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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19
xol. ana Newspaper work.

Emile lola az a man is one to whom
both literary men and journalists must
look up with unlimited respect. This is
not 90 much on account of what he has
written, perhaps, as because he hasalways
got so much money for it and been able
to make himself a rich man at literature.
He was wretchedly poor at the beginning
of his career, but as o as he got upon
his feet he began to save money. Thus
he showed himself a greater genius than
almost any other writing man of his time,
or any other time, whether the writing
man be journalist or devoted to the minor
task of making poetry and novels.
Zola's opinions are therefore entitled
to respect. He himself worked at jour-
nalism before he achieved success as a
novelist, and really was not at all bad
as a newspaper man. After he earned
a good sum of money regularly as the
producer of the fearful and wonderful
fiction for which he has become noted
he gradually relinquished journalism.
But he always had a warm side for
our branch of the business, as will be
seen from the paragraph below. What
he writes in regard to strong character
is especially worth remembering:
Iconsider that journalism, unless as a polit-
ical instrument, can only be O transitory stage
for the man Of letters-his apprenticeship, as
it were. / speak from experience, who have
lone every kind Of journalistic work, from a
vulgar police case report up to a political
leader. The immense advantage Of journalism
Is the great power that it bestows upon the
writer. The whole social question can be
formulated by the veriest journalistic tyro in
the simplest fait divers. Besides, can the lit
erary education, the habit OF writing which is
obtained by journalism, be held of no account?
Doubtless one must have strong loins; this
steam machine labor must kill the feeble, but
the strong cannot but profit by it. And, to
speak plainly, it Is the strong only who interest
me. / have no pity whatever for the fate OF
those who are vanquished when their weak
ness is the cause Of their defeat. Character il
wanted in life, and without energy one can at.
tain nothing. Journalism, moreover, provides
the man of letters of today with his daily
bread and thus insures his independence. ]
should like to say oil that l think on this sub.
Tact
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

The Burden Iron company of Troy,
N. Y, is a signal illustration Of the
good feeling that nee in awhile exists
between employers and employed. I'm
til recently there had been no reduction
in wages at the establishment in 10
years. Then one evening the proprie-
tors called their 1900 men together and
told them that a lowering Of wages 10
per cent was necessary on account Of
hard times. They asked the men to sub
NIT to this for the present, depending on
the firms promise to return to the old
scale as soon as business warranted. The
cut was accepted without hesitation and
nezt day the mills were running as usual.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

1t was the late Orlando B. Potter, the
New York millionaire who died sudden
ly of apoplexy, that really devised our
system of national banking during the
war. He was the president of a sewing
machine company. Following the Bat
tie of Bull Run, the disturbance in the
minds Of the northern people affected
the country's currency disastrously. Mr..
Potter's firm had to pay 10 per cent ex-
change for drafts between New York
and st. Louis and Chicago. Immediate
ly he saw the necessity for a currency
whose notes should be taken at par all
through the country. A system Of ma
tional banking and currency would be
effective to this end, and he proposed the
plan to President Lincoln and Secretary
Chase of the treasury. In three weeks
time the perfected scheme was laid be-
fore the nation, and it has been in opera.
ton ever since. Orlando B. Potter, a
poor boy on a Massachusetts hillside
farm, one Of 10 children, later the law
clerk sleeping in an attic room and cook
ing his own meals while he studied fol-
| admission to the bar, becoming a mil
| ~lionaire and carving out an honorable
and distinguished destiny through hare
work and indomitable pluck and cleal
grit, will be a fascinating figure for the
| biographer who writes books for Ameri
can boys and girls.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

The Lehigh Valley strikers who are
still out of work are accused of pursuing
a course that will not precisely win for
them the sympathy Of the public. Some
If them have been lately charged with
hanging about the company's freight
yards, putting out signal lights, uncoup-
ling cars. taking away pins and chains,
and in n instance, at least, of hurting
stones through the windows of a train.
For the ex-strikers' own sake, we hope
these charges are not true. Such a line
of conduct would certainly not tend to
get the mems places back for them.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19
Taking Newspaper Advice.

