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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
Why Nothing Loves a Snake.

This is why nothing loves a snake.
1t is not because the snake is feared.
but because it is incomprehensible.
The talk of its upaslike influence. its
deadly fascination, is chiefly pictur.
esque humbug. Ducks will approach
a snake curiously, inwardly debating
the possibility of digesting SO big a
worm at one meal; the moving tail
tip they will pick at cheerfully. This
was the sort of thing that one might
have observed for himself years ago
at the ZOO, at the time when snakes
lived in the old house in blankets. be-
cause OF the unsteadiness of the Their
mometer, and were fed in public.
Now the snakes are fed in strict
privacy lest the sight overset the
morals of visitors. the killing of a
bird, a rabbit or a rat by a snake be
ing almost a quarter as unpleasant to
look upon as the killing of the same
animal by a nan in a farmyard or
elsewhere. The abject terrorinspired
by the presence Of a snake is such
that an innocent rat will set to gnaw
ing the snakes tail in default of more
usual provender, while arabbit placed
with a snake near skin shedding time
will placidly nibble the loose rags of
epldermls about the snakes Sides
Arthur Morrison in Strand Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
RAILROAD TIES.

The Louisville and Nashville now has
two fast vestibuled trains from Nash
vile to Chicago.
The block system on the New York
Central railroad has been extended as
far west as Rome.
The Chicago ticket brokers won their
habeas corpus case, which means that
the law against "scalping" is ~unconsti-
%tutional.
Second class carriages have been abol-
ished on the Cambrian railways in
Wales. The only classes now run are first
and third. The only abolition of the in
termediate class is becoming general on
railroads ilY Great Britain.
Twenty new engines are soon expected
on the Long Island road. They will be
used on the main line and the Manhat-
tan Beach division. The road at the
present time is obliged to "cut corners
in order to make the motive power go
round.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
Nothing Gained.

Ethel-Do you think we ought to
marry yet awhile on so little money?
Ernest-The governor has promised tc
increase my allowance when | marcy.
Ethel-Yes, but will Gus mine
off when l do.-New York Herald.
by July 10 the Saranac and Lake
riac1d road will be completed. The line
Will be 10 miles long and will extend
rom a point on the Adirondack and St.
lawrence to Saranac lake, thence to
Lake Flacld. 1t will be q new line for
tourists to the Adirondack mountains.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
Knew What He Wanted.

"Now, madam" said the guide at the
Worlds fair, what is it that you would
like to see first of alp
"Oh, l dunno-let's see. Tommy, dear.
what would you like to see first?'
1.-The popcorn counter, ma" said Tom
my.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
HELENA
SPOKANE
BUTTE
TACOMA
SEATTLE
PORTLAND
/" Pullman
Sleeping Cars
4 Elegant
\ Dining Cars
/. Tourist
7 Sleeping Cars
TIME SCHEDULE.
In effect on and after Monday, June $. 1893.

O''NN : c'it bs lDJD
TRAINS ARRIVE AT HELENA.
NO. l. Pacific Mail. west bound ....... lO.N DO +. m
NO. =. Atlantic mail. east bound ..... lO:45 II. m
No. .. Logan and Helena passenger.
Connecting at Logan with No. 3.
PaC1tlc Express, west b0und) ........ 2:O5 T. m
NO. d. Garrison and Helena passenger.
Connecting at Garrison wife No. L.
Ma a' ! EApress. east oound)........12:2 p. III
NJ. % MdlysVuie passenger. ........ II 20 Il. m
" ~ MdrysVllie accom1nonatlon... =. $3.50 p. IN
NO. y. Wlckes, Boulder and Elkhorn
pansenger 5:15 p. m
NO. lu2. Rimini mixed, Mondays, Wed
nesdayS and Fridays 800 m
TRAINS DEPART FROM HELENA.
NO. |, Pacific Mail. west bouud ........ lO:15 u. m
NO. =, Atlantic Mail east bound ..... .1O:15 n m
NO. q. Helena and Logan passenger
connecting at Logan with No, 4.
Atlantic Express. east hound). ..... 12: 40 r. m
No. 5. Garrison and Helena passenger
connecting at Garrison with No. 3.
Pdc1hc Express. west bound ......... 2:15 n. m
No. {. Marysville passenger. 7:45 a. m
No. 8. Marysville accommodation. 3:15 r. m
No. 10. Wick eS, Boulder and Elkhorn
passenger. ............ 7:20 a. m
NO. lOl, Rimini mixed, Mondays. Wed
nesdays and Fridays. S:15 a. m
For information, time cards, maps and tickets,
call on or write Ticket Agent, N. p. r. r. at
Townsend, Mont, or
CHAs. S. FEE,
General Passenger Agent. st. Paul Mimi.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21

