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eion, which you discover to be quite differ
ent from the recent Swiss lands behind you.
You have sea before you; that is to say,
the green land goes rolling away, in ocean
swells, to the horizon. And there is an
other new feature. Here and there, at wide
intervals, you have islands, hills 200 and
300 feet high, of havstack form, that rise
abruptly out of the green plain, and are
wooded solidly to the top. On the top there
IS Just room for ruined castle, and there
i is, every time; above the summit you see
the crumbhng arches and broken towers
projecting.
Nature in Rudest Shapes.
Beyond Stuttgart, next dav, you lind
other changes still BY and by, approach
ing and leaving Nuremberg and down by
Newhaus, your landscape is bumped iererv-
where with scattered knobs of rock. un-
sociable crags OF rude, tower-Iike look,
aud thatched with grass and vines and
bushes. And now and then Won have
gorges, too, of modest pattern as to size.
with precipice walls curiously carved and
honeycombed BY don't know what: hut
water, no doubt The changes are not done
vet, for the instant the country finds it is
out of Wurtemberg and into Bavaria it dis
cards one more thickness of soil to 90 with
mains over the bones but the shift, There
may be poorer soil somewhere, but it is
net likely.
A couple of hours from Bayreuth you cross
into Bohemia, and before long you reach
this Marienbad and recognize another sharn
change the change from the long ago to to-
day; that is to say, from the very old to the
spick and span new; from an architecture to-
tally without shapeliness or ornament to an
architecture attractively equipped with both:
from universal dismalness as to color to uni
versal brightness and beauty of tint; from a
town which seems made up of prisons to a
Town which is made up of gracious and
graceful mansions proper to the light of
heart and crineless. 1t is like jumping out
OF Jerusalem into Chicago.
No such Variety Anywhere.
The more think of these many changes.
the more surprising the thing seems. have
never made so picturesque journey before
and surely there cannot be another trip of
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ii is as good poetry as have ever written.
Experts say it isn't poetry at all, because it
lacks the element of fiction, but that is the
voice of envy 1 reckon. 1 call it good
medical poetry, and consider that am q
judge.
Some Strange Street Manners.
One of the most curious things in these
countries is the street manners of the men
and women. In meeting you they come
straight on without swerving q hairs
breadth from the direct line and wholly ig-
noring your right to any part of the road.
At the last moment you must yield up your
share of it and step aside, or there will be
a collision. noticed this strange barbarism
first in Geneva IL years ago.
In Aix-les-Bains, where sidewalks are
scarce and everybody walks in the streets,
there is plenty of room, but that is no mat
ter; you are always escaping collisions by
mere quarter inches. A man or woman who
is headed in such way as to cross your
course presently without collision will
actually alter hia direction shade by shade
and compel collision unless at the last in
slant you jump out of the way. Those
folks are not dressed as ladies and gentle
men. And they do not seem to be con-
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distance covered. From Annecy by AK to
Geneva YOU have blue lakes, with bold
mountains springing from their borders,
and far giimpses of snowy wastes lifted
against the horizon beyond, while all about
you is garden cultivated to the last posi-
bility of grace and beauty-a cultivation
which doesn't stop with the handy lower
levels, but is carried right up the sheer
steeps and propped there with ribs of ms-
sonry, and made to stay there in spite of
Ncwton's law.
Bevond Geneva-beyond Lausanne, at
any rste-you have for while country
which noticeably resembles New England,
and seems out of place and like an intruder
an intruder who is wearing his everyday
clothes at fancy-dress ball. But presently,
on your right, huge green mountain ram
parts rise up, and after that for hours you
are absorbed in watching the rich shadow
effects which they furnish, and are only
duly aware that New England is gone and
that you are flying past quaint and un-
tpeakably old towns and towers
Next dav you have the Lake of Zurich,
and presently the Rhine is swinging by you.
How clean it is! How clear it is! How
blue it is! How green it is! How swift
and rollicking and insolent is its gait
and style! How vivid and splendid its
colors-beautiful wreck and chaos of all the
soap bubbles in the universe! A person
born on the Rhine must worship it
L saw the blue Rhine sweep along; heard,
or seemed to hear,
The German songs we used to sing in chorus
sweet and clear.
Yes, that is where his heart would be, that
IS where his last thoughts would be, the 'tsol- \
dier of the leglon"who '1ay dying in
Algiers."
And by and by you are in German re-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
The Grippe Raging in Alabama.

