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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-31

not yet move largely at st. Louis, though
money is going into Illinois towns to some
extent. Trade improves at Kansas City,
money being in demand for packer and
grain dealers. At the south little change is
noted, and money is generally tight and
trade inactive.
Specializing in breadstuffs has suddenly
become active. Sales of $4,000, 600 bushels
of wheat here nave resulted in advance of
81 cents or bashel, though the moderate
official estimate of this years crop would
leave nearly 200 1000, 900 bushels in the coun-
try for export, a quantity greater than has
ever yet been taken abroad. Corn has de-
clined thee cents and oats ~ cents on
small trade, having been unnaturally high.
Pork products rise again and a speculation
in them is foleshadowed. Coffee remains
unchanged. and oil is an eighth higher,
while cotton has fallen three-eighths to
eight cents for spot with sales OF Cos, 900
bales, an enormous trade for the season,
Potatoes and apples arc lower. and farm
products are generelly getting back to a
normal range, the average prices Of
all commodities have fallen pa per cent.
during the week. Tin is lower at
London, copper in small demand with lake
at 1924 cents and lead unchanged. The re-
ported Improvement in coal is mythical,
for free selling continues by parties not
named at the May prices.
The great industries show Improvement
in wool and leather manufacture, as the
above reports indicate, but no signs of re-
covery IN iron or coal. In the wool trade
the larger sales at caste II cities and con-
tinued large receipts at the west reflect the
improvement which a better demand for
dry goods naturally causes. Considerable
Improvement is seen in sales of fall and
winter woolens, II some activity, for the
season. III spring goods. Leather is awak-
ening and manufacturers are LAYING in
stocks moe literally. The boot and SHOE
prospect at the south and west are excel
lent, and Boston shipments again ex-
coed last years. But the money
markets at the west show in
C easing demand, and at some points ap-
preaching strlngency, and collections are
not, on the whole, good for the season. The
treasury has ut out during the past week,
including issues of new treasury notes.
but 100000 more thar it has taken in. and
ths rats OF fo.eign exchange has slightly
advanced and mo 9 gold goes abroad TODAY.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven DAYS.
as reported to Il. G. Dun d Co., The Mer-
camille AGENCY. by telegraph. number, for
the United States, 23l, Canada, twenty-three
or a total OF 23l, as compa ed with a total
OF PA last week, and PAT the week previous
to the last. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 19D, representing
lE IN the United States, and twsn1y-geysn
III the Dominion Of Canada.
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Great Falls.

The infant child of Mrs. Robert Lind, of
Sand Co2lee, died Sunday. 1t was bu'ied
Monday afternoon.
The home of MIR. and Mrs. w. l.. Hickory,
on Third avenue north and Yhirteenth
street, was made JOYFUL Monday night nv
the birth OF q bouncing boy.
w. z. Bowers is happy over the advent of
q ten-tonnd morse rancher at his place, He
arrived Tuesday and has already taken con
troll of the ranch.
Ella Lal.ue is making preparations to
build 4 line brick house on Third avenue
South, between Second and Third ~streots.
1T Will cost $1,000 md work will be COM
menced on it this week.
DIVE OF logs belonging to the Hotter
Iumber company and Butte and Montana
Lumber company. is coming down the
Nllssour. ihoy ar from Rock creek and
Deco creek.
The Welshmen of Great Falls met Mon
day night at the office of j. X. Clark for the
purpose OF o .ganlzlng a society for socinl
and benevolent purposes.
Holden, Anderson d Lund, who have the
contract for the itrigating ditch of the Cas-
CAGE Land company, say that they are in
heeo OF teams, tenmsters and station work
efs, Aho any one wishing work in npy Of
these CAPACITIES can obtain it by applying
ut thelr camp on Muddy creek, ten miles
from here.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Trige, Miss Josie
Ir1gg, Miss Ladd, County Treasurer Nc
Clelland and Mcssrs. George H~otchkiss md
othr v. '; Garter lett Wednesday morning
~ 10 itoulu GEEK, where they viii pursue
the festive trout, and take in a suruly of
mountain ozone for a couple of weeks.
Inc Electric Street Railway cornnnnv
Will within a few weeks bui,d an extension
on Central avenue from Second street to
NlAth street, seven blocks, which Will
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THE TRADE REVIEW.
Reports Generally More Favorable TIL
Those of One Week Apo.

