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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-12-18
A LITERARY FORGERY.
Deliberate Cheating of John Payne Col
lier Proved.

ner HrONed.
That active and acute Devonshire
a%ntiquary, DR.. Brushfield OF Budleigh
Salterton, who has done so much for
the history of his county, has COM
municated to the transactions of a To-
cal society an important discovery, says
the London Saturday Review. No
scrap of Elizabethan gossip is better
known than the story which Collier
printed in 1851 from "A Letter of
1892" telling how Sir Walter Raleigh
hath been too inward with one of her
majesty's maids. l fear to say who
but if you should guess at e. T. you
may not be far wrong" On this letter
the successive biographies of Raleigh
have built an edifice of conjecture. I'm
fortunately, the story, which involves
the disgrace of Sir Walter and a pre-
mature Imprisonment in the tower, is
as difficult as it is picturesque. Mr..
Gosse, in his Life of Raleigh" in
1886, was the first to suggest that The
whole letter might be a forgery, but
Mr.. Stebbing and others Who have fol-
lowed him have relied upon it's ac-
curacy. But DR.. Brushfeld, who has
found and facsimiled Golfers draft
of the letter-no human being has
ever seen the original-settles the
doubt and shows the whole thing to
have been a deliberate invention. In
what a strange condition must the
mind of a scholar be wno deliberately
FORCES historical evidence to give zest
or color to a dull passage of the chron-
icle! 1t is scarcely possible to COM
prehend it in a sane man. 1t is like
cheating yourself when you are playing
patience. But it is possible that John
Payne Collier, whose contributions to
the photography of English literature
were more considerable han is some
times allowed. had a streak of 'insan-
ity in his nature.
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Johnnie was bathing with a friend
Of his in the surf, when the latter, an
other small boy, wac rapidly carried
out to deep water by the undertow and
would have been drowned had it not
been for timely assistance. Durine
the excitement Johnnie stood around
open mouthed listening to his elders
discussing the affair.
When he arrived at home he was
asked:
well Johnnie, how did it happen?"
The following was his version of the
affair:
Il don't exactly remember, but there
was somethin' the matter with his I'M
der-toe."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
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AN OLD ~LIFE-SAVER.
Strange Samaritan of the Sea Who Lives
on a Lonely Island.

bIuhSo VI ~ "ho
on IA Lonely Island.
Peter w. Green, the governor of a,
group of three tiny islands of vol-i
canic origin off the African coast, in
the South Atlantic, and geographi-
cally known as Tristan d'Acunha, is.
one of the most remarkable ~life-saversi
in the world, says the New York Jour-
nal. Fol- sixty years and more he has
made l~ife-saving from shipwreck his.
business, having little else to do, as he
expressed himself to a recent visitor,
the captain of the English mailDoat.
which touches at the islands once a
year.. Mr.. Green is a native of Eng
land and now in his Goth year. At the
age of 80, when sailing before the mast.
on a British vessel, he was wrecked
ear Tristan and he and several COM
panions were saved by the eXertions
of the natives. His friends, some time
later, were taken on board a passing.
ship, but Green remained there and in
the following year was nominated gov
ernor of the islands because of his
wisdom and the esteem in which he
was held. That office he has held ever
since, combining with it the duties Of
a clergyman and doctor. Green has
always been on the lookout for per-,
n and ships in distress and he has.
saved many hundred lives from GER
tain death on the rocky coast, the res,
cued ones being of all nstionalities.
The governor has received decorations.
and medals from almost every mon.
arch in the world in recognition of his.
humane efforts. The United States
government presented him with a
handsome gold ~cAronomieter and
chain. His own sovereign, Queen Vic
toria, sent him recently a most APP.
propriate present, namely, "a l~ife-sav-,
ing boat, with apparatus of the newest
models. The islands which he GOV
ems contain only from fifty-flve to six
ty inhabitants, poor natives, whom
Gov. Green has educated to be, like
himself, samaritans of the sea.
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tourist-printer in their midst VINO a
never transgressed veracity! 1t almost
took their breath away.
81 have often been accused Of unre-
liable statements, and perhaps Will De
again, but that cuts no ice with me.
This story is just as true as the gos-
pei book, and some of you know now
true that is. 1t happened back in 1888.
l was making my way from Denver to
Detroit. l guess you all know where
Detroit is. It's a square town, and
when a fellow drops in there he is al
ways taken care of by the boys.
Some have been ION the hos" them
selves and know how it is. l guess
that's why they help out the tourists.
But to return to my story. l had
crossed the Mississippi and was doing
the Alton to Chicago when all of a
sudden the train hands ON the freight
gave me the marble heart. They actu-
ally Stacked up the train to throw me
off. When l landed on mother earth
I was many miles from In h~abitation
and as hungry as a wolf. 1t had just
come daylight and l was delighted to
find myself in close proximity to a
small lake.
Il had heard that a bath would re-
lieve hunger, and l was quick to afford
myself of the opportunity now present
ed. While performing my ablution l
noticed that the lake was well stocked
with fish of various kinds. Under any
other circumstances the discovery
would have delighted me. Lord, but
the sight of them fish whetted my
hunger; my appetite suddenly in
creased about 100 per cent AS ]
dressed sank under my own weight as
a result of weakness.
"The first farm house was several
miles away, and / knew it was nc use
trying to reach it. Besides the women
along that line were not too generous
with handouts. l felt myself growing
weaker and weaker. l knew that my
last hour had come. So l struggled
to my knees and raising my eyes up to
heaven l began to Pr
What are you laughing at? Boys
It's no lie that l am telling you.
las told you l started to pray tc
save my life, and if not that to save
my soul. My whole life came before
me like a vision. 1t looked pretty
black for me on every side, and that's
no lie. Lord, but how l did pray.
"All of a sudden something hap
pened that almost took my breath
away, and I'll never forget it, no, nevel
till my dying day.
Il heard a splash in the water, six
feet from where 1 knelt. Something
jumped out Of the lake and landed right
in front of me on the ground. Al
first l thought it was his royal nibs
coming to take me alive. Closer OBJ
servation, however, told me that IL
was a member of the inny tribe-as
plump a pike as. l ever saw, even il
my fishiest days. Lord, but how l die
make for it. 1 got it,, too
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MORE OR LESS HUMOROUS.

