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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13
SAVING THE CHILDREN,
A Glimpse at the Work Being Done
by Gerry's Society in
New York.
The Great Difference Between the
Newspaper Men of War
Times and To-day.
Something About E~ngravlngs for Maya
zincs-Marvelous Feat of Memory
Silver in tho Arts.
lspecisl Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT.

fSpecial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT.
@EW YORK. JULY 9.-ASSISTANl
III Secretary Knoll, of the Society fol
TX the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill.
q dren. has been engaged in its worn
for more than a dozen years. beginning as
agent in some of the toughest quarters OF
tho city. Looking at his kindly face the
other day l was impelled to ask if he did
not get overwroueht sometimes by scenes
of suffering and cruelty.
mo- he replied promptly" we get used
to it. After q little experience in this life
We become m%ercifully calloused. Nothing
that could happen now in my sight could
brings the tears to my eyes. l should have
seen SO many things similar. There is a
great sameness about the work of the agents
"a monotony, little rs you would think 1t.
The work runs in ruts and grooves, and it
isn't often that an agent had SO thrilling
an experience as MIR. - had yesterday.
'Tell me about it," I said.
Its a brief enough story. A poor wo-
man who has been seven years married
has six children, and is soon to become the
mother of another, was bundled out of
doors with all her brood by her husband, q
young fellow of 81. The agents went to
put her back; the husband wouldn't open
the door and they broke it in"
Mr.. Knoll stopped as if this we're the
end of the story, but l couldn't help Won
dering what became of the woman and six
children after the protecting agents had
zone away. ...0..
''We investigate six or seven hundred
cases every month"; said Mr.. Knoll, and
they are of all imaginable kinds, starving,
beating, freezing, neglect. We have the
fullest appreciation of the public except
when we interfere in behalf of little chill
newspapers are apt to pound us. But
we're used to that"
It's a curious fact. The New York papers
do make life a burden for the society when
il interferes with the employment of
children on the stage, yet it would be easy
to prove that il does too little in this re-
spect rather than too much. have never
yet seen a child ''acting'' who did not suR-
eest the inevitable reflection that dramatic
art as we'll as the child's future, would be
gamer by sending the young performer to
bed, and to school next day.
One of the foremost actresses in America
question with relation especially to the in
FAINT phenomenon of that year. Its all
very we'll in appearance now" said she.
''the child is we'll treated and taken care of.
Blu shs ought to be going to school. In a
few years she will be a woman. and an ig-
norant one, less likely to become a great
actress than if she had been kept off the
stage until maturity"
More power to Gerry's elbow!
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{. st. P. NJ. & 0. Ry. c. & NV. R
The Shortest and Best Line From St. Pau
to Chicago, Sioux City aad Omaha.

The only line running all its Passenger Trains
in less than IA hours between St. Paul and Chi
cago, and while this time is quick, trains do not
have to run at rs high rate, of speed to make
their time rs on other lines, because this line il
shorter than any other line.
1.-The Pullman and Wagner Vestibuied Limit
ed" leaving st. Paul at 7:30 P. M, makes the
trip to Chicago in 1875 hours, returning in u
hours and % minutes.
THE Daylight Express,' leaving st, Paul at
~ A u M; mates the trip to Chicago d "a ir Is hours r
minutes.
This is the only line by which connections are
assured in Chicago with all fact line trains from
Chicago to the east and south in the morning
and at night
Close connections are made at st. Paul with
Northern Pacific and Great Northern trains.
For rates. maps, folders, etc. apply to
G. +. NJ. TIMING. General Agent,
Bailey Block, No. IS N. Main St, Helena. Mont,
II. W. TEAsDALE,
Gen. Pass. Agent. st. Paul. MINI.
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The Deciine of Wood Engraving.

