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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

"Protests" coming from foreign ma
tons relative to the tariff which we are
about adopting are not looked upon as
a serious matter by our statesmen III
Washington. A coldblooded Stats
tician who wanted to see whether these
nations would really carry out their
threats Of retalip ton against our tariff
has found out that the fifteen nations in
question enjoy in their trade with the
United States a balance in their favor
amounting to 81, 10000 900 IN the past
decade, condition they are not likely
to disturb by adverse legislation even if
our new tariff is not framed especially
in their behalf
The following gem from one Of our
exchanges should be cut out and pasted
in every mans hat as reminder of his
duty when he speaks i'll of any woman:
Beware how you speak Of woman's
character. Think how many years she
has been building it, Of the tolls and
privations endured. Of the wounds re-
ceived, and let go suspicious follow her
actions. The purity of woman is the
salvation of the race; the hope Of future
greatness and the redemption of man.
Without her purity man sinks beneath
the wave Of despair with not star to
guide his life into a channel of safety.
Think, then, before you speak, and
remember that any hog can root up the
fairest flower that ever grew; so the
vilest man can ruin the purest char
acter."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

Last years experience as tan to the
democratic kite was quite enough for
the average populist. He wants no
more Of it this year, and IS determined
that he will not have it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

Sllver-mine owners who are attempt
ing to carry Iowa and Ohio on the silver
issue this fall should have a cuisines"
consultation with Mr. Debs and arrange
with him to delay the departure of his
communistic organization until after the
election. They need all of that kind Of
votes they can muster.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

The fact that the democrats propose
to grab all the fat offices IN the states
where they are now urging another
fusion" with the pOpulists makes the
members of the latter party somewhat
wary this time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

! The demand for those beautiful tables
by which the silver orators sought to
prove last year that the price of wheat
is dependent upon the price of silver
has suddenly fallen off since wheat has
continued to advance and silver has
steadily decreased in price for many
months past.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-08

Railroad men, manufacturers, and
business men Of all sections and palties
report marked improvement is business
and confidence, and predict that the
renewal Of activity is permanent in its
character.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
CARROLL Is ALL RIGHT.

The newspapers of Montana are
wholesale in their criticism of repre-
sentative Carroll of Cascade, who has
made himself SO generally conspicu-
Gus in the present Legislative session,
but the HERALD thinks they should
be more merciful. True, Mr., Carroll
was overhasty when he introduced a
bill whose direct effect would be the
PRONUNCIATION of domestic infelicity,
but we doubt not the honesty of his
motives. He works not to benefit
Carroll any more than the conven-
tional Smiths or Joneses are working
for their own benefit. We do not
think MI. Carroll can be bribed-any
easier than can a dozen other legis-
lators whose names we might men
ton. If the legislator from Cascade
is bughouse, the Montana editor
ought to leave him where he is, in an
assemblage of his peers. For the
Legislative shyster in Helena is num-
erous.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
A BRIGHT

1t is charged to a certain democrat
in the Montana Legislature that in a
heat of eloquence he delivered him
self to the assembly in the following
words:
The muddy slough of politics was
the boulder upon which the law was
split in twain and fell in a thousand
pieces from the pedro of justice. Let
us then gear up our lions that we
can go forth with a clear head.
Upon another occasion the same
scintillating solon rose to a tiptoe on
the pinnacle of oratory and thus re-
lieved the mental pressure:
l feel hat for a plain man like my
self to address a body composed of
SO many law attorneys as this is, is
indeed casting pearls before swine;
or, in otherwords, to make my mean
ing clearer, the honor that l feel at
the present time overcomes me as
Goliah was overcome, when like Da-
vid of old | come before you armed
with only a single a single-or, as
the good book says, let US not ride a
hobby in this Legislature, lest it turn
upon US as did Balaam's ass and in a
loud voice proclaim, 81 am he."
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
in murder and suicide.

