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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
RURAL CRITICISM.
Is 1t Possible the Monster Emporiums"
Have Initiated Country Stores?

Is 1t Possible the '.Monster EmpOriums"
Have Initiated Country Stores?
Uncle Comfort Pettingill was a
man whose opinions were considered
well worth listening to by the people
of Bushby, and when he returned
from a months visit to his married
daughter, who lived "daown blow"
in Boston, everybody was anxious to
hear what he had to say about the
city. II want t know, Comfort"
said Mr.. Augustus Fawcett, a near
neighbor, who dropped in" the
night after Uncle Comfort returned,
II want t know eff We passed inter
Gimp & Hardtack's shop while ye
was daown b'low?'
"Suttin. suttin-a number O.
times" replied Mr.. Pettingill.
Well" said Mr.. Fawcett, II sh'd
like t know eff they didn't set up fer
a dry goods store ten years or so
back? Or hev l got tn wrong name?"
They called themselves a dry
goods firm, an do naow," said Uncle
Comfort.
"WelI, we'll" remarked MI. Faw-
cett, "haow docs it happen they're
advertiser farmin tools fer sale? Hes
some r'lation died an left 'em a lot
on hand? I see their circlar in tn
Farmers Guide when it come las
night. l was poorly sure tibet was tn
place where niece Idylly got M wife's
dress pattern, but INVITE, she said
there must be mistake somewhere"
ether amt any mistake l callate,
Gus" replied the returned traveller.
Eye see, times hev changed sence
O was t Boston twenty-five years
ago. Gimp & Hardtack keeps
everythin' We ken think up, firm rub
Der boots t painted furnitoor sets.
It's 'nough t make a man crazy t.
step foot inter their place; an it's full
as big IS Square Toilets pasture
piece"
II want ter knowl" calculated Mr..
Fawcett.
Eyes, full as big," reiterated Uncle
Comfort.
There was a moments pause, and
then Mr.. Pettingill from his seat in
front Of the fire reached forward,
took up the tongs, and turned the
fore stick over, giving it a wback
which started up a bright blaze.
'It amt but q few years" he said,
turning to his guest with the tongs
still in his hands, ''sence tn city folks
was pokin fun at tn kentry stores on
account O. their keepin all kinds O.
merchandise"
MI. Fawcett nodded sagely, in &C
%quiescent silence.
II may be all off'n tn track" g
marked Uncle Comfort, in a tone
hat belied his modest sentiments,
"but it appears tine as eff Gimp e
Hardtack was kinder copyin after tn
kentry stores naowadays!"
And with that he replaced the
tongs, and turned the conversation
to the present state of the Bushby
crops.-Youth's Companion.
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has spread away from It's great nome
to many new points out west, and is
prospecting especially at Cedar
Rapids, Sioux City and Kansas City.
Beet sugar making is also On the III
crease. In Canada, too, there has
been much progress, especially since
the opening of the Canadian Pacific
railway; but in comparison with
what is happening in the States.
Canada seems fast asleep.
Australia is only beginning; but
she is trying her hand at many prod
ucts, and there is good ground to
hope that, as the years pass on, she
may become the greatest OF u pur-
veyOrs. If she could cure the earthly
taste of her wines, they might be
largely sold among us. India is aug
menting her shipments to us, and
there-as almost everywhere indeed
food of various sorts is assuming
an important position among eX
ports. In Europe itself the pro
duction of many of the more deli
cate articles is steadily gaining
strength; Malta and Teneriffe are
supplying us with increasing guam
titles of potatoes, and even in such
an out of the way little country as
Bosnia an important commerce has
grown up in dried plums, from 49,,
600 to 0,000 tons being sent away
each year, according to the crop.
All the world is gaining in pro,
portion as we gain ourselves. Black
woods Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12

A stitch is a sharp, spasmodic pain
in 'the muscles Of fhe side like the
piercing of a needle, and is very apt
to be produced if exercise is taken
Immediately after a hearty meal.
This arises because the nervous
energy necessary for the proper
working of the muscles in exercise is
engaged in another direction-name-
ly, in assisting the digestion of the
food. Anything that interferes with
the proper supply of nervous energy
required for exercise, whether it.be
debility or the process of digestion
Or exhaustion arising from over ex-
ertion, is apt to cause this spasmodic
pain.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
He AwOke from His Dream.

