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The herald., 1896-08-23

Mr.. Howard became reconciled to his
condition and for thirty-two years suf-
fered this great pain in his right hip
without knowing the cause. 1t struck
Mr.. Howard one morning, when reading
an account of a similar case, where the
English and German Expert Specialists
had removed a piece of boiler iron from
mans arm by the aid of the X rays
that perhaps they could help him. He
called on these eminent specialists and
was told that his case was most promis-
ing for good results from the X rays eX
posure. -Four exposures were made a
month later, each exposure taking a
different view of his hips. The view from
the right side, when developed. showed
a dark body lying against the neck of the
right thigh bone. This dark object
seemed about as large as a small marble
with very irregular outline.
Here was solution of all these years
of pain and suffering-the bullet had
entered at the left hip. and passed
around the outer side of the pelvic wall,
had finally lodged in the right hip, al
most opposite to its point of entry.
From its position this bullet was press
ing against the sciatic nerve and this
explains the constant pain in the right
hip. The bullet was successfully re-
moved two days later and the pain in the
hip has entirely ceased. It's big vic
tory for the x rays, and stamps the
English and German Expert Specialists
as progressive, intelligent and capable
specialists. A. r. e. PORTER.
The herald., 1896-08-23

ciso, the famous Dominican, will preach
the morning sermon.
Miss Reilly of San Francisco is visit
ing Mrs. Robertson.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson spent the day
at the beach.
Mrs. Seligman and family. who have
been at the Withrow, returned to their
home in Los Angeles.
Mrs. NJ b. Davis and family, who have
been spending some weeks here, left
today for their home in Ell Paso.
Prof. Edward G. Kugler spends every
Saturday in Santa Monica, and says he
likes 1t better each time he pays us
visit.
Captain Smith of Bakersfield will go
to England about September 1st. He
has been spending few weeks here, in
company with his wife, at the Lehigh
house, on Fourth street.
The arrivals today at the Arcadia are:
E. r. Kellam, r. Scott, H. c. Wiley
and wife, Miss May Wiley, Miss Belle
Wiley, Los Angeles; Miss Hattie Gill
lispie, Morence. A, T.; H. w. Chase and
wife of the Nadeau hotel, Los Angeles;
Shirley Vance Martin, Chicago; w. G.
Bolton, Los Angeles; e. E. Richardson
Santa Ana; Mrs. Knowles, Los Angeles
The herald., 1896-08-23

All prices of wallpaper greatly reduced.
a: a Eekstrom. 3A South Spring street.
The herald., 1896-08-23
The Proper Aim Of Taxation

The aim Of tax laws should be to bur-
den the state as little as possible. The
earnings of labor, therefore, should only
be taxed atter other sources of revenue
collections have been exhausted Those
best able to pay should be required to
pay just share of the expenses of the
government. and in every levy consid-
GRAFTON should be given to the benefits
The herald., 1896-08-23

the citizen derives from the fruits of tax
alton. One of the most serious objec-
tions to tariff taxes Is that they AFFECT
those least able to bear the burden and
exempt affiuence from its share of the
expenses of government. No tax system
that operates thus Is just, and the ten
dency is to frame the future laws SO as
to avoid that evil.-Kansas City Star.
The herald., 1896-08-23

There are undelivered kilograms at
the Western Union Telegraph corlpany's
office in this city for the following per-
sons: M. A. Cunningham, 2; Mrs. c. J..
Westfall. Mrs. w. H. Putnam, Mrs.
Deuhemin
The herald., 1896-08-23

Young men or old should not fail to
read Thomas Slater's advertisement on
page 10.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08
VOL. XII, NO. I.

