stood that the warrant was to be paid as
soon as there was cash on hand.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

No wife objects to her husband coming
home loaded-with goods from the New
York Cash Bazaar.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

It covers the BEAUTIFUL PLATEAU overlooking the
BLACK EAGLE FALLS. where the CHOICEST RESIDENCE
and BUSINESS LOTS may, for a limited time, be purchased for
less than HALF THE PRICE Of other property not SO we'll To-
cat, d. Prices only 500 to $3.50 for 81 feet front Terms easy.
Send for maps and other information to
J. 0. GREGG, Park Hotel, Great Falls, Mont.
Or A. K. BARBOUR, Helena, Mont.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

nor SALE-First-class railroad ticket, Great
[ Falls to st. Paul, cheap. Inquire at Office,
Park hotel,
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

LOT in the town of Neihart will make you
A rich. For choice l%ocation, buy now.
H. D. BURGHARDT, Agent
Dnnn BLOCK,
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Just What He Wanted.

A NASAL INJECTOR free with each
bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. Price
so cents. For sale by Lapeyre Bros.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

nor SALE-A GOOD TWO-STORY HOUSE
Z and lot on Fifth avenue south; will be sold
at a bargain. The house brings a good rental.
Office.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

T IST your property with J. X. Clark d Co:
lIreal estate agents, Vaughn block, Central
avenue.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

NOR SALE-For 81. 500 cash. A gulch mining
L claim at Neihart, suitable for plating into
town lots: Contains a good quartz vein' with a
H. D. BURGHARDT, Dunn Block.
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THE BEST PLACE TO INVEST.

The GREATEST RISE IN VALUES of REAL ESTATE
during 1890 will be in NORTH FALLS by reason Of
the MILLIONS to be D in that vicinity in improve
ments during the year.
The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-15

DOR SALE-House and. lot. corner Fourth
Il avenue South and Third street. For further
particulars, apply at this Office.
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ARE OUT.

Several prospectors are already in the
field and several new and important dis
coveries will undoubtedly be placed this
season among Barker's already grand col
lection. The destiny of Barker looks
brighter and brighter every day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-18

words during each go seconds, and Allen, Of
Mississippi, is another fast talker. Judge
Holman talks slowly and deliberately. Nc
Kinley has an unpleasant way Of letting his
voice fall at the end of every sentence and
his concluding words are very indistinct.
He does not speak fast however, and In
clines to pompous utterances. Joe Cannon
speaks like lightning and so does General
Henderson, of Iowa, when he is warmed up:
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, varies his speed
from 150 to 175 words per minute, and
Cheadle, of Indiana, gets through his
speeches at all sorts of gaits. One of the
fastest speakers OF the past was Jim Belford.
who was liable to break out at any time into
oratorical pyrotechnics at the rate of2OOvords
per minute, and another was Sam Cox,
whose wittiest utterances were spouted out
at 200 words per minute. Some OF the slow
speakers are as hard to report as the fast
ones and the man who halts, shutters and
stammers troubles the reporter as much as
he who talks right along and speaks rapidly.
The speaking of the House is much easier
for the professional House stenographer than
for a new man. There are scores of words
which YOU will scarcely hear anywhere else
and which occur again and again.
COLLEGE BRED MEN.
The reporter must have thorough knowl-
edge of parliamentary rules and he must
understand the usages OF the House. Nearly
every one of the reporters is college bred
man, and most of them have been profess
sional stenographers for years. David Wolf
Brown, one of the most expert of the House
learned the art when he was
13, and he has been engaged in reporting
Congress since 1864. Another reporter, Mr..
White, took up shorthand when he was
child, and Andrew Devine reported the
Legislature at Albany before he came to re-
port Congress in IA He was engaged in
law reporting in New York for a long time,
and he was one ofthe reporters in the famous
Beecher trial.
1t costs $3.50, 900 every year to get out the
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"Why do you call this night train The
Tramp" asked the cross passenger, who
was mad because he had lost his ticket,
over paid the hackman, got an upper berth,
and broke the handle off his umbrella.
Because" replied Ganymede, the train
boy, for it was he, sit goes through without
change"
And while the convict IN upper four
played breezy nocturne with his nose, the
tall thin passenger, much pleased, bought
box of fresh kiln-dried Smyrna figs OF the
boy, saying be had promised to bring the
children home set of jack stones. but had
forgotten all about it until he heard the rattle
of these delicious bivalves as the boy passed
by. The use of this expression, coupled
with the fact that the tall thin passenger
went clear down to the wood box to pay his
fare, and did so with an air Of great mys-
terry and diplomatic and telephone dis
cussion conducted in Whispers on his part
and loud, harsh utterance on the part OF
the conductor, led to the suspicion that the
the tall thin passenger edited weekly paper
to fill long felt want.
ROBERT J. BURDETTE.
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WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH !


