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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
Calling smith.

Miss Kate Field relates an experience
which she had in trying to sleep in a
hotel in a Utah mining town where the
partitions between the rooms were of
boards merely and quite innocent of
lath and plaster. The ordinary going
and coming Of the early part of the night
were bad enough, but toward morning,
when at last she had fallen asleep, a loud
voice shouted from her keyhole:
"Smith! Smith,
As her name was not Smith, she made
NJ response.
Smith came the shout again. Its
time to skip
MY name is not Smith," she then an
swered.
From across the hall came the call of
the day clerk, who occupied the room
there:
No. That amt Smith. Smiths at
the end Of the hall"
We'll, this is the end of the hail."
came from the neighborhood of the kew
hole again. 1t was the voice of the por-
ter.
aren't there two ends to the hall?
It's the other end, you blockhead."
"Who wants Smith" came a sharp
voice from the distance. I'm Smith,"
whats the matter! I'm Smith,
came still another voice.
swell, whichever Smith wants to get
up at 4 o'clock, him's the one," growled
the porter.
Both these Smiths slammed their doors
with a vehement protestation that they
didn't want to get up.
''It's Smith in No. IT. screamed the
day clerk.
The right Smith had not been walked
at all, so the porter found No. / and
pounded On the door so hard that every
body in the house who had not already
been walked was aroused, and several
people rushed out into the hall, thinking
there was a fire.
The porter went down complacently
to the Office on the floor below.
WELL" said he to the night clerk, 81
walked him up anyhow"
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
They Him.

A circumstance happened in connec-
ton with the failure in business of q
we'll known inhabitant of Yorkshire
which caused much amusement. The
bankrupt was asked the momentous
question, "What are you prepared to
offer3" and in reply stated that he had
no assets whatever.
"What is there now, Joei" asked a
jolly looking creditor.
Nothing" replied the bankrupt.
well, you can sing. Come, sing US
a song"
Joe fumbled with his hat and said he
hardly liked to sing.
Come, strike up" exclaimed the
creditor; "let's have something for our
BRASS" Thus urged. Joe cleared his
throat and began the ballad "And
You'll Remember Me-" As the plain
tive melody fell on the ears of the cred
itors some of them began to feel indig-
nant, but the humor Of the situation at
length burst upon them, and the final
line was greeted with roars of laughter.
London Judy.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

Congressman Tom johnson of Ohio
will perhaps be able to put into prac.
teal shape some of his progressive ideas
in the pottery colony in which he is said
to be interested near East Liverpool. 1t
is well known that in the vicinity of
East Liverpool are varieties of potters'
clays unsurpassed in the world for fine
ness and natural coloring. The only
thing needed to make some of the most
beautiful wares ever displayed is the
lack of artistic skill and knowledge on
the part of the potters themselves. The
project Of a number of potters at East
Liverpool is to begin all over again, es-
!tablish a new cooperative plant and turn
on tin time earthenware worthy of the
United States and the state of Ohio.
They will at the same time found a CO.
operative colony and a new city, estab-
lished on the latest improved lines, NOR
al, sanitary and otherwise. The pottery
is expected to give employment to 1900
men. In carrying on the affairs of a
city, new or old, the first thing is to is
sue bonds and borrow money. This the
cooperative East Liverpool enterprise
has already undertaken to do. Forty-one
million dollars is the sum wanted.
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An able journal contains a recent edi-
torial on the age of steel. IT'S we'll,
Only our esteemed contemporary spells
it wrong. This is the age of steal. There
is not an article of food that can be adul-
terated that is not put upon the market
in that state. The very bread that goes
into our mouths is pulled up with am
monia and cheapened so that the nour-
ishment is nearly all out of it.
The individual who should undertake
to live on ordinary bakers bread would
starve to death in a short time. When
we fall i'll from the effects of insufficient
and adulterated food, we call in the
physician, who gives us a prescription.
By the iniquitous system known to drug.
gists substituting" our verymedicines
are adulterated, too, so that they do not
have the effect intended. This system
of wholesale murder would worry the
druggist and chemist so they could not
sleep nights if this were not the age of
steal.
There is scarcely a textile fabric on the
market, no matter at what price, that is
pure silk, pure linen or pure anything it
claims to be. When a real estate agent
sells town lots, e will conceal deliber-
ately every disadvantage connected with
the property and make an earthly para.
disc out of a mosquito swamp or a
~droughty desert.
The reason of it all is that this is the
age of steal. 1t rules in all transactions
alike from colossal to microscopic. And
yet we wonder that hard times overtake
the civilized world periodically. Tie
wonder would be if they did not.
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A SERIOUS SITUATION.

