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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
A Young Mans Nice Tact.

Among the passengers on a Lam
caster avenue car as it proceeded
west from Thirty-second and Market
streets was a we'll dressed young
man who sat in the corner, with his
coat collar turned up, INDUCING in
a half doze. A bag lay at his feet,
indicating that he was returning
from q journey. When the al reach
cd the transfer station, five young
girls entered the car, accompanied
by two young men.
They had scarcely been seated
when of the young ladies sud
denly left her seat, threw herself
alongside Of the young man in the
corner, and, placing n arm partly
around his neck, exclaimed: why,
Cousin Emerson, you've come at
last! What a fibber you are! We
looked She stopped, looked con.
fused, then, with a little shrek, hur.
richly rejoinel her companions and
buried her crimson face in her hand.
kerchief. She had made a mistake.
The young man after recovering
from his establishment rose from his
seat, bowed respectfully to the girls
escorts, tipped his hat politely to the
ladies and got off. AS the a passed
on he could be seen standing in the
street awaiting the next II. He had
aliyhted to relieve the young lady
of her embarrassment. -.Philadel
nhia Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
Overriding 1t.

A country editor who has just ar
rived in town is introduced to a
prominent politician, who, upon
shaking hands, says:
"Ah, the editor of The footing
Tooter?"
"Yes, sir"
II am indeed glad to meet you,
sir. The Tooter is one of the best
known and most extensively quoted
papers in the country. Often, sir:
while meditating upon its wise and
profound utterances have / felt
strong desire to meet its able editor
Are you in town on business, STRIP
Eyes. You see, l am just abou'
ready to bring out No. 1 of The loot
er and have come down to get pa
per for the first issue. New Yorl
| DiSDatch.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26

A prominent business man, noted
as a churchgoer, discovers that one
of his collectors has fraudulently re
tanned some of the money he has col
lected.
What do you meal by bringing
disgrace on yourselfl' asked the mer-
chant of the unworthy employee.
1T is the result of my following
the injunctions of the Bible" was
the reply.
what injunction is that2"
The n which reads, Hold fast
to that which is good Money is a
good thing to hold on to, isn't it2"-
Texas Siftings.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS IN
MINNESOTA, the DAKOTAS,
MONTANA, IDAHO,
WASHINGTON, OREGON and
CALIFORNIA.
Steamer Connections for ALASKA,
HAWAII, JAPAN and CHINA.

Solid in construction, modern in i'm
provements.
Palace Sleeping and Dining Cars,
Buffet Library Cars, Family Tourist
Slecpers and high back seated day
coaches especially adapted for long dis
lance travelling.
Meals served on ''pay for what you
eat' plan.
Through the grandest scenery in Amer
lea by daylight.
Reaches fine hunting, fishing, pleasure
and health resorts--Helena and Boulder
Hot Springs, Lake Mcdonald, the Koot-
enai the Columbia, Lake Chelan and
Puget Sound.
Round trip excursion tickets to points
east and west, with stop off privileges,
and choice of return route. Baggage
checked to destination.
Connects in season of navigation with
the magnificent steamships North West
and North Land running between Du-
luth and Buffalo.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
Too Much House For One Family.

\ benevolent wonan living at Glen
dale, \. j., dovotes much of her time to
entertaining children who live in the low
or wards of New York and who Of course
have crude ideas Of country life. During
Christmas week this woman invited u
dozen Of the little ulchins to her house
and was rewarded for her trouble by the
thorough way in which the children en-
joycd themselves. In the party was one
little girl scarcely ) years old. She came
from a crowded tenement house on the
east side and took the most intense inter
est in everything she saw. After a care
full inspection of everything on the parlor
floor of her hostess house she asked i'll "a
curious tone, WHO lives down s~tairs?"
"Wo do" was the reply.
"Who lives up %stairsI''
I'VE do"
"WclI, who lives above that:?"
why, we do, of course, " said the host
ess, with much interest. What makes
you ASK"
why, don't no Italians live in this
house, asked the little tot in open eyol
wonder, New York Tribune,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
SHE FOUND HIM..
Few Women Would Have Thought of It,
but She Did.