Spanish general (after the battle):
How many missing, colonel?" Span
ish colonel: "Everybody's missing
we haven't hit a Cuban for some time"
Truth.
Johnny: Tommy Jones don't know
want him to go near the water" Nam
ma: well, Tommy is a good boy"
Johnnie: yes, he'll go to heaven the
first time he falls overboard."-Brook-
Ign Life.
Uncle Harry: And did naughty
DADA whacky-whack poor Medje?'
Medic: "Iss, uncle" Uncle Harry:
"Oh, poor old girl. And where did he
whacky-whack your" Medic: "Er-
er-on the b-b-back of my tummy. I'M
cle."-Punch.
Wife examining the bilD: do you
remember, my dear, how many trout
you caught last Saturday." Husband:
There were just twelve; all beauties.
Why?" Wife: THE fishmonger has
made a mistake; he only charges for
half a dozen."-Tit-Bits.
They tell me the De Courceys have
a skeleton in their closet" Yes"
And that they have been dropped by
society," yes" Because of the skel-
eton in the closet. l suppose?" Not at
all. 1t was because they didn't keep it
there. "-Cleveland Leader.
Attorney Examining witness): "You
say you saw the shots fired" Witness:
Yes, sir" How neal were you to the
scene Of the a~ffray?" when the first
shot was fired was about ten feet from
The shooter" Ten feet. Well, now,
Tell the court where you were when the
second shot was fired" Il didn't
measure iaa distance" Speaking ap
proXimateiy. how far should you say %
Well, it Appropriated to half a mile
Texas Sitter.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-12-18
BOLD SAILOR GIRLS THRY.
Five Young Women Voyage from Nova
Scotia to New. York.


