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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09

her little home and looked forlornly oct
on the bleak wintry hills. Then an
idea came to her. 1t was desperate,
but the situation demanded desperate
measures. Among the live stock her
husband owned was young and frisky
bull, barely two years old. but rather
tanned down by seanty rations and the
general winter depression. He was
skinny, and his backbone suggested q
serrated ridge of miniature peaks. But
the brute had abundant strength to
travel, and if he could be dubbed into
some sort of sense he might serve as q
conveyance.
There was nothing to hitch to; he
must be ridden. So after exhaustive
maneuvering the plucky woman man
aged to get rope tied to each Of his
horns, and with a strong club in her
hand, she at last managed 70 mount
him and head him out into the high
way. He proved a very sensible and de-
Gently disposed sort of beast, obeying
the sharp jerks TO the right and left
from the ropes on his horns, and gal
Looping of finely along the road when he
was properly encouraged by the club.
1t was not an equestrian expedition
that would quite do for the park, but
the poor mother thought little of that.
She was after the doctor to come and
save her child from death, and after
nearly two hours rough jolting she got
there. The doctor was not at home,
and It would be some time before he
would return. but his wife promised for
him that he should respond to that caI
il he never did TO another. She urged
the woman to wait and ride back with
him, but she would not listen to ii.
She must get back to her child, and
off she went again on her grotesque
mount. The bull had settled down 70
a philosophical acceptance of the situa-
ton by this time, and started off at @
brisk canter possibly with some soriid
association in his intellectuals between
the homeward road and the shelter and
fodder at the end of it. About mile
from the house she saw man driving
mountain wagon along the road in
front of him, and that man had the in
conceivable impudence to wear red
shirt. -t..
From that time on the return trip was
one wild, headlong charge. The man
heard the snorting and clatter behind
him, and when he looked around and
got a glimpse of the awful nightmare
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09
A MODERN SOLOMON.
Pathetic Incident That Acquitted q Poor
French Woman.

Pathetic Incident That Acquitted q Poor
French Woman.
A pathetic little drama was recently
enacted in a French court of justice.
\ poor needlewoman was charged with
stealing two gold coins from her en-
ployer. Her defense was that while
waiting in her employers house, the
child in her arms, unknown to her, was
attracted by the sight of the glittering
gold ON the mantel shelf behind her,
and, leaning forward over her shoulder
clutched the coins in it's chubby fist,
and had so carried them away. This
she Professionally and solemnly stated on
oath, says the London Weekly Tele'
graph.
The court, however, was incredulous,
and reproved the mother for her at
tempt to deceive him. But she asserted
her innocence with such pathetic power
that the sagacious judge determined
to test the truth of her statements He
bade her stand by his desk with her
child facing over her shoulder in the
way she had described. Then he took
several gold coins from his pocket and
placed them on the desk within reach
OF the child.
A. breathless silence ensued. Every
one swaited the touching sequel. Then
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09
A MOTHERS WILD RIDE
Undertaken to Save the Life Of
an Ailing Daughter.
The Girl Was Seriously Ill. Doctor Far
Away, No Horse at Hand, and So
She Started on Her Mission
Riding q Steer.

The emergencies which made heroines
Of SO many women of the early colonial
days have not even now ceased to arise
in some parts, even of the older settled
portions Of the country. An instance
in this line occurred only the other
week, and within few hours ride of
New York, which might well go down
with some of the pluckiest exploits Of
the pioneer mothers.
In desolate lonely place near Star
acca, Pa, there lives family consisting
of husband, wife and a young daughter.
The husband has to be away from home
a good deal on account of the nature Cf
his work, and was away the other week
when his daughter was taken ill. The
mother exhausted her store of house
hold remedies, but the girl grew rap
idly worse. There was no doctor with
in more than four miles, and there was
no neighbor within reach to go for him.
But even that was not all the poor
mothers source of perplexity. The
girls condition was fast becoming SO
alarming that, desperate as the step
seemed, she saw that she must herself
go for n doctor. And there was no
horse to take her. Her husband was too
poor to own horse even if he had
much use for one, which he had not.
The wild mountain roads were rough
and clogged in places with snow. To
think of undertaking the journey on
foot and ever getting to the doctor in
time to get him to the sick girls bed
side in season to have his services OF
any avail seemed little short of mad
ness.
But the doctor must be preached, other
wise the child's death seemed certain.
The woman went to the doorway Of
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09

