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Evening journal., 1893-09-20

WEDNESDAY,. SEPTEMBER 20, 1898.
Evening journal., 1893-09-20

ally, with Pullman bufs
X through TO BcstOr-Witn
,hkeepsie bridge. landii
station. Boston.
/. TWELFTH AND MAR
ek days, s303, s737 sS 30.
, 81 30, sl1 90 p m. SUI days.
m. 81 40, 50 %, 81 80, 81 O.
Evening journal., 1893-09-20

The national debt a. given hy the
Secretary Of the Treasury In
1866. o6................... A. -r9 d00 ooo
Amount due In 1888. ................ I.O2s 45) 900
Ia this debt been contracted payable
in wheat it would stand as follows:
10 1858 the entire debt could have
been paid with. .......... bushels
Of wheat ............... 1 OOr OO0 oo0
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
Dickens and Sentiment.

The modern Judgment against Dick
ems is not that he lacked feeling. but
that he was superintendent in it; that
his free and ready emotions sometimes
overmastered him and got portrayed.
in his writings as in some of his con-
sciousness. in terms too high-wrought
and emphatic. That he was man Of
warm and generous disposition, a kind
" man through and through, no one at
all acquainted with either his works or
his life should wish to dispute. But
the very fact that he was this is sug-
Gcstive of that emotional Temperament
b st. C 'anodgson.- .br.Ni Hb ooohtr
which, the. contention is, he could not
Away S keep under due control. Intem-
perance of the sort imputed to him is
not uncommon in literature, and in lit
erature of very high order. 1t makes
what we call the sentimentalists. Of
whom Mr.. Lowell ventures to decide
that even Burke was one. Men SEEM
ingy the least prone to it by nature
have lapsed into it for moments, es-
pecially when writing under insufficient
inspiration, as al who ever write some
times do write. -Scribner
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31

age are probably the young Canadian
st. Cyr, and the German, Kraft-turner
CsPOWer gymnast''), Ernest Rohlig. st.
Cyr, in his eighteenth year, lifted =
heavy load Of brick out Of a rllt by
crawling under the wagon and rising
slowly It'll all four wheels swung clear
above the ground, and Herr. Bohlig
indicates his title by the probably un-
precedented feat Of making his body
bridge the interspace Of two chairs,
standing five feet apart, and in that
abnormal position (Which few human
being could maintain for ten seconds),
lifting two dumb-bells of an aggregate
weight OF 200 pounds. Standind on his
feet. he can toy with more enormous
weights, and on one occasion bent an
iron bar, an inch and quarter in di-
ameter, by placing it across his chest
and almost making the two ends meet
between his shoulders. A few years
ago Mr.. Bohlig kept an assembly Of
Vienna sportsmen spellbound for three
following hours, and one Of the attend
ing physicians noticed the curious fact
that the most superhuman Of his tour
de force exploits do not affect the
steadiness of his pulse to any appreci-
able degree. F. l.. OSWALD
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31

Every one who is interested in pho
tographs of outdoor scenes-and who
is not?-must often have wished for
some satisfactory means for obtaining
larger pictures of distant, unattainable
objects than can be got with an Or
binary camera. The writer remembers
this with keen regret that the lack of
such an instrument or device prevented
him from obtaining some most desira-
BILE pictures during visit to the Vel
lowstone Park.
For instance, many mud swallows
build their nests under the projecting:
lodges of the Liberty Cap" at the
Mammoth Hot Springs, and sitting in
the open doors Of their habitations they
gaze down upon the spectator beneath
with the indifference Of conscious Sc
curity. With a camera that combined
the powers of a telescope and photo
graphic plate most pleasing picture
Of these birds, showing them appar-
emily close at hand, could have BEEN
made.
Such cameras have been devised, but
it is only quite recently that they have
assumed a fairly satisfactory form. The
desired result is brought about by
means of peculiarly constructed lens,
consisting Of a positive lens in front
and a negative lens of much shorter
focal strength in the rear. This gives
an image several times as large as that
obtained with an ordinary camera.
With such an instrument photographs
of birds and other animals which can
not be approached closely can be made,
showing them in their natural attitudes
and of a sufficient size to exhibit their
characteristic features 1t is also sug--
gested that this method of telephO--
Biography will prove useful in astron-
Omy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
RIGHT ANb LEFT HANDED

