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The Delta independent., 1894-08-15

Methodist Episeopel Church.
REV. J. II. GILL, Pastor.
Preaching every sunda, at II a. N. and 7:sO p. m.
sunday School at 30 p. m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening at 7:3t oclosk.
Prcsbytsrinn Church.
REV. JOSEPH LOWER, Pastor.
Services every Sunday at IL a. m.. and 7$o p. m.
meeting at p. IN. Prayer Meeting Wednesday
". G. T. U.
Meets every Friday afternoon at $50. A most
attend. Miss ELLA TREw President.
Mrs. WIN MATHERs. Secretary.
seventh Day Adventist Church.
ELDER GEO. o. STATES, Pastor.
Sabbath School every Sabbath at O'Clock pm.
Preaching or bible reading at p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening ut 7:so o'clock.
m DELTA LODGE NO. ssIa
VZZ2T X. OF II.
\&A Regular meetings FIRST and third
X$$RXA Friday evenings of each month
@SvAin court room. W. r. GALE, Die.
W F. W. cnILps. Rep.
.:.GP.; netting It. ::.:ad OF Per- ie.;S sSFs hss ss
~H day evenings of each month. A. c.
T\BITIER. W.N. E. L. KELLOGG, secy.
Grand Mesa Lodge No. -
X. eff.
Meets in Castle Hall first and third
azs36 Tuesday evenings of each month.
O. C.G. Downing. C. G.
A L. Reynolds, X. of Il. 8.
~ MCCLELLAN PosT NO. &c
G. A. =.
(N14A Meets at the Court House on the 4th
E2N Saturday in each month At 7:ao p m.
GEo W. HENRY, Commander.
WIN. MATHERs. Adjutant.
The Delta independent., 1894-08-15

W. G.. T. U.
Meets every Friday afternoon at 2:3o A most
cordial invitation Is extended TO all ladies to
attend. Miss ELLA TREw, President.
Mrs. WIN. MArHERs, Secretary.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

A letter has just been received by
Supt w. ID. Dickinson of the street rail.
way line, making special inquiries as to
the method of heating and operating his
cars by electricity produced by water
power.
This letter was received from Dresden
Germany, city of 21G,O00 souls, and is
from the corporation operating the street
railway lines IN that city.
From this communication it appears
that not only our electric railway system
but our water power has been thorough
ly discussed by the scientific men Of that
foreign city.
Every day brings intelligence from
all parts of the world assuring us
that this water power, unsurpassed on
the American continent, is known and
appreciated throughout the civilized
world.
The water power Of Great Falls, judg
ing from this communication, appears to
9 well known and understood in Eu-
rope.
No man living in the city of Great
Falls can realize the importance of this
great water power in the future growth
Of Great Falls and Montana.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

This much needed institution, which
is located at Miles City, will be ready on
or about March /. 1t cost the state S22,
OOO to erect the building, which is $1,000
less than the appropriation made by the
Legislature for the purpose Speaking
of the school Gov. Richards says: IL feel
4 great interest in this institution not
only because it was the result OF my rec
ommendation TO the Legislature, but be-
cause it is so much needed. On the oc
casion OF my first visit to the penit n
tiary at Deer Lodge | saw something
that convinced me of the necessity of
having a reform school. There are ac
commodations in the main building at
Deer Lodge for about 30 men. There
were 360 there when | first visited the
place. In long log building there were
about l5O men whose time was nearly
out or who were serving short terms.
There were no cells only rows Of hunks,
and the prisoners were all mixed up. In
with them in this log building were four
boys. L tnlnH tne Stdte is COHlHll.liuS
crime toward society in keeping boys of
from u to Is, or even younger, in the
company of hardened criminals, some of
whom are serving their second or third
terms.
II am one of those who believe in the
reform of the criminal and that boys
with vicious instincts can by careful
training have them eradicated. The
state owes duty to society to look after
these boys. In all large communities
like Helena and Butte there are many
boys who have no parents to look after
them, and some who would be Just as
well off il they had none. Those who
have investigated this matter and are in
a position to know say that money put
into such a school is the best investment
the state could make.
THE board Of directors of the reform
school are proud Of their fine building.
1t has cost them less than they thOught
il would. 1t is not an elaborate affair,
but it is a substantial and comfortable
one. The heating apparatus is perfect.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
sheen for Wheat Farms,

