The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-07
THE SHADOWGRAPHER.

better evidence to the contradictory is fur
nished. He writes rs follows: 1.-The en-
closed clipping, relative to the difference
of opinion in Helena IA to whether Billy
| Fsirweather is dead or alive, l out from
the Independent Of April 2s. MIR.
Bradley, a mining man living in San
Francisco, tells me that you Montana
men were mistaken about seeing billy
Fairwesther at the palace or "Rusk"
house. The man they met WAS Tom FAIR
weather, a brother of Bill. Bradley said,
Il knew them both quite we'll. About
two months since ] met Tom Fairweather
at the Rusk House. He had come to San
Francisco at attend n lawsuit, and IN our
conversation | asked him about his brother
William. Tom said that his brother VII
liam had been dead q number of years.
Bradley, savs Tom Fairweather. Is now
living at North Bloomfield, Cal, and ia in
the employ Of the North Bloomfield Gravel
Mining company.
Mr.. Bradley is u reliable man and his
statement can be verified by parties inter
ested who will take the trouble to write to
! Thomas Fairweather, at North Bloomfield,
Call
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l enjoyed a pleasant chat yesterday with
Russell, the interpreter who has charge or
the Piegan Indians who are here before the
United States district court as witnesses III
the whisky-sellinR cases. Their names are
| Four Horns, Under Dog and Thunder.
| They are having a royal good time viewing
sights new to them. Among their expert
ences when here before the grand jury was
- <,;, $40 &ho o,urt hOuua tnwar tn the en-
pola. When the last flight of stairs was
reached the courage of Under Dos ana
Thunder oozed out and they commenced a
return trip, crawling on their stomschs.
Four Horns vent to the top. While he en-
loved the view he did like the position.
He became dizzy and was glad to
get down. That evening they heard
the photograph for the first time.
1t was a wonder indeed to these sons of the
forest. When the first notes reached their
ears their eyes fairly bulged out with as
t%onishment and the next minute their faces
were wreathed with smiles. big medi-
cine" exclaimed Foul Horns as he stepped
back to view the machine. Then he and
his companions asked to have the box
opened so they could see the boy who was
singing within.
~
Russell, in talking about the fun the In
dams were having, said: ''They are greatly
astonished at the high buildings. They
walk along the street gazing at
he upper windows Of these struc-
lures and run into people walking
along. When they were here before l
took them over to a meeting Of the Saliva
ton army one evening. When the meeting
was finished the leader asked all who wished
to Join to remain. The Indians kept their
seats and the leader thought he had made a
big capture. He was therefore somewhat
disappointed when ! led them out. The
chiefs do not like to go out in the evening
because they are afraid. | notice, however,
that they are more at home this trip than
before. This evening | think of taking
them over to the theater for a change.
Within a few months three or four chiefs
will 90 down to Washington to have q talk
with the "big father on matters of inter
est to both"
Last Sunday Rev. DR.. Kelsey gave a pleas
ant talk to the children of the Mayflower
Sunday school at the anniversary. While
explaining bA0 upS dlu " 1 hS IL
Illustrated in a way that would appeal to the
Montana youngsters mind. He told how
men started over the mountains to find IN
foreground riches and hunted all their lives
without finding reward. Then, again, 9th
ers would find untold wealth at the first
strike Of the pick. Now, what do you call
that, dear children?' asked the pastor.
Striking it rich,'' yelled the boys and
girls in a chorus.
1t would be "A long time in New England
before a response like this would be heard.
Tie Use of Books.
Civilized society is always in danger OF
reading too much and thinking too little.
There are lots of men in the world who
have read more than is good for them,
Literary seed sown in the best ground may
spring up and bring forth men of whom
Erasmus or Goethe are the most famous
1ypes. men in whom culture has produced
that most irritating absence,of %dogmatism
which Mr.. Matthew Arnold called ''sweet
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Books too may aid il
producing clear intellects, like John Stuar'
Mill, whose mind has been compared to t
perfect and exact machine into which one
put a question and out came the right an
swer. Books will aid still more in develop
ing men with the marvellous and Learned
memory of a Macauley. All these classe!
of men may be good takers of thei,
several kinds. But literary culture, alas
, may also produce men whose talk is
. learned, yet feeble, inconseauent, ant
worse still, lacking in human interest. The,
| are rather books than men. They hav,
D laid so many volumes on their heads tina
$ their brains will not move. Literary fee
bleness is worse because more artificial thai
( natural feebleness. Terrible are they who
without capacity for using knowledge
skillfully. deem it their duty to seer
a learned and clever in society. An OXFORD
: professor, when staying at a country house
f used to know how much he owed to himsel
and how much was expected from him at din
q ner; and SO. as everyone was made to un
derstand, no retired to his room an hour o
two beforehand IN order to read up and s
. prepare the feast of wit and learning. Thu
y professor is dead now and it says niue
for human endurance that he
understood TO have died a natur;
death. But, according to another pre-
: fessor-Prof. Mahaffy of Dublin-there wa
or perhaps still is, another such social ey
| roaming among us-ac college don who ca
ried his own peculiar Joe Miller in h
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