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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
The Two New War Vessels.

During the same week on each side of
this republic two magnificent new ships
of our navy, the Olympia, off San Fran
cisco, the Columbia, off Philadelphia.
made their trial trips, and as 500 as
they receive their armament will be
added to the war vessels already in serv-
Ice. So great has been the development
OF naval architecture that even the
Yorktown and the Chicago begin almost
to be old fashioned compared to the
Olympia and the Columbia. These two
last are not sister ships, ashas been said.
The Columbia is the larger, having 1850
tons displacement, while the Olympia
has $500.
The Olympia was not meant for a fast
ship so much as for a fighter. She has
much heavier armor and heavier guns
than the Columbia, although at the same
time she Is no SLOUGH when it comes to
swiftness. The Columbia, however, will
make foreign governments that have
recently spent such vast sums on war
vessels open their eyes. She is undoubt-
eddy the swiftest vessel of her size aloat,
IN naval or merchant marine service.
She was built for speed and for great
coal capacity. both of which require
ments are answered perfectly. She will
equal the speed of an average American
accommodation railway train. This
was attained by the triple
screw arrangement. One Of the Column
bias screws is placed just above the keel
and n at each side Of the ship in the
stern. Under forced draft she can travel
miles an hour.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

The addresses Of Supt. s. NJ. Emer'
and one or two professors connected
with the Montana state agricultural col
lege, to be delivered at this place on thu
ev, ming of Dec. 5 and at two meetings
! to be held on the 9th, deserve more thar
a passing notice. The legislative assem-
bly, of Montana during the last session
accepted the liberal grants by the fed
eral government in aid Of a college of ag-
riculture and mechanic arts and for
an experiment station, and located the
same at the city of Bozeman. These in
stitutlons having been duly organ zed
the able superintendent Of the expert
ment station, S. NJ. Emery, is proceed
ing without delay to discharge the i'm
portant work that devolves upon him.
The meeting announced in The TRIB.
UNE, being of course the first ever held
in northern Montana, deserves, and we
trust will receive, the liberal attendance
only of the farmers and ranchmen in
this part of Montana, but of the people
Of Great Falls without regard TO their
professions or occupations.
The question of the agricultural de.
Of our state is today para
to almost all other questions that
confront us. Agriculture is the fouDda-
ion stone upon which u future pros
perity must be built. We should well
,ome with delight the establishment of
he agricultural college of Montana and
contribute everything in our power to its
usefulness.
Again. we say, let there be a full at
enhance at the meetings on the jih and
th OF December.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

The wool market is showing more ac-
tivity, sales footing up in excess of $780,
600 pounds, says Bradstreets. More
manufacturers have been in the market
and in some instances they have pur-
chased large blocks. The principal
movement has been in territory grades,
the sales including 2,23G,OOO pounds of
this kind, 10000 pounds Texas and 49,
600 pounds OF Oregon. About 100000
pounds of washed tieeces we're sold.
mostly Ohio. For Xxx and above Ohio
2@2i cents is yet quoted, with delaines
at % cents for choice parcels. Medium
ileeces are in very good demand, while
spot stocks are well reduced. a steady
tone is noted for one,quarter and three
eighths blood unwashed combings at
lS@2O cents. Australian woods are dull
and featureless. The next London sale
opens Nov. 2S, but it now looks as though
few American buyers will be present.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

1t is agreed that the destruction of the
beautiful White City at Chicago is a
great pity. But what to do with it is
the question. One of the structures at
least, the Manufactures building, will
undoubtedly be preserved in permanent
form. 1t will he taken 70 pieces, re-
moved to the lake front in jackson park
and set up again. All the American
people would be glad to see this done.
The Manufactures building is the lar
gest house that was wei under one roof.
If we should not have another worlds
fair for a generation, the grand struc-
ture would remain to remind this genera
tons children of the glory of the fair
that was. 1t can certainly be turned to
some useful purpose as a permanent
museum Of art, industry and history.
Chicago and the northwest are SO big
that they will need many museums be-
fore they are done growing.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
The Level Head.

