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Halloween.


the last night of October, which falls
this year On, next Tuesday night
Then comes the time in many coun-
tries to think of pancakes, lovers and
long nights by the hearth and fender
OF apples, cider, nuts, pop corn and
pop the question.
1t has been written in fairy tale
books that Halloween night is the
one when a girl can ascertain whom
she is to wed. Those who are mar
ried take back seats and see the cir
Gus. 1t has been said that a girl
from Halloween can look ahead for
a year and figure to certainty
whether her name is to be given up
within that time OF not. There are
also certain plans and specification S,
which, if followed, will lead young
lady to the altar, on the arm of. a man.
She must do certain things, however,
or she is mugwumped, that is, left
for sure. She can write name of
seven men on separate pieces OF pa
per, roll each up in wad, throw them
all into pail of water, then blind
fold herself so she cannot see, stir the
water we'll with her left hand, as near
est the heart, and pick out a wet wad
and thus learn who is TO propose for
her heart, hand and hamperings.
Another plan is to fill the mouth
with cold water and run five times
around the house at midnight. Il
this can be done without spilling a
drop of water, the girl is to be mar
ried within a year. 1t is also GUS
tom for a girl to take looking glass
down cellar or into dark room at
midnight, hold it in front of her by
her left hand, and as the clock strikes
twelve, with match light lamp or
candle, and she will see the reflection
of the man she is to marry, looking
over her shoulder. This often hap
pens, unless the young man is in
another cellar with another girl!
In Ireland it is common to have a
regular frolic Halloween night
Apples into which pieces of money
have been placed are, with other ap-
pies, thrown into tnb of water
Boys and girls, blindfolded, dip theii
heads into the tub, into the water
and with their teeth or mouth fish
> out apples, the boy and girl who gel
' the money apples being the ones who
are to wed. Another game is to write
a name on piece of paper, pin it te
a cabbage head, put several cabbage
heads in bed under sheet, and lei
the girl select a head. On uncover
ing it, she can see whom she is tc
wed. Another funny business is tt
{ tie nuts, candy, apples, raisins, bits
> of candle-ends, gobs of wax, ETC., tc
short strings, then fasten them to {
long string that reaches across {
' room. At midnight the party is lee
in blind-folded and with their mouth.
reach for and get what they can tina
is thus tied to the strings. Each
person must eat what he or she gets
hold of, or not get married within I
year. Still another custom is for al
the boys and girls to take off thei
shoes, have them all bundled together
then when all are blindfolded, picl
out shoes, and of course the mating
is determined.
Halloween is sort of a pleasant
happy, high old time for the young
folks in Great Britain and in some o
our own States, notably in Virgini,
and Maryland, and perhaps elsewher
i'll the United States.
There is a good deal of truth in tn
following from the Shreveport Times
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From the number of disastrous
railroad wrecks in the past few days il
looks as though going to the Worlds
Fair is q dangerous venture. Rail
road companies should not try to run
four times the number of trains with
the smallest possible number of en-
ployes.
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Atlanta Constitution: "The Dem
ocratic party of Georgia is practically
solid against unconditional repeal
The patronage press represents no.
body but itself"
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Louisiana State Fair.

On account of above Fair the
"Cotton Belt Route" will sell tickets
Oct. 29th to Nov. 4th, inclusive, to
Shreveport and return at 10. cents
for the round trip. Tickets good to
return up to Nov. 5, 1893.
S. ii. DoWELL, Agent.
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The INLAND PRINTER, CHICAGO
This magnificent journal is Joy to
the eye and feast for the mind. No
progressive publishers Office is COM
plete without it. 1t would prove a
money saver were its price $40 year,
instead of the nominal one of 81.
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Southern Women.
Memphis Commercial. |

