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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
A BAND OF CONSPlRATORS.
Deadly Array Against Some Cherished
Theatrical Traditions.

Deadly Array Against Some Cherished
Theatrical Traditions.
It is whispered that the members of
INT of the most successful and celebrat-
~d of our American dramatic companies
have organized an oath bound society
whose object is the boycotting of dra-
matte authors chestnuts, the same hav-
ing long since proved indigestible. Here
are a few specimens which the members
Of the society refuse to chew:
II say, lads, are we going to stand
by and see this here chap with his store
clothes and city ways steal Little Mug
get from us?"
"You are mistaken, Harold Rash
forth. l am herel'
"You just now called me a man, and
I lay claim to no higher title"
Course me If you will, but don't
drive me away!'
Harm ye, gal? Why, there's not a
man wouldn't die for Dick Darlington. -
"Now hat 1 have brought you here,
you may as well know all. There is ne
sxit. You are trapped-aye, like a dogr'
"Cuthbert Rodney, / knew your true
character from the moment you entered
the old hall"
"Ah, little one, ! once had a child
who. If she had grown up, would have
looked exactly like you." (Fondles the
ohild's hair in utter Inconsistencies OF
the fact that she is his W offspring
"Once on board the lugger and / will
throttle her at my leisure"
Ills d dark night, lads, and the
waves are high, but let one of you fail
me and his life shall answer for 1t. >
II am an honest working girl. Let
me passi'
Hector C%layburn, you have CROSSED
my path from childhood, but this is the
last time you will thwart mel' CAT
tempts to stab him in the back with 9
spring blade knife, but Is restricted by
lour detectives in ''plain CLOTHES. y
"Not, by heavens, before you have
answered mei' casts off coat, rolls NJ
shirt sleeves, elects hat and pulls bel
up M notch, while the heavy villain
waits up stage.)
"Listen, Lillian. In ten minutes !
must leave you for ten years. But
will return to you cleared of these vile
charges in spite of Clarence A~rmitage. >
Speak up, lad! No n will harm
you here"
"'Tis a long story, but I will tell il
to you"
"Hark, what was that? Only the
swapping Of a twig. What dark demon
| has a hold of me tonight? One WoulC
think / were a pulling child instead Of
Basil Baringsford, with a wrist of iror
and a heart of steel"
"Tell me, Harold, do you remember
the day you anne into my life? Th'
ether was full Of birds warbling al
though their little souls would break
The rh~ododendron fields were full O
verdure, and all the air was sweet with
~honeysuokle. detroit Free Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Canoes and c gh Drops.

Beauty is only skin deep, but that is
sufficient for the complexion specialist.
Figures do not lie until they get on a
railway time card.
The wild man of Borneo who comes
to town and buys a gold brick or a pack
age Of green goods becomes much wilder.
Rosebushes never fail to grow thorns.
although the crop Of flowers may be a
failure.
Some men are such liars that they
tell the truth only as a means Of decep-
tion.
The ability to discuss the currency
question does not always imply the abil-
ity to garner coin. New York Sunday
Ionrnal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
The Wolf.

But the brave insisted that
she could keep the wolf from the door.
81 will do my own cooking" she
exclaimed radiantly.
Her husband was too full of emotion
to speak, but it was with hope he re-
called that many had been kept away
from their door by her cooking. Detroit
Tribune.
An Unsuccessful plutocrat.
Hungry Higgins-I see Chicago Jerry
today wit both his lamps blacked an q
nose like a sausage. What happened
i'm, / wonder?
Weary Watkins-He tried to git toe
plutocratic. Found a empty box car an
thought he wouldn't let more of the
rest Of the gang In. Said he was goin Il
try travelin in his own private car onst.
indianapolis Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
CoMvtctinR Evidence.