Have you ever noticed that the i~llustra-
tions in the great magazines are falling off
in point of quality? I'm sure l haven't,
and yet q couple of artists whom | heard
discussing the subject were quite sure
of it.
Eight or nine years ngo, one of them
said, the other asserting, when the maya
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13
What Il Noted Physician Says.
CHICAGO, Jan. 81, 1888.

w. p. Wisdom:
Dear Sir-As you requested ! have exam
ined the formula of your toilet preparation
called ''ltobertine." / can assure you that
the ingredients are both bland and harm
less, and that the compound would form an
excellent application in irritated condi-
ions of the skin. Yours truly,
ARTHUR DEAN BEvAN, M. ID.
Professor of Anatomy, Rush Medical Col
lege and =. A.. Surgeon. u. S. NJ. ii. S.
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Which is Genuine?

In a Broadway jewelry store, temptingly
displayed on two cards are two splendid
cut diamonds of equal size, brilliance and
polish. Over the cards is the legend,
(which is genuine?" am quite willing to
admit that l cannot tell, and l do not be-
lieve there are many who are wiser except
professional jewelers..
The making of bogus diamonds has be-
come a very lucrative and usual business. A
good many ladies known to possess beauti-
full diamonds are credited with having them
copied and wearing the limitations to public
places, leaving the true gems in the safe de-
post vaults. This lessons the danger of
robbery or accident.
With stones SO perfectly initiated any
man or woman is very foolish who buys
one except from an established dealer in
whom he can put confidence. But It's dis
%couraging to pay enormous sums for gems
which anyone can easily outshine for a few
dollars. Better buy something encounter
feitable like a bicycle or a milk route.
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A Feat of Memory.

Mr.. William Macdonald Wood is a poet
who has ceased singing since his grave,
duties as managing editor of a great Brook
Ign paper have pressed upon him, but he YET
retains a keen interest in the poems OF
other men. and thereby hangs a tale.
Away back in 1866 Mr.. Wood read with
much enjoyment a long poem by James b.
Mason descriptive of the battle of Ban
nockburn. beginning, after a few words of
introduction:
The English king had sworn an oath
That ore the Bsptist's day
Near Stirling towers should England's host
And Scotland's meet in fray.
In this 1891 the notion seized Mr.. Wood
to reproduce from memory this poem and
print 1t in his paper. He had not seen it,
scarcely thought of it, in twenty-six years,
but at once sat Town and wrote out the
whole 900 lines and over-more than a COL
umn of the newspaper in fine type-with-
out error or hesitation.
To me this feat of memory seems mar
velous, but Mr.. Wood, who can remember
pretty nearly the whole Bible and as much
of the best poetry of all ages as any man
needs to know, takes it quite as a matter of
course.
Curiously enough this gifted Scotch
American has only the average ~tenacity of
memory for peoples names and faces.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13

STOCKHOLDERS MEET1NG-THE ANNUAL
- meeting of tho Stockholders of the Helena
Electric hallway company will be held ut tho
general office Of the company. No. 359 North
Main street, Helena, Montana, on Monday, July
Is, 1891. at 4 p. m, for the annual election of df-
rectors and for tho transaction Of such other
business a. shall properly come before tho meet
ing. ii. L.. WALKER,
SocretA1y.
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SHERiFE's SALE BY VIRTUE or An
District Court of the First Judicial Distric,,
Of the state Of Montana. in and for the county of
Charles b. Newhury and Alfred IBourke, duly at
levied upon all the right. title, and interest of
the said Chnrl s 3. Newbury and Alfred Bourke,
in and to the following described property, sit
uated in Lewis and Clarke county, state of Mon
tana, viz:
Lot number one ~ in block number six hun
bred and six (60oJ of the Roback and Cannon adj
dition to the city of Helena
Also the east thirty-tive feet Of lot number four
teen 40 in block lettered 'E' of the Blake adj
dition to the ely of Helena.
Together with all and singular tho tenements,
Entertainments and appurtenances thereunto be-
LONGING or in anywise appertaining.
Notice is hereby gwen that on Saturday tho
LIST day of August. A. D.. 1891, at the hour OF IL
O'Clock NJ, of said day at the front door of the
courthouse IN the city of Helena, ! will sell all
the right, title and interest of the said Charles b;
Newbury and Alfred Bourke. in and to the said
above described property. to the highest bidder
for cash in hand.
Given under my hand this tho 18th day Of July,
A. ID. 1881. M.
Sheriff.
RALPH G. JOHNSON, Deputy Sheriff
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WANllaD-TWO YOUNG MEN Al NEWs
" agents. Apply to Northern News CO.. N
+. depot.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13