The possessor of the level head is the
most fortunate man living just now. He
Is happier, even though a poor man, than
If he were a millionaire who went all TO
pieces under the slightest excitement. 1t
Is emergencies such as this country is
now experiencing hat test the quality
of every one.
Insanity, murder, suicide and robbery
are rife around us. Great fortunes are
topping over like cardhouses. Not a day
but some terrible accident or storm is
reported that takes off sometimes hun
dreds of people in an hour. Hundreds of
thousands of persons in America are
wholly or partly dependent on charity
for food. Cranks abound, made crazy by
the pressure of the time, ready to shoot,
and shoot to kill. Yellow fever still
RACES in Georgia, with no sign of imme.
date abatement. 1t is putting the truth
only moderately to say that no genera
ton since the beginning of this govern
ment has witnessed such trying months
as those the country is now passing
through.
Under the circumstances all anybody
can do is to do the best he can for him
self, help Others as much as possible and
wait. Above all. each one can keep a
level head. He can keep himself from
giving way under excitement and shoot
ing or going crazy. Only the weak 70
to pieces when the day Of trial comes.
The strong pull themselves together,
look misfortune squarely in the face,
hold on to the handles and say: Moth
ing a shake me, nothing down me. ]
will keep cool. find a way to live through
this trouble and wait for good times to
come again, as they surely will"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

1t is stated at the pension bureau that
the amount to be asked of ngres for
the next fiscal year will show no decrease
from the sum which is being expended
during the present year-s1GO, 100000
Since the 4th of last March the present
administration has paid out over s97,-
100000 for pensions. 1t has suspended
about l4,OOO pensions, OF which 1900
were OF persons residing in foreign coun-
tries who, under a law approved by
President Harrison, were declared not
entitled to hold certificates. or the
other 10000 suspensions fully 1900 have
been restored to the rolls, leaving about
1000 permanently dropped. This is a
very small proportion OF the total list OF
pensioners.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

Stead wants judges, journalists, saloor
keepers, gambling house keepers, tramps
lawyers and all the other bad people OF
both x to write to him confdentially
n tell him how in their judgment the
crime and suffering they know most
about, each in his W especial line, can
be diminished. Address w. 7. Stead,
Office OF The Review of Reviews, Now
bray House, Norfolk street, Strand, W.
o., London. MI. Stead will give the in
formation to the public in "a pamphlet,
duly edited in his ewn sprightly manner.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

Mr.. Moreton Frewen, the English au.
thority on bimetallism. in a talk to the
Denver real estate exchange the other
day, said it was almost impossible that
the mints of India could continue closed
to silver. The large export balance of
trade in favor of India has been greatly
diminished, and the government of that
country has been unable week after week
to sell its consul drafts. The revenues
secured by the sale of these drafts, which
are represented by coined rupees in the
indian treasury, are now SlJ,0O0,OO0 in
arrears, and a gold loan has neen nego-
tigated TO tide over the emergency. A
fall Of a few cents more in silver would
p~recipitate disaster upon London. Mr.
Frewen always held that the repeal Of
the purchasing clause Of the Sherman
silver act would hurt England worse
than any other country on the globe,
and he is still Of that belief. lie was
n of the friends Of silver who strongly
urged the repeal of that act as the quick
est way of bringing England to her
senses.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
\ Beautiful Sentiment.

A late Boston paper. speaking Of Col
Bob Ingersoll, says:
Why not make public the rumors tina,
that brilliant orator. who has been called
the great American lnfidel, has been
heard to say that perhaps he will say in
public before he died that he believed in
Immortality"
To which the gentleman replied the
next day in the following autographed
statement:
81 have never said that perhaps be,
fore die | will say in public that | be-
lieve in Immortality l have nothing to
conceal on that question. | have al
ways been perfectly frank and have
given the transcript of my heart and
brain. ] do not say that death ends all.
neither do l say that man is immortal.
l Say that do not know. To know is
n thing, to believe is another. and to
hope is still another. l hope for all good,
for all joy for the children OF men. All
| ian say about immortality is this:
There was a time when | was not; after
that | was, now | am, and t may be 10
that it is no more wonderful that | shall
continue forever now that | have a start
than it was that l should begin. We
love, and those we love die, and we cling
the hope, to the wish, that we may
meet again. Love was the first to dream
of Immortality, and as long as we love
shall hope
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