Ambidexterity Discouraged by Alr
Modern InventiOn-Chinese Con.
trary as Usual.
The despised left hand makes good
it's claim in many cases to be the DETER
Of the two. The fingers that touch and
adjust with such nicely the strings OF
the violin are surely as cunning as
those that move the bow. The hand
that guides the reins and steers with
exactneSs the horse through the crowd
ed streets is quite as cunning as--One
might say much more than-the hand
that Yields the whip. But great is
fashion; unanswerable is theory. 1t
would appear to Chambers Journal
that as life becomes more and more
complex we are becoming more and
more specialized, and the difference be-
tween our limbs is encouraged rather
than hindered by every pair Of scissors
turned off at Sheffield, by every screw
made in Birmingham and by every slap
administered to the young offending
fingers that would dare to shake hands
incorrectly.
1t is curious to note the yagarieS OF
humanity in cases where no hard and
fast line has been already drawn. Al
though most right-handed persons put
.on their coats left arm first, consid
cradle percentage thrust in the right
first. Soldiers fire from the right
shoulder, but sportsmen are found who
prefer the left. In working with the
spade a proportion Of right-handed men
grasp the spade with the left and push
with left foot and right hand; though,
when using an AK, the same individ-
uals would grasp furthest down with
the right. The Persians mount their
horses from the right side, which is.
the opposite side from that mounted
by Europeans The buttons on coats.
ETC., are placed on the right side and
the shed of hair in boys to the left, evil
IDENTITY to suit manipulation by the
right hand. The great philosopher,
Newton, records that at first he con-
fined his astronomical observations to
the right eye, but afterward he man.
aged to train his left. But there are
persons who could not do this, owing.
to the unequal strength of their eyes.
Strange to say, the Chinese assign the
place of honor to the left At Kun
yenye, in Africa, Cameron relates be-:
ing introduced to the heir presumptiver
to the throne, the nails Of whose left
hand had been allowed to grow to an
enormous length as sign Of high rank,
proving that he was never required to"
perform manual labor, and also pro-
viding him with the means Of tearing
the meat which formed his usual diet
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31

But masters Of the Drawn were gen
orally products Of the hardy North, and
England, too, evolved Samson (Thom-
as TOpham of Surry), who carried a
sleeping Waterman, sentry-box and all,
to q remote spot of a suburban Gem
etery. Southern Europe, on the other
hand, can, on the whole, claim the
championship of physical agility.
Leonardo de Vinci often surprised his
visitors by leaping to the ceiling Of his
study and knocking his feet against
the bells Of glass chandelier, at a
height of fourteen feet from the floor.
A terreador Gorilla repeatedly permit
ted rampant bull to approach him
within half-arm's length, when he
would put one foot between the horns
Of the raging brute and save himself
by graceful leap. LagarbijO, the Ara
gon acrobat, occasionally astonished
the foreign visitors Of the Madrid arena
by similar exploits, and when the
French army was wintering at Frank
fort on the-Main, a trooper OF Marshal
Vandamme's corps reconciled at least
the youngsters to the presence Of hos
tile garrison by leaping, even-fOoted,
over brass goddess towering above
the fountain of the market square,
Acrobats transmitting their trade Sc
crets from father to son, travel from
town to town Of Northern Hindostan,
and often appear on the fair grounds
Of the principal cities, as in Agra,
where Capt. Wallace saw a white
bearded native leap over three ele-
plants standing side by side, and with
mid-air somersaults snatch a red
handkerchief from the back Of the ami
NAL in the center. "Why, that's moth
ing" laughed the old fellow, in reply
to the compliments Of the stranger,
you ought to have seen me when I
was forty years younger"
The stoutest Of modern Europe come
from Steyermark, in Southern Austria,
and from the neighborhood of Con-
stantinOple, where a merchants clerk
can hire dozens of 'longshoremen, every
mothers son Of them able to shoulder
weight Of 600 pounds and march
away as jauntily as a Western miller
carrying bushel-bag Of grist.
Shamyl the Circassian hero chieftain,
considered a man of his native high
lands as, on an average, a match for
three Russian soldiers. but admitted
his error in st. Petersburg, where the
father Of the present car introduced
him to Courland wrestler who could
fling him headlong four out Of five
times.
Two strong men at present appear
ing in the vaudeville theaters are San
dow and Cyclops. The former will
break strong chains by chest expan-
sion and put up 500 pound dumb bell
with either hand. Cyclops can break
a nickel in two between his thumb and
fingers.
The two strongest men Of the present
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
The Rival.

