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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
DrugpiSts' Queer Customers.

"Did you see that man who Just
went out2" asked a druggist yester-
day. "Well, he is a morphine fiend.
There is not a day passes that he does
not come in here and plead for NOR
phine. He knows he will not get it,
yet clinging to the fond hope that we
might give it to him he never tires
in his p~ersistency. I suppose that
man goes about from drug store to
drug store pleading for the drug to
set him free for the time of the trou-
bles of this life. Are there many like
him2 Well, we have a number who
come in, off and on-as many as five
a day-but non r as persistent as
this man. A well dressed fellow, too.
If you heard him begging me to give
him some Of the drug, you would i'm.
agine a mendicant was asking fol
| aims.
"Oh. yes, we have strange people
come here. I often wonder when
consider the number of wild eyed
excited, nervous people trying tt
buy poisons of n sort or another
why there are so few suicides. OF
course we cannot and do not sell sucl
drugs to any person without a doc
tors prescription, and perhaps thil
is the saving point."-Pittburg Dis
patch.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21

Very careful observations have
been made from time to time with a
view to a~scertaining the height Of
shooting stars above the earth at
their appearance and disappearance.
Perhaps the most successful attempt
of this kind was that made in this
country on the occasion of the mete-
oric shower in November, 1867. The
lightninglike rapidity with which
the meteors darted through their
course rendered it impossible to OBJ
serve them with astronomical pre-
cision, but the general conclusion az
rived at was that they yer first seen
at an average height of rs miles.
There was no positive evidence that
any meteor commenced at a height
much greater than 100 miles.-Brook
Ign Eagle.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
Women Oh Ino Crossings.

Did you ever watch women ross
the street? There is the sweet young
thing who picks her way even though
the stones be swept bright and clean.
She always possesses small feet and
wears pretty shoes and smart gowns
and has an appealing look in her eye
when she starts over. The policemen
always help her, though they know
she needs no help, and she knows
they know it. But that makes no
difference at all. The men always
stop IN the curbing to see if she
reaches her destination all right.
Then there is the business young
woman who plunges into the fray In
awful observation-disclosures. Sometimes
she picks up her dress skirt, but she
usually forgets all about it, and her
shoes are not new anyhow. The po-
licemen know they ought to help her,
and she gives them fearful shocks
because they know she is doomed to
be run down n day, and they only
hope it will be on the next fellows
crossing. 1t all ONE of her having
her mind occupied. A woman with
an occupied mind is bound to upset
things.
And finally there is the poor, little
timid woman who is deathly afraid
of truck horses and is shabbily dress
ed and liable to heart disease. She
gets across anyhow-no one knows
just how, because the first two vari.
cites take up all the attention.-Phil
adelphia Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21

Last Wednesday evening our scribe
visited the new workings of the Broad
water where machinery has just been
erected to drive tunnel No. g.. The site
of this tunnel is 400 feet below that of
No. 2, and its course is directly toward
the mouth of No. 2. 1t lies about 200
feet above the bridge OF the Broadwater
road. The work had been pushed by
hand for a distance of th~irty-five feet
when the compressor was ready to start
the Burleigh drills, and on Wednesday
evening the air was turned on.
The machine used here is that furn.
ished by the Ingersoll Rock Drill com
pany and consists of a sixty-horse power
engine and boiler, an air compressor ano
receiver, and the drill machines. Ou1
reporter reached the spot in time to see
the first hole drilled, and about twent,
minutes thereafter two seven-fOOt hole:
had been finished. VIM. Cox, unde'
whose known ability and skill the plan
was planned and the machinery put in
is at the engine. Chas. Murch ant
L. Lindquist handle the drills. The rocl
where they work at present is not yer,
hard, but is hardening rapidly as wor|
advances. When the new tunnel ha
reached the face of tunnel No. 2 it vii
+ be about 900 below the surface.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
Excursion Rates to California Every Day
in the Month.