I have a wife that beats the world, -
remarked the drummer in a predatory
kind of a way.
Including YOURSELF" inquired the no
tel clerk.
Mentally and morally, yes, but not
physically, though l am not so sure about
hat that ! would provoke her enough to
find out. Anyway, she's a daisy" he
went on, and I'll give you an example
of what a Napolconess she is undo diff
culties. Last SIMMER was in New York,
and she was stopping in New Hampshire.
For some reason she took a notion to come
down where | was, and when she got to
the place whore | had been stopping l
wasn't there, as l had changed my board
ing house. The landlady didn't know
where l was, and | hadn't told my wife
about my moving, for l did not expect her
to come for a week or so later and was
going to write her. Wei, when she got
there and could not find me she was
stunped, for a lone woman is decidedly
lone in a Zig town like New York. But
my wife is not one of the kind to sit down
and cry. ON the other hand, she got up
straight and began to think how to find
me, and size did it in II manner that was
surprising. 1t was about 4 O'Clock when
snc came ilIO lOND. by . SIe Hdu COitlplet-
ed her schAsle, and that evening about 7,
as | was taking to a friend in front of the
Fifth Avenue hotel, l happened to be look
ing at hat stCrc0ptiCon advertisement
show just below Twenty third street on
that high building, and, by the powers,
the first thing l knew something was or
the screen hat almost took my breath
away"
Look at that, says I to my friend.
What is it;' says he.
'Read that message on the screen
says /.
CIV. II. Blank is wanted at his late
boarding house on Sixty-third street.
Mary
By gum, old man, says he, that's
you
Right you are says ], and in a
very few minutes ! was there, and found
my wife waiting for me, and tickled al
most to death over the original way of
finding me. Do you know of any other
wOman in this country or any other, con
cluded the drummer, that would have
thought of such a detective agency MS that
to nave found a lost husband?' And the
hotel clerk wanted to take IN a collection
among the married men Of the hotel for
a medal.-Dctroit Free Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
AMONG The DICTIONARIES.
q Seeker After Geographical Learning Has
q Bewiidering Fifteen Minutes.

\ Seeker After Geographical Learning Has
a Bewiidering Fifteen Minutes.
Mrs. Jones desires to purchase a
new dictionary. l have no objection.
When a woman wants a new diction-
airy, l think her husband should foot
the bill without a murmur. But Mrs.
Jones and l are not entirely agreed
as to what lexicon i'll particular we
shall introduce to u library. She
prefers q certain work in more than
II volume. also have in view a
work in more than one volume, but
much less expensive, and Ihave ven-
tured to hint, in a mild and tentative
way, that the cheaper dictionary con-
tains all the English we shall ever
require.
Last night happened to remember
that geographers use the word bifur-
cation in a special sense to designate
those natural water channels which
connect some river systems that are
otherwise entirely distinct. Now"
I said to myself. "I'll look up bifur-
cation in these two dictionaries. I'll
wager the peanuts that the book I'm
praising defines the word in its geo.
graphic sense. Then I'll take the
definitions to Mrs. Jones and con-
vince her that there is no use in buy
ing the larger work when we may do
just as swell for less than half the
money"
l straightway pitted those diction-
aries against one another, first con-
sulting the larger work. Its treat
ment of b%ifurcation seemed volumi-
nous enough to cover all the ground,
but there is not the faintest sugges-
ton of the meaning Of the word in
this special sense. German, English
and American geographers all use
the Same word to express the idea.
1t is found in our works on physical
geography and ever in some gram
man school textbooks, but it does not
appear in the we'll of English here
referred to.
You may imagine with what ex-
ultant feelings l confidently turned
to the other book. I opened volume
one at B and diligently searched. I
wiped my glasses to remove any
dimness that might impede vision
and searched again. Neither the
word b~ifurcate nor any of it's deriva-
tives is to be found in this work of
reference.
My i'll luck had not yet deserted
me. narrated the incident to a per-
son who l thought was my friend,
and he Immediately ran off and told
Mrs. Jones, and that settles the
chances of the dictionary that does
not include bifurcation in the Eng.
fish language.
l started to look up the word in
another dictionary, when my eye
happened to fall on Amazon, mean
ing the Amazon river. The deriva-
ton Of this name was given as a
native word meaning "boat destroy
Ell, referring to the destructive bore
or tidal wave at the mouth of the
river. If the photographer had con-
suited DR.. Egli's "Geographica Nom
ina," he would have rejected this
alleged origin of the name as purely
f~antastical, even without reading the
Hakluyt society's TRANSACTIONS from
the narrative of the first Spanish
voyagers on the great river.
have spent Is bewildering min
utes among the dictionaries, and
wonder if other seekers after truth
from the same ource often get as
much edification in a quarter of an
hour.-1imothy Jones in New York
Sun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
A Phenomenon of Light.