The Democrat at Laugdon, n d., has
been making some observations on the
practice OF turning sheep into wheat
field after the grain is cut. In the North
Dakota country bordering on Manitoba
the Democrat observed that while sheep
as speciality pay better and are easier
to handle than almost any kind Of stock
some Of the best paying flocks in the
west are kept by what are known as
wheat men.
The moment the shocks are out Of the
tield the sheep are on them, and not only
are the fields cleaned OF every weed, seed
and head Of grain, but wild mustard and
nearly every other troublesome weed OF
plant are eagerly devoured. In addition
to this the whole flock, il the field is suf
ticiently extensive, is mutton,fM wbeI
they come to the barn. None but an ex
perienced sheep man knows what an al
vantage such have over one coming il
from short frost.bitten pastures. They
are third wintered and the wethers
and old ewes can be prepared for the
block with little or no expense. The
wheat farm without 100 or 200 ewes on il
is not being run right. That is a goot
view to take in the wheat region or
either side Of the Red river.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
Par,eto-Splanc GanGlia.

Mr.. Frank Cramer writes in The Pop
ular Science Monthly to prove that ths
logical methods of the old schoolmer
ought to be adopted at least in part in
the study of biology. We quite agree
with Mr.. Cramer. We cheerfully do oul
part herewith in helping him lay before
the public some of the good results OBJ
tanned by applying deduction to biology
Steinach showed by this method that al
introacular reflex involving the retina
has nothing to do with contracting the
pupil in the eXcised eye of fishes or am.
phibia, but that this contraction is quite
Independent of the chromatophores. To
be sure!
Our minds are set completely at rest,
however, by the priori reasoning OF
Professor Spengel, who has given to the
world the chief part Of its information as
far as it has got on the noses of mollusks.
Professor Spengel knew already that va
rious ciliated organs in mollusks had
never been brought under the yoke Of
homology. He at once prepared through
the logical process of reasoning the big
gest kind of yoke of ho,nology for the
mollusks. By way of explanation Mr..
Cramer tells us that one of the decisive
tests in morphology for the determine
ton of homology is the mode of innerva-
ton of an organ. When You want to
get at the morphology of our organs,
therefore, you only have to determine
how they innervate.
Professor Spengel used the common
scientific method till he found out that
various cillated organs existed in the
prosobranch gastropods, likewise in the
tectibranchs Then he inferred by the
logical method that they ought also to
occur in the opisthobranchs and the la
mellibranchs. He was Oh the high road
to discoveries that are to shake the plan
cts. with one stroke of deduction lie
swept away IL whole brood of old views,
says the enthusiastic Mr.. Cramcr. He
had found out by his learning that the
rises from the ganglia inserted in the
visceral Comnissurc and not from the
pleural ganglia. The thrilling find that
overturned the old system Of thought
was obtained by reasoning that the pari
eto-splanchnic ganglia Of lainclibranrh-
were thus genuine simon par. yiaccrai
ganglia and not at all the hpmuibgueS OF
the plcurll ganglia Of gastrorods There
fore the pal'ieto-splanchnic gangla Of la.
mellibranchs are morphologicaliy homo
logucs with the visceral ganglia of other
m ollusks. See:
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

The reason why so many American
their own land and live in England may
in part be disclosed in the following
sentence from a paper by Price Collier
h The Forum: "a man with an income
of 5000 year in England can have
and does have, in fact-more servants in
his household, with all the time and fric.
ton saving which that implies, than a
man with twice that income in the
United States If having servants in
plenty is the sum of human happiness,
then perhaps Europe is the earthly para.
disc. But in this country experience goes
to show usually the more servants the
more worry. They are better trained
and less ambitious in Europe, however
With us they are "an ambitious contin
gent representing, III their own eyes, a
temporary social misfortune"
Mr.. Golfers facts as TO earnings in
Great Britain show "A tremendous dis
tance between the upper and lower
rounds Of the professional ladder there.
Great ability is much more richly re-
warded than with us; mediocre or small
ability much less 80. The archbishop Of
Canterbury gets f,5,0O0a year; the aver
age Episcopal clergyman 5000; Sir Charles
Russell earns sometimes 100000 in a
year; the average lawyer, or "barrister," +"
as the British citizen calls him, 81 POO.
The earnings Of Sir Andrew Clarke,
the great physician, amounted to from
$50, 900 To 100000 every year; that Of
the common run of doctors, 81 200. The
man at the head Of large school re.
ceives $40, 900 year in some cases; the
submaster in small school has $500. An
ordinary hack writer on newspaper
thinks himself well off to make annually
SO much as $500. The editor and part pro-
prietOr Of "A great daily hes a. much az
| $25, 900 salary and dividends. Journal
lists of the first rank make fj,ODO "A year.
On the whole, newspaper work is paid
about as with us, but it is doubtful il
the heads Of the great dailes, with the
exception Of the London Times, have az
| large incomes from the earnings Of the
| paper as some American editors and
owners do. A British cabinet ministers
salary is $2j, 900; that Of a member Of our
American presidents cabinet, - 900.
Scott got 81 900, 600 for his novels, but
the income Of present day essayists, poets
and the majority Of British novelists ia
I put by Mr.. Collier at practically moth
ing"
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
Rusty Brains.

