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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01

old which have never had the means OF
prosperity. Every session of the legisla-
lures delegations are sent up to plead for q
p~ittance to keep the breath of life in these
foster children of the state. Some even
have fallen SO low the state scarcely reoog-
objects-fine building half completed,
showing marks of d%ilapidation, professors
half starved, students rare and shy
without school pride and %enthuslasm;
t and a ,f b ssey e sst as a'p, p o
apparatus consists OF an old furnace, q few
crucibles, retorts piled into some closet and
covered with the dust of ages. The astron-
Omer has, perhaps. an old sextant and a spy
glass with which he can see some of the
stars visible to the naked eye, and the pro-
which is busted up and trotted out once q
year to give the sleepy students a sensation
of a shock. The library has a few useful
books and some congressional
Such institutions may be better than
none for neiRhborhood schools; butthey ara
not desirable as state colleges.
But we will be told, give US the schoo
and we will build it up. Such promises
though made in good faith, are worthless
No one will give to a state school; "the
state is able to take care Of its own." all
Let Montana have a great university Of
which all will be proud, and whose diplomas
will be priced above rubies, and whose
benefits will be felt in all parts of the state
and country. Such an institution located
in Missoula will be worth more to Bozeman
sven than a poor, half starved agricultural
college would be though located in the
Gallatin valley.
Education should make men greater and
broader, and in the management of educa-
tional institutions men should rise above
local interests and work for the greatest
good for the greatest numbers. Let us
have a university worthy of our noble state
and in building it We will do we'll to profit
by the experience of older states.
G. c. SWALLOW.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Sherman was as light a sleeper when in
the field as the great Napoleon was. He
rarely took more than five hours of rest
when the enemy was near by.
MISSIONER had al adding hatred for
Americans. Though they bought his pic
lures with a generous hand and paid ex-
cessive prices for them his detestation was
bitter and outspoken.
Pasteur is famous for his absent-minded-
ness. 1t is said that he would frequently
forget to eat his dinner If one did not re-
mind him of it.-New York World.
Mr.. Moody declares that if an %archangel
should come down from heaven and preach
in Boston the congregation would find
flaws of grammar or logic in the sermon.
The car of Russia is a perfect specimen
of physical manhood. He is more than six
feet tall and has the shoulders, arms and
thigh of an athlete. So great is the
strength of his hands that he can twist a
horseshoe with ease. He is a magnificent
horseman, a thoroughly trained soldier and
an accomplished linguist, speaking seven
modern languages besides Russian. He
works hard and IS out OF bed from six in
the morning till 10 at night.
Charles Bradlaugh owed much of his sue
cess as an orator to his fine stage presence.
He was six feet two inches in height and
maRniticently proportioned. His gestures
were most dramatic. In his lecture on Oil
yer Cromwell, in the passage where he de
scribes Cromwell as drawing his sword and
throwing away the scabbard. he was accus-
toned to put 30 much spirit into the action
that the audience could almost see the
flashing of the imaginary blade. Once an
old army officer called out: my God!
that man has been in the cavalry!' And so
he had been.
why do the newspapers all speak Of
Koch's 'lymph'?'' asks n physician. HE
never calls his remedy lymph, and yet Eng
disappearing people have given the Ger
man physicians great discovery this utterly
inappropriate term. Lymph is a colorless
fluid which passes through the system in u
natural course, although it does not circu-
late like blood. Professor Koch's precious
fluid could not possibly be lymph, and to
SO call it is merely to translate the German
word-which means remedy, and nothing
more-improperly. The blunder is import
ant, as it is more or less misleading"
The duche of Edinburgh. wife of the
queen Of England's second son and sister
OF the car, was much displeased by the as
signment of her husband to the command
of the dull naval station at Davenport, and
for a long while would not go there herself.
Recently, however. nj in compliance with
a frequently repeated suggestion from inner
court circles that she ought to do 30, the
duchess has taken up her residence at Dev-
onport for a month, and at the end of that
period will go to st. Petersburg. The high
tempered duchess gave a bal! to the
naval officers a few days ago, which was
voted a great success. for while she has n
way OF showing her contempt for English
royalty she at times takes pains to be
graciousness itself to those of lower social
rank than herself. She is commonly re-
ported to lead her spouse a lively dance.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01
A. ID. Charlton, who saw her safely on
board a Southern Pacific train in the even

