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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-04-21
No Thief,

A lady from Buffalo had quite an ex-
perience in a large Berlin hotel. She
was a brave little woman "doing' the
continent alone with her two children,
without being able to speak a word of
any language except United States. One
night, having retired early with the lit
tie ones, she was suddenly awakened by
a peculiar noise, which she soon became
convinced was caused by some one try
ing to open the door between her room
and the n adjoining. She wasn't a
bit scared" but got up quickly, turned
on the electric light and rang the bell,
which resounded through the whole
house. The sound at the door ceased
suddenly, and after a slight delay a
"Dutchman," as she called him, ap-
peared to answer the bell.
"Speak English" (the usual question. J
81 shpeaks heem a ~leetle," was the re-
ply.
There is some n in the next room
trying to open my door," excitedly.
mo, he is out" positively.
"But there is some one there-a robber.
q burglar. Don't you understands
"He is oudt! He will be cen at halluf
past zwelf."
mo, a robber! a burglar! a thief-a
thief. l tell you-a thief in the next
room!"
"Vell," meditatively, 81 do not t'ink
he ees a t'ief, but he ees oudt. He will
be cen at halluf past zwelf, and will
tell - heem Eat yOu-want-to-see
heem."-Exchange.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-04-21

Rev. DR.. Talmage and his people fee,
happy, and they have a clear right to re
ioice over the wiping out of the entire
floating debt of $11O, 900 which so seri
ously hampered the work of the Taber.
nacle. 1t is a happy event not only fol
DR.. Talmage and the great church with
which he has been so long and usefully
associated, but for the greater metropo.
lis, of which Brooklyn is already in fact
though not in name a part.
Pastors of the intellectual power and
spiritual force of DR.. Talmage are i'm.
portant items in the assets Of the com
munity in which they live and labor.
The churches which they build up and
whose activities they direct are vital
factors in the public life of a city. 1t is
a common misfortune, a general loss of
large dimensions, whenever such pastors
remove to other places or their churches
are crippled. Greater New York is the
gamer by the establishment of the Brook
lyn Tabernacle on a sound financial foot
ing and by the continuation under fair
er auspices of DR.. Talmage's brilliant
ministry New York Recorder.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-04-21
Why Nothing Loves n S,,aka

This is why nothing loves a snake.
It 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
worn 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 man in a farmyard or
elsewhere. The abject terror inspired
by the presence of a snake is such
that a n innocent rat will set to gnaw
ing the snakes tail in default of more
usual provender, while rabbit placed
with a snake near skin shedding time
will placidly nibble the loose rags of
epidermis about the snakes Sides
Arthur Morrison in Strand Magazine.
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The area of public lands between
the Red river and Rocky mountains
In Canada upon which the best hard
wheat can be successfully grown,
stated by Professor McCoun at 2OO.-
600, 900 acres, is one half as large as
that of all the rebellious states. If
one fifth part of it was under cult
walton, yielding 12b bushels per acre
the average yield of wheat in Man
itoba in 1891 was 25 $40 bushels per
acre-the total yield would be $780,
600, 900 bushels, or in value greater
than u entire cotton crop. This is
only n of many ources of wealth
to be gained by the peaceful consum-
nation of continental union.
The political union of the United
States and British North America can
be peacefully consummated by the
wise expenditure of less than one
tenth OF per cent, or one-thousandth
part of the cost of the civil war to date,
leaving out of the calcrsation the
value of the property dA stroyed and
the destruction of human life. All
parties agree that the preservation Of
the territorial integrity of the Union
was a necessity, and that it's cost
has been justified by events since the
close of the war.-Francis Wayland
Glen in New York Sun.
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Talking With the President.