A North Dakota farmer who read in
the papers the constant advice to north
western farmers to diversity their crops
and not down prices by raising moth
ing but wheat took the counsel. He put
some of his land into corr and raised a
fine crop-none better-but he had to pay
a high price to laborers who knew moth
ing of any crop but wheat, and when he
had finally harvested the golden ears and
stored them away in his barns he discov.
cred that it would have been cheaper fol
him to buy Iowa corn as it came in at the
railway station.
Then he tried potatoes. AS before
there was a grand crop. The price Of
potatoes in st. Paul was good that year,
and he thought now he had struck it,
He went into the little grocery and post
Office town to get men to come and dig
the potatoes when at length these were
ready for market. Plenty of idle fel.
lows were hanging about the grocery
numbers of men. He invited them tc
come home with him and have a potato
digging picnic at so much a day and
found. Would they come? Not one
They would work at wheat thrashing
That was in their rut, directly under
their stupid noses. They had done that
all their lives and were used to it; bu1
dig potatoes? No! They vowed by al
the dignity of the freeborn agriculture
labor that they would not, and they die
not. The potato cropfroze in the ground
and the farmer went back to whea'
raising. The story shows that when &
newspaper advises a farmer to adopt
diversified agriculture it should also ad
wise him how to raise acrop of laborer.
who will harvest his diversified prod
ucts.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19
Cause of Hard Times,

Here are afew plain considerations or
the minds Of plain people. In case of an
individual who fails in business, he fails
when he becomes so deeply involved in
debt that he a no longer stave off pay
ment. He was not obliged to 60 in debt
in the first place. But he wanted to en-
large his business. He put a mortgage
on his farm because if he had larger
barns he could store more grain and feed
more stock and thus get % money.
Perhaps the family needed a larger,
handsomer house to live in or clothing
that there was not money to pay for.
At any rate, all of the people who fail
manufacturer, farmer, merchant OF
business mango in debt trusting to fu-
ture gains to be able not only to wipe
off the indebtedness, but ever to make
them richer. The farmer owes the mer.
chant, the merchant owes the manufac.
turer, the manufacturer owes the cap.
italist who lent him money to enlarge
his plant. In times which seem pros.
porous there is almost a fatal temptation
to glide down hill into debt. 1t seems
so easy to pay up.
By and by somebody wants his money.
All have run into debt together, and
somehow nobody quite understands how
all must pay about the same time. They
cannot do it. Then there is a panic. All
the world must wait till it can pay its
debts. When that is done, off it goes,
headlong, pellmell, and repeats the proc.
ess vel again. Now, if nobody went
into debt, but used only the actual CAPT.
tai that he has in hand, no matter what
the temptation, how often would there
be panics?
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

The Pittsburg experiment of giving
work to men who are willing to labor on
the public parks for 81 a day has been
fairly launched. The first day the lists
were opened for laborers to register their
m and addresses an army of 410 des-
titute men was on hand. That at least
will keep them and their families from 60
ing hungry for the present. Two hundred
and twenty-five were at once employed.
The money to pay them has been raised
by the generous subscriptions Of private
citizens of Pittsburg.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19
Compendium of knowledge.
The following is from the Neihart Her.


The following is from the Neihart Her
aid:
"The Great Falls TRIBUNE Of Dec. 81
is a compendium Of knowledge for those
interested in northern Montana. Its
graphic descriptions of Great Falls and
her various industries is the best and
most thorough ever set into type.
Twenty-eight columns are devoted to
the real stuff, the sound doctrine Of
present stability and future greatness,
with reference to the city Of marvellous,
illimitable and matchless en-
vironments. A thorough write-up is
given the copper and silver shelters and
the works pertaining to them. The
dam, power houses, electric plants, metal
refineries, Touring and lumber mills, iron
foundery, machine shops, banks, and a
hundred smaller institutions, each re-
ceiving in its turn a lucid and more or
less elaborate description"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

The people Of Arizona are enthusiastic
over a gigantic irrigation scheme, which
is hoped to enhance the attractiveness of
the state. The plan is to build a big
steel dam in the Grand canyon of the
Colorado river Of sufficient strength to
resist any pressure of summer floods,
part of the water thus confined to be
used to operate turbine wheels to drive
pumping machinery for elevating the re-
mainder to the plain above. The sup
ply of water in the Colorado is unfailing,
and many of the most extensive valleys
in the territory could be irrigated by
such a system.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19
Along with assurances of our distin

