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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-14

In an article on "Theft n Politics.
the New York Times breaches a timel,
sermon in which it draws on a Montana
precedent for a warning and a moral
1t says:
1.-THE Ingalls, theory of politics as war.
fare, in which the decalogue and the
golden rule have no place, and in which
every advantage is to be taken OF the
enemy without regard to moral princi-
pie has SO far prevailed in times past as
to beget among violent partisans a re-
marka5le callousnessness as to moral
distinctions where public office is to be
gained or lost. Their sense of right and
wrong seems to have become hopelessly
blunted until absolute theft is justified
to their minds il it is necessary to party
advantage. But the last election in this
country showed that this kind of un-
scrupulous craftsmanship has 80 far lost
ground that enough OF the ne ople are
disposed to condemn political theft to
make its practice no longer safe. There
IS no doubt that the stealing of the
Montana senatorships and of several
seats in the house of representatives by
the partisan majority in congress had
no small effect in producing the sweep
ing defeat of the republican party"
1t refers to Chambers crooked work
in New Hampshire and to the republic
an effort to prevent the declaration of
vote which elected a democratic COVER
nor IN Connecticut, and concludes: "All
these performances illustrate the lack
OF moral principles which has prevailed
SO long in political contests that the
ordinary distinctions of right and wrong
seem to be lost sight of. The theory SO
boldly avowed by Senator Ingalls, is that
which is acted upon in emergencies by
practical politicians Of both parties.
n they are likely to act upon it until
it IS SO plainly condemned by the moral
sense of the people that it is made un-
safe as a working theory" When the
practice of political parties in stealing
Offices and seats in legislatures is re-
buked by the defeat of any party guilty
OF it. or of the persons responsible for it.
there will be a cessation of that kind Of
crime, and We believe the time has al
ready come when the immediate gain in
wolves the risk of a much greater loss,r
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or not, or whether II will pay or mot to worl
at tho time Of the contest,
This bill was passed by the then demo
cratic house Of representatives on june
26, 1883, and killed by the republican
senate.
II the inter- Mountain does not yet be
lieye that Delegate Toole did somethin,
to save the mineral lands OF Montana
from railroad ownership, let it secure d
copy Of the Congressional Record Of the
date named, and read tho speech which
he made in support OF his amendment
There will be found the resolutions oil
the mineral land convention as part OF
his speech. Among other things Dele
gate Toole said:
There is a widespread, ~well-founded ard
impending danger of tho mineral lands of
the United States falling into the hands Of
the several land grant railroads, and in my
opinion the only certain and speedy remedy
against that which rises to the dignity of q
national calamity is embodied in the fore
going amendment and rests only with con-
gress.
So the governor and the Inter Noun
tain were on the same platform then.
The governor is still there.
Delegate Toole, referring to the com
munity rs a whole, further said:
No question has agitated the people OF
Montana more since its organization as a
territory than this bold attempt to secure a
monopoly of the unpatented mineral lands
1t is not q question of mere local import
1t rises to the character and dignity
of national consideration. Aside from be-
ing a fraud upon the government. the pos.
session by the railroad company withdraws
these lands from development and explora-
ton by the citizen and holds them for spec
ulative purposes.
Here again the governor and the Inter
were together. The governor
has not switched. Further on the gov
ernor said:
1t was never intended that all of the
great mineral wealth of this country falling
the land grants, which was undis-
covered at the time the grant attached,
should be given away to railroad companies,
Who would be permitted to stifie the devel-
'pment of our mineral resources by with
the lands from the prosrector and
ompellinR the citizen to purchase at a sum
ar in excess of the government price.
And if these quotations are not
nough to satisfy the Inter Mountain of
he falsity of its charge, here is another:
Is is high time that the law with its beak
claw should take hold of these corpor-
tions, creatures of it's own unholy crea-
ion, and give them such a vigorous shak-
lg as will compel them to let go that :
'hich is not their own. {
The governor has not altered his posi- :
on on the mineral land question. For :
roof OF this assertion read his message :
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~ Montanians abroad will always find The
DAILY INDEPENDENT ON file at their fsvorits
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan, New
York; Grand Pacific, Chicago; West, Ninneapo-
ls; baldwin and Palace, San francisco; st.
Nicholas and McDermott. Butte; Leland, Hotsl,
Springfield. Ill.
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silver Lace Wynn lofts.
mr.. =. u. smith. Of the Broadway Fish
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1t Looked Great.

