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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
BetrRYAG by q FlOwer.

10 the monastery of the Grand Char
treuse women, as a rule, are i~nexorably
refused admittance, only a very few
having had the privilege Of seeing the
Carthusians (monks of the order) at
home. A story is told of a French
daughter of Eve, blessed with even Il
greater share of curiosity than that pos
sessed by The generality of her sex,
who, having heard from her husband
and brother of their late interesting
visit to the monastery, tried by every
means in her power to effect an entrance
there, but all to no avail. Determined,
however. by hook or crook, to succeed,
she at last hit upon the happy idea of
presenting herself there dressed as a
man, managing to persuade her husband
to allow her to do so, and to take her
with him on his mex visit.
On arriving at the gates of the mon
astery she entered unchallenged with
the remainder of the party, but while
in the garden the conducting monk,
leaving her side. gathered an exquisite
rose, which he brought and presented
to her with a courtly bow, proving that
he at least was not deceived by her dis
guise. She, too, foolishly betrayed her
self by her ready grace and charm of
manner in accepting the rose, which she
did most willingly. Needless to say
that after this incident she never pene-
trated into the interior of the building
nor saw what she vas dying TO see, but
returned unsatisfied, a sadder and a
wiser woman, with a high appreciation,
however, of the keen discernment of the
clustered ones.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
Should Have Been Satisfied.

A Michigan statesman has introduced
o bill at Lansing requiring that all no.
tel bills of fare shall be printed i'll Eng
lish. This is a matter which Michigan
and Indiana may safely be left to fight
out for themselves, but the ''cause
thereunto moving" i'll Michigan de-
serves a word of comment. The Michi-
gan solon says he recently came to Chi
cago, registered from the state of Pin
gree and said he wanted a square meal.
He entered the hotel dining room, Or
dered five dishes from the French bill of
fare and was given five different kinds
of potatoes. The ground of this visitors
objection does not appear to be tenable.
Five different kinds of potatoes at one
meal certainly ought to be enough to
satisfy ever a Michigan man Chicago
Times-Herald
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Wrong Conclusion.

The Canadian Gazette tells an anus
ing story of one who was too quick at
drawing an inference. 1t happened that
a Glasgow professor who was visiting
Canada with the British association in
1884 was DESTROYS of seeing something
Of northwestern life, and for this pur-
pose repaired to an Alberta ranch.
I fixed him up as well as 1 could, the
rancher says, but he complained that
he did not like sleeping with his clothes
on. So after the first night l stretched
a cowskin across the shack and told
him he might undress if he liked. He
took off most Of his garments and put
on a long white nightdress. In the
morning my foreman came in while the
gentleman was still sleeping. Observ-
ing the white nightdress, he said in a
whisper:
Rather sudden, eh?"
"What?" | asked.
1.-THE death of the old man."
Hes no dead; he's asleep" l ex-
planned.
"Then what's he wearin them billed
clothes for?" was the reply. Never
saw a chap laid out in billed clothes
afore 'cept he were dead"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
A CENTURY AGO.

Imprisonment for debt was a common
practice.
Every gentleman wore a cue and pow
dered his hair.
An old copper mine in Connecticut was
used as a prison.
There was only n hat factory, and
that made cooked hats.
Virginia contained a fifth Of the whole
population of the country.
Two stagecoaches bore all the travel be-
tween New York and Boston.
A gentleman bowling to a lady always
scraped his foot on the ground.
The Mississippi valley was not SO well
known as the heart of Africa now is.
Vaccination had not become popular,
and smallpox was an everyday disease.
All the population of a village assem-
bled at the I'M on post day" to hear the
news.
Editors begged their subscribers to pay
up; if they had no money, to send in
wood, cheese, corn or pork.
The church collection was taken in q
bag at the end of a pole with a bell at
tached to AROUSE sleepy contributors.
Quinine was unknown. When a man
had ague fits, he tool Peruvian bark and
whisky.-New Orleans Shines Democrat.
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He Got Mixed.

