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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01
"A action in direct violation OF the law
that forbids hunting on that day or even

al action in direct violation OF the law
that forbids hunting on that day or even
travelling except for purposes OF neces-
sity and charity. In the average state
he might have broken the law and been
safe to return with the biggest bag OF
the season. Whether he did 80 or not,
we cannot tell. Dame Fortune, IN any
case, must have been seized with a sud
den fit of morality aud law abidingness,
for on his way home the Sunday breaker
fell and injured himself on the frozen
ground. On second thoughts, however,
we have been injuring Dame Fortune
in visiting her with an accusation OF
morality. Doubtless she knew that tho
injured man possessed a large accident
insurance policy, and was fully pre-
pared to see his neighbors, who had paid
premiums for twenty years and v
drawn a cent, preparing to kick them
selves for their folly in never going out
hunting on Sunday. But right ] n the
breach stands the good state OF Yer
mont and its supreme court. The pol
10y provided for exemption from lila
bility, where a violation Of law was the
act, cause or condition that produced
the injury. Every step the Sunday
breaker took, declared the supreme
court, was and of itself a violation OF
law, and consequently the plaintiff could
not v Poetic justice is ut last
realized on this mundane sphere and
Vermont stakes the cake"
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01
PREPARING FOR WINTER.
There Will BE Plenty of Fuel, No Matte
How Severe the Weather Ma he,

There Will BE Plenty of Fuel, No Matter
How Severe the Weather MAY He.
Herbert Nicholson & Co., the commission
merchants, have made ample preparations
during the past summer to answer every
demand made upon them this winter fol
fuel, no matter how great the call may be.
They have secured a large quantity Of dry,
yellow pine and fir wood, which will be de-
livered promptly to any part of the city at
ruling market rates. In addition they han
die hard, anthracite and soft coal, and
guarantee full weight, lowest prices and
prompt delivery.
Another feature of their business is the
hay and grain department.. They buy in
large lots. and are prepared to sell at the
lowest prices. The house is an old and
well-established one, and has grown to its
present proportions by strict attention te
the wants of its patrons. The uptown OF.
fee, on the corner of Edwards street and
Park avenue, 10 convenient to those who
live uptown, while the Office at the ware.
house, near the Northern Pacific depot. il
always ready to receive and execute orders
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01
POETIC

The undertaking perversity Of mum
dane things has passed into the ranks
of hoary truisms. Between the tricks
of fortune aud the cratic pl~ayfulness
Of the Montana broncho there is a
similarity. For days and weeks and
even months together the willy cayuse
will jog along in the demurest fashion
imaginable, until his rider puts implicit
faith in the animal he bestrides and is
ready to protest that all the stories he
has heard of innate vice are but legends
to beguile the gentle tenderfoot. But,
as surely as the sunlight, comes the day
OF reckoning, when the %trustful one is
bucked from his perch and makes most
violent acquaintance with mother earth
to the sad d%etrinent Of his %cuticle, his
clothing and his faith. To the best and
the wisest of mankind the freaks of
fortune present one vast enigma. The
wicked man fourisheth like the green
baytree vas the mournful plant of the
poet Ring of the Hebrews, and, if David
could revisit the scenes of our modern
life, neither the electric light, nor the
dude, nor any other of our Nineteenth
century developments would place him
under any necessity of revising the
opinion he once expressed. The good
boy still goes to Sunday school and
misses a sight of the runaway that has
afforded keen delight TO his unregene-
rate brother. To the sound of the
church bells the pious individual wends
his way to evening service, and the
taste Of his cold mutton clogs his palate,
as he sees the hunters returning with
prairie chickens and game galore.
"There's something rotten in the state
of Denmark" If we are of the severely
orthodox school, we gravely lay the
blame of the contrariness OF things in
general on the shoulders Of good man
Adam and talk soberly, if vaguely, of the
doctrine OF original sin. If, on the con-
trary, it has not been our fortune to be
brought up in the way we should go or
if, when older, we have departed there
from, we make ourselves pitiful com
pensatlon by heaping opprobrious cpl
thets on the "cussedness' Of what we
are pleased to call our luck.
Some consolation We may have derived
from the pages Of the poet, the drama
tist and the novelist. Under the glamour
OF their power, we may have seeen Wis
ions and dreamed dreams of q time when
poetic justice should prevail, when the
villain should never fail t. receive his
deserts and when the good man should
reap the rewards of his goodness. But
that was a Utopia which the first con
tact with the chill actualities Of the
world never failed to dispel in fogs and
cloudbanks. Now comes to the rescue
of our cherished hopes the supreme
court of the state of Vermont. Provi-
dence, said Napoleon, is always on the
side of the biggest battalions, and in the
Puritan state the law has come to the
rescue Of the hating ships of Provi-
dence. In this way. Vermont owns a
Citizen who went hunting on a Sunday,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01
HOW 1T