Mr.. 6. 5. Clinton placed Coventry,
England" after his name on the Audi
torium register the other morning. A
reporter asked him what he thought of
this country in general.
''Oh. like it pretty well,n he replied.
Have you Travelled very extensively
in the United States2"
"An over it.
Have you been in Chicago beforeY"
Often"
DO you intend to remain in this coun-
try longY
For the rest of my life."
Then you like it SO well that you in
tend to settle hereT
~ think will. Pve been in the
United States for twenty-seven years.
1t suits me first rate. register from
Coventry because it looks better than
He'll Creek, where live, and so that /
can remNuber to write letters to my
people in England. Haven't seen Gov
entry since was q small boy and don't
want to. but the name looks simply
great on hotel book. Don't you think
soT'-Chicago Inter-O Ocean
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Tanning "a Zebra.

Zehras can never be tanned. unless the
process is begun while they are still very
young. q. A Dryden gives an instance
of a tragic fate which befell one of them.
captured when he was 2 or 8 years old.
He had joined troop of horses belong.
ing to one of the authors friends, and
finally allowed himself to be driven with
them into II kraal or inclosure.. It was
then determined to keep him, and il pos
sible to dolnesticate him.
For this purpose he was lassoed and
tied to a tree. but so ferocious was he in
the presence of man that the greatest
precautions had to be observed in ap-
proaching him. All possible means were
taken to induce him to feed. When cap
tured he was in splendid condition, and
his coat shone in the sun. Herbage was
brought from the mountain tops where
he had been used to Craze. and every
conceivable food placed before him. but
in vain; he steadily refused to eat.
Water he drank greedily, and would
dispose of three bucketfuls at time
At length. after three weeks of vain
endeavor to tame the noble creature,
during which time he subsisted entirely
on water, he died.-Y Youths Companion.
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RemnrhaBIe Feat of strength.

E. P. Kendall gave remarkable ex-
hibition of his skill and strength with a
n-pound dumbber at noontime. He
matched himself against eight strong
men employed upon the grade work
about the county court house. and
agreed to put up from shoulder to arms
length a ten-pound dumbben more times
than the eight men could. Kendall has
limb which makes it necessary for him
to use crutches. and as he is of very
slight build the result of the contest ap-
peared to be foregone conclusion.
One after another the eight men took
their places, Kendall keeping time with
each one, and after the eighth had
dropped his arm from sheer exhaustion
Kendall smiled pleasantly and ran up
his score Of consecutive lifts to an even
1000. His best score with twelve-pound
bell is 1900 lifts, and he has brother
who holds the worlds championship
Seattle Press Times.
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An sA.,ny Of Poor Employee,.


To look after the city's standing army
Of dependents and delinquents requires a
big official force. There are three COM
missioners with 5000 year each. a
secretary who gets g, 800 and staff of
eleven at the central Office. besides the
superintendent of the outdoor poor and
six assistants.
There are As employees at the Tonlbs,
including physicians and matrons.
There are 81 employees in the district
prisons Jefferson Market, Essex Market,
Yorkville and Harlem), 72 employees at
the Bellevue hospital, besides 54 trained
female nurses, a chemist and 3 assist
ants, and 66 male nurses and employees
There is staff of IS at the Gouverneur
hospital, of 10 at the Harlem hospital,
Of 130 at the Charity hospital on Black
wells island, of SO at the penitentiafy,
of 42 in the almshouse, of As in the work
house, Of $50 in the city insane asylum,
Of so in the Wards island hospital, of
300 on Randalls and Wards islands, of
% at the Hart's island workhouse, of
100 at the Hart's island asylum. of rs at
the Islip asylum and of 1S in the store
house department on Blackwell's island
New York Sun
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Tho Scales on a Hair.