New Boarder-You must give me
another rOOm.
Hotel Clerk-What's the matter
with the room you've got9
My rooms all right, but in the
next room there is somebody who
snores SO loud that the walls shake
rs that soI"
Yes. it is a great deal worse than
that. Can't you give me a room
near that divine creature with golden
locks and a startled fawn expression
who sat opposite me at dinner yes
terdayl'
why, man alive! her room is next
to yours. She does the snoring you
are kicking about, Texas Siftings.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
Looking for Ills House.

One evening John Scott lord Ell
dom had been dipping rather too
deeply into the convivial bowl with
a friend in Queen street, Edinburgh,
and on emerging into the open all
his intellect became in a consider.
able degree confused, and not being
able to distinguish objects with any
degree of certainty he thought him
self in fair way of losing the road to
his house in Picardy place. In this
perplexity he espied some one coming
toward him, whom he stopped with
this query:
"D'ye ken whaur John Scott
bides?'
"Where's the use O. you speiring
that questiong" said the man; you're
John Scott himself"
II ken that" answered John
''but it's no himself that's wanted
it's his hoose!"-Lopdon TitcBits.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
CatastroDhic lDenUdaiiSna,

Comparatively small glaciers can
under certain circumstances hold
back water SO as to form lakes Like
the Marjelen sea behind the Eggisch-
horn, or the Mattmark sea in the
Saas valley. What bodies of water
may have been held back by the
huge ice sheets of the great glacier
period-what inconceivably stupep-
dous events would the bursting of
their bonds be! Yet this is not al
together wild speculation. Already
much evidence has been brought to-
gether which tells Of the former ex-
istence of such masses of water, of a
great ice barrier at Cincinnati dam
ming back 90, 600 square miles of wa
ter, and of another lake of the same
kind farther north in the Red river re
gion 100. 100 square miles in area, 100
to 200 miles wide and 500 miles long.
And the same evidence goes to show
that these gigantic reservoirs Make
Ohio and Lake Agassiz they have
been called) did actually burst, not
once, but several times, just as the
small temporary pond Of the Bionas-
say glacier gave way the other day.
With a',ch eyamples before Is one
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and want Of ldcidity III the speaker,

and want Of lucidity III the speaker,
worried by questions about his short
hand and the rate of speed at which
he can write it, by inconsiderate pas
sengers, who then show their graft
tude in practical fashion by letting
down the windows and blowing
away the notes he has been so pain
fully transcribing.
On other occasions I have heard
passengers enter into a violent polit-
ical debate, with frequent appeals
to the reporter, varied by whistling
and singing. At the same time a
writer in a railway carriage cannot
expect everybody to be silent just to
please him, and therefore he would
do well to cultivate concentration OF
mind .-London Tit-Bits.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
FARMING IN THE ACKNOWLEDGES.
A Beautiful Country, but No Place II
Which to Make q Living.

A Beautiful Country, but No Place in
Which to Make q Living.
The writer was driving along a
lovely hill road overlooking the spar
king waters of Lake Champlain in
their setting of blue mountains when
he came to a pretty, white farm
house, with the sign For Sale" posted
on the veranda. Big barns and out
houses doomed up behind the house,
and a man was moving long hay in
the orchard.
"How much do you want for this
farms" was asked.
"a thousand dollars" was the re
ply.
"How many acres2"
Zone hundred"
"How many cleared2"
"Sixty."
"How much wood lot"
about forty"
"Any springs on the place."
IA fine one that sends its stream
through an iron pipe right into the
kitchen. It's ice cold and never fails"
1.-The buildings look as though
they cost more than 81, 0O0."
$50 they did"
"How much?"
Five or six thousand"
"Why put them on so cheap a
farm
This farm was held high before
the west opened up, when this house
was built"
Gould a man make money off it
YETI"
Eyes Stree. l work it on shares
with the owner and | made all of
$3.50 off it last year for my share"
"Great Scott! all that. Do you
live in the house?"
mo. | live on another farm about
four miles off. l work BOTH"
make as much off the other as
you do off this"
Sometimes"
Suppose 1 offered to rent this
house and orchard and OuthOuses
only, what would the owner charge
me?"
Well, he'd charge you pretty
steep, stranger, bein city folks. Per
haps more than you'd care to pay"
"Perhaps so. How much do you
Think
"Well cautiously, mebbe as high
as seventy-five dollars a year."
The writer looked longingly all over
the pretty, nine room, white house,
with green blinds and wide veranda,
commanding a view of mountain,
valley, plain, forest and lake hard
to excel; counted the big apple trees
in the quiet orchard, and compared
sadly all that room for seventy-fve
dollars a year with his hot New York
fiat, where seventy-five dollars hardly
sufficed for two months rent, and
turned away reluctantly. For what
is the use of renting even paradise
if you must live in some other place!
New York Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
Helpinp the Culprit.

