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DEER LODGE, MONTANA FEBRUARY 4. 1898.
KEEPING OUT CHOLERA.


How the Federal Quarantine Service Is
Conducted.
Surgeon General Walter Wyman has
suddenly and one might say painfully
become an exceedingly prominent mem
ber Of the federal government, for he is
ut the head of the marine hospital and
national quarantine establishment. AS
the law now stands he has the last word
on preventive measures, and the medical
authorities say cholera is certain to get
in unless extraordinary precautions are
taken to keep it out. The prospect is
anything but pleasant. Cholera is al
ready prevalent i'll some foreign ports.
Its entrance here at any time would lie
an evil, but this year a calamity indeed,
for, in the expressive language Of Witness
Wilkinson in the Beecher trial, it ''would
knock the Worlds fair higher than Il
kite"
Congress has taken the matter up, and
SO have all the medical associations in
the coast cities. Many others have added
their advice, and in the multitude of
counselors there is a deal of confusion.
Shall there be national or local quaran-
tine or q combination of the two? Shall
immigration be suspended for one year
from March l, as Senator Chandler pro-
poses. or for a few months only, rs others
propose, or rigid system of inspection
be relied on, as congressman Rayner, of
Maryland, and Brosius, Of Pennsyl ylvania,
propose!
Surgeon General Wyman goes much
! T.
stringent measures proposed and have
| not only national quarantine and very
rigid inspection of all cabin passengers,
but total suspension of immigration by
steerage to begin at once. He wanted it
on the 1st of January and thinks that
| valuable time has already been lost. And
| it is fact worth noting that the leading
physicians in the Atlantic coast cities
agree with him. Meanwhile it is II salts
faction to know that the national quar-
antine service is already well organized
and has often proved its efficiency.
1t was founded by law in 1859 and
has since been much improved aud ex-
tended In 1871 it was reorganized and
made a bureau of the treasury depart
ment. The statute of 1889 provided for
the observance of state health regula-
tions by federal officers and gave the
president power to purchase or erect
quarantine warehouses and to remove
certain branches Of the government to
places of safety during epidelnics Of CON
tagious diseases. BY the law of 1878
vessels arriving from infected ports are
to be kept out, United States consuls are
required to report the state of health at
such ports and to notify the marine hos
pital service of the departure of infected
vessels, while officers Of state quaran-
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THE OFFICE SEEKERS MECCA.