Reports Generally More Favorable Than
Those of One Week Ago.
New YORK, July 30.-The last circular
issued by the Dun Mercantile agency says:
oome Improvement IN the business situation
Is still noted. There is more actual trade
III most of the lending branches, and more
general confidence as to the future. But
the monetary situation does not grow
clearer, and the decline in stocks. notwitb-
standing great dul!ness and with enormous
crops coming, marks the feeling of Wall
ht-eet thal diilcultics Glay he not far ahead.
lie ave age deciiu" in active stocks has
been Sl.2i er sha e for the week. A srec-
ulatlon 8 spIin ting up which threatens to
MAKE troublo when tae crop movement be-
comes large. Distribution of circulars in
enormous mi Del from MINNEAPOLIS and
WASHINGTON, profcsSedly b. the Farmers,
alliance, aQyl5lng all ia mers 10 hold their
wheat, does not yet atfec. actual REGENTS
pnt stimulates sneGuiators to buy largely in
eXpectatlon OF u boon, and much money has
ALREADY been locked NJ in clrryiup accu1nn-
latin4 stocks. With the utmost f.ecdom IN
movement OF whent, recovery from Eurons
OF the SiO,0tO,GO gold shipped tits venr
would be dlihcuit, but with wneat EXPO ia
checked Tor some months scarcity Of money
would be Ieltln all markets and all branches
OF industry.
80 S'iilAtlDh OF Ifa0a nra
generally more favorable than a week moo
Az Iioston there there is further improve
meht, more oolng IN boots and shoes. with
nahniactureFa better employed, and CON
t'huea imp oVement in leather. Wool ia
quite active, with sales over 5000. 600
pounds, end dty goods jobbers mole active,
Ialues are lrm and lnmber quiet. Wool is
moro ACTIVE, and dry goods in better de-.
mand at Hartford. PhilaGelnhia notes i'm
proved demand FOR WOO, with some con.
tracts for large blocks and better prices for
fine wool clothing.
At the west cIoD prospects stimuIata
eeverywhe e. Chicago Reports wheat racsints
hYe times last years, m increase of 30 TO 10
per cent. IN dressed beef, hidos and butter.
out some deere lse in cured meats and lard
Dry goods sales are a tlifle smaller ut pres
eit' ara trade III clothing and shoes sea-
sonably dull. with collections Improving.
sonlaehce IN tne 1uture being general. At
milwaukee, trade is fairly active, at ST. panI
improving, and at Minneapolis active for
lumber and better for -four. Wheat does
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GENERAL NEWS
OF THE STATE,
Hozeman.

Commodore Hite reached Pierre, S. D.,
on the 18th of July, III his B~ozeman-made
boat, the Montana.
Born, at Bozeman. July "a, to Mr.. and
Mrs. H. s. Webb, a daughter; at East Gal
latin July IL, to mir. and Mrs. A. Il. Hamil-
ton, n daughter.
The band boys went to the Springs on
sunday and entertained the visitors with a
few choice selections from their portfolio
of classical music.
Bob King was the center of q great deal
of curiosity on circus day as he drove
down the street with a cub bear captured
by some Bozeman boys last 8 sring.
Twelve thousand sheep passed through
Bozeman early Saturday morning. They
Were purchased in Oregon and are being
driven to jamestown, Dakota. at which
point Dan Ringer expects to arrive in Sep
TENDER.
Sunday afternoon at two O'Clock John NJ.
Kay and Miss Leila Murray, of this CITY.
were quietly married, only Il few relatives
and near friends being present, at the resi-
dence of the brides ~grandparent, Mr..
k~idgeway.
Charles Francisco commenced harvesting
on Monday. He has 300 ceres of wheat,
oats and barley. The wheat. he saws. will
60 h1fy bushels to the acre. while his neigh
bors say 1t VIII no sixty. His barley stands
fully five feet high and is as fine as any in
the valley.
The miner may mine with all his might.
ana the stockman may smile with joy; but
the Gailatln crops take the cake. you bet,
and are gold without alloy. Tho ctoaker
may croak, and the kicker may kick, and
ths cora-erower chant his strain, but tho
Galiat!n crop is always on top, with or
without the rain.
Wednesday evening while Miss Mollie
kooWn and the Misses Peck were riding
horseback in the outskirts of the city the
horse 'ldden by Miss Ada Peck became un-
manageable. and after buckina for a few
minutes shied and threw hor off. She was
thrown with great force and it WAS sup.
po2ed that she WAS killed, but under 1he
Doctors care she r,gained Consciousness ia
about an hour, and late reports are to the
effect that she is slowly recovering.
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What a Noted Physician Saws.
CHICAGO, Jan. 81, 1899
w. i, WigQou,