Beatrice
titled
IS his
sE re gyes up her hsr asf but Mr. GTaRse
nome he
o
Godfrey Elizabeth
alert
out
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beginning his Forty-ninth session of Con-
gress, and he is more efficient to-day than
he was 40 years ago. He has a curious way
of working. He pays no attention to the
mechanical part OF his work, and his sys-
tenn is the Pitman system in its simplest
form. He is so thoroughly posted on legis-
lation and public questions that he knows
what each man ought to say, and he keeps
mp with the thought as he goes along. He
criticises every sentence and his hand fol-
lows his brain like piece of machinery.
AN ACCOMPLISHED GENIUS.
He is one of the fastest thinkers among
our public men, and he thinks as last as he
writes. He is man of fine literary cul-
ture has studied law, and he has one of the
finest private libraries of Washington, in
cluding many old and rare books. He was
for time a newspaper correspondent in
connection with his reporting of the debates,
and he wrote letters for long time for the
Philadelphia Press. When Lewis Cass was
Secretary of State under Buchanan he
offered McElhone one of the foreign mis-
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| tion OF Beatrice by her sister, the threats OF
owen Dawes as regards himself, and the
measures which she had adopted to gain
| time.)
Further" the letter continued, ST in
close your wife's letter to me. And here I
! wish to state that ] have not one word to
say against Lady Honoria or her letter. L
think that she was perfectly justified in
writing as she did, for, after all, dear Geof-
frey. you are her husband, and in loving
each other we have offended against her
She tells me truly that it is my duty to make
all further communication between US i'm
possible. There Is only one way to do this
and take it,
"And now I have spoken enough about
myself, nor do wish to enter into details
that could only give you pain. There will
be no scandal, dear, and if any word should
be raised against you after / have gone, 1
have provided an answer in the second let
ter, which have inclosed. You can print
it if necessary; it will be sufficient reply
to any talk. Nobody after reading it can
believe that you were in any way connected
with the accident which will happen. Dear,
one word more-stlll about myself, you see!
Do not blame yourself in this matter for
you are not to blame; of my own free will
do it, because in the extremity OF the cir
cumstances think 1t best that one should
60 and the other be saved, rather than
that both should be involved in a common
ruin.
Dear, do you remember how in that
strange vision of mine dreamed that you
came and touched me on the breast and
showed me light? So it has come to pass,
for you have given me loye-that is light;
and now in death shall seek for wisdom.
And this being fulfilled, shall not the rest
be fulfilled in season? Shall I not sit in
those cloudy halls till see you come to
seek me, the word of wisdom on your lips?
And since L cannot have you to myself, and
be all in all to you, why am glad to go.
For here on the world is neither rest nor
happiness; as in, my dream, too often does
Hope seem to rend her starry robes
am glad to go from such world, in
which but one happy thing has found me-
the blessing of your love. am worn out |
with the weariness and struggle, and now
that have lost you long for rest. do |
not know if sin in what do; if so, may I |
be forgiven. If forgiveness is impossible, so |
be it. You will forgive me, Geofrey, and |
you will always love me, however wicked I |
may be; even if at the last you 90 where 1 |
am not you will remember and love the |
erring woman to whom, being so little, you |
still were all In all We are not married, |
Geoffrey, according to the customs of the |
world, but two short days from hence shall |
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nor should dc. so now, knowing to what