A.. ID. Charlton. who saw her safely on
board a Southern Pacific train in the even
ing.
The child was neatly attiired and had
most pleasing for one of her age.
On the bosom of her dress she wore a plac-
ard bearing the legend, "All Alone" and OF
her back she wore another placard asking
Christian ladies to take an interest in her.
MIR. Spencer, of the Northern Pacific
Office, took her to his home, where she re-
manned all day. He stated to a Telegram
reporter that he never met a well-bred 10
y~ear-old girl who conducted herself more
genteelly than did his young guest.
The child's mother was divorced from her
husband some time ago, and when leaving
Montana for Santa Barbara. she left Lottie
in the care of an uncle and aunt.
In reply to a question put to her by Mr..
Spencer, she said: 81 did SO hate to leave
uncle and auntie, but when mamma wrote
to them that she wanted the child God
gave her, of course ! had to Co."
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01

WHENCE the fashions come and with
or they go is an unsolved mystery, but
their absolute sway over mankind none
can dispute. A clever writer in "The
Point OF View" in the March Scribner
thus moralizes upon the tyranny whose
yoke all feel yet nobody can entirely
throw off: "a man may still be honest
in a hat of last years shape; but to in
sist upon wearing it is to 90 heavily
handicapped; the odds are ten to one
that, from looking askance at him, his
fellows will proceed to charge him with
eccentricity, and end by grave doubts
about his reason. He finds himself sud,
denly forced, some fine morning, to set
aside his own taste for that Of the whole
civilized world, which agrees in thinking
his brim an inch too wide. How has the
world preoipitated itself SO swiftly te
thisaust conclusion? The process is as
startling as any trsnsmutation of the
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01
OUIDA AS A PREACHER.

What good results can be- expected to
flow from any such discussions as the
n that has been raging between Father
lgnatius and Ouida on the subject Of
Christianity, it is decidedly hard to un-
derstand. Certainly, there is not an
ounce Of satisfaction for the onlooker
in the whole outlay Of paper and print
er's ink. There is one initial difficulty
that never seems to be overcome in such
intellectual encounters. The principals
cannot agree upon their fundamentals.
They open fire with tho utmost vigor =.
consume a vast amount OF ammunition,
raise a chaos OF smoke, and when the
furry has cleared away there are neither
dead nor wounded to be- removed from
the bloodless field. Each leader, wrapt
in the smoke OF his own guns, has been
pounding away with the full force Of his
batteries at some dummy Notifications,
miles away from the enemy's real posi-
ton. Each retires mutually satisfied
that he could have demolished the ene-
my's works, if they had only been where
they ought, in his estimation, to have
been.
So il is in the special instance that
prompts these comments. Ouida pours
out a deluge of red-hot abuse on the
sins of many protesting Christians. She
empties the walls OF her wrath on the
miserable frauds, the paltry receptions,
the secret and open violation of every
article in the decalogue, that are perpe-
trated every day by men and women who
subscribe their share to some minister's
salary and use the pure mantle of
the church as a cloak for their own
r~ascality. The usurer grinds his victims
to the earth and passes the contribu-
ton box on Sundays. The merchant
defrauds his creditors and continues to
march up the aisle with a face beam
ing with u%prightness. We can admit
that it is all too true. The pity is, it's
true, and we may not deny it. But use
is not abuse. From the noble spirit
that permeates the teachings of TIE
founder of Christianity, there is nothing
further removed than the transgressione
Of many OF the pseudo Christians we all
know. What then? Must we believe
with Ouida that, because a precious
jewel has passed through dirty hands,
the value has deteriorated? If men,
whom we know to be dishonest in every
act,of their outward life, assure us that
their inward faith is based on the princi-
pies of Christianity, there Is still no man
who knows what these principles are,
who will attach one iota of value to their
asseverations. Ouida has drawn up a
most powerful indictment against the
'whited sepulchers OF our modern life;''
she has done what nearly every
minister Of the gospel is doing to day
and every Sunday of the year. But the
great white heart Of Christianity, the
Christianity of Christ, remains as far
above her assaults as it is to be feared
it is beyond her conceptions.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01