The murder case at Kibbey which was
at first supposed to have been done in
self defense, is rapidly developing int
n of the most foul murders ever COM
mitted in the state. The facts brought
to light at the coronor's inquest held at
Belt, winds a chain of evidence around
Welcome, which places him in a fair
way for the gallows.
From the evidence now against him,
the deed must have been done at Vieau's
barn, after which the murderer hauled
the body of his victim to his own house,
and hen set about to arrange matters
around the house to corroborate his
story of the affair, but in this he made
a bungling job. The trail of blood
and the wagon tracks from Vieau's
barn to the place where the body was
discovered, together with the condition
of the wagon the bottom being
covered with blood, and the position OF
the body when found, with the clothing
and flesh burnt by powder, showing that
one shot must have been fired at very
close range, brands Welcomes story as 6
.
falsehood.
While confined in the county Jail al
Great Falls, he remains indifferent to hi
fate, and expresses no regret for hi'
action. When interviewed by reporters
he has little to say. He has retained
Messers Brady and Largent as counsel
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02

band are well known throughout the
state.
Mr.. Merritt belongs to the Masonic
order and his brother Masons being in
Neihart turned out in force to render
him all the assistance in their power on
this sad occasion. The funeral service
was preached on Monday in the under
taking rooms of B. B. and w. L. Cook
at Neihart, after which the remains were
inferred in the cemetary below town.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
POOR AUNT ABBY.
10 Considerable That She Is In q Very
irving Dilemma.

10 Considerable That She Is In g Very
Trying Dilemma
81 guess you remember Aunt Abby
Pettingill," said Mrs. Ezra Stackpole.
relating the news Of the neighborhood
to Mrs. 'Lias Pine, who had come over
from South Squam to make her annua.
visit. "Well, she's been sick for quite
a long spell, an | don's believe she will
ever get up from her bes."
Cant the doctors do her any good?''
''That's just it-she amt had a doc
tor"
~ want to knowl What is the matter
with herT"
; "She thinks she has got a f1oatin kid
/, ney or somethin Of the kind, but my
son Irving. who has just graduated
from the academy, says he calculates
. she's suaferin from a complication Of
excessive consideration an a redundancy
Of professional consanguinity."
"What in time does he meanp'
"Why. you see, Aunt Abby is one of
the most considerable persons that ever
was. She wouldn't hurt a Teller cree
ter's feelin's for anything in the world
an would rather put herself out than to
have anybody e,se feel like she was
slightin 'em. Her daughter, Mary Ellen,
is married to a homeypath doctor an
her daughter Hetty to an allypath; her
nephew Is IN undertaken, an her second
cousin is one of them faith cure be-
levers, an some of her best friends are
water cure people, an so III. II she calls
in the h%omeypath, her allypath son-in-
law an all his folks will be dreadful
mad, an " she has the allypath the
other doctor An his wife will feel slight.
ed an set down on. II she has either Of
'em, or both. an dies, the faith cure all
water cure folks will always hold that
1t was drugs that killed her. II she has
either Of the curists an dies, the doctors
will declare that she was slain by cranks,
ar there will be family quarrels even to
the third an fourth generations. as the
Scripture says. II she goes ahead an
gets we'll without the assistance of any
Of 'em, they'll all be mad, eve the
undertaken. An so she told me yester-
day, in a weak an discouraged way,
that she'd about made up her mind to
just lay there an die without the aid Of
any Of her relatives. Truth.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
A Desperate Wager.

"If ye haven't been takin a bath,
I'll eat my hat!' declared Mr.. Weary
Watkins.
Guess I'll have to W up" assent.
ed Mr.. Dismal Dawson.
"Whut dye mean by it?"
ELECTION bet; that's all. Indian.
npolis Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
NOTICE TO MINERS.