"An is over, then, Harry"
There was a ring of anguish in the
tremulous tones of the beautiful girl
as she uttered these words.
"Al is over, Mehetabel," the youth
replied in determined tones, as he
brushed the dust from the elbow which
had been leaning on the mantelpiece.
"All is over" he repeated, but as he
gave utterance to these cruel words a
spasm passed across his face, and his
eyelids quivered with emotion, which,
man-like, he strove to conceal. She
drew a deep, tremulous sigh, the rosy
lips quivered, and two pearly tears
trembled on the long silken lashes.
II will have no divided affection" he
continued, and there was no mistaking
the firm determination expressed in his
tones and in the compressed lips and
cloud-ruffied brow. II must have your
whole heart or nothing"
But he is so devoted, and such a
darling.''
1T matters not. He is a rival who
disputes with me the sovereignty Of
your affections. will tolerate no
rival!'' and he drew himself up proudly.
The beautiful girl threw herself into
her lovers arms.
Henry" she cried, he shall go: I
am wholly yours! I'm not going to
lose the Only-er-to lose a husband for
a miserable little puppy-dog."
Henry strained her to his heart. and
smiling, white-winged, sunny-eyed
Peace contemplated the scene. and
dropped a tear upon the pug-dog that
b1otted him out forever. It is from
scenes like this that our co,lntr,y's glory
springs!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
! SOME MEN OF MUSCLE.
a FEW MODERN SAMsONs AND
THEIR FEATS.


The disappearance OF classic painting
has led to the inference that the su-
periority Of ancient to modern art was
limited to sculpture, and similar causes
may have encouraged the belief that
the ancient athletes excelled their mod
ern rivals in physical vigor more than
In physical ability. The historians of
the strength worshiping Greeks and
Romans rarely thought it worth while
to describe the feats of nimble acrobats
though they allude to their existence;
and, for all we know, these feats may
have rivaled the exploits of such
specialists as the bruiser Milo, who car
ried a full-growli steer around the
arena and then killed it with single
blow of his fist
Experience has. however. demon
strated the fact that the capacity for
feats Of dead-lift strength depends
much more than agility upon hered-
ttary endowment. Gypsy rope dancers,
with their INSCRIPTIONS methods Of ed
ucation, would undertake to train al
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
Valuable Boots.

The excuses which are reSOrted to by
European tradesmen to make Ameri-
can tourists pay higher prices than any
one else are often more curious than,
ingenious An American who had
fine pair of boots made by London.
cObbler was astOnished at the price
which was demanded.
Three guineas for pair Of calf
boots! It is prepOsterous," said the
American.
Indeed, SIR said the cobbler. III
you'd a-knowed the calf that was in
that leather; it was blOoded hanimal,
I assure you, sir, and bred on the hes
tate Of the duke Of Bucking'
The customer paid the charge at
once.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31

Of Vendome, INDUCED in habits of sloth
that turned his quarters into cattle
pen. He would stick to his bed for
days together, read in bed, gamble in
bed, keep covered jars of stew under
his pillow, and so frequently overeat
himself that his own soldiers had nick
named him the 'sOld Boar" But that
same pig was Mars on the day Of bat
tie, and after the defeat Of Oudenarde
"A. D. 17O6) he kept in the saddle for
two days and two nights, and saved the
French army by a mastery retreat
Car Alexander III, ssthe Steer" as
his faithful subjects call him, has in
herited, rather than developed, talent
for twisting a basketful of horseshoes
into ring chains; but superlative ath-
letes are nearly always product Of
careful training, superadded to the adj
vantage Of hereditary strength. In the
middle ages, when young cavaliers
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31

