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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-06
Spain Expected to Accept
President Notifies Cambon
that He viii Not Materially
Modify the Terms.
The India MINIS Reported
About to Start.
A Strong Effort Being Made
to Change the Ratio to 22
to l. to Which Both the u.
S. and France Would Agree

Great Falls, Aug. 5, 1890 a. M -ISpec-
al to the HERALDl-N reply from Spain
yet received. The impression still pre-
vaiis in Washington, that the delay is
not discouraging Those best informed
say that there is not likely to be further
pickering about details. President Nc
kinley has informed Cambon that he
cannot grant material modification of
terms presented. 1t is thought Spain
will accept without further delay.
Skaters army will be sent to Long
Island at once. This action was taken
because of united protest from officers
against staying longer in place where
disease was sure to soon carry off large
proportion of soldiers. Roosevelt
headed protest against orders of
Department that the men be marched
to higher ground, saying that they
were unable to march anywhere
All other officers joined in request to be
allowed to come home because they were
not needed at Santiago and the men
were so weak they could not fight if they
were.
Miles is advancing slowly. One re-
connoitering company under General
Stone was checked by Spanish forces
No fatalities reported. No great advance
will be made until further transports ar
rive.
A special to the Denver Times from
Washington says it is learned from Lon
don through private channels to the
effect that the Indian Mints are to be
reopened to Free Coinage and the as
sertion is made that this will occur at
an unexpectedly early date. There is a
strong effort being made to have the ra-
tio changed from sixteen to one to TWEEN
ty-two to one, and it is asserted that a
willingness to assent to this change has
been evineed by both the United States
and France.
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Pay of Old Time Architects.

AS near as we can discover the archi.
tect of ''ye olden TYNE" did not receive
for his services very exorbitant sum.
Recently some members of the French
school at Delphi unearthed several slabs
of marble which bear inscriptions of
great interest dating as they do from
the fourth century before Christ. The
inscriptions, which cover about 200
lines, give the price of work for build
ing operations in Greece at the period
named, and from them we learn that all
architect was paid at the rate of $3.50
per annum Or less. This was little
enough surely, even if its purchasing
power is multiplied, as it should be,
five or six times. Sir Christopher Wren
received for his services the magnificent
sum of 81 900 per year for more than 20
years while rebuilding London. His
head craftsman received about $500 per
year, while assistants received from
$50 to $125 per year. French and Ger
man architects were not even SO we'll
paid at the same period. Bad as this
was, it was better than the remunera-
tion many Of the older architects re-
ceived, for in the far east if an artist
made noble design and erected build
ing worthy of admiration his chances of
being suddenly removed" by order of
the king were many This step was
taken in order to prevent rival king
from obtaining the services of all archi-
tect who might be able to SO improve
his plans that finer and nobler build
ing would be executed. d.-Architecture
and Building.
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All Was ExpIained.

The card on the doors Of the hotel
was an hour later before the meal was
ready. The clerk said the omnibus
would leave for the depot at s 80, but
it was almost an hour late. The train
to Wooster was down to leave at 9
o'clock, but it did not go until quar-
ter to 10. 1t was to arrive at Wooster
in 40 minutes, but it was 35 minutes
late when it drew up. All these things
made the colonel mad, and when he got
off at Wooster to take the branch line
he walked up to the ticket agent and
said:
"Sir, are things run in this country
for the benefit Of the public or Of indi-
viduals?'
individuals mostly" was the reply.
whats the matter?"
"Our breakfast over at Skinner was
an hour late"
"Very likely. The cook over there
probably oversight himself" F"
"And the bus was late.
Don't doubt it. l know the driver,
and if he gets down to game Of poker
he's apt to be- late. -
"And the railroad train was three
quarters Of an hour late, and the con-
ductor would give no excuse for it, I"
continued the irate colonel.
"Just like Dan Smith, smilingly
replied the agent. "He is counting a
mighty nice girl over at Wooster, and
he probably sat up later than usual.
I've known him to be an hour late.
Anything else:''
"Sir, your road advertises train at
o'clock today"
"Yes, know"
"It doesn't say l2 nor 2, but
o'clock"
Zone o'clock, SIR"
"Well, sir, will that train leave this
depot at / o'clock or not?" demanded
the colonel.
"That depends, replied the agent.
"If I'm around here, it will leave at
O'Clock. If go over to Hill Top on bust
ness, it may be 8 or o'clock before it
leaves. Want to get away at o'clock?"
Il do, sir. Not only that, but want
to get away at once-this minute
right off quick.
"And never come back:"
"Neyerl Never!"
"Well, there's the road, and the
walking is good. Goodby, old man."
| NJ. QUAD.
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Could Stand u No Longer.
Bar silver, 81.
Cash wheat. 6S