The stupidest person having good sense
| is the one who never cares for any
change. He will sit in one spot and let
the grass grow over his toes. The paint
cracks off his house, the shutters rust of
at the hinges, he gets poorer and poorer
| every year, all the time that he thinks he
is doing the best he knows how to. He
is simply rnsting out and falling into
| paupcrsm for want of q little wholesome
desire for change. The best definition of
beauty is that it is harmonious variety.
The spirits that move the world onward
in progress and civilization are the ones
who do not find things good enough as
they are. The reason boys and girls of
any pluck and energy get away from the
farm the day they are old enough is be-
cause of the dreary monotony of it. Old
er persons who love the ever changing
beauty and glory of nature never weary
of country life, but young peoples love
of nature has not yet been developed.
In the breast Of every human being
who was worth being born there is an
instructive longing to try the untried.
If there can be prohtably no great change
in our lives, then we should so order
them as to get all the small variations
we can. Even different arrangement
of house, furniture or garden, differ
ent kind of food. will bring relief. The
wheel of thought that runs in the same
track wears deadly rut by and by. Peo-
notony of their lives.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
Death of AN Old-Timer.

Mai w. Il. Lincoln died at his home
in Chinook on Thursday. Maj. Lincoln
was born in Vermont sixty-four years
ago. In early life he moved to Wiscon-
sin and was IA resident of that state when
appointed by President Hayes, in 1878,
as Indian agent at old Fort Belknap,
then located about two miles from the
present town of Chinook. As agent
Maj. Lincoln served under Hayes, Gar
field. and Arthur until in 1886, when he
was succeeded by Field, an appointee of
Cleveland. under the latter's first term.
The year following Maj. Lincoln's retire.
rnent he spent on llighwood, and later
be took up a fine ranch near Chinook
after the reservation was thrown open
for settlement.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
RUNAWAY rTOl-LEYS.
Wet Leaves EGnycrt u Railway Track In
>cwar, Iutn - T"boEgan Slide.

Wet Leaves Convert a Railway Track In
Ncwar,t Iutn . T"boi.gan Slide.
West Kinney street hill is one of the
stecpc~t in Newark. n. j. The Rapid
Transit company has double track troll
ley road mon il. In the storm of few
nights ago there was much trouble be-
cause the wet leaves in the street made
the wheels slip on the rails. and conf
dence bcgotten by continued dry weather
had induced the motOrmen TO let their
sand boxes become empty.
The company has mad several bad slips
upon this part of the road, and So put
derailing sWitchmen ut the curves at the
foot of the hill where the cars turn into
Washington street. A switchman issta-
toned there to throw runaway cars
across Washington street over the cob
blestoncs. He was on duty on Friday
night when Car "a got loose at the top of
the hill near High street and come thun-
dering down the decline with the gongs
at both ends changing. The car WAS well
filled with men and women, who were
badly frightened, but were prevented
from jumping off by the conductor and
motorman. The switchman did his duty,
and the car rumbled off the rails over
the rough pavement and came to stand
safely.
Among the passengers was woman
who had started down town with her
baby to do some shopping. She was so
badly scared that, giving up her trip,
she concluded to 90 back home on the
next car, which came along quickly.
This was car IL, and it ran almost to
High street, where it stopped and began
to move slowly backward. The brakes
were applied, but would not hold, and
the car was soon under full headway.
Every body aboard except two men and
the conductor and mOtOrman seemed to
be crazed with fright.
They feared that this car would collide
with the one already derailed. The wo-
man covered the infants head with a
shawl and crouched over it to protect it
when the crash came. 1t was "A lively
dash of short duration and ended in a
jolting over the cobblestones, when the
car brought up alongside Of the fret one
derailed.
The tracks were sanded thoroughly
after that, but it was not until two other
cars had tobogganned down the grade
after the first two were removed. The
motormen say that fallen leaves are
worse than snow or ice on the tracks.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
CAME TOO LATE.
She Died In Ignorance of Fortune LET
Her by n Relative.