'sLa grippe is raging here, and find
Chamberlsin's Cough Remedy to be GER
tain cure for it," says w. 6. Johns, of
1rimble, Cullmsn county, Ala. Mr.. Johns
ordered a supply of the Remedy to be
shipped by express as quickly as possible.
There is no question but this Remedy is of
great value in the treatment of the grip,
especially on account of its counteracting
any tendency of the disease toward pneu-
monia. It is also prompt and certain
cure for the cough which usually follows an
attack Of the grip. 5O-cent bottles for sale
by druggists. TTssu
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of the rainy season among the Andes and on
the highlands of Guatemala they have pros
pected and mapped out nearly 1000 miles
of road. The territory through which they
are travelling is practically unknown to the
world and great part of their journeys
have to be cut through forests and for hun
dreds of miles they are away from the lines
of wagon-roads and have nothing but mule
paths to guide them.
The reports from the different expedition
have been received regularly at the Inter-
continental Railway Office here, and very
full private letters have been written to
Mr.. Cassatt, the President, and to Lieuten-
ant Brown, the executive officer of the COM
mission, by the men of the various parties.
This correspondence and these reports have
not been given to the public, and L have
spent several days during the past week in
looking over them.
Plan of the Great Enterprise.
But first let me give THE DISPATCH
some idea of this wonderful undertaking.
1t is the most stupendous international en-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

good many who find time to speculate be-
lieve that Whitney is the second Presi-
dental choice of the State machine.
So much for politics in New York this
week. 1t might perhaps have been well
boiled down and confined to the statement
that Hill is still on top, with Cleveland the
gamer by widespread revolt against the
early convention, and lot of little fellows
holding their thumbs and praying for good
luck. Arthur BRISBANE.
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HIS place is the
village ofMarienbad,
Bohemia 1t seems
no very great dis
tance from Annecy,
in Haute Savoie, to
this place yo u
make it in less than
30 hours by these
Continental express
trains but t h e
C h an ges in t h e
scenery are great:
they are quite out of
nronortion to the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
RECEIVERS NOT BOUND BY LAW.
A Remarkable Decision in q Railroad Dam
age Case in Texas Court,

age Case in . Texas Court.
GALVESTON, TEX, Feb. 6-The State
Supreme Court has rendered remarkable
decision in the case of S. s. Turner against
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad,
Cross s. Eddy, receivers.
John Turner's mother sued for damages
for the death of her son who was killed on
the railroad. The case came before Will
hanson county on an appeal, and the judges
decided that, inasmuch as the law mentions
specifically as liable owners, proprietors,
etc, and omits receivers, the latter cannot
be held responsible for injuries inflicted,
nor compelled to pay damages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

T is now near
ly ten months
since the three
G m ems
expeditions Of
civil engineers
sailed from New
York City for
South and Cen
tral America to
make the sur
veys for tie line
of the Inter-
C on t in ent al
railway. Ever
since last May
these parties
have been in
the field, and
though suffer-
ing the greatest
of hsrdships
and surrounded
by all the in
eonyen j ence 8
and difficulties
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

