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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08
.sNAkE OF CHINA.

Marco Polo's Report Concerning the Prov
ince Of Yunran.
Noah Brooksquotes the following
from the great Venetian traveller in
his series of st. Nicholas papers,
1.-The True Story>of Marco Polo" In
this country gold dust is found in
great quantities-that is to say, in
the rivers and lakes, while in the
mountains gold is also found in
pieces of larger size. Gold is indeed
SO abundant that they give one sag
gio of gold for only six of the same
weight in silver. And for small
change theyuse the porcelain shells,
as l mentioned before. These are
not found in the country, however,
but T brought from India.
In this province I found snakes
and great serpents of such vast size
as to strike fear into those who see
them and SO hideous that the very
account of them must excite the
~wonder,of those who hear it. I will
tell you how long and big they are
You may be assured that some of
them are ten PAGES in length, some
are more and some less. And in
bulk they are equal to a great cask,
for the bigger ones + about ten
palms in girth. The head is very
big. The mouth is large enough to
swallow a man whole and is gar
nished with great pointed teeth.
And in short they are so fierce look
ing and so hideously ugly that ev-
cry man and beast must stand IN
fear and trembling of them. There
+ also smaller ones, such as of
eight PAGES ,~longtand of five and of
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08

The Helena Independent stands to.
defend the righteousness of the Vel
lowstone Coal and Coke company in
their action at Horr, Montana, ex-
planning that the company objected
not to the union of its employees, but
to the subsection or subordination of
the said union to the Western Fed
Grafton of miners. This is not true.
But if it were, i tdoes not in the least
affect the argument. If men have
the right of local union, they have al
50 the right of general union; for by
means of the general union are the
principles of the local union made
stronger.
When an employer grants its en-
ployes the right of local union, it ac-
knowledges the righteousness of the
union principle. If the union prin-
clpie Is right, the ID union has an
added right to strengthen and fortify
that principle. Therefore the West
ern Federation is right, for it serves
only to bind more firmly the princi-
Piles of the local union. And the
American Federation of labor, and
the Knights of labor are right, for
they extend throughout the nation to
weld the army of producing and toll
ing masses into one common brother
hood, where each assembly, however
small, becomes a host to sustain the
whole. Where
Nothing useless is or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08
The Finest Train in the World.

Ahe 11nest AraIn IN the GRID
The finest train IN the world is the
s'New North-W Western Limited" which
leaves Minneapolis and St. Paul every
night for Chicago, via the Northwestern
line. This magnificent train, from the
mammoth engine, patterned after the ia
nous "909," to the last car in the train,
is brand new, and represents the latest
and best ideas for absolute comfort and
luxury while travelling.
Besides the splendid buffet library car
really a clubroom on wheels, there is a
magnificent private compartment Sleep
ing car, just the thing for ladies, famil-
les or those desiring privacy, luxuriously
appointed standard sleeping cars and the
most comfortable and well-equippcd day
coaches ever offered the travelling public.
This "New Limited" train is admitted
by the press as we'll as by thousands of
people of Minnesota and states west who
have inspected it, and also by many
others of this western country who have
recently rode on it, as being without any
question the finest tram in the world,
and no extra charge is made for any class
of passengers for its superior accommo-
dations.
Tickets via this popular line may be
secured from agents of the Northern Pa
cific railway, who will also make sleep
ing car reservations; or, apply to Capt.
M. M. Wheeler, travelling passenger agt.,
Miles city, Mont, or to T. w. Teasdale,
G. p. A, st. Paul, Mimi.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08