Buy a pair of cast steel shears or scissors at
The Bee Hive for 25c, worth from Soc to 81 each,
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT = CATARACT

NJ Vt hooIooMEAN AYE
ing district, Jefferson county, Montana.
Notice is hereby given. that a meeting of the
5 .Ipne ss 81 fai ia company asIesano msld o On tine the ls cant Gay n or
share, was levied upon the capital stock of said
company, payable on the 10Th day of July, 1891.
10. SO South Main street, in the city of Helena,
Montana.
Any stock upon which said assessment shall re-
main unpaid on the 20th day of July, 1891, shall
be- declared delinquent and shall be duly adver-
tised for sale at public auction; and unless pay
mont shall be made before will besold on the 3cth
day of July, 1891. to pay the delinquent assessment
together with the cost of Advertising and expense
of sale. JOHN L. KOON1Z. Sec.
Nc. SO South Main Street. Helena. Montana.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13

- erness. Teaches thorough English, music,
etc. Best of references. Address Miss NJ, this
office.
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T L. SMITH,
|. Freight and Transfer L ne,

HELENA, MONTANA.
All kinds of merchandise and other freightss
including ores, promptly transferred from tho
depot. Orders will receive prompt attention.
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You can buy a half-dozcn silver plated tea
spoons, plated on white metal at The Fee Hive
for 25c.
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HELP wANrED-rEMALn

WANTED--GHANDlEl, "a EDWARDS
street, wants ohambermaid, $40; waiter,
$50, woman cook, $50.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13

SITUATIONS WANTED-FEMALE.
Advertisements under this head three times
FREE.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13

INITIATION DO SEWING
~ with private families; understands cutting
and fitting. Room 4 Goshen block, Rod ney
street.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-13
New Sioux City Route.
EzST

Passengers for the East from Helena and
other Western points will find the NEW
ROUTE via SIOUX CITY and the ILL
NOIS CENTRAL II. II. not only desirable
Is to time and equipment, but one of the
most attractive, passing through Sioux City
the only Corn Palace City of the world;
Dubuque, the handsome Key City of Iowa;
Rockford, Illinois, q new manufacturing
city, that has become a world within it.
SELF" and Chicago, whose growth and en-
tsrprise is the wonder of the world. With
elegant free Chair Cars, and Pullman Pal
G e,Sleeping Cars on every train between
Sioux City and Chicago, INC with close con-
nectioa with the UNION PACIFIC trains
at Sioux City, the
N CENTRAL r. R.,
respectfully presents its claims for the new
and every way desirable SIOUX CITY
ROUTE.
For folders and further particulars call
upon local ticket agent, or address the un.
Asrsignsd at Manchester, Iowa.
J.. f. MERRY,
Asst. Gem Pass. Agt.
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HELP

WANTED-A GOOD HOUSE SERVANT. Fl
w South benton avenue.
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SITUATION WANTED-A COOK AND
~ lanndress in private family. Address S. N.
this office,
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SITUATION WANTED-RY A LADY AS
Office.
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EOR ~RENT-THREE, FINE LARGE ,UN-
etc.. with use of stable; $12. 63 South Rodney
streat.
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SITUATION WANTED - FOR A BA-
~ ker. pastry cook. Also confectioner. Ad
dress A. s. Baker, los Cutler street.
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SITUATION WANTED-BY A GERMAN
~ girl as cook or housekeeper. Address 81
West Main street.
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TOR RENT-LARGE STORE ON NINTH
Il avenue and Hoback street: with modern
shelving: suitable for any mercantile business.
Apply to Bach, Cory d Go.
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Tor SALE-AN ELEGANT PARLOR SUITE
l. for sale cheap at 73b Sixth avente. 1t has
been in use three months, and cost when new
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SITUATION WANTED-A WOMAN WANTS
~ washing for families at her own home. Adj
dress IL. H., this office.
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SITUATIONS WANTED-MALE.
Advertisements under this head three times
FRFF.
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SITUATION WANTED-A YOUNG LADY
~ wants place ~ seamstress in family; will
help with work. Address L., this office.
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EOR RENT-TWO OFFICES ON THIRD
l. floor Of Montana National bank building.