Ar last we have the secret OF Col.
Ingersoll's theological opinions. In a
speech to the cigar manufacturers asso-
citation in New York the other night he
said:
What would we all do if we had to stick
to facts? How disagrsoabls life would be
if every one told the truth! Imagine your
self meeting u friend on the street and tell
ing him he looked sickly, and that, by the
way. you didn't care to have him call at
your house again.
"The truth ia the weakest thing in the
world. II always comes into the arena
naked, and there it meets a healthy young
lie in complete armor and the result is that
the truth gets licked. One good, solid lie
will knock out a hundred truths.
1.-The history of the whole world is moth
ing but lies. Take the age of chivalry, that
has fed and inflsmed the imagination OF
mankind; that was the age of cowardlce.
There is q thousand times more courage in
the world to-day than there WAS then. and
yet the world ia still on its knees Worship
ping those ironclad knights as if they were
%demigods. There was not tken the love for
human liberty that there is now. Thos
are facts. If all the books in the world ex-
cept those that contained nothing but facts
were destroyed there wouldn't be anything
left but dictionaries and works on the null
tiplication table. The world is full of lies.
For instance, you know as well ms l do that
a pure Havana cigar is a lie.
But the worst thing about a reign OF
solid facts would be that we wouldn't
have any more of picturesque pagan
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01

HORACE r. Buck is an able lawyer
and an upright man and will bring
learning and dignity to the district court
of Lewis and Clarke county.
w. Y. Pemberton, the new judge for
the Silver Bow district, possesses all the
qualities and the legal equipment for
the office for which he has been chosen.
Gov. Toole is to be commended for
the excellent Judgment he has shown in
making these selections.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01

The house discusses for nearly an
hour a bill of it's own regarding the
selection of state lands. A similar bill,
already passed by the senate, lies on the
files in the house. 1t looks as if the
house had made up it's mind to have an
xtra session. Perhaps the governor
will have something to say about the
matter.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01

So great have been the profits of beet
sugar making in Nebraska that the legis-
lature of that state wants to take off the
bounty the state has been paying Mr.
Oxnard, the Crane Island manufactur-
err. Mr.. Oxnard wants to compromise
by paying the farmers N dolle1 a ton
more for beets and giving up one-half
cent of the bounty.
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side of an invalid daughter. The writer
WAS a schoolmate of Mrs. Haggin at the
famous Nazareth convent, Bardstown, KY,
and therefore speaks from a knowledge of
farfa
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01
HELENA, MONT, MARCH l, 1891.

exs~ Montanians abroad will always find TIE
DAILY INDEPENDENT on file ut their favorite
hotcis: Fifth Aveaue and Metropolitan, New
York; Grand Pacific, Chicago: West. Minneapo-
liza: Baldwin and Palace, San Francisco; Mcper.
rot, Butte; Leland Hotel Springfield. Ill.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-01

CONCERT of action has been the secret
of the growth of other cities. Helena
will forge ahead whenever her capital
lists begin to pull together.
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FOR SALE.

