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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
A Physicians Pigeons.

The carrier pigeon has been put to a
new use by a doctor in Scotland who
has a large and scattered practice. Says
the London Globe:
When he goes on long rounds. he car
ries a number Of pigeons with him. II
he finds that some Of his patients re-
quire medicine at once, he writes out
prescriptions. and by means of the pi-
geons forwards them to his surgery. Here
an assistant gets the messages, prepares
the prescriptions and dispatches the
medicine.
If, after visiting a patient, the doctor
thinks he will be required later in the
day, he simply leaves a pigeon. which
is employed to summon him if necessary.
To this enterprising physician the keep
ing of carrier pigeons means a saving Of
time, expense and labor.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13

LOchiel! Lochieli Beware of the day
When the lowlands shall meet thee in battle ar
= Tray!
IT'S the sunset Of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before!
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
A Welsh Rip.

Every nation has a Rip Van Wrinkle
Of its own, but the Welsh story of Rip
is unique. He is known as Taffy ap
Sion. One morning Taffy heard a bird
singing on a tree close by his path. AL
lured by the melody, he sat down until
the music ceased. When he arose, what
was his surprise at observing that the
tree under which he had taken seat had
now become dead and withered. In the
doorway Of his home, which, to his
amazement, had also suddenly grown
older, he asked Of a strange old man for
his parents, whom he had left there, as
he said, a few minutes before. Upon
learning his name the old maj said:
"Alas, Taffy, l have often heard my
grandfather, your father, speak Of you,
and it was said you were under the
power of the fairies and would not be
released until the last sap Of that syca-
more had dried up. Embrace me, my
dear uncle-for you are my uhcle-em-
brace your nephew" Welshmen do not
always perceive the humor of this some
what novel situation of a youth-for
Taffy was still merely a boy-being
hailed as uncle by a gentleman perhaps
40 years his senior. --Lippincott's.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
Skeletons With Tails.

A discovery of wonderful interest to
the followers of the Darwinian theory
of evolution was made not long since
near the. little village of Sinaloa,
Mexico, while workmen were preparing
the ground of a new coffee plantation.
This wonderful chronological find con-
sisted. of hundreds of skeletons of what
some believed to be a prehistoric peo-
pie of a very low order of intelligence.
Each of the skeletons is provided with
the bones of d long, thick caudal APP
pendage, which in life turned up, like
a squirrels tail. st. Louis Republic.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
Clock Inscriptions.

In former times it was the custom of
olockmakers to inscribe on the dial
plates of their clocks quaint verses, II
Of the most common being the follow
ing:
serve thee here, with all my might,
To tell the hours by day, by night.
Therefore example take by me
To serve thy God as / serve thee"
Another favorite inscription was
''Tempus fugit," or "Time fies," and
thereby hangs a tale. A we'll known
English clockmaker who flourished to-
ward the close of the last century, Oh
being asked by a customer whether a
Dertain clock was of home manufacture,
replied: ooh, certainly. Don't you see
the name, sir-Tummas Fugit? often
have his clocks through my hands. -
New York Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
MEAGHER TO CASCADE.