r. A. Parlette, editor of the Uni
versity Herald, published in connec-
ton with the Ohio Normal Universe
ty, is a worthy disciple of Bill Nye,
and will make mis- mark high on the
monument of literary fame. He pro-
duces about three columns a week of
high-class, original humor, of the
kind which gives excessive pleasure,
without offense. In a recent effusion
from his prolific pen, he smears the
ink to make it look like this:
Speaking of girls, wouldn't a hirt-
less, gumless, painless, faintless,
slangless, bangless damstl create a
sensation? And if she had a kickless
father, wouldn't she be popular? AS
the summer approaches we shall all
feel the need of the painless water
melon and the wreckless bike. Sweat
less weather, shrinkless outing fan
nels, bugless picnics, snakeless whis-
ky, biteless mosquitoes, ripless clothes
and spendless money will be hailed
with delight. A healess dog may
sometimes appear, also a l~oaless
man, a nerveless book agent and a
speeches. barber. Just now the ma
TONS leaders are looking to Wash
ington for a voorhees, salary. The
moneyless baron, the scentless hobo,
the c~ostless lunch, and the thinkless
dude are all passing away. The ap-
pearance of the whipless school teach
er will please the boys. The %rootless
ball game is watched for. The e~atless,
sleepless, penniless editor, contrary
to the general impression, is not a
success.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08
New York's Composite Personality.

new IOrkb SOlupuoltc IcrbohhAltys
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,
contributes to The Century a paper
entitled places In New York" in
which she gives a picture of inter
esting phases of life in the new
world metropolis. Mrs. Van Rens-
selaer says: More than rs per cent
of those who people New York to-
day were born of foreign mothers,
more than 40 per cent we're born on
foreign soil themselves, and many
of these aliens, brought from many
different lands, continue here to
live in clusters with their own kin
after their own kind. Yet, while
each of these clusters and each of
their wandering offshoots modifies
the new world metropolis, all of
them together do not destroy its
cohesion. They simply intensity its
curious composite sort of personal
ity. They make it simultaneously di.
verse, but they leave it an entity.
They touch every portion of it with
pungent exotic favors, but as fla
voring an American whole. The
play their several parts in a oivi
life that is cosmoramic beyond the
belief of those who have not studied
it well, but they do not turn New
York into a cosmopolitan town, for
this means a town which, oyer
whelmed by its strangers, has Est
or has never possessed a character
of its own.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08

him but a small pennyweight of
this medicine to drink he is cured
in a moment. Again, if one has any
disease of the skin and applies a
small quantity of this gall he shall
speedily be cured. So you see why
it sells at such a high price.
They also sell the flesh of this SER
pent, for it is excellent eating, and
the people are very fond of it. And
when these serpents are very hun
cry sometimes they will seek out
the lairs of lions or bears or other
large wild beasts and devour their
cubs without the sire and dam be-
ing able to prevent it. Indeed, if
they catch the big ones themselves,
they devour them too. They can
make no resistance.
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one pace only.
The way in which they are caught
is this: You must know that by day
they live underground because of
the great heat, and in the night they
go out to feed and devour every
animal they can catch. They go al
SO to drink at the rivers and lakes
and springs. And their weight is so
great that when they travel in
search of food or drink, as they do
by night, the tail makes a great fur
row in the soil, as if a full tun of
liquor had been dragged along.
Now, the huntsmen who go after
them take them by a certain gin
frap) which they set in the track
over which the serpent has passed,
knowing that the beast will come
back the same way. They plant a
stake deep in the ground and fix on
the head of this a sharp blade of
steel made like a razor o a lance
point, and then they cover the
whole with sand so that the serpent
cannot see it. Indeed, the huntsman
plants several such stakes and
blades on the track. On coming to
the spot the beast strikes against
the iron blade with such force that
it enters his breast and rives (cutS)
him SO that he dies on the spot, and
the rows on seeing the brute dead
begin to cav, and then the hunts
men know that the serpent is dead
and come in search of him.
This, then, is the way these beasts
are taken. Those who take them
proceed to extract the gall from the
inside, and this sells at a great
price, for you must know it furnish
es the material for a most precious
medicine. Thus, if a person is bit
ten by a mad dog and they give
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08