The little White House." the Present
Home of the Cleveland Family.
Lakewood, N. j., is not a very large
place, but it is nevertheless the Mecca
toward which the eyes and i'll many
cases the feet of all good office seekers
who like to get what they are after are
just now turning The exact spot which
attracts these people, and which is of
great interest to everybody in the United
States, was known last year as the Cleve-
land cottage, but is now designated by
the more high sounding title Of the
Little White House, for the double rea-
son that it is the present home Of the
president elect and his interesting fam
lily and was treated to coat Of inno-
cent looking white paint some time ago.
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The cur 1Uds dashed ngnf7lst the ground
,cith such force us to th7olp Gilbert ont.
skirts of the little gathering, half in the
wide doorway, watching, with idle
smiles that now and again broke into
laughs as either disputant scored
point, the big, quivering, fat figure Of
the sheriff-his red brown face, covered
with freckles, pursed up into oleaginous
wrinkles as he listened-and Gales wiry,
nervous form and excited eyes as he
ran his thin, calloused hands through
his long, leather colored hair The ar
gument was emphasized, punctuated
and rounded out at frequent intervals
by the most astonishing and unneces-
sary profanity.
Remarks of Il highly personal nature
interlarded the discourse, and names
and adjectives were applied with an un-
conscious natural freedom that would
have amazed any one unused to Evans
Gulch. But remarks as to ones mo-
rality, sanity, parentage OF nativity,
when applied as aids to the open discus
sion of a subject, were unnoticed in that
locality, and were considered only as so
many flowers of metaphor, frightening
the dull path Of logical argument. So
Gale Whitley, in applying to the sheriff
the title Of a "driveling old windbag,"
in nowise reflected upon his official Ca
pacity, and likewise, when the sheriff
pointedly pronounced Whitley IAN es-
capped lunatic from some eastern asy-
lu1n," he did not in the least influence
the opinion of his hearers, who knew
Gale to be a good prospector and min
eralogist and a man of varied accom-
plishments.
Standing nearest to the door, with his
face turned upward toward the western
sky, stood lean, tall boy watching the
golden light wear off the hilltops and
turn leaden in the fading of the day.
His face, which was neither dreamy nor
bright, wearing rather a listless, tired
look, suddenly filled with startled and
fearful awe as speechless he raised his
hand and pointed toward the sky. The
man nearest to him, who had been an
interested listener, catching the aston
ishment and terror in the boys eyes,
turned quickly, and a shrill shout es-
capped his lips. At the same moment a
hoarse sound of many voices arose. and
all hurried to the doorway to behold
sweeping up the slope an object new to
Evans Gulch.
twas large silk balloon. The dying
suns rays, already lost behind the hills,
1911 on It's sides, causing it to resemble a
huge ripe pear hanging in the blue vault.
The basket had q solitary occupant,
who was making signs to the people at
the eastern end of the gulch to catch his
anchor rope. They stood in amazed de-
light, however, and the monster came
sweeping along. the ropes end trailing
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The Little White House" contains on
the first floor the dining room, parlor,
Mr.. Clevcland's study and the kitchen,
with its connecting pantries. The Sec
ond floor is divided up into five bedrooms
and bath.
The cottage faces the south. A large
piazza, which has been transformed into
a sunroom by being inclosed with glass,
extends along the entire front and about
two-thirds of the length of the eastern
side of the building. A hall practically
bisects the first floor To the right as
one enters is the dining room. Opposite
is the parlor. The dining room is con-
nected with the kitchen and tho main
hall, while the parlor opens into Mr..
Ceveland's study in the northwestern
corner of the cottage. The study has a
door opening into the hail, by means of
which the president elect may escape
to the upper regions without passing
through the parlor.
A stairway leads from the main hall
to the second floor. The bedroom Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland is directly above
the dining room. Little Ruth's is over
the kitchen, and her nurses is above the
pantry. The baby's apartment connects
with her nurses on the east and her par
ents' on the south. The servants will
sleep in separate building, MI. Cleve-
lands valet, Sinclair, being the only ex-
ception. He will have the room i'll the
cupola Of the cottage.
The house is nicely but not gorgeously
furnished, the paper on the walls is rich,
but quiet, and there is no attempt at
style. Electric light for building and
grounds is supplied by a hotel near by.
The 'sLittle White House is about a
half mile distant from the Lakewood
railway station.
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Friendship.

One day my bookish zeal led me to look
Through the rough pages of u dogs cared book
That lay with many others on stand
Where musty volumes posed as secondhand.
friend, a fellow of the incest taste,
Was with me and entreated me to haste.
Yet ere he snatched me from the tome caught
From its stained leaves the kernel of Il thought.
That thought ! took away, and when night
came
nlused: "How small is friendship and how
tamel
He never gave me such thought as this.'
Next day once more passed the bookstall by.
Again the musty volume caught my eye.
My friend was not in sight. With furtive joy
took it up as children clutch toy,
Aud then saw, half stricken out with age,
His name engraved upon the title page.
Tom Mason.
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THE PEOPLES POETS.
THE AUTHORS OF FARM BALLADS"
AND "sWEET BY AND BY"