With this issue, THE HERALD enters
on Its twelfth year. Viewed from a
newspaper standpoint, the past twelve
months have not aroused In US dis.
position to emulate Monte Cristo" in
display Of Opulence. In other words,
our patrons have not shown any undue
haste in their efforts to line our pockets
with that article 30 much despised by
Wall street msgnates-the silver dollar
But
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast, "
So the least We can do is to trust to
Luck and keep "pegging" away at the
old stand, buoyed up with the hope that
Dame Fortune will smile on us some Of
these days.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

economy. With his own people he was
always leader. and the Nebraska sen-
stors came often to the house to gain
bis Views.
BRYAN 10 Presbyterian In religion.
He is often in the pulpit - . lecturer.
Politically he refuses no call to speak.
He once addressed . ooncourse Of
preachers. and then talked politics from
a saloon bar on the same day. When
the house held Sunday session Bryan
left his seat for an hour to lecture On
the divinity OF Christ At . church on
Capitol hill.
Bryan in his habit IL decorous and
well within the moral line. He has
none Of the vices. Whom he II presi-
dent. should that time come. the white
house cigar bill will represent only the
consumption Of visitors, and the wine
will be as lacking a. in the abstemious
days of HAYES. For the second time
the world will witness . Temperance
white house.
Bryan, while master Of elequence,
prepares his speeches with caro-. He
writes them. prunes, pares and 10
hearses them. He told me once that he
would no more speak without prepara-
tion than he'd plunge wineiess and reck-
less into an abyss. His life is quiet, ex-
cept 30 far as he disturbs it with his
pilgrimages Of politics. He has no
circle Of friends; rays and receives no
social visits. He is in no sense . lady's
man. He is not flower of society.
In dress Bryan could not be called a
fop. Neither would he excite the car
toonist by any Greeleyan peculiarities
of raiment. His garb is modest and Of
dark reserve. BRYAN will win no notice
for the clothes he wears.
In evitome Bryan Is the west. He
stands by his game and his guns. But
he has nothing of malice for the east.
His life is simple. With his wife as .
companion, going nowhere she might
not GO, he makes up existence meeting
men, reading books, making speeches to
further his political beliefs.
Such is hit or miss sketch Of q man
who has ever been consistent; who
served two terms in congress without .
mark to his discredit. and who only
failed Of re election TO his third term
from an overproduction of Cleveland
ism. He is not mugwump, not .
Populist. but Democrat who gets his
principles and his inspirations In .
party past, before the cancer Of Cleve-
landism had poisoned it, blood. The
party need not blush In shame Of its
nominee. 1t has selected as good .
Democrat and rs true an American as
any who ever bought bond or owned Q
bank.-Alrred Henry Lewis, in New
York Journal.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Q. o. TayloF NhioSieA theIf quality nsvef vNhs.
Six weeks ago suffered with very
severe cold; was almost unable to speak.
Nv friends all advised me to consult
q physician. Noticing Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy advertised In the St.
Paul Volks Zeitung I procured bottle,
and after taking 1t short time was
entirely well. l now most heartily re-
commend this remedy to anyone suffer
ing with q cold. VIM. Keil, 67s Selby
ave-, st. Paul. MINI. For sale by Hay
4 JoHantgen.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Col. Ben Price reports the appearance
Of white sage in Strawberry. This will
be welcome news to cattlemeu in these
parts, a. there is no better winter feed
than white sage.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

DR.. Miller, the Glenwood dentist Is at
the Miller house but will only remain a
few days longer. Those In need of his
services should call at once.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

John Robertson is in from Southern
Wyoming, where his sheep are now 10.
Gated. Mr.. Robertson says be has fine
range and the flocks are in good con-
dition, but there is no sale for wool and
mutton is low.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Excavating for the foundation walls
Of the new Odd Fellows building will
be commenced Monday.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Game Warden Clark returned from
the Trapper's lake region Tuesday after
inspecting that section in the interest
OF the game laws. Mr.. Clark found no
evidences Of the presence Of hide-hunt-
ers in the sections traversed, and east
ern visitors are more careful to live
within the law than formerly.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Hon. John W. Lowell was in the city
Monday on his way over to Rout,
county. Mr.. Lowell says the action Of
tho Republican state committee at ita
recent meeting Is being denounced by
the better element Of the party through
out the state. Another meeting Of the
committee has been called for the 18th
and an effort will be made to nhorse
tho Rold-bug Wolcott faction. The sil.
ver Republicans. Mr.. Lowell says, ars
ovsrwhelmingly in tho majority and will
sndosse and vote the Democratic ns-
tionsl ticket.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08