Beginning March 25th the Northern
Pacific railroad will sell daily round trip
tickets to California points as follows:
Helena to San Francisco and return,
going via Spokane, Tacoma and Port
land, and returning same way, $75.
To San Francisco, going via Spokane,
Tacoma and Portland, and returning via
Ogden and Silver Bow, 800.
To Los Angeles, going and returning
via Spokane, Tacoma and Portland, en-
tering San Francisco, in one direction.
either going or returning, $50.
To Los Angeles, going via Spokane
Tacoma, Portland and San Francisco
and returning via Sacramento and Og
den, $99.5O.
Tickets will be limited for sixty day
for going passage, with return at an.
time within the final limit of six months
Thirty days limited tickets from Hell
ena to San Francisco and return, wit
five admission tickets to the midwife
fair, ale also on sale daily at rate o
$62.5O.
A. d. EDGAR, Gen. Agt.
Helena, Mont.
CHAs. $. FEE, G. P. & r. A.,
st. Paul, MINI.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21

The sugar cane and it's uses have
been knownin India, its native home,
from time immemorial. 1t is perhaps
the earliest source from which sugar
was produced, and all other modes of
manufacture have been borrowed
from or based on it. The early clas-
steal writers knew sugar vaguely as
''honey of canes" To the Greco-Ro-
man world the sugar cane was the
reed which the swarthy Indians de-
lighted to chew, and from which they
extracted a mysterious sweetmeat.
1t was the Arabs-those great car
riers between the east and west
who introduced the cane in the mid
die ages into Egypt, Sicily and the
south of Spain, where it hourished
abundantly until West Indian slavery
drove it out of the field for a time
and sent the trade in sugar to Jamal-
ca and Cuba. Naturally you can af-
ford to undersell your neighbors
when you decline to pay any wages
to your laborers. Egyptian sugar
was carried to London in Plantagenet
times by the Venetian fleet, where it
was exchanged for wool, the staple
product of medieval England.
Early in the sixteenth century the
cane was taken from Sicily to Ma
deira and the Canaries. Thence it
found its way to Brazil and Mexico,
to Jamaica and Haiti. Cane sugar
was well known in Italy about the
second century and has been com
mon in England since the Tudor pc
Rod. The spacious days of grea'
Elizabeth had sugar for their sack
and ginger was hot i the mouth, too
as we all well remember .-Cornhil
Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
A ROsebery Joke.

When the late Lord Falmouth was
in the middle of his victorious racing
career, so that he seemed to have a
lease of all the great races, Lord Rose
berry excited a good deal of amuse-
ment among their friends by getting
a hundred letters of congratulation
autographed in the following words:
MY DEAR FALMoUTH-Allow me once again
to congratulate you on the success of your
horse = In another classic race, the -. Be-
lieve me, etc. RosEBERY.
The blanks for the name of the
horse and the race were duly filled in,
and one Of the forms was sent to
Lord Falmouth at each fresh success.
San Francisco Argonaut.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
SKIRT ILLS,
The Girls Who Fascinate on the Stage Arc
High Strung When IN.

The Girls Who Fascinate on the Stage Arc
High Strung When on.
The skirt dancer has most of the
ills to which flesh is heir to combat
with. Perhaps the most common of
the ftful aches and ailments is a gen.
eral arrangement of the breathing
apparatus. Any comfortably situat-
ed person who views her spasmodic
action from the audience can realize
why the writing, gasping, convul-
sive celebrity should be the most
short winded creature on earth. 1t
seems a marvel that some of her
cords do not snap and the whole ten
sion suddenly give way and let her
down in a realistic heap in the mid
die of the stage.
To get a comprehensive view of
her in collapse--and she does collapse
it is necessary to take a peep be-
hind the curtain. At the ecstatic
moment when the audience sees the
last bow, the farewell wave of the
hand, the retiring convulsion of the
hip joint, at the same moment the
overexerted, breathless and painting
artist falls exhausted into the arms
of a faithful attendant, who bears
her gently away to a bottle of brandy
and one Of horse liniment favored
with turpentine.
It is when the skirt dancer reaches
the %seclusion of her own apartments,
however, that the really interesting
part of her performance begins.
Electricity is one of her modes of
treatment, but she naturally eats
something before she starts up her
battery. Eating and drinking are
prohibited by her code of digestive
ethics, both before and between
dances, for obvious reasons. When
the embargo is raised and the cur.
tain goes down, the hungry celebrity
repairs to the nearest hotel and there
follows the proclivities that nature
has endowed her with. If all this
occurs after a matinee performance
the dancer next takes a nap, the dur
alton of which is in inverse ratio tt
the amount she has eaten. When sh'
wakes up again, with her heat
cleared and her wasting tissues re
7 paired, there L interesting baths
messages and applications of electri
r city.
: There is a noticeable sOmethin,
about the overstimulation to whicl
> the skirt dancer is subjected tina
makes this grade of terpsichorea,
temperament an interesting psyche
y logical study. The Jealous and Ell
k terprising high kicker invariably ha
a nervous constitution that is strun
many degrees higher than that c
the well behaved and orderly youn
woman. She is irritable, hysterica
spasmodic, fretful and has an owe
Y wrought sensibility and tempest,
BUSINESS of emotional capability thu
make her vicinity a dangerous one
II all but the initiated.-Philadelphi
p Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
Different.

