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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

TOR SALE-S1,250 FOR ROOM HOUSE
Il on east side; good we'll, will bring SIS per
month; 500 down, s$25 per month. Matheson &
Co., 2O9 Power building.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

EOR SALE-MRH. w. G. PARDELLIAN OF
Il fers for sale the furniture and coed will of
her house. consisting of eighteen rooms all NICE
ly furnished and occupied by desirable roomers:
a bargain to cash customer. Call at 1874 Ed
wards street for particulars.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

FOR SALE-1,6oO FEET IN THE AMES AD-
dition at a bargain. The Witherbee An
drew Co.. Gold block.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

EOR SALE $500 FOR An EXCELLENT
l. residence lot on Boulder avenue, EOx1OO; u
bargain. Matheson d Co.. 200 Power building.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

SITUATION WANTED BY AN EXPERT
y enced housekeeper. Address Room 80, Cos
mopolitan hotel. ne9
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

FREE.
CITUATION WANTED TO DO OFFICE
- work BY young lady. possessing a fair ed1cn-
ton and writing coed hand. address Position,
this Office. W.. WE
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

MANTED-DAY BOARD BY TWO YOUNG
w men in private family: must be first class
and near business center; give terms. Address
Board. this office.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05
HEP wANrED-FEMALE.

WANTED = IMMEDIATELY, WOMAN TO
w cook and do general homework; must be
first class cock. Inquire at 521 Clarke street.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

FOR SALE. .
LOR SALE--CORNER LOT5Oxl25 IN BROAD
i water addition near electric line, $500; $iC(
down, sis per month. Box 995. p. ..
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

ITO RENr-NEW DOUBLE HOUSE, COR
l mar Davis and Hillsdale streets, ut reasona-
BILE rent, Cali at Broadway Meat Market.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

w of 1000 bushels good potatoes. 100 tons hay,
T. o. 3. cars; make us an offer. H. J. Herman,
UnlontoWn. Wash,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

WANTED ~ AN EXPERIENCED NURSE
" girl: must have reference. Apply room
2. Misses Maggie. ~ =,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

EOR RENT-slX ROOM FURNISHED
Il house, with pantry and bath. Good barn.
421 HemlOck street, west side.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

EOs RENT-AN ELEGANT FlVE-ROOM
II house. S27 Pine street. g IN
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

NOR SALE-S4W o AN EXCELLENT
i residence lot ono block from ~Broadwater
electric line; 800 down, balance long time.
Mat,egon & Co.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

EOR SALE = $4,000 FOR AN ELEGANT
II dwelling on west side, corner lot. IL rooms
and all modern improvements: 81, 800 down. bal
Il Co., 200 Power building.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

FOR SALE = $3.50 FOR BROOM HOUSE;
4 small barn, city water, lot 50xl4O, on South
Rodney. Matheson q Co., 209 Power building.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

WANTED 5000 YOUNG SHEEP NEXT SUM
w mer for three years on shares; half wool
and increase; parties have experience, buildings,
water and hay. Address w. Fl. Standish, State's
Attorney, Lakuta, North Dakota.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-05

WANTED-LADY PARTNER FOR BOARD
w. ing house Immediately. Apply 1882 Breck-
enridge street.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
WHAT ONE. LITTLE STAMP DID.
1t Cost Man Lot of Worry, Not to
..st.r.- 5"t Mention the Cash.

1t Cost Man Lot of Worry, Not to
Mention the Cash.
sLook at that! he exclaimed in dis
gust, as he exhibited small note
book. sP.s
SIT is sort of miniature book re-
turned the other, s'but then you write a
small hand"
eyes, l carry small book and write
small hand, but if.you'll measure my
hunk of hard luck you'll find it's about
mile square. I slipped postage
stamp between the leaves of that book
the other day to save it, and it got
moist some way and stuck
'.Well, what of it?'
''What Of it! Why, that represents a
dead loss Of .
Two cents. What's the use of max
ing fuss about it?''
Two cents!'' he exclaimed, excited
ly. 1.-TWO cents! Do you suppose I'd
holler about the loss of two cents? It
represents five dollars and two cents.
It couldn't find any other place in the
book. of course. It couldn't slap itself
over one-dollar debt or two-dollar
debt, but had to pile on top of FIVE
dollar debt, and for the life Of me I
can't remember the name Of the man
who owes it to me. Just remember
that there was fve-dollar memoran-
DUN at the top Of that page. O, I'l1lick
the next stamp I get hold Of. Chicago
Tribune
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
LOVES FOREVER.