IN murder and suicide.
Nevada Legislature authorizes the
Corbett- Fitzsimmons mill.
Centerburg, O., fire bugs get to
100000 worth of property.
Tannery at Racine worth $780,
900 hits the impregnable wall.
Joe Earle up from South
Carolina to displace Sen. Irby.
Accident on incline railway al
Grafton, w. Va, kills lots of miners
James Wilson, Ia, by the grace Of
Mckinley will be secretary of seeds.
Goldfish Prince de Chimay of Bel
GUM is divorced from his American
wife.
The magnificent cruiser, Brook
lyn, is stuck on a rock in Delaware
river.
Jno. G. Spooner (rep) takes the
seat now held by senator Villas OF
Wisconsin.
Joliet branch Illinois Steel Co. cuts
wages 10 and 20 percent. Dissatis-
faction general.
1t is reported that Judge McKen-
ma of San Francisco will hold a sit in
the new cabinet.
Tom Ellison at Middleton, N. Y.
drank a quart of whiskey on a wager.
won the bet and died.
Nebraska senate has instructed y,
S. senator Thurston to vote in con-
gress for 16 to l coinage.
Train robbers get in their work al
Roseburg, Ore. Express car looted
and safe blown up. No clue.
Sen. Dubois of Idaho is to be sue.
ceeded by Henry Heitfeld popul.
list rancher from Nez Perces county
The Philada and Reading railway
has paid out a million dollars in dam.
ages on the big wreck at Atlantic
city meadows.
Geo. F. Turner succeeds Senator
Squire from Washington in the mex
congress. He is a silver republican
and the brightest lawyer in that state
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.

Much interest centers in the move
ment by the United. states toward
the calling of an international none
tary conference, with the object of
restoring to silver its monetary func-
ton. We believe implicitly in the
free and Independent coinage
of silver, but we are not of the
number who deprccate the hon
est efforts of those who would see in
ternational bimetallism a fact, even
though the particular steps they take
would not be our chosen pathway.
Senator Wolcott's mission abroad is
one of good to the cause of silver,
and the agitation the cause is re-
ceiving at the hands of leading rep
ublicans cannot but result in it's ad-
vancement.
Even though the Mckinley
administration is founded upon
a different financial platform from
that which we prefer, we still herald
with joy any service in s%llver's cause
which the new administration may
be able to give.
Differing from them only in the
means and minor details of securing
bimetallism, let US hope their labors
may not be In vain; and cherishing
this hope, it becomes our duty to up
hold the hands of any who may offer
direct or indirect service in its be-
half.
The hope of an international ag-
reement being successful is much
stronger today than many suppose.
First, we know that the 100000
votes which Bryan received are a
powerful stimulus to the republican
managers to exert themselves to the
limit. For they see that the awful
army of ~"silver lunatics" may never
again be checked, and the golden
calf is doomed to demolishmcnt.
Second, the attitude of foreign pow
ers is more favorable than ever be-
fore for the consummation of an ag-
reement. investigation reveals the
existence of such conditions. Sena-
tor Carter of Montana is laboring
with these forces, and we are quite
sure he has strong hopes of success
along this line. And We shall not
speak disparagingly of those who
labor in that course, but rather
bid them godspeed, and earnestly
pray for their glorious triumph. No
rue friend of silver should lay a
stone in the road of an international
agreement.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
FACTS AND GURES

The fourth annual report of the
bureau of agriculture, labor and in
dustry of Montana for the year end
ing Nov. 30, 1896, is on our table.
1t is quite exhaustive in statistical
information, but for some unaccount-
able reason the name of Neihart is
omitted from its industrial reports.
Barker and Monarch each give full
statistics, but Neihart, the Queen
City of the Mountains, receives not a
single industrial mention. This grave
omission leads to some doubt as to
the correctness of its data.
According to this work, Meagher
count, contains 3,323,OO0 acres of
land of which 772,O00 are surveyed.
There are owned 208 farms, contain
ing l42,O00 acres, of which 10000
are fenced, and 34,265 (including
nay loiIoJ dlO uluCA Sultifdtiou
They produced last year 25,723 bu-
shells of wheat; 14,440 bu. barley;
125,540 bu. oats; 200 blu. b%uckwheat;
1881 blu. potatoes; $4,000 tons hay.
There are growing in the county T.
9O5 apple trees producing 553 Blu.
There were $3.50 gallons of small
fruit grown and marketed within the
year. The county contains 9,710
horses, $500 cattle, 294, 944 sheep
and 542 hogs.
There are employed in this county
346 quartz miners, "a placer miners,
lO4 sheep herders and 4 range riders.
The annual mineral production is
given at: gold $94, 157; silver, $36l,-
217; lead, 383,3S5 pounds.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