She Died In Ignorance of u Fortune l.,
Her by Relative.
The day previous to the death of Nj
Thomas Rothwell a letter addressed
her arrived at the postoffice in this cit
says the Neihart Miner, from a cous
in England containing the informant
that an uncle in the old country had I,
Gently died and had made her heir TO A,
interest in his vast estate. The letter,
mained in the Office until the day al
her burial and she never knew that
had been remembered, nor that the
ter-while containing the sad intelligt
of the death of near relative 81
same time contained information
meant so much to her future hapIst.
had ever arrived. All knew l
Rothwell as an industrious woman !.
by the death of this relative she, u
she living today, would have been
waited to position of luxury and Q.
Word has been sent to the relatiy
the sad misfortune.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
VIII Widen Its Cuag,

A bet WAS offered yester
gentleman who claims to be
sion Of inside information
guage of the Great Falls
railway would be widened TO
ard guage before the Fourt
This would give the CanaG.
an inlet into Great Falls a.
now run into Lethbridge.
lead to Great Falls.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

The reason the Sicilian farmers live in
villages instead Of on the farms they
till is found III curious survival Of "A
medieval law. Under that law tillers
Of the soil were not allowed to live upon
the lands they farmed, but were hud-
died together in villages, possibly so
they could thereby be more easily watch
ed and kept from insurrection. Sicilian
farmers have maintained the ancient
system from choice apparently. Me-
disval customs are found in Sicily more
frequently than in any other part of Eu-
rope. The octroi itself would not have
been submitted to 50 long if the Sicilian
peasants had been az intelligent as the
rural population elsewhere. BY the me
diaval custom under which the octroi
was levied cities imposed tax on all
food products brought into their gates.
This tax went not to the national gov
ernment, but TO defraying the expenses
Of the city government itself II i'm
poses "A double tax on the wretched peas
ant. He pays taxes Oh the land outside
the city. Then when ne brings food for
his own use TO his home in the village
he is met at the city line by the octroi
collector, who leyiss on every bushsl Of
potatoes the farmer CONSUMES in his own
family. Worst " ALL ths collectors are
bribed by the rich, il is said, to let them
of comparatively free, and pluck the
poor who cannot help themselves. On
the whole, It ia no wonder the Sicilians
reyolted.
When yOu have done "A wrong thing
and been cangbt at it. it il dDubIy dyed
nsabnsss W. whine and throw the blame
uT0n S1Grbttly elss.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
In the matter of bridges that interfere

In the matter of bridges that interfere
with navigation Chicago has given the
rest Of the country an object lesson that
ought to be needed. Instead of building
vexatious and obstructive bridges the
western city now tunnels under its river.
II the New York Central railroad would
do likewise with the Harlem at New
York. the navigation Of the useful little
water course would not be interfered
with, and everybody would be satisfied.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

If it was not duly recorded OF a ship's
log, one would be inclined to class the
tale told by the captain and first officer
of the steamer Iemassce with the sea
serpent yarns. But there it stands i'll
the Yemassee's loybook-the brief note
ton bar, 40 minutes past in the morn
ing, the captain and his first officer saw
IAN immense meteor" The meteor last
ed entire for 10 minutes, bearing east in
straight line: then for 10 minutes more
it wabbled ZigZay and at the end Of that
time burst into hundred fragments,
more or less. 1t took 10 minutes for the
fragments to be used up and disappear,
so that the whole phenomenon lasted
half an hour. Both the officers vOuch
for this. The Gemassee is Il Ship making
trips between New York and Charleston.
There is only one point Of disagree
ment between the two men about this
monstrous meteor-if it was one. The
first officer stakes his reputation for We
racity on the size Of the thing being equal
to at least that of six moons. 1t must
have been as broad AS the 80 ton Canadi-
an cheese at the Worlds fair. The cap
tain is more moderate in his estimate of
the size and falls one moon. He says it
was as large as five moons. Further
more, the first officer says its rays burned
like those of the hot sun. The fragments
after it had burst looked like freballs.
Here now is nut for science to crack.
Perhaps the phenomenon which the two
seamen supposed to be meteor was an
electrical appearance.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