risks such written words might put you,
were it not that occasions may arise Gas in
this case) which seem to justify the risk.
For when all things are ended between a
man and q woman who are to each other
what we have been, then it is we'll that the
one who goes should speak plainly before
speech becomes impossible, if only that the
one who is left should not misunderstood
that which has been done.
"Geoffrey, it is probable-it is almost GER
tain-that before your eyes read these words
I shall be where in the body they can never
see me more. I write to you from the brink
Of the grave. When you read, it will have
closed over me.
"Geofrey, shall be dead.
II received your dear letter (it is de
stroyed now in which you expressed wish
that should come away with you to some
other country, and answered it in eight
brief words. dared not trust myself to
write more, nor had I any time. How
could you think that 1 should ever accept
such an offer for my own sake, when to do
so would have been to ruin you? But first
will tell you all that has happened here"
(Here followed a long and exact descrIp-
tion of those events with which we are al
ready acquainted, including the denuncia-
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| Geofrey was accused by Owen Davies or
anybody else of having had anything to do
| with her mysterious end, the production Of
| such frank epistle, written two days pre-
| viously, would demonstrate the absurdity OF
the idea. Poor Beatrice, she was full OF
| precautionsi
Let him who may imagine the effect pro-
| duced upon Geofrey by this heartrending
and astounding epistleI Could Beatrice have
seen his face when he had finished reading
| it she would never have committed suicide.
| In a minute it became like that of an old
| man. As the whole truth sank into his
mind, such an agony of horror, Of remorse,
OF unavailing woe and helplessness swept
across his soul that for moment he thought
his vital forces would give way beneath it.
and that he should die, as indeed in that
dark hour he would have rejoiced to do.
And of those towards who bounded her to
death, if indeed she was already dead. Oh,
he would kill this Owen Dsvies-yes and
Elizabeth, too, were it not that she was q
woman; and as for Honoria, he had done
with her. Scandal, what did he care for
scandal? Ii he had his will there should be
scandal, indeed, for he would beat this
Owen Davies, this reptile, who did not hesi-
tate to use a woman's terrors to prosper the
fulfilling of his lust-yes, and then drag
him to the Continent and kill him there.
Only vengeance was lett to himi
Stop, he must not give way-perhaps she
was not dead-perhaps that horrible presage
of evil which had struck him like a storm
was nothing but dream. Could he tele-
graph? No, it was too late; the Office at
Bryngelly would be closed-it was past 8
now. But he could go. There was a train
leaving little after 9-he should be there
by $50 tomorrow. And Efie was ill-well,
surely they could look after her for "a hours;
she was in no danger, and he must go-he
could not bear this torturing suspense. On,
how had she done the deedI
Geofrey snatched a sheet of paper and
tried to write. He could not, his hand shook
SO. With groan he rose, ana going to the
refreshment room swallowed two glasses Of
brandy one after another. The spirit took
effect on him; he could write now. Rapidly
he scribbled on O sheet of paper:
II have been called away upon impartant
business, and shall probably not be back till
Thursday morning. See that Efie is prop
erly attended to. 1t am not back you must
not go to the Duchess ball.
"GEOFFREY BINGHAM"
Then he addressed the letter to Lady
Honoria, and dispatched commissionaire
with it. This done he got into a cab and
bade the cabman drive to Euston as fast n
his horse could go.
(7o be continued nszt Sunday)
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TREATING DOG BITES.

