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Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Yesterday a resident OF Great Falls,
because Of a grievance. made a gun
play" AMI. on being arrested, was properly
and promptly fined so and costs by the
police magistrate for carrying concealed
weapons. 1t this law were rigidly and
impartially enforced fewer persons would
think = weapon an essential part of their
costume. and there would be fewer un-
necessary shooting scrapes
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

me Helena city council has hired q
spokane engineer and paid him $3.50 to
Try and Ind a water supply for the CITY,
For this the Herald INDUCES in a savage
coast on the council and intimates that
there was a job in it. Judging by the
size or the expenditure, if there is a 1ob
In the matter the dizzy must have been
In other words Helena council.
men must come cheap.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Governor MctirAw of Washington de
clined to appoint delegates from that
state to the salt Lake free coinage on
vention. Whereupon the citizens Of
Spokane held a rousing mass meeting
and elected the necessary number Of
delegates, This is an emphatic notice to
the gentleman that, though governor. he
is not the state of Washington by a jug
full
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

1t doesn't take much of a day for
news in Washington to get the report
started that Gresham is going to resign.
Two or three times a month some Wash.
ington correspondent gets on the in.
side" and sends out the exclusive in
formation that Cleveland's secretary of
state is sick of his job and proposes to
pull out. But Gresham doesn't pull"
The chances are about seven to one that
he will not. He has made so many
blunders in the management of our
foreign relations that a stepping down
and out would be into a quiet political
oblivion. Gresham is ambitious. His
ambition has led him into actions that
have stamped him az a man caring more
for position than for consistency in his
public career. Such men always cling
to an office in the midst of failure
Gresham will stay until the last gun ie
fired.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

In an elaborate and %laudatory article
upon the growth of st. Paul the Pioneer
Press, in headlines, declares it us the
king Of the great northwestern realm of
trade, and it's establishments form the
depots from which the country draws
between st. Paul and the Coast" This
is true. The Twin Cities have been
built up by the patronage of Montana,
Idaho, Washington, Colorado and other
silver producing states, yet today the en-
tire press OF st. Paul and Minneapolis
are the blatant and earnest advocates of
the goldbug theories of the east, and the
bitter and Incorporating enemies of
the interests of the section that has been
their only customer.
The boycott is not a desirable weapon,
but If the merchants of Montana and
other western states were to unite in
Withdrawing their patronage from st.
Paul firms the object lesson might have
some effect.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

these organizations actively at work.
The rapidity with which the irrigation
problem reaches solution must depend
upon the earnestness shown by the west
ern people who live in the states that are
to be reclaimed to fertility. The only
way to get results is to keep pegging
away.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
RATES.


The regularly accredited delegates
will of course be there, but il would be
good policy if rs many citizens OF Mon
tana as can do so will attend the silver
convention at Salt Lake. The gather
ing will be an important one,
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Andrew Carnegie has halted lopp
enough IN his philanthropic career to
raise the wages of his 5000 employees 10
per cent This is a far better scheme
than endowing libraries and building
fountains. 1t is just and practical and
will be appreciated.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

1t is how said that the defalcation of
Paul ~ehulze. mauager Of the land de.
partmeut of the Northern Pacific. will
reach between :lUU.uuo and S2JU,uuU
Paul WAS no worse than many of the
other officials, but they knew enough to
ascape with the Doodle, and he paid the
penalty with his ifa.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