Along with assurances of u distin-
guished consideration we extend to the
New Hampton Qa.) Dairy Journal our
heartfelt sympathy. T'he editor says:
''Our readers will excuse all shortcom-
ings in The Journal this week and last,
for every one in the Office, including the
deviless, has either undergone or is IN
dergoing a severe attack of the grip. and
any one while in its clutches takes little
interest in anything that is occurring in
this mundane sphere. Gewhilikinsl
Sneeze! cough! Judging from the look
on our worthy spouse's face, there is also
in her mind some language not strictly
orthodox"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Cable dispatches that hun
dreds Of assisted" emigrants are leav-
ing Russia for the United States. That,
too, although Russia has hundreds of
thousands of acres Of land u~ndeveloped
and her manufactures are in a primitive
state and scanty. If Russia were right
ly governed she could find work and
food for all these citizens at home. It is
to be hoped the United States will never
reach that point in the downhill road
where she will try to get rid Of her people.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Boulder Age: Some of the newspapers
OF Montana are very earnest in protesting
their everlasting and undying devotion
to each and every business interest rep
resented in Montana regardless of prin-
ciple or the rights of the vast majority
who are not directly connected with
business interests which demand special
privileges. Such papers would support
human slavery if it happened to be pop
ular with the business interests"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

The question of the municipal owner.
ship of gas works has been settled in
Berlin and % other large cities in Ger.
many. For AZ years Berlin has mani
featured her own gas and disposed of it
to citizens at a handsome profit. In the
other cities, after the gas has been made
at about the same expense as that at
which private corporations make it,
there has remained a large surplus which
has gone toward paying the expenses of
the city government. Philadelphia is
now investigating the question of still
further extending city ownership of gas
ing gas from water has long occupied
attention there. Several private com
panies DESTROYS of building plants
for the city declare positively and
solemnly that a good fuel and illu'
minating gas can be made from wa.
ter at a cost of 25 cents per Thousand
cubic feet. One company has offered tc
construct a water gas plant out and out
and let the city test it 30 days on condi
ton of its purchase by the city in cast
the gas does not cost more than 25 cent.
per thousand. If a good illuminating
gas can be made at this price, then every
small town in the country should hav,
its own gas works. What is more, every
body can use gas as fuel, thus doing
away with SCOT, ashes, dust, labor ant
kindling wood. 1t will pay the gas com
panies to sell their product al cheaply a
possible, even in cases where a city doe
not make its own gas.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

1t is d wise move on the part of the
American cities this winter to set apart
such sums as are necessary for the relief
of the unemployed and then give them
small ~wages-merely enough to feed and
shelter them-for work done on the
streets and parks. Thus they will not
come in competition with regular labor
ers, and will still have money enough to
buy food for themselves and families. A
dollar a day is the pay given in some
cacaS
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Women will be interested in a decis
ion Of the courts that no formal state
ment by either party is necessary to es-
tablish an engagement Of marriage. A
man and a woman may be engaged to
be married without either Of them max
ing q definite and exact proposal to the
other. II a man is constant in his gen,
eral attentions to q woman, calls on her
two or three times a week, takes her to
the theater, and is seen with her to the
exclusion of other women. or il his con
duct with her leads to the general sup
position that the two will n day be
made one, that is in law an engagement
to be married. The English courts de
cided recently that il two people who
were engaged break of their engagement
to marry, each n has a legal claim OF
the presents he or she had handed ovel
to the other. These presents, including
the engagement ring, we're all part ant
parcel of the contract Of marriage, ane
IL the contract was dissolved it was jus
that everything pertaining to it shoult
revert to its original owner
For accident insurance call on Phi
Csb.on
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

We are still selling out our stock OF
groceries at 20 to 80 per cent below cost
and shall continue to do 30 until they
are closed out. Parties indebted to us
are requested at once to make a settle
ment. Any bills or unpaid accounts we
shall be compelled to place in the hands
of our attorneys for collection.
BACH, Cory g. Co.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Under Governor Tillman's temperance
system the state officials that sell liquor
are salaried, and a strict accounting of
purchases and sales is made by them.
This, the governor believes, is extremely
conducive to temperance, because the ele-
ment Of personal profit is destroyed. In
fact, the less whisky is sold the less la
Dor the salesman will have and the same
amount of money.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Miles City Journal: The Board OF
Trade Of Great Falls will give its fourth
annual banquet on the 10th inst, to
which the editor is hidden. Great Falls
has got a good deal of the ginger that is
a sure concomitant of all successful
western cities. 1t keeps everlastingly
at it whether it rains or shines, and the
results are written in its handsome
streets and spacious and costly buildings.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Oklahoma, too, is knocking at the
Of statehood, and her case has b"
vorably reported by the house CT
on territories. The racing
when Oklahoma soil was Fl
settlement seems to have
ever since.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

After the fund has been raised in cities
for the relief of the unemployed Dor,
they can be put to breaking stone and
preparing material under shelter when.
the weather is too inclement for tn I'm to
work outdoors. Blffalo gives her poor
men employment in thet manner and
pays them 10 cents an hour.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

