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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
DRESS PARADE.

A gray feather boa is one of the necessi-
ties of u fashionable outfit just at present.
A homespun wnL material in a new
weave, very loose ard thin, like g%renadine,
Is In the market. 1t comes In stripes,
and is made up over the inevitable taffeta
silk lining.
Swiss embroidered muslin of the finest
kind is made up into dainty summer
gowns over silk Innings, and pretty figured
lawns are tucked from the knee to the
deep hem as they were years ago.
Transparent effects play a large part in
summer millinery, and null, chiffon, net
and tulle are shirred into the prettiest
shaped hats, with both lightness in color
and weight to recommend them to favor.
Chiffon dresses, once worn exclusively
for evening, have appeared among the day
gowns, and pink, yellow, green, mauve
and white chiffon is made up with gath
cred or accordion plated f~1ounoes to the
waist.
Ribbon belts made of two lengths Of rib
bon folded and crossed on the hips, so that
they form points back and front, are q
useful accessory of dress, since they are
boned and hooked in front, and consequent
ly are always in place.
Lace Is more in demand than ever, and
the woman who has a lot of old real lace
is to be envied. Yet the limitations are
exquisitely fine, and the art of producing
pretty effects with inexpensive lace is well
known to the dressmakers.
The latest sleeve is cut in one piece,
small gigot shape. Two plaits are folded
at the elbow on the underside, n the
seam is arranged we'll under the arm
while plaits in front at the top throw up a
little fullness, which forms the puff
New York Sun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
UNCLE PETERS RECIPES.

First.-To keep your feet dry on rainy
days: Stand on your head.
Seoond.-The best way to mind a baby
Do everything he tells you to.
Third.-The safest way to gather chest
nuts: Take a pair of scissors and cut them
out of the comic papers.
Fourth.-How to get soda water or
candy for nothing: Persuade somebody
else to buy it for you.
Fifth.-How to make q dollar go "a long
ways: Put 1t in an envelope addressed to
somebody in the Sandwich Islands and
mail 1t.
Sixth. -How to GO west at no expense
whatever: Turn your back on the east and
walk straight ahead.
Seventh. To avoid stammering, whis-
Pering and impudenoe: Don't talk.
Eighth.-To avoid swallowing water.
melon seeds and cherry stones: Eat no
fruit but bananas or apples.
Ninth.-To learn to daEce in one lesson
Walk on the hot sand at the seashore at
midday in midsummer barefooted.
Tenth.-The surest method Of remem.
bering dates: Fix them firmly In your
mind and dom forget them.
All children following these rules,
which are the result of many years of ex.
perience on Uncle Peters part, will find
that they can accomplish the special OBJ.
jeots for which the rules are made without
any added effort. -Harper's Bazaar.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
An Unconscious Rebuff.

The Rev Fl. R. Haweis, author of
Music and Morals" tells a good story
in his book, "Travel and Talk" of an
unconscious rebuff he once received in
a railway carriage:
An old gentleman who sat opposite
had been eying me over his evening pa
per with what l fancied was a look of
recognition. Presently he handed me
the paper and pointed to an article on
a musical subject. Il thought, sir, he
said politely, you might like to sec
this article"
One glance was sufficient. / recog-
nized an almost verbatim chapter of
Emusic and Morals" Disguised at the
fraud, l handed the paper back, re.
marking that l was quite familiar with
the contents. lin fact" / rashly added,
sit is a chapter out of Music and Nor
ais. You may know the book"
Indeed, sir, l never heard of it. Who
is it by?"
son." l said, "a man named Haweis
"a parson, you know"
"Oh, reallyl l never heard of himl''
Haven't you?' said l.
mo" said he.
"Ohp' said /, and the conversation
dropped. So of whomsoever it may be
said or sung, "'E dun know where {
are, in the long run most everybody
finds his level.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
THE TATTLER.