Our dispatches Thursday are Of
character that show in a stronger ligh
than ever the gravity of the situation
growing out Of the railroad strike. Their
is no longer room to doubt the intention
of the railroad management, which is
in a word, to contest the ground taker
by the men and by every means in theil
power to resume operations without the
aid of the striking employees. This pro
gram was set in full motion Wednesday
An Injunction was secured from the
United States court for the district Of
Minnesota and the Dakotas, enjoinine
the men from destroying the property Of
the company or interfering with the
traffic of the road. A like Injunction
will doubtless be asked from Judge
Knowles Of the Montana district and as
we'll from the courts Of Idaho and Wash
ington. In pursuance Of this arrange
ment two trains left st. Paul Wednesday
carrying men to take the places Of strik-
ers and under the charge o: United
States marshals. This is the serious
phase of the matter. Under the %injunc-
ton issued, the contest, if there is one,
becomes a contest between the strikers
and the United States authorities in
stead of the railroad company. 1t gives
the latter the support Of the strong arm
Of the government.
In view OF the premises, there is great
err need than ever for wise counsel and
the exercise OF moderation, and, if with
in the bounds Of the possible, for a
speedy adi ustment of the differing views
Of the railroad and its employees. No
hasty or ill.advised action should be
taken. The conduct of the employees
up to this time is such as rebounds
to their credit, but they have
now to face the crisis in their affairs.
There is need for them to call in their
aud and safest counselors and to
put on the air-brpke to their feelings
and passions. Discretion and modera.
ton are the w%atchwords of the hour.
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Fine Feminine Enthusiasm.

1t is a grand thing to be a successful
lawyer OF q member of a jury that rem.
ders a popular verdict. But it is a little
embarrassing sometimes. 1t is indeed.
When popular enthusiasm bursts all
bounds and slops owe in its gratitude,
the lawyer or juryman could occasion
ally almost even wish the verdict had
gone tho other way.
A pretty Polish girl of the name of
Anna Wonzowlaska was on trial in
. country town on Long Island on a
serious charge. She had many friends.
women friends. and they trooped into
court and watched the trial with great
interest. The eloquence of her lawyer
80 moved the jury that they acquitted
her. Without a word of warning, with.
out a premonition on his part Of the
dread fate that was to overtake him, the
lawyer was suddenly seized by the
strong, pretty arms of Anna Wonzow-
laska and squeezed and kissed till he
was almost suffocated.
1t was the signal for Annals friends to
be up and doing. The kissing epidemic
attacked them also. They could not get
at the lawyer because Anna Wonzow-
laska m~onopolized him. They turned
their attention to the judge. Twenty
women would have kissed him to death
but that he was protected on all sides by
q phalanx of stony hearted court officers,
who rallied to his support just in the
nick of time.
"The jury, the jury" exclaimed one Of
the 20 women There was a simultane-
GUS rush at the men in the box. The
foreman, being nearest the door, got
away, but the other II had to sit and take
it. If any II of those men ever wants
any more hugging and kissing during
his natural life, he will be hard to satisfy.
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The poet Bryant, while editor Of the
New York Post, insisted that young
poets should be sympathetically noticed
in the book columns of the paper. Once
q subeditor handed him a thin volume
of poems saying that they were worth
less. MI. Bryant looked through the
book and then said, You might say
that it is prettily bound and clearly
printed"
The editor of whom this story is told
also had a soft side for young men who
would write poetry.
"Give me your candid judgment OF
these lines, " said the young man of lit
erary aspirations. "Do they convey the
idea Of poetry at all?"
"Yes, SIR" replied the editor, look
ing them over, they do. There is some
thing in every line that conveys the
idea. Every line," continued the kind
hearted man, letting him down0as gen.
tly as he could, ''begins with a capital
letter. Youths Companion.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
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AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT.

