The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-03

pay high, and they swore 10 DO avenged
upon their more active rivals.
Az soon ~ Mr.. Hawkins, landlord Of the
hotel, obtained an mixing of what
was going on he brought out his little axe
to be ground.
'Yuh oawn't possibly 'ave hany osIebra-
ton without n dinner, yuh knaw." ssid he.
why, bless my soul look 'ow hit his hat
'ome. The dinners tho feature hot tho
lord mayors day hand the queens birth
day, HodbIssser, hand hall tho hother
great hocassions. Hand hsyen in Canada,
to the states, hit was tho same. Hit you'll
stawnd la dollar ha ed. without heItrys.
my French cook Hanatole will get you hup
ha banquet to tho queens taste"
Eventually We succumbed to his insist
ence and ordered a dinner for the commit
tee, invited guests--if nny-and anybody
else who chose to pay = dollar.
A suitable place for our celebration was
found without any trouble. Farmer Per-
kins came in and voluntarily offered TO us.
free of charge, the use of his maple grove,
which was admirably suited to the purpose.
We were a little surprised by his action, az
Mr.. Perkins 10 not famed for his liberality.
but We concluded he did not deserve all the
hard things said about him, and whatever
his other faults might be his patriotism was
all right. .g..L. - .7.'
A fair traitor in the Bugleville camp-the
girl Elnathan Goodrich visited regularly
Wednesday and Sunday evenipQs-found
out for us. where our rivals got their fire.
works, an item in which We knew they had
some great advantage over anything We
could effect according to the pyrotechnists'
price lists which We procured. She put us
in communication with a Swiss drummer
named Moritz Salzmsn, who made a bust
moss Of supplying exhibitions for country
towns. He WAS a shrewd. energetic fellow,
and to secure our trade for future years en-
gagged to give VI \ much finer show than
Bugleville over had, and for less money.
We all liked hin not only for that, but be-
cause he expressed such hearty sympathy
with our patriotism, and told us he was Sc
eager and anxious to become an American
have learned his eager anxiety had lasted
ten years without his having taken any
steps for it's relief. It ia said that his moth
er's second cousin YVES nAturaliZed in New
York a year before the civil war broke out
and had to pay several hundred dollars for
a substitute when drafted. He was in
business and quite we'll of, but that cruel
blow of misfortune broke his heart and he
died q few months later.
Among the summer boarders at the hotel
was a big, shock headed fellow, who claimed
to be a Russian, and judging from his
knotty and horned name. if it was really
his, I should say he was. He called himself
cOuUt hlCAl6 u
and claimed to be the scion of a wealthy
patrician family, forced to flee from home
because of his sympathy with the nihilists.
The way he used to pervade DIR. Freeman's
house made me tired. Iuse the word per
wade" advisedly. He elected himself an
| honorary member of our committee and
used to come over to the doctors every
forenoon to tell him and me what we ought
| to do. l fancy he used to lie awake al
night. thinking up preposterous and i'm
practicable things to urge upon u.s.. He
| should have been sent to a~+lunatic asylum
for any one Of half his suggestions to helr
US out. =
In the afternoons he would come again
to give the ladies' auxiliary committee
points on what he had seen in Paris
Vienna and elsewhere. He actually more
than half persuaded them into getting "
a lot of tableaux in costume. s"The God:
dess Of Liberty and the Liberal Arts
Fame Drowning Washington" "Bea1ty
HonorinR Valor," and 30 on. About fifty
pretty girls would be enough, he said, ant
he was willing to be Valor, to help then
out. But when he made for them some
sketches of the contemplated tableaux and
they saw how extremely hot summer wsath.
ery the costumes were to be. that let THEN
out. But it did not let the Count Alexis
I%vanovitch Grodnochetfski sout. When the
doctor and l went out attending committee
meetings in the evenings he would gel
J.! around again to telk with Nellie. VI
course I could not imagine what he found
to bother her about. but in a general SOFT
Of way l wished he would quit it.