If You LOOK ut a human hair under the
microscope you will find that its surface
is formed of successive overlapping
scales. The bristles of the hog bear
much resembles to the human hair,
though their diameter is greater and the
tiielke scales are much finer. Sleeps
hair has much coarser scales It is
owing to the existence of these scales
that schoolboy is able by a peculiar
process to tell which is the tip and which
the other end of hair, rolling it be-
tween his finger and thumb. Thus
manipulated, the hair always travels in
the direction of the base, because the
edges Of the scales prevent it from going
the other way.-Interview in Washing
tom Star
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with a pretty lady whom he introduced
as his wife, She was resident of the
neighborhood of Georgetown. Her father
is a rich Blue Grass stpckman.
The happy couple after their marriage
visited Florida and contemplated trip
to California, when all of a sudden they
agreed to disagree.
Mr. Tolbert magnaninlously says that
he cannot make her happy Mrs. Toll
bert. so far as appearances are concern
ed. seems to be willing to proceed in the
old lines, but Albert called a halt. They
consulted counsel
Tolbert gave his bride 81 600 in jewelry
and Sc 500 in United States bonds, and,
as measure of good luck, he left at
stached thereto. the coupons which are
due next January Then they kissed,
embraced. took one more look into each
others eyes and parted. She returned
to Georgetown. He is in this city
Cincinnati Cor. Philadelphia Record
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The Use Of the Word reiepathy.

The term telepathy must not be In
troduced without explanation. Some
term not yet in common use must be
employed when mental phenomena-in-
huences of mind ON mind-not generally
seen to be closely related have to be
classed together and, if possible,
brought under one law. The familiar
term though transference" has much
too limited meaning And .ztelep-
athy'' is already in use. 1t has been
adopted by the Society for Psychical
Research, and among other writer's, es-
pecially by Mr. Edmund Gurney.-
-Blackwood's Magazine.
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MARRIAGE IN AssYRl-..
Rather More a Matter of Barter There
Than in the Land of the Free.

Rather More a Matter of Barter There
Than in the Land of the Free
Men live on six cents a day in Assyria
Assyrian women are bought and sold
are made to work with oxen at the plow
and have as little liberty as in the days
of Cadmus Men who pay six dollars
day to live ard ladies who ride to shops
in victorias thought over these things as
they left the Lincoln Park church Sun
day night Amen Rasi, born on Mount
Lebanon. told these things in broken
English
Amen Rasi is a tall, handsome Assy.
rian. with skin as rich as the CHINA
mon silks made at the foot of the noun
tain on which he was born. He looked
into the curious, bright eyes of girls
and told them that, had they been born
Assyrians in Assyria they could not go
upon the streets unless their faces were
concealed; that they could neither re-
ceive nor make a call among women
without their husbands consent, and
that if at any time, even by accident.
they were seen by any man or in any
way recognized no one would marry
them
He said that once two couples-a tall
1Ashh SuOTL WOuIdu, anu d SuOIL
man and tall woman-stood before a
priest to be wed. The priest placed the
tall man and tall woman and the short
man and short woman together, and
none of the four knew whether it was
right or not, neither of them knowing
the other. But the parents hastily OBJ
jected, and placed the tall man by the
short woman and the short man by the
foil hot -, -
contracts.
Then Mr.. Rasi showed how these con-
tracts were made. He left the pulpit
and presently a man wrapped up in rich
'Assyrian raiment went up and sat upon
the floor Mr.. Rasi came back and
squatted beside him
81 would very much ike," he said,
for girl who is yours to be wife to my
son Isaac"
81 would be honored," returned the
can accent.
How many have you?"
Three"
How much years have they?"
''One is fifteen. one twenty and one
twenty-five"
Don't talk to me about the twenty
five nor the twenty; they are never fit to
marry, How much do you charge for
the little one?"
Give camels, four horses. three sheep
and fifty dollars
Bah! can buy 100 women for SO
much"
''But no little one"
"Oh, think So"
We'll. you can't have mine for q cent
less
81 pay"
But even then Isaac did not get the
little one, because few minutes later
Mr.. Rasi returned as another man, and
by doubling the price secured the girl
for his son Jacob.
Then Amen Rasi looked at the young
men, whose patent feathers cost them
seven dollars. and told them that people
in Assyria paid fifty cents for suit OF
clothes. The common people. he said,
paid three cents for twenty-five pounds
of cabbage and four cents for fivepounds
of turnips Fifty loaves of bread were
turned ont at a baking, and men some
times ate four and five loayes at a meal.
he waited for a moment, and then, turn
ing to a black boy behind him, said,
"They are so big" and he drew circle
that would inclose q Thanksgiving plat
ter.-Chicago Herald.
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rhe CuItivated ovster.