The loss of the convention of the
National Educational association, while
not a serious deprivation, is of course to
be regretted, but what is to be more re-
GREETED is that it was caused by the APP
parent cowardice and treachery OF one
man.
His name is j. M. Greenwood, and he
lives in Kansas City, Mo. He is a promi-
nent educator IN that city, and was one
of the committee of five with whom the
final choice remained. Messrs. Green
wood, Stephenson and Garrett visited
Helena, where they were offered all OPP
]portunities for determining our facilities
for accommodations. All repeatedly ex-
pressed themselves satisfied that Helena
was equal to the demand. Mr.. Green
wood, who of the three was Helena's
heartiest supporter at Toronto, and fire.
quently suggested methods to assist our
committee, told Chief Justice Blake
when leaving the city that he and his
tellow-committeemen were unanimous
in favor of Helena, and that the conven-
ton would come here as sure as three
we're a majority OF five.
Stephenson and Garrett were true to
their words; Greenwood was not.
That is how the matter stands. By
reference to correspondence in another
column it will be found that Mr.. Green
wood, no later than Oct. 20, was enthus-
iastic in favor of Helena. Indeed, Mr..
Brown tells us of all three visitors
Greenwood seemed most interested in
the success Of the Queen City. We do
not know the reasons for Mr.. Green
woods very sudden change. The argu-
ments used must have been most potent
as but one vote was needed to swing the
convention from Helena to Saratoga.
To a city SO prosperous, SO secure and
SO promising as Helena the loss of this
annual convention means nothing more
than temporary disappointment. No
body will whine over the matter. At
the same time it is most exasperating
to think that after the excellent work
of our local committee at Toronto and
the spirited enthusiasm of our citizens
the convention should have gone to
Saratoga because j. M. Greenwood de-
ceived us and stultified his honor.
Montana and the west will not forget
him
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01

IA Annual Feast That Gives the Bows n
Chance for Fun.

IA Annual Feast That Gives the Boys IA
Chance for Fun.
Halloween is thought to be a night
when witches, devils and other mischief.
making beings are all abroad on their bane-
full errands; and when the fairies are said
to hold a grand anniversary. The good
people of Helena who wake up this morn
ing to find the front gate gone and a stray
COW or two ron ming at will over the lawn
will subscribe to the first part of the de-
scriptlon of what halloween is supposed
to be. The boys were out last night in
force and e from one end of town to
the other performing their pranks. Gates
were unhin9ed, door knobs tied up, bells
II and every other conceivable style of
uproarous fun practiced. Fortunately all
the grown men of to-day were boys once
upon a time and no doubt took a hand in
the same kind Of business. Hence they are
not disposed to make much of a fuss about
the matter.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01

AS THE people of Helena learned long
ago The INDEPENDENT furnishes the
most complete and the most reliable
election returns. Special arrangements
have been made to receive the returns
at this office Tuesday night. These
will be we'll bulletined as soon as re-
ceived. The INDEPENDENT will have
the advantages of special news service.
and all news will be given to the public.
with the accent on the "all."
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01
TAXPAYERS WILL MEET.