That swell number of the Red
Lodge Picket with all its pictures,
both scenic and graphic, setting
forth the merits of its bowling young
town, is a pearl of the topographic
art. If Montana possessed a dozen
towns as enterprising as Red Lodge.
with as many papers as gritty as the
Picket, the state would easily out.
strip Colorado in point of progress.
sive development.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
Notice.

The B~roadwater mines will receive
bids for Tagging, Cribbing and Timbers
to be delivered at tunnels, one, two and
three in quantities and sizes as may be
designated by the Superentindent. The
sizes and lengths as follows
Tagging 4 inches at small end Is it long
CrlpDlngs - ~ ~
Timbers 8 to 10 4,
~ to ~ , " y
- * 10 IL ~ " - % ,,
Bids for timbers to be on pine and fir
separately. Bids will close Feb. 6, 1897.
Company reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
Broadwater Mines,
by Jas. H. Henley,
Supt.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

1t was Bill Nye who said that the
printing press has made presidents,
killed poets, furnished bustles for
beauties, punished genius with critic
ism. 1t has curtailed the power OF
kings, graced the pantry shelves and
busted. 1t has converted bankers
into paupers, and made lawyers out
of college students. 1t has educated
the homeless and robbed the philoso-
pher of his reason. 1t smiles, and
cries, and dies, but it can't be run to
suit everybody, and the man is a fool
who tries it.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
HOT STUFF.
Alger will be war secretary.

Alger will be war secretary.
Dawes of Illinois will get Eckles'
job.
All hands on the B. A. & P. r. go
out on a strike.
Bruiser Fitz. goes into training
near Carson, New.
The Philada Lead Co. fails for a
million and a half.
Family at Jacksonville, Ind, eats
sausage and croaks. a
Editors in Japan are clamoring for
freedom of The press.
Two birds dig out of the Butte
Jail through the wall.
A jealous play in Apollo, Pa, ends
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

Listen to our tale of woe. It was
so cold in Castle last week that
every we'll in camp froze solid, and
Shelby Eli had to drink his whisky
without the customary aqueous chas-
er. Shelby is the first and only
Missourian we ever heard setting up
such complaint. Come to Neihart,
old boy. Rest in the sequestered
cline of sunny Italy-feast your
eyes upon comely maidens with a
peach blossom complexion-inhale
refreshing zephys off adjacent groves
of mango and citron-imbibe poesy
and sweet paradisian enchantment-
and live in the hope that when the
present meal ticket expires proyid-
C will furnish another before it is
evcrlastingly too late. Get in on
the ground floor, before the boom is
fairly on.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
Notice to ~Co-Owners.

County of Meagher, State of Montana, Jan,
4, 1897.
To Fred Bergeron, Sam Savage and Horace
Savage. You and each of you are hereby mott
fled that l have expended one hundred dollars
in labor and improvements upon the Sam Saw
afidavit Of annual representation filed in tn e
ofnce of the county clerk of Meagher county
Montana a, in order to hold said mining claim
Statutes of the United States, beiug the
amount required to hold the same for the year
ending Dec. 81, 1896.
And II within ninety days after the service
of this notice upon you BY publication. you
fail. or refuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure as a co-owner your interest
In said claim Will become the property of the
subscriber under said Sec. 1924.
Herman Nathan.
Claimant.
Care OF Richard Bennett Neihart, Montana.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

