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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-02

Special agents of the United States
treasury travel in many states and see
many strange things. They hear strange
stories too. In the big custom house
building every day from 8 O'Clock until
4 there sits a man who is a very treas
ure mine of anecdotes. He is so modest,
though, that he won't allow his name
to be used in connection with this par
ticular story.
SIT was off Cedar Keys, " said he. 81
had been shark fishing and was talking
of sharks to an old time sponge fisher
when he told me that he had found,
some 20 miles off the keys, the largest
shark it had ever been his fortune to
see, floating belly upward, starved to
death. why, the shark was as thin as
a poker, said the sponge fisher, and I
determined to find out what allied him.
/ pulled him aboard and cut him open.
There, in his stomach, open end toward
the head, was half of a barrel which
had contained mess pork. The half bar
rel had evidently been thrown over
board from some vessel and the shark
had gobbled it up as it hit the water,
without looking to see what it was. 1t
was too bad that he swallowed it butt
end first, for whatever he ate after that
| went into the barrel and did the shark
no good. So he just starved. New
Orleans Times Democrat.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-02
The Russian Police.

A tyrannical and universal secret
surveillance blights all Russian ma
tional life. The clergy preach but little,
the great majority never attempting
to deliver a sermon, chiefly because an
unguarded or misunderstood word may
be so reported as to lead to severe pen
alties. All public meetings are prohib-
tied, and SO ridiculous is the extreme to
which the superfine bureaucracy pushes
its operations that nobody is at liberty
to give even a dinner party without the
permit of the everlasting politsi.
The police officer is the god of Russia.
If permission is granted for a party, a
detective must be admitted, Public
lectures are all but unknown, for the
law sternly forbids them. Seeing that
education is rapidly spreading, and that
by the efforts of the authorities in this
land of endless %paradoxes, it is manifest
that the elements of some fearful social
oataclysm are being a~bundantly and
expeditiously provided. The passport
system is an unspeakable abomination,
for which there is not the slightest JUS
LITIGATION. 1t puts travellers to the ut
most inconvenience and occasions con
slant annoyance. Contemporary Re-
view.
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DAINTINESS.

Dainty food is a good present.-Efk.
A dainty stomach beggars the purse
Cydias.
Plain food suits not dainty appetites. -
Eliza Tabor.
Eat and drink with thy friend. Yea,
partake of his choice dainties, but beware
of buying from or selling to bim.-Con-
fucius.
Plain food is far more wholesome for
the Young than daintias. They corrupt,
enfeeble and destroy the mind as we'll as
the body.-C. j.. Davreux.
Very few people are dainty, and yet how
many pretend to be sol But, like the ass
thnt wore the lions skin, their braying
betrays them.-Daa, the Norwegian, 1909.
1t Is not in %diminutive size nor in beau
ty nor in finish hat daintiness lies, but
in n combination of the three. An ant Is
small, Yosemite Is beautiful, the Venus
de Medici is finished, but whoever called
them d:intys-Annie E. Lancaster.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-02
PRIME ~HORSEFLESH.