most any uncrippled child into an aero
batic adept. but no amount Of practice
will turn a weakly yOungster into a
Hercules, and the apparent exceptions
refer to cases where desperate and per-
sistent physical self-culture has result
ed in remarkable but rather one
sided development of muscular
strength. Pepin of Heristal, the an
cestOr Of Charlemange, was tainted
with his shOrtness Of stature till he
trained at the anvil Of a village black
smith, and one day amazed an as
semblage of long-legged cavaliers by
entering bullring, sword in hand and
cutting off a bulls head as clean as if
he had been beheading a poppy-stalk
DR.. Winshop of Boston, too, resolved
to remedy the physical disability which
in his youth had obliged him to sub
nit to the insults of a burly fellow
student, and trained year after year
till his arms turned into portentous
masses of muscle, but he never be-
came an "all-round athlete" and died
early. the abnormal demands ttpon the
resources of naturally feeble body
having evidently overtaxed his vitality.
Hereditary strength, on the other
hand, occasionally asserts itself in spite
of indolent habits, and King Augustus
the Strong of Saxony and Poland, one
of the greatest rakes that ever dis
gractd a throne, and so lazy that his
Wallets had to wash and undress him,
was nevertheless able to bend a silver
dollar out of all resemblance to a mod
ern coin, and to roll up three or four
heavy silver platters, in quick success
sion, like so many sheets of paper. His
natural son, Marshal SAKE, Don Juan,
whose enterprises almost overstrained
the tolerance of the icentious French
court, had withal inherited share of
his fathers herculean physique, and in
the battle Of Fontenoy, when the
French household troops seemed unable
to resist the onset Of the British vol
unteer, the marshal mastered his agi-
tatiOn by crushing the guard of his
sword hilt in the convulsive grip of his
fist.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31

were trained under the supervision OF
their sturdy fathers. nearly every
larger army could boast such cham
pions as the Ritter Baumkirchner, who,
single handed, defended city gate
against the swashbucklers Of hostile
surprise party, till his own friends
could come to the rescue from the ram
parts Of "a neighboring village; or the
Zagal Ojeda, who mounted the steeple-
top of the highest tower Of Seville, and,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
ERNEST BOHL1G.

running out to the end Of a projecting
beam, balanced himself on one foot
and threw an orange about as
far as his Moorish contemporaries
could shoot an arrow. When Frederick
the rebelliOus cities Of Northern Italy,
the leader Of the hostile confederation
one day invited him to conference,
stipulating that the delegates on both
sides be limited to half a dozen. The
rendezvous turned out to be an am
bush, and the brave companions Of the
imperiled Kaiser would have sue
cumbed to odds, if in the nick of time
a stark-naked Ritter. a giant in
stature and strength, had not rushed
into the midst of the assailants and
routed them by a quick succession Of
invariably deadly strokes. When the
emperor had regained his feet the
strange apparition had vanished, to-
gether with the ambassadors; but the
friend in need afterward was ascer-
tanned to have been the Count Henry
of Kempen, a young athlete, who had
witnessed the scrimmage from a bath
tub in his tent on the outskirts of the
camp, and, recognizing the person of
the emperor, had rushed out. in statu
quo, and then, after scattering the
would-be assassins, had awaited him
self of good chance to regain his tent,
under cover of the dust-whirls.
When George Frundsberg. with his
adventurous guerrillas, laid siege to the
city of Ulm, the tedium of camp life
was relieved by the exploits of a
Sohild-Knappe, an unkempt hostler,
who defied any junta Of young mobiles,
as many as three of them at time, to
meet him in a sand-pit and defend
themselves against the risk of being
chucked bodily into big sack of tent
canvas, and won so many incredible
bets that after awhile the stoutest ca
diets were afraid to accept challenge.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
sr / SHOULD DIE TONIGHT.

II should die tonight
And you should come to my cold corpse and
say,
Weary and heartsick DER my lifeless clay;
IF should die tonight
And scu should come In deepest grief and
woe,
And say, Heres that ten dollars that
owe
! might arise in my large white cravat
And say, Whats that?'
II should die tonight
And you should come to my cold corpse and
kneel,
Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel;
I say II should die tonight,
And you should come to me there and then,
Just even hint bout paying me that ten,
might arise the while,
But I'd drop dead again.
Ben King in the Journalist
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
The Queer Part Of 1t.