State of Montana, l..
County Of Meagher. ~"
/, the undersigned, H.
Z. Dawson, a resident of the city of Nefhart, In
the comfy of Meagher, and state of Montana,
do hereby certify and declare, that I I'm the sole
proprietor and owner of the firm or business
institution known and designated as the Mel.
hart Mercantile Company doing business in
the city of Neihart aforesaid: that l am respon-
sibie for all liabilities and claims against said
company, and will collect, settle and adjust all
claims and amounts due or to become due said
company.
Witness my hand and seal this 18th day OF
January, A. D. 1897.
H. Z. Dawson. (Seal
s sta,a q N aG MsagSsr, IS.
On this 18th day OF
January, A. D., 1897, before me Richard Bennett,
a notary public, Of the state OF Montana, in and
for said county Of Meagher, personally appear
ed II. E. Dawson, known to me TO be the person
whose name is subscribed to the foregoing in
strument, and who acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my official Seal the day and
year in this certificate first above written.
(SeaD Richard Bennett.
Notary Public, in and for Meagher county,
Montana.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
Dimeuities of Composition.

NH. @. Hermione Readypen (the
we'll known magazine contributor,
writing)-Harmonious sounds are
uplifting. There should be music Ia
every home. CTo her daughter)
Maria, will you stop that maddening
piano drumming till I can get this
copy off?-New York Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

English syndicates are buying up
big U. S. bre weries, and forming a
trust. The boys, however, must grab
the distinction between a beer trust
and trust for beer.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

The Anaconda Standard, under a
head, eff Christ came to Havse,
Mont.,'' intimates that he would find
as much iniquity per square inch as
he found in Chicago. i.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

Our coinage once comprised q s.
goldpieoe. The authorized act for
this coin was passed Feb. u, 1858.
and Its coinage was begun In 1854.
II Is said that very few Of these
pieces are now In existence.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

When the new moon comes be-
tween 8 and 10 p. No., the Indication
ID In summer time for rain, If the
wind is from the south or SOUTH
west; in the winter, rain or snow,
II the wind is from the directions
indicated
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

In A. D. 20 the greater part of Je.
rusalem. including the temple. Was
burned when the oity was stormed
and taken hy Titus.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

Governor Smith is manufacturing
notaries at the rate of one and one
half a day.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

Stop the ponderous improved
Cranston cylinder press! The dus-
ky Queen has just paid Mrs. Cleve-
land a visit.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
FOOD FOR
THOUGHT.
Amazing Facts About the
Recent Election.
LESSONS IN FIGURES.
What the Stats Official Foot
lngS Reveal.
A FASCINATING TOPIC.
An Exhaustive Analysis by
Mr.. Walter Wellman.
A FASCINATING TOPIC.

Now that all the official figures of the
result Of the recent presidential election
are at hand 1t is possible for the student
of politics to sit down and accurately an
alyze the returns. He who does this in an
impartial and intelligent way will discover
many facts Of interest and value. The in
| crease OF decrease of the total vote In the
several states, the ratio of votes to popula-
tion, the changing proportions Of party
strength, the geographical distribution Of
| parties and votes, the influence of the vast
| number Of citizens Of foreign birth or line
| q the trend of the city vote in contrast
| with the farmer vote-all these and many
| other phases of the election will be found
instructive to every reader who will take
the trouble to look into them. feel
sure my readers will agree with me that
there Is no more fascinating topic thar an
! inquiry into the various features of such O
! tremendous political and social fact as the
casting of IA, 600, 600 votes by a nation Of
| popular sovereigns.
In 10 states the Populist party, or a sec
ton thereof, gave votes to a straight" or
"middle of the road" electoral ticket, with
Bryan and Watson as their candidates for
president and vice president. The total
number Of votes cast for these tickets was
1856, 1876. The intent of these votes was to
cast their ballots for Mr.. Bryan for presi-
dent. Considering the intent of the voter
alone, such voter must be counted for
Bryan. But practically these were not
Bryan votes. They did him no good. They
were thrown away. They bore somewhat
the same relation to Bryan's candidacy as
the votes for Palmer and Buckner bore to
the Mckinley candidacy. For these rea-
sons / have decided to give Bryan credit for
the Bryan and Watson vote In the first to-
tails, but afterward to carry that vote in a
column by itself, and not to include it In
the comparisons and analyses.
The total vote cast for Mckinley and
Bryan respectively, including Bryan and
Watson votes for the latter, was:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