Five romping, ~rosy-cheeked girls
stepped ashore yesterday from the trim
Nova Scotia schooner Florence r.
Hewson, from Shulee, N. S. The quin-
tet are daughters of Nova Scotian lum-
Der merchants, and they made the voy-
age on the Hewson through gales, fogs
and rain squalls, under the care Of
Captain William Patterson, who has
also promised the girls parents to take
them safely back to Shulee. Miss Ella
Seaman, who is 80 years old, as she
confessed at the barge office, acted as
%chaperon for the party. Her compan-
ions were Misses Nellie Purdy, 10; EliZ-
abeth Gillespie, II; Elizabeth Stan
ford, Is, and Emily Christie. IA years
old. On the voyage they occupied state
rooms opening from the Hewson's coy
after-cabin. The little schooner car
ried a heavy cargo, and her deckload
was piled SO high there was barely
room to swing the booms. She ran
into a couple of westerly gales before
she reached Nantucket, and the wave
at nv "doitu CLEAR oNtI hCIs IC
plucky Nova Scotia girls proved good
sailors, however, and, far from being
seasick, they developed appetites that
kept the cook busy after the first day
out. In the handling of the vessel they
also evinced the lievliest sort of inter-
est, and their desire to be on deck even
when the tempest was bowling loud
est wrung the shippers heart; for he
knew that if one of his fair charges
was swept overheard the chance of res
cue was slight indeed. Through storms
and Gains, however, the Hewson came
unscathed, and she sailed down the
Sound and through He'll Gate yester-
day morning without the loss of even
a rope yarn. The Nova Scotian girls
declared they had learned more about
navigation than they ever knew be-
fore, and they have kept a log book
hat is the wonder of the Hewson'f
officers. Captain Patterson escorted
the young women to the barge office
where their declarations concerning
their baggage were taken in due form
Then they went uptown to visit friends
When Immigrant Commissioner Sen.
ner learned of the landing OF the Nov;
Scotia quintet he expressed the opin
ion that they should have passed
through Ellis Island, and he intimatet
hat the case would be looked into anC
a search made for the girls. John G
Moore, agent of the schooner, at Z
Cortland street, a greatly annoyed
when he heard of the Commissioner
decision. "These girls" he laid, Ear,
the daughters of respectful, ople Il
Shulee. Their fathers are in the lum
Der business there, and are friends o
Captain Patterson. Three of the girl!
are mere children, and they are il
charge of their two elder companions
They took the trip for the experience
and to visit friends in this city, wit
are now entertaining them. They will
remain here for ten days or SO, unit
the Hewson is ready to start back
New York Journal.
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ment to Tammany hall while that or
ganization has at it's head a man who
was VIGOROUSLY corrupt in public Of
fce?" :
Everybody present agreed with the
speaker in this very plain talk and a
resolution was passed unanimously
providing for the appointment of cleo
ton inspectors independently of the ac-
ton of the wigwam leaders. Thus the
P%urroyites defied the Sheehanites to do
their worst.
The conclusion came when the COM
mittee on organization met in Tam
many hall to ratify the decision of the
subcommittee in the matter of open
primaries in the two districts named.
This was promptly done, when the
Purroyites fled out of the building and
gathered at the Morton house, where
they began to plan for the extension of
the new Tammany Hall into every dis
trict in the city.
AS to the personal careers of the two
men now so conspicuous in local poll
tics. Henry D. Purroy was born in
Fordham, Westchester county, on Aug.
81, 1848. He became a citizen of New
York city by annexation in 1874. He
was educated at st. Johns college,
Fordham, and was admitted to the bar
in New York city in 1869. He was a
schoolmate, at st. Johns, of Tammany
Boss John Kslly's son, and was on
friendly terms with that leader before
the annexation made him necessary to
Tammany as a leader in the new dis
trict. At a congressional convention
he broke the jaw of a man who as
sailed Kelly. The Kelly influence made
him president of the board of alder
men when he entered that body at the
age of 26, and he has never been out
of office since.
John C. Sheehan was born in Buffalo
forty-one years ago. He came to New
York City in 1888, and now lives at 464
West Twenty-third street. He was edu-
Gated in the Buffalo public schools,
and entered political life when his
brother, William F., was lieutenant
governor. Through his brothers in1u-
ence he was given the democratic nom
nation for city comptroller in Buffalo.
He is said to have been a candidate
for the nomination when Grover Cleve-
land was nominated for mayor, and
that Mr.. Cleveland's refusal to run on
the same ticket with Sheehan caused
the ~latter's withdrawal.
Mr.. Sheehan became almost imme-
diately on his arrival here secretary of
| the Croton aqueduct commission, and
formed a valuable friendship with John
O'Brien, the contractor on the aque-
duct. He became O'Brien's partner in
contracting for large public works, not
ably the sewers of Long Island City,
for which they received upward of
81, 000, 900 in bonds.
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ton to the regular organization in
them. The anti-Purroy leaders in these
districts recommended open primaries,
lasting seven hours, although they
were restricted to two hours in the
other districts, the object being, it was
said, to give everybody, whatever his
politics, a chance to vote, provided he
was a friend of Sheehan's. The Tam
many executive committee approved
this plan, as did the committee on or
ganization. Protests were filed against
the regular committees in the Thirty
fourth and T%hirty-fifth districts, signed
by several thousand Tammany demo-
Gratis.
The members of the regular commit
tees of these districts, under the lead
ership of Purroy, then met at their dis
trict headquarters and defed the sger.
The meeting in the Thirty-ffth dis
trict, at which Purroy spoke, was by
far the livelier of the two. Purroy
there threw off the mask and paid his
compliments to Sheehan. One of his
lieutenants moved the appointment of
John P. Reilly, Henry Trott and Chas.
Sotaldo as inspectors of the district
primary, and the motion was carried
by a vote of 300 to 8. The designation
of these inspectors had been the bone
OF contention at the afternoon meeting
In Tammany hall. The Purroy men
were convinced that the Tammany ex-
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ecutive committee, acting on the advice
of Mr.. Sheehan, would take the selec-
ton out of their hands, and they re-
solved to forestall the wigwam leader.
This resolution is proper" said Pur-
roy, but it will not avail in Fourteenth
street, where the putative leader, John
c. Sheehan, has determined you shall
be disfranchised in the primaries. He
intends to use the methods of a high
wayman, and your resolution will be
buried Wien it reaches the men he con-;
trolls in Tammany. Sheehan started i'm
to wreck the Tammany organization I'M
this district. The voters who are in.
the democratic party in this city will
not tolerate a defaulter at the head OF
Tammany Hall. Sheehan's knowledge
of thefts in Buffalo, which caused him
to ice that city, may point him the
way to steal primaries here, but while
he can win here by might in setting up
a so-called leadership of his own max
ing, it is our duty to resist his every
step until no one in Tammany hall
will own the ~dishonored leadership of a
discredited man."
These pointed remarks of the fight
ing county clerk seemed to strike a re-
sponsive chord in the hearts of those
present, and Mr.. Purroy then went into
some matters of Tammany history. He
told of a conference with Richard
Croker, in Saratoga, before Sheehan
was selected as leader by the former
Tammany boss"
Il then told him." said Purroy, that
he would make the greatest mistake OF
his life If he named Sheehan. My
warning came true at the famous Sa-
voy dinner. We all recall the dis
graceful scene when Registrar Reilly
and other leaders interrupted theil
guest, Mr.. Croker, and told him they
would have none of Sheehan. Do any
of o here believe the people of New
York will intrust their local govern
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-12-18
THE CHESHIRE CHEESE.
A Quaint Old Inn in London-Oasis OF
Peculiar Charm,