BY the change of administration, and
at the dictum of the mayor, aided by
the council, City Marshal Pontet has
been relegated to private life. In his
retirement the marshal carries with him
the consciousness ofduty well performed
and the deserved respect of the COM
munity. That politics should force so
honorable and competent an officer to
the ear is not only a matter of regret, it
is an Injustice alike TO him and to the
people he has served so we'll and faith
fully, No n has had the temerity to
say aught against his personal or his
official character during his l~ncumbency;
he is simply a victim OF the 'spoils"
system that should not obtain ia NUM-
cipal affairs. AS we grow older it will be
realized that there are many positions in
which the laborer is worthy of his hire;
until that day is reached there is no
incentive for a man to do his duty.
This can be said. In whatever avenue
the future may open up for him Marshal
Pontet can be assured Of the respect and
good will OF the people OF Great Falls.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

than the spirit of the law, the commits
%sioners must be on their guard. The
people of Montana do not want to rob
the road OF an acre of agricultural land
to which 1t is entitled, but they do not
intend that it shall have mineral land
that is specifically exempted in the
prapi
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

The Montana new codes are in the
hands of the printer, and the publication
Of them will be the last Of the scheme so
far as the Legislature is concerned.
After that the courts will take d hand
and proceed to knock out many of the
provisions 10 one, two, three order,
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

Now comes the Butte Inter Mountain
with the mean suggestion that the next
Helena grand jury, when it meets, should
ndict the past one for equandering the
county funds. That is unkind, to say
the least.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
COPPER ABOVE TEN CENTS.

Copper keeps doing better. Prices
haven't been doing SO satisfactory for
many a day. The copper stocks have
been almost booming along up the grade
in a fashion to surprise the financiers.
The writer of the financial column of the
Boston Advertiser of last Friday said:
cooper has passed tie 10 cent Limit To-
cally, and there was no copper for sale
last night at that price. Day before yes
terday sales for comparatively small lots
were made at So u, but when London
showed its tremendous advance for the
day, producers had no price for the mo-
ment and none OF them would fix any
quotation, for publication at least. The
advance in copper for the day in Lon
don, with a strong close, was IL shil-
lings and 6 pence, a rise for the day of
such proportions, at what has seemed a
high price, that it is necessary to go
back to the time OF the old French syn
dictate to find its equal. All the copper
shares were higher. Montana, with 1Oc.
copper, ] have said and shown in approx
innate figures, should be selling at from
45 to 80, with the net return increased
dividends will show for the property.
1t sold at As yesterday, and all the other
properties were stronger"
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17

"A Butte husband has sued a an in
that city for 5000 for alternating the az.
fections Of his wife. This appears rather
cheap but the husband evidently knows
just what she is worth,
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
STUFF r.

The TRIBUNE is in receipt of an ap-
peal for aid from the citizens committee
for the relief Of the drought-stricken
people Of Ewing, Holt county, Neb. The
appeal states that the condition ia an
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
Lost.

Lost from Goodman Coulee about
April ~, one bay gelding, branded - on
left thigh; one bay gelding branded0 %
on right shoulder; n black mare brand
cd on right hip. Reward SO, 70.
turn to Park stables, Great Falls.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12