Ii was with the sIncerest pleasure that
Wednesday the friends Of Jerry Collins
received the telegram announcing his
nomination to the position of United
States receiver Of the land Office at Hell
ena. Numerous kilograms of congratu-
lation were received by him during the
evening from Helena and other places,
and hosts Of friends in this city showed
their pleasure by personal calls. As a
resident Of Great Falls and Helena he
received the confidence Of the citizens;
as a consistent democrat he has received
a mark of esteem from the chief magis-
trate, and THE TRIBUNE wishes to add,
the Office could have been given to none
more worthy.
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Earthquakes.

There has been much dispute as to the
causes of earthquakes. They are often
associated with volcanic phenomena.
When the lava of a volcano contains
much water, the latter is converted into
steam and produces explosions which jar
the ground for miles. The explosion of
the great mine at He'll Gate, in New
York. occasioned tremblings of the earth
which were observed 175 miles away.
Washington Star.
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Used Up the Alphabet,

A'Toronto man has gone through the
alphabet naming his nine children, be-
ginning with Alice Beatrice Caroline
and ending with Xerxes Yorick Zenith.
All nine are living, and the oldest is
only IA years old, but there is one pair
of twins in the list, which used up six
letters of the alphabet. The children
are easily nicknamed by calling their
initials for short. -Toronto Empire.
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Standing by the Women.

Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch
writes to the Illinois Suffragist:
The Illinois supreme court is still stand
ing by women's right to vote at school
elections, as is evidenced by their recent
decision Of Alderman versus HaAack ct
al. "It is claimed that 600 women were al
lowed to vote. Under the law as declared
by this court in Plummer versus Yost,
IA Illinois, SO, the women who voted
for members Of the board of education
and president of the board were qualified
voters" My congratulations to the 600
women suffragists in Spring Valley,
where this contest arose.
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AS VIEWED sY AN ENGINEER,