The Rocky Mountain Hustandman
is supposed to voice the sent ment of
residents in and around White Sui
phur Springs upon the segregation
of Meagher county's TERRITORY by the
last Legislature. And that generally
dignifed journal steps considerably
below its usually lofty plane to cas-
tigate the men elected to represent
the county in the Legislature. The
editor of that paper writer's several
articles full of spleen for these men.
We reproduce some of the M,est ex-
pressions:
The gentlemen who were sent by
the people of Meagher cou1 y to the
Legislature to represent her interests
in that body have not ony done
their level best to legislate tremselvs
out of office. At noon Monday last
Neihart became a portion Of Cascade
county and K. J. Sanford became a
resident of that county; an' at mid
night Monday, Broadwatst county
became All accomplished fac and G..
G.. Watt and G. A. WhippIe being
residents of that county lost their
right to a sit in the Legislature as
representatives of Meagher county,
such deliberations may be contested
and the laws enacted set aside.
These gentlemen have not at any
time been representatives of the best
interests of Meagher county, and
certainly, according to the recen,
decision by the encouragement, had
no right to even pretend to represent
said county, their residence in it hav.
ing ceased.
Again that paper sets up a monu
mental wall in the following:
The gentlemen Watt, Sanford
and Whipple) have made a record
that few men will envy. Traitors tc
the best interest of the county they
misrepresented, tools of a sectional
strife with which they disclaimed any
connection during the campaign,
they have forfeited the respect of the
county it vas their duty to serve. |,
is we'll that they do not return tc
Meagher, for they can scarcely face
II people they have so ~woefully
wronged. Mcagher has nothing to
regret from a loss of their citizenship
and though she paid dearly for theil
radiance she ear congratulate herself
that it were better thus than had they
remained.
After throwing another "bowl" Oh
two into himself, the editor came
back for a third efusion:.
The remarkable spectacle of a rep.
resentative of a county standing VI
in the Legislature to object to the
county he was supposed to represent
was witnessed in Helena last week
Possibly the county may have beer
entitled to only such representation
as the gentlemen stated, but it is re-
markable that the man supposed tc
get all he could for his constituency
should stand up to say that his coun.
ty was getting too much. The case
has no parallel in the history of leg
islation.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
HI MAYORALTY.

The city council is satisfied that
the code relating to city elections
provides for the term of office of a
mayor to be two years and so they
announce the election of April LIST
of one alderman for each ward, but
make no reference to the Office OF
mayor. There is a discrepancy in
the law which will be apparent tc
any reader and w append the clause
herewith that the public may inter,
pref it according to their individual
notions. Section 474S of the politi.
cal code says:
On the first Monday of April Of
each year a municipal election must
be held, at which the qualified cleo.
tors of each town or CITY must elect
a mayor, and one alderman from
each ward, to be voted for by the
wards they respectfully represent
the wayor to hold office for two
years, and until the qualification Of
his successor; and each alderman SC
elected to hold Office for a term oil
two years or until the qualification
of his successor.
The reader will readily see that il
II mayor shall be elected each year.
who shall hold office for a term OF
two years, there must be two mayors
holding Office at the same time,
which is absurd. If the mayor holds
Office but for n year, then an cleo
ton of mayor each year, as provided
in the statute is plainly necessary.
The question hinges upon the inter-
probation of the bungled section of
the code; and the city dads hold that
the election of mayor shall not be
annual, but that it shall be only in
alternate years. We do not knuw
the attorney generals opinion, noI
the practice which prevails in other
towns.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
Peacemaking.

II AN afraid" said the irascible IA
Their, that the boy feels very uDkindly
toward me-"
Ibid you reprove him:"
Eyes, and the result is that l haven't
seen him for two or three days"
II guess you could be friends quickly
enough if you would only make some
advances"
well, l hate to give in, but ! sup
pose l may as we'll. Hand me my check
book, and I'll make an advance of sec
to start with. '-Washington Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13

A Kibbey girl who bet on Bryan
had just about finished paying a wag-
er of 1000 kisses to a young Nc
Kinley voter when a dispute arose as
to the count and the whole business
had to be done owe And by the
way, it was the young woman who
started the controversy.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
TO PLUTUS.