A colored exhorter, while holding a
meeting in Georgia, solicited a special
collection to defray the expenses of the
meeting. Well pass roun de hat" he
said, ''endurin de singin of de hymn
on page 2O5-'On Jordan's Stormy
Banks And then he proceeded to
cline out" the hymn, but SO intent was
he on the collection that he forgot
whole lines of it and supplied others,
with the following result:
son Jordan's stormy banks | stand
En- cast a wishful eye
To Canaan's fair en- happy land.
Don't let dat hat pass by.)
"Oh, de transportin, rapturous scene
Dat rises to my sightl
(Drap in dat nickel, BIudder Green)
En- rivers of delight
Gould l but stand whar Moses stood
En- view de landscape DER,
Not Jordan's stream or deaths cold food
I'VE wants ten dollars more."1
Atlanta Constitution.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
THE LISTENER

Isaac F. Bassford of Helena, Mon, is
probably the oldest inventor in the world.
He is 81 years old.
Denman Thompson is living on his
farm in New Hampshire, and he says he
has no notion of acting any more.
Sir Henry Irving has a double In the
person of Professor Burden Sanderson,
the most eminent psychologist in England.
DIR. Sanderson is the older man.
George c. Boldt of the Waldorf hotel,
New York, is an enthusiastic Thousand
Islander. He owns two islands I'm that
region-viz, Heart island, five acres in di-
mansions, and Fern island, of one acre.
George S. Deakins of Rowlesburg, w.
Va, a surveyor, has the compass and the
instruments which belonged to his grand
father when, with Washington, he sur
yeyed the road from Alexandria TO the
Ohio.
When Seth Low was a schoolboy in the
Brooklyn Polytechnic institute, he &C.
quired a local fame as an amateur actor
of no mediocre ability, his part de resist
ance being that Of tho hero in the 'Mer-
chant Of Venice"
Representative Bailey of Texas when a
boy was considered lazy, but he had his
ambition awakened by the character of
1shmael Worth in Mrs. Southworth' 8 "Ish-
mael, or In the Depths" and dates his
career from the reading of that novel.
To a reporter who recently asked him to
take part in a symposium on "How to
Make Money" Phil Armour, the Chicago
millionaire, replied: "Young man, put it
down hat the Arnours don't know how
20 make anything but sausages, and that
they never answer fool questions -
Edward H. Neff of New Philadelphia,
o., who has a local reputation as an ex-
pert worker in wood, recently sent I'd Pres
ident Mckinley a small table of his own
make, containing over SO, 900 pieces of
wood. The wood was taken from the
homes or tombs of presidents and others
prominent in national history.
The Rev. d. Parker Morgan, rector of
the Church of the Heavenly Rest 10 New
York, is a practical farmer and is an ex-
pert judge of choice cattle. His friend
General Thomas l.. James says that CDR.
Morgan not only knows how to raise vege-
tables, but he knows the difference be-
tween a Jersey COW and a Texas steer"
Ex-senator Mcconnell, who has been ap-
pointed Indian inspector, has had a varied
career in politics, and when he represented
the new state of Idaho as her first senator
his long speeches are said to have driven
Senator George F. Edmunds into private
life. He has been by turns a miner, a
stock raiser, a merchant and a banker. He
has lived in Nevada, California, Oregon
and Idaho.
81 Mohammed Ben Moussa, the giant
Moor sent as the chief of the Maroocan
mission to Queen Victoria's jubilee, never
reached London, having gone mad in
Paris on his way there, and then having
been sent home. His madness took a very
queer form. He thought he was Montjar-
ret, the chief outrider who precedes the
president Of the French republic on state
occasions, II insisted on being dressed In
livery, with riding brooches and high
boots.
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N

Icebergs somtimes last for 200 years.
Tea is gathered from the plant four
times a year.
1t is estimated that greater quantities of
gold and silver have been sunk In the sea
than are now in circulation on earth.
1t is said that if all the cotton raised In
Texas were made into one shirt, the gar
ment would fit a man 20, 900 miles tall.
Observations to determine the duration
of sunshine in Europe showed that Spain
has the most sunshine and Scotland the
least.
The game of golf is said to have been in
vented in ancient times by a lonely shep-
herd who had nothing better to do than to
knock round stones into a rabbit hole with
his crook.
The mountain region of Tibet is one Of
the few places on the earth where poly
andry still prevails. A wife is regarded as
property, and is so expensive that only a
wealthy man can have one all bis own.
Ordinarily n woman becomes the wife of
several husbands.
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Government by Injunction.