The arrow brooch of gold set with
diamonds is again seen in leading jewel
ry stores.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
No Need of Alarm.

Mistress-It appears to me that you
are entertaining a good many male call
ers in the kitchen.
New Glrl-Yes'm, but you needn't be
scared, mum. amt goin to marry any
of 'em.-New York Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
The Point OF View,

Indignant Amateur-They charge me
So a day for using my kodak in the
Worlds fair grounds!
Surprised Acquaintance--ITs that alp
Chicago Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
tain you'll love me

She-Are you certain you'll love me
when I'm old?
He-Yes, I'm positive. False hair and
teeth may even be an improvement, you
know.-Life.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
The Free and Easy West,

Come" said the cyclone to the farm
house, ''let me blow you off,"
"Sure!' returned the other. every.
thing goes."-Truth.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-10-21
ARRIVE
DEPART

on or address = N"
5. l. CRANE, Agent, Neihart.
b. IL. LANGLEY, Gen. Ticket Agent. Helena.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
"In Old Kentucky"

All previous holiday records were
broken yesterday at the Grand, where
Manager Lifts exceedingly popular
play is in the full tide of success. At
both matinee and evening perform
ances the house was packed. and in the
evening hundreds of people were turned
away long before the curtain went up,
unable to get even standing room. .'In
Old Kentucky" is by long odds the
strongest attraction that has been seen
at the Grand this season. The beauti-
full scenery, splendid acting, and many
novel and entertaining features COM
bine to make it very attractive play.
The pickaninny band. and the admirable
work OF the little darkieS in a typical
Southern scene received encore after
encore last night. Laura Burt, Mr..
Mainhall, and the others. gave artistic
interpretations eff their parts. Souve-
Mrs will be given to the ladies at the
Wednesday matinee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
hem richer by thirty cents on each

them richer by thirty cents on each
bushel they have sold.
For the five years from 1884 to 1888
the average price of exported barley
was $50 cents. In 1890, before the tax
was raised from Is to 80 cents bushel.
the average import price at the point of
shipment abroad was so cents: In 1891,
after the tax, the average was 55 cents
In 1892. while the tax was still 80 cents,
the price averaged so cents; and in 1898,
with the tax unchanged. the price aver
ages Al cents. In 1892 the price of bar
ley sent abroad was, at the export point,
50 cents bushel, and in 1893 it is 81
cents. aIi
AS by far the greater portion of our.
barley imports is from Canada. which is
only artifieially a foreign country, and
which raises and sells its barley under
the same conditions our farmers do, it is
evident from this comparison of prices
there and here during this long series Of
years that the tax we have imposed on
barley coming to our markets has not
affected the price at all, and this is ac-
counted for by the other fact before stat.
ed, that the tax is practically nullified by
the use OF that barley III making export
beer and the refundment of the tax on
the barley SO used. 1t is only monu-
ment TO the craft of some men, the gull
libility of others, and the economic folly
of many more.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
NEW BOOKS.