worthy resolution which led Mrs.
Cyrus W. Field, after her husbands
loss of fortune and death, to open !;
ber fashionable millinery establish
ment, and seek the honorable main
tenance of herself by industry. We
esteem it also very creditable thing ,
that the fashionable world of New
York has admired her courage and
resolved to aid and encourage her.
We are very glad indeed that Mrs,
Field has met misfortune bravely and
that she is upheld in her sensible and |
praiseworthy plan. But, we do not
understand why tits that the nation !
should wonder as though no such
thing had ever been done before, and
that the press of New York should
expend columns in sentimental gush
about an affair which has had so
many unnoticed precedents. We do
not wish in any way to disparage
Mrs. Cyrus w Field. INDEED, we
gladly give her our tribute of admi-
ration, but, in the simple name of
| Justice, we wish to call attention to
some similar sacrifices which were
made, and which were never given
praise and adulation. We refer to
| the thousands of unheralded heroines
of the South, who, when war and
loss had swept away fortune and
protectors, met the trials of poverty
and deprivation with bold hearts and
unfaltering wills. In those days in
the South, not one but many thou
sands of gently natured women were
thrust from luxury to penury.--
Wives who had never known a care,
delicate young girls who had never
realized that wish could go ungrat-
flied, found themselves in moment
penniless and alone, facing the horror
of want and the desolation of need.
These women, when they turned
from the ashes of their homes to find
themselves food and shelter, had no
rich and influential friends to soften
the ills of poverty and smooth the
road to fortune. The ruin which
struck them down was universal
Their friends had fallen under the
same stroke, and were enlisted in the
same grim warfare. Then, what
courage was shown! With what de-
votion, with what tireless patience,
with what dauntless resolution did
these soft-handed thousands strug-
gle. Many were conquered, sinking
down to silent and pathetic defeat
but many iumphed and wrested
victory from despair. These are
. among us yet, the noble and uncon-
! querable heroines of an unconquera-
, bic race, but the dimmed eyes and
worn faces, the callowed hands and
the grizzled curls bear the stern ira
ces of the long years of suffering aud
, toll. Who has written III praise ol
them? What laurels have crowned
: these worn and pallid brows? What
, record has been written of the tears
| and beartbreaks and griefs innumer.
, able of the pitiless years? Theil
history is uDwritten, save here and
: there by grave-stoney and bere and
t there in tender memory, and il
: letters of gold in the book of Gods
+ recording angel.
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Twenty-six persons were killed and
Fifty injured in railway wreck at
Battle Greek, Mich, on the Chicago
and Grand Trunk Railway, Friday.
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Another religious riot between
Hindoos and Mohammedans has taken
place in India.
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About 100000 worth of pearls
have been taken from the waters of
Wisconsin streams during the last
few years.
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Every mans life lies within the
present; the past, and the future is
uncertain. .-Antoninus.
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Significant words from the Mem
phis Commercial: "Public spirit
makes great cities"
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The marriage of first cousins is
strictly prohibited by the canons o.
the Greek Church.
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Subtlety may deceive you. Integ
rity never wiH.-Cromwell.
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Marshal McMahon, ex-President of
France and Duke of Magenta, is dead.
The Bossier banner., 1893-10-26

Don't try to do to-morrow's work
to-day.
The Bossier banner., 1893-10-26

ALI work is hard work to lazy
MaH.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22

and did the best he could. Let US not
idolize any man, for We are all men and
not gods. When Mr.. Hayes died a
friend of mine expressed his surprise and
said he thought he had died several
years ago, but remembered now that 1t
was Arthur. Blaine will soon be forgot
ten, for such is the nature of political
fame. What troublous life they live !
Think of Toombs and Stephens and Cor.
don and Colquitt and all their heart
burnings, and then turn away and say it
is better to live calm and serene under
your own vine and fig tree and take com.
fort with those you love and those who
love you. There is nothing in this life
that will compare with the love of wife
and children and the daily intercourse
with good nabors. May the good Lord
give this blessings to us all and make us
content. BILL ARP.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22
: There is more Catarrh in this sec

- There is more Catarrh in this sec
ton of the country than all other disea
ses put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable. For
q great many years doctors pronounced It
local disease, and prescribed local rem
edies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it incu
rable. Science has proven catarrh to be
constitutional disease, and therefore
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t is
taken internally in doses from 10 drops
to q teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
J.CHENEY& & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22
HORSES TO DO TRICKS.
BY PROF. GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW.