st is remarkably strange, not to say
un~accountablc," unused Harold Holding
ton, THAT when l am seated in my small
and lonely bachelor apartment the COM
bined radiance of three or four great far
ing gas burners is scarcely sufficient to
dispel the gloom and furnish enough light
to enable me to read from the printed page
the words of some inspired philosopher or
poet.
"While here in these spacious parlors,
with you on my knee and your golden
head resting peacefully on my shoulder,
but one gas jet is going, and it is turned
more than half way down at that. And
yet that fiery little glowing spark at the
extreme end of the other room seems to
shine with a marvellous brillancy and to
food both of these high ceilinged apart
ments with the dazzling refulgence of a
600 candle power arc light
Yes, it does, " said Eta simply. "Why
don't you turn it out?"
And thus it was again demonstrated
that even in matters connected with the
most tender affections of the heart woman
I is far more practical than man.-Life.
Never has history shown a more dra.
matte scene than that which now en-
sued. 1t was the 9Th of October, 1895.
In the peril of the hour the Convention
drew to itself the troops that were still
faithful to the established order. A
A Reasonable Suggestion.
Mrs. Spratt vigorously shaking he
sleeping spouse)-John! John! There's
burglar in the house.
Mr.. Spratt (protestingly)-See here
Manda. il instead of shaking the life on
Of me you'd 60 and shake that burgla'
you'd be doing some sood.-New fori
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
Music of the Iuturc.

The young lady at the piano was
playingadifficult selection from Wag,
ner. In the midst Of it she suddenly
stopped in confusion.
What is the matterI'inquired one
of the company.
Il struck a false note" she replied.
well, what Of it!" said another.
Nobody but Wagner would ever
know it, and he's dead. Go ahead
with the music"
And she went ahead. - Chicago
Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
A Doubtful Preliminary.

Now, jedge," said the sworn col
ored witness, I'm a-gwine ter tell
you de truth now!'
And what have you been testify.
ing to for the last hour and a half?"
asked the judge.
"Oh, l DIES been talkin up ter it.
Hit takes you some time ter git ter
de truth, jedge. You has ter Skin
mish lots fore you ketch de rabbit!'
Atlanta Constitution.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
DO Q E~CONOMIZEf
Tow to DO 1t without Being Made En-
tireIy Miserable.

tirely Miserable.
There ire all sorts of WAYS OF
,conomizing, remarked Mrs. Pip.
kins, who was having a chat with
her particular chum, Mrs. Timpson,
and was i'll a philosophizing mood.
Some methods are as uncomforta-
BILE as possible, some as little SO. In
deed | have practiced economies that
We're rather fun. Mr.. Pipkin's meth
Cd is of the very worst possible sort.
He gives up his glass of wine with
his dinner and his cigars. The result
is that he feels the grind of poverty
very hard indeed and gets exceed
ingly cross over it,"
Il should think that wine and CT
gars G the natural things to give
up first when one was economizing,"
said Mrs. Timpson. who is not a
philosopher.
Natural! Why, l call it simply
ridjculous-unless one were really in
want. once heard a man say that
in a pinch he could get along with
out some of the necessaries of life,
but without the iuxuries, never.
They We're what made life endura-
BILE. Well, have always sympathized
with that man. When WANT to plan
economies, / always provide myself
with a box of French candies, and
then l sit down and think real hard
about what can be given up without
discomfort.
"Once we found our income some
what reduced, and that dear, silly
old man of mine Immediately began
to make himself wretched by giving
up his little luxuries. l stood it for
several days until he suggested that
We had better give up desserts, to
which he is exceedingly partial, and
the ordered a box of his favorite CT.
CARS and a gallon of wine. I also got
my favorite box of candy and settled
down for a long argument.
"How did it end? Oh, l showed
Mr.. Pipkins on paper that by send.
ing away one of the servants and
wearing last years clothes we could
have our desserts and little e~xtrava.
gances and really not feel SO horri-
bly, poor, after all. We need not feel
obliged to save a fares at the eX-
pense of our legs, as some people
know always do when they econo-
mize. Really the most heartrending
and temper spelling way of saving is
that which keeps up appearances at
the cost of comfort.
YES. know you think me horri-
bly, extravagant because l do not
count my pennies, but just there lies
the secret of not feeling poor. To
have a small income is a very endura.
BILE hardship if only one keeps down
the big expenses so as not to have to
deny oneself the trifes. Like LES
petites miSeres de Ia vie humane,
which we are assured on very good
authority are the hardest n to
bear, it is the little pleasures that
make life enjoyable. Life is made up
of little things. To have one big
economy is a bore of course, but to
refrain every time You want a glass
of soda water or a cigar OF a fare
is constant source of irritation, and
very bad for the temper, 1 I'M sure
"ButIhave bored you long enough
with my views of life, and sc l will
say goodby and go home and see that
my dear old man has something good
for his dinner. "-Washington Star.
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scientifically Considered.