Mrs Firmly was working savagely
away with the hash knife when her
next door neighbor called.
"What in the world is that?'' asked
the visitor.
"That," with more vicious jabbing
than before, is what is left of Firm
ly's camera. I'm destroying the last
vestige Of it / have pulverized the
lenses, burned the frames and am now
chopping the rest of the Internal ma
chine into shreds. I'll show him. That
thing has cost US young fortune. He
has bought every attachment and i'm
provement that has been placed on the
market. They filed saratoga trunk
and there were plates enough to roof a
greenhouse.
II might have become reconciled, but
he never took picture that you could
recognize, and yet he was always at it.
Three of the children went down with
the Group because he would have US ON
the front porch to be photographed The
negatives looked as though some one
had swiped the glass with whitewash
brush loaded with lampblack. He had
US out in billiards., transforms and the
hottest weather just to experiment
Every shot was dismal failure, but he
always had excuses and was Just going
to produce something that would be "a
work of art. He'd invite friends by the
score to have their pictures taken, and
two-t thirds of them are mad because
nothing ever came of it, I've argued
and pleaded and wept. but he has kept
buying and making failures. -
"But won't he lie very angry?"
He can't get half as mad as am, I"
with an awful stab. "If he can ever
find hide or hair of this camera when
I'm through with it, he's welcome. If
he buys another. I'll get divorce. -
Detroit Free Press.
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more scientifically equipped than
their own. Great Britain supports
four large military colleges, her on
ly naval school is a little old affair
at Greenwich, inferior in hundred
respects. The writer says "there
have been no British naval maneu-
vers for years in which more collis-
ions, accidents and misunderstand-
ings have not occurred in a week
than the whole American campaign
in Cuban waters has exhibited.
Finally, the Britons admit that
American armor is better than their
own.
We shall hear of good deal
more European naval target prac-
tice in the next few months, than
for long time past.
Finally he declares that the per-
formance of Wainwright on the lit
tie "Gloucester," pleases English
men more than any other item of
news. They talk of it with mingled
amusement and wonder and admit
that there is nothing like ii in all
the record of the British navy,-The
Salt Lake Tribune.
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What Colonel BIZ Switzler SAYS.


The impression is general that Mis-
souri, river water is dirty-that the big
river flows about two parts Of dirt and
one Of mud-but the impression is erro-
neous, for the Missouri rivers water is
purer than the water OF any great river
In the country, the Platte alone except
ed. 1t is true that when bucketful Of
1t is dipped up it appears to be dirty.
but il the water is left until 1t settles it
will be found that the sediment at the
bottom is fine, dark colored sand and
not mud. The Missouri rivers water is
never muddy, save during the spring
high water.
Colonel Bill Switzler Of Boonville,
Mo-, declares that the general idea that
Missouri means "big muddy" or mud
dy water" is wrong. He says, and Col
onsl Bill Switzler Is an authority, that
1t means wooden canoe. " The name,
he says, belongs to the Illinois dialect
Of the Algonquin Indians. The name
Missuris or Missouri was applied by the
Indians of the upper lake region to the
tribe of Indians living west of the Mis-
sissippi river, because the latter used
wooden canoes instead Of birch bark
canoes.
Wooden canoes had TO be used on the
Missouri river because it WAS too turbu-
lent for the frail birch bark canoes, and
in this way the big river secured its
name. But no matter whether Missouri
means muddy water" or wooden
canoe" the fact remains that Missouri
river water is not muddy. 1t does not
flow through mud, but through fine
sand. The Mississippi river water is l00
per cent dirtier than the Missouri, but
poets have raved about the beautiful
blue Of the Father of Waters.
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NOTES ON THE NAVY.