When the president is interested and
is really giving a caller or callers his ear
nest attention, he will rest each one Of
his hands carelessly above the hip, will
smile, answer questions and ask ali
about the subject matter. If the visitors
hang on too long, the president will be.
gin to slide his hands down and swing
his arms to the rear just a little bit.
That means he is getting tired. If he
puts his hands entirely behind his big
body SO you can't see them, then it is
time for the congressman and Office seek
ers to cut the conversation short. II
they do not, the president then locks his
hands behind him, closes his lips and
frowns gently, which to the observant
caller means that the time has arrived
for disappearing.-Cor. Charleston News
and Courier.
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Jerome K. johnson, who lives in a
fashionable fiat in Olive street, St.
Louis, is perhaps the best known Wis
ltlng barber in the United States.
III tell you all about my business
with pleasure" said he, although
there is nothing much to tell. !
worked in the shops down town for
several years. l sometimes made
SIS a week, and sometimes | didn't.
! scarcely ever had a Sunday to my
self and but little time to spend with
my wife, and l determined to give
the business up and go at something
else. One morning one of my Gus
toners came in and told me that if ]
would come to his house every day
and shave him he would pay me lib
orally for my trouble. That sug-
gested the idea to me of becoming a
visiting barber.
II soon secured contracts from
others. Now l shave about 20 e
sons each day at their homes and re.
celve ~ a week from each one. MY
customers + wealthy men who
arise late in the morning. Two of
them are bankers. They want to be
shaved between Z and 8 o'clock.
Five others are physicians, who do
not usually leave their homes before
10 o'clock. Then l have a capitalist
who wants my services at half past
10 o'clock, and the others are young
gentlemen Of leisure who lie in bed
until | come. 1t was hard work at
first to make the hours suit.
MY salary amounts to $40 per
week. That seems like a good deal,
but it is cheap when you understand
ii. "-National Barber.
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Notice to

John w. Tattan, A. H. Bell or Aaron H.. Bell.
George Il. Maddox, Henry c. Tillinghast and
Charles +. Grey, assignee for Henry G. Tilling-
Fl. Q. Tillinghast and company.
You and each of your heirs, representatives
ana assigns are hereby severally notified that 1
Harry d. Hill, your co-owner whose ostoffce
address is Great Falls, Montana, and my grant
ors; nave IN accordance with the provisions of
section No. 1924 of the revised statutes of the
United States expended in work and improve
ments upon the Queen of the Hills lode mining
claim, which is located in Barker unorganized]
inning district, Meagher county, Montana, one
hundred QOO) dollars, annual representation in
each . Of the years, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885. 1885,
1887, 1883, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892, for the pur-
pose of holding said claim according to law. and
you are hereby notified that unless you and each
or you,. your heirs or assigns, contribute your
PROPORTION Of such expenditures for each Of
within ninety days after the complete service OF
this notice by publication, all your right, title
and interest, estate, claim and demand in and to
the above named mining claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your
who has performed the work and made the re-
qulred expenditures.
1913 HARRY r HuI.
Date OF first publication April 81. 1894.
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The theory that the modern bullet,
fired from the modern rifle. makes a
less serious wound than the old fash
Toned bullet seems to be disproved by
the results noted in recent warfare.
1t has been generally stated that the
modern bullet, a small leaden core
with a steel covering. little larger
than an inch of ordinary lead pencil,
would go cleanly through flesh and
bone, and the results would be more
disablements and less loss of life. The
contrary has been noted, however,
in the campaign by France in Daho-
mey. The Lebel bullet is found to
have an explosive effect. 1t tears it's
way through flesh and bone, making
terrible wounds. usually with fatal
results.
The bullet from the Austrian Mann
licher rifle is found to act in a similar
way. A soldier was accidentally
killed near the Vienna arsenal two
weeks ago by a bullet from a Mann
licher rifle, and the postmortem
showed that far from simply pune
turing and passing through the body
it had made a hideous wound. The
steel covering appeared to have
broken off from the leaden core on
contact with the body, and the two
pieces spread in the body with an ex-
plosive effect, causing almost instant
death.
1t is said the Austrian authorities
contemplate trying a new form of
bullet. If they do, it will not be
necessarily from humanitarian i'm
pulses. From the firing party's point
of view especially a bullet that dis
ables but does not kill is far better
than II that kills, because it puts
more men of the opposing force out
of action. A dead soldier is out of
every ones way, but a wounded one
needs attendance, and the greater
the number of wounded the more
the army is embarrassed in it's Cd
erations. New Orleans Times Demo
crat.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-04-21
The Use of Old Gold,