in any form Of politics BRYAN would
out-top and overpower Mckinley, Is
might man Z child.
During the Fifty-second conRress the
tariff a6airs Of the Democracy went
limpinR. The popgun bills that Springer
framed had neither dignity nor tone.
They we're quietly sneered at by the
Democrats, and jeered and scoffed at by
the Republicans In every high and open
place. 1t was not until Bryan made his
first tariff speech in the house that the
Democracy took heart and regarded life
worth living. 1t was wonderful thing
In oratory. this first tariff speech Of
Bryan. It was even more OF triumph
than the Chicago eloquenee Of the other
day.
On this tariff occasion the Republi-
cans, with the cynical Reed at their
head, were there to carp and say sharp
things and ask sharp questions, and
make bitter interruptions. One after
another the orators OF the Democracy.
some Of them old in forensic war, had
been riddled by Reeds sarcasm and
made to fly. Crisp, in the chair, was
also in despair. At last, Bryan was sent
into the thick of house battle. He came
with the advantages Of musical voice,
bright eye and pleasing personality.
Nor die he talk ten minutes until he de-
veloped the fact that he was q master of
English and had as we'll such . COM
mand of the subject as comes only to
men who have burned the midnight
lights of studious preparation.
1t is Of no avail peculiarly to 60 in de-
tail over debate that's long since over
and gone. Suffice 1t that Bryan's speech
was the event of the session. Every
thrust Of Reed he parried; every blow
be stopped and countered. Time and
again the big man from Maine was
made to draw back from collisions he
had sought himself, discontinue in his
face, while the house howled.
For . new mana Young man, one
who had never talked ten minutes in
the house before-the feat was marvel
Gus. At the close of his effort Crisp and
the fathers Of the house congratulated
him, and even Republicans. while disa-
greeing, came across and shook him by
the hand. That speech saved the repu-
tation of the house Democracy and fixed
forever Bryan's standing as a master of
forensic fence.
What was to be admired most was
the absolute stability of the man; no
more to be stampeded than mountain;
no more to be put to flight than tree.
In the Fifty-second aud Fifty-third
congresses Bryan was In the forefront
Of party battle many times. In his Sec
ond term, while still member of the
ways and means, with Wilson at the
head, he not only made the leading
speech for the Wilson bill, but a speech
so full and exhaustive for free silver, 18
to /, that Culberson of Texas, himself
the Socrates Of the house Democracy,
said:
THAT exhausts the subject. It's the
best possible setting forth that the
cause of free silver can get."
During his congressional! career Bryan
led up the forces for low tariif. free sill
yer, free sugar, the income tax; fought
to repeal the national bank acts, and
consistently aided Uncle William Hatch
to pass his anti-option. On appropria-
tons Bryan was against extravaganza
and stood as the persistent champion Of
WHY
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Now is the time to make war on the
weeds-before they go to seed.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

This section was again visited by q
down.pour OF rain Monday evening and
night.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

The inquiry for ranch property con
tinues unabated.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Z. F. WEIGH, who has been away for
several weeks, during which time he
visited New York and London in the
interest of his Fourmile mining pro-
position, returned home Tuesday even
ing. He found the Londoner's very
much interested in mining in general
but much more so in gold proposition.
Mr.. Welch has his Fourmile property
in better shape now to interest capital
than ever before.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