Brooklyn appears to be in a bad way,
In that ''city of churches" as it used to
be called, there is now only one church
to every 1900 inhabitants. In Graves
end, a suburb of Brooklyn, there is a
voting population of not over 1000 at
the outside, yet at the last election more
than 5000 m were registered.
Gravesend is the spot where a justice of
the peace was one Of the promoters and
managers of the prize fight that did not
come of between Corbett and Mitchell.
The moral reformation wave has evi.
IDENTIFY not struck Brooklyn yet.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
The New

Newspapers that understand their W.
interests, ever if they act from interes,
only, will not attempt to cast too much
derision on the SO called moral reforma.
ton wave that is sweeping cities in both
Europe and America. That there is
such a wave is proved precisely by the
need of it. An evil is never SO near de-
struction as when it seems most power
full and insolent. There is nearly as
much need Of spiritual and moral ref
ormation today in the world as there
was 1900 years ago. The race is no
worse than it was two centuries ago, but
the morality and philanthropy that
served the purpose two centuries ago are
not good enough for the human race to-
day in its march toward the higher CIV
ilization. We want cleaner, finer. gen
tier, honester, better hammered men and
women to meet the coming of the grand
civilization Of the future.
We have advanced beyond the stage
when a mans property was only that
which he could rob his weaker neigh
Dor of. The next stage in our progress
will be that where men are too fine and
high to wallow in debauchery, gluttony
and drunkenness. The time will come
when each ones law Of conduct will be
the goldenrul e In France young men are
in the new move. In America
and England many noble workers are
devoting their lives to the effort to solve
toughest problems.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
Plenty Of Idle Capital-A Good Place to
Invest 1t,

J Auic Ohpitbi-A tOO0 FI0co Ia
Invest 1t.
A letter from a prominent business
man in Boston, who is a large western
investor, to a friend in this city thus
sums up the situation as it appears to q
practiced eye: Here in Boston there is
a very general feeling that from this
time on there will be an improvement in
all business conditions.
"The panic is fully over and prices and
business recovered, but people are still
cautious and conservative. Money is
here in overwhelming amount and Of
fered on AL collateral at abnormally low
rates, but the public is unwilling to bor-
row Just yet except for absolute necessi
ties. At the clearing house balances
loan between the banks at 2 per cent,
and even then there is every day a large
amount carried back home by the cred
itor banks which they are unable to
loan. Manufacturers are living from
hand to mouth until the announcement
sheet of the new tariff. They are unwil-
ling to buy raw material or supplies OF
any kind except for immediate use."
Referring to the silver question he
says: 81 honestly believe, as a man large
ly interested in the west, that the repeal
OF the silver purchase act will prove to
be of as much value to the west as to the
east; and | think the best informed and
most thoughtful men of the west think
so too. When l was in London last
August MIR. Rathbone, a director of the
Bank Of England, said to me: If Amer
lea repeats the silver purchase clause of
the Sherman act England will soon be
ready to agree to bimetallism. There is
enough gold to transact the business
of the world, and silver must be rec
ognized by England as soon as the United
States adopt a gold standard and begin
draw on us for gold. You (the United
States) are big enough and rich enough
thus force us to use silver
This Boston letter is interesting to the
people of this community chiefly for it's
statements regarding idle capital and
further fact that even now capitalists
are closely watching the west in an en-
deavor to place their idle money where
It will be absolutely safe and bring in
The largest returns. Nowhere on the
American continent can a better field be
than right here in Great Falls,
have a large extent of country
tributary that is immensely rich in min.
'ral wealth. We have a furnishing city
hat has been laid out on a broad-cauge
and is backed by business men
hat are keenly alive to the advantages
hey possess. We have stock ranges AID
meters; we have illimitable water power
nd a salubrious climate, we have fine
'ublic school houses, a paid fire depart.
nent, a good public library, a finely
ppointed opera house, all the prominent
hurch denominations, secret orders, and
Tubs, and societies Of temperance and
eform. And in fact everything that
to a thoroughly progressive
ommunity and with capital to develope
ur resouces we would o become the
lost tiourishing city of the great north.
'est,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
To Read Music at Sight.