WE carry large force of expert furniture
packers, and furnish estimates on packing,
storing and shipping of household goods.
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO Water street.
Su
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

priests around here. and vet, as 1 have al
ready said, this whole big enterprise is
owned and managed by convent. The few
priests one does see here are dressed like
human beings, and SO there may be more of
them than / imagine. Fifteen priests
dressed like these could not attract as much
of your attention as would one priest at
Aix-les- Bains You cannot pull your eve
loose from the French priest so long as he
is in sight, his dress is SO fascinatingly
ugly.
The Universal Subject of Conversation.
While waiting in the reception room all
by myself two men came in and began to
talk. Politics, literature, religion? No
their ailments. There is no other subject
here, apparently. Wherever two or three
of these people are gathered together, there
you have 1t, every time. The first that can
get hls mouth open contributes his disease
and the condition of it, and the others fol-
low with theirs. The two men just referred
to were acquaintances, and they followed
the custom. One of them was built like
gasometer and is here to reduce his girth;
the other was built like a derrick, aud is
here to fat up, as Ahey express it
at this resort. They were we'll salts
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That Will Draw North and
South America Into Com
mercial Union.
ENGINEERS ARE AT WORK
Surveying the Routes for the Inter-
continental Railway.
1000 MILES OF UNKNOWN LANDS.
In Places the Iron Horse Will Run 1900
Feet Above the Sea.
CONCEPTION AND SCOPE OF THE WORK

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH.i
WASHINGTON, February s.
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A HEALTH FACTORY.
Mark Twain Initiated Into
the Mysteries of Mary's
Baths in Austria.
ALL TALK is ON LIVERS,
Except When a JOvial Fat Man Runs
Against a Happy Lean One.
A POEM RELEASED BY THE MUD.
Austria'S Emblem Should Be q Grandmother
Harnessed to Dog.
TLOT FOR A THRILLING STAGE ROMANCE

rwRITTEN FoR THE DTsPArCH.l
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
THE q ROAD.

If Great Falls is to gain the trade of
the tributary country districts she must
take steps to give the ranchers and farm
ers good roads to the city, Perrin
Epperson. of Belt, is now here c%ircula-
ting a petition TO be presented to the
county commissioners praying for the
construction of all iron bridge at the
crossing of Belt creek on the Highweod
road. This crossing is at present
wholly unsafe. There is a bridge about
four miles north of the crossing but
owing to a long steep hill on that road it
cannot be used for heavy loads. The
only other bridge is twelve miles up the
creek. The result is that the farmers.
ranchers and woolgrowers of the High
wood district have been hauling their
produce to Fort Benton, instead of
Great Falls. The bridge now asked for
would shorten the road between Great
Falls and Highwood eight or ten miles.
1t is hardly necessary to call attention
to the advantages Great Falls would
gain through the construction of this
bridge. They are evident. If Great
Falls is cyer to become u wool center
transportation facilities must be i'm
proved. This is a step in that direction
and the board of trade should take
action upon it at once, by "a special COM
mittee. Reference to the executive
committee of tic board is equivalent to
shelving it-that committee being
already loaded down.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
H WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
THE CITY
SATURDAY. APRIL III. 1897

The city election as far as the candi
date for mayor is concerned was d con
test between the straightout republicans
upon the one side and the half breeC
republicans upon the other. the demo
Gratis being silent and disinterested spec
tators to the fight. This position of the
democrats WAS forced upon them. as is
well known. by the withdrawal Of Mr.
Patrick Kelly, the democratic candidate
for mayor. two days before the election,
The straightout vote was cast for Mr.,
Daniel Mckay. who ran as a citizen and
labor candidate. while the half breeds
candidate. Mr.. Charles NJ. Webster,
headed what was called the republican
ticket and received the support of the
half-brecd faction Of the republican
party.
Quite a number OF democrats voted
for Mr.. Mckay while more cast their
ballots for Mr.. Webster, but the majority
simply voted for aldermen and the bond
question leaving the republicans to fight
out their family quarrel among them
selves. The democrats elected two al
dermen and the republicans two. This
result makes a staud-otf between the
democratic and republican parties as
far as the election would indicate the
relative strength of the two parties in
this city. The democrats. therefore. can
claim no victory. nor do they acknoyl
edge any defeat in this election. for. as
has been stated. the fight was between
the two factions Of the republican
party.
Upon the withdrawal Of Mr.. Kelly
democrats lost all interest in the cleo
ton. This Is shown in the fact that out
of "a total registration of about l.6OO only
1.2l4 votes were cast, the difference be-
tween the registration and the total vote
cast. representing. in SOM measure. the
number of democrats who remained at
home.
MI. Webster is a gentleman who is
thoroughly qualified TO discharge &C
ceptably the duties Of mayor of this city.
He is a ready speaker, possesses fine
business attachments. is suave and
courteous in demeanor. genial. social
and popular. 1t remains to be seen how
he will dispose of the trust the people
have confided to his keeping. If he dis
charge the responsible duties OF his po-
sition with an eye single to the interests
of the people of Great Falls the TRIBUNE
will yield him it's heartiest support. But
if he should not il will reserve the right
Of criticism. 1t trusts, however. that
Mr.. Webster will fulfill the predictions
of his friends and make a model mayor
of the most promising city in the entire
northwest.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
PROHIBITION A FAILURE.