A Quaint Old Inn in London-Oasis of
Peculiar Charm.
Along Fleet street nineteenth-cen-
fury humanity rushes in throngs, few
erishly intent on the main chance, say
S~cribner's. But now and again units
from the mass fall out and disappear
into a little doorway, so unobtrusive
in its character as to be easily passed
by strangers in search for it. A small
passageway, a bit of court, n
enters the old Cheshire Cheese, tread
ing in the footsteps of generations of
wits and philosophers. A wit the wish
tor may not be, out he is certain to be
the other in one way or another and
his purpose in coming here can have
little in common with the hurly-burly
he has but just left out there on Fleet
street. The tide of affairs has left
him stranded on an oasis of peculiar
charm-a low-ceilinged room, brown
as an old meerschaum, heavily raftered
and carrying to the sensitive nostril
the scent of ages, the indescribable
aroma inseparable from these haunts
of geniality; wide windows, white
u ldlutu oh I"o BLUES, dnu SIHllluE
upon the newcomer; the merry glow
of the fire in the old CRATE, flirting
tiny flames upward that caress the
steaming, singing kettle hanging just
above. The old copper scuttle glints
with the fitful CLEANS upon it's bur-
nished, pudgy sides; the floor spread
%abundantly with sawdust softens the
sound of footballs. The white table,
cloths make the note of ~tidiness, re-
lieving the prevailing low tone of the
room Over against one wall hang two
cooked hats and a cane. J~ohnson's.
The silk hats and trousers of modern
London almost seem out of harmony
with the coy quaintness of their en-
vironment, but smalls and buckles and
cooked hats pass away and architec-
ture survives the fashions and per-
sons of it's creators.
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A Meteoric Bomb.