Most people look upon horse as q
piece of machinery. Others believe he
possesses certain degree of intelligence.
My own experience, ranging over many
years with almost every variety of the
species, has taught me that the horse is
gifted with an amount of intelligence far
beyond what he is credited with by his
very best friends.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22

i DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup has always
been kept up to the standard. 1t is the
same it was forty years ago, the best sold.
- Some idea of the cost of maintain.
ing navy may be derived from the fact
that the recent voyage of American war
vessels from San Francisco to Washing
ton eutailed an expense of $4,000, for
fuel alone.
= A stone coffin weighing l 500 pounds
was completed in Lexington, KY, day
or two ago for Stephen Lsugford, An So
year.old land owner of Madison County.
He is in the best of health, hut says he
wishes to pres:rre his body from pole
cats, minks aud u,her like animals.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22
The Lexicon OF Youth.

Parents cannot be too careful how they
answer the apparently trivial questions
Of their children. It would almost seem
as if q child's dictionary were necessity
of the age. Here is beautiful illustra-
ton.
"Pa," said little chap to his father,
"what does man mean when he says,
'I'll fix you"
"Means that he'll do him up," answer
ed the father briefly.
"But, then, what does do him up
mean ?"
"Botherl You ask too many questions,
child. 1t means that he is going to kill
him."
The little fellow wss silenced for the
time; but as events proved, he thought
over the subject. Soon after he was
taken ill, and the family doctor being
absent strange physician was summon
ed. Left alone with him for a few, mo-
ments the little fellow began to ask ques'
tions.
"Going to cure me, doctor?" he in
quired.
"Yes, yes, my little man." said the doc
tor, who was preparing dose, "1'm going
to fix you."
What was the doctors surprise to see
a small, white robed figure dart from the
bed and make bee line for the door,
through which it disappeared. The as
tonished medical man followed him and
found him sobbing in his mothers arms.
To her he was relating his fears that the
doctor intended to "fx" him in the sense
that his father had defined the word to
him few weeks before.-Detroit Free
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Threw her Children into a Well.

Galveston, Tex, March ia Meacs
Belleview special says: Otto Sanders has
a wife and five children-three by de.
ceased and two by bis present wife.
While returning from work and missing
his wife and her two children, be insti.
tuted a search and found them in we'll
on the premises. The children we're
dead, and their mother, who had thrown
them into well, then jumped in herself
and will die. No cause is known.
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Bucklens Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
YER Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chill.
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction, or money refunded
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Hill Bros.
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allow you to take it out of his mouth.
now take a strap of leather and 80
arrange pistol that it can be fred of BY
pulling the strap. The pistol is not
loaded when the horse is first taken up to
begin his training in regard to the strap.
This is very different thing from the
wood, but be must be taught that the
strap is the object he is to take, and
when he tries to fasten his teeth on it
they slip off and you have to keep exper.
imenting with him.
Next you take common blank car
fridge, which nowadays is used altogether
for there tricks. Extract from it about
two thirds of the powder and put the
cartridge into the pistol. Then let him
pull the strap. The report of the pistol
makes slight noise and the horse will
probably start back.
Without reloading the pistol you may
let him pull on the strap a few more
times to convince him that he is not
going to be hurt. The cartridge expert
ment is then repeated.
If be is not quite as scared as be was
at FIRST, you can, after an interval, try
another. You stand near him and grad
ually seek to show him that the cartridge
Al
will not hurt him any more than the
strap. Reduce or increase the sound,
according to the way he behaves, until,
finally, you can use full cartridge.
Just as boy will gain confidence in
himself in learning the art of swimming,
so in this course of lrainiug horse will
gain confidence when he finds that be is
not going to be hurt.
In teaching six of my horses to fire OFT
a cannon, each one was taught separate
ly. It takes months of hard work, Civ.
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forward and lay quivering on the ground