About 500 head stock cattle, cheap, grazing in
Fergus county. To be delivered in May or spring
roundup Sixteen dollars per head. Will trade
for Helena property. This is a bargain. No
chances to take. Call upon Or address
II. A.. ELL
Real Estate. Helena. Mont
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alchemists; it defies augury, like the
philosophers stone

UICIeHHNEVSs ~ VCiHcu WUkWEy TINY VT"
philosophers stone
There is apparently but ole way Of
escaping the caprice and whim that
control our lives and that is w p scien-
tiiic process Of tracing fashions 70 their
source and studying the laws= for. there
must ba laws-ofs their genesis. Whom
We go ut the matter right w. may, nip
undesirable fashions in the ylYSdsyelop
others, discourage tooagreat fecundity in
the makers of styles and hold on to
gowns and trousers and hats that ev-
erybody likes, us long as we choose. We
observe tho caprices OF the weather and
sound the warning OF approaching
changes. Whysnot those OF fashion!
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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-11-12
a Salt Cure.

Here is simple thing that is worthy
of attention. 1t may be the means OF
doing much good, and, at any rate, can
de- no harm
John Bland; an Euglishman, writes to
the New York Herald of q discovery he
claims to have made in disease and its
prevention. The letter treats of the
theory of disease germs, their develop.
ment, and new treatment for their de-.
structlon. The germ theory of disease
admitted, common salt is the universal
panacea and antidote of germ poison.
Salt kills both vegetable and animal
germs, and the vegetables and animals,
too, administered in quantities large
enough. Farmers sometimes steep their
seed grain in brine to kill the vegetable
germs which would destroy its growth;
the sailing process Of fish and meat per-
forms the same Office in their preserva'
tion. People who eat little salt are more
liable to contract and develop disease
than those who take mans allotted three
quarters of an ounce daily portion of the
chloride of sodium. BANDS conviction
is that salt eating Is the thing to kill the
germs of cholera, yellow fever, small pc1
or any infectious or contagious disease,
when epidemics are around. Salt IS
cheap and accessible. Two or three
ounces day, in time of danger from
disease germs, will not injure anybody,
even if it does no good.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-11-12
Saving Seed Corn.

The great value of seed corn is my ex-
cuse for once more, and now, just in the
nick of time, referring to this subject. 1t
is very easy matter for the practiced
eve and skillful hand to pick out good
seed ear while husking corn. AS you 60
through the rows with wagon save a
few shucks on every good seed ear and
throw these in a pile in one end Of the
wagon, to be braided up when the days
work is done.
Good seed should be of one color, the
rows on the cob should be perfect and
should be of the same number; the ends
sh d be we'll filled out with plump
seeds.
1t is we'll enough to save plenty OF ears,
even more than you may need tor your
own use. 1t may sell at a good price, or
YOU can do neighbor good turn /;
or, if rightly handled, it will keep for
years.
The great value Of corn for so many
uses, especially for feeding and fattening
all kinds of live stock, seems to be right
" estimated by cur experimental sta
tions,
We do not at this moment recall any
domestic anima! that will not eat it and
thrive on it. Even cats will eat il when
cooked, and farm dog will 60 to the
crib and get an ear of hard corn and eat
It with much relish.
While it has been often proved and by
the press set forth, that with The proper
culture and On good soil, from 50 to 100
bushels can be grown on an acre, the
great corn States of Iowa, Illinois and
Nebraska, will not average over thirty
five bushels per acre, and Missouri even
less.
Now is the time, and the bes! time, tc
save your seed corn.
After it isssved, keep the rodents away
from it, and do not hang it up in gran
ary where oats, or other small grain i
stored. Such course is fatal to its ger
mination.-Charles ". Mwye}at, in Re
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canals, others for the acquisition or leas'
Ing Of arid lands, others calling upon
the general government to issue millions
of dollars worth of bonds and bore the
arid earth for wells, and make the lands
fit for people to live in. 1t was stated
there ere ai1 hundred and fifty millions
of acres of arid lands still held by the
general government, Of which five
hundred millions of. acres require to
be irrigated by artesian wells, no other
aource of water supply being available.
When all the speeche. had been made
and all the resolutions discussed the fol
lowing reasonable platform was sgreed
upon and the congress adjourned:
Resolgcd, That this congress is in favor
of granting in trust to the States and
Territories neediul of irrigation, all lands
now part of the public domain within
such States and Territories, excepting
mineral lands, for the purpose of deyel-
oping irrigation to render the lands now
arid, fertile and capable of supporting a
population .-Scientifc 4lmerican.
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Where Women Have q Say.

