The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-25

thought tha chances were that hia friends
would C0t10 back later for revenge. When he
went 10 his room hs RETAINED from lighting
s,s LAMP LAMP :; he ..s did y, . az. g I'm, make ~ sim ~
sids. He hada SOUND n!ghA1s slssp, how
ever, and whom he canis down the next
morning he discovered that the gang had
stolen sway In the night, carrying their
battered conrads with thstn."s
y asc,'' said the senator, that tho navy
u~ntssrs who srs thirsting for . tasto Of
Chilian blood. ! expected that would be
the case, and ! an not surprised TO SEQ that
many OF the otfe.s come from the south.
They have always had \ way there OF get
ting. together bands for warlike purposes
On o.. ne 3, sl Ugh q Ps, sSssna V:,o !: remind sso,1..'
Along early IN the fortiss Ashsyilis, X. O.,
was d good deal smaller place than IL Il
now. And " waa away out OF the beaten line
Of travel, The only man in the town who
could read was the poatmastsr, whose nAma
wAs Brown. This rest OF the natives vera
absolutely ~depsndsnt upon him for their
side world. The habituss Of the postofice
at last struck or the brilliant ides Of sub
soribing for q weekly paper IN mmon All
subscribed to the p0ol with the exception Of
the postmaster, who WAS admitted freq in
view Of his service. AZ reader. and Brown
Ax dAk " NOW ~ OA0 AN0VA0Al0l
gencer Of Washington forwarded every
week to his address. The newspaper
was practically the only mail that
came to tho town. and special arrange
ments we're made to hRva 1t brought up reg
ularly from Salisbury. twenty miles away.
asmble the msmbers Of the pool and read II
to them. beginning ssligiously with the an
nounoemsnt OF, rates at tho top of the first
column of the first page and going through
TO tho end. On pleasant days the %neighbora
didn't have = great deal Of time to devote to
literature, and they got in the habit Of
coming around for their nsw ~rations only
work. Az this rate Brown found that he
couldn't keep up very we'll with the process
sion Of events and he adopted = plan of
reading the papers in order, forming .
stack, showing the latest issues underneath
and taking them OF the top one by one.
make matters worse tho I~nteligencer in
creased its size about that time BY q couple
of columns on each page. Still the post
master kept bravsly on, although by the
time the Mexican war broke out thsre was
n stack Of formidable size TO attend
to. As the village depended altogether
for its information on these occa-
heard anything about tho outbreak of the
war till about a year after peace had been
declared. Then they reached the war layer
of the In~tslligencer, and as the news began
to eliminate in tho readings the excitement
grew intense. There was only n thing
for them to do a. patriotic Americans and
they promptly did il. They organized a
company including every man of fighting
ags in the town, elected Brown captain and
started out brnysly for the scene Of opera
tions with their old flint locks and badger
tails in their hats. They got as far az
state OF affairs and when they found out
how badly they had been served by the post
master they made the town SO hot for the
poor fellow that he had to take French
leave" II reckon" added the senator,
that In about q year from now We shall
begin to hear Of them raising companies
90 out against Chilli