We this week send out a large
number of bills due this office and it
is our desire that as many as possible
receiving the same shall respond by
sending us a check as big as the bank
will honor. 1t is not our intention to
"crowd the mourners," but in times
like the present, when a PUNK looks
as big as a cheesebox, i. is absolute
ly necessary that we receive some of
the stuff due us. Get in line and pay
if you can, but if you can't-"we've
all been there before, many a time"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08

ate district is a lime country, and it
offers a good field for the prospector.
From this district, three streams
flow to the northward, discharging
their waters into Belt creek to. the
north of Monarch. These in their
order are named Tillinghast, Pilgrim,
and Logging creeks, 1t is along
Pilgrim creek that the proposed Car
Donate wagon road is to build, the re-
suit Of which will be a general open
ing up Of the country and its mines.
Between Tillinghast and Pilgrim
creeks stands Thunder mountain, a
prodigious mass Of gray granite con
tanning extensive deposits of protox-
ide and sesquioxide of iron. To the
north of Logging creek, and just
west of Belt creek stands Tiger
Butte, a note land mark of Cascade
county. Several good veins of cop
per have been discovered in this hill,
toward the development of which
little has been done.
About two miles south of Kibbey
are large deposits of gypsum. A
mill has been erected here for the
manufacture of s%tucco; it is equipped
with all modern machinery, and en-
ploys at present 30 to so men.
The main range of the Little Belts
is heavily timbered with pine, fir and
spruce. Its average elevation is
about 5000 feet.
The large mountain in the margin
to the east of Neihart is known as
Big Badly. 1t is the eliminating
point of the Little Belts, reaching
a point 5000 feet above sea level.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08

Granite Street, Neihart, Montana.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08
The Country About Neihart At
tracing the Attention of the
Mining World.
GREAT WEALTH PRODUCING SECTION.
A Brief Description Of Its Re-
sources.

We print below a map of the min
ing district of the Little Belt Noun
tains in which the town of Neihart is
a central figure. This drawing is by
the HERALD's special artist, who is
only a cub at the business, but who
hopes soon to present local scenes
and characters with the ability of a
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08
Notice.

All those knowing themselves to be
indebted to the firm of Burchard &
Pierse, formerly doing business in Mel,
hart, are requested to call and settle with
the undersigned, to whom all accounts
of every kind due said firm have been
assigned, and who will apply all collec-
tons toward the payment of the debts of
said firm of Burchard & Piersc.
RICHARD BENNETT.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08
Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Wagner & Co., of which Jos. Wagner
and VIM. Bonner were sole proprietors
is this day dissolved by mutual consent,
JOS. Wagner retiring and VIM. Bonner
continuing the business. VIM. Bonner
will collect all money due the firm and
pay all obligations. VIM. Bonner.
Jos. Wagner.
Dated Neihart, Mont, Apr. 21, 1897.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-05-08

In pursuance of the foregoing notice
all persons indebted to Burchard g.
Pierse are requested to make payment at
once to Richard Bennett, trustee, who
has full authority to collect accounts and
receipt for same, and to bring suit WHEEL
ever necessary. Attention to this will
greatly oblige us. c. HI. BURCHARD.
STEPHEN PIERSE.
Ne,hart, Mont, April 80, 1897.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12