Impressions of a Piano Solo From q Rail-
road Mans Standpoint.
II was lettering around the streets
one night, said Jim Nelson, enc of the
old locomotive engineers running into
New Orleans, to a reporter. "As / had
nothing to do I dropped into a concert
and heard a sleek looking Frenchman
play a piano in a way that made me feel
all owe in spots. AS soon as he sat
down on the stool I knew by the way he
handled himself that he understood the
machine he was running. He tapped
the keys way up one end, just as If they
were gauges, and he wanted to see if he
had water enough. Then he looked up
as IL he wanted to know how much
steam he was carrying, and the next
moment he pulled open the throttle and
sailed on to the main line as if he was
half IN hour late. You could hear her
thunder owe culverts and bridges and
getting faster and faster until the fell
low rocked about in his seat like a era
die. Somehow I thought it was old 49,
pulling a passenger train and getting
out Of the way Of a Special The fel.
low worked the keys on the middle d.
vision like lightning, and then he few
along the north end of the line until the
drivers went around like a buzzsaw,
and I got excited.
About the time l was fixing to tell
him to cut her off a little he kicked the
hampers under the machine wide open.
pulled the throttle way back in the tend
er, and how he did run! | couldn't
stand it any longer and yelled to him
that he was pounding on the left side,
and If he wasn't careful he'd drop his
ash pan. But he didn't hear. No one
heard me. Everything was flying and
whizzing. Telegraph poles on the side
Of the track looked like a row of corn
stalks, the trees appeared to he a mud
bank, and all the time the exhaust Of
the old machine sounded like the hum
of a bumblebee.
II tried to yell out, but my tongue
wouldn't move. He went around curves
like a bullet, slipped an eccentric, blew
out his soft plug, went down grades 80
feet to the mile and not a controlling
break set. She went by the meeting
point at a mile a minute and calling
for more steam. My hair stood up
straight, because | knew the game was
up. Sure enough, dead ahead of us was
the headlight of a special In a daze /
heard the crash as they struck, and /
cars shivered into atoms, people
smashed and mangled and bleeding and
gasping for water. | heard another
crash as the French professor struck the
deep keys away down on the lower end
OF the southern division, and then l
to my senses. There he was at a
dead standstill, with the door of the fire.
box of the machine open, wiping the
p%erspiration off his face and bowling to
the people before him. If / live to be
1000 years old, III never forget the
ride that Frenchman gave me on a pi-
ano.' New Orleans Times Democrat, /,
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A movement is on foot in France &c
secure reciprocity treaties with the Unit
ed States similar to those we now have
with Mexico and the South American re-
publics. French merchants and boards
of trade desire closer commercial rela-
tons with us, and they are at the head
Of the movement for reciprocity. Their
representative in this country is M. Leon
Chotteau, the distinguished writer on
economies.
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Iowa dairymen are prosperous and in
fuential. They are aggressive, as men
have a right to be who have paid off
farm mortgages and laid something by,
all from systematic COW culture. They
have succeeded III getting a law through
their legislature that the makers of oleo-
margarine shall not color it yellow in
that state. But it may still be colored
green.
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THE COMMUNITY AND THE STRIFE

Great Falls has justly earned the rep
utation of being a wide-awake, enter
prising, progressive city. In all matters
affecting the community, for good or i'll,
her citizens are ever ksenly alert to the
advantages to be gained or injuries to be
averted. If, for illustration, a manufac-
turing enterprise is seeking a location in
the western field, the people Of the Elec-
tric city are not slow in presenting the
advantages offered at this point; il the
railroads discriminate against this city
in the matter of rates, the management
is likely to hear Of it, in the way OF a
vigorous protest, in as ehort a time as
the wires can click off the information.
Matters OF this character, affecting the
interests of the community, are not often
overlooked. and this watchfulness and
enterprise on the part of our citizens has
become proverbial throughout the state.
The present situation resulting from
the general strike of the employees of the
Great Northern system is one Of the
most serious that has ever been pre-
sented to this community, involving, as
it does, the closing down of all the mines
and smelters, as well as other enter
prises. in this section and the enforced
idleness of not less than 900 wage
earners. In view Of this fact is not the
community vitality interested, and while
it may not be influential enough to bring
about such a solution Of the difficulties
as would be desired. should it not seek
Icy all proper means to aid 10 securing
some solution OF the troubles: The
TRIBUNE has every reason to believe that
the men are prompted to be reasonable
in their demands and would meet the
railroad management in such a spirit of
moderation that, if met in like manner
on the other side. would result in a
speedy settlement of existing difficulties.
The duty of the community. then, as
The TRIBUNE views the matter, is not to
put on its armor and enter the lists on
either side, but rather 20 act as modera-
tor and peace.maker, and by all
honorable means to seek to put an end
to the contention.
II the struggle should be prolonged
into months, the result would be as dis
as,lous 10 Great Falls ard the surround
ing country as the late financial depress-
ion, and perhaps more serious, for no one
would escape the consequences. TO the
small army of laboring men in and
about Great Falls, who. consider
ing the general depression, are
as prosperoes and contented as
workmen in any portion Of our country.
it would mean ruin or the next thing to
it. In view Of these facts the citizens of
Great Falls should put forth every effort
10 secure an ad ustment of existing diff
They should faithfully repre-
sent the situation, and the threatened
to the railroad company and to
the proper committee of the employees
and aid in bringing them together.
Without regard to individual opinion,
this is the proper duty of the community.
AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT.
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Two OuOtatiOns.