1t is the difficulty of learning to read
music at sight that makes many a good
singer pass through life dumb as an oys.
ter. Voice and ear do not always 90 to.
gether. If II could only learn to read
music as he learns to read his native Ian
guage and TO think sounds as he thinks
sentences, the difficulty would be got
over.
1t is claimed that by a new method of
musical notation any pupil of ordinary
intelligence can learn in six months
to read all common music. With long
er training he can compose simple
melodies for himself. The system is
called the Cheve method. Three men of
unselhsh aim set themselves to the task
OF celebrating a system of musical no.
tation whereby every ommon person
and schoolchild might become able to
sing notes at sight. They at length per-
fected their method, and it has been
given to the public.
The system was so perfect that the
minister of education for Belgium has
ordered its adoption in all the public
schools there. We must have it in Amer
lea if it will do 80 much. Our musical
training has been neglected among the
people at large because we have had so
much else to do. 1t is time to change
this now, however, and bring the United
States up level with tho rest of the
world.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
ATTENTION.
You Are Requested 10 Attend "A Farmers
Meeting at Great Falls on "Wednesday
and Thursday. Dec. . and q.

Meeting at Great Falls OH Wednesday
and Thursday, Dec. . and q.
There will be a meeting OF the farmers
of northern Montana at the opera house
in this city on Dec. 5 and &, at which
will be delivered a course of lectures
under the auspices of the State Agri-
cultural society. The session will begin
on the evening of the 9th and continue
through the next day.
The program is as fellows: Prof q. C..
Gregg, superintendent of TIE farmers
institute OF Minnesota. on DAIRY Sub.
jects and a Comparison Between Mime
sofa and Montana Earnings" Prof. Fos-
ter Of the Montana state agricultural
college will lecture on The Value of
Soft Wheat and Barley for the Produc-
tion Of Beef and Pork" DR.. Williams.
veterinary surgeon of the Montana state
agriculture! college, will speak on The
Breeding Of Heavy Draft Horses and of
Pork and Poultry Supt, :. VI. Emery
Of the Montana state agricultural col.
lege will lecture on The Scope of the
Agricultural College and the General
Development Of Agriculture in Mon
tana." Mrs. s. VI. Emery has also con-
sented TO deliver a lecture on The Sand
wich Islands, which will be very inter
esting, especially to the ladies.
\ cordial invitation is extended to you
TO avail yourself Of this the first oppor-
tunity Of deriving benefit from the new
agricultural college of Montana, recently
established at Bozeman, which promises
10 do so much for agriculture il our
state. There will be no expense to you
and bring your ladies.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

Butte is rejoicing over the revival o!
her industries and Great Falls ~rcjoices
with her. Our interests are interde-
pendent. We must have Butte ore for
our immense smelters aud Butte must
have a place where it can be economi-
cally treated. For the last twenty
eight days the daily receipts of
ore at the B. & NJ. plant have averaged
seven hundred tons. This ore comes
from Butte. Start up your mines over
there-silver and copper-and we'll do
your smelling and refining.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
What II Costs the TAXPAYERS.

y correspondent in last evenings
Leader takes The TRIBUNE to task apent
its statements regarding Cascade county
taxes. Now, the aforesaid correspond
ent in winding up his screed tried to
make it appear that the figures quoted in
The TRIBUNE were simply for the county
government. Such is not the case.
What THE TRIBUNE did say is this: sit
cost the taxpayers of Cascade countu
to run the city and county governments
for the last year about $4,000. or say
$1,000 a day" Can this by any n
or means be construed into meaning the
county government: 1t can not. The
assessment for county expenses alone, &C.
cording to a statement made by County
Treasurer McClelland to a TRIBUNE rem
resentative, is ~ mills, state 90 mills.
city 10 mills, and schools 5 mills; all TOLD
for Cascade county % mills. The esti-
mate was given approximately, for the
simple reason hat If the $4,000 school
bonds that are supposedly in Chicago
were included in this estimate it would
make it considerably over s $1,000 a day.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