Lochiel! Lochiel, Bewar of the day
When the lowlands shall meet thee in battle ar
= Tray
tbs the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before!
IT'S the sunset of a century; and
from an angry, sullen sky clouds
cast dark shadows. L.ochiel! Plutus!
Beware of the day when the lowly
shall meet thee IN battle array.
1t was a brave sight hat fair Oc-
tober day. An army with banners
your orifamme, Plutus-passed by
in thousands. Music, triumphal char
lots, ranks we'll ordered; ~sternlv or
dered, many were to march that day
With gibe and threat and jeer-all
iellied yer with fair promises-you
bore aloft the flag of our republic,
pretending fear lest it be stained or
rent by the polluting hands of its
dangerous-defenders!
Oh, Plutus.
And you have builded yourself
gorgeous palaces; and you have
seated yourself on a throne of imper-
ial sp!endor; and you feast and riot
lever like Belshazzar-while the
people are distressed, millions of
them pleading for the poor privilege
they once claimed as a right, to
sweat, and toll; and thousands are
hungry!
Oh, Plutus!
And your priests and pharisees
say to them, as they beg for work
that their children may not die with
hunger and disease, "Those who will
not work shall not eat"
And there is no work-so they
must %starve! And millions would
starve were it not for the poor, who
give of their little store.
You plan a gorgeous ceremony of
unrivaled ~splendor to commemorate
a reasonable fraud; you banquet at
tables loaded with golden plate that
YOU proudly boast is worth five
millions of dollars, while five millions
of people beg for work that they
may not ~starve,
Oh, Plutus!
They must starve lest the creditor
lose advantage!
They must starve to conserve
"vested rights"
They must starve because there is
an overproduction of food!
They must starve to 'preserve the
national honor"
They must s~tarve, while monopo,
lies and trusts swell their bloated
carcasses in foul, unholy increase.
If the people could fatten they
would be-dangerous!
Oh, Plrtus!
Discomfort, restitution, despera-
tion-all are dangerous, Plutus!
a despairing man may die; but a
desperate people will fight.
Plutus. Beware of the day wher
the lowly shall meet thee in battle
array!-Dispatch.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13

Section 4753, of the Political Code
says: "No person shall be eligible
to the office of Alderman unless he
shall be a taxpaying freeholder with
in the limits of the city, and a resid-
ent of the ward so electing him for at
least n year preceding such cleo
ton. "The only way around this
section is for each of the aspir-
ants to that office to buy a town lot
at once.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13

Those nice clean Populists in Ida
no, who, like all other Populists, are
the poor mans friends, and are ever
anxious to preserve the people from
corruption and bribery, are a mighty
cheap set of hayseeds. We presume
that they insisted upon being paid
in silver.-Butte Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
NOT A GOOD Law.

The question of free textbooks
will upon certain conditions be pre-
scented to a vote of our people. The
conditions are that a petition con
tanning 100 names of resident tax
payers shall before March Is be pre-
scented to the trustees of the school,
asking that the question of free
books be submitted to a vote of the
qualified electors.
In theory and in sentiment this
law has many arguments in its favor.
But it also has many. against it which
so far counterbalance The others
that it must be styled a bad law.
In almost all states where the sys-
TEN has been tried it has been .abol-
ished as a failure, and the day is not
far off when the rest will prove the
ineficiency of the measure to RENE
dy the evils at which it is aimed.
The experience of all trials yet
made is that a district is obliged to
buy hundreds of books which are
never used, and which, because they
are FREE, are destroyed as readily
and with as little scruple as would
an almanac be destroyed. The ex-
]perience goes further to show that
not one child in 10000 is precluded
from attendance at school because of
the inability to procure books. 1t is
safe to say that in the Neihart dis
trict such a case has never been
known. Some children, indeed, may
may have been detained from school
because parents could not easily
purchase the supplies, but as for the
case of utter inability, there has been
none.
There is nothing esteemed of val
ue which has not cost some effort to
possess. A fortune bequeathed is
soon dissipated. And in nc form of
legacy is this principal SO true as in
the granting of free text books in
our schools. There is in every COM
munity a certain class of families
where neither parent or child takes
any interestin schools. They would
take no more interest, nor study any
more attentively if the district sent
a teacher regularly to their houses.
The free text book system becomes
an utter waste when its advantages
are offered to such families.
In Neihart, the school district is
sore pressed for funds, and every
body complains Of the high rate OF
taxation which prevails at the present
time. This district already bears an
annual expense of $2,994, which is
itemized as follows: $2,25O for teach
ers; $50 for janitor; $50 for insur.
ance; $3.50 for interest on bonds:
$1O4 for fuel; and $50 for repairs.
These last two items are estimates
approximating the actual figures.
TO meet an annual expenditure o.
$2,994, the district has, at the pres,
ent time, only about $1,000 per an.
mum, which means we are running
annually behind at the rate of ST.
1914, which means that a special
levy of 3 mills is an immediate nee.
essity-and this, without free tex
books. If the proposed system be
adopted, another mill will need to bt
added, making the levy 4 mills high
err than it is at present.
The advantages of the free tex
book bill are UNNECESSARILY overcome
by its disadvantages.
Vote II down.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-13
e

The Mississippi river flows up hill.
Its mouth is higher than its source
that is, farther from the center of the
earth, on account of the bulge of the
earth toward the equator. - ittsburg
Dispatch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
Two Were Better Than One.

