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WHAT TO GIVE A BRIDE.
Gifts Both Dainty and Not Too Ex-
pensive to Lay at Her
Feet
Also Some That Gan BE Had. But
They Cost Il Deal More
Money.
Fine Trines In Silver-Porcelain Cut Glass
Quaint Pieces In Chairs and
TeCn-a-1etes.

Written for TIE HELENA I~sDErEspENr.l
"HE SUBJECT OF WEDDING
AIL. presents ia one that lies on almost
every ones heart just at present.
We all know somebody that is going
to be married, and it is rather convention
to have A list Of p%resents to select from.
The prices paid vary from S. to $1,000. but
there is just as much variety in gifts to be
had for the low price as for the high.
Well start, then, with the So. For this
one can get a very dainty paper and en-
velope case Of white enamel, painted with
graceful punches OF ~vioiets. 1t has three
compartments, one above the Other, in
creasing in size; or a very pretty stand
with white sticks, filled in with a deep full
pocket Of China silk in a soft light shade.
i is equally convenient for a lady's aewing
or for newspapers. AS u mnsic holder, also,
u Is very acceptable. The prettiest China
vases and porcelain ornaments can
be had for this sum; dainty China silk
scarfs. to drape on easels: q wood basket for
the CRATE fire, with the side adorned with a
handsomely embroidered band Of plush,
and a big bow on the handle; pretty little
bedroom clocks; quaint flower stands; tiny
lamps for sealing wax; little silver postage
stamp boxes, or chased silver sugar tonps.
A cut-glass atonlizer. with silver mount
ings, is u nice little gift.
But fer q little more-say from 30 to SIS
ono can get a very pretty little feather
buster with white feathers. The price
seems somewhat high till one examines the
finely chased field flowers on the silver
handle. Ayoung and lovely bride surely
could not resist the temptation to dust her
valuable brio a-brac, which she dares trust
to no mental, with that little buster.
Or a sterling silver shoehorn. marked
$l3. would not come amiss to-. draw on her
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WEBSTER'S MESSENGER BOY.
A Story of the Great Daniel, by n Wash
ington Woman.

Nv tOA OA1a
Written for TIE HELENA INDEPENDENT
VsVfHILE DANIEL WEBSTER WAS
iA4E3 secretary of state under Presi-
oYs4D dent Fillmore, a young boy
named Stephen Wise was employed by him
as messenger. Mr.. Webster grew very
fond of the thin, delicate. dark-eyed lad,
and finding him honest and reliable in
trusted him with papers and personal eff
fects in g most careless and wholesale man
ner. But Stephens sharp eyes saw every
was passing. and he gathered up informa-
ton about everything that came into his
hands. and could have supplied any facts
Mr.. Webster had forgotten.
MIR. Webster sRid one day: You read
too much. My law books are too dry and
old for chaps of n. While you wait for mo
run up and down under the trees
Stephen shook his head. He said, eagerly:
mo, MIR. Webster. l can't lose such oppor-
t~unities as / have with YOU. sir.'
Ambitious, Stephen?" dryly asked Mr..
Webstes. 'Going to be a lawyer. or a pres
ident?"
"A lawyer, sir. will study twenty years
Stephens head dropped under the deep
set eyes looking him through.
"A great lawyer, of course, Stephen?'
Mr.. Webster said. with q smile.
Yes, sir! not great like MIR. Daniel Web
ster-but as great as | can become"
In all Mr.. Webster's public life he rarely
asked favors for himself or friends, but
that night he spoke about his MESSENGER
boy to his friend Judge Marshall. of Vir-
sinia. "If | die first | want you to look
after Stephen. When n boy of his age
starts up the ladder with the persistence and
pluck of n middle-aged man of ability he
must DO helped along. Stephens in u fair
Wav to vpt To the tnp1
For four years Stephen had the advantage
of working for Mr.. Webster-an advantage
he knew how to use. He copied speeches,
read criticisms. examined and arranged pa
~pers-each and all food for his own thought
and into the small hours he studied MI.
Websser's Law books.
When Stephen Wise was % he was prao-
ticing law in Virginia, his native state.
Then did the residents of Washington re-
member his magnetic arguments in the
law courts OF those early days; remember
we'll the dark, wiry, thin Vireinian. who,
with his court papers under his atm, was
at the o of u great debate, or into the
libraries for fresh knowledge to boar on
his own arguments and opinions.
lie argued with the first jurist of the
time, and was retained in the same cause
with the most eminent men of his profea-
sion. Fathers were wont to point out
stephen Wise, the celebrated lawyer, and
tell their sons the story Of the little follow,
hungry for knowledge, who was picked up
by Daniel Webster aud got the larger part
of his leaning while acting as the great
mans office boy.
Copyright.
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XIII,