The majority party Of the ways and
means committee in the national house
have decided that they will incorporate
an income tax into the bill they are to
offer for raising revenue. If this is i'm.
posed, they believe that the internal rev.
enue rates will not have to be increased
and that the freeborn American citizen
will still be able to get his whisky and
tobacco at the old prices. 1t is ex-
pected that the rate of the income tax
will be 2 per cent. but it will be placed
only on the large incomes, SO that it will
not affect laboring people and those with
small salaries. The ways and means
committee calculate that $50, 900 900 will
be added to the national revenues by this
tax.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
Arecent financial statement annonnc

Arecent financial statement announces
that we have at present in this country
1920, OOO, 900 in silver, notes and cur,
rency outside of gold and gold certif.
Gates. A report Of the director of the
mint puts the amount of gold and gold
notes at 1864, 0OO, 900. That would make
the total amount of gold, silver and
paper money in the country 81 1854, OOO,-
900.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
We publish on the first page an edi-

We publish on the first page an edi'
torial article on the past aud present
prospects of Great Falls. The article is
from the pen of Mr.. Jerry Collins, who
has resumed the editorial management
OF THE TRIBUNE. If the republicans OF
Great Falls had such a man to represent
them there would be less wire-pulling
a I'd fine work necessary in that burg.
When a one horse editor tries to III a
ely and county to suit himself it is high
Time a new deal was had.-Sun River
Sun.
We are much obliged to the Sun for
the implied compliment, but it is labor
ing under a mistake when it says that
Mr.. Jerry Collins has resumed the edi-
torial management of this paper. Mr..
Collins has not been connected with this
paper for many months-a couple Of
years at least-nor mas he written a line
since he severed his connection. 1t
might be mentioned, incidentally, how
ever that Mr.. Collins is one of the most
forcible writer's in the whole northwest.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

About this time of year coughs and
colds are on, and the American hog O.
pectorates over all creation. The Amer
lean gentleman never acquired the ex-
pectorating habit.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

Still another rendering of an old saw:
When honest men get their dues. roguss
fall out.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

The writer who makes one word grow
where two grew before is a benefactor
of the human ra1A.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01

Helena Independent: Ten days more
and the silver battle will be on in ear
nest and Montana will be found in the
thickest of the fight hopping along on
one leg.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-05-19
A DIscoyery Of Gold in n We'll.

al was one of the first to discover
gold in the Ember District of New South
Wales" said Harold Meyer, of Australia.
1.-THE fact that gold existed there was
not known until 1884, when announced
my discovery by stalking my claim and
beginning operations. My discovery
was purely accidental. 1t was rather
interesting, also. own q large cattle
ranch in the Ember District, very fertile
territory, to say the least. For my own
accommodation l dug well, aud some
nine feet down 1 struck quite small
stream, that feed the we'll most excellent.
ly. One day, some two months after
the we'll had been finished, accidentally
dropped magnet into it. tried in a
dozen different ways to secure it again,
but to no purpose. Finally gave the
matter up in disgust. Some three weeks
later visited Sydney, and while there
thought to secure magnet When
reached home 1 immediately prepared to
recover the old one. lowered my pur-
chase, fastened to a cord, down into the
we'll and slowly moved it about. After
three-quarters of an hour of such desult-
DRY fishing felt that 1 had double
load of something, and pulled up. 1t
was my magnet, but apparently wofully
changed. 1t was covered completely
with shining particles that could not
Immediately explain. Upon examination
found that they were gold. repeated
the experiment, and i'll twenty-four hours
the magnet made quite showing. OF
course | began investigating various por-
tions of the land, and soon found that
had rich tract. formed COM
pany, and named the mine 'Thc Golden
Magnet. '"-St. Louis G!obe-Dcmocrat.