Then must we really part forever!''
Some rashly spoken word had chilled her.
And scornfully she turned away
From the soft speech whose potent sway
Had evening after evening thrilled her.
Responsive to the plaintive plea
That certified his hearts endeavor.
She glanced at him disdainfullv.
And, cold as rolls the polar sea.
Her voice pronounced the word "Forever T.
A sobl moan! With leaden feet ID.
From the veranda he desce nded.
Trod ruefully the. murlzy street
Praying to find winding sheet
And whatsoever with it blended. .#
Th1s woe must cease" he said, then laid
His hand upon dagger straightway;
"A gasp! A shudderl Then the blade
Was pocketed and tracks were made
Back toward the cruel maiden's gateway.
form rushed out, four arms did lock
AS II they never meant to sever,
A simultaneous labial shock,
And twenty minutes by the clock
Had marked the bounds Of Loves forever
,.." Boston Courier.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
ALL ABOUT FILE
A Genius Who Is Fully Posted on the Pes
tiferOus Insects.

A Genius Who Is Fully Posted on the Pes
tiferous Insects.
The man who sells fy-traps on Ran
dolph street is bald, and that is why
he has given his business extra atten-
ton. He is a genius on the subject of
flies. He said to the writer: 1.-THE
house fly is a great traveller, but he
does not migrate in the sense that
birds do. It is the ability of the fly to
multiply rapidly that has always been
source of wonder to me, and it has
caused me to feel friendly to the fly
when others were trying to down him.
There are always a few flies left over
after every summer. No matter how
cold the weather may be there are al
ways some flies that go into winter
quarters and there are on hand in the
spring ready to go into business. It
takes fy-egg about twelve hours to
show evidence of activity. It is first a
worm; then it takes wings when about
ten days old. If fly is healthy, and
never saw delicate one, it will Law
three hundred and twenty eggs in one
season, that is, in one summer. I have
some calculation about the multiplicity
of the insect. I find that the descend
ants of a single one may, from the first
day of June to the close of September,
exceed two millions. Where do they
all go? The bald-head thinks they call
on him. They do not all have fun.
They are the food of many birds, bats,
owls and certain class of worms If
it were not so there would be no such
thing as living in summer. I read that
bounty has been offered by the Illi-
nois legislature on the little birds which
chatter about our streets. 1t is a mis-
take. You have no idea how many
flies they destroy. I think if this fact
becomes known and we can elect
enough bald-headed men to our next
legislature that we can have the bill
offering bounties on the street birds
repealed. Such an agitation in the can
vass will make bald heads POPULAR
Chicago Tribune.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
AN OLD FRIEND.

The Fortunate Recovery of Soldiers'
Wartime Musket.
One Of the happiest men who returned
from the Gettysburg memorial encamp-
ment is C. w. Bishing, of Harvey's
Lake, Pa. He was private in Capt.
Rice's company, Fifty-third Pernsyl-
vania volunteers. Bishing was shot
twice at Gettysburg, one bullet sllatter-
ing an arm and another entering near
his right thigh. This occurred near the
bloody angle, and not far from the spot
on which the regimental monument
stands.
AS soon as he received the wounds he
set to work to bury his musket. He fell
near a big rock, and, though suffering
great pain and bleeding profusely, he
managed to scoop out enough dirt at
the base of the bowlder to slip his mus
lzet into the excavation. Afterward
he carefully covered it, and wondered
whether he should ever see it again.
Bishing accompanied the surviving
mem bers Of his old regiment to Gettys.
burg on the occasion of the dedication
of their monument. While there, &C.
companied by several old comrades, he
started out to look for the musket he
had buried over twenty six years ago.
The bloody angle was easily found,
and he soon distinguished the huge
boulder at whose base he had fallen
and where he had hidden the gun. It
took but few moments to dig the earth
up, when, to his JOY, he struck the
old musket, and quickly resurrected
it. 1t had the appearance of Rip Van
Wrinkles fowling-piece. The stock had
fallen apart but was still in good state
of preservation. The barrel was bound
about with thick coat of rust, and the
lock and other portions were in the
same condition.
Bishing lifted the old musket tender
~, and as the recollection of the past
filled his mind, he kissed it with the
enthusiasm of a father who has found
a long-lost child. He says he is poor,
but no money will buy the musket-
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
Two Miles q Day by Rail.