Il see young Shaving, member OF
the four hundred, has gone on the
stage"
rs that extraordinary
Not exactly; but he doesn't stay be.
hind the scenes
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-03

ALIAS suMMoNs-lN,. THE DISTRICT
IA court of the First judicial district OF the
state Of Montana in and for the county Of Lewis
Helena Lumber Company plaintiff, W. George
W; Blood and Arthur " defendants.
Tho state Of Montana sends greeting TO tho
above named defendants:
You nre hereby required to appear in an action
,;s against You BY the above named plain ia
trict of tho state OF Montana, in and for the
county Of Lewis and Clarke. and to answer, the
compliant filed therein within ten days
servics on you of this summons, il served within
this county,; or, IL served out of this county, but
w WITHIN ai ihis d ia1ti s, within in i twenty a1 Z, d s,hs9t
WI Do taken against you. according to the
The said action u brought to obtain a decree
OF this court for the foreclosure OF q certain mo.
chanic's lien described in the complaint and filed
by the plaintiff in the cfice of the county re-
on the 18Th day of October. 1891. upon lots nun
Ter fourteen and fifteen in llock number five
hundred and ~sixty-six (AB) Of the hasterly I'd;
state afoi esa.d Said lien having been ti'ei 10
secure the payment for lu,nl er and building ma,
tori Of the reS' enable value OF one n ndrea
delivered and furnished by tho plaintiff t.
,eorge, h. low, the contracts Of the owner u
'ns sa the n essp p"yr ter z ee os' af the n said lot fe enro cen
aad the west fourte en- feet Of the said lot fifteen,
that tho eaid property be sold and the proceeds sp-
. led to the payment of the said amount with iu-
'erest III .reon ut he rate OF ten per cent pr an
nam from the said date of filing and for Inc fur
thor sum of one dollar cost of filing. for the sum
Of fifty dollars attorneys feas and costa of snlt;
for deficiency Judgment and execution against
this defendant George II. Pew, in cse the pre-
teeds of the said property, be not sufficient t.
~ the above amounts and that the deienoants,
and al parsons claiming by. through or under
them be barred and foreclosed of all right title,
claim, lien or interest in and to said property;
plaintiff asks for other and general relief.
Ard you are hereby notified that il you fail to
appear and answer tho said complaint, a. above
required. the said plaintiff will apply to Nh"
court for the rolief demanded N the complaint
Given nnder my hand and the zeal of tho dis
trict court Of the First judicial district of tho
state of Montana, in and for tbs
c--- county of Lewis and Clarke.
Seal First this 9th day of February, in tho
I lud. Dist. year OF our Lord ono thousand
Court. eight hundred and ninety hrle
S--~- JOHN BEAN, Clerk.
BY g. q. FREEMAN, Deputy Clerk.
Leslie X Craven, attorneys for plaintiff.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-03
SHERIFK,s sALE-ALFRED A: CURTIS.

- plaintiff, VS.. Charles +. Newbury. Flora
NewDury and b. G. Clark, defendants.
Under and BY virtue of an order of sale and
decree OF foreclosure nnd salo issued out OF the
state Of Montana. in and for the county of Lewis
and Clarke. on the goth day of February. A. d.
1899. in the above entitled action. wherein Alfred
A. Curtis, tho above named plaintiff. obtained
a judgment and decree of foreclosure and salo
against Charles p. Newbury. Flora Newbury
and b. c.. Clark. defendants. on the 10th day Of
February. A. u, 1879. for the sum OF 81. 2l2. II.
besides interest, costs ard attorneys fees. which
said decree was. on the 10th dny of February,
A. d., 1893. recorded in judgment book No.
manded to sell all. that certain LOT. piece or
parcel Of land, situate. lying and being in the
county OF Lewis and Clarke. state OF Montana,
and bounded aud described as follows. to-wit:
Lot numbered two t2) in block numbered six
hundred and Fix f'16) as the said l"f and block
are numbered. designated and deFcribod on the
plat and survey OF said addition, known as Ho-
back and Cannon addition to Helena. Lewis and
Clarke county. state OF Montana. lat tho time of
tie execution It tho said mortgage territory. of
OF tho county clerk and recorder OF said county
of Lewis and Clarke, state of Montana. To-
gether with all and singular the tenements,
Embellishments and .ppur cnnnces therennto be-
longing or in any wise appprtaiDing.
Public notice 10 hereby given. that on Wednes-
day. tho 18th day OF D arch. 4. D.. 1889, at II
O'Clock m, OF that dny. at tho front door of tho
court house, Helena. Lewis and Clarke county.
and decree Of foreclosure and pale, sell the above
described property. or 70 much thereof as may
be necessary to satisfy anid Judgment, with in
forest and costs. to the highest and best bidder.
for cash in hand.
Given nnder my hand. this goth day of Fobyu'
CHARLES d. CURTIS, Sheriff.
By z. Il. Hoss. Under sheriff.