Miss Maggie V. Smith of Helena, Mon,
is president of the Montana State Epworth
league.
Mrs. Ollie J. Royce of Phillipsburg is
serving her second year as president of the
Kansas Woman's Press association.
Miss Mary Mclean, daughter of the
Rev. j. G. Mclean of the Pacific Theolog-
ical seminary, has accepted the chair of
English literature in Stanford university.
Mrs. F. W. Fackler of Dayton, O., has
fallen heir to an estate in Germany valued
at $40, 900. Her title to the estate was
established by a family Bible in her pos
session.
Miss lola Omohundro is the first notary
public appointed by Governor Stevens of
Missouri under the new law permitting
persons under 81 years of age to serve as
notaries.
Molly Elliot Sewell, the young author
ess, is one of the most enthusiastic club
women of Washington. Most of the clubs
to which she belongs nave for their object
the advancement of literature and art.
Miss Lolita Elliott of Danforth, Me-, was
the driver of the winning horse at the re-
cent horse race in Pittsfield, in which all
the drivers were women. The women
wore divided skirts and aquitted them
selves most creditably.
Miss Jessie LiverInore of Chicago is a
successful designer of art glass. In a
competition of seven of the leading artists
of the country, she has secured the work
of designing the art windows for the ele-
CANT new residence being erected by Mr..
and Mrs. Cougar at La Fayette, Ind.
Mrs. S. j. Field, wife of the justice of
the supreme court, and Mrs. George
Hearst of Washington, have been very ac-
tive in raising money for a life size statue
of Washington, which is to be presented to
France in 1900. Up to the present time
about $22, 900 has been collected. The total
cost is to be $35, 900.
Mrs. Warren Neal of Neal, Mich, recent
ly appointed deputy game warden for
Grand Traverse county by State Warden
Osborne, says she longed for this office and
accepted it because she wanted to see the
fish and game in her county protected,
and the men seemed utterly incapable of
enforcing the laws.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, wife of the
English secretary for the colonies, and
daughter of W. G. Endicott, Mr.. Cleve-
lands first secretary of war, as a special
evidence of the favor in which Queen Vic
toria holds her has received from her maj
esty the gold instead Of the silver jubilee
medal. The gold medal was conferred,
rs a rule, only on royal personages.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
Knocked the Poetry Out of 1t.

The following little story would be
pathetic but for the fact that unforeseen
circumstances turned it in a different
direction.
A Georgia writer was requested by
the father of a bright little boy who
had died to write some memorial verses
of him. Il had given him." explained
the parent, "a pretty little bedstead,
of which he was very proud. His last
words were, Can't Billy take his bed
to heaven with himT'"
The writer thought he saw something
poetical in that and went to work on it.
Before his work was finished, however,
he received the following queer mes
sage:
Leave the bed out of the obituary
1t was bought on the installment plan.
and the furniture dealer has levied OIL
it. atlanta Constitution.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
The Peacock at Home.

The real home of the peacock or pea
fowl is in India. There they were and
are hunted. and their flesh is used for
food. As these birds live in the same
region as the tiger, peacock hunting is a
very dangerous sport. The long train Of
the peacock is not its tail, as many
suppose, but is composed of feathers
which grow out just above the tail and
are called the tail coverts. Peacocks
have been known for many hundred
years. They are mentioned in the Bible.
Job mentions them, and they are men,
toned, too, in l Kings X. Hundreds Of
years ago in Rome many thousand pea
cocks were killed for the great feasts
which the emperor made. The brains
of the peacock were considered a great
treat, and many had to be killed for a
single feast.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
Chewing the Betel Nut.

Maxwell Sommerville, in his book
Islam on the Meinam, From the Gulf
to Ayuthia," says that, the chewing of
the betel nut being a common habit, at
every little distance as you go through
the bazaar of Bangkok may b. seen
petty merchants busy making and sell
ing the preparation SO universally mas
ticated.
1.-THE leaves in which the prepared
mixture is wrapped are from a vine
known as the chavica betel. The nut is
from the africa betel palm, which
reaches a height of about 60 feet, whose
branches bear several large lunches of
nuts, which harden and redden as they
ripen, and which resemble somewhat
the lunches of fruit Oh the date bearing
palm, The dealers cut up their green
leaves into the proper triangular form,
crack the nuts, and with wooden spatu-
las work the tumeric stained juice into
"a paste. 1t is amusing to see how skill
fully they form the pieces of green leaf
into pointed, cone shaped cups, into
each one of which they place a portion
of the ingredients"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
HER FATAL
After She Made 1t There Wa No Hope
For Horatio.