Dear alr-As you requested ] have cxnm-
lnea me formula Of your toilet preparation
calied -kobertine." can assure YOU that
ihe ingredients are both bland and harm
less, and that the compound would form an
e1cellent application IN irritatcd conJi-
lions OF the skin. Yours truly,
ARTHUR DEAN BEvAN. M. u.
froiessor OF Anatomy, Rush Medical Cd.
ieReand +. A. Surgeon. u. s M. ii. 4
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Men, Women and Children.

All suffering from lingering, wasting and
destroying diseases should consult the cele-
btated Kansas City. Butte CITY and San
francisco physicians and surgeons of the
Lleblg World Dispensary, who will visit
t1e'eha ana nave Offices at tine Merchants
hotel. room no. Ii, from AUG. | to Ano \
Consultation free. They successfully treat
al chronic diseases and detoI mites.
Braces, appliances aud apparatus made in
dlspeHsary workshops for eaci. individual
Ghse; Measurements will be taken ut the
hotsls ana contracts entered into for cura-
bic cases. ~
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shorten the route to the big dam. They
have ordered the trolley wires ard rails
from Pennsylvania. AS soon as they az
rive work will be commenced. They have
the poles and ties all ready now.
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Death From Kidney nisnnsn

Is Inc unfortunate and untimely ending of
thousands OF the American people aprnnllv
oregon Kidney ca is guaranteed In cmrc
an forms of kindey troubles. Take IL in,
time. ""e ~ III
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hearty e2ting, is relieved at once by tatiny one ue
81 Carriers Little Liver Pills immediately 1afteJ
dinner. Don't forget this. A"-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
A Common Disease.

Thrush, so familiar to many mothers, is
an inflammatory disease of the mouth,
caused by microscopic vegetable parasite
only within the last fifty years. The dis
ease is characterized by a white emulation
from minute spots of infiamed mucous
membrane on the tongue, mouth and lips.
The spots are often SO abundant that they
unite and form curd like patches, which
sometimes cover the entire mouth in front
of the palate, and resemble diphtheretic
membrane.
The affected parts are hot and tender;
the stomach and bowels are disturbed and
there is more or less fever. In rare cases
the thrush extends from the mouth down
to the stomach, and in still rarer cases to
the bowels.
The disease occurs mostly in infants and
in the aged In the aged it is difficult to
cure. 1t also occurs as secondary to acute
and chronic diseases, in which case espe-
cially in the latter. it often proves fatal.
Thrush may be so mild as TO require only
the local application every few hours of a
little powdered borax mixed with an equal
amount of sugar, and careful regulation
of the diet, preceded by mild dose to re-
move any irritating matter.
The food of the mother, besides being
nourishing and abundant, should be aka
line instead of acid in its tendency If the
child is brought up by hand lime water
should be added to the milk in the proper
ton of one to three.
In most cases it is wisest to call the
family physician.-Youth's Companion.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
The Blue Dauube.

Among the most important rivers in
Europe is the Danube; in fact, it is the sec
ond river. 1t has a length of LOO miles:
1t and its tributaries drain Il valley having
an area of over 100000 square miles. Many
nations live along it's banks and those of
the rivers which flow into 1t, and nearly
thirty dialect are spoken from it's source
to its mouth. 1t rises in the Black forest
to the north of Switzerland, and almost in
sight of the French frontier. Through
Bavaria and Austria is its course. through
hungary, past Servia and Bulgaria, Rou-
mania and Roumelia, while tributaries
flow in from Bosnia and Macedonia on the
south and Poland on the north, so that
practically the valley of the Danube com
prises the most important portion of east
ern Europe.
1t runs through the battle ground of
civilization and savagery. Here the Ro-
mans contended with the Scythians and
the Huns; here the Greek empire strove to
maintain its supremacy over the hordes Of
savage tribes which came down from the
steppes of Russia; here, after the empire OF
the east faded away, Charlemagne contend
ed with savage tribes of semi-Asiatics: here
all Europe fought the Turks for generation
after generation, until by a great battlr
fought under the walls of Vienna the foe
of the Mohammedan invasion was role,
back toward Asia.-New York Ledger.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
A Few Good Hints.