When your host places before you
oysters that are plump and round and
thick and deep and light colored and
mantled narrowly by fringe quite
thick to the very edge. then you may be
sure that they have not only lived with
few disturbances, but under a high state
of Observation-Disclosures L. Wilson in
Scr-ibner's
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Living on Eighty-four Cents a Week.

While on the subject of abstinence in
food, may be pardoned for mentioning
that many years ago, when schoolboy,
i tried how cheaply ! could live, and
found that was able to get, in summer,
everything ! required in the shape o.
good, wholesome food for three shillings
six and half pence week OF course
had little meat. and kept principally to
fruit and vegetables. which could buy
cheap. as ! was near a large town
National Review
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Met, Loved, Wed and i,..t.;ss.i...

Albert Tolbert is one of the best Known
young men about town. He .was em-
ployed in the Southern Railway Office
and also in the Fidelity tank. 20 his
friends he was known as ii confirmed
bachelor. Great was their surprise when
he returned Il, the city tyro weeks ago
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y. b.AWedtc1ne Coz.
GEsTLRMEN-Your kind favor received,
and in reply would say that am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of yonr medicines.
There is nothing like, them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La
grippe and kindred. complaints. / have
had no complaints SO far, and everyone
is ready with a word of praise for their
virtues. Yours, ETC.,
NJ. F. HAcKLEy.
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ten . bright. shiny green. but also permits the
use of " off.color" and worthless teas which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked OF as . good quality of tea
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: :. The manipulation of poor teas. to Gire
them a-hner appearance, is carried on extern
siyely. Green teas being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring chea. .er black Kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue. tumeric.
gypsum, and indigo. This method is 90 gen.
erdl that peTy little osaatne nncoLored green teo
Is offered for sale
1t was the knowledge Of this Condition If
affairs that prompted the placing of Beeclls
Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever see any
genuine uncolored japan tea? Ask your
grocer to open package of Beech's, and you
win see II, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found In color to be just be-
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
It draws delightful canary color, and is 50
fragrant that 1t viii be q revelation to tea
drinkerz Its purity makes St also more
economical than the artificial teas. for less
OF 1t Is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trademark:
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The phrase castles in the air, has
been attributed to Sir Philip Sydney
Swift. Fielding Churchill and Shen-
stone 1t was first used more than $50
years ago By Robert Burton in his
Anatomy of Melancholy
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or Little Faith.

Mrs Blinks- Dear me its raining.
How am to get this letter mailed?
Friend Hand it to the letter carrier.
Mrs Blinks-Hnh! He'd forget all
about it He's 2nan New York
Weekly
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Boz once oaeries.