Fatigued Ferrars-Say, Perry, we'll
have ter be lookin aroun fer a federal
judge wot is favorably inclined and git
into de fashion.
Perry Patettic-Wot's de graft now,
Fatty?
Fatigued Ferrars-Jus' t'ink wot a
snap we'd hev if we could get a federal
judge ter injunct folk from refusin us a
handout or askin us ter saw wood
Omaha World-H Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27

Mrs. Henpeck with a self satisfied
air)-I notice hat whenever Hard,
Cash & Co. advertise for clerks or
statesmen they always say married men
preferred.
Mr.. H. Gan employee Of Hard, Cash
g. Co. Yes, the old tyrantsl They
want men who are used to being bossed.
New York Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
The Search For Truth.

In the search for truth no aid is so
effective as the ever ready spirit of &C.
tivity. He who postpones putting what
he knows into practice until he knows
more will find his journey a long and
discouraging one. Carlyle well says:
"Conviction, were it never SO excellent,
is worthless till it converts itself into
conduct. Nay, properly conviction is
not possible till then, inasmuch as all
speculation is by nature endless and
formless. Most true is it, as a wise man
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
The "Dcpper."
The Liquor.

Alkali Ike-What sorter whiskey are
they settin out over at the new Blue
Ruin saloon, Pete?
Bilious Pete-Finest in the land.
You can git drunk on it now, stay full
for "a hours, III then git drunk ag'in
whenever you want to by merely shak-
In your head. New York Sunday Jour-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
Mean.

Daisy-Oh, Dolly, I have had such
a nasty, spiteful anonymous letter.
Dolly-Whom was it FRONT
Daisy--1 don't know. Can you
guess9 The wicked creature says |
am a vain, silly, frivolous, chatter
ing, o~verdressed, empty headed firt.
Dolly-I really can't imagine,
but''-refecting-"I think it must
be some n who knows you quite
well, dearest.-London Fun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27
GENERAL NEWS.
How a Lot of People Manage to Get
Their Names in Print.

Bar silver, So.
Mormanism is growing rapidly in
the eastern states.
The president of Uruguay de-
clares martial law.
Senorita Cisneros is now the legal
ward of Mrs, Join A. Logan.
An unknown is murdered with a
car-pIn at W~ahpeton, N. D. No
clue.
Train wreckers near Middletown
n. Y, derail II freight. Nobody
hurt.
Alderman Durham, of Minneapo-
lis gets 81 years in the pen for
bride.
A fire in London burns over ten
blocks destroying $l5,0OO,O0O of
property.
Roseel, Kans, on the Fe road, a
flag station, has sunk, a lake mark
ing its place.
Two Brewer brothers skate
through the ice on Big Stone lake,
Mimi, and drown.
Go Away Geo" Morton, Helena,
gets two years for assault committed
in a Wood street bagnio.
A boiler exploded at Carleton,
Mich, killing the fireman and three
beloved and steamed friends.
Fisher and Wolff, who pleaded
guilty to train robbery in Texas get
80 and 45 years respectively.
An artillery wagon exploded in
Mexico city and four men were
shoveled up with the remains.
DIR. kress' bay horse, in Butte,
became frightened, ran against a
brick house and fractured his skull
Heavy floods in western Oregon
and Washington. Washout in front
and behind at Sultan city on the G.
n. II.
Henry Sherry, a Neenah, Wis.
millionaire, assigns for benefit OF
creditors. Overwhelmed by the
wave.
Tommy Summerall, son of a cot
ton baler at Wellborn, Fla. is acct
IDENTITY baled up in a bale of cotton
He vas "A good little boy.
A hot coon, fireman ON an Alaba
ma railway, stsbs the engineer
dozen times, and is himself shot
All while the train was in motion
Fred ketcham, blacklisted by tn
Northwestern railway in 1893 70
completely in a strike has secur
Judgment against that road in a Chi
cago court for $2l ,666.33.
Geo. 10y, home unknown, tried t
commit suicide on an n. p. trail
neal Belgrade. He sliced his nee
with a razor and then jumped tn
train while in motion. He is de
mented.
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Sympathetic.