A young soubrette rushed to her
dentist the other day in great agony.
One of her wisdom teeth was liberated.
The dentist, who, by the way, had sup
piled her with the most dazzling of her
front teeth, told her that there was
nothing for it but to pull the tooth.
every well, doctor" remarked the &C
tress, as she removed the plate, 81 sup
pose I'd better take out my orchestra
chairs so that you can get at my back
rows"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09

Valentines at Tom B. Johnson's.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09
GOOD COMPLEXION

comes from good digestion and good health,
and these often come from the cure of con-
stipation by DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
J. B. Stone, Esq, of a3 Marshall Street, Hart.
ford, Ct, writes: "Dr. Pierce's Pellets, were rec
commended by a neighbor who thinks there is
nothing like them. am subject to acidity Of the
stomach and indigestion. AS soon as feel IT, or
have eaten too heartily, take Pellet or if
take one pill. A good many pills that have
taken cause an unpleasant feeling all the next
day, or a weak gone feeling that the Pellets ;
do not cause. They seem to straighten me out
all through the system without tearing me up"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09
scATTERS HIS FATHERS ASHES.
Contents of Mortuary Vase Sent Broadcast
Over Mississippi River.

Obedient to his aged fathers dying
request, Ernest Rosen stood over the
center arch of the Eads bridge at St.
Louis at $3.50 o'clock the other after
noon, opened a vase, and scattered its
contents broadcast on the muddy, tur-
bulent waters of the Mississippi river.
Carl Rosen, an aged piano maker who
had long ago retired, died at the resi-
dence of his son. When the old man
realized that his end was near, he SOL
emily adjured his son Ernest to have
his body cremated and to scatter his
ashes over the bosom of the Father of
Waters.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09
4 Good Watch,

Is a good thing, why not have
one. We are now selling good
watches so CHEAP you can
easily afford it. Come in and
let us show you.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-09

suddenly the chilGs eye caught signI
OF the cleaning gold, and, with an eager
smile, the tiny hand was outstretched to
the desk and the coins were clutched in
its tenacious grasp. The mother was
promptly acquitted.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
The Spring Election.

No excitement attended the nomina-
tians for town officers this year, as each
party succeeded in burying its tomahawk
and smoking the calumet, even though
the more blood thursty braves councilled
for war, and donned the paint and feath-.
ers. 1t was a case where contending
forces meet upon the field and each de-
sires that the other should strike the
first blow, or rather desires that the fight
shall be postponed.
P~artisanship has dropped out of the
towns politics and men are nominated
without any regard to party affiliations,
and the issues are persons and gualifica-
tons. All nominations were made by
petition, and the result stands as else
where officially announced.
This is the array for next Mondays
vote. OF course the HERALD could ex.
p~ostulate upon the respective merits of
the men, (as some papers are in the
habit of doing) but we defer such com
pliments till a future day. Everybody
in Neihart knows every other body and
so we leave the subject. May the best
men win.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
A Stranger Himself,

The sun was slowly sinking toward
the west. Dennis Murphy, with some
thing more than q taste of the ''cratur, 81"
was working his way home after a hard
days toll. He saw the lurid sun and
stopped as if frightened. Just then an
old man came down the road.
r"Oi shay, me fri'nd, gurgled Dennis,
edo yez moind tellin me ish that the
sun or ish that the moon?"
NO." growled the old man.
Dennis subsidized for a moment, then
began his contemplation again.. His
thoughts were interrupted by some one
approaching. Dennis saw that he. too,
was a fellow countryman, but Dennis
did not see that he, too, had seen too
much of the foaming glass.
"Oi shay, me fri'nd,' he again began,
"can you tell me ish that the sun or ish
little MOON"
r'tDon't know, fri'nd, said the other.
"Oi'm a stranger in these parts misilf. "
Scottish Nights.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
VOTE AGAINST FREE TEXT BOOKS.
APRIL FOOL JOKES.
The Town of Neihart Is Full of Fine
Subjects for the Occasion.