All miners are hereby notified to stay
away from Lump Gulch as there are
steps being taken to abolish the iniqui-
tuous system of compelling the miners
employed here to board at the company
boarding house.
By order of the Clancy Miners I'm
ion. Geo. NJ. Barry, Secretary.
VIM. Venable, President.
TsEAL.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02

She was surprised when she heard Of
the engagement, and she showed it.
"Why, / was perfectly satisfied in
my own mind that you liked John bet
ter than Harry" she said.
well, to tell the truth, l did, " re-
piled the engaged girl.
But you say you are engaged to
barry"
Eyes, that's true.
"Well, l don't understand it at all. :"
"Why, it's very simple. You see,
Harry was the oDe who proposed. -
Chicago Poet.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Very Much Out of Date.

Wallace don't like much to go to a
ball. When | see the young people
dancing and enjoying themselves, 1 feel
away out of date. Don't you?
Ferry-Don't l? 1 feel like a cam
paign transparency after the election is
Over.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Agreed With Him.

81 think" said the comedian, "that
ONE of the humor which l have intro
duced is strictly up to date"
Eyes" replied the friend who has a
gentle method Of saying unkind things,
"there is no doubt of that. There is a
great popular craze for the antique, at
present. "-Washington Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Motive.

why 10 it that you football men
wear long hair?"
"Why, to show the world that there
are other kinds of intellectual men be-
sides poets. Chicago Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02

"Well." said the newly welded one,
az at least got a husband who Ia easily
pleased"
"No doubt about it," quickly replied
the single but jealous one.--New York
Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02

Traveller Gin Ireland)-I don't see
how it ts you people keep in such good
humor.
Irishman-Sure, we do niver have
enough to ate to get bilious. New York
Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Her View.

"Do you enjoy novel reading. Miss
Melindag"
sob, very much. One can associate
with people in fiction that one wouldn't
dare to speak to in real life. Chicago
Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Inc Morning After.

Mi. Rambo Cat 3 a. M, Nov. A.
Nanshy, I've been marchin tn boysh and
BLOWN a horn over tn lection.
Mrs. Rambo-I see other evidences
besides, Absalom, that You have been
Of a toot.-Chicago Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Too Great a Strain.

"Do you dread the ordeal?" inquired
the sheriff.
"Oh," said the condemned murderer,
II know 1t will just kill mep'-New
York Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
No Wonder,

The shade Of Charles / made no de-
NAL.
'It is true" it finally remarked,
THAT l lost my head. But can you Won
der? The way l got it in the neck was
something awful. detroit Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
A Joyfu

Margaret and l hadn't seen each
othertfor ten years"
what did she say when You metz"
"She said I had grown awfully gray"
"And what did you say to her?"
81 told her she had become enormous.
ly fat. Chicago Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
Charitable.

Mamma Ito Willie, who is sliding
down the cellar door)-Willie, what are
you doing?
Willie-Makin a pair O. pants fur a
poor orphan boy .-Pittsbur2 Bulletin.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
An End of the Century Child.

"Why, frankie, what are you reading
in that book about bringing up chill
dren?''
"I'm just looking to see whether I'm
being properly brought up. '-Fliegende
Blatter.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
A New Definition.

"What is "a meier do well?'"
why, a fellow hat can't learn to
ride a bicycle. New York Sunday
journal.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-05
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