NOR RENT-TWO NICE UNPUBLISHED
Il rooms. at 716 Broadway.
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DOR sM4E-S6.0W CASH-BALANCE ON
L long time will buy one of the %prettiest new
residences in the west end; eleven rooms hand
somely papered, furnace, electric. bells and all
modern improvements; beautiful. lawn, concrete
walks. c,rriago house, etc. An Investment.
Possession when desired. Address W.. P.O.
box 1922.
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WANTED 5000 YOUNG SHEEP NEXrSUM
~ mer Tor three years on shares; half wool
and Increase; parties have OK perionce, buildings,
water and hay. Address w f.. Standish, Slatc's
Attorney. lakota, horth Dakota.
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EOR RENT TWO UNFURNISHED ROOMS.
L 7l6 Broadway.
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EOR SALE OR RENT-A SALOON ON
upper Main street. which ha- been succe ;s-
fully carried on for ten years. Enquire of |. l..
Israel.
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FOR RENr-FURNIsuED ROOMS.

EOR RENT-COMFORTABLY FURNISHED
i rooms at reasonal rates. Harvey block.
Grand street. Next door Hotel Helena.
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TOR SALE-1.6N FEET IN THE AMES AD-
Il dition at a bargain. The Witherbee An
drew Co., Gold block.
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EOR sALE-EIGHTY ACRES THREE AND
L one7half miles north of city limits. SIS
per acre. This is SIS per acre less than any al,
Joining property can be bought tor. Will
guarantee purchaser s per cent. per annum for
three years on investment Glass y Fletcher.
corner Grand and jackson street.
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ttAkTED--ANY ONE HAVING A WELL
" fitted house of fVe or six rooms, pleasantly
located on line OF gas main, can hear OF u
this otficc. '
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12
LEADING BEAUTY OF EUROPE.
What an Admirer of the Countess Castig-
Iione Has to Say of Her.

What an Admirer of the Countess Castig-
Iione Has to Say of Her.
New York World.l
The question as to the most beautiful
woman of the century is still progressing in
London. One writer, who champions the
Countess Castiglione, but who did not know
her when he saw her first, says: 'gThe sight
of her took my breath away, her beauty was
so harmonious and in all points so faultless.
When was told who she was thought Of
Helen and the Trojans. also saw her at the
fancy ball at the Tuilleries, where she was in
the transparent costume, lightly fastened to-
gether with brooches, a la Salammbo. Comte
de Choiseul, son of the notorious Due de
Praslin, with his face blackened to make
him resemble q Nubian slave, held I'D the
part of the garment which fell as a gauzy
train.
''The triumph of the Countess as she walked
down the Galerie des Marechaux was about
as extraordinary a sight as the Tuilleries ever
presented. What was so astonishing was
that the ladies forgot to be jealous and the
gentlemen to fall in love. The great beauty
of the Countess excluded from their minds
the idea of sex"
Two more names of prominently beauti-
full women have been suggested, the one
Mrs. Wadsworth, mother of Mrs Smith Barry
herself an exquisitely lovely person-and
the other, the late Dowager Lady London
derry, mother to the present Lord Powers
court 1t NAV be added that on the occasion
when the Countess de Castiglione was
present at reception at Lady Palmerston's 8
the excitement reached to so great a pitch
that people jumped upon chairs so as to OBJ
tain good view of her.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12
VESTS ADVENTURE WITH A CAT.
The Missouri Statesman Spends q sleepless
Night in q Small Town.