cy.. There is not a breathing place in
it from start to finish; it eXhausts, tam
talfzes, discomforts, but absorbs never
thelesS. Whether we are to regard it
as an arraignment of the spiritual life
Of the century, problem in sociology
or "a story of overpowering and selfish
human love is a question which the
reading of the book does little to solve.
One is inclined to believe that Mr..
Game meant the first two to predomi-
nate, but was forced by his bent Of
spirit to let the last transcend it's prop
er bounds. It is because one is quite
sure that 1.-THE Christian" is a novel
with a purpose, and that that purpose
is too complex to be grasped that one
! feels that it drops below success. If
onesi quite willing. to regard these new
J Lamentations of jeremiah as pure lit
erature with no present application,
quite willing to let the girls of London
and the rest of the world take care Of
themselves, and feels free to regard the
novel as merely a study of a human
worm led to Christian martyrdom
thToughothe love of a woman, the book
is then free from the Intestine strife
which otherwise Weakens it.
John Storm, the son of lord and
thes nephew of the prime minister of
England, according to his fathers pc
culiar notions of education, had travelled
''ass far as the SUM- and was trained
in the knowledge Of good and evil, a
training which left him pure, but filed
with large Indignation against the
wrongs of the world. In the meanwhile
I. 4 1fN,,x,
Quayle, "a red-haired, gray-eyed wild
slip. of a girl, the daughter and grand
daughter of Manx .clergymen. Her
mother, the child of a beautiful French
actress, had died in Glory's babyhood
shortly after her missionary fathers
death, and Glory had been left to the
wild freedom and bitter poverty of her
grandfather's house. John Storm gives
up his fathers ambitions for him and
assumes the voluntary poverty of the
church, because it brings him nearer
Glory, sacrifice for which she has lit
tie understanding. His motive may not
have been the nearest to God, but his
ideals of the profession he had chosen
were of the highest. 1t was no empty
sacrifice he had chosen-it was the life
of Christ he had before his eyes for
following, though it was another voice
than Christ's that Rad called him.
With his clean ideals around him
he is ordained and is given, through
the influence of the prime minister, q
position in London under Canon
wealthy, a gentleman whose sermons
We're eloquent and literary and We're
delivered with evolutionary power;
there We're many references to great
writer's, painters and musicians, in
Guiding a panegyric on Michael An
gelo and a quotation from Browning;
the sermons concluded with a passa ge
from Dante in the original. He warns
John that cit is necessary to live in
this nineteenth century, and 1t is i'm
possible to apply to it's conditions the
rules of life that had been proper to
the first" One of Johns fellow-cu-
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ments go back as far as the tenth
century, and are thus of great value
only as specimens of writing: 9TH
erS are furnished with marginal gloss
es or are interspersed with Chaldafc
and Arabic versions, whilst some are
provided with quite a new system of
punctuation, differing both from the
eastern and the. Western. Regarding
the Apocrypha, l will here refer only
to the fragment of the original of Ec-
cieslastlcus, which it was my good
fortune to discover on the 18th day of
May, 1895, in the Lewis Gibson collec-
ton of fragments.
The communications, which were
then made by Mrs. Lewis to the press
led to the discovery of further frag-
ments at Oxford. But all these un-
doubtedly come from a Genizah, and
justify the hope that our recent acuui-
sitions will yield more remains of these
semi-sacred volumes AS to liturgy,
the Genizah offers the remains of the
Oldest forms of the worship of the syn
agogue, and these throw much light on
the history of the Jewish prayer book.
The number of hymns found in the
Genizah is also very great, and they
reveal to US whole series of latter
day psalmists hitherto unknown.
Next to these main classes come
the fragments of the two Talmuds
Ghe Talmud of Babylon and the Tall
mud of Jerusalem) and Midrashim (old
rabbinic homilies). They are of the
utmost Importance to the student OF
Jewish tradition, giving not only quite
new class of manuscripts unknown
to the author of the Variae Lectiones.
but also restoring to us parts of old
rabbinnic works long ago given up as
lost forever. 1t is hardly necessary to
say that both Bible and Talmud are
accompanied by a long train of COM
mentaries and subcommenaries in He
brew, as we'll as in Arabic. The num-
Der of autograph documents brought
to light from the Genizah extend over
nearly 700 years eighth to fourteenth.
centuries).
"All these treasures are now stored
UP in the library of the university of,
Cambridge, where they are undergoing
the slow process of a thorough EXAMINE
alton. The results of this ,examina-s
ton, will certainly prove interesting
alike to the theologian and the hiss
torian. DIR. S. Sehechter." :
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1t Is Extending From the Cities to
the Towns of the Country.