| A note of the Bank of England, twisted
into kind Of rope, can suspend as much
as 329 pounds upon one end of it and not
be injured.
The Vatican at Rome Is the largest
palace that has ever been erected. In
length it is 200 feet and in breadth
| 1,t0) feet. 1t contains 4, 422 rooms.
A Belgian gourmand of Mons has be-
queathed $1,000 to five friends for an an
| nual dinner, which they must attend,
dressed in mourning, entering the room
with flag to the music of an accordion,
the bill of fare to contain his fayorite
dishes and wines.
Hamilton Aide corrects the impression
that Corsica is full of bandits. Murder
is not uncommon from love quarrels or
the vendetta, but traveller may go from
one end of the island to another, unarIped
and unescorted, without fear OF violence
or pillage.
The airship craze is said to be nearly as
strong in Germany and on the continent
as in this country. Prof. Hoffman, an
Imperial Councillor, has invented ma
chine constructed on the principle of q
dragon, with steam propellors, which he
In some of the great department stores
ofssParis there is in operation for the con-
venicnce of customers moving staircase
in the shape of an endless leather belt
transferring them from one story to an.
other. 1t is called a transporting carpet.
Endless belts of canvas have been used
for some time for conveying packages
from one part of a store to another
In France it is not necessary to have a
license to. keep dog; but, what amounts
| to practically the same thing, it is neces-
| sary to pay dog tax, which varies &C.
cording to the species-a watch dog pay
Ing less than fancy poodle, and so forth.
| From the returns Of this tax it is learned
| that there are 100000 dogs in France,
which bring in an annual revenue of
| $500, 900 francs.
church society of town in Con-
neticut has favorite form Eof entertain.
ment called OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IT
is show in which personages of other
| times appear in the costumes in which
they are supposed to have lived. The
| advantages of it all is that in the name
you get more than value for your money
even If the effort is not success other
wise.
A tropical leather-back turtle weighing
6S5 pounds, got astray into Chesapeake
Bay few days ago and was captured by
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-05

The British position regarding the an
nexation of Hawaii to this country is we'll
put infthe Review of Reviews for the
month of July. In the discussion Of the
Progress of the World" the editor says
The decision taken by President Nc
Kinley to annex the Sandwich Islands is
one to which no Englishman can possibly
object. We should have done it ourselves
if we were in the place of the Americans,
and the only wonder is that it was not
done long ago." AT the same time the
writer points out that the ownership OF
Hawaii would be o source of weakness in
case of war with any foreign power, be-
cause that power would at once seize the
islands for it is "the only place in which
any of these powers have fleets on the
Pacific could get at their enemy" The
conclusion then derived is that the Unit
ed States contemplates a large increase in
its navy or else "a firm fighting alliance
with the British Empire" There is a
frankness about all this that is common
dable, but fortunately for us as people
the time has not yet come when this
country finds 1t necessary to her existence
to change her'well tried policy of avoiding
rather than soliciting fighting or any
other entangling alliances with foreign
governments, even be 1t that of the Brit
ish Empire,
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-05
BANGOR'S OPERA HOUSE.
The BondhoIders Take 1t Under Foreclos
ure Proceedings.

The Bangor opera house company is to
be reorganized. The supreme court has
handed down two DEGREES in case which
was recently put before it in the form
of bill in equity, and those DEGREES give
the authority for the reorganization i,
which 1t is understood. will come about
at an early date.
On january 2, 1882, the Bangor opera
house company, according to a vote of
the corporators passed on November 10,
1881. issued $50 first mortgage, six per cent
bonds, Of $50 each, to the amount, thus,
of $40, 600; this issue was to raise funds
for the maintenance of the house which
was then just completed. The bonds
were to mature on January J., 1897.
This issue of the first mortgage bonds
was secured by two mortgages, a real
estate Instrumentation the house.and..a chat
tel on it's contents; to secure freedom
from completely the bondholders voted
to make an officer of the corporation and
one of the stock and bondholders, DR..
Thomas U. Coe, q trustee to represent
them in the handling of the mortgages.
Dr. Coe accepted the trust, and the mort
ages were made to him as the holder of
the title of the company's property.
In the mortgage was the following Sec
ton:
"And it is agreed between said parties
that If said company fail to comply with
and perform all or any Of the conditions
of this instrument on its part to be per-
formed, for space of sixty days, said
trustees or his successor upon written
notice from two or more stockholders of
conditions broken shall cause said mort
gage to be foreclosed."
The conditions of the mortgage not
having been fulfilled, G. II. Wood,
Charles Hamlin, E: B. Nealley. J. n.
Chandler, E. F. Dillingham; and E. G.
Merrill, being bondholders, last spring
petitioned DR.. Coe to institute foreclosure
proceedings. He did so and decree has
now been issued ordering the foreclosure.
The reorganization, while a very i'm
portant move for the company, does not
involve the amount of confusion COM
monty incident to foreclosure proceed
ings 1t happens that nearly every one
of the stockholders of the company is a
holder of the bonds of the company; &C.
cording to the terms of the mortgage in
struments, in the formation of the new
corporation one share of stock, of the par
value of $50, will be issued for every
mortgage bond, to the holders thereof;
thus the new corporation, will ..include all
or nearly all of those persons who COM
posed the old and -to-be-defunct con-
Germ.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-05
Buxton Centre Cemetery.
To the Editor Of the Press:


A lot of land near Buxton Centre vii
lage was first selected and occupied as a
burial spot in 1859. Eben Wentworth
and John d. Hill purchased an acre OF
land of Daniel c. Eldridge and laid out
the same for burying ground. The first
burial was Daniel Wentworth, the father
of Eben Wentworth.
Mr.. Samuel Hanson in 1872 purchased
Of Deacon Daniel Leavitt one-half acre
of land, selected lot thereon and decided
the remainder to the proprietors.
In 1888 Mr.. Isaac Emery purchased of
e. B. Davis two and one-third acres of
land, erected q very large and costly
monument in memory of his father, Dea-
con Rufus Emery, and decided the re-
mainder to the association.
In 1893 strip of land was purchased
of Mrs. S. B. Shepard, Mr.. Charles K.
Hanson erecting thereon a very unique
monument. There are several other hand
some monuments erected.
The cemetery now contains nearly four
acres of land, is laid out in three divls-
ions of lots Of various sizes with walls
and avenues to admit carriages.
In 1889 the proprietors were Incorporated
into an organization under the statutes
with all necessary powers of such orga-
nizations.
The cemetery has recently been much
improved in repairs of fence and repaint-
ing of the same. through the efforts main
~ of Mr.. Isaac Emery, who solicited a
large amount of the fundsssa himself a con-
tributor, also Mr.. Mark P. Emery and
J. r. Libby of Portland, E. P: Vent
worth, superintendent of State Reform
school, and P. Hanson, M. D., of
| Chicago, contributed literally for the i'm
provements.
We now have q fine cemetery with an
organization and board of efficient
officers and small fund, which was in
creased little by the subscription for re-
pairs.
The present aim of the members of the
association is to obtain a fund sufficient
ly large to guarantee perpetual care. in
order that the dead may have the just re-
membranes and respect due them from
the living.
ONE OF THE OFFICERS.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-05
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Gospel Banner

Much stress is being laid by friends of
Hawaiian annexation on Japan's note OF
protest But Japan has done only what
our government did when Germany pro-
posed summary action in Sa1noa-move
Japanese on the Sandwich islands, hence
it was only natural and proper for their
government to inquire what would be
the status of that IS, 900 in case the isl
ands became part Of the United States,
and to protest against any action that
would abrogate the present rights of
Japanese in Hawaii. The question is
not annexation of Hawaii simply because
we shall gain anything by annexation
what we do not already possess.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-05

1t was recently reported from Philadel-
phia that on the preceding day forty
steamers had been chartered there to load
grain at different points for export, and
that it would take 100000 bushels OF
grain to fill these charters. This is the
heaviest days business on record, but in
3 70 weeks the total amount of grain for
which shipment had been provided was
not less than 100000 bushels. Pros
perity begins with pretty good guaran
& e of steady continuance,
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-05
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The Ideal Panacea.

James L. Francis, Alderman, Chicpyo.
says: ~ regard DR.. Kings New Disooy.
cry as an Ideal Panacea for Cough, Colds
and Lung Complaints, having ssed it
in my family for the last five years, to
the exclusion of physicians prescriptions
or other preparations.
Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk. Iowa,
writes: II have bean Minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for 80 years
or more, and have never found anything
so beneficial or that gave ma such speedy
relief as DR.. Kings New Discovery
Try this Ideal Cough Remedy now. Fri
al bottles at H. p S. Goold's drug store.
577 Congress street, under Congress So.
Hotel