Some illustrations of modern railway
speed cited before the parliamentary
committee on the cross country railway
bill merit special attention, showing
what can be accomplished when rail-
way company makes an effort A Bux-
ton coal merchant says that sometimes
the Midland Company manages to con-
vey coal from Buxton to Chesterfield in
eleven to thirtyfour days, and as the
towns are more than twenty miles
apart, it will be seen that sometimes
the coal trains dash along the line at
the rate of two miles a day. Once the
witness found a birds nest in a truck
which had been thirty days on the
way, and he reasonably believes that
the nest was built and the eggs laid
during the month. Yet this Buxton
merchant is not happy and desires q
change.-Engineerin
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
THE SOLDIERS NOBILITY.
Ochiltreo Faced Twenty Thousand Strong
Alone, But His Horse Died.

Ochiltree Faced Twenty Thousand Strong
Alone, But His Horse Died.
The world -famous raconteur, Thomas
p. Ochiltree, is never at loss to adorn
an otherwise commonplace conversation
with story Of thrilling adventure, mar.
row escape or humorous incident. Re.
Gently at the Hoffman house number
of men were telling of narrow escapes,
when the colonel told of close place
he got into as follows:
Gentlemen, was with Gen. Dick
Taylor when he operated against Gen.
Banks in the transmississippi depart
ment 1t was shortly after the battle
of Pleasant Hill, and Banks was re-
treating to Grand Ecore. One day we
got near Gen. Banks army and Gen.
Taylor asked me to head squadron Of
! cavalry and charge. was mounted on
coal black horse, and when rode out
to take command of the squadron
never thought to come back from the
charge alive. We had to charge across
an open field, a distance of one and one
half miles. drew my sword, put
spurs to my horses sides and dashed
forward, ordering the cavalry to fol-
low. Some twenty thousand of Banks
infantry were drawn up in line just on
the edge of the field awaiting an attack.
OF course when I started did not know
that twenty thousand men were waiting
to give a warm welcome to handful of
cavalry. When within three hundred
yards of the federals, raised in my
stirrups and yelled to the squadron to
follow me. expected to hear each
cavalryman yell, but to my dismay all
was silent. turned my head to look,
when, horror upon horror! the squadron
was over a mile from me in swift re-
treat! I had been riding across the
field alone, thinking they were right
behind me. They had evidently seen
the thousands waiting to pour storm
did not see them, as I am near sighted.
OF course saw them when yelled. A
CLEAN of bayonets extended for miles
right in front of me- My horse trem-
bled. I held my breath expecting to
be moved down in second. Turning
my horse I rode leisurely back and not
a shot was fred at me. Ny horse died
with nervous prostration half an hour
after got back Why didn't the fed.
ward that they were ordered to fire, but
no soldier was pusillanimous enough to
shoot one man who had the courage to
| charge twenty thousand men. Gentle
men, believe in human nature and the
nobility of the volunteer soldier since
that event."-BOStOn Herald.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
VARIOUS NOTES.