Box ONCE Queries-
Charley Metcalfe was telling some
stories illustrative of the box Office mans
tribulations. "If it weren't for some
peoples dirty thumbs said he. .sPd
wish the Lord had made me In book
form. don't put in much time in the
box Office, but the few minutes I am
J there is enough for lifetime The
average ticket buyer asks enough inane
! questions but what do you think of a
man who sticks his head through the
window and wants to know the name OF
big steamer he saw going down the
East river day before yesterday? Well.
my boy, that's what happened this very
morning. and that's not q marker to
the questions some people ask either
There's the man who knows every
thing and wants you to recognize it, the
man who knows nothing and proves it..
and the woman who is nothing more or
less than n perpetually animated inter
rogation mark Why, two days ago a
man came in and told me all about the
piece then being played In the house,
After getting rid of him had to choke
off a long breath to inform fellow
that the theater was neither hotel nor
a lodging house He said he was sorry
that he liked the location first rate. Be-
fore had recovered from the fit he gave
me, man with three baskets, four chill
dren and a woman walked into the
lobby.
BE they a-actin or anything inside?
asked the man. No, sir, said l. Per
formance at s:15. Then what do you
suppose that man wanted? He actually
had the stupendous gall to ask me'if he
and his family couldn't go inside and
sit down for an hour or so while they
ate their luncheonf"-New York World
Women and Mice.
81 wish somebody would find some
thing to take the place of the exceed
ingly stale and silly women and mice
paragraph which has been going the
rounds of the papers, with divers and
sundry changes rung on it, ever since
can remember, and goodness knows how
much longer said a charming little
woman as she opened the mousetrap
and let two or three of its occupants out
into the jaws of a number of hungry kit
tens. II wonder who started it any,
way? OF course there are women who
are afraid of mice, no doubt but never
saw woman make herself more ridicu-
lous over o mouse than q certain man
did when one of these harmless little
creatures scooted up the leg of his trou-
sers.
II don't imagine any one would feel
especially comfortable with any such
foreign element meandering around ones
preserves; but why women and mice
in particular, is what don't understand.
think there are very few housekeepers
but what have frequent occasions to
come in contact with rats >as well as
mice. and. as far as can see, they seem
to survive-at all events. never heard
of anybody dying from fear of them
suppose that the tnouse paragraph must
be near akin to that of the rnother-in-
law Be that as it may. both are so
threadbare and faded and frayed out
and bleached with time and hard serv-
ice that it would be work of mercy
for some benevolent and intelligent para
grapher to get up a new supply of am
munition. New York ledger
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Health is Wealth +!

MENT, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi-
ness, Commissions, Fits, Nervous. Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
preston, softening Of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death, ,
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power
in either sex, involuntary Losses and spefmat-
orrhoea caused by oyer exertion of the brain, self
abuse or over Indulgence. Each box contains
one mqnth's treatment, 81 90 boz, ,er six boxes
TOR $780, sent by mail prepaid receipt o. price
81 WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES s'ss.
20 cure any case. With each order reeeiyed BY
us forsix boxes, accompanied by $500 we wilt
send the purchaser our written guarantee 20 re
fund the money If the treatment does not efec,
aeure. Guarantees issued only by seg1sp
-: BLAKELEY & HOUGHTON, Ss's
;s Prescription Druggists,
1S6 Second St.. ~ The sDalles. Or.
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Old People

j. v. s. is the only SarsSparila that old or
feeble people should take rs the mineral potash
which is in every othcrsarsa asillu That y. c know
OF, is under certain conditions known to be
emaciating. j. Y. s. OH the contrary is purely
vegetable and stimulates digestion and creates
new blood, the very Thing fer old, delicate or
broken down people. 1t builds them up AID
prolongs their lives. a case i'll point:
Mrs. Bclden an estimable aud elderly lady OF
$40 Mason st. s. F. was for months declining
rapidly as to seriously alarm Ler family. Itgot
SO bad thatshc was finally afflicted with fainting
spells She writes: 81 While III TINT dangerous
condition saw some of the testimonials con-
cerning J.F. S, andscnt for bottle. That marked
the turning point regaincd InyIost flesh aud
strength andthave not felt well in years"
That-was two years ago and Mrs. Belden is well
and hearty to-day, and still taking VS..
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Ask for
joys ssssssssi'ia sssssas's

Most modern. most effective, largest bottle.
Same price, s1.0O, SIX for $500.
For Sale by SNIPES g. KINERSLY.
3A-ss THE DALLES. OREGON.
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The Dai1y

will be to advertise the resources of the city and
aolacent country, to assist in developing our
TOT our trade. in securing open river and in
helplng THE DALLES to take her proper position