Will Carleton and DR.. Bennett Are Not
Millions Dantes, but They Touch the
Popular Heart Carletons Beautiful
Tribute to Whittier.
The songs the people love are the
songs that endure. They have a vitality
that is foreign to the productions of
great minds. Almost any one who is
in touch with human sympathies and
human passions is familiar with the
tunes and words of ''Annie Laurie" "
"Garryowen, - 1.-THE Girl l Left Behind
Me" Home, Sweet Home "Old Hun
dred," and SO on. The hearer may not
know the names Of the authors, although
the melody thrills hisvcry soul, yet if he
is of literary pretensions and is called on
for verdict regarding poets and poetry
it is quite probable that he would over
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Great God, when look round me and survey
The shoeless ss1eiyering mites that crouch and
cover
In open doorways, suffering by the hour
The bitterest terrors of this wintry day,
My heart swels full of anger, and pray
With ceaseless. longing yearning for the power
70 raise the standard of revolt and say
The sins that work such i'll. The owlest flower
That nestles i'll the lap of Mother Earth
Is tended with kindlier, gentler care
Than these rank offshoots of Il lucklcss birth.
Dread victims. from their cradle of despair
Nurslings of crime whom rigorous laws con-
denn,~
But leave untouched the ills that bear on them.
But turn ye from such sights to that blest place
Where nestles all that's holest; turn to where
Thy young eyed cllerubs wait thee on the stair,
Counting each flying moment till thy fuce
Burst in upon them and thy fond embrace
Rewards their loving vgils. Gnunt despair
Finds here no llabitation love keeps pace
With jocund mirth and gladness, making fair
The little world around thee. And when sleep
Enfolds thy darlings in his shetering arms,
HAPPY thy grateful heart asks him to keep
Their pure young souls from sims alluring
charms,
And whilst thy dear press their warm
snug couches
Some homeless waif upon thy doorstep
crouches. Liverpool Mercury.
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Along the quiet, dusty way. ..5=E
Beneath the drowsy apple trees,
1t winds among the roses gay
That lure the booming bees.
The indian carrots round it nod
Among the tiger lilies tall, l,z@s
And seas Of dreaming goldenroa
About it rise and fall.
In harmonies of gray and blue -
It climbs the sumac dotted hill 81
Beneath the berry vines unto
IA woudlan cool and still.
B Where friskily i squirrel gray,
Through shadows softly DER 1t thrown.
Goes laping on his merry way d
From mossy stone to stone.
ri. K. Munkittrick.
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theme brought him up to his standard.
He went to Haverhill, Mass, attended
the Whittier memorial services and read
a long poem, from which the following
extracts, that possess particular metrical
beauty as well as heart sentiment, are
taken:
Sing, Merrimac; lift thy sweet voice above
All other streams; thou vast his river love.
Through thy green valleys crept the unclad feet
That soon should walk fa1ne's palace bordered
street;
Upon thy banks first flashed the dreams in
view
That frightened all the world in coming true:
He loved the gallant words and deeds to praise
OF thy advance guard of colonial days:
He loved upon fames canvas high to lift
Thy brilliant present, with its scenes of thrift:
He strove to make thy future doubly sure
With precepts. which, like diamonds, will en-
dure;
His spirit fingers here!
His gallantry watched kindly on her way
The humble maid that tossed the fragrant hay;
His pity sought the fallen conquered brave,
And left its tears upon an Indian grave;
With flowers of Justice and Of love he strewed
The witch's child by zealotry pursued;
Even the soul in endless darkness thrown
Had pity from his muse; there was no moan
Escaped his eager earl
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S. FILLMORE BENNETT.

look these and similar productions and
award pre-elninence as versifers to Mil
ton and Dante, the chances being that
he has not read either "Paradise Lost"
or Inferno" and would get very weary
if he tackled either of these acknowl-
edged masterpieces.
it may be as we'll to assert right here
that this busy, bustling generation Of
which we are a part wants its poetry to
appeal not SO much to critical intellects as
to hearts that throb in consonance with
the woes, the joys, the aspirations and
the honest triumphs Of fellow strugglers
in the daily toll to win bread and to
make the world better worth living in.
If the singer can send out lines that
live, he may not be remembered, but
his words will remain the heritage
and inspiration of the common people.
That, I fancy. will be the case with
DR.. S. Fillmore Bennett, who now re-
sides at Richmond, Ills. The name
probably is familiar to few, yet he is
tho author of song that has been heard
in all lands of this round globe. Years
ago, at Elkhorn, Wis, he wrote "The
Sweet By and By and although the
words are we'll known to most readers
it is not inappropriate to bring them i'll
closer touch with those glorious verses
Of hope and aspiration:
There's land that is faircr than day,
And by faith We can see it afar,
For the Father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there.
In the sweet by and by
We shall meet ON that beautiful shore
In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
We shall sing on that beautiful shore
The melodious songs of the best,
And our spirits shall sorrow no more
Not a sigh for the blessing of rest.
To our Bountiful Father above
We will offer the tribute of praise
For the glorious gift Of his love
And the blessings that hallow our days.
A more voluminous writer than Dr.
Bennett is the well known Will Carle-
ton, whose reputation was made when
he published those two pathetic poems
of country life, ''Over the Hills to the
Poor House. and Betsy and Are Out. y
He has grown well to do of late and
somewhat neglectful Of his wizard pen,
but not long ago the occasion and the
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-02-04
LOUlSlANA'S NEW SENATOR.
Sketch of the Career of Senator Gibson
Successor, Hon. DOnelson Caf1'ery.