Young Wife-Oh. John. the rata
nave eaten all of my cake!
John-Whatl All of it?
Young Wife-Every piece. l feel like
crying.
John-Oh, don't cry wei a few rats.
Hartford Times.
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Fresh Winds.

New Arrival-The winds up here
seem to be quite fresh.
st. Peter (grumpily)-Indeed they
are. They are all the time trying to
blow through my whiskers. -Trutn.
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The editor of this moral weekly

The editor of this moral weekly
has received from Comfy & McTague
of Deer Lodge, a very cordial invi-
tation to attend the grand opening
of the new annex to the state prison,
Nov. %, 1897. He didn't 90, al
though he doesn't blame the friends,
who so kindly rendered the invita-
ton. 1t looks like a murky conspir-
acy to get him back again and he
will take no chances.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-27

A tyrannical and universal secret
surveillance blights all Russian ma
tional life. The clergy preach but little,
the great majority never attempting
to deliver a sermon, chiefly because an
unguarded or misunderstood word may
be so reported as to lead to severe pen
alties. All public meetings are prohib-
tied, and SO ridiculous is the extreme to
which the superfine bureaucracy pushes
its operations that nobody is at liberty
to give even a dinner party without the
permit of the everlasting politsi.
The police officer is the god of Russia.
If permission is granted for a party, a
detective must be admitted. Public
lectures are all but unknown, for the
law sternly forbids them. Seeing that
education is rapidly spreading, and that
by the efforts of the authorities in this
land Of endless paradoxes, it is manifest
that the elements of some fearful social
cataclysm are being a~bundantly and
expeditiously provided. The passport
system is all unspeakable abomination,
for which there is not the slightest JUS
titication. 1t puts travellers to the ut
most inconvenience and occasions con-
slant annoyance. contemporary Re-
view.
The "Dcpper."
1t is not uncommon to find the epithet
"dopper" applied to a Boer, as if the
terms were synonymous. The lame
''dopper" is really derived from the
Dutch word for an extinRuisher, and il
is properly applied only to the members
of a religious sect which is DESTROYS OF
e~xtinguishing all theological opinions
Of a later date than the famous synod
of bort.
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1t is not generally known, says John
Muir in The Atlantic, that. notwith-
standing the immense quantities of tim
Der cut every year for foreign and home
markets and miners, from five to ten
times as much is destroyed as is used,
chiefly by running forest fires that only
the federal government cal stop. Tray
elers through the west ia summer are
not likely to forget the fire work dis
played along the various railway
tracks. Thoreau, when contemplating
the destruction of the forests on the east
side of the continent, said that soon the
country would be SO bald that every
man would have to grow whiskers to
hide its nakedness, but he thanked God
that at least the sky was safe. Had he
gone west he would have found ont that
the sky was not safe, for all through
the summer months, over most of the
mountain regions, the smoke of mill
and forest fires is so thick and black
that no sunbeam can pierce it. The
whole sky, with clouds, sun, moon and
itars, is simply blotted out. There is no
real sky and no scenery. Not a noun
tain is left in the landscape; at least
hone is in sight from the lowlands, and
they all might as we'll be on the moon
IS far as scenery is concerned.
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just Indignation.