Samantha at the Worlds Fair" By
s. Josiah Aliens Wife" (Marietta Hol-
ley). Illustrated with over 100 artistic
and humorous engravings by Baron
Z. De Grimm. Svo., 700 PIP. Cloth,
$3.50; half Russia, 81. Sold only by
81 subscription. New York, London q
il Toronto: Funk 81 Wagnalls Company.
/ No intelligentreade can fail to enjoy
Samantha at the Worlds Fair" and
the side-splitting illustrations, of which
there are more than 100. This is indeed
a book that is able to remove the traces
of care from the sad countenance and
illume it with the broadcast of healthy
smiles. The account of the meeting of
Samantha with the Duke of Veragua is
simply Irresistible. when she judged
that her ''curchey wuz jest about right"
and when. upon her saluting him sin
the name of Jonesville and America,
the duke bowed so low that if basin
of water had been sot on his back it
would have run down over his head"
The narrative of Miss Plank, the Chi
cago clearinghouse keeper. with her
respectable and agreeable boarders,"
and her fiery cook" is full of human
nature and exceedingly droll. The
meeting of Samantha with the Infanta,
the remonstrance of Samantha: 81 hate
to have you smoke, Ulaley-l nate to
like dog,f together with DE Grimm's
illustrations of the characters, are very
effective. Josiah posing as Apollo in
his bedroom, in the middle of the night,
the result of ';brown study" in the art
galleries, the dismay Of SAMANTHA, and
her adroit management OF the living
statute" under which he returned to
his rest, is exceedingly good. Among
the illustrations especially good is the
artists portrayal, in a series Of ideal
portraits, of Columbus as represented
in the minds of different nationalities-
in fact the book is excellent all the way
through its 700 pages.
Miss Holley's books have this sterling
feature to recommend them above other
humorous publications. namely, under
the pure fun is strong current of good
healthy common sense, and a distinct
moral purpose. Pathos and humor, the
grotesque and the ethical, are perfectly
blended. and while one never tires of
her writings they have cheering and
elevating effect upon the readers. Next
to going to the worlds fair is to enjoy
it through Samantha's-eye
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
MINNESOTA SENTIMENT.

Tariff debate will be warm after the
holidays - four months after. - Red
River Valley News,
Say, you Republicans, have you heard
from Chicago? Well, you will hear the
same encouraging news from all over
the United States in '96.-I4ittle Falls
Herald.
The less the Republican leaders
censure the Democrats for the pension
course the better. On this issue, to
speak the honest truth, the people are
almost unit.-Hokah Oheif.
We rather like Senator David HIPS
bill for the taxation of legacies and sue.
cessions, and trust that the fact that it is
of Democratic origin will not prevent
Republicans from giving it the consid-
Grafton it meritS.-Martin County Sem
tinel.
We can see no objection to the rich
getting richer, within certain limits, so
long as they do not acquire their wealth
at the expense of the poor; but to pre-
vent the poor from getting poorer, so far
as possible, IS the great social problem.
Mortified News.
The city papers always steer shy of
anything that will show up the work
ings of the RepublIcan-Democr
PopulIst political coterie that work the
several political parties and through
them the state for all there Is in it,
Slayton Gazette.
Desperate diseases require heroic
remedies. Hence the necessity, in these
degenerate days, of a great amount of
noise and stir in order to arouse the
public to the necessity of looking after
The crooked ways" of those who look
upon public trust" as being "pri-
vate snap. '-Renville Times.
The Slayton Gazette is impatient for
the immediate destruction OF trusts. 1t
says the Democrats have been in power
nine months, but the hydra-headed mon
ster still surviyes,it Though the antitrust
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
NO KICK COMING "

We believe that we have stated with
sufficient clearness and iteration that it
is only Democrats who accepted the
Chicago tariff plank as a declaration of
policy which would be enforced if
power were given, who have right to
complain of the Wilson bill, and that
their complaint that it does not redeem
that pledge, but leaves altogether too
much protection in the schedules, is a
well-grounded one. We have also said,
and say again, that in putting iron ore
and coal and wood and lumber on the
free list it takes a long stride in the
direction of redemption of that pledge,
and we have sufficient confidence in Mir.
Wilson and his committee to believe
that i'll their Judgment, considering the
dry rot of protection with which so
many Democrats are infected, it is all
that is presently attainable. So we ac-
cept it as a step, not as rest; biyouac
for night, not a barrack.
But however Democrats may be dis
appointed in the bill, we submit that
there is mo kick coming" from Repub-
licans. unless, like the mule, they kick
just out of pure cussedness. In fact,
had they less of mules heels and his
disposition to kick and more good morse
sense, instead of raising all this uproar
about the ruin the bill was bringing to
industries, declaring with crocodile tears
that it was knocking the props out
from under all the industries OF the
country. they would have declared it a
bill after their own hearts and adopted
it as their own. They might easily
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26