Hide-hunting Is getting to be very
precarious business in Northwestern
Colorado. One Of the detestable speci-
mems Of humanity who follow that low
calling, tried to dispose OF a lot of hides
TO Snake river merchant . short time
ago but failed In his endeavors. As the
merchants and traders in Colorado,
Wyoming and Utah are prohibited,
under the law, from buying or shipping
hides, the professional hide-hunters oc-
cupation 10 gone.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

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The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08
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square Rsp u ylght and swallow Susk tn
left 81. Hosss branA, sams q cut. % len
sAouldsr. Aiso own tie following brapds:
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Range, Piceanos creek. bstweea oraDd
and whits Rivers. Postencs address, Ciarsnos
Lamb, Foreman, Ptcesnoe. Rio Blanco Co.. Colo.
Young seailious and thoroughbred oa
loway bulls for salo.
The Meeker herald., 1896-08-08

G. o. Taylor wh,.tis. Il sr.a. vsis. to tAs s,es.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-18

in extra session or at the regular meet
ing next January. the legislature will
straighten out the law. The county
commissioners have the say as to the
amount of the fee. II they lose the
license tax this year. they certainly
will make the future assessment on a
basis that will square accounts for
what was lacking in this year. Any
other course. we repeat, would be un-
just to those who pay taxes In other
form than license. In this view of the
situation, present payment would re-
lieve the counties of stress, save the
risk of the large expense that would be
incident to an extra session, and, in
the end. result in not a dollars differ
ence to those who are in license-paying
business and who expect to stay in.
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sternly loyal citizens whose record is
that they have built up one of the
most prosperous and law-abiding states
in the Union. Seven years old, Mon
tana shows to-day accumulated wealth
which is fifty per cent. of the total
wealth of Tennessee, a state which has
been just a century in the Union. Our
people remember that when Tennessee
was more than twice as old a state as
| Montana is, General Jackson had to
take federal troops into Tennessee in
order ITO make IL a fit habitation for
white men; and this after Tennessee
had been represented for 20 years by
two federal senator's.
Speaking of risks to the federal gov
eminent and of perils to the Union, our
people also remember that IL cost this
country unmeasured blood and more
money than to-day's total wealth of
rich Connecticut to teach Tennessee
that 1t was a mistake to try to destroy
the Union by armed force. Grant, after
desperate fighting. had to capture
Fort Donelson and secession had to be
QeIedteu at MuT1TeeSDOrO DetOre Ten
nessee learned to pay to the stars
and stripes the respect that never was
withheld for an instant within the Dor
ders Of Montana
Social conditions out here are such
that the people of Montana read with
ama@ement OF the unspeakable brutal
ity of modern lynch law, as 1t has been
developed chiefly through the agency
of the citizens of Tennessee. We re-
member that within the region where
the Chattanooga Times has patrons.
several Tennessee 'gentlemen"-not
loose footed adventures" or squat
tiers or rustlers or cowboys-invested
their lynching operations with a new
charm by taking a hammer and break
ing the joints of their victim before
they strung him up.
On the whole. in what relates to
progress or stability or good citizen
ship or wealth or social worth-on the
whole. we are satisfied that Montana
needs no defense against the mud
thrown with malignant spirit by c
goldbug bigot in Chattanooga.
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MEN AND MATTERS.