1t often happened that the negro
head servant ON the farm was a
sterner censor of public morals than
his master. Such an Uncle Tom
once told his master that a key OF
lard had been stolen, and named
the thief and hiding place.
Don't say a word about it," said
the master.
Next day he rode into the field
where the culprit vas blowing, got
down from his horse and walked
along beside the man.
whats the matter, William9" he
asked, after a time. you can't look
me in the face as usual"
Then William began to cry and
confessed the theft.
Come tonight" said the master,
land l will arrange SO that you can
put the lard back. Nobody shall
know that you took it,"
So, somewhat to the disapproval
of the jealous head servant the cul-
prit was shielded from punishment.
1.-The Blue Grass Region"
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Mining Application No. 1857.
t.. S. Land Office, Helena Montana. J

o'Pt i't lOJ~.
Notice is hereby given that Patrick H.. Hughes.
Office address is Great Falls, have made apnlica-
ton for a patent for 800, SEQ ard 1852 linear
feet, respectively, on the BLUE DICK AZTTP-
IDE and DREAM lodes, bearing cold
situated in Judith mining district. Meapher conn
ty, Montana, anddescribed in the official Mai and
field notes on file in this office as follows, viz:
Beginning on survey number 4045 at corner
number l from which [. S. l.. NJ. 1915 bears south
Is degrees 46 minutes west, 1868 feet; thence south
~ degrees ) minutes west, 1900 feet: south IS
degrees So minutes east eco feet: north 40 degrees
D minutes east, LEGO feet: north IS degrees SIS
minutes west COO feet.
On survey number 1916 al corner number from
which U. s. L. NJ. 4045 bears south 80 degrees 46
minutes west 1868 feet thence north IL degrees
~ minutes east 100 feet: south Is degrees SIS
minutes east 600 feet: south II degrees IS minutes
west 1850 feet; north IS degrees 50 minutes west
GOO feet.
On survey number 4047, at corner number /,
from which T.. S. l.. NJ, 4045 bears south SO
minutes 46 minutes west 1868 feet: thence north
IL degrees % minutes east $50 feet: north IS de-
greeS 50 minutes west 1913 feet: south II degrees
as min. W. 1897 feet; south - degrees 81 minutes
east 1892 feet; north 40 degrees 3 minutes east
800 #. Containing 5l.N acres and from a portion
of the (ursurveyed) township 13 north range 10 east.
The location of this mine is recorded in the
Recorders Office of Meagher county. Adjoining
claimants are unknown.
All persons holding adverse claims thereto are
required to present the same before this Office
within sixty days from the first day of publication
hereof, or they will be barred by virtue of the
provisions of the statute.
1852 S. A. SwIGGETT,
Register.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
BOUND TO GO ANYWAY.