Figures and facts might be adduced
without limit in proof Of the PROPOSE
ton that the attempt to legislate men
into temperance, or temperance into
men, is a failure. The experience. not
Of Maine alone, but of Iowa and Kan
sas also. demonstrates that in none of
them is there a public sentiment strong
enough to make the enforcement of a
prohibitory law practicable. The condi-
tons in Iowa were exceptionally fav-
orable to the enforcement OF legislative
prohibition, but the results have been
far from satisfactory. The verdict is
conclusive as against prohibition as a
method of temperance reform.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16

election. Furthermore there ara
newcomers who are non-yoto. '
having been in the state and n,.. aa
the required length Of time. E;,
to say that the voting population
Great Falls-or rather those Of vas'
age-number not less than 1900 ''N
***
There is still another criterion =, ,
estimate given of the populat;o. ~t
Great Falls. A careful examinato. VI
the pay rolls of the various lndustris. VI
the city reveals the fact that thew :
tain in the aggregate over 1000 n.u'
This fact speaks volumns in itself
~
The facts that have been mani,
point irresistibly to the conclusion Nv,
the estimate of 10000 population !,
within the bounds of probability J..
deed, we are justified in going fu,,t,
and saying that it falls but little shs.,
of a certainty. Nor is this all. So r,,,
is the growth of the city at present
numerous are the newcomers pouriDpi !,
every day--it may be confidently NJ.
dicted that on Dec. 81 the city will b.,.
a population of not less than loom M,
pie. Good judges, men who b,r.
watched the growth of cities and hau
followed the history of Great Falls wifi
a judgment refined by experience. uua,
in pronouncing this a safe and mode,,,,
estimate. The future will not hall,
their judgment.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS.

The interests of Great Falls demand
that steps shall be taken at once to i'm
prove the facilities for communication
between this city and the tributary towns
and country districts. Indeed it may
fairly be claimed that the interests OF
the whole state of Montana require that
good roads should be established
throughout the state. In this connec-
ton the views of Col. Albert A. Pope on
the methods of road improvement are
of interest. Col. Pope sums up his
views as follows:
l would have each state by a legisla-
tive enactment do at once two or three
things in the direction Of this movement,
ton by establishing a bureau where the
facts relating to the expense. mechanical
construction, care. durability, use and
extent of the different kinds of roads
shall be known and ascertaincd; then /
would have some kind of state supervis
ion and advisory assistance by a compe-
tent engineer or engineers appointed by
the state in aid of road and bridge bull
ing and repairing upon scientific princip-
pies, and a comprehensive and economical
plan for the whole state; thirdly, | would
have the state either own or control and
maints in some through highways %
Meeting the principal towns in the state.
and connecting these with the principal
towns of neighboring states where they
are most needed, either for great public
exigences or for the greatest general use.
The state would thus promote the equal
izatlon and the general reduction of ex-
pense of construction and maintenance
of these main roads, and would give Il
profitable example and a strong incen-
tive to the adjacent towns to %
struct better contributory roads
as feeders to the main ones.
| would have the state divide the ex-
penses Of this scheme of road betterment
in the tax levy SO that part of it should
be apportioned to the whole state, part
to the counties through which the roads
ran and part to the towns. And further
| would have this tax levy kept small
and the investment adequate and quick
ly made by the business mans method
Of borrowing the money on long loans.
1t would thus be easily paid out of the
profits by those sharing them"
Col. Pope holds that this plan would
meet the objections to state control and
maintenance of roads generally raised
by the farmers. Under it the oppor-
tunity of working out a portion of their
taxes o the town roads tributary to
the main roads is left to the farmers and
at the same time their taxation is not in
creased in the aggregate for roads, be-
cause the expense of the general or
through roads is to be provided for by
loans and to be distributed to the coun-
ties and the state, and this distribution
will result in the more populous neigh
borhood paying the most of the tax.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
MR.. DIXON AND FREE Won,