George Spear is back in thu sulky again.
Fantasy is nursing a ba,:ly bowed ten
Sally Toler won two races at Independ-
ence.
Nominee Prince, 2:20, is at present laid
up for repairs.
Star Pointers mile in 2.02 is the fast
est ever negotiated In the first heat of a
race.
The Warren (O.) track record was set at
2:10H by Coleridge in the free for all
pace.
Red Line, 2:15, was sold by Croxton
Bros, Angola, Ind, to John Rose, Cleye-
land, for $500.
Giles Noyes, 2:071z, car step in 2 :Os in
his work without the hobbies, but refuses
to race without them.
The bay gelding Baxter, 2:40X, now 26
years old, is a hearty old horse owned by
G. W. B. Edwards of the Hartford Post.
There will be no general exhibit at
Huntington, Ind. The fair has been
abandoned, "a racing meeting taking its
place.
Deck Golf says Lord Caffrey is the fast
est long distance trotter in Europe and
can beat the two mile record whenever
asked.
Greenlief S.. Hill, one of the most wide
ly known horsemen in Maine, died at
Skowhegan, that state, recently in his six
ty-fourth year.
Oakland Baron was not allowed to start
at Glens Falls, the track there being I'M
der the jurisdiction of the National Trot-
ting association.
Philip, who trotted into the 80 list at
Pittsfeld, Me-, at the last meeting held
there, with u mark of 1864, made in q
fifth heat, is by Nelson's Wilkes, dam by
Hambletonian Knox.
Colonel Harry Lopez has done better
work this year in the starters box than
ever before. His work has given universal
satisfaction, and his matchless voice has.
lost none of it's pristine yigor or volume.
The chapter of accidents occurring at
the recently held Reading (Pa.) meeting
was indeed a long one. Besides those al
ready detailed, Mate, a thoroughbred,
broke down SO badly that he had to he de-
strOyed.
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her, she remembered Lord Harry Gull
verhouse as he had been before his mad
ness came upon him. Yet still more did
she remember how, even in his madness,
he had done her no harm, but had
watched beside her through the night
and had, as morning dawned, entreated
death at the hands of tho king, prefer
ring to die rather than that the talk of
a single idle tongue should fall foully
upon her name. Therefore she mourned
for him with secret tears.
But he, although no monument
marked his grave and although men
spoke of him only as the mad trooper
who had robbed the princess, yet slept
soundly and at peace, and his right
hand lay clinched upon his heart and
in it the golden pin that had fastened
the ruddy hair of Princess Osra.
THE n
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-02

IL I'D WlotO oh. LII
deed, it is owing to a prevailing impress.
sion that anybody who has some spare,
time and a postage stamp can do a stint;
in the poetry line that take my pen in.
hand to tend to the job right before thes
opportunity is spoiled"
INAUGURATION.
Some people they long for the Fourth of July.
With bright roman candles and pinwheeIs and
sky
Rockets, "But give us the fourth of Marcht"
say /.
We have plenty Of fireworks on March four
And likewise a great many things more.
1t was simply glorious that parade to view,
Gayly tripping down the avenue.
A lifting tribute to a presidents poIyeA@
To pass a given point took it several hours.
They were marching purely for love of their
native land,
All except a few who play in the band.
But business is business, as we all understand.
There was an audience from all parts of the.
nation,
Hundreds of thousands at the lowest calcula-
ton,
And it must have done the presidents heart
good
To realize that each would
Hold office if he could.
''They comel They comel"-hear the Joyous
shout
Some with whiskers and some without.
Think of all those gallant men in line,
And yet l am nobody's valentine.
But more than the doings out in the street
l love to witness the JOY complete
Where on the sidewalk, like merry elves,
Folks hustle around and enjoy themselves.
Only l did occasionally wish the police
Could stop some of the noises, so that we could,
have peace.
But, alas, this life was always SO!
No pleasure did we ever know
But what there happened something or other
That made it different from what you'd ruther.
Washington Star.
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A Peculiar Ohio Community.