A Novel Plan That is n Little Hard on the
Fowl Creation.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
A good thing to do for mad dog bite is
to fill the wound with powder and touch it
off. Then drink whisky. This meets snake
bites, too. An eficacious and aboriginal
plan is to procure half dozen young live
fowls. cut the skin from the side of one, and
put the raw spot against the bitten part. In
few minutes take another fowl and use it
in the same way. -Four will usually die,
the fifth Will get glddy, but not die, and the
sixth may not be needed. Such treatment
for dog bites is handler than, and as reliable
as, the maidstone.
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A BEE IN A FLOWER.

The Picture In an Orchid Found In Mount
aiuous Parts of England.
Harper's Bazar.l
These lines, written years ago, refer to a
species of orchid which may be found in the
mountainous parts of Lincolnshire and
Kent, England:
Il sought the Living Bee to find,
And found the picture of Bee"
A traveller has said that mature has
formed bee apparently feeding in the
heart Of the flower, and with such exactness
as makes it impossible to distinguish the
imposition.
Another, writing of the bee orchid. adds,
'Their resemblance to these insects, when
in full bloom, is the most perfect concely-
able"
There is mention also Of fly orchid, a
plant equally curious, and both these pecu-
liar growths become very fascinating stud
les to all lovers of flowers.
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Their Wooden Wedding.

Lets see; yesterday was Robinson's
wooden wedding anniversary, wasn't it?'
eyes"
"Wonder if anybody went around?"
Eyes; went around in the evening"
Anything going on"
"You betl Mrs. Robinson had just
broken mop-stick to pieces over Robinson's
head. The floor was all Uttered up with
his whittlings Somebody had tipped the
wood-box over. The cat was cavorting
around with clothes-pin on her tail. The
children were playing see-saw with the
bread board, and the baby was eating box
OF matches. came to the conclusion that
the Robinsons were fully able to celebrate
their own wooden wedding, and that had
better give the lemon-squeezer bought for
them to nv wife" PAUL PASTNOR.
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RENT OF BUSINESS ROOMS.

Rates In Philadelphia Top the Pittsburg
Rates by u Good Deal.
Philadelphia Times.1
1 had occasion the other day to make in
quiries concerning renting rooms for busi-
ness purposes and was astonished to find
that no matter how bigb one went in some
of the new and magnificent structures lately
erected by various companies the rents were
higher still. could fin d nothing under $3.50
or $4O0 year and that for only one room.
In fact in several buildings was told that
they had nothing under $500 and felt no
anxiety about securing q tenant. But in
these days when so much is demanded by
tenants such as stationary washstands, cleo
trio lights, messenger calls, etc., the rents
have to be placed high.
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Dahomey's Faith in His Fighters.

Detroit Free Press.1
The King of Dahomey had for years be-
ieved that one of his warriors could whip
seven white men. When one Frenchman
began to lick nine of his fighters the King
slowly realized that he was "off," and he
also "offed" the heads of several of his gen.
erals for consolation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-18

But alasi one fatal day
They left the palm-tree's shade
That Hortentot so gay
And the merry little maid;
And the blistering, burning sun
On their kinky heads shone full,
Till it focused on the one
With pomade upon her wool.
Then that maiden slowly fried
On the sands of Africay,
And In agony she died
In most heartrending way.
And here and there stain
That leads toward the shade
Is all that doth remain
OF that foolish little maid.
SAM 7. CLOVER.
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Pellets From Various PestIes.