GEN. R. G. DYRENFoRTH, who is try
ing to produce rain by bonn harding tho
heavens from balloons. studied for four
years in the military schools of Prus-
STA, just before the outbreak of the
American civil war. He was a skilled
artilleryman. and served on the stats
of Gems. Rosecrans and Grant.
Mr.. d. E. WELLS, of INLAY City,
Mich, who enlisted in Michigan regi-
ment and was captured during the war,
has not shaved since he left Anderson
vile prison. His beard is now five feet
nine inches in length.
AN Irishman served in the United
States army in Texas, and belonging to
the infantry was in the habit of stand
ing with his toes pointing inward. to
remedy which the sergeant continually
addressed him while on parade with
''Stick out your toes, Patrick It took
Patrick years to acquire the habit of
sticking his toes out. Just about the
time he had succeeded he was trans
ferred to the cavalry, where his habit
of sticking out his toes interferred
much with his usefulness as horse
man. The sergeant was continually
calling to him: ''Stick in those toes,
Patrick" much to his disgust, and he
exclaimed with some emphasis: ''Divil
take such service. For five years it
was nothing but Stick out your toes,
Patrick There is no plain the black
guards"
CAPT ROBERT M. WOODS, adjutant
of the Sixty-fourth Illinois, was the
first acknowledgement of the Grand
Army of the Republic. ''Little Red.
headed Bob signed every, paper dis.
charging the men of the Fourth divis.
ion, Seventeenth corps, when they
,, were mustered out at Louisville, KY,
| in July, 1865. He was popular man
in the Seventeenth corps, and his genial
qualities were known to the rank and
file Of every regiment in the corps, who
used to joke him upon his red head
whenever he passed the marching col.
| umn. He always took these pleasan.
tries as they were meant by the boys,
and had a witty answer to all their
jokes His name should, and will, go
down to posterity with that of DR..
! Stevenson's and when the National en-.
campment comes to Washington Bob
should be one Of the favored guestA-.
National Tribune.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
They Will Not Touch Castor Oil.

No sort of bird, beast or creeping
thing will touch castor oil plant. 1t.
seems to be a rank poison to all the
animal world. Even goat will starve
before biting off a leaf, and horse will
sniff at it and turn up his upper lip as
though it had the most detestable odor
on the face of the earth. Army worms
and the locusts will pass it by, though
they may eat every other green thing in
sight, and there is no surer way to drive
moles away from lawn than to plant
few castor beans here and there. Even
the tobacco worm will refuse to be fed
on its leaves: There is hardly another
instance in natural history of plant
being so universally detested by the ami
NAL world. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
A FORGOTTEN HERO.
A Federal Cavalry Charge as Grand
That of the "Six Hundred"

A Federal Cavalry Charge as Grand al
That of the ask Hundred"
The actors were Col Francis Wash
burn, ten other officers and sixty-seven
troopers of the Fourth Massachusetts,
cavalry, supported by two weak regi-
ments of infantry, not more than six
hundred bayonets in all, and Lees
army. In the pursuit of Lee, Col Wash
burns command had been sent to de-
stroy a bridge at Farmville, where the
Confederates were straining every
nerve to reach. The superstition was
that the bridge was undefended; but
when Col Washburn got there after
forced march he found that it had been
covered by earth works Lees army
was close at hand, and Col Washburn
determined. to do all in his power to
hold it there or to detain it as long as
possible. He knew that every moment
he could delay it shortened the war.
With his handful of cavalry he literally
charged the head of Lees army.
There were less than fourscore sa-
bers behind him, but every man was a
hero, and they dashed at Lees van
to pierce the strong lines of infantry.
That conflict became fierce hand-to-
hand struggle; pushed back by the i'm
pact of numbers, the Massachusetts,
troopers reformed and charged again
and again. Washburn was mortally
wounded, and scarcely an officer or man
escaped injury. His infantry supports
were surrounded and captured Yet
the fight had not been fought in vain.
Lee got the impression that Washburn
must be simply the advance of a great
force, and that the fury of his attack
must have been inspired by the con-
seriousness of powerful supports close at
hand Instead Of pushing on, he halted
and intrenched, and Ord's army, from
which Osborn had been detached, came
up, and Sheridan succeeded in engag-
ing the confederates at Sailors creek.
Washburn had shortened the war. His
fight was a Balaklava which no laureate
has hymned, and of which most of his
countrymen never heard, but Balak-
lava charge with a purpose which he
accomplished at the cost of his own
life. ]. Bauve, in New England
Magazine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
A QUEER BUSINESS.
Breaking In Shoes Means of Making
Living.