D1nefents
Collingwood-I say, Tillinghast,
didn't you tell me that Miss Elderkin
was an artist!
Tillinghast-No. I said she was a
work of art.-London Tit-Bits.
Close Resemblance.
An exchange prints a pleasing but
improbable story of an English
schoolmaster who promised a crown
to any boy who should PROFOUND a
riddle that he could not answer. One
and another tried, and at last a boy
asked, "Why am 1 like the Prince OF
Walesl"
The master puzzled his wits in vain
and finally was compelled to admit
that he did not know.
why" said the boy, ''it's because
I am waiting for the CROWN
Youths Companion.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
The Krupp Family.

The Krupp family, whose fame for
weapons of warfare is universal, is
considered to have attained the dig
nifty of a dynasty. When Prince
Napoleon visited the works at Essen,
he exclaimed, why, this is a state
within a state" AS a matter of fact,
the present head Of the house has
under his orders more subjects than
the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
who married Princess Victoria, the
sister of the Emperor William. Sew
enty-four thousand human beings
recognize the sway Of one man, their
master and the descendant of the
founder of the ks.-Berlin Let
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21

Young Blood In Business.

"Traveling as I am" remarked q
well known man about town, "con-
stantly from city to city, I have oc-
casion to remark the characteristics
of numerous trade centers, and l
want to impress upon you this one
fact, that the growth of II modern
American cities is due to young men.
You may argue to the contrary, but
this one thing holds good, that when
a city begins to grow and improve it
is either a very young and new site
or the elder population have begun
to drop off. Every city on the CONT
nent will afford the positive or mega
tive view Of this fact-either old men
are living to conserve the unbroken
tenor of their business way or the
young men have stepped in their
shoes to scatter the careful policy to
the winds and venture upon new
schemes. Old men live to save and
young men to spend.
Acity usually passes through pc
RODS of 80 years of quiet progress and
then 20 years of rush. This comes
from the fact that the 20 years Of
rush constitute the early business
lives of young men just come into in
herited wealth, and the last 30 year.
mark the period of solemn though
and the desire for absolute securit.
in the matter of general wealth. New
cities are examples of places wher
conservatism has never been, becaus
old men have not focked there t
make their fortunes. Old cities wit
a period of progress come upon ther
, indicate that the fathers are dyin
off,"!ToledO Blade.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
A Useless Verdict.

"Yes." said the old traveller, Il Twas
on a jury in California once. 1t was
a murder trial. l didn't want the
fellow hanged and SO stuck out
against the other II for nine days,
locked up in the jury room, when
they gave in, and we brought in a
verdict of Not guilty and then !
was ready to stab myself with spite"
what aboutI"
"'Cause the mob had hanged the
prisoner on the very first day we
were locked up."-Exchange.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
The Wisconsin Central Line Runs

Two fast trains daily between St. Paul,
Minneapolis, and Chicago, Milwaukee
and all points in Wisconsin making con-
nection in Chicago with all lines running
East and South.
Tickets sold and baggage checked
through to all points IN the United
States and Canadian Provinces.
For full information regarding Routes,
Rates, Maps, folders, ETC.. address your
nearest ticket agent, or
JAS. c. POND, Genl. Pass. Agt.,
Milwaukee, Wis
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21

If you wish to be considered well
bred, you will never try to emove a
tight glove before shaking hands,
O will you ask any one to excuse
your glove.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
Phone Etiquette.