After She Made 1t There Was No Hope
For Horatio.
Break our engagement" he echoes
in amazement. Il don't understand
you"
She regards him with a look that
would freeze ice cream.
II regret" she returns haughtily,
my inability to render my meaning
more transparent Permit me to sug-
gest that you attend a bargain sale of
dictionaries"
Pardon me. OF course l understand,
but l do not comprehend. You cannot
be serious"
Il certainly am"
but what have l donef" he asks in
q voice puffy with anguish. Have
not been as devoted a lover as ever
woman had?"
81 suppose SC" she admitted.
Then why do you wish to puncture
my life? Clarinda. l love you as ! dc
my bicycle. You are the chain on my
sprocket, the air in my tires. Deprived
of the oil of your affection, the lamp OF
my existence would go out forever, and
l should be pinched by the copper OF
death"
The girls face softened, but did moi
lose its air of determination.
"Horatio," she murmured tenderly,
"do not look at me like that. Your
eyes stir me like a pudding. You have
indeed been the most ardent Of lovers,
but after such a discovery l cannot
change my resolution. Our engagement
must be fractured"
Discovery What discovery"
ALAS" she cries, that / shoult
have to tell it'll Last night when yor
frightened my saddle l saw that you
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, how l blush at thu
recollection-is of an 1896 model. d.
you think l can marry you now?"
With a wall of utter despair tn
young man rushes from the house ant
jumps on a crosstown car.-New Yorl
Sunday journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
A CENTURY AGO.

A day laborer received 2 shillings a day.
There was not a public library in the
United States.
There were nc maps, charts or globes in
the schoolrooms
Books were very expensive. 1.-The Lives
of the Poets" cost $l5.
Crockery plates were objected to because
they dulled the knives.
A horseman who galloped on a city
street was fined 4 shillings.
Dry goods were designated as "men's
stutfs" or "women's sUuffs."
Stoves were unknown. All cooking was
done before an open fireplace.
Six days were required for a journey be-
tween New York and Boston.
Colored engravings very badly executed
were the only wall ornaments.
Many of the streets were not named, and
the houses were not numbered.
A man who jeered at the preacher or
criticised the sermon was fined.
The parquette of a theater was called
the pit and was filled with the rabble.
At the Christmas quilting parties games
were fashionable, with kissing penalties.
Dances in Philadelphia We're given
every W weeks, but young men under 90
and girls under Is were not admitted. -
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13

The great Yankee" fishermen are
mostly Nova Scotians, but the captains
Of our fishing vessels are, as a rule,
Americans, hardy, self reliant, quick to
think and to act and ready for any
emergency. While the dories are out the
captain, with the aid of the cook, ham
dies the ship and keeps his weather eye
on the horizon. If he sees danger in sky
or sea-, he sets a signal-usually a bas-
ket hoisted in the fore staysail halyards
to recall the dories. Only too often,
though, the gale ONE up with such
suddenness that the dories to leeward
cannot get back. A dory with the bodies
Of two fishermen i'll it or more fire.
quently empty or tossed bottom up by
the waves tells the story. Yet in spite
of the danger of starvation a jug of wa
ter usually constitutes all the provision
aboard a dory, and a compass is Il rare
bird. Gustav Kobbe in st. Nicholas.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
Oxygen and Mushrooms.

A singular way of removing oxygen
from the air by the aid of a plant is
described by DR.. Il. l.. Phipson in The
Chemical News. Inside a glass bell jar,
suspended over water, is placed a mush-
room, and sunlight is allowed to fall
upon the plant. The mushroom absorbs
the oxygen from the air in the jar, and
the carbonic acid formed during the
process is absorbed by the water, which
gradually rises in the jar to one-6fth of
its height. The mushroom now dries
up, but its animation is only suspend
ed, as may be proved by introdu'
beside it a green plant, when it
recommence to vegetate, being l.,
ished by the oxygen exhaled from Ii,
fresh plant.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
POLITICAL QUIPS.

The handshake is the thing before the
nominations are made. The grand shake
comes afterward. Richmond Dispatch.
Pennsylvania claims to be the banner
state for peaches this season, but she Is
scarcely in it with Ohio with respect to
plums. Boston Herald.
The treasury Is to be guarded by charged
electric wires, but no connection has yet
been made to give congress a shock when
it is extravagant.-St. Louis Globe Dem
Ocrat.
Already the magnificent new congress
sional library has been proved inadequate.
1t only furnishes 30 positions, and 10, 600
people have indicated a willingness to ac-
oept these.-San Francisco Examiner.
Constitutional conventions nave been
voted down in several states this year.
The people seem to have al idea hat a
constitutional convention resembles a state
legislature.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
There will be s, 900 election officers need
ed every year in New York city, and each
election will cost a round million dollars.
Eternal vigilance used to be the price of
liberty, but the price is going up in all our
lite s.-Philadelphia Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
THE PRETTY TYPEWRITER.