The Missouri Statesman Spends q Sleepless
Night in Small Town.
st. Louis ReDubllc.l
"Senator Vest does not like cats, and his
dislike caused very funny incident during
the campaign in this State last summer, 4"
said a well-known politician to The Man
About Town. 'It was up in Northern
Missouri at little town, the only hotel of
which was kept by a rank Republican. A
private citizen and friend of the Senator
took him to stay all night at his house, and
put him In the spare room. He was very
tired, and slumbered sweetly for several
hours. "Meow''-he turned in his sleep.
A cat on the window sill inside the room
began discoursing music to its mate in the
yard below. The Little Giant awoke and
picked up his boot, but was afraid of arous-
ing the family by throwing it, so he put his
boots on and tried to make the cat Jump out
side, but it jumped down inside instead.
In trying to scare it away he stumbled
over a chair and fell against the stove
After cropping around he finally found q
match and lit lamp and looked around.
His fall against the stove had almost dis
located the pipe He tried to straighten it
out and it fell down and one Joint rolled
across the floor and frightened the cat, which
set up dismal howl from under the re-
cesses of the bed. The Senator, all covered
with SCOT from the fallen pipe and great
beads of Precipitation, listened. No one
awoke. He lay down, but not to sleep, for
the cat kept up low, purring moan till
day. When he left next day the Senator
made vow never to go into a room again
till he was assured that no member of the
feline tribe was or could get in.
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ROCKING AN EMPTY CRADLE.
How q Bereaved Mother Heals Her
Wounded Heart at Home.

How q Bereaved Mother Heals Her
Wounded Heart at Home.
Detroit Free Press.l
1t was wOman's voice grooming sweetly
the old lullaby:
"Hush-my- -dear-lie-still and -slumber."
And as she sung she rocked an empty
cradle with her foot, keeping time with its
melancholy refrain. From the nesting Of
the blankets it looked as if the baby had
only just been lifted out.
A man passing heard the singing and re-
traced his steps so that he could look
through the open door into the little plainly
furnished room.
Excuse Inc, ma'am," he said respect
fully, "but / noticed that you were rocking
an empty cradle. L reckon you never heard
Of the superstition
81 am not superstitious, said the woman:
"Holy-apgels-guard-thy hy-bcd."
"Excuse me, ma am, but folks told,my
wife that if she didn't stop rocking the era
die when the baby wasn't in it something
would happen-an' it did. Thesbaby died
when he was year oldD'
'My baby won't die, answered the moth
er, "hes been an angel these three months,
an when feel so bad that I can'tlive an
other minute I come in here and make be-
lieye he's asleep. 1t does me good an
mebbe God lets him know, and it comforts
him. Is that superstition?"
"No, ma'am, reckon not, an hope
you'll excuse me-"
The man walked on bearing his own bur-
den Of sorrow with him, and the desolate
mother rocked the empty cradle and re-
sumed her plaintive monody:
Heavenly ssings-withoutnumber
Gently-fallupon-thy-h head"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12

The decision of the House of Lords few
weeks ago in the case Of Sharpe VS. Wake
field has shown the justices that they have
an absolute discretion either to refuse or
grant the renewal of licenses for the sale Of
intoxicating liquors, and signs are not
wanting that in many districts the magis-
trates have become alive to the grave
responsibility which rests upon them for
the perpetuation of state of things which
has become little less than scandal
In the recent report Of the Welsh Sunday
Closing Commission it is stated that in
many towns in Wales the number of public
houses is much larger than in towns
of similar size in England, and
the temperance party in North Wales
propose to avail themselves of the Opportu-
nifty afforded at the annual licensing ses-
sions, which will be held in September next,
to oppose the renewal OF Licenses in the
case Of great number of drinking shops Of
the lower class This operation of wedding
out the most objectionable houses will be
repeated year after year, and the number OF
public houses will thus be gradually re-
duced, until Parliament, by means OF
local option OF direct veto act, places the
control of the liquor traffic in the hands OF
the people. 7. K. ROBERTS.