Breaking In Shoes AZ u Means of Making
Living.
"Wearing. shoes is my business" said
a woman the other day. 1T began in
this way: A school mate of mine had
the good luck to marry wealthy man.
She had always suffered from tender
feet, and at school I used to break in
her new shoes for her by wearing them
few days. Stretching on last won't
serve the same end, because last
cracks, without softening the leather;
there's nothing like the tread of the
foot to do that. '...
"Well, when my friend married she
insisted on my accepting from her a
trife for bSeaking in her shoes. named
fifty cents a pair. There were other
women to whom she mentioned her
idea, and about half dozen, who wore
the same number as do, gave me their
custom. Gradually my queer little
business increased, SO by the time my
daughters grew up never had to buy
shoes for them or myself, and I often
employ girls outside when my custom
ers' sizes do not fit any of us
81 keep the buttons on the shoes in
addition to stretching them when new.
l charge ten cents for putting the but
tons on, no matter how many or how
few there may be to replace. I also
brush and put shoe polish. on them.
The charge for this is twenty five cents,
and the shoes are sent to me and called
for. For years, think, I stood alone
in the business, but now the visiting
maid includes the care of shoes in her
duties, so that but for having my own
patronesses she would cut the ground
from under my always new-shod feet"
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
TORTURE IN JAPAN.
Criminals Treated in a Medieval Fashion
in the Land of the Mikado.

Criminals Treated in a Medieval Fashion
in the Land of the Mikado.
j. Maynard Saunders, editor of the
Hyogo Kobe News, was in Chicago the
other day. ''It is the women, God
bless them, that redeem Japan" he
said. The men are mean and have no
commercial integrity whatever, and a
foreigner in Japan has hard work to
hold his own. He has no recourse in
the native courts of justice, and yet the
Japanese have chance to go before the
consular justices. These globe trotters
and people who go over for two or three
months and then write their impress
sions, which abound in high-fown
terms and rosy pictures of the natives,
the climate and the customs, do resi-
dent merchants great injury and fos-
ter the feeling throughout the world
that everything is as it should be in
Japan.
LET a man live there few years
and he will find that there are a great
many draw backs. The young students
who have been educated in England
and the United States are always max
ing great deal of trouble. They look
on all foreigners as interlopers, and
think if they could get rid of them that,
with their education and limited knowl-
edge of the world, they could fill all our
places. There is strong effort being
made by these young fellows to have
all foreigners made amenable to the
laws of the country.
''This is manifestly unjust, because
the country is not sufficiently advanced
IN civilization. The laws are imper-
feet and made for the rich and not the
poor. For instance, although it is not
generally known, there is no question
but that criminals, and in fact suspects
and all prisoners, are tortured BY the
authorities to compel confessions. If
this country or England consents to
allow it's subjects to be governed by the
native laws it will be doing a great
wrong. - Chicago Post *
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12

CONGRESSMAN CowLEs, of North Car
DINA, is having a handsome monument
erected to the memory of John Allen
Smith, a private in the First North Car
Dina cavalry, who saved his life on the
battlefield
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12
No Cruelty in Speed,

Lady lat horse race) Don't you think
it is cruel to race horses that way this
hot weather?
Horseman-Race 'em how, mum?
making them go so FAST
'.Why, mum, the faster they go the
quicker they get through" Good
News.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12

THE first bloodshed in the civil war
was on April 10. 1851, at Baltimore,
Nd, when Luther c. Ladd and A. o.
Whitney, Of Lowell, Mass, were shot
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-12

"A Revised Form.-Tom-ssW When is
it the old proverb tells us to make
hay?" Jack-'I forget, unless it's the
hevy1av Of youth. Yankee Blals.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-01
MUSIC IN THE AIR.
The Merchants Military Ban
Formed on a Solid Basis.

The Merchants Military Band
Formed on a Solid Basis.
The unsteady incliped young gentle.
men of the city have arranged for a
band reorganization which promises tC
make the best band Abilene ever had
Their organization has the following
officers: G. r. Pleiser, president; w.
G. Hill, secretary and treasurer; A.
Eicholtz, business manager. Sixteen
members are enrolled as active workers
in the company and the name has been
decided upon as the Merchants Military
band of Abilene. Charles Harrison
has been engaged as teacher and be
will instruct the members for the next
six months. In connection with the
band is an orchestra consisting of c.
Harrison, c. R. Pleiser, H. E. Ellison,
r. n. Jones, NJ. Eicholtz and Miss
Alice Mcclellan, the latter being the
pianist.
The boys will give a grand concert
next month in the opera bouse. The
band starts out under favorable aus
pices and we predict for it great sue
cess.