Call for a Mass Convention Next Friday
Evening at Electric Hall.
A mass meeting of the taxpayers of Hell
ena, Lewis and Clarke county, is hereby
called to be held in Electric hall, corner of
Sixth avenue and Park street. On Friday,
Nov. 6, 1891, at half past seven O'Clock D. m !.
The object of this meeting being to discuss
to discuss the financial situation of the city
and county, and to devise means for cor
recting the management of the same. and
also to appoint committees of investigation
and arrange for.securing legal advice with
a view to contesting the payment of taxes
under the present assessments, which are
burdensome, excessive, unequal and unjust.
Every taxpayer IS interested and should be
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01
New Interpretations

The following companies filed articles
with the secretary of state yesterday:
G. X. Wells company, to do a general sta
tionery and job printing business. The
capital stock is $4,000. The incorporators
are G. X. Wells, j. s. Featherly, Walter E.
Wells, A. M. Williams and II. S. Thurber.
st. Helena Consolidated Gold and Silver
Mining company, to do business in Lewis
and Clarke county. Capital stock, $500. 600.
The incorporates are John N. O'Brien, E.
w. knight. L. II. Kleinschmidt, George
Boos, G.. B. Miller, j. b. Walker. Thomas
Golf. E. G. Worden, i. Rotwitt, N. Salvail.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01

9:45 a. l.. Preaching at IL a. m. and 1880
p. m. Morning theme, "In the Shadow of
the Cross" Evening theme, Text of
Christ Then and Now" Young peopl els
prayer meeting at $50 p. No.. Subject,
"Fruit-BearinR." Leader, Clyde G.. Smith.
Good music led by the west side male quar-
tette and a piano. j. N. Smith, pastor.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-01
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
HELENA, MONT, NOV. l, 1891.

eW- Montanians abroad will always ind TIKI
DAILY INDEPENDENT on file at their favorite
hotels. Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan. New
York; West, Minneapolis: Baldwin and Palace,
San Francisco; McDermott. Butte; Leland Hotel.
Sprinsfela. III.
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OVERG0ATS.
We have them in

~CHINCILLA, MONTAGNAC, KERSEY BEA-
YER, MELTON, and other modern fabrics, made
up in ULSTER, BOX and CLOSE-FITTING
SACKS, for
Regular, Stout and Tall Ner
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ishing Company.
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report cases of irregular delivery promptly.
Advertisements, to insure prompt insertion,
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Rejected communications not returnabls an
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Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28
The Fashions.

From the New York Evening Post
 Most of the new French skirts are grace fully shaped and made without founda- tions. They are simply silk-lined and have pleating of silk inside the hem.
 The new Pinafore frocks are pretty on slender figures.
 The crepon jacket is the newest wrap. A dainty one is in pale fawn color, with an applique trimming of white and silver cloth, rich embroidery of gold and sil- yer, with green, pink and copper beads spreading over both and on to the soft cre- pon. The full sleeves are dotted with the beading.
 The matinee jackets imported are as charming as they are expensive. One model is haze of palest gold chiffon, with deep Stuart collar with an edging of small gold beads. Another is in pale blue crepe de Chine fIilled with chiffon and made with a face zouave jacket. Pret- ty and delicately tinted cotton matinees have skirts to match, and an enthusiastic writer for the London World says "they are too sweet and fresh looking for words !" am-colored crepon makes a charming | girlish costume. Cream -colored lace is ar | ranged in festoons across the front of a plain skirt with heading of gold braid. The same soft fabric is apparently folded on ths figure, for thsra is no hgu ot seam
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28
Dyspepsia and Heart Disease.