forward and lay quivering on the ground
at the edge of death rock.
The work was we'll done, and with the
death of the murderer was wiped out all
tre stain and the body was treated with
the consideration due dead member Of.
the tribe. The, whole tribe Joined in
paying tribute of respect to the dead
man, and he WAS buried with the honors:
that would have been. n.accorded him had
he died in battle. The decree of the.
court had wiped out all blood feud be-
tween the two families and all were
united over the dead murderer.
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"A North Carolina man ia said 10
have traded one of his boys to neigh
Dor for an old mule. He remarked, on
making the trade, that "the boy was too
lazy to work and all the mule needed was
fattening."
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-01-27
SPRAY OF TUE. FALLS.


The next meeting Of the county com
m~issioners will be held on FRIDAY. Feb
ruary 10.
Frank Swan and Nitaline Burland of
81. Peters Mission were granted a mar
rIage license yesterday.
Over forty men are at work on tine
new Touring mill plant, and if the
weather continues good the elevator VIII
he under uUf within a short time.
The Great Falls Meat company are
putting ny 300 tons of ice in two houses
for their own use. The noe Il twelve
inches thick and as clear as 4 diamond.
1t Is reported that the Helena project
for a dam across the Missouri rlver at
HilGer's ranch has gone 10y the board.
There being no money in sight the con
tractors gave up the Job.
Rea! estate dealers are daily in receipt
of letters from eastern parties making
inquiries about real estate investments
here. This a pretty good sign of an
active market the coming spring and
they all feel encouraged and are looking
around for desirable properties TO pur-
chase.
isabella Hay of Grafton, one of the
heirs of Kenneth Mackenzie, recently
killed in this city by being thrown IN
front of Il street car, made final proof
on her homestead entry for the west
half Of the northwest quarter and west
half Of the southwest quarter Of section
-, township l. north, range 9 east. be
fore Clerk Cockrill yesterday.
Daniel Elzic of Grafton. yesterday
proved up before Clerk CockrilI on his
desert land filing for the southwest
quarter of the southwest quarter of the
northwest quarter of section ~, town
ship Is north. range 10 east; and the
northeast quarter Of the northeast quar-
ter Of section 81, and the southeast quar-
ter of the northeast quarter of section
Is, township IS north, range east.
The following deeds were filed il >he
recorders oilice yesterday: james {.
Mortimer tn John u. Bryan. LOT II. block
9. IiossaCk addition 10 Barnes sub-di-
vision To Great Falls. $50; l.. +. lOssaciI
and wife to James Z. Mortimer, lots )
and &, block :. Barnes sab division, $50:
l.. +. Ilossack 10 Edgar Vi. Parry. lots q
and s, block s, and lots & and : block
IL, Barnes subdivision. ol2O.
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The son graduated at Columbian col.
lege, Washington, and afterward en-
tered the Virginia Military institute at
Lexington. where the breaking out of the
war found him. With ten others out Of
the graduating class he enlisted III the
Confederate army as second lieutenant
and Went with Stonewall jackson to
Richmond. Later he went to Harper's
Ferry and drilled volunteers.
After the first battle of Manassas he
was made adjutant general in WilcoX's
brigade, where he served until the bat
ties around Richmond, when he vas
assigned with General Jackson again.
who made him CHIEF OF ordnance Of ID.
II. Fills division. Ills highest rank WAS
captain. He came 10 E&nsasat the close
Of the wal and was employed ny the
Union Pacific road as division engineer
Later no took charge Of the Delaware
Indian lands for the saur company,
finally purchasing 800 acres Of the ros'r-
Walton and settling III il. For the past
sixteen wears he has brrn engaged /"
farming ANA stock raising
lie is II breeder Of short horn cattle.
and for several years his safe, have ay
craged higher than those 81 any other
breeder in lhn United States. He has the
largest hyri of cattle of IN, variety n "S-
istcncc. Last spring. ut mis- sa!" in Chi
cago, hi, Scotch short horn ~r'i,'~ aver
aged $3.50 2arh. He w,rt alrual i1']Iay
1892, to study tire ci,,i" q" ,.i"r He
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-01-27
A KANSAS CONGRESSMAN.