Several remarkable meteors, seen in
and around New York City on the
afternoon of Dec. 4 last, were the sub
ject of discussion at a recent meeting
of the New York Academy of Sciences.
One passed over Central Park, one was
seen from the Brooklyn Bridge and one
appeared at Fordham. At nearly the
same hour a meteor passed over Pas
sale, Irvington and Danbury, Connecti-
cut, and one burst near Railway, and
apparently came to the ground in four
pieces. From a study of the reports
concerning these phenomena it has
been suggested hat the bursting me-
teor seer at Railway was a fragment
of the body which. later passed over
Passaic; hat the meteor again sepa-
rated into at least three parts, one of
which shot over Irvington and DAN
bury, another owe Fordham and the
third over New York, but where they
struck the earth is not known.
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a tramp the previous night, and he had
gone in the direction that l was found.
The train came to a sudden stop a mile
or so from town. The engineer no,
ticed a mob a little way ahead. III
proved to be a lynching party appar-
emily waiting for the train. Now L
knew that l vas in for 1t. There was
just n chance for me. Would the
conductor back the train in the direc-
ton of where l was taken aboard? In
stantly l saw my fate decided. The
train pulled ahead. Lord, but how !
did pray. When 1 thought it was
ABOUT time to be at the place where the
mob was congregated l looked out of
the window and saw at least 1000
people surrounding a big barn on a side
track. They had found the real muir
derer and were about to dispatch him,
One OF my guards pushed through the
crowd and into the barn where they.
were holding a sort of trial. The pris-
oner was identified as the person seen.
the previous night in the vicinity of the.
place where the murder was commit
ted. OF course / was released and.
then l was made a member of the sher-
ifs posse. They wanted to save the
murderer and give him a fair trial.
AS we left the car they were dragging
him to a nearby tree. The rope was
already around his neck. They were
throwing it ove a limb as we reached
the spot. Our task was a hazardous
one, but l felt not a particle of fear.
My own life had been saved by a mir
acle, and now l was willing to risk 1t
in behalf of law and order. l Crap
pied with the leader and felled him.
The posse, now numbering a dozen or
more, faced the mob with their weap-
ons and held them at bay. We got
the prisoner to jail safely and l was
kept as a witness. l lived on the fat
of the land for three months, and when
the trial was over the people made up
a purse of 5000 for me. Lord, but | did
have a rousing time on them two hun
dred plunkers.
Did 1 go to Detroit? Nav, what
do you take me for? I've been in Chi
cage ever since"
The listeners silently took their de-
parture, and the narrator wondered
why they were SO solemn.
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The Polar Bears Sore Foot.

The polar bear on one side, and the
two grizzlies on the other, of the line
of bars that separate the bear pit in
the Central Park Menagerie into two
compartments, scrap a little now and
then through the bars. They can't
reach through far enough to do one
another much damage, and they don't
fight very much, but a while ago the
polar bear had a piece nicked out of
one of his f~orefeet by a grizzly's claw.
and the wound made a sore spot.
which needed to be healed. 1t would
have been possible to lasso the bear
and so secure him that his paw could
have been bandaged; but he would
have torn the bandage off the mo-
ment he was released, and other
means to cure him were adopted.
A healing lotion was prepared. and
then, when the bear had been at
tracted to the front of the pit. while
one man fed him some food that be
liked very much, another applied the
healing lotion to the sore foot nv
means of a syringe, and the applica-
ton was repeated in this manner as
often as was necessary until the
bears foot was healed.
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Consideration for One Another.

1t has been estimated that ninety per
cent. of people in trade fail at some
time in their career, and for a mer-
chant to remain in business over thirty
years without needing aid from his
creditors is a remarkable incident. Peo-
pie of good memories have seen great
fortunes tumble into nothingness, and
families that have boosted of their
wealth reduced to perjury, through sud
den changes that visit the commercial
world. Every year adds new instances
of these sudden reverses, and while
they should teach people to be consid-
crate to one another they should also
suggest to persons now rich that they
cannot control the wheels of fortune,
and they should not be too. boastful
and too harsh in their estimate of
others.
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A Very Observing Man,

my mother says" the young woman
observed to her fiance, chat she does
rot approve of a young mans giving
a girl expensive presents before they
are married"
That's very unreasonable"
Il don't see why"
Because, so far as I can learn from
observation, after marriage the desire
to give expensive presents becomes
totally extinct Washington Star.