Old gold is very rich, not only in
monetary value, but in strange and
interesting suggestions. Most of it
is in the shape of dilapidated jewel
ry. A worn band of gold comes in.
1t was once a wedding ring and must
have been held precious beyond all
price by the bride who wore it dur
ing her honeymoon. In after years,
as it was worn and worn till it was
almost worn away, it must have fluc.
tuated many times in value.
The ring does not say whether its
owner was happy OF not. The link
of gold may have bound together a
loving husband and wife, or it may
have connected a widow with heaven.
or with the GOODNESS of steel it may
have held her like a galley slave
chained to a companion that she
hated.
The ring tells none of these things.
It is old fashioned and worn and
that shows that it has seen long e
ice. Perhaps it was worn by stran.
gers, being superseded by another
wedding ring, or perhaps it was a
precious family heirloom handed
down from generation to generation.
The purchaser rubs it on a smooth
stone until it leaves a yellow mark.
A drop of nitric OF compound acid
discolors this mark so that the expert
assayer can tell the purity of the
gold. Then it is carefully weighed
and paid for at the rate perhaps of 8
or 4 cents a carat. Boston Herald.
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He had just received a letter from his
son at college and was reading it aloud
to his family, when he came to this pas.
sage:
81 am taking lessons in fencing, and as
the fee must be paid in advance will need
another remittance"
"Waal, now, that do beat ALL" said
the old man, "what on airth does any
body need to take lessons in fencing for,
I'd like to know? I've been fencing for
40 years and never had to go to college
to learn how"
but times have changed, father, !"
said his wife. Fences amt made as
they used to was when we elm them in
Root hollow"
"That's So" said the old man. "Ed
don't say if it's a wire fence or a rail one,
but l reckon he'll larn both ways. But,
YUM, never expected a boy of mine
would hev to go to college to learn fenc.
ing. 1t do seem queer"
Then he wrote out another check and
forwarded it by the next mail.-Detroit
Free Press.
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Youthful DeDrayity,

Youthful ~depravity is always
shocking, but it is sometimes anus
ing" remarked a friend to The Man
About Town. Il was walking up
North Eighth street about a month
ago, when a girl not over 10, poorly
clad, ran past me and darted across
the street to meet a boy not two
years her senior. Say, Jimmie, but
youse goin ter ketch HI when youse
gifts home she yelled at him. 'Wot
fur2' asked Jimmie. 'Mammy's sent
me ter hunt fur youse, and, say, but
she's hot fur youse stayin away.
Youse'll git licked shure,' and the
little girl fairly danced in pleasurable
anticipation of Jimmie's troubles
when he met his mother. There was
no pleasure in Jimmie's conntenance.
however, and he started home with
the sullen doggedness natural to boys
on these momentous occasions.
1had stopped to listen to the above
dialogue and followed close behind
the couple as they went homeward.
What was my surprise to hear the
little girl say to her detected brother:
Say, Jimmie, I'll square youse. l
swiped these Is cents from the old
woman, and now youse can run over
there and get coal all over youse
hands and tell her youse had a Job
packing coal for some guy" Jimmie
grabbed the money, ran over to the
coal pile, and the last l saw of them
they We're hurrying home, confident
that Jimmie had been squared.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-04-21

l have just been listening to a few
of the cyclone tales that a number of
strangers have been telling this morn.
ing, and the evident relish with which
they were received is simply remark
able. Some of the most tiresome old
stories have been related right here
as being recent occurrences, and a lot
OF follows have stood about, saying
"yes, yes" and lust So" when it
seems that most any one could brand
the tale as nonsensical and an imposi.
ton. One tall, timber cuss with a
never work" look related that down
in Texas acyclone swept the country
last year in the neighborhood of Par.
ma, and among other things swooped
down over a large barn without
touching it, into the yard, where it
blew all the feathers off a flock of
chickens and then passed up over
the house in front without harming it.
Another party stated that after a
cyclone near Dayton, O., he found
some straws driven several inches
deep into hard oak trees and all by
the force of the wind. He actually
maintained that a straw when per.
fectly balanced and driven with suf-
ticient force could be made to pene
trate any substance and not break.
The stories that ! have heard this
morning coming from sensible men
as truths would be laughed at as hui
morously ridiculous if they came
from a black faced comedian on a
variety stage.-St. Louis Globe Dem
OCrat.
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Notice of Forfeiture.
Neihart, Meagher county, Montana,
o~l n rnna'
Ole GRENDAL,