1t Is Extending From the Cities to
the Towns of the Country,
Special Correspondence of the Globe.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 10.-Little
by little the area wherein liberal tip
ping is necessary to insure even half
decent service is increasing, and it will
not be many years before every town
of 10000 inhabitants or upwards will
be included within the lines Men who
are not yet gray can remember when
tipping, even in Washington, Boston
and New York, was not the invariable
essential to secure good treatment
from the barber, the waiter, the
porter and all the rest, but that time
passed never to return.
Twenty years ago when / was new
t. the road" a slender young barber
in a Western capital city whose shop
was much frequented by members of
the Legislature, told me one day of a
certain lawmakers ineXcusable ex-
travagance. ......e-.,.
"Why, that mans fooI!' said the
barber. Every time he comes in here
to get shaved he adds a Decent tip to
the Is cents we charge, and then he al
ways gives the brush boy five cents,
making so cents for every shave, or
twice the price we ask. L suppose he
thinks it makes US think more Of him,
but it only makes us think of GER
tain class of folk who are soon parted
from their money" 90"
One day last week 1 dropped in at
the same shop, for the first time since
I had heard that barber express him
self regarding the foolishness of tip
ping. To my surprise he was now III
charge and not an employee. But L.
soon saw that his bearing toward the
non-tipping customer was such as to
make the latter feel like a worm Of the
dust He confessed in the converse
ton with which he beguiled the time
was in his chair that it was practical
ly his tip money that had enabled him
to become a proprietor instead of an
underling.
There are still small towns in which
the BARRIERS and the men walters do
not look for extra dimes and quarters,
but you must travel a long way TO
find them and the only serving class
of any consequence that is still Tree
from tip greediness are the girl walt
ers. 1t is true they no longer look so
horribly offended as Of Srore when you
thoughtfully tender small silver disk
in return for prompt and intelligent
waiting, but, as rule, they do not ex-
pect any such thing.
II is the general impression, and no
doubt a correct one, that tipping IS
much more general in England than in
the United States, but Britons often
complain bitterly that most Americans
when travelling abroad tip far too liz
orally. 1 know of one American. living
in London whose invariable custom it
is to give shilling to every cne who
does him a service about his hotel, and
this American is not a rich man,
either. 1t is a rule with Englishmen,
however, not to give walters more
than 10 per cent of the regular charge.
and tips for porters and other services
are also regulated by reason.
Newell Stewart.
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rates trusts that he will not be disap-
pointed with our church and service.
We do all that we can to make them
worthy of our people" In this atrnos-
phere of the modern Babylon" John
is not long in arousing a tempest and
suffers accordingly. Mr.. Game falls
back upon the Hebrew prophets for
strength to denounce the wickedness
in high places. The church establish
ment, with it's consequent subservi-
ence, Office seeking, and general gild-
ed degredation; the ehurch's wealth
and barren charity; it's self-seeking,
mercenary servants so far from the
service of Christ; the selling of veal
thy women for title to men already.
in the sight of God, with wives among
the people: the defenseless girls Of
London, required by their social SUI
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BOOKS

The reader of 1.-THE Christian" is like
a shuttlecock tossed between contending
forces. 1t is a book that must be read
more than once to get out Of the mael-
stronT of emotions and find a bit of
quiet ground from whence to view it;
the vantage once gained, so many
points Of view present themselves that
the. task, Of settling. down to a consid-
Grafton of this last novel of Hall
Gaines requires The ele-
ments of the: book are so far from sim
pie that even ones estimation of it is
complex. '7'e--z-'4y7-y --e7-e1
Whatever critical opinion one may
eventually arrive at there can be no
question Of the books absorbing inter-
est. nor can it be treated with fiippan-
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Sons of Herman for New Jim.

For Dedication Exercises Of Sons of
Herman Monument at New Uln. Sept.
25 and 26, take the NORTHWESTERN
Line" c., st. P. M. & 0. Ry.
Excursion tickets $3.50 for the round
trip Tickets on sale Sept % and &c.
good to return Monday, Sept. 27. RegI-
lar trains leave Union Depots, MinEe-r
apolis, Sept. 25. 9 a. m, 400 p. m: St.
Paul, 9:35 a. M, 4:50 p. m, and on
Sept. &c, will leave Minneapolis a. M;
st Paul 9:35 a. m. only.
Leaving time Of special trains VIII
be announced later.
For tickets and further information,
call at City Ticket Offices, 413 N1collet
avenue. Minneapolis; 395 Robert street.
ST. Paul