Five minutes later he was sitting in his
room, with his head bowed within the
oircle Of his arms on tho table-fnal atti-
tude Of grief and despair. His tears we're
flowing fast and now and then d sob broke
upon the stilnesa. Presently he said:
II knew her when she was a little child
and used to climb about my knees; / love
her ~ I lows my own, and now, oh, poor
thing, poor thing, i cannot bear it--shs's
gons and lost her heart to this NANCY ma
tsrializee. Why didn't We see that that
might haDpsn2 Blu how could We? No
body could. Nobody could ever have
dreamed OF such q thing. You couldn't
expect a person would fall in love with a
wnxwork; and this one doesn't even amount
to that"
and then giving voice to his lamentations
Its dons. oh, it's dom and there's no help
for it, no undoing the miserable business.
If ! had the nerve I would kill it. But that
wouldn't do any good. She loves it; she
thinks it's genuine and authentic. If she
lost it she would orieve for it just al she
would for a real person. And who's to
break it to the family! Not I--IIl die first.
1SAioAn 10 ViO AAlAHlA Doluk l. 0V0E Knew
and ! wouldn't any more think of-oh, dear.
why it'll break his heart when he finds II
out. And Polly'stoo. This comes Of med
ding with such internal matters! But for
this, the creature would still be roasting III
sheol whore it belongs. How is it that these
people don't smell the birthstone? Some
times l can't come into the same room with
him without nearly suffocating." #9
After a while he broke out again:
well, there's one thing, sure. The ma
teriallzing has get to stop right where it is.
If she's got to marry a specter. let her
marry a decent one out of the middle ages,
not like this one-not a cowboy and q thief,
such as this protoplasmic tadpole's going
to turn into ifSellers keeps on fussing ut
it. It costs $4,000 cash and shuts down on
the incorporated company to stop the
works at this point, but Sally Sellers hap
pinesa ia worth more than that"
He heard Sellers coming II got him
self to rights. Sellers took a scat and said:
well, I've got to contest I'm a good deal
puzzled. It did certainly eat, there's no
getting around it. Not eat exactly either,
but it nibbled-nibbled in an apnetiteless
way but still it .nibbled. and that's just a
marvel. Now the question is, what does it
do with those n%ibblings? That's it-what
does lido with them? My idea il that We
don't begin to know all there is to this stu
pendous discovery Jet. But time will Sow
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can get a pretty little lounging chair
within this limit. also; or even a tete-a-
tote. if you got it in simple style; or n
ple t flower holder, which tands on this
floor near the fireplace, filled with ferns
and grasses; il is of yellow Leeds ware, and
is n handsome ornament in almost II
,reom. A Japanese vase, tall and and slsn-
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Specimen CuseS,

$. IL. Clifford. New Cnssel, Wis, was
troubled with neuralgia and Rheumatism,
his stomach WAS disordered. his liver was
affected to an alarming degree. appetite fell
away and he was terribly reduced in flesh
and at ength. Three bottles of Electric Bit
tets cared him.
Edward Shepherd. harrisburg, ILL.,, had
a running sore on his log of eight years.
standing. Used three bottles OF Electric
Bitters and seven boxes of Ruoklen's Arnica
s,alve and his leg is sound and we'll. John
Speaker, Catawha, Ohio, had five large
fever sores on hia leg, md doctors said he
WAS inourable. Ono bottle of Electric Bit
tsrs and one box OF Bucklsn's Arnics Salye
cured him entirely. Sold by Il. S. Hale "
Co., druggists.
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IHE AMERICAN CLAIMANT.
BY MARK TWAIN.
WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR TIE HELENA INDEPENDENT.

and apologize for it. But he didn't r%e-enter;
he staggered off stunned, terrified, dis
tressed.
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COBB TO BE wHITEwASHED.
Democrats viii Report That the Com
gressman Was Sick, Not Drunk.