You all know how hard it is to wash
comfortables and how unsatisfactory the
Job is at the best, for it takes them so long
to dry, and the colors are always sure to
run. face mine at the top by folding a
breadth of calico or Bingham lengthwise
and basting the folded edge of the COM
Portable, then turning it over each side
and running it down. BY doing this they
can be kept clean a long time, for they sell
dom get soiled much except at the top.
Then / have way OF cleaning the lint
off that gathers on the wrong side of wool
en- undergar,nents. Sometimes the folds
will be quite full, which sticks persist
emily when you try to wash it off l hap
pened to think, one day, that a wire hair
brush might brush it off before washing.
tried it, and found that it did. nicely.
My latest discovery is this: To wiring hot
cloths for sickness Tor rather to squeeze
them) in n Jelly press. Some call them
vegetable Washers. You can have them
as hot as yoa want without suffering mar
tyrdom with scalded hands-Cor. Spring
field Homestead.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
A Girls Gifts.

Two who had deeply loved came one day
to part because of some trivial misunder-
standing, and because each was too proud
to say, Il am in fault; forgive me-" So
they stood with cold eyes but trembling
hearts and looked at each other
Here is the-ring" she said, drawing it
slowly from her finger
He took it as slowly, turned it over and
over, and as she did not speak, flung it
upon the glowing Goals. She paled a lit
tie, but unclasped from her throat tinv
chain, and gave it him with a shaking
hand 1t shared the same fate. Then they
stood silent.
II have given you nothing" at last
she said, in tone of dull regret; and he
replied, his voice breaking with deep emo
ton:
mo; you have given me no ring, no
petty bauble, it is true, which may be re-
turned and flung 10 the flames; but you
have given every thought for two years
past to me; you have given me your eyes,
your lips, your heart; you have given me
to know that heaven still lives on earth to
the man who is loved by chaste woman.
These l can not give back to you''-
Then, all in moment, the heart tears
leaped up to her eyes, and his words were
silenced on her lips.-Ella Higginson il
West Shore
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
His FOOTPRINTS.

A few years ago a French scientist of
wide reputation, who had written several
books against Christianity, was one of a
party which was crossing the great Arabian
desert, The servants were all Mussul-
mans, and, of course, at each sunrise and
sunset, and several times during the day,
no matter what difficulties were in the
way, they knelt upon their little PRAYING
mats in the heat of the sun and on the
burning sand and repeated their Moham-
medan prayers.
The Freuchman was very witty, and
often made some joke upon their devo-
tions at which, am ashamed to saw, we
all laughed more or less
One evening, as the suns red disk was
dropping below the horizon of sand precise
ly as the red moon comes up out of the
horizon of water at sea, the men had made
their final salaam toward Mecca and were
rising from their knees, when the French
man spoke to the leader, saving:
DO you not waste your valuable time in
so many of these operations? How do you
happen to know so well that there is God
out here in the deserts''
The Arab replied, "Sahib, how did YOU
know so well. this morning, that caravan
had passed our tents last night when you
were asleep"
by the footprints in the sand, of
course, said the Frenchmau
The Arab pointed, very solemnly, to the
last fiery tip of the suns disk as it ap-
peared upon the line of sand and replied:
"Sahib, that is not the footprint of Q
man."-Youth's Companion.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
Train the Babe,

'How shall teach my baby obedience?"
and, "How soon must / Begin" are two
questions that frequently agitate the young
mother, and by the very wording of the lat
ter Observation-Disclosures of must" for
"shalF'-is betrayed the dread with which
the task is anticipated, the reluctance with
which it is undertaken.
To tell the young mother that the train
ing of her child should begin with its birth
is to tell her something which she simply
does not believe. Nevertheless it is true,
and in the first three weeks of its life the
child learns to know by instinct as to who
is master OF the occasion. Say what YOU
will, infants possess a reasoning power
that is utterly incomprehensible, and
While they do not say to themselves in SO
many words, IF scream right loud they'll
give me what l want the result is pre-
cisely the same. and shortly the willy in
FAINT has wriggled and screamed himself
into the veriest tyrant-Home Magazine.
Starch grows sticky; common powders
have vulgar glare. Pozzonls is the
only complexion pc wder fit for use.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
Long Distance Laughter.