In the following table we have the vote
by states for the minor presidential tickets,
the straight Prohibition and silver Prohi-
bition being consolidated. The vote for
the silver Prohibition ticket, included In
Prohibition column, was about IS, 500:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
Bryan Social
and Prohi- ist-La

Continued on last page.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

In the following table we find the vote
for Mckinley and Bryan by states in COM
parison with the Harrison and Cleveland
vote of four years ago:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

Granite Street, Neihart, Montana.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

Totals ........ 7.1l0,4s4 6,361,3lS 5,176,l0s 5,556,9ls
Plurality. -. TAO, 1866 3SO,sl0
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06
Notice Of Ownership.

State of Montana, L.,
County of Meagher. 900
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-07

care Of the seed IN budding time protect
ing it against rain and frost by wrapping
thegr petals around i. or enclosing 1t by
the lips Of their corollas. This seems
rather FAR fetched. and yet Il is as moth
erly en- &C. as that Of the hen n extend
ing her wing over the chickens AZ night.
Some plants incsose their young In horny
cases. and others in thorly burrs. to pre-
serve them against hirSis and insects. un-
I'll they shall have arrived at maturity.
This is not motherly instinct. however,
any more than il Is nother!y instinct for
hen to inclose its young in a covering
which shall harden when exposed to the
air. pending incubation.
Interesting as DR.. Gortcn's theory il. it
Is not more remarkable that the instinct
which plants show in other matters not
due 20 mere mechanical operations The
water lily and other plants. for instance,
send their flowers TO the surface OF the
water for fertilization, and when il IS ac-
complished draw them to the bottom
uberately seek light. and the pansy al
ways turns its flower to the sunshine. The
sunfiower viii not only turn its face 10
the sun. but will twist It's stem in It's
eagerness for light.
But even more remarkable than these
signs OF sort OF Intelligence is the GER
tainty with which plants select their
food and reach for water. With unerring
instinct they will reject that which is un-
wholesome for them and select that which
is good, taking care even in the choice OF
cosmetics which are TO enhance their
beauty. very common sight near a
river Is an elm which will send out its
rootlets down to the water and make no
attempt TO send them in the opposite d.
rection. How can a tree. it may be asked.
consisting 10 the outward sight of cell
lulose. sap, and chlorophyl only, with no
rudiInent even of nerve cell or nerve sub
stance, upon which to base a sensory
act. think out plan by which il can OBJ
tain nourishment? Sometimes the greater
moisture Of the earth ON one side might
explain the more ready growth of the
rootlets but this does not suffice, because
they can be seen to climb over rocks
which are absolutely dry in order TO reach
the water they must know lies In a GER
tain direction.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-07

the ofrerse I, Is reii-known tha, there
n such cases There are usually no wit
rexses except the principals. and some
times neither OF the principals is entirely
free from blame. This Is not meant n
conformation OF the crime in any degree.
but as result OF the experience with the
records. The capital punishment should
IA extended to cases I'm which the victim
n frightened fnto submission no less than
By actual force. The first degree OF guilt
Should also extend 20 young women OF
previous chastity II the first opportunity
Is taken 10 make the charge. and 1t should
extend To girls under she age OK fourteen
with or without consent The less severe
punishment should be graduated so as to
afford jzrses an opportunity 20 find YER
diets that would clearly indicate the pun
ishment. The charge Of the judge would
then admit Of clear definitions OF the de-
gree CO guilt and the corresponding de-
gree OF punishment.
Assaults OF the character which provok-
ed such summary retribution at Uroana
are rare In the Northwestern states. but
their rarity does not make them less OF
fensive when they occur. There is no oth-
er crime which stirs up the anger OF men
and women as this one does. and X the
magnitude OF a crime Is TO be judged by
the human feeling against IT, il should be
regarded by the law as deserving the ut
most penalty society considers necessary
TO It's protection.