Ayoung American, who was bicycling
in southern France, was pushing his
wheel up a steep hill, when he over
took a peasant with n donkey cart
which was rapidly being stalled, al
though the donkey was pulling like a
good fellow. The benevolent wheel
man, putting his right hand against the
tail of the cart, and guiding his wheel
with the left, pushed so hard that the
donkey pulled his load up to the top sue
cessfully. The summit reached, the
peasant said, gratefully: 1T is very
good of you, sir. l should never in
the world have got up the hill with only
one donkey."-Golden Days.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10

Not only acute lung troubles,
which may prove fatal in a few days,
but old chronic coughs and throat
troubles may receive immediate relief
and he permanently cured by One
Minute Cough Cure. r. Reuss, 106
East Commerce street.
Roofing felt, pitch and Asphalt at
HENRY PAULY'S. Tel. 80. LIFT
See our new counter in mems pat
ent leather shoes, the latest in full
dress.
5-9-St SULLIVAN SHOE co.
Stop over at Louis and try some
of his genuine Pittsburg Stogies. 1927
STORE YOUR FURNITURE with
Craig Williams Furniture Co., old
courthouse, Soledad st. 3-30-1m
If you will call in and see us we
will show you something swell in Ia
dies colored oxfords.
5-9-St SULLIVAN SHOE CO.
Money to loan in sums of $500 to
$4,000. Address Lender" Daily Light
Office. 5-S-7t.
"A. f. Hart, of this city, has re-
ceived news of the death of his father
w. NJ. Hart, near Starr, Kansas, at the
ripe age of So years.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10

In England there is a cellar full d
wines Of the choicest vintages which
bid fair to spoil for Temperatures sake.
Years ago, by the will of Sir Walter
Trevelyan of Northumberland, England,
that knights famous wine cellar became
the property of Sir Benjamin Richard
son, the head Of the Temperance hos
pital in London. But the will enjoined
Sir Benjamin from using the wine for
other than scientific purposes. " Con-
WINGED that none of the wine in all the
60 dozen famous vintages in the cellar
could be used for the purpose specified,
Sir Benjamin did not draw the cork Of
q single bottle.
At his death his widow became the
possessor of the valuable cellar, but she,
too, is forbidden 10 use it except in the
interest of science She cannot under
the will, sell the now famous wines,
even to donate the proceeds to the cause
of temperance To store the many bot
ties yer Gfter year is expensive, and
yet tLGre seClHs 10 10 but one other
course--to deatroy. New York World
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
mnn win an Appetite.

A most remarkable case of enlarge
ment of the stomach has developed in
st. Louis. William Martin, of No. 913
Locust street, is the sufferer He is
about 20 years old, and has always been
an abnormal feeder. 1t is believed that
overlooking has caused the muscular
fbers TO relax, until now the stomach
has dilated until it fills the entire an
terror portion of the intestinal cavity
overlapping the other internal organs.
The patient says that any time he can
drink bucl0etful of water, and eats
food for five or six men at one meal.
This lies undigested for hours. His dis
ease has made him a hypochondriac,
and he fears fatal results from an oper-
alton. His physician believes that
three-fourths of the stomach may. be
removed without danger to the patient.
Mr.. Martin is only five feet eight inches
in height and weighs about 40 pounds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
DID YOU EVER

Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
your troubles? If not, get n bottle
now and get relief. This medicine has
Painting Spells, or are Nervous. Sleep
of Appetite. Constipation, Headache.
tone to the organs. 1t you have Loss
rect influence in giving strength and
Complaints. exerting n wonderful di-
been found to be peculiarly adapted
to the relief and cure of all Female
less. Excitable, Melancholy or troub-
led With Dizzy Spells. Electric Bitters
is the medicine you need. Health aud
Strength are guaranteed by its use.
Fifty cents and 81 at F. Kalteyer &
Sons drug store. 3
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10