The last year has been quiet
ging creek as regards minerals
erable activity has prevailed, ]
in timber. +. NJ. Woodward
saw mill about two and one-ha
above Sam Dodd's. from which d
erable amount of mining IN
shipped to Neihart.
Messrs. Dodd, Haines & Stc
ship considerable amount OF q
by railway to Great Falls for 4
Falls Fuel company, and large
of props and posts to Sand {.
the coal mines at that point.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

Blossic dittls daughter Of u newspaper
wornaDJ Oh. mamma, Mabel and ! have
u lovely secret about our dolls. I'd like
10 tell you, only
Her Mother-OnIy what, Flossiei
Flossie-Only I'm afraid you'd writ'
II np.--New York Times.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

The news from Boston is cheering to
the wool-growers. A telegram states
that the last week has developed the
most active market which has been ex-
perienced since the opening of the new
year. The sales OF fine medium and me-
dunn territory in the greasy and secured
territory Of similar grades have been
large. The attendance of manufactur-
ers has impaired new strength to the
market, and there is firmer feeling
prevalent. More than 100000 pounds
Of fine medium and medium territory in
the grease were sold this week.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09
City warrants and First Nat
claims cashed at No. ). Second =


The Particular consistory Of e
Montana, No. |, Ancient and Ac
Scottish Rite Of Free Masonry
southern Jurisdiction Of the I
States, will open its annual cons
for work in the degrees from the T.
the thirty-second at Livingston, VI.
Feb. D. Several applications for 9
grees have been handed the rr.
Tie convocation will continue on-
with afternoon and evening seseio-
Master Masons in the state are
for these degrees.
The weekly tribune., 1894-02-09

The decease Of this well-known editor
and journalist occurred at 3 a. m. Sat
uraay at his residence in Philadelphia.
Childs' last illness began with faint
ing which seized him while in his office
in the Ledger building, Jan. 10. He bo-
came unconscious and Dr. ID. A. costa
WAS summoned. Restoratives were ap-
piled with tho result that the patient
walked with assistance TO carriage and
was conveyed home.
On the following night the physicians
reluctantly admitted thnt paralysis OF
the lower limbs had accompanied the
attack, but there was little reason to
doubt the immediate cause of the at
tack was overwork and anxiety attend
ant upon his efforts to see that the mem
ory of his lifelong friend, the late A. j..
Drexel, was properly honored. The day
upon which came the attack was spent
| by Childs IN preparing for the Drexel
memoriol services to be held in the
Drexel institute Saturday, Jan. 20, two
days after the fatal Thursday. His en-
forced absence from the ceremony wor
ried him profoundly, and to this fact
was largely due the relapse which oc-
CURED on the night of Jan. 2l.
Mr. Childs was probably as well known
AS any man in the United States and
there can be no doubt he was by far the
best known resident of Philadelphia.
His popularity in this city was wonder
full. He was familiar figure on Chest,
nut street. from the fact that when in
the city he always walked to and from
the Ledger efiice and so regular was he
in his habits that if he did not appear on
the street at about the regular time
people began to inquire whether he was
i'll. To all appearances Childs was 70.
bust man, yet HE constitution was deli
cate. He was of highly nervous tenn
perament and with the attack which
proved the beginning Of his last llncss
came almost complete nervous prostra-
tion.
Those who knew him best believed he
was never happy or contented man
since the death of his boon mpanion
and businees partner, A. J. Drexel They
were almost inseparable in companion
ship. and it was a sad blow to have so
near a friend carried of so suddenly.
After midnight the patient sank rap.
Idly ana it soon became evident the end
was near. At his bedside when the be.
loved journalist and philanthropst
passed away were &. G. Thomas and
james w. Paul oi the firm of Drexel a.
Co. Mr.. and Mrs. John Drexel. Miss
Peterson. niece of Mrs. Childs Miss
Stanle,, companion to Mrs. Childs. and
Col. Edward ID. Morrell.
la 1893 there were landed at Ellis
island 1925 immigrants. principally
from Europe The per centagc of those
who could not read nor write, with the
total landed, are given below:
Italy, 80 JO7i-Ii per cent.
Poland. 5,UD-iJ per cent.
Germany, 5j,g-l 2 per cent.
Sweden, ,gij per cent.
Norway, T. sfl / per cent.
England, li,GG9 per cant.
Ir, land, 30, ,2p--j per cent.