have pursued the same policy they did
with their Sherman act, admitted that
McKinleyism went too far, that it was
an experiment and was not justified by
results, and accepted the Wilson bill as
return by them to their own former
ground.
We invite the attention of any Re-
publican who may be incredulous of the
truth of this statement first to bit of
recent tariff history. In 1888 President
Arthur. under an act of congress. APP
pointed commission to investigate the
whole tariff question and report their
conclusions to congress. The members
appointed were all protectionists; among
them was Robert 2. Porter, lale census
commissioner and the editor of the New
York Press, that especially virulent
protectionist organ. That commission
sat, took testimony and reported bilt
which came out of the debates and the
conference committee materially in
creased in many of the schedules. and
became the tariff act of 1888, which was
replaced by McKinley's act
In the report accompanying the bill
ing observation was made:
Early in its deliberations the COM
mission became convinced that SUBJ
stantial reduction of tariff duties is de-
manded, not by mere indiscriminate pop
ular clamor, but by the best conservative
opinion of the country, including that
which has in former times been most
strenuous for the preservation of our
national industrial defenSes. Such
reduction of the existing tariff the COM
mission regards not only as due rec
ognitiOn of public sentiment and a
measure of justice to consumers, but
one conducive to the general industrial
prosperity, and which, though it may be
temporarily inc0nvenient, will be ulti-
mately beneficial to the special interests
affected by such reduction"
Remembering that the tariff bill of
1888 was higher than the one recon-
mended by this commission. we can
make comparison of the Wilson bill
with the act of 1888, enabled to do so by
the kindness of Jacob Schoenhof, who
has made a close and careful calcu-
lation, including allowances for the
effects of the enlarged free list of the
Wilson bill. For convenience of COM
parison, we tabulate the rates reduced
to an ad valorem basis under each bill:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
a STUDY IN BARLEY.

Senator Frank Pettigrew and ex-Rep-
reSentative Lind and several other gen
tlemen OF the school that teaches that
the government should take care of
everybody, provided their school is the
government.are extremely apprehensive
that the reduction of the tax on imports
of barley proposed by the Wilson bill
will prove very disastrous to the farm
ers of the West. The senator voted
against the Mckinley bill, and the ex-
representative for it. A senatorial cleo
ton is pending in South Dakota, and
the state Is, as the senator states, olidly
protectloniSt; while in Minnesota, where
senator is also to be elected, the
chances favor the election of man who,
is protectionist. and solicitous for the
welfare of barley We believe that
Senator Washburn has been looking
over the barley fields in the state dur
ing the recess.
Barley is related to beer. That is to
say, this is the popular superstition.
Beer not made from barley is not
thought to be beer. But brewers are
like other mortals, and avoid dilemmas
that threaten their welfare as agileIy as
any of us. Their profits thread the
course, sometimes wide, sometimes mar
row. which lies between the price of
barley on the right and the price the
public will stand for the beer on the left
And if the way narrows as the price of
barley advances, the brewers dodge off
into the side course which is flanked on
one side by the same public repugnance
to advances in cost, but on the other
side is the malt of corn or rice, instead
of barley, and the dear public gets it
beer at just the same price and the
brewers their same Old profits, and but
few are the wiser.
The price of barley is made by the
demand for it met. under-met or over
met by the supply of it. If the crop be
short. barley is high; if the crop is
abundant, 1t is cheap. If it rises to the
paying pofht. barley flows in on the cur
rents CT trade from other points where
it is in excess of demand until an equi-
librium is obtained. Mr.. Mckinley and
his party sought to check the operation
of this natural process of trade by put
ting up tariff barrier of 80 cents on
each buShei of barley that might come
III to supply demand here from for
eign countries. The intention, of course.
was to thus much advance the price of
barley grown by our own farmers. But
the result was disappointing, for the
crafty maltsters and brewers used the
imported barley to make export beer.
which they sent abroad, and then went
to the treasury and drew back % cents
of every dollar which they had paid in
taxes on the imported barley.
Perhaps it il better to demonstrate this
by the reports Of the treasury depart
ment, which ascertains and reports
monthly the imports and exports of ali
that we buy and sell. with their values
either at the point of foreign or home
shipment. We commend the study of
these figures. not to cX-Representative
Lind or Senator Pettigrew, nor TO any one
who is looking for preferment in the
party of paterDalism. but to the farmers
whom they may try to bamboozle into the
belief that the tax Oh barley has made
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
50 Brass Monkey