Mr.. Charles H. Wetzel, of Sunbury,
Pa, was so much pleased with q
remedy which cured him of rheuma-
tism that he made affidavit to the fact
for publication as follows: This is to
certify that on May 18th walked into
Melick's drug store on a pair Of crutch-
es, bought a bottle Of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm for infammatory rheuma-
tism which had crippled me up. After
using three bottles 1 am completely
cured. 1 can cheerfully recommend
it. CHARLES H. WETZEL."
Sworn and subscribed to before me
on Aug. TO- 1894. Walter Shipman, ].
P. Pain Balm is for sale at 25 and
50 cents per bottle by all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
A FINE BARGAIN.
Cash Price only $500.

Consists of lot 50x156 feet, east front,
house 4 rooms, hall and bath, front
and back gallery, oil finish, hot water,
flues, all household goods, good oil
cloth on hall, dining room, and kitch-
en-, carpet and mating in two rooms.
Place for feed, buggy, horse and cow,
chicken houses, over 100 chickens,
nicely fenced vegetable garden, ny
drants, good set law books and office
furniture, grapes and figs, bearing,
peach, plum and shade trees, quiet
neighborhood, free from dust and cool
in summer, running water in corner
of lot for horse, COW and chickens, 10
minutes walk to courthouse or Aran-
sas Pass depot, and under late ordi-
nance scent car fare to any depot.
All virtually new, and good houses all
around it, should rent easily for $500
unfinished. Apply at 211 Bots Dare
street. 4-26-lt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10

The Best NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S
ram Balm is the finest OF earth, write
edwards & Parker, of Plains, Ga. This
IS the verdict of all who use it. For
rheumatism, lame back, sprains, swell
hngs and the numerous slight ailments
and accidents common to every house
hold, this liniment has no equal. With
II IN the house, a great deal of pain
and suffering may be avoided For
sale Ivy all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
THERE IS NOTHING so GOOD.

There is nothing just as good us
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con
sumption. Coughs and Colds. so de-
mand it and do not permit the dealer
TO sell you some substitute. He will
not claim there is anything better.
but in order 10 make more profit he
may claim something else to be just
as good. You want DR.. Kings New
Discovery because you know it to be
safe and reliable, and guaranteed TO
do good or money refunded. For
Coughs. Colds, Consumption and for
all affections of Throat. CheS and
Lungs. there is nothing so good as is
DR.. Kings New Discovery. Trial bot
tie free at r Kolteyer & Sons drug
store 3
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
The Suockade.

The earliest known system of fortifi-
cation was the stockade. 1t has been
employed, at one time or another, by all
nations, is still in use in Turkey, and in
the Indo- Chinese peninsula there is no
other defensive work known. In the
early settlement of this country the
stockade was extensively employed, both
by the Indians and the whites, when a
position was to be defended
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
THE LIVER KEEPS PEOPLEwELL

When the liver is sluggish all other
organs are involved. You suffer from
Constipation. Biliousness, Jaundice.
Headache. Indigestion. Pain in the
back, Chills and loss of energy. You
will never know how promptly these
troubles can be cured until you use
Herbine. 1t cures quickly when 9th
er remedies utterly fail. Regulates
the liver, purifies the blood. Herbine
is a harmless vegetable remedy that
gives new life and energy almost from
the first dose. Price 70 cents. Free
trial bottles at E. Reuss and C. Schas-
Sc. 3-10-1yr
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
The Sons of Hermann, Siemerir

The Sons of Hermann, Siemering
lodge No. 80 will give a picnic at Sch
uyermeyer's Southwestern park on
Sunday, May 80.
Rev. Nm. Smith preached to his
congregation at the South blackberry
street Methodist church, yesterday af-
ternoon, for the first time in seven or
eight months, owing to his ill
health. He also received three adj
ditions to the church.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-10
Ancient Single Tax.

Vauban, the great French engineer,
seems, according to his biographies, to
have been the father, or perhaps the
grandfather, of single tax. He published
in the year Of his death, volume i,
which he coStended that one tax &
land should be made to cover all the -
penses of the state. The book wa,
propmtly suppressed by the royal couH
Gil