\ Romance Founded on Several Facts of
Recent Occurrence.
She was as beautiful as a dream and
as fresh as the dawn.
But Horatio Everingham was not in
a genial mood. He had arisen with a
headache, and everything had seemed
to go wrong at the store that morning.
Only five minutes before the sweet young
woman entered one of the firms oldest
customers had left in anger and de-
clared that he would in future buy all
his goods from a rival house.
WELL" said the old gentleman as
she stood with downcast eyes before
him, Il suppose you've called in an
swer to my advertisement for a type
writer, have your"
Yes, sir, " she demurely replied.
1--WE already engaged one," he went
on. 'Sorry o didn't get here a little
earlier. The fact is | hired the first ap-
plicant that came, for l concluded that
a person who would not get here early
enough to beat the others who might
want the place wouldn't be likely to be
terry prompt in getting around if 1 were
to employ her"
II should have been here earlier"
she said, eff I had not first gone to see
Mr.. Bullion, the banker. He also adj
vertised for a typewriter. l am sorry
now that l didn't come here first. Then
l should probably have beaten all the
others"
While she had talked Horatio Ever
ingham had taken his first good look
at her, and he, too. was sorry that she
had gone tt see Bullion first. But there
was no use regretting what had been
done. He didn't need her now; so there
was nothing to do but let her go. He
arose to show her out of the private
office, but she hesitated.
You don't think you need two type
writers, do your she said at last.
No." the merchant prince replied
rather impatiently. Zone can do the
work easily. Good morning"
We'll, them" she murmured, half tt
herself, II suppose l shall have to &C.
cept Mr.. Bullion's offer. I'm sorry, fol
I'd rather work here"
"Whatl' exclaimed Mr.. Everingham
You're going to work for Mr.. Bull
lion?"
Eyes. | told him I'd come back j
you didn't want me-"
"Stav here. my girl, stay here" sale
the old gentleman, while beads Of COLI
sweat stood out upon his brow. "I'l
make room for you some way. Grea
Caesar, what a narrow escaped Why
all my money is in Bullion's bank. -
Cleveland Leader.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
THE DINNER B

Don't eat sugar with salad.
Don't cross the knives and forks.
Don't use individual butter dishes.
Don't pronounce the a long in ga Ia"
Don't use a spoon for ices or ice cream.
Don't place more than one plate at each
place.
Don't tse butter at dinner except with
cheese.
Don't decorate the table with too many
flowers.
Don't use the same knife for more than
one course.
Don't use the same fork for more than
one course.
Don't servo peas, beans, cauifiower, etc.
with meat.
Don't pronounce menu "may-nu,'
but ''men ne. What TO Eat.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
On the pronunciation of pepys,

The Hon. Walter Pepys has collected
II varieties of the spelling of the name,
and he lays some stress upon the French
form Pepy as authority for the pronun'
citation favored by him. Peeps seems to
follow the usual practice, as Weems for
Wemys, and, moreover, it is that adopt
ed by the descendants of the diarist' s
sister Paulina. the family of Pepys
Cockerell. Peeps is also the traditional
pronunciation adopted at Cambridge.
Here is, | think, strong evidence in ia
yor of Peeps. AT the same time ! believe
that in this name, as in other words,
the pronunciation of the vowel e has
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
LAW POINTS.

The receipt by a salesman as compensa
ton of a share Of the profits of a business
does not render him a partner.
A book of account Is inadmissible to
prove from the absence of an entry in same
that certain money was not paid.
An agent may prove by parol testimony
that a transaction between him and his
principal was not within the terms of a
written contract.
1t is a general rule that a check deliver
ed by a debtor to his creditor does not ex-
tinguish the debt for which it Is given,
unless the check is paid.
The crime of receiving a deposit know
ing the bank is insolvent is oonsummated
when the banker receives 1t and is unable,
by insolvency, to repay it.
A contract which inures to the benefit
of a third person may be rescinded by the
parties before its acceptance by him.-Re-
cent Decisions of Highest Courts.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
He Convinced the Duke.