Did you ever laugh by telegraph? Proba
blyn 1t would hardly pay. When one
reflects that it would cost a cent or two
per chuckle to express his sense of amuse
ment he refrains from manifesting it and
lets it go.
But laughing is done by telegraph. /;
Is the telegraph operators who indulge in
this luxury, and mostly the night oper
ators, who have more time than the day
people. When an operator becomes lonely
and his saunders are clicking out messages
not intended for him he calls up some
friend operator, maybe hundred squares
away, and opens a conversation.
A conversation, of course, cannot be con
tinued long before something funny is
said. 1t then becomes the duty of the Cd
orator to laugh. This he does by making
four dots, then one dot and dash, thus
-, spelling ha. Thus to all Jokes
he replies IA, IA. Sometimes, to make
it easier, he says hi, that is, four dots
and two dots.
The laugh by telegraph is necessarily
cold and sardonic. 1t does not bubble IRE
sistibly to the surface. 1t is the result of de
hberate purpose. When one has sufficient
self control to laugh in this way probably
his tribute to your joke is not what you
would desire. But the operator is often
shaken with laughter before shaking his
key with it, so to speak. indianapolis
Neyrs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
Evolution of the Handkerchief.

The authorities are neither clear nor in
harmony as regards the history of the
handkerchief known popularity in English
as the pocket handkerchief The etymolo-
gy of the name is, nevertheless, sufficient
ly clear. The last syllable comes from the
old French chief, meaning head, the sylla-
bic ''ker" is from the French couveir. to
cover, while the prefixes hand" and
pocket" were applied when the article
began to change its medieval use of head
covering and became the aid to neatness
and decency which Il is at present.
The old French name couvre-chef, or
chief, came over to England, with host of
other French words, after the conquest.
and in time became "gerchief," which il
long since obsolete in America, though it
may. perhaps, ba still! heard in parts of
England. For long ages after the Cru
sades even women of rank wore the ker-
chief, which, after many changes, became
the modern hat or bonnet. But exactly at
what period it began to be carried in the
hand or in the exterior pocket or handbag
is uncertain.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
The Wonder of Wonders.

When Mr.. Loughton was Spanish consul
at Boston he was one day standing near
where some ballast stones We're being
thrown overheard from vessel that had
recently arrived from European seaport
Among this rubbish was flint pebble
somewhat larger than a hens egg, which
when it struck some of the larger stones
separated in the middle. Mr. Loughton
stopped and picked up the two halves. Or
each half, in marks made by the natural
growth of the stone, were two perfect hu.
man heads in profile, all of the outlines OF
features and hair being perfectly distinct
the natural portrait being much darker
than the surrounding stone. The most
surprising part of the whole incident is the
fact that, even though the two halves fit to
gether exactly, one of the faces was clearly
that of male, the other that of female
Even the putting up of the hair was ap
propriate to the sex; yet in the stone they
were face to face.-St. Louis Republic.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
Art in pnI,sninr Boats.


On street corner on the upper part OF
Sixth avenue is a bootblack stand presided
over by a-middle aged darky named Joe,
whose odd ways have secured for him a
number of lucrative customers He firmly
believes that shoe polishing has a high
rank among the arts and sciences, and re-
grets that among the hundreds of boot
blacks to be found in the city so few attain
the skill and knowledge of the business
which, with due modesty, he claims to pos
sess. 1t is amusing to watch him in his
efforts to impress new customer with
the Importance of his profession and the
profundity of his knowledge and expert
ence in it.
Joe first rubs the shoes of the customer
for several minutes with his hands in a
solemn way, occasionally stopping to ex-
anime them closely with a critical eve.
This naturally excites the curiosity of the
owner of the shoes, and then Joe explains
in confidential tone that in order to give
perfect polish the quality and condition
of the leather must be thoroughly known.
He then pulls out from the under part OF
the stand a large drawer filled with dozens
of brushes, from among which he carefully
selects one. As he passes his hand over
the face of the brush the conceited old
bootblack glances at the shoes of the Gus
toner, as though determining whether
that particular brush is best suited to the
grain of leather TO be operated upon. A
similar performance is gone through with
in choosing the backing to be used on the
occasion. Joe then goes to work and pol
ishes the shoes in question with many a
mysterious flourish and cabalistic curve.
When he finishes it is worth the price to
see his evident admiration of his own
handiwork.--New York Telegram