Uncle Harry Could Not Be Dissuaded By
the SMallness of the Result.
Uncle Harry had lived all his life
in an inland town of New England.
He was a farmer, his father and
grandfather before him had been
farmers, but there must have been a
strain of old Morse blood in his veins.
for he loved the sea, and ever since
his boyhood all his dreams had been
of adventures on it's mighty pillows.
More than anything else he longed for
the excitements and perils Of a whal-
ing voyage. Attic country grocery
OF at his own freside-when the sub.
ject was not forbidden by Aunt Abb
gail-he delighted to give a minute
description Of the great industry, at
that time in its palmiest days.
AS he had never see the sea or a
ship bis description probably lacked
what is known as local color. He
was the first to recognize this fact
He often ended his most graphic and
stirring recital with a sigh. And
when the applause was heartiest-
this was not at his own fireside-he
felt constrained to offer an apology.
"6nly secon han, you know. Never
see it myself"
There came a time when his desire
to see the great monster with his
own eyes could no longer be resisted,
and he nerved himself to breach the
matter to his wife.
That good woman, product of the
rock ribbed state OF Vermont meas
ured her husband with her eyes.
then with her tongue:
"You ketch whales"
Not being glib of speech, Uncle
Harry could think of nothing peril
nent to say, and the subject was
dropped, All day long Aunt Abb
gals keen face wore an nnpfomlsin2
smile, and more than once as she
bent over her churning she might
have been heard to mutter, "Whales!'
At milking time Uncle Harry got
to the root of the matter:
tfWhat a man needs is 'ncourage-
ment."
This he repeated several times, al
first plaintively, then with emphasis
the barn was not near the house.
1t is perhaps needless to say that the
necessary encouragement was not
forthcoming, but a determined con
viction is not to be repressed, and be-
fore long Uncle Harry was talking
whale again with added firmness O.
voice and manner.
Aunt Abigail pooh poohed, but he
was not to. be turned from his pur
pose.
Al length Aunt Abigail grasped
this fact; her husband was really SO
ing, in spite Of everything she could
say. This, to use her own expression,
HEstarted" her, and she said, with the
conviction born of ample domestic
experience:
"You won't ketch any-mark my
words"
"P'raps l sha'n't git a big ketch."
Uncle Harry admitted, but" here
be faced his wife squarely, 'I'm
baound to 60 eff ! don't ketch but few
a day!"-Youth's Companion.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
Punishment for Prisoners.

In ancient Rome poisoning was
punished by c%rucifxion, no matter
what the rank of the criminal, al
though this penalty was usually re
served for slaves. A Roman of re-
spectacle station. having been con-
victed of poisoning his ward, was
sentenced to be crucified, but pro
tested against the punishment as I'M
fit for a gentleman. The emperor
thereupon ordered the o to be
painted white and otherwise made
more presentable than those COM
monty used. Whether the convict
expressed himself as better satisfied
is not recorded.-Pittsburg Leader.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
MOdernizing the Mother of Cities.

The Mother of Cities is in some re
spects the newest Of them all. One.
half of Rome is as new as a back
woods settlement, and strenuous eff
forts are being made to furnish up
the other half. But with the latest
innovation in Rome there is not
much need to quarrel. The city is
now lighted by electricity, generated
by the cascade of classic Tivoli. Such
things, in such connection, sound ap-
pallingly MODERN; but nothing OF
that kind is too strange not to be
true, now that we seem likely before
long to hear the cry of "Change here
for Damascus!"-San Francisco Ar
gOnaut.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
TWO BUDS.

o bud upon the apple tree,
Waiting the springtime's sweet release.
Shall gentle winds and gentle showers
Come lightly through the verna! hours
And let thee bloom in peace?
And when thy ~swaddling bands have burst,
And thy fair cheek shall greet the sum-
Shall beauty come, with colors rare,
And paint soft virgin bushes there
Ere springs brief day be run?
Then, waxing to thy fruit at last.
Wilt thou be sweet and fair OF face,
AS roses, mid a smiling land,
Or marble, meath the fashioning hand
Win more than beauty's grace!
Or shall thy cheek, ill furrowed, mock
The prophecy of summer days!
And when the jocund harvest song
Shall make TIE Deum all along
The aster studded ways,
Shalt thou unseemly yet reproach
The stint of natures care for thee,
Or, dying. fall to kindred mold,
Which winters mercy shall Unfold.
o bud upon the apple tree?
o babe upon thy mothers knee,
Who gazest with thy wondrous eyes
Tell me, what is the world to thee?
What daily wonders dost thou see
To fill thee with surprise?
Are the bright waves that dance with glee
Under the s%unlight's golden ray
A path of diamonds to the west
No human foot has ever passed,
Inviting thee away?
Shalt thou have had thy little day
While all the world was fair to thee,
And Eldorado's rainbows yet
Against = Y happy eyes were set
Across a jasper sea?
Olittle eyes! o little feet!
How much, how little shall We know
OF golden mornings, turned to gray?
Through what dark mazes shall We stray?
Alas, l fear me so!
Oh, as the pregnant years befall.
May all their cycles gently move,
And peaceful skies thy mornings bring.
And all thy bells of evening ring
The Angelus Of love!
In mercy kind, in love complete,
o fateful future, wilt thou be!
Alas, my heart misgiveS me so,
Here at the gates of veal and woe!
Alas. thy fate may not know
o bud upon the apple tree!
o babe upon thy mothers knee!
Samuel Hoyt in Youths Companion.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
A Sculptor in Grease.