During his visit to the United States
TIE late Duke of Marlborough made a
host of friends. His quick eye, unas-
Stunning manner and ability to grasp
easily the many sided electrical ques-
tons won the honest admiration of the
practical Yankee, whose idea of an
English duke differed in every way from
the real, live British peer. Upon one
occasion, however, the old domineering
spirit of the duke gained the mastery,
and he paid for the temporary lapse
from republican manner with a few
good bruises and a rather severe shak-
ing up of the ducal frame.
The duke was making a tour of in
spection over one of the Chicago cable
lines and came across a cable car driver
who was a typical Yankee, born and
bred in the state of Connecticut.
"Can you stop the Ger quickly"
asked his grace.
II jist reckon ye kin bet Jer life l
can, Mr.. Duke"
"How soon?"
"In bout two yards" replied the
Yankee.
NONSENSE sharply exclaimed his
grace. The next moment the duke was
busy picking himself out of a small
sand bank by the side of the tram line,
into which the abrupt stoppage of the
car had thrown him. AS he quietly
brushed hit ;elf the Yankee smiled and
remarked: II hope ye amt hurt, Mr..
Duke. Guess ye think kin stop her
suddint now, don't ye?"-London Tel
egraph.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
English I.blio Documents and Ours.

English i.biic documents anu OURS
The British government sells al! its
publications. 1t gives nothing away. IT
you want d copy of a bill that has been
introduced into the house of commons
or a report that has been presented to
the house of lords or any public matter
in the London county council or the
board of aldermen of the city, you have
to buy it from the official printers, and
you have to pay postage if it is sent
through the mails. In our country near
ly all official documents Of this kind
are given away, and arc sent free
through the mails under r frank. The
British plan seems to lie tho more sen
sible. 1t saves millions of dollars every
year that are wasted IN tho United
States to furnish public documents to
people who do not care anything for
them, and who throw them into the
waste paper basket as 0 as they are
received. The charge for official publ
cations is only sufficient to pay the cost
and a small margin tor wastage. Thus
the government printing Office is self
supporting and the postal service pays a
profit of $40, 000, 600 or $I2, 900, 600 an
nually into the treasury. On the con-
trary, ON our side OF the Atlantic, it
costs So, 600, 900 or more to pay for
printing for which no one is the wiser,
and our postoffice department. declares
an Irish dividend of SO, 900, 900 or $40,
900, 600 every year, much of which is
due to the transportation Of pub.
docs. "-Chicago Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
A Mathematical Wonder.

Jedediah Buxton was the greatest
prodigy of mathematics that ever ap.
peared in England. His education was
very limited, and he had neve been
taught arithmetic or indeed any branch
of mathematics, SO that his abilities in
this respect were peculiarly natural.
He would walk over a piece of land and
tell with exactness how many acres and
square rods were contained in it. His
memory was 80 great that while resolv-
ing a question he could leave off and
resume the occupation again the next
morning or at a week, a month or sew
eral months later and proceed regularly
till it was completed.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-13
The Cat sud the Mirror.

l had a favirite cat, which came
habitually to my bedroom door as soon
as persons began to move about the
house in the morning and mewed for
admittance, scratching to emphasize his
request if immediate response were not
made.
One morning the idea seized me to
place him upon the dressing table while
l was dressing. The cat at once saw his
reflection in the mirror and began to
arch his back and whisk his tail. He
twisted and turned himself and began
to spit, as if eager for a contest, and
OF course his apparent adversary did the
same. Then he struck savagely at the
mirror, evidently without the desired
result. Puzzled, he went behind the
glass to investigate, returning thorough
ly dissatisfied and eager to get at closer
quarters.
With a hearty laugh / drew neal and
began to stroke him, and in the mirror
he now saw his own reflection and
mine, with my hand upon his head. II
seemed as if the cat tool in the situa-
ton at once, for he glanced from me tC
the reflection several times, lost his ir.
ritation and settled down to watch the
proceedings, every now and then look,
ing into the mirror and back to me.
Many a time subsequently he ooh NJ
his position before the mirror, quietly
and naturally regarding his own and
my image without the slightest emo.
ton. Current Literature.