Proprietor-How did tina. lady hap
pen to get SO badly hurt at the bargain
counter just now?
F~loorwalker - She stopped to buy
something, and the rest of the women
mobbed her. Detroit Journal.
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TIME

ARRIVE AT HELENA.
Northern Pacific time card in effect Apr. 81, 1897.
No. l, Pacific Express, west bound. T:20 q. M.
No. 2 Atlantic EXPIRES, east bound, 1000 p. IN.
No. 6, Marysville mixed, daily except
sunday -. =. .......... ....... 9:3n Il. m.
No. 8, Wickes and Boulder mixed dali
ly except Sunday, runs from Basin
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days, from Elkhorn on Tuesdays,
thursdays and Satudays. ........., 5:35 p. m.
NO. lo., k1mini mixed, Tuesdays only $50 p. m.
DEPART FROM HELENA.
No. /, Pacific Express, w%estbound, 7:20 q. m.
NO. = Atlantic Express, eastbound, 1910 p. m.
No. Z, Marysville mixed, daily except
Sunday: 3:30p M.
No. 10, Wickes and Boulder mixed.
daily except Sunday, runs to Basin
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
to Flkhorn Tuesdays, Thursdays
and saturdays. ............. :. 7:35 q. M.
NO. lOl, Rim1ni mixed Tuesdays only 10 80 a. III.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-15
GRAPE UPON THE DOOR.

Somber crape, somber crape. morsel nor tais use to drape Doors through which Death uninvited came in dread and awful shape, Waving stow to and fro that the thought less throng may know One home-sunbeam was eclipsed beneath cloud of bitter woe Thou hast been through long years emblem of earth's countless tears, When darkest certainty replaced alter nate hopes and fears When torn hearts long on the rack turned like thee lack-luster black, And the stars no longer shone in heavens once hope-iliumined track. Yet those years have brought to me bet ter views and thoughts ef thee, For each sorrow hath its morrow which experienced souls may see have learned that meath thy veil shines the light which cannot fail Harbor- beacon beckoning homeward through the darkness and the gale. Badge of grief, badge of grief, back of thee. in grand relief, Lies the glory which the reaper finds with in the golden sheaf; Death Is life. end of strife, close of years with evil rife, The beginning of the winning rest when sheathed the surgeons knife Ours the tear. theirs the cheer and Heaven vistas vast and clear, Where their wings may spurn the chrysalis which hampers spirits here; Where each Joy they can see with new views from earth-mists free, Proves the story of the glory that is promised you and me. 5omber sign, proof benign of thought full love divine Which hath made Death but it's messenger to lead us OCT the line Welcome, friend who canst end woes anu shattered spirits mend, Unto thy kindly ministries in grateful trust we bend.
 l. EDGAR JONES.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-15

out our whole township, and, had been base enough to do so, might, scores of times, have sold him for more than the price of first-rate horse.
 He lived to be 13 years of age, and then, though apparently in good health. painlessly died one day while his grand old head rested lovingly on my knee. I buried him on the bank of the stream wherein he and I had so often dis ported ourselves, and, full-grown man as then was, am not ashamed to con fess that shed childish tears over his grave, which afterward marked by a large stone slab, taken from the creeks bed and rudely engraved by my un- skilled hands: My Friend Carlo; Faithful Unto Death."-N. Y. Ledger.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-15
DID NOT MIND THE BURGLARS.
Why the Optimistic Mrs. Blank Was
 Clad of Their Visit.

Why the Optimistic Mrs. Blank Was
 Glad of Their Visit.
 Mir. Blanks wife is so painfully clean that Blanks life is made burden to him, and he has a gait like kangaroo caused by his forgetting to clean his feet when it is muddy and taking long steps to avold making tracks.
 When Mir. Blank arose early one day last week he discovered that burglars had paid the house a visit during the night and he hurried back to apprise Mrs. B. of their loss.
 They've taken all the silver in the house" he gasped, out of breath.
 Well, they won't get much for it- there's that old comfort anyhow" she said, coolly.
 But your sealskin cloak is gone from the cedar trunk!"
 I'm glad of it--sealskin is out of date. and now I'll get something new.'
 But your diamonds that were hid den in the rag basket-they took them!"
 "Oh, well, there isn't any money in diamonds. I'm not going to worry. Just put it in the hands of the police. l dare say the poor burglars were driv- en to crime for want of bread. I al- ways had good deal of sympathy for criminals"
 But they've cleaned the house."
 John, you don't mean it? And I've been dreading fall house cleaning all summer. 1 told you there was some good in everybody" and Mrs. Blank turned over for another nap.-Chicagu Ymes-H erald.