Two or three features which de-
veloped in the sinking of Cervera's
fleet, according to Harold Frederick,
are worrying our cousins in Great
Britain. They have to admit that
American naval gun practice is vast
ly superior to their own. Lord
Charles Beresford is going about
the lobbies declaring that he warned
the Admiralty and Parliament of
this years ago. Then when they
read that the big ship guns of the
Americans that have been worked
SO steadily show no signs of weak
ening, the suspicion steals over them
that our navy has better guns than
the best in the British navy. Fin
ally they have discovered that Unit
ed States naval officers are better,
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The Colonel'S Celebration.


The major sat on the hotel veranda,
cigar in his mouth and his feet on the
railing, when Colonel Nash came acrus.
the square. The major saw that the
colonel was tangled in the legs" and
that he was headed for the veranda, but
he was not the man to give anything
away.
"Ah! Majah-zhat you," exclaimed
the colonel, as he pulled himself up the
steps and came to halt.
"Kurnel Nash, good mawnin to you
good mawnin," heartily replied the
major, as he arose and extended his
hand.
"N-nice day, Majah Davis"
Powerful nice day, Kurnel Nash.
Won't you sit down, sah?'
"C-can't stop, majah Got er go
down 'er bank. Good day. sab. "
He went off down the steps, walked
half block up the street and returned
to say:
"Ah! Majah Davis-zhat you?"
"Why, Kurnel Nash. good mawnin-
good mawnin to you," replied the ma
jor, as he got his legs under him again.
"Hev I-hev sheen you befo' this
mawnin?"
"No, sab. Won't you take somethin
with me, kurnel?"
"Shanks, but 'er gotter go down 'er
bank. Sheen you up yere and just came
over, you know. Good mawnin, Majah
Davis!'
GOOD mawnin, Kurnel Nash!"
The colonel fumbled his way down
the steps and zigzagged across the
street, and after hugging a hitchinR
post for q moment he returned over the
route to say:
"'Scuse me, sab, but hev you sheen
Majah Davis round yere zhis mawnin"'
Il am Majah Davis, sab. Kurnel
Nash, glad to see you-powerful glad
Been out Of town, sah:"
"Not 'zactly, majah; not 'zactly.
Majah, how long have you been round
yeref'
"About an hour, sab. F"
"And hev been round yere befo'?"
"No, sab. Powerful good cotton
weather, kurnelv
"Yes. Glad 'er shee you, majah, but
1 gotter go down 'er bank You'll 'scust
me, won't you?"
"Oh, certainly! Hoped you would
take nip with me, but business befor,
pleasure. See you later, kurnel, see yor
laterl'
The colonel made off down the stree
this time, but after going hundred
feet he halted, puzzled for moment
and then returned to the man on th,
veranda to say:
"Scuse me. sab. hnt I'm lookin e.
Majah Davis. "
Il am Majah Davis, replied the sit
ter as he rose and bowed, ''and l tax,
it that you are Kurnel Nash
''Zhe same, sab. Majah Davis, hev
sheen you befo' zhis -mawnin?"
mot this mawnin kurnel.
And would you shay, sah-woult
you shay was zhrunk?"
"No, sab, 1 wouldn't"
"Honest Injun?'
Honest Injun, sab. Do you feel tina
you are inebriated?"
Cant 'zactly shay, Majah Davis
but somethin's wrong. I'm eithe
zhrunk or fool, or else you are liza
and gentleman, and l gotter go dowl
'er bank and find outp'
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BISMARCK is DEAD.