The practical joker was abroad Thurs
day and almost everybody in town was
nipped. Geo. Marelius rugged up the
end of a pigs caudal appendage, about
two inches taken farthest from the ami
mails nose, and wrapping a bloody rag
around it, so held it in his hand that one
would think his finger was badly cut.
He then lay for suckers, whom he would
ask to help him tie the bandage. No
sooner would the sympathizing passerby
take hold of the thread than Marelius
would loosen the pigtail, and leave the
victim amazed. A shout would 90 up
as another sucker was strung.
But the best thing of all was Geo.
Budge's fighting rabbit. A hundred
people were taken in by this ridiculous
joke, and the expense for cigars at his
place was The arrangement
is described as follows: A good bunco
committee of two was sent out who
would approach some popular citizen, at
the same time engaged in a heated dis
cussioh as to the existence of such a
freak as a fighting rabbit. One would
say that he saw the animal and that it
had licked several dogs and cats, and
was afraid of nothing. 1t was reported
that Bulge had the animal tied in a
back oom of the drug store, and that it
could be seen by a walk of only a few
steps. Money would be wagered, a dog
procured and the unsuspecting citizen
invited to witness the contest.
In the Hateful Darkroom was an in
verted box from under which passed a
string tied to Il table leg. Mr.. Bulge
would very tremendously unite the
string and ask the visitor to hold it,
while he raised the box, %instructing the
guy to pull vigorously to start the rab-
bit into the room. When the box was
raised, the aforesaid guy found himself
jerking a string to which was attached a
certain article of bedroom furniture COM
monty known as a yellow owl. Shouts
of derision would go up from the crowd
and the luckless victim would himself
seek revenge by steering some other man
up against the fighting rabbit.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
To the Gold Fields of Alaska.

The Northern Pacific Railway compa-
ny has arranged to sell through tickets
to the Yukon mining district, Alaska,
via Seattle and the steamers of the North
American Trading & transportation
company. Steamers sail from Seattle on
Thursday, June 10, 1897, and Tuesday,
August 10, 1897, and proceed directly to
Fort Get There, on st. Michael's island,
near the mouth of the Yukon river,
touching only at Dutch Harbor, Unalas-
ka island, (Aleutian chain) en- route; at
Fort Get There change is made to the
Company's river steamers, which pass up
the Yukon river to Circle city, Fort Cud-
aliy and Forty Mile, thus affording an
easy and pleasant trip. Prospectors and
miners are advised to take the boat sail
ing from Seattle on June 10, so as to ar
rive at the mines in time for a good sea-
sons work.
Rates and further information will be
furnished on application to A. d. EDGAR,
General Agent, Helena, Mont. 1896.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
The Finest Train in the World.


The finest train III 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 fa-
nous $685." to the last car ia 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-equipped day
coaches ver offered the travelling public.
This New Limited" train is admitted
by the press as well 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
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03

T B Lay of the Boarding House Bard.
Who gives us hash each blessed day ~ F..
And says we in advance must payP
Who grunts when asked for towels, ''Nayi'
The landlady.
Who washes plates both night and mornf
Who meets with everybody's scornF
Who wishes he had ne'er been born?
Her husband.
Who pounds the piano all day long2
Who sings for hours, with voice that's strong
That "Tell Them That You Saw Me- songP
Her daughter.
Who holds the boarding house in thrallP
Who's full of Irish wit and gall2
Who won't stand emo back talk at allf
The cook.
Who at six per wears many a gown
Who ON the young men e'er looks DOWN.
Who hopes to wed her boss down town.?
The typewriter boarder.
Who gets the finest cuts Of meat
And all the sweets he cares to eatf
Who pays a little more for heat2
The star boarder.
Who's scented, collared and mustachedf
Who always says some girl he's mashed
Who ought to be severely thrashed?
.Hs. The dude boarder.
Who hates young girls and always tries
The parlor to ~monopo1ize?
Who opes at scandal wide her eyes?
The old maid boarder.
Who wears n faded wrapper blue
And novels reads the whole day through
Who dyes her hair a taffy hue2
Thu grass widow boarder.
Who, when his board is nearly due,
Gets a~pprehensive, nervous, bluef
Who is an ass to stay here-whoY
Ne, the ballroom boarder!
New York Sunday Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
Suicide.