A telephone girl receives calls, but
she doesn't pay them. This part OF
the business is attended to by those
hiring the instrument .-Philadelphia
Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
Systematic Politics.

The three political parties of Neihart
have thoroughly organized and set the
times of their regular meetings. They
are differed as follows:'
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21

The badge OF the Followers or the
house Of Orange is the orange lily,
and an Ulster man is as proud of this
flower on the anniversary of the bat
tie of the Boyne, even now, as were
the followers of Dutch Billy OF their
champion 200 years ago.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21
His Limit.

The cavalry soldier of the Confed-
crate army furnished his own horse.
If it was killed or disabled, it became
necessary for him to leave the front
and go after another mount. When
a man wanted a furlough, he had
only to swap his horse for n that
was broken down and then apply for
leave of absence.
Gradually there grew up a kind Of
brokerage system of horse fur
loughs," as they were called. So
writes an old cavalry officer, who
tells this amusing story of a man
who wished to buy such a furlough
and to that end put himself in COM
m~unication with a friend in the bri-
gade camp.
THE price is $50, 1 know" he
writes, "but l am willing to pay a
little more if necessary. want it as
low as possible, and anyhow you
must not pay more than 800. That
is my limit"
At that point he seems to have
been taken by a new access of home
sickness, for he added:
IF it cannot possibly be bought for
800, l shall be compelled to give as
much as 1926, though you must dis
tinctly bear in mind that my limit is
300.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-07-21

lLuSC huioNto e"c coSy
Anderson was found hanging in a cabin
in Whites gulch, where he had hung
himself four days before. A c%oroner's
inquest was held under charge of Judge
Kerley, of Townsend. He was formerly
of Butte and had on his person deeds to
some property in South Dakota and ia,
receipts from Buttc.-Meagher Count!
News. a
C. ". Somerby, returning with hi
party from a trip toward Smith rive
was in town yesterday. While absent III
visited Belt park, crossed the head o
Tillinghast creek to Onion park, theme
to Elk park, where the party camped 70
a few days. Fishing was fine on tn
journey. From the summit of a hill a
the head of Calf creek, at an elevation @
nearly 5000 feet, he saw more countr
at one time than he had ever seen before
!, The Great Belts and the Rockies risin
t to the west, the latter with their sun
3 mits buried in eternal snow. The Dis
, mond range to the southwest. To tt
3 south the Snow, Crazy, and Castle moul
tains; to the east the Highwoods an
F.. Bearpaws, and far to the north Il
s three buttes of the Sweet Grass hill
, Somerby is delighted with his trip, ar
0 with the guidance of Mr.. Mackey it
t safe to say he will see everything the
v is to he seen. The party, now campt
in Lucy park, will soon start for Il
Yellowstone country.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-09-15

NKw UNIVERSITY or NEW YORK BUILDING
lecture, and Its walls were light colored
limestone. The university was planned
in 1899 and 1880 and was designed to be
an undenominational college that should
be the direct opposite of Episcopalian Co
lumbia Private subscriptions built the
old gray structure In 1925, and IL has
since been the home of ut least two men
whose thunderous footsteps will '.echo
down the corridors of time" In 1885
Samuel +. b. Morse was chosen professor
of the literature Of the fine arts In the uni.
versity, and while he was resident Of
the college he invented TIE telegraph. In
September, 1887, his odd machine was ex-
hibite6 In the cabinet of the university,
whore it was seen by Alfred Vail, who at
once became Morse's assistant and finan-
cial backer. and who invented the famous
dot and dash alphabet which bears Morse 3
name.
In the same old gray structure John W.
Draper. the eminent scientist, historian
and philosopher, made the first photograph
of a human face--that of his sister. Mr..
Draper was then professor OF chemistry In
the university. Theodore Winthrop, the
author and soldier who was shot through
the heart at the hattie of Big Bethel, also
wrote his famous novel, Cecil Dreeme, !"
In the old University building. For 90 years
the time scarred walls OF the picturesque
structure lowered above Washington
square, but commerce, the great ieonoclast
that respects not history, romance noI
memories Of greatness, has at last topplcd
| them over.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-09-15