chancellor of the German empire,
was born in 1915 at Brandenburg.
About 1847 he began to attract at
tention in the Prussian parliament
as an ultra royalist and an advocate
of the EXTREMIST absolutism. He
was one of those who opposed the
scheme of German empire, pro
posed by the German parliament of
lo49. His diplomatic career began
in 1851, when he was appointed
chief secretary of the Prussian lega-
tion at the resuscitated German Di-
ct at Frankfort. In 1859 he tried
to bring about an alliance between
France, Prussia and Russia, but
without success. BY this time he
had acquired the special regard and
confidence of the King, who sent
him, in the spring of 1862, as en-
bassador to Paris, in order to give
him an insight INTO the politics Of
the Tuileries, before taking the di-
rection of affairs at home. In the
autumn of that year he was appoint
ed minister Of foreign affairs and
prime minister. His hostile attitude
to Austria led to the decisive battle
of Sadowa, in 1866, between that
power and Prussia which resulted in
favor of the latter. In 1867, after
having negotiated secret treaties
with several continental powers, he
was appointed chancellor of the
North German Confederation In
1871, after the Franco German war,
he received the title of prince, and
became chancellor of the new EN-.
pire which he had assisted in found
ing. In 1873 he resigned his posi-
tion as prime minister of Prussia,
but soon again returned to power.
For the past forty years, Bismarck
has stood unmatched, the ablest
statesman of Germany, and one of
the ablest of the world. He was a
power, not only at home, but in all
civilized countries his utterances and
opinions were the subject of popular
study. In 1890, a difference of opin
ion between him and the young en-
peror caused his resignation from the
Office of chancellor, and Caprivi was
named in his stead. But up to the
day of his death the iron chancellor
carried more influence over the Ger
man government than any other man
in the empire. Contemporary with
and the peer of Gladstone, his life
has been in marked contrast with
that of the great commoner. The
former devoted his life to the gov
ernment; the latter gave his to the
people. In Bismarck's makeup
there was nothing republican-or
democratic. With him the king is
must be sovereign, and the people
are-must -subservient. Toward
the commons he was harsh, frigid, in
different. Might was his doctrine,
and to be weak was to be wrong.
Wanting the great heart of true
political leader, he was still giant
of intellectual power, and he made
Germany what she is today, and col
leoted the expenses from France.
One more of the catalogue of aged
great has fallen. Blaine, de Lesseps,
Won Moltke, Gladstone, Bismarck, =
what decade has witnessed the fall
of more or more mighty heroes than
the present?
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the latter declining and the former
increasing during the last decade.
Wood and its manufactures, and
of iron and steel, con-
stitute over one half of the non-agri-
cultural aeports to Porto Rico, min
eral oil and coal also being import
ant items.
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PORTO RICO AS A POSSESSION.

PORTO RICO AS A POSSESSION.
The trade between the United
States and Porto Rico is reviewed
in bulletin issued by the secretary
of agriculture, compiled under the
direction of Frank H. Hitchcock,
chief of the foreign market section.
Special efforts to secure the most re-
liable and complete data were made,
owing to the avowed intention of
the administration to make the is
land permanent possession. The
official returns show that our COM
mercial transactions with Porto Rico
during the fiscal year 1897, just
closed, amounted in value to $4,-
169,918, the least since the civil
war, except in 1889, when it fell to
*3,34O,Oo6. The highest mark was
in 1878, when the imports and the
exports had a combined value of
$13,S7O,925. Subsequently the
trade declined rapidly, and in less
than decade it had fallen off more
than one half. The average annual
trade fell from $6,017,7S5 for 1885
92 to $4,856,817 in 1893 81. The
reciprocity treaty in force in the
three fiscal years 1924 consider
ably augmented the trade, the aver
age annually in that period being
s6, ,159,794 against so,S67,6O4 for
the three preceding years, $685.
572 in three years following. While
our imports from Porto Rico increas-
ed very little during that treaty per-
iod, there was an important gain in
volume of our exports to the island.
The shrinkage in our trade with
Porto Rico is traceable mainly to the
falling off in our imports from the
island. The value of the merchan-
disc we now send to Porto Rico
closely approaches the value of the
goods we have to return. Formerly
our imports were largely in excess
of our exports. While the annual
value of the latter over the former
was only stationary, that of the i'm
ports has been gradually decreasing,
until in the last five years the aver
age yearly excess of the latter over
the former was only S394, ,56l g.,
against an excess of $8,784,6O7 in
1872. In 1895, for the first time in
the history of our trade, our ship
ments there exceeded our imports,
the balance being $327,632.
Agricultural products play the
most important part of this com.
merce, being over so percent in val
he of merchandise exported and i'm
ported. Our imports are almost en-
tirely agricultural. Non-agricultur-
al commodities also form less than
40 per cent of our exports there
Sugar is the most important of the
imports, comprising nearly 70 pei
cent of all imports, and combinded
with molasses would form over %
per cent. Fruits, nuts and spices
are other important agricu ltural i'm,
ports.
The average annual import oi
coffee for the last five years was
l94, ,769 pounds, worth s32,671
This item has declined about two
thirds in the past decade. The lead
ing non-agricultural imports from
there are perfumery and cosmetics
chemicals drugs and dyes, unmanu,
featured wood and salt. Breadstuffs
and meat products in value form
nearly 50 percent of our agricultur'
al exports to Porto Rico. During
the last FIVE years the average annu
al value of the meat exports, return
ed at s622,576, was slightly large
than that of exported breadstuffs
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Work of the String Band.