MERELY as il new experience, Wendell, "
said the Boston young woman, blushing
faintly and wiping her lips, Il find it
not disagrccable, but do not let it happen
again. 1t is utterly Illogical, irrelevant,
and recent scientific investigation shows
that it is fraught with microbes"
1t seems the foolhardy young man hea
kissed hcr.-Chicago Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
The Secret Out.

"Whas Is the secret of Fanny links
wonderful social success ubroadE | hear
that earls, dukes, lords and princes are
literally falling over each other to propose
to her"
''She gavo it out that she was the
daughter Of a police captain, New
York World.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26

i've decided to be a ballOonist when I
get to be a man, " said Benny ~Bloobumper
to his papa.
why, my SOM"
There is a chance to work up in the
profession. Harlem Life.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26

Yes, " said the editor, here area mum
Der of directions from outsiders rs to the
best way Of running a newspaper. Sec
that they are all carried out"
And the subordinate, gathering them
into a large basket, did so,-Detroit Trib.
une.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26

Il think there is a great deal Of
difference between that species of
ceremony which exists with ac-
quaintance and that which should al
ways exist with the best of friends
the one prevents the growth of affec-
ton; the other preserves it in youth
and age. Letters of Maria Edge
worth.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
John bones, His Mark.

1t is said that the cross mark ia
stead of a signature did not originate
in ignorance. 1t was always append
ed to signatures in medieval times
as an attestatiou ot g.~,d faith,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
"Limitcd Qualifications

Lady OF the llouac-listcn. Charlotte
am gong To give a party, supper and q
dance. Now, You will have TO show vb,t
you can do, so as to keep up the credit of
my establishment.
Cook-With pleasure, ma'am. but I
can only dance the waltz and the pol,;a.
You will have to excuse me from IN,
quadrilies. -Lustige Blatter.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
Consolation.

P~at-Arrah, Moike, but Olive had no
letter from me auld mother for year and
more.
Mike-Niver moind, me boy, If she's
dead, yez'n hear of it in her next. Prince.
ton Tiger.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
Hard Worked.

Wyld-I hear Tradesmun carries on
quito an extensive correspondence with
tho Four Hundred.
KclloEg-What does he write about
Wyld-pleaso remit.--Brooklyn Life
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
None Greater.

Smithcrs- Brown, you arc a we'll read
a What do you think is the greatest
thing about this world?
Bruwn-Well, to be accurate, Smithcr7,
l think it's the neutrality-suspicious.
Ernamfu
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
The Use of Water.

The average consumption of water
in New York city is 1SS, 600, 900 gal
Ions a day. These figures put New
York at the head of the cities of the
world in this respect. London's sup.
ply is 10, O00, 600 gallons a day. The
supply of Paris is leo, coo, 900 gallons,
and Chicago, among American cities,
comes next to New York.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26

Many Partisan drinking cups have
been found in the ruins of Persepo.
lis. They are shaped almost exactly
like our saucerS.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
Garrulous.