There is always room at the bottom-of
the soup.
Among public speakers it is notable that
those who lose their heads usually keep
their feet
Pepper aud salt are the best seasoning for
oysters. The summer season doesn't do
oysters much good.
1t takes a woman two seconds to make up
her mind, and four hours to make up her
toilet
A young man who was recently expelled
from social organization is said to have
observed that he never before realized how
much force there is "club-foot."
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weeks. The long
winded discussions
of the tariff have
interspersed with the
running fire of de-
bate and the full
corps of $1,000 men
have been busy night
and day. 1t is i'm
possible to conceive
the difficulty of re-
porting the House
during such a dis
cussion. A half
dozen men are often
speakinp at once and
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Blount, of Georgia, Cannon, of Illinois,
Mills, of Texas, and Mckinley, of Ohio, are
often shouting at each other at the same
time at the tops of their voices. The re-
porters take their notebooks and rush into
the melee and get every word as 1t is
uttered.
One man is always on duty, and some
times more. The reporters have desks d.
rectly in front of the Speaker and on level
with the House floor, and the work of re-
porting is done by relays. One will take
notes say for 20 minutes, and he will then
be relieved by another, while the first goes
down to the transcribing room in the base
ment OF the Capitol and writes out his
notes. Until very recently this transcribing
was done by redictating the notes to another
shorthand man, who in turn translated his
notes and put them down on paper for the
Congressional Record. Now the most Of the
Etenographers use the graphophone.
ONE OF THE BUSIEST PLACES.
As soon as they leave the House they sit
down before one of these little machines run
BY electricity and talk off their notes into it.
An ordinary typewriter can take them from
the graphophone and the expense of
transcription is much less. The transcrib-
ing room is one of the busiest places of the
Capitol. No talking is allowed in it, and
the only sounds that are heard are the low
but distinct tones of dictation and the rattle
Of the typewriter. There are five official
reporters Of the House, each of whom gets
$4,000 a year, with the exception of the
chief John J. MeElhone, who has salary
OF SC, 600.
McElhoDe is one of the Oldest and most
efficient reporters of the United States. He
was the first man to report the House ver-
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sions, but he refused it, and he will proha-
biv remain in the harness as long as he
lives. McElhone can report equally we'll
with both hands, and he often shifts his
pencil from one hand to the other during
busy day of the House. He has a son of
about 20, who is the youngest stenographer
on the House side, and who promises to be
as expert a reporter as bis father.
The five reporters are always on hand a
few minutes before the meeting of the
House. They divide the work between
them. Each one takes column of the
Record, and the man who gets the first as
slgnmeut is seated in his desk at the time
that the Speakers gavel falls. From this
time on be takes everything, from Chaplain
Mllburn's prayer to one of Congressman
dolman's rasping speeches. He is respon-
slole Tor an intelligent and accurate report
o. all that occurs and he must know every
thing that is going on. Every sound that is
uttered IN the way of debate or in asides
must iall upon the tYmparum of his ear, and
II ne should miss word he could not stop TO
recover It, in the necessity of keeping up
with that which follows.
THE RAPID SPEAKERS,
The average speaking of both House and
Senate is not over $50 words per minute. but at
times member will shout out an avalanche
OF new phrases at the rate of 200 words per
minute, and there have been speakers who
have uttered 225 words. Tom Reed talks
like steam engine and his spasmodic ut
terauces sometimes reach the 22O-word
limit. Mills rattles out 175 words minute.
Crap, OF Georgia. utters on the average 15O
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batim, and before
he undertook it it
was supposed to
be impossible. He
had been a re-
porter in the Sen
ate, and ne con-
Escted for the re-
portin e of the
lower House in
connect on with
John G. Riyes, the
founder ofthe Con-
qreSSiondl Globe.
This was in 1850,
aud Mr.. McElhone
has been reporting
from that day to
this. He is now
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Let Out a Reef.

"By John Henderson, you are getting
tremendously stout"
Eyes. I'm thinking of making a corpor-
alton Of myself"
"Good idea; you've started we'll. You
must have let out that stitch in your side
you complained Of the other day."
CARLYLE SMITH.
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A Man to Avoid.
Bostonian.1 ]

B0stonlan.J
GIlroy-There's SnodQrass across the
street, let's 60 over.
Larkin-No, thanks.
Gilroy-Why, 1 thought you were friends.
Larkin-So we are, but Snodgrass lives in
the country now. and don't care TO hear
anything about his garden to-day.
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Il can't see why-It Is really queer,
Butt think the Jungfrau keeps me here"
Then. suddenly turning, he bowed and
blushed-
His tourist cap to his bosom crushed
AS German maiden, with eyes of blue,
walked by them, bowling and blushing too.
And after her form the young man gazed.
While one of them said. with eyebrows raised;
My boy, to me it is distinctly clear
That the Jungfrau' means to keep you here.
MADELINE S. BRIDGES.
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Folks Jokes.
WILLIE A SAD SEA-DoG.

WILLIE A SAD SEA-DOG.
''I see somebody has introduced bill in
Congress to prevent this ocean racing.
Good idea"
"Yes-hardly a week passes that the
record is not cut down."
"What is the record now?"
"Well, Willie Fourhundred took q
schooner this morning and already he's half
seas over"