In the Contributors Club. in the March
Atlantic. the following incidents are re-
lated OF persons suffering from hets-
HeJer0phemy. the curious disease which
consists In using one word when meaning
20 use an enurely diheTeat one. gives rise
p many amusing com tions- An old
lady living an a town on the Hudson river
rs thus afflicted. She is tall and stately in
appearance, cOurtly AMI gracious in man
ner, and this makes her incOnEruous
sentences all the more ridiculous. Strange
20 say, she herself is toally unconscious
OF her lnrrmity. for the family. friends
ana even the servants endeavOr 70 save
hsr from the mortlficatiOn she would feel
Not long ago, when she was recovering
rom a serious 4ilness. the bishop OF the
dlOcese chanced TO be making his annual
visitation. and at the suggestion Of the
Mrs. Drew.
She was delighted to see Them. and en-
tertained them with her usual grace and
cOrdialitv The conversation naturally
touched upon her illness, and her thank
had been despaired OF.
Presently she turned 70 the bishop. say
ing earnestly. My dear bishop, let us have
a little drop"
The startled prelate glanced at the
rector. He knowing his old friends in
hfnNy cast about in mis- mind her prob
Bishop" repeated the old lady. Sc
riously. Tets have little drop"
certainly. Mrs. Drew interrosed the
Ilttl " e4AAlllS LOT lltE 10 MAKE some move
winch might disclose her meaning. But
Mrs. Drew waited expeotantly, also.
II You nave not your Wade Mecum
with you, there is prayer Book she
said, after a moment.
The rector. with a sigh of relief turned
10 the bishop Mrs. Drew viii be glad to
have you read prayers with her." he said
quietly
Prayers were read, and then the gentle
men prepared TO take leave
Your visit has been a pleasure" Mrs.
Drew said warmly. Now Mr.. Belknas,
won tyOu take this little boy home TO your
dear wife. with my best lover"
For a moment Mr.. Belknap wondered if
she could mean the bishop, but she re-
lieved his mind by lifting a magnificent
bunch Of roses from vase on the table.
Allied to this Is another form of mis-
speech. TO which most of us are occa-
siOnally Subject-the exchange of sylla-
bles. A certain young lady. who, to her
intense modification, often reversed her
vOwels thus, says she Is entirely uncon-
scious of ii. even after speaking.
one summer evening she was sauntering
with friend toward the village postofice
Of the little town where they We're staying.
on the way they encountered an ac-
quaintance with handful of letters.
An. good evening" she said, in her
peculiarly gracious, sUave manner. Are
you strailing ont for your moleg'
The mystifcd young woman made some
inarticulate reply and passed on. AS soon
as the friend could recover her gravity,
she gasped II suppose you intended to
ask Miss May if she was strolling out for
her mail?'
The same young lady was relating a sasN
story of various misfortunes which had
overwhelmed a dear friend.
Think" she concluded, pathetcally
~ot losing husband, children property and
at one swell foop! And howl Of laugh
ter rent the roof
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12
Personal.

The man who is President when the
son OF Col. FTed Grant becomes of an
age sufficient for admission TO West Point
VIII receive letter from an eX-Pres dent
written long before his death, asking that
his grandson be appointed a cadet in the
institution.
There is. near Louisa Ky, a young
farmer named John Fellows who has no
tongue, nor is there even q rudimentary
organ where the tongue should be. There
are nine other cases on record similar to
TINS IN this country, but in every instance
the pei so afflicted has been man.
The new President Of France, NJ Faure
has become extremely popular among the
soldiers OF the palace guard of honor by
giving them an extra allowance of wine
every day from his private cellar He
also interests himself personally in the
men, and already knows them all by name
and much OF their family history.
Manly NJ. GILLIAN. who for nine years
has written the advertisements of John
Wanamakers Philadelphia store. and
earned $1,000 a year by it, has removed
10 New YORK, where he VIII do the same
service for Hilton, Hughes & Co, at a
still larger salary. This shows that ad-
Nertsing pays.
"A sensation has been caused in Rome
by the announcement that Price Hugo
i5oncompagni, Duke of SCra, has de-
cided to become a priest. The prince who
belongs to one of the oldest families in
Italy, recently lost his wife and his for
tune. Grief at the death of mis- wife is the
world.
The late Prof Blackie the distin-
gushed Scotchman, was man of many
eccentricities. One OF them was his fond
ness Tor Panama hat. which he wore on
every possible occasion, even at times in
his dining room. With this hat on his
head and large dressing gown around
him he was in his proper attire, as he
considered IL. for receptions.
Congressman Sibley, who is to be the
silver party's presidential figure head is
TWO years. His face is beardless and he is
said to have the grace of a courtier though
he has been known to forget his man
nerS In striving to be alliterative Mr.
Sibley Is a rich farmer and has an in
terest besides in several manufacturing
industries.
Mr.. Kurino, the Japanese minister at
washington, is very fond of society, and
he and the chancellor Of the legation a
japanese who speaks several Languages
and Is a most courteous and sOciable
young man, go out great deal and have
become very popular a { the capital The
part that Japan is now playing in the
east throws around her representative at
Washington an interest that none of his
predecessors has enjoyed
DIR. Garnett, OF the British museum
mas found curious little flower book
that was made M by Una Hawthorne
the novelist's daughter, in 1858. and hc
intends TO send 1t to the museum of Haw-
thorne relics in Salem. 1t IS a faded little
volume OF eighty pages, containing flowers.
leaves, even blades Of grass. gathered at
historic spots by Miss Hawthorne sod or
leaves from Keats and Shelley's graves.
an an olive leaf from Casa Guido" in
Florence, and a sprig OF grass from Pc
trarCh'S house
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12