'Audge is pretty much of a talker, ia
he not?'
He is, but / can't say just how much.
/ haye always had to leave before he got
sh->"-h "-Indianapolis Journal.
Only q Little Shop Worn.
Mrs. Gadd (after having made a round
of the stores)-Dear mel l am just used up.
Mr.. Gadd-Oh, no! You're only a little
shop orn.-RoGersyille (Tepn.) Review.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26
Evolution.

A New York monkey slipped his
tether and went on a gorgeous JAM
boree among the saloons. All the
accounts agree that he made a hui
man being of himself. Boston Her
aid.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-26

There's one thing to be said in ia
vOr of the summer. One has warmer
friends than in winter.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-12
WORSE THAN IDA WELLS The Diatribe of a Negro Preach
 CT at Jacksonville. A TISSUE OF FALSEHO0DS With Here and There Spot of Truth-Hs Doefu Prophecy and Artful
 Appeal.

Jacksonville, Fla, Aug. 11.-Rev. J. Milton Waldron. preached sensational sermon here tonight on lynchings. He used as his text the words of Job iv, 1S and Proverbs xiv, 34, which are as fol- lows: ''They that blow iniquity and SOW wickedness reap the same;" righteous ness eXalteth a nation, but sin is re- proach to any people," He said in part:
 "The lynching of colored people began at the close of the late civil war. The former master was unwilling to allow the ex-slaye the same privilege as himself, and in order to keep the negro from get ting into power, and to get those out of power who had been put there by the negro voters, the whites, during the reconstruction days organized Ku-kluX- klans, lynchings and other terrorisms. These things, together with political fraud, class legislation, etc., were kept up until the control of the southern states came back into the hands of the former slave owners.
 Tn reconstruction days the killing of negroes was condoned because it was said to be necessary in order to get the government into the hands of the south ern whites When it was no longer nec- eSsary for that purpose some other ex- cuses had to be resorted to in order to shield the rOughS who had become set in their ways and must shed blood.
 Now and then a colored man was found who had been brute enough to i'm itate his white neighbor and attempt to ravish a woman. If it was white wom- an the crime was thought to justify the whites in taking the law into their own hands and lynching and even burning the negro. From lynching for rape and supposed rape the habit has grown, until now colored men, women and children are 1ynched in the south for rape, sus- pected rape, barn burning, stealing and resisting arrest. And hundreds of col ored families are driven from their homes every year, their property destroyed and wives and daughters outraged and whipped. This state of affairs has con- tinued until checked except in rare in stances, until it has bred an element in the south among the whites who care nothing for law and set no value upon human life. It has made the negro re- vengeful and it is fast goading him on to desperation. The spirit of lawless- ness murder and revenge has spread among both whites and blacks in the south until it has become alarming. Something must be done and done at once or our fair southland is forever doomed.
 "The great southern dailies, viz: The Florida Times-Union, Savannah Morn ing News, New Orleans Times-Democrat Atlanta Constitution and some others have realized the dreadful state of affairs and have gone to work in earnest to cor rect this evil If these papers be sup ported in their heroic action our country will soon be redeemed from the great cloud which everybody knows hangs over it."
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-12

sermon was false doctrine. If doctrine was false it would come to naught. Tha world was now pusating with thought and all things were being investigated. AS man thinks so he is. This is true in the morals, but not in the sciences. Men once believed that the earth was flat and that the stars were set in sockets, yet this did not affect their morality. But In theology man is a part of his belief. No thought about God is complete. A man cannot by searching find out God. He is infinite. The finite mind cannot grasp him in His entirety. Phillip Brooks said be not afraid of the large ness of your thought Bishop Potter is a man of great thought. His life Is an answer to the carping ecclesiastics. Sometimes false doctrines become lodged in the mind without being a part of it. When Garfield was shot the physician could not find the bullet. At the au topsy the bullet was found surrounded by cartilage. It was in his system, but not a part of it. The doctrine that affects our lives is that which becomes part of us. Vital truth will grow and expand. All doctrines that survive must have a modicum of truth. We find in this world that almost everything is composite. Truth is often not unmixed with error. The truth shall make you free Let us live nobler purer truer lives.