democrats VIII Report That the Con-
gressman Was Sick, Not Drunk.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 1.-The special
committee appointed to investigate the
charges of drunkenness against members
of the House resumed it's session this
morning, and many witnesses testified
that In their opinion Representative Cobb,
of Alabama, was not drunk when he de-
livered his argument in the Noyes- Rock
we'll election contest. the witnesses gener-
ally testifying that Cobb was suffering
from exhaustion incident to delivery
when in poor health. His long speech
was marked by many Interruptions and
much badgering. Bynum testified that it
was not an uncommon practice for men,
bers to take beef tea, coffee and other
stimulants out of a cup during long con-
tinued arguments, and from knowledge of
Cobb's physical condition he was satisfied
that the gentleman could not speak con-
tinuously for two hours without taking
some stimulant Andrew Devine, one of
the official stenographers of the House,
produced the manuscript of the official re-
port of Cobb's argument, and testified
that he saw nothing in Cobb's conduct to
justify the charges made.
1t is likely that Simpson of Kansas will
file minority report in behalf of his fell
low-Alliance member, Watson of Georgia,
it being practically assured that the ma
joritv will at least make some structures
on Watson.
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Vancouver, Il. G., News.

VANCOUVER, b. c., Aug. Especial. l.
J. McPhee, formerly employed by the Edi-
son General Electric Company here, has
fled after raising about $500 on a check to
which he forged the company's name.
AT the city council tonight, Aldermen
McCraney and Secular charged each
other with having been influenced" by
contractors on the permanent pavement
contract, the amount covered by which is
$9S. 900.
Five members of the demi-monde have
been fined $50 each for breach of the new
regulations brought about by the agita-
tion of the social purity committee. The
new rules say that prostitution must not
appear in Mother Hubbard dresses in
front of the houses. or smoke cigarettes at
the windows. The women fined had dis
obeyed rule one.
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left hand, and on Cudihee raising his right
arm he stabbed him in the armpit.
1t Is now known that Scales and Borders
had been drinking Saturday afternoon,
and, among other things. threatened to
cut out the heart of Frank Dick, a
Twenty-fifth street barkeeper About the
last time seen Scales was whetting his big
hve-inch bladed cowboys dirk on his boot
leg. while he INDUCED freely in blasphemy
about his hard luck i'll not finding Dick in
order that he might kill him. 1t Is also
hinted that Dick and others had been pay
ing attention to Scales wife, which had
enraged Scales. He and Dick
fought at the Hunters Home saloon,
where Dick tended bar. 1t is now held
that Scales probably mistook the officers
In citizens clothes as some of the parties
who had interfered in his domestic re-
lations
!. No generalization was shown, so far as
the assault on Cudinee was concerned,
and 1t is thought the assassin can be con-
victed only of manslaughter or murder in
the second degree.
A resident of the South End throws
light upon the mystery" and woman in
the case" that has been talked of since the
murder. The gentleman referred to is re-
liable and says:
l have known Scales for three years. He is
hard-working man and a man who took good
care of his family. / understand the officers
kided him, and of course Scales and Borders re-
sented, and when the officers got the best of
them Scales resorted TO his knife. Scales and
Borders were resting before going on to the top
OF the hill 70 their homes
Scales has made statment pleading
guilty to assault. and confirms the inter-
view with a South End man 10 the extent
that the officer kicked and talked roughly
to him and he resented it. He accounts
for having knife ready by saying that he
was whiting stick. He admits to hav-
ing been drinking. This statement has
been suppressed by the police and prose-
cutting attorney. The examing doctor says
Cudihee's life could have been saved if the
flow of blood had been properly staunched
at once. After their South End visit,
Kenna and Cudihee were to have met
Chief Davis at ball.
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THE AINsLIE LUMBER CO. FAILURE.
More Serious Than at First Reported
The Receiver Will Investigate.