The hide bound high tax organs d
Montana are now jumping on Mr.. Diyn
because he voted for the free wool hin |
With their usual mendacity they assert
that in supporting the bill he voted
against the interests of his state. # il
ii of the pe~culiarities of the high ia,
organs that they "a learn nothing, b,
perhaps they are not to be blamed for
that. They were born that way-uua
of them. Nevertheless it is a lits
strange that even the high tax organs
will persist in misrepresentation in ts
face of facts and figures. Even in III.
absence of facts and figures showing ts
contrary it would be a simple possibilit
and not a probability that Mr.. Dixon
had voted against the interests Of hi
state. But as the matter really Stands |
the assertion is absolutely and WHOLLY
false.
AS a matter of fact Mr.. Dixon in vVt
ing for free wool was voting in the ID
terests of his state. The tax on wool is
not a benefit to the consumer Of WOODEN
goods. That is indisputable. kta
benefit to the woolgrower? From 1851
to 1863 wool was practically on The t4
list. Wool growing paid handsomey and
the number of sheep in the county in.
creased. Then the wool growers Of Ohio
thought they needed protection. They
secured the passage of the high tariff d
1867. The result was just opposite 3
what they expected. The price of wc
was not raised but on the other hand
began to decline and the result is tb
today the Ohio sheep industry is abOi
ruined. The number of sheep has d
creased to about half what it was
1868 and the price Of the wool has sd
fered a corresponding decline. Th
price of wool has never been lower ths
it is now under the heavy Mckinley tai
The secret of the matter is that 10
eign wool is needed by our manufactu
ers to mix with American wool andt
larger the importation of foreign vn
the larger the demand for AmpTia
wool and the higher the price.
The free wool bill is a measure wbic
il it becomes a law will necessarily ber'
fit the people of Montana. The stat
produces raw wool and is a large COL
sumner of manufactured wool. But slTr
the wool-growers OF Montana do not an
cannot produce all qualities of wool IT.
necessary in order that their prodlN
shall command good prices, to open ID
market to certain qualities Of foTegl
wool. The wool-growers have cone Toe
realization of this fact. They see I'
that the republican high tariti ho
worked an injury to them and they
welcome a change Of policy. Mr.. IrNt
in voting for free wool did his duty e
his party and his state. He acted a..
consistent democrat should act,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
TIL + STATE PRESS.

1t recently developed that the au-
wump vote in Montana is an uncerls.
quantity. but is growing. HeleIs II
dependent.
The republican victory in Rt@
Island has about the same signifcas'
as a democratic victory in Texas. Ih
republicans acknowledge their weak
by growing over the recent electl@L
'Rhody." They are on the run.-B~'
Miner.
The republicans of Helena ar
close touch with the republicans Of y
whole state with the respect TO the II
coinage OF silver. The one and Oh
source of opposition within Montana
the American policy of the restorau.
of silver as the coordinate money mel
of the country is the administration 2
gan owned and operated by Rus
Harrison. Helena Herald.
The republican party as a party 60.
mitted the crime OF demonetizing sl''
There can be no equivocation abou'
it is a matter of history and record
attempting to right the wrong commit
by the republicans years ago the den
cratic party met with an almost 81
republican opposition and failed IN
efforts. The republican partisan knI,'
these facts, he knows that his part; J
trayed silver and resisted every del
cratic effort to restore it to it's foGL
position and yet he holds the democrs'
party responsible for the depressioh
silver mining and accuses them oftrea'
ery.-Dillon Examiner.