Neihart, Meagher county, Montana,
March 8, 1884.
TOP, Paulson, or whom it may concern: You
are hereby notified that l have expended one
hundred dollars ($10O). in labor and improve
ated in Judith mining district, Meagher county,
Montana as will appear by certificate on file In
the office of the Recorder of said county in
order to hold said premises according to law.
being the amount required TO hold the same for
the year Guiding A. ID 1892. And if within
ninety days after this notice by publication you
fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure as co-owner with interest and
costs of publication. your interest IN said claim
Will become the property of the undersigned
to law.
10y OLE GRENDAL.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-04-21

a pretty little woman who was visit
ing erefrom a neighboring town looked
admiringly at her own dainty fingers
and anxiously inquired ''if filing would
not do as well, for cutting the nails in
jures them So" but the lucky one was
positive it would not, and the pretty
nails would have to be sacrificed if their
owner wished to win. One of the best
women l know shows a piece of silver to
the new moon each month, and if she
has to turn back after she starts any,
where she carefully spits before she sets
out again. louisville Courier-Journal.
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"a clerk should be something more
than a mere displayer of goods and f
price encyclopedia" said the wife OF
a prominent business man to The
Man About Town. ''Why2" was
asked. We'll, I'll give you an ex.
ample that will demonstrate my
proposition and will firmly convince
you that all clerks must be much
more if they are good ones than
mere statesmen. A few days ago
wanted to buy a golden wedding
present. My means were limited,
and l did not know exactly what
could be obtained that would be ap.
propriate. So | concluded to ask the
advice of the clerk. | went to a
large jewelry store and told a clerk
the circumstances. Don't you know
what you wantI" he asked. l re
piled that l did not and asked him tc
suggest something. He seemed sur.
prised and arched his eyebrows as
he replied that if l didn't know what
| wanted he was sure he didn't
know. | left the store with some
disgust, but did not give up my idea.
| then went to another jewelry store.
Again told my story, and the clerk
said: Certainly, just step this way.
Now, how will this SUITE All, too
mucha Well, here is something, etc.
In 10 minutes | had through his aid
secured what l wanted, and he had
made a good sale."-St. Louis Re.
n1blic
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LITERARY WOMEN.
NAe "Blntstocking'' of the Past and Fair
Scribblers of Today.