This quotation appears OF the bed
room door in a south Lancaster eng
land) hotel, Il will lay mt down in
peace and take my rest, for it is thou,
Lord, only that makest me to dwell in
safety" Below which the proprietor
has penned, lowing to the frequency of
hotel robberies, you are requested to
bolt your door. London Globe.
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American consuls abroad are begin
ming to be Of considerable use in the way
OF encouraging u trade with the coun-
tries in which they are resident. They
begin to give a reason for being.
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The idea Of the balloon first occurred
to the Montgolfier brothers from seeing
q large piece of paper fall over the FIRE,
become inflated with smoke and hot air,
rise and sail away.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

NJ. Dufosse, a French savant, declares
that fishes a talk. They can, he de-
produce certain sounds at will
by the vibration of certain specially de-
muscles. These vibrations are
caused by a little air bladder, which is
alternately distended and exhausted.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

It will be observed that the income
tax clause Of the tariff bill has been
mostly advocated among people who
have no incomes to speak of and bitterly
opposed by those who have.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

1t would be worth while for the ladies
to bear in mind that il they take a gen.
tie course Of Ayers Sarsaparilla in the
spring, they will have no trouble with
"prickly heat "hivee," 'sties,' '.boils,"
or "black heads when summer comes
Prevention is better than cure.
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The Wisconsin Central Lines

THO 1scOhsIh CeutfaI Lines
Run two fast trains daily between st
Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago, Mil.
waukee and all points in Wisconsin
making connection 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. G. POM,
General Passenger Agent,
Milwaukee, Wis.
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Quito, in Ecuador, though on the line
Of the equator, has a meal temperature
the year round but little different from
that Of Boston, owing to its elevation,
says a writer in Goldthwaite's Maya
zine.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

Frederick Douglass says that II the
negro knows enough to pay taxes and
obey the laws hs knows enough TO vote,
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recovered from the effects of the late
panic so rapidly as Great Falls. and no
one need expect that a railroad strike
even at it's worst, can confine or restrict
the pent.up energies Of this city.
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Every man has within himself the
germ Of a noble life, II he will but pull
mp the weeds and let the showers and
sunshine have a chance.
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Three degrees Of mining speculation
positive, mine; comparative, miner;
speculative, minus.
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Ladies', Notice.

New Dressmaking Parlors in the Too
block. Rooms ! and 2.
MRS. e. w. REID.
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The old reliable "Belle of Neleon'
Whisky at cCollum's.
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Insure with Wadsworth, Wells g. Han
son, First National bank building.
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The paralysis of the industries OF
Great Falls and the surrounding country
is one Of tine unfortunate features of the
strike, as affecting this community. The
Boston d. Montana smelter, employing
800 men at acceptable wages, must close
down because its supply OF ore and fuel
is shut off. The employees at the works
Of the United Smelling company, at
Sand Couiee, Belt and Neinart-at least
l,500 additional--are in enforced idle
ness for the same reason. II is a great
hardship to them, to their families and
TO this community. The facts stated
illustrate the wide spread evils Of the
strike and emphasize the position taken
by THE TRIBUNE that no efforts should
be left undone on the part Of our citizens
to aid in bringing about a compromise
or understanding between the railroad
management and its employees.
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As we have stated, Great Falls will
suffer more by eason Of a protracted
strike than any other city on the line Of
the Great Northern, because there is
practically no competing railroad, and
for the addition reason that this city is
a strong industrial center. The conse-
quences will be serious enough for the
time being, but they can only be tenn
porary. No city in the northwest has