"There is a community at Amish.
Holmes County, O., that meets Bob
Ingersoll's idea of Atlantis" said
an Ohioan. ''There are no churches
and no ministers in the community,
which consists of Is, 600 or 90, 900
souls, residing on 1G0 acre farms.
Every member of the settlement is
a producer. Religious meetings are
held, but they are at the homes of
various members, not in regularly
established meeting places. Draft
horses, the best in the country,
come from Amish. The customs Of
the people + primitive in their
simplicity. No one ever thinks of
knocking at a neighbours door; they
just walk in. Travellers who come
through the community r taken
in and entertained, in literal inter
probation of the Scriptural injunc-
ton, and no one is permitted to re-
ceive pay for the entertainment.
The most curious of the customs of
this peculiar people is that relating
to it's women. Married women wear
black caps, those who are engaged
go to church in brown headgear,
while the young girls proclaim the
fact that their affections are olsen
gagged by dainty white bonnets.
There is considerable sense at the
bottom of this quaint custom, and
the social jealousies and heart burn
ings of other towns are said to be
practically unknown in Amish. -
ST TOr1iS Globe DemOcrat
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She looked perH intently at him.
stripped off her gauntlets and took his
forehead between her hands, and he lay
there quiet with his head between her
hands. And presently his eyes closed
and he SLEPT. But Osra did not know
what to do, for darkness had fallen and
she dared not leave HIM alone there by
the river. Therefore she sat where she
was, and in al hour, the night being
fine and not cold, she grew weary, and
her hands fcll away from his brow and
she sank back on the green turf, pillow
ing her head on a curved arm, and there
she slept with the mad lord by her and
the ruby nec'-laoe lying neal them.
At midnight Lord Harry Culverhouse
awoke and saw Princess Osra sleeping
peacefully with a smile on her lips such
as decks a child's lips in sleep. He rose
and stood up OIL his feet, looking at her,
and he heard nothing but the sound of
the horses cropping the grass a little
way off. Then he drew near her and
gazed long OF her face, and she opened
her eyes and saw him. But she showed
no fear of him. She smiled at him, and
she said:
Even here I am guarded by one of
the gentlemen who guard me in the
palace" And she closed her eyes again
and turned to sleep.
Then a shiver ran through him. And
he dug his nails into the palms of his
hands and, turning, walked swiftly up
and down on the bluff by the side of the
river while Osra slept. And presently
he fell on his knees beside her and be-
gan to murmur in a rapid rush of words.
but he did not now curse her beauty,
but blessed God for it and blessed him
also for the preservation of his own
honor. Thus he spent the night till day
was near, and then he bent over Osra
and looked once more Oh her, and he
took up the ruby necklace and laid it
lightly about her neck. And, feeling
the touch of it, cool and wet from the
dew, she again opened her eyes and,
putting her knuckles in them, she rubbed
gently, and she gasped a little yawn,
saying. "Heigh no. l am ~sleepy!' and
sat up. And she said, care you not
sleepy, my lordg"
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SAID ABOUT WOMEN.

Woman's tongue is her sword, which she
never let's rust.-Mme. Necker.
A mothers tenderness and caresses are
the milk of the heart. -Eugenie de Guerin.
Women are apt to see chiefly the defects
of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.
Anonymous.
The two pleasantest days of q woman
are her marriage day and the day of her
funeral. -Hipponax.
Nothing is better than a good wife, and
nothing is worse than a bad one who is
fond of gadding about. -Hesiod.
Before promising a woman to love only
her one should nave seen them all or
should see only her.-Antoine Dupuy.
We love handsome women from i%nclina-
ton, homely women from interest and
yirtuous women from reason. -Arsene
Houssaye.
The plainest man who pays attention
to women will sometimes succeed as we'll
as the handsomest who does not.-Caleb
G. Cotton.
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OF her neck, and u sudden flush of color
spread over all his face, so that the
princess, CHANGING to glance at him in
passing and seeing the color beneath and
through the dye that stained him, was
greatly astonished, and she refined in
her horse for an instant and looked very
intently at him, yet she rode on again
in silence.
That evening there came to the qua
tiers of the kings guard waiting wom-
an, who asked to see the trooper that
had mounted guard at the west gate of
the palace that day, and when he came
the m held out to him a box of
red morocco leather, saying, SIT is for
you" But he answered, at is not for
me-, and, turning away, left her. And
this happened Oh three evenings. Then
on the fourth day it was again his turn
to mount guard at the palace, and
when he had sat there on his horse for
All hour the Princess Osra rode out from
under the portico. She rode alone, and
the ruby necklace was on her neck, and
she said:
81 am going to ride outside the city
by the river bank. Let a trooper follow
me some way behind" Aud she signed
with her hand to Lord Harry, and he
rode after her through the streets and
out of the western gate, and they turned
along the bank of the river. When they
had gone three or four miles from the
city, Osra halted and beckoned the Lord
Harry to approach her, and he came.
But when she was about to speak to
him and tell him that she knew him a
sudden and new madness came on to
him, and he seized her bride and dug
his spurs deep into his horses tanks,
and both the horses bounded forward at
a gallop. In alarm the princess cried
out, but he did not heed her. Along the
bank they %galloped, and when they met
any one, which happened seldom (for
the place was remote and it was now
EVENING", he babe her cover her face,
and she obeyed, twisting her lace hand.
kerchief ove her face. Thus they rode
till they came at nightfall to a bluff of
rock high above the stream. Here Lord
Harry suddenly checked the horses,
flung himself from the saddle and babe
the princess dismount. And she obeyed
and stood facing him, pale with fear
and apprehension, but wearing a proud
and scornful air. And he cried:
els it not we'll you should die? Fol-
you live but to madden men and drive
them to sin and folly"
Nay" said she, "to men of good
heart beauty leads to goodness. From
yourself come the sin and the folly, my
lord" And she laid hold of the ruby
necklace and broke the clasp of it and
flung it on the ground before him. but
he took no heed of it, but seized her
hand and drew her to the edge of the
bluff, saying:
1.-THE world will be safer if l fling
you down"
Then she looked in his face, and 8
sudden pity entered her heart, and she
said very gently:
"Sit down, my lord, and let me put
my hands on your brow, for I think yor
are in a fever"
And he sat down, all trembling ant
shaking, like a man with ague, and she
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-02
HOWE'S HITS.