Tourist What is that crowd over the
way?
Native-That's our string band.
Tourist-Preparing to give an enter
tainment, suppose:
Native-Yes; going over the river
to lynch a horse thief. News
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COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.
official Proceedings of the Board Of
County Commissioners Of
Steele County.

Sherbrooke, N. D., July S, 1853.
Board of county commissioners con-
vened in regular session as provided by
law. at 10 o'clock a. m. Present O. W.
Williams, chairman, and Commissioners
King, johnson, Rindy and Cochrane.
Minutes of the meeting of May 7, 1893
were read and approved.
On motion the following bills were al
lowed and ordered paid from the general
fund by warrants, viz:
Hope Pioneer, publishing COM
missioner's proceedings and
nOtlCeS .... ........ .......... ? ~ ~
Hope Pioneer, publishing notices
and commissioner proceed.
lhSs...... ............... ~ 10
On motion w. H. NJ. Philip was ap.
pointed as county physician for the
south half of Steele county for the en-.
suing year at a salary of $4,000, payable
quarterly.
On motion the board adjourned until
Wednesday morning, July 6. 1898, at 10
o'clock a. m.
Approved July 6. 1893. ...
Attest: .. w. Williams,
Chairman.
Charles G. Boise.
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Timber Culture, Final Proof---
Notice for Publication.

u North Dakota JUNO 81, lsls: ~
Notice is hereby given that Louise Y. Rugg,
widow, and one Of the heirs Of Amos L. Rugg,
final proof before 7. II. Gilbcrtson. clerk of the
district court in and for Steele county. North
Dakota, at his office in Shcrbrooke. Steele c0,lll-
ty N9r Nor Dakot, on tn" 9TH ,lny Of August
for the south Onelialf of the northwest quarter
and lots three and four of section No. in town
ship No III, range No. Jj She names rs wit
neSSeS:
Ilcius G. Day of Hope. Steele county. North
Dak kOta. John Lee. of Hope. Steele county, North
Dakota. Rice Jackson of Hope. Steele county,
North Dakota, Fred Il. l,lgg of Hope, Steele
county, North Dakota.
CIIAS. y. VALENTINE.
Register.
list pub June %
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Charles G.. Boise.
County Auditor.
Shcrbrookc, n. d., July 6, 1898.

Shcrbrookc, N. d., July 6, 1898.
Board of county commissioners con
vcncd at 10 o'clock a. m., pursuant to
adjournment. Present 0. w. Williams,
chairman, and Commissioners King,
Johnson, Rindy and Cochranc.
Tho minutes Of tho meeting OF July s.,
1888, were read and approved.
The board consumed some timo in
tho consideration Of bridge business.
The hour Of J. o'clock having arrived
bids from physicians to become tho
county physician for tho north half OF
Steele county, aud furnish medicine for
tho period Of one ycur, were opened,
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