lrTom uOOu 1OusehetpiuS.J
 Dyspepsia is one of the most annoying of modern diseases, as it is also widely prevalent; in fact, it exists oftentimes when the sufferer is unaware of it's pres ence. Dyspepsia affects most of the vital organs in the system directly or indirect ly, but special consideration should be given to it's liability to be mistaken for heart disease. It is entirely safe to affirm that there are thousands on thousands of people who mistakenly imagine that they have heart disease, and are able to de- scribe the symptoms upon which their be- lief is based. There is pain or an un- pleasant sensation in the cardiac regions, palpitation of the heart, accompanied by heat and nervousness, irregular breathing, and the like These are, of course, par tially due to deranged action of the heart, but that is a symptom, and not the disease that is making the mischief. The trouble, almost universally, is due to impaired di- gestion, derangement of the action of the liver, and nervous affection, which in duces the sympathetic action of the heart. It is, consequently erroneous and even dangerous under these conditions to re- sort to any manner of treatment for heart disease, since that useful organ will re- sume it's regular action as soon as the true cause is removed or modified.
 This is largely paper of caution, and it may not be amiss in closing to repeat this general exhortation: Never to administer at haphazard drugs which affect the action of the heart until complete and careful ex- animation has shown that organ to need treatment. In that case the matter is seri- ous enough to require some more lesponsi- ble authority for the use of any kind of th1n WbS %sre sappIs9n pobn sht is known, might be the right thing for the sufferer. Human life ought to be too pre- | cious to experiment with in that way.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
 IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. One Dollar per Year, Gin Advance. Single Copies cents.
MIR. FERRY,s DISCOVERY.


 MT. E. P. Ferry, of Utah, has discovered a new reason for unlimited coinage of sil- yer. He is reported as saying that the law established by Hamilton in 1792 and approved by George Washington provided for the free coinage of silver, in which it was expressly stipulated that holders of gold and silver have the right to come for ward with their bullion and demand it's coinage. This law had never been re- pealed. This conclusion is, of course, that holders of gold and silver bullion now have the same right that they had under the act of 1792
 There is quite as good reason for free coinage as some of those given, but of course there is no sense in it. Congress may at any time change the coinage ratio between the two metals, or suspend the coinage of either, and make the other the monetary standard. It is simply ques- tion of sound policy and justice. Owners of bullion, whether of gold or silver, have no vested rights. They can claim no rights under the act of 1792 or any subse. quent act. No congress can divest any subsequent congress of the power to make such coinage laws as it pleases.
 Try again, Brother Ferry. Perhaps you can, by careful study, find some proof that the golden calf was really a silver calf.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28
RECIPROCITY.

Reciprocity is good word, and the word represents good thing. The new tariff has only had six months trial, and reel procity has made astonishing progress. Trade arrangements have been negotiated with Brazil and Spain by which large con sessions to the American export trade have been secured by the, United States in return for the admission to g. free market of importations of coffee, sugar, molasses and hides amounting to $100, 1000, ,000. Similar negotiations are in an advanced state with Venezuela, Santo Domingo and Hayti, by which importations of the same class amounting to $13,615,000 will be made the basis of equitable compensation in favor of American exports. When these three additional treaties are concluded there will be remnant of something over $14, ,000, ,000 in the imports of sugar, molas- ses, coffee and hides from the southern countries (the British West Indies being excluded), which will be reserved for 8
 final series of negotiations with Colombia, the Central American States. Mexico. Ecua dor, Peru and Uruguay. If this import trade be stated as $125, ,000,000 in round numbers, it follows that four-ffths of il has already been used as means of secur ing larger markets for American exports and that one-half of the remaining fftf will speedily be covered by commercial agreements with Santo Domingo, Hayt
 and Venezuela.
 This is a fair start. If similar progress | continues to be made American industrie
 will enjoy boom.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28
owner of the Full Run BartIc-FieId.