Public sympathy is always with a rebel.
Love is luxury, and a very expensive
one.
There are very few people who are we'll
behaved.
1t takes about as long to tell about a
trip as 1t does to make 1t.
Every one is weak at some point. Bet
ter not fool around that point.
Some women give their pastors and
church tho attention they should give their
husbands and homes.
A woman can love her husband because
{ is her duty, but no man ever loved a
woman because it was his duty. -Atchison
ilobe.
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reatess. l feel 1t
my duty to see
that so great IA
occasion as thai
which we have;
just witnessed in
Washington i S
n 0 t neglected.
What is every
body's business
is n%obody's bust
ness, and do lot
wish to see this
duty shirked. OF
course, the sub
ject will be much
wrote Oh. In ,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-02
THE HULBUL OF POHiCk.

She Becomes the Country's POetess Lau-
reatess and Tackles the inauguration.
ut is u sad fact writes the Buibul
Of Pohick, THAT this country has not
got any poet laureate nor poetess lau-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-28
explanation is that a smaller force OF
special agents can perform the duties of
that branch of the service satisfactorily.
"0WKEY" B0BS UP AGAIN.
The Famous Maiicar Dog Is Not Dead, as
Reported, but on the Retired List
at ST LoUis

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 27.-s'Ow.
ney, the famous postal dog, is not dead,
as reported, but in st. Louis at the home
of J. Melvin, postal clerk, who will keep
the dog until he dies. Owney has been
subject of official correspondence be-
tween the Postoffice Department and some
of its officials. When Captain White, gem
eral superintendent of the railway mail
service, read that the dog had been killed
by a policeman in Cleveland for attempt
ing to bite a man he wrote Superintendent
Pepper in Cleveland requesting an official
report and asking whether the skin could
be mounted for the postal museum here.
Peppers response, which was received
to-day, says that the dog mentioned was
not Owney, and that the policeman killed
an ordinary cur. The last heard of Owney
vas that he had gone to Cincinnati to
meet the new superintendent from which
point he was s'routed" to the exposition
at Nashville.
Postal Clerk Melvin saw the story,
about Owney's death few days ago and
to-day Captain White received from him
letter saying that the dog had been IN
Melvin's possession for three weeks. He
joined Melvin while returning from the
Postal Clerks Convention at San Fran
cisco. Owney was suffering from severe
attack of mango and Melvin determined
to hold him until cured. The cure has
been accomplished, but Owney has de-
veloped ugly traits, due to his advanced
years. he tries to bite every body he
doesn't know. Melvin, in his letter, said
he would like to keep the dog for the bal
ance of his days. Captain White has
written an official com mmunication grant,
ing the request.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-28
AFTER THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Ken iucky's Attorney General Opens His
SUIT Against the Big Corporation
at Frankfort