The Receiver Will Investigate.
PORTLAND, Aug. 1.--W. 3. King has
been appointed receiver of the Ainslie
Lumber Company. For several weeks the
concern has been in the hands of the
trustees by consent of the principal credi-
tors of the company. The Nevada bank
of San Francisco, which was not . party
to the original trustee arrangement,
instituted suit asking the court
to appoint a receiver. The assets of the
corporation consist of the saYmill plant
and stock on hand at Ainslie. WASH. to-
gether with finely equipped logging road
and large body of timber land. There
are also sundry lumber yards and per-
sonal property at different points in Idaho
and Utah. For few days the operations
of the mill will cease, pending an investi-
CATION Of the company's affairs by the re-
ceiver.
The latest developments show that the
failure is much more serious than at first
reported, and it is thought the assets will
not begin to cover the liabilities. The
stockholders of the Ainsie Lumber Com
pany were also stockholders in other cor
porations, but which in reality had no
connection with each other. However,
when the Ainslie Lumber Company went
into the hands of trustee these concerns
did so likewise Among them are the
Kelso Shingle Company. of Kelso. Wash :;
the Idaho lumber yards, of PocateIlo,
Idaho. and the Park City lumber yards,
of Park City, Utah. There are three yards
at Pocatello, Idaho. one at Springville,
Utah, one at Ogden, Utah, and one at
Provo, Utah.
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In the House.

WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. /. - Holman
moved in the House today to suspend the
rules and pass joint resolution extend
ing until August the appropriations of
the sundry civil act of last year. Before
the passage of the resolution there was a
spicy debate. Holman made speech of
some length, declaring he had been acting
in harmony with the action of the House,
but that the gentleman from Illinois
(Hopkins) had objected. Hopkins was
willing, said Holman, to stop the wheels
of legislation in order to compel the
House to give S., 200. 900 TO a corporation in
Chicago.
Reed of Maine replied. Holman, he
said, had offered an example of unexam-
pied courage. With a Democratic major
ity of more than 40, of which he was the
factional leader the House had stopped
the business of the government, and now
Holman was endeavoring to charge this
stoppage on somebody else. He (HoIman)
had deliberately blocked the wheels of
business. Worlds fair legislation had re-
ceived the sanction of the Senate without
regard to party. Further that that, it had
the sanction of the Democratic House, and
there was nothing against it but the
miserable technicality that some gen.
temen thought the Worlds fair
matter ought not to be in an appropria-
tion bill. Yet the gentleman from Indiana
had the courage To stand before the House
and the country and charge the result Of
his own action to another member; to
charge, in House of 40 Democratic ma
jority, the stopping of public business by
a member of the minority. He did not
wonder that the gentleman from Indiana
had had long career if courage like that
was carried through Indiana.
Cummings of New York declared that
the wheels OF government had been stopped
by Hopkins. The latter retorted that.
next 20 Holman, Cummings was most re-
sponsible for the condition in which the
House found itself today. McMillin of
Tennessee asserted that the gentleman
from Illinois had virtually said 10 the
House: You either give that 5000 900
to the Worlds fair or you don't get your
sundry civil bill" TAe JOINT resolution
was agreed 10 without division.
Holman moved To suspend the rules and
pass bill appropriating $4,000 for the re-
lief of the Mississippi food sufferers. Kill
gore raised the point Of no quorum. and,
but l55 members responding, the House
adjourned.
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An Oregon Woman Fatally Shot.

ErGENE Or, Aug. News of the fatal
shooting of Mrs. c. d, Maxwell. near Ell
mira, last Saturday, has reached here.
Mrs. Maxwell had quarrel with her nus
band. from whom she recently separated.
J. ii. Yates, brother of Mrs. Maxwell, in
terfered in her behalf. The husband at
tempted TO draw a pistol, and Mrs Max
well went 10 the house 10 get shotgun
for her brother. In taking down the gun
it was discharged, and the contents en-
tered Mrs Maxwell's left side
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sHOS HOMES SHERIFF REMOVED.
Drunken Dick Cunningham, Whose Neg
lect Led to CRur d'Alene Riots