The chief comedian in Hoyt's satire,
ga Brass Monkey" is George F. Marion,
whose methods are quaint and quiet,
but effective, and who possesses that
rare gift among comedians. personal
humor which forces smile from the
spectators without obvious and strenu.
Gus effort upon the part of the actor.
As Jonah, the victim of superstition.
Mr.. Marion does the very best work of
his professional career. The balance of
the company have been very carefully
selected by the author. Mr.. Hoyt, as
those most capable of properly present
ing his comedy, which will be seen at
the Grand next week.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
WITH THE TRAVELLERS.

Senator Lawrence, of Dickinson.
". d.. at the Merchants, yesterday.
SAID that the cattle and sheep on the
western ranges of his state ale doing
well this winter, but he hoped the
sleet OF Sunday lid not reach that sec
ton, as 1t would make the grazing diff
hcult, though animals raised in that
country were good rustlers and were
not likely to be seriously Inconvenience
by any storm not of a blizzardy nature.
Inc senator SAID he had lived in that
region since the Northern Pacific was
first extended to the Missouri, and he
had never seen winter rain or crust
from other causes, which affected the
winter grazing. He said the coal in
terest III North Dakota was increasing,
but the legislation of last winter. if sus-
tained, was likely to be embarrassing to
the coal interest, as the roads claimed
theYcoud not do the business at the rates
liked by law and were not inclined to
put in side tracks for new mines. al
leglng that to gain new business was to
add to their embarrassment. AS to
prohibition. the senator said that the
saloons seemed to be running wide
open west of the Missouri river. and,
indeed, throughout the state, with here
and there little spirit of alleged virtue
which resulted in fines and few days.
closure, when they would open up again.
In some towns they were managed
about as the social evil is in large cities
they go ahead, and pay fines when
called on to do so. He had no idea as
to what the Republicans would do In
the matter in the next campaign. but 1T
was apparent that it was impossible for
them to secure the Prohibition vote, no
matter what they may dc, as the Pro-
hlbitionists do not seem to want success
through either of the organized parties,
and for his part he thought it bad poll
tics to help them destroy the party by
insisting upon maintaining an impracti-
cable law.
United States Marshal Price, of North
Dakota. was at the Merchants yester-
day en- route to Washington. He gives
the following account OF his little mis-
understanding with the department of
justice, which resulted in the nomina-
ton OF his successor: Some time ago
wrote the attorney geneal at Wash
ington for leave of absence for thirty
days, but did not explain my reasons.
L received letter from him in reply,
stating that as my term expired Feb. 81,
and there were only sixty days left,
! had better resign. then wrote him,
explaining that l wanted the thirty
days absence to go to Washington to
straighten up my accounts. and that, as
the judge would be in another district,
there would be no business here during
that time, but that, if my resignation
was necessary. or if he deemed 1t best
that it should be sent in, he could con-
slider my letter in that light. Since then
have noticed that he has taken me at
my word and considered it best to ap-
point good Democrat in my stead. |
presume that is politics, and there are
certainly enough who are anxiously
waiting for front seats on the wagon"