FRANKFORT, Ky, April 27.-The case
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky against
the Southern Pacific Railroad was called
in the Franklin Circuit Court this even
ing before Judge CantreIl by Attorney
General Taylor. General Taylor stated
that the case was one involving S136, 600
against the Southern Pacific for failure to
report, and damages and penalties; that
the corporation had detied the State au-
thorities and had refused to comply with
the law; that the statute in the case
against them was plain that the attorney
for the Southern Pacific had requested
that it be postponed until Friday. as they
had expected to settle by that time; that
they had made the same promise before
and had failed to do SO; that their delays
were based upon the advice of some big
official who was quartered away from the
home office on a technicality; that the
road had repeatedly shirked in this man.
ner before and he would inform the court
as to its methods; that he would agree to
the delay to Friday, but no longer; that
they were foreign corporation, having
their existence from the Kentucky Legis-
lature, and were subject to the laws of the
State as other such corporations in the
State and were liable to franchise tax as
other like corporations, in addition to the
tax on real property; that the Southern
Pacific was one of the most wealthy cor
porarions in the United States; that no
estimate could be placed on their fran
chiss by reason of the fact that the COM
pany had failed and refused to report, but
that its property could be estimated from
statistics gathered in the various standard
guides or "statlsticians," and that he
would not argue the case further than
this brief statement
The road will Gemur to his petition and
argument will be made on the demurrer.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-28
ATLANTIS BANKING PANIC.
A Third Concern Forced to the KaH by
Cnssm's RGscaHy-Knockout at
Directors Meeti1o.

ATLANTA, GA, April q. = Another
institution, hitherto supposed to be one OF
the stanchest in The city, has gone to the
wall, third victim to the defalcation of
Cashier Cassin. An attorney representing
the Washington Loan and Investment
Company to-day secured the appointment
ment of which is closely connected with
the Georgia Loan and Banking Company
and the United States Bond Company.
The latter and the Washington Company
conducted a far-reaching installment t
bond business, being the repositories of
the savings of families in nearly every
city OF importance in the United States.
The personnel of the board of directors
and stockholders included the leading
capitalists of this State.
At meeting of the Georgia Com pany's
directors to-day the re was a lively row be-
tween President g. V. Gress and Judge
r. 7. Dorsey, who is Atlanta's foremost
lawyer. Dorsey asserted that he b ad writ
ten Gress in January asking that he call
a meeting of the directors to examine the
books. Gress replied that he had lust
concluded a personal inspection of the
banks affairs and that there was nothing
whatever to warrant the Inconvenience
of calling a board meeting. High words
followed until Dorsey in rage knocked
the president under table.
An amendment has been filed by Nor.
gan Gress, son of the president, to his
original petition which precipit ated the
receivership. in which he claims that his
iather obtained large sums of money on
iuadeuuatp securities He alsa profors
charges against other officers for en- mploy.
ing the funds OF the defunct institution
in private ventures. He duplicates some
of Atlanta's foremost citizena
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-28
MAJOR GENERAL DODGE,
War Record Of the Man Who
Marshaled the Hosts Yes
terday.


Maior-General Grenville M. Dodge, the
grand marshal of the Grant procession in
New York, was a distinguished soldier
during the war, and subsequently a men,
Der of Congress from Iowa and chief en-
gineer in the construction of the Union
Pacific Railroad. Grant and Sherman had
high respect for Dodge's ability as
fighter and lis skill as an engineer.
Dodge organized the Fourth Iowa In
fantry, one of the historic regiments of
the war, and as colonel cond ucted it 10
the field of battle. At Pea Ridge he gained
star for gallantry in action. He was
subsequently promoted maior-general.
and placed in command of the Sixteenth
Army Corps. As lander of that corps,
in front OF Atlanta on July %, 1864, he
made q splendid record for bravery and
endurance when assaulted in flank and
rear by General Hood. The highest tribute
is paid to Dodge in Sherman's official re-
port of this engagement, in which the
brave Mcpherson, comm anding the Army
OF the Tennessee, was slain.