The first Governor of the State OF wy
oming, Amos W. Barber, was in the city
yesterday and chatted pleasantly with
Press reporter. The doctors winning
ways placed him on the right side of the
fair sex of Wyoming, for soon after it's
admission as State in 1890, be was
elected its first Governor by creditable
majority of men, old naidens, and blush.
ing young ladies just reaching their ma
jority.
Chow about politics in Wyoming ?"
said the Governor in reply to query.
"You know we are voting under the
Australian ballot system, and to be can.
did I must say it has improved the purity
of politics wonderfully. No. We have
no women heelers or strikers or FOUNDERS
as they are sometimes called. Such char.
acters are unknown to us. The women,
and particularly those whose husbands
have means, usually have carriages on
election day and drive to the polls and
vote and take many of their friends with
them.
"Do 1 believe that woman suffrage de-
grades her? No; on the contrary, |
believe it enobles and brings out all the
strong attributes Of true womanhood.
"The women do not draw the political
lines nearly as closely as the men. They
elect each other superintendent of pub
lie schools and make the cause of educa.
ton their firm aim.
"The voting is carried on much like
the system of depositing in bank. Voters
of both sexes come and deposit their
ballots after passing in closed avenue,
one at time, and return again in a quiet
and business like way to their homes.
To their credit be it said the women are
almost q unit for ability, hon esty and
integrity wherever found, in high life or
low"
care the women voters bittei parti.
sans, and do they oppose each other and
have factional diferences?"
"No, not all. Usually the wives or
daughters vote the politics of their
fathers. But to this there are exceptions.
There is wonderful unanimity in senti-
meut among the women, and they make
the best and highest types of citizens,
and in many instances their judgment is
better than their husbands or brothers" :"
"Do they ever sit on juries ?"
eyes, we have had several women
jurors in the courts of Cheyenne, the
capital of Wyoming, where I reside. 1t
would be rather dangerous for husbands
that beat their wives; make love to the
girls, stay out all night, comHiit petty
misdemeanors and tho like, if they were
hauled up in court before jury. They
would get women's women justice
"You know our total population ia
10000, one fourth of which is females.
So man must walk straight In Wyom-
ing, for the women hold the balance of
power, and they are using 1t wisely and
judiciously. They are making our
schools the models of the country, and,
too, can make dollar 60 much further
than their 'hubbies. '"-Philadelphia
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sad, like somebody, y,w7s dead. For q lit
tie while she posed as martyr, and then
resumed her household duties, The trcu-
BILE is that every time re go to the front
piazza Ns see it and it mars the pleasant
prospect. It keeps us from feeling calm
and serene. But by and by the flowers
will fade and leaves will fall, and then we
will forget it. Old Father Time is good
doctor.
Well, I haven't been to see King Solo
mon, and I am not going until the con-
troYersy is settled. The Baptists say it
is good thing aud the Methodists say it
is very bad thing, and so I will wait
until the Presbyteriaus have their say.
Our preacher hasent said word. Heard
man say that the Baptists were increas'
ing more rapidly than he ever knew them,
for there were 10000 rev ones in the
show every night. Maybe they were the
same old ones who keep on going. But
it is well for us that the preachers stand
like sentinels on the watch towers and
warn the people. They may sometimes
cry danger when there is no danger, but
they are, nevertheless, the best sentinels
we have got. There may be extremists
and fanatics among them, but had rath-
er risk them for good advice and good
example than any other profession. They
are the leaven that leavens society. They
are the salt that preserves morality.
They are our comfort in trouble and in
sickness and ct the open grave. Good
people honor them everywhere. There
is not college in our State, male or fe-
male, but has preacher at its head, and
their high moral tone and Christian in
huence over the youth of the land inspires
them to noble conduct and goes down
from generation to generation.
Blessings on the preachers.
BILL ARP.
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