''There Is no moro milk in the world, :"
said an old gourmet ~ no sat at his
luncheon at the Manhattan club. 1T has
gone, and not even q bubble Of regret
seems to mark the spot where 1t sank
out of sight. Milk, the es-iiest staff Of
all generations. Is now thing unknown
in polite circles It's all cream now. It
does not matter whether dine here or
In Texas or in California, everywhere
tho walters ask: viii you take cream
In your coffee?' and Will you have
cream hot or coldy The good old staple,
milk, Is no longer called by name Even
In Chicago they call IL cream. Milk Ia
tabooed- 1t has gone out Of existence
with the word woman, the word 'nn-
dertaker. the word dress and a lot of
other noble terms. Now it's always
cream. lady, funeral director and gown
wherever you 60. even in Chicago. And
yet the cream Is often pale blue and
thin. and IL It was not served as cream I
would swear it was milk. and darned
bad milk at that. New York Sun.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-09-15

The gentleman, indeed. has taken 10
agriculture In the south. Before the war
tho whole southern social system rested
ON the planter. There has been an in
sidious and noiseless industrial revoln-
ton since. but the planter remains the
main support Of the taxes We have no
class among northern farmers thnt quite
answers to his He resembles mere the
English country gentleman Of past
generation when country gentlemen did
not go to town.
All the same, Il would MT 10 to
count the planter out Of the scheme He
In the most American farmer Of them
all. barely excepting the New England
er. who is disappearing every year. He
furnishes conservative, native born
influence of immense account. a class
that still believes in God and women
and honor. that may be led astray hg
hotheaded prejudiccs. bar can neithes
be bought nor cowed. Is class 70 Be
valued. since IL IL N trne today - tn
Golds1nith's time that
III fares the land. 60 hsxtentng illn Frey.
Where wealth sccumni2ses and men decsy.
OCTAVE Thanct In scrihner.z
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-09-15

although congressman gets about
sI3. 80 . day in the way of salary" F" said
an old time house aftache, ''there are q
great many men In the lower branch Of
congress who ara always short Of money.
Quite number spend their income reok-
lessiy. but q great many have legitimate
domestic expenses that run 50 close to
the amount Of their salary thnt they have
hard picking at times to get along.
"a considerable number OF members
discount their salaries ut the banks.
They arc charged something like 8 x per
cent, and IL the total Of this account
were made public it would make re-
markable showing II In by no means
the new or younger members who are
oftenest short before salary day comes
around. Many Of the older members.
who have sat In the house for years, ARE
In this predicament quite frequently
Many Of them are men Of irreproachable
habits, but with large and expensive
families 10 support and with heavy po-
litical obligations ut home forming o
constant drain ON their exchequer which
they cannot get rid Of. "--washington
Post
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-09-15

Darwin says In 'aThe Formation O.
Vegetable Mold" IF man had TO plug
up q small cylindrical hole with such
objects as leaves, pstioles or twigs he
would drag or push them in by their
pointed ends, but IL these objects were
very thin relatively TO the size OF the
hole he would probably insert some by
their thicker on broader end. The guide
in his case would be intelligence. E" He
then goes ON to show by reports of actual
experiments that this Ia the method pur-
sued by earthworms Not only do they
adapt the leaves of the trees OF their own
country to their needs. but the leaves OF
foreign trees are dealt with In q similar
way. The following words of Mr.. Dar-
win are remarkable. 'sf worms are able
20 Judge, either before drawing on after
having drawn an object close TO the
mouths OF their burrows, how best 10
drag il in, they must acquire some no
tion of it's general shape. This they prob
ably acquire by touching it In many
places with the anterior extremity Of
their bodies, which serves rs q tactile
organ.
1T may be well TO remember how per-
feet the sense of touch becomes in man
when born blind and deaf, rs are worms.
II worms have the power Of acquiring
some notion. however rude. of the shape
of an object and Of their burrows, as
seems to be the case, they deserve to be
called intelligent for they then act IN
nearly the same manner as would q man
under similar circumstance.