 From the St. Louis Globe Democrat
 A. NJ. Henry says: Although l am the owner of the property on which the first
 battle of Bull Run was fought, l did not
 see the battle. 1 returned from Alexsn
 dria soon after that event and witnessed
 the second battle at this point. My moth
 CT was killed in her bed with shell from
 federal battery at the first battle. She
 was blind, aged and helpless at the time, and as the battle waged about the house it was as safe to remain indoors as on any
 other spot. General Sherman and Senator
 Cameron visited here few years since. Sherman had not been on the field since the battle in July, 1861. He asked no questions. He seemed to know every point of interest and the several positions of troops. During his stay he made but one wrong observation. He said, ''Mr. Henry, was in your house during the | battle" l said. ''No, General; the house | then standing was destroyed" Oh, yes," '" he replied, q remember there was wide | hall in the house, and this one has none. '" recite this to demonstrate sherman s | careful attention to details. General Sher- man asked me if I would sell my proper | ty. If I cared to part with it he knew A | man who would buy it. l learned subse- | quently that the intending purchaser was Senator Don Cameron. Senator Came ron's uncle was killed at the head of the Seventy-ninth Highlanders a few rods from my house. Generals Bee and Barton | of South Carolina were also killed forty
 rods distant, and a quarter of a mile dis tant was killed Colonel Fletcher Webster, of the Twelfth Massachusetts volunteers, son of the great Daniel Webster, in the I second battle of Bull Run. It is e singu- lar coincidence that the second battle end
 ed on the same spot that the first engage ment ended
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28

across your way while you are standing on the ground, as your body will become a conductor for the electric fluid to the earth, unless you have rubber boots upon your feet. Linemen are sometimes seen pulling these wires about, but they have insulating rubber boots upon their feet, or gloves of like material upon their hands, and some people supposing these coverings to be only used for protection against the wet weather, have foolishly grasped the wires and received severe shocks in conse- quence. Don't employ a carpenter or or dinary laborer, nor do you yourself at- tempt to fix any electric apparatus of any power about your property, whether the current is turned on or not. Electric wires should be handled one at 6 time. If it is necessary to take hold of two wires at the same time, don't do it. In handling or drawing any wire lying over any of the ordinary street wires, especially such as convey currents for electric lighting, use a dry hand line for the purpose or grasp the wire with insulated pinchers. An ordina- " wire clothes line may become the con ductor of deadly current. In a dynamo room, touch not, taste not, handle not
 The most inofensive looking dish pan may strike you like & mailed hand. Nothing is safe to you here unless you know every thing. Let workingmen remember that when a company has strung wires on the crossbars of poles so closely together that a man cannot move easily between them, it is better for him to come down and re- sign. What profteth it man that he has 8 situation if his wife be a widowl Never close circuit without giving notice to all concerned. A telegraph notice received in the back of the neck generally arrives too late to do any good. On no condition let two wires touch the body at the same time. Don't think that any wire is not dangerous. There is a difference between a gun with cap on it and one without that can be detected with naked eye; but a loaded wire-who knoweth itl Trim mers employed to attend to lights in crowded public thoroughfares should be sure that the current is turned of before they touch the lamp, as the step ladders are often very high. and the public ob- jects to being hit on the head by a gyra- ting, galvanized lamp trimmer.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28

rise to the winter maximum. The two monthly curves in all of the five years during which the observations were kept up are strikingly symmetrical.
 The Duke of Marlborough thinks his countrymen can do betterthan to invest in American railroads. And as for breweries, stock yards and elevators, they are very fine things when controlled by Americans possessed of large interests in them, but after all, "you are really buying only good will, a four-walled factory and a lot of beer barrels" Real estate is the thing, he says, because: You have an Anglo-Sa1on race of sixty millions of people who work like beavers, developing your property and adding to its value every day if you own real estate investments, and this is far better property than Buenos Ayres water works and Argentine Great Western, or even Buenos Ayres and Rosario or Great Southern rails, where there is nothing in the way of population except few million slow-going Spaniards or Italians.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-28
Unrest in ParadisI

Two women met in Paradise, Where they had recently arrived; And each one of the other asked How in the bright abode she thrived. Then straightway each one made reply, 'Tis very beautiful and bright, There's everything to please the ear, And everything to feast the sight," Then each exhaled long, deep sigh And said, i've searched in every nook, But nowhere can I find glass To see how these new garments look"
 Boston Couriel