1AS "Bluestocking' of the Past and Fair
S~cribblers of Today.
hundred years ago a woman who
wrote for the press was looked upon
as a remarkable individual. Popular
opinion painted her as a sour, stern
oddity, with blue ~spectacles over alb
sentminded eyes and dancing cork
screw curls about a face as wrinkled
as an English walnut. There was
nothing lovable in her whole make
up. No touch of feminine tenderness
leavened the hard, stiff mass of in
t~ellectuaity; no soft breath from
loves passing wing lifted a curl on
the stern forehead. At least there
are no traces of such frailties in the
types handed down by a dead gen
Grafton.
Of course she was a bad house
keeper. Any woman who did such an
unmannerly thing as to appear in
print couldn't know anything of a
wlfe's OF mothers domestic virtues.
Then her hands were supposed to be
perpetually covered with ink stains.
for the reign of the festive type
writer had not yet begun. And She
wore a pink dress, a blue hood and a
green shawl to keep up her charac-
ter. OF course she couldn't have any
feminine tast, in dress.
Whether these pictures of literary
women in the past were in a Dreju-
diced vein and exaggerated or not, it
can be truthfully stated that MANY
OF the present stars in the literary
armament are as well known for
their domestic talents and charming
personages as they are for their
graceful and bewitching writings
Examine closely, and you will find
most of them fine housekeepers-
cooks as well. They dress as well if
not better than any other class of
women. They keep abreast of the
times, are pleasant in conversation,
and not a few are famed for their
personal beauty.
Blue spectacles and corkscrew curls
have vanished in the shadows. and
we see instead a dainty form in a tea
gown of soft, shimmering silk whose
clinging folds show the pretty figure
to perfection-the form of one whose
pen commands attention from thou
sands, whose home is the well kept
shrine of happiness and love.
Because a woman can write 'Odes
to Spring" is no reason she is going
to neglect to curl her bangs or to
make the dressmaker fit the BASQUE
right in the back. One can easily
describe a hero dying in his sweet
hearts arms and then descend to see
If the cook has mixed the buckwheat
batter for morning-at least with a
little practice. There is no reason
why the science of a well kept table
should not trip hand in hand with
'The Descent of Man" orSt. Thomas
Aquinas' philosophy. Younever find
a man so absorbed in Kant that he
forgets to grumble if his steak is
tough or his soup cold. Mind and
matter are married by law that rec
ognizes no divorce.
In the women writer's of today one
finds that admirable blending which
gives tenderness to a strong intellec-
tuality and smooths the sharp cor
ners of study into the soft curves of
homely duties .-New York Adver-
tiser.
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Neihart, Meagher county, Nc

Neihart, Meagher county, Montana.
March 8, 1894.
To p. Paulson and Mrs. E. C. Paske, or whom
it may concern: You are hereby notified that /
have expended one hundred dollars (SlOO) in
labor and Improvements upon the Fair View
quartz lode, situated in Judith Mining district,
Meagher county Montana, as will appear by
certificate on file in the Office of the Recorder
of said county in order to hold said premises
according to law, being the amount required to
hold the same for the year ending A. D.. 1893.
And il within ninety days after this notice by
publication you fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of said expenditure as co-owner
with interest and costs of publication. your in
terest in said claim will become the property Of
1877 OLE GRrNDAr
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Notice of Forfeiture.
Neihart, Meagher county, Mon

Neihart. Meagher county, Montana.
March Q, 1894
To P. Paulson, or whom it may concern:
You are hereby notified that l have expended
one hundred dollars ($10O) in labor and improve.
ments upon the Comet quartz lode, situated in
Judith mining district, Meagher county Mon
tana as will appear by certificate on file in the
once OF the Recorder of said county, in order to
hold said premises according to law, being the
amount required to hold the same for the year
ending. A. d.. 1893. And If within ninety days
after this notice by publication you fail or re-
1use TO contribute your proportion of such ex-
penditure as cO-owner with interest and costs of
publication, your interest in said claim will
become the property of the undersigned ac-
cording to law.
1877 Ole GRENpAI
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Notice of Forfeiture.
Neihart, Meagher county, Montan

Neihart, Meagher county, Montana,
March 8, 1891.
To William Judge, or whom II may concern:
You are hereby notified that l have expended
one hundred dollars $500 in labor and improve
ments upon the Blackhawk quartz lode, situated
in Judith mining district, Meaeher county,
Montana as will appear by certificate on file In
the Office of the Recorder OF said county in order
to hold said premises according to law, being
the amount required to hold the same for the
year ending A. d. 1893. And if within ninety
days after this notice by publication you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion OF such ex-
penditure as cO-Owner with interest and costs
of publication, your interest in said claim will
become the property of the undersigned accord
ing to law
by OLE GRENDAL.
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When Quoting Ones Wife.

A considerate husband invariably
speaks of my wife" or "Mrs.
Brown when quoting his better
half. She is not Mary or Jennie or
Margaret to anybody except her own
people, and it is bad form to make
the outside world familiar with her
sacred home name. To children a
father naturally speaks of his wife
as your "mother," and in affection
ate families it is quite common and
by no means improper for parents to
address n another in the hearing
Of the little ones as mamma and
papa. "-Harper's Bazaar.