WALLACE, Idaho, Aug. 1.-[Special l.
Eighteen of the men arrested last Friday
and Saturday here and at Gem and Burke
were taken before United States commits
sioner Huffman this afternoon, who re-
leased some on parole, but most of them
were required to give bail in the sum of
81 900 for their appearance whenever sum-
moned. There was general sigh of re-
lief this afternoon when the following
order was made public:
HEADQUARTERS IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD,
WALLACE, Idaho, Aug. l. 1882.
General order, No. 5: W. S. Sims having been
appointed acting sheriff of Shoshone county,
Idaho, per special order No. 5, dated Head
quarters of Idaho National Guard, Wallace,
Idaho, July 10, 1892" under the authority OF mar
tial law then and now existing in said county,
is appointed sheriff of said county vice r. A.
Cunningham, removed. T. A Cunningham
will turn over to Sheriff Sims all the moneys,
books papers, accounts, business and property
pertaining to the duties of the sheriff of
shoshone county, with all the memoranda and
explanation necessary for full and perfect un-
dcrstand ng of the same, taking proper receipts
therefor Sheriff SIMS wil receive, receipt and
account for the same and assume the duties of
the oitice of sheriff OF Shoshone county and ad-
minister the same in every respect in conform
ancc to the laws of the state of Idaho He will
not, however, interfere in any way with the ad-
miuistration of martial law as conducted by the
military authorities.
BY order OF COLONEL r. J. CURTIS
l. J. CABLE, Assistant Adiutant General.
The retirement of Dick Cunningham is a
result which has been anxiously looked
forward to by the taxpayers of this
county. His conduct has brought disgrace
upon the county, he not being sober
enough To attend 10 business except at
rare intervals for months past. Three of
his bondsmen Withdrew from his official
bond during the last day or two, and he
had been given to understand that no new
bondsmen would be accepted in their
stead. Hence the appointment of DIR.
Sims. 1t is firmly believed that had Cum
ningham done his duty the late disturb
ance would have been averted. The ap-
pointment of DIR. Sims is heartily ap-
proved. Tie has shown himself to be an
excellent officer OF splendid executive
ability.
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Murderer Brooks to Hang September 6.

SPOKANE, Aug. l. Especial. - Judge
Moore today fixed Tuesday, September &,
as the date of the execution of Charles
Brooks, the old colored man convicted
last November of the murder of
his white wife in this city on
July 3. 1891. Brooks received the
judges announcement with the utmost
composure. When leaving the courtroom
he bowed to a number of acquaintance
and smiled as though more pleased than
otherwise At the foot of the stairs he
shook hands with his attorney and
thanked him for his efforts in his behalf
and remarked that he was not afraid to die
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THE MURDER OF CUDIHEE.
Scales Mistook the Policeman or waa
Resisting an AssauIt

TACOMA. Aug. 1.-The coroner's Jury
this afternoon agreed upon verdict that
Patrolman Minor Cudihee came to his
death by a knife wound inflicted by David
Scales: also that Demorest NJ. Borders
was an accessory and both are held for
trial. The testimony consisted principally
of the statements of Officer Jack Kenna.
who vas with Cudihee when they met
Scales and Borders. In addition to what
has already been published, Kenna saws
they told Scales and Borders they were
officers and that Scales continued aggres-
sive and moved TO hit Cudihee with his
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In the Senate.

WASHINGTON CRY, Aug. 1.-The Senate
today passed resolution extending last
year 5 appropriations until next Thurs
day. without division. Speeches on the
tariff were delivered by Haw.ey and His
cock, advocating projections; also state
ment by Vest respecting the profits of the
Arlington wooden mills. Vest had in a
former speech asserted that the company
in 1891 paid dividend of so per cent, and
that there had been troubles and strikes
among its workmen. Both these asser-
tons were characterized as absolutely
false in letter 10 Allison from Secretary
Wilson. Of the Arlington Company. Vest
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River and Harbor Committee Think It
should Be in q Separate RilI.

WAsHISGToN CRY, Aug. Especial. l.
There seems to be an erroneous impress
sion regarding the position of the House
committee on rivers and harbS~s on Sem
ator Squire's bill for the Lake Union and
Washington canal. This committee is
not against the proposition, but objected
to it being part of the river and harbor
bill, claiming that it is canal pure and
simple, and for that reason has no place
in the river and harbor bill. Several
members of the committee have said that
if the bill is reported in any other way
they will support it.
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A Saloon X eeper Shoots His Friend.

BAKER CITY, Or, Aug 1.-Joseph Mix
els, a saloon-keeper, shot and probably
fatally wounded Andrew Olsen last night
at Cracker Creek, mining camp thirty
five miles from this city. The trouble
arouse over MickeIs kicking dog that
belonged to Olsen. The latter started to
go behind the bar after Mikels, who at
once drew a revolver and commenced fir
ing at Olsen. The fourth shot took effect
in OIson's abdomen. Mikeis surrendered
himself to the sheriff. The two men had
been the best of friends, and for several
years had been almost inseparable.