ne Is an fN-N cilirti"fRte nIH Has 2 Va
ricd Record.
The most ~rolrarGab!e incident i'll the
recent remarkable r|iaction II Kansas
was the selection Of William a. Harris.
an eX-ConfeGarate soldier. as congress
man at large. His opponent was George
I. Anthony. IA former governor of the
state, who served IN the army of the
north, but in spite of this fact Mr.. Har.
ris received a larger vote than any other
candidate on the winning ticket,
He was nominated for the place during
his absence IN Europe and did not hear
of it until his return. There were PA
ex-UniOn soldiers i'll the convention that
nominated him. and every one Of them
insisted on %seconding the nomination.
He was the candidate of the Peoples
party. Mr.. Harris Joined the first ALI
nce organized III Leaveuworth county.
Kan, in 1890, but previous to that time
had been a Democrat. He says ever
now that he is practicing an advanced
form of Democracy.
He is the first cX-COnfcderate elected to
congress or any other important Office in
the west on north, but there have been
two cases III New YORK, Roger \. Pryor
and John K. Fellows. An eX-Coufeder-
ate was elected to congress from Indiana
on a Republican ticket.
The south, however, has been more
liberal. Adelhcrt Ames. who was a
brigad!cr general from Massachusctt.
and a son-in-law Of Zen Butter, wa,
elected pgyp"O0r and .rrutor by Ni..1..
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-01-27
ruE MIGHTY HUNTER.

John sinclair Come, Back From IN ~
cur,ion on the r"ndcrfoot.
For about a month john Sinclair, the
wcll-known local hunter and taXidrrmist,
has been on a hunting trip TO the Belt
mountains. His only companions were
his truaty gun and one friend. and dur
ing the outing they slew fourteen Geer.
The hides were saved and the carcasscs
were brought to Il ranchman's house in
the mountains to be cured for "jerked"
vculsOn.
No dangerous game was met with on
the trip. and Mr.. Sinclair says that few
lions. lvnv or wild cats are TO be found
in the mountains about here. His tine
collection of stuffed animals and birds
he now values at $4,000. and has bad an
offer for it from Grand Forks. y. II. His
pride would he to see it become a part Of
the public library in Great Fails. which
would be decidedly fitting disposition for
it. But just now he is contemplating its
removal to some large eastern city where
it could be made "A great attraction in
connection with IA resort similar tC the
Elk saloon which he conducts in this
city. Mr.. Sinclair believes that it would
draw 500 in Chicago where it draws 81
in a city the size of Great Falls, and he
has a serious notion of removing in the
near future.
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great school and smile at their former
notion of several small schools.
THE GREAT COPPER STATE.

Montana Leads the World H. IL prnducCg
Of The Finest Electrical Conductors.
They may degrade silver through the
scheming of the gold barons, but they
car never degrade the metal which is
revolutionizlng the world by its uses in
the industries and arts. To-Day copper
is king, though gold may bc called
queen. As this city is one of the most
interested in the phenomenal copper
output of Montana, the following from
the y. Y. Engineering and Mining
Journal will he of interest az this time.
Says this excellent authority:
The following figures represent the
production, exports and consumption of
copper in the United States in 1892 and
1891, the figures for 1891 having been
checked by new returns from each of
The producers. This is done each year
in order that the estimates for the last
month. which were made before full re.
turns were in, may be checked.