An extraordinary instance of heredi-
tary tendency to suicide was told by
Professor Brouardel in Paris lately. A
farmer neal Etampes hanged himself
without apparent cause, leaving a fam
lily of seven son and four daughters.
Ten of the II subsequently, followed the
fathers example, but not until they had
married and begotten children, all OF
whom likewise hanged themselves. The
only survivor is a son, who is nov SO
years Of age and has passed safely be-
rond the family hanging age.
Not Encoure2-K.
George wonder if your father
would have me for a son-in-law!
Marie-Very likely. Papa and al
ways disagree. New York Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
Official Nominations.

For Alderman, First ward:
Rosgard Halvor T...... Independent,
Vaughan Reuben G.......
For Alderman, Second ward:
mayer isaac . ...... independent.
Matthews James
For Alderman, Third ward:
McAssey Jonathan 80. Independent
I, Geo. L. McGibbon, Clerk in and for
the town of Neihart, County of Cascade,
State of Montana, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a true and correct list of
nominations for officers to be voted for
on Monday the fifth day of April, A. D.
1897. '
Witness my hand and the seal of
office, this End day day of April, A. D.
1897.
Geo. i. McGibbon
Seal Town Clerk
Neihart, Mont.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
Notice.

VIM. Schuman, jr., has purchased the
blacksmith business and tools of Luther
Sprague & Co., the change to take place
April 1. The new proprietor is we'll
known to be a first-class man at the
trade, and he asks the prhlic to continue
the patronage of the past, always assur-
ing them of satisfactory treatment,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
The Doctors Revenge.

The doctor shook his head and looked
serious.
HUM he said, after feeling the
patents pulse and taking his tempera-
ture. you're very i'll indeed"
"Y-you don't say so, doctori' gasped
the man as he turned pale. "Am | COM
ing down with some serious illness?"
>-"You are liable to-, sir, unless You
follow out my directions to the letter.
Let's see. DO you 60 to Jones, the butch.
err
Yes. doctor"
"You must buy your meat after this
at some other shop. 1t will be somewhat
Of a change, l think. Does Smith, the
grocer, get your custom?"
.""He does, doctor--all Of it in that
line
""Just SO. / must caution you to
change grocers for awhile. Even that
will be a little change in your diet.
Who's your baker!"
why, Brown, at the corner"
"Then buy your bread somewhere
else, SO as to have a complete change in
foed all round. That's all, l believe.
Follow those directions faithfully, take
this prescription and have it made up,
and you'll be a different man in a
week"
And as the sick man walked out the
doctor rubbed his hands and chuckled to
himself:
|, This is the fifth patient l have given
the same advice to in the last three
days. Sue me for their little bills, will
they? Well, it's my opinion that by the
end of the month Brown, Jones and
Smith will be driven SC far out of bust
ness that they will never get in again."
-Pearson's Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
The Village Blacksmith.
[Shade of LoNGFBLLow.

lohout - UNIV EllLoNs
Under a little dinkey cap Tie village
smithy stands. The smith, Il slender
man is he With long and bony hands;
And the smile upon his genial face
Comes down from happier lands.
His hair is long, and rough, and gray
His face is like a brush: His whiskers
clothe his countenance, And hide his
gentle blush. He never borrows from
his friends, Nor gives his chums the
rush. .".
Week in, week out, from morn till night
You can see him at his shop; His ham,
mer rings upon the iron, And sparks
arise de trop; He tumbles in the old
slack tub, And gets as wet as sop.
Toiling, rejoicing and joshing, Onward
thro' life he goes; Each morning sees
a jolly smile When he gets in his
clothes; But into other mems affairs
He never pokes his nose.
Thanks, thanks to this, my worthy friend
Who works in iron or wood; He gives
his stuff to those in need, Just as a
Christian should; And if he gets the
rinky dink, He mutters, "That'll be
good"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
Notice to Co-Owners.