India has 100000 goats, which pro-
duce daily 100000 quarts of milk and
devour annually three times their own
value Of articles that the owners can i'll
afford to spare.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Immigration is falling off and emigra-
ton is increasing, and both to an extent
and with a rapidity that, if continued
will make the current year one OF the
phenomenal periods in the history OF the
foreign population Of the United States.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

snow is the winter of our discomfort
made glorious summer" by Ayers Sars-
aparilla. This wonderful medicine SO
~invigorates the system and enriches the
blood that cold weather becomes
positively enjoyable. Arctic explorers
would do we'll to make a note of this.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

"The jingling of the guinea helps the
hurt that honor feels" When the sultan
of Morocco pays $12, 000, 900 for the little
affair with the Riffs, Spain will call it
quits.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Three of our crack new cruisers are
now at Rio J~aneiro-the Charleston, De-
troit and Newark. The San Francisco u
on her way there in addition.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

The gross earnings Of the Great North
err for the six months ended Dec. 81
were S9,l16,661, a decrease Of $427,326.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-19

Congressman Hartman has introduced
a bill in the house for the construction
of a public building at Great Falls.
The herald., 1894-02-28
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Latest u Govt Report
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ABSOEA yTElYs PURE
A SLIM cAsE.J
The Trial of Melvin Arson, Accused of
Assault to Murder.


The Trial OF Melvin Arson, Accused of
Assault to Murder.
Melvin Arson was on trial yesterday
in Judge Smiths court upon charge OF
assault with intent to commit murder.
This is San Pedro case, and the testi-
mony did not pan out very heavily for
the prosecution.
Arson last October was working for
George Lecompton, grocer OF San Pc
oro. de had several disputes with Lee
compton about settlement, and partic-
ularly over $40, which he said he had
loaned Lecompton.
He left his employ and entered an
other store. On the night OF January
9th he went to Lecompton's store with a
friend to ask him il he had told around
that he had stolen $40 from him.
Lecompton told him that it looked
that way. A ''scrap" then occurred, in
which Lscompton was thrown down.
he says Arson tried to shoot him, and
produced revolver, which, he claims,
dropped from Anson's hands to the floor.
On the other hand Anson claims that
Lecompton struck at him first, and that
then he downed Lecompton, but did not
attempt to use a revolver because his
had none. None of the eye witnesses of
the difficulty saw a revolver.
The testimony was concluded and the
case was submitted without argument,
but owing to some Instructions for the
defense not being ready the jury was not
instructed, and an adjournment was
taken until this morning.
The herald., 1894-02-28
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties Of a perfect lax
alive: effectually cleansing the system
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them aud ii is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and ST bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed. you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The herald., 1894-02-28
ATTRACTIONS AT REDoNDo.
The Leading Pleasure Resort of tho
Coast.

me Leading Pleasure Resort OF tho
Coast.
Again we would call the attention Of
eastern visitors and tourists to the great
attractions offered by the management
at the Redondo hotel. This house has
every modern improvement in the way
of lighting, heating, hot and cold water
in every room, etc., while chef presides
over the kitchen whose skill is probably
not surpassed by that of any other cul-
mary artist in the state. The Hammer
meyer orchestra furnishes music for the
house, and every day at the dinner hour,
as in the music hall or parlors of the
hotel in the evening, this famous band
delights the lovers of music with their
excellent performances. In the Office
are always found polite attendants, ever
ready to do anything in their power to
render guests comfortable and their
stay at the Redondo pleasant. Pay
visit to the chief shipping point for Los
Angeles and Southern California and
enjoy the hospitality of its famous hotel
before leaving for your eastern homes.
The herald., 1894-02-28
BROOKS is HELD.

The Young Waiter Charged With High
way Robbery.
Thomas A. Brooks, the young waiter
who is accused Of aiding S. P. Richards
in holding up and robbing Mr.. Hamer
and his store at the corner OF Main and
Fifteenth streets last September, had
his examination in Justice Austin's
court yesterday. The case occupied the
greater part of the day.
The evidence sdduced was wholly cir
cumstantial and covered the same
ground upon which Richards, Brooks
companion, was convicted of a similar
charge and sent to San Quentin. Con-
sidering circumstRntial evidence alone,
the court was justified in holding him
to answer to the superior court. Bail
Was fixed at $4,000.
Deputy District Attorney Rueh con-
Quoted the prosecution and @. G.
Stephens appeared as counsel for the
defendant.