Sketch of the Career of Senator Gibson'B
Successor, Hon. Donelson Caftery.
Hon. Donelson Cafery, who has been
selected by Governor Murphy j. Foster
to serve out the unexpired term Of the
late United States Senator Randall l..
Gibson, is affectionately known from one
end Of Louisiana to the other by the title
of Don, which is but an abbreviation of
his ''given" name.
Senator Caffery still owns the planta-
= hon in St. Mary's parish, near Franklin,
La, on which he was born in 1885, His
father was engaged in sugar culture, and
he has followed it in part up to the pres
ent time. In fact, no man in Louisiana
has taken deeper interest in the devel-
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When love goes by what can woman do7
Is there no prayer to pray, no suit to sue2
Though be be fled beyond the wintry sea.
Will not his errant steps come back to me7
Will he not answer to my hearts low cry,
Though lie goes by?
Nay. sweet, upon thy yearning lips command
The seal of silence. Reach no asking hand
To love once flown. Go on thy lonely ways:
Turn thee I. face of smiles to the worlds gaze
Or else sink down upon lfe's thorns and die
When love goes by.
Kate Fields Washington.
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The Song of Work.


Work! Work! Work!
With brain, with heart and hand.
Work! Work. Work!
Till plenty fills the land,
For every stroke which labor gives
Increases that whereon it lives.
All wealth is made by Iahor's power.
Labor's the root and wealth the flower.
Work. Work. Work.
And be a nobleman
Work! Work. Work.
AS long as c'er you can.
The man who works enjoys his food;
And that he eats, it does him good.
With plenty food and little toll
Muscles will rot and brain will spoil.
Work! Work! Work!
On that which yields return.
Work! Work! Workl
No honest labor spurn.
1t matters not what you may do
To make a nation or n shoe
For he who works an honest thing
In Gods pure sight ranks as Il king.
Work! Work! Work!
The planets in their spheres
Work! Work. Work!
Through days and months and years.
They never stop, but onward go
A lesson of steady work they show.
The hand that made them never tires
Repleuishing their inward fires.
Work. Work.. Workl
And never idle stand.
Work! Work! Work!
Be one of Natures band.
She always works that things may grow,
Sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
Her work is never done in haste.
She works all up and leaves no waste.
john Parnell.
Her Name.
I'm losted! Could you find me, please2'
Poor little frightened baby!
The wind had tossed her golden fleece:
The stone had scratched herdimplesl knees
stopped and lifted her with ease
And softly whispered, Maybe"
sTell me your name, my little maid;
can't find you without it,"
MY name is Shiny Eyes" she said.
"Yes, but your lastI" She shook her head.
up to my house 'ey never said
A single ting about it."
"But, dear,' said. what is your name?'
"Why, didn't Vol. hear me tell you?
Dust Shiny Eyes" bright thought came:
"Yes, when you're good, but when they
blame
You, little one-it's just the same
When mamma has to scold yuu?"
"My mamma neher scolds,' she means.
A little blushng ensuing,
accept when I've been a-t'rowing stones,
And then she says" the culprit owns,
"Mehetable Sapphira Jones,
What has you been a-loing?'
Anna f. Burnham.
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Faith.