Myron z. Henry, the well-known west
ern driver and trainer, has signed five
years contract with the imperial stables
of the car of Russia.
General Horace Porter's latest mot is
that the first half of mans life is spent
in getting his name into the papers and
the last half in a struggle to keep ii out.
Henry Tate of London has presented
s25, 900 to the Manchester college, Oxford,
the interest to be applied to the special
training of students in the theory and
practice of preaching.
Ezekiel j. Donnell, the New York cot
ton merchant, who died recently, left an
estate of 900, which, in case of the de-
cease of his wife and daughters. is to be
used to establish a free circulating IL
brary in New York.
The French president makes the rule
of retiring early to rest at night. This
habit is we'll known to his guests and the
presidents dinner parties usually break
UP soon after 10 o'clock. Seven or half
past seven is his favorite dinner hour.
The death is announced of Captain Err
nest Augustus Perceval, the youngest
and last surviving son of Spencer Perez
val, prime minister of England, who was
shot by Bellingham in the lobby of the
house of commons in May. 1872. He was
SO years old.
w. W. Howell, an English scientist.
who recently visited Iceland. discovered
that a recent volcanic upheaval in the
Vatna Jokull. the arctic plateau Of the
island. had pushed forward the glaciers
that start from this region some five to
nine miles.
Senator Hill is gaining some reputation
as a wit. His speech at the Gridiron club
the other night Is said by those who
heard 1t to have been humorous. Even in
the senate he has lost his seriousness and
appears to. see the humorous side of ev-
erything.
number of adherents among the intellec-
tual leaders in Germany. such as George
Ebers, Gabriel Max, Julius Stinde, F.
Hartman. and they have just begun to
issue a monthly at Brunswick under the
title of Sphinx.
General Horace Porter held a position
under General Grants staff. For several
years the former has been engaged on a
series of papers embodying his recollec-
lions of the great commander. 1t is said
that they contain much material that is
entirely new.
General Cassius NJ. Clay of Kentucky,
who has always claimed the credit for
the negotiation of the Alaska purchase,
is writing a book to refute william II.
Clay was the American minister at st.
Petersburg when the transaction was
closed.
AS the colonel of the Royal Horse
Guards Lord Wolseley enjoys the title of
"Gold-Stick-in-W Waiting" This title was
first conferred by Charles H., and means
that his lordshp must, on state occa-
sions, carry a gold-headed ebony staff,
and be especially responsible for the per-
sonal safety of his sovereign.
Addison Cammack, the veteran bear of
Wall street. like all the tribe of bruin, is
brusque to strangers and not
to be toyed with. His operations are not
as large as formerly, but he occasionally
takes a jump at "toppy' prices. and,
though past the scriptural age limit, is
a full match for any of the sprightly lads
of so.
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REED AND THE REST.

The republican newspapers lingel
with joy over the record scored las
week against silver by their sponsor.
significant of ALL" says one of these
journals, "is the fact that, of their tre-
mendous strength in the house
amounting to PAS votes, but twenty-five
republicans voted for silver. thus estab-
! fishing the fact that but a slight frac-
/ ton more than one-tenth OF the repub-
lican strength can be counted for sill
/ yer. And it is gratifying to know that
of these twenty-five republican votes,
| fifteen were from far western states
and only ten from states east of
| Omaha"
We commend to several OF our repub-
lican contemporaries in this region the
words of the Chicago Tribune's Wash
ington correspondent who telegraphed:
AFTER the vote was taken Mr.. Ding
ley, chairman of the ways and means
committee. met Speaker Reed in the
lobby. and exhibited the status of the
absentees, which swelled the triumph
VI iiOhcy ONci ii0t
cry, and it was with manifest satisfac-
ton that the two party leaders rejoiced
at the demonstration which the house
had made to the country and the world
that the free silver craze may now
fairly be considered thing of the past
inasmuch as il failed to materialize a
third of the entire strength of the
house, and only about a tenth of the
party in control of legislation
Rounding out his pen picture. the
correspondent of the Tribune adds:
MIR. Reed was overjoyed at the result.
and considered 1t as an absolute end
to the pretensions of the silver men to
any voice in framing the next repub-
lican platform on which he expects to
stand as the candidate for president"
Here we have an object lesson for
those of our republican contemporaries
that are telling us how free coinage
and protection go hand In hand; pro-
lection under the bill now pending in
congress. which distinctly ignores what
little protection Montana might wish to
secure for wool, and free coinage which.
In the house of representatives scored
four per cent. of the republican repre-
sentation in the house for all the con-
stituencies east of the Missouri river.