The sculptors in Greece are cele-
brated, but a sculptor in grease" is
something Of a novelty in the art
world. Nevertheless Washington
possesses such a phenomenal artist,
who finds scope for the exhibition of
his genius not in classic marble or
plastic clay, but bas-relief models in
lard and busts in butterine. His
name is B. C. Ford, and his studio is
At the west of Center market.
The way Mr.. Ford entered upon
his artistic career was entirely by
accident. It is his custom to pile fit
ty or sixty pounds Of lard upon his
counter, and one day he carelessly
picked up a knife and carved a bas-
relief portrait in the side. 1t was
merely an ideal head, drawn at ran
dom, but possessed such merit as to
attract considerable attention aud
custom from the marketers. Sena-
tor Henderson, who happcaed along,
was particularly struck with the pot-
trait, which he declared to be a re-
markable likeness of Sir Walter Ra-
leigh,
Since then Mr.. Ford has continued
his experiments and davselopeq con
siderable skill in manipulating his
novel material for modelling. His
tools are ordinary carving knives,
with which he chisels out in rough
some ideal face. The features are
afterward nodded and smoothed by
the fingers, the warmth of which
renders the lard plastic. When this
has been done to the artists salts
faction he dips his fingers in ice wa
ter, which chills and fixes the fea-
lures, at the same time imparting a
marblelike gloss to the bust and
showing almost translucent in the
electric ight.-WashingtOn Post.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
Where the Idea of Canning Came From

Where the Idea of Canning Came From.
Few people are aware that we are
indebted to the people of old Pom
peii, who were all smothered in the
First century of the Christian era,
for one of the most important indus.
tries of our time-the canning bust.
ness. Years ago, when the first ex-
cavations we're made in that buried
city, an American came upon sew
eral jars of figs. When they were
opened the contents were found to
be as fresh and palatable as when
they were put up eighteen centuries
before.
Investigations instituted on the
spot proved that the fruit had been
put into jars in a highly heated
state, and that al aperture for the
escape of steam had been left in the
lid, which, when it had served its
purpose, was sealed over with wax.
Yankee ingenuity caught the idea at
once, and the next year canning
factories were erected all over the
United States. -Chicago Herald.
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Washington's Lumber.

In 1890 the cut from the state of
Washington amounted to 1900, 600,
900 feet, valued at SIS, 000, 900. OF
this quantity of the manufactured
product there were exported 112, 255,
35s feet of large lumber and timber
and ~, 1853, 900 feet Of pickets, shin
giles and laths, making a total ex-
portation of 1884, 74. 35S feet. The
United Kingdom, China, Australia
and Hawaii received the greater por-
ton of this supply.-Port Crescent
Leader.
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Sarah Bcrn!lardt's HerOdias Cloak.

Nine. Bernhard is having some
mort wonderful creations fashioned
by French artists for her new char.
acter, Herodias. The most remarka-
BILE of these is a cloak of huge dimen-
sions, being quite twelve feet square,
Of a sort Of greenish blue silk en-
broidered with strange eastern flow
ers of great size, glowing with bar
barrie tints of blue and green, salmon
and yellow, and blazing with jewels
in the heart of each flower. The
cloak is lined with cloth Of gold, fin
ished with heavy fringe half a yard
deep, and hung by a painted and
.ieweled leather strap from one shout
der and one hip.-Paris Letter.