will not learn to doubt my kind.
If bread is poison, what is food7
If man is evil, what is good7
I'll cultivate friendly mind.
see not far, but this see
If man is false, then naught is true;
II faith is not the golden clew
To life, then all is mystery.
know not much, but this know
That not in lermit's calm retreat,
But in the thronged and busy street,
The angels most do come and go.
Who to the Infinite would rise
Should know this one thing ere he
starts
That all its steps are human hearts;
To love mankind Is to be wise
Twill not learn to doubt my kind.
If man is false, then false am l;
If on myself can't rely, -.-.-
Then where shall faith a foothold find?
Christian Register.
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IA comparative examination Of the
skulls Of savage and civilized races
shows that the increased brain develop
ment Of the latter is always accompa-s
MED by e marked modif fcation in the.
form and die Of the Jaws and teeth.
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True Valor.

He's truly valiant that can suffer
The worst that man breathe, and make his
wrongs
His outsides-to wear them like his railnent
carelessly,
And meier prefer his injuries to his heart
To bring it into danger. Shakespeare
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F. K. WHITE.


Back Of the merry bells there Is oc-
casionally a young man with icy feet
and benumbed hands who isslearning
that q five dollar ride behind three
dollar horse is not necessarily fascinat-
ing. Philadelp lphia Ledger.
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HEADQUARTERS MARINE HOSPITAL sERv-
ICE, WASHINGTON.

HEADQUARTERS MARINE HOSPITAL sERv-
ICE, WASHINGTON.
tines are empowered to act in emergen-
cies as officers of the national quaran-
tine.
In 1879 national board Of health was
created, but was allowed to expire soon
after by failure to make appropriations
for it. In 1888 eight federal quarantine
stations were established, These divide
between them the entire coast Of the
United States and are under the control
of the national marine hospital service
The nerve center, SO to speak, Of all their
ran1ifcations is in tho SO called Butler
building at Washington, a granite struc-
ture directly facing the Capitol on the
south.
In the entire service are over 500 per-
sons distributed among the quarantine
stations near the coast cities. At their
head, with almost absolute power, is DR..
Walter Wyman, and his assistants are
Surgeons H. w. Austin, F. w. Mead, j.
J. Kinyoun and G. T. Vaughan. Be
sides, there are sixteen other graduated
surgeons, twenty-five passed assistant
surgeons, eighteen assistant surgeons,
seventy-six acting assistant surgeons
and thirty hospital stewards. The re-
manning $50 persons are nurses, attend
ants, seamen and quarantine officers of
various grades.
The service employs six vessels -Four
are simply disinfecting steamers and
used only locally at the main stations
but two, the Dagmar and the Charles
Foster, are fine seagoing steamers. By
the last assignment the former is on duty
at the Delaware breakwater and the lat
ter at the Cape Charles quarantine. The
other six quarantine stations are located
on Sapelo island, Georgia, Key West and
the Dry Tortugas, on Chandaleur island,
off the Mississippi coast, at San Francisco
and San Diego, CAL, and at Port Town
send, Wash. OF all these that at San
Francisco, with a hospital on Angel
island, is confessedly the best and many
think the finest quarantine station in
the world.
In all branches of the service there is
now unusual activity and vigilance, and
DR.. Wyman urges that inspection shall
begin in foreign ports at once by direct
1nSCruCClOuS W AIueTlCtlu COuSu1Ss tuttt
immigrant vessels from any port
not above suspicion be detained;
that if any contagious disease appears
after its sailing the vessel be required to
return; that most rigid national quaran-
tine be established at once and every
city be put in the best possible con
dition. In short, he means to keep the
cholera out, and may the Lord be good
| to himi
Married While In Prison.
A convict named Guthknecht, under
going twenty years penal servitude for
theft. was married not long since at the
mayoralty of Dijon. His bride was a
washerwonlan. The bridegroom was al
lowed, under proper escort, to drive with
his bride from the prison to the town
hall. The witnesses who signed the reg
lister were police inspector, prison
warden and two detectives. The happy
couple afterward adj djourned to the pris-
on, where lunch was served. and in the
evening the bride left her husband to
meet him again in q couple Of years y
New Caledonia. where they will be a1.
Il--.ET L.