State of Montana, county of Meagher Jan. /,
1897.
TO D. M. Crowley, and to the heirs, executors
administrators, and assigns of j. III. Moe (de-
ceased) In the Little Emma, NJ. and
M. and Spectator quartz lode mining claims,
you are hereby notified that I have expended
six hundred dollars tS600i in labor and i'm
provements upon the above named quartz lode
mining claims, as will appear by certificate
filed in the once of the clerk and recorder OF
Meagher county, in order to hold said premises
under the provisions of section 1924 Revised
Statutes of the United States, being the amount
required TO hold the same for the years ending
Dec, 81. 1895 and 1896.
And If within ninety days from the service of
this notice by publication, you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such expenditure
as a your interest in said claims will
become the property of the subscriber, under
said Section 234.
Neils Jensen.
Claimant.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
Notice to ~Co-Owneps.

County of Meagher, State of Montana, Jan,
4, 1897.
ToFred Bergeron, Sam Savage and Horace
Savage. You and each of you are hereby mott
fed that 1 have expended one hundred dollars
in labor and improvements upon the Sam Say
age Lode mining claim, as will appear by the
afidavit of annual representation filed in the
office of the county clerk of Meagher county,
Montan a, in order to hold said mining claim
under the provisions of Section 1924, Revised
Statutes OF the United States, being the
amount required to hold the same for the year
ending Dec. 81, 1895.
And if within ninety days after the service
of this notice upon you by publication. you
fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure as a co-owner, your interest
in said claim will become the property of the
subscriber under said Sec. 1924.
Herman Nathan.
Claimant.
Care of Richard Bennett Neihart, Montana.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
Notice of Dissolution.

Notice. is hereby given that the CO.
partnership heretofore existing between
Daniel Redden and Charles Stroup, do
ing a retail liquor business in Neihart,
Cascade county, Montana, under the
firm name of Redden & Stroup, is this
day dissolved by mutual consent,
Charles Stroup retiring.
Daniel Redden will continue the bust
ness, collect all bills and pay all liza
bilities of the firm.
DANIEL REDEEM.
CHARLES STRoUP.
Neihart, Montana, March 18th, 1897,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
AMONG THE N
Leases That Give Promise of Paying
Handsome Returns.

Richard Brennan and John Adamson
have taken a lease and bond on the
Plain View and Ninety-Six group of
mines, and already begun work on the
contract. The amount of the bond is
not known, but it is in the thousands.
They have some rich ore in sight, and
have begun sinking on the vein alta dis
lance of so feet from the mouth of the
tunnel. This is a promising property,
situated on the south bank of Belt creek,
and bearing a assure vein between gran
lite walls. Ore assaying 1876 to 200 OF.
has been taken from this vein.
John List and Joe Grafton are leasing
on the Spokane. They are driving a
cross-cut from No. 2, west, and are in
145 feet with it. Their station in No. 2
is 800 feet from the mouth and the esti-
mate Of distance from this point to the
Spokane vein is 200 feet, so the boys ex-
pect to drive about 55 feet further be-
fore they reach it. The Spokane at this
place should contain a fine body of ore,
as the shaft from above, which the pres
ent work is running toward is in rich
ore. Ernest Close is also one of the
~leasers
AL Bronson, VIM. Allen, JAS. Brady
and Jas. Gam, leasing OF tunnel No. 3
at the Benton, struck ore Tuesday the
value of which has not been ascertnined.
The ore has a good appearance.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
Just What She Ssjd.

1t is not always wise to dispute
people, even when their assertions
seem absolutely mistaken. The Pitts
burg Christian Advocate gives this
story Of a census takers error:
Mrs. Pilgrim-Now, these boys
r sisters.
The Census Taker-No, you mean
brothers.
Mrs. Pilgrim-No, sir. l mean
just what / say. They r my sisters.
She lives next door in the red house.