The metric system of weights and meas
ures. which may be adopted by this gov
eminent in its custom house service, was
originated by the French a little over
hundred years ago. in response to a de-
mand for some uniform system of calcu-
lat.ng quantities. Previous to 1890 all
measures were pretty much by the rule of
thumb. A foot was the length of some
body's foot; a cu5it was the length of
length of the first joint of somebody's
thumb. There were also the span, the
hand, the hairsbreadth, and other meas
ures many of which survive to this day
in certain section OF this country and Great
Britain. Inasmuch as in the old days, as
well as at present. everybody's feet and
thumbs and forearms We're not the same
size, it is easy to understand why there
were differences in the feet, inches and
cubits Of different sections
In 1890 the French Academy of Sciences
determined upon the adoption of the new
system. The one-ten mnlionth part of a
quadrant of the meridian was taken for
the basis of the system, and called a
metre If we call the metre feet 37s
inches, the error will be one-two hundred
and fortieth part of an inch only. a square
of ten metres forms an are, which is the
unit for land and surface measurement.
The cube Of a tenth part of a metre which
is called a litre, is the unit for capacity
The weight OF distilled water at its great
est density contained in a cube whose
sides are the hundredth part of a metre
is called a gramme. and is the unit of
expressed by prefxing Latin numerals.
and multples are expressed by prefxing
Greek numerals.
There are strong arguments to be urged
both for and against the adoption of the
metric system in our customs service
Every country except our own and Great
Britain uses the system. Its adoption here
would greatly simplify the matter of tariff
charges between this country and the
others. At the same time change from
the pounds and feet system would prove
very perpleXing to farmers and others for
a time. The average Georgia farmer would
hardly be able to tell off-hand what would
be the value of a kilogramme Of cotton
when the price is five cents pound. or
the value of hoctare Of land that is
worth so an acre. However. the system
is comparatively simple. The chief Difficult
~ would be TO remember the unfamiliar
names of the different qualities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12

A dialogue about heaven took
place few days ago be-
tween a member of the Baltimore
county bar and a, lady 50 years old, who
was under examination in an equity case,
says the Baltimore Sun.
The lawyer, to test the lady's faith in
the hereafter asked her if she thought
we would know each other in heaven She
replied by asking him another question as
TO where heaven was His reply was not
satisfactory to the old lady and
she told the lawyer that if he wanted to
question her about any place he must To-
cate it. Then she added:
'Of course we will know each other in
heaven, for our bodies will be the same
there except that we VIII not have any
blood in us"
The lawyer next asked her if she thought
people would have teeth in heaven She
said she could not answer that definitely.
but she thought they would One thing
was certain, she added:
People would have teeth in the place
allotted to the wicked, and she could
prove it by scripture"
How can you prove it?" said the law
yer
why" she replied 1.-The scripture says
the wicked shall be turned into utter dark
ness, where there shall be weeping, wall
ing and gnashing of teeth, and how could
they gn9sh their teeth If they did not
have any?"
The attorney did not proceed any fur
Their on that line of examination.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12
The Children Get the Gravy.

you know" said the father of fam
lily, according to the New York Sun, "it
makes me laugh whenever / think of the
children's absolute nerve about the gravy.
What l mean is that ewhen we have a
steak or roast beef, or anything that he's
gravy with it. the children take it all.
down to the last drop without leaving a
speck for their father and mother. And
they're perfectly sound-hearted, whole
some children, too, who would 90 anything
they could for their parents. But about
some things they have a seifishness that
appears to be perfectly natural to chill
gence. They have all their lives been ac-
custOmed to having everything that their
parents could give them, and 50 they come
to expect 1t.
But l smile again as I recall the fact
lnat When ! was boy got all the gravy
Time and again have / seen my father
tip the dish so that he might get for me
the last drop, while ne had none for him
self He was very fond of gravy, too, but
he never said so, with grave courtesy he
gave il all to me as though l was entitled
to 1t. When ] grew q little older | used
to reprOach myself sometimes for having
taken it all: when l grew Older still and
came to know him as man to man, and
came to know how gentle and
affectionate. and forbearing, and generous
he was, ! came to know that he wouldn't
Tor all the world have marred my pleas
ure by so much as a word-that the sim
pie fact was that it was a far greater
pleasure to him to give me the gravy than
it would have been to eat it himself
And now when the children pass their
plates / gravely dish out the gravy down
TO the last drop, and / say nothing for
fear they would rob me of the selfish pleas.
ure OF giving it all to them. But / smile to
myself once more as l think Of what will
happen when they come to have children
Of their own. l know what they'll do
then; they'll give it all to the children.
down to the last, last drop"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12


The conviction of Harry Hayward of
the murder of Miss Cling, at Minneapolis.
meets with general approval The whole
tendency OF the evidence taken during
the long trial was to show Hayward in
the light of a most depraved villain. The
punishment that will be meted out to him
is richly deserved
The next act in this notorious tragedy.
the trial of Claus Blixt, the actual slayer
of the woman, will be quite as interesting
az was the trial of Hayward because of
the nature of BHxts defense. A jury
has found Hayward guilty of murder in
the first degree because he instigated
the crime and influenced its consumma-
ton, Notwithstanding the fact that he
was not present when the crime was COM
mitted Blizt, the tool. declares that Hay
ward hypnotized him. He was. he SAYS.
completely under Hayward's influence
until after the crime was committed
When he was arrested, however. he made
a fun confession. acknowledging that it
was his hand that took the woman S
life, but stoutly maintaining that it was
another's mind that controlled the hand.
Will he be able to make the jury be-
lieve any such thing, and absolve him
from responsibility? He was not, according
to his own story hypnotized except with
regard to one subject. on every other
matter except his conduct toward Miss
Cling, he acted Of his own volition. And
as soon as he had been arrested for kill
ing her the spell of Haywards influence
over him in that respect was broken!
1t is believed to have been demonstrated
that subject in the presence of a hyp-
notlst can be made to do the hypnotist's
will. but it is doubted by experts and
scientists that the subject could be made
to commit a murder in the hypnotist's
absence If. however, the operator could
gain such complete mastery of his sub
ject. how was it, in Blixt's case. that a
pistol and a murder were not sufficient
to break the spell that was smashed by
pair of handouts?
Blixts defense is not 2 novel one. II
was put forth. and effectively. at that.
in Kansas short while ago. Since then
the legislature of another state. Mis-
souri, mas barred the plea of hypnotiSm
in criminal cases. If there should, in the
Bixt case, arise in the minds OF the jury
men any doubt as to his guilt because
he was hypnotized, they might well set
it aside on the ground that hypnotic sus-
ceptibiity that leads to murder is quite
as dangerous to society as heartIess muir
der at first hands
Weather prophets-the Oldest inhabi-
tant" kind, not the professional gentle
men connected with the agricultural de-
parliamentary that early morning rains
about this season of the year are a sure
sign that the backbone of winter has been
broken. When it rains all day. however.
it